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• Blue Hour In Warsaw’s Castle Square – I’ve seen on a bit of a hiatus from flickr over the past several weeks as I spent a couple of weeks in Europe over the Summer before heading back to Virginia and Washington DC for our annual family trip to visit our good friends in Loudoun County. I’ve spent the last couple of weeks digging out, and am just now getting to the growing pile of shots from over the Summer. I thought I would begin with a shot from one of my favorite spots from my two week trip to Europe. The folks I was with had scheduled stops in Warsaw, Lublin, Poniatowa, Krakow and finally Magdeburg Germany. Our first stop was in Warsaw where I was immediately struck by by the overall beauty of the Old Town section of the city and Castle Square. As some of you may be aware, Warsaw was completely flattened by the Nazis as they pulled out toward the end of World War II. As you walk through the restored Old Town area, there are walls lined with photos where you can see that the castle, churches, homes business….almost every structure in the city was reduced to rubble. Like many other European cities, Warsaw rebuilt it’s older section of the city with painstaking detail using many of the original bricks that were in piles through that section of the city. Once you move past Old Town, the modern section of the city is growing at an incredible rate. Several new high rise buildings were going up all around the downtown area of the city where the large Soviet era government building is now slowly becoming dwarfed by several new glass paneled modern structures. Across the river, the new Olympic stadium glows at night and has now become part of the cityscape visible from several spots along the Vistula (Wisla) River. But my favorite spot, by far, was the amazing Castle Square located just behind the Royal Castle along the river. In the center of the square stands the Column To King Sigismund III Vasa, which apparently survived the bombing in the war. On the castle side of the square you can look out over the river below. Behind the Column lies old town, all of which had to rebuilt. Cafes and shops and churches surround the entire square. The square has been the location for several key moments in Polish history, including the January uprising and, more recently, the location where Clinton welcomed Poland to NATO in 1997. by WJMcIntosh via http://flic.kr/p/xbkDPT

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• Still life. Macro Mondays [Explored] – The last wild strawberrys of the summer and hydrangea. by anek07 via http://flic.kr/p/wTfVLS

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• Bald Eagle Parents Watching Over the Nest – Nest # 2 I was going through some old photos from this season and came across this one of both parents in the nest tree. For those that have been following the eaglets since the beginning, you can tell mom is on the left (with the drooping pupil) and dad on the right. Believe it or not this is the only photo I have of both of them in the nest, unlike nest # 1 both of the parents would often be in the tree together. The perching branch that they are on came down in a windstorm back in June and used to be a favorite perching spot for mom. Tough times for eagles in the first year, a local raptor rehab recently brought in 18 youngsters with a variety of injuries. Here’s to wishing them a safe journey north for the salmon runs. by T0nyJ0yce via http://flic.kr/p/wcytLq

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• Photo by @BrianSkerry A harp seal pup waits on the ice for it’s mother to return from a dive beneath the ice pack in Canada’s Gulf of St. Lawrence. Thinning ice due to climate change over the last decade has caused problems for this species. Survival long term will require adapting to the loss of seas ice if these trends continue. Photographed #onassignment for @natgeo. @thephotosociety #seals #harpseals #ice #canada #underwater #icediving #nikonnofilter #nikonambassador #nature #love by natgeo http://ift.tt/1ToV94i

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• photo by @randyolson | words by @neilshea13 — At dusk the east wind eases and a new boat is launched onto Lake Turkana. She creaks under the weight of her crew, men slender as reeds, and she creaks as the waves slap her hull. She is full of little complaints, not yet accustomed to the work. Oars thud along the gunwales and already water slops over the bottom boards, though she doesn’t yet stink of fish and her ribs aren’t slick with blood and scales. Not far from shore a fisherman feeds a net over the side. It is torn and ragged and has been been mended many times. Like a moth-eaten coat it does not appear confident. Like the universe it is made mostly of emptiness. But among the fishermen there is no doubt. They are El Molo, smallest of Kenya’s tribes, and they’ve been here, fishing, since time began. Hope and hunger have shadowed them for generations, while nets and boats are details lately arrived from down-country. The big perch are long gone from the shallows but plenty of smaller fish remain, and they’ll do. In the last light the last net sinks beneath silver water. Without a word the pilot turns for home. He looks to the cook fires glowing onshore and knows beyond seeing which one is his own. Today Randy Olson and I begin a new Instagram series from Lake Turkana. These pieces are part of our ongoing #NGwatershedseries, and they’re linked to our feature article in the August issue of @natgeo magazine. We love print, but we’re excited, too, by the way Instagram helps us expand beyond paper boundaries, raise more voices and share more stories. Join us @randyolson and @neilshea13 as we follow water down the desert. #2014 #africa #kenya #laketurkana #elmolo #jadesea #fishing #water #documentary #reportage #everydayafrica #everydayeverywhere #instajournalism @thephotosociety @petergwin by natgeo http://ift.tt/1f5feyS

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• Phone photo: @ivankphoto Project Mi Barrio – Chicha. Segundo Trujillio, 89, holds a glass of chicha, a pre-Columbian drink made from fermented corn, in #Rumihuaico, #Ecuador. #projectmibarrio, @runa_photos, @thephotosociety, @panospictures, @natgeo by natgeo http://ift.tt/1UAzXLg

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• Tired of just telling her distant friends about her gorgeous new surroundings in the remote wilderness of Dartmoor, England, Jo Bradford (@greenislandstudios) decided to show them, in the best way she knew how. A professional photographer and mother of two, Jo launched “A Love Letter to Dartmoor,” a yearlong daily photo series documenting seasonal views of the national park’s landscape in south Devon, where she now lives. “People have an impression of it being quite bleak and unwelcoming, but actually it’s stunningly beautiful,” says Jo, who walks every day in the moors to take photos, with her two German pointers, baby and toddler in tow. “I’ve seen beautiful rare moths, rivers trickling through forest and carpets of bluebells,” she says. “Quite often, a herd of wild ponies will turn up and start lapping at the water while I’m sitting there watching the sunset.” One night, near a pond, Jo remembers a mother with young foals appeared up out of the valley right by where she was sitting. “The light played across the water and it was beautiful and we all sat there in silence.” Photo by @greenislandstudios by instagram http://ift.tt/1L2yKb0

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• So where is everybody? – Handheld le in the Copenhagen Metro, Denmark. Did some adjustments to contrast, noise, sharpness and color. See untouched raw file below. The problems I had with stray light in the start I fixed by zooming in and I also used my Copenhagen map to form a cylinder and holding it around the lens. This helped a lot on the reflections from the glass. For stability I pushed the lens towards the windshield. I guess for even better results you should bring a black blanket and some duct tape. (You could replace the duct tape with an assistant, whichever is the easiest) Expect some staring either way. I bought a day pass and did 5 rides back and forth the M2. I got of and turned when the line left the underground. All done in an hour or so. Update: Thanks a lot for the kind comments today! changed the title around a bit. Couldn’t really nail this one. However the image is probably enough alone:p Easy way out was just quoting Enrico Fermi.. Further reading here: http://ift.tt/1sYcxQ5 Wiki: Copenhagen Metro (Danish: Københavns Metro) is a rapid transit system serving the cities of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, and Tårnby in Greater Copenhagen, Denmark. The 20.4-kilometre (12.7 mi) system opened between 2002 and 2007, and has two lines, M1 and M2. The driverless light metro supplements the larger S-train rapid transit system, and is integrated with DSB local trains and Movia buses. Through the city center and west to Frederiksberg, M1 and M2 share a common line. To the southeast, the system serves Amager, with the 13.9-kilometre (8.6 mi) M1 running though the new neighborhood of Ørestad, and the 14.2-kilometre (8.8 mi) M2 serving the eastern neighborhoods and Copenhagen Airport. The metro has 22 stations, of which nine are underground. In 2013, the metro carried 55 million passengers. by Bhalalhaika via http://flic.kr/p/x5ZutU

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• Ride Into the Sunset – HOW TO SALMON FISH youtu.be/Z4kDaLnpczY – See the short version on Flickr: flic.kr/p/wXhubE FUN WATER VIDEO: youtu.be/hXdi9gjI42U – See the short version on Flickr: flic.kr/p/vYV2h4 TrackHead wants to entertain you. Please check out some of my fun videos on YouTube and consider subscribing to my YouTube Channel. Also, browse my PhotoStream and follow me here on Flickr. THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE BIRD WHISPERER youtu.be/A6WqvMzRNcQ – See the short version on Flickr: flic.kr/p/rFS2Tn DON’T BULLY youtu.be/SW0XScew7u0 – See the short version on Flickr: flic.kr/p/rRbgbe CIVIL AIR PATROL: youtu.be/P1tAdyKQNIs – See the short version on Flickr: flic.kr/p/rxyVEV EINSTEIN’S MUSHROOM TRIP – Episode 1: youtu.be/7aJ4lN0YY5s – See the short version on Flickr: flic.kr/p/rs3swe TNT: an AC/DC Cover youtu.be/n8VdEfFWhLc Also on Flickr: flic.kr/p/qEdaqo COOLER DIVING youtu.be/iiJMros1bQ8 FUN LOOK AT MARRIAGE youtu.be/kr6s_bTpiGQ – See the short version on Flickr: flic.kr/p/u8YcSJ LUNATIC youtu.be/9EbZ97YYGzQ – See the short version on Flickr: flic.kr/p/rTMLPt FIND THESE AND MANY MORE ON MY CHANNEL. SUBSCRIBE TO TrackHead Studios YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Trackheadxxx/videos CHECK OUT The Flickr Film Festival GROUP: http://ift.tt/1CqsPXg CHECK OUT Flickr Rude Trolls GROUP: flic.kr/g/qUSQ9 http://ift.tt/1CqsNyJ Ever witnessed rudeness? JOIN TODAY! EXPOSE THESE SITUATIONS! View my PhotoStream: http://ift.tt/1CqsNyL WATCH MY VIDEOS ON FLICKR flic.kr/s/aHsk8Vvsub by TrackHead Studios via http://flic.kr/p/wQJujm

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• La Magia de la luz XI / The Magic of Light XI (Explore) – © Todos los derechos reservados. No utilizar las imágenes contenidas en este sitio web sin mi permiso. Muchas gracias a tod@s por vuestros comentarios y visitas. Thank you very much for your comments and views FELIZ SEMANA. BONA SETMANA. HAPPY WEEK. by Toni – Oliver via http://flic.kr/p/x6etuG

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• Photo by @mattiasklumofficial I photographed this baby mountain gorilla in Volcanos National Park, Rwanda. (Please follow me @mattiasklumofficial to see really how tough weather conditions can be in the Virungas!) Nearly half of the world’s roughly 800 remaining mountain gorillas live in the Virunga Mountains of central Africa, at the intersection of Uganda, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Obviously by protecting mountain gorillas we ensure beautiful and resilient forests and not least livelihoods for local people too. On @mattiasklumofficial you’ll find images and stories from my assignments and projects around the world! #rwanda #congodr #virunga #rainforest #gorilla #mountain #volcano #endangered #iucn #wwf #mattiasklum @natgeo @thephotosociety @natgeocreative by natgeo http://ift.tt/1TiUqqy

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• Tag who you’d stand with ✨💜💜💚💚✨ Aurora Borealis in Finland. Picture by ✨✨@VillePaakKonen✨✨ Good night all 😊😊😊 by wonderful_places http://ift.tt/1IVr2vB

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• Tourists gather to soak in Yellowstone National Park’s Boiling River where the frigid river and the scalding hot spring waters converge. iPhone photo by David Guttenfelder @dguttenfelder by natgeo http://ift.tt/1UAaEJa

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• Photo by @irablockphoto (Ira Block) The Milky Way rises over a traditional Mongolian Ger or Yurt in the Gobi desert. The photo was shot just as the moon appeared on the horizon which gives a beautiful glow to the side of the ger. To see more photos #followme @irablockphoto @thephotosociety @natgeocreative #yurt #ger #milkyway #night #stars #Gobi #desert #mongolia #sonya7s by natgeo http://ift.tt/1hv8498

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