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North Carolina National Guard Soldiers of the 1-130th Attack Reconnaissance Battalion hold a joint exercise with U.S. Marines at the Atlantic Marine Corps Outlying Field in Atlantic, N.C., Sept. 9 - 13, 2013. The small facility and airfield tucked in the pine forests of the eastern N.C. seashore near the Cape Lookout Lighthouse was home to nearly 100 NCNG soldiers of the 1-130th ARB. The joint operation consisted of U.S. Marine Corps Special Operations Command Joint Tactical Air Controllers training at nearby Piney Island calling for fire on targets identified by the Marines with NCNG’s AH-64’s live fire rocket and cannon coordinated air support.
(U.S. Army National Guard Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Robert Jordan, North Carolina National Guard Public Affairs /Released)
Olympus OM-2
Zuiko 50mm 1.4
Agfa APX-100 @box speed
Developed in Caffenol-C-L 40min@20C stand development
Chesapeake and Ohio cabooses 903658 and 903322 now sitting along the tracks off Green Street in Parkersburg West Virginia. Several photos of these cars can be found in various locations on the internet.
The Agra Fort is a UNESCO World Heritage site located in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is about 2.5 km northwest of its more famous sister monument, the Taj Mahal. The fort can be more accurately described as a walled city.
HISTORY
The present-day structure was built by the Mughals, though a fort had stood there since at least the 11th century. Agra Fort was originally a brick fort known as Badalgarh, held by Raja Badal Singh Hindu Sikarwar Rajput king (c. 1475). It was mentioned for the first time in 1080 AD when a Ghaznavide force captured it. Sikandar Lodi (1488–1517) was the first Sultan of Delhi who shifted to Agra and lived in the fort. He governed the country from here and Agra assumed the importance of the second capital. He died in the fort at 1517 and his son, Ibrahim Lodi, held it for nine years until he was defeated and killed at Panipat in 1526. Several palaces, wells and a mosque were built by him in the fort during his period.
After the First Battle of Panipat in 1526, Mughals captured the fort and seized a vast treasure, including the diamond later known as the Koh-i-Noor. The victorious Babur stayed in the fort in the palace of Ibrahim and built a baoli (step well) in it. The emperor Humayun was crowned here in 1530. Humayun was defeated at Bilgram in 1540 by Sher Shah. The fort remained with Suris till 1555, when Humanyun recaptured it. The Hindu king Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, also called 'Hemu', defeated Humanyun's army, led by Iskandar Khan Uzbek, and won Agra. Hemu got a huge booty from this fort and went on to capture Delhi from the Mughals. The Mughals under Akbar defeated King Hemu finally at the Second Battle of Panipat in 1556.
Realizing the importance of its central situation, Akbar made it his capital and arrived in Agra in 1558. His historian, Abdul Fazal, recorded that this was a brick fort known as 'Badalgarh'. It was in a ruined condition and Akbar had it rebuilt with red sandstone from Barauli area in Rajasthan. Architects laid the foundation and it was built with bricks in the inner core with sandstone on external surfaces. Some 4,000 builders worked on it daily for eight years, completing it in 1573.
It was only during the reign of Akbar's grandson, Shah Jahan, that the site took on its current state. Legend has it that Shah Jahan built the beautiful Taj Mahal for his wife, Mumtaz Mahal. Unlike his grandfather, Shah Jahan tended to have buildings made from white marble, often inlaid with gold or semi-precious gems. He destroyed some of the earlier buildings inside the fort to make his own.
At the end of his life, Shah Jahan was deposed and restrained by his son, Aurangzeb, in the fort. It is rumoured that Shah Jahan died in Muasamman Burj, a tower with a marble balcony with a view of the Taj Mahal.
The fort was invaded by the Maratha Empire during the mid 18th century. Thereafter, it changed hands between the Marathas and their foes many times. After their catastrophic defeat at Third Battle of Panipat by Ahmad Shah Abdali in 1761, Marathas remained out of the region for the next decade. Finally Mahadji Shinde took the fort in 1785. It was lost by the Marathas to the British during the Second Anglo-Maratha War, in 1803.
The fort was the site of a battle during the Indian rebellion of 1857, which caused the end of the British East India Company's rule in India, and led to a century of direct rule of India by Britain.
LAYOUT
The 380,000 m2 (94-acre) fort has a semicircular plan, its chord lies parallel to the river and its walls are seventy feet high. Double ramparts have massive circular bastions at intervals, with battlements, embrasures, machicolations and string courses. Four gates were provided on its four sides, one Khizri gate opening on to the river.
Two of the fort's gates are notable: the "Delhi Gate" and the "Lahore Gate." The Lahore Gate is also popularly also known as the "Amar Singh Gate," for Amar Singh Rathore.
The monumental Delhi Gate, which faces the city on the western side of the fort, is considered the grandest of the four gates and a masterpiece of Akbar's time. It was built circa 1568 both to enhance security and as the king's formal gate, and includes features related to both. It is embellished with inlay work in white marble. A wooden drawbridge was used to cross the moat and reach the gate from the mainland; inside, an inner gateway called Hathi Pol ("Elephant Gate") – guarded by two life-sized stone elephants with their riders – added another layer of security. The drawbridge, slight ascent, and 90-degree turn between the outer and inner gates make the entrance impregnable. During a siege, attackers would employ elephants to crush a fort's gates. Without a level, straight run-up to gather speed, however, something prevented by this layout, elephants are ineffective.
Because the Indian military (the Parachute Brigade in particular) is still using the northern portion of the Agra Fort, the Delhi Gate cannot be used by the public. Tourists enter via the Amar Singh Gate.
The site is very important in terms of architectural history. Abul Fazal recorded that five hundred buildings in the beautiful designs of Bengal and Gujarat were built in the fort. Some of them were demolished by Shahjahan to make way for his white marble palaces. Most of the others were destroyed by the British between 1803 and 1862 for raising barracks. Hardly thirty Mughal buildings have survived on the south-eastern side, facing the river. Of these, the Delhi Gate and Akbar Gate and one palace – "Bengali Mahal" – are representative Akbari buildings.
Akbar Darwazza (Akbar Gate) was renamed Amar Singh Gate by the British.
POPULAR CULTURE
- The Agra Fort won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2004. India Post issued a stamp to commemorate this event.
- The Agra Fort plays a key role in the Sherlock Holmes mystery The Sign of the Four, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
- The Agra Fort was featured in the music video for Habibi Da, a hit song of Egyptian pop star Hisham Abbas.
- Shivaji came to Agra in 1666 as per the "Purandar Treaty" entered into with Mirza Raje Jaisingh to met Aurangzeb in the Diwan-i-Khas. In the audience he was deliberately placed behind men of lower rank. Insulted, he stormed out of the imperial audience and was confined to Jai Sing's quarters on 12 May 1666.
- In the second expansion pack for the videogame Age of Empires 3, the Asian Dynasties, Agra fort is one of five wonders for the Indian civilisation.
WIKIPEDIA
Iglesia y Convento de las Siervas de Jesus de la Caridad (c/ Uría, nº 23). Responde a la corriente neogótica, lleva la firma de Javier Aguirre y fue parido en la última década del XIX. El templo, arrimado a su diestra y con muro lateral dando a la calle Independencia, se caracteriza por una radical sobriedad externa: sencilla portada de capiteles con motivos florales y arquivoltas apuntadas, rosetón por encima, y humilde campanario con cruz coronándolo. En el cenobio se observan alfices con bolas y ventanas partidas por pequeños arcos flamígeros de madera.
I opened the fridge in search any volunteers for a photoshoot and ran into these three, the Vitamin C trio.
Great for juices, great for vitamin c, and apparently great for practicing tabletop strobist shots as well.
Strobist Info:
- 580EX II, on camera, pointed up with Stofen diffuser, 1/128 power
- 430EX II, softbox camera right just behind the fruits. 1/64 power
- Fired via 580EX II
C-FLIM - Fleet (Fairchild) PT-26B Cornell - private (reg. to H. MacRitchie, Niagara Falls) - at Hamilton International Airport (YHM) during the CWHM FlyFest 2014
Military markings RCAF 15040 - BCATP colours
c/n FZ 251 - built in 1943
Gabriel C., 10 ans
Modèle photo - cinéma - publicité.
Inscrit dans les agences de Bruxelles, Paris, Lille,
Pays-Bas, Espagne
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Not sure whether this is a double-headed working or whether 45009 had rescued 45118 on its southbound MML working at Leicester - c.1981.
The 13 people living in Antarctica’s Concordia research station in 2017 had to cope without sunlight for over four months.
Remote Concordia base is situated on a plateau 3200 m above sea level, at the very southern tip of Earth. The Sun does not rise above the horizon in the winter (May to August). The crew live without sunlight and temperatures can drop below –80°C.
The extremes and isolation from the rest of the world in Concordia are not unlike how it will be to live on another planet. ESA sends a research doctor to the Franco–Italian base every year to study how the human body and psyche copes.
A tradition for each crewmember spending almost a year at the station is to make a wooden sign pointing to their home town. One year, the crew made wooden three camels which can be seen to the right. Despite being outside in the cold the signs do not rot – no bacteria or fungi can survive in the harsh conditions.
Concordia’s nearest neighbour is 600 km away – the Russian Vostok station – and between them is a barren white desert of snow and ice.
Credits: ESA/IPEV/PNRA–C. Dangoisse
Puxa, postei a foto atrasada e não tive tempo de tirar uma foto legal. Procurei aqui no meu arquivo e achei a foto dessas crianças que eu tirei numa viagem! Gosto dessa foto, mas queria tentar uma melhor e atual.
C is for Children.
C de Crianças.
June 3, 2012. At the Baltimore, MD port, these are C Class Mercedes fresh off the boat from Germany, driven a short distance to the loading lot for the train ride to dealerships across the U.S.. Even all wrapped up with the shipping plastic covers, these are gorgeous cars. You can tell that white is one of the most popular colors.
Am I now by a photograph club.. and the task is a photograph to make that begins with a C.. what think je???is this what?? or de Carambola 1..
Is it a idee..more photos making with a C?
Ik ben nu bij een fotoclub..en de opdracht is een te maken met de letter C..is dit wat denk je?? Of de Carambola..
Is het een idee meer fotos te maken met een C..?