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The view from one of the many scenic overlooks in Badlands National Park, South Dakota.
Canon FTb
Kodak Gold 200 film
Scanned using a Nikon Super CoolScan 9000 ED with the FH-835S 35mm strip film tray.
Here's the complete album of the photos shot on this Road Trip.
Check out an album containing more of my photos shot in 2001.
The Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) is an art museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Its collection contains nearly 25,000 works of art. It is one of the largest museums in the United States. Beginning around 1872, multiple organizations were founded in order to bring an art gallery to Milwaukee, as the city was still a growing port town with little or no facilities to hold major art exhibitions. Over the span of at least nine years, all attempts to build a major art gallery had failed. Shortly after that year, Alexander Mitchell donated all of her collection into constructing Milwaukee's first permanent art gallery in the city's history. In 1888, the Milwaukee Art Association was created by a group of German panorama artists and local businessmen. The same year, British-born businessman Frederick Layton built, endowed, and provided artwork for the Layton Art Gallery, now demolished. In 1911, the Milwaukee Art Institute, another building constructed to hold other exhibitions and collections, was completed. The institute was built right next to the Layton Art Gallery. The Milwaukee Art Museum was founded in 1888 and is purported to be Milwaukee's first art gallery, though that claim is disputed by the Layton Art Gallery, which opened the same year. The Milwaukee Art Center (now the Milwaukee Art Museum) was formed when the Milwaukee Art Institute and Layton Art Gallery merged their collections in 1957 and moved into the newly built Eero Saarinen-designed Milwaukee County War Memorial. In the latter half of the 20th century, the museum came to include the War Memorial Center in 1957 as well as the brutalist Kahler Building (1975) designed by David Kahler and the Quadracci Pavilion (2001) created by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. The Quadracci Pavilion contains a movable, wing-like brise soleil that opens up for a wingspan of 217 feet (66 m) during the day, folding over the tall, arched structure at night or during inclement weather. The pavilion received the 2004 Outstanding Structure Award from the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering. This iconic building, often referred to as "the Calatrava", is used in the museum logo. In November 2015, the museum opened a $34 million expansion funded jointly by a museum capital campaign and by Milwaukee County. The new building, the Shields Building, designed by Milwaukee architect James Shields of HGA, provides an additional 30,000 square feet for art, including a section devoted to light-based media, photography, and video installation. The building includes a new atrium and lakefront-facing entry point for visitors and was designed with cantilevered elements and concrete columns to complement, respectively, the existing Calatrava and Kahler structures on the site. The final design emerged after a lengthy process that included the main architect's departure because of design disputes and his return to the project. The museum houses nearly 25,000 works of art housed on four floors, with works from antiquity to the present. Included in the collection are 15th- to 20th-century European and 17th- to 20th-century American paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, decorative arts, photographs, and folk and self-taught art. Among the best in the collection are the museum's holding of American decorative arts, German Expressionism, folk and Haitian art, and American art after 1960. The museum holds one of the largest collections of works by Wisconsin native Georgia O'Keeffe. Other artists represented include Gustave Caillebotte, Nardo di Cione, Francisco de Zurbarán, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Winslow Homer, Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Gabriele Munter, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Frank Lloyd Wright, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Wassily Kandinsky, Mark Rothko, Robert Gober, and Andy Warhol. It also has paintings by European painters Francesco Botticini, Jan Swart van Groningen, Ferdinand Bol, Jan van Goyen, Hendrick Van Vliet, Franz von Lenbach (Bavarian Girl), Ferdinand Waldmüller (Interruption), Carl Spitzweg, Bouguereau, Gerome (2 Majesties), Gustave Caillebotte, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Kowalski (Winter in Russia), Jules Bastien-Lepage (The Wood Gatherer), and Max Pechstein.
A small tree casts its shadow on a yellow container along a boulevard.
Un petit arbre projette son ombre sur un container jaune rangé le long d'un trottoir.
Kodak ColorPlus 200
The town of Quintanas de Gormaz, province of Soria, Spain, contains several gems in its municipality.
One of them is the old public washhouse, now in disuse, but very well preserved.
This photo and the next one are connected.
Just above the three arched front windows there is a circular window, similar to the skylight of a ship.
We were extremely lucky to be there at the time when the sunlight penetrated through the circular window and projected its light on the bottom of the washhouse, which, being in disuse, has grown a kind of green plants, which cause this curious green elliptical image.
It was a privilege to have been there right at that moment and see that beam of light projected, dyed green.
Photo taken with a Nikon Z 6 III camera and a 7Artisans 10mm F2.8 FishEye lens attached for full-frame cameras, which has a coverage of 178º, but has no connection pins with the camera, therefore part of the metadata information is either incorrect or does not appear.
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La localidad de Quintanas de Gormaz, provincia de Soria, España, contiene varias joyas en su municipio.
Una de ellas es el antiguo lavadero público, hoy en desuso, pero muy bien conservado.
Esta foto y la siguiente están conectadas.
Justo encima de las tres ventanas frontales en forma de arco hay una ventana circular, similar a la claraboya de un barco.
Tuvimos la inmensa suerte de estar allí a la hora en que la luz de el Sol penetraba a través de la ventana circular y proyectaba su luz en el fondo del lavadero que, al estar en desuso, han crecido una especie de plantas verdes, que provocan esta curiosa imagen elíptica verde.
Fue todo un privilegio haber estado allí justo en ese momento y ver proyectado ese haz de luz teñido de verde.
Foto tomada con una cámara Nikon Z 6 III y una lente acoplada de 7Artisans 10mm F2.8 FishEye para cámaras de formato completo, que tiene una cobertura de 178º, pero no tiene pines de conexión con la cámara, por tanto parte de la información de metadatos o bien es errónea o no aparece.
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The Aiguille summit contains a panoramic viewing platform, a café and a gift shop. Even in summer, temperatures in the open viewing areas can fall to −10 °C (14 °F), and visitors require both warm clothing and protection from very bright sunlight. Because of the danger, tourists are unable to leave the visitor facilities on the Midi's summit. However, mountaineers and skiers are able to pass through a tunnel to reach the steep and extremely exposed ice ridge to descend to the glacier below.
In December 2013, a glass skywalk called "Step into the Void" opened at the top of the Aiguille du Midi peak. The view is 1,035 m (3,396 ft) straight down, and one can see Mont Blanc to the south. A further tourist attraction called "Le Tube" opened in 2016. It consists of an enclosed tubular walkway that completely circles the summit.
During summer months only, the Vallée Blanche Cable Car crosses "peak-to-peak" from Aiguille du Midi to Pointe Helbronner (3,462 m (11,358 ft)) at the Italian side of the Mont Blanc Massif. Pointe Helbronner is served by another cable car, Skyway Monte Bianco, to Entrèves, near the Italian town of Courmayeur in the Aosta Valley. This makes it possible to travel "by air" from Chamonix, France to Courmayeur, Italy – a route normally traversed by the highway running through the Mont Blanc Tunnel.
The Museum collection contains artworks from 1000 years of Muslim civilization. Opened by Aga Khan with Canadian prime minister Steven Harper and Justin Trudeau (then, only son of ex- Prime Minister) of Canada.About 250 pieces of art are displayed at any given time from a collection of 1000. I photographed the museum grounds shortly before the opening. I have not photographed it in 6 years. even as I have driven 1000th times by.
Aga Khan Museum. Architects - Fumihiko Maki, Charles Correa, Vladimir Djurovic (Landscaping)
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Am Samstagmorgen den 10.Juni 2023 fuhr ich wieder einmal ganz früh nach Oberwesel an der linken Rheinstrecke (KBS 471 .
Relativ wenig geparkte Autos im Bild und fast noch kein Autoverkehr auf der B9 und im Ort und ein klarer und sonniger Morgen und einige interessante Züge gen Süden im Zulauf.
Ich stand weiter auf der Fußgängerbrücke über die B9 kurz vor dem Bahnhof:
Weiter rechts gibt es bekanntermaßen viele Straßenschilder, Lampenmasten und Flaggenmasten und das Motiv von dort von früher ist eigentlich heute für die Tonne.
Links durch die Häuser zu sehen ist auch der Kuhhirtentaum als Teil der Stadtmauer und im Hintergrund natürlich auch die Mutter-Rosa Kapelle und der Steingassenturm und dahinter der Katztenturm sowie rechts der bekannte große Ochsenturm.
Nach dem schönen HSL Zug kam der nicht minder fotogene DGS 40111 aus Gent Kluizendok Zuid in Belgien nach Mortara in Italien von Crossrail und der der war voll beladen und bespannt mit der 486 510 ( Werbelok The Alpinists in Europe) von der Muttergesellschaft BLS Cargo.
Die fotogenen gelben Container in der Zug Mitte gehören der Fa. Tailormade Logistics die ihren Sitz im Hafengebiet von Gent hat und mit über 10 festen täglichen Reservierungen ist Tailormade Logistics einer der Hauptnutzer dieser Verbindung nach Mortara.
Ptilinopus regina
The Fruit-Doves contain some of the most stunning birds on the planet, and there are several that can be seen in Australia.
This is probably the most widespread, but still confined to the north and east.
A bird that is more easily heard than seen.
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Carl, Misener, Bald Cemetery 1798, Northwest side Carl St./Towpath Rd., N. of Port Robinson:
This cemetery contains original gravestones of early settlers Barbara Misener, Hannah Misener and Thomas Bald. It is closely associated with the first two non-native residents of the Port Robinson area and their families - UEL John Carl and Leonard Misener; descendants of Thomas Bald are also buried here. Among the 75 unmarked graves are, undoubtedly, those of victims of the cholera epidemic which raged among canal workers and their families between 1832 – 34.
This Christmas bauble was hand beaded with sequins and pins by me. I have a Christmas tradition. I bead Christmas baubles for a select group of friends every year. In this case they are for a friend, who like me, elects red as her favourite colour, but also likes gold, white, black and silver accents for her tree.
Each bauble is 15 centimetres in diameter and contain hundreds of sequins, varying in number depending upon the complexity of the pattern and the type of sequins I use. Most sequins in this bauble are 5mm in diameter, except the snowflakes which are 12mm in diameter. Depending upon the colour of the sequin, I will use either a gold or a silver pin to attach it to the bauble.
These baubles are smaller than some others I do, however because it is a complex pattern which starts from the inside and is worked outwards in ever larger circles, each bauble takes approximately 2 to 2 1/2 hours per side.
It is however, a labour of love which I do to pass the time throughout the year.
Metallic container painted in an amazing purple color near an agricultural building.
Container métallique paint d'une couleur étonnante aux abords d'un bâtiment agricole.
Fujicolor C200
The bee-eaters are a group of near-passerine birds in the family Meropidae containing three genera and 27 species. All have long down-turned bills and medium to long wings, which may be pointed or round. Male and female plumages are usually similar.
As their name suggests, bee-eaters predominantly eat flying insects, especially bees and wasps, which are caught in the air by flights from an open perch. The stinger is removed by repeatedly hitting and rubbing the insect on a hard surface. During this process, pressure is applied to the insect, thereby extracting most of the venom.
Most bee-eaters are gregarious. They form colonies, nesting in burrows tunnelled into vertical sandy banks, often at the side of a river or in flat ground. As they mostly live in colonies, large numbers of nest holes may be seen together. The eggs are white, with typically five to the clutch. Most species are monogamous, and both parents care for the young, sometimes with assistance from related birds in the colony.
The bee-eaters are almost exclusively aerial hunters of insect prey.
Prey is caught either in continuous flight or more commonly from an exposed perch from which the bee-eater watches for prey. Smaller, rounder-winged bee-eaters typically hunt from branches and twigs closer to the ground, whereas the larger species hunt from tree tops or telegraph wires. One unusual technique often used by carmine bee-eaters is to ride on the backs of bustards.
Prey can be spotted from a distance; Bee-eaters are able to spot a bee 60 metres (200 ft) away, and blue-cheeked bee-eaters have been observed flying out 100 metres (330 ft) to catch large wasps. Prey is approached directly or from behind. Prey that lands on the ground or on plants is usually not pursued. Small prey may be eaten on the wing, but larger items are returned to the perch where they are beaten until dead and then broken up. Insects with poisonous stings are first smacked on the branch, then, with the bird's eyes closed, rubbed to discharge the venom sac and stinger. This behaviour is innate.
A local Pushkar Man with his Horse at a drinking trough at the Pushkar Mela in 2023. More Pushkar Fair photography on my latest blog. The blog contains head shots and candid portraits as well as street style photography taken at the Pushkar Camel Fair in Rajasthan. All images on the blog are in black and white shot with the Canon 5D4 and edited in Lightroom. Take a look below, cheers:
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The Carolina Rediviva, the Royal University's library, contains a collection of ancient books and maps. Pictured here is the XVI century map of Scandinavia.
Каролина Редивива, библиотека Королевского университета, содержит коллекцию древних книг и карт. На фото - карта Скандинавии XVI века.
Contains: IC 4605, NGC 6144, rho Oph nebula, IC 4604, IC 4603, M 4, NGC 6121, The star 22Sco, The star Antares (αSco), The star ρOph, The star Al Niyat (σSco), The star οSco
Resolution: 5340x4400
Dates: July 31, 2006
Frames:
Astrodon Blue: 16x600" bin 1x1
Astrodon Green: 16x600" bin 1x1
Astrodon Luminance: 48x600" bin 1x1
Astrodon Red: 16x600" bin 1x1
Integration: 16.0 hours
First, thanks to Steve Mazlin for sharing this data with me (Data which Jim Misti was also involved in collecting).
Had a few issues with aligning one of the panels so it's been sitting on the hard drive for a while.
A look at the wonderful Rho Ophiuchi. A four-panel mosaic taken on Steve's FSQ STL-11k combo.
Hope you enjoy.
The nearby galaxy Messier 33 contains a star-forming region called NGC 604 where some 200 hot, young, massive stars reside. The cool dust and warmer gas in this stellar nursery appear as the wispy structures in an optical image from the Hubble Space Telescope. In between these filaments are giant voids that are filled with hot, X-ray-emitting gas. Astronomers think these bubbles are being blown off the surfaces of the young and massive stars throughout NGC 604.
NGC 604 also likely contains an extreme member of the class of colliding-wind binaries, as reported in a recent paper. It is the first candidate source in this class to be discovered in M33 and the most distant example known, and shares several properties with the famous, volatile system called Eta Carinae, located in our galaxy.
Chandra’s X-ray data (blue) are combined in this image with optical data from Hubble (purple).
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The Rosette Nebula is a cloud of dust containing enough gas and dust to make about 10,000 stars like our Sun. In the centre of the nebula is a cluster of hot, bright young stars. These are warming up the surrounding gas and dust, making it appear bluer. The small, bright white regions are cocoons of dust in which huge stars are currently being born. These “protostars”, each one of which will probably become a star up to ten times more massive than the Sun, are heating up the surrounding gas and dust and making it clow brighter. The smaller, redder dots on the left side and near the centre of the image also contain protostars, but these are smaller, and will go on to form stars much like our Sun. Just as the centre of the nebula contains bright young stars, in a few tens or hundreds of millions of years these stars will have died, but the protostars will have evolved into fully-fledged stars in their own right. In this way, the star formation will move outwards through the nebula.
Star anise is a star-shaped, dark brown pod that contains a pea-size seed in each of its eight segments.
Native to China and Vietnam, star anise comes from a small evergreen tree.
Its flavour is slightly more bitter than that of regular anise seed.
Cinnamon is a spice obtained from the inner bark of several trees from the genus Cinnamomum that is used in both sweet and savoury foods.
Cinnamon has been known from remote antiquity. It was imported to Egypt as early as 2000 BC.
Cinnamon was so highly prized among ancient nations that it was regarded as a gift fit for monarchs and even for a god: a fine inscription records the gift of cinnamon and cassia to the temple of Apollo at Miletus.
Though its source was kept mysterious in the Mediterranean world for centuries by the middlemen, who handled the spice trade, to protect their monopoly as suppliers, cinnamon is native to Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, the Malabar Coast of India, and Burma.
Physalis is characterised by the small orange fruit similar in size, shape and structure to a small tomato, but partly or fully enclosed in a large papery husk derived from the calyx. The berry also goes by the names Golden Strawberry,Chinese Lantern and Cape gooseberry.
Not all Physalis species bear edible fruit. Select species are cultivated for their edible fruit, however; the typical Physalis fruit is similar to a firm tomato in texture, and like strawberries or pineapple in flavour, with a mild acidity.
Physalis fruit is a good source of vitamin C, beta-carotene, iron, calcium and trace amounts of B vitamins. These fruits contain 18 kinds of amino acids .
These berries are also abundant in polysaccharides, compounds that may help fortify the immune system.
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The Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) is an art museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Its collection contains nearly 25,000 works of art. It is one of the largest museums in the United States. Beginning around 1872, multiple organizations were founded in order to bring an art gallery to Milwaukee, as the city was still a growing port town with little or no facilities to hold major art exhibitions. Over the span of at least nine years, all attempts to build a major art gallery had failed. Shortly after that year, Alexander Mitchell donated all of her collection into constructing Milwaukee's first permanent art gallery in the city's history. In 1888, the Milwaukee Art Association was created by a group of German panorama artists and local businessmen. The same year, British-born businessman Frederick Layton built, endowed, and provided artwork for the Layton Art Gallery, now demolished. In 1911, the Milwaukee Art Institute, another building constructed to hold other exhibitions and collections, was completed. The institute was built right next to the Layton Art Gallery. The Milwaukee Art Museum was founded in 1888 and is purported to be Milwaukee's first art gallery, though that claim is disputed by the Layton Art Gallery, which opened the same year. The Milwaukee Art Center (now the Milwaukee Art Museum) was formed when the Milwaukee Art Institute and Layton Art Gallery merged their collections in 1957 and moved into the newly built Eero Saarinen-designed Milwaukee County War Memorial. In the latter half of the 20th century, the museum came to include the War Memorial Center in 1957 as well as the brutalist Kahler Building (1975) designed by David Kahler and the Quadracci Pavilion (2001) created by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. The Quadracci Pavilion contains a movable, wing-like brise soleil that opens up for a wingspan of 217 feet (66 m) during the day, folding over the tall, arched structure at night or during inclement weather. The pavilion received the 2004 Outstanding Structure Award from the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering. This iconic building, often referred to as "the Calatrava", is used in the museum logo. In November 2015, the museum opened a $34 million expansion funded jointly by a museum capital campaign and by Milwaukee County. The new building, the Shields Building, designed by Milwaukee architect James Shields of HGA, provides an additional 30,000 square feet for art, including a section devoted to light-based media, photography, and video installation. The building includes a new atrium and lakefront-facing entry point for visitors and was designed with cantilevered elements and concrete columns to complement, respectively, the existing Calatrava and Kahler structures on the site. The final design emerged after a lengthy process that included the main architect's departure because of design disputes and his return to the project. The museum houses nearly 25,000 works of art housed on four floors, with works from antiquity to the present. Included in the collection are 15th- to 20th-century European and 17th- to 20th-century American paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, decorative arts, photographs, and folk and self-taught art. Among the best in the collection are the museum's holding of American decorative arts, German Expressionism, folk and Haitian art, and American art after 1960. The museum holds one of the largest collections of works by Wisconsin native Georgia O'Keeffe. Other artists represented include Gustave Caillebotte, Nardo di Cione, Francisco de Zurbarán, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Winslow Homer, Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Gabriele Munter, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Frank Lloyd Wright, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Wassily Kandinsky, Mark Rothko, Robert Gober, and Andy Warhol. It also has paintings by European painters Francesco Botticini, Jan Swart van Groningen, Ferdinand Bol, Jan van Goyen, Hendrick Van Vliet, Franz von Lenbach (Bavarian Girl), Ferdinand Waldmüller (Interruption), Carl Spitzweg, Bouguereau, Gerome (2 Majesties), Gustave Caillebotte, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Kowalski (Winter in Russia), Jules Bastien-Lepage (The Wood Gatherer), and Max Pechstein.
Luxemburgo - Place du Puits-Rouge - Roude Petz marker
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Luxembourg City is the capital city of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the country's most populous commune. Standing at the confluence of the Alzette and Pétrusse rivers in southern Luxembourg, the city lies at the heart of Western Europe, situated 213 km (132 mi) by road from Brussels, 372 km (231 mi) from Paris, and 209 km (130 mi) from Cologne. The city contains Luxembourg Castle, established by the Franks in the Early Middle Ages, around which a settlement developed.
The city's population consists of 160 nationalities. Foreigners represent 70% of the city's population, whilst Luxembourgers represent 30% of the population; the number of foreign-born residents in the city rises steadily each year.
Luxembourg is ranked as having the second-highest per capita GDP in the world with the city having developed into a banking and administrative centre. It was placed first for personal safety, while it was ranked 19th for quality of living.
It is one of the de facto capitals of the European Union (alongside Brussels, Frankfurt and Strasbourg), as it is the seat of several institutions, agencies and bodies, including the Court of Justice of the European Union, the European Court of Auditors, the Secretariat of the European Parliament, the European Public Prosecutor's Office, the European Investment Bank, the European Investment Fund, the European Stability Mechanism, as well as amongst other European Commission departments and services, Eurostat. The Council of the European Union meets in the city for three months annually.
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Luxemburgo es la capital de la pequeña nación europea del mismo nombre. Se construyó entre desfiladeros profundos, cortados por los ríos Alzette y Pétrusse, y es famosa por sus ruinas de fortificaciones medievales. La extensa red de túneles de Bock Casemates abarca un calabozo, una prisión y la Cripta Arqueológica, considerada como la cuna del país. A lo largo de las murallas en lo alto, el paseo Chemin de la Corniche tiene miradores impresionantes.
A pack of Polaroid pack film contains 10 shots. I had one pack of Polaroid 100 Blue. Polaroid Week lasts six days, two shots a day, for a total of 12 shots per person. I had a hole of one day/two shots. But I found an unused box of New55 Color in my stash. New55 Color had this thing where it reproduces blues well, but there's a border around the edge of most shots that's yellow. Blue and yellow....
I shot this at Marineland in Florida with my Pacemaker Speed Graphic. Ukraine has a lengthy coastline on the Black Sea. Russia wants to control that coastline and make Ukraine a landlocked country, unable to export goods by sea without dealing with Russia. One of the ways they do that is with mines. There are mines floating freely in the Black Sea set loose by the Orcs. On land, retreating Orcs also set boobytraps on corpses of people they killed and on toys likely to be picked up by children. The Ukrainian Deminers Association cleans up these mines. You can support their efforts at www.uda.org.ua/en/
This area contains several Nebula (North American and Pelican) as well as star clusters. These are typically referred to as emission Nebulas. Lots of gas and dust floating in space. If you have questions about how I took this image - give me a shout! This is a superset of the last image I uploaded. Taken under Fairfax, Virginia skies
Captrain 185 650-9 mit einem Containerzug auf der KBS 110 zwischen Schwarzenbek und Büchen in Müssen
Captrain 185 650-9 with a container train on KBS 110 between Schwarzenbek and Büchen in Müssen
A little late but light painting guru Led Eddie put me onto this a while back. I hope I did it some justice. Thanks Ed.
EGP 140 627-1 mit einem Containerzug auf der KBS 110 zwischen Lüneburg und Winsen in der Nähe von Sangenstedt
EGP 140 627-1 with a container train on the KBS 110 between Lüneburg and Winsen near Sangenstedt
Prayer wheels at Swayambhunath in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Prayers wheels are cylindrical wheels containing scrolls that are repeatedly inscribed with mantras. By turning the prayer wheels clockwise, it is believed that the mantras inside are activated and released. The mantras are said to purify negatvity, generate compassion, remove barriers to enlightenment and bring benefit to all sentient beings.
Swayambhunath is an ancient religious architecture atop a hill in the Kathmandu Valley, west of Kathmandu city.
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The town contains two statues of Cyrano de Bergerac, subject of a famous play of the same name by Edmond Rostand, though the actual Cyrano never lived in Bergerac. An old stone statue stands on Place de la Myrpe, facing Place du Docteur Cayla. A newer statue, painted in colour and standing on a stainless steel pedestal, has been erected on Place Pelissiere.
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This two storey structure - viewed from the rear - was designed by 19th century master architect, Karl Friedrich Schinkel and contains one of the most recognisable works of celebrated Berlin sculptress, Käthe Kollwitz. It stands nestled in a grove of chestnut trees on the eastern side of the city’s famous Unter den Linden boulevard.
The building served as a royal guard house until the end of World War I and the fall of the monarchy in the German Revolution of 1918–19. In 1931 the architect Heinrich Tessenow was commissioned by the Free State of Prussia to redesign the building as a memorial to commemorate those who died in the Great War. Tessenow converted the interior into a memorial hall centered around a black granite block with an oak wreath designed by the sculptor Ludwig Gies, situated under an oculus (circular skylight). It was at this time that the windows and openings on the side and rear of the building were sealed up as seen in the photo above, taken from the rear of the building. The Neue Wache was then known as the "Memorial of the Prussian State Government".
Various changes to the contents of the interior of the memorial hall and to the title and use as of the building as a memorial took place between its reorganisation in the 1930s and the end of the Cold War, reflecting the various changing political ideals and regimes throughout the 20th century. Today, it stands simply as a memorial dedicated to the ‘Victims of War and Tyranny’. Fittingly not to German victims, or victims of German war or tyranny, but in the intentional ambiguity of its name, a memorial to all victims of all wars and tyranny.
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Asbestos-containing spray-applied fireproofing shown above a suspended ceiling system with friable, delaminated debris on top of the ceiling panels. This particular soft, fluffy material contains approx. 35% chrysotile asbestos.
In this building, the entire area above the suspended ceiling system is utilized as an air plenum, whereby large volumes of air movement are continually recirculated through the space and redistributed to building occupants via the HVAC system. In addition to this, the small dots shown on the backside of the suspended ceiling panels (non-ACM cellulose/perlite/fiberglass tile) are actually small hole perforations that were designed to allow conditioned air movement through the panels. Any chance for microscopic airborne asbestos fibers to migrate through to occupied areas?
Asbestos survey quantities should also include estimates of the extra surface areas impacted by such delaminated debris and subsequent contamination as well as areas of "over-spray". Further, building occupants, especially maintenance personnel should be informed of the liklihood of encountering asbestos debris if servicing components above the suspended ceiling plane, in addition to receiving appropriate levels of asbestos training if working in proximity to asbestos materials (a written Operations & Maintentance Plan; "O & M").
Federation Square is a cultural precinct in Melbourne, Australia. It comprises a series of buildings containing a public broadcaster, art galleries, a museum, cinemas, exhibition spaces, auditoria, restaurants, bars and shops around two major public spaces, one covered (The Atrium), the other open to the sky, and composed of two spaces that flow into one another (St. Paul's Court and The Square). The majority of the precinct is built on top of a concrete deck over busy railway lines. Construction began in 1998 and the site opened in 2002.
Federation Square occupies roughly a whole urban block bounded by Swanston, Flinders, and Russell Streets and the Yarra River. The open public square is directly opposite Flinders Street Station and St Paul's Cathedral. The layout of the precinct helps to connect the historical central district of the city with the Yarra River and a new park Birrarung Marr. This refocusing of the city on the Yarra River also partly reinforces links with the Southbank district, whose redevelopment has been ongoing as a key part of central Melbourne since the late 1980s.
The site of Federation Square has had a variety of former uses. The Gas and Fuel Buildings, Jolimont Yard and the Princes Bridge railway station were the immediate predecessors, though in the 19th century there was a morgue on the site. The result of an international design competition in 1997, Federation Square was designed by Don Bates and Peter Davidson of Lab Architecture Studio. A key part of the plaza design is its large, fixed public screen, which has been used to broadcast major sporting events, such as the AFL Grand Final, and still continues to do so. During the 2006 FIFA World Cup, thousands of football fans braved cold nights to watch the matches on the Federation Square screen.
The complex of buildings forms a rough U-shape around the main open-air square, oriented to the west. The eastern end of the square is formed by the glazed walls of The Atrium. While bluestone is used for the majority of the paving in the Atrium and St. Paul's Court, matching footpaths elsewhere in central Melbourne, the main square is paved in 470,000 ochre-coloured sandstone blocks from Western Australia, intended to invoke images of the Outback. The paving is designed as a huge urban artwork called 'Nearamnew', by Paul Carter and gently rises above street level, containing a number of textual pieces inlaid in its undulating surface.
I personally thought the whole site was an ugly modern monstrosity....'carbuncle' comes to mind. Seen from the Eureka Skydeck on the 88th floor of 7, Riverside Quay, Southbank in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
A cherry pip, safe on its own and intact, but if chewed or ground, the amygdalin releases cyanide when metabolised within the body.
Various plant seeds or pits contain amygdalin, which releases cyanide when metabolised, including cherries. The amounts are small, so that in general, toxicity is not seen except in cases where a combination of factors seriously exacerbates the problem. Essentially, you need a pit or seed from some fruit of a plant in the family Rosaceae, generally from Prunus genus (cherries, plums, peaches, apricots, and almonds).
Under such conditions, you can ingest enough amygdalin to kill you. However, while some cherry pits do apparently contain amygdalin at the same concentrations as bitter apricot kernels, the amount you would have to eat is considerably more than two pits. The LD50 for bitter almonds (which are also similar to cherry and apricot kernels, with ~5% amygdalin content) in rats is estimated to be a little more than 3 grams per Kg of body weight.