HiveDiscoMod Curation Highlights June 17, 2025

. I knew it was the end of the road for me when I heard Mama lock the only door that led outside the house that night from my room. It only meant one thing: my freedom was in her hands now. Still, I dragged myself out of my room all dressed in my party attire, with my new Christmas braids swinging left and right as I walked ...

(English) Jam session in the basement Author: @nachomolina2 I bought a professional snare drum! What do you think? (Mateus said with great excitement) Hey! I can't believe it, let's go to the basement right away ...

It was a hot afternoon. I had just given my friend, Daniel the exact amount he asked of me. “No need to pay back”. I said when he asked when he should repay the debt ...

Gold has been producing mind boggling returns lately. It seems that it will likely surpass the $4,000 per Troy ounce mark this year, a couple of years ago I never would have even thought that was possible. However, with the world we live in with all of the war and uncertainty the precious metals are going to perform well. Not only gold, but silver as well ...

This is a publication based on the suggested topic proposed in the Hive Learners community through their discord, which on this occasion is "DIFFICULT TO GRASP". "The only way to do great work is to love what you do". << Steve Jobs Bing AI Welcome, my dear readers, to this space. Today, I'm going to be talking to you about the most difficult thing I've had to learn ...

It's another day of the new week and I trust you all are doing great. I promised to share the journey of my NYSC (National Youth Service Corps) as an experience I know you would find interesting so let's dive into it 😊. I'm a Nigerian and as a graduate from a tertiary institution in Nigeria, you must undergo this one year compulsory service as long as you are still under the age of 30 or exactly 30 as of the date of graduation but whoever is over 30 will be issued an exemption certificate. The service has 4 phases which are Orientation camp Primary Place of Assignment (PPA) Community Development Service (CDS) Passing Out Parade (POP) To start with, I was originally deployed to Akwa ibom state and considering the fact that I was not prepared to move far away from my family, I considered trying to apply for a redeployment but to where exactly in the southwest and how, I didn't know yet ...

For nourishing all the living beings we have come from the soil and we will end up in the soil. Today is Basumati Snana, the concluding ceremony of in which Mother Earth is purified, like a woman after her menstruating period. It's another unique ritual of my place in which a symbolic bathe is given to Mother Earth, by keeping the grinding stone ( that represents Mother Earth) and other accessories and adorning it with turmeric paste, vermilion and flowers. The bathe is intended to purify the Mother Earth praying for its fertility to bring good results of agricultural activities in the upcoming monsoon season ...

The butterfly garden is so pretty with all the Foxglove and Dianthus blooming. I took this right at dusk when the solar lights came on. This week the last of the Peony flowers dropped and I trimmed off all the spent branches. They all put on a lovely display this year blooming in between the heavy rainfall ...

Greetings and blessings to this beautiful and ever young community of Silverbloggers. Today I want to tell you about a spicy and constant theme; It is "love out of time" or said with all its letters and sounds, we will talk about the difference in age on relationships. Sugars not be alarmed, because there will be no stones on anyone's roof, but facts and flowers. When we talk about maturity, we generally focus on two essential categories: biological maturity (muscle development, hormonal changes, and development of sexual organs) and psychological maturity (character development, spirituality, financial status, emotional balance, etc ...

Sorry for the long absence again. I've been busy with my health recently. I mentioned before that avocados are good for osteoarthritis, but for my friend's acquaintance it takes a year to see results, so I thought this was going to be a long battle. Moreover, I stopped eating avocados twice because I doubted their effectiveness, so I'm still suffering from pain in my left knee ...

Spanish Las plumas son modelos y tienen la oportunidad de cambiar al niño con innumerables correcciones. He vivido con mi padre durante años y sé lo que implica ser padre y lo que implica disciplinar a mis hijos cada vez que hacen algo mal, ya sea en casa o fuera de ella. Esta es una lección que aprendí de mi padre. Es una lección inolvidable ...

Hey there my Hive friends and followers! I didn´t think it would take me almost a month to post the second and final part of my mini photography series dedicated to the beauties of Mauritius but there we go again, behind the schedule as always :D But let me first thank you guys for the amazing feedback on the previous post. It was just some 20 random shots and a few short paragraphs about our vacation but the response from you was so kind! It just feels so heartwarming to know that I was not forgotten here even though my activities here on the chain have dropped to literally like 1 or 2% of what it used to back in the days when I was trying to be a full timer here ...

Arrived in George Town, Malaysia getting new pictures on my HD, and new impressions time to share cool shots from sunny Songkhla I still have, and turn over the page. Home, sweet home: Those windows behind ornamental grilles in the middle are my room in the wonderful Yuma Guesthouse (180$ a month). The roof in front of the windows, that's where I could see monkey visitors sometimes. Just 200 meters away, the old town's townhouses with amazing details like antique doors and windows, rich textures, and, best of all, they’re home to adorable cats, spoiled house princesses and lords: Fortunately for cats, Songkhla is the best birdwatching location ever ...

A few mono shots from recent walks Good Morning another work week begins, well for those working, for me not so much other than working on photo walks and things around gthe house ;) as I do on Mondays starting the week with a few Mono shots from recent walks Starting with a shot on the Cove walk here in New Bedford, a popular spot for walkers, but not one I often walk as its not always the best spot to catch sunrises which is when I mostly get out walking, in my last Wednesday walk post I shared a shot of this Mural in color, but this view of it and the walk way I preferred in Mono Sony A7iv 17mm F8 1/160 Sec ISO 100 Next up from a visit to Haskell Gardens, not much growing at this stage in this greenhouse, if it had bene this may have been a color edit but empty like this I felt it looked better in MOno lettign out eyes focus more on the details and shadows Sony A7iv 17mm F7.1 1/320 Sec ISO 100 And from a walk on Popes Island, by one of the marines a shot of the Swing Truss Bridge open to let boats pass through, whenever i visit there I cant resist gettign shots of this bridge from various angles I read somewhere this morning, thta the plans to replace this bridge are for work to start in 2027, so I will have time to get plenty more shots of it before then Sony A7iv 22mm F11 0.8 Sec ISO 100 One morning when I got home from a sunrise walk, my step count was a little low, so I walked through Oak Groove Cemetery for a bit to get my step count up, as I was walking back i saw this view and snapped a shot Sony A7iv 91mm F10 1/125 Sec ISO 160 and to finish off back on the cove walk ...

Namaste ji ! I hope you’re all doing well. I’m back with another experience—one that I’ll remember for the rest of my life. On 5th June, my friend texted me about a stunning place he had recently visited ...

Greetings! I came across something on social media this morning, and I couldn't just skip sharing it, even though I didn’t participate in the event to have the 'original' photos. I came across photo collections of a bicycle cultural event. At first, I wanted to skip because I had already believed that it could never be a Nigerian event, but the title amazed me—it happened in Nigeria last year in Rivers State ...

Learning is an everlasting journey that empowers us as individuals to grow. It doesn't stop because there is always something to learn as we grow. Refusing to learn comes with great consequences, especially in today's world where developments happen very fast, leaving those who have refused to learn the new ways struggling. It's not necessarily something we must do within the four walls of a classroom ...

This is my entry for the monomad challenge. Category:Photography Camera:Nikon d80 Lens:Sigma 17 50mm f/2.8 Software:Lightroom Location:Carpathians (Ukraine) ...

]( ▶️ I have been thinking a lot about sharing with you my workflow when I edit with Darktable software, so going through my photo archive I found a couple of quite interesting images and I liked them to make a video demonstrating the editing work. To make the video not so long I only edited one of the two pictures and I don't talk in the video because that's what usually makes me take more time to do the editing, I hope you like it. About the pictures they were taken a couple of months ago but I've been saving them as always, waiting for the right moment to show them to the community, see you. Music from Pixabay: 1: 2: ▶️ ...

Niektórzy z Was kojarzą być może skecz Kabaretu Moralnego Niepokoju "Odrabiane lekcji" z niezwykle trudnym pytaniem "Co tak tupie po ścieżce"? . Otóż udało mi się sfotografować takiego ścieżkowego tuptaka. Po ścieżce tupał turkuć podjadek (Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa) ...

Hello, flower lovers! 🌹📷 When I went for a walk in the town park a couple of days ago, I didn't have the intention to take pictures of the flowers, I was more interested to see if there were any water snakes in the small lake in the middle of the park, these are the snakes that live here by the water and in the water. They are not poisonous. Or some turtles, which I have already seen this year ...

Today I spent about half a day at a lake, which is actually not too far from where I live. I and a friend planned to go fishing at this lake. Previously I had also been here several times when I had free time. It turned out that fishing was also fun even though I didn't catch any fish ...

Antes que nada, cordiales saludos a todos los miembros de la comunidad de photo essay, al igual que a todos mis lectores y la comunidad de Hive. El día de hoy, quiero compartir con ustedes, unas imágenes que son realmente especiales para mí. First of all, warm greetings to all the members of the photo essay community, as well as to all my readers and the Hive community. Today, I want to share with you, some images that are really special for me ...