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Shot @ Central Jail - Chennai on 19th Chennai Photowalk
This grilled hole is in the main gate of the central prison.
Barichara is considered to be the best example of a colonial village (at least according to one of the colombianas I met along the way…and Lonely Planet seems to speak very highly of the town as well.)
It’s a town in east-central Colombia, in the department of Santander, whose capital is Bucaramanga. To get there from where I’m living at the moment is about a 9 hour bus ride…even though it’s barely 300 km away. (Hello, winding mountain roads, and thank you for reintroducing me to nausea.) The ride over the mountain range is rather spectacular, but literally, with curves on average of every 15-30 seconds and few stops…it’s literally quite dizzying after a few hours. Also, since we didn’t make any stops along the way, there’s not a single picture in this set to represent the actual road trip.
My roommate and I struck out from Cúcuta around 3:00 on a Friday afternoon and spent one night in Bucaramanga, getting to the hotel there around 9:00 in the evening. Since I was nauseous, I didn’t make it out in Buca, unfortunately, though my roommate met one of his friends and they had a good time drinking and catching up.
Saturday morning, we left around 10:30 and had another bus ride – much shorter at about 2-3 hours and it wasn’t completely mountain road like the drive from Friday. That took us to the town of San Gil, about 100 km west of Bucaramanga.
San Gil is a good destination in its own right. It’s supposedly the adventure capital of Colombia (wholesome adventure, that is…or safe adventure). It’s the area to come if you’re interested in rafting, paragliding, etc. The town is pretty small and there’s some nice colonial architecture. We had lunch here since it looked to be an interesting enough place to spend an hour or two, then paid a taxi driver 37,000 pesos (about $12) to take us the 20 km from San Gil to Barichara. By that point, we’d had enough buses.
Finally, around 24 hours after we’d left Cúcuta, we arrived in the center of colonial Barichara. Our driver dropped us off at the northeast corner of the main square. Our guesthouse (and a rather comfortable guesthouse at that) was only a block away, half a block south from the southeast corner of the square. It was called Color de Hormiga and was at once comfortable, convenient, affordable ($30/night) and very hospitable. There’s no breakfast included in the stay – there’s no restaurant on site – but, they do provide coffee (for those who like it, which seems to be everyone in the world besides me) and the courtyard is very quiet and charming.
Saturday night’s sunset provided a very photogenic sky, though I was too tired (and, really, not thinking quickly enough) to ask about where to go to see it upon arriving after having traveled for that much time to get there. So, I saw the remains of the day from the main square and wondered what might have been.
We spent the better part of the evening just east of the northeast corner of the square; there were a few – at least three – decent bars in a row there and they were relaxing places to hang out. We had a few drinks, then wandered north of the square (uphill) for a few blocks towards one of the at least 4 chapels in this small town before cutting over a block and back down to the main cathedral on the square…before heading straight back to the bar – this time for a bite to eat. I wasn’t hungry, though, so just sat and enjoyed the music.
Sunday was the only full day we’d have here. I woke up early enough to catch the town before there were too many people wandering around. Barichara is really less than 10 blocks by 10 blocks (give or take) and it’s set on a ridge overlooking a gorgeous valley to the west.
Wandering alone in the morning, I started at the main square, including a few shots inside the main cathedral there before heading due west and slightly uphill towards the ridgeline. En route to the ridgeline, I passed another chapel (which I didn’t enter) that was attached to a cemetery (which I did enter). It was a nice cemetery with an unusually high number of fake floral arrangements. That struck me as a little odd considering Colombia is one of the highest exporters of flowers in the world. At any rate, it was a nice few minutes to reflect, especially since my mother (who also happens to be about the only one who would regularly look at any of this writing/posting that you’re reading) passed away only a few days before.
From the cemetery, I walked west the last black to Calle 1 (Calle del mirador) which is the one that crests the ridgeline overlooking the Cañón del Río Suárez (Saravita). When I got here, I realized this would’ve been a fabulous place to have seen the sunset the previous night – though I’m also certain it would have been VERY crowded, too.
At 9:00 in the morning, with the sun at my back, I just found myself overlooking a somewhat hazy valley…though not hazy enough to completely obscure the view. Walking along Viewpoint Road, I stopped at both pavilions and also at the Simón Bolivar statue which is at the head of El camino real (Royal Road) which connects Barichara to the much smaller colonial town of Guane about 5-6 km mostly downhill.
For the moment, I bypassed the trail and continued along Calle 1 to Santa Barbara Chapel and its attached art park (which left a lot to be desired). From there, it was a 6 block walk straight downhill to the guesthouse, with a stop next to the square for what I would consider an adequate (at best) breakfast.
After resting a few minutes at the guesthouse, my roommate showed up and we decided to walk to Guane via El camino real. (The heat wasn’t oppressive in the least and, since it was downhill…no big deal. Though my roommate is in much better shape than I, we still deliberated about whether or not to do this and, in the end, decided to go simply because there wasn’t much to see or do in Barichara.)
We left Color de Hormiga and made our way back to Calle 1 via San Antonio Chapel which was 2 blocks down the street and one block west on Carrera 4/Calle 5. It was the least imposing of the chapels, though still pleasant. (Like the Jesus Chapel next to the cemetery, we didn’t enter; I only entered the Church of the Immaculate Conception on the main square and the Santa Barbara Chapel at the top of the hill.)
Passing by, we just enjoyed walking the streets and eventually made our way to the trailhead next to our man Bolivar. The walk down to Guane, according to everything I read, was about “an hour walk.” It’s advertised as just under 5K, though one of the locals said it’s a little over 6. In my opinion, that’s a good walking/running pace…if you happen to be on flat ground or even pavement. This trail, however, was mostly rocks/boulders which would slow down most normal folks. The views of the valley were quite good, and we caught occasional glimpses of random lizards and birds (South American cardinals twice). We also stopped at Señor Esteban’s house on the way down for a few sodas and some fresh papaya. We hung out there for close to an hour, it seemed.
By that point, I was more interested in seeing the sunset and, as the day was getting long in the tooth, I talked my roomie into grabbing a taxi, bus, anything up the hill back to town. One of the other hikers at Esteban’s told us nothing really came by and it was easier to walk the last 40 minutes down to Guane (which was still about 3 km away) and just catch a bus there. Those 40 minutes turned out to be more than an hour.
As an aside, I’d like to mention the culinary delicacy of Barichara. They are quite proud of their hormigas culonas. (This literally translates to “fat-bottomed ants,” and yes…they eat them.) They’re considered to be an aphrodisiac. I mention this now because my roommate and I kept joking that we were stepping on someone’s dinner once in a while on the path.
When we arrived in Guane, we probably stayed less than 15 minutes. We walked to their main square, snapped a quick picture of the cathedral there, and then set to finding someone to negotiate a ride with to head back up to Barichara. We paid a guy (who seemed happier than a pig in slop) 25,000 to drive us the 9 km up the road to Barichara where he dropped us at Calle 1 and we watched what was a much cloudier and less-than-spectacular (compared with Saturday’s) sunset.
As I suspected, even with a “subpar” sunset, there were quite a few people at the pavilion. We didn’t stay until the end and just walked back down to our room for quick showers then dinner next to the main cathedral (underwhelming Italian) and a drink at the bar two doors down from where we’d been on Saturday night. (Of the three, this is the only one that was exclusively a bar; the others had limited menus.)
Monday morning brought an early start since we were doing the return trip all in one stretch. We were in a taxi by 7:30 and eventually got out at our apartment around 6:00 in the evening. For a first photo shoot in Colombia, I was pretty happy with how this turned out, though am looking forward to the next one in Cartagena in about 3 weeks.
230317-N-OX847-1330 ADRIATIC SEA (March 17, 2023) An F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft, attached to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 136, takes off from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) during flight operations, March 17, 2023. Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 7 is the offensive air and strike component of Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 10 and the George H.W. Bush CSG. The squadrons of CVW-7 are VFA-143, VFA-103, VFA-86, VFA-136, Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 121, Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 140, Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 5, and Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 46. The George H.W. Bush CSG is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. Naval Forces Europe area of operations, employed by U.S. Sixth Fleet to defend U.S., allied, and partner interests. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Christopher Spaulding)
Adazi Training Area, LATVIA – An Estonian Soldier conducts a radio check with a Soldier from the United Kingdom during the ongoing simulation battle between multinational forces during a situational training exercise deliberate defense lane here, June 12, 2014. Saber Strike 2014 is a joint, multi-national military exercise scheduled for June 9- 20. The exercise spans multiple locations in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, and involves approximately 4,700 personnel from 10 countries. The exercise is designed to promote regional stability, strengthen international military partnerships, enhance multinational interoperability and prepare participants for worldwide contingency operations. (U.S. Army Europe photo by Spc. Joshua Leonard)
RCA engineer, Joel Bacher, adjusts a propulsion thruster on a communication satellite. The thrusters were designed to enable the spacecraft to maintain correct attitude control after it had achieved a 22,000-mile synchronous orbit over Earth. The satellite shown is an RCA Satcom domestic communication satellite that was launched December 13, 1975. The satellite was built by RCA Global Communication, Inc. and RCA Alaska Communications, Inc. This domestic communication satellite spurred the cable television industry to unprecedented heights with the assistance of a company known as Home Box Office (HBO). Cable television networks relayed signals to ground-based stations using satellites. This allowed cable television to enter into the suburban and metropolitan markets, thus allowing HBO to accumulate 1.6 million subscribers by the end of 1977.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 75-H-1104
Date: December 10, 1975
This is where it all starts. The Cell phone store.
No place like a large city to see just how many people have cell phones.
Kids at school have cells, people at work have cells, every one driving a car has a cell phone.
Who doesn’t have a cell phone??
So this is the way we communicate with each other. And judging by the amount of people I see using them there must be a lot of really important communication going on.
LAUSANNE - SWITZERLAND - 15th January 2020: Communication Commission at Olympic House in Lausanne.
Photograph by Greg Martin/IOC
Irony in the streets of Melbourne: a busker representative of the Australian first people with amplified didgeridoo opposite a silent Quaker vigil for the same peoples. © Henk Graalman
Street lights doing strange things on my walk home from work............
here to watch it in full (142secs)
Have a Peaceful New Year everybody..........x
PACIFIC OCEAN (Aug. 24, 2014) Guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey (DDG 105) steams alongside guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104) before a replenishment-at-sea with Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Guadalupe (T-AO 200). Dewey is underway as part of the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group and on the ship’s Western Pacific Deployment 2014. (U.S. Navy photo taken by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Eric Coffer/Released)
Kerman, CA farmer Steve Koretoff (white shirt) was compelled to meet U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack (center) after the Secretary told of how when he was an Iowa lawyer, and in the 1980's a farmer came to Vilsack because the farmer was going to loose his farm after expanding operations for his youngest, seventh, and only son could be a farmer. But the farm got financially overextended and the farmer's son took his own life because he felt responsible. This experience is one of Secretary Vilsack's many motivators, and struck a cord for Mr. Koretoff during the Organic Trade Association’s 2011 Policy Conference, on Wednesday, April 6, 2011 in Washington, DC. They exchanged contact information to stay in communication with each other. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.
由台灣三峽老街圓孔蓋上的圖騰發想，藉由中國傳統剪紙藝術的表現手法，與台灣三個著名產茶區域～南投凍頂、嘉義阿里山及台北三峽的在地特色與茶文化元素相結合，將台灣茶文化產業特色做最精采、最深刻的文化傳遞。
1.嘉義阿里山烏龍茶—
台灣嘉義阿里山，除了產高山烏龍茶以外，更是台灣著名觀光景點，如神木、雲海、梅花．．等，以這些獨特的景物為背景，再加上中國茶具傳統典雅的品茶蓋杯為前景，均以剪紙藝術的方式呈現，刻劃出每個物件的圖像細節、意境及地名；左上角的品名設計「阿里山茶」，運用中國瓦當的設計元素，將品名置入瓦當之中，整體藉由剪紙藝術、瓦當、蓋杯、景物描繪出特有的常民飲茶文化。
2.台北三峽碧螺春綠茶—
台北三峽為著名的碧螺春綠茶產地，也是近年興起的台北近郊旅遊景點，以該地區著名地標「三峽大橋」為背景，配上裝飾花紋的大茶壺、茶葉、扇形及地名，都是以剪紙藝術的方式呈現；在大茶壺的壺口處，以雲形圖代表剛泡好茶的熱氣，慢慢上升環繞於「三峽大橋」成為飄渺的茶香雲霧；並以中國印章的表現方式，將「碧螺春綠茶」放入長形印章之中，以剪紙、印章、大茶壺及「三峽大橋」著名地標，呈現出獨特的在地性。
3.南投凍頂烏龍茶—
台灣南投以生產凍頂烏龍茶為盛名，該地區臨近中央山脈，生態自然資源豐富，所以用剪紙的方式呈現花朵、植物、鳥類、山坡茶園、茶葉及地名，並試圖以採茶用的茶簍子，以及以中國方形印章呈現的「凍頂烏龍茶」品名 ，展現出在地的茶品文化特質。
Mr Kila Gulo-Vui, Director of Economics, Consumer & International Affairs Department, National ICT Authority; H.E. Mr Jim Miringtoro, Minister for Communication and Information; Malcolm Johnson; Mr Jackson Kariko, Manager International Affairs, National ICT Authority; Mr Sameer Sharma, ITU Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific
Silhouette of the Monjuïc Communications Tower, against the background of the Garraf shortly before sunset.
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The Communication Technology Satellite was launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on January 17, 1976 and operated until 1979. This high-powered spacecraft was the result of a five-year effort of international cooperation between NASA and Canada's Department of Communications. Canada designed and built the spacecraft and NASA tested, launched, and operated the CTS. The Canadians later renamed the spacecraft after the mythical Greek messenger god, Hermes. The CTS is the second satellite designed to transmit high-quality color television.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 75-H-1112
Date: December 16, 1975