View allAll Photos Tagged Commemorates
Black Lives Matter march to commemorate the birthday of Martin Luther King. King's words and actions continue to inspire us in our struggle for justice, equality and humanity. In his words:
"We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or to feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it...It was upon this massive base of racism that the prejudice toward the nonwhite was readily built, and found rapid growth. This long-standing racist ideology has corrupted and diminished our democratic ideals. It is this tangled web of prejudice from which many Americans now seek to liberate themselves, without realizing how deeply it has been woven into their consciousness."
"We are now experiencing the coming to the surface of a triple prong sickness that has been lurking within our body politic from its very beginning. That is the sickness of racism, excessive materialism and militarism." -
'So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice? …Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists."
"A riot is the language of the unheard.”
“I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits.”
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
River preservation, a global awareness...World Rivers Day is celebrated internationally since 2005 and has been recognised by United Nation Development Programme (UNDP). It highlights the many values of rivers and strives to increase public awareness while encouraging the improved stewardship of rivers around the world.
Nikon D700 + Tamron AF 28-75mm f/2.8 + Handheld
ANZAC Day Commemorates Australia"s fallen in the various wars. A national Holiday where the War Memorial's around the country hold dawn services and play the haunting Taps/Last Post. But ANZAC Day is starting to lose it's significance for younger Australians after a significant revival over the last 20 years. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzac_Day
Happy Window Wednesday
Commemorating the dead of two world wars and also most of the recent conflicts for men and women in the local area.
JD Wetherspoon commemorates the Standard Motor Company in "The Flying Standard" name of its pub in Broadgate, Coventry. The pub sign depicts a Standard 8 model. Here at the Sussex Showground at Ardingly is a Flying Standard in the metal - what I think is the slightly larger 10 model.
APM456 is a Sussex-issue number plate, of 1936 - the year the Flying Standard range was unveiled. Their hallmark was a very avant garde for its day streamlined "waterfall" grill. This made contemporary Austin, Morris and Ford models look very staid by comparison. But nothing fades faster than fashion, and I remember thinking how very dated those Flying Standards that were still on the roads in the late 1950s looked.
The North American B-25 Mitchell followed the Avro Lancaster Bomber in the fly pass at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum.
Commemorating the 90th Anniversary of the first ever Trans-Pacific flight by Charles Kingsford Smith
Slender-billed Prion is the third species of Prion that I have uploaded from my Antarctica trip, although I have to admit it looks pretty similar to the other species. This species is also known as Narrow-billed Prion as it has a noticeably thin bill when compared with Antarctic Prion: www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/53521892811/in/photolist I should say that the slender bill is not easy to see as they are small and whizz about so are best identified afterwards from photos. But they also have a faint dark eyestripe, a pale crown, and a "normal" sized black tip to the tail, unlike Fairy Prion which has a large black tail tip: www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/53578095917/in/dateposted/ ). Slender-billed Prion usually feeds in slightly warmer waters (north of the Antarctic convergence) and breeds in the Falklands, Crozet Island, Kerguelen Islands, plus Noir Island off Chile. It was only formally described in 1912 from specimens found dead on an Australian beach in Victoria by amateur ornithologist Charles Belcher, whose name is commemorated in its scientific name Pachyptila belcheri.
RDAF F-16 E-191 in special "Dannebrog 800 ar" livery to commemorate 800 years of the Danish Flag.
Aircraft: Royal Danish Air Force General Dynamics (Lockheed Martin) F-16AM E-191 from Esk. 730.
Location: RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.
These days, Ukraine is commemorating the Day of the Baptism of Rus' (It is believed that the event took place in 988 AD, during the reign of Grand Prince Volodymyr.
In 2017, I visited the National Art Museum in Kyiv, where Orthodox icons were on display at the time, and today I decided to share with you some of those.
This one was painted in 15-th century in the town of Sanok, and belongs to the Peremyshl school of icon painting.
Today, both the town of Sanok and the city of Peremyshl are part of Poland's Subcarpathian Voivodeship. However, until the end of the 14th century, these towns and the surrounding territories were part of the Halych-Volhynian Ruthenian Kingdom — one of the successor states of the greater Rus', which was destroyed during the Mongol-Tatar invasion in the mid-13th century.
In 1340, the last Ruthenian king, Yuri II Boleslav, died (he was poisoned by the boyars /knights). Since he left no heirs, the Polish and Hungarian kings began to compete for his crown. The Polish king eventually won. Poland was originally, and remains to this day, a Catholic state. However, the Ruthenian population did not convert to Catholicism en masse and continued to hold on to the Orthodox faith. Even attempts to establish church union (in 1596) led more to conflict and war than to reconciliation. But that is a long and rather tragic story — and right now, I am speaking about an icon.
The execution of the icon combines elements of Byzantine iconography with local visual art, which created its own distinctive style of Ukrainian icon painting.
Typical motif: a hero-warrior on a white horse piercing evil — the dragon's trap — with a spear. Saint George is often depicted piercing the dragon’s throat rather than its eye, which defines the specificity of the early Rus’ tradition.
Symbolism:
Horse — purity
Spear — strength of faith
Dragon — evil
Princess — salvation of humanity
Heroic pose — lightness and predetermination of victory over evil
This motif was popular not only in Peremyshl but also in Volhynia, Kyiv region, and other areas of Ukraine, indicating a shared origin and active circulation of masters and iconographic models.
Taken in Pierre, South Dakota on the State Capital Grounds. This statue is honoring a soldier of the Korean Conflict.
Commemorating the Philippine Declaration of Independence from Spain on June 12, 1898. It is the National Day of the Philippines.
A giant metal seed sculpture at the Royal Botanic Gardens, crafted by Bronwyn Oliver in 1999 to commemorate the location of the first farm in Sydney Cove.
Commemorated July 16 / 29, St. Paul was martyred in Palestine with Sts. Alevtina and Chionia in the year 308. Private collection. 5" x 7".
Painted into RCAF colours to commemorate the air arm's centenary, the Norwegian Air Force Historical Squadron's Vampire departs from Fairford having taken part in the static display at the 2024 Royal International Air Tattoo.
Aircraft: de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB.52 LN-DHY/062/AL in Royal Canadian Air Force livery.
Location: RAF Fairford (FFD/EGVA), Gloucestershire.
Excerpt from heritagetrust.on.ca:
The Hendrie Gates commemorate William Hendrie, who was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1831, and who emigrated as a young man to Hamilton, where he founded a very successful business hauling freight between the shippers and receivers, and the new railway lines. His business success was matched by his success as a horse breeder: indeed, a wing of the Hamilton General Hospital was built with the winnings of his horse, Martimas, in the Futurity stakes.
In 1931, to celebrate the centenary of Hendrie's birth, his family gave 122 acres of his historic breeding farm, which is now part of the Royal Botanical Gardens. At the same time, Hendrie's family commissioned Frederick John Flatman ''to design and build a magnificent set of wrought iron gates, to be used in constructing an entrance marker to Hendrie Park''. Flatman was a master craftsman ironworker who had apprenticed in England. In Canada, he had worked mostly as a blacksmith, but he rose to the challenge of this magnificent commission .
His iron was imported from Sweden, since he apparently thought the local product not good enough. His design was adapted from the gates to ''The Backs'' at Trinity College, Cambridge, England .
Flatman embellished the Hendrie Gates design with symbols appropriate to our New World setting: a sheaf of Durham wheat, a cluster of Ontario grapes, and a horseshoe. The craftsmanship of his wrought iron'work is distinguished; and he also supervised the proper hanging of the gates, ''so that a child may easily open and shut them with one hand''.
To commemorate the more than 1000 visits in one day to my gallery.
Thank you very much everyone.
5-11-2011
Commemorating the day that Christ paid the ultimate, eternal price for us.
Have a great Easter everyone!
This cross is made from olive wood in Jerusalem. My son Zack brought it back from his recent trip.
Commemorates the Swiss Guards who were killed in 1792 during the French Revolution, when revolutionaries stormed the Tuileries Palace in Paris. - Wikipedia
Commemorate our shaheeds in the Bluestar Massacre by gathering each morning of the week 1 June-7June at your Gurudwara sahib at 4 AM.
never forget 1984!
I thought, to commemorate this entry on connecting people, that I'd include a photo of an airplane from one of the busiest airports in the world - DFW in Dallas. This is the same plane that I flew to Tokyo on just recently. It was shot from high above in the Admiral's Club. It was an awfully stormy day, and I was worried that maybe the flight wouldn't go off on time! We were delayed a few hours... but that gave me plenty of time to set up all my equipment in there like dork!
You guys should meet! Put your info on the main thread at www.stuckincustoms.com/2009/10/26/connecting-the-communit... !
So, what's your Twitter or Facebook or both? Put it in the comments below! I know many of you have friended or followed me -- that's great -- but I think you should all connect with one other too! There are many people from various backgrounds and I think you all would find some unexpected connections! On FB, some people are open about friending (like me), but on Twitter, you can follow anyone without their consent.
What's my Twitter strategy?
First, I use Twitter the "right" way. That is, I have taken time to carefully build, re-build, cull, and personalize a list of several hundred people to follow. These are people I have discovered that are interesting, inspirational, or just guilty pleasures. I look at Twitter several times a day to get new ideas, unexpected finds, and news from people that have similar tastes to mine.
Second, and less importantly, I use Twitter to filter the world for anyone curious enough to follow me. I try to keep a balance of: 33% inspirational and/or artistic finds that I share, 33% sharing of my own work with everyone, and 33% connecting people who should know one another! Oh, and 1% WILDCARD. At least, this is my goal! I may not always hit those ratios, but I do my best.
Last, here are 10 Things You Need to Stop Tweeting About ! Haha funny... those of you that don't like Twitter probably are:
1) Following people that are full of BS that do many things on that list
2) Or you don't want to tell the world what you are doing (THAT is okay -- but... you don't have to tell people! You can still follow people you find interesting without even sending out a tweet.
3) You have yet to realize Trey's Twitter Truth: "Twitter is cool because it's a nonstop party you don't have to hang out in a small group of mostly annoying people."
from the blog www.stuckincustoms.com
Commemorating Remembrance Day with an image I took last year at the "Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red" installation at the Tower of London.
Commemorating the 90th Anniversary of the first ever Trans-Pacific flight by Charles Kingsford Smith
Monument commemorating "The Battle of Crysler's Farm" (November 11, 1813) in Morrisburg, Ontario.
The Battle of Crysler's Farm was fought on muddy ploughed fields owned by John Crysler, a wealthy United Empire Loyalist and captain in the Dundas militia, beside the St. Lawrence River on November 11, 1813, during the Anglo-American War of 1812 in Morrisburg, Ontario.
A British and Canadian force won a victory over an American force which greatly outnumbered them. The American force numbered 7,000 soldiers vs. 900 British regulars and Canadian militia members, supported by Indigenous fighters. The American defeat prompted them to abandon the St. Lawrence Campaign, their major strategic effort in the autumn of 1813.
This battle is also known as the "Battle that saved Canada", although officially, Canada did not exist at the time, but was rather a colony of Great Britain.
The two cannons featured here, were built in 1806 in Great Britain, as a royal crest atop them can still be seen.
These women aviators represent the work done by the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA). It was set up in 1939 as a civilian organisation to fly new, repaired and damaged military aircraft between factories, assembly plants, maintenance depots to active service squadrons and airfields. The first eight women pilots were taken on in 1940 initially flying Tiger moths. They later flew all types including heavy bombers and large transports. In World War II the ATA flew 415,000 hours and delivered more than 309,000 aircraft ranging from smaller planes such as the Spitfire and Mustangs to heavy bombers such as the Lancaster and American B17 Flying Fortress.
174 men and women pilots of the ATA were killed during the War.
A Veteran Commemorates D-Day by placing his own boots in his driveway along with a poppy, and the flag under which he served — in 5 campaigns.
© AnvilcloudPhotography
Commemorating the completion of our miniature railway system in the local park, 1972. It is still in regular use for the cost of a $1 ticket.
This commemorates the whaling industry that used to opeate from Whitby, it stands on West Cliff above the town along with a statue of the towns most famous inhabitant Captain James Cook.
Commemorating 40 years of the Central to Bondi Junction railway, S54 rattles through Arncliffe with a special service towards Hurstville.
Commemorating eighty years since the Battle of Britain, a formation flight toured England, including the Blades aerobatic team, with a Spitfire and a Hurricane. I was lucky enough that they flew right over our house in Surrey (which alerted me to their presence) - I thought that was that, but they turned and did another circuit very slightly to the north, allowing me to be ready to catch a series of shots as they passed. Beautiful weather for the event.
Vietnam Veteran Memorial
(Title is copied from a bench located just behind this statue.)
"The Veterans Garden has the sculpture of the soldier walking into a black granite wall, walking through time from past to now. The wall is polished to a high reflection, incorporating into the memorial the mirror image of the living. There is a gap in the line of bollards: the design committee specified that the sculpture be accessible; veterans and families of lost soldiers would want to touch the sculpture and to catch their own reflection in the wall. This is a place of connection between the living and the dead."
Taken with my phone for the Active Assignment Weekly - Commemorate. Cropped slightly and auto adjusted, so I could get it into the group in time. Such a beautiful park and memorials, I wanted to make sure they were included in the pool because this is such a meaningful challenge.
To commemorate the final few weeks of the stalwart Class 315s on Great Eastern Mainline metro services, MTR Elizabeth Line in collaboration with the Class 315 Preservation Society, Network Rail and the Branch Line Society ran several special trips between Liverpool Street and Shenfield to mark the occasion.
315856 proudly displaying its poppy, leads 315847 (both in TfL Rail livery) working 1Z18 09.41 Shenfield to London Liverpool Street passing the eastern portals of the new Crossrail tunnels at Pudding Mill Lane, Stratford on 26 November 2022. Notice the Docklands Light Railway to the right.
At this point, 315837, 838, 847, 853, 856 and 857 were the only 315s that remained with MTR Elizabeth Line having been retained for peak time services between Gidea Park and Liverpool Street until 9 December 2022. The final 3 Class '345s' have been extended to full length (9 carriages) and have now replaced all Class 315 diagrams.
Donated to the Class 315 Preservation Society by Eversholt Rail, 315856 will soon move to Lydney Junction on the Dean Forest Railway for onward road transfer to the Llanelli and Mynydd Mawr Railway. The PEP will be repainted into original blue/grey colours and be converted back to as-built condition. It is intended to run the EMU back on the mainline in the future.
Photo by Jamie
It commemorates the donation of the Stanley Cup ice hockey championship trophy by Canada's sixth Governor-General the Lord Stanley of Preston in 1893.
... commemorating local victims of the Holocaust.
Plaque damage almost certainly caused by motorised municipal snow removal (no malicious intent suspected).
17th February 2018
Commemorating the 90th Anniversary of the first ever Trans-Pacific flight by Charles Kingsford Smith
To commemorate the 150th anniversary on March 7, 1979 of the introduction of London's first recognizable omnibus operation, LT repainted 12 standard Routemasters in the livery of the operator, George Shillibeer. RM2130 was the lowest numbered and was allocated to NB for the 65, but my one attempt to photograph it was photo-bombed by a yellow Vauxhall Cavalier.
Normally I would have regarded this as a failure, but I was amused at the background vista of pre-pedestrianised Clarence Street devoid of any other vehicle and with pedestrians ambling around in the roadway apparently at random. I hope that they made it to the kerbs in time as at any second another ravening horde of cars will be released by the traffic lights outside Marks and Spencer.
Made by Dublin artist Donny Macmanus and was unveiled in February 2000. lt is located on City Quay between the Matt Talbot and Sean O'Casey bridges. lt is to commemorate a time when Merchant ships docked on the River Liffey Dublin.
To commemorate the 69th anniversary of the battle, I built this MOC. It's dedicated to the men who fought and died on Iwo Jima.
Overall I like it, but black is such a hard color to photograph. Plus, the island itself was pretty plain, so keeping it from looking like a black baseplate was a little tough. At least its not another Peleliu MOC though :-P Make sure to check out the other pictures of it as well.
A statue commemorating the Polish Poet Józef Bohdan Zaleski, in Planty Park, which borders the walls of the old city of Kraków, in Poland.
Born in Kiev, Ukraine, Zaleski founded the romantic Ukrainian poetry school along with Adam Mickiewicz in the early 19th century.
Taken with a Nikon D40, fitted with a Nikkor 50mm 1:1.8 AIS manual focus lens and processed in GIMP and Photoscape.
Commemorating the leadup to the fall of the wall.
"Other peoples art" that I'm sharing but more people will see great artwork.
The City of Opa-Locka was the vision of aviation pioneer, Glen Curtiss. Opa-Locka is an urban community occupying 4.2 square miles in the North-Western area of Miami-Dade County, Florida. The city boundaries are as follows: on the North-NW 151st Street, on the South - N.W. 125th Street, on the East – NW 45th Avenue on the West. On May 14, 1926, Opa-Locka was chartered as a town by twenty-eight registered voters.
The area was originally named by the Native Americans “Opa-tisha-wocka-locka” meaning “a big island covered with many trees and swamps” but the name was quickly shortened to Opa-Locka. The City was developed based on the Arabian Nights theme which is evident by the large collection of Moorish architecture throughout the city and with street names like Sabur, Sultan, Ali Baba, Sharazad, Aladdin, and Sesame. Mr. Curtiss and architect, Bernhardt Muller, built 105 buildings with an array of domes, minarets, and outside staircases. By the time Mr. Curtiss completed his vision for Opa-Locka he had built a self-contained city with a hotel, zoo park, golf course, archery club, swimming pool, airport, and train station.
The September 1926 hurricane badly damaged the City, destroying many of the structures, but the surviving Moorish-style buildings continue to give Opa-Locka its unique appearance. Opa-Locka currently has twenty buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The U.S. Navy opened a base at the Opa-Locka Airport shortly after the hurricane which allowed the City to thrive after the hurricane but the base closed in the 1950s. The City experienced a decline and was labeled a "struggling community" in South Florida. Despite the challenges, the City has regained the spirit it was founded in 1926. Under the direction of Mayor Myra L. Taylor, city officials have vowed to turn the city around by focusing on crime prevention, cleaning up the city, and maintaining financial stability. This drive has generated an increased sense of community, pride among Opa-Locka residents, and a major drop in crime. In keeping with that vow and to advance community pride, the city became the first community in the United States to commemorate the first African-American President of the United States by renaming a mile-long section of Perviz Avenue from Oriental Boulevard to Ali-Baba Avenue, Barack Obama Avenue on February 17, 2009.
In addition to the unique buildings, Opa-Locka has a large general aviation airport, three parks, two lakes, and a railroad station which is currently the tri-rail station. The City is comprised of a mixture of residential, commercial, and industrial zones. Despite its limited resources, the City was the backdrop for the making of movies such as Texas Justice, Bad Boyz II, and 2 Fast 2 Furious.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
www.opalockafl.gov/facilities/facility/details/Opalocka-M...
To commemorate Hermann Park’s centennial in 2014, Hermann Park Conservancy transformed the former Houston Garden Center site into the 8 acre McGovern Centennial Gardens. The Gardens were custom-made for Hermann Park and add a new dimension to Houston’s garden attractions.
View at a spectacular 30-foot high garden mount, complete with a spiral trail to its summit.
Commemorating the 15th anniversary of the death of "The Queen of Salsa" Celia Cruz there was an exhibit and concert at Woodlawn Cemetery. On display were many of her costumes, wigs, shoes, hats and some of her personal photographs. Her mausoleum was open for visitors to pay their respects. The event was organized by Omer Pardillo Cid, President of the Celia Cruz Foundation, her longtime manager and estate trustee and the Woodlawn Conservancy.
I happened to see this event attendee who captured the style of Celia beautifully and was gracious enough to pose for a few photos.