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Virgen de las Penas, del escultor cordobés Francisco Romero Zafra. Bendición de la imagen, titular de la cofradía ubetense de la Sentencia.
De todas mis fotos, es la cuarta que ha conseguido las 1000 visitas, el 20 de noviembre de 2007
Más de un año tardó en conseguir las 2000 visitas, el 8 de enero de 2009. Es la 7ª que lo consigue
El 3 de marzo de 2011 consiguió las 4000 visitas, mi novena en conseguirlo. El 20 de septiembre de 2012 consiguió las 5 mil visitas, y continúa la novena. El 20 de marzo de 2014 consigue las 6 mil visitas, ha bajado al undécimo puesto. El 5 de noviembre de 2014 sigue en el mismo puesto, alcanzando las 7 mil visitas. El 21 de febrero de 2015 llega a las 8 mil, ha bajado al duodécimo puesto. El 29 de junio de 2015 llega a las 9 mil, ha bajado al décimo cuarto puesto. El 17 de abril de 2016 llega a las diez mil, sube a la 13ª
Main rooms[edit]
The gatehouse is of 1406, and the block to its left, now the shop and cafe, has Gothic windows facing the moat. The main facade is medieval to the left, but in Elizabethan prodigy house style at the centre and right. The chapel is 14th-century Decorated Gothic, the other main rooms that are opened mainly Elizabethan. The great hall runs along the facade. Upstairs there is a long gallery overlooking the gardens at the rear.[4]
The best bedrooms have two very elaborate chimneypieces, in the Queen's Bedroom (used by Anne of Denmark) a stone one heavily decorated with ornament in a style "proclaiming the Renaissance but simultaneously revealing a still very imperfect comprehension of what it was all about". This was presumably the result of a local carver with access to an ornament pattern book such as those by Hans Vredeman de Vries; the two human heads still look distinctly medieval. The other chimneypiece, in the bedroom James I used, is at another stylistic extreme; a very polished and spacious stucco piece in a style comparable to that of the First School of Fontainebleau, and probably not made by English artists. The central medallion, with a mythological scene, is designed by Rosso Fiorentino, and also appears in the Palace of Fontainebleau. This is flanked by two large nude boys. The Italian artists of the Tudor court Henry VIII used at Nonsuch Palace have been suggested; the pieces were almost certainly made elsewhere and taken to Broughton.[5]
There are several fine plasterwork ceilings, the most spectacular in the Great Parlour on the first floor, and the Oak Room below it. There is 18th-century painted Chinese wallpaper of different tree, bird and flower designs in three bedrooms, in very good condition. At roof level there is a room believed to be that "with no ears", where the 1st viscount plotted with Parliamentary leaders in the years before the Civil War.[6] The gardens have long herbacious borders, at their best in summer.
Films and TVs[edit]
Parts of the films The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982), Oxford Blues (1984), Three Men and a Little Lady (1990), The Madness of King George (1994), Shakespeare in Love (1998), and Jane Eyre (2011) were shot in the castle. TV filming for parts of Elizabeth The Virgin Queen, Friends and Crocodiles, 1975 Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show, Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, and the titles of Noel's House Party also took place there. The castle has been used as the location for several other films and TV programmes[7] including an adaptation of Jane Eyre and
Concerts[edit]
In August 1981, the electric folk band Fairport Convention held their annual reunion concert at Broughton Castle, rather than the usual Cropredy location.[8] The concert was recorded, and released on the album Moat on the Ledge (1982).
Fiction[edit]
Published in April 2009, The Music Room is a novel by William Fiennes. This fictionalized memoir of his childhood and his epileptic brother is set in (the never identified) Broughton Castle. It has been described as "a beautiful poem of a tribute to his family, his parents, the magical, moated castle that was his home"
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Surreal digital art by Ethan Kemp (Noodles)
Composite digital work constructed from my dreams. "Planet Noodle is a very far off place"
Since I was asked, Sky created by blending and hand painting 5 layers, figures hand made with pen tool via CS5, bomber sight hand drawn, eggs care of Mrs Noodles kitchen, hand painted, speckled and cracked, Telephone box shot in Durham UK on my Sons graduation day, Oh and Umbilical cords are Mrs Noodles vacum cleaner pipe modified in CS5.
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Taking Laverne out for a spin in Portland’s China Town.
This copper framed leg powered BrewCycle the ladies are riding is named Laverne and, yes, there is another BrewCycle called Shirley, also. Both Laverne and Shirley will seat up to 15 passengers each with the third and last BrewCycle, Jimmy Googins, seating only 11. Laverne is the oldest and has been on the road since June of 2011. You can rent her, Shirley, or Jimmy with your friends for a “WeekEND BrewPub Crawl”, Friday’s or Saturday’s, for $25.00 per seat. It’s just $20.00 a seat during their “WeekDAY BrewPub Crawl” which runs Sunday through Thursday. The fee includes your seat, BrewCycle, and a driver. The beer and pedaling is on you.
What happens? There are two routes to choose from: Route A and Route B. Route A: you and your friends will visit Lucky Labrador Brewing Company, Lompoc Tavern, and Bridgeport Brewing. You get to enjoy Old Town Brewing Company, PINTS Brewing Company, and Deschutes Brewery on Route B. Each BrewCycle travels at a whopping speed of 5 mph. You cannot drink alcohol while on board but they do suggest you bring a cooler of water as you will experience quite a workout during this little trip. Yes, all riders must be 21 years or older.
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A shot from a couple of weeks ago at South Lake, in the Bishop Creek Canyon area of the Eastern Sierra.
It snowed two days before we got there, and pretty heavily. The only problem was, the wind from the storm stripped most of the trees which had turned. This was from a spot above the dam, right on the shore. I met a cool guy from Russia named Val, and his signifcant other, whose name, I'm sorry to say, escapes me right now. He shot, and she scouted locations. She came back and said the trail above the lake had a nice stand of Aspens with color, so after I shot here, I went up there -- but I hated everything I shot from there.
I like this vantage point better anyway, because of the way the first sun hits the highest peaks. If you look at it Large, you can see the just a couple pixels of pink on two summits to the left of the major light.
Reached Explore #497 on Friday, October 21, 2011. Thank you all!
Evidence for a pair of supermassive black holes in a spiral galaxy has been found in data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This main image is a composite of X-rays from Chandra (blue) and optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope (gold) of the spiral galaxy NGC 3393. Meanwhile, the inset box shows the central region of NGC 3993 as observed just by Chandra.
The diffuse blue emission in the large image is from hot gas near the center of NGC 3393 and shows low energy X-rays. The inset shows only high energy X-rays, including emission from iron. This type of emission is a characteristic feature of growing black holes that are heavily obscured by dust and gas.
Two separate peaks of X-ray emission (roughly at 11 o'clock and 4 o'clock) can clearly be seen in the inset box. These two sources are black holes that are actively growing, generating X-ray emission as gas falls towards the black holes and becomes hotter. The obscured regions around both black holes block the copious amounts of optical and ultraviolet light produced by infalling material.
At a distance of 160 million light years, NGC 3393 contains the nearest known pair of supermassive black holes. It is also the first time a pair of black holes has been found in a spiral galaxy like our Milky Way. Separated by only 490 light years, the black holes in NGC 3393 are likely the remnant of a merger of two galaxies of unequal mass a billion or more years ago.
Dubbed "minor mergers" by scientists, such collisions of one larger and another smaller galaxy may, in fact, be the most common way for black hole pairs to form. Until the latest Chandra observations of NGC 3393, however, it has has been difficult to find good candidates for minor mergers because the merged galaxy is expected to look like an ordinary spiral galaxy.
If this was a minor merger, the black hole in the smaller galaxy should have had a smaller mass than the other black hole before their host galaxies started to collide. Good estimates of the masses of both black holes are not yet available to test this idea, although the observations do show that both black holes are more massive than about a million Suns.
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/G. Fabbiano et al; Optical: NASA/STScI
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I'm re-uploading this image in order to auction a print to help the people of Japan following the recent earthquake and tsunami.
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A little bit about the image: Something a bit different. No Photoshop here...just cardboard.
I was aware of things like the splitzers you can buy/make for Lomography cameras so I thought I'd try something similar with my Hasselblad. I put together a makeshift splitzer by cutting some black cardboard to fit in a Cokin holder. Composing through a 45° finder while your camera is upside down is challenging to say the least...
Hasselblad 500c/m, Planar 80mm, Tri-x 400, Cokin P holder and cardboard filter :)
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This is a silver gelatin print and was split grade printed by me (last night), in my darkroom (well...my bathroom) on Kentmere VC Select fine lustre paper. The image above is a scan of the actual print.
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El edificio del CENTRO CULTURAL de RIPOLLET, que nos brinda con sus formas y
lineas fantasticas, propias de una arquitectura fantastica sin precedentes. Aqui
aproveché un dia de cielo azul y limpio para contrastar con sus columnas y dar asi
mas volumen a todas sus lineas. Estudié este inusual punto de vista, diferente al
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polarizador, y una abertura mas cerrada para saturar el cielo y destacar el blanco
de las nubes.
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# Obturación: 1/125 seg. ~ Diafragmado: f/6.7 ~ 100 ISO.
# Filtro polarizador circular hama.
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Thank God it's Friday!!! Today I don't have to go to work, finally my new schedule kicked in and I am off every Friday from now on, yay!! That does not mean that I will lazily sit at home and do nothing, which is what I'd love to do, to recover from that shite year 2010, instead I am busy like a bee, working on several projects at the same time. One of them is preparing for my next photo exhibition (details below), another one is a still secret mission that should help me promote a greater goal, the 'AmsterSam World Domination Plan', and that has a deadline that ends tomorrow, so I'll have to hurry up. There are several other things going on that I can hopefully tell you about soon, but in general I think it's safe to say that 2011 will be a very good year once I'm done with all that shizzle :))
My next photo exhibition, that I'll be doing together with the lovely Miss Monyart, is going to start on February 5 at the ABC Treehouse and will go on until the end of the month, hope to see you there :)
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Barsebäck NPP
Country Sweden
Coordinates 55°44′40″N 12°55′15″E / 55.74444°N 12.92083°E / 55.74444; 12.92083Coordinates: 55°44′40″N 12°55′15″E / 55.74444°N 12.92083°E / 55.74444; 12.92083
Status Decommissioned
Construction began 1969
Commission date May 15, 1975
Decommission date Reactor 1: November 30, 1999 Reactor 2: May 31, 2005
Operator(s) Barseback Kraft AB
Reactor information
Reactors decom. 2 x 615 MW
Power generation information
Annual generation 3,572 GW·h
Net generation 187,018 GW·h
As of August 1, 2007
Barsebäck is a closed nuclear power plant in Sweden, which is situated in Barsebäck, Kävlinge Municipality, Skåne. Located just 20 kilometers from the Danish capital, Copenhagen, the Danish government pressed for its closure during its entire lifetime. As a result of the Swedish nuclear power phase-out, its two reactors have now been closed. The first reactor, Barsebäck 1, was closed November 30, 1999, and the second, Barsebäck 2, ceased operations May 31, 2005.
Land for the plant was bought in 1965 by the energy company Sydkraft, and the first of the two BWR reactors was ordered from Asea-Atom in 1969. Unit one first attained criticality on January 18, 1975 and commercial operation began on May 15. The second reactor attained criticality in March 21, 1977 and commercial operation began on June 12. Following a decision in the Parliament in 1997, the Government of Sweden decided that the first reactor was to close July 1, 1998, and the second July 1, 2001. Due to the operator's appeal of the decision, the closure was postponed. The destruction of the facility will await the construction of a storage facility, scheduled to be ready by 2020.
At the time of closure, each reactor had a capacity of 600 megawatts. The plant was operated by Barsebäck Kraft AB, a subsidiary of Ringhals AB, owned by Vattenfall and Sydkraft.
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The Fukusahima I Nuclear Power Plant (福島第一原子力発電所, Fukushima Dai-Ichi Genshiryoku Hatsudensho?, Fukushima I NPP), often referred to as Fukushima Dai-ichi (Dai-ichi simply means number 1), is a nuclear power plant located in the town of Okuma in the Futaba District of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, first commissioned in 1971. The plant consists of six boiling water reactors. These light water reactors[1] have a combined power of 4.7 GW, making Fukushima I one of the 15 largest nuclear power stations in the world. Fukushima I was the first nuclear plant to be constructed and run entirely by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO). The plant suffered major damage from the 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit Japan on March 11, 2011, disabling the reactor cooling systems and triggering a widespread evacuation surrounding the plant.
The Fukushima II Nuclear Power Plant, 11.5 kilometres (7.1 mi) to the south, is also run by TEPCO.
This photo is a two in one as it is for Christmas wishes and a Throwback Thursday.
First up, I would just like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas for 2018 and a Happy New Year for 2019!
Thanks to everyone who looked at my pictures this year and hopefully next year we all get some more great shots!
Secondly this is also Throwback Thursday (154)
AV 110 is seen departing Abbey Street on a 41 to Swords Manor. This bus spent most of its life in Summerhill after delivery in 2000. It was synonymous with the 20B for many years until that route merged with the 14 in 2011. It could then be found on any Summerhill route. It ended its career in Donnybrook and was withdrawn in 2014.
In 2018 we had a period of snow at the end of February / start of March that shut the country down for a few days. The last time I remembered such bad snow was December 2010 when it lasted for most of the month with two serious bouts of snow, one at the start of December and the other around the 21st. However, unlike in 2018, the buses were still substantially able to provide a bus service.
Abbey Street 21/12/2010
Sunny Isles Beach (SIB, officially City of Sunny Isles Beach) is a city located on a barrier island in northeast Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The city is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east and the Intracoastal Waterway on the west.
Sunny Isles Beach is an area of cultural diversity with stores lining Collins Avenue, the main thoroughfare through the city.
It is a growing resort area and developers such as Michael Dezer have invested heavily in construction of high-rise hotels and condominiums while licensing the Donald Trump name for some of the buildings for promotional purposes. Sunny Isles Beach has a central location, minutes from Bal Harbour to the south, and Aventura to the north and west.
Sunny Isles Beach was also the 2008 site of MTV's annual "Spring Break" celebration, with headquarters at the local Newport Beachside Resort.
In 1920, Harvey Baker Graves, a private investor, purchased a 2.26-square-mile (5.9 km2) tract of land for development as a tourist resort. He named it Sunny Isles -- The Venice of America.
When the Haulover bridge was completed in 1925, the area became accessible from Miami Beach, attracting developers who widened streams, dug canals and inlets and created islands and peninsulas for building waterfront properties on Biscayne Bay.
In the 1920s, Carl G. Fisher built an all-wooden racetrack with stands for 12,000 spectators, known as the Fulford-Miami Speedway. This event, held on February 22, 1926, dubbed "Carl G. Fisher Cup Race," was a forerunner to the auto races at Sebring and Daytona. In September 1926, after just one race, the track was destroyed by the 1926 Miami Hurricane. This event was held in Fulford-By-the-Sea which is today's North Miami Beach. Sunny Isles Beach was known as North Miami Beach until 1931, then known as Sunny Isles until 1997.
In 1936, Milwaukee malt magnate Kurtis Froedtert bought Sunny Isles. The Sunny Isles Pier was built and soon became a popular destination. Sunny Isles developed slowly until the 1950s when the first single-family homes were built in the Golden Shores area. During the 1950s and 1960s more than 30 motels sprang up along Collins Avenue including the Ocean Palm, the first two-story motel in the U.S. Designed by Norman Giller in 1948 it was developed and owned by the Gingold family for the next 45 years and provided the springboard for Sunny Isles economic development. Tourists came from all over to vacation in themed motels of exotic design along "Motel Row". One motel, The Fountainhead, was so named by its owner, Norman Giller, after the novel by Ayn Rand. As of 2013, the Ocean Palm Motel is closed.[citation needed
In 1982 the half-mile-long Sunny Isles Pier was designated a historic site. In the early-mid 80s, it went through restoration and re-opened to the public in 1986. The pier was severely damaged in October 2005 by Hurricane Wilma. After 8 years, it was remodeled and reopened as Newport Fishing Pier on June 15, 2013.
In 1997, the citizens of the area voted to incorporate as a municipality. Sunny Isles was renamed Sunny Isles Beach. Sunny Isles Beach began major redevelopment during the real estate boom of the early 2000s with mostly luxury high-rise condominiums and some hotels under construction along the beach side of Collins Avenue (A1A) replacing most of the historic one- and two-story motels along Motel Row. In 2011, construction began on two more high-rises, Regalia, located on the northern border of the city along A1A, and The Mansions at Acqualina, located adjacent to the Acqualina Resort & Spa on the Beach.
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BANGLADESH, a Land of Fertility and Dhaka is the capital city a Country of Land, boat /river , hills and sea, The Longest sea beach Cox Bazar and Famous Mango groves Sundorban is the tourist attraction with heritage of Old days makes One Nostalgic. BANGLADESH is born out of series of political movements ,Those Started with Language movement in 1952 , followed by Non cooperation Movement in 1969 and finally ended up with Liberation war in 1971,
Jute , The Golden Fiber of Bangladesh is world wide famous while now Garmentsbecame the economical backbone of the country, Bangladesh has a Long rich cultural and Literatures heritage, with our noble Laurent Poet Nobel Laurent Rabindranath Tagore., Followed by Kazi Nazrul Islam and Jibanananda Das.
The country BANGLASDESH is a land of fertility for Agriculture, while Livestock’s are the main driving force for the rural life, Education had been the prime concerned for people of these days . Bangladesh has the glory to Inaugurate ICC World cup Cricket in 2011 at Mirpur stadium,
Season has Lot of credit in photography , along with the landscape. Heritage. Rivers cape, and Life style, People here enjoy festival in Bangladesh almost every month, Sometimes they are religious an most of the time seasonal, thus allow good subjects for Image capturing,
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A new portrait of Prince Charles by expressionist artist Stephen B. Whatley; painted in September 2017, as the prince made history becoming the longest serving Prince of Wales, since Edward VII. The painting was inspired by a series of selected recent photographs of the eldest son of HM Queen Elizabeth II ; and the Heir to the Throne.
Whatley's portraits seek to reach a deeper and spiritual essence of his subjects. His portraits of Princes William & Harry, commissioned by American collectors, were published in HELLO magazine in 2008 and 2011; and his portrait tribute of Barack Obama was published in TIME magazine's Person of The Year issue of 2008.
The artist's many portrait sitters in the past 26 years include actors of stage and screen such as Frances Barber, Elizabeth Dawn MBE, Dame Judi Dench, Susan Hampshire OBE, Dame Siân Phillips CBE, Alison Steadman OBE, Dame Julie Walters, Barbara Young, Carol Royle, Maria McErlane, Virginia McKenna OBE, Lana Morris, Nyree Dawn Porter OBE, Finty Williams & Dame Barbara Windsor; TV presenter Sarah Greene; comedienne & writer Jo Brand; actor,comedian & singer Brian Conley; Veuve Cliquot Businesswoman of the Year, Patsy Bloom; entrepreneur, Ivan Massow; fashion designer, Matthew Williamson; and barrister, Michael Mansfield QC.
The Royal theme has played a major part in two high profile commissions of Stephen B. Whatley's work. In 1999 The Royal Collection commissioned to paint two views of Buckingham Palace - an exterior and interior, both painted on location at the Palace - which were reproduced on London Underground posters in 1999 and 2000.
Then in 2000 he was commissioned to paint a series of 30 paintings for the Tower of London - all of which are permanently reproduced outside Tower Hill Station, throughout Tower Hill Underpass, as a permanent vibrant art exhibit welcoming visitors to the Tower of London.
In 2004 Stephen B. Whatley was presented to HM Queen Elizabeth II and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh at a reception at the Tower of London, in recognition of his work.
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Lago Enriquillo esta localizado al suroeste de República Dominicana, es uno de sólo unos pocos lagos de agua salada en el mundo habitado por cocodrilos.
Llamado por los indígenas Hagueygabon (Gran Manantial) y por los colonizadores españoles Lago Grande de Jaragua, estos últimos también le llamaron Aibaguanex en honor a un indígena cuando gobernó La Hispaniola Fray Nicolás de Ovando según narra Gonzales Fernández de en su Historia General de las Indias.
La isla Cabritos parte importante de este sistema cuando el último gobierno de Horacio Vásquez fue adquirida por 400 pesos por el súbdito alemán Hermann Peters domiciliado y residente en Puerto Príncipe, Republica de Haití en fecha Febrero 28, 1929, siendo previamente comprado estos terrenos inhabitados de las isla en fecha Diciembre 23,1901 por Emilio Peters a Juan Ramón Montes de Oca en representación de la sucesión del finado Gregorio Recio, por ante el alcalde de Neiba en funciones de notario público, ciudadano Jesús María Pérez.
En la isla Cabritos el Cacique Enriquillo tenía su refugio y centro de aprovisionamiento constituido fundamentalmente de pescado seco.
La isla Cabritos fue declarada parque nacional en 1974 por el entonces presidente de la Republica Dominicana Joaquín Amparo Balaguer Ricardo.
Lake Enriquillo is a lake in the Dominican Republic, it is one of only a few saltwater lakes in the world inhabited by crocodiles.
Lake Enriquillo is located in a rift valley formed by the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault that extends 79 miles (127 km) from Port-au-Prince Bay in Haiti in the west, to near Neiba Bay in the Dominican Republic in the east.
This fault was responsible for the catastrophic 2010 Haiti earthquake. The lake is named after Enriquillo, a Taíno cacique who rebelled against the Spaniards in the early 16th century, and hid in the mountains North of the lake.
Lake Enriquillo covers an area of 102 square miles (265 km²) and is the lowest point in the Caribbean falling 129 feet (39 m) below sea level. During the late 2000s, the lake has increased its surface area dramatically.
Records for 2004 show the lake to be 164 square kilometers; measurements from 2011 put the area at 350 km²..... This rise in level has affected hundres of nearby residents in townships that bordered the lake, with abundant loss of agricultural land which, even if the waters recede, will probably be rendered useless due to the lake's salinity damaging the qualities of the once-arable soil.
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Fermiamo l'Aids sul nascere con il Cesvi
La campagna compie dieci anni e festeggia con un gemellaggio tra giovani di Paesi del nord e del sud del mondo. SMS solidale al 45509 dal 27 novembre al 19 dicembre.
Secondo UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Programme on Hiv/Aids), 33,4 milioni sono le persone in tutto il mondo contagiate dall’Hiv, 15,7 milioni di donne e 2,1 bambini.
Due terzi dei sieropositivi sono concentrati nell’Africa sub-sahariana.
La situazione è allarmante anche in Asia meridionale e nel Sud-est asiatico, dove vivono 4,1 milioni di persone affette da Hiv.
Si tratta di numeri talmente elevati rendere lontana l’ipotesi di una sconfitta di questa grave pandemia.
Dal 2001 il Cesvi è impegnato nella lotta all’Aids nell’Africa sub-sahariana e nel Sud est asiatico con il progetto “Fermiamo l’Aids sul nascere”, che compie dieci anni.
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Hiv-Aids
HIV, pregnancy, maternal and child health
It has been estimated that 1.5 million HIV positive women become pregnant every year, which means that about 600,000 children are infected every year by vertical transmission. The figures from selected pre-natal clinics in urban areas reveal an incidence of HIV among pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa of over 25%. In 2005, in LHDIC (Low Human Development Index Countries) only 9% of pregnant HIV-positive women received an antiretroviral prophylaxis to prevent transmission of the virus to their children, a modest increase of 3% compared with 2003. In these countries infection is associated with an increased risk of: spontaneous miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth, premature labour, premature rupture of membranes, urogenital infections, syphilis. In industrialized countries the incidence of vertical transmission of the virus has fallen to minimal levels, as low as 2%, thanks to the introduction of antiretroviral therapy, the use of Caesarean section, and artificial feeding. In Africa, instead, where these operations are not widespread and not always available and where breastfeeding for long periods is normal, the vertical transmission of the virus is still around 25 to 40%.
PMTCT (Prevention Mother to Child Transmission) and PPTCT PLUS (Parental Prevention to Child Transmission)
Vertical transmission can occur at various stages: during pregnancy, birth, or breastfeeding. In LHDIC the prevention of vertical transmission by seropositive mothers is achieved through diverse interventions including:
- Services to promote maternal and infant health (pre- and postnatal).
- Counselling and testing services. - Promotion of alternatives to breastfeeding and/or early interruption of the same.
- Optimized and non invasive obstetric procedures - Preventive antiretroviral therapy for the mother and child.
- Antimalarial prophylaxis, since it has been demonstrated to reduce vertical transmission.
It is important to guarantee all women access to counselling and to VCT (Voluntary Counselling Testing).
The breastfeeding stage is the most delicate and difficult to deal with. The WHO estimates that 94% of children in the world are breastfed. 79% continue to one year and 52% up to two years. Breastfeeding over six months is common in sub-Saharan Africa and in Asia. Without antiretroviral prophylaxis or other effective intervention to prevent the vertical transmission of HIV, breastfeeding that extends for two years or more can increase the risk of transmission of HIV by about 40%. About 5 to 20% of infants are infected in the post-natal period and the risk increases progressively with the duration of breastfeeding. However, the alternative to breastfeeding, artificial feeding, is recommended only where it is easy to guarantee the supply of powdered milk and clean drinking water. In LHDIC artificial feeding may lead to the development of very serious problems. Bearing in mind that regarding breastfeeding there are no unanimous and general recommendations and that every intervention depends on the operative context, it is advisable to abide by the strategies proposed by the Ministry of Health in each individual country, which in turn are derived from general recommendations of the WHO.
Case study: http://www.cesvi.eu/UserFiles/File/Maternal%20and%20child%20health_Cambodia.pdf
Cover photo by Giovanni Diffidenti
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I am organizing a Dinner in Biella, Piedmont, Italy:
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For The Project : STOP AIDS AT BIRTH
Cena Solidale per il progetto Fermiamo l'Aids sul Nascere a BIELLA, 21 MAGGIO 2011
La cena e' in programma presso la mensa Caritas: "Il Pane Quotidiano" , Via Novara, 4 Biella. Vi aspettiamo! PRENOTATEVI!
Sabato 21 maggio si terrà una cena solidale a favore del progetto:Fermiamo l’Aids sul Nascere presso la mensa “Il Pane Quotidiano” , in via Novara n. 4, a Biella.
La cena è preparata dalla Confraternita dei Santi Giovese e Daniele.
Tutti i fondi raccolti, detratti i costi vivi di organizzazione, saranno destinati al CESVI
Cesvi ringrazia i volontari storici Angela Lobefaro e Massimiliano Greco.
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On the left of this photo: Takunda
the first child born in Zimbabwe from a HIV-positive mother with the health program of Cesvi "Stop AIDS at Birth"
His name, written in Shona, means "We won", represents a winning solidarity and strength of a continent that can win the difficult battle against AIDS.
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Photos used by Written Permission of CESVI www.cesvi.org photo ©Giovanni Diffidenti
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Students enjoy vanilla and pumpkin ice cream during pumpkin carving and painting on Fairfield Way on Oct. 18th, 2011(Sarah Rawlinson/UConn Photo)
Crianças se divertindo no Morro da Conceição.
Lugar pitoresco, tranquilo, histórico, pacato e belo, mas infelizmente ignorado ou desconhecido pelos demais moradores do Rio.
Claudio Lara © All rights reserved
Proibida reprodução sem autorização.
Foto sob a Lei do Direito Autoral Nº 9.610, de 19 de Fevereiro De 1998.
Esta foto não está à venda.
This ranks in the top 10 of my favorite pictures that I have taken. Here is the Woodville Mall in Northwood, Ohio as it was undergoing demolition on March 19, 2014. The mall corridor is halfway demolished in this shot and the light is coming in at the end because that part of the mall was demolished earlier in March. The Woodville Mall was opened in 1969 by the Edward J. DeBartolo Corporation and was demolished in March 2014 except for the Sears, former JCPenney / Andersons building, and the former Lasalle's / Macy's / Elder-Beerman building. The mall has been closed since late 2011.
I have a number of other demolition pictures from here but I have been saving them for a special project...
RIP Woodville Mall - 3725 Williston Road - Northwood, Ohio
Explored May 20, 2014 - #466
El rincón más íntimo de un flickero....... demasiadas horas pasadas ante la pantalla......seguro :-)
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Aprovecho esta foto que poco texto tiene, para comentaros que todos los que ocultais vuestros datos Exif, con ellos ocultais además de la marca de la cámara también los mapas de geolocalización, que van en el mismo paquete......aunque los veais vosotros, no los ven los demás.
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Curiosamente he observado que muchos los ocultan y me pregunto el por qué.......y he observado también que aproximadamente el 90 % de los que no los ocultan dispara en modo automático :-) pienso yo que para qué tanto "camarón" si con la compacta arreglaría bien la mayoria.
Pero la industria fotográfica con sus marcas es muy poderosa, como la automovilística......
Yo he disparado toda mi galeria con compactas de bolsillo, ni me preocupa decirlo, en la era digital tienen mejor "ojo"......y además siempre con Fujifilm que mantiene los sensores con una saturación muy parecida a aquellos míticos carretes Fuji Reala, que eran mis preferidos de la era analógica.
Aquella era otra era......incluyo en el primer comentario mi única y eterna cámara analógica, que aún funciona perfectamente. Ya comenté una vez que de consumista tengo bien poco.
Y algunas muestras de lo que una compacta barata es capaz de hacer, si estamos atentos a lo que estamos, claro ......no es la cámara quien hace la foto, sino nuestra mirada.
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** Hay una serie en el primer y en el último comentario
Toda mi galeria desde el año 2008 hasta estas últimas Navidades, está hecha con esta compacta de bolsillo de 120 € .......momento en que los Reyes Magos me regalaron esta otra, también compacta......¿mejor imposible?
Ya sé que todo esto es muy discutible pero yo me arreglo perfectamente y sobre todo no cargo mi espalda, que no está para muchos trotes.....mi cámara va siempre conmigo en el bolsillo trasero del tejano :-)
"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come" [Merchant Of Venice], William Shakespeare
A-Mazing Laughter, a sculpture by China’s Yue Minjun, was installed early this week at the Morton Triangle, close to English Bay Beach in Vancouver.
The installation features several figurative sculptures depicting Yue Min Jun’s famous Laughing Figures.
A-mazing Laughter is part of the 2009-2011 Vancouver Biennale
For more, see the slideshow
Places / Germany / Baden-Wurttemberg / Bad Mergentheim, Wildpark 1
Wildpark Bad Mergentheim "Bad Mergentheim"
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Der Kinderfilm Bambi aus dem Jahr 1942 ist der fünfte abendfüllende Zeichentrickfilm der Walt-Disney-Studios. Er basiert auf dem 1923 erschienenen Buch Bambi. Eine Lebensgeschichte aus dem Walde von Felix Salten.
Bambi im Original „the young prince“ (der junge Prinz) und sein Vater „the great prince of the forest“ (der große Fürst des Waldes).
Die deutschen Übersetzungen der vier Liedtexte von Love is a Song (Liebe ist mehr als nur ein Wort), Little April Shower (Kleiner Regen im April), Let’s sing a gay little Spring Song (Frühling) und Looking for Romance (Ich singe mein Lied) in der zweiten deutschen Synchronisation des Films aus dem Jahr 1973 stammen von Heinrich Riethmüller.
Bambi wird die Hauptverantwortung für den im deutschen Sprachraum weit verbreiteten Irrglauben, „Hirsch“ und „Reh“ seien Ausdrücke für Männchen und Weibchen (beziehungsweise Jungtier) derselben Tierart, zugeschrieben – tatsächlich ist ein männliches Reh ein Rehbock. Dies wird daher auch Bambi-Irrtum genannt. Da es in Amerika keine Rehe gibt, wird im Film eine amerikanische Hirschart dargestellt, während die deutsche Synchronisationen wieder – so wie in Saltens Buch − von Rehen spricht.
Roe deer
The world-famous deer Bambi (the eponymous character of the books Bambi, A Life in the Woods, and its sequel Bambi's Children, by Felix Salten) is originally a roe deer.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_deer
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WILDLIFE - Photography
outdoor
- learning and collecting experience
- Lernen und Erfahrungen sammeln
... set a low Aperture F number, coupled with the lowest ISO possible (limited to processing not grainy images,) that still enables your camera to shoot at 1/500th (birds - better 1/1000th ) of a second minimum.
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www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d5100.htm
The D5100 gives great auto exposure, and it handles difficult lighting with ease. Its Adaptive Dynamic Range (ADR) defaults to AUTO, and it works great.
www.nikon.com/news/2011/0405_d5100_01.htm
- a CMOS image sensor and the EXPEED 2 image-processing engine that enable high-resolution rendering and rich expression of tones.
- Resulting images beautifully recreate the scene as seen with the naked eye, even with shooting of backlit scenes, with little or no loss of detail in shadows or highlights.
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EXIF:
Lens 55-200mm f/4-5.6
AF-A, or AF-auto,
is a new mode. It means that the camera focuses, and then based on the subject, is smart enough to lock if it's still, or keep tracking if it's moving.
preset
- 4 frames a sec - Shooting Mode Continuous
- max. ISO 1600! - auto ISO sensitivity control available.
The higher you go, the more grain you will see in your images when you look at them on the computer.
combined with
Vari programm "Animal"
Vari Program "Pet Portrait "
AFArea Mode Dynamic Area
Dynamic AF-Area Mode (Nikon DSLRs) makes wildlife photography much easier by allowing the photographer to expand their Auto Focus Points and include a group of focal points. This setting is effective when it's difficult to track a moving bird with just one AF Point.
Continous focus - you focus on a moving subject
AF-A is where the camera selects and goes between the last two modes. If it thinks the subject you are photographing is stationary, then it will automatically use AF-S focus mode.
www.slrphotographyguide.com/camera/nikon-digital-slr/focu...
If it picks up that the subject you're photographing is a moving subject, then it will automatically use AF-C focus mode. This is also the default camera focus mode, unless you change the setting to AF-C or AF-S.
fast shutter
high ISO
here:
ISO Speed 1250
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/eagle1effi/15078337789/]
Scenery good for "animals" and "vivid Kids"
Focal Length (35mm format) 300 mm
from a trip to the Walbran Valley in the summer of 2003
The Carmanah and Walbran valleys are the entry points for rain clouds making their way inland off the coast. Mother Nature waters the flowers and trees almost daily, and the trees grow high and wide in thanks.
The trails and experience in the Walbran seem to be of a richer variety than the Carmanah, which is mostly board-walked, and dotted with "feature zones". In contrast, the trails in the Walbran valley provide a constant "big tree" experience, are still lightly visited, with some trails carpeted in moss.
The Provincial Government does not yet have a 'management plan' for the Walbran, which is all the more reason to visit. It's simply there; trails are definitely in place and mostly flat.
This coming summer of 2011 will make it 20 years since the beginning of the direct action blockades in the defence of the walbran valley!!!!
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More pictures of Monaco Top Marques 2013.
More pictures of Monaco Top Marques 2012.
More pictures of Monaco Top Marques 2011.
More pictures of Monaco Top Marques 2010.
Excerpt from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Wanchai_Market_Building:
The Old Wanchai Market Building was constructed in 1937. It is located at 264 Queen's Road East, at the Wan Chai Road crossing, opposite Stone Nullah Lane in Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island. It is a Grade III Historic Building.
Its architectural style is influenced by Streamline Moderne (also known as Streamlined Moderne or Art Moderne) architecture, a popular style of building of the 1930s. It is often erroneously referred to as a Bauhaus-style building.
Wan Chai Market, the wet market housed in the old market building since 1937, has moved into the new market complex on the lower levels of "The Zenith", a newly built residential development located just opposite to the market building, in September 2008.
The Wan Chai Market was initially a wet place where merchants would sell their belongings. It was also used as a garage for Bullock Carts and thus was called the 'Wet Garage' (濕車庫). It was named in 1917.
During Japanese occupation, the basement of the Wan Chai Market was used by Japanese soldiers for the storage of corpses.
In 1961, the Market underwent a renovation to improve its facilities and environment so that the Market could compete with other market places in the district.
The Land Development Corporation obtained approval from the Executive Council to acquire land in Wan Chai, including this site, for redevelopment as part of an urban renewal project. A consortium was formed comprising Chinese Estates (40%), Kwong Sang Hong (25%), Chi Cheung Investment (20%) and Peregrine Group (15%).
Chinese Estates, controlled by Joseph Lau Luen-hung, agreed with the Urban Renewal Authority in 1996 to jointly redevelop the site into a luxury residential-commercial complex. Phase two of the project, which requires the demolition of the building, was scheduled to start early 2008 and be completed by mid-2011.
In 2007, the Urban Renewal Authority and the Development Bureau jointly announced that the facade and the front part of the historic market building will be preserved in the redevelopment project; the front part will be used as a shopping centre. A residential building will stand at the back of the market building.
Después de una semanita de quedarnos en casa por el frío puñetero y por falta de tiempo, anoche volvimos a la carga con cero grados pero con una noche bastante agradable.
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Exif:
Camera Nikon D700
Exposure 681.3
Aperture f/8.0
Focal Length 14 mm
ISO Speed 400
Blue wire glow
Fireworks
A new Catholic tribute painting by expressionist artist Stephen B. Whatley, painted on the Feast Day of Saint Luke, October 18, 2018.
Saint Luke - also know as Luke The Evangelist, through his gospel writings - is Patron Saint of Artists and also Physicians.
In history, Saint Luke has often been depicted painting The Holy Mother & Child - and whilst the artist looked at paintings through the ages, his main inspiration - along with the prayers which generate his paintings - was a humble statue of the Saint sent to the artist from loved ones in the USA in 2011.
Stephen B. Whatley is a Catholic convert, a calling he felt through his spiritual search to survive early tragedy in his life; and his exhibition, "Paintings From Prayer" was staged at London's Westminster Cathedral in 2013.
Stephen gets what he humbly feels a 'Divine Push' to paint tributes of faith, amongst his other work - a large body of which is on public display every day in the City of London, just outside the Tower of London - where his series of 30 commissioned paintings charting the history of The Tower are permanently reproduced throughout the walkway leading from Tower Hill Station.
To see more of the artist's eclectic work and read more of his journey, visit: www.stephenbwhatley.com
Saint Luke, Patron Saint of Artists. 2018
Oil on canvas
30 x 24in/76 x 61cm
Virgen del Carmen de Úbeda, de autor desconocido, escuela granadina del siglo XVII o XVIII, ha sido restaurada por Francisco Romero Zafra. Foto hecha el dia de la bendición del niño Jesús, de José Antonio Cabello.
El 20 de junio consiguió las 1000 visitas, mi trigésima foto en conseguirlo, y el 4 de noviembre de 2009 consiguió las 2000, mi décimo quinta foto en conseguirlo
El 13 de abril de 2010 consigue las 3000 visitas, ya es mi décima foto mas vista. El 27 de septiembre de 2010 consigue las 4000 visitas, subiendo hasta la séptima foto más vista. El 13 de junio de 2011 consigue las 5000 visitas, sigue mi séptima foto mas vista. El Domingo 14 de agosto de 2011 consigue las 6 mil visitas, sigue la séptima. El viernes 27 de abril de 2012 llega a las 7 mil visitas, lo que la aupa hasta el cuarto puesto. El 7 de septiembre de 2012 consigue las 8 mil visitas, lo que la coloca en tercer lugar de las más vistas. El 1 de agosto de 2013 llega a las 9 mil visitas, continuando en el tercer lugar. El 9 de febrero de 2014, 10 mil visitas, sigue la tercera. El 7 de julio de 2014 consigue las 11 mil, está la cuarta. El 15 de noviembre de 2014 consigue las 12 mil, sigue la cuarta. El 25 de enero de 2016 consigue las quince mil, ha bajado al séptimo puesto
Making plans for shooting a landscape is a lot like rolling the dice. Making the plans surely teaches you more about the game and betters your odds, but you simply cannot make any guarantees for how the dice will land. This was a comp I picked out the day before. I wanted to frame the peak in this section of the lake bagging a killer reflection.
I didn't anticipate it getting cold enough to freeze a layer of ice blocking much of my reflection. By the time I found another stronger comp, this awesome color had passed. So I give you this shot having the best odds I could have hoped for. I still love the moon and the color on the peak was unreal.
Happy shooting!
Galaxy Map taught me the entity. galaxymap.org/drupal/node/50
"There are also many fairly bright nebula on this image that have no counterparts in the Sharpless catalog - including the huge nebula at (119°, -12°), Siv 2, which SIMBAD oddly lists without the coordinates given in the original discovery article..."
Sivan Jean-Pierre reported the region as angular size 330 x 180 arc-minutes at distance 1,380parsec, excited by the star AO Cassiopeiae in the article below, published in 1974.
articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1974A&AS...16..163S
Here is a closer frame with FSQ-106ED and Reducer QE 0.73x at 385mm in focal length and f/3.6 taken in 2011. .
www.flickr.com/photos/hiroc/6224453705/
Here is a wider frame with Sigma 35mmF1.4 Art.
www.flickr.com/photos/hiroc/16898870318/
equipment: Zeiss Aposonnar 135mmF2 and Canon EOS 5Dmk2-sp2, modified by Seo-san on Takahashi EM-200 Temma 2 Jr, autoguided with Takahashi FSQ-106ED, hiro-design off-axis guider, SX Lodestar Autoguider, and PHD Guiding
exposure: 8 times x 20 minutes, 5 x 15 min, 5 x 4 min, and 3 x 1 minute at ISO 1,600 and f/3.2
site: 11,000 feet above sea level near Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii
A área das Cataratas do Iguaçu (em espanhol, Cataratas del Iguazú) são um conjunto majestoso de cerca de 275 quedas de água no Rio Iguaçu (na Bacia hidrográfica do rio Paraná), localizam entre o Parque Nacional do Iguaçu, Paraná, no Brasil, e no Parque Nacional Iguazú, Misiones, na Argentina. A área total de ambos parques nacionais, correspondem a 250 mil hectares de floresta subtropical e declarada como Patrimônio Natural da Humanidade.
O Parque Nacional argentino foi criado em 1934; e o Parque Nacional brasileiro, em 1939, com o propósito de administrar e proteger o manancial de água que representa essa catarata e o conjunto do meio ambiente ao seu redor. Os parques tanto brasileiro como argentino passaram a ser considerados Patrimônio da Humanidade em 1984 e 1986, respectivamente. Desde 2002 o Parque Nacional do Iguaçu é um dos sítios geológicos brasileiros.
Historicamente, o primeiro europeu a achar as Cataratas do Iguaçu foi o espanhol, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, no ano de 1542.
As Cataratas do Iguaçu estão participando da campanha mundial de escolha das Sete Novas Maravilhas da Natureza, organizada pela Fundação New 7 Wonders,ela esta entre as 28 finalista da campanha, que deve durar até 2011 quando deve ser atingido o número de 1 bilhão de votos,além das Cataratas do Iguaçu a Amazônia é outra concorrente brasileira que busca ser uma das Sete Novas Maravilhas da Natureza.Pela internet é possível votar através da pagina oficial da Fundação New 7 Wonders
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Las cataratas del Iguazú se encuentran cerca de la triple frontera Argentina, Paraguay y Brasil (del idioma guaraní: Yguasu (agua grande), en portugués: cataratas do Iguaçu) son las cataratas localizadas en la provincia de Misiones, en el Parque Nacional Iguazú, Argentina y en el Parque Nacional do Iguaçu del estado de Paraná, Brasil. Su nombre proviene de dos palabras: la palabra «y» (similar a la /ü/ del alemán o la /u/ del francés, producida por contracción de la garganta) y la palabra «guasu» (léase guasu), que en lengua guaraní quieren decir «agua» y «grande», respectivamente.
Están formadas por 275 saltos de hasta 80 m de altura, alimentados por el caudal del río Iguazú. Se pueden realizar paseos en lancha bajo los saltos y caminatas por senderos apreciando algunos animales de la selva subtropical. La «Garganta del Diablo» (el salto mayor, que consta de 80 m) es un espectáculo aparte que, saliendo desde Puerto Canoas, se puede disfrutar en toda su majestuosidad a tan sólo 50 m de distancia.
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Iguazu Falls, Iguassu Falls, or Iguaçu Falls (Portuguese: Cataratas do Iguaçu, (Portuguese pronunciation: [kataˈɾatɐz du iɡwaˈsu]; Spanish: Cataratas del Iguazú, Spanish pronunciation: [kataˈɾatas del iɣwaˈsu]) are waterfalls of the Iguazu River located on the border of the Brazilian state of Paraná and the Argentine province of Misiones. The falls divide the river into the upper and lower Iguazu.
...Now outnumber the amount of French Billiard (Carambole) tables in the Academy. (See previous photo description ).
During a way cool photowalk in Lyon with Mohamed Simma & Damien Caron
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Note: this photo was published in an May 12, 2012 issue of Everyblock NYC zipcodes blog titled "10025."
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This is a continuation of a Flickr set that I started in the summer of 2009, and continued in 2010 (in this Flickr set) and in 2011 (in this Flickr set) . As I noted in those earlier collections of photos, I still have many parts of New York City left to explore -- but I've also realized that I don't always have to go looking elsewhere for interesting photographs. Some of it is available just outside my front door.
I live on a street corner on the Upper West Side of Manhattan where there's an express stop on the IRT subway line (with a new space-age subway station), as well as a crosstown bus stop, an entrance to the West Side Highway, and the usual range of banks, delis, grocery stores, fast-food shops, mobile-phone stores, drug-stores, Dunkin' Donuts, Starbucks, Subway, and other commercial enterprises. As a result, there are lots of interesting people moving past my apartment building, all day and all night long.
It's easy to find an unobtrusive spot on the edge of the median strip separating the east side of Broadway from the west side; nobody pays any attention to me as they cross the street from east to west, and nobody even looks in my direction as they cross from north to south (or vice versa). In rainy weather, sometimes I huddle under an awning of the T-Mobile phone store on the corner, so I can take pictures of people under their umbrellas, without getting my camera and myself soaking wet...
So, these are some of the people I thought were photo-worthy during the past few weeks and month; I'll add more to the collection as the year progresses ... unless, of course, other parts of New York City turn out to be more compelling from time to time.
Unicorn
What duplicity led you
To desert some virgin’s
Tense betraying thigh
And do battle with this lion –
And with what motive?
To plunder the narwhal’s tooth
That cleaves like a javelin
Between your bulging eyes,
So that it might be ground
To aphrodisiac, pulverised
To neutralise all poisons
Except enmity, against which
There is no antidote?
You must have been suborned.
Ah! No! You were goaded
To distraction by the choker
Round your throat:
That cruel, constricting Crown.
Poem by Giles Watson, 2011.
Picture: Heraldic unicorn, Binsey Church, Oxford.
We knew this beauty was alarmed, but we wanted to try anyway. There's a village festival going on and we saw some dudes standing in the churches graveyard taking a piss. Who will come and kick us out? Some drunk Belgians?
We found a relatively easy way in. We're checking out the first room for a PIR, nothing. Slowly we move on to the next room. We see a PIR hanging in one of the upper corners. Too late. The alarm is triggered. It's loud!
Within a few minutes a car comes driving up the terrain. We have a chat with this guy and he doesn't even ask us if we triggered the alarm or what we're doing here. We just ask him if we can have a look inside, he gives us a phone number to make an appointment. Appointment? I guess this is when we lost interest. Haven't been back since.
when: december 2011
with: mrtnski & suspiciousminds
Now that Piel Script was released i ll be able to go ahead with that complex project that is gong to be full or engrossing. This project started like 2 years ago and its taking long time to be finished. I like to work with clean nodes and curves, I hate to see fast-food scripts on the market were the designers just scan and trace spencerian material or doesn't take care of the detail of the swashes weights and interaction. Today I spend the whole morning on that 2 glyphs and still working on the bird right now.
I m not sure when this work will be finish (2011). In the while there are a lot of trash available.
In the while Burgues Script or Compendium are some good options