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This picture was in "Flickr's Explore" on September 22, 2021.
Publiée par Flickr dans "Explorez" le 22 septembre 2021 (autour du no 350 sur Fluidr/EXPLORE du 22 septembre 2021):
www.fluidr.com/explore/interesting/2021/09/22
Une vue depuis notre bateau de croisière.
Le phare à l'origine du phare actuel était aussi appelé Fanale dei Pisani. En effet, il a été construit par les Pisans en 1303 sur une roche émergente entourée par la mer à l'entrée sud du port en utilisant la pierre blanche de Verruca provenant de la grotte de San Giuliano Terne près de Pise.
La tour est formée de deux cylindres avec un balcon crénelé et surmontée de la lanterne. Il se compose de 11 étages reliés entre eux par un escalier en colimaçon jusqu’à 53 m de hauteur. Au début, furent utilisées des lampes à huile pour la lumière, puis de l'huile compressée. En 1841, on installa une lentille de Fresnel et on utilisa une lampe à gaz à acétylène. A la fin des années 1800, le système optique fut électrifié.
Le 20 juin 1944, les troupes allemandes, à l’approche des Alliés, l'ont dynamité. Le phare a été reconstruit en 1954 selon le projet initial avec des matériaux récupérés des ruines. Il a été réalisé en béton armé de 30 cm d'épaisseur recouvert extérieurement de pierre.
Relié au réseau électrique il est aujourd’hui entièrement automatisé et alimenté par des panneaux photovoltaïques. Il possède un Système d'identification automatique pour la navigation maritime.
Group: 52 Weeks: The 2021 Edition
Weekly Theme: Week 8: Literature
Taken February 20, 2021
Title: Is this Literature?
This week’s challenge was really a challenge. How do you make a nice photo of Literature?
So I was thinking of how to do that and finally I did get some ideas. One of them was to make a photo of glasses on a book, with books in the background. When I took the photo the ones with the glasses nearby and hardly any background seemed to be the best, I could even read the text through the glasses. While I did not have a text which was nice I decided to make a text myself and fold that into the book. What I did. But I was wondering if my own text was literature. So it is up to everyone to decide if my text is literature or not…………
Vecht 14/02/2021 11h07
A typical Dutch Winterscene in Weesp. Seen from the Bastion Nieuwe Achtkant. Overlooking the Vecht (river) where it was possible to skate during a few days This was the last day or I should rather say the last couple of hours here.
In the distance two windmills. Windmill De Vriendschap (righ) and Windmill De Eendragt (left).
(album with all the photos of Darcy blizzard, the frost period, drifting snow, people in the snow, cars in the snow, transport and more)
Weesp
Weesp is a city and municipality in the province of North Holland, Netherlands. It had a population of 19,334 in 2019. It lies on the river Vecht and next to the Amsterdam–Rhine Canal in an area called the Vechtstreek. Weesp is part of the Amsterdam metropolitan area even if the city is surrounded by open grassland and lakes.
On 1 June 2019 the civil service offices of the municipality of Weesp merged with those of the municipality of Amsterdam in preparation of the merger of the two municipalities, which will happen no sooner than in 2022.
Until the early Middle Ages the region around Weesp was an uninhabited peat bog. Weesp (Wesopa in Latin documents) was granted city rights in 1355 and celebrated its 650th anniversary as a town in 2005.
From the late Middle Ages, the river Vecht was a defensive line for the County of Holland and it remained a military defensive line until the Second World War. Weesp was strongly fortified, more than its size would justify; for most of its history it had a few thousand inhabitants.
The defensive lines consisted of inundation zones, which would be flooded in wartime (the Hollandic Water Line). Behind them were fortified towns, forts, barracks and other military structures. The most comprehensive was the Defence Line of Amsterdam (Stelling van Amsterdam), a circular inundation zone around Amsterdam, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
After the Second World War, new housing was built in the west and an industrial zone with a harbour at the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal was constructed. In the 1970s a suburb was built on the south. Another suburb was built in the north which recently expanded with plans for further expansion.
The most famed product of Weesp is Van Houten chocolate. Before cocoa production, the local economy had been based on beer breweries, jenever distilleries, production of Weesper porcelain, and trade, due to its location on a branch point of waterways. In the 21st century, the economy is very diverse.
There were large facilities of Solvay Pharmaceuticals, until February 2010 when Abbott Laboratories of North Chicago, Illinois acquired Solvay Pharmaceuticals. At this site there is a chemical plant which manufactures active pharmaceutical ingredient for Abbott brands Duphalac and Duphaston and a biologic plant which manufactures active pharmaceutical ingredient for Abbott's flu vaccine Influvac. The local specialty is the Weesper Mop cookie, which is based on mashed almond.
Weesp is a popular stop for tourists. It has a protected historical center with canals and many buildings dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth century. Weesp has three full-size historical windmills. It features a bastion and fortifications that are part of the Defense line of Amsterdam and the Dutch Water Line. These structures have never been attacked, though. The scenic river Vecht and the small roads that line it attract yachters and cyclists. The Naardermeer area, the first nature reserve in the Netherlands, is at 15 minutes cycling distance from Weesp; it protects the Gooi landscape. The Weesp local museum is located in the town's city hall.
Weesp has one railway station, Weesp. It serves as a transfer station for passengers on local trains on the Amsterdam–Amersfoort (Oosterspoorweg) and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol–Almere (Schiphollijn and Flevolijn) lines, which bundle up just before Weesp and diverge right after. Weesp therefore benefits from 16 departures per hour, serving many destinations including Amsterdam Centraal, Schiphol Airport, Hilversum, Amersfoort Centraal and Utrecht Centraal four times per hour.
FACTS & FIGURES
Area: 21.83 km2
Elevation: 1 m
Population: 19,334 (2019)
Density: 943/km2
[ Wikipedia 06/2020 ]
Mass planting of silver-leafed groundcover. I am looking forward to seeing colour of the flowers when these buds burst open.
© Michel Guérin. Tous droits réservés - All rights reserved ©.
Merci beaucoup pour vos visites et commentaires ♥
Thank you very much for your visits and comments ♥
© Michel Guérin. Tous droits réservés - All rights reserved ©.
Merci beaucoup pour vos visites et commentaires ♥
Thank you very much for your visits and comments ♥
This picture was in "Flickr's Explore" on November 13, 2021.
Publiée par Flickr dans "Explorez" le 12 novembre 2021 (autour du no 345 sur Fluidr/EXPLORE du 12 novembre 2021): www.fluidr.com/explore/interesting/2021/11/12
Cette entrée se situe sur le côté est donnant sur le forum, précédée d'un chalcidicum ou vestibule. On accédait à la salle principale par un escalier de quatre marches en basalte et cinq portes.
La basilique était en rénovation lors de l’éruption de 79 à cause d’un tremblement de terre survenue 17 ans avant. Cela nous offre l’occasion de voir des colonnes tronquées incomplètes et d’étudier la technologie de fabrication utilisée alors consistant à construire des colonnes en briques pour les couvrir d’une mince couche de stuc imitant le marbre.
L’ensemble des anciennes villes autour de Pompéi forme un vaste site archéologique sous le patronage de l’Unesco depuis 1997 (WHL-829). Le site est appelé aujourd’hui par l’Unesco «Zones archéologiques de Pompéi, Herculanum et Torre Annunziata».
La région offre un aperçu magnifique et vivant de l’art, de l’architecture, de l’organisation sociale, de l’urbanisme et de la vie quotidienne, figé à un moment précis dans le passé, qui n’existe nulle part pour aucune autre civilisation antique. Le moment est le 24 Août en 79 après J.-C., lorsque l’éruption du Vésuve enterrait les environs sous ses coulées pyroclastiques.
Many thanks to you ALL for the views, faves and comments you make on my shots it is very appreciated.
"I alone cannot change the world but I can cast a stone across the waters and create many ripples."
Mother Teresa
Sponsored bч:
Cinphul, Badwolf, Somnium, Sköll & Dreamcatcher
Somnium made a stunning suit for all of us mermen. The details of the textures, the mesh and the materials are just amazing! In the past week I've seen so many beautiful creations from all sorts of artists that have been really inspiring to me.
But instead of joining that, I also let Lucifer influence me (yes, I'm probably a bit obsessive with the series at the moment) So I thought why not create a villain ... not an outcast of all Triton's sons.
I hope you like the outcome like I do :D
Enjoy!
Photo André Knoerr, Genève. Reproduction autorisée avec mention de la source.
Utilisation commerciale soumise à autorisation spéciale préalable.
Ge 4/6 353 + Ge 2/4 222 + R-w 8210 + 8205 + Sl 7762.
Ces deux locomotives contemporaines de la ligne de l'Engadine (1913-1914) transfèrent des wagons en allant chercher un convoi spécial à Scuol-Tarasp.
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This tiny mushroom popped up on our front porch and totally fascinated my even tinier (is that a word?) frog.
After several weeks of thick cloud, we have had a couple of days of clear evening skies and I've been comet chacing. Comet Leonard at present should be visible in the evening sky about 6 degrees above the horizon and I spent a second evening at Cape Cornwall trying to get a sighting. There is also an alignment of Venus, Saturn and Jupiter at present, which I captured in this photograph, but the comet was nowhere to be seen. I worked out exactly where it should be - but the sky was either still too light or the comet was hiding in the permenent cloudbank which lives off Land's End. In another couple of days it will no longer be visible in the northern hemisphere, so I guess I'll have to chalk this one up to a missed chance.
-Chalfant Run Watershed
A rather patient robin, who knew I meant no harm in photographing it. Too bad it didn't know how to really work the scene and give me several poses. I suppose this stately stance was enough. lol
"Ruin Hindenburg-Bridge" near Bingen at Rhine / Germany
Voigtländer VM Ultron 35 1.7 ASPH @ Leica MP
Kodak TMAX 400
Digitized with Sony A7RII + FE 50 2.8 Makro + Nikon ES-2
The Romanesque basilica of Toarcla was built in the 13th century, with a bell tower to the west, three naves and a choir. Fragments of the walled enclosure date from the 16th century.
Puple flowers in a garden bed in the parklands, seen against a background of black and yellow traffic chevron signs and a neon ornage traffic bollard.
Skin Fair 2021 (Preview):
Nar Mattaru - Delphine Skin (Lel. Evo / BOM only)
ARTE - Blossom Eyes (BOM, Catwa, Lelutka, OMEGA, Mesh Eyes)
Doesn't Scotland have some wonderful old castles.
This is an image of the very spectacular Eileen Donna Castle
on the West Coast, at Kyle of Lochalsh
BTT 363 727 staat te wachten op de volgende inzet met een containertrein richting de CCT terminal. De loc staat op één van de kopsporen van het emplacement Pernis.
From the bridge across Frisco storm channel looking it at the lake and trees on the shore of the lake at waterfront trail of Lake Ontario on this beautiful cloudy day in Squires beach , Martin’s photographs , Ajax , Pickering , Ontario , Canada , December 16. 2021
Bright sun
Beautiful roots in the forest
Greenwood conservation area
Canada
Fruit tree with beady eyes
December 2021
Roots
Ontario
Frisco storm channel
Ajax
Large stones
Canada
Pickering
Martin’s photographs
Discovery Bay
Trees
Shore of the lake
Sunset
March 2020
Favourites
IPhone XR
Shore
iPhone 6s
Cement slabs
Squires Beach
Duffins Creek
Duffins Marsh
Waterfront Trail
Rotary Park
Lake Ontario
Rod iron fence
Bridge
Bridge
Duffins Creek
Twilight
Sticks
Stones
Fallen trees
Fallen tree
Fungi
Mushrooms
Sand
Cloudy day
Beach
Reflections
Waves slamming on the shore
Dogwood
Tall grasses
iPhone 6s
Weeds
Wildflowers
Squires beach
Beautiful cloudy fall day
Red birdhouse
Bridge