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My 15 year old son is quite the daredevil on a skateboard - it is his biggest passion and he's always a willing subject for my lens.
He does things on the board that I wouldn't believe unless I saw them with my own eyes - like this "ollie" where he launches the board into the air and lands safely after having jumped several feet...
(Note: This photo is now being featured in a new Yahoo worldwide ad campaign - and yes, Yahoo bought the photo rights from me. How did they find the photo? Via Flickr, of course)
Here's a link to the campaign - click on the center photo of the girl jumping in the air, wait a few seconds for it to load, and you'll see the video:
Beautiful white wild horse taking in the rural country southwestern Colorado landscape. There was a nice heard hanging out by the water hole out in the western countryside.
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Nora Wild, born as Lady Elonora Weathley-Huntington of Dorncastle, was one of the most popular girls among the ranks of nobility. Her parents, ambitiously trying to marry her to the pince of Kolbergen, failed to notice young Elonoras growing interest in steam car racing. At the soft age of 19 she fell in love with the successful race car driver Oscar Wilde and shortly after they got married secretly. Being trained by her secret husband, Elonora soon started her own career as a steam car driver. Despite diguising herself and taking up the nickname Nora Wild, her escapades were soon noticed by her parents and the rest of the nobility. Refusing to end her career and unwilling to divorce her husband, she was expelled from the ranks of nobility in a never before seen inofficial trial. The following years Nora spent becoming the most famous steam car driver of the known world. As time went by there was only one opponent left, who, obviously, was her husband Oscar. They faced off in a one to one race in the newly built sky city racing drome. After an almost two hours long, head to head race, both of them were on their final lap. Oscar, having always been known for driving economical, saving as much fuel and tyre profil as possible, was much better off at that point and would have won the race, if his car, never before showing any technical problems, wouldn’t have catched fire shortly before reaching the last turn. Blinded by smoke and flames, Oscar lost control of his vehicle, leaving the track, somersaulting several times and finally crashing into a solid brickwall. His body was later recovered from the wreck, however the cause of his death couldn’t be speified, due to the numerous injuries and severe burnings. Nora however, took over at that exact point, finishing the race in first place. When she was told about her husbands death right on the winner’s podium, she didn’t even stop smiling and continued celebrating her success. After the race was investigated, experts demanded the removal of Nora‘s trophy, since sabotage was suspected. Nora tried everything to keep it and become known as the best race driver ever. Eventually she was allowed to keep the controversial trophy. Still, she rather was known as a saboteur and criminal, blinded by success afterwards. Promotion contracts were refused and her wealth and glory faded with every year. Nora Wild spent the later years of her tragic life, driving around the streets in a small steam cycle, scaring pedestrians and trying to establish herself in the street racing scene. However, she never reached her old status ever again and eventually died after an extreme car chase with the police, crashing her steam cycle into a brick wall after somersaulting several times. This incident was viewed as her divine judgement by most people, since it bore an interesting resemblance to her husbands death. Her death was only marginally mentioned in the newspapers though, since by that time the public interest had shiftet from race car driving onto steam plane races.
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The character portrait for the steam cycle driver.
The steam cycle is my entry for VehiJuly and was featured in my recent vignette "The age of steam".
I put quite some effort into the describtion, I hope you enjoy it !
This was the last photograph I was looking at before I fell asleep last night, which may be why it is dark rather than bright and sunny. I might create a bright and sunny version sometime, but I quite like the detail and slightly impressionistic feel to this one :)
A big, big thank you to all my Flickr friends for their kind comments, emails, and support. It's really helping me get through the stress-related illness that has laid me low since the end of June :)
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Peyto lake, Alberta, Canada.
(Banff National Park)
Ruellia species, Stephenson Nature Preserve, Austin, 7/7/19. There are at least three Ruellia species that look more or less like this that are found in Travis County. I have no idea which this is. Pretty common right now.
TS-1641 TNI-AU Lockheed-Martin F-16CJ "Wild Weasel" on static display in "Bulan Dirgantara" of Indonesia Airforce Day at Halim Perdanakusumah AFB. HLP/WIHH
Various sources quote this plant's western range as SE Louisiana. This is in the Wichita Mountains, considerably west of there. Also saw Wild Purple Indigo. Our beautiful world, pass it on.
The female and male parts (stamen and stigma) as shown in the earlier photo are from this wild flower.
These are tiny flowers, less than 10mm top to bottom
Prunella vulgaris
|The Royal Horticultural Society says: "P. vulgaris is a creeping perennial to 30cm, with rooting stems bearing oblong or ovate leaves and short erect spikes of deep violet, rarely pink or white, tubular flowers in summer and early autumn"
These were more pink and white. Other sources mention that hairy leaves or stems are possible (certainly seen here). It seems there are many variants of this species.
You can see the image that convinced me, despite the colour, here: www.growwilduk.com/content/medicinal-and-cosmetic-use-wil...
As I walked down the bushy road, something caught in my mind. I looked down and sat beside, and I found those sparkling flowers greeting me a good morning! Sometimes a pretty little flower can bring you more joys than you can imagine.
Fossil Creek wilderness in Arizona. A vast wild area with emerald green river and swimming holes at bottom. Near Strawberry, AZ
A Farmer in Monksilver near Stogumber has planted wild flowers in one of his fields. The Poppies have finished flowering and the field is a wonderful yellow with blue cornflowers. The beautiful Somerset fields in the distance go down to the sea.