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72-74A Stone Nullah Lane (Blue House)
Blue House was originally a 2-storey building. It was listed as “Wah To Hospital” (also known as “Wan Chai Kai Fong Hospital”) in the 1872 Rate Book. It was possibly the first hospital in Wan Chai to provide Chinese medical services to local Chinese.
The building was then used as a temple for the God of Medicine, Wah To (or “Hua Tuo”) after the hospital closed in 1886.
The building was demolished around late 1910’s or early 1920’s and turned into four 4-storey tenement blocks in mid 1920’s. The Ground Floor of 72 Stone Nullah Lane probably housed “Wah To Temple” after the tenement blocks were completed.
The temple was subsequently replaced by a martial arts school in the 50’s by Lam Cho, the nephew of Lam Sai Wing (one of the followers of Wong Fei Hung) and later by the existing osteopathy clinic in the 60’s.
Yat Chong College on the 3rd and the 4th floors of 72 Stone Nullah Lane was the only English School in the area before World War II. Kang Ham Free School on the 2nd floor provided free education for children throughout the territory.
The Chamber of Commerce for Fishmonger's was based on the 4th floor of 74 Stone Nullah Lane as their meeting place. A set comprising a stone table with two stone benches for playing mahjong by fishmongers is still preserved in-situ on the roof.
EOS 5D + Super-Lentar 35/2.8
Photograph taken at an altitude of Eight metres, during the first vestiges of ambient light prior to the magic of the Golden Hour around sunrise (which was at precisely 04:51am), at 02:54am on Monday 7th July 2014, off Botany Road and the Viking Coastal Trail on the shoreline of Botany Bay, the Northern most of seven bays in Broadstairs, Kent, England.
The seven bays are (from south to north) Dumpton Gap, Louisa Bay, Viking Bay, Stone Bay, Joss Bay, Kingsgate Bay and Botany Bay.
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Nikon D800 16mm 2 Second exposure f/6.3 iso100 RAW (14 bit) Mirror up. AF-S Auto focus mode. Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Auto white balance.
Nikkor AF-S 14-24mm f/2.8G ED IF. Nikon MB-D12 battery grip. Two Nikon EN-EL batteries. Nikon DK-17M Magnifying Eyepiece. Nikon DK-19 soft rubber eyecup. Manfrotto MT057C3 057 Carbon Fiber Tripod 3 Sections (Payload 18kgs). Manfrotto MH057M0-RC4 057 Magnesium Ball Head with RC4 Quick Release (Payload 15kgs). Manfrotto quick release plate 410PL-14.Jessops Tripod bag. Optech Tripod Strap.Digi-Chip 64GB Class 10 UHS-1 SDXC. Lowepro Transporter camera strap. Lowepro Vertex 200 AW camera bag. Nikon MC-DC2 remote shutter release. Nikon GP-1 GPS unit.
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LATITUDE: N 51d 23m 21.15s
LONGITUDE: E 1d 26m 14.71s
ALTITUDE: 8.0m
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HP Pavillion Desktop with AMD A10-5700 APU processor. HD graphics. 2TB with 8GB RAM. 64-bit Windows 8.1. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. Nikon VIEWNX2 Version 2.90 64bit. Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit
Time to show off some of our blue skies lately -- oh, yeah, and that monstrous horse that amazes me every time I see it. :)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Polioptila caerulea
Great Swamp, NJ
This miniature version of Mockingbird is constantly on the move. The movement and its constant singing make it easy to find. However, its constant movement also makes it tricky to photograph.
D7000
16-85mm DX VR @ 85mm
Manual Exposure
1/125th sec @ ƒ/5.0
ISO: Auto (1600)
AF-C
On September 25, I was asked back to the Aquarium of the Pacific to help lead another Photographer's night at the Aquarium. It was a BLAST! I met so many very nice people. We had full run of the place and were able to make some very fun images.
I also found the way in which I will make all future images in an aquarium. Manual exposure + Auto ISO. For more info on the exposure, see the write up on this image: www.flickr.com/photos/pva1964/6214073437/
For details on controlling refections off the face of the tank, see this: www.flickr.com/photos/pva1964/6214073747/
Also see: www.flickr.com/groups/nikondigitallearningcenter/discuss/... for a my complete recap of tips and tricks for Aquarium shooting
Where flowers bloom so does hope.
Lady Bird Johnson
Iris sibirica, the Siberian Iris, is a flowering plant in the genus Iris, native to eastern and central Europe and northern Asia.
It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to 50-120 cm tall. The leaves are glaucous green, narrow and fairly rigid, blade-shaped, 40-80 cm long and 2-4 cm broad. The flowers are typical of an iris, borne in late spring or early summer on unbranched or sparsely-branched stems held above the leaves, each flower 4-7 cm diameter, mid- to purple-blue, often with a paler whitish or yellowish centre.
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in reality this flower is only about 1,5 cm large en grows very close to the ground. I don't know the name though.
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Pentax K-5 • 125 ISO • Pentax DA* 50-135mm F2.8 SDM
Hoya Pro1 Digital Filter Close-Up N°3
Jardin d'altitude du Haut-Chitelet • Vosges • France
It's beginning to look alot like Christmas in my home. Season's Greetings!
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I was totally excited to see some blue herons during my trip to Victoria. It's a first for me to see them so close and to be able to get a few shots as well.
In fact, "blue moon" refers not to color, but to rarity. Blue moons are defined as either the fourth full moon in a season, or, more recently, as the second full moon in a month. It's the second definition that covers August's blue moon; the month's first full moon was on Aug. 1.
Blue moons happen because our calendar months don't precisely sync with the moon's orbit. It takes the moon 29.5 days to wax and wane from full to new to full again. With the exception of February, months are longer than that, meaning that once in a while the timing works out so there are two full moons in one month.
Blue moons are best known from the phrase "once in a blue moon," meant to refer to something extremely rare. Two blue moons in a month aren't all that unusual, however; they occur 2.7 years apart on average, though not with great regularity. The last blue moon occurred on Dec. 31, 2009. That "New Year's Eve Blue Moon" also coincided with a partial lunar eclipse for viewers in Europe, Asia, Africa and some parts of Alaska.
Another truly rare event is a year with two blue moons. The last time a single year had two months with two full moons was in 1999. The next time double blue moons will occur is in 2018.
The Tint was done to have a BLUE LOOK
Blue Butterwort (Pinguicula caerulea) along a trail at Jonathan Dickinson State Park, Martin County, Florida. There were also Yellow Butterwort in the area. No color enhancement, the flower is actually somewhat bluer than this. This one is carnivorous!
Here is the plant with her sticky insect-catching leaves: