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This wasn't far from the summit about 950m up Snowdon, crampons and ice axe were a necessity here. Looks like the snow and ice could be around for a while, so I'll be making another trip up here soon all being well.

Cruising down from the crest of the Great Dividing Range at Heathcote Junction, G532 guides a late running 9341 into Wandong bound for Kilmore East to load at the Hanson Quarry mine.

 

Monday 6th June 2016

A quick stop to take a panoramic shot of the bealach between Ben Cruachan (left) and Meall Cuanail (right) (called Bealach an Lochain) while ascending the former. This point is in between the two rockiest parts of the ascent requiring some careful rock scrambling.

Based off of M.C. Escher's work of the same name.

Here's the official Escher website:

www.mcescher.com/

And of course I should give credit for the illusion to this:

www.andrewlipson.com/escher/ascending.html

 

Comments and criticism welcome.

Wellesley Ascendance

You're gonna have to really get up in there to see all the creepy goodness.

Ricoh GXR

GR Lens A12 50mm F2.5 Macro

Wellesley Ascendance

I was a little bit far away for this shot, guess I'm going to have to rent a kayak. Taken at Hunting Reservation Metro Park.

DJI Phantom 4 Pro Obsidian.

 

"Jupiter Ascending"

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- Europa (moon, top right)

- Ganymede (moon, about to be occulted by Jupiter)

- Io (moon, bottom left)

Not in view: Callisto (moon)

  

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- www.kevin-palmer.com - At Four Dances Recreation Area, it's a short but steep trail down to the Yellowstone River.

Istanbul, Turkey

With a good load of tourists on board, San Francisco MUNI Cable Car No.16 climbs Powell Street and crosses the California Street cable car route.

 

September 1994

Rollei 35 camera

Fujichrome 100 film.

I took this shot on my camera phone as I was ascending Skiddaw fell in the Lake District, UK.

This piece from the street photography series captures the allure of an urban staircase, a symbol of transition and perspective. The warm tones and natural light accentuate the ascent, while a lone figure moves towards the upper level, adding a human element to the architectural form. The composition marries the functionality of the space with the potential stories of those who pass through, reflecting on the fleeting, upward journeys in the everyday urban landscape.

This posture as the Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) flies into a roost in the treetop seemed very graceful to me. I also like how the buds of the maple tree are the same color as some of the plumage of the heron Taken April 17., 2015 in Wausau, Wisconsin (Marathon County).

“This towering monastery, about 12km south of Ruse near the village of Basarbovo, Bulgaria,

is the country's only working rock monastery. Established some time before the 15th century, the complex has been much restored and extended over time. The pathway, along which one can go to the monastery, passes through a beautiful yard full of greenery and ends by a well, dug by St. Dimitrius. The local people believe that the water in the well is curative.

“Two rooms and the cave dining room, built in 1956 are situated in the foot of the rocks. From this point, 48 stairs lead to a rock platform where the niche where St. Dimitrius slept is situated, according to the legend. To the right of it there is a rock church with a wood-carved iconostasis made in 1941, and next to it is the large icon of the saint, pictured in his full-length.

“Along a stone staircase, one can reach the natural cave, in which the monk Hrisant was buried. He was the person who restored the monastery and took it back to life in 1937. The cave performs the role of an ossuary, in which the museum exposition is arranged.

The temple is honored on 26 October – the day of St. Dimitar.” (bulgariatravel.org)

Puffing Billy's two Canadian Red liveried locos, 7A and 12A, rumble uphill towards Orchard Road with a special double-headed train to Gembrook. Just beyond the train in the distance, the landscape falls away towards Cockatoo Creek, the lowest point on the preserved railway.

East Bay, CA

Close up of Aer Lingus Airbus 330 EI-ELA on departure Rwy16 Dublin Airport Ireland.

Derelict pump house with a windmill tower protruding from the roof.

Dieses Bild ist spontan in einem ruhigen Moment entstanden, als wir den Geburtstag eines Freundes am Schänzle gefeiert haben. Meine Kamera hatte ich dabei, da ich den Abend fotografisch festhalten und ihm das Bilderalbum zum Geburtstag schenken wollte.

 

I took this photograph in a quiet moment during the birthday party a of a friend of mine. We celebrated near a sports hall at the river Rhein. I had my camera with me as I was taking pictures of the evening as a birthday present.

© Mariëtte Budel 2008

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A photo taken at college with my phone.

 

Ohh and have changed my name from "Tim Bustin Photography" to "#timbustin" because change is always good! :D

 

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Tordesillas es un municipio y localidad española de la provincia de Valladolid, en la comunidad autónoma de Castilla y León. La localidad está situada a 704 m sobre el nivel del mar y a 28 km al suroeste de la capital provincial. La población municipal asciende a 8858 habitantes (2017).

En origen fue un alto escarpe fortificado que servía de vigilancia a los campos yermos de alrededor que constituían parte de la Extremadura castellana. Había otros puntos en igual altura que servían también de vigilancia: Zamora, Toro y Simancas.

En el siglo IX, García, el hijo mayor de Alfonso III, continuó la labor de repoblación de estas tierras desde León a través de Tierra de Campos y Montes Torozos. Ocupó el Otero que más tarde sería Tordesillas y desde allí dirigió y centralizó la repoblación con mozárabes y con gentes llegadas desde Asturias y León. De esta manera puede decirse que el nacimiento de Tordesillas fue de origen asturleonés.

Con la llegada de Almanzor por estas tierras hubo un gran retroceso y despoblación hasta que posteriormente, ya en el siglo XI, empezó una lenta recuperación al frente del conde castellano Sancho García. Los documentos de esta época la nombran como Oterdesillas. En el siglo XII pertenecía al obispado de Palencia cuyos obispos tenían palacios dentro de los muros de esta plaza fuerte. Durante la Edad Media estaba integrada en la Corona de Castilla.

Tordesillas fue señorío de varias reinas y amantes reales. La primera fue Leonor de Guzmán, amante del rey Alfonso XI. Después Pedro I entregó la villa a su madre, la reina María de Portugal y en 1354 a su amante, María de Padilla. Después de la muerte del rey Pedro, la villa pasó a la esposa de Enrique II, Juana Manuel, posteriormente a la reina Leonor de Aragón, la primera esposa de Juan I, y más tarde a su segunda mujer, la infanta portuguesa, Beatriz de Portugal quien poseyó la villa hasta 1385 cuando su marido la reincorporó a la corona y donó Béjar a su esposa en compensación.

Juana I de Castilla, conocida como Juana la Loca, fue recluida en Tordesillas en 1509, permaneciendo allí hasta su muerte en 1555.

Entre 1981 y 1983 albergó de facto la capitalidad del Ente Preautonómico de Castilla y León.

Conserva todavía algunos vestigios de muralla de piedra y ladrillo que rodeaba esta población. Tiene un puente medieval, en piedra de sillería con diez ojos de arco apuntado y tajamares en los pilares. En su origen este puente tenía un castillo de defensa construido a un tercio de la entrada. El entramado urbano se organiza a partir de dos calles perpendiculares que terminan (o empiezan) en la plaza Mayor, siguiendo el esquema de los campamentos romanos.

 

Plaza Mayor

Su estructura actual data del siglo XVII. Es un perfecto cuadrado al que acceden las entradas de cuatro calles. Está toda ella porticada y las casas de dos pisos de altura tienen abajo los locales de las tiendas. Las fachadas presentan grandes ventanales y balcones, diseñados especialmente para presenciar desde ellos las fiestas y los espectáculos. Es una típica plaza castellana donde se encuentra el Ayuntamiento.

 

El Puente

Sobre el origen del puente actual no existe referencia alguna, ni fecha, ni trazas, ni autores. El apuntamiento de sus arcos nos indican su origen medieval. Es una gran obra de sillería, tiene diez ojos, y entre los arcos lleva tajamares de planta triangular. En el siglo X se sabe que había un puente, pero el edificio actual tiene sus orígenes en una profunda remodelación del siglo XV. La fuerza de la corriente obligó a su consolidación en los siglos XVI y XVIII. La villa y su puente eran paso obligado de caminos que unían el noroeste de la Península con el centro, facilitando el cruce por el ancho y caudaloso río.

 

Muralla (Artículo principal: Muralla de Tordesillas)

Rodeaba toda la villa, y tenía un carácter fiscal y militar. Estaba construida en piedra, ladrillo y tapial. Sólo se conserva en la parte occidental, una torre llamada "Torre de Sila", en la que se abre un portillo en arco apuntado, que delata su origen medieval. También quedan lienzos en el este, y en el oeste totalmente reconstruidos. La muralla contaba con cuatro puertas principales, que coinciden con los cuatro puntos cardinales. Al sur, la Puerta del Puente, al este, la puerta de Valladolid o puerta de la Villa, al norte, la Puerta del Mercado, y en el oeste la Puerta Nueva.

 

Monasterio de Santa Clara (Artículo principal: Real monasterio de Santa Clara (Tordesillas))

Está edificado sobre el antiguo palacio mudéjar llamado «Pelea de Benimerín» (que a su vez se edificó sobre otro árabe), mandado construir en 1340 por Alfonso XI de Castilla después de su triunfo en la Batalla del Salado, financiado con el botín sacado en dicha batalla. De esta manera conmemoró la victoria sobre los benimerines africanos que habían llegado a Granada requeridos por Mohamed I, vasallo de Castilla. Su hijo Pedro I el Cruel lo arregló y se lo cedió en 1363 a sus hijas Beatriz e Isabel para que lo transformaran en un convento.

 

Iglesia de San Antolín (Artículo principal: Iglesia museo de San Antolín (Tordesillas))

Iglesia-museo, donde están recogidas y expuestas una serie de piezas artísticas de la propia iglesia y de otras varias de la villa, entre las que destaca la tumba de los Alderete. El edificio es una iglesia del siglo X y XVII, comenzada a mediados del XVI y finalizada por Gil de Reynaltos en 1644. Sus naves están cubiertas de bóvedas de crucería estrelladas y nervaduras que descansan sobre ménsulas en forma de ángeles. Lo más destacable es la capilla de los Alderete que posee una balaustrada con pináculos de estilo gótico flamígero.

 

Iglesia de Santa María (Artículo principal: Iglesia de Santa María (Tordesillas))

Declarada Bien de Interés Cultural el 7 de diciembre de 1983. Su estructura es gótica, pero a finales del siglo XVI se replantea en estilo clasicista emanado de El Escorial. Por tanto, la cabecera y dos primeros cuerpos de la torre son de estilo gótico, y el resto de estilo escurialense, llegando sus modificaciones hasta el siglo XVIII. Es la iglesia más grande de la villa, construida en piedra y ladrillo. Tiene una sola nave, dividida en cuatro tramos sobre arcos fajones y pilastras toscanas que se cubre con bóveda de cañón con lunetos decorada con yeserías clasicistas. Cuenta con tres portadas. La torre, de base cuadrada, constituye el punto vigía de Tordesillas debido a su gran altura.Se construyó entre los siglos XVI y XVIII con base gótica y evolución clásica. gótica. Tiene un valioso retablo mayor trazado por los madrileños Pedro y Juan de la Torre, en 1655 y entallo por José de Arroyo. Preside en el centro la talla de la Asunción, con camarín al que se puede acceder, posible obra de Juan Rodríguez. Tiene además varios lienzos, algunos firmados. Cuenta la iglesia con un buen órgano barroco. El órgano es del siglo XVIII.

 

Iglesia de San Pedro

Iglesia gótica de siglo XVI con planta rectangular de tres naves conformadas por grandes columnas romboidales. El edificio está ehecho en sillería menos el segundo cuerpo de la torre que está realizado en ladrillo. Lo más importante es la capilla de los Gaitán, con una cúpula linterna y con cubierta de pizarra, a la moda madrileña. Su retablo tiene columnas salomónicas y lo preside la imagen de la Virgen del Carmen, de la escuela de Gregorio Fernández.

 

Iglesia de Santiago

Cuenta con una talla importante la Inmaculada, de escuela granadina, seguramente de un seguidor de Alonso Cano.

 

Casas y Palacios

Testimonio de la actividad cortesana que dominó la villa desde tiempos medievales, son sus casas y palacios, vestigios de su esplendor pasado. Se encuentran situadas a los largo de las cuatro calles que parten de la Plaza Mayor, y la mayoría datan del siglo XVI, momento de mayor auge de la villa. Son edificios generalmente de dos plantas. Piso inferior de piedra de sillería, y pisos superiores con ladrillo o tapial, rematados por un alero de madera y entradas con arcos de medio punto de grandes dovelas. Destacan: Una casa situada en la Plaza de Roma, junto a la iglesia de San Pedro. Destacan sus rejas del siglo XVI. El Palacio fortificado de los Alderete, que es una casa situada en la calle San Antolín, toda de piedra con aspecto de fortaleza por sus almenas. Perteneció a la poderosa familia Alderete (Pedro González de Alderete fue regidor de la villa en el siglo XV); situadas junto a la Iglesia de San Antolín, y mirando hacia el río están las Casas del Tratado, llamadas así, porque en ellas tuvieron lugar las negociaciones y firma del Tratado de Tordesillas en 1494.

 

Las casas del Tratado (Artículo principal: Casas del Tratado de Tordesillas)

Construcción declarada Bien de Interés Cultural el 13 de junio de 1996.Son dos palacios unidos, donde la tradición sitúa las negociaciones entre Castilla y Portugal, y que concluyeron con la firma del Tratado de Tordesillas el 7 de junio de 1494. El piso bajo está construido con grandes sillares y los dos pisos superiores con ladrillo. Presentan dos momentos de construcción distintos en el tiempo. La casa más antigua es de finales del siglo XV y en ella tuvieron lugar las negociaciones del Tratado de Tordesillas. Sobre su puerta se encuentra el escudo real de los Reyes Católicos, y los escudos heráldicos de los propietarios, Alfonso González de Tordesillas y Leonor de Ulloa. La otra casa es de la segunda mitad del siglo XVII y su gran volumen y nobleza de elementos demuestran que perteneció a una familia ilustre. Fueron restauradas con ocasión de la conmemoración del V Centenario del Tratado de Tordesillas. En la actualidad el edificio se utiliza con fines culturales y turísticos.

 

es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tordesillas

 

Tordesillas (Spanish pronunciation: [toɾðeˈsiʎas]) is a town and municipality in the province of Valladolid, Castile and León, central Spain. It is located 25 kilometres (16 mi) southwest of the provincial capital, Valladolid at an elevation of 704 metres (2,310 ft). The population was c. 9,000 as of 2009.

The town is located on the Douro River although the river is not navigable up to Tordesillas. There are highway connections to Madrid, 182 kilometres (113 mi) to the southeast, and with Salamanca, 96 kilometres (60 mi) to the southwest. The provincial capital of Valladolid is also linked by four-lane highway.

Because of its important highway connections Tordesillas has become a major transit hub. The economy is based on services — especially connected to tourism — and the agricultural production of the surrounding area. Wheat has long been the traditional agricultural product (see Cuisine of the province of Valladolid).

The town is well served by hotels with a parador, four three-star hotels, one two-star hotel, and ten hostels and pensions. There is also a camping site. There is also an abundance of restaurants — 27 in total — with the Parador restaurant having a three star classification. North of the town there is a fertile valley formed by the Douro, with extensive use of irrigation by central pivots.

The town is known for its Toro de la Vega festival during which a bull was slaughtered by people on horseback and on foot. Animal rights groups repeatedly tried to stop this from taking place.

The bull is at least five years old when he's killed and is allowed to live in a large property to keep him territorial, unlike other animals who are killed for the butcher at one year of age. Finally, in May 2016 the Regional government issued a decree prohibiting the slaughter of the bull in public; animal rights activists regarded it as a victory after years denouncing publicly the cruelty with great national and worldwide coverage. The mayor of the town, backed unanimously by the opposition, made a statement of outrage on the same day of the prohibition. The bull's slaughter had come to be inextricably associated with the name of the town, overshadowing its rich monumental and historical heritage.

The Roman Turris Sillae, built on the hill of Siellas, was the bulwark of the defensive line of the Duero during the Reconquest. In 1262 it received its charter from Alfonso X the Wise. The town began to be favored by the royal family and nobility, above all after Alfonso XI built a palace (1325). In the 15th century the town hosted several meetings of the Cortes. During the skirmishes between Henry IV and the nobility the city supported the monarchy, and again during the clashes between the Catholic Monarchs and Joanna La Beltraneja in 1476.

The Catholic Monarchs signed the Treaty of Tordesillas with the Portuguese crown in 1494, which established the line dividing the globe between Spain and Portugal for colonization purposes. This especially affected the Portuguese and Spanish colonization of the Americas, and placed the name Tordesillas in history worldwide ever since.

Despite Tordesillas' traditional support for the monarchy, in the Castilian War of the Communities by citizens of Castile against the rule of Charles V, the city took the side of the Comuneros. The leaders chose Charles' own mother, Queen Joanna I, as an alternative ruler in more than title in 1519. They came to the town to ask for the mediation of Joanna I, confined within the Santa Clara convent since 1509 by her father Ferdinand II. However, in 1521, after nearly a year of rebellion, the reorganized supporters of the emperor Charles V struck a crippling blow to the comuneros at the Battle of Villalar, and finally royal troops of the Count of Haro captured Tordesillas.

This 16th-century event was the beginning of a long decline from influence and prosperity. The ongoing position of Tordesillas at a crossing of historic roads and modern highways has been the decisive factor in its economic survival and development.

 

Convent of Santa Clara

The Santa Clara buildings were originally built by King Alfonso XI as his palace in 1344. His son Peter the Cruel had it embellished by Mudéjar artists, beautiful works at Santa Clara, though on a much smaller scale than they did in the Alcázar of Seville. The facade, a lovely small patio, a chapel and the baths remain of Peter the Cruel's palace. Blanche de Bourbon was held here after her abandonment by Peter for María de Padilla in 1353. The former portal, blocked off now, has a particularly fine Mudéjar doorway. In 1363 he ceded Santa Clara to two of his daughters by María de Padilla. They turned it into a convent, but it retained its role as a royal palace.

In 1420 the Infante Don Enrique of Aragón burst into the palace and seized the person of John II, who escaped the Infante thanks to Álvaro de Luna.

Santa Clara convent's saddest association is with Joanna I, Queen of Castile and Aragon, the daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon. She ascended the Castilian throne as Princess of Asturias in 1502 and succeeded her mother as Queen regnant of Castile in 1504. Joanna's life with her husband Philip I of Castile was rendered extremely unhappy by his infidelity and political insecurity, during which he consistently attempted to usurp her legal birthrights of power. This led in great part to the rumors of her insanity due to reports of depressive or neurotic acts committed while she was being imprisoned or coerced by her husband; most historians now agree she was merely clinically depressed or schizophrenic at the time, not 'insane' as commonly believed. His early death in 1506 added the pressures of her father now maneuvering to block her legal birthrights of power and sole rule. He succeeded, and as Regent ordered his daughter confined within the Convent of Santa Clara in 1509.

Here she received her son Charles I after his arrival in Spain in 1517 from Flanders. Charles had landed on the Asturian coast in September and it took six weeks for the royal entourage to reach Tordesillas. He had become co-monarch of Castile and Aragon with his mother, after the regent period and Ferdinand II's death in 1519. Charles continued her imprisonment until she died in 1555, after being confined nearly fifty years inside Santa Clara. The fact that Juana remained, on record, the legitimate Queen regnant of Castile and Aragon until her death must have caused Charles at least some disquiet. His chambers at the monastery of Yuste (Cáceres) to which he retired on his abdication of the Spanish and Holy Roman Emperor crowns in 1556, a year after her death in Tordesillas, were and still are hung in black in her memory. The exact windowless rooms of her confinement are unknown, however in one room her little clavichord has been preserved.

 

Plaza Mayor and churches

The Plaza Mayor is the historic and attractive central community space framed by the 17th century colonnade and porticos creating the arcade that encircles it.

Nearby is the Church of Santa Maria, built from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. It has a monumental baroque sacristy. The town's other landmark churches are San Juan, San Pedro, Santiago, and San Antolín.

The massive 15th-century Church of San Antolín is of special interest, containing a museum of religious art collected from churches in the vicinity. The spacious church interior has a single nave, and its most outstanding feature is the sumptuous Alderete Chapel, containing the 1550 alabaster tomb of Don Pedro de Alderete, Commander of the Order of Santiago.

There are also two other historic convents besides Santa Clara in Tordesillas — Convento de Carmelo and Convento de San Francisco.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tordesillas

 

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Come closer, my dear, let your steps unfold,

In my black blouse and skirt so bold.

I rise with elegance, poised and free,

Every move a promise, just for you to see.

 

The rhythm of my heels, a tune so sweet,

As I glide towards you, heart skipping a beat.

My necklace catches the light, bold and bright,

A touch of allure, a beautiful sight.

 

The sunlight dances on my skin, warm and true,

While the world fades away, it’s just me and you.

So come, take my hand, dinner is near,

But it’s your presence, my dear, that I hold dear.

 

Tonight, it’s you and me, let the evening unfold,

In every step I take, a story to be told.

So let’s share this moment, let’s make it last,

With every glance, every touch, every breath we cast.

 

Makeup and styling by Kelayla.

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