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Poznan, Poland
Spring
Testign the Canon EOS 5Ds and a 50mm 1.4
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[This is a series of 10 photos about Red Fox Farm) Approximately 2 miles north of Skipwith, Mecklenburg County, Virginia is Red Fox Farm, part of which is visible from the highway. All images were taken from the shoulder of the road and restricted me to the beautifully maintained tobacco barns. The farm is an excellent example of late 19th and early 20th centuries tobacco farm in Southside Virginia. Robert Jeffreys acquired the property about 1887-1888 and introduced the flue-curing technique of curing tobacco to the region. He focused on growing bright-leaf tobacco, used mainly in cigarettes. The dark-leaf previously grown in the area was used for chewing tobacco. There are five tobacco or curing barns on the property, dates unknown, all are about 18' square with a single opening where tobacco was hung to dry inside. Four barns also have an open shed. Unskinned logs were the building material, approximately 8 inches in diameter. The gaps between the logs were chinked with clay and sticks (see image 6 in this series). The gable roofs have metal roofs. The setting is picturesque with many standing trees contributing to the aesthetics. The farms economic and historical significance and the well-preserved outbuildings typical of the times justified inclusion on the National Register of Historical Places June 10, 1993 with ID #93000508
See the National Register nomination form (in pdf format) for an informative discussion of tobacco growing and curing at the Virginia Department of Historic Resources
www.dhr.virginia.gov/VLR_to_transfer/PDFNoms/058-0131_Red...
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If you want to stand between Bamboo please take your time... and enjoy it large on black
Bamboos are the largest members of the grass family. In bamboo the plant stem are hollow. Bamboos are also the fastest growing plants in the world. They are capable of growing up to 60 centimeters 24 inch or more per day due to a unique rhizome-dependent system. However, this astounding growth rate is highly dependent on local soil and climatic conditions. Bamboos are of notable economic and cultural significance in Asia where they are used extensively in everyday life as building materials, as a food source and as a highly versatile raw product. There are more than 70 genera divided into about 1,000 species. They are found in diverse climates, from cold mountains to hot tropical regions. Bamboo is the fastest-growing plant on Earth; it has been measured surging skyward as fast as 121 cm 48 inch in a 24-hour period. The shoots new bamboo culms that come out of the ground of bamboo are edible. They are used in numerous Asian dishes. Bamboo is the main food of the Giant Panda; it makes up 99% of the Panda's diet. Pandas will move to other bamboo forests when they have consumed all edible bamboos of an area, or when the bamboos of an area are dying. But there are no Panda's in Laos. Bamboo can be used for many other things like: medicine, house construction, textiles, musical instruments, art and paper. Most species flower infrequently. In fact, many bamboos only flower at intervals as long as 60 or 120 years then the bamboo dies. This mechanism, as well as the evolutionary cause behind it, is still largely a mystery. In China and India, bamboo blossom was traditionally seen as a curse or an indication of a starvation coming.
I always love the wander inside a Bamboo forest. Forest? or should I call it a grass field. It's dark and no other plants are allowed to grow here. It's an extraordinary plant. After the blossom of the Bamboo, the flowers produce fruit, which the Chinese called "bamboo rice". Then, the bamboo forest will die. Since a bamboo forest usually grows from a single bamboo, the death of bamboos occurs in a large area. This mechanism, as well as the evolutionary cause behind it, is still largely a mystery.
Bamboe is eigenlijk geen boom maar is een plantensoort die behoort tot de grootste van de grasfamilie. De naam bamboe is afkomstig uit het Maleis en in vrijwel alle talen bekend als bambu, bamboo enz. Ze zijn van binnen hol en worden op geregelde afstanden onderbroken door knopen waar de bladeren aanhechten. De grootste bamboe is de reuzenbamboe die tot 35 meter hoog wordt en tot 30 cm brede stengels heeft. De plant wordt in uiteenlopende klimaten aangetroffen, van koude berggebieden tot hete, tropische streken. Hij verspreidt zich hoofdzakelijk via zijn wortels, die zich ondergronds ver kunnen verspreiden om hier en daar nieuwe halmen boven de grond te laten komen. Bamboe is één van de snelst groeiende planten: binnen één seizoen kan hij tot volle wasdom komen. De snelst groeiende plant ter wereld is een bepaalde bamboesoort waarvan reeds groeisnelheden van één meter per dag zijn waargenomen. Dit is drie keer zo snel als de snelst groeiende boom. De bamboeplant bloeit zelden, soms zelfs eens in de honderd jaar. Als een plant bloeit, dan bloeit hij in een groot gebied, soms zelfs zo groot als een continent of groter. Hoe al die planten weten dat ze tegelijk moeten bloeien stelt biologen nog steeds voor een raadsel. Na de bloei vindt massale achteruitgang en afsterving van bamboe plaats. Bamboe is de voornaamste voedselbron van de reuzenpanda die het moeilijk kan krijgen als in zijn leefgebied een belangrijke bamboesoort gaat bloeien. De jonge bamboescheuten zijn eetbaar en worden veel in de Aziatische keuken gebruikt. Als bouwmateriaal wordt bamboe veel gebruikt, onder andere voor: meubelen, steigers, wapening in beton, vishengels, muziekinstrumenten zoals panfluit, bamboefluit en parket.
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Indigo Slam is a privately owned gallery and residence for an art collector in the heart of Sydney and it was conceived and built by
architects: Smart Design Studio Architect: William Smart
This is actually the rear of the building and it sits in a very narrow alleyway. When I was there photographing it yesterday there was still a lot of construction going on inside along with plastic sheeting covering the roof. I’d really love to see it’s interiors so I could understand how it’s exterior relates to the spaces within. I did art school at uni majoring in painting, drawing and photography… so I have a strong grasp on design like this. Conceptually the building has references to constructivism and abstraction, but I think a lot of the shapes and curves on the exteriors are clever ways to shape the light entering the building. One of the architects said that the light also changes from season to season in Indigo Slam which would be fascinating to see.
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Stairs that widen up towards the top, fooling the eye on length and steepness of ascension / descension.
JKMM Architects / OP Financial Group's Headquarters / 2015
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Painted Stork cutting a twig from a tree with his bill for use as
nesting material in Jakkur Lake, Bengaluru.
Workers guide horses carrying gravel collected from a nearby riverbed. Photo taken on February 26, 2008 near Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
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[This is a series of 10 photos about Red Fox Farm) At the edge of cleared land is this winding lane so very typical of rural Southside Virginia. Out of sight to the left is one of the tobacco barns described below.
Approximately 2 miles north of Skipwith, Mecklenburg County, Virginia is Red Fox Farm, part of which is visible from the highway. All images were taken from the shoulder of the road and restricted me to the beautifully maintained tobacco barns. The farm is an excellent example of late 19th and early 20th centuries tobacco farm in Southside Virginia. Robert Jeffreys acquired the property about 1887-1888 and introduced the flue-curing technique of curing tobacco to the region. He focused on growing bright-leaf tobacco, used mainly in cigarettes. The dark-leaf previously grown in the area was used for chewing tobacco. There are five tobacco or curing barns on the property, dates unknown, all are about 18' square with a single opening where tobacco was hung to dry inside. Four barns also have an open shed. Unskinned logs were the building material, approximately 8 inches in diameter. The gaps between the logs were chinked with clay and sticks (see image 6 in this series). The gable roofs have metal roofs. The setting is picturesque with many standing trees contributing to the aesthetics. The farms economic and historical significance and the well-preserved outbuildings typical of the times justified inclusion on the National Register of Historical Places June 10, 1993 with ID #93000508
See the National Register nomination form (in pdf format) for an informative discussion of tobacco growing and curing at the Virginia Department of Historic Resources
www.dhr.virginia.gov/VLR_to_transfer/PDFNoms/058-0131_Red...
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Modern apartments in the Amsterdam Noord area near Kromhouthal. www.picfair.com/pics/05118940-painfully-cool-amsterdam-ap...
A bundled pile of manufactured floor joists waiting to be installed at The Hudson Apartments construction site.
As I wrote some (err, a lot of) days ago, I decided to begin a new series of vignettes starring Benny. But I need an appropriate set, so Benny and his robot started to work hard to renovate the space station.
Robot design by Peter Reid (from the "LEGO Space" book): I had to modify something because of my chronic lack of pieces. I added antennas on its head and orange flashing light on the shoulders to give the idea of a heavy-duty robot.
What about the hat (not very visible in this photo, by the way)? It's the typical hat, made by newspaper sheet, that Italian bricklayers used to wear years and years and years ago. I think it's kind of funny, since it's so busy with the renovation.
Hope you enjoy!
This series complements my award-winning guidebook, Chicago in Stone and Clay: A Guide to the Windy City's Architectural Geology. Henceforth I'll just call it CSC.
The CSC section and page reference for the building featured here: 15.8; pp. 246-249.
Looking northwestward at the eastern and southern elevations.
Of the many fine late-nineteenth-century residences still on view in the Windy City, the Richardsonian Romanesque Rickcords House in the Gold Coast neighborhood holds the distinction of being a rare surviving example of the use of that hardest of architectural stones, the Montello Granite.
The Montello, quarried in the central-Wisconsin town of that name, formed from a body of magma associated with a violent eruptive event in the Paleoproterozoic era, about 1.76 Ga ago. This cataclysmic episode in the complex geologic history of the Badger State blanketed its region with rhyolite and welded tuff (fused volcanic ash). Apparently it was triggered not by the usual process of plate convergence, but by crustal thinning—possibly caused by a process known as slab rollback.
While the particular mass of molten rock that became the granite did not reach the surface before it cooled, its geochemistry is essentally the same as that of the extrusive material that did. What makes the Montello Granite both so hard to work and so durable is its abnormally high quartz content. It was also favored—and much more frequently used—for monuments and cemetery headstones.
For considerably more on this site, get and read Chicago in Stone and Clay, described at its Cornell University Press webpage.
The other photos and discussions in this series can be found in my "Chicago in Stone and Clay" Companion album. In addition, you'll find other relevant images and descriptions in my Architectural Geology: Chicago album.