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A recent trip to the Shire and Hobbiton. These are photos from within one of the two hobbit holes you can go inside.
South Africa loco NG/G16 No.130 is seen approaching Rhyd-Ddu working the 1130 Caernarfon - Beddgelert on the Welsh Highland line 6/9/24.
For within each seed, there is a promise of a flower, and within each death, no matter how small, there's always a new life.
Enchanted Realms Fantasy Shopping Event offers something for every sort of RP. Focused primarily on Gorean and Faery lifestyles, but with items for other genres as well. The shops are set up in an outdoor environment and the region itself is beautiful.
Featured items are a Medieval Armoury Weapons Cabinet from Dario's House and Hawkers House Armour, Odysseus, modeled by my friend William. Both items are EXCLUSIVE to the event.
Info & links on my Blog ~ aznanasfandangles.blogspot.com/2025/09/091325er03.html
Inside the new convention center "The Cloud" by Massimiliano Fuksas in the EUR district, Rome.
Dentro il nuovo centro congressi "La Nuvola" di Massimiliano Fuksas nel quartiere EUR, a Roma.
,,, if Cinderella was a lazy male kitten.
Actually, this is Grayson. He was found behind a Chinese food restaurant and was adopted within 30 seconds of arriving at our clinic by an employee who was "in the market" for a gray kitten. Luckily for us, the timing was off for her to take him home (she was in the process of moving) so we've gotten to enjoy him for the past three weeks. He went to his new home yesterday and it just won't be the same at work without him. All of us will miss him. All. that is, except for Pasta who is thrilled beyond measure to be rid of the little pest.
Happy Caturday: Fairytales
Macro Mondays - B&W
This was a great macro challenge for me, I was thinking about subject, scale, texture, shadow and light all week. I played around with a few ideas but kept coming back to this one.
HMM all.
We are still in Atherton and suffering from wifi-itis! So I have just managed to upload this one shot and then I gave up. Tomorrow we move on so perhaps it will be better then and I can catch up with some of you. Maybe! A few days ago we were north of Mossman in Far North Queensland as they say, but where the line in the sand exists between these pretend geographics like Far North, North, Whitsundays etc I have no real idea! It's just north Queensland to me. This shot of a two foot gauge sugar locomotive, appropriately named "Daintree" as that's the next town north after which one crosses the river of the same name by barge and enters the real Cape York Peninsula area (far, Far North!!!) was taken in the very small town of Miallo. It is heading south to the mill in Mossman which is the only sugar mill north of Cairns and which I now know also takes cane from the newer growing areas of the Atherton Tableland, brought down by truck.
The Mossman mill wagons differ from all other mills in having two four wheel bogies on which cane containers are loaded. This gives more flexibility as these same containers are also hauled by truck in areas not served by the cane railway network. Being around the start of September, the crush is at its peak, about half over its early July to December season. Many fields are already harvested and readied for or already planted with next season's crop.
This train will pick up consists of wagons with chopped cane from sidings on each farm. It has done one already, another just down the road with yet another group of wagons further down the track. By the time it has picked up all its scheduled loads it will be a long and heavy train. The harvest and transport of cane is a well co-ordinated operation and all cane must be at the mill within 24 hours of harvest or it starts to lose its sugar content. Very little burning of cane is now carried out. It has a number of downsides (although spectacular at night) and these days very little goes to waste. A lot of the left over leaves are ploughed back in, sold in big bags at hardware stores for garden mulch or used with other left overs as bagasse and burnt in the mill's boilers. The smell of sugar syrup that pervades the air around the mills is not one to be forgotten, a special sweet aroma of a major industry. On the other hand the left over black mill mud from the crushing and crystallisation process is at the other end of the smell spectrum but is a great fertiliser which is dumped in the fields and ploughed in.
Red Foxes provide such a pleasurable splash of color amid the otherwise relatively monochromatic landscape of winter. I've been watching the fox population up here for decades and it's interesting the way that every five years or so, the fox community undergoes a shift in color .... For a few years, they will all be Red, as now. In some years, you begin to see numerous foxes with coats of many colors, a sort of calico of black, red and white .... Then for a number of years you see only black foxes.
This, at first look, seems like maybe it would be simple genetic drift within the population, but it appears to be cyclical and therefore one might suspect some variable influence within the environment.
This year, fox and lynx populations are low, an effect of an extremely low ebb in the amount of snowshoe hares available for dinner.
Interestingly, and this is an established fact, albeit one which has never been adequately explained ..... The abundance of rabbits in the northland follows a regular rise and fall, more of a boom and crash, which is closely correlated with the 11 year cycle of sunspot activity. This year, along with a nearly total lack of magnetic storms on the 90 million mile distant sun, we have almost no snowshoe hares ... they are rare.
At other times, during solar maximum, they are virtually everywhere .... At those times, in the course of a drive along the Alaska Highway, you will see literally hundreds of rabbits. Now, virtually none.
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the spring within has come to shower me
with the peace I craved for long.
I'm currently on vacation in the south of my country, but this photo was taken when I was still in Porto. I'm a little bit in love with it, and I might work on a couple of companion pieces. I hope you have a wonderful rest of week! Also, Darling Heart is coming to stay with me for a little while (YAY!) so I'll be a little bit absent. But we'll do our best to shower you with photos.
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October 5 278/365
A Shakespearean tone resonated in my mind with this...yet, the words were indescribable...and I could not release them from within...hence, the title lacks what it should be...or seem...
This is SOOC
I will post the converted black and white version below...
spirit within...
l am thinking about the struggles women/ children are faced with every day who are bravely fighting for their freedom and rights and hope they are soon liberated and live life in freedom and peace soon.
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Camara /Camera: Nikon D80
Objetivo / Lense: Tamron 18-200mm
Place / Lugar: Lago Enrol, Picos de Europa, Asturias, Spain
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The shell and body are almost translucent in the evening sunlight. It was scurrying to hide from the sun, within seconds, disappeared into the crevices of the brick wall.
They say the weather in Colorado can change within five minutes, and that is absolutely true. While chasing the "Demos" up the hill, gaining almost 3,500 - 4,000ft in elevation, it was a mixture of low hanging clouds to sunny skies. At Tolland, it was sunny with blue sky. However, at East Portal, less than a mile away, the weather changed...
Seen here, the test train slowly rolls into "blizzard" conditions as they roll along through the siding at East Portal, Colorado where they'll let the Moffat Tunnel vent out and meet Amtrak 6 on March 07, 2016.
A Cold & Frosty Morning...
A first look at a new view point of Criffel I spotted a couple of weeks ago near Glencaple. I decided to head down before work as I could see a good layer of mist along the estuary. I probably arrived about 5 mins late, just before this shot the mist was surrounding the tree with the top of Criffel peaking above the mist...within 5 mins it had moved but I still like this comp.
Glencaple near Dumfries...looking towards Criffel.
Sony A7r + Sony Zeiss 24mm f2
© Brian Kerr Photography 2014
Within the dog days of Summer at Westwood Plaza, I caught train 1629 bolting towards Spring Valley with freshly rebuilt GP40PH-2B 4219 leading the way.
Although the engine looks brand new, it still has some issues to fix before being reliable again.
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Phalaenopsis are probably the most common tropical orchid because they are the easiest to grow and because their blooms can last months if they are happy. We had one bloom continuously for almost 9 months once. They are the first ones we had, and we still have quite a few. We have been boarding all our orchids in a greenhouse, taking them home when they were about to bloom. The man who owned the business retired and moved away in the spring, so we have 42 orchids all over our house until we can build our own greenhouse. Hopefully that will happen before we kill very many. They are still blooming, though not as frequently as before. We’ll see how we do. This little fellow is happy enough, so I thought I’d make his portrait. Close, but not true macro. Thirteen photographs were combined in Helicon Focus to get this kind of depth of field at this magnification.
Deep within the old china factory is this confined space with rails running through it. I read somewhere that there was a 200-foot tunnel kiln in this place, so I would guess that this is that.
Lobby of the Royal York Hotel (Fairmount)
The Fairmont Royal York, formerly and commonly known as the Royal York, is a large historic luxury hotel on 100 Front Street West. The hotel is situated within Downtown Toronto, at the southern end of the Financial District. The Royal York was designed by Ross and Macdonald, in association with Sproatt and Rolph, and built by the Canadian Pacific Railway. The hotel is presently managed by Fairmont Hotels and Resorts.
Opened on 11 June 1929, the Châteauesque-styled building is 124-metre-tall (407 ft), and contains 28 floors. After its completion, the building was briefly the tallest building in Toronto, as well as the tallest building in the country, and the British Empire, until the nearby Commerce Court tower was built the following year. The building has undergone several extensive renovations since it first opened, with its first major renovation in 1972. An underground walkway linking the hotel with the Royal Bank Plaza and Union Station form part of the Toronto's PATH underground city system.
"Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water." - Will Steger
Light Within by Ben Dearnley at Beaulieu Estate Sculpture Exhibition.
From Ben's page:
This large scale garden piece is the first of its kind for Ben and brings together his love of light, colour and poetry in one form. The sculpture invites the viewer to get up close and personal, and look through the open pupil at the landscape which surrounds it. Then to see the many colours which make up the iris where they will see lines of poetry and details, hand painted in the traditional methods of the many cathedral stained glass windows. The viewer is taken on a journey of their own discovery for the more they look, the more they will see.
"Often times, it is only when we stand silent and still that we hear and see what is just beneath the surface of our world." Ben Dearnley, Sculptor.
The sculpture is mad from steel and stained glass. Weight 25kg.
Si l'on regarde l'offre actuelle des différents constructeurs en matière de boîtiers photo, tous les modèles affichent une fiche technique particulièrement fournie. Dès lors, une question récurrente se pose : est-il possible de tomber sur un "mauvais" boîtier ?
En fait, tout dépend de ce dont on parle. En termes de qualité d'image, tous les boîtiers, même en entrée de gamme, sont capables de livrer des clichés très qualitatifs, avec un bon niveau de détails et une excellente restitution des couleurs. De même, tous les boîtiers vendus aujourd'hui dépassent (et de très loin) les performances de leurs aînés sur les photos en basse lumière. Il y a quelques années, capturer des clichés à 6400 ISO était presque impensable ; aujourd'hui, c'est devenu quelque chose de "presque" banal.
En fait, la différence entre deux boîtiers va se jouer sur d'autres critères. Je pense notamment à l'autofocus : non seulement en termes de vitesse d'accroche du sujet, mais aussi d'efficacité de la détection et du suivi du sujet et de son œil (humain, animaux, véhicules, etc).
De même, la vitesse en rafale – mais aussi la capacité de la mémoire tampon (buffer) – sont deux aspects importants.
Enfin, l'ergonomie va être un point assez intéressant à étudier : même au sein d'une même marque, certains appareils s'avèrent plus agréables à prendre en main et à utiliser que d'autres.
En définitive et dans mon cas de figure, j’ai décidé de ne plus faire l’acquisition de nouveaux boîtiers même, si je dois vous l’avouer avoir été très intéressé par le nouveau Nikon Z9 après l’avoir eu en mains pendant quelques temps et prêté gratuitement par l’importateur de l’enseigne en Belgique !
Ma conclusion est qu’avec ma collection relativement importante de boîtiers et d’objectifs Nikon, j’ai décidé de continuer de shooter avec mes deux boîtiers phares à savoir le D500 et le D4s et d’utilisés les autres qu’occasionnellement !
Pour les objectifs le problème est évidemment différent puisqu’ils resteront toujours fonctionnels avec n’importe quel boîtier choisi !
Bonne journée et à bientôt les artistes :D
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If we look at the current offer of the various manufacturers in terms of photo cameras, all the models display a particularly extensive technical sheet. Therefore, a recurring question arises: is it possible to come across a "bad" box?
In fact, it all depends on what we are talking about. In terms of image quality, all cameras, even entry-level, are capable of delivering high-quality shots, with a good level of detail and excellent color reproduction. Similarly, all cameras sold today exceed (by far) the performance of their elders in low-light photos. A few years ago, capturing shots at ISO 6400 was almost unthinkable; today, it has become something "almost" commonplace.
In fact, the difference between two boxes will be played on other criteria. I'm thinking in particular of the autofocus: not only in terms of the speed of capturing the subject, but also of the effectiveness of the detection and tracking of the subject and its eye (human, animals, vehicles, etc.).
Likewise, burst speed – but also buffer capacity – are two important aspects.
Finally, ergonomics will be a rather interesting point to study: even within the same brand, some devices are more pleasant to handle and use than others.
In the end and in my case, I decided not to acquire new cameras even, if I must admit to you that I was very interested in the new Nikon Z9 after having had it in my hands for a few time and loaned free of charge by the importer of the sign in Belgium!
My conclusion is that with my relatively large collection of Nikon cameras and lenses, I decided to continue shooting with my two flagship cameras, the D500 and the D4s and only used the others occasionally!
For the lenses the problem is obviously different since they will always remain functional with any chosen case!
Have a nice day and see you soon artists :D