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Vincere e perdere una battaglia interiore...
Highest position in Explore: 150 on Thursday, February 7, 2008
An American White Pelican flying by during the morning hours at the pond.
This image won 3rd place in the Wildlife Category at the Mill Valley Click Off 2023 Photo Competition.
found in Castlemaine, Central Victoria, Australia
At 120 km driving distance from Melbourne. Castlemaine is the main town, officially a city, of The Shire of Mount Alexander, in central Victoria. Population these days about 9000.
Castlemaine began as the centre of the Mount Alexander gold fields in 1850. It was briefly larger than Melbourne, as that city's population moved to Castlemaine to seek it's fortune. Population these days about 8000.
It was the richest alluvial gold field in world history and that title has not yet been surpassed.
At it's height one of the weekly convoys alone, shipped 3 tons of gold to Melbourne.
However, the rich alluvial diggings were worked out within 15-20 years.
Castlemaine was where the "little fellows" became rich, with nearly all the gold being found within 4m of the surface.
Thus small groups of men could band together and work a stake together in the hope of winning the lottery.
Ok, maybe the colors inside the cave are not natural. I am so pleased with the many places that LED technology is changing our lives. This revolution in lighting is not getting the credit it deserves! Here they can add more lighting with no heat or other complications that lighting a cave can bring.
My family are suckers for a cave. We actually visited Great Basin National Park largely to see these caves. These are Lehman Caves. Normally a cave is far less interesting or even fun if it has to be a tour (as opposed to roaming free within the cave). This is especially true for photography, where everything needs to be by tripod. A tour is simply not that conducive to stopping and taking your time with an image. So this set of caves already had a long way to go to win our love. But, WOW. These ended up winning our hearts for sure. This cave system was second only to Carlsbad Cavers for us. At least as far as walkway-lighted-mass-of-people caves were concerned (we still have a soft spot for un-named natural caves too). The tour went slow enough to allow some slow photography, which was great. But the cool part was the narrow walkways that weaved between stalagmites, stalactites, columns, cave straws, cave bacon, cave popcorn, and unique to this cave, cave shields. You can see one of these just above the blue area in this image. Nerds? Yes, but excited to see cave shields? YES.
This image is a blend to tame the highlights. Always a problem with lit caves. I will be posting more form this cave for certain. Stay tuned.
Always winning if I’m spending time with Alicia, but better if we smash the match!
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I’m also wearing (left):
Hair: TRUTH VIP – Moment
Earrings: e.marie // Maryna Earrings
Necklace: (Yummy) Zodiac Charm Necklace
Bag: =Zenith=Towel Sport Bag (Black) GACHA
Trainers: FLite.-Air 5s - Strawberry Sup
Holdables: SYNNERGY.TAVIS//Tennis Pro (tennis racket & ball container)
Alicia is wearing (right):
Hair: WINGS-HAIR-ES0208 Grays & Browns (Pack)
Eyes: Hollow Collection + [theSkinnery] Thin Eyeliner
Lips: Tutti Belli - 'Easy 1'
Glasses: cheezu. classic glasses
Top: GAWK! .Zoe. Turtleneck Pullover
Nails: e.marie // Mix&Match Oval - Show Some Love
Rings: Kibitz - Emily's rings – gold
Earrings + Necklace: [ kunst ] - Starlight Set
Pants: ISON - slouch cotton pants (all colors)
Trainers: FLite.- SB Dunks Animated // Turners
Bag: SYNNERGY.TAVIS//Tennis Pro [Holdable]
Drink: [WAIFU] Kitty Waifu Flask
Backdrops: K&S - // Tennis court. Arena 1 @Backdrop City
Backdrops deco: SYNNERGY.TAVIS//Boutique Stores + SYNNERGY.TAVIS// Spring Courtyard backdrop
One of the strangest and most memorable things I've lived through is being in Paris when France won the World Cup. The streets were absolutely transformed and I have many photos of people rejoicing (some that I have posted previously).
But, I also tend to be drawn to that opposite feeling and the bipolar sense that happens in reality. Because, it's such a strong current of collective consciousness when that many people are rooting for something that you actually forget it's about sports at all and it feels more about the collective spirit of France or even of humanity.
I could tell that this girl wanted to be a part of that with the way she had decorated her face and with the French flag she was holding but I think she didn't quite know how and that's an interesting thing to capture...maybe even more intriguing for me than all the wild dancing and singing. We are all young and awkward once and some of us know very intrinsically (even when we're older) precisely how this girl felt.
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Force of Nature - Steam Rocket Bike
Steam Rocket Bike
Steam Rocket Bike
'Force of Nature' is a steam powered 'Rocket' motorcycle built for drag racing, record breaking, exhibitions and events. It uses the latent energy of super-heated pressurised water released through De laval nozzles, where it turns to steam and creates the thrust to propel the bike forwards.
The design brief was to create a Rocket bike like no other: Build quality to rival THE BEST, as well as unique green credentials. No proprietary motorcycle parts were to be used unless they were deemed un-improvable! The idea was to build a steam powered Rocket bike with a potential speed of 200+mph, which had never been achieved before.
Chief designer and engineer Graham Sykes has been involved in straight-line motorsport since 1979. Graham has worked on many prestigious projects including six years as race engineer for Vauxhall's championship winning British and European Touring Car Team, engineer and key team member for the 'Firestorm' jet powered dragster and is currently part of the engineering team working on '52 Express', a world land speed record motorcycle.
More March madness, this time with mother nature winning the upset. Another 7-8 inches of snow fell this morning.
Jefferson, Wisconsin, USA
I'm quite sure many award winning togs do this sort of thing, a wee tweek and a bit of added pazzazz. It makes a prettier picture and that's what we try to do isn't it? No matter what Loch Shiel looks pretty special a lot of the time. Best loch in Scotland! It's not always grey here.
No, not this photo, but if I had managed to get there for the sunrise, who knows, it could have been award winning. If you follow Lynne Berry (and if you don't, why not?) then you will know that I agreed to met her and her donkey at this location for sunrise. The coloured light that morning was spectacular. I know because I viewed it for the whole journey from Craster to Lindisfarne. I just got there too late.But still, always fun capturing these upturned boat sheds and that castle.
an Oxeye daisy fights its way through the reddened iron ore water at an old iron ore mine. She's winning!
“A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.”
- Larry Bird
I was told it is like winning a lottery to see colorful sky in this area. Not sure if it is true or not. I guess I got lucky :)
In a crowd of easily 20 people trying to get a same shot I think this turned out ok, glad the sun popped out just in time for the train to pass under the classic PRR signals.
Hammond, IN
May 5, 2011
Bathers photographed for a personal project in studying the baths in Budapest, Hungary. 7 April 2022.
Niamh Delaney wins the Gate competition at the Fingal Harriers Hunter Trials in Michnanstown, Co Meath. This is a series of ten images layered and masked in photoshop
I think it's a Rock Wren, but I can't be sure. I remember where I took the photo - rock wren territory - in the oak grass at about 700 feet. The reason this has been in storage so long is that as I photographed the tree stump, this little brown bird came in to see what I was up to, and then took off again. Good enough to keep, but not good enough to post. Still, all I am almost positive about is that it's a female, and the trunk is a century old and very dead oak tree.
This was the week before we left for Yellowstone and the Tetons, and I was practicing with my new SX50. It and I performed beautifully in both parks. Instead of a LBB, the first day in Yellowstone, I got six lifers! Too easy, really. Five Mountain Bluebirds in the first hour, and even an Osprey which perched with the sun in MY eyes. And then cross-bills, woodpeckers, grouse... And few people. The park "opened" the day after we left :-)
One Of The Four Award-Winning Photos For International Gardener Of The Year 2016.............
Tropical roof gardens and a leisure complex designed by Foster + Partners to sit above a new Crossrail station at Canary Wharf in London has opened to the public.
The roof garden, landscaped by London-based studio Gillespies, is located directly beneath a 310-metre-long transparent hood. Triangular air-filled cushions made from ETFE – a type of plastic used for its resistance to corrosion – are set into the timber-latticed awning.
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LNER's 1E11 0752 Aberdeen to London Kings Cross climbs the grade away from the former Esplanade station at Dundee.
Three plaques adorn the northern abutment and mark the engineering service the bridge has given to the railways. The celebrated HST is in good company.
28th August 2019
This shot is obviously not one of the landscape or wildlife images I normally upload to Flickr. But I was recently informed that it was the Grand Prize winner in the 2018 Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta Photo Contest, so I'm just going to toot my own horn for a moment and then get back to my regular subjects.
The Balloon Fiesta was actually on my wife's bucket list, so when we visited I took my camera along (of course). Glad I did!
Jeff
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