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Landscapes you can't take too much credit for. Landscapes are like a metaphor for life. You must consistently show up and put yourself in position for success. The sky and light changes daily and without daily persistence you will miss the opportunity given to you. The one thing you can admire about a person's landscape is the time and dedication that person took to be in the right place at the right time. A consistent grind to be in the moment that the heavens gift you for not being lazy.
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A consistent expectation for power upgrades (in the eyes of us railfans) to the annual Canadian CP spray train during its time west of Winnipeg was reinforced no less back in 2023, as the latest cowl to get a dunk in the second available golden beaver paint re-powered the train for its branchline runs. Starting from Vancouver to all-over the prairies via southern interior BC, it conducted spraying of the US-connecting Weyburn Sub in early July. Here it is passing Mile 40, whose post is almost perfectly centred relative to the Richardson International grain facility directly south of the main.
As CPKC painted power start to roll out of the ongoing Mayfield overhaul projects (at the time of writing, 3 Gevos and 1 GP38 have been subject to the latest repaint specs), CP 9014 seems more and more likely to be the last of 5 40Fs to recieve the 2-letter branding. Getting them checked off while the paint is still fresh will never fail to satisfy my capturing of the rare breed of GMD motive power.
Interesting rock formation jutting out from the surface of Lake Biwa.
One of the world's oldest lake at over 4 million years old, an ancient lake is one that has consistently contained water for more than 1 million years.
The camera industry is dominated by 3 big names from just 1 country, they are worse than oligopolies since they also behave like a cabal. The lack of real, serious competition is a huge detriment to consumers, contrast this with the highly competitive smartphone market.
We now have cameras using the exact same sensor for 3 or more generations; Nikon D850 to Z7, then Z7ii and even the latest Z9 appears to be the same with just an additional stacked layer; Olympus E-M1 Mkii to EM-1X to E-M5iii to E-M1 Mkii. Olympus however imploded shortly after and is now OM Solutions.
The recent OM Solutions (previously Olympus) OM-1 came with a new stacked sensor touting 2 stops improvement in Dynamic Range plus 1 stop better in noise turned out to be nothing more than skin deep software tweaks giving better Straight Out Of Camera (SOOC) JPEGs only while the RAW file quality remained no better than the 2 generations older OMD E-M1 MKii. OM-1’s superiority over previous iterations is largely in subject tracking AF.
The Korean brand Samyang however managed to release their AF 135mm f1.8 FE just recently which more than matched the optical performance of the hallowed Sony FE 135mm f1.8 GM at less than 1/2 the price and 178g lighter! This is a good sign, hopefully more will come. The marketeers and shills meanwhile will be using their bullhorn to tell everyone why we need to spend much more instead.
Can’t help but agree with those who have been saying that a shakeup in the industry is long overdue especially if they continue with this trend of unfettered price escalation without any meaningful improvement in RAW quality, especially on the back of a declining market coupled with the highly competitive and progressive smartphone market involving major players from different countries.
In the world of HiFi and in particular the market for In-Ear-Monitors (IEM or earbuds), the entrance of so many quality manufacturers from China over the past few years brought down the prices such that very good quality IEMs can now be had for $100 when in the past one needs to pay many multiples more for the same level of performance.
There’ll still be some who will tell us we need that $1,000 special cable to be able to get the very best out of our IEM, no different from camera shills who like to tell us we need the latest lenses to get the best out of our high resolution cameras because the sensors out-resolved our existing lenses.
Just like the camera industry moving towards mirrorless, the IEM market has been transitioning to wireless bluetooth earbuds. The fundamental difference in the HiFi space is that serious audiophiles are not giving up their high end wired IEMs anytime soon. Contrast this with the innumerable incessant camera marketeers/shills that have infested the gear forums, DSLRs and especially DSLR lenses are now being declared as inferior, how else can camera companies sell us new stuff unless they move us all to a different (though not always superior) mount!?
Best be informed, improve our skills and avoid falling for the siren song of shills. See the tree from the forest to avoid getting lost in a sea of cameras and lenses…..
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Dai riflessi d’oro ed ocra, morbida ed accogliente, dalla consistenza finissima: a Lignano Sabbiadoro la spiaggia è una calda coccola, un piacere su cui stendersi per goderne il tepore.
La spiaggia dispone di circa 3000 ombrelloni ampiamente distanziati, le attrezzature sono state completamente rinnovate e l’aggiornamento continua di anno in anno. Per mantenere le caratteristiche richieste al conferimento della Bandiera Blu l’arenile viene quotidianamente setacciato e viene effettuata quotidianamente la raccolta differenziata dei rifiuti.
CANON EOS 6D MarkII con ob. CANON EF 70-300 f/4-5.6 IS USM
Nel 1974 un restyling più consistente diede vita alla Nuova Super. A cambiare furono il frontale (nuova calandra in plastica nera, diverso scudetto Alfa Romeo, cofano motore liscio), i paraurti (più avvolgenti), la coda (cofano liscio, diverso layout delle luci) e gli interni (plancia rivista, consolle centrale con bocchette di ventilazione frontali, pavimento in moquette, sedili con poggiatesta). Per quanto riguarda invece la meccanica, non ci fu nessuna novità. La gamma rimaneva composta delle versioni "1300" da 89 CV e "1600" da 102 CV (DIN). Nonostante gli anni trascorsi, la Giulia continuava a distinguersi, anche in quest'ultima versione, per le doti motoristiche e dinamiche: una nota rivista specializzata annotò "la berlina 1300 più veloce del mercato", e ancora nell'accelerazione da fermo "il tempo sul chilometro da fermo [...] è ancora oggi il migliore ottenuto da berline 1300". In 1974 a more substantial restyling gave birth to the New Super. The change was frontal (new black plastic calender, different Alfa Romeo shield, smooth bonnet), bumper (more wrap), tail (smooth bonnet, different layout of the lights) and interiors (rear bumper, central console with front ventilation vents, carpet floor, seat with headrest). Regarding mechanics, there was no news. The range consisted of "1300" versions of 89 hp and "1600" of 102 hp (DIN). In spite of the years elapsed, Giulia continued to distinguish himself, even in the latter version, for motor and dynamic qualities: a well-known magazine magazine noted "the 1300 fastest car in the market", and still in acceleration from the standstill "the time on the kilometer from station [...] is still the best one ever from 1300 berlin. "
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Artwork titled 'The Company Outing' by the photographer Peter Mardie has been hanging upside down in various Flickr galleries for over 75 years.
The mistake was spotted by a 7-year old girl who prefers to remain anonymous.
"The ears of the little yellow creatures should be dangling down in accordance with Newton's law of gravity," she told CNN.
"Also, the green light near the edge of the picture signals the arrival of an underground rescue team, consistent with the artist's core belief that absurd hope is always just around the corner," she told The Guardian.
"Once I pointed it out to the Flickr curators, we realised it was all very obvious. It is very likely the picture is the wrong way around," she added when contacted by the BBC.
Our journalists were unable to contact the eccentric artist who is sick in bed with flue taking strange medication.
Upside-down art is more common than we know, in fact it's an epidemic. Here is another recent example:
www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63423811
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Different season, but here we are back on the Ottawa River, lying on our stomachs, staring at wildlife.
Freeze-up has been stop and start here, with consistently cold weather still not happening. Although the Ottawa River has many rapids that don’t freeze over, large sections of the River do, starting with the many small bays along its course. This Muskrat is using the mix of ice and open water to its advantage: it dives down to gather plants and mussels from the bottom, and then it resurfaces on sections of ice to eat them - rather than having to expose itself to land-based predators by returning to the shore.
The wind was blowing pretty hard from the east - weather was about to change again - and I was able to crawl through reeds downwind off the Muskrat. It couldn’t smell me or hear me with the wind blowing off the water, so I was able to get pretty close. A large piece of River detritus - a beached tree trunk - gave me cover at the water’s edge.
The real challenges were the light and the fact that the piece of ice the Muskrat was working from rose and fell with the increasingly active River water. One of the solutions was patience. I was lying on my stomach on the edge of the shore, the Muskrat was busy diving and eating, and the sky and the water would contribute as best they could. Hang in there. I got a lot of images, hoping that I would, in the comfort of my home, find something where the light in particular gave a good look at this hardy creature.
The dark oof horizon is a lovely area in Gatineau, Quebec, that is home to all kinds of birds and animals. The Ottawa River around here serves as the border between the provinces of Quebec and Ontario, and I cross the River (along with thousands of other Ottawa residents) to get to my office in Gatineau.
I had always lived in cities on the edge of large lakes. Discovering the many areas and inhabitants of the Ottawa River over the past twenty years has been amazing.
This was snapped a few weeks ago from a rugged South Wales coastline (Southerndown) looking across the Bristol Channel towards North Devon. Although I visit South Wales fairly often, this is not a coastline I know particularly well but I do admit to having been inspired by local Tog, Paul Dunn, who consistently takes such stunning images from this part of the coast. With lots of rock pools, rocky outcrops and chiselled cliffs there is a lot of potential to tap into.
On this particular day I had all but given up because the sun wasn’t where I had hoped, the tide was too high for what I had planned and the general conditions really were, at best, benign. Thankfully I had time to kill and while I sat in the car chomping on a curled up cheese sandwich and slurping cold coffee, this glorious sky developed in front of me. Very unusual for me because I would normally expect such a sky to develop only once I had reached the point of no return, on my homeward journey!
Thanks as always for your interest and support.
Not glamorous, just Ruby being Ruby.
I can say that Ruby built the majority of this, sized, cut and nailed. Now applying a Copper base preservative so once in-ground, the termites do not eat my handy work.
Consideratemi pazzo, ma sento il profumo dei colori,
il colore delle note e la consistenza materica di un’idea.
Nel mio intimo il mondo ha sfumature che sovvertono le leggi
e si plasmano al ritmo dei miei pensieri.
- Stephen Littleword -
This Jörg !!!
a new Abomination ....
Abomination ???
well let me tell you ... A store wants to sell my products .. O_O ... YAY!
I am sooooo happy .. this is suppose to be a secret until I have a lot of plush ... but I am so exited .. and I want to enjoy that moment with you
now ... why his name is Jörg ??? Did you know who is Jörg ? ... Jörg is my Germany friend ... he have a little air to David Caruso (Horatio Caine from CSI: Miami) and Rick Astley
and well .. he is in love with animals ... special with Joey and Malcolm ... (Chinchillavilla Pets).. and if you read his comments .. OMG ! you fall in love with him ^-^
So I put his name because ... he is eating a Bunny ^-^
jajaja .. that`s not consistent ... but is funny jajaja
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Este es Jörg !!!
mi nueva Abomination ...
Abomination ???
Bueno , dejame contarte ... Una tienda quiere vender mis productos ... O_O ... YAY!
estoy taaaaaaaan feliz ... se supone que era un secreto hasta tener varios peluches .. pero estoy tan emocionada .. y quiero disfrutar este momento con ustedes
ahora .. por que se llama Jörg ?? conocen a Jörg ? ... Jörg es un amigo de Alemania .. tiene un aire a David Caruso (Horatio Caine de CSI: Miami) y a Rick Astley
y bueno ... esta enamorado de los animales ... especialmente de Joey y Malcolm ... (mascotas de Chinchillavilla) ... y si lees sus comentarios ... DIOSES !!! te enamoras de el ^-^
asi que le puse su nombre por que ... se esta comiendo un conejito ^-^
jajaja .. no es consecuente ... pero es divertido jajaja
Well let me see if I can provide the grounds for somekind of explanation regarding this photo. Well along the consistent lines and the themes for which can be found in the American version of the bible. I began thinking about Adam and Eve. It is not that I even beleive in the bible or that I even read the bible. But I wanted to be able to do something of an artistic nature for which could be inspired of the bible. Therefore I used Corel Paintship Pro to complete this photo. In this photo you are able to see for what is the most ripe and the most succulent of straw berries not to mention the bursting reds for that can be seen here. I suppose for nothing else but the purpose of color and for composition. I went ahead and I put some bright yellow citrus lemons right there in the center of the photograph growing amid the bush of the ripened and luscious strawberries. Honestly I really lke this photo. There might be something psychologically pleasant about the color red. Even though it could possibly represent the blood in our bodies. Well for me anyway. It represents obsession and romance and strong chemical attraction to a mate. And as I am sure everyone whose ever read the bible. The human race went into the shitter because of Eve biting that fucking peice of fruit off of the tree. Honestly, I really do not think that Adam and Eve were two real and actual biological people who were created from God and who liveed here on the earth. But perhaps this photo can help to show how beautiful it might be to imagine for what living in the fabled tales of the garden of Eden might have been like in your mind.
I lived in Barcelona and Madrid. Being a photographer I noticed a distinct difference in many things between the two cities. For example, Barcelona had some of the most sensational "wall art" and graffiti I'd ever come across. I was told that there were actually extension classes offered teaching the "art" of graffiti and that there was a wall where many students were taken to to practice their techniques. I came upon a wall that was covered with wall posters and was left to decay and wither with the elements - something very difficult to find in Madrid. I wasn't sure why but noticed that in Madrid all wall posters were systematically torn from their notice boards almost as soon as they were put up. I assumed it was the local governments way of trying to encourage a kind of "post no bills" ordinance.
At first, I was frustrated at how consistently bills were stripped and pealed off the walls all around Madrid (unlike Barcelona). However, I soon got into the myriad collages left over by the strips and pieces that kept accumulating with each tear away.
Was glad to have come across the torn posters I did find in Barcelona. Unfortunately a full terabyte of photographs taken over years is locked into an external hard drive which is inaccessible because it fell.
This image was one of the very few that I happened to store on my computer hard drive. I may not see the rest for some time.
[f & m] Prairie Warblers in SW Florida consistent of both residents and winter visitors. Otter Mound and Corkscrew.
Just over twelve months ago, one of those regularly mundane and tiresome events in life happened to me, for what remains still the last time to date. I caught a cold. In the twenty-one years I’ve been working in a further education college, the annual sequence of unpleasant symptoms have followed a pattern so consistent that it has almost become possible to predict the weeks in which a sore throat will be followed by a headache, a runny nose and finally a seemingly endless chesty cough that finds me emptying the shelves of the local chemist in a form of open wallet surgery. In September the students all come back, and so does the first infection of the new academic year. With them they bring eighty-five percent of the staff who've been on leave all summer while the few of us who didn't get the memo have had to carry on working like the clappers. Not that I'm bitter about it. By late December all of the staff are down to the last few fumes of octane in the tank and a Christmas collapse is pretty well guaranteed. One year I arrived at the restaurant we'd booked for our annual Christmas social and stood outside where I texted Katie and told her that I felt so ill I was going home instead. It was a Greek restaurant too - I'd been looking forward to my meze that evening. February never departs without its accompanying volley of coughs and sneezes, and in the ever bizarrely difficult month of June, the final splat of vaporising chest rub is wrested from the pot in desperation while I curse myself for wasting precious single malt whisky in a hot toddy that only warrants the blended version. I really should have a bottle of the cheap stuff handy for those man flu moments.
But the last year has been different. All of this washing our hands every six nanoseconds in a party sized bucket of industrial grade antiseptic has certainly had me wondering. It’s not that I didn’t wash my hands before, but I can’t swear that I sang the national anthem twice while I was doing it, nor did I help myself liberally to a handful of antibacterial gel from every available dispenser on the way back to the office. As this generally involves passing three such dispensers along the new one way route back to my desk, that’s quite a lot of gel. And that’s before I have a final dose from the one next to my desk. Combined with an heroic display of mask wearing in front of all and sundry, the result of this extra care and attention has resulted in not the slightest hint or a sniff or splutter in over thirteen months. I think that even when the nasty invisible monster we’re all facing gets seen off the premises by the vaccine I’m going to continue to hide behind the mask and wash my hands until I can almost see through them as if we’re still in lockdown. I don’t miss the sore throat, and as for the chesty cough. Of course now I’ve said it, I’ll probably sneeze in a minute.
The last time I had a cold was a week after coming home from Snowdonia - and it was a nasty one at that, lingering for three weeks into March after the symptoms were at their most unfriendly. I did wonder a few months afterwards whether I'd had the unmentionable, but I suppose there's no way of telling that now. The trip had been hampered by the arrival of Storm Ciara and our time in the mountains was shortened by a Government warning to stay indoors for fear of flying debris in the very strong wind. That was all after a very enjoyable morning on the mountainside above Llyn Ogwen, looking back towards Tryfan. Scrambling up the slope along the falls, the two best spots had already been taken by a man and a woman who each had their tripods perched over the valley. I went higher still but I'd already decided I wanted to try a shot from where the man had set up. He looked like Nigel Danson. In fact I'm still not convinced that it wasn't him, apart from the fact that he told me they were from Tamworth (Nigel lives in Cheshire somewhere).
I love being in places like this. One of the very few downsides of living in Cornwall is how far we are from mountains. Apart from the distant road, there's nothing at all to evidence humanity as you stand and listen to the soothing sounds of flowing water at your side. Somewhere below me, Dave and Lee were wandering around in their own contented little worlds, and for a couple of hours, each of us was lost in a quiet reverie as we plotted our compositions and watched the sky darken to the west behind Tryfan. Strange to think that just a few weeks later we'd all be in lockdown and places like this would feel further away than they ever did before.
It's Friday, which means tomorrow is Saturday and a brief interlude of freedom. It's also nearly time for tea. I'd better go and wash my hands eight times first. Have a good weekend everyone.
Pioneer ranch house, Garr Ranch, Antelope Island, Utah. The Garr Ranch is located at Garr Springs, one of the strongest and most consistent of the 40 springs on Antelope Island. Both indigenous people and wildlife used this water source long before Fielding Garr built the ranch. Even today, bison and deer can by seen at the springs. Archaeological findings have shown that there has been human activity at the springs for at least 1,000 years. The first permanent structure at this site was a small log cabin built in 1848 by Fielding Garr. Garr had been assigned by the Mormon Church to establish a ranch on the island as a stronghold for managing the cattle herds owned by the church. Within two years, Garr had expanded the ranch compound to include the adobe ranch house and stone corrals. The ranch was continually inhabited from that time until 1981. It is now a living farm and museum.
IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
Una corona muralis és un tipus de condecoració (i després decoració simbolica heraldica) consistent en una corona en forma de muralla. Aquí ho construiren de veritat.
monestir romanic de Sant Miquel de Fluvià no és molt conegut, però força interessant. Fou fundat el 1045, tot i que la església data del 1066. Era una dependencia de St. Miquel de Cuixà, i cap al s. XVII, a St. Pere de Galligans. Continuà com a monestir fins el 1835.
S'en conserva la magnifica església i campanar romanics, fortificats molt després, al s. XV. Com a part de la fortificació, s'excavà un fossat entorn l'església, esbentrant el claustre romanic pel bell mig. Actualment s'ha excavat i restaurat parcialment tant el claustre com el seu fossat destructor. El campanar mostra el que semblen impactes de projectils de setge a la part superior, pel que sí que sembla que serví com a fortificació, potser durant la guerra civil catalana.
www.monestirs.cat/monst/aemp/ae49fluv.htm
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A "corona muralis" or walled crown is a Roman condecoration and latter a heraldic element of a lot of city coats-of-arms. Here they really crowned with walls this apse.
The Romanesque monastery of Sant Miquel de Fluvià is not very well known, but quite interesting. It was founded in 1045, although the church dates from 1066. It was a dependency of St. Miquel de Cuixà abbey, and towards the s. XVII, of St. Peter of Galligans abbey. It continued as a monastery until 1835.
The magnificent Romanesque church and bell tower are the main remains of the abbey, fortified much later, in the XV Century. As part of the fortification, a moat was dug around the church, splitting and destroying the Romanesque cloister. Currently, both the cloister and its destructive moat have been excavated and partially restored. The bell tower shows what appear to be impacts from siege projectiles at the top, so it does seem to have served as a fortification, perhaps during the Catalan Civil War.
A fascinating story exists behind this odd-looking object. Originally classified as a basic hydrogen emission nebula by Stewart Sharpless in 1959 (hence the designation Sh2-200), a group of astronomers challenged that designation in 1983, believing it to be, instead, a planetary nebula.
A planetary nebula is a type of emission nebula consisting of an expanding, glowing shell of ionized gas ejected from red giant stars late in their lives.
The term "planetary nebula" is a misnomer because they are unrelated to planets. The term originates from the planet-like round shape of these nebulae observed by astronomers through early telescopes.
Sh2-200 was finally confirmed to be a planetary nebula in 2017, when spectroscopic observations showed the strong oxygen and hydrogen alpha emission lines in ratios consistent with planetary nebulae.
The “new” designation of the object is PNG 138.1+04.1 (Galactic coordinate designation used in planetary nebula catalogs)
This image was obtained using narrowband oxygen and hydrogen alpha filters. Hydrogen is mapped to red and oxygen to green and blue. Thus, as is typical for planetary nebulae, the central region appears blue-green and gradually transitions to red toward the outer shell.
In the background there are a couple of areas of hydrogen gas clouds which emit a typical red light. The star images were obtained with normal broadband filters and have normal star color.
Capture info:
Location: SkyPi Remote Observatory, Pie Town NM US
Telescope: Orion Optics UK AG14 (F3.8)
Camera: QHY268M
Mount: 10Micron GM3000
Data: HA, OIII, RGB (stars) 15,17, 2.5 x 3 hours respectively
Processing: Pixinsight
L'eremo di Santa Caterina del Sasso è un monastero sorto a strapiombo sulla sponda orientale del lago Maggiore, nel comune di Leggiuno (VA).
La costruzione del complesso di Santa Caterina vedrebbe le sue origini secondo la tradizione nel 1170, quando un tal Alberto Besozzi di Arolo, mercante e usuraio del tempo, scampando a un naufragio durante una traversata del lago, avrebbe fatto voto a Santa Caterina d'Alessandria di ritirarsi per il resto della sua vita in preghiera e solitudine in una grotta in quel tratto di costa. Lì avrebbe costruito una cappella alla Santa, ancor oggi individuabile sul fondo della chiesa. In seguito fatto beato, i suoi resti riposano all'interno della chiesa.
Il complesso monastico sorse tra il XIII e il XIV secolo, con la costruzione, da parte di alcuni nobili di Ispra, delle due chiese dedicate a Santa Maria Nova e San Nicolao. Se la prima venne edificata a partire dal 1270 come ex-voto per aver ottenuto la liberazione da un branco di lupi che razziava di continuo il bestiame, della seconda si sa solo che era già in costruzione il 5 settembre 1301, giorno di una donazione di terreni a favore dei frati de Saxobalaro. Di sette anni più tardi è invece la prima menzione di una terza chiesa, dedicata a Santa Caterina
Il complesso venne inizialmente retto per un breve periodo dai Domenicani, ai quali si devono gli affreschi di San Nicolao (1300-1320). Nel 1339 si registra la consacrazione degli altari delle chiese di Santa Maria e di San Nicolao; al XIV secolo risalirebbe la realizzazione non solo delle tre chiese (aggregate un unico edificio solo nel XVI secolo) ma anche della sala capitolare del convento meridionale e di un edificio centrale anch'esso di pertinenza dei frati (il cosiddetto "conventino"). Nel 1379 il complesso passò ai fratres di Sant'Ambrogio ad Nemus, i quali vi si stabilirono fino al 1643, anno in cui Urbano VIII ne soppresse l'ordine[3]. Due anni più tardi, lo stesso papa decise di unire l'eremo alla commenda pavese di Santa Maria in Pertica. Il 12 novembre 1648, il commendatario Benedetto Odescalchi lo trasferì ai Carmelitani di Mantova, i quali si insediarono nel complesso a partire dal 1670 e vi rimasero fino alla soppressione del loro ordine, avvenuta nel 1770 per mano dell'imperatrice Maria Teresa d'Austria.
A seguito della soppressione, la chiesa e l'eremo vennero assegnati alla chiesa di Santo Stefano in Leggiuno, al prevosto della quale andò anche una porzione degli immobili. La restante parte venne invece suddivisa tra i canonici coadiutori di San Primo in Leggiuno e i parroci di Arolo, Cerro e Laveno. Per il complesso iniziò così un periodo di decadenza, aggravato da una frana che, attorno alla metà del XIX secolo si portò via parte del sentiero che, fin dal 1574, da Reno portava direttamente alla chiesa. A seguito dello smottamento, venne costruita la lunga scalinata che, ancora oggi, permette di raggiungere il complesso dalla parte opposta rispetto alla chiesa.
La frana ottocentesca non era tuttavia la prima ad aver influenzato la storia dell'eremo. Agli inizi del Seicento, cinque grossi massi erano infatti franati sulla chiesa, sfondando la volta della cappella che aveva inizialmente ospitato il sepolcro di Alberto Besozzi e che, in seguito allo smottamento, era stata appunto ribattezzata come "cappella dei sassi". I massi rimasero incastrati nella copertura della cappella fino alla notte tra l'11 e il 12 maggio 1910, quando caddero a terra senza ulteriori danni, e vennero portati via dalla chiesa solo durante una campagna di restauri avvenuta nel 1983.
Considerato monumento nazionale dal 1914, il 4 giugno 1970 il complesso passò di proprietà dal Beneficio parrocchiale di Leggiuno all'Amministrazione provinciale di Varese. Da quella data iniziarono consistenti restauri ed opere di consolidamento e stabilizzazione delle rocce, sia alla base sia sopra degli edifici, permettendo di salvare il santuario e di riaprirlo il 10 settembre 1986, giorno in cui il cardinal Martini consacrò il nuovo altare in pietra di Baveno.
Dal 1986 al 1996 ospitò una comunità di Domenicani, mentre attualmente è retto da alcuni Oblati benedettini.
Hi,
Recently Grantmasters made a micro Lego Batmobile (www.flickr.com/photos/72062810@N08/34717540882/in/datepos...), so I was thinking why not a batwing? So here is my Micro Lego batwing consistent of 2 Lego parts (the Batsingal is made out of 5 parts more than the batwing itself :)
~ {E}ddy
Sometimes you can photograph what you can’t see.
Replaced with a tighter crop on 11/11/2024, to be consistent with the (better) print version in the BAUU Solo Show.
I like the complexity, which wasn’t there without the long exposure; the Picasso/Braque reverse perspective of the dimly lit room behind me reflected in the windows; and the riverfront night light. The title refers to the cruise ship Emerald Destiny, and the city we will visit on the coming day.
Explore! No.161 July 30, 2025
I think I have found a way to repeat this shape (not consistently) by setting larger first drop (S1=80), relatively short first delay(D1=50), smaller second drop (S2=20), very short second delay (D2=5), medium third drop (S3=30). With this settings, I can get this shape much easier.
(For those who does not understand what it is above, those are parameters used for my Water Drop Kit, currently on KickStarter)
The reasoning is the larger first drop will create high jet with relatively more momentum, and because of relatively short first delay, when the smaller second drop collides with the jet, it creastes a smaller splash but the jet is still going up because the second drop is small. Then when the third drop collides with the splash, liquid flows along the first splash forming a long tube. Of course, this is my guess, need to see this under my high speed camera once I build my high power light source for it.
CPKC 148 gets a route through Grey Cloud Dunes SNA on the BNSF St. Paul Subdivision after Amtrak's Borealis exited the Twin Cities. I like that there is traffic ready to go after the Borealis consistently, so that I can get a bonus train somewhere whether it's the BNSF or CPKC. It had been a while since I had visited Grey Cloud Dunes. There is a large residential development encroaching on my peace and serenity here, so I have been hesitant on revisiting since the earthmoving and construction started. CPKC 148 was a good motivator to hustle down the hill to this spot and catch it passing the 4167 intermediate signal.
True love is not only the passion between two people. It's sharing the same experiences,being yourself without any fear of being mocked or criticized.
It's being able to share silent moments without awkwardness.
It's laughing with the one you love for the most silly things.
It's having respect for the needs of your beloved.The complete trust you have for each other.
It is an element calmer and deeper than any other feeling you'll experience.
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La trebbiatura è l'attività conclusiva del raccolto consistente nella separazione della granella del frumento e degli altri cereali dalla paglia e dalla pula.
Le fasi della trebbiatura possono essere riassunte in:
1. Battitura della fascina di grano;
2. Separazione della paglia dalla granella tramite la ventilazione e scuotitura della paglia;
3. Concia del grano:
4. Raccolta del grano nel contenitore in legno posizionato nella parte anteriore bassa.
La trebbiatura era nel passato, per i contadini, un evento molto importante e faticoso. Il lavoro, iniziato a ottobre, novembre con l'aratura e la semina, si presentava particolarmente difficile al momento della mietitura, quando con una piccola falce bisognava tagliare il grano ormai maturo, con l'incombente pericolo di rimetterci il mignolo, vuoi per la fatica, vuoi per i raggi roventi che dardeggiavano sui mietitori.
Dopo aver legato i covoni occorreva depositarli nell'are dove venivano accatastati da mani esperte. Poi giungeva il momento della trebbiatura che non era meno difficoltosa delle precedenti operazioni. Per i bambini però l'arrivo della trebbia rappresentava un piacevole diversivo.Non c'era bisogno di essere avvisati, primo perchè d'estate, tolti quei dieci minuti per il pranzo, tutti stavano fuori a giocare, secondo: i trattori a testa calda che trainavano le trebbie erano talmente assordanti, che se ne percepiva l'arrivo già da lontano.
Dopo aver espletato i preliminari, ognuno prendeva il suo posto: "il pagliarino" con paglietta ed occhiali da aviatore anteguerra, coadiuvato da due donzelle, si piazzava in cima alla macchina ed infilava i covoni sciolti fra gli ingranaggi. Poi c'erano gli addetti ai sacchi, tenuti costantemente d'occhio dal trattorista che portava il conto dei quintali prodotti.
Intanto i sacchi riempiti venivano caricati sul carro dei buoi per essere condotti a destinazione. Nel frattempo altri si incaricavano di innalzare le mucchi di paglia.
A quel punto i bambini davano sfogo all'impazienza, scorrazzando tra la paglia, si buttavano sulle morbide montagne di pula, giocavano a nascondino finchè non giungevano le ombre della sera.
The clock is one of the oldest human inventions, meeting the need to consistently measure intervals of time shorter than the natural units, the day, the lunar month, and the year. Such measurement requires devices. Devices operating on several different physical processes have been used over the millennia, culminating in the clocks of today.
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You may have seen earlier in my Photostream I’ve shot a few of these creations over the summer as most of them have appeared more or less on my virtual doorstep
I was very glad to be able to capture this one as its probably the last one of the season as the harvest draws to a close (indeed this circle was in a field surrounded by other fields that have already been cleared)
It’s a nice example, and large – probably 100 metres in diameter
For those unfamiliar with crop circles, they are patterns created by flattening a crop usually a cereal. The term was first coined in the early 1980s. Although obscure natural causes or alien origins of crop circles have been suggested by fringe theorists, there is no scientific evidence for such explanations, and all crop circles are consistent with human-made items (although with the more elaborate ones, its not always possible to see how!)
Although such formations have appeared worldwide, south-west England is considered without doubt to be the “world capital” of crop circles. They are particularly concentrated in the county of Wiltshire, where a treasure trove of ancient history includes the Neolithic sites of Stonehenge and Avebury – both crop circle hotspots. There have been 380 crop circles recorded in the county alone since 2005
Hector the Convector is a cumulonimbus thundercloud that forms regularly nearly every afternoon on the Tiwi Islands (90 km NNW of Darwin) in the Northern Territory of Australia, from approximately September to March each year.
Hector is known as one of the world's most consistently large thunderstorms, reaching heights of approximately 20 kilometres (66,000 ft).
Named by US and Australian airforce pilots during the Second World War, (who were attempting to defend Darwin against Japanese bombing) the recurring position of the thunderstorm made it a navigational beacon for pilots and mariners in the region.
Hector is caused primarily by a collision of several sea breeze boundaries across the Tiwi Islands and is known for its consistency and intensity. Lightning rates and updraft speeds are notable aspects of this thunderstorm and during the 1990s National Geographic magazine published a comprehensive study of the storm with pictures of damaged trees and details of updraft speeds and references to tornadic events.
Since the late-1980s the thunderstorm has been the subject of many meteorological studies, many centred on Hector itself, but also utilising the consistency of the storm cell to study other aspects of thunderstorms and lightning.
the weather is consistently beating me. on the plus side, though, my little bundle of *things* to use in photographs is growing.
i've decided that i'm going to go for a run either tomorrow night or wednesday. i have my second university interview on wednesday and already have an offer from the previous one.
36 days left and my stream is all over the place aha
A celebratory quote from a well known TV programme of the past.
Today I attended The Open for the first time. It was quite the experience under generally blue skies watching players from all over the world do battle on this links course. There consistent level of skill, the huge enthusiastic crowds, condition of the course and number of international visitors emphasised the special place The Open has in the heart of golfers worldwide.
Somewhat a distant figure in this view is the local golfer Tommy Fleetwood who ended the day as joint leader at five under par. Maybe he will come good and win his first major on a links course just 18 miles from where he learnt to play golf.
Rock on Tommy.
The 4th build in a spaceship telephone game. This round we kept a consistent color scheme as well as taking inspiration from the previous spaceship. Other builders tagged below.
Evader by Hadden
Lightning by Carter
Perseus by Micah
Sailer by Eli
Void Skipper by Tom
Boar by Joel
Spectre by Thomas
Beyonder by Simon
I was after Micah and I his loved his layout of two outer wings, and including the ribbed hose so I carried those over into mine.
I wanted to create an elegant spacecraft that one would enjoy sailing through the stars. You can see my boat shaped influences as well as hidden bow and arrow shapes in the wing sails :)
Thanks to Thomas Jenkins for doing all the fancy edits on our ships!
16-January-2025
Northeast of Stara (old) Baška, after passing a rocky ridge, the large bay of Baška opens up (without "Nova"/new, it is not used in croatian, only for the old names in Italian it is Bescanuova as opposed to Bescavecchia, precisely Stara Baška) whose over 2 kilometers long gravel beach separates the sea from the lower part of the consistent furrow (draga), first narrow, fluvial, V-shaped, then wide, detrital, U-shaped.
Baška is larger than Stara Baška, and more touristy due to the imposing resort that exploits the large white gravel beach.
In winter, however, it is very quiet and sparsely inhabited.
Unfortunately, (also) this winter does not offer much snow in the Alps (I hate photographing the barren Alps in the middle of winter...) and so I dedicate myself to the winter sea which is always fascinating.
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Another overcast dull breezy Sunday morning at the Ravines with very little light. Only about another 3 months of this grey overcast skies before we get a little more consistent sunlight.
I have photographed the breathtaking mountains that surround the town of Canmore, Alberta many times. I've always been unhappy with the resulting shots. They've consistently failed to capture the majesty, the awe-inspiring power, and the rugged natural strength that I see and feel when I click the shutter button. So, this time around, I've worked on the pics in PS to try and capture that thing I see.
My experiments with PS have led me into some interesting thought processes lately. I have two or three pics that I've finished and subsequently chosen not to post because they may have gone too far. I have been struggling to find a balance between the truth as my Nikon 4500 captures it and the truth as I see it in my heart and mind. I'm still unsure about where my boundary should be.
Now that I can consistently find Sigma Octantis (southern Polaris) with my sky tracking mount, I'm able to image deep space objects like Carina - yay! :-)
I would definitely like a much better lens though as my longest focal length lens is not really fast, f/5.6 at 300mm. Time to spend some money....
Hotel Bristol Genova
"Lo scalone Liberty che ispirò Alfred Hitchcock
Uno dei dettagli più pregiati dell’Hotel, dal punto di vista architettonico e culturale, è lo scalone ellittico in marmo bianco in puro stile Liberty: se osservato dall’alto, oppure dal basso, offre una prospettiva vertiginosa ed esteticamente molto appagante.
Allo scalone del Bristol Palace è legata una leggenda che sicuramente ha un fondo consistente di verità: la sua delicata e avvolgente spirale avrebbe ispirato ad Alfred Hitchcock – al Bristol per girare alcune scene di Caccia al ladro – il film “Vertigo”, conosciuto in Italia come “La donna che visse due volte”.
In effetti, il grande regista è stato uno dei frequentatori dell’Hotel, al punto che vi soggiornò già nel 1925, quando girò il suo primo film “The pleasure garden”. All’epoca ventisettenne, il futuro Maestro del brivido non aveva ancora alcuna esperienza di regia. Quando molti anni dopo Francois Truffaut lo intervistò per scrivere la sua famosa biografia “Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”, il cineasta raccontò gustosi aneddoti e retroscena della sua permanenza a Genova con una troupe piuttosto improvvisata, intenta a girare alcune scene, in particolare al porto, e spesso alle prese con imprevisti di ogni genere. Nonostante tutto, il “battesimo del botteghino” premiò i suoi sforzi: il London Daily Express definì Hitchcock “young man with a master mind”, un giovane con l’intelligenza di un maestro. La sua via era tracciata: sarebbe diventato uno dei più grandi artisti della settima arte, legando il suo nome alla città."
The westbound was smartly moving along, so we didn't dawdle either, making a dash for this spot which Mark recalled from a prior chase. Mark was consistent with the "mountains of North Dakota" comments all day, and then we found them! Since the state is very flat, any type of elevation allows a unique view that wouldn't otherwise be seen for the prairie flatland. We made it with plenty of time ahead of the train to shoot the COWLs starting downgrade into Fordville, the final destination for the crew for this day. The solid stream of grain cars looked pretty sharp against the hillside.
Consistently ranked in the top 10 waves along Australia's 10,685 beaches, the point at Lennox Head was the third site in Australia to be declared a National Surfing Reserve. Lennox Head, New South Wales, Australia. www.robertdowniephotography.com
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I watched several bees moving from flower to flower but they were consistently accessing the outside of the flower at the top of the flower rather than entering the flower from below. I thought maybe the honey bees were using steal holes bitten in the side of the flower by other insects but I couldnt see any holes in the couple of flowers that I looked at.
Bluebell -Hyacinthoides non-scripta
Rowallane gardens
Beautiful day today
another new one for my honeybee on named flowers album:
DATOS TÉCNICOS
Latitud N
38.799015000000
Longitud E
1.421603000000
Alcance Nominal
28 millas náuticas
Altura sobre nivel del mar
28 metros
Apariencia luminosa
Grupos de 3 + 1 destellos cada 20 segundos.
Apariencia diurna
Torre blanca con bandas negras, 25 metros.
HISTORIA
Lo proyectó Emili Pou por considerar insuficiente el faro de Ahorcados para balizar el Freo Grande entre Ibiza y Formentera. Aunque pensado para 3º orden, la Comisión de Faros opinó que tenía que ser como el de Ahorcados, de 4º orden, y además de luz fija variada con destellos rojos de 3 en 3 minutos para diferenciarlo del de La Mola, que era también de luz fija. Se inauguró el 15 de marzo de 1864. La óptica se adquirió a la casa parisina Henry Lepaute por un precio de 11.079,45 francos. Pronto se comenzaron a padecer los inconvenientes derivados de su excesiva proximidad al mar, entrando las olas en las propias viviendas de los torreros, y sufriendo el edificio un rápido deterioro, que se veía acelerado por haber sido construido con piedra local denominada “marés” de poca consistencia. Pedro Garau en 1897 propone la eliminación del edificio para construir unas viviendas nuevas en un punto algo mas alejado y situado a mayor altura, con piedra de Santanyi reconocida por su mayor dureza y resistencia a los agentes erosivos. Se construyó, además, una galería subterránea para enlazar la torre con el nuevo edificio, ya que durante los fuertes temporales las olas pasan por encima del islote, por lo que con este pasadizo, los torreros podían acudir a la torre sin correr peligro alguno. Sin embargo en 1913 un potente “Cap de Fibló” (manga de agua) arrancó la cubierta del nuevo edificio, derribó sus tabiques y convirtió el edificio en un montón de escombros, quedando tan solo en pie las paredes maestras. Los torreros tuvieron que refugiarse en la vecina isla de Espalmador y el edificio precisó ser reconstruido. Fue el segundo faro en automatizarse, después del de Penjats, mediante un alumbrado de gas acetileno con encendido automático por válvula solar, en el año 1935.
Guys I am having the worst issues with my blogs server as it is consistently maxing out the server CPU, so they block my website. I am constantly being put in the virtual corner and it sucks. What is the use of a website if you cant have more than 2k visiting it everyday? It just doesn't make sense. Can you share who your server is and how they deal with your blog load? The next option for me is a significant cost increase to like 80 dollars a month.... and that is insane.
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SN/NC: Gmelina Philippensis, Lamiaceae Family
The spelling of the name of this taxon has invariably been Gmelina philippensis. However, in A revision of the genus Gmelina (Lamiaceae), Kew Bulletin Vol. 67: 293 - 329; 2012; Rogier de Kok, it is consistently spelled Gmelina philippinensis. Since the original name (as per IPNI) was spelled Gmelina philippensis, we are assuming this to be an error and are retaining the original name. Common names are parrot's beak, wild sage, badhara.
Gmelina philippensis is an evergreen, usually spiny, straggling or climbing shrub or small tree. It can grow up to 7 meters tall. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine. It is widely cultivated as an ornamental throughout the tropics. It appears in East Asia - Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Philippines. Also in India and most of Asia.
The juice of the fruit is applied to eczema of the feet. It is also used as a leech repellent. The fruit, pounded with lime, is applied as a poultice to the throat as a remedy for cough. The extract of the roots is used internally as a stimulant, resolvent, and in treating diseases of the joints and nerves. The juice of the roots is used as a purgative and in treating fatigue. An extract of the leaves is used externally as a stimulant, resolvent, and in treating diseases of the joints and nerves.
Gmelina philippensis is een groenblijvende, meestal stekelige, achterblijvende of klimmende struik of kleine boom. Hij kan tot 7 meter hoog worden. De plant wordt uit het wild geoogst voor lokaal gebruik als medicijn. Het wordt op grote schaal gekweekt als sierplant in de tropen. Het komt voor in Oost-Azië - Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodja, Vietnam, Filippijnen. Ook in India en het grootste deel van Azië.Het sap van de vrucht wordt aangebracht op eczeem van de voeten. Het wordt ook gebruikt als bloedzuiger. De vrucht, fijngestampt met limoen, wordt als kompres in de keel aangebracht als middel tegen hoest. Het extract van de wortels wordt intern gebruikt als stimulerend middel, oplossend middel en bij de behandeling van gewrichtsaandoeningen en zenuwen. Het wortelsap wordt gebruikt als zuiverend middel en bij de behandeling van vermoeidheid. Een extract van de bladeren wordt uitwendig gebruikt als stimulerend middel, oplossend middel en bij de behandeling van gewrichtsaandoeningen en zenuwen.
Gamelina é o nome desta trepadeira no Brasil. Originária da Índia, tem o nome científico ligado às Filipinas onde parece ter algo de sua origem, não se sabe com exatitude pois ora se referem a ela como filipense ora como filipinense. Mas o nome original é filipense. Em outros países recebe o nome de bico-de-papagaio pelo formato engraçado das flores que lembram o bico desta ave. Pode chegar a 7m de altura, se enreda ou cresce como arbusto. É tida como excelente planta medicinal para tratar a tosse e também como estimulante para acalmar os nervos e também as juntas. O suco de suas raízes se usa para diminuir a fadiga, cansaço. Sem falar que tem lindas flores… de um formato único que chama a atenção de todos. A combinação marrom-amarelo é sem dúvida muito bonita.
Gmelina, planta originaria de la India y la especie más conocida es la gmelina arborea y no la enredadera gmelina philippensis. Fue introducida en Centro y Suramérica y es usada para la cura de muchas enfermedades como garganta , nervios, estrés. No es muy común y es de gran belleza visual. Su nombre en inglés si puede traducir como pico-de-papagaio.
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This years Photo24 event in June gave me an opportunity to venture on to the new Elizabeth Lane for the first time. Here I've used the Nikon 10.5mm fisheye lens I'd been lent by the sponsors MPB.
It was remarkably efficient, clean and generously proportioned as you can see here but I worry slightly that as the design is consistent across every station it's novelty will quickly wear off and it's going to seem rather bland.
Click here for more photos taken underground : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157670949337253
From Wikipedia, "The Elizabeth line is a high-frequency hybrid commuter rail and rapid transit service in London and its suburbs. It runs services on dedicated infrastructure in central London between London Paddington and Abbey Wood; along the Great Western Main Line from London Paddington to Reading and Heathrow Airport in the west; and along the Great Eastern Main Line between Liverpool Street and Shenfield in the east. The service is named after Queen Elizabeth II, who officially opened the line on 17 May 2022 during her Platinum Jubilee year; passenger services started on 24 May 2022.
Under the project name of Crossrail, the system was approved in 2007, and construction began in 2009. Originally planned to open in 2018, the project was repeatedly delayed, including for several months as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic."
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Cemeteries and infrared photography go together almost as well as peanut butter and jelly. You've got regularly static subject matter, an open grounds to look for light, and few folks (living) to get in the picture. Seriously though, in years of playing with infrared film, cemeteries have always been consistently great places too shoot.
Today's photo comes from the Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, OH. It dates a little over 150 years old, and it shows. Spring Grove sits along the industrial outskirts of Cincinnati, and seems un-phased by the economic ups and downs of the region. This is a place worth visiting and revisiting!
Tachihara 8x10 Double Extension
Nikkor T ED 600mm f/9
~1 min. @ f/22ish
Efke IR820 + R72 Filter
14 min. in Pyrocat HD 2:2:100
Consistent recoil SMG.
The Combat Advanced Round Submachine Gun (C.A.R. SMG) is a Pilot weapon in Titanfall 2 known for its hipfire accuracy and striking paint job.
The LEGO C.A.R. is 29” long (93 studs) and has many features: moving trigger, reloadable magazine, sliding charging handle that moves the bolt, folding foregrip, opening right-side dust cover, and all attachments. The attachments include all sights (factory issue, HCOG Ranger, Holosight, Threat Scope), Extra Ammo mod, Pro Screen, suppressor from the first Titanfall, and the light ammo/heavy ammo swap from Apex Legends.
More photos and a video to come; full photo set coming first to my website www.NickBrick.com