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Vestido de danza consistente en un corpiño ajustado y una falda corta, ligera y generalmente de tul, donde flotan ilusiones, deseos, fantasías y notas musicales...
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para Carmiña www.flickr.com/photos/marmimuralla/
porque desde que conocí flickr cada lunes alguien me regala flores...
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This is the kind of place you don't want to leave by all means. Peaceful, chillful, quiet, tranquil, harmonious, soft, fresh, consistent with nature. Paraphrasing famous lyrics "Take me down to the paradise place, where the grass is green and the sun has grace."
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These Blue-Winged Teals are consistent. They are not resident ducks here...not even for the warmer months. However, they arrive ahead of the other migrating waterfowl, and they stay longer before moving on. AND...they have definite preferences as to which bodies of water, and even what sections, they prefer.
I've never seen any ducklings with them at any time, so they either nest earlier or later than the local ducks...or hide their younglings very well indeed.
This drake was playing in the water, and thus I was able to get a bit closer than usual.
As well as being more consistent in general when it comes to building, I wanted to expand my horizons a bit. So here's my first foray into the world of Tachikoma!
The idea behind this was a think tank that moves freight around in a large depot, analogous to a forklift I guess. The cage at the back that forms the abdomen opens up to swap cargo in and out. I wasn't sure how to go about it at first, but once I got in the groove I had an absolute blast and finished it in one sitting. There's plenty of time left in Marchikoma so I might even make another.
No consistent distinction exists between cormorants and shags. The names 'cormorant' and 'shag' were originally the common names of the two species of the family found in Great Britain, Phalacrocorax carbo (now referred to by ornithologists as the great cormorant) and P. aristotelis (the European shag). "Shag" refers to the bird's crest, which the British forms of the great cormorant lack. As other species were discovered by English-speaking sailors and explorers elsewhere in the world, some were called cormorants and some shags, depending on whether they had crests or not. Sometimes the same species is called a cormorant in one part of the world and a shag in another, e.g., the great cormorant is called the black shag in New Zealand (the birds found in Australasia have a crest that is absent in European members of the species).
Whatever your circumstances I wish that you all can find some moments of joy during this season. I think perhaps we all need a kind Christmas and we on flickr are a really kindly community.
With heartfelt thanks to my flickr friends who have so consistently commented or favoured my photos and shared theirs through the year.
Thank you all so much for sharing your quality photos which is a great way to see and keep in touch with the world from home. Also for your kind comments and favours which are much valued.
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Swallowtail / papilio machaon. Strumpshaw Fen, Norfolk. 09/06/16.
This individual showed consistently well over two days, favouring a small meadow.
It would fly in strongly, seeking out grass heads to rest on after nectaring near by.
This was its favourite perch, a tall, isolated Cock's Foot grass. It was easy to move right the way around it with stealth, affording great views from all perspectives and in all lights.
Steady, consistent sunshine all day today, how much easier it is to photograph dragonflies when the light is good.
R&N PISB charges past the former station at Old Forge PA along the former DL&W heading for customers in the Keyser Valley area on the west side of Scranton. We're near milepost 3 despite the Conrail and DL&W mileposts here stating otherwise. Also, why is there a lawnmower to the right of the mileposts? This was attempt No. 4 at this angle.
In this R&N storyline today we'll go after what I showed up looking for. The GP38-2's painted in the Reading Co's last scheme which was applied to their GP39-2 and GP40-2's.
I think I photographed 9 or 10 trains on the Scranton Branch during the trip. I fought clouds for much of it, though never on cloudy days. The branch is fantastic for photographers. In it's 7 or 8 miles between Pittston and Taylor there's side-by-side running with the former Lehigh Valley, a flyover, former DL&W mileposts, a through truss bridge, a former station, a cut, an S curve, and an iconic easy to do elevated shot. Traffic and timing are very consistent, Monday through Friday the PISB (Pittston-Scranton Branch) is pulling into Taylor between 830 and 9am. Weekends are a little different with the PISB doing double duty and handling the interchange with NS at Taylor. On these days they also usually split their power instead of keeping both engines on the head end. During my stay this job was the nearly exclusive domain of a pair of the RDG painted* GP38-2's.
The surprise was the Pittston yard job. When I showed up to Pittston for the first time since probably 2006 (Pittston back then had been my only experience with the R&N) I wasn't surprised to see a Caboose there. I was surprised to see it used the next day and then absolutely flabbergasted when I figured out that the normal move for the yard job was to shove the entire way up the Scranton Branch to Taylor! Every now and then there will be an exception where supposedly the hitch a ride on the rear of the PISB up there but it didn't happen while I was there watching (Though once or twice I would see it mentioned in John Cudo's post to the Friends of the Reading and Northern Railroad Facebook group).
Anyway usually late morning the YJPI1 shoves to Taylor Caboose-first and returns with it tucked in between the locomotives and the inbound interchange. The line orientation is more east-west than north south so the PISB is aiming into low sun in the morning and coming back towards the sun in the afternoon. The yard job makes itself a mid-day affair.
Veggie Bob’s Fort Langley
Bob Rogers sold boxes of farmer's fruit, veggies and Canadiana antiques out of the back of his pickup truck. He travelled from Saskatchewan to B.C.’s Okanagan selling his wares. In 1978 “Veggie Bob” found a more permanent home for his culinary and artistic talents when he and his father built the rustic post and beam market next to the Fort Art Gallery, in Fort Langley B.C. Café delights such as vegetarian soups and fruit pies, were added to the historic grocery by Bob’s Mom-affectionately known as “Norma Jean”. Veggie Bob’s has been in consistent operation for 43 years delighting customers with an entirely vegetarian menu including things like Mex-Vegan Burritos, Mac N Cheeze, apple pie, Steak and Sweet Potato Salad or Vegan Philly Cheeze Steak all made from grains and veggies.
Leica M6 with Kodak Gold 200 film
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Nonostante l'avvento della nuova livrea ICsun e la consistente quantità di livrea Frecciabianca che ancora adorna le E402B ultimamente c'è un ritorno al passato con macchine che tornano a vestire la vecchia livrea xmpr...per esempio due sabati fa dei sei PAX che ho preso di prima mattina quattro erano con E402B in testa, tre delle quali in xmpr. Qui vediamo quello rimasto meglio, preso negli pochi minuti dove è spuntato un pallidissimo sole tra la spessa coltre foschiosa che incombeva su Tortona, si tratta dell' ICN 35574 (754) Lecce - Torino P.N. per un terzo ancora in xmpr, come pure la macchina in testa, l' E402B.155 mentre si accinge ad entrare nella stazione alessandrina...nei commenti invece troverete gli altri due IC, il primo è il 656 Ventimiglia - Milano C. con la E402B.152 in coda, come pure in coda si trova l' E402B.167 sul 1533 Milano C. - Grosseto, entrambe macchine che dalla livrea FB sono tornate a vestire l'xmpr al posto della più nuova e gradevole ICsun
The lotus is coming out unspoiled from the mud just like a gentleman who can keep himself unspotted from the world.
Why I love Lotus,It was a great poem in Song Dynasty (960-1279)
Translating to English is followings,
There are too many lovely flowers in the world.
Tao Yuanming in Jin Dynasty loved chrysanthemum only.
People have been interested in peony since Tang Dynasty.
But I do like lotus that is clean even growing in the muddy pond.
It is so pure, delicate and bright.
The lotus is consistent, continuous and coherent deep inside.
It appears to be straight, proper and honest.
It gives a fantastically good smell and people could even sense its excellent smell far away.
It has no unnecessary branches.
It can be only appreciated distantly but not touched.
Mute Swan, Order Anseriformes, Family Anatidae, Species Cygnus olor,..
A large, familiar bird, strikingly white and obvious even at great range, Mute Swan is generally quite tame, even semi-domesticated in its behaviour and choice of habitat.
Territorial pairs are aggressive, even to people or their dogs, using impressive displays of arched wings and loud, hissing calls.
In some floodplains, small groups regularly feed on dry land, a habit that is more consistent with the two " wild swans ", Bewick's and Whooper,
Voice - Strangled trumpeting and hissing notes,
Nesting - Huge pile of vegetation at water's edge; up to 8 eggs; 1 brood; March - June.
Feeding - Plucks vegetable matter from short grass in fields and salt marshes, pulls the same from shallow water, or upends in deeper water,..
Length 1.4 - 1.6m,
Wingspan - 2,08 - 2.38m,
Weight - 10 - 12kg,
Lifespan - 15 - 20 years,
Social - Small flocks,
Status - Secure,...
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I don't know who consistently rides the bike to work, but I'm glad it's there when I walk over to the hospital to grab lunch.
And I'm having fun importing photos shot with the iPhone's standard camera, into Hipstamatic for post-processing.
Then in the computer, blending the two images together as layers in Ps, reducing opacities, adding some dodging and burning, and then posting here!
Kilchurn Castle on the shores of Loch Awe.
This was my first visit here and after negotiating a rather boggy meadow the views across the loch were fantastic. The only minus was a consistent breeze negating the possibility of getting good reflections of the castle.
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Peter Duesberg is a "scientist" who is widely recognised as being one of the foremost idiots who thinks that HIV does not cause AIDS. He thinks that everyone gets it from taking ARVs and doing too much poppers and too many recreational drugs. Celia "Thats why they put blood on my face" Farber has spent an awful long time defending this lunatic "faith".
A new Harvard study has claimed that the deaths of around 330,000 South Africans occured as a direct result of Mbeki's HIV denial.
Peter Duesberg was on Mbeki's AIDS panel, so advised him in his murderous denial.
Of course I am not pointing the finger directly at Duesberg as the buck stopped with Mbeki and his health minister Dr Beetroot, and the policies they enacted.
However it would be wrong to completely ignore the role that Duesberg and others played in the deaths of all of these people.
Duesberg is currently employed by the University of California Berkeley. Maybe in light of this new evidence they should seriously consider his position within their (ANY!) teaching institution.
Mbeki Aids policy 'led to 330,000 deaths'
Sarah Boseley Thursday November 27 2008 00.01 GMT
The Aids policies of former president Thabo Mbeki's government were directly responsible for the avoidable deaths of a third of a million people in South Africa, according to research from Harvard University.
South Africa has one of the most severe HIV/Aids epidemics in the world. About 5.5 million people, or 18.8% of the adult population, have HIV, according to the UN. In 2005 there were 900 deaths a day.
But from the late 90s Mbeki turned his back on the scientific consensus that Aids was caused by a viral infection which could be combated, though not cured, by sophisticated and expensive drugs. He came under the influence of maverick scientists known as Aids-denialists, most prominent among whom was Peter Duesberg from Berkeley, California.
In 2000 Mbeki called a round-table of experts, including Duesberg and his supporters but also their opponents, to discuss the cause of Aids. Later that year, at the international Aids conference in Durban, he publicly rejected the accepted wisdom. Aids, he said, was indeed brought about by the collapse of the immune system - but not because of a virus. The cause, he said, was poverty, bad nourishment and general ill-health. The solution was not expensive western medicine but the alleviation of poverty in Africa.
In a new paper Harvard researchers have quantified the death toll resulting from Mbeki's stance, which caused him to reject offers of free drugs and grants and led to foot-dragging over a treatment programme, even after Mbeki had taken a vow of silence on the issue.
"We contend that the South African government acted as a major obstacle in the provision of medication to patients with Aids," write Pride Chigwedere and colleagues from the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
They have made their calculations by comparing the scale-up of treatment programmes in neighbouring Botswana and Namibia with the limited availability of drugs in South Africa from 2000-2005.
Expensive antiretrovirals came down in price dramatically as a result of activists' campaigning and public pressure. In July 2000 the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim offered to donate its drug nevirapine, which could prevent the transmission of HIV from mother to child during labour. But South Africa restricted the availability of nevirapine to two pilot sites a province until December 2002.
Eventually, under international pressure, South Africa did launch a national programme for the prevention of mother to child transmission in August 2003 and a national adult treatment programme in 2004. But by 2005, the paper's authors estimate, there was still only 23% drug coverage and less than 30% prevention of mother to child transmission.
By comparison, Botswana achieved 85% treatment coverage and Namibia 71% by 2005, and both had 70% mother to child transmission programmes coverage.
The authors estimate that more than 330,000 people died unnecessarily in South Africa over the period and that 35,000 HIV-infected babies were born who could have been protected from the virus but would now probably have a limited life.
Their calculations will withstand scrutiny, they say. "The analysis is robust," said Dr Chigwedere. "We used a transparent and accessible calculation, publicly available data, and, where we made assumptions, we explained their basis. We purposely chose very conservative assumptions and performed sensitivity analyses to test whether the results would qualitatively change if a different assumption were used."
The authors conclude: "Access to appropriate public health practice is often determined by a small number of political leaders. In the case of South Africa, many lives were lost because of a failure to accept the use of available ARVs to prevent and treat HIV/Aids in a timely manner."
Since Mbeki's ousting from the leadership of the African National Congress in September South Africa has urgently pursued new policies to get treatment to as many people as possible under a new health minister, Barbara Hogan.
November 26, 2008
Study Cites Toll of AIDS Policy in South Africa
By CELIA W. DUGGER
www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/world/africa/26aids.html?_r=1
JOHANNESBURG — A new study by Harvard researchers estimates that the South African government would have prevented the premature deaths of 365,000 people earlier this decade if it had provided antiretroviral drugs to AIDS patients and widely administered drugs to help prevent pregnant women from infecting their babies.
The Harvard study concluded that the policies grew out of President Thabo Mbeki’s denial of the well-established scientific consensus about the viral cause of AIDS and the essential role of antiretroviral drugs in treating it.
Coming in the wake of Mr. Mbeki’s ouster in September after a power struggle in his party, the African National Congress, the report has reignited questions about why Mr. Mbeki, a man of great acumen, was so influenced by AIDS denialists.
And it has again caused soul-searching about why his colleagues in the party did not act earlier to challenge his resistance to broadly accepted methods of treating and preventing AIDS.
Reckoning with a legacy of such policies, Mr. Mbeki’s’s successor, Kgalema Motlanthe, acted on the first day of his presidency two months ago to remove the health minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, a polarizing figure who had proposed garlic, lemon juice and beetroot as AIDS remedies.
He replaced her with Barbara Hogan, who has brought South Africa — the most powerful country in a region at the epicenter of the world’s AIDS pandemic — back into the mainstream.
“I feel ashamed that we have to own up to what Harvard is saying,” Ms. Hogan, an A.N.C. stalwart who was imprisoned for a decade during the anti-apartheid struggle, said in a recent interview. “The era of denialism is over completely in South Africa.”
For years, the South African government did not provide antiretroviral medicines, even as Botswana and Namibia, neighboring countries with epidemics of similar scale, took action, the Harvard study reported.
The Harvard researchers quantified the human cost of that inaction by comparing the number of people who got antiretrovirals in South Africa from 2000 to 2005 with the number the government could have reached had it put in place a workable treatment and prevention program.
They estimated that by 2005, South Africa could have been helping half those in need but had reached only 23 percent. By comparison, Botswana was already providing treatment to 85 percent of those in need, and Namibia to 71 percent.
The 330,000 South Africans who died for lack of treatment and the 35,000 babies who perished because they were infected with H.I.V. together lost at least 3.8 million years of life, the study concluded.
Epidemiologists and biostatisticians who reviewed the study for The New York Times said the researchers had based their estimates on conservative assumptions and used a sound methodology.
“They have truly used conservative estimates for their calculations, and I would consider their numbers quite reasonable,” James Chin, a professor of epidemiology at the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Public Health, said in an e-mail message.
The report was posted online last month and will be published on Monday in the peer-reviewed Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.
Max Essex, the virologist who has led the Harvard School of Public Health’s AIDS research program for the past 20 years and who oversaw the study, called South Africa’s response to AIDS under Mr. Mbeki “a case of bad, or even evil, public health.”
Mr. Mbeki has maintained a silence on his AIDS legacy since his forced resignation. His spokesman, Mukoni Ratshitanga, said Mr. Mbeki would not discuss his thinking on H.I.V. and AIDS, explaining that policy decisions were made collectively by the cabinet and so questions should be addressed to the government.
The new government is now trying to hasten the expansion of antiretroviral treatments. The task is urgent. South Africa today is home to 5.7 million people who are H.I.V.-positive — more than any other nation, almost one in five adults. More than 900 people a day die here as a result of AIDS, the United Nations estimates.
Since the party forced Mr. Mbeki from office and some of his loyalists split off to start a new party, rivalries have flared and stories about what happened inside the A.N.C. have begun to tumble out, offering unsettling glimpses of how South Africa’s AIDS policies went so wrong.
From the first year of his presidency in 1999, Mr. Mbeki became consumed with the thinking of a small group of dissident scientists who argued that H.I.V. was not the cause of AIDS, his biographers say.
As president he wielded enormous power, and those who disagreed with him said they feared they would be sidelined if they spoke out. Even Nelson Mandela, the revered former president, was not immune from opprobrium.
In a column in The Sunday Times of Johannesburg on Oct. 19, Ngoako Ramatlhodi, a senior party member now running the party’s 2009 election campaign, recounted how Mr. Mandela, known affectionately as Madiba, was humiliated during a 2002 A.N.C. meeting after he made a rare appearance to question the party’s stance on AIDS.
Mr. Ramatlhodi described speakers competing to show greater loyalty to Mr. Mbeki by verbally attacking Mr. Mandela as Mr. Mbeki looked on silently. “After his vicious mauling, Madiba looked twice his age, old and ashen,” Mr. Ramatlhodi wrote.
Mr. Ramatlhodi himself acknowledged in a recent interview that in 2001 he sent a 22-page letter, drafted by Mr. Mbeki’s office, to another of Mr. Mbeki’s most credible critics, Prof. Malegapuru Makgoba, an immunologist who was one of South Africa’s leading scientists. The letter accused Professor Makgoba of defending Western science and its racist ideas about Africans at the expense of Mr. Mbeki.
In 2000 Mr. Mbeki had provided Professor Makgoba with two bound volumes containing 1,500 pages of documents written by AIDS denialists. After reading them, Professor Makgoba said in an interview that he wrote back to warn Mr. Mbeki that if he adopted the denialists’ ideas, South Africa would “become the laughingstock, if not the pariah, of the world again.”
But Mr. Mbeki indicated last year to one of his biographers, Mark Gevisser, that his views on AIDS were essentially unchanged, pointing the writer to a document that, he said, was drafted by A.N.C. leaders and accurately reflected his position.
The document’s authors conceded that H.I.V. might be one cause of AIDS but contended that there were many others, like other diseases and malnutrition.
The document maintained that antiretrovirals were toxic. And it suggested that powerful vested interests — drug companies, governments, scientists — pushed the consensus view of AIDS in a quest for money and power, while peddling centuries-old white racist beliefs that depicted Africans as sexually rapacious.
“Yes, we are sex crazy!” the document’s authors bitterly exclaimed. “Yes, we are diseased! Yes, we spread the deadly H.I. virus through our uncontrolled heterosexual sex!”
In 2002, after a prolonged outcry over Mr. Mbeki’s comments about AIDS and the government’s policies, Mr. Mbeki agreed to requests from within his party to withdraw from the public debate. That same year, the Constitutional Court ruled that the government had to provide antiretroviral drugs to prevent the infection of newborns. And in 2003, the cabinet announced plans to go forward with an antiretroviral treatment program.
“We did an enormous amount of good in the early days in South Africa, not because of the Health Ministry, but in spite of the Health Ministry,” said Randall L. Tobias, who was appointed by President Bush in 2003 to lead the United States’ $15 billion global AIDS undertaking.
In the same years, former President Clinton and his foundation were also deeply involved in helping South Africa get a treatment program going. Mr. Clinton attended Mr. Mandela’s 85th birthday celebration in Johannesburg in 2003. During the dinner, he and Mr. Mbeki slipped away to talk about AIDS, Mr. Clinton recalled in a recent interview.
Mr. Clinton said he told Mr. Mbeki how antiretroviral treatment had reduced the AIDS mortality rate in the United States and reminded him, “I’m your friend and I haven’t joined in the public condemnation.” That evening, when Mr. Clinton offered to send in a team of experts to help the country put together a national treatment plan, Mr. Mbeki took him up on it.
The Clinton Foundation helped devise a plan and mobilized 20 people to travel to South Africa in 2004 to help carry it out. But the South African government never invited them, Mr. Clinton said. So the foundation, which had projects all over Africa, was to have none in South Africa.
Changes since Mr. Mbeki’s fall from power have prompted many to hope for forceful South African political leadership on AIDS. Mr. Mbeki’s rival and successor as head of the party, Jacob Zuma, who is expected to become president after next year’s election, himself made a famously questionable remark about AIDS.
In his 2006 rape trial, in which he was acquitted of sexually assaulting a family friend, he testified that he sought to reduce his chances of being infected with H.I.V. by taking a shower after sex. Nonetheless, he seems to have more conventional views on the pandemic.
“Who would have thought Jacob Zuma would be better than Mbeki, but he is,” said Richard C. Holbrooke, the former ambassador to the United Nations in the Clinton administration who heads a coalition of businesses fighting AIDS. “The tragedy of Thabo Mbeki is that he’s a smart man who could have been an international statesman on this issue. To this day, you wonder what got into him.”
For South Africans who watched the dying and were powerless to stop it, the grief is still raw. Zackie Achmat, the country’s most prominent advocate for people with AIDS, became sick during the almost five years he refused to take antiretrovirals until they were made widely available. He cast Mr. Mbeki as the leading man in this African tragedy.
“He is like Macbeth,” Mr. Achmat said. “It’s easier to walk through the blood than to turn back and admit you made a mistake.”
Mbeki's opposition to ARVs cost 330,000 lives, shows study
Michael Carter, Thursday, November 27, 2008
www.aidsmap.com/en/news/97BFC49D-E43C-4028-8E4D-CACF15F82...
The refusal of the Mbeki government to roll-out antiretroviral therapy and treatment to prevent mother-to child transmission in South Africa resulted in 330,000 needlessly premature HIV-related deaths and 35,000 avoidable case of mother-to-child HIV transmission according to estimates published in the December 1st edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.
South Africa is one of the countries hardest hit by HIV. UNAIDS estimates that 19% of the adult population is HIV-positive, some 5.5 million individuals. In 2005, an estimated 320,000 individuals died because of HIV.
President Thabo Mbeki’s government consistently resisted the provision of antiretroviral therapy. The first important evidence of this was in 1999 when, under pressure to provide AZT monotherapy to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, President Mbeki announced that the drug was dangerous and that it would therefore not be provided by his government. This was followed by Mbeki publicly questioning that HIV caused AIDS and the efficacy of antiretroviral therapy. The Mbeki administration then resisted the use of nevirapine to prevent mother-to-child transmission and obstructed the acquisition of grants from the Global Fund.
US investigators estimated the lost benefits resulting from the Mbeki government’s opposition to provision of antiretroviral therapy and treatment to prevent mother-to-child transmission. To do this, they compared the actual number of people who received HIV treatment or therapy to prevent mother-to-child transmission between 2000 and 2005 and compared this to the number that could feasibly have been treated during this period. This difference was multiplied by the average efficacy of antiretroviral treatment and treatment to prevent mother-to-child transmission to give the lost benefits consequent upon the South African government’s decision to prevent access to anti-HIV drugs.
“Our overriding values in choosing methods were transparency and minimization of assumptions and we were purposely conservative”, write the investigators.
When estimating the number of people who could reasonably have been provided with antiretroviral therapy or treatment to prevent mother-to-child transmission, the investigators noted that HIV treatment became significantly more accessible between 2000-2005. This was because:
* The price of anti-HIV drugs fell significantly in this period.
* More money was available for donor organisations, such as the Global Fund and PEPFAR, to purchase antiretroviral drugs.
Nevertheless, the South African government still maintained opposition to the provision of HIV drugs.
To estimate the number of people who should have been eligible to receive antiretroviral therapy, the investigators obtained from UNAIDS the number of HIV-related deaths in South Africa between 2000-2005. Patients who died of HIV without receiving anti-HIV drugs lost the entire potential benefits of antiretroviral therapy.
Next, the investigators obtained figures showing how many individuals received antiretroviral therapy in the same period. Their sources were UNAIDS and the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) “3 x 5” antiretroviral treatment access programme. These figures showed that fewer than 3% of patients received antiretroviral treatment in 2000, increasing to approximately 10% in 2003 and 23% in 2005.
The researchers considered it reasonable that South Africa could have treated no more than 5% of eligible patients with HIV in 2000. However, because drugs became less expensive and more international funding became available, “ramping up” access to treatment was feasible, meaning that by 2005, 50% of HIV-positive patients in South Africa should have been receiving antiretroviral therapy. They note that the maximum of 50% treatment coverage is significantly lower than the 71% achieved by Namibia and the 85% achieved by Botswana.
Finally they estimated the number of life years that would be gained per patient due to antiretroviral therapy. They used the most conservative estimate of 6.7 years.
Their calculations showed that 330,000 lives and 2.2 million person years were lost because the Mbeki government resisted the implementation of a reasonable antiretroviral treatment programme.
They tested their model using a number of other assumptions. For example, if they reduced the number of patients who could reasonably be expected to receive antiretroviral therapy in 2005 to 40%, then the number of lives lost fell to 226,800 or 1.5 million person years.
Consequences of opposition to treatment to prevent mother-to-child transmission
The researchers' model to test the impact of the Mbeki administration’s opposition to treatment to prevent mother-to-child transmission also included a number of conservative assumptions.
First, they calculated the number of children infected with HIV vertically. They looked at a number of sources and selected the lowest estimate of 68,000 per year and revised this down to 60,000 to take into account the high adult HIV population and marginal increase in population growth in South Africa during this period.
A number of sources suggested that in 2005, coverage of treatment to prevent mother-to-child transmission was 30%, having increased from below 3% before 2000.
To estimate the proportion of women who could have received treatment to prevent mother-to-child transmission, they considered that treatment would have been free during this period, that it is easy to administer and that 84% of pregnant women in South Africa receive antenatal care.
Based on these assumptions, the investigators calculated that no more than 5% of women would have received treatment to prevent mother-to-child transmission in 2000, but that this could have increased to 55% by 2005.
Next the investigators estimated the efficacy of such therapy, taking as their benchmark the HIVNET 012 study which showed that single-dose nevirapine reduced the risk of transmission by 47% compared to short-course AZT amongst women who breastfeed.
Finally, they assumed an average life-expectancy at birth of 48 years, and subtracted from this the average three year life-expectancy of infants infected with HIV at birth.
The investigators therefore estimated that 35,000 cases of mother-to-child transmission (or 1.6 million life years) were the result of the Mbeki administration’s policies.
One again, the investigators tested their results using other assumptions. If they accepted 40% coverage of treatment as acceptable, then the excess number of babies infected because of government policies was 18,000, a loss of 800,00 life years. However, had there been 70% coverage (still below what was achieved in Namibia and Botswana), then HIV infections in 44,000 babies (or 2 million life years), would have been avoided.
When the investigators combined their two estimates – years of life lost because of opposition to antiretroviral treatment, and life years lost because of the failure to provide treatment to prevent vertical transmission – they found that some 3.8 million life years were lost because of the Mbeki administration’s policies.
They conclude, “in the case of South Africa, many lives were lost because of failure to accept the use of available antiretrovirals to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS in a timely manner.”
Reference
Chigwedere, P. et al. Estimating the lost benefits of antiretroviral drug use in South Africa. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 49: 410-15, 2008.
I realize that my editing is not very consistent, therefore my stream really is not that appealing from a first glance aha. I find it weird cause my editing is quite consistent, but the outcomes never seem the same. Maybe it's just me overthinking as usual....but somehow I want to have a "unique" editing style, y'know?
Anyways, today's shoot went pretty well! The weather didn't cooperate as well as i'd hoped, but some shots turned out nicely!
I actually love this shot sooo much cause of all the awesome colours! Everyone was so tacky that it literally made me happy!!! :)
I want to put up the original somewhere, so you can see the different outcomes!
I'll upload more as i edit them! :)
Argentine Lighthouse in the Cape Virgenes (Cape Virgins),
departamento Güer Aike, provincia de Santa Cruz, ARGENTINA.
Imagen escaneada de una fotografía en papel . . . . . . . . (24 de octubre de 2006)
Situación geográfica: 52o. 21' latitud S. . . . . . . . . . . . . 68o. 21' longitud W.
Su descubrimiento europeo se debe al marino portugués Fernando de Magallanes (Fernão de Magelhães), que al ser humillado por el rey de Portugal decidió hacer una gran expedición en servicio del rey de España.
Zarpó de Sanlúcar de Barrameda el 20 de septiembre de 1519.
El 21 de octubre de 1520 descubrió un cabo detrás del cual se divisaba una gran entrada de mar.
Al cabo lo bautizó como de las Once mil Vírgenes.
En el plan de establecer faros para proporcionar seguridad a la navegación marítima, la Marina de Guerra argentina inauguró el 15 de abril de 1904 el faro Cabo Vírgenes, consistente en una torre metálica troncopiramidal con doble plataforma y garita, con franjas horizontales blancas y negras, construída sobre la barranca del citado cabo (con una altura constructiva de 26,30 metros, y una altura total sobre el nivel del mar de 69,50 metros.
En las pruebas se comprobó que la luz llegaba a más de 50 kms.
Las obras dirigidas por el ingeniero Ismael Marty y el teniente de navío Virgilio Moreno Vera, incluyeron una vivienda de material para los torreros.
En 1947 recibió mejoras en su estructura y comodidades, permitiendo que aún continúe prestando eficientes servicios.
El clima en este sector es semiárido, con una temperatura media anual de + 6°C, las precipitaciones anuales -uniformemente distribuidas- rondan los 260 mm, siendo predominantes los vientos del Oeste.
La flora es la correspondiente a la estepa patagónica, distrito magallánico.
De entre los componentes más destacados que constituyen su vegetación podemos enumerar: el coirón (Festuca gracillima), el calafate (Berberis buxifolia), la mata verde (Lepidophyllum cupressiforme), la mata negra (Verbeba tridens), y el romerillo (Chiliatrichium diffusum).
A principios de 1885 se difundió rápidamente la noticia del descubrimiento de oro en la zona, provocando la llegada de buscadores y empresarios deseosos de explotar el rico metal, quienes formaron un incipiente y precario poblado.
El Gobernador de Santa Cruz, Carlos María Moyano, envió en 1888 al teniente de fragata Teófilo de Loqui a mensurar la zona poblada de cabo Vírgenes y trazar el futuro pueblo, pero la actividad minera había decrecido porque no existía la cantidad de oro que se había pensando, y las ganancias no compensaban los gastos.
De Loqui registra en su plano las escasas viviendas existentes, figurando la Policía como única autoridad gubernamental. Además, con fecha 1º. de agosto de 1888 informa:
"Las pocas casas de comercio establecidas están liquidando sus existencias, por haber disminuído considerablemente el número de lavaderos; poco interés demostraron estos pobladores en solicitar solares, ya que puede preverse el día que todos se retirarán."
Sin embargo, hasta hace pocos años perduraron la presencia de algunos humildes lavadores de oro, quienes solo obtendrán lo necesario para sobrevivir, lejos de las grandes ganancias que fueron soñadas cuando se descubrieron pepitas del metal precioso.
Muy cerca de allí se encuentra la Estancia Monte Dinero de la familia Fenton (justo en el límite con chile y abierta al turismo).
En ella se crian más de dieciocho mil ovejas de la raza Corino; la que fue desarrollada por el abuelo del propietario, siendo su característica principal el combinar la resistencia y la buena carne del Corriedale con la fina lana del Merino.
El manejo es a la manera australiana, país líder en ovinos.
El trabajo ganadero se realiza en moto cross, contando con la ayuda de perros de razas ovejeras creadas en la misma Australia.
Dentro de su perímetro se halla la Reserva Provincial de Cabo Vírgenes, la cual protege una de las colonias más importantes del pingüino patagónico, o magallánico (Spheniscus magellanicus), con una superficie de nidificación de 875 mil metros cuadrados, con 0.14 nidos por metro cuadrado, lo que da un número de 120 mil parejas reproductivas actualmente.
Esta área protegida se creó en 1986 con una superficie de 1230 has. que hasta entonces eran propiedad de la Estancia Monte Dinero.
Hay 21 colonias de esta especie en la Argentina, 14 de ellas en Santa Cruz, y la colonia de Cabo Vírgenes hospeda el 40% de los ejemplares de la provincia.
La pingüinera se encuentra en la zona mareológica conocida como Boca Oriental del Estrecho de Magallanes.
Tiene un régimen de mareas semidiurno, registra dos pleamares y dos bajantes por día.
Presenta una amplitud de marea máxima de 10.7m y media de 6.7m.
Tomando los 5.9m como nivel medio registra pleamares de 11.0m de máxima con una media de 9.2m y bajamares de 0.3m con una media de 2.5m.
Estos datos implican que el ancho de playa afectado por la pleamar y la bajamar es muy considerable, sobrepasando los varios cientos de metros, afectando notablemente la distancia recorrida por los pingüinos en sus desplazamientos terrestres.
La nota distintiva es el fuerte viento, mas intenso en la primavera y verano, la temporada donde los pingüinos nidifican en las costas.
La intensidad máxima de las ráfagas puede ser de 70 a 90km/h pero no es raro que alcance velocidades superiores a los 120 km/h, soplando principalmente del cuadrante W, SW.
La batimetría indica que a unos pocos metros de la costa (200-300m) la profundidad es de 10m.
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EL PROYECTO DE NAVEGACIÓN ROLL ON-ROLL OFF:
Cada cierto tiempo se intenta reactivar el viejo proyecto fueguino de cruzar al continente navegando por aguas jurisdiccionales argentinas.
La esperada vinculación marítima de la Argentina continental con la isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, surgió a fines de la década del 90.
Primeramente se planteó a través del sistema roll on-roll off entre los puertos de Punta Loyola, a pocos kilómetros de Río Gallegos, y el puerto fueguino de Caleta La Misión, a medio construir en la zona esteparia norte de Tierra del Fuego.
Ante la obvia dilación de las obras del puerto riograndense todo quedó en el olvido tras los anuncios, propuestas y firmas de ocasión; hoy este método fue descartado.
La idea de unir a ambas provincias resurgió hace pocos años.
La nueva iniciativa señala que las cabeceras terminales estarían ubicadas en Cabo Espíritu Santo y Cabo Vírgenes.
Otras de las posibilidades remplaza a este último accidente por la Punta Dúngeness.
El tramo entre estos dos puntos es de 18 millas náuticas, es decir, comprende unos 32 kilómetros de distancia.
Se sondeó incluso a representantes de la empresa Buquebús para conocer su interés en llevar a cabo la ambicionada conexión marítima de Santa Cruz con Tierra del Fuego mediante un roll on-roll off para traslado de pasajeros y cargas en general, este último es el sector más interesado en que el proyecto se cristalice, dados los singulares beneficios que esto les traería aparejado en materia de costos y tiempo.
Sea como fuere, y más allá de las dificultades y esfuerzos que la iniciativa demande, el más anhelado sueño de los fueguinos: poder transitar hacia el sector continental argentino sin salir de la Argentina, sigue siendo eso, solo un sueño.
Sería un paso fundamental para la definitiva integración de la isla con el resto del país, con todos los beneficios económicos, políticos, institucionales, sociales y culturales que el proyecto convertido en realidad traería consigo.
Con dos gobiernos nacionales comandados por habitantes de la zona en cuestión, y a pesar de ello la megaobra continúa estando presente solo en los papeles, parece dificil que el sueño alguna vez se haga realidad, por lomenos en los próximos años...
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~ ~ ~ EL ESTRECHO DE MAGALLANES ~ ~ ~
CARACTERÍSTICAS GEOGRÁFICAS:
A pesar de la corta distancia (menos de 5 kilómetros) que separa la Isla Grande con respecto al continente sudamericano, fue suficiente para mantener aislada dicha isla de la mayor parte de la fauna de mamíferos patagónicos que solo logran o lograron habitar la margen norte del Estrecho (foto).
Las frías, profundas, y tempestuosas aguas les resultaron infranqueables.
Viniendo desde el este, la Primera Angostura, separa dos sectores del gran Estrecho: al este los sacos formados por las bahía Posesión en el sector continental y la bahía Lomas en la Isla Grande, donde la influencia Atlántica es más marcada; al oeste un amplio saco que da origen a las bahías Santiago y Gregorio por el continente y la bahía Felipe por el costado insular con características más intermedias.
Más al sur y al oeste, continuará acrecentándose la influencia del Pacífico.
El largo total del Estrecho de Magallanes es de 305 millas marinas.
En general es profundo y ancho, siendo la menor profundidad, en el track, de 28 metros en las proximidades de la Isla Magdalena, siendo la mayor profundidad del Estrecho los notables 1080 metros! frente al Faro Cooper Key.
En cuanto a las distancias, la menor distancia a costa es de 5 cables a través del Faro Crosstide y la mayor de 9 millas náuticas a través de Puerto Porvenir.
El calado máximo permitido para navegar el Estrecho de Magallanes es de 70 pies, es decir 21,3 metros.
La corriente marina manifiesta sus efectos con mayor nitidez en las dos Angosturas y en el paso Inglés.
En la Primera Angostura, es donde se hace sentir con mayor intensidad en todo el Estrecho, allí va desde 2 nudos en períodos de baja intensidad, hasta 8 nudos en sicigias.
La máxima amplitud de mareas de todo el estrecho ocurre también en la Primera Angostura, Punta Delgada, donde en sicigias se puede observar hasta 8 metros de diferencia entre la plea y la bajamar.
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HISTORIA GEOLÓGICA Y PRECOLOMBINA:
Durante el cretácico superior, hace 80 millones de años, se originaron fracturas de paredes planas debido a los movimientos terrestres, las cuales dieron origen a los canales patagónicos.
Una de estas fracturas, que comenzaba cercana a la latitud 53ºS, tomó progresivamente la dirección NO-SE formando una angosta y larga depresión que pasó a formar, posteriormente, la parte occidental del futuro Estrecho de Magallanes desde la boca occidental hasta el cabo Froward.
Durante el pleistoceno, hace 1.500.000 años, una era de clima polar cubrió el planeta y originó un vasto manto de hielo que cubría el extremo sur del continente americano desde el valle de Río Gallegos hasta el extremo sur de la isla Hoste, pero dejando fuera las isla Wallaston y Hermites.
Luego, este campo de hielo comenzó a variar, retrocediendo y avanzando, dando origen a enormes lenguas glaciares.
Una de estas lenguas, debido al movimiento erosivo de avance y retroceso labró y profundizó depresiones, formando la gran cuenca que forma la boca oriental del estrecho.
Una segunda lengua formó un lago entre las actuales angosturas y finalmente se formó un gran embalse orientado de norte a sur, que comenzaba en el paso Famine y que separaba la península de Brunswich de isla Dawson.
De esta forma la parte oriental del futuro estrecho estuvo formada por 2 grandes lagos y una amplia cuenca en su boca oriental.
Entre los dos lagos se formó, por un muy corto tiempo, un angosto istmo que permitió, hace más de 12.000 años, el paso hacia el sur de algunas pocas especies de fauna terrestre y de los primeros seres humanos: los indígenas aonikenk o tehuelches, llamados patagones por Magallanes, que eran tribus nómadas pedestres, cazadores-recolectores.
Cuando el nivel de las aguas subió debido a los deshielos del fin de la era glacial, se unieron los lagos con la cuenca de la boca y se formó el estrecho.
Esto sucedió en una fecha reciente no determinada.
Esto produjó un corte del flujo genético humano, lo que terminó generando la etnia de los selknam u onas, que poblaban la isla Grande de la Tierra del Fuego a la llegada del hombre blanco al estrecho.
Estos también eran cazadores pedestres, cazadores-recolectores.
Tehuelches y onas eran muy parecidos físicamente.
El área de Cabo Vírgenes se encuentra constituida por acantilados conformados por drift glaciario correspondiente al denominado "Drift Cabo Vírgenes", con una edad mayor a 360.000 años AP. Hace 5000 años, producto de la erosión marina del flanco oriental de estos depósitos, se inició el proceso de formación de la punta Dungeness por acreción marina.
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EL DESCUBRIMIENTO:
El descubrimiento europeo de este importante paso se debe al marino portugués Fernando de Magallanes (Fernão de Magelhães), que al ser humillado por el rey de Portugal, decidió hacer una expedición, pero en servicio del rey de España.
Zarpó de Sanlúcar de Barrameda el 20 de septiembre de 1519.
El 21 de octubre de 1520 descubrió un cabo detrás del cual se divisaba una gran entrada de mar.
Al cabo lo bautizó como de las Once mil Vírgenes.
El 1 de noviembre de 1520, luego de explorar la entrada de mar, Magallanes entró al estrecho al que llamó de Todos los Santos ya que ese día la iglesia católica celebraba esa festividad.
Al navegarlo, contempló en la ribera sur grandes fogatas que desprendían mucho humo, las cuales se producían por la cantidad inmensa de gas natural que emanaba en esa zona a la que los indios habían prendido fuego en algún momento para hacer sus rituales mágicos.
La bautizó como: Tierra de los Fuegos.
Por varios siglos la región continuó sin poblados permanentes hasta que el presidente de Chile, general don Manuel Bulnes Prieto, ordenó al intendente de Chiloé, Domingo Espiñeira que construyera y enviara una nave que tomara posesión del estrecho y sus territorios.
Espiñeira construyó en Ancud una goleta, la Ancud, que puso bajo el mando del capitán de marina don John Williams.
La nave zarpó el 21 de mayo de 1843 y el 21 de septiembre efectuó la toma de posesión del Estrecho de Magallanes en la punta Santa Ana.
Allí, construyó un fuerte, al que bautizó: Fuerte Bulnes.
En 1848, se construyó un nuevo fuerte en Punta de Arena, trasladando el 18 de diciembre de 1848 oficialmente parte de la población del fuerte a la que posteriormente se convertiría en la ciudad de Punta Arenas.
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EL TRATADO DE 1881:
Cuando la Argentina y Chile decidieron delimitar su frontera austral, Chile presionó para que el Estrecho quedara bajo su soberanía.
Esto lo logró concretar en casi toda su superficie, salvo una pequeña porción en su extremo oriental.
Si bien el comienzo del Estrecho en su sector este son los altos acantilados del cabo Vírgenes, el límite de las soberanías no podía partir de allí pues, a causa de la orientación de la costa en ese tramo, se hubieran generado profundas proyecciones marítimas de Chile hacia el Atlántico, lo cual quebraría el espíritu del tratado de límites de 1881.
Por esta causa se decidió dejar un pequeño sector costero del tramo norte del Estrecho de Magallanes bajo soberanía plena de la Argentina, de tan solo 9 kilómetros, estableciéndose el nuevo límite en la Punta Dungeness, accidente geográfico de baja altura por estar compuesto por sedimentos producto de la erosión marina de las barrancas de cabo Vírgenes, donde luego allí Chile levantaría un faro, actualmente todavía en actividad.
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TODO EL ESTRECHO PERTENECE AL PACÍFICO:
La International Hydrographic Organization es una organización internacional encargada de
lograr la estandarización de las publicaciones cartográficas y náuticas de todo el mundo, ambicioso objetivo el cual fue alcanzado con notable éxito.
En el año 1919, en Londres, dictaminó:
«Aquellos estrechos que tuvieren salida a dos océanos, deben ser incluídos totalmente en uno, no pudiendo ser divididos en dos secciones».
Es por ello que, hasta el día de hoy, la totalidad del Estrecho de Magallanes está incluída por convención en el Pacífico.
Para esta Organización mundial, el límite oriental del Estrecho de Magallanes (y la frontera entre el Océano Pacífico y el Océano Atlántico) es una línea que va desde el Cabo Vírgenes (52°21′S 68°21′O) hasta el Cabo Espíritu Santo; de lo que se desprende que la Argentina es estado corribereño del Estrecho al ser propietaria de esa boca oriental, en la cuña formada entre punta Dungeness, el cabo Vírgenes y el cabo del Espíritu Santo, cuyas aguas y costas están por completo en el Océano Pacífico, aunque geográficamente serían netamente atlánticos (por lo menos es lo que percibí yo).
Este detalle suele ser ignorado por la enorme mayoría de la población, tanto chilena como argentina.
Lo que ocurre es que ambos países suelen ser reticentes de manifestar sus caracteres de naciones bioceánicas, porque en numerosos pactos y tratados suscriptos entre las dos repúblicas dejaron de alguna manera constancia de que no es su propósito el expandirse a futuro hacia el océano mayormente opuesto a su natural geografía; es decir, lo hacen por una cuestión meramente política y no geográfica.
A esto se le agrega la posición histórica de Chile de controlar a perpetuidad el tráfico marítimo por el Estrecho, para lo cual, la condición argentina de estado corribereño podría tal vez haberlo complicado si se hubiese terminado recurriendo a una instancia judicial internacional, por lo tanto Chile siempre planteó en todos los foros internacionales, que no aceptaba dicha delimitación, proponiendo en cambio que en lugar de ella sea la línea Cabo Espíritu Santo - punta Dungeness; aunque en realidad se intuye que el verdadero propósito argentino no era someterlo a un Tribunal Arbitral (casi seguro desfavorable), sino el simple hecho de sumar algo más para mejorar su posición a la hora de efectuarse las negociaciones que más tarde conformarían el Tratado de 1984.
Si bien en el Tratado de paz y amistad firmado el 29 de noviembre de 1984, ambos países son cuidadosos de no demarcar ni estrechos, ni océanos, y solo deslindan las fronteras de ambas soberanías, se suscribió que el control y la regulación de la navegación de buques por el Estrecho de Magallanes sería administrado solo por Chile, lo cual es más que lógico pues incluso la pequeña muesca argentina puede ser fácilmente controlada desde lo alto del chileno Faro Dungeness. Aunque se mantiene la libre circulación para barcos de cualquier bandera, y la prohibición de que Chile pueda construír fortificaciones en sus costas, esto último acota (aunque solo muy levemente) su soberanía sobre este paso.
A cambio Chile cedió a la Argentina su derecho sobre las aguas que desde el cabo del Espíritu Santo hasta Punta Catalina se proyectan hacia el mar abierto que, por estar claramente más próximas a la costa fueguina chilena, jurídicamente le hubieran correspondido de haberse llevado el caso a una instancia judicial internacional.
Esas aguas que Chile concedió son muy ricas en pesca, pero en especial en petróleo y gas, estando todo en plena explotación.
Por lo tanto, lo que trasunta de ello es que ha cesado la utilidad de esa tradicional, escrupulosa, y otrora imprescindible política de estado chilena que se cimentaba en la necesidad de que la República no adscriba los deslindes oceánicos o del Estrecho que son aceptados desde hace décadas por el resto de la comunidad internacional (representada en este caso por la International Hydrographic Organization), puesto que la frontera marítima con la argentina ha quedado delimitada en su totalidad, y desde hace más de un cuarto de siglo...
Por todo ello desde aquí apoyo la idea de que ambos países consideren los mismos límites geográficos que son aceptados por el resto de las naciones; entre ellos, el hecho indiscutible que tanto Argentina como Chile son poseedores de costas y aguas en ambos océanos, es decir, las dos repúblicas son bioceánicas, sin que el mero hecho de admitirlo amerite otra intención más que la de simplemente reconocer la realidad de las cosas, si es que se me permite...
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When a step sends us sliding on a glass land,
we learn wariness.
We’ll believe second, letting others take the lead;
examining the benefits of believing -
an environment much won.
As life’s afternoons disappear
and the daily dark comes so soon,
we mark any opposite with warning -
too busy alive, being one...
A thin divide,
we step out onto glass each waking day,
an average magazine couple
come in years to material age,
learning the new dozen mean words
we use along the red answer -
and that’s
only consistent
with how we see ourselves and our lives
on the hungry edge...
not much more than idea animals
of spot purpose and chance effect.
And that glass plane so square
we try to walk on...
Wouldn’t we stick suggested to what felt familiar?
Glass like ice, cold for space...
Beneath us lies a proper place
for hungry lives to go for nourishment...
We, an all-season age
entered upon
now huge minutes;
a found notice lay growing;
a solution of bread and fishes to hunger,
seeing the glass now clear and limitless beneath -
and that makes us question
what we’ve believed to be...
what we’ve believed to be
those fatal edges where the drop has horror to it...
Maybe they’re there – maybe not...
and even if they are – those limits so like walls
despite their opposite fall –
now we know, seeing clear beneath us,
that down there beneath us,
where we for so long
have lived apart
only on the sliding surface,
used to choring effort just to keep a level pace –
that down there beneath us...
grows the rest of us...
alive in this same life...
as much of us as any waking day can win,
and more than we can ever know...
and if we didn’t try to find that out –
what more we may become –
what opens up our afternoons,
multiplies our hunger in so many other ways -
even as our taste is satisfied by fishes
and miraculous bread...
if we didn’t try to find that out –
as worlds swing open wide –
where’s the fun in that?
© Keith Ward 2006
Re: "On A Glass Land" - Punctuation has been revised from the version of the poem appearing in my book "Hit Head On." Also, italics was added for this online version. Originally I added italics to simulate the way I deliver the poem in oral presentation, but it seemed to muddy the reading of it more than clarify a difficult poem; so I removed the "emphasis" italics.
The photo was taken at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA, on Monday March 27. I'd completed the second weekend class in a course on Life Coaching - something that feels closer than anything encountered in my 50 years to being what I want to do when I grow up - and took Monday off too. There was percolating from the weekend goin' on. I drove west in the early morning, not knowing where I would end up or what I'd be doing exactly - just that I wanted to walk, to think, to contemplate, to take pictures, and to read the course materials. On impulse I turned off Route 81 and entered the city, and by following something undefined in me, parked near the college. I walked for a long time - through the campus, then out into residential streets. It was a mulling stroll, not my usual exercise walk (when I do walk, that is - I've been out of the habit lately). The rest of the morning was spent reading, most of the time outside in the sun, sitting in a chair in a grassy courtyard at the law school, the wind clicking the branches of the trees.
I'm on a glass land alright... It's not been once and done - discovering my layer habitat, then keeping that learning. Relearning, I've found, has had to be built into my way of living - reinforcement of knowing - or else it fades... unknowing.... "Life is always pulling you away from the understanding of life." (Anne Morrow Lindbergh) Don't I know it! :)
On the way back to my car I noticed the reflection in the window you see in the photo, stopping abruptly a few paces past the window, then walking backwards to bring the reflection again into view. I might wish for a shot where the window's crosspieces were more symmetrical. But then the reflection wouldn't be like this. I worked with what I had, and made it what you see, enhancing the color and bringing out the blacks and oranges more. The trees reflected in the window were distorted in the first place, the window making them more so. (Check it out on the larger size setting - the intricate lines and the colors are really cool.)
There's something about the photo that speaks to me... the separate panes too... It's not what I originally had in mind for a photo accompanying "On A Glass Land" - I'd thought I'd use something that was definitely evocative of a walking surface - something that would match the theme of there being a "beneath." This photo isn't like that. Literally, anyway. Yet it seems to work with the poem.
And that's one of the best qualities of life and living, ya know? The possibilities... The never knowing from one moment to the next what sure plan will marvelously transmute in a sense of wonder... and through that wonder, for that moment and maybe longer yet, it all feels different... the world... you... You know with certainty that the world and you and everything really is like this - the way you now see it... and potential fills where habit and daily plodding normally live...
There's the fun in that...
Simbolo della primavera, la rondine è un uccello poco cittadino, come denota anche il nome scientifico Hirundo rustica. Ma Torino ospita una importante colonia riproduttiva al Borgo Medievale del parco del Valentino. La vicinanza del Po, la tipologia delle case, sicuramente d'altri tempi, e la collocazione all'interno del parco favoriscono la sua presenza. La LIPU di Torino censisce da alcuni anni la consistenza della colonia, intervenendo in caso di problemi di conservazione o di convivenza con le esigenze museali del Borgo, e realizza momenti di divulgazione e didattica in collaborazione con il Museo del Borgo Medievale.
Attualmente la colonia conta circa una ventina di nidi che nei mesi primaverili ed estivi ravvivano il borgo, rendendolo teatro dei voli, dei canti e delle attività di nidificazione delle rondini.
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This mini measures 16.25" x18.25"
First time making so many consistent pieced circles and quilted circles.
Patone Emerald challenge 2013
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Sueño corto o descanso después de la comida del mediodía.
La siesta es una costumbre consistente en descansar algunos minutos (entre veinte y treinta, por lo general, pero puede llegar a durar un par de horas) después de haber tomado el almuerzo, entablando un corto sueño con el propósito de reunir energías para el resto de la jornada.
Al borde del Lago di Auronzo di Cadore.
También conocido como Lago di Santa Caterina, es un lago artificial que se encuentra cerca de la ciudad de Auronzo, en Los Dolomitas de la provincia de Belluno.
1972 Leyland Atlantean AN68/1R East Lancs H43/32F
Hyndburn was a consistent Atlantean/East Lancs purchaser for a number of years, but complete standardisation was avoided by East Lancs' proclivity to redesign the front on each order.
When the United States of America launched it's counterattack against the EU, the first few months were a hard, bitter few, learning that the M16 series of rifle was consistently being outperformed by the French FAMAS, and the German G36cA. In response, the United States began to modify L85A1s captured by soldiers on the field, until the final modification produced the end result, that of which was the M20 OICWS.
The M20 is not indifferent from the L85A2. Using the same 5.56x45mm round the L85A2 used, and the same bullpup configuration as well, made the two visually similar. However, this is where the similarities end. The M20 was designed with modular components and attachments in mind, leaving a highly adaptable, open platformed rifle, though the rifle was limited to what few parts the soldier had on hand at the moment. The magazine sports 30 rounds, and can be removed either via a mag release switch or a firm yank on the mag itself.
The compact version includes a built-in silencer on the barrel, a foregrip, and a improved gas valve to help facilitate with a higher fire rate.
The DMR version comes with a heavier barrel than the rest, and has a flash hider for concealment, and comes standard with a bipod and a Trijicon ACOG (c).
The standard version comes with a flash hider, and a slightly shortened barrel compared to the DMR version, but is also longer than that of the compact. The standard version is often lovingly called the "Gold Standard", as soldiers often loved it's high level of durability, and modular capabilities. Although not standard, many standard M20s came with the M220 Grenade Launcher, which serves as an impromptu foregrip if necessary.
Overall, the M20 managed to keep par with most European rifles. Never exceeding, but keeping on par. The dogged reliability came in handy in the rough terrain of Alps, and the modular system made sure every soldier was prepared for nearly every situation.
Have you ever noticed how different the sculpts are between the different editions of the MH girls? Left to right: Gloom Beach, Dead Tired, Wave 1 Basic. The Gloom Beach Ghoulia's head is markedly wider than the other two... the basic is slightly narrower, and then the Dead Tired is really quite slim!
I compared other dolls in the house (there are a lot right now because of commissions), and the Gloom Beach girls seem to have narrower heads across the board, aside from Cleo who seems reasonably consistent between releases.
The Crossing
Big Country
Stand on the silence of mountains and
Wear out your welcome again
Mornings hit hard with an uncontrollable light
Piercing the senses that click deep in the night
Crouched in a pillow of straw feet on the floor
Creeping a path to the mat that holds back the door
Pull straws with holy men
Stain all the atlas pink
And let us find a beach
Where we can cross our hearts
Build up great railways that run
Through the horns of the moon
Hold up a city with cast iron museum walls
Explain your machines to the boys feed them with tools
Bring out the skill in your skin polish your hair
Pull straws with holy men
Stain all the atlas pink
And let us find a beach
Where we can cross our hearts
Stand in the wind as the carousels spin
Wear out your welcome again
Stand on the silence of mountains
And take a look down to the sea
Stand in the wind as the carousels spin
Wear out your welcome again
Stand on the silence of mountains
And take a look down to the sea
Had been watching Weatherzone for about 4 days, and the promise of fog at Campbelltown at 6am was consistent over that time. Off I went on my lonesome to shoot an old shed that I have had my eye on for sometime now. As you can see from the image above, that worked out well!!!! No Fog, the shed still looked good (I'll be back), so I strolled down the nearby firetrail to Freres crossing instead. Myself and a mate had been here a few years back, so it seemed like a good opportunity to go shoot it again. This is a 4 shot pano, stitched and edited in PS CS5. Hope you like "The Crossing". Cheers, Mike
Comallempla & Comapedrosa, Vall nord mountainscape, La Massana parroquia, Vall nord, Andorra - (c) Lutz Meyer
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Suecia - Lund - Biblioteca de la Universidad
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ENGLISH
Lund University (Swedish: Lunds universitet) is a public university, consistently ranking among the world's top 100 universities. The university, located in the city of Lund in the province of Scania, Sweden, traces its roots back to 1425, when a Franciscan studium generale was founded in Lund next to the Lund Cathedral, making it the oldest institution of higher education in Scandinavia. After Sweden won Scania from Denmark in the 1658 Treaty of Roskilde, the university was founded in 1666 on the location of the old studium generale next to Lund Cathedral.
Lund University has eight faculties, with additional campuses in the cities of Malmö and Helsingborg, with 42,000 students in 302 different programmes and 2,046 freestanding courses. The University has some 600 partner universities in over 70 countries and it belongs to the League of European Research Universities as well as the global Universitas 21 network.
Two major facilities for materials research are in Lund University: MAX IV, which is a world-leading[peacock term] synchrotron radiation laboratory – inaugurated in June 2016, and European Spallation Source (ESS), a new European facility that will provide up to 100 times brighter neutron beams than existing facilities today, to be opened in 2023.
The university centers on the Lundagård park adjacent to the Lund Cathedral, with various departments spread in different locations in town, but mostly concentrated in a belt stretching north from the park connecting to the university hospital area and continuing out to the northeastern periphery of the town, where one finds the large campus of the Faculty of Engineering.
Lund University library was established in 1668 at the same time as the university and is one of Sweden's oldest and largest libraries. Since 1698 it has received legal deposit copies of everything printed in the country. Today six Swedish libraries receive legal deposit copies, but only Lund and the Royal Library in Stockholm are required to keep everything for posterity. Swedish imprints make up half of the collections, which amount to 170,000 linear metres of shelving (2006). The library serves 620,000 loans per year, the staff is 200 full-time equivalents, and the 33 branch libraries house 2600 reading room desks. The current main building at Helgonabacken opened in 1907. Before that, the old building was Liberiet close to the city's cathedral. Liberiet was built as a library in the 15th century, but now serves as a cafe.
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ESPAÑOL
La Universidad de Lund (en sueco Lunds universitet) es una de las más antiguas y prestigiosas universidades del norte de Europa y consistentemente es considerada dentro de las 100 mejores universidades del mundo. Sus orígenes se remontan al año 1425 cuando un Studium Generale franciscano fue fundado a un costado de la Catedral de Lund, lo que la convertiría en la institución de educación superior más antigua de Escandinavia, seguida por las studia generalia de Upsala en 1477 y Copenhague en 1479. Sin embargo la universidad en su forma actual no fue fundada sino hasta 1666, después de que Suecia adquiriera la región de Escania en 1658 tras el acuerdo de paz firmado con Dinamarca.
La Universidad de Lund cuenta con ocho facultades y dos campuses externos ubicados en las ciudades de Malmö and Helsingborg, con una población estudiantil de alrededor de 42.000 estudiantes distribuidos en 276 programas y alrededor de 2.200 cursos. La universidad mantiene acuerdos y relaciones internacionales con cerca de 600 otras universidades en más de 70 países y pertenece a la Liga de Universidades de Investigación Europeas así como a la red global Universitas 21.
Dos importantes instalaciones para la investigación en materiales se ubican en la Universidad de Lund: MAX IV, que se estima será un laboratorio de radiación sincrotrónica líder a nivel mundial y la Fuente Europea de Neutrones por Espalación (ESS), una instalación de la Comunidad Europea que alojará la fuente de neutrones más poderosa del mundo.
La casa central de la universidad y sus edificios más tradicionales se concentran alrededor del parque Lundagård (adyacente a la Catedral de Lund), con departamentos repartidos en diferentes ubicaciones de la ciudad pero que en su mayoría se ubican en una franja que va desde el parque hacia el norte, conectando con la zona del hospital universitario y continuando hasta el campus de la Facultad de Ingeniería en la periferia noreste de la ciudad.
This is part of the hanging flower planter I bought my mom for her birthday in April. She's 85 and doing just great. Last weekend while I was home I spent a few hours on my mom's back patio trying to get some pictures of the hummingbirds that visit her feeder. A male and female, both very shy, darting in for a quick sip then darting off just as quickly. Most of the time I wasn't quick enough. Once my ball cap got in my way, and by the time I got my eye to the EVF the shot was missed. I did get a couple of decent shots, but not in flight.
This shot was taken while waiting, so you may notice the lens and settings are not what I'd have normally used for this kind of shot, I was supposed to be photographing hummingbirds after all. But as I waited I looked through the view finder and decided to go ahead and take this shot. Came out better than I'd expected.
Still super busy, driving and sleeping, and taking stops to photograph when I see something nice. I think what I'm going to have to do Flickr wise is not wait for those days when I have several hours free, (just doesn't happen much these days) but jump on when I have 15 minutes or an hour in the evening and visit several of you each day. I think that will be more manageable and I can be more consistent.
I was in Yakima WA yesterday, heading to San Diego CA to deliver tomorrow night and then back up to Washington to deliver on the 5th of July. Hope everyone has a safe and fun 4th of July.
Why does Silvia deserve to go overseas
I should to go overseas and move on to week 15 because I am consistent and just keep trying and never give up! Criticism doesn’t beat me down it just motivates me more to try even harder! Every week I have done the VERY best I could, and I dont just try to rush it. and I’ve spend at least up to 5 hours on each photo I’ve done, taking it and editing it (I know it doesn’t seem possible but time really does fly when im editing) so I can deliver a quality photo. I think a really important thing is that I have really been having tons of fun in this competition, and I know probably every one of us said this, but I have learned SO much :) I follow all the requirements and don’t give attitude in anyway shape or form, and will always try my hardest no matter what happens! –Silvia :)
Who does not deserve to go abroad?
I think Xion, because she has been up and down sometimes and has only gotten 1st photo once. Her photos are very good but sometimes I feel like its missing a little extra quality or spark to it.
A constant. A consistent. A word. I am a believer. Tried and True, indeed.
for the details
Not my words, his.
Jem is the house. A little bit kinky, a tad bit warped, yet standing beautiful and proud despite the passing of time. It’s a very special house and there is not another one like it anywhere. It has so many rooms, all full of glorious treasures yet to be discovered and cherished. The foundation is solid and the framing has been reinforced with honorable and faithful craftsmanship. The fireplace at its heart burns strong and provides much comfort and warmth…
Matthew is the tricycle. He has spent a life trying to escape. However, as a result of all his journeys an epiphany has come and he has been filled with the wisdom to understand that he really has not been trying to escape. He has been searching and seeking to find the right home, a home to feel safe in, a home built of trust, a home filled with loyalty, and above all, a home to park his tricycle, so that he can finally rest his weary soul. This explains why the tricycle is headed towards the house…
The birds are our souls learning about one another on a fence fashioned out of, symbols of love…
Le temple de Borobudur, en indonésie Borobudur, est une importante construction bouddhiste, construite aux VIIIe et IXe siècles à l’époque de la dynastie Sailendra dans le centre de l’île de Java en Indonésie.
Le site, construit aux alentours de l’an 800, semble avoir été abandonné vers l’an 1100.
Pendant une tournée d’inspection à Semarang dans le centre de Java en 1814, Thomas Stamford Raffles, alors lieutenant-gouverneur de l’île, entendit parler d’un grand monument dans la forêt près du village de Bumisegoro. Ne pouvant pas s’y rendre lui-même, il envoya H. C. Cornelius, un ingénieur néerlandais, y faire des recherches. Pendant deux mois, Cornelius et ses 200 hommes abattirent des arbres, firent brûler la végétation et creusèrent dans le sol, mettant au jour le monument.
Le temple est à la fois un sanctuaire dédié au Bouddha, mais aussi un lieu de pèlerinage bouddhiste. C’est à la fois un stûpa et, vu du ciel, un mandala. Il forme un carré d’environ 113 mètres de côté avec, à chaque point cardinal, une partie en saillie accompagnée aux quatre angles par une partie en retrait.
Il est constitué de quatre galeries successives de forme géométrique. Celles-ci sont superposées et les trois plus hautes forment une représentation de la cosmologie bouddhiste. Comme l’ensemble du monument, ces galeries sont couvertes de bas-reliefs, dont la longueur totale est d’environ 5 kilomètres, relatant les divers épisodes de la vie du bouddha Sakyamuni. Ces bas-reliefs furent taillés in situ dans de la pierre volcanique grise par différents artisans qui réussirent néanmoins à préserver l’unité artistique du monument.
Un élément étonnant de ces galeries est l’existence d’une cinquième galerie enterrée, également couverte de bas-reliefs représentant essentiellement les turpitudes de la vie terrestre. Plusieurs hypothèses ont donc été émises pour expliquer la dissimulation de cette galerie comme une volonté de consolidation du bâtiment ou encore la volonté délibérée d’occulter les réalités terrestres.
Après avoir traversé les quatre galeries, le pèlerin atteint la terrasse supérieure, elle aussi surmontée de trois terrasses circulaires concentriques bordées de 72 stûpas (respectivement 32, 24 et 16). Ils consistent en des cloches de pierre ajourées logeant des bodhisattvas. Au centre de ces terrasses et donc au sommet du Borobudur, un autre stûpa couvre un bouddha inachevé, dont on ignore s’il a été rajouté après coup ou s’il était présent à l’origine.
Sauvé de la ruine grâce aux efforts conjoints de l’UNESCO et du gouvernement indonésien, le temple est aujourd’hui restauré et figure à l’inventaire du patrimoine mondial.
Pic de la Portelleta, Escaldes-Engordany, Vall nord, Andorra, Pyrenees - (c) Lutz Meyer
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Tarpon Springs is a city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States. The population was 23,484 at the 2010 census. Tarpon Springs has the highest percentage of Greek Americans of any city in the US. Downtown Tarpon Springs has long been a focal point and is currently undergoing beautification.
The region, with a series of bayous feeding into the Gulf of Mexico, was first settled by white and black farmers and fishermen around 1876. Some of the newly arrived visitors spotted tarpon jumping out of the waters and so named the location Tarpon Springs. The name is said to have originated with a remark of Mrs. Ormond Boyer, an early settler from South Carolina, and who, while standing on the shore of the Bayou and seeing fish leaping exclaimed, "See the tarpon spring!' However, for the most part, the fish seen splashing here were mullets rather than tarpon. In 1882, Hamilton Disston, who in the previous year had purchased the land where the city of Tarpon Springs now stands, ordered the creation of a town plan for the future city.
On February 12, 1887, Tarpon Springs became the first incorporated city in what is now Pinellas County. Less than a year later on January 13, 1888, the Orange Belt Railway, the first railroad line to be built in what is now Pinellas County, arrived in the city. During this time the area was developed as a wintering spot for wealthy northerners.
In the 1880s, John K. Cheyney founded the first local sponge business. The industry continued to grow in the 1890s. Many people from Key West and the Bahamas settled in Tarpon Springs to hook sponges and then process them. A few Greek immigrants also arrived in this city during the 1890s to work in the sponge industry.
In 1905, John Cocoris introduced the technique of sponge diving to Tarpon Springs by recruiting divers and crew members from Greece. The first divers came from the Saronic Gulf islands of Aegina and Hydra, but they were soon outnumbered by those from the Dodecanese islands of Kalymnos, Symi, and Halki. The sponge industry soon became one of the leading maritime industries in Florida and the most important business in Tarpon Springs, generating millions of dollars a year. The 1953 film Beneath the 12-Mile Reef, depicting the sponge industry, takes place and was filmed in Tarpon Springs.
In 1947, red tide algae bloom wiped out the sponge fields in the Gulf of Mexico, causing many of the sponge boats and divers to switch to shrimping for their livelihood, while others left the business. Eventually, the sponges recovered, allowing for a smaller but consistent sponge industry today. In the 1980s, the sponge business experienced a boom due to a sponge disease that killed the Mediterranean sponges. Today there is still a small active sponge industry. Visitors can often view sponge fishermen working at the Sponge Docks on Dodecanese Boulevard. In addition, visitors can enjoy shops, restaurants, and museum exhibits that detail Tarpon Springs' Greek heritage.
In 2007 and 2008, the City of Tarpon Springs established Sister City relationships with Kalymnos, Halki, Symi, and Larnaca, Cyprus, honoring the close historical link with these Greek-speaking islands.
There are several districts or properties in Tarpon Springs that have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places:
Tarpon Springs Greektown Historic District
Tarpon Springs Historic District
Arcade Hotel
Old Tarpon Springs City Hall
Old Tarpon Springs High School
Safford House
Rose Hill Cemetery
Tarpon Springs Depot
Many sites related to the sponge industry within the Greektown District also have been recognized. They include but are not limited to two sponge packing houses:
E.R. Meres Sponge Packing House
N.G. Arfaras Sponge Packing House
And several boats:
N.K. Symi (Sponge Diving Boat)
St. Nicholas III (Sponge Diving Boat)
St. Nicholas VI (Sponge Diving Boat)
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpon_Springs,_Florida
www.pcpao.org/?pg=https://www.pcpao.org/general.php?strap...
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I just realized I'm about a month behind on this project. I know everyone else who does these is rather good at being consistent, and I know I say I'm busy, but I don't doubt that others lead rather hectic lifestyles as well.
The truth of the matter is... I like my photography like I like my running... In spurts. You have that burst of creativity and you just go with it... or nature tosses you the brightest ladybug you've ever seen and you take it . I still intend to finish on time. But like my academics, I'm more of a last minute powerhouse... take my word for it.
Sorry I haven't been around, but life is far too fantastic to hide behind a camera always... just sometimes, like evenings and weekends.
Hahaha... Ok, now I'm just being silly
NONE of the colours were tampered in this... I know, its weird! I did sharpen the critter a bit though.
Ex stabilimento Florio - Favignana.
Questo maestoso complesso, grazie alla sua architettura con grandi archi e i soffitti altissimi, ricorda le grandi cattedrali, un luogo dove il lavoro, consistente alla lavorazione e conservazione del pescato, aveva un che di sacro e solenne.
Il primo nucleo dello stabilimento nacque grazie al genovese Giulio Drago che prese in affitto la tonnara di Favignana nel 1859. Ma la grandiosa costruzione prese vita grazie all’iniziativa di Ignazio Florio, che incaricò, nel 1878, l’architetto Damiani Almeyda di ristrutturare i fabbricati della Tonnara.
Iniziò così la fortuna di Favignana che divenne l’isola dei Florio per antonomasia.
Well the only things that are consistent with todays scene is the station roof and background building, everything else has changed! Seen on platform one is Class 45, No 45146 in front of three parcels vehicles being loaded with the days mail. No 45146 was just stabling having come off a Trans Pennine turn previously. Siding 'A' still in place but of more interest in the background on Platform Two is the various trollies which were part of the everyday scene at that time. Oh how things have changed, for the better? Who knows! 10th December 1985.
Copyright: 8A Rail Collection (006.002)
"Entering the Lady Chapel, visitors are faced by a large window consistent with those in the nave. Superimposed on this window are two remarkable panels removed from the Chapel on Queen Street: King David and St. Peter. These figures are the work of the McCausland Glass Company of Toronto. Some of the windows from Old Trinity were saved in part through the efforts of Canadian stained glass artist Yvonne Williams. Her other contribution here is the six small windows within the Lady Chapel. She used four panels of early glass, a gift to the College, incorporating them into her design. They include the Annunciation, dating from about 1500, and two later armorial panels. Two other early glass panels, part of the same gift, are suspended bhttps://www.trinity.utoronto.ca/discover/take-a-tour/visitors-guide/chapel/elow St. Peter and King David".
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This is another sunset shot from my great evening at Hermosa Beach back in October. I meant to post this weeks ago however the weather started becoming more consistently favorable and my shooting once again started to outpace my uploading. After such a long summer of no clouds and hazy skies, I got back into my routine a bit as soon as the weather shifted more into "Autumn".
I left to shoot relatively early--at least by my standards--and had planned to go to Laguna Beach but unexplainable early afternoon gridlock on Sunset Boulevard and all parallel streets, it soon became apparent that Laguna was out out the equation. Even worse, I had now wasted nearly an hour going very slowly in the opposite direction that I normally would. Granted, I only went a few miles out of the way but it still cost me a few other options if I wanted to arrive before sunset. I headed towards Santa Monica and figured I'd stop by there and if parking wasn't quick, would just drive the few miles over to Venice but about 20 minutes away, I changed my mind again and set the GPS to Hermosa. I had only spent a little time in Hermosa, Manhattan Beach and a few of the surrounding arounds back in January but remembered it being a place I wanted to return. I was so glad I did.
There weren't many people by the pier during the time I arrived and that also applied to the rest of the town. Almost no foot or vehicle traffic anywhere and parking was readily available adjacent to the pier which was surprising. I did intend to take about half my shots as long exposures and the rest with quicker shutter speeds and that's essentially what I did. What I didn't do was any panoramas and I basically didn't move the entire time I was shooting. My only movement was to shuffle left and right a little to avoid either the direct glare from the sun or to position the sun and shadows better and my focal length ranged mostly from 18-35mm on the evening.
About a year ago when I was still back in the DC area, I had become completely obsessed with long exposures and I vividly remember thinking that this was the type of photography I wanted to primarily do and couldn't imagine enjoying anything more. Now, out here, I try to be a bit better with my use of time and as a result, long exposures have become far less frequent and have been replaced by waves, reflection, panoramas and just a much less static representation of what I was seeing. I still love them but I also get very frustrated looking back on evenings where the ND filters rarely come off and I missed some great moments waiting for the long shots to finish processing. I still generally try to take a few longer ones (like in the 60-200 second range) but not as many as I used to since a single image on the higher end of my range might take 4+ minutes from start to finish and I could get dozens of quicker shutter speed shots in the same amount of time.
For this shot, I went with a fast speed for a variety of reasons. Since I was there first, I got the best vantage for lining up the sun with the pier and I waited a while for the sun to start falling fast right over it. I had taken some LE shots before sundown when the sky started getting colorful and planned to take more after the sun dipped beneath the horizon but I really wanted some waves and water movement and the time to fire off a bunch of shots with the sun in a few positions. I'd guess I only had a minute or so of the sun hiding behind the pier and didn't want to waste it on a likely underexposed single long exposure. When I came to the neighboring Manhattan Beach in January, I spent the ENTIRE time with with the ND filters attached to the lens and despite being very happy with the images overall, I didn't want the same thing to happen again.
I ended up with about a dozen from this one position and chose this image because it had the least amount of flaring and glare, I liked the color and pattern of waves and there was a flock of birds going by the pier. Others had a few aspects that might be slightly more interesting but also sacrificed other aspects that were more important to me. I actually do still have a handful more from this evening to post--along with some from about a half dozen trips to Venice and two to around the Hollywood Bowl Overlook--and I hope to post them a bit more. I've only shot once since Scotch had his life saving surgery and have spent most of the last few weeks monitoring him rather than photographing or reviewing images but he's doing great and getting better by the day so I do expect to start shooting more frequently again. Have a great Wednesday everyone!
WHEN & WHERE
Hermosa Beach Pier
Hermosa Beach, California
October 24th, 2016
SETTINGS
Canon T4i
EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
@35mm
ISO 100
f/9
1/80th second
CPL
No, I'm not standing in the middle of the railway line - well ok: I am, but it was the middle of a Pedestrian Grade Crossing which was armed with Bells and Gates, so if a train had come, I'd have had plenty of warning...!
New Zealand's unusually very hot Summer continues. Whilst out for an evening walk recently, I couldn't help but notice the setting sun glinting on the railway line - and the rest (as they say) is history!
The Hutt Valley / Wellington have had a couple of days of rain in the last two and a half months, but it hasn't been anywhere near enough! Consequently, we've continued to swelter in temperatures that have consistently nudged 80F - unusually high for this time of the year...!