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I woke up really early this morning and used my telescope to snap a picture of this stain on the universe as it passed by in the heavens.
No, wait. My mistake. This is really a picture of a rust stain on my driveway. Sorry about that....
RAW conversion in Lightroom, then into Photoshop to invert the colors. I used a hue/saturation adjustment layer to convert the color of the "comet" from blue to yellow.
Model: Volvo FH 500 Euro6 6X4 (FH4)
VIN: YV2RT40D0GA786823
1. Registration: 2016-04-14
Company: Danish Stevedore, Randers for JET Domex, Kongerslev (DK)
Fleet No.: -
Nickname: -
License plates: BA95974 (apr. 2016-?)
Previous reg.: n/a
Later reg.: n/a
Retirement age: still active at time of upload (mar. 2018)
Photo location: Randersvej, by Nørrebrogade/Nordre Ringgade, Aarhus, DK
Carrying a load of skylight windows, most likely for one of the countless construction sites in nearby Aarhus Ø.
Danish Stevedore was established in 2003. The company name was changed from Randers Stevedore to Danish Stevedore in october 2016. The names on the trucks have been updated accordingly, but the square logo still shows the letters "R" and "S"
Trucks aquired before the name change and carried over will be found in both folders (Randers Stevedore and Danish Stevedore.) Older vehicles retired before the change will be in Randers Stevedore folder only, while post-namechange aquirements will be in Danish Stevedore only.
JET Domex is a manufacturer of skylights and fire ventilation-equipment. This Danish Stevedore truck seems to be assigned the sole task of delivering these products to customers.
Tip: to locate trucks of particular interest to you, check my collections page, "truck collection" - here you will find all trucks organized in albums, by haulier (with zip-codes), year, brand and country.
Retirement age for trucks: many used trucks are offered for sale on international markets. If sold to a foreign buyer, this will not be listed in the danish motor registry, so a "retired" truck may or may not have been exported. In other words, the "retirement age" only shows the age, at which the truck stopped running on danish license plates.
A very 1930s style item of artwork for Turners Asbestos Cement Poilite slates. The 'Poilite' name was acquired from Bell's United Asbestos Co Ltd when they were acquired in 1928. From the time when asbestos was touted as the 'wonder' material and before the real risks were commonly known.
This is one of 6 images in the set. This is a creative commons image, which you may freely use by linking to this page. Please respect the photographer and his work.
Today part of the Hinkle House is the Andrews Funeral Home www.andrewsfuneralservices.com/fh/home/home.cfm?fh_id=14468 just south of Gloucester Court House in Gloucester County, Virginia. It was built around 1910 of structural terracotta (also spelled terra cotta) blocks and stucco covering. This information came from a phone conversation with the home owner. In the last quarter of the 19th century, stucco and hollow terracotta bricks had become more common as building materials but never reached tremendous popularity in home construction. Terracotta is clay based and is notable for widespread use as roof tiles and in sculpture (when glazed) as well. Homes of this construction were advertised as having fire resistant properties. Use of terracotta and stucco helped create homes with quiet interiors, sound effectively diminished by the structural properties. The hollow tiles were used as foundation and walls, the latter often covered by plaster generally on exterior walls. Structural terracotta has gone by many names—hollow tile, building tile, structural clay tile, terracotta blocks, terracotta bricks, etc.
The spacious 2 1/2 storied home has steep-pitched red-shingled roofs and prominent gables. Visible on the front façade is a gabled dormer with two windows. This pattern of paired windows is prominent as well on the front façade. The fenestration is mostly 9/1 sash. The ground level has an addition to the left, a slight bay construction and an entry porch. The porch is small and covered with a sloping roof, a small gable and underneath that a partial arch, which matches the arched transom of the door; four slender Tuscan columns support the roof. The entrance is single-leaf with 10 glass panes; the sidelights consist of 5 panes each. It seems the transom consists of irregularly shaped panes, possibly of a sun-burst pattern. The photos were taken around 7:30 on an early May morning in 2011; the light was not the best at that time.
For additional information on terra cotta see
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_clay_tile
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_cotta
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Wolfgang Buttress's UK pavilion for the World Expo 2015 in Milan, relocated to Kew Gardens in June 2016
Some New York City sites, summer of 2011. Sabbaro's, Double Tree Guest Suites, and ads for the "Beginning" by Black Eyed Peas, the Kardashians TV show, and 3 shows, Addams Family, Dracula, and Chicago. Intersections of 47th and 7th in Times Square, Manhattan.
Front and center! Facing the church's eastern-elevation facade.
For a rundown on the history of this church and why it directly benefited from the Great Chicago Fire, see Part 39 of this series.
The source of this recycled Regional Silurian Dolostone, the Artesian district on Chicago's West Side, was a complex of commercial quarries that excavated reefal and interreefal rock specifically from the Racine Formation.
This rock had first formed in and between the massive marine structures erected by this region's first great architects, corals and stromatoporoid sponges, some 425 Ma ago. It was a time when this part of ancestral North America was covered by a shallow epeiric sea, and was situated in the subtropics of the Southern Hemisphere.
As noted previously, the black spotting on the ashlar is one of the Racine's signature features, bitumen. This tarry hydrocarbon residue is the persistent remains of post-Silurian organisms that seeped down into the porous rock. But the Silurian biota itself is also evident here, as a multitude of small fossils that give the Artesian Dolostone a bumpy and even honeycombed texture.
Those fossils and that texture will be revealed at closer range in the next two posts of this album.
The other photos and descriptions in this series can be found at Glory of Silurian Dolostone album.
Accompanying notes provided By V&A Mueseum, London. Copyright the V&A Museum.
ELYTRA, Filament Pavilion
18 May - 6 November, 2016
Elytra is a responsive shelter. A robot will build new components of the structure on the site, allowing the canopy to grow over the course of the V&A Engineering Season. Your presnce in the pavilion today will be captured by sensors in the canopy and ultimately will affect how and where the structure grows.
The pavilion tests a possible future for architectural and engineering design, exploring how new robotics technologies might transform how buildings are designed and built. The design draws on research into lighhtweight construction principles found in nature. It is inspired by the filament structures of the shells of flying beetles, know as elytra.
Made of glass and carbon fibre, each component is produced using robotic winding technique developed by the designers. Unlike other fabrication methods, this does not require moulds and can produce an infinite variety of spun shapes, while reducing wate to a minimum. This unique method of fabrication integrates the process of design and making.
Like beetle elytra, the structure is both strong and very light. The pavilion's entire filament stutcure weighs less than 2.5 tonnes - equivalent to 1.4 by 1.4 m squared prortion of the V&A's wall around you.
Part of the V&A Engineering Season.
Réalisation d'un centre thermal et aquatique comprenant des espaces de stationnement et une résidence hôtelière dans le cadre du projet Grand Nancy Thermal.
• Réhabilitation et extension de la piscine intérieure.
• Réhabilitation et extension du bâtiment de la piscine ronde.
• Création de nouveaux bassins extérieurs.
• Création d'espaces verts et de stationnements (découverts et souterrains).
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
Ville : Nancy (54000)
Quartier : Nancy Sud
Adresse : rue du Maréchal Juin
Fonction : Piscine
Construction : 2020 → 2023
• Architecte : Architectures Anne Démians / Chabanne & Partenaires
PC n° 54 395 19 R0043 délivré le 20 septembre 2019
Niveaux : R+3
Hauteur maximale : 26.66 m
Surface de plancher totale : 16 547 m²
Superficie du terrain : 37 248 m²
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While looking directly into the camera, a young Palestinian girl stands at the top of the staircase leading to her home in the West Bank city of Hebron in the Occupied Palestinian Territories on June 14, 2005.
One of George Jenkins smart MAN artics from the Isle of Wight seen here dropping of a load at the B&Q warehouse at Farnborough in June 1999.
The New York State Pavilion ruins stand silent at night while a jet streaks by overhead on it's approach to LGA.
1 minute, 9 seconds at f8, ISO 100
This is photograph by my dad, Walerian, was taken with his Kodak Retinette in 1971. Just found and scanned from a slide by my brother Mark who is the two year old sitting on the table. Lovely colour quality.
The Scratch Cottage is the largest (anti) art work I've ever made. It was a collaborative work that was initiated by me and made by the rest of the Scratch Orchestra. It was part of a massive show called Art Spectrum which was in Alexander Palace in North London.
More black and white photos to follow...
I followed this up with a sound piece called 'Self-Build' at the 25 Years from Scratch event in 1994 at the ICA London. That was organised by Ed Baxter. This was meant to be using building tools to make music that evoked self-building. At the time I may have been thinking more of my Sharsted Street self-build, which I was in the middle of building every weekend, than the Scratch Cottage which had faded from memory somewhat.
This is a panorama from my iPhone 12. Fixed it up using Snapseed and some of Flickr’s editing tools. The building under construction, at the center left, is going to be a very large Kroger grocery store. At the extreme left is the north side of the Vista apartments. At the right are stacks of construction materials, portable toilets and in front of those is a portable wash-up station.
Exterior of Char Minar in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. Char Minar means "four minarets" in Tajik. The towers are technically not minarets; the building functioned as the gatehouse to a long-gone madrassa. The towers are topped with attractive aqua-colored tiles that are common in Bukhara's historic sites. Photo taken on July 10, 2012.
Houses in what I think of as the "Easton Style" in Brixton Road, off Easton Road, Sunday 1st June 1975. They were once found in great swathes throughout inner east Bristol, but few now remain. Their pitched roofs were screened from view by parapets, but the true roofline was defined by a string course, as was the party wall between the individual houses. The brickwork was always rendered an indeterminate light olive colour, uniform throughout the district. Sometimes the render was incised to give the illusion of stone blocks. As a boy, visiting my aunt in Easton Road, I disliked this render and especially the incised effect, which seemed fraudulent. I liked to be able to see the materials of which a building was made and enjoyed the more lively appearance of brick or stone. I have always retained a slight lingering prejudice against any kind of covering applied to a building's surface.
AYA 178H is a Mk II Ford Cortina, and beyond is a Morris Oxford. A third car, parked at the end of the road, is unidentifiable. Just above this third car, between the end of the road and the flats in the distance, is the gabled roof of a Dissenters' chapel. This was demolished during the late 1970s. There appears to have been some demolition on the left-hand side beyond the junction with Clayton Street. Adapted gas light in the left foreground. For modern equivalent view, see next photo...
An Indian girl looks down at the camera from her modest home. She is about 8-10 years old. Beside her head is a bamboo ladder. Photo taken on August 27, 2008 in New Delhi, India.
From Information provided by Kew Gardens:
"Opened on International Biodiversity Day 2008, the Treetop Walkway stands in the Arboretum, between the Temperate House and the lake. It was designed by Marks Barfield Architects, who also designed the London Eye. The 18-metre high, 200-metre walkway enables visitors to walk around the crowns of lime, sweet chestnut and oak trees. Supported by rusted steel columns that blend in with the natural environment, it provides opportunities for inspecting birds, insects, lichen and fungi at close quarters, as well as seeing blossom emerging and seed pods bursting open in spring. The walkway’s structure is based on a Fibonacci numerical sequence, which is often present in nature’s growth patterns."
The two parishes of Feltwell, Norfolk, were united in 1805 and this odd but interesting little church, St Nicholas, was declared redundant in 1973, although it is still consecrated. The chancel was demolished in 1862 and the tower fell down in 1898 whilst under repair, leaving little more than the short nave. The surviving church is broader than it is long. The west wall and the remains of the tower are thought to be Anglo-Saxon and there are some Norman features inside.
I don't think I've ever seen such an assortment of materials in so small a building. The tall clerestorey is of cut flints with six flushwork panels showing crowned letters. The brick south porch (1516) is also good, but elsewhere construction is pretty crude, with a great deal of mortar used. The tower used to have an octagonal upper stage above the level of the nave roof. The upper part of what remains is of undressed flint ...perhaps some beach or river pebbles, but mostly straight out of the ground I should think. Lower down there is carstone rubble and large, rounded lumps of "puddingstone" conglomerate. On the north side all these materials are present, but patched with what appear to be four different types of brick, including, in some restoration dating from 1830, what I think are gault bricks. The effect is very lively and enjoyable though.
Ramshackle shanties provide a riverside backdrop to this couple, ferrying their net to a fishing spot in Vinh Long, Vietnam.
Wolfgang Buttress's UK pavilion for the World Expo 2015 in Milan, relocated to Kew Gardens in June 2016
Facing the bank's northwestern elevation.
For a description of the geologic origins of the American Terra Cotta ornament and the Crawfordsville Brick, see Part 7 of this set.
This major portion of the side of the building facing Dickason Boulevard shows still more artistry in fired clay: variably red Crawfordsville Brick, manufactured in Indiana, and highly ornamented American Terra Cotta window surrounds crafted in northeastern Illinois.
The Crawfordsville can also be classified as Roman Brick, because its units are longer and lower than the normal US size. Both architect Louis Sullivan and his famous former employee, Wisconsin-born Frank Lloyd Wright, often used Roman Brick in their designs.
Here it's set in relentless Running Bond, with the joint between two bricks centered on the middle of the bricks just above and below them.
The terra-cotta features still more of Sullivan's highly imaginative and botanically inspired patterns. These were masterfully realized in three dimensions from the original two-dimensional plans by master molder Kristian Schneider. Especially note the elaborate finial that caps the buttress at left.
One other Sullivan specialty, stained-glass windows, are also visible here. But we'll have to walk inside the bank to see them in their proper glory. And so we shall, soon.
The other photos and descriptions of this series can be found in my Geology & Botany of the Sullivan Jewel Boxes album.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield,_Illinois
Springfield is the capital of the U.S. state of Illinois and the county seat and largest city of Sangamon County. The city's population was 116,250 at the 2010 U.S. Census, which makes it the state's sixth most-populous city, the second largest outside of the Chicago metropolitan area (after Rockford), and the largest in central Illinois. As of 2019, the city's population was estimated to have decreased to 114,230, with just over 211,700 residents living in the Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Sangamon County and the adjacent Menard County.
Present-day Springfield was settled by European Americans in the late 1810s, around the time Illinois became a state. The most famous historic resident was Abraham Lincoln, who lived in Springfield from 1837 until 1861, when he went to the White House as President. Major tourist attractions include multiple sites connected with Lincoln including his presidential library and museum, his home, and his tomb at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
The city lies in a valley and plain near the Sangamon River. Lake Springfield, a large artificial lake owned by the City Water, Light & Power company (CWLP), supplies the city with recreation and drinking water. Weather is fairly typical for middle latitude locations, with four distinct seasons, including, hot summers and cold winters. Spring and summer weather is like that of most midwestern cities; severe thunderstorms may occur. Tornadoes hit the Springfield area in 1957 and 2006.
The city has a mayor–council form of government and governs the Capital Township. The government of the state of Illinois is based in Springfield. State government institutions include the Illinois General Assembly, the Illinois Supreme Court and the Office of the Governor of Illinois. There are three public and three private high schools in Springfield. Public schools in Springfield are operated by District No. 186. Springfield's economy is dominated by government jobs, plus the related lobbyists and firms that deal with the state and county governments and justice system, and health care and medicine.
Source: www.acesignco.com/museum/
The Ace Sign Co. Sign Museum is a collection of over 85 historic signs from Springfield and Route 66. Our collection is constantly growing and transforming as we strive to maintain some of the most memorable and iconic signs in the area. Come experience the ambiance and character of the neon glow under wood barreled ceilings alongside our state-of-the-art modern sign manufacturing facility. The museum is free to the public and open Monday-Friday 8-4:30.