According to The Mirror, our Duke of Cambridge has been given the go ahead from Her Majesty to throw a joint 40th birthday party with his lovely wife at the Queen’s Windsor Castle home or Sandringham Estate later this summer after agreeing the couple should "celebrate their landmark birthdays in style", said a source (our Duchess' big birthday celebration was cancelled in January because of a surge in COVID cases) 🎉🎉🎉 how wonderful is this?? I'm sure it will be a glamorous, beautiful party and I hope we will have new portraits of them to celebrate their milestones 😍😍😍😍 #PrinceWilliam#DuchessofCambridge#QueenElizabethII#love#respect#family#royals#birthdays#like#like4like#likeforlike
Nap time on the drift ice. One of the most beautiful bears we have seen so far this season. He was big and healthy and has somehow managed to escape the incessant helicopters and tranquilizer darts for “science”. Perhaps only because he is a male. They can not collar the males as they have a different shaped neck and head and the collar can come off. We are concerned about how many females are collared and painted with massive brown numbers on their backs and ear tags in both the cubs and mothers ears. We find it difficult to see females who are actually unmarked now. How many animals must they chase with helicopters and tag?? How many is too many in a healthy population of bears? Meanwhile small tourism companies like us who bring 12 people in two zodiacs, that sit quietly and watch are being considered the ones disturbing the wildlife according to the guys above?? They want to place ridiculously crazy distance restrictions. Does this bear look bothered to you? Do any of my bears look like I am disturbing them in any single one photograph of mine?? We sat in zodiacs while a mother and cub ate their reindeer peacefully… that is until a helicopter came and scared them away from their hard earned meal. Sometimes science is not the best for the animals and respectful tourism creates so much more awareness. Our customers are now very aware of how the bears react to helicopters as they watched. I am not a scientist and I believe in science but perhaps we should rethink some of the science and how they are approaching the bears too. We keep a safe respectful distance and take pride in not bothering the bears or any of the wildlife for that matter. #science#naptime#isbjørn#svalbard#theimaged#exploretocreate#depthsofearth#roamtheplanet#greatnorthcollective#norwaynature#canonnordic#svalbardlife#conservation#spitzbergen#natgeowild#naturephotography#awesome_earth#photojeanettics#respect#bbcwildlifepotd#photojeanettics#spring#natgeo#arctic#fjord#polarbear#icebreaker#travelphotography#expedition#wildlife#awareness
As Roosevelt Ave nears the end of its eastward course, it passes by the Unisphere, the iconic Queens Globe of Flushing Meadows Park. In springtime, families take pictures at golden hour in their best sunshine saris, their tennis skirts and collared shirts amid an explosion of color and bloom. I often think about what it means to be American on my walks along Roosevelt—what it means to be the product of so many different stories and struggles and heritages that have led us to one singular, raucous mix of a place. In this country that so deeply strives for assimilation, there is often pressure to distill our identities, to make them more palatable for others looking on.
But what is both so special and so hard about Queens is that assimilation does not come easy. I think about this with every scene that crosses my gaze. I think about it when my own family, a blend of cultures shaped by migrations, ventures out to this neighborhood for tastes of a past that continues to mark our future here. I thought about this when I met one undocumented woman from Mexico named Ana who has been here now for 20 years…I told her I’d recently been to her homeland and asked her which part she was from…Instead of answering right away she touched my wrist and looked into my eyes and asked me how it was.
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