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Neuschwanstein Castle (German: Schloss Neuschwanstein, English: "New Swanstone Castle") is a nineteenth-century Romanesque Revival palace on a rugged hill above the village of Hohenschwangau near Füssen in southwest Bavaria, Germany. The palace was commissioned by Ludwig II of Bavaria as a retreat and as an homage to Richard Wagner.
Das Schloss Neuschwanstein steht oberhalb von Hohenschwangau bei Füssen im südlichen Bayern. Der Bau wurde ab 1869 für den bayerischen König Ludwig II. als idealisierte Vorstellung einer Ritterburg aus der Zeit des Mittelalters errichtet. Der König lebte nur wenige Monate im Schloss, er starb noch vor der Fertigstellung der Anlage.
Unfortunately the Marienbrücke (Bridge over the Pöllat Gorge) – one of the best viewpoints was closed because of construction work – so I had to climb up an ice hill left to the Marienbrücke – which had an even more beautiful view – quite a good reward for a quite dangerous climb…
Leider war die Marienbrücke wg. Bauarbeiten gesperrt und so musste ich einen ziemlich vereisten Hügel links neben der Brücke hochklettern – und wurde dann mit einer noch schöneren Aussicht für die nicht ganz ungefährliche Kletterpartie belohnt…
There was a "dead calm" in the early morning at Merritt Island National Wildlife Reserve. A slight mist was burning off, and the air was still. I learned that these conditions are perfect for no-see-ums and other nasty biting insects to rise up and feed voraciously (on me) ; -))
The mangroves were mini-islands in this picture, and a large mixed flock of birds were in distance.
Merritt Island NWR and Canaveral National Seashore are a vast natural area (over 140,000 acres) that serve as a "buffer zone" for the Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island. Much of the NWR and seashore are closed during rocket launches. This NWR provides an important sanctuary for migrating birds, and for several endangered plants and animals.
Nina Tower in Tsuen Wan. Shot from the north side (Yeung Uk Road).
80 floors / 319 m right (Tower I) and 42 floors / 164 m left (Tower II, L'Hotel). This is the connecting bridge between the two towers.
This is the unedited version of a previous upload.
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Lido Rossello è la località marittima di Realmonte da cui dista circa 1,8 km. Ubicato proprio nella Baia di Capo Rossello il piccolo centro abitato si trova inserito in un contesto ambientale molto suggestivo: a nord infatti è chiuso dall'arco della Costabianca, ad ovest da Capo Rossello e ad est dalla continuazione dell'arco costiero che finisce con lo sfondo di Scala dei Turchi, a sud invece si apre sul mare con una spiaggia di modeste dimensioni ma molto composta e raccolta.
"La Scala dei Turchi è una falesia viva costituita da uno sperone di marna bianca prominente sul mare, le cui falde degradanti a strato conferiscono un aspetto molto suggestivo, accentuato, a sua volta, dai forti contrasti cromatici se si pensa all'azzurro del mare e del cielo contrapposto al bianco accecante della roccia.
La forma che questo monumento della natura assume è quella per l'appunto di una scalinata, dove secondo la leggenda, durante le invasioni moresche che imperversarono nel '500, i turchi (così erroneamente chiamati) approdarono nel territorio dell'odierna Realmonte inerpicandosi sulle stratificazioni di questa falesia."
da: www.comune.realmonte.ag.it/?option=com_content&view=a...
this is part of the water desalination plant at tugun beach,it helps turn salt water into drinking water and looks awesome at sunset.
Happy Slider Sunday
We're into the crazy weather again.64 at night and 93 during the day.
I didn't know you could wear out a wireless mouse and keyboard until now. First I though, I must have a bug or virus, I was doing virus scrans and they I rebooted my system to factory but things just kept getting worse. So, I did the simple thing, replaced my keyboard and mouse. And now, everything works great..;)
Smile - Nat King Cole || sub español • lyrics || Joker trailer song
Ramal de Campos
A la altura del kilometro 110 del Canal de Castilla, en la carretera entre Paredes de Nava y Fredilla se localiza el Puente del Deseo. En realidad se trata de de un puente-acueducto. Su fabrica es de ladrillo, con arco forro y petriles de piedra caliza. Sus aletas abiertas sostienen el talud de la carretera. Bajo este puente se encuentran los aliviaderos que surten al rio Retortillo y éste a su vez a la Laguna de la Nava.
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Sunset brings out the colors and textures in the landscape, seen from the White River Valley overlook in Badlands National Park. The formation in front of us is known as the Castle.
Frankly, I have seen better sunsets and better images from Badlands. I'll be honest that I mostly want to put one more distinct pin on the map of my pictures created by the Map Group. I like it as a way to keep track of my travels.
Este invierno en el mes de noviembre aquí en mi tierra Asturias, fotografíe esta nube con esta especial forma que bien se puede parecer a una Aurora Boreal si no fuese por el color
Feliz fin de semana amig@s
Вид на Териберскую губу (Баренцево море) и Териберский полустров (дальний план) во время Северного сияния.
С левой стороны Териберского полуострова виден свет Териберского маяка, расположенного на Териберском мысе.
I spent two days in Heather Meadows enjoying fall colors in North Cascades. The first morning was amazing. Before the sun came up from behind the mountains the sky was so colorful. With the sun everything turned into golden yellow.
Switzerland, May 2021
My best photos are here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ticino-best-photos-of-southern-...
My latest ANIMAL VIDEO (warning, it's a bit shocking): www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T2-Xszz7FI
You find a selection of my 80 BEST PHOTOS (mostly not yet on Flickr) here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/western-green-lizard-lacerta-bi... (the website exists in ESPAÑOL, FRANÇAIS, ITALIANO, ENGLISH, DEUTSCH)
ABOUT THE PHOTO:
So this photo is a bit of a novelty for me - at least here on Flickr, but it's also a journey back in time in a sense. I've always loved b/w and sepia photography; already as a very young teenager I would go out into the woods with an old Pentax Spotmatic (which I had nicked from my father) whenever it was a foggy day to shoot b/w compositions of sunbeams cutting through the ghostlike trees.
I used films with a sensitivity of at least 1600 (for those of you who remember what that means 😉 ), and the resulting photos had an incredibly fine grain which I loved; I blew them up to the size of posters and hung them on the walls of my teenage man-cave next to Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Slash.
But then I abandoned photography altogether for 20 years, and when I finally picked up a camera again, it was one of the digital kind. Now neither film nor grain played any role in my photographic endeavours - let alone b/w compositions: because the reason I fell in love with shooting pictures once more was the rare and incredibly colorful lizard species that had chosen my garden as its habitat.
It's this species - the Lacerta bilineata aka the western green lizard - that my photo website www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ and also my Flickr gallery are dedicated to, but I've since expanded that theme a bit so that it now comprises the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat, which is to say my garden and its immediate surroundings and all the flora and fauna I find in it.
I like that my gallery and the website have this clear theme, because in order to rise to the challenge of portraying all aspects of a very specific little eco system (which also happens to be my home of sorts), it forces me to constantly explore it from fresh angles, and I keep discovering fascinating new motives as my photographic journey continues.
Which brings me to the horse pasture you see in this photo. This playground for happy horsies lies just outside my garden, and it normally only interests me insofar as my green reptile friends claim parts of it as their territory, and I very much prefer it to be horseless (which it thankfully often is).
Not that the horses bother the reptiles - the lizards don't mind them one bit, and I've even seen them jump from the safety of the fly honeysuckle shrub which the pasture borders on right between the deadly looking hooves of the horses to forage for snails, without any sign of fear or even respect.
No, the reason I have a very conflicted relationship with those horses is that they are mighty cute and that there's usually also foals. The sight of those beautiful, happy animals jumping around and frolicking (it's a huge pasture and you can tell the horses really love it) is irresistible: and that inevitably attracts what in the entire universe is known as the most destructive anti-matter and ultimate undoing of any nature photographer: other humans.
Unlike with the horses, the lizards ARE indeed very much bothered by specimens of loud, unpredictable Homo sapiens sapiens - which makes those (and by extension also the horses) the cryptonite of this here reptile photographer. It's not the horses' fault, I know that, but that doesn't change a thing. I'm just telling you how it is (and some of you might have read about the traumatic events I had to endure to get a particular photo - if not, read at your own risk here: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51405389883/in/datepo... - which clearly demonstrated that even when it's entirely horseless, that pasture is still a threat for artistic endeavours).
But back to the photo. So one morning during my vacation back in May I got up quite early. It had rained all night, and now the fog was creeping up from the valley below to our village just as the sky cleared up and the morning sun started to shine through the trees.
And just as I did when I was a teenager I grabbed my camera and ran out to photograph this beautiful mood of ghostlike trees and sunbeams cutting through the mist. There had already been such a day a week earlier (which is when I took this photo: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51543603732/in/datepo... ), but this time, the horses were also there.
Because of our slightly strained relationship I only took this one photo of them (I now wish I had taken more: talk about missed opportunities), and otherwise concentrated on the landscape. It was only later when I went through all the photos on my computer that I realized that I actually really liked those horses, even despite the whole composition being such a cliché. And I realized another thing: when I drained the photo of all the color, I liked it even better - because there was almost a bit of grain in it, like in the photos from my youth.
Since then I have experimented quite a bit with b/w and sepia compositions (some of which I will upload here eventually I guess), but this photo here is the first one that helped me rediscover my old passion. I hope you like it even though it builds quite a stark contrast with the rest of my tiny - and very colorful - gallery. But in the spirit of showing you the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat (and also in the spirit of expanding my gallery a bit beyond lizards and insects), I think it's not such a bad fit.
As always, many greetings to all of you, have a wonderful day and don't hesitate to let me know what you think 😊
The Inntel Hotel in Zaandam/Netherlands is definitely the main attraction of the city but also of the whole country.
The twelve-storey-high hotel tower with 160 rooms is a stacking and interpretation of various green-painted house types typical of the Zaan region, ranging from a stately notary’s dwelling to worker’s cottages. ‘The Blue House’ has been inspired by the work Claude Monet painted at Zaandam in 1871.
Construction finished in 2010, design by WAM architecten.
a common day in the city centre, the cathedral and people going somewhere. Clouds were passig hurriedly, but deserved a look.../ Uppsala en vanlig vardag, domkyrkan och lite folk på stan. Molnen hade lite brådis, men de var fina.../Uppsala, un dia de semana en el centro, la catedral y gente yendo a algún lado. Las nubes van apuradas, pero merecen un vistazo... (DSC_7615-3)
cotton clouds float above a flowery meadow.../Sommar, bomullsmolnen dröjer sig kvar över ängen.../Verano, nubes de algodón sobre el prado florecido...(DSC_3529-2)
Ermatingen is a municipality in the district of Kreuzlingen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
(A humble tribute to Bob Dylan) Wild flowers and clouds, a path to lake Mälaren.../Försommaren, blommor och moln, en stig till Mälaren.../En el umbral del verano, flores silvestres y nubes por un sendero al lago Mälaren...(DSC_3343-2)
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Voyages: www.flickr.com/photos/jldum/albums/72157667373386054
1877, designed by M.C. Beebe; example of "Richardson Romanesque"; dignified arches, brickwork, shingles, finials.
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Taken somewhere between Modena and Mantua, when we were stuck in traffic.
old steamboats visit the town, people walk by the river, enjoying a placid moment.../ Uppsala en sommarkväll, ångbåtarna är på besök i staden, folk går på promenad vid Fyrisån i det fina vädret.../Uppsala, una tarde de verano, los antiguos vapores de visita en la ciudad, la gente camina junto al río disfrutando de un momento apacible...(DSC_7008-4)
Taken on my iPhone as I walked down the garden after putting our chickens away the other night. I thought how dramatic the newly emerged Amaryllis leaves looked silhouetted through our orange kitchen window blind HSS!
Start of an Autumn glow.
Peace and tranquillity found in the late afternoon sunshine by the river. A quiet time just sitting and watching as the sun came streaming through the leaves and the rich golden tones reflected across the water.
Realising that Summer will be but a memory soon and Autumn is knocking on the door in Middle England...but oh what a show of colour to look forward too :)
Hubby was fly fishing so I took the time to just meander along and explore the river. As they say...it's the simple things in life that bring joy! :)