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A zoomed in view of a group of hikers further back on the Lost Mine Trail. The view is looking down from the mountainside we were on and to the west-southwest. My thinking in composing this image was to zoom in but ensure that I included a lot of the surrounding trees and mountainsides. While anyone could zoom in to look at the details of the people captured in the image, the idea would be to soak in, take in even, the natural beauty that is around us all. That beauty that stretches on and on for miles, for those willing to explore :-)
Composed of Target's 2010 Exclusives "Bounty Hunters From Hostage Crisis Animated Series Episode" battle pack, "Senate Commando Captain and Senate Commando" 2-Pack (plus a few older figures)
Devils Tower (also known as Bear Lodge Butte) is a laccolithic butte composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Mountains (part of the Black Hills) near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises 1,267 feet above the Belle Fourche River, standing 867 feet from summit to base. The summit is 5,112 feet above sea level. Devils Tower was the first United States National Monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt. The monument's boundary encloses an area of 1,347 acres. In recent years, about 1% of the monument's 400,000 annual visitors climbed Devils Tower, mostly using traditional climbing techniques. The name Devil's Tower originated in 1875 during an expedition led by Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, when his interpreter reportedly misinterpreted a native name to mean "Bad God's Tower". All information signs in that area use the name "Devils Tower", following a geographic naming standard whereby the apostrophe is omitted. Native American names for the monolith include: "Bear's House" or "Bear's Lodge" (or "Bear's Tipi", "Home of the Bear", "Bear's Lair"; Cheyenne, Lakota Matȟó Thípila, Crow Daxpitcheeaasáao "Home of Bears"), "Aloft on a Rock" (Kiowa), "Tree Rock", "Great Gray Horn", and "Brown Buffalo Horn" (Lakota Ptehé Ǧí). In 2005, a proposal to recognize several Native American ties through the additional designation of the monolith as Bear Lodge National Historic Landmark met with opposition from United States Representative Barbara Cubin, arguing that a "name change will harm the tourist trade and bring economic hardship to area communities". In November 2014, one Arvol Looking Horse again proposed renaming the geographical feature "Bear Lodge", and submitted the request to the United States Board on Geographic Names. A second proposal was submitted to request that the U.S. acknowledge what it described as the "offensive" mistake in keeping the current name and to rename the monument and sacred site Bear Lodge National Historic Landmark. The formal public comment period ended in fall 2015. Local state senator Ogden Driskill opposed the change. The name was not changed. The landscape surrounding Devils Tower is composed mostly of sedimentary rocks. The oldest rocks visible in Devils Tower National Monument were laid down in a shallow sea during the mid- to late-Triassic period, 225 to 195 million years ago. This dark red sandstone and maroon siltstone, interbedded with shale, can be seen along the Belle Fourche River. Oxidation of iron minerals causes the redness of the rocks. This rock layer is known as the Spearfish Formation. Above the Spearfish Formation is a thin band of white gypsum, called the Gypsum Springs Formation. This layer of gypsum was deposited during the Jurassic period, 195 to 136 million years ago. Created as sea levels and climates repeatedly changed, gray-green shales (deposited in low-oxygen environments such as marshes) were interbedded with fine-grained sandstones, limestones, and sometimes thin beds of red mudstone. This composition, called the Stockade Beaver member, is part of the Sundance Formation. The Hulett Sandstone member, also part of the Sundance Formation, is composed of yellow fine-grained sandstone. Resistant to weathering, it forms the nearly vertical cliffs that encircle the Tower. During the Paleocene Epoch, 56 to 66 million years ago, the Rocky Mountains and the Black Hills were uplifted. Magma rose through the crust, intruding into the existing sedimentary rock layers.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_Tower
Website: www.nps.gov/deto/index.htm
Bandos Island / North-Malé-Atoll / Maldives
Album of Maldives: www.flickr.com/photos/tabliniumcarlson/albums/72157657966...
If I have trouble composing a free verse poem on an image, I can always fall back on classical Japanese poetry forms: haiku (3 lines of 5, 7, 5 syllables respectively) and the tanka (5 lines of 5, 7, 5, 7, 7 syllables respectively). The forms I use are obviously anglicized versions of Japanese. You can rest assure that Japanese words, syllables, lines, etc. are very different. I guess what every poem needs is meaning and theme. Here I am talking about the relation of natural habitat to life and joy. Using juxtaposition, the birds relation to habitat is compared and contrasted to my relationship to habitat.
Artesian Well 1-23-2018
by John R. Williams
Cottonwoods, poplars
Stand-outs on a barren plain.
Red-tailed Hawk’s lookout,
Red-shafted Flicker playground.
Aah, rustling leaves, gushing water!
Zabriskie Point composed of sediments from Furnace Creek Lake, which dried up 5 million years ago—long before Death Valley came into existence.
Zabriskie Point was used as surface of Mars in the film Robinson Crusoe on Mars; The Joshua Tree. Zabriskie Point is also the name of a 1970 movie by Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni; its soundtrack features music by British band Pink Floyd and Jerry Garcia.
Like this location downstream from the larger waterfall drop to compose this shot. The rocks and water flow add some nice elements to this image I think.
Tuscarora Falls
Experimenting with my new sweet 35 optic and extension tubes. Not sure what this plant is. Maybe some form of succulent?
Edit: Apparently it's a haworthia.
Lensbaby Composer, Sweet 35 Optic, 36mm Extension Tube
This windswept tree in a field in Sonoma county looks like a big bonsai next to a perfect rock. I've noticed it in the past, but only stopped to study it this past week. New green leaves and the green fields add to the look.
“Man inhabits a universe composed of a great variety of elements and their isotopes… What has been the history of the matter, which produced the elements and isotopes of that matter in
the abundance distribution which observation yields?”
~From the article ‘Synthesis of the Elements in Stars’ (1957) by Burbridge, Burbridge, Fowler, and Hoyle (the B2FH paper).
In the winter of 1953, three stellar physicists crossed path at the Cambridge Kapitsa Club. Here, Margaret Burbridge and Geoff Burbridge met Willy Fowler, the Caltech nuclear physicist, who was then on a sabbatical leave across the pond. Joined soon after by Fred Hoyle, the group brain-stormed answers to a simple question: where did all the matter around us come from? As they knew it then, hydrogen, helium, and lithium likely came from the big bang. But where did remaining elements come from?
Many informal discussions over pre-dinner martinis led to more formal research momentum when the Burbridges accepted Fowler’s invitation to join him in Pasadena (Caltech). Building on Hoyle’s earlier work, the group determined how elements –all elements from carbon to uranium– are created in stars. Within the core of stars (‘stellar nucleosynthesis’). A young star first burns the primeval and abundant hydrogen to form helium. Then, when hydrogen is exhausted during stellar evolution, the star burns helium. All the while it produces a variety isotopes of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, neon, and sodium. As the core temperature rises, energy is converted to evolve matter. The star burns various elements in six additional stages to produce a cornucopia of all elements in the periodic table, the last being uranium. Finally, when a star explodes and ends its luminous journey in a supernova, it scatters all its elements in the stellar nebula to seed new stars and galaxies.
Speaking of luminous journeys, I had one the other day at the Isle Royale National Park where we came across some spectacular views at the Scoville point. Here, if you believe the eye, the land and the realm end. In front of me were layers of exposed rocks inhabited by life in its barest forms, the lichens. Most lichens were of striking colors, an invitation my eyes could not refuse on that cloudy day. Contemplating by a patch of fluorescent yellow lichen (above), my conscious thoughts borrowed heavily from the B2FH paper and dissolved into erratics. Where did all the matter I am made of come from? Not the sun, the star closest to us. As per B2FH’s calculations, a star needs 6.6 billion years or so to form uranium. Earth has uranium, but the solar system is only 4.5 billion years old. Which means, earth’s uranium –and likely most other elements– came from past stars that blew up. We are their smithereens... their scattered ashes. We are their ghosts. These rocks, these fluorescent lichens, these thoughts… we are all remnants of obliterated stars. Considering our cosmic endowments, we are both utterly irrelevant and profoundly precious. Our finite presence holds within the infinite of the eternal universe. ‘Something deeply hidden had to be behind things’, Einstein famously wrote about the workings of his childhood magnetic compass. Perhaps nothing really is hidden. We are the things. We are the lightmakers. We are the eternal.
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Urheberrecht bei Andreas Dlugosch
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Évangéline est l’héroïne du poème "Évangéline- Un conte d’Acadie", écrit en 1845 par l’américain Henry Wadsworth Longfellow devenue un symbole du peuple acadien victime de la déportation et une source d’inspiration. Une chanson merveilleuse a été composée par Michel Conte en 1971, inspirée de cette héroïne fictive. Elle a été chantée par plusieurs chanteuses. Voici le lien de la version chantée par Natacha St-Pierre: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZsVxezxAnk
Cette mythique statue accueille les visiteurs à l’entrée des jardins du site commémoratif de la Déportation. Son origine est une statuette en terre cuite créée au Québec en 1918 par Louis-Philippe Hébert. Ce dernier voulait donner un visage à l’héroïne du poème de Longfellow. C’est son fils Henri qui verra à faire couler dans le bronze cette statue plus de 2 mètres. Réalisée à Paris, elle arrive à Grand-Pré juste à temps pour les cérémonies entourant son dévoilement, le 29 juillet 1920.
Dans un article de la Presse du 15 août 2021, Serge Comeau, chroniqueur de l’Acadie Nouvelle et curé de Shippagan rappelle que plusieurs se sont demandé pourquoi Hébert avait donné à Évangéline des traits inquiets et mélancoliques tournés vers l’arrière. Certains pensent que c’est peut-être pour voir une dernière fois les terres verdoyantes de Grand-Pré. Selon l’interprétation de M. Comeau, l’orientation du visage d’Évangéline, son regard tourné vers l’arrière, n’est pas un refus de regarder droit vers l’avant mais un désir de revoir le chemin parcouru par un peuple qui réussit, malgré les vicissitudes de l’histoire, à rester fidèle à son avenir. Se nourrir de l’histoire des devanciers peut en effet devenir un point de départ pour prendre sa place dans le concert des nations. Une façon de s’abreuver du passé afin de trouver un nouvel élan…
Peuplé de 1680 à 1755, l'ancien village acadien de Grand Pré a été transformé en un vaste parc donnant sur les digues et les aboiteaux que les premiers colons avaient gagnés sur la mer. Cette étendue bien entretenue de pelouses séparées par des haies, de tapis de fleurs et de grands arbres d'ombrage constitue un mémorial permanent à la mémoire du peuple acadien. Le site et son centre d'accueil racontent la Déportation des Acadiens (ou le Grand dérangement), une expression utilisée pour désigner l'expropriation massive et la déportation à partir de 1755 des Acadiens, peuple francophone d'Amérique du Nord, à la veille de la prise de possession par les Britanniques de la Nouvelle-France.
En effet, le 5 septembre 1755, après avoir désarmé les Acadiens de tout le bassin des Mines, le plus grand de tous les établissements acadiens, les militaires rassemblent la population dans l’église de Grand-Pré où on leur lit l’Acte de déportation. Tout va très vite. Des navires de transport sont déjà ancrés au large. On embarque de force les hommes, les femmes et les enfants, parfois pêle-mêle, familles séparées. Quand les navires surchargés voguent vers les colonies américaines, le bétail et les terres des Acadiens sont redistribués aux Britanniques, qui s’enrichissent de cet événement dramatique. Ainsi, des Planteurs de la Nouvelle-Angleterre s'établirent au village à partir de 1760.
Des scènes semblables se produisent partout en Acadie. La déportation des Acadiens s'effectua principalement lors de l'année 1755, bien que des déplacements fussent organisés jusqu'à la fin de la guerre de Sept Ans en 1763. Des 18 000 individus habitant l'Acadie, aujourd'hui des terres comprenant approximativement la Nouvelle-Écosse, le Nouveau-Brunswick et l'île du Prince-Édouard plus de 12 000 Acadiens furent déportés, et environ 8 000 moururent avant d'arriver à destination à cause des épidémies, du froid, de la misère, de la malnutrition ou des naufrages. Des survivants, beaucoup poursuivent leurs pérégrinations pendant plusieurs années, sinon des décennies, avant de retrouver une terre où s'installer. Cela explique que les Acadiens, et leurs descendants, vivent dans des régions du globe très différentes : Canada (Acadie, Québec), Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, côte est des États-Unis, Louisiane (les Cadiens), Antilles, Royaume-Uni, France, et jusqu'aux îles Malouines.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_Tower
Devils Tower (also known as Bear Lodge Butte) is a butte, possibly laccolithic, composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Ranger District of the Black Hills, near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises 1,267 feet (386 m) above the Belle Fourche River, standing 867 feet (265 m) from summit to base. The summit is 5,112 feet (1,559 m) above sea level.
Devils Tower was the first United States national monument, established on September 24, 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt. The monument's boundary encloses an area of 1,347 acres (545 ha).
Source: www.nps.gov/deto/index.htm
Many People, Many Stories, One Place
The Tower is an astounding geologic feature that protrudes out of the prairie surrounding the Black Hills. It is considered sacred by Northern Plains Indians and indigenous people. Hundreds of parallel cracks make it one of the finest crack climbing areas in North America. Devils Tower entices us to learn more, explore more and define our place in the natural and cultural world.
Source: www.blackhillsbadlands.com/parks-monuments/devils-tower-n...
Devils Tower National Monument, a unique and striking geologic wonder steeped in Native American legend, is a modern-day national park and climbers' challenge. Devils Tower sits across the state line in northeast Wyoming. The Tower is a solitary, stump-shaped granite formation that looms 1,267 feet above the tree-lined Belle Fourche River Valley, like a skyscraper in the country. Once hidden below the earth’s surface, erosion has stripped away the softer rock layers revealing the Tower.
The two-square-mile park surrounding the tower was proclaimed the nation’s first national monument by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906. The park is covered with pine forests, woodlands, and grasslands. While visiting the park you are bound to see deer, prairie dogs, and other wildlife. The mountain’s markings are the basis for Native American legend. One legend has it that a giant bear clawed the grooves into the mountainside while chasing several young Indian maidens. Known by several northern plains tribes as Bears Lodge, it is a sacred site of worship for many American Indians. Devils Tower is also remembered as the movie location for “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”
The stone pillar is about 1,000 feet in diameter at the bottom and 275 feet at the top and that makes it the premier rock climbing challenge in the Black Hills. Hikers enjoy the Monument’s trails. The 1.25-mile Tower Trail encircles the base. This self-guided hike offers close-up views of the forest and wildlife, not to mention spectacular views of the Tower itself. The Red Beds Trail covers a much wider three-mile loop around the tower.
Source: travelwyoming.com/places-to-go/destinations/national-park...
While America’s first national monument garnered significant attention as the backdrop to the 1977 Stephen Spielberg movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the tower is sacred to Northern Plains Indian tribes and the Black Hills region Kiowa Tribe. With oral storytelling and a history that dates back thousands of years, today, American Indian tribes continue to hold sacred ceremonies at the tower, including sweat lodges and sun dances. There is more to this monument than its rich history. You can stop at the visitor’s center to learn about one of the ranger-led programs, night sky viewing, hiking and even climbing to the top of Devils Tower. If one day isn’t enough to explore this unforgettable area, bring your camping gear to stay within the monument, or stay just outside or in accommodations at one of the nearby towns.
Additional Foreign Language Tags:
(United States) "الولايات المتحدة" "Vereinigte Staaten" "アメリカ" "美国" "미국" "Estados Unidos" "États-Unis"
(Wyoming) "وايومنغ" "怀俄明州" "व्योमिंग" "ワイオミング州" "와이오밍" "Вайоминг"
(Devils Tower National Monument) "النصب التذكاري الوطني لبرج الشياطين" "魔鬼塔国家纪念碑" "डेविल्स टॉवर राष्ट्रीय स्मारक" "デビルズタワー国定公園" "데빌스 타워 국립천연기념물" "Национальный монумент «Башня дьявола»" "Monumento Nacional Torre del Diablo"
A beautiful and vivid green group of stalactites, the formations that grow downward in a cave. Note personat the bottom ofphoto for scale.
A stalactite (from Ancient Greek σταλακτός (stalaktós) 'dripping', from σταλάσσειν (stalássein) 'to drip') is a mineral formation that hangs from the ceiling of caves, hot springs, or man-made structures such as bridges and mines. Any material that is soluble and that can be deposited as a colloid, or is in suspension, or is capable of being melted, may form a stalactite. Stalactites may be composed of lava, minerals, mud, peat, pitch, sand, sinter, and amberat (crystallized urine of pack rats) A stalactite is not necessarily a speleothem, though speleothems are the most common form of stalactite because of the abundance of limestone caves.
The beautiful fishing village of Manarola, Cinque Terre
The Cinque Terre is a rugged portion of coast on the Italian Riviera. It is in the Liguria region of Italy, to the west of the city of La Spezia. "The Five Lands" is composed of five villages: Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore. The coastline, the five villages, and the surrounding hillsides are all part of the Cinque Terre National Park and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Over the centuries, people have carefully built terraces on the rugged, steep landscape right up to the cliffs that overlook the sea. Part of its charm is the lack of visible corporate development. Paths, trains and boats connect the villages, and cars cannot reach them from the outside.
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Since I've already shown one set of my everyday carry items (including the obligatory Leatherman multitool), this Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II also comes along for the ride on the belt. This is my whatever-piques-my-interest camera, the latest in a series of compact Canons that I've carried every day. I also have an employer-supplied iPhone by my side, but I reserve that for work-related photographs as I prefer the ergonomics and flexibility of an advanced point-and-shoot.
Composed to fit within the 3" (76.2mm) constraints.
Exploring a deciduous forest, seeking photographic elements, can be an arduous task. Often times, captured from within or viewed as a whole, itâs a chaotic scene of elements made up of branches, leaves, trunks and shrubbery. Our two eyes, dexterity, locomotion and the mindâs perception have evolved to make hunting and gathering less complex. This adeptness allows us to peer through the underbrush and seemingly erase dimensional layers of the scene. Our minds are a powerful tool that seek organization of shapes, patterns and colors which compliment our intended goals, or even, possibly, our survival.
Night talk
On a clear winter night, the cat Bruno ventured out to stretch his legs for a moment. Everything was white all around, there was snow on the paths and meadows.
Even on the fence post that Bruno loved to jump on in the summer. Actually, cats don't like winter. They prefer to lie inside on the windowsill and watch the flakes dance from the warm spot.
But from time to time a need drives her out. Well, and then Bruno saw something fluttering around over his beloved fence posts.
Curious, he jumped up after all.
Huh, was that cold ass when he sat down.
And then he saw it, the little bird.
"You're already blue from the cold," said Bruno to the thickly puffed up little bird and at the sight of his bare little legs he was horrified.
"I always look like this," replied the birdie, fluttering around in front of him. "Because I'm a blue tit!"
"Oh, but aren't you cold?" Bruno wondered.
"No, I move and my feet can't take the cold. And even though I seem to be shaking, it's a way of keeping me and my feet warm. In addition, people feed us birds, so we don't have to go hungry. Because when you're full, you don't freeze so quickly."
Bruno looked at the little fluttering thing for a while, shaking his head.
Then he jumped down and into the warm cozy room.
Pictuare: Composing from parts of several images
Story: EGo, in Memory of my dear cat Bruno
Plauderei in der Nacht
In einer klaren Winternacht wagte sich Kater Bruno hinaus, um sich mal kurz die Beine zu vertreten.
Ringsumher war alles weiß, auf den Wegen und Wiesen lag Schnee. Sogar auf den Zaunpfosten, auf den Bruno im Sommer so gerne herumsprang.
Eigentlich mögen Katzen den Winter ja nicht. Sie liegen lieber drinnen auf der Fensterbank und schauen dem Tanz der Flocken vom warmen Plätzchen aus zu.
Aber von Zeit zu Zeit treibt sie ein Bedürfnis doch einmal hinaus.
Tja, und da sah Bruno etwas über seinen geliebten Zaunpfählen herumflattern.
Neugierig sprang er nun doch hinauf.
Huh, war das kalt am Hintern, als er sich setzte.
Und dann sah er es, das kleine Vögelchen.
"Du bist ja schon ganz blau vor Kälte", sprach Bruno das dick aufgeplusterte Vögelchen an und beim Anblick seiner nackten Beinchen packte ihn das blanke Entsetzen.
"Ich sehe immer so aus", entgegnete der Piepmatz und flatterte dabei vor ihm herum. "Ich bin nämlich eine Blaumeise!"
"Oh, aber frierst du denn nicht?", wunderte sich Bruno.
"Nein, ich bewege mich ja und meinen Füßen kann die Kälte nichts anhaben. Und auch wenn es aussieht, als ob ich zittere, ist es doch ein Mittel, mich und meine Füße warm zu halten.
Außerdem füttern die Menschen uns Vögel, da müssen wir auch keinen Hunger leiden. Denn wer satt ist, friert nicht so schnell."
Kopfschüttelnd betrachtete Bruno noch eine Weile das kleine flatternde Ding.
Dann sprang er hinunter und hinein ins warme gemütliche Zimmer.
Bild: Composing aus Teilen mehrerer Bilder
Geschichte: EGo, zur Erinnerung an meinen lieben Kater Bruno.
I Headed out for a Walk Or Was It a Stroll?
I really didn’t care as I was amongst the greens and yellows
Tall trees were all around me in the park of Kincaid
A path led me off to a distant point where I could be near the sea
For Autumn had come with a cool wind and rainy days
A refreshing breeze and smell as I walked with a friend
This was a simple paradise as I walked on this early afternoon.
Another work of short poetry or prose to complement the image captured one later morning while walking the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail in Kincaid Park in Anchorage, Alaska. With the tall trees on both sides of the path ahead, it had this serene, idyllic feeling that one might experience while walking amongst a forest of trees. So in between a time when no people were walking by, I composed this image, using the walking path as a leading line off into the distance. I went back and forth in my mind on how much of the trees to include, but in the end, I felt it best to not include the very tops and take away from the hiking path with the trees all around. One doesn't often see the tops of the trees while walking ahead in a forest; one just sees the beauty of trees all around and takes in that wonder. That's what I was attempting to capture with this view. Metering the image was merely a matter of finding the right aperture to capture as much as I could in focus while not blowing any highlights from the more brighter, overcast skies above. I was thinking I could later pull out the more shadowed areas in the lower part of the trees in post production.
Symphony of the Seas is an Oasis-class cruise ship owned and operated by Royal Caribbean International. She was built in 2018 in the Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, France, the fourth in Royal Caribbean's Oasis class of cruise ships. At 228,081 GT, she is the largest cruise ship in the world by gross tonnage, surpassing her sister ship Harmony of the Seas, also owned by Royal Caribbean International.
Symphony of the Seas measures 361.011 meters (1,184 ft 5.0 in) in length and has a gross tonnage of 228,081 across 18 decks. She is able to accommodate 5,518 passengers at double occupancy up to a maximum capacity of 6,680 passengers, as well as a 2,200-person crew. There are 16 decks for guest use, 22 restaurants, 4 pools, and 2,759 cabins.
Symphony of the Seas is about 30 meters (98 feet) longer than the largest military ships ever built, the U.S. Nimitz-class aircraft carriers.
Facilities include a children's water park, a full-size basketball court, an ice-skating rink, a zip line that is 10 decks high, a 1400-seat theater, an outdoor aquatic theater with Olympic-height platforms, and two 43-foot (13 m) rock-climbing walls. There is also a park containing over 20,000 tropical plants.
Symphony of the Seas is powered onboard by six marine-diesel sets each composed of three 16-cylinder Wärtsilä 16V46D common rail engines and three 12-cylinder Wärtsilä 12V46D engines.
The energy-efficient design of Symphony of the Seas enables it to accomplish shipboard power generation with 85 MW versus the 100 MW normally found on Oasis-class ships. One of the key design features is the use of only LED or fluorescent lights in order to avoid the heat generation from incandescent bulbs, thereby reducing the load on air conditioning systems.
Additional energy efficiency is accomplished by using a 2 MW steam turbine to recover waste heat from the engines and converting it into energy to power a portion of the onboard hotel load.
For propulsion, Symphony of the Seas uses three 20,000 kilowatt azipod main engines, which are electric thrusters. These engines are mounted under the stern of the ship and they each drive 20 foot wide rotatable propellers. In addition to the three main engines, there are four bow thrusters used for docking, each with 5,500 kilowatts of power or 7,380 horsepower.
Among the Oasis-class ships, Symphony of the Seas uses 25% less fuel due to the implementation of a new system that releases tiny air bubbles under the hull to enable the vessel to glide more smoothly through the water. The air layer also reduces excitation from the propellers, which cuts noise and vibration levels in the aft part of the ship.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_of_the_Seas
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another vertorama at Remis Beach taken during duo outing with Ustaz Firuz. i kinda like the rock formation as the lead in to the trees thats why i composed my shot like this. i like simplicity in my composition.
please my friends, i really appreciate your visit here but dont just leave badges or group invites, i would love to see critics and constructive comments. so that i can improve my shots next time :)
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The chapel complex is composed of the chapel itself, an entrance canopy that incorporates a small bell tower, and a storage shed. The chapel and accessory buildings were designed by C.B. Loomis in a rustic style, also called Western Craftsman. The entrance canopy aligns the approach on the desired axis to the Cathedral Group and provides shelter to the chain-operated bell. Access to the chapel is by boardwalk, leading to a beveled plank door with decorative ironwork. The 22-foot (6.7 m) by 50-foot (15 m) T-shaped chapel has exposed log interior walls with stained glass windows on either side. Behind the altar on the chapel's axis, a picture window that would be anachronistic in another setting frames a spectacular view that substitutes for a stained glass composition. A sacristy stands to one side
Em Ourense, o Paseo Fluvial do Miño, que conecta a Via Vella às pontes históricas, oferece um testemunho da rica paisagem ribeirinha galega no início de dezembro. A imagem capturada revela um ecossistema em transição, onde árvores de folha caduca, como amieiros, freixos e salgueiros, iniciam o processo de despojamento, contrastando com o verde persistente do sub-bosque denso, composto por fetos e outras herbáceas que estabilizam o solo e mitigam a erosão. A presença constante de hera nos troncos sublinha a humidade característica deste corredor ecológico, vital para a regulação hidrológica e preservação da biodiversidade em ambiente urbano. O rio Minho, elemento estruturante da identidade de Ourense e o mais longo da Galiza, serpenteia ao fundo, revelando zonas de água lenta e barras de seixos, reflexo da dinâmica natural de deposição e caudais mais baixos na estação fria. Este passeio pedonal, integrado numa requalificação das frentes ribeirinhas, promove a mobilidade suave, a educação ambiental e valoriza o património natural e histórico da cidade, outrora assentamento romano atraído pelas termas e recursos hídricos abundantes.
In Ourense, the Miño River Walk, which connects the Via Vella to historic bridges, offers a glimpse of Galicia's rich riverside landscape in early December. The image captured reveals an ecosystem in transition, where deciduous trees such as alders, ash trees, and willows begin the process of shedding their leaves, contrasting with the persistent green of the dense undergrowth, composed of ferns and other herbaceous plants that stabilize the soil and mitigate erosion. The constant presence of ivy on the trunks highlights the characteristic humidity of this ecological corridor, vital for hydrological regulation and the preservation of biodiversity in an urban environment. The Minho River, a structuring element of Ourense's identity and the longest in Galicia, meanders in the background, revealing areas of slow water and pebble bars, reflecting the natural dynamics of deposition and lower flows in the cold season. This pedestrian walkway, part of a redevelopment of the riverfront, promotes soft mobility and environmental education and enhances the natural and historical heritage of the city, once a Roman settlement attracted by its thermal springs and abundant water resources.
Outside shelves - porch (Master Nicholaus twelfth century) are represented the twelve months of the year (here August July June) - Basilica of San Zeno Verona
Principale capolavoro del romanico in Italia, la basilica di San Zeno è uno degli edifici più importanti della città. E' dedicata all'ottavo vescovo di Verona, un santo di origine africana a cui si attribuiscono numerosi miracoli e la conversione al cristianesimo delle popolazioni venete. Il nucleo originario della Basilica di San Zeno risale al IV secolo, quando una piccola chiesa fu eretta vicino al luogo di sepoltura del Santo.
L'interno della chiesa, con pianta a forma di croce latina a tre navate, presenta una peculiare suddivisione su tre livelli: la cripta è in basso, sovrastata prima dalla chiesa plebana e poi dal presbiterio (o Chiesa Superiore) a cui si accede mediante due maestose scalinate in marmo. Anche il grande Chiostro (a cui si accede attraverso la navata di sinistra) è in stile romanico e risale al XII secolo: composto da numerosi archetti sorretti da colonnine binate, racchiude antichi sepolcri, preziosi affreschi e una edicola che conteneva il lavatoio dei frati.
Basilica of San Zeno, Verona
Main masterpiece of Romanesque architecture in Italy, the Basilica of San Zeno is one of the most important buildings of the city. It is dedicated to the eighth bishop of Verona, a saint of African origin to which are attributed many miracles, and the conversion to Christianity of Veneto populations. The original nucleus of the San Zeno Basilica dates back to the fourth century, when a small church was built near the site of the Holy Burial.
The interior, with a Latin cross plan with three naves, presents a peculiar split on three levels: the crypt is at the bottom, topped by the first parish church and then from the presbytery (or Upper Church) which can be accessed via two majestic marble staircases. Even the great cloister (which is accessed through the left aisle) is Romanesque and dates from the twelfth century, composed of numerous small arches supported by twin columns, contains ancient tombs, ancient frescos and a shrine containing the wash of the friars.