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I love you, so I step back. Not to leave— but to let you breathe. Be who you are. Especially when it hurts. You don’t have to stay. You don’t have to pretend. Love does not hold. It sees. It asks for nothing. It is the open door and the choice to stay anyway. 2o12

found in this contest, an abandoned industrial area: Oggi posto una serie di foto dedicate ad alcuni amici e ai loro gruppi, prossimamente farò lo stesso per gli altri. Questa è per William Sutherland e il suo gruppo Tolerance Do not use my images on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit written permission. All rights reserved - Copyright © Nora Caracci

Il Punk opera di Riccardo Accarini, un amico che ha la passione dell'arte moderna. Un artista che mette a disposizione dell’osservatore un mondo virtuale, geometrico, dai colori acidi e dagli spigoli marcati. Sgargianti figure antropomorfe prendono forma, comunicano, dialogano: l’opera dell’artista ci racconta del suo vissuto da designer, ma parla anche di contaminazioni etniche e ricerca sui materiali, il tutto abbinato ad una scelta dei colori dal forte impatto cromatico. Le sue creazioni sono specchio del mondo moderno: caotico, frenetico, ma anche sgargiante, dinamico, vibrante di vita. IL TUTTO RICICLANDO VECCHIE COSE NORMALMENTE SCARTATE. Qui sotto e in PiP una sua scultura

Die Stern-Schwielenflechte gehört zur Gruppe der Blattflechten,sie bildet meist kleine, kreisförmige Rosetten (daher der Name "Stern-"), die fest auf der Rinde haften.Die Farbe ist im trockenen Zustand hellgrau bis fast weißlich, bei Nässe kann sie leicht ins Grünliche spielen.Apothecien (Fruchtkörper): sie sind gut zu erkennen durch die dunklen, schüsselartigen Gebilde mit dem hellen Rand. Pip1-5: Nahaufnahmen der Flechte The star lichen belongs to the group of foliose lichens. It usually forms small, circular rosettes (hence the name "star") that adhere firmly to the bark. When dry, its color is light gray to almost whitish; when wet, it can take on a slightly greenish hue. Apothecia (fruiting bodies): these are easily recognizable by their dark, cup-shaped structures with light-colored edges. Pips 1-5: Close-up images of the lichen Le lichen étoilé appartient au groupe des lichens foliacés. Il forme généralement de petites rosettes circulaires (d'où son nom) qui adhèrent fermement à l'écorce. À l'état sec, sa couleur varie du gris clair au blanchâtre ; humide, il peut prendre une teinte légèrement verdâtre. Apothécies (fructifications) : facilement reconnaissables à leurs structures sombres en forme de coupe aux bords clairs. Pips 1-5 : Gros plans du lichen

View of the George Washington Bridge in an ice-covered Hudson River (New York City--February 8, 2026). New York City has seen its coldest 16-day period since January 11-26, 1982.

I was playing with a special cinema lens that I had adapted to my Nikon. The Isco Cinelux 50/1.6, made for professional film projection, turned my small kitchen into a night‑time film set. Late at night, with only the warm lights on, the triple‑glazed window acted like a complicated mirror, stacking reflections of me and the room into one glowing image. The lens turned those reflections into soft circles and swirls of light, so the scene felt half real and half like a dream. Each photo looked less like a simple snapshot and more like a frame from an unknown movie. In the end I sold the lens, but the buyer only wanted the glass, not my homemade adapter. Letting it go left me slightly sad, as if I had taken apart a private experiment in night‑time cinema. I hope he found his own way to use it well.

Born in wartime Bratislava, the Jurkovič Heating Plant rose from the banks of the Danube between 1941 and 1944, designed by the legendary Slovak architect Dušan Jurkovič as the beating industrial heart of the Apollo refinery complex. The same year it opened, Allied bombers scarred its walls — yet it kept supplying heat to the city for decades until silence finally fell over its turbines. Declared a national cultural monument in 2008, it was spared demolition and handed to architect Martin Paško and DF Creative Group, who completed its resurrection in 2021. Their solution was bold: a sleek glass volume inserted inside the raw concrete shell, so in your photographs the two architectures confront each other across a soaring 22‑metre atrium washed with skylight and reflections. From your viewpoint, glass floors hover like calm water above the warm‑lit halls, black steel bridges stitch together old and new, and 31,736 reclaimed bricks texture the walls — a vertiginous interior landscape where industrial memory and contemporary life quite literally meet in the frame of your lens.

fleurs cerisier- cherry blossoms cone mélèze- larch cone anémone des bois- wood anemone

Dieser hübsche Stieglitz,auch Distelfink genannt, ist ca 15 Meter vor mir auf so einen zarten Ast geflogen und hat das da Obeb auch genossen,so konnte ich etliche Aufnahmen von Ihm machen :)) Pip1-5: Nahaufnahmen des Vogels This pretty goldfinch, also called a thistle finch, flew about 15 meters in front of me onto a delicate branch and seemed to enjoy being up there, so I was able to take several photos of it :)) Pictures 1-5: Close-ups of the bird Ce joli chardonneret élégant, aussi appelé chardonneret jaune, s'est posé à une quinzaine de mètres devant moi sur une branche délicate. Il semblait s'y plaire, et j'ai donc pu prendre plusieurs photos :)) Photos 1 à 5 : Gros plans de l'oiseau