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Fellow photographers. Don’t ever sit on a garbage bag on a steep snowy bank. I made this mistake and went hurtling down the slope with the leg of my tripod in one hand until I was able to grab onto a tree trunk. Also don’t breathe over your filter in -15 temperatures or you’ll have to defrost that filter up your jumper and you’ll still get fogging which is what happened here.
Notre Dame de Paris at sunrise, reflected in the calm waters of the River Seine. A masterpiece of French Gothic architecture, the iconic cathedral shows its grace despite the destruction of its roof and spire in a major fire two weeks prior to this photo capture. Notre Dame has suffered several calamities since its original construction in the 12th century, though none as catastrophic as the recent fire.
Renovation efforts have begun, though shoring up the structure to prevent collapse indicates the precarious state of the building. The goal is to complete the restoration in 5 years, though architects have cautioned that a careful reconstruction of a design similar to the prior form may take longer. Despite the hundreds of millions of euros pledged by individuals and NGOs to fund the reconstruction, only a fraction have been donated.
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Esztergom was the capital of Hungary from the 10th till the mid-13th century when King Béla IV of Hungary moved the royal seat to Buda. During the same period, the castle of Esztergom was built on the site of ancient Roman castrum. It served not only as the royal residence until the 1241 (the Mongol invasion), but also as the center of the Hungarian state, religion, and Esztergom county.
After changing his residence to Budapest, Béla IV gave the palace and castle to the archbishop. Following these events, the castle was built and decorated by the bishops. The center of the king’s town, which was surrounded by walls, was still under royal authority. A number of different monasteries did return or settle in the religious center.
Meanwhile, the citizenry had been fighting to maintain and reclaim the rights of towns against the expansion of the church within the royal town. In the chaotic years after the fall of the House of Árpád, Esztergom suffered another calamity: in 1304, the forces of Wenceslaus II, the Czech king occupied and raided the castle. In the years to come, the castle was owned by several individuals: Róbert Károly and then Louis the Great patronized the town.
The Ottoman conquest of Mohács in 1526 brought a decline to the previously flourishing Esztergom as well. In the Battle of Mohács, the archbishop of Esztergom died. In the period between 1526 and 1543, when two rival kings reigned in Hungary, Esztergom was besieged six times. At times it was the forces of Ferdinand I or John Zápolya, at other times the Ottomans attacked. Finally, in 1530, Ferdinand I occupied the castle. He put foreign mercenaries in the castle, and sent the chapter and the bishopric to Nagyszombat and Pozsony.
However, in 1543 Sultan Suleiman I attacked the castle and took it. Esztergom became the centre of an Ottoman sanjak controlling several counties, and also a significant castle on the northwest border of the Ottoman Empire. In the 17th century Esztergom was besieged and conquered several times during the Ottoman-Habsburg Wars. Most of the buildings in the castle and the town that had been built in the Middle Ages were destroyed during this period, and there were only uninhabitable, smothered ruins to welcome the liberators.
In 1761 the bishopric regained control over the castle, where they started the preliminary processes of the reconstruction of the new religious center: the middle of the Várhegy (Castle Hill), the remains of Saint Stephen and Saint Adalbert churches were carried away to provide room for the new cathedral.
It was only later that night, back at base that I realised Icelandic lightning had struck twice. Not in the form of a thunderstorm, more’s the pity - the light would have been a gazillion times more exciting. Last time I found myself unwittingly shooting in jpeg mode, my camera had suffered a midnight malfunction more than three years earlier at Aldeyjarfoss. Happily, I’d already taken the shots I needed, as in frustration I went to the total reset option, but what I’d forgotten was that the resulting default setting ignores RAW mode completely. Which seems crazy for a so-called professional camera. It was only as I stood on a completely overcast beach at Stokksnes thirty-six hours later that I suddenly noticed I’d been shooting jpegs. For a moment I’ll leave you to imagine the language. It’s a good job not many people had bothered to try and photograph the invisible Vestrahorn that day.
This time it wasn’t so much absentmindedness as good old fashioned incompetence that had knocked on the door of disaster at the enchanting, yet challenging to photograph Brúarfoss. You see, most of the time it matters little that one external memory slot contains a thirty-two gigabyte CF card while the other holds an SD card with four times the capacity. After all, most of the time I don’t come close to filling either card, and so every image is faithfully recorded onto two separate storage devices. Ideal if one fails. Full marks to the manufacturer. I inherited the CF card, courtesy of the previous camera I’d owned - yes the one that wobbled at Aldeyjarfoss three years ago. And while thirty-two gigabytes was once more than adequate, things have moved on - especially if you remember to shoot in RAW mode. But CF cards are expensive, and I like holidays. It’s not going to be a priority item anytime soon.
This time, only four days into the trip, the CF card was already full and the camera was complaining. And faced with the need for a quick solution in a hurry, it seemed I’d chosen the wrong option. Twice. For a while all images were recorded in both formats, and then when another urgent message appeared on the screen which refused to go until I’d pushed some more buttons, both cards resorted to jpeg only. All of which had happened at one of those roadside stops earlier in the day. In my head I still hear the famous five words that Ali so often deploys for more important moments than this, such as when the washing machine has broken down again - “should have read the manual.” And Brúarfoss, with its intricately pretty glacier blue waterfall was the casualty. In fact I’ve spent so many column inches rattling on about storage media that I’ve neglected to talk about the waterfall, which despite all of the challenges, was an aquamarine gem. I’ll have to post a second story from here, with another image edited from a jpeg. I won’t mention any of this again, I promise.
By the time I got home from this second Iceland adventure, I’d taken almost two thousand exposures, enough to fill that CF card almost four times, yet the SD card was still happily swallowing each new image. And just to attach the proverbial braces to the already belted trousers, each night I downloaded everything onto an even bigger external hard drive, before uploading it all into my online storage cloud too. At least something on the technical side seemed to be working properly. After the trip I even retired that SD card with all of the images still stored on it. Just in case. It lives in an untouched drawer.
All of this has prompted me to check current prices for CF cards, and as usual the online results include a bucketful of products I didn’t ask to see. Among them an adapter to put an SD card into a CF card slot. Now why didn’t I think of that before? I’m just going to stop here a moment and bang my head on the desk to see if any common sense manages to creep in through the gaps between my ears. Then I’ll write a story about Brúarfoss. It deserves a bit of lyrical waxing after this sorry tale of operational oversight.
Sköll for Anthem Event
February 3rd.
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Calamity corsé.
+Rigged for Reborn / Legacy.
+Available to purchase by color or fatpack.
+Top included with each corsé color, 3 colors, 3 bloody versions.
+Show/hide option for the top.
+Custom HUD for the corsé body and seams with all the colors as fatpack exclusive.
The Calamity blood layers will be available at the event only for 50L (Yes this is the bloody layers from the Countess set, updated for EVOX)
PLEASE try the demo before your purchase.
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Lipstick: IDTTY Faces - PussyCat (Cosmopolitan)
Scarf: Ghee - Dottie
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Featuring Aii The Ugly & Beautiful // Miss Black
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↳ Aii - Devoura Tail @ Warehouse Sale
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↳ Aii - Lily Archdevil
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↳ Miss Black - Gemini @ Sabbath Event
Dear God, calamity again! ...
It was so peaceful, so serene;
We but began to break the chains
That bind our folk in slavery ...
When halt! ... Again the people's blood
Is streaming! Like rapacious dogs
About a bone, the royal thugs
Are at each other's throat again.
Taras Shevchenko - 'Calamity again'.
Translated by John Weir
CP 5960 helps power Rocky Mountaineer's P610 as they negotiate the curves near Calamity Tunnel on CP's Cascade Sub.
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Backdrop: FOXCITY. Photo Booth - Iridεscεnt. @Satomi | FOXCITY
Modεl: @Gracie ~Mae~ Rexen
Photographεr: Shannon Rεxεn.
Location: Naturally Naughty Photo Studio.
We only rode two rides the whole day
adn ate a GIANT cookie! :D
took loootttssss of pictures!
and danced with the old guy !