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Silent Sunday
Silent Sunday Sunset below the equatorial line.
There Is No Such Thing As Eternity
She’s started her chemotherapy yesterday and I wanted to share that with you.
Whoever you are, let’s stop for a second and think about the meaning of life.
Do we think often about life as a gift or just take it for granted?
Do we wake up everyday being grateful for being alive and privileged to be a member of that minority group on this planet, who is healthy, happy, loved, protected, has a roof…
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Connections & Memories
“I miss my things that are at home; not that I need them. I miss it, for all I have now is their memories. It’s just a feeling; not that I need it.
I miss to see and talk to my neighbours, our small talks, because it was how we cared for each other. I miss my best friend Ida, as we cannot see each other so often.”
Today I visited my mother-in-law, where she recently moved to live in an…
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This week’s theme for the WP Photo Challenge is Force of Nature.
I am sharing with you a gallery of one of the most beautiful Forces of Nature of our planet: The Amazon Forest.
The Amazonia or the Amazon Jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 square kilometres (2,700,000 sq mi), of which 5,500,000 square kilometres (2,100,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest.
This region includes territory belonging to nine nations. The majority of the forest is contained within Brazil, with 60% of the rainforest, followed by Peru with 13%, Colombia with 10%, and with minor amounts in Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana.
The Amazon represents over half of the planet’s remaining rainforests, and comprises the largest and most biodiverse tract of tropical rainforest in the world, with an estimated 390 billion individual trees divided into 16,000 species.
The landscape contains:
One in ten known species on Earth
1.4 billion acres of dense forests, half of the planet’s remaining tropical forests
4,100 miles of winding rivers
2.6 million square miles in the Amazon basin, about 40 percent of South America
There is a clear link between the health of the Amazon and the health of the planet. The rain forests, which contain 90-140 billion metric tons of carbon, help stabilize local and global climate. Deforestation may release significant amounts of this carbon, which could have catastrophic consequences around the world.
The Amazon has an insurmountable value in the natural world due to the Oxygen that it provides, the Carbon Dioxide that it consumes and the splendid array of exquisite plant and animal species to which it is home. In fact, it is home to the most diverse and numerous arrays of species in the world.
Let’s make sure to no deplete its resources, if we want to keep breathing…
In the gallery below you will see the Amazon river, the forest, some of its animals, the giant Kapok tree, and the Meeting of Waters, the confluence between the Rio Negro, a river with dark (water, and the sandy-colored Amazon River or Rio Solimões. For 6 km (3.7 mi) the river’s waters run side by side without mixing.
This phenomenon is due to the differences in temperature, speed and water density of the two rivers. The Rio Negro flows at near 2 km per hour at a temperature of 28°C, while the Rio Solimões flows between 4 to 6 km per hour a temperature of 22°C.
Click to enlarge the photos.
Amazon river
Amazon forest and river
How they travel
Inundated forest
Inundated forest
Inundated forest
Floaded forest
Sunrise
Sunrise
Forest at night
Tarantula
Amazon river
Pirarucu or Arapaima fish – 4.5 m (15 ft).
Giant Kapok tree – up to 4 metres (13 feet) per year, eventually reaching a height of 50 metres (164 feet).
Giant Kapok tree – up to 4 metres (13 feet) per year, eventually reaching a height of 50 metres (164 feet).
Giant water lilies -Victoria Regia
Meeting of waters- Solimoes and Negro
Meeting of waters- Solimoes and Negro
That is how the locals travel from city to city
I am also posting for the Photo101 Rehab, the event for everyone who loves photography (hobbyists, amateurs, pro-shooters, or just curious , anyone is welcome), and wants to join a community of like-minded people, who are also fun to connect with. Amazon Forest in Brazil : Photo 101Rehab http://wp.me/p4W3q8-15J #Wordpress #Photography #Amazonforest This week's theme for the WP Photo Challenge is Force of Nature. I am sharing with you a gallery of one of the most beautiful Forces of Nature of our planet: The Amazon Forest.
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Can You Feel What I Felt?
We Are Born Free...
We are Born Free...so why do people elect tyrants?
Humans may not fly like a bird, but we can fly through our dreams and reach unimaginable heights when realizing what we set ourselves for.
We can do that because we are born free, and are the masters of our destiny.
But maybe freedom still is the biggest dream, or fear, of humankind.
Forgive me if this post is not an inspirational one, because what is moving me to write today is instead, a…
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Women of Amsterdam
Wordless Wednesday
Perfect Autumn Beach Day
Perfect Autumn Beach Day
It is Monday but I am joining Terri’s Sunday Stills challenge, which theme is texture.
First because I thought about her when taking this photo, as she is an avid windsurfer, who also enjoys her SUP a lot. And secondly, because Debbie’s post on texture motivated me to join as well.
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With this post, I conclude the series of photos from the city of Chartres in France, with pictures of the Cathedral of Notre Dame and its stained glasses.
If you want to check the series in my previous posts, I have shared the many Faces of Chartres at I, II, III and IV.
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Chartres Cathedral, also known as the Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres), is a Roman Catholic church in Chartres, France, about 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Paris. Mostly constructed between 1194 and 1220, it stands at the site of at least five cathedrals that have occupied the site since Chartres became a bishopric in the 4th century. It is in the Gothic and Romanesque styles.
It is designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, which calls it “the high point of French Gothic art” and a “masterpiece”.[2]
The cathedral has been well preserved. The majority of the original stained glass windows survive intact, while the architecture has seen only minor changes since the early 13th century. The building’s exterior is dominated by travellers flying buttresses which allowed the architects to increase the window size significantly, while the west end is dominated by two contrasting spires – a 105-metre (349 ft) plain pyramid completed around 1160 and a 113-metre (377 ft) early 16th-century Flamboyant spire on top of an older tower. Equally notable are the three great façades, each adorned with hundreds of sculpted figures illustrating key theological themes and narratives.
Since at least the 12th century the cathedral has been an important destination for travellers. It remains so to the present, attracting large numbers of Christian pilgrims, many of whom come to venerate its famous relic, the Sancta Camisa, said to be the tunic worn by the Virgin Mary at Christ’s birth, as well as large numbers of secular tourists who come to admire the cathedral’s architecture and historical merit.
Source: Wikipedia
The stained glass windows
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Faces of Chartres V – Silent Sunday With this post, I conclude the series of photos from the city of Chartres in France, with pictures of the Cathedral of Notre Dame and its stained glasses.
Faces of Chartres IV
Faces of Chartres IV
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Faces of Chartres III
Faces of Chartres II
Faces of Chartres II
Taking these photos was no ordinary shooting moment, as the sight of this woman silently praying has touched me profoundly, and still does, whenever I look at the images.
The Cathedral of Chartres in France is the venue where I perhaps captured not only an introspective moment but a very personal spiritual connection of someone’s faith.
Faith
Prayers
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Black Swan - Regular Random
Black Swan – Regular Random
I live in front of one of the many canals of Amsterdam, together with many ducks, seagulls, swans and other birds. I had never seen a black swan though, until today. There were two in front of my house. (more…)
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Silent Sunday
A silent walk in the park, a fisherman, and a beautiful sunny day: the best combination to start a new week.
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