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According to Wikapedia, "Apollo is one of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology. The national divinity of the Greeks, Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sun and light, poetry, and more.
One of the most important and complex of the Greek gods, he is the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis, goddess of the hunt. Seen as the most beautiful god and the ideal of the kouros (ephebe, or a beardless, athletic youth), Apollo is considered to be the most Greek of all the gods. Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as Apulu."
There is a little of this god, in all of us on Flickr.
These are my pet rocks I picked up in Norway a few years back. I like to think they are dwelling in a cave here, because that’s what you do in caves. And there may even be a troll sleeping somewhere nearby. I like trolls. Not the internet variety!
Anyway a friend told me that they didn’t like puns about stones. My sediment exactly! the one on the left, Apollo, is the shy one, I think he wishes he was a little boulder. Did I mention I picked these guys up quite cheap? They were on shale. But I do like them, I never take them for granite. Though I did make the mistake of mentioning to send them home once, they looked petrified! They forgave me though and we started with a clean slate , and now have a plutonic relationship :)
Happy new week all
FlickrFriday - concept of rocks being pets
2022.10.06
Bremerhaven
AIS Name APOLLO
Type Fishing vessel
Flag Germany
IMO —
MMSI 211618000
Callsign DFCM
Year Built —
Length 17 m
Width 6 m
Draught Avg — / ...
Speed Avg/Max 3.5 kn / 7.3 kn
Deadweight —
Gross Tonnage —
AIS Class A
As it is so often the case, beautiful motifs are difficult to achieve. I found this beautiful Apollo butterfly above Lake Lungern (Canton Obwalden) on an extremely steep slope. That I could photograph it so close was probably due to a cloud that covered the sun. I had observed before that these butterflies fly less without sunshine and like to sit down. But maybe this is only my subjective impression...
(Parnassius apollo)
Wie so oft sind schöne Motive schwer zu erreichen. Dieser schöne Apollofalter fand ich oberhalb des Lungernsees (Kanton Obwalden) an einem extrem steilen Hang. Dass ich ihn überhaupt so nah ablichten konnte, lag wohl an einer Wolke, die die Sonne bedeckte. Ich hatte schon früher beobachtet, dass diese Schmetterlinge ohne Sonnenschein weniger fliegen und sich gerne niedersetzen. Aber vielleicht ist das nur mein subjektiver Eindruck...
Vielen Dank, Fredy, für die genaue Bestimmung! Es ist also ein Alpenapollo.
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Shot at the HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON
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According to the ancient Greek myth, Apollo mocked Eros, who decided to take some revenge on the God of music, poetry and the arts, so he shot him with the golden arrow of passionate love, while he shot the nymph Daphne with the arrow of hate.
Apollo pursued Daphne who ran away from him. When he finally reached her, she begged her father Peneus to have the Earth take her in so as to escape the embrace of the passionate God. She was so turned to a gorgeous plant, taking root in the ground, the plant Laurel. Apollo was heartbroken but swore to hold her forever, wear her on his head, hence the poets and artists were crowned with laurel leaves, φύλλα Δάφνης.
Apollo rendered her evergreen, her leaves never decaying.
This is a copy of the famous sculpture by the Italian sculptor Bernini. Daphne is turning into the laurel tree, as Apollo is touching her.
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It is also one of the statues decorating the gorgeous HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON palace on sl.
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The apollo butterfly is the largest butterfly in Germany and unfortunately also the most endangered one. It is classified as critically endangered. There are only some very small isolated populations left. Reasons for the massive decline is again loss and destruction of habitat and the use of herbicides in agriculture. Photographing these beautiful butterflies was long on my bucket list. I really hope that the conservation measures will bring this unique butterfly back from the brink of extinction.
a little photo shoot with my dear friend and Daddy, Apollo - potential Profile work with his new look.
Oh wie schön ist doch ein Besuch auf dem Hamburger Dom.
Die Fahrgäste sitzen an den jeweils zwei äußeren Enden.Das Karussel hat eine Flughöhe von 55 m.
Mir würde schlecht werden.
Der seltene, nur an der Mosel beheimatete Mosel-Apollo an seiner bevorzugten Futterpflanze, der weissen Fetthenne (sedum album) auf dem Apollopfad zwischen Cochem und Valwig.
The rare -based only on the river Moselle- Moselle-Apollo at its preferred food plant , the white fathen on the Apollo path between Cochem and Valwig.
Danke für deinen Besuch! Thanks for visiting!
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Prior to me seeing this attractive little fastback coupe at the Greenwich Concours Show I had zero knowledge of Apollo cars. So, with the help of good old Wiki, here is some background history on the car, and the company founders and designers.
The Apollo GT was an Italian-American sports car, initially marketed from 1962 to 1964 by International Motor Cars in Oakland, California.
Engineered by Milt Brown and designed by Ron Plescia, it featured handmade Italian bodywork and chassis by Intermeccanica, with a choice between two-seater convertible or fastback styles. Power came from a 215 cu in (3.5 L) or 300 cu in (4.9 L) Buick engine mated to a 4-speed manual.
The initial company completed assembly of 42 cars before suspending production while seeking new financing. IMC allowed the sale of Intermeccanica body/chassis units to Vanguard Motors in Dallas, Texas, to produce cars under the Vetta Ventura name. These were made until 1966 as a stop-gap measure to keep body producer Intermeccanica in business until new backers were found. Other production arrangements followed, assembling cars not completed by International.
A total of 88 have been produced to date by all entities.
History
Frank Reisner, a former chemical engineer born in Hungary, raised in Canada and educated in America,established a company that later produced complete bodies—painted and trimmed—for the Apollo as well as the Texas-built Vetta Ventura (which was the same car with a different name). Reisner, on holiday in Italy in 1959, decided that he loved Turin and set up shop there as Intermeccanica producing tuning kits for Renaults, Peugeots, and Simcas.
The Apollo project was the dream of a young California engineer, Milt Brown, who desired to build an American answer to European GTs, such as the Aston Martin DB4 and Ferrari coupes. Brown, who was looking for a coachbuilder, met Reisner at the Monaco Grand Prix in 1960. A deal was made and the first Apollos were built by early 1963 by Brown's International Motor Cars. Intermeccanica hand formed and trimmed the bodies in Turin, Italy, and then shipped them by sea to Oakland, California, where the drive train was installed. The prototype's design was by Milt Brown's friend, Ron Plescia, but the nose was too long and the rear vision limited, so Reisner commissioned former Bertone stylist Franco Scaglione to revise it. The prototypes featured all aluminum bodies, but the production versions were mainly steel with aluminum hoods and doors.
The finished car, sold by Brown's International Motorcars of Oakland, was well received and had famous owners such as Pat Boone. The base price was $6000 and the top speed was claimed to be 150 mph.
A prototype 2 + 2 was shown in New York in 1965. It was shown again in 1966 as the Griffth GT.
International Motor Cars sold 42 cars (40 coupes and one spyder, including the prototype) before production stopped in mid-1964 due to lack of financing. IMC then made a contract with Reisner (to keep his operation going) allowing Intermeccanica to supply body/chassis units to Fred Ricketts, owner of Vanguard Industries, an aftermarket supplier of auto air conditioners in Dallas, Texas. Vanguard sold it as the Vetta Ventura. The intent was to give IMC time to find new financing as well as keep Intermeccanica alive.
Vanguard built only 11 cars, with shop foreman Tom Johnson purchasing the leftover 11 body/chassis units and completing them as late as 1971.
A third attempt to produce the Apollo was by attorney Robert Stevens. His Apollo International company of Pasadena, California completed only 14 cars, with foreman Otto Becker finishing another six. Four body chassis/units were never claimed by Apollo International and were sold by US Customs to Ken Dumiere.
A pair of Apollo 3500 GTs were used to portray the Thorndyke Special race car which was featured in The Love Bug, a 1968 Disney movie. One of the pair has been fully restored.
Following this venture, Intermeccanica decided to move all production in-house, rather than exporting rolling chassises for completion. Reisner later developed projects such as the Griffith, the Murena GT, and the Italia by Intermeccanica. Intermeccanica went on to produce the Veltro 1500, the Griffin (which was a version of the prototype Apollo 2+2), the Phoenix, and the Omega among others.
Amsterdam - Gerrit van der Veenstraat.
Office building, built in 1939. Architect: Dirk Roosenburg.
Het Apollo House is een kantoorgebouw aan de Apollolaan en de Stadionweg in Amsterdam-Zuid. Het is sinds 2004 een rijksmonument.
Het is in 1937-1939 gebouwd naar een ontwerp van Dirk Roosenburg als hoofdkantoor van de Rijksverzekeringsbank (RVB), later genaamd Sociale Verzekeringsbank. Het bestaat uit een 10 meter hoog ringgebouw en een 40 meter hoog gebouw op een as van de ring. Het heeft een staalskelet. Aanvankelijk waren de gevels bekleed met geglazuurde keramische platen; deze zijn in 1968 vervangen door witte platen van travertijn. Het gebouw is ook bekend onder de bijnaam 'Oceaanstomer'. (Wp).
Parnassius apollo (Apollofalter, mountain Apollo) on Centaurea jacea (Wiesen-Flockenblume), Lac Brenet, Jura, Vaud, Switzerland
Parnassius apollo (Linnaeus 1758)
Una de las imágenes que pude lograr de la Apolo posada sobre la orquídea Dactylorhiza maculata. Fotografiada al atardecer en El Valle de Aran (Lleida). Se trata de una hembra con el “sphragis” bien visible, cuyo tema ya he citado en alguna otra toma publicada.
En algunas especies, como Parnassius apollo y P. mnemosyne entre otras, los machos -tras la cópula- colocan a las hembras una sustancia que se solidifica denominada "sphragis", la cual tapa el acceso genital de la hembra de manera que impide el que se pueda aparear de nuevo con otro macho. Garantía de su estirpe?… En el momento de la puesta esa sustancia cede y permite la oviposición.
One of the images I could get of the Apollo perched on the orchid Dactylorhiza maculata. Photographed at sunset in El Valle de Aran (Lleida). It is a female with the “sphragis” clearly visible, the subject of which I have already quoted in some other published shot.
In some species, such as Parnassius apollo and P. mnemosyne among others, the males - after the copulation - attach to the females a solidifying substance called "sphragis", which covers the female genital access in a way that prevents the can mate again with another male. Guarantee of its lineage?… At the time of laying this substance yields and allows oviposition.
L'une des images que j'ai pu obtenir de l'Apollon perché sur l'orchidée Dactylorhiza maculata. Photographié au coucher du soleil à El Valle de Aran (Lleida). C'est une femelle avec les «sphragis» clairement visibles, dont j'ai déjà cité le sujet dans un autre plan publié.
Chez certaines espèces, comme Parnassius apollo et P. mnemosyne entre autres, les mâles - après la copulation - attachent aux femelles une substance solidifiante appelée "sphragis", qui recouvre l'accès génital féminin d'une manière qui empêche la peut s'accoupler à nouveau avec un autre mâle. Garantie de sa lignée?… Au moment de la ponte, cette substance cède et permet la ponte.
Rattling Run
Apollo, Pennsylvania
Tripod. ND filter. Not cropped.
This version at 70mm. (See 50mm.)
One of three waterfalls on Rattling Run. This was my first time here. I only made it to the first waterfall this time, but I will be back soon.
If you make the hike, access via Rock Furnace Trail. Take the trail down the beaten path until you reach a random park bench. Make a right at the park bench and follow the lower trail. It's very rocky/difficult to navigate with handheld gear. Trekking poles and a secure backpack with your gear will get you there with ease. Waterproof / water resistant boots suggested.
Nikon D300 - 10mm - F7,1 - ISO 250 - 20,6 sec. - ND2 filter
Apollo Bridge, Danube, Bratislava, Slovakia
Apollo, our adopted beautiful little boy kitty. He was born 8/21/2025. We also adopted his sister Luna; they are a bonded pair; they were in foster care. I'll post her pic next.
Apollo is loving life on the cat tree in our screened porch. He gets all the sun, sounds, and smells, of the woodlands around us. It took several weeks for the both of them to stop hissing and hiding (they were spirited feral kitties). We give them lots of love and play. Today, they run the place and give us so much joy. Apollo is a short haired, all grey kitty, with fur like velvet.