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The area that was to become West Palm Beach was settled in the late 1870s and 1880s by a few hundred settlers who called the vicinity "Lake Worth Country." These settlers were a diverse community from different parts of the United States and the world. They included founding families such at the Potters and the Lainharts, who would go on to become leading members of the business community in the fledgling city. The first white settlers in Palm Beach County lived around Lake Worth, then an enclosed freshwater lake, named for Colonel William Jenkins Worth, who had fought in the Second Seminole War in Florida in 1842. Most settlers engaged in the growing of tropical fruits and vegetables for shipment the north via Lake Worth and the Indian River. By 1890, the U.S. Census counted over 200 people settled along Lake Worth in the vicinity of what would become West Palm Beach. The area at this time also boasted a hotel, the "Cocoanut House", a church, and a post office. The city was platted by Henry Flagler as a community to house the servants working in the two grand hotels on the neighboring island of Palm Beach, across Lake Worth in 1893, coinciding with the arrival of the Florida East Coast railroad. Flagler paid two area settlers, Captain Porter and Louie Hillhouse, a combined sum of $45,000 for the original town site, stretching from Clear Lake to Lake Worth.
On November 5, 1894, 78 people met at the "Calaboose" (the first jail and police station located at Clematis St. and Poinsettia, now Dixie Hwy.) and passed the motion to incorporate the Town of West Palm Beach in what was then Dade County (now Miami-Dade County). This made West Palm Beach the first incorporated municipality in Dade County and in South Florida. The town council quickly addressed the building codes and the tents and shanties were replaced by brick, brick veneer, and stone buildings. The city grew steadily during the 1890s and the first two decades of the 20th century, most residents were engaged in the tourist industry and related services or winter vegetable market and tropical fruit trade. In 1909, Palm Beach County was formed by the Florida State Legislature and West Palm Beach became the county seat. In 1916, a new neo-classical courthouse was opened, which has been painstakingly restored back to its original condition, and is now used as the local history museum.
The city grew rapidly in the 1920s as part of the Florida land boom. The population of West Palm Beach quadrupled from 1920 to 1927, and all kinds of businesses and public services grew along with it. Many of the city's landmark structures and preserved neighborhoods were constructed during this period. Originally, Flagler intended for his Florida East Coast Railway to have its terminus in West Palm, but after the area experienced a deep freeze, he chose to extend the railroad to Miami instead.
The land boom was already faltering when city was devastated by the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane. The Depression years of the 1930s were a quiet time for the area, which saw slight population growth and property values lower than during the 1920s. The city only recovered with the onset of World War II, which saw the construction of Palm Beach Air Force Base, which brought thousands of military personnel to the city. The base was vital to the allied war effort, as it provided an excellent training facility and had unparalleled access to North Africa for a North American city. Also during World War II, German U-Boats sank dozens of merchant ships and oil tankers just off the coast of West Palm Beach. Nearby Palm Beach was under black out conditions to minimize night visibility to German U-boats.
The 1950s saw another boom in population, partly due to the return of many soldiers and airmen who had served in the vicinity during the war. Also, the advent of air conditioning encouraged growth, as year-round living in a tropical climate became more acceptable to northerners. West Palm Beach became the one of the nation's fastest growing metropolitan areas during the 1950s; the city's borders spread west of Military Trail and south to Lake Clarke Shores. However, many of the city's residents still lived within a narrow six-block wide strip from the south to north end. The neighborhoods were strictly segregated between White and African-American populations, a legacy that the city still struggles with today. The primary shopping district remained downtown, centered around Clematis Street.
In the 1960s, Palm Beach County's first enclosed shopping mall, the Palm Beach Mall, and an indoor arena were completed. These projects led to a brief revival for the city, but in the 1970s and 1980s crime continued to be a serious issue and suburban sprawl continued to drain resources and business away from the old downtown area. By the early 1990s there were very high vacancy rates downtown, and serious levels of urban blight.
Since the 1990s, developments such as CityPlace and the preservation and renovation of 1920s architecture in the nightlife hub of Clematis Street have seen a downtown resurgence in the entertainment and shopping district. The city has also placed emphasis on neighborhood development and revitalization, in historic districts such as Northwood, Flamingo Park, and El Cid. Some neighborhoods still struggle with blight and crime, as well as lowered property values caused by the Great Recession, which hit the region particularly hard. Since the recovery, multiple new developments have been completed. The Palm Beach Mall, located at the Interstate 95/Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard interchange became abandoned as the downtown was revitalized - the very mall that initiated the original abandonment of the downtown. The mall was then redeveloped into the Palm Beach Fashion Outlets in February 2014. A station for All Aboard Florida, a high-speed passenger rail service serving Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, and Orlando, is under construction as of July 2015.
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Dragon Age: Inquisition
- 6400x2700 hotsampling via SRWE;
- ReShade framework w/ custom LUT;
- Hattiwatti tools for freecam, tonemap and fog.
October 1993.
Film: Fujichrome Velvia 50 ASA.
Camera: PENTAX-LX.
Lens: smc Pentax-M 100mm.
Exposure: f/11, 1/125 sec.
Derelict remains of the Wellington Hotel Annex in Albany one January evening. It looks like something may finally happen with it: Cleanup crews have been gutting it out in recent months, presumably in preparation for demolition of the old hulk to make way for a convention center.
Rage - Fotosketcher
Inspired by de:mo's awesome stuff here: www.flickr.com/photos/106467995@N04/16599221599/
BatmanBeyond117 beat me to make one, but heres mine with a custom coat that can be removed! background is d back of my batman book
This 100 year old theater was actually a rare double decker, with a 2300 seat theater at ground level and another 900 seat "penthouse" theater above it. Today the large 8 story building in a blighted downtown is surprisingly easy to miss, currently enclosed by jewelry stores, shoe stores, and pawn shops.
Saturday Self Challenge
Take a photo while sitting down and present it SOOC (straight out of camera.) Your subject can be anything you choose. It can be colour or b/w. You can take as many practice shots as you like just make sure that the one you use for the challenge is SOOC. You can also pre-adjust your settings in your camera ie; white balance, photo style, etc. This challenge encourages us to really concentrate on setting our photos up before pressing the shutter button. It will also give us a chance to use our in-camera editing functions.
No post-processing allowed this week.
I had an idea about an outdoor landscape shot for this challenge, I know a lot of benches with good views, however, the weather put a stop to that plan, we’ve had fog, mist and drizzle most of the week. We got out Friday but there were no seats or benches on the route we walked, I didn’t fancy a freezing cold sit on a wall, so I’ve stuck with one of the many shots I took earlier in the week.
I decided to use the 35mm lens for this project, and I did think it might work in low key, it didn’t. In fact I ended up using the flash as the light where I was sitting was quite poor. The problems didn’t quite end there, twice I got the shot lined up and the iPad nodded off, why I didn’t think to stop it dozing off into sleep mode beforehand I don’t know ? Another attempt was blighted by a BBC news flash dropping down from the top of the screen with good news about the Covid-19 vaccine trials ! Eventually after I’d taken around 20 pictures from different angles and a bit of shuffling around on the chair, I decided on this one. If I had been able to PP I think I would have removed the blemish from the iPad screen, but it is what it is, perhaps I should have cleaned the screen first.
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The area that was to become West Palm Beach was settled in the late 1870s and 1880s by a few hundred settlers who called the vicinity "Lake Worth Country." These settlers were a diverse community from different parts of the United States and the world. They included founding families such at the Potters and the Lainharts, who would go on to become leading members of the business community in the fledgling city. The first white settlers in Palm Beach County lived around Lake Worth, then an enclosed freshwater lake, named for Colonel William Jenkins Worth, who had fought in the Second Seminole War in Florida in 1842. Most settlers engaged in the growing of tropical fruits and vegetables for shipment the north via Lake Worth and the Indian River. By 1890, the U.S. Census counted over 200 people settled along Lake Worth in the vicinity of what would become West Palm Beach. The area at this time also boasted a hotel, the "Cocoanut House", a church, and a post office. The city was platted by Henry Flagler as a community to house the servants working in the two grand hotels on the neighboring island of Palm Beach, across Lake Worth in 1893, coinciding with the arrival of the Florida East Coast railroad. Flagler paid two area settlers, Captain Porter and Louie Hillhouse, a combined sum of $45,000 for the original town site, stretching from Clear Lake to Lake Worth.
On November 5, 1894, 78 people met at the "Calaboose" (the first jail and police station located at Clematis St. and Poinsettia, now Dixie Hwy.) and passed the motion to incorporate the Town of West Palm Beach in what was then Dade County (now Miami-Dade County). This made West Palm Beach the first incorporated municipality in Dade County and in South Florida. The town council quickly addressed the building codes and the tents and shanties were replaced by brick, brick veneer, and stone buildings. The city grew steadily during the 1890s and the first two decades of the 20th century, most residents were engaged in the tourist industry and related services or winter vegetable market and tropical fruit trade. In 1909, Palm Beach County was formed by the Florida State Legislature and West Palm Beach became the county seat. In 1916, a new neo-classical courthouse was opened, which has been painstakingly restored back to its original condition, and is now used as the local history museum.
The city grew rapidly in the 1920s as part of the Florida land boom. The population of West Palm Beach quadrupled from 1920 to 1927, and all kinds of businesses and public services grew along with it. Many of the city's landmark structures and preserved neighborhoods were constructed during this period. Originally, Flagler intended for his Florida East Coast Railway to have its terminus in West Palm, but after the area experienced a deep freeze, he chose to extend the railroad to Miami instead.
The land boom was already faltering when city was devastated by the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane. The Depression years of the 1930s were a quiet time for the area, which saw slight population growth and property values lower than during the 1920s. The city only recovered with the onset of World War II, which saw the construction of Palm Beach Air Force Base, which brought thousands of military personnel to the city. The base was vital to the allied war effort, as it provided an excellent training facility and had unparalleled access to North Africa for a North American city. Also during World War II, German U-Boats sank dozens of merchant ships and oil tankers just off the coast of West Palm Beach. Nearby Palm Beach was under black out conditions to minimize night visibility to German U-boats.
The 1950s saw another boom in population, partly due to the return of many soldiers and airmen who had served in the vicinity during the war. Also, the advent of air conditioning encouraged growth, as year-round living in a tropical climate became more acceptable to northerners. West Palm Beach became the one of the nation's fastest growing metropolitan areas during the 1950s; the city's borders spread west of Military Trail and south to Lake Clarke Shores. However, many of the city's residents still lived within a narrow six-block wide strip from the south to north end. The neighborhoods were strictly segregated between White and African-American populations, a legacy that the city still struggles with today. The primary shopping district remained downtown, centered around Clematis Street.
In the 1960s, Palm Beach County's first enclosed shopping mall, the Palm Beach Mall, and an indoor arena were completed. These projects led to a brief revival for the city, but in the 1970s and 1980s crime continued to be a serious issue and suburban sprawl continued to drain resources and business away from the old downtown area. By the early 1990s there were very high vacancy rates downtown, and serious levels of urban blight.
Since the 1990s, developments such as CityPlace and the preservation and renovation of 1920s architecture in the nightlife hub of Clematis Street have seen a downtown resurgence in the entertainment and shopping district. The city has also placed emphasis on neighborhood development and revitalization, in historic districts such as Northwood, Flamingo Park, and El Cid. Some neighborhoods still struggle with blight and crime, as well as lowered property values caused by the Great Recession, which hit the region particularly hard. Since the recovery, multiple new developments have been completed. The Palm Beach Mall, located at the Interstate 95/Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard interchange became abandoned as downtown revitalized - the very mall that initiated the original abandonment of the downtown. The mall was then redeveloped into the Palm Beach Fashion Outlets in February 2014. A station for All Aboard Florida, a high-speed passenger rail service serving Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, and Orlando, is under construction as of July 2015.
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This shot of the huge American flag hanging from the Wrigley Building is blighted by a foul presence. Do you see it?
Constantine World , from Dark Justice League Blight , i become mad whit this custom but i love it *^* What do you think about that guys ??? #lego #constantine #minifig #minifigcustom #customminifig #IMC #DC #superheroes #foreverevil #batman #series #legonews
This Custom is for the contest !
ZOMBIE ARMY 4
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Entomopathogenic fungus (Cordyceps) & Cricket - Madre de Dios, Peru
Even though we don't realize it, fungi plays a pretty major role in shaping the ecosystem.
We are mostly familiar with the species which help decompose dead organic matter and recycle nutrients back into the environment. But there is so much more going on....
From the countless species that are parasitic on plants, including ones that have serious repercussions on our agricultural systems (cough potato blight* cough) to mutualistic species that actually help plants grow.
There are species which are parasitic on vertebrates like the chytrid fungus specie which has driven dozens of frog species extinct worldwide, the greatest single extinction event that can be traced back to a pathogen.
Then there are the parasitoid fungi like this one which must wipe out an untold multitude of insects every year helping keep populations in check. Some of these fungi have even evolved a mutualistic symbiosis with sap sucking insects, instead living within the insect helping it digest its sappy food rather than feeding off the chitin like its close relative fungi.
Its a big moldy world out there.
This picture is on South Street and not that many blocks away from where the South Street Seaport is now and is an example of just now far low NYC was getting before it started turning around. I could editorialize about that various aspects that lead up to that but that would take far more time that is appropriate for this venue. From a scanned photo because like a lot of my early work too many negatives have deteriorated or been lost. to time.
Blight- 2020 has been just that. This is a typical eastern Sierra mountain sunrise these days with the wildfire season in full swing.
Here's a much better capture of the rainbow. I posted the last one from my laptop in a coffee shop while in a huge hurry, which are hardly optimal circumstances. Now that I've had time to pick the best one and color correct/etc., here it is!
After the second day of apocalyptic white-outs -- flying, stinging, choking, blinding dust -- and rain, a rarity indeed, the playa was graced with a spectacular double-rainbow Friday afternoon.
My first thought when I saw it was: "Stupid rainbow." I had been furiously packing for a few hours, as the dust storm had seriously hindered my ability to do so earlier in the day. I looked again a few minutes later, though, and actually noticed it in its entirety. Then I booked it to the top of an RV.
This photo was shot from the top of an RV in the Red Nose District, 9:15 and Esplanade in Black Rock City. To the right you can see left side of the Cirque Berzerk Big Top.
See the complete galleries at www.theblight.net/gallery/bm/07/
Special thanks to Taz (Lily's dad) for generously letting me use his RV for the shot.
Shot with a Minolta Maxxum 7D and Sigma 10-20mm lens (at 10mm).
Former Connecticut Telephone and Electrical Co. building (1903), once the world's largest producer of telephones.
Meriden,Connecticut
Today i was sent the following message below by someone on here (part of a longer , more detailed and quite offensive email) and not her first message of a similar tone to me. But you know i don't want to be a blight to anyone or for that matter have to justify why i post as i do to anyone. So if i truly am a blight let me know and i will delete all my photos today. It is meant to be a joy, a pleasure and a tease to share with lovely people on here and 99.9% are but what i have read today has made me question myself and if others feel the same i will just disappear back into my hole...
Your faceless photos make those of us who are honest about ourselves look bad. And, to be honest, although I dislike offending people, some people deserve to be offended. You are an absolute blight on the trans community, and deserve to be told so.