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Concept: It's the foundation of generic socialization (as in "society's child") as long as properly processed. Otherwise...
p.s.: We all know what Oedipus does according to Freud.
Awaji Yumebutai Park, Botanical Gardens, Cultural Complex, Hotel and Conference Center, Awaji Island, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan.
Open Air Theatre
Architect: Tadao Ando, 2000
The Awaji Yumebutai complex deserves a few accompanying words, as I found it both highly fascinating (and photogenic), yet at the same time profoundly strange. The development originated in the massive excavation pit left behind from the construction of several artificial islands in the Osaka Bay, including Kansai Airport. The resulting scar in the Awaji hills (which incidentally became the epicentre of the deadly Hanshin Kobe earthquake in 1995) was to be replaced foremost by “new nature”, with the assignment given to architect Tadao Ando, who designed every part of the complex (including some major amendments after the earthquake).
The result is unlike any modern architecture I have seen – a fully abstracted, totally artificial representation of nature, but almost entirely devoid of the real thing. Instead, the vision realized in Yumebutai is best described as a mash-up of the Acropolis, the Alhambra, the Forum Romanum and similar monumental and hyper-geometric sites, combined with elements of cascaded renaissance water gardens such as the Villa d’Este. Nature itself is mostly present in name, such as “Sky Garden” or “Water Garden”, both made entirely of Ando’s signature tie-holed concrete, or “Shell Beach” for the tens of thousands of meticulously arranged and inlaid seashells that line the concrete bottoms of pools and cascades.
But most strange of all is the feeling that all this only exists for architecture’s sake – while the site contains several large functions such as a conference centre, grand hotel, wedding chapel and cultural and gastronomy spaces, all of these don’t even make up 50% of the constructed area, and it seems that first and foremost the expansive concrete structures that fill the hillsides are there because of Ando’s vision, rather than for any functional needs – a quite unique and at the same time unsettling perspective.
Unfortunately, this seems to be a 'slow-burn' project. It's been hanging around a long time, and I find it's very difficult to manage both the complex assembly and then inevitable re-design and subsequent re-ordering of parts with any degree of speed.
Anyway, here is the full consist assembly out of LDD (rendered through POVray). The nose feels like it's still very much WiP (though I reserve the right not to change it much!!). I've had to redesign the bogies (both power and trailing) and the power cars are virtually re-built internally, and 4 studs longer externally. The PF-motor power chain is much simplified, see images to follow soon. Now using re-geared XL-motors, running 6x normal speed, mounted vertically over the power bogies.
I'll be installing a Buwizz power/control pack in this set, A) because of its smaller form factor, and B) on account of the higher output voltages available to shove this monster at as high a speed as possible!
The so called 'Black Peak' (2.585 meters ASL), as seen from the 'Kobilica' peak, Shar Mountains, Macedonia.
Union Mill Complex, better known as the Chocolate Factory, next to the Kayaderosseras Creek in Ballston Spa, New York. In the late 20th century this old mill, built in 1879, was restored and converted into commercial and office space.
Le port intérieur de Duisbourg (en allemand Innenhafen Duisburg) est un port fluvial situé sur le Rhin. D'une surface de 89 hectares, il était pendant la révolution industrielle allemande un centre important de la Ruhr. À la suite de l'arrêt progressif de l'activité industrielle (notamment sidérurgique et minière), l'activité portuaire a décliné à partir du milieu des années 1960.
En 1989 la reconversion commence avec la construction du Centre international d'expositions d'Emscher Park. L'espace disponible a permis d'autres projets architecturaux et urbanistiques.
Avec quelque 100 projets, l’Exposition internationale IBA Emscher Park — région de la Ruhr — a pour objectif de réaliser des projets modèles d’aménagement pour la reconversion des anciennes régions industrielles, dans le sens d’une « culture de construction » aux niveaux environnementaux, économiques et sociaux.
The inner port of Duisburg (in German Innenhafen Duisburg) is a river port located on the Rhine. Covering an area of 89 hectares, it was an important center of the Ruhr during the German industrial revolution. Following the gradual cessation of industrial activity (particularly steel and mining), port activity declined from the mid-1960s.
In 1989 the reconversion began with the construction of the International Exhibition Center in Emscher Park. The available space allowed for other architectural and urban planning projects.
With some 100 projects, the International Exhibition IBA Emscher Park — Ruhr region — aims to carry out model development projects for the reconversion of former industrial regions, in the sense of a " construction culture " at the levels environmental, economic and social.
The Wat Po temple complex has one of the largest collections of Buddha statues in the country. I probably photographed all of them at least once.......
Click here to see photos from this and a previous trip to Thailand : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157600177340620
From Wikipedia : "Wat Pho (Thai: วัดโพธิ์), also spelt Wat Po, is a Buddhist temple complex in the Phra Nakhon District, Bangkok, Thailand. It is on Rattanakosin Island, directly south of the Grand Palace. Known also as the Temple of the Reclining Buddha, its official name is Wat Phra Chetuphon Vimolmangklararm Rajwaramahaviharn (Thai: วัดพระเชตุพนวิมลมังคลารามราชวรมหาวิหาร; rtgs: Wat Phra Chettuphon Wimonmangkhlaram Ratchaworamahawihan; The more commonly known name, Wat Pho, is a contraction of its older name Wat Photaram (Thai: วัดโพธาราม; rtgs: Wat Photharam).
The temple is first on the list of six temples in Thailand classed as the highest grade of the first-class royal temples. It is associated with King Rama I who rebuilt the temple complex on an earlier temple site, and became his main temple where some of his ashes are enshrined. The temple was later expanded and extensively renovated by Rama III. The temple complex houses the largest collection of Buddha images in Thailand, including a 46 m long reclining Buddha. The temple is considered the earliest centre for public education in Thailand, and the marble illustrations and inscriptions placed in the temple for public instructions has been recognised by UNESCO in its Memory of the World Programme. It houses a school of Thai medicine, and is also known as the birthplace of traditional Thai massage which is still taught and practiced at the temple."
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Using Atmosfear 3 in combination with Absolute Texture, enhanced grass draw distance, console controlled FOV, 'GOTZ' for enemy-, weather- and location-spawn, ingame console commands (fov, tilt), user.ltx tweaks (r2_lumscale etc.), CheatEngine (slomo, fake 'timestop' by setting timescale to 0.0 - no camera movement possible though), ReShade 2.x.
There was no improvement in Wednesday's weather following my photting of 37401 at Workington.
I persevered however as the only pair of DRS' operational class 20s were due next with the 6Z55 Crewe - Workington docks nuclear waste move.
This was the continuation of the previous day's 6M75 Southminster - Crewe, conveying an octet of ISO containers which had originated at Bradwell power station.
The containers were to be unloaded on the docks here for transfer to the Studsvik site at Lillyhall.
20305 & 20308 slow at Derwent Junction in preparation for reversal in to the port complex.
"The Palais Kesselstatt is a cultural monument on Liebfrauenstrasse in Trier in Rhineland-Palatinate.
The representative three-wing complex with a mansard roof and a central building with a protruding facade was built between 1740 and 1746 for Karl Friedrich Melchior Graf Kesselstatt from the Kesselstatt family. The architect was Johann Valentin Thoman from Mainz. The building has baroque one-room cellars, a wine cellar, a vaulted hall and the barrel-vaulted Weberbach canal.
Immediately next to the palace is the former Bernardhof, which now houses a restaurant and the Kesselstatt wine bar.
Trier (/trɪər/ TREER, German: [tʁiːɐ̯]; Luxembourgish: Tréier [ˈtʀəɪɐ]), formerly and traditionally known in English as Trèves (/trɛv/ TREV, French: [tʁɛv]) and Triers (see also names in other languages), is a city on the banks of the Moselle in Germany. It lies in a valley between low vine-covered hills of red sandstone in the west of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, near the border with Luxembourg and within the important Moselle wine region.
Founded by the Celts in the late 4th century BC as Treuorum and conquered 300 years later by the Romans, who renamed it Augusta Treverorum ("The City of Augustus among the Treveri"), Trier is considered Germany's oldest city. It is also the oldest seat of a bishop north of the Alps. Trier was one of the four capitals of the Roman Empire during the Tetrarchy period in the late 3rd and early 4th centuries. In the Middle Ages, the archbishop-elector of Trier was an important prince of the Church who controlled land from the French border to the Rhine. The archbishop-elector of Trier also had great significance as one of the seven electors of the Holy Roman Empire. Because of its significance during the Roman and Holy Roman empires, several monuments and cathedrals within Trier are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
With an approximate population of 110,000, Trier is the fourth-largest city in its state, after Mainz, Ludwigshafen, and Koblenz. The nearest major cities are Luxembourg City (50 km or 31 mi to the southwest), Saarbrücken (80 kilometres or 50 miles southeast), and Koblenz (100 km or 62 mi northeast).
The University of Trier, the administration of the Trier-Saarburg district and the seat of the ADD (Aufsichts- und Dienstleistungsdirektion), which until 1999 was the borough authority of Trier, and the Academy of European Law (ERA) are all based in Trier. It is one of the five "central places" of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Along with Luxembourg, Metz and Saarbrücken, fellow constituent members of the QuattroPole union of cities, it is central to the greater region encompassing Saar-Lor-Lux (Saarland, Lorraine and Luxembourg), Rhineland-Palatinate, and Wallonia." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
Now on Instagram.
Basidiome 3cm zonée se tache de rouge (voir photo) au froissement
Croissance sur bois mort de feuillus
C’est complexe et besoin de etude
L’autre Stereum sanguinolentum croissance sur bois de conifère seulement.
Complejo Moleular de la nube de Orión / Orion Molecular Cloud Complex.
Esta fotografía en particular de Orión es un remake de la anterior, cambiando los parámetros de captura, pero manteniendo la técnica de post-producción.
Después de un año puedo ver como ha mejorado dramáticamente la calidad de imagen, los colores y el detalle. Todo esto es muestra de paciencia y de esperar realmente a que las cosas se den en cuanto a clima, temperatura y momento del año para lograr esta captura.
Sony A7s MkI
Canon FD 50mm f/1.8 @ f/4
ISO 40000 (40k)
T: 5"
Nestled around the Vltava River, Prague survived virtually intact, while other European cities were flattened during WWII. This is a view of part of Prague Castle and the spires of St. Vitus Cathedral, taken within the world’s largest ancient castle complex and still the seat of political power. The castle was built during the 9th Century and has evolved architecturally as a blend of Romanesque, Gothic, and even Spanish styles.
A la mi-octobre, la situation de l’armée belge, qui tente de se maintenir sur le front de l’Yser, est critique. L’état-major va arrêter l’avance allemande en reprenant une tactique utilisée à plusieurs reprises dans la région : l’inondation de la plaine de l’Yser à partir de la "Patte d’oie" à Nieuport.
Située dans l’arrière-port, au début du chenal de l’Yser, et baptisée ainsi du fait de sa forme particulière, la "Patte d’oie" est un complexe d’écluses et de vannes qui régule la gestion de l’eau dans le bassin de l’Yser. Six voies d’eau convergent à cet endroit : trois canaux surélevés et endigués - dont l’Yser canalisé – fermés par des écluses et trois "vaartjes" (collecteurs non canalisés, situés au niveau des terres avoisinantes pour recevoir les eaux de ruissellement et drainer les terres basses des polders) commandés par des barrages et des vannes. La portion de terrain située entre deux canaux forme un wateringue dont le drainage est assuré par un collecteur.
Pour inonder la zone entre l’Yser et le talus de la ligne de chemin de fer Nieuport-Dixmude derrière lequel ils ont pris position, les Belges ont utilisé les écluses et les vannes de la "Patte d’oie" en inversant leur fonctionnement normal. L’histoire a retenu les noms de Karel Cogge, employé de la wateringue de Furnes, et d’Hendrik Geeraert, un batelier de Nieuport : grâce aux indications de l’un et la connaissance du système hydraulique de l’autre, les écluses et vannes sont ouvertes à la marée montantes pour laisser l’eau envahir les polders et fermées à la marée descendante pour empêcher son évacuation. Après une première tentative décevante dans la nuit du 26 au 27 octobre, la seconde, en ouvrant le déversoir du Noordvaart du 29 au 30, permettra de faire pénétrer une énorme quantité d’eau dans l’arrière-pays, ce qui oblige les Allemands à se retirer sur la rive droite de l’Yser.
Début novembre 1914, la bataille de l’Yser est terminée et le front stabilisé jusqu’en septembre 1918 par une zone inondée s’étendant de Nieuport à Dixmude. Entre le talus du chemin de fer et la rive gauche de l’Yser, le terrain est devenu un immense marécage parsemé d’îlots sur lesquels les deux camps ont installés des postes avancés.
Le seul point de contact direct se situe à Dixmude où les lignes ne sont séparées que par l’Yser et où les Allemands parviennent à se maintenir sur la rive gauche du fleuve à hauteur du "Boyau de la mort". Au sud de Dixmude, l’inondation s’étend jusqu’à Steenstraat.
In mid-October, the situation of the Belgian army, which is trying to maintain itself on the Yser front, is critical. The general staff will stop the German advance by resuming a tactic used several times in the region: the flooding of the Yser plain from the "Crow's foot" in Nieuport.
Located in the inner harbor, at the beginning of the Yser channel, and so named because of its particular shape, the "Patte d'oie" is a complex of locks and gates which regulates the management of the water in the Yser basin. Six waterways converge at this point: three raised and dyked canals - including the channeled Yser - closed by locks and three "vaartjes" (unchanneled collectors, located at the level of the neighboring lands to receive runoff and drain. the lowlands of the polders) controlled by dams and sluices. The portion of land located between two canals forms a watering whose drainage is provided by a collector.
To flood the area between the Yser and the embankment of the Nieuport-Dixmude railway line behind which they took up position, the Belgians used the locks and gates of the "Patte d'oie" by reversing their normal operation. . History has retained the names of Karel Cogge, employee of the wateringue de Veurne, and Hendrik Geeraert, a boatman from Nieuwpoort: thanks to the indications of one and the knowledge of the hydraulic system of the other, the locks and Valves are opened to the rising tide to let water flow into the polders and closed to the ebbing tide to prevent its evacuation. After a disappointing first attempt on the night of October 26 to 27, the second, by opening the Noordvaart spillway from 29 to 30, will allow a huge amount of water to penetrate into the hinterland, forcing the Germans to to retire to the right bank of the Yser.
In early November 1914, the Battle of the Yser was over and the front stabilized until September 1918 by a flooded area stretching from Nieuport to Diksmuide. Between the railroad embankment and the left bank of the Yser, the land has become a huge swamp dotted with islets on which the two camps have set up outposts.
The only direct contact point is at Dixmude where the lines are only separated by the Yser and where the Germans manage to maintain their position on the left bank of the river at the height of the "Trench of Death". South of Diksmuide, the flood extends to Steenstraat.
The complex was designed by the Italian star architect Aldo Rossi and built after the fall of the wall from 1994 to 1998.
This stunning nebula complex comprises emission and reflection nebulae and is around 5900 light years away. They lie within a very dusty part of the southern Milky Way in Sagittarius.
This is an LHaRGB exposure comprising 13.5 hours of data (L=240, Ha=180, R=150, G=120, B=120 minutes of exposure)
FOV: 39.4 x 26.2 arcmins @ 0.59 arcsec/pixel
SBIG STXL 11002M, AO-X, FW8G, Officina Stellare ProRC 360
Data: CCDAutopilot and TheSkyX
Processing: CCDStack and Photoshop
In collaboration with Kathy Fowler.
Étretat is best known for its chalk cliffs, including three natural arches and a pointed formation called L'Aiguille or the Needle, which rises 70 metres above the sea. The Etretat Chalk Complex consists of a complex stratigraphy of Turonian and Coniacian chalks. Some of the cliffs are as high as 90 metres. These cliffs and the associated resort beach attracted artists including Eugène Boudin, Gustave Courbetand Claude Monet. They were featured prominently in the 1909 Arsène Lupin novel The Hollow Needle by Maurice Leblanc. They also feature in the 2014 film Lucy, directed by Luc Besson. Two of the three famous arches are visible from the town, the Porte d'Aval, and the Porte d'Amont. The Manneporte is the third and the biggest one, and cannot be seen from the town. The GR 21 long-distance hiking path (Le Havre to Le Tréport) passes through the town. The coast is known as the Pays de Caux Alabaster Coast. Étretat is known for being the last place in France from which the 1927 biplane The White Bird (L'Oiseau Blanc) was seen. French World War I war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli were attempting to make the first non-stop flight from Paris to New York City, but after the plane's 8 May 1927 departure, it disappeared somewhere over the Atlantic. It is considered one of the great unexplained mysteries of aviation. A monument to the flight was established in Étretat, but destroyed during World War II, during German occupation. A new and taller monument was constructed in 1963, along with a nearby museum. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Étretat The cliffs of Amont (Falaise d’Amont) north of the town hold the lovely church of La Chapelle Notre Dame de la Garde etretat-normandie.fr/que-visiter/chapelle-notre-dame-de-l... The Gardens of Etretat, Les Jardins d’Etretat are a must visit. The famous actress Madame Thébault created this garden in 1903, inspired by the Impressionist painter, Claude Monet, who himself was a keen gardener. He is the one to whom the garden owes its ambience and originality, faithfully preserved to the present day. At the heart of the natural wonder of Normandy, on the top of the cliff towering along the Alabaster Coast, hides a villa, built in this splendid garden that sprawls across the White Cliffs. Madame Thébault named it Roxelana, in commemoration of the role that had catapulted her to the heights of cinema stardom. Roxelana was the beloved wife of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. Les Jardins d’Étretat overhang the famous Amont Cliff, which attracts painters from all over the world. It was on the very terraces of Les Jardins d’Étretat that Claude Monet painted his Cliffs at Etretat series, regarded among the greatest works of art ever produced. Alexander Grivko is a landscape architect, a creative power behind Les Jardins d’Étretat. Originally from Russia, he is the art director of the garden design and landscaping company Il Nature with representations in Russia, France and the UK. In 2016, Les Jardins d’Étretat in Normandy was laid out in partnership with a new business associate, collector of contemporary art. It is now the first garden, existing within the planned international network of art gardens open to the public. etretatgarden.fr/en/ and www.france-travel-guide.net/etretat-gardens.html
The fort complex at Orchaa.
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