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La Cheminée Moretti - La Défense
The Moretti is a work by Raymond Moretti inaugurated in 1995. This is the dressing of an extraction chimney of the 32M high A14 which passes under La Défense. It is composed of 692 vertical glass fibre tubes juxtaposed across its height, with different colours and diameters.
La piscine de Soissons est composée de plusieurs éléments datant d’époques différentes.
Ainsi, les deux premiers bassins de la piscine d’été ont été construits au début des années 1930, tandis que la piscine couverte n’a été rajoutée qu’en 1976.
Depuis la fin des années 1970, la piscine comprenait donc quatre bassins extérieurs et trois bassins intérieurs, auxquels s’ajoutaient des équipements annexes tels qu’une fosse à plonger avec plongeoir de 3 mètres, des bains-douches, un foyer-bar et même un sauna.
Ce programme assez exceptionnel et très ambitieux pour une ville de 30 000 habitants, témoigne de la volonté de la ville de Soissons d’offrir à ses administrés un ensemble nautique d’envergure, adapté à toutes les pratiques natatoires.
Son insertion dans un cadre paysager répond aux prescriptions du secrétariat d’État à la Jeunesse et aux Sports : "Leur exposition appellera la plus large participation d’espaces verts sous les formes les plus diverses : parcs, places et jardins publics, promenades largement plantées indépendantes des circulations automobiles, plans d’eau qui doivent affirmer la présence de la nature dans le paysage urbain en évitant toute banalisation et assurant la continuité de la coulée de verdure vers les autres quartiers ou le centre principal de la ville"1.
Elle est associée à camping municipal, pratique assez fréquente dans les années 1960-1970, dont on trouve des exemples à Château-Thierry dans l’Aisne (1971) ou encore à Bergues dans le Nord (piscine construite 1960 au milieu des anciens remparts Vauban)....
UNE MACHINE MONUMENTALE
Composé d'acier, de bois sculpté et de cuir c'est la plus lourde et longue bestiole mécanique réalisée par "la machine" dont la particularité est une mobilité inspirée de la motricité des reptiles. Il est très expressif, crache du feu, de la fumée et de l’eau sous différentes formes. De la brume s’échappe de son corps par une trentaine d’évents.
Ses yeux, ses paupières, ses oreilles, sa bouche, sa langue, ses nageoires sont mobiles. Il peut se coucher, se lever, courir jusqu’à 4 km/h et battre de ses ailes en toile épaisse. En dehors du spectacle, il devient Machine de ville*. Cinquante passagers accèdent à son dos sur une terrasse couverte grâce à un escalier intégré dans sa queue.
Hauteur : 10 à 15 m
Largeur : 5 à 17,5 m ailes déployées
Longueur : 25 m
Poids : 72 tonnes
Vitesse : 0 à 4 km/h
Propulsion hybride
Fluides : eau, air, électricité, hydraulique
Matériaux : bois, métal, cuir, toile, cuivre
Effets : respiration, fumée, flamme, jet d’eau, son
Manipulation : 4 à 17 personnes (spectacle)
Capacité : 50 à 60 personnes transportées
Source:
www.cote-dopale.com/agenda-cote-d-opale/dragon-de-calais
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Translation / Traduction 🇬🇧 UK
A MONUMENTAL MACHINE
Made of steel, carved wood and leather, it is the heaviest and longest mechanical bug made by "the machine" whose particularity is a mobility inspired by the motor of reptiles. It is very expressive, spits fire, smoke and water in different forms. Haze escapes from his body by about 30 vents.
Her eyes, eyelids, ears, mouth, tongue, fins are moving. He can lie down, stand up, run up to 4 km/h and beat his wings in thick cloth. Apart from the show, it becomes City Machine*. Fifty passengers reach their back on a covered terrace thanks to a staircase built into its tail.
Height: 10 to 15 m
Width: 5 to 17.5 m wings deployed
Length: 25 m
Weight: 72 tons
Speed: 0 to 4 km/h
Hybrid propulsion
Fluids: water, air, electricity, water
Materials: wood, metal, leather, canvas, copper
Effects: breathing, smoke, flame, water jet, sound
Handling: 4 to 17 people (show)
Capacity: 50 to 60 people transported
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La Compagnie du Dragon
I composed this image while walking the streets of Amsterdam, a city of bridges and bikes. For those interested in the history of the bicycle in Amsterdam, further information is presented below.
Anyone who has ever tried to make their way through the centre of Amsterdam in a car knows it: the city is owned by cyclists. They hurry in swarms through the streets, unbothered by traffic rules, taking precedence whenever they want, rendering motorists powerless by their sheer numbers.
Cyclists rule in Amsterdam and great pains have been taken to accommodate them: the city is equipped with an elaborate network of cycle-paths and lanes, so safe and comfortable that even toddlers and elderly people use bikes as the easiest mode of transport.
The Dutch take this for granted; they even tend to believe these cycle-paths have existed since the beginning of time. But that is certainly not the case. There was a time, in the 1950s and 60s, when cyclists were under severe threat of being expelled from Dutch cities by the growing number of cars. Only thanks to fierce activism would Amsterdam succeed in becoming what it is, unquestionably, now: the bicycle capital of the world.
At the start of the 20th century, bikes far outnumbered cars in Dutch cities and the bicycle was considered a respectable mode of transport for men and women. But when the Dutch economy began to boom in the post-war era, more and more people were able to afford cars, and urban policymakers came to view the car as the travel mode of the future. Entire Amsterdam neighbourhoods were destroyed to make way for motorised traffic. The use of bikes decreased by 6% every year, and the general idea was that bicycles would eventually disappear altogether.
All that growing traffic took its toll. The number of traffic casualties rose to a peak of 3,300 deaths in 1971. More than 400 children were killed in traffic accidents that year.This staggering loss led to protests by different action groups, the most memorable of which was Stop de Kindermoord (“stop the child murder”).
The 1970s were a great time for being angry in Holland: activism and civil disobedience were rampant. Stop de Kindermoord grew rapidly and its members held bicycle demonstrations, occupied accident blackspots, and organised special days during which streets were closed to allow children to play safely.
Stop de Kindermoord became subsidised by the Dutch government, established its headquarters in a former shop, and went on to develop ideas for safer urban planning – which eventually resulted in the woonerf: a new kind of people-friendly street with speed bumps and bends to force cars to drive very slowly.
Two years after Stop de Kindermoord was established, another group of activists founded the First Only Real Dutch Cyclists’ Union to demand more space for bicycles in the public realm – organising bike rides along dangerous stretches of road, and compiling inventories of the problems encountered by cyclists.
“First we would be arrested by the police, of course, but then the whole thing would be in the newspapers and municipal politicians would eventually listen. We had a great fighting spirit and we knew how to voice our ideas. And in the end, we would get our bicycle lane. Even in the 70s, you know, there were politicians who understood that the general focus on cars would eventually cause problems.”
There was no time to compose a decent photo! The mail boat was zapping across the still waters of Pelorus Sound at 20 knots (About 37 kilometres per hour) when the skipper yelled, "Wow... Little Blue Penguins - right there!" And we were past them!
As their name suggests, the Little Blue Penguin "...is the smallest species of penguin. They are also the most common penguin found around all coasts of New Zealand’s mainland and many of the surrounding islands.
Primarily nocturnal on land, they are sometimes found close to human settlements and often nest under and around coastal buildings, keeping the owners awake at night with their noisy vocal displays. They live up to their scientific name ‘Eudyptula’ meaning “good little diver”, as they are excellent pursuit hunters in shallow waters...". (1)
For more information, have a look at nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/little-penguin (1)
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Danube
The Danube is the longest river in the European Union and Europe's second longest river after the Volga.
The river originates in the Black Forest in Germany as the much smaller Brigach and Breg rivers which join at the German town Donaueschingen, after which it is known as the Danube and flows eastwards for a distance of some 2850 km (1771 miles), passing through four Central and Eastern European capitals, before emptying into the Black Sea via the Danube Delta in Romania and Ukraine.
Known to history as one of the long-standing frontiers of the Roman Empire, the river flows through—or forms a part of the borders of—ten countries: Germany (7.5%), Austria (10.3%), Slovakia (5.8%), Hungary (11.7%), Croatia (4.5%), Serbia (10.3%), Romania (28.9%), Bulgaria (5.2%), Moldova (0.017%), and Ukraine (3.8%).
The English language has, since the Norman conquest of England, used the French word Danube.
In addition to the Danubian countries, the drainage basin includes parts of nine more countries: Italy (0.15%), Poland (0.09%), Switzerland (0.32%), the Czech Republic (2.5%), Slovenia (2.2%), Bosnia and Herzegovina (4.8%), the Republic of Macedonia, and Albania (0.03%). The highest point of the drainage basin is the summit of Piz Bernina at the Italy–Switzerland border, 4,049 metres (13,284 ft).
The Danube is navigable by ocean ships from the Black Sea to Brăila in Romania and by river ships to Kelheim, Bavaria, Germany; smaller craft can navigate further upstream to Ulm, Württemberg, Germany. About 60 of its tributaries are also navigable.
Since the completion of the German Rhine–Main–Danube Canal in 1992, the river has been part of a trans-European waterway from Rotterdam on the North Sea to Sulina on the Black Sea (3500 km). In 1994 the Danube was declared one of ten Pan-European transport corridors, routes in Central and Eastern Europe that required major investment over the following ten to fifteen years. The amount of goods transported on the Danube increased to about 100 million tons in 1987. In 1999, transport on the river was made difficult by the NATO bombing of three bridges in Serbia. The clearance of the debris was finished in 2002. The temporary pontoon bridge that hampered navigation was finally removed in 2005.
At the Iron Gate, the Danube flows through a gorge that forms part of the boundary between Serbia and Romania; it contains the hydroelectric Iron Gate I dam, followed at about 60 km downstream (outside the gorge) by the Iron Gate ll dam. On 13 April 2006, a record peak discharge at Iron Gate Dam reached 15,400 m³/s.
There are three artificial waterways built on the Danube: the Danube–Tisa–Danube Canal (DTD) in the Banat and Bačka regions (Vojvodina, northern province of Serbia); the 64 km Danube–Black Sea Canal, between Cernavodă and Constanţa (Romania) finished in 1984, shortens the distance to the Black Sea by 400 km; the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal (about 171 km), finished in 1992, linking the North Sea to the Black Sea.
The Danube Commission is concerned with the maintenance and improvement of the river's navigation conditions. It was established in 1948 by seven countries bordering the river. Members include representatives from Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Moldova, Slovakia, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, and Serbia, It meets regularly twice a year. It also convenes groups of experts to consider items provided for in the commission's working plans.
The commission dates to the Paris Conferences of 1856 and 1921, which established for the first time an international regime to safeguard free navigation on the Danube.
Along its path, the Danube is a source of drinking water for about ten million people. In Baden-Württemberg, Germany, almost thirty percent (as of 2004) of the water for the area between Stuttgart, Bad Mergentheim, Aalen and Alb-Donau (district) comes from purified water of the Danube. Other cities like Ulm and Passau also use some water from the Danube.
In Austria and Hungary, most water comes from ground and spring sources, and only in rare cases is water from the Danube used. Most states also find it too difficult to clean the water because of extensive pollution; only parts of Romania where the water is cleaner still use a lot of drinking water from the Danube.
Important tourist and natural spots along the Danube include the Wachau valley, the Nationalpark Donau-Auen in Austria, Gemenc in Hungary, the Naturpark Obere Donau in Germany, Kopački rit in Croatia, Iron Gate in Serbia and Romania, and Danube Delta in Romania, the Srebarna Nature Reserve in Bulgaria.
The Danube is mentioned in the title of a famous waltz by Austrian composer Johann Strauss, An der schönen, blauen Donau (On the Beautiful Blue Danube). This piece was composed as Strauss was traveling down the Danube River. This piece is well known across the world and is also used widely as a lullaby.
Another famous waltz about the Danube is The Waves of the Danube (Romanian: Valurile Dunării) by the Romanian composer Ion Ivanovici (1845–1902), and the work took the audience by storm when performed at the 1889 Paris Exposition.
Joe Zawinul wrote a symphony about the Danube called Stories of the Danube. It was performed for the first time at the 1993 Bruckner festival, at Linz.
The Danube figures prominently in the Bulgarian National Anthem, as a symbolic representation of the country's natural beauty.
The German tradition of landscape painting, the Danube school, was developed in the Danube valley in the 16th century.
The most famous book describing the Danube might be Claudio Magris's masterpiece Danube (ISBN 1-86046-823-3).
The historical fiction Earth's Children series by Jean M. Auel refers to the Danube as the Great Mother River.
Jules Verne's "The Danube Pilot" ("Le Pilote du Danube"), published 1908, depicts the adventures of fisherman Serge Ladko as he travels down the river.
The river is the subject of the film The Ister.
Parts of the German road movie Im Juli take place along the Danube.
Noted horror writer Algernon Blackwood's most famous short story, "The Willows" concerned a trip down the Danube.
The Blue Danube was the name of the first nuclear weapon of the British army.
While battling the midges (my first experience with the little bastards) trying to compose some images of the Old Bridge, I turned around to see the summit of Glamaig shrouded in cloud.
The Scots have such great names and categories for their hills and mountains. Glamaig is a Corbett
According to Wiki, Corbetts are defined as Scottish mountains between 2,500–3,000 feet (762.0–914.4 m) in height with a prominence of at least 500 feet (152.4 m
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Week 3 Submission
Had no idea what to upload this week, so here's one I took at North Beach during sunrise. They are doing construction on the beach so you can only shoot in one direction. Leaving tomorrow for training, I'm off to pack. Hope all is well with everyone.
A very short streamliner, composed of SLRG 2402 and a dining car, languishes on the siding at West Barnstable. 2402 is looking somewhat the worse for wear in her fading Susquehanna paint. And I admit that I briefly considered packing a black rattle can to touch up that pilot.
This equipment has been sitting here long enough to get picked up by the Google Earth satellite. Twin sister SLRG 2400 has run, but seems to be restricted to trail-only status to provide HEP.
Every rime I go to Sedona, I try and compose some kind of shot of downtown. It's an impossible town to get all in one photo because there are four separate, disconnected sections of town. This is dusk on the eastern end of town. I liked how the curve of the railing mirrored the curve of the road.
Laiteron à petits fruits - Balillo tinerfeño del sur ?
Sonchus cf. microcarpus (Boulos) A.Reifenb. & U.Reifenb. (port)
Brousse sèche à succulentes (alt. 80 m)
El Puertito de Güímar (Ténériffe, Canaries, Espagne)
Indigène (Ténériffe)
This is a viola flower, emerging. Used the bleach bypass preset in Exposure X4 as a starting point for this one.
Lensbaby Composer, Sweet 35 Optic, 20mm Extension Tube, f/8
I composed to draw attention to the tree and the incredible reflection as a couple small ice shelves floated down stream. It wasn't until I viewed my finished image on a larger monitor that I noticed what I believe is an eagle on the upper part of the right branch. I could hear the eagle while I was taking pictures; however, the air and water were so calm, I wasn't able to pinpoint its location. I was so happy to see it in the tree. If you download at full size and zoom in, you can make out the curved head and beak (no identifying colors, but the shape makes me pretty confident). We usually see eagles in this area during the spring when we fish these waters near our campsite.
Shot from a window in our roof. Composed from two images, the one for the clouds with 1/3 s and the one for the moon with 1/500 s. For composing I used Paint.NET. For the bluish tones I simply adjusted the white balance setting.
Composed Mitts by Michelle Rose Orne from IK Fall 2007.
I think this may be the year of texture and colorwork for me, and how can you go wrong with such a quick project? And it just so happens that I have at least 8 single skeins of various Blue Sky Alpacas Sport Weight in my stash...