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This concludes my series of pictures from my cross-country trip/move last summer. Blanca and I are very happy with our new life here on the beautiful Oregon coast!
Thank you for your interest and comments on my travelogue! Such a road trip is a special experience and a great way to bond with your travel companion, whether they have two or four legs!
The rally and speeches concluded, the march to the Georgia Capitol began.
Atlanta (Atlanta Civic Center), Georgia, USA.
18 October 2025.
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▶ "No Kings protests took place on October 18, 2025, as part of a series of demonstrations taking place largely in the United States against Donald Trump's policies and actions during his second presidency. The demonstrations, which followed the June 2025 No Kings protests, took place in some 2,700 locations across the country, including the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Chicago, New York City, [and Atlanta].
Approximately 200 organizations collaborated to coordinate the October protests, which drew nearly 7 million participants nationwide, marking it as one of the largest single-day demonstrations in American history."
— Wikipedia (accessed 28 October 2025).
▶ In the city of Atlanta, Georgia, an estimated 10,000 gathered at the Atlanta Civic Center parking lot in Old Fourth Ward to hear speakers before a march from the Civic Center to Liberty Plaza [downtown] outside the State Capitol building."
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Detroit, MI
How Much a Dollar Cost - Kendrick Lamar
In the city, it's hard to tell who's really struggling and who is hustling (wait, is there is a difference?). Anyway, this dude made a point to stop me for a dollar. Being a watch guy, I noticed his wrist and immediately concluded there was no way he could be homeless. Then there was the nicely creased pants and the fresh pack of Newports in his shirt pocket. But who am I to judge Chris...
A panorama made of 3 images of this tiny bit of Cornwall. This concludes my images from my trip so I would like to thank everyone sincerely for taking the time to comment and give feedback over the last five images.
Q1. If there is one thing you like about this panorama what is it?
Q2. If there is one thing you don't like about this panorama what is it?
Best viewed LARGE.
I must conclude that the mind is too limited to contain even itself. And what is the part that the mind cannot contain in itself? Is it outside the mind itself, rather than hidden within? If it is there, why can’t I comprehend it? I tell you a great marvel. Amazement seizes me to think that men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean and the circuits of the stars. Yet they ignore the wonder found in themselves.
-St.Augustine, Confessions
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Enjoy and share well this HOLY WEEK, for He died so EACH of us may live.
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"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from u s in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -Sam Adams
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Blushing at this end from the joy of reading your latest epistle. Twas cool. Improving toward Perfection is a life time goal of many. Never achieved but trying, right? Some need so much help. If we each do our part, maybe Hades will be a little less full during that long eternal party without air conditioning.
Though at any party on this planet, I do not hang with every body. I stay in the corner, spy a few prior acquaintances or friends, and talk the night away. I am not too much on meeting and making great new friends from a large crowd. In fact, few parties do I attend. Who needs that or them? I am busy partying on Flickr.
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Scripture Needs to Be Read Spiritually, Says Preacher
Delivers Final Lenten Meditation for Pope and Curia
ROME, MARCH 14, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Scripture is not only inspired by God, but also "breathes forth God," that is, the Holy Spirit inhabits Scripture and animates it, says the preacher of the Pontifical Household.
Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa said this today in the Lenten meditation he delivered to Benedict XVI and the Roman Curia in the Redemptoris Mater Chapel of the Apostolic Palace.
The sermon was the last in a series of meditations the preacher gave this Lent.
The series, titled "The Word of God Is Living and Effective," reflects the theme of the next Synod of Bishops on the word of God, to be held in October.
Father Cantalamessa spoke about the two meanings implied by 2 Timothy 3:16 "all Scripture is inspired by God."
He explained that the more common meaning is the "passive" one, referring to the way that God directed the writers of the holy texts.
The second meaning, the preacher explained, is "active": Scripture, is not only "inspired by God" but also "spirates God." "After having dictated the Scripture, the Holy Spirit is in a way contained within it; he ceaselessly inhabits it and animates it with his divine breath."
Setting him free
Father Cantalamessa then asked, "How do we approach the Scriptures in a way that they truly 'free' the Spirit that they contain?"
He said that "in Scripture, the Spirit cannot be discovered if not by passing through the letter, that is, through the concrete human vesture that the word of God assumed in the different books and inspired authors. In them the divine meaning cannot be discovered, if not by beginning from the human meaning, the one intended by the human author, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Luke, Paul, etc. It is in this that we find the complete justification of the immense effort in study and research that surrounds the book of Scripture."
But, Father Cantalamessa affirmed, there is a "tendency to stop at the letter, considering the Bible an excellent book, the most excellent of human books, if you will, but only a human book. Unfortunately we run the risk of reducing Scripture to a single dimension."
The Pontifical Household preacher pointed to a sign of hope: "That the demand for a spiritual reading of Scripture and one guided by faith is now beginning to be felt by some eminent exegetes."
The Capuchin urged a furthering of this "spiritual reading."
He explained: "To speak of the 'spiritual' reading of the Bible is not to speak of an edifying, mystical, subjective, or worse still, imaginative, reading, in opposition to the scientific reading, which would be objective. On the contrary, it is the most objective reading that there is because it is based on the Spirit of God, not on the spirit of man.
"Spiritual reading is therefore something that is quite precise and objective; it is the reading that is done under the guidance of, or in the light of, the Holy Spirit that inspired Scripture. It is based on a historical event, namely, the redemptive act of Christ which, with his death and resurrection, accomplishes the plan of salvation and realizes all of the figures and the prophecies, it reveals all of the hidden mysteries and offers the true key for reading the Bible."
Toward all truth
Father Cantalamessa said that this "spiritual reading" of Scripture applies to both the Old and New Testaments.
"Reading the New Testament spiritually means reading it in the light of the Holy Spirit given to the Church at Pentecost to lead the Church to all truth, that is, to the complete understanding and actualization of the Gospel," he said.
The preacher affirmed that spiritual reading both integrates and surpassed scientific reading: "Scientific reading knows only one direction, which is that of history; it explains, in fact, that which comes after in light of that which comes before; it explains the New Testament in the light of the Old which precedes it, and it explains the Church in the light of the New Testament.
"Spiritual reading fully recognizes the validity of this direction of research, but it adds an inverse direction to it. This consists in explaining that which comes before in the light of that which comes after, prophecy in the light of its realization, the Old Testament in the light of the New and the New in the light of the tradition of the Church."
Father Cantalamessa contended, then, that "that which is necessary is not therefore a spiritual reading that would take the place of current scientific exegesis, with a mechanical return to the exegesis of the Fathers; it is rather a new spiritual reading corresponding to the enormous progress recorded by the study of 'letter.' It is a reading, in sum, that has the breath and faith of the Fathers and, at the same time, the consistency and seriousness of current biblical science.
The Pontifical Household preacher ended his reflection with a word of hope regarding a return to a spiritual reading like that of the Church fathers.
The Capuchin said "from the four winds the Spirit has begun unexpectedly to blow again" and we "witness the reappearance of the spiritual reading of the Bible and this too is a fruit -- one of the more exquisite -- of the Spirit."
"Participating in Bible and prayer groups, I am stupefied in hearing, at times, reflections on God's word that are analogous to those offered by Origen, Augustine or Gregory the Great in their time, even if it is in a more simple language," he said. "Let us conclude with a prayer that I once heard a woman pray after she was read the episode in which Elijah, ascending up to heaven, leaves Elisha two-thirds of his spirit.
"It is an example of spiritual reading in the sense I have just explained: 'Thank you, Jesus, that ascending to heaven, you do not only leave us two-thirds of your Spirit, but all of your Spirit! Thank you that you did not give your Spirit to just one disciple, but to all men!'"
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EXPLORE # 298, 381, 432 on 3-17-2008, after being on initial list on Sunday, March 16, 2008.
45407 disguised as 44996 climbing up to Corrour during a photo charter on the west Highland line 13th October 2004.
That concludes the selection of standard gauge steam 35mm slides i've picked out to scan during lockdown. These run up to 2005 when i changed to medium format.
Time permitting i will hopefully be uploading some narrow gauge steam over the next few days.
Concluding my interrupted reptiles and amphibians series.
Florida softshell turtles are native to the Southeastern United States. They are found primarily in the state of Florida, but they also range to southern sections of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and Texas. It is the only species of a softshell turtle whose range spans the entire Florida peninsula. These turtles occupy almost every freshwater habitat, even tolerating some brackish environments; however, they are not often found in water with strong currents, preferring habitats with slow-moving or still water. These different habitats include swamps, lakes, marshes, wet prairies, small rivers, creeks, and even ponds formed in man-made ditches or sinkholes.
Some may recall that I posted a headshot of this specimen about a year ago. I'll include that in comments.
"Some have concluded that time is simply a human construct. ... The theory, which is backed up by Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, states space and time are part of a four-dimensional structure where everything thing that has happened has its own coordinates in spacetime." -- Courtesy Express
This week's Crazy Tuesday challenge, "Time," motivated me to do something showing the weirdness of time. This is what I came up with but alas it does not technically meet the rules of the group. Though the image you see here was created within the rules the photo on which it is based was not. So rather than ruffle any feathers, I decided not to submit it to the group but I sill like it so here it is for better or worse.
Happy Crazy Tuesday!
We just concluded our Badlands workshop with a phenomenal group of talented photogs. We were non-stop shooting sunrises, sunsets, Milky Way with slot canyons excursions at mid-day. To top it off, we ended with another beautiful sunset. This is a single exposure image, focus stacked for foreground sharpness @16mm. The dates for our 2020 Badlands workshops are out! Grab your spot soon before it fills up:
I concluded a nice and easy two day week at work today and with camera packed in the car I set off into the night. I had no specific destination in mind so went where the sky took me and headed into the hills.
I came across a place called Tideswell with a beautiful cathedral but wasn't convinced I'd get a good angle and the street lights spoilt it. So I decided at the point to head to Magpie Mine.
The moon was magnificent and it is a shame I didn't have any lens with the length to do it justice.
I took many shots tonight and was happy with quite a few. I could have stayed longer but I have plans to be up early tomorrow.
As I set off to leave I noticed something was missing...where was my camera bag with my other lens?! Proof of how deserted this place is, nearly 2 hours I'd left it at the gate to Magpie Mine. If you've been it is a few minutes walk from where I was shooting!
Phew!!
Three hundred and forty four
This 5th photograph concludes the series of “Comet NEOWISE” (aka C/2020 F3) viewed above the geologically unique Meteora, Greece. The photogenic comet will wander companionless to the aphelion (710 AU away), then it will start approaching our Sun again. We, stargazers and photographers, shall miss the celestial object for the next six and a half millennia.
The comet was captured from 4 miles away from Meteora (6 km, the prehistoric cave’s entrance at Theopetra, where the oldest man-made structure on Earth was built 23 millennia ago) on July 20, 2020 at 22:21’ (local time) at a 19° 21’ altitude above horizon and azimuth of 315° 55’. The comet’s visual magnitude was 3.65, its distance from Earth was 0.7 AU, whereas its distance from the Sun was 0.58 AU. Light pollution is markedly evident below-left, as Meteora rockes were illuminated by gigantic projectors and the city lights were on in Kalampaka.
The impressive and lofty rock formations are known as Meteora: The sandstone megaliths’ height varies 1,000-2,067 ft (300-630 m). The rock masses were formed 60 million years ago, are geologically unique and listed in UNESCO world heritage sites.
This photograph was made by stacking 32 light frames by Starry Landscape Stacker (version 1.8.0; algorithm: Mean Min Horizon Noise).
Days Gone BY in Villanueva, New Mexico
Villanueva, known as La Cuesta until 1890. Prior to 1786, when a peace treaty was concluded with the Comanche, Spanish settlements in New Mexico were confined to the Rio Grande valley. The reduced threat from Comanche raids permitted the expansion eastwards of Spanish settlements onto the Great Plains. Villanueva was one of the settlements founded in the Pecos River Valley as part of that expansion. A principal reason for founding the Pecos Valley settlements was to defend the Spanish and Pueblan settlements in the Rio Grande valley from raids by Apache and other Indian peoples.
Villanueva, a Spanish colonial village, was founded in 1808 and originally called La Cuesta (Spanish, hill or slope) because the village sits on top of a steeply sloping hill or cuesta overlooking the Pecos River. La Cuesta was one of the communities located within the San Miguel del Vado Land Grant. The grant was approved by the Spanish government in 1794 and settlements established in the land grant area included Bernal, El Pueblo, Entrnosa, Guzano, La Cuesta, Las Mulas, Puertecito, San Jose del Vado, and San Miguel del Vado.
Families from La Cuesta established the community of Anton Chico, on the Pecos River 18 kilometres (11 mi) downstream from La Cuesta, in 1822 and El Cerrito, 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) downstream from La Cuesta, from 1824-1827. A church, still existing, was built in La Cuesta in 1831. By 1835 and thereafter, La Cuesta was one of the most populous settlements in the Pecos Valley. In 1845 La Cuesta probably had a population approaching 500 people.
Many Ciboleros (buffalo hunters) and Comancheros (traders with the Plains Indians), of the 19th century originated from La Cuesta and other Hispano communities along the Pecos River.
In 1890, the community was renamed to Villanueva, for a prominent local family.
Randsburg, California.
This concludes my postings from Thursday's 8x10 adventure.
I did a Google search of images using keywords I could read on the car and bike, and I think that's a 1954 Chrysler Windsor Deluxe, and in the window is a 1964 Yamaha Santa Barbara. The Yamaha is noteworthy because it is the first production 2-stroke motorcycle to feature automatic oil injection.
I like how the deflated rear tires level the car to the building.
Randsburg is a strange place. It is a little bit ghost town, a little bit desert-rat bedroom community, a little bit living museum and a little bit off-road crowd watering hole.
Intrepid 8x10 MkII
Schneider Kreuznach G-Claron 240mm ƒ9 @ƒ45
Nikkor Y52 yellow filter
General Electric PR-1 Exposure Meter c. early 1960's
Shanghai GP3 100 @50
Rodinal 1:50 for 8 minutes @ 21.8°C
Developed as a single sheet in a Paterson 5-reel tank.
Scanned in five vertical strips on my Epson Perfection V550 Photo that were then stitched together with PanoramaStitcher for Mac.
This was my last sheet of 8x10 Shanghai GP3 100. It was offered on eBay at a bargain price. It was double notched, with the more prominent notch on the wrong side. Once I figured that out, and once I figured out to shoot it at EI 50, it yielded pretty good results. No worries though, 35 sheets of Fomapan 400 will arrive in today's post. Far from being a favorite film, but a bargain is a bargain and at EI 200 it's decent enough. With this being 8x10, the excessive grain won't be an issue.
I had almost concluded that this morning would be just like the previous weekend mornings with absolutely nothing running. But not long after getting on IL38, UP started sending eastbounds at me and thus I actually had some stops to make along the Geneva Sub. After getting a coal load in Maple Park, I advanced up to Cortland to wait for the next EB. They were taking a bit longer than expected, but upon hearing a notched out EMD in the distance, I no longer minded the time. A solo BNSF ACe takes some stacks through the plant at CP Y055 and will be eventually be making its way to Global 4 in Joliet. Only thing missing in this image are some C&NW triple-head searchlights.
After concluding a spirited chase of Montana Rail Link's Night Gas Local at Eddy, MT on May 12, 2022, my friend Brian and I turned around and began the portage back to to Missoula for the night. After traveling barely a mile we ran across these beautiful Bighorn Sheep walking across the rocks. It was the first time I have ever seen one. Over the course of a number of minutes, lots of pixels were burned.
This photo concludes my series from this year's Thailand visit, all of which were taken with my trusty Nikon D5100. My photos to follow from around Chicagoland were taken with my new Nikon D7500. Thanks for viewing! Your support is just "plane" awesome :)
Nikon D5100, Tamron 18-270, ISO 140, f/8.0, 18mm, 1/250s
As we concluded my final excursion into the Costa Rican rain forest, we boarded the van for the 1.5-hour drive back from the Tenorio Volcano National Park to our hotel. Without warning, I felt a bit of sadness slipping into my heart. I had been blessed in so many ways on this particular adventure that its origin confused me.
Maybe it was the lack of good quality monkey time…maybe it was the fact that I nearly died climbing up the side of Tenorio Volcano! Maybe it was the realization that my time in this special place was nearly over and that chances are that I will not return. Then God decided to grant one more prayer.
When our tour guide Steven jumped out of his seat, twisted his entire body towards the passenger window and started excitingly telling the driver in Spanish to pull over quickly. I knew he had spotted something special. Our driver did a fantastic job of whipping us the out of heavy highway traffic, placing the van in the grass at a pretty steep angle…then backing the van back down the highway several hundred yards, much more quickly than any of his passengers were comfortable with!
Our guide, with his face glued to his window signaled the driver to stop with his left hand while opening his door while still moving with his right. He jumped out of the van, slid the side door open quickly while looking right into my eyes saying “Come…come quickly my friend!”
I’m pretty sure that I just lifted my feet from the floor, did a one cheek butt twist (Only those of us who actually disco danced in the 1970’s can do this, so don’t try this at home!) and slid out of the van into the grassy highway berm below. Steven then started jogging down the highway all the while pointing to the trees just behind a house now in front of us. To my amazement, Steven had spotted a large male Thee-toed sloth moving about as if on a mission. The sadness that had crept into my heart was gone faster than if it was in a jet fighters ejection seat!
As the sloth methodically moved from one side of the tree to the next, I captured dozens and dozens of shots. I was so focused on the sloth in the trees above that I didn’t even see the home’s owner until he was about fifteen feet away from us shouting something in Spanish and waiving his arms. Steven started shouting back. I assumed his concern was with the van parked in the grass…but Steven quickly informed us that he was claiming to be a sloth sanctuary, and was demanding payment. I’m not sure exactly what was said, but it looked as if Steven called his bluff, and he eventually just went back inside.
What a show this fellow put on, hanging upside-down twice for no apparent reason, as if he wanted his picture taken, eating from some type of elongated fruit and just hanging and looking at us…as pictured here.
When it was time to go, Steven asked if I got some good photos…my response was to snatch him up and give him a *hug …a reaction that caught us both off guard.
A little over an hour later we arrived at our hotel, ten and a half hours later in the day than our departure…exhausted, sunburnt and blessed! My 10-15 minutes capturing the coveted Three-toed sloth (considered by most to be prettier that its cousin the Two-toed) was the perfect ending to my last excursion. After dinner with the Mrs. and friends, I slept like the dead.
*It was a masculine bro-hug!!
Adventure before dementia!
A last batch to conclude this B&W series before going over the other parts, in color...
Back to my first love, black and white photography, after 25 years of loyalty and my betrayal at the beginning of last year.
Returning to B&W after a year of color is a bit like coming home after a long trip: you feel good there, but different, and you have to find your marks, again.
Welcome to this enchanted parenthesis on Istanbul, slipped between two series in color.
Happy I could frame this moment with Luce spreading her wings, just about to take off. This is the conclusive photo of my shooting as, after this frame, the entire Family decided the posing was concluded and begun to fly around in my studio.
By clicking twice the zoom function, you will see them about twice their actual size. Advise: to rate a macro as well as a close-up in all its details, the photo should be attentively watched and magnified from a PC desktop, never from small screens of tablets nor from even tinier screens as smartphones...And, oh boys, if you don't watch a picture from a large monitor, you will never notice nor realize how many errors there can be in an apparently fine pic, included editing mistakes!
Notice for the viewers: there is a technical misunderstanding I think on photos that are surrounded by a solid colour space, like, in my case, the black background. This does definitely NOT prevent the photo to be a close-up or a macro* (*even if Not academically meant). In this, for instance, the parrots appear double their real size and, although I humbly tend to define it as a close-up, it is by all means a macro, no matter if the subjects don't completely fill the space. Surrounding them with black (true existing background, no cropping) is my original way to naturally obtain a more balanced image for the eyes and to avoid to frame my photos with inelegant thick black or white frames.
Furthermore, since my parrots belong to the Nature, I tend to rarely photograph them close to man-made objects preferring, instead, natural displays like trunks or branches that are those where my parrots usually rest and play, free in situ in their usual environment!
Ref.PAPPAGALLI 2022\Pappagalli up-dates\La famigliola 087 okkk VM DEF
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This is the concluding piece of my series introducing the four horsemen of Maria Theresa Memorial, Vienna, Austria. All are designed by Caspar/Kaspar von Zumbusch (1830--1915).
This one depicts Leopold Joseph von Daun (1705--1766), who was an Austrian field marshal of the Imperial Army in the War of the Austrian Succession and Seven Years' War.
See Nr 1, Nr 2 and Nr 3 of the same series.
All four descriptions are closer to the idea of the equestrian than to the real enumeration of these statues -- all are cropped and thus heavily photoshopped, I have to admit.
The race run and won! It’s Saturday and now it’s time to celebrate.
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Whether or not you came in first second or third.. crossing the finish line of the week was good enough! Remember there is another race next week and nobody knows the outcome of that one who knows you may be the long shot !
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Multiple cameras
From multiple races
All film
This photo concludes my series of adult gulls in flight, one day I will present a similar set of immature gulls.
Rissa tridactyla (Larus tridactylus), adult
Black-legged Kittiwake
Dreizehenmöwe
Ride
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Atatürk and Venizelos conclude a treaty friendship in 1930...
The Istanbul Pogrom, Greek: Σεπτεμβριανά (Events of September); Turkish: 6–7 Eylül Olayları (Events of September 6–7)), was a pogrom directed primarily at Istanbul's 150,000-strong... Greek minority on September 6 and 7, 1955. Jews and Armenians living in the city and their businesses were also targeted in the pogrom, which was allegedly orchestrated by the Demokrat Parti-government of Turkish Prime Minister Adnan Menderes. The events were triggered by the false news that the house in Thessaloniki, Greece, where Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was born in 1881, had been bombed the day before...
After a 53 years, I love all Greeks peoples...Another side of water... L'autre côté de l'eau...Suyun öte yakası...
The concluding image I wanted to show: Osprey starting its turn with fish in tow to find a place to eat it.
A spectacular fireworks show over Mont Ripley concludes the Michigan Tech Winter Carnival on Saturday night.
The 500 ft long Houghton Hancock Bridge, is the only bridge of its type in Michigan. This unique bridge was designed as a double-deck bridge. The lower deck was designed for railroad traffic, and the upper deck was for highway traffic. To minimize the disruption of vehicle traffic on the bridge, the lower railroad deck of the lift span was also designed to also accommodate vehicle traffic. This allowed the bridge to be raised so that the railroad deck served the highway deck. While this would leave the railroad level of the bridge closed to trains, vehicle traffic could continue to cross the bridge, while allowing smaller boats to pass under the bridge. For large ships, the span could also be fully raised, which would completely stop traffic on the bridge. Today, trains no longer use the bridge, but the lower deck continues to serve as a crossing for snowmobiles in the winter.
To conclude my series of Green Eyes, here one of the rarest species in my archives.
I expect the number of clicks and favs to go up like a rocket ;-))
Felis (silvestris) catus
Cat, Domestic Cat
Katze, Hauskatze
Kat, Tamkat, Norsk Skovkat
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Si conclude oggi 31.08.2024 il servizio ferroviario svolto dall'Impresa a partecipazione Regionale del Veneto Sistemi Territoriali nelle tratte Rovigo - Verona, Rovigo - Chioggia (VE) e Adria (RO) - Mestre.
Fondata come Società per la gestione della tratta da Adria (RO) a Mestre, ottenne a partire dal 2009 l'affidamento di alcuni servizi passeggeri delle altre 2 tratte che diventò totale dal 2016.
Dal 01.09.2024 la gestione ritorna a Trenitalia la quale utilizzerà dei più moderni ALn501/502 (Minuetto Diesel) per lo svolgimento dei servizi nelle tratte da Verona a Chioggia (VE), nel frattempo la tratta da Adria (VE) a Mestre è chiusa per lavori di elettrificazione.
ALn668 605 di Sistemi Territoriali in servizio con il R 91513 da Verona Porta Nuova a Rovigo, in transito tra i campi di Ramodipalo frazione di Lendinara (RO).
The railway service carried out by the Veneto Regional Participation Company Sistemi Territoriali on the Rovigo - Verona, Rovigo - Chioggia (VE) and Adria (RO) - Mestre routes ends today, 31.08.2024.
Founded as a company for the management of the route from Adria (RO) to Mestre, in 2009 it obtained the assignment of some passenger services on the other 2 routes, which became total in 2016.
From 09.01.2024 the management returns to Trenitalia which will use more modern ALn501/502 (Minuetto Diesel) to carry out services on the routes from Verona to Chioggia (VE), in the meantime the route from Adria (VE) to Mestre is closed for electrification works.
ALn668 605 of Sistemi Territoriali in service with R 91513 from Verona Porta Nuova to Rovigo, in transit between the fields of Ramodipalo, a fraction of Lendinara (RO).
Concluding the Roman series with a look back at St Peters, one version from the crowded bridge, and the other from river level where there was absolutely no one around, I kinda felt scared because it was strange that nobody went down the steps, maybe it was a foolish thing to do on my part, maybe it was the lemming mentality that drives people to follow the hordes.
As NS 13Z begins to conclude its journey on the Roanoke District, it knocks down the CPLs at Cloverdale as the Glowworm glows in some sweet late afternoon southbound lighting.
to conclude this series, would like to pay tribute to my fellow photographers around, documenting these moments in history :)
I tried to document this event from different point of view: the people, the media and the enforcement officers
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3 March 2012 -- Thousands of people marched to the offices of the Hong Kong city government on Saturday, demanding that outgoing chief executive Donald Tsang stand trial following allegations of ethics violations in his dealings with businessmen.
Organizers said more than 5,000 participated in Saturday's march, but local police estimated about 2,800 turned up at Victoria Park, the site of Hong Kong's annual Tiananmen vigil and where the protest started.
Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule in 1997 amid promises of a high degree of autonomy. But China's leaders have kept grip over political and administrative elite from behind the scenes.
The city's seven million people can elect some legislative and district council members, but have no direct vote for their top leader, who is selected by a 1,200-strong election committee comprised largely of business leaders and Beijing loyalists.
Source: Reuters
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Rally Against Outgoing Leader 民陣3月3日「踢走爛攤子，還我真普選」大遊行
Looking at others newly uploaded shots this aft and noticed that many of us are harking back and searching through our archives for many reasons (bad weather or for me a new show to conclude) so I decided to upload a few here: they would have been taken with either a Fuji Finepix or a Nikon Coolpix: not up to today's equipment standards maybe but still viable I feel ....
To conclude my seasonal posts for the Christmas/start of winter season, I figured this would be the best of the three. Just a few days after I had success with 120 in the snow, I got a heads up that A408 out of Moncton would have the lead unit decked out in Christmas lights. I messaged a few others, and at the ripe hour of 0100 we set out. This is the first time that anything even remotely close to a Christmas train or a Holiday train has been done in the Atlantic Division. At somewhere in the vicinity of 0200-0230, four photographers who should've been long asleep fired many frames as 408 setoff a handful of cars in Burnside. Out of close to 60 frames of the night, I had three or four turn out okay, with this being the best by far. I should mention that this a solid effort done by the carmen and motive power guys in Moncton to spread some Christmas cheer!
And so we come to the end of this chapter and close the door on the greenhouse for now. Another day and another roll of film and another camera and who knows.
February (continued and concluded)
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All images were shot using the Hasselblad 500v
Because the Hasselblad has an interchangeable back I decided to shoot two Kodak films. Kodak Portra 400 and Kodak Tri X 400 all on a tripod so the framing and lighting would be identical. Light meter readings were all done using the “Viewfinder “app. More on that later
I’m traditionally a black and white kinda guy but I may be exploring a bit more color after this experiment. Each post will have both version for comparison.
Note: these posts will continue into March as I put together next months installments for the project
Hasselblad 500c
Zeiss Planar 80 mm f2.8 lens
Kodak Portra 400
Kodak Tri X 400
The street was given its name because of the residences of three chaplains and a bell-ringer built there during the 16th century. The four small buildings were demolished in 1708 to make room for the parsonage which is still present. Because the parsons of the German Church ("Tyska kyrkan") were housed near the street, the southern part of it was called Tyska Prästgatan ("The German Priest's Street") from the mid-18th to the mid-19th century while the northern part was called Svenska Prästgatan ("The Swedish Priest's Street"). The name revision of 1885, led to the name Prästgatan being used for the street's northern and southern extensions as well.
Before this, the north part of the street Storkyrkobrinken was known as Helvetesgränd ("Alley of Hell"), just like the surrounding area north and west of the cathedral Storkyrkan was referred to as Helvetet (Hell), a name subject to scholarly disputes. Professor Nils Ahnlund (1889–1957), interpreted it as referring to the area north of a church in popular beliefs being known as "latus plagæ damnatæ" ("the northern side of the damned") and therefore a place of disgrace suitable for suicides and criminals, a theory only corroborated by the location of the city executioner in the area. This theory was however questioned in several essays by the historian Lizzie Carlsson, who instead concluded that during the Middle Ages Helvetet was used all over Sweden for farmyards as well as other structures with a northern location. A theory, she argues, is confirmed by the fact that the "kingdom of the dead" in norse folklore is located to the north. While the presence of more distinguished residences in the Helvetet neighbourhood can be explained by the overcrowded conditions within the city walls, the name during medieval times did not have the pejorative meaning it has today, thus making the hypothesis credible.
This concludes the series. Hope you enjoyed the stroll around the gardens! To see the full essay, see the link below.
Return to Hakone Gardens, Saratoga. Shot with Fujifilm XPro2 and 18-55mm f2.8-4 lens in Acros.
PHOTO ESSAY: HAKONE
This was the shot that concluded my first experience of the Northern Lights, as seen at Hvalnes Lighthouse, Iceland.
A group of 5 of us had been on the road all day and had seen (in my opinion) one of the most amazing sunsets ever - panorama to follow. We were partly anticipating seeing the lights, but half resigned to calling it a night for some much needed sleep. Thankfully we checked outside one last time before bed.
I wasn't sure quite what to expect and to the eye, the 'lights' at first seemed like quite dull, linear white clouds. When photographed with a camera at relatively high sensitivity, the brightness and colours really popped out.
We saw the 'lights' on two more evenings, with the last evening being much brighter and more spectacular.
Shot with a Samyang 14mm (fully manual prime lens) at F/2.8
Perspective 'corrected' in Photoshop CS6 and horizon straightened manually with the liquify tool.
Greens selected and enhanced separately.
We concluded an extensive period of sunny weather (which coincided with confinement) in Denmark with some more usual freshness and even the first rain in a month. That's all it took for snails to invade the grassy grounds on the other side of the road.
I recently concluded a Trip to Amboli with a group of very enthusiastic friends. The sightings on the trip were awesome and we had some lovely photographic opportunities. If you have been to Amboli in rains, you know its almost always in clouds and there is always moisture in the atmosphere, so much that you can actually see it. In the below Image, i have tried to capture the essence of the atmosphere and the subjects thriving there. This was shot in pitch dark night, no flash was used, the only light source here is the light of small torch used behind the subject and bit to the right of it. Please do advise how this looks.
EXIF: Canon 100mm Macro
Shutter Speed: 1/50 Sec
F Stop: F/2.8
ISO: 800
Exposure Mode: Aperture Priority
Metering: Spot
Having concluded their run west, the crew of Union Pacific’s LTA 41 stuffs their train into the small, backwater UP Yard in Winona, MN. Having shoved in at Tower CK the train and crew are back on home rails after running via trackage rights on Canadian Pacific since Tunnel City, WI. Once the train is put away the crew will cab back to Adams to finish out their day. During the week, a crew will switch out the cars brought in by LTA 41 and service the customers in town before LTA 42 takes the traffic east to Adams on Friday evening.
i have to conclude that i don't so much hate the mall - after all i did have fun goofing around (but if i hadn't been taking pictures i probably wouldn't have had as much) - as it's just kind of sad. i know i'm outside the target demographic now, but there's no reason for me to ever shop there. most of the products the stores and kiosks were selling were both overpriced and junky, and i'm sure i could find anything similar online. the places i liked to go when i was a kid have all been closed down long ago and replaced with obnoxious clothing stores or nothing at all. oh well.
I’ll conclude the Budapest trip with these two bronzes from the Danube riverfront in Pest, along the Jane Haining Rakpart. Pictures of other people’s art can at best be documentary or travel photograpy. But what the heck. Don’t know the artist here.
This one caught us by surprise. We had moved down the valley to try and get a shot of the viaduct with water in, concluded we were on the wrong side and just moving to another view point when we heard a rumbling from the right. Fortunately my camera was out of the bag for a grab shot. A tarmac river perhaps?
The concluding piece of my "On a Sphere" series recently uploaded.
Detail of "Centre", a work by Iván Paulikovics (1953), erected in 2005 at Budapest, Hungary.
The full series featuring sculptures, statues, public art, involving a sphere:
Nr 1, Nr 2, Nr 3, Nr 4, Nr 5, Nr 6, Nr 7, Nr 8, Nr 9, Nr 10, Nr 11, Nr 12, Nr 13, Nr 14.
Time concludes
as much as it exudes
drawn from one
as we are from
a distance of years
in sunlight relent
like tides
set to the rein of light
neither swimming
nor walking
no talking
nor sleeping
this is no eidolon
it's Spring!
pure
and simple...
by anglia24
19h10: 17/04/2007
© 2007anglia24
This concludes my first downtown outing with the x100f. This was just a small sample of what I've been doing with the camera. I have a ton of ballpark shots and have since gone downtown several more times, so I'll definitely be posting more further down the line.
For the next series we'll be staying in the downtown area, but this time I'll be shooting with the XPro2. Be prepared for lots of B&W architecture shots:)
Downtown San Jose, July 2017. Shot with Fujifilm X100f in Classic Chrome with custom color balance adjustment.
PHOTO ESSAY: DOWNTOWN