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The Bald Eagle - An Adept Fisherman
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Having little hair on my head, and not a bad fisherman, I have a feeling of affinity for your bald eagle photo.
Arvo...very majestic looking bird..
I live between 2 protected areas set aside for these raptors and love watching these massive birds.
their diet is mainly prairie dogs. swoop, grab, and transport...
Another beautiful evening at Stone Creek, Ocala, FL.
Photo by the Stone Creek Photo Club.
Beautiful!
That's a fantastic photo. Any idea if focus stacking was used?
Went for a walk along the beach y'day..was 20oC which is warmish for this time of year.. the water was rather icy though..
Was looking for whales but they were further on around the bay...🐳🐳
You seem to spend a lot of time at that beach, but that's understandable.
Evening...yes I guess I do as no matter what time or season of the year it's always changing..
I find great solace with the sea, the sound, the water and it's healing properties of both the body and spirit...
When I finished chemo I felt a tremendous pull to get into the sea...and when I did I was home again...
I could never live inland...🌅🌊🏖️
You made me think of John Masefield's poem "Sea-fever". The first line is: "I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,"
Quite a while ago I said I would post photos of the tour that NT member USA1 and I took with our Chinese wives at the Jewish museum in Kaifeng, Henan province. A thousand years ago Jewish traders travelled the Silk Road from the west to Kaifeng, which was the dynasty capital of China at the time. The emperor liked them, and allowed them to settle there and build their synagogue. Soon they intermarried and around 500 years ago many of them converted in order to qualify for government jobs. Now, very few who still follow the Hebrew religion are left, and pretty well all are mixed race.
The street upon which the museum is located is known as "Teaching the Torah Lane".
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This is the sign on the front of the museum.
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This is Ester Zhao, a descendant of the Kaifeng Jews, curator of the museum, showing me their Torah. She and her husband live upstairs of the museum.
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My wife, Fen, is standing beside a painting of the original synagogue, which no longer exists, and the museum is where the synagogue once stood.
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There was an ancient painting of a mikvah , i.e. ritual bath.
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Ester is explaining something to me. Behind us is considered the most important prayer in Judaism. Religious Jews recite it every morning and every evening. The first two lines are the most important, and translate as: "Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One" The last two lines are said more quietly and translate as: "Blessed be the name of the glory of His kingdom forever and ever." Ester sang the prayer beautifully.
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Our group photo - from right to left - Ester, me, my wife Fen, a young Rabbi from Israel who provides guidance to the Kaifeng Jewish community, NT member USA1 and his wife Ju-ann
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The presence of an early Jewish community in China is a fascinating aspect of Jewish history.
There is more history. Harbin in the north-east of China was a refuge for Russian Jews. There is or was a synagogue there, and a Jewish cemetery. Besides that, Shanghai was a refuge for Jews escaping from the Nazi regime because visas were not required for them, and there are still Jews living there. One good thing I can say about the Japanese back then (in fact the only thing) is that they refused to follow Hitler's directive to them to kill the Jews because they could not comprehend that anyone should be killed because of their religion. Jews are generally respected in China, even admired for their business acumen. Books have been published here about how to do business like a Jew (which I don't consider to be an insult - it is a compliment). LOL
One of my cousins wrote a novel about someone who fled Lithuania to escape the Nazis and brought his prized copy of the Torah with him to Shanghai. The book is called "Shanghai Torah: Yuanfen". It's a great read. She was also an award-winning television editor, but has since retired.
I would have loved to have read that book, but I assume that I will never be able to do so. It's not on Project Gutenberg
According to what I read, a book has to be 95 years old to be included on Project Gutenberg. My cousin's book was published in 2018, so if you hang in there a little bit, you should be able to read it.
Oh, no wonder I can't find the John Grisham novels there, my favourite lawyer stories. Guess I'll just have to wait to see the movies that are adapted from them.
Updated photos of the 40g Iwagumi (inspired) aquarium - I've extended the background rock nearly across the whole back, increased the height of the waterfall and added some rotola plants just in front. The carpeting plants are getting close to needing a second trim. I barely ever need to do anything more than do a water change and clean the glass every week (or two) to keep this tank maintained.
very calming, EG.
Is the waterfall what appears to be water seeping down from the right side of the middle white top rock?
Yes. I have a small submersible return pump (with tubing) behind the rocks. At the proper water height the falling water makes a very nice background sound while I'm working on the other tanks.
Our Rose of Sharon tree in bloom. The Bumble Bees love it.
Nice!
Would you like me to enlarge that photo for you?
I tried, but it got really blurry. If you can do it I would appreciate it. Thanks.
This is the best I can do. You use a format that is difficult for me to work with.
Looks like prison bars in front of a great photo. But no worry, didn't Richard Lovelace say in his poem "To Althea From Prison" (and he was in prison when he wrote it), "Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage."
Well this happened behind our office building this morning... The guy had to be going pretty fast to go over 3 sidewalks and through 2 parking lots.
the top came off his starbucks cup over his lap...
I think he was street racing.
Ouch!
... that should buff out.
These are LAPD photos of an accident one of my clients was involved in a few years ago. My client was driving the truck. The poor guy was on his way to work one morning when the guy driving the car in the third photo, traveling in the opposite direction coming out of a curve at a fairly high rate of speed, attempted to pass to the right of another car to get in front of it, lost control and came across into my client's lane of travel. My client had a badly fractured leg.
Here is a photo from another case I worked on a couple of years ago. I thought this photo was pretty wild with the car ending up on the freeway center divider.
Since you (or the police) blacked out the licence plates and we have no way to know who your client was, is it a breach of confidentiality if you tell us how much compensation you succeeded in getting him?
The client who suffered the leg fracture was a construction worker who could not work at that job anymore. He had not finished high school, so his opportunities were fairly limited. Let's just say that when the case settled he thanked me for changing his life.
Those look bad.
A superb example of street photography and photo-journalism.
These photos remind me a photo from my hotel room window that I posted a while ago. The difference being that the wrecking of a vehicle was actually precluded, lol.
Scenes from Cambodia
At School © G. Gam
At School 2 © G. Gam
A Boy with His Dogs © G. Gam
A Roadside Shop © G. Gam
Sunrise near Sihanoukville © G. Gam
LOVE your photos. When it comes to school classes in China, here are a couple of mine. This one was one of the classes I taught at the private high school just outside of Zhengzhou, Henan province, where I taught English for six years:
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And this one is of young students in a brand new school built due to the collapse of their school from the great earthquake of 2008 in Sichuan province. Many of them had never seen a white person before and asked for my autograph. My heart went out to them and I had an aching desire to move there and teach those kids but I allowed logic to guide my common sense that at my age I shouldn't isolate myself in a remote mountain village.
Thank you!
This is a photo of a Pittie that I worked with for close to a year at the shelter to get her ready to be adopted, she came from a very rough background and was adopted by someone in our complex. He took this photo of her as a message to the world.
Just another day in paradise.
© A. Mac/A.G.
"So it would seem." (quote from the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl)
We have a group of people in Stone Creek that ''raise'' Monarch Butterflies. In other words they have milkweed planted and nurture them from start to finish before they fly away. This is a photo of one that has just come out of its cocoon and you can see a few more cocoons in the shelter.
These folks are doing a great job of helping the Monarch survive and many other folks have planted milkweed for help them along. Kudos to all.
No. I don't care how big you are. You cannot pass!
LOL
I wouldn't even try.
Thanks to all, see you Thursday night.