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Apollo Beach Sunset
Apollo Beach Nature Preserve
Apollo Beach, FL
26 October 2018
I believe that is Saint Petersburg, FL in the distance.
*** View through Red/Cyan glasses ***
NOTE: Calibrate monitor to use 'Color LCD' - to give optimum match between Red/Cyan glasses and LCD Display.
3D anaglyph created from 2 LROC image frames of the Apollo lander and tracks left by astronauts...
Also Note: NOT rotated L/R vertical axis...
Half Moon Bay
PUZZHA07
© J.H. Haynes & co Ltd
cardboard
1,000 pieces, used and complete
754x480mm
2023 piece count: 23,330
puzzle no: 33
Strictly speaking this puzzle shows the Apollo lunar module 'Eagle' but it's still a fun 'make' and went together fairly rapidly, despite mostly consisting of the one piece shape. We thought the edge pieces would be difficult to put together (mistakenly, as it happens), so we completed the lettering first, then the numbers, before tackling the main body of the puzzle, with the edges fitted last of all. At times fitting those 'graph-paper' background pieces felt a little tedious as it was a case of plugging away, trying each one until we found a fit, so when the last piece went in we felt a real sense of achievement.
The gilded fountain of Apollo riding his chariot features Apollo bursting from the water in his daily flight from earth. Located in the Gardens of Versailles
The Apollo Theatre, created for my book NEW YORK CITY BRICK BY BRICK. The inspiration behind including this icon in my book were that many of my favorite musical acts gave key performances there and also my days playing softball in Harlem.
38/365
Today I went to my friends to watch the Superbowl, unfortunately the Colts lost. It was the team that I was rooting for. Fantastic game though. Anyhow, my friend owns 2 Doberman Pinchers. His dogs are huge but very friendly. I took this shot of his male dog named Apollo as we watched the game. He wanted to come inside due to all the food we had. In the end he got a bunch of left overs.
Apollo and Daphne
Dosso Dossi 1524
This painting was probably commissioned by Alfonso d'Este and may allude to his love affair with the lady-in-waiting Laura Dianti, after the death of his wife, Lucrezia Borgia, in 1519. The painting was inspired by the story of Apollo and Daphne in Ovid's Metamorphoses: Apollo is singing his love for Daphne and interrupts his performance at the moment when the nymph is transformed into a laurel tree (allusion to Laura) in the landscape on the left. Apollo accompanies his song on a viola da braccio, the instrument played by Duke Alfonso.
Apollo and Daphne is a story from ancient Greek mythology, retold by Hellenistic and Roman authors in the form of an amorous vignette
Apollo and Daphne is a story from ancient Greek mythology, retold by Hellenistic and Roman authors in the form of an amorous vignette
The curse of Apollo, the god of the sun and music, was brought onto him when he insulted the young Eros (a.k.a. Cupid) for playing with bow and arrows.
Apollo was a great warrior and said to him, "What have you to do with warlike weapons? Leave them for hands worthy of them. Behold the conquest I have won by means of them over the vast serpent who stretched his poisonous body over acres of the plain! Be content with your torch, child, and kindle up your flames, as you call them, where you will, but presume not to meddle with my weapons."
The petulant Eros took two arrows, one of gold and one of lead. The gold one was supposed to incite love, while the lead one was supposed to incite hatred. With the leaden shaft, Eros shot the nymph Daphne and with the golden one, he shot Apollo through the heart. Apollo was seized with love for the maiden, Daphne, and she in turn abhorred and hated Apollo. In fact, she spurned her many potential lovers, preferring instead woodland sports and exploring the woods. Her father, Peneus, demanded that she get married so that she may give him grandchildren. However, she begged her father to let her remain unmarried, like Apollo's sister, Artemis.
He warned her saying, "Your own face will forbid it." By saying this he meant that she was too beautiful to keep all her potential lovers away forever.
Apollo continually followed her, begging her to stay, but the nymph continued her flight. They were evenly matched in the race until Eros intervened and helped Apollo gain upon Daphne.
Seeing that Apollo was bound to catch her, she called upon her father, "Help me, Peneus! Open the earth to enclose me, or change my form, which has brought me into this danger!"
Suddenly, her skin turned into bark, her hair became leaves, and her arms were transformed into branches. She stopped running as her feet became rooted to the ground. Apollo embraced the branches, but even the branches shrank away from him. Since Apollo could no longer take her as his wife, he vowed to tend her as his tree, and promised that her leaves would decorate the heads of leaders as crowns, and that her leaves were also to be depicted on weapons. Apollo also used his powers of eternal youth and immortality to render her ever green. Since then, the leaves of the Bay laurel tree have never known decay.
The Apollo Barberini is a 1st–2nd century Roman sculpture of Apollo Kitharoedus. It is a probable copy of the a sculpture made by Scopas (395 - 350 BC ) perhaps from the sanctuary of Apollo at Rhamnus in Attica. This copy was the cult statue in the temple of Apollo Palatinus in Rome.
The modern named comes from the Roman family Barberini who acquired it.
(wikipedia: "apollo barberini")
From a Greek original
Scopas, 1st half of 4th Century BC
Roman marble copy
From the Palatine hill, Rome.
About 1st – 2nd century AD.
Munich, Glyptothek
Antonio Corradini 1668-1752
Apollo Flaying Marsyas
About 1719-23
Like Zephyr and Flora nearby [unfortunately not on display while I was there], this group came from the royal gardens in Dresden. Its style is light-hearted and decorative, as was much garden sculpture, but the subject is one of the most disturbing in classical mythology. It shows the god Apollo skinning Marsyas alive as a punishment for losing a musical contest.
Venice
Marble
Museum no. A.6-1967
Apollo resting on an umbel of yarrow in a small alpine meadow fallow. Regional Natural Park of Vercors, France.
Apollon posé sur une ombelle d'achillée dans une petite prairie alpine en friche. Parc Naturel Régional du Vercors, France.
The Apollo Theater in New York City is one of the most famous clubs for popular music in the United States, and certainly the most famous club associated almost exclusively with African-American performers. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The theater is located at 253 W. 125th Street in Harlem in what is now one of the best-known black neighborhoods in New York City and probably in all of the United States.
The Apollo grew to prominence during the Harlem Renaissance of the pre-World War II years. In 1934, it introduced its regular Amateur Night shows hosted by Ralph Cooper. Billing itself as a place "where stars are born and legends are made," the Apollo became famous for launching the careers of artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, James Brown, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Gladys Knight & The Pips, The Jackson 5, Patti LaBelle, Marvin Gaye, Luther Vandross, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Ben E. King, Mariah Carey, The Isley Brothers, Lauryn Hill, and Sarah Vaughan. The Apollo also featured the performances of old-time vaudeville favorites like Tim Moore, Stepin Fetchit, Godfrey Cambridge, Dewey "Pigmeat" Markham, Moms Mabley, Marshall "Garbage" Rogers, and Johnny Lee. Ritchie Valens made his only appearance at the Apollo in Janurary 1959.
Obviously, not my shot. This is a photo from the Flickr Apollo Archive, cropped and retouched to my linking.
Although the base set is a good starting point for a model of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module, there is some room for improvement. Most notably, the "face" of the ascent module is not very good.
The Apollo Barberini is a 1st–2nd century Roman sculpture of Apollo Kitharoedus. It is a probable copy of the a sculpture made by Scopas (395 - 350 BC ) perhaps from the sanctuary of Apollo at Rhamnus in Attica. This copy was the cult statue in the temple of Apollo Palatinus in Rome.
The modern named comes from the Roman family Barberini who acquired it.
(wikipedia: "apollo barberini")
From a Greek original
Scopas, 1st half of 4th Century BC
Roman marble copy
From the Palatine hill, Rome.
About 1st – 2nd century AD.
Munich, Glyptothek
The launch of the Apollo 9 (Spacecraft 104/Lunar Module 3/ Saturn 504) space vehicle, with astronauts James A. McDivitt, David R. Scott, and Russell L. Schweickart aboard, took place on March 3, 1969 at 11:00 a.m. EST. The Apollo 9 spacecraft, in the lunar mission configuration, was tested in Earth orbit. The mission was designed to rehearse all the steps and reproduce all the events of the Apollo 11 mission with the exception of the lunar touchdown, stay, and liftoff. The command and service modules, and the lunar module were used in flight procedures identical to those that would later take similar vehicles to the Moon, and a landing. The flight mechanics, mission support systems, communications, and recording of data were tested in a final round of verification. It was the second Saturn V mission launched with a crew.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 6901356
Date: March 3, 1969
This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We've passed the 11-minute mark. Now T-minus 10 min. 54 sec. on our countdown for Apollo 11."
Experience the July 16, 1969 launch of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins' mission to the Moon in real time:
At Portsmouth, the Abdiel-class minelayer HMS Apollo is tied up outboard of HMS Tyne, a destroyer tender. Taken by my father in about 1957.
The RN ordered the first four of six ships in 1938, with a further two acquired as part of the War Emergency Programme. They were specifically designed for rapidly laying minefields in enemy waters, close to harbours or sea lanes. As such they were required to be very fast and to possess sufficient AA weaponry to defend themselves if discovered by enemy aircraft. A large mineload of up to 150 mines was required to be carried under cover, necessitating a long, flush-decked hull with high freeboard. The resulting ship was laid out much like a large destroyer. However, the three straight funnels were an instant identifying feature. Top speed was specified as 40 kts. To achieve this they were given a full cruiser set of machinery, and with an installed output of 72,000 shp on two shafts they made 39¾ kts light and 38 kts deep load.
Commissioned after sea trials in February 1944, Apollo joined the Home Fleet at Scapa Flow before setting out for minelaying operations in support of the planned invasion of France. Loading mines at Milford Haven she commenced operations off Brittany. She was detached for duty in Operation Neptune and on 7 June (D-Day+1) she embarked Allied Supreme Commander General Eisenhower, naval C-in-C Admiral Bertram Ramsay, and staff officers from SHAEF, to visit the assault areas. Unfortunately she grounded while underway, damaging her propellers, and her passengers were transferred to the destroyer Undaunted. Repairs were completed in September and she deployed in the South-Western Approaches, laying deep trap minefields as a countermeasure to U-boat activities in inshore waters. Her minefields proved fatal for U-325 and U-1021.
On 24 December she joined the Home Fleet for minelaying duty off Norway, operating off Utsira in January, accompanied by the destroyers Zealous and Carron. On 15 January 1945 she began minelaying in the Irish Sea. In April she commenced a minelaying operation in the Russian Kola Inlet (Operation Trammel) as part of Force 5 with destroyers Opportune, Orwell and Obedient. After VE Day she sailed to Oslo in company with sister ship Ariadne and heavy cruiser Devonshire, returning the Norwegian Government-in-Exile and Crown Prince Olav. She subsequently prepared for, and sailed to, the British Pacific Fleet, but arrived in Melbourne, Australia, two weeks before the Japanese surrender. Apollo was then employed in repatriation work carrying former British PoWs to Shanghai for passage back to the UK, and then carried mail and stores to ships and establishments in Manus, Shanghai, various Japanese ports and Hong Kong.
In mid-1946 she returned to Chatham and was paid off into Reserve. In 1948 her pennant number was changed from M01 to N01. Apollo was recommissioned in 1951 after the outbreak of the Korean War and remained in commission for 10 years. She was paid off and returned to the Reserve in 1961, was put on the Disposal List the next year, and sold for breaking-up by Hughes Bolckow at Blyth Northumberland in November 1962. - From Wikipedia.
The columns that's left of the Apollo temple in Rome, by the Marcellus theatre... and almost all the clouds we saw during our 10 day vacation in Rome :)
Apollo Spacecraft 101 Command/Service Modules being moved into position for mating with Spacecraft Lunar Module Adapter 5 in the Kennedy Space Center's Manned Spacecraft Operations Building, August 5, 1968. Apollo Spacecraft 101 was flown on the first manned Apollo space mission, Apollo 7 (Spacecraft 101/Saturn 205).
Photo credit: NASA
Revisiting one of my favorite local waterfalls today. It rained very heavily this week, and the streams were much fuller than normal.
Discovered in 1832 in a wreck off the Tuscan coast, near Piombino, this statue of Apollo is one of the few survived original Greek bronze statues.
This work, carried out according to the technique of lost wax casting, retains copper inlays on the eyebrows, lips and nipples. The eyes were reported in another material.
The hieratic posture, the arms slightly folded and the left leg advanced recall the male nudes of the late sixth century BC. However, the modeling of the back, the hair treatment and other details doesn't allow recognizing the Apollo of Piombino as an original creation of the sixth century.
The appearance and the stylistic treatment of the work indicate, rather, that it is an archaic "pastiche", strongly influenced by the memory of the archaic kouroi.
The dating of the Apollo's statue was, however, hotly debated. A tablet of lead, found inside the statue during its restoration in 1842 and now lost, reported the engraved names of two sculptors of Tyre and Rhodes active in the first century BC and, probably, the authors of the statue.
Despite this historical reference, the work has long been considered an archaic creation of the second half of the fifth century BC. In 1977, a statue similar to our Apollo both in size both in style, was unearthed at Pompeii, in the villa of C. Julius Polybius. This finding confirms the hypothesis, now widely accepted, of a "pastiche" created at the end of the Hellenistic period for a roman customer greedy of Greek sculptures, mostly used to adorn gardens and villas.
Greek bronze sculpture
Late Hellenistic period
1st century BC
From Piombino, Livorno
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Apollo - The moon is here. The US becomes the first and only nation to ever land humans on the moon after launching astronauts further than ever before atop the largest rocket ever made, the Saturn V.
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Apollo Cup
c. 480-470 BCE
Delphi Museum, Greece
White-ground kylix (two-handled wide drinking cup) with a beautiful image of the god Apollo holding his turtle-shell lyre and pouring out a libation (offering), probably wine. I'm not sure whether the bird is a crow or a raven, although my hunch is it's a raven, since that bird is usually known for its intelligence.
© 2005 Ellen Brundige
Illustration for Ancient Greece Odyssey: A Traveller's Journal
P.S. For more information and photos of Apollo in Greek art, check my Greek God Apollo Trivia Quiz.
Apollo
CoreografÃa: George Balanchine
Bailarines: Alessandro Riga, Giada Rossi, Elisabetta Formento, Ana Mª Calderón
FotografÃa: Alba Muriel
DSC01206
Stacked image consisting of 5 images, all taken 15 minutes apart. 70mm. Nikon D70.
4 Images of the moon: ISO 200, f 5.6, exposure 1/750
Image of background (trees): ISO 200, f 5.6, exposure 8 sec
Stacked using Startrails freeware.
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins represented by 3 moons, the 4th represents the world as we celebrated.
The dead trees signify NASA's current commitment to space exploration by humans...however, this is a temporary condition for humankind, for we are moving towards brighter and illuminating human exploration achievements and discoveries. It is who we are.