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No matter where I drive, there's always a better than even chance I'm going to pull over at some point to photograph something or other. This little building attracted my attention the other day while doing some errands. There was just something rather forlorn about its appearance. One glance at the proportions of those windows told me it was historic. Turns out it was built in 1918 as the township hall. It survives today as a rental facility for birthday parties and wedding events. I love the sense of Americana that the scene inspires, and made sure to back up far enough to capture the building in the context of its environment. I am always attracted to the sense of desolation in photos such as this, town scenes that encompass several acres or more, shot in the middle of the day, but completely devoid of people or vehicles.
The sea-cliff bridge is a location I've always wondered how to photograph - it's such a scenic stretch of road but the few times I've driven along it have left me wondering where or how exactly I would do it justice in an image.
This morning was my time to try and despite a fairly lacklustre sunrise I was fortunate enough to be able to compose the ocean and cliffs as having the most space in the shot and concentrate on the few clouds sitting near the horizon.
Panoramic
Nikon D4
70-200 f2.8 VRll
Press "L" to view on large and, as always, thanks for looking!
Dubrovnik, is a city on the Adriatic Sea in the region of Dalmatia, in southern Croatia. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations in the Mediterranean Sea, a seaport and the center of Dubrovnik-Neretva County. Situated in an exclave, it is connected to the rest of the country by the Pelješac Bridge. Its total population is 42,615 (2011 census). In 1979, the city of Dubrovnik was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in recognition of its outstanding medieval architecture and fortified old town.
The history of the city probably dates back to the 7th century, when the town known as Ragusa was founded by refugees from Epidaurum (Ragusa Vecchia). It was under the protection of the Byzantine Empire and later under the sovereignty of the Republic of Venice. Between the 14th and 19th centuries, Dubrovnik ruled itself as a free state. The prosperity of the city was historically based on maritime trade; as the capital of the maritime Republic of Ragusa, it achieved a high level of development, particularly during the 15th and 16th centuries, as it became notable for its wealth and skilled diplomacy. At the same time, Dubrovnik became a cradle of Croatian literature.
The entire city was almost destroyed when a devastating earthquake hit in 1667. During the Napoleonic Wars, Dubrovnik was occupied by the French Empire forces, and then the Republic of Ragusa was abolished and incorporated into the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy and later into the Illyrian Provinces. Later on, in the early 19th to early 20th century, Dubrovnik was part of the Kingdom of Dalmatia within the Austrian Empire. Dubrovnik became part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia immediately upon its creation, and it was incorporated into its Zeta Banovina in 1929, before becoming part of the Banovina of Croatia upon its creation in 1939. During World War II, it was part of the Axis puppet state Independent State of Croatia, before being reincorporated into SR Croatia in SFR Yugoslavia.
In 1991, during the Croatian War of Independence, Dubrovnik was besieged by the Yugoslav People's Army for seven months and suffered significant damage from shelling. After undergoing repair and restoration works in the 1990s and early 2000s, it re-emerged as one of the Mediterranean's top tourist destinations, as well as a popular filming location.
" Vision without action is a daydream.
.....Action without vision is a nightmare. "
..........Japanese Proverb.
Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, 25 miles (40 km) north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2019 census, the city has an estimated population of 182,437. Fort Lauderdale is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,198,782 people in 2018.
The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average year-round temperature of 75.5 °F (24.2 °C) and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, including 2.8 million international visitors. The city and county in 2012 collected $43.9 million from the 5% hotel tax it charges, after hotels in the area recorded an occupancy rate for the year of 72.7 percent and an average daily rate of $114.48. The district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Forty six cruise ships sailed from Port Everglades in 2012. Greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants, 63 golf courses, 12 shopping malls, 16 museums, 132 nightclubs, 278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts.
Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort. However, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend on the New River between the Colee Hammock and Rio Vista neighborhoods, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina.
The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more than two thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century proved disastrous for the Tequesta, as the Europeans unwittingly brought with them diseases, such as smallpox, to which the native populations possessed no resistance. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, contributed greatly to their decline over the next two centuries. By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. Although control of the area changed between Spain, United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century.
The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century. In the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6, 1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a wrecked ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children, and the children's tutor. The other farms in the settlement were not attacked, but all the white residents in the area abandoned the settlement, fleeing first to the Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, and then to Key West.
The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. The fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. It was not until Frank Stranahan arrived in the area in 1893 to operate a ferry across the New River, and the Florida East Coast Railroad's completion of a route through the area in 1896, that any organized development began. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County.
Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a white woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob. A group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery. His body was riddled with some twenty bullets. The murder was subsequently used by the press in Nazi Germany to discredit US critiques of its own persecution of Jews, Communists, and Catholics.
When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major US base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control, operators. A Coast Guard base at Port Everglades was also established.
On July 4, 1961, African Americans started a series of protests, wade-ins, at beaches that were off-limits to them, to protest "the failure of the county to build a road to the Negro beach". On July 11, 1962, a verdict by Ted Cabot went against the city's policy of racial segregation of public beaches.
Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale,_Florida
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Kuala Lumpur (often abbreviated as K.L.), is the largest city of Malaysia. The city proper, making up an area of 244 km2 (94 sq mi), has an estimated population of 1.6 million in 2006. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million. It is the fastest growing metropolitan region in the country, in terms of population as well as economy.
The Petronas Twin Towers (also known as the Petronas Towers or Twin Towers), in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia were the world's tallest buildings, before being surpassed by the Taipei 101. However, the towers are still the tallest twin buildings and office building in the world. Tower 1 was built by Hazama Corporation and Tower 2 by Samsung Engineering & Construction and Kukdong Engineering & Construction (both of South Korea). They were the world's tallest buildings from 1998 to 2004 if measured from the level of the main entrance to the structural top.
Camera Model: PENTAX K20D; Focal length: 13.00 mm; Aperture: 13; Exposure time: 30.0 s; ISO: 100
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Our life is like a shadow just reflect and finish in little life we wish to get alot of things and face alot of pain.....
That shadow is like my wish that is empty or transparent without u. Where r u .... and y u wana act like that ....
My words :)
In this 258 feet long tunnel, I only have few second to decide the metering and composition for this shot.
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
-- Buckminster Fuller
The Michipicoten wastes no time taking on a load of pellets shortly after arriving at the LS&I ore dock in in the wee hours of Thursday morning. I was headed to Sault Ste. Marie for a couple of days, and when I saw the she was showing a destination of Marquette, I left home about 7 Wednesday night (after having been up all day) and made a run for Marquette with only a stop for a growler of a fresh batch of Hefeweizen from the brewery and a gas stop. I pulled in to the dock area about 4:10am Michigan time just as the Michipicoten was pulling in. .
The bulk carrier Anna Dorothea passing clear of the Pentland Firth with the Eastern Destination of St Petersburg.
From the beginning of June at a local lake in Ringerike, Norway.
Ambassador: Nisi filters, Sirui tripods, Lowepro bags. Partner: Focus Nordic.
Just "52" 2016
Out at Collins Marsh earlier this morning I fell in love with the Railroad Ties...Old, worn, cracked, tarnished .... but supporting the rails for unknown journeys...Perfect image for my day...I think that is why we have this attraction to Railroad Lines...you look beyond where you are in that moment and think what journey's lie ahead....what will be in store when you arrive....
LIFES A JOURNEY ....NOT A DESTINATION
Steven Tyler
Are you ready...
for a great journey?
I've added this image to my photo stream over a month ago and was forced to remove it a few days after. This image was taken during a photo shoot I was hired to do. The photo shoot was for the Microsoft Corporation. Not all the pictures from the photo shoot were licensed. They licensed 5 images only.
Hopefully, in the "near future", you will be seeing some of my work in some of Microsoft's "FINEST" products. Enough said :)
One of the attractions of Tegel Airport was the old suburban railcar that accommodated a Currywurst stand. Now that the airport is closed I get even more nostalgic - for the airport and the old trains that I enjoyed so much until the 1990s...
Graflex Super Graphic, Schneider Symmar 135mm f/5.6, Foma Retropan 320 in Studional 1+15. Yes, it is a crop ;-) - and taken hand-held, focused by rangefinder.
UP 7082 shoves on the rear of the GSEXNH-25 as it's destination can be seen to the left of the engine.
Destination: New Planets
Interplanetary Travel
Youtube: Zero Gravity
Camera: Canon EOS Kiss X7i
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
Location: Outer space (space)
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Since not all foods created for Asha Destinations weren't added to the place setting I released few days ago, I decided to put the 10 different dishes in a RHIAM'S delivery box so you can rezz them on any placemat you may own and prefer. You can stretch the plates or shrink them, depending on your needs.
These plates are modify, copy but NOT transferable. I hope you enjoy each dish. You can find in this delivery box the following meals:
- Conch Fritters (Bahamas)
- Grilled Octopus (Greece)
- Baklava (Greece)
- Baklava (Turkey)
- Ugali w/ Beef Stew (Kenya)
- Fried Tilapia (Kenya)
- Tuna (Tahiti)
- Lamb Chop (Tahiti)
- Banana Po'e (Tahiti)
- Saté Tempe (Indonesia)
If you need help with anything related to these foods, please contact me on Facebook (Asha Wise Rhia) or in Second Life (AshaRhia).
I'll be always able to assist you, if offline, I get your messages in email!
Thank you so much for your choice, trully appreciated!
AshaRhia
RHIAM'S FOODS Owner.
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
~Christopher Columbus
A few days ago, I took photos of a hover fly on a rose but my husband said that I already have a photo that looks almost the same.. He was referring to
this pic and I told him that they don't look the same. But I realized that he had a good point, so one of my goals for this summer is to take more photos of insects in flight. It's not going to be easy but it should be fun :-)