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Strolling on bright sunshine and cold snow - what better way to spend a Sunday afternoon?
Copyright (C) Tim Haynes 2015
The twin towers were designed by the Dutch Office for Metropolitan Architecture and are respectively 110 and 125 meters high and contain a total of 330 apartments and shops on the ground floors.
Taken on the trail up to Devi's Courthouse
Blue Ridge Parkway near Hwy 215, NC
Tried to get the photo to highlight the texture contrast between the rough log and the fine soft leaves of the fern.
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a kerr stuart joffre class 0-6-0 of 1916 contrasts with an unidentified petrol rail tractor---can anyone identify it ?
NIKON D750 + 12 mm f/2.8 @ 12 mm, 1.60 sec at f/8, ISO 400
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Entitled The Great Wall Of China [1907] H Ponting. [RESTORED] I repaired spots and small defects, adjusted contrast, tonality, and adding a sepia tone.
Ponting's placement of a person (or in this case, persons) somewhere in the foreground was a de rigueur photographic technique of the day. It was done primarily to add a human element and to provide a sense of scale to the scene.
The Great Wall of China 萬里長城 is a misnomer (at least in its English translation, the Chinese meaning is more along the lines of "ten thousand Li long city"). It would be more accurate to describe it as the Great Walls of China, as they are the remnants from a historic series of stone and earthen barriers. Erected throughout northern China, they were mostly built and revised over two thousand years between the 5th century BC and the 16th century. Origins of each wall section from various times were contingent upon their political and military needs in accordance to their dynastic periods.
The oldest, original walls were constructed for the purposes of protecting against Xiongnu nomadic incursions into the areas occupied by the various disparate states that were to later form China. After the Qin consolidation, these separate structures were then integrated into an almost continuous whole, mostly using rammed earth structures. Unfortunately, little of that wall actually exists today. The majority of the wall that still remains (ie the one that we have generally come to know) was built during the Ming dynasty, which relied more heavily on integration of brick and masonry work. History, legends and myths about the Great Wall abound. In the last hundred year or so, industrialization and modernization of the areas which the wall passes through has endangered it as entire sections were destroyed to reclaim construction materials. Other sections were refurbished, in some cases rebuilt using modern engineering, and have seen heavy use as tourist attractions; still others have been entirely overgrown or reclaimed by nature. Reportedly, less than 30 percent of the wall remains intact. Nevertheless, it is considered to be one of the most important historic constructions of man and specific parts of it was listed since 1987 as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
The present wall starts from Shanhaiguan, dipping into the Bohai Sea in the east, and ends at Xinjiang's Lop Nur in the west, following along the southern border of the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia. The most comprehensive survey to date has determined that the wall as currently recognized covers a distance of 8,851.8 km (or 5,500.3 miles), consisting of 6,259.6 km (3,889.5 miles) actual wall, combined with various other structures like trenches and natural defensive barriers of impassable hills and rivers. Contrary to popular myth, you cannot see the wall from outer space or the moon.
The Great Wall varies from tourist trap (like the section at Badaling, near Beijing) to extreme, off the beaten path wilderness. Certain sections are so dangerous that it would be suicidal to attempt ascending unless one has special climbing equipment with a technical and advanced mountaineering support team. Try as I might, I was not able to gather any real statistics on Great Wall related accidents or deaths, which is unusual as every tourist location has accidents. In any case, I suspect that the PRC government doesn't really want to keep such statistics to begin with.
In another forum dedicated to just information about the Great Wall, one writer told of how one tourist was killed, and offered some safety tips:
www.greatwallforum.com/forum/great-wall-china-general-inf...
Hong Kong is a place of contrasts: east meets west, old meets new.
Chinese junk boat and Symphony of Lights, Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong, China.
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White gym slippers with split rubber sole, worn with seamed black stay-ups. Many thanks to a lovely friend, who sometimes wears them at home :-)
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The switch from class 67s to class 68s on Chiltern Railway Loco Hauled services is still underway. The Eastern Weekend of 2015 saw two class 67s still in operation on the Chiltern Line, these being 67008 and 67013.
On the evening of 03/04/15, 68010 waits time at London Marylebone with 1G67, the 19:06 Chiltern Railways Mainline service to Birmingham Snow Hill, while on the adjacent platform, 67013 waits for its departure from the capital, with 1R70, the 19:36 Mainline service to Birmingham Moor Street.
I opted for haulage from 67013 on this occasion!
The new buses for Lothian won't all be in the traditional madder colours as some will be used for service 100 and turned out in the blue Airlink colours. The colours maroon and blue provide a stunning contrast as new fleet Volvos 556 and 433 line up at Central garage. An interesting variation is the addition of a coloured band to the lower panel of the airlink livery, the new version of which is eye-catchng. A 24 hour service, incorporating a 10 minute daytime frequency is now provided by Lothian to Edinburgh airport, with journeys leaving conveniently from opposite Waverley station and arriving directly outside the Airport. A question for those in the city chambers who have saddled citizens with tram debt on a grand scale, will be how these fine new buses will affect their tram, a project which as time goes on looks increasingly beleaguered.
The Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool dominates the skyline It demonstrates the contrast between the haves and have nots.
Much of my family come from Liverpool and this scene taken in 1981 was commonplace in and around the St Johns area.
To me it has always highlighted how religion meets ones spiritual needs but falls short of ones practical needs.
I took this picture when i was 19 and when my children ask me about religion i show them this and they kind of get my views.
Madriguera, pueblo de contrastes.
Delicioso día acompañado de amigas. Buen comer, buen paisaje y sobre todo buena compañía.
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Found those warm yellow leaves nicely standing out against the cold dark forest background.
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The juxtaposition of these two images for me unfolds some contrasting thoughts. I’ve put them together in order to document, but evoke the experiences that they contain.
The first image is my home town Otley from the Chevin. This view evokes countless positive childhood memories, from making dens with my brother in the woods just below and climbing the rocks (without ropes I must add). This view has been a launching pad for homemade hot air balloons; a favourite spot for testing flying kits; In the distance memories flood back of unsuccessful raft building attempts, apple raiding adventures, bicycle crashes and first kisses... This view I must say evokes so many memories that it holds a very special place in my life. (You can even see my house, somewhere down there).
The portrait is my beautiful daughter. I chose to include her in this view partly in the hope that she too can develop a love for this very same environment that is so influential to her ancestry. But I also felt an unusual need to document the reason she is so ever so slightly sad in this image. Her expression describes what happened only a short time after this image was made. We had had a really great day, walking with friends on the Chevin (valley side). I was lucky enough to capture this view with the only fifteen seconds of good light in the day and after a very slippery journey down the path back to the valley bottom Ella slipped and broke her arm. She not only had to deal with the pain for longer than was necessary, due to a mix up with the ambulance service, but then caught a bug in hospital and spent most of Christmas week throwing up and feeling pretty miserable. To top it off she developed a really nasty cold which took her voice away...
Thankfully she is ok now, bashing her brother with the heavy pot indicates normal service, but I wonder to her memories of this experience in years to come. I wonder about the memories my own children will have to look back on. I only hope they are as rose tinted as my own.
Note: if you’re going to have any chance of working out which is my house, you’re going to have to view this large (o:
you'll never guess (or maybe you might :)........... took 46 pics to get one that i thought was neat enough to post to macromondays and the 365colour and the DS groups. (love 3-fers)
#ds679 Make an interesting photograph of something mundane and ordinary today.
macromonday (9/26) contrast
ATSH #38 blue by you
hint-- it is smaller than a breadbox ~grin~ look below for the answer
CMWD_blue
cliche saturday-- hasn't everyone taken a picture *REALLY* close up??