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This doorway inside the NGV at Federation Square could well be the frame to a cubist work. In fact the whole building could be described as Postmodern Cubism.
Hello friends
Yes before the rain last night !!!!
this is taken 4 hours before all the silage grass was at home
now Shower rain here
i'm happy and i say thanks for the hard working boys
who helped
with all the pressure
in the night ,against the rain
Caroline and all the Farm animals
Had another go at this. Using off camera flash this time,back lighting the subject , seems smoother.The blue colour of the water is achieved only by WB on tungsten nothing else was added.
on explore
The red Routemaster has become internationally recognised as an icon of London. This bus, RM1, was the first of four prototypes for the Routemaster. It made its first public appearance in 1954 at the Earl's Court Motor Show.
Before entering service it underwent extensive testing, included skids at 30mph and a tilt test to at least 28 degrees. In 1956 it was trialled on Route 2 between Golders Green and Crystal Palace. Passengers were encouraged to share their views on this 'future London bus.'
1954 Routemaster prototype RM1, registration SLT 56, was on static display at the London Transport Museum Depot open day at Acton on 5 April 2025.
In the last years I’ve become very obsessed by sunsets. These 15 minutes remind me how the world can be beautiful and take me away from negative thoughts every day.
Remind me that we can be free, that life is so short, the intense moments are so evanescent nevertheless they can give meaning to a whole existence.
Here I was with Clarissa and this is the Daguerreotype Achromat Art lens by Lomography
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New art works on display😊
Happy Wall Wednesday!
Article from 2008
Tunnel becomes Banksy art exhibit
A disused road tunnel in south London has been turned into a giant exhibition space by graffiti artist Banksy.
Murals in the Bristol artist's famous stencil style appear with work by 29 other artists in a half-mile stretch of the tunnel in Leake Street, Waterloo.
Images of Madonna kissing Britney Spears and a hoodie appear alongside installations of crashed cars.
People can add their own stencil work to the tunnel walls in a three-day exhibition, opening on Saturday.
Reclusive artist Banksy kept the tunnel's location secret until Friday morning.
'Filth pit'
He said the exhibition, known as the Cans Festival, aimed to "transform a dark forgotten filth pit" into "an oasis of beautiful art".
"I've always felt anyone with a paint can should have as much say in how our cities look as architects and ad men," Banksy said.
The installations will be removed after the event but Banksy said he hoped the murals and graffiti would become permanent part of the tunnel.
They also include images of a girl holding flowers, London Bridge, the Queen and Boris Johnson.
An installation depicts a burnt-out car crashed into a tree while another stencil spells out: "Hey Banksy - why don't you return my emails?"
In recent years his work has grown in popularity, with Brad Pitt and Christina Aguilera listed among celebrity collectors.
In January a piece of his graffiti in Portobello Road, west London - which shows a painter finishing off the word "Banksy" - attracted a bid of £208,100 in an online auction.
we had a short walk up on Farleton Fell yesterday and came across an old dying ash tree on the high western slopes.
Amazing to see how the tree has grown out of and into its surroundings and taken on the textures and colours of the surrounding limestone.
One for the "Beyond Limestone" collection
The sea becomes silk, the sky ablaze, lingers in a final crescendo of colour. Here, light stretches beyond its moment, refusing to fade, as if the day itself resists conclusion. This moment encourages us to release our grasp on seconds and surrender to the slow, breathing rhythm of the earth.
Sunset from The Cove, Tasmania
Clifton, Arizona, USA. Once a booming copper mining town but now mostly declining or already in decay and the majority of people and business have moved just up the road to Morenci. The Freeport McMoRan copper mine located in Morenci is one of the largest in the world
Cliff dwellings along the San Francisco and Gila Rivers are evidence of an advanced civilization that existed long before Caesar ruled Rome. Many specimens of pottery and stone implements are still to be found in these ancient dwelling places. In the mid-1500s, both Fray Marcos de Niza and Francisco Vasquez de Coronado passed through the area, following the San Pedro north to the Gila River. Geronimo was born in 1829 near the confluence of Eagle Creek and the San Francisco and Gila Rivers.
In 1856 the first mineral discoveries of the Morenci/Clifton area were found by California volunteers pursuing Apaches, and conflicts between the Apaches and advancing Anglo settlers touched off a 26-year-long war. Mining for gold and silver began in 1864, followed by copper in 1872, and the mine at Morenci quickly grew to become the largest copper producer in North America. Clifton's population ballooned from 600 in 1880 to 5000 by 1910, and it quickly earned its reputation as the wildest of the "Wild West" boomtowns. Neighboring Morenci was swallowed up by an open pit mine in the 1960s, but Clifton was preserved, and today Chase Creek Street is still graced with lovely Victorian-era buildings from the town's halcyon days as the place to quickly make and lose a fortune.
In 1983, Clifton survived two nearly fatal blows, first a nearly three-year-long strike that began on June 30, 1983. Then later that same year, on October 2, 1983, Tropical Storm Octave sent 90,900 cubic feet of water per second into the San Francisco River, which burst its banks, destroying 700 homes and heavily damaging 86 of the town's 126 businesses.
Someone abandoned their motorhome along Interstate 10 in Riverside County. It's become a substrate for street art. This originally had tires and an engine but they're now gone. Even the disc brakes have been picked off of the chassis. Ten years ago, this never happened. Now, it has become common.
My understanding is that towing companies often don't want to touch these vehicles. I think abandoned vehicles, when towed, rack up storage charges. The owner may claim the vehicle and pay towing and storage charges. If the owner does not claim it and vehicle were saleable, the towing company can sell the towed car after acquiring title. If you tow a recent model car and this occurs, it works out well for the tow company. They can't sell these motorhomes because they're garbage. I expect the state, county, or city government would have to pay for disposal. It's parked on a public roadway and no one else would.
...A whole lot of risks — the risks of layoff, the risks of job-stopping illness — lots of risks that we were previously helped to bear by business and government have been shifted to our backs and the backs of our families. I don't think that Americans realize the extent to which that shift has occurred.
— Peter Gosselin
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Journalism Grade Image.
Source: cropped from a 3,000x2000 16-bit TIF file.
I have become addicted to the constant noise of the political news lately and have let my youtube play on autoplay in the background for weeks. My ability to concentrate on anything has been highly diminished. This morning the silence is welcome. I am just listening to house sounds, my dog chewing on a bone, my husband sleeping, the hum of the computer, an occasional airplane. My mind is able to relax, not worried about what I may be missing but staying focused on my task at hand. Meditation has never really worked for me but I can tell I need to move away from the constant drive to stay up on events and focus on myself and family.
Anyone else been feeling this way?
Recently Portugal has become one of my favourite countries for landscape photography, and that is mostly because of its wild and rugged coasts on the Atlantic. I visited the country 4 times in the space of 4 years and I can't wait to go back for more. This is one example of a great rock formation along the western coast. Traveling here in the winter means there are no other people around and you can enjoy the full glory of these amazing seascapes. In this photo I was able to capture the setting sun just as it was disappearing behind the rock. I wanted to get those nice sun rays across the rock and also the golden glow of the sun on the sand.
You've gotta love the collision of elements. Molten earth becomes fire, which pours into the water which creates steam, which rises high up into the air (and eventually forms clouds and vog and pours rain back over the Big Island).
I'm sure I've mentioned it before, but for those who don't know -- the Big Island of Hawaii is essentially five volcanoes, and only one of them is extinct. Two are dormant, two are active.
Of course, even the lava here takes its time, has a nice laid back chill-brah attitude -- other volcanoes, the lava is essentially tense, forming tight bonds so that the air beneath it only escapes at certain times (i.e. big dangerous sudden eruption).
On the Big Island, though, the lava is mushy, gooey, the air can constantly escape -- so, the eruption is slow and persistent. The lava pushes inexorably toward the sea.
Or, in some cases, toward and across towns. Like the town of Kalapana. Kalapana was a thriving little Hawaiian town... until 1990, when the Kilauea eruption sent a metric god-load of lava down to slide over the li'l island burg. You hike out over the lava flow that destroyed that town to get to here, the Kalapana viewing area. It's actually created miles of new coastline -- this island is one of the youngest in the world, and its one of the only ones still actually in process. (There's actually a sixth active volcano beneath the ocean, not far from the island's edge -- in around 10,000 years, that'll form a whole new part of the island.)
Here, in the distance, the lava oozes lazily into the sea. Sending up steam, a sinister red glow, and the occasional spatter of hot lava. Just like how it happens in my pants.
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What? Who? Who said that? I have to go.
I'll just say this: it's a great place to watch a sunset.
Trying to get photographs of fungi in good light is tricky as they are buried deep in woods or shady spots in a lot of cases.
Same late afternoon sunshine broke through the woods at the appropriate moment to beautifully light up these Jellybabies as you can see from the moss surrounding them you could easily miss them, 4-5cm tall at best and not standing up straight either.
Having never seen one before I then found them in another spot at Rising Sun Country Park and Joe found them in a third so a fungi we had never seen before has suddenly become one we have seen a lot of.
Other common names it goes under include Ochre Jelly Club, Lizard Tuft, Green Slime Fungus and Gumdrop Fungus.
There is also a Green Jelly Baby (Leotia viscose) with a vivid Green Cap but I’m not sure of this is found in UK, it’s not in any of my books.
Rising Sun Country Park
To learn about them, you must become like them. They will not understand your brilliance. They will underestimate your greatness. You must learn of them by taking on their form, their mannerisms, and languages. Only after you have lived among them for sometime may you then reveal your true self. Some will not understand. Others will fear. You must teach them and you must save them from the void that will eventually try to consume them.
They become such a part of the family, it's hard not to miss them even years after they die. She was smart, loyal, with an intense prey drive, and full of love with a bit of a goofy streak.
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The current City Hall for the city of St. Louis, having housed city government since 1898, is a landmark by appearance, reputation and city designation (since 1971). Efforts to build what would become the current City Hall (seen above) got underway in May 1888 when the City Hall Commission was formed. On April 4, 1889, an ordinance was passed to authorize the Commission to advertise for bids for the building. The original cost was not to exceed one million dollars. The commission chose the design of George Richard Mann, of the firm Eckel & Mann of St. Joseph, from the 37 national entries. His design was titled "St. Louis 1892", obviously expecting it to be completed by 1892. A French-style plan, inspired by the Hotel de Ville or City Hall of Paris, with ornamental dormer windows and former towers, it also recalled architectural elements of the Chateau de Chambord on the Loire River in France.
The construction of City Hall started July 19, 1890, with Mayor Edward Noonan's daughter Zoe, breaking ground. The cornerstone was laid on June 6, 1891. No bond issue was passed to finance construction of the new City Hall, explaining the 14 years required to finish the building. Funds came from general revenue and the sale of city property. Every year or two, the Council, would authorize an average of $110, 000 to continue construction. An ordinance was passed on Sept, 10, 1893 to limit the total cost at two million dollars. Though the building was not completed, it was finally occupied on April 11, 1898 when Mayor Henry Ziegenhein headed a ceremonial parade of city officials from the old building to their offices in the new City Hall. In 1904, the final portions of the building were completed, the Rotunda, the Tucker Boulevard vestibule and the grand staircase, using the design by the St. Louis architectural firm of Weber & Groves. The building was officially completed on Nov. 5, 1904 when Mayor Rolla Wells held an open house for the residents of St. Louis. The final cost of the building was $1,787,159.16. However, the exterior of City Hall was never quite finished. All sides of the building have ornamental dormers called belvederes, each having bare spaces of limestone. These were meant to have carved decorations, yet remained untouched probably due to lack of funds. Despite its incomplete state, City Hall was praised for its "splendid architectural composition," and called "an impressive period piece of craftsmanship". Unfortunately, a poorly executed acid cleaning and years of exposure to coal smoke has left the original pink and orange exterior tarnished.
www.stlouis-mo.gov/government/about/history-of-city-hall.cfm
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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When all becomes clear
this autumntime
from earliest memories
to the present degrees
of freedom
a family of comfort
in the colorant of nature
beats the inner healer
shadows and lights
upon this land's dispostion
the declaration of all four seasons
plans for a year of twelve gardens
for borders of belief
beside the path of hope
to the glade of aesthetics
and thus, the teaching of ethics.
by anglia24
15h40: 17/10/2007
© 2007anglia24
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The former MFV Dayspring broke her moorings in a Storm in 2011 , she was earmarked to become a houseboat but has become a most photogenic trawler for some time now... Info's by Dave Forbes
One of Scotland's best, hidden gems and one of the most photogenic spots in the country lies just outside of the popular highland town of Fort William.
In Explore #51, 01.07.2024
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Macro Mondays Theme: Knots
A Celtic Heart on top of a rope ball. If you tie the Celtic Heart hard enough it becomes a knot.
After the great tits and blackbirds the robins become the third pair to nest in the garden this year. Yay!
After missing the first two days of Texans training camp before agreeing to a five-year, $14 million contract Saturday, outside linebacker Brian Cushing is eager to get on the practice field today with his new teammates.
Cushing, the first-round draft choice from Southern California, is getting $10.435 million in guaranteed money to become the starter on the strong side and help improve a defense that ranked 22nd last season, including 23rd against the run.
“I’m just relieved and excited to have this done,” Cushing said. “I’m ready to play football and help the team win.”
Cushing (6-3, 262) was in Los Angeles when agent Tom Condon reached the agreement with general manager Rick Smith and director of football administration Chris Olsen.
Cushing’s contract could be worth a maximum of $18 million over five years.
In the fifth year of his deal, there’s a clause that could earn him an additional $4 million in an escalator bonus.
Odds are that Cushing’s contract will be extended before he enters the fifth season in 2013.
Smith and Olsen will have all eight of their draft choices under contract when the Texans take the field for the third day of two-a-day drills at their Methodist Training Center.
“It’s very important to have him signed,” coach Gary Kubiak said. “Rick and Chris were up at 3 in the morning trying to get it done. They’ve done a good job.
“Brian’s two days behind now, but he didn’t miss anything we did in the offseason program, so that’s a good thing. He wanted to be here while we were working on the contract, but he couldn’t.”
Rookies who have signed with the Texans report a week early for conditioning and meetings before practicing for the first time with the veterans. Cushing wanted to report with the rookies.
He was working out at Reliant Stadium last week when the Texans had to explain league rules that forced him to leave.
Cushing took what turned out to be a quick trip back to Los Angeles. He returned to Houston on Saturday afternoon.
Texans coaches are excited to get him on the practice field.
“We’re going to put the pads on (Sunday morning), and I know he’s chomping at the bit to get out there,” Kubiak said.
After the Texans used the 15th pick in the first round on Cushing, they inserted him into the starting lineup. He impressed his coaches in the organized team activities and minicamp.
“We like his presence on the ball,” Kubiak said, meaning Cushing has a knack for finding the ball and making plays. “He’s playing over the tight end, and we’re going to ask him to do a great deal. We think he can handle it.
“Brian’s very athletic. He’s physical against the run. He can rush the passer. He can drop into coverage. We brought him here for a reason, and we’re going to put him to work real fast.”
Frank Bush, who is in his first season as defensive coordinator, has to make calls that maximize Cushing’s strengths. The faster Cushing learns, the quicker Bush plans to utilize all his talent.
“We’re going to try to take advantage of all his talent,” Bush said. “Because he’s such a talented kid, there are a lot of things we can do with him.”
The coaches say they think Cushing has everything it takes to become a star at his position.
“Brian can turn and run with the tight end,” Bush said. “He’s big and strong enough to strike them at the line of scrimmage and nullify some of their speed down the field, so we’re comfortable with him in coverage.
“His ability also gives us a chance to be aggressive toward the quarterback. He’s a big guy who’s shown he can get there.”
... with the passage of time, even the mind's eye will eventually need glasses...
I want to thank Alex for his kind and wonderful testimonial.
Revealing secrets can bring us pain or get us into trouble, but worse pain and worse trouble await us if we keep silent. We become habitually untruthful. The door to our creativity closes.
Eric Maisel
AI (MidJourney) render. Post work (composition) done with Photoshop and Gigapixel AI.
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Update: The Mushroom House becomes a Set! The design was chosen for the BDP Series 2 and will be available for pre-order in June 2024!
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I need your help again! My Mushroom House is now part of the BrickLink Designer Program Series 2 and could become a set with your vote.
After it had no luck on LEGO Ideas after reaching the 10k, this is a second chance to make it happen! Thanks so much.
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Before submitting the Mushroom House to the BDP I had to make some adjustments which ended up in rebuilding the whole thing and making numerous little improvements. Also, thanks to many new parts that I could use.
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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴀʏ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ꜰᴇʟʟ ɪɴ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ᴡɪᴛʜ ʟɪꜰᴇ.
ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴄᴏᴍᴇꜱ ꜰᴏʀ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴏɴᴇ. ʙᴜᴛ ꜱʜᴇ ʜᴀᴅ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ꜱᴛᴏᴘᴘᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜɪɴᴋ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ʟɪꜰᴇ. ᴜɴᴛɪʟ ꜱʜᴇ ꜱᴇᴇꜱ ɪᴛ ʀᴀᴅɪᴀɴᴛ, ʟᴏᴏᴋɪɴɢ ɪɴᴛᴏ ʜᴇʀ ᴇʏᴇꜱ. ɪᴛ'ꜱ ꜱᴏ ᴍᴀɢɴɪꜰɪᴄᴇɴᴛ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ ᴛᴏᴜᴄʜ ʜᴇʀ. ꜱᴏ ꜱʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴄɪᴅᴇꜱ ᴛᴏ ꜱɪᴍᴘʟʏ ᴀᴄᴄᴏᴍᴘᴀɴʏ ʜᴇʀ. ᴀɴᴅ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴇᴀᴄʜ ᴘᴀꜱꜱɪɴɢ ᴍᴏᴍᴇɴᴛ, ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ʙᴇᴄᴏᴍᴇꜱ ᴍᴏʀᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴍᴏʀᴇ ꜰᴀꜱᴄɪɴᴀᴛɪɴɢ. ʜᴏᴡ ʙᴇᴀᴜᴛɪꜰᴜʟ ʟɪꜰᴇ ɪꜱ. ɪᴛ ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅ ʙᴇ ꜱᴘᴇᴇᴄʜʟᴇꜱꜱ ᴄʀᴜᴇʟᴛʏ. ʜᴏᴡ ɴᴏᴛ ᴛᴏ ᴀᴅᴍɪʀᴇ ꜱᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ ꜱᴏ ᴍᴀɢɪᴄᴀʟ. ᴛʜᴀᴛ'ꜱ ᴡʜᴇɴ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ꜰᴇʟʟ ᴅᴇᴇᴘʟʏ ɪɴ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ᴡɪᴛʜ ʟɪꜰᴇ. ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴜʀᴇꜱᴛ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴄᴏᴜʟᴅ ᴇxɪꜱᴛ ᴄᴏᴍɪɴɢ ꜰʀᴏᴍ ꜱᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ ᴀꜱ ᴅᴀʀᴋ ᴀꜱ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ. ᴜɴᴛɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴀʏ ᴀʀʀɪᴠᴇᴅ. ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ʜᴇꜱɪᴛᴀᴛᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ᴅᴏ ʜᴇʀ ᴊᴏʙ, ʙᴜᴛ ʟɪꜰᴇ ᴋɴᴇᴡ ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴏᴍᴇɴᴛ ʜᴀᴅ ᴄᴏᴍᴇ. ꜱᴏ, ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴇᴍʙʀᴀᴄᴇᴅ, ᴀɴᴅ ᴅᴇꜱᴛɪɴʏ ᴡᴀꜱ ꜰᴜʟꜰɪʟʟᴇᴅ. ᴡᴇ ᴀʀᴇ ʙᴏʀɴ ᴋɴᴏᴡɪɴɢ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ᴡɪʟʟ ᴅɪᴇ, ᴀɴᴅ ᴇᴠᴇɴ ᴛʜᴏᴜɢʜ ɪᴛ ʜᴜʀᴛꜱ, ꜱᴏᴍᴇᴛɪᴍᴇꜱ ᴡᴇ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴀᴄᴄᴇᴘᴛ ᴛʜᴀᴛ'ꜱ ᴊᴜꜱᴛ ʟɪꜰᴇ.