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The ever consistent,Osch finds himself a drone in Shoreditch.
The car wasn't in the way, but liked the framing it gave & the reflections, but with the artwork still clearly visible.
Zamość was founded in 1580 by the Chancellor and Hetman (head of the army of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth), Jan Zamoyski, on the trade route linking western and northern Europe with the Black Sea. Modelled on Italian trading cities, and built during the late-renaissance period by the Padovani architect Bernardo Morando, Zamość remains a perfect example of a Renaissance town of the late 16th century, with original street layout, fortifications and a large number of original buildings blending Italian and central European architectural traditions.
From UNESCO:
"Zamość is a unique example of a Renaissance town in Central Europe, consistently designed and built in accordance with the Italian theories of the "ideal town," on the basis of a plan which was the result of perfect cooperation between the open-minded founder, Jan Zamoyski, and the outstanding architect, Bernardo Morando. Zamość is an outstanding example of an innovative approach to town planning, combining the functions of an urban ensemble, a residence, and a fortress in accordance with a consistently implemented Renaissance concept. The result of this is a stylistically homogeneous urban composition with a high level of architectural and landscape values. A real asset of this great construction was its creative enhancement with local artistic architectural achievements."
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Photography processed in Photomatix Essential 4.0, 3 shots (-1, 0, 1 EV), EF-S 10-18 IS STM without tripod.
Orto Botanico Padova.
Questa specie è originaria della Bolivia e Paraguay.
Le foglie,sembrano enormi vassoi galleggianti,al tatto sono consistenti,vien voglia di saltellarci sopra dall'una all'altra.......
Il fiore si apre ogni giorno ad una determinata ora.......non vi so precisare meglio e si richiude con il buio.per ripetere il ciclo il giorno dopo.
Non ho mai visto un fiore di queste dimensioni,grandissimo,riesce difficile qui fare le proporzioni,perchè anche le foglie aperte o semiaperte sono enormi.
Ho sentito che stanno studiando queste foglie per creare un materiale resistente ed impermeabile.
Grazie a tutti
The Northern Cardinals in the area are consistently there every time I've arrived this Spring. Flying bonkers through the cliffs from one end to the other. Playing in trees and shrubs like the sassy stop signs they are. If we're lucky, they're year rounds and I'll have some play pals when the air lights on fire this summer.
A few branches near the bird removed in post. Upscaled and sharpened. I'm not sure what podcast I heard it on, but the dude said new upscaling software works magic if the original focus is tack sharp. He wasn't joking.
Esteticamente sgradevole ma benevola nel comportamento e con una doppia fisionomia facciale:una faccia grande come un "Moddizzosu" (pane tipico Sardo),e con un naso a patata, o una faccia affilata e smunta e con un grande naso aquilino.In entrambe le versioni la maschera aveva un carattere androgino, impersonava contemporaneamente la natura maschile e femminile.La maschera nella duplice caratterizzazione usciva per l'accensione dei fuochi di Sant'Antonio Abate e procedeva a una allegra distribuzione di piccoli doni consistenti in castagne secche, fichi secchi, uva, frutta secca e caramelle.
This is the one feeling that is more consistent for me than any other. It surpasses happiness, sadness, and most other emotions. It is a constant force in my life. It can be good. It can be bad. It is what pushes me to be more. It is what holds me back from being more. It is what we make it.
Hello everyone! As always I hope you're all well x
A fresh and pleasing modern interior that's consistent in mediums.
Giving the following a classy edgy touch with a combo of polished cement finishes aligning with each of the interior spaces.
Accented highlights pay a tribute throughout the leveling of the home,
addressed by its dark colour pallet, the foundation of accents helps bring a spark of translation to the aroma of the space. LED enhanced contouring strip lighting adjacent from the main to the more exclusive areas of the home, helps bring out the features more,
with its dark stance of colour material selections. Extracting from nature and bringing in,
I've incorporated a little more of a colour boundary with my clients home creating the window and door trimmings to match with the interior treads.
A chic industrial metallic binder cabinetry with it's elevating woven wooden slats both on walls and ceilings.
Matte black ceiling lights which cast down, both working as can light and grazing lights to entertain and showcase with a warm 80 lux lumen range.
Using particular artworks on walls to contrast and use as a way to stimulate the interior atmosphere.
I'm booked out!
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The most symmetrical “dendrite” snowflake posted so far this year, it was completely unexpected and was the only one of its kind seen while shooting a snowfall for many hours. View large!
Usually, snowflakes fall with somewhat consistent features. If you see a column crystal, chances are there are many others nearby; the same thing applies to simple plates, dendrites, or any other classification of snowflake. This entire snowfall produced the tiny plate-like and column-type crystals that I was sharing recently, and then out of nowhere have this much larger beauty. Awestruck but still focused, I set out to photograph it.
When I set my sights on a snowflake that I know stands out in the crowd, the pressure is on. There is often clutter that I need to clear away, knowing full well that if I make too much direct contact on the “target” snowflake… it will break into pieces. This has happened many times in the past, and while I don’t normally swear… there have been a few choice words muttered under my breath. In this case, I was able to clear away most of the clutter, but didn’t push my luck. There was still one remnant of another snowflake resting against the branches that I needed to edit out later. I didn’t want to risk losing the only large snowflake of the entire snowfall!
This snowflake has some hidden fun, if you look in the very center. You’ll notice that the bubbles in the ice near the outer edge of the hexagon appear to have an alternating pattern – a three-fold symmetry. Even if the snowflake isn’t nearly as triangular as the one posted yesterday, it still contains some of the features only seen in triangular crystals. These types of features are found in more snowflakes that you’d otherwise think – keep an eye out for patterns that repeat on alternating branches!
Diving FAR into the details, you can see something else fascinating about this snowflake. The center has some faint circles, and you can also see curved lines falling back from the edges of many side-branches. I can point to a few in the lower left, but they are all over. This represents inward crystal growth, which if you’re curious to understand more, here’s some pages from Sky Crystals that describes it: skycrystals.ca/img/circles-in-the-snow.jpg - it happens in the center of snowflakes and in the branches, especially when the growth is running at a slower pace. We can see evidence of this slower growth in other ways, with the solid 60-degree angles at the tips of the branches. These hard edges don’t happen when a snowflake grows quickly, only when the process takes it’s time to accumulate new building blocks slowly.
There’s a lot to marvel at, but in the end, you can say one thing: It’s beautiful in its symmetry and its geometry. The physics that allows for this to happen is wonderful to explore, but only because we see the results as beautiful.
Care for more fun physics and all the photographic techniques used to create this image? Get a copy of Sky Crystals: www.skycrystals.ca/ - worth your time to explore the pages of this 304pg book for everything you could ever want to know about the subject of snowflakes!
"Amo i fari per il desiderio di abbandonare la pelle. Per ritrovare la consistenza dei corpi celesti o dei delfini. Per sentirli e sentirmi il ponte tra Essere e Divenire, fra l'eterno e l'istante. Amo i fari perché puntati nell'infinito della notte stellata e perché sono i soli ad ascoltare la tenerezza negata che urla nelle grida dei gabbiani."
I just love this autumn themed sim at Luanes. So many things to photograph and the build is simply the best. A scene of just one of the many gorgeous homes as viewed from the sea towards the mountain in the background. The owners carried the theme consistently throughout the build. A sincere credit to their artistry in presenting a collage of separated sets that one can spend hours in working out what is best to photograph, when and where cos your mind is racing with ideas. Unfortunately for me, I get lost in one shoot then forget the ideas I had managed to see before I chose. I so hate making decisions.
Frontera Andorra-Catalunya: Juberussa, Juberri, Sant Julia (parroquia), Gran Valira, Andorra, Pyrenees - (c) Lutz Meyer
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Research on the psychology of colour consistently demonstrates that colors evoke emotional, behavioural and physical responses. Advertising executives know that a product can have a completely different impact if the packaging colour is changed. Psychologists have found that certain colours in our environment help or hinder performance of certain tasks. Mental concentration is best in cool environments while exercise is best performed in warm environments.
Generally, warm colours such as red and its neighbouring hues on the colour spectrum are active, exciting. Cool colours such as light green, blue and violet are passive, calming. Reds tend to stimulate the central nervous system and increase bodily tension, while cool colours release tension. Meanings change with lighter or darker shades of colours, and different cultures have differing views.
Some things in this life are very consistent.
Like waves,
Like sunrises,
Like gravity,
Like God,
Like trusted friends.
This stormy Atlantic sunrise is dedicated in honor of Kelly, who is a most consistent Flickr friend. I don't know how she manages, but I don't think she misses even a single image of her contacts.
Kelly is very talented and has a great photostream. Her images are regularly EXPLORED, and she is a wonderful contact.
Thanks, Kelly!
Here is her site. www.flickr.com/photos/27633837@N03/
Blessings,
Sheree
(Shot from my balcony this past AM. Yes, it's been dolled up a bit with PP.)
The consistent hum of idling locomotives is overcome by the piecing squeal of dynamic brakes as the UP 7695 guides a heavy MROMI through Gold Run, California. After staging in Gold Run for a couple of days, the spreaders prepare to depart eastward up the mountain. The dark clouds overhead signify the end of the storm break; it’s time to get back to work.
UP 7695 — MROMI 05 — Gold Run, California
March 7th, 2023
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I apologize for not keeping up terribly consistently on my Flickr stream of late. It has been a two-headed beast of work schedule and some traveling that has made me a less consistent poster. The traveling is behind me now, and has left me with a pile of new work to process through, but my work schedule is not likely to change any time soon.
It has been an interesting year (or four) in that regard. I have been pouring more energy into the content creation and social media work I do at Blue Moon Camera, and that work has been largely pretty successful. I see the fruits of that labor daily, it has led me to producing photography and writing in a way I would not normally have done so on my own, and overall it has been very fulfilling and fun. But I have to admit it has sapped what I have left for my own social media work, such as posting and writing here on Flickr. I have always had sort of a tepid relationship with how much of myself I care to invest in social media and now that reservoir has been tapped to a larger degree. I admit that sometimes I wish I had another five hours a day to be able to pursue my own postings and writings at a leisurely enough pace that it did not feel like work or obligation, which is what it tends to feel like when I have to shoehorn it into a 30 minute window at the beginning or end of the day.
One problem is that I am largely ok with letting it go a bit fallow, which should bother me more than it does, but doesn't. I feel like it should bother me because it is nice to be participatory in the photographic community online and to reach an audience that otherwise would not be interacted with. And I know that many find inspiration and motivation from my postings and I don't like becoming more inconsistent in sharing that work for those reasons. But at the same time, I have limits and what time and energy is left quite frankly I would rather invest in either creating images as that is the most rewarding part of the process for myself, or in polishing and bringing the raw material of the initial exposure to a finished, edited realization of the thoughts or emotions behind the creation of the image.
Anyway, I am just free-thinking here. I am still out there, still making a ton of images and actually I am still posting and writing quite a bit on-line - just in the guise of my work.
I didn't think I had much to say this morning, so I was just going to share something easy, as in my favorite bridge in the world during the recent changing of the seasons. I got out with my Pentax 67 loaded up with an expired roll of my favorite-ever film Kodak 400UC that I have been keeping refrigerated for some purpose or other. And I thought that would be simple, but I guess I had something to write about after all.
Pentax 67
Kodak 400UC
Steady, consistent sunshine all day today, how much easier it is to photograph dragonflies when the light is good.
Lee Stram is consistently one of the most searched models on the blog. And there's no stopping that trend now that he has permitted to add these sizzling images in his MFM content.
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A little different than my more recent posts, isn't it? After some discussion with a Facebook friend who posted images of a Eurofighter Typhoon from an airshow in Northern Ireland yesterday, it occurred to me that I hadn't posted this image from earlier this year at the airshow from Langley AFB in Virginia... there was a reason why. This Hornet was flying by so fast and so close that I clipped its nose in the original image... "Rats!" No such luck for a retake, so I combined two images in Photoshop. Sounds easy, right? The angles and lighting were different throughout the series of images, however, so it took a bit of work... of which I will not bore you with the details.
I grew up in a military environment, closely connected to aviation, particularly fast movers like this one. Back in that day, it wasn't unusual to hear the occasional explosive sonic boom... we called it the "Sound of Freedom". Times are different now, though there are some places where it still occurs... for a reason. There's a corridor where my parents once lived (and where my oldest brother now lives) where F-15 Eagles that have undergone repairs and upgrades at Robins AFB in Georgia transition to supersonic speeds and high Gs to make sure parts don't fall off. You can see a tiny arrowhead shape in the upper atmosphere, likely around 8 miles up, moving much faster than commercial aircraft... then you'll notice a puff of vapor around it. As it is with thunder and lightning, depending on how far away it actually is, you'll feel the shock wave as it moved into supersonic speeds seconds later, which is impressive on its own... but the sonic boom afterwards sounds like 10 sticks of dynamite going off, even from so far away. I brought a girlfriend on a visit to my parents many years ago. The whole family was there and we had all just sat down to breakfast when a shock wave occurred that rattled everything in the house... we knew the boom was coming, but acted like nothing had happened. My friend was already wide-eyed with concern to the shock wave, but when we didn't react to the sonic boom, she said, "Am I the only one who heard that?" Our response: "Heard what?" Wish I could have filmed that!
This aircraft is real close to punching through the speed of sound here, in a condition known as transonic... two specific shock waves are made evident in the vapor. Here's the text I used on a previous image of this same aircraft: This is a U.S. Navy F/A-18C Hornet, flown by Lt Scott Lindahl, callsign "MacGruber", with Strike Fighter Squadron 106 (VFA-106) out of Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia. A Hornet looks fast even when it's parked on the ramp... here, MacGruber is pushing it at just under the speed of sound, Mach .96 at sea level, or 730 mph. The jet is condensing the vapor in the air around it by decreasing the air pressure and density along some of its structure at this high speed.
That Mach number isn't consistent along the Hornet's curves... some of the curved parts force the air moving over them to supersonic speed, while linear parts are still subsonic, creating a condition known as transonic... transonic speeds form troughs of lower pressure than the ambient air along the airframe. The rapid pressure change also lowers the temperature around the aircraft enough to reach the dew point... instant clouds on a humid morning such as this. That's the scientific explanation, but here, I'm just as happy that it's making it appear to be doing what it actually is in a still shot... moving fast! Try tracking that in any viewfinder... blink and you've missed it.
I'm former Air Force, and had spent some quality time right here at Langley AFB, in Hampton, Virginia... it was a great show here highlighting airpower at its best, but it was also nice to show my wife some good stompin' grounds from the past. I can't close this without a big thank you to Lt Lindahl for his service in troubled times.
Around the Sourderie's lake: a consistent architecture programme
The construction of the Lake Temples in 1986 ends the area made by Catalan architect Ricardo Bofill. These 200 apartments add to the 387 ones of the Arcades and the Viaduct (1979-1982) located on the other side of the reservoir of rainwater. Despite its location straddling two towns, this whole housing all around the lake, now shows a strong unity, reinforced by the lake itself designed as a link. The architecture of the Lake Temples is another aspect of "Versailles for the People" wished by the architect. It also reminds the Greek antiquity, among other things because of the triangular pediments at the top of the buildings. These references to historical shapes, combined with industrial construction techniques, are characteristic to the post-modern movement.
Source: City information panels
The Mythology Behind the White Stag
Despite the broad spectrum of beliefs, the stag is consistently symbolic for a number of themes such as purity - with the unusual white coat symbolising an unwavering innocence. The appearance of the stag is also synonymous with the delivery of a message or great change.
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Riu Valira nord, coming from mountains of Vall nord at background & will be later the Ebro / l'Ebre. Cami Ral, La Massana, Vall nord, Andorra, Pyrenees - (c) Lutz Meyer
More La Massana city, La Massana, Vall nord, Andorra, Pyrenees: Follow the group links at right side.
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* Full frame format 3x2 quality image
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* Motive is suitable as symbol pic
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We offer 200.000+ photos of Andorra and North of Spain. 20.000+ visable here at Flickr. Its the largest professional image catalog of Andorra: all regions, all cities and villages, all times, all seasons, all weather(s). Consistent for additional advanced programming. For smartphones and web-db. REAL TIME!
It's based on GeoCoded stock-photo images and metadata with 4-5 languages. Prepared for easy systematic organising of very large image portfolios with advanced online / print-publishing as "Culture-GIS" (Geographic Info System).
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From 17th November 2025 until 21st November 2025 is the Dubai Airshow, taking place bi-annually towards the end of year and is consistently one of the most popular with major aircraft manufacturers in attendance.
As ever with major airshows, the 2025 Dubai Airshow drew a lot of rumours regarding who were going to place orders as it does attract numerous airlines and manufacturers. Amongst the airlines that drew speculation about an order being placed for new aircraft goes to Abu Dhabi-based, Etihad Airways.
On the second day of the 2025 Dubai Airshow, Etihad Airways announced that not only were they expanding their Airbus A350-1000 and Airbus A350F order book, but will also become the newest customer of the Airbus A330neo.
Prior to the order announcement, Etihad Airways had a batch of 20 Airbus A350-1000s on-order (9 examples delivered) alongside 7 Airbus A350Fs for their cargo division; the Airbus A350-1000 has become a new flagship aircraft for the flag-carrier and don't be too surprised that these will see out their Boeing 777-300ERs which currently stands at just 9 examples.
The new order announced sees Etihad Airways increasing their order of Airbus A350-1000s by 7 which will take the total fleet up to 27 examples. Etihad Airways also confirmed that they have placed an additional order for 3 Airbus A350Fs which takes the total up to 10 examples when all aircraft are delivered.
The biggest surprise came when Etihad Airways revealed they will be ordering the Airbus A330neo; this order is a huge surprise considering Etihad Airways retired their Airbus A330-200/300 fleet throughout 2018 to 2020, having been replaced by Boeing 787-9/10s. Etihad Airways have ordered 6 Airbus A330-900s alongside entered into an agreement with leasing company, Avolon to dry-lease 9 Airbus A330-900s on top of the examples they have ordered direct from Airbus. Etihad Airways have stated the Airbus A330-900s will be used on regional and medium-range flights.
Currently, Etihad Airways operates 9 Airbus A350s, all of which are Airbus A350-1000s. Etihad Airways have 18 Airbus A350-1000s and 10 Airbus A350Fs on-order.
X-Ray Whiskey Golf is one of 9 Airbus A350-1000s operated by Etihad Airways, delivered new to the flag-carrier on 11th April 2025 and she is powered by 2 Rolls-Royce Trent XWB-97 engines.
Airbus A350-1041 A6-XWG on final approach into Runway 06R at Toronto-Pearson (YYZ), Ontario on EY21 from Abu Dhabi-Zayed (AUH).
Canastera común, (Glareola pratincola)
Con su aspecto de enorme golondrina, la canastera es una de nuestras limícolas más singulares, ya que ha desarrollado una particular técnica de
alimentación, consistente en la persecución de invertebrados aéreos, que se parece notablemente a la utilizada por vencejos, aviones y golondrinas. A la hora de nidificar, esta especie se contenta con todo tipo de lugares despejados próximos a masas de agua, como orillas, isletas y barbechos, donde instala un somero nido en cualquier depresión del terreno.
Clasificación
Orden Charadriiformes; familia Glareolidae
Longitud: 24-28 cm
Envergadura: 60-70 cm
Identificación: Esta ave limícola, un tanto atípica, se ha amoldado a una forma de vida mucho más aérea que otros componentes del grupo y ha desarrollado diversas adaptaciones relacionadas con la alimentación. Los adultos en plumaje nupcial muestran una coloración general ocrácea en las regiones dorsales, y blanca en las ventrales; la garganta, de tonos crema, aparece circundada por una estrecha línea negra, que se prolonga por la cara del ave a modo de bridas. Los adultos no reproductores tienen las bridas pálidas, unas estrías finas más oscuras en la garganta, el pecho moteado ligeramente de marrón más oscuro y las plumas de las partes superiores con márgenes claros. Los jóvenes poseen píleo y nuca estriados, exhiben partes inferiores blancas y jaspeadas de marrón en el pecho, y las plumas de su dorso presentan un aspecto escamoso. Cuando vuela, la canastera luce una silueta muy singular, en la que llama poderosamente la atención —además del blanco obispillo— una larga y ahorquillada cola, como la de una golondrina. Las alas, por su parte, son largas y apuntadas, sorprendentemente oscuras en su cara inferior.
Canto: En vuelo, la especie emite un kirrirrirrit-ki–kit-kit constante y rítmico, que se escucha incluso antes de observarla. Su llamada de alarma consiste en un krrriii agudo, que recuerda a la voz del charrancito. También suele proferir un kit más corto.
Hanauma bay, Oahu.
Consistently voted as the number 1 beach in the world. Amazing for snorkelling and to see marine life.
Wooooweee.....how long has it been? five years?
Yeah, I've been gone for a while. I've posted some random Gunpla pictures every now and again, but nothing consistent and MOCs were nowhere to be seen.
Get used to that.
This MOC was honestly...draining. He's all I've worked on for months now. I knew I wanted to remake Crimson, but I honestly had no idea where to start. He's slowly come together, and right now I'd day I'm pretty happy with how he's turned out. I'm not sure what I'll do next, But It will be nice to finally have this guy finished and out there.
As for the MOC itself, I didn't know what to go for at first, but after a while it became clear to me that I'd be making a far more..tank-ish Crimson. He's no longer super skinny and lanky, trading it in for a far bulkier re-imagining. It's taken a bit of getting used to, but I'm happy with this new take. The gun-arm is literally only there due to a lack of parts, but I think it's cool regardless.
Thanks for viewing!
Enjoy!
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...
:)))
Mischief Managed SL consistently affirms that, in light of the impact of the author’s behaviour, we stand firmly with the LGBTQ+ community — not just during Pride Month, but always.
We’re committed to making a real and lasting impact. Mischief Managed is open and inclusive to all; there is no room for hate in the world WE create.
We wholeheartedly commit to supporting the LGBTQ+ community and have a donation campaign for the Trevor Project, both via the link below and also you’ll find donation cauldrons on sim. All support will directly benefit The Trevor Project, helping to provide life-saving resources, crisis intervention services, and continuing their mission to end suicide among LGBTQ+ young people.
Your support matters. give.thetrevorproject.org/team/663641
Donation updates regarding the inworld fundraising will be shared below. We raised over $200 inworld during Wizarding Faire and our donation points will remain on sim. These donations will continue to be paid directly to The Trevor Project throughout the coming years.
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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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.
Skógafoss (pronounced [ˈskou.aˌfɔs]) is a waterfall situated on the Skógá River in the south of Iceland at the cliffs of the former coastline. After the coastline had receded seaward (it is now at a distance of about 5 kilometres (3.1 miles) from Skógar), the former sea cliffs remained, parallel to the coast over hundreds of kilometres, creating together with some mountains a clear border between the coastal lowlands and the Highlands of Iceland.The Skógafoss is one of the biggest waterfalls in the country with a width of 25 metres (82 feet) and a drop of 60 m (200 ft). Due to the amount of spray the waterfall consistently produces, a single or double rainbow is normally visible on sunny days. According to legend, the first Viking settler in the area, Þrasi Þórólfsson, buried a treasure in a cave behind the waterfall. The legend continues that locals found the chest years later, but were only able to grasp the ring on the side of the chest before it disappeared again. The ring was allegedly given to the local church. The old church door ring is now in a museum, though whether it gives any credence to the folklore is debatable.
At the eastern side of the waterfall, a hiking and trekking trail leads up to the pass Fimmvörðuháls between the glaciers Eyjafjallajökull and Mýrdalsjökull. It goes down to Þórsmörk on the other side and continues as the famous Laugavegur to Landmannalaugar.
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.
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).
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.
Santa Fe paint in the form of BNSF GP50 3167 leads L CHI104 for GM Yard passed the former Santa Fe depot in Coal City, IL. Home road for this EMD got me out and into the consistent spring time rain.
Coal City, IL
2020.05.18
Since Berkshire and Eastern Railroad has taken over operation of the Pan Am Southern property operations seem to have gotten much more predictable and consistent. At least outwardly their appears to be a bit more hustle and business seems to be on the uptick so hears hoping this this is a harbinger of even bigger and better things to come for the west end of the old Boston and Maine!
Just getting underway is B&E local ED9 which makes a turn to Holyoke (or Springfield if needed) down the Conn River Main Mon-Wed-Fri working industries along the way and interchanging with the Pioneer Valley in Holyoke. Looking nothing like the the old Pan Am the train features two 'new' units brought in by Genesee and Wyoming, the B&E's parent. Leading is Bay Line 3018 an EMD GP40-2 originally blt. Oct. 1973 as DTI 418. BAYL became part of the Genesee and Wyoming family in 2005 when the holding company purchased parent Rail Management Corp. which itself had purchased the former Atlanta and St. Andrews Bay Railroad from Stone Container Corp. in 1994. Trailing is OVR 3029 a GP40-2W blt. May 1974 as CN 9426 and dressed in GWRR orange lettered for the Ottawa Valley Railrod.
They are departing East Deerfield Yard MP 383.7 on modern day B&E's Freight Main, the former Boston and Maine Fitchburg Division. They will soon cross over the main here at CPF384 and drop down the mile long East Deerfield Loop track to the now MassDOT owned Conn River main to head south to start their afternoon's work.
Standing guard behind them is a link to the past, known as WX Tower in B&M parlance it controlled from Cheapside, half way between Greenfield and E Deerfield to the crossover at Montague, MA. The control machine was a GRS direct wire type and controlled the holding signals at Cheapside, the west end of the yard, the east end of the yard and Montague crossover. Built during the 1920s it is similar in design and style to other surving B&M towers of the era including those in Waltham, Ayer, and Johnsonville. It closed December 9, 1981 when control passed to the dispatcher in North Billerica.
Deerfield, Massachusetts
Friday April 26, 2024
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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
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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!
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I tried to improve on my old MOC from 2019 with some new parts and more advanced building techniques.
To achieve a clean look, I exaggerated some angles and made sure to keep the proportions and "feel" of the AT-ST consistent.
The build is very close to minifig scale (probably somewhat on the lower end) but can only fit one driver - due to minifigs being proportionally wider.
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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...
Milky Way rising over Mt. Rundle while a very active geomagnetic storm rages around the sky. The aurora was so strong last night it reached towards the southern parts of the sky and we consistently had coronas forming overhead. I was actually getting concerned that the Milky Way would be too washed out by the aurora but ended up with this stunning shot of the two together.
Four shot panorama.