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What do you get when you leave your Nikon D850 camera on the ground in the path of a herd of elephants? Turns out, you get some remarkable photos. Though wildlife photographer Yarin Klein, whose camera it was, admits it was a risky move. He posted the results—taken in Kenya's Amboseli National Park—on Instagram.Don’t scroll hungry. This is last year's Food Photographer of the Year shortlist, and anyone who loves to eat, or cook, or admire beautiful images will enjoy it. Cakes feature prominently—wedding, Christmas, birthday—as do people: hundreds gathered for celebrations in Bangladesh, Burgundy, and China to a single elderly man sipping wine in Italy. There are beautiful landscapes, too: gleaming, snowy vineyards in Germany and fog-dusted grapevines in the US. Builders lunching in Jordan, a toddler eying melon in Spain… Categories range from Food at the Table to Bring Home the Harvest.SPONSORED: REDCAN in downtown WRJ offers the finest food and dining experience in the Upper Valley. REDCAN's dinner service runs Tuesday-Saturday, from 4 pm until 9 pm. Reservations can be found on RESY. And don’t forget our very popular ROOM39 Speakeasy Lounge! Come early or stay late for specialty cocktails. REDCAN also offers Private on-site events and specialty dinners. Check out our website at the burgundy link for our menu samples. Sponsored by REDCAN.Okay. This guy needs to start buying lottery tickets. Last year in Eugene, OR, Shane Reimche had just walked into the Quick Trip Market when a large circular saw blade from a nearby construction site bombed across the parking lot and embedded itself in the wall he'd just passed. “I put my hand on the door, and I heard a loud bang and yelling here at the corner. Just as a cloud of smoke pops us and I see a guy fall in the ditch, and a four-foot blade hurling at me," he told Eugene's KEZI News.Today's Wordbreak. With a word from the regional news.
Thanks for writing! That's the title of Scottish singer and guitarist Anna Massie's sweet and jaunty new song. Massie's renowned in those parts for her work with Blazin’ Fiddles, RANT and Mairearad Green, as well as for hosting BBC Radio Scotland’s weekly traditional music program, Travelling Folk. She's also a fine solo performer. During the pandemic, she spent lockdown at her parents' place on the Black Isle (which is actually a peninsula) posting a daily video diary. Which drew followers. Which in turn drew correspondence of the old-fashioned kind.
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