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Matka Canyon reveals a place of silence here, directly beside the monastery Saint Nicholas Šiševski. This simple wooden pavilion forms a natural transition between the monastery and the gorge — a place to pause, to look, and to rest. Kanitha sits here for a moment, leaning against the wood, before we begin the descent back down. The pavilion feels like an extension of the monastery itself and may once have served as a resting place for monks: sheltered from sun and wind, with views over the deep canyon and the Treska River cutting far below through the landscape. No decoration, no distraction — only wood, shade and silence. From here, you can see how the gorge slowly opens, how light and shadow drift across the rock walls, and how distant the world below seems. The silence is almost tangible. It is a place where nothing is required — just sitting, breathing, and looking. That is precisely what makes this spot so fitting within the landscape of Matka — simple, secluded, and fully in harmony with nature.
Resting at a wooden pavilion beside Saint Nicholas Šiševski Monastery, overlooking the deep gorge of Matka Canyon. A quiet pause above the Treska River, where wood, light, and silence come together before the descent back down.
Matka Canyon onthult hier een plek van stilte, direct bij het klooster Saint Nicholas Šiševski. Dit eenvoudige houten paviljoen vormt een natuurlijke overgang tussen het klooster en de kloof — een plek om te pauzeren, te kijken en tot rust te komen. Kanitha neemt hier even plaats, leunend tegen het hout, voordat we aan de afdaling terug naar beneden beginnen. Het paviljoen voelt als een verlengstuk van het klooster zelf en diende het ooit als rustplek voor monniken: beschut tegen zon en wind, met uitzicht over de diepe canyon en de rivier Treska die ver beneden door het landschap snijdt. Geen versiering, geen afleiding — alleen hout, schaduw en stilte. Vanaf hier zie je hoe de kloof zich langzaam opent, hoe licht en schaduw over de rotswanden schuiven en hoe ver de wereld beneden lijkt. De stilte is bijna tastbaar. Het is een plek waar niets hoeft: even zitten, ademhalen en kijken. Precies dat maakt deze plek zo passend in het landschap van Matka — eenvoudig, afgezonderd en volledig in harmonie met de natuur.
printed directly from an antique original glass plate: taken in 1900 / measures 5" x 7"
Printed on Cotman Water Colour Paper B5 Fine / exposed for 3hrs
Sensitizer: VanDyke Brown print solution
Fixing agent: Citric acid solution & sodium thiosulfate solution
Toning: Bostick & Sullivan Gold toning kit (Ammonium Thiocyanate / Gold Chloride)
Enlarger: LPL Model 7451 large format enlarger (EL-NIKKOR 1:5.6 f=150mm)
Light source: High power (50w) UV LED unit (SMD=surface mounted LED modules)
The condenser unit (= a unit in which two 16cm diameter convex lenses are set facing each other) was removed from my old Hansa patent enlarger for use in LPL Model 7451.
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Emperor Frederick II's castle, built in 1233. Rising directly from the sea, whose waves crash against its walls, the castle has a classic quadrangular form, with robust square towers at each corner. Various bits were added over the years, and the sea water-filled moat was filled in, but essentially Frederick's original structure remains. In the early 1800s it became a prison and only in 1974 were the last inmates moved to a newer establishment. It has recently been restored and is now open to the public and hosts frequent concerts, art exhibitions and other cultural events.
Generally, not visible, SAR arc was very visible. SAR is an abbreviation for Stable Auroral Red Arcs. Although SAR Arcs are not the Aurora itself, they form during geomagnetic storms. They occur when solar particles interact with oxygen in the ionosphere, heating the oxygen and generating a stable red glow above our heads, hence the name “Stable Auroral Red.”
I thought it only fitting to do a shot with my Yankees cap in the week that the old Yankee Stadium closes its doors. Too bad they couldn't give it a really good send off and make the play-offs, but the season ended quite well for them anyway...
Actually, compared to most sports, I know very little about baseball. But there you go ;-)
Floyd wanted to say hi on this shot too, but he wouldn't turn around. So he's actually mooning you all. Sorry about that.
Lighting: 580EXII key light (1/4 power) above and to right of camera on tripod (the camera hanging on the leg of the tripod with the Gorillapod). 430EX (ful power) on a tripod directly behind me (for that mild halo effect - which hasn't worked as well as I'd hoped...). Flashes fired with eBay radio triggers.
The North Riverfront Industrial Historic District is located directly north of Downtown St. Louis adjacent to the Mississippi River. The eight contributing buildings are located on seven city blocks roughly bounded by Dickson, Lewis, O'Fallon, 2nd, Ashley, Biddie, and the Mississippi River. The irregular, roughly T-shaped footprint of the district results in a fairly tight concentration of historic resources. Heights range from one story to six, with four large smokestacks on the roof of the Union Electric Light & Power Company plant towering over the district (seen in the photograph above). In a section of the city nearly wiped clean by the tornado of 1896 but rich with connections to rail lines and the Mississippi River, this small grouping is a significant concentration surviving in the midst of what was once a much larger linear industrial and commercial district. Two specific industries, power generation and cold storage, account for five of the eight contributing buildings. All buildings and their major additions were constructed between 1894 and 1919.
The Union Electric Light & Power Company plant was constructed in 1903 from a design by architect Charles H. Ledlie by contractor Hill-O'Meara Construction Company. Constructed of brown brick & terra cotta, the massive power plant rests on a poured concrete foundation. The classical exterior is organized by a series of terra cotta arches supported on fluted Ionic pilasters which read as two extra-tall stories high. The south elevation (seen above) may be considered the primary elevation since it faces downtown and bears the original name (Union Electric Light & Power Co.) in terra cotta across & below two pediments. While I am not sure about the exact use of this building today, it still appears to be productive but, more importantly, a beautiful historic building. It was added as a St. Louis City Landmark in 1971 and included with the North Riverfront Industrial Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on May 1, 2003. All the information above was found on the original documents submitted to the NRHP for listing consideration that are located here: catalog.archives.gov/id/63820959
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
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Looking directly up to a crane. I stood in the middle of a road to get this shot I'll have you know!! And survived.... 😀
In Settle, North Yorkshire.
This photo was taken directly into the sun from a small wobbly boat so I was amazed that managed to get a decent photo - the new Nikon Z lenses are a miracle of engineering! It's much better than the version I took with my iPhone.
The obelisk posture is a handstand-like position that some dragonflies and damselflies assume to prevent overheating on sunny days. The abdomen is raised until its tip points at the sun, minimizing the surface area exposed to solar radiation. When the sun is close to directly overhead, the vertical alignment of the insect's body suggests an obelisk.
Ngorongoro Crater, crater floor at 1,700 m.
With sidewalls 400 / 600 m so that the crater rim is at 2,300 m.
Diameter 21 Km
20214 arrives at Lakeside at the head of a short goods train from Haverthwaite. [Pole, 3/6 sections (~4m)]
Taken during a Northern Diesel Photo Charters event organised by Chris Gee. Note that the train was parked at this point, and no train movements took place until all the photographers were in a place of safety.
After managing a few sunny shots in the morning, the train and the photographers returned to Haverthwaite for a lunch break. The plan for the afternoon was to get some shots around Lakeside station, thinking that the sun was unlikely to make an appearance; if it had been out, this would have been looking directly into the sun, plus the trees put much of the station area in shadow at this time of year. As we arrived here, it was raining, but it had stopped by the time the train arrived and we got into position.
It wasn't long, however, before we realised a break in the clouds was on its way. So we all walked out of the station area into a position alongside the River Leven where the sun angle was just about acceptable (it was quite head-on, but the only shots available without a drone or a boat to go out onto the river were also quite head-on), and waited for the loco to run round the train and get into position. The sun came out, but then went in again while we waited, and we ended up with more dull shots... until there was an unexpected short but quite spectacular burst of light - see this photo.
I considered converting this to monochrome given the lack of sun, and might well still create a monochrome version. But a little play in Photoshop has brought out the autumn colours well enough that I thought it worth uploading the colour version, even though it was taken in poor light.
Manipulation notes: some brightly-coloured objects (yellow and blue) in the background between the signalbox and the nose of the loco have been desaturated because they were quite distracting.
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Drawn directly onto watercolour paper to form a birthday for a former colleague who has the same birthday as me. I used a sketch I did on site while doing fieldwork in Ely in April 2014.
Steeplegate, number 16 High Street, was built in the mid to late 16th century, forming an access from the town into the cathedral precinct after Dissolution of the monastery which served the cathedral. 18 High Street, to the left, was probably built at the same time but was heavily altered in the 18th century. Beneath them both is a 14th century, brick built, vaulted undercroft. We recorded this in October 2013.
Shot late on a winter night, at the same time as my take on the location's west avenue, this was taken directly beneath Leadenhall Market's ornate octagonal crossing.
I had wanted to attempt this look-up for a while as the centre of the market's Victorian roof is such a magnificent spectacle, but it can be challenging to shoot because the market's original 14th-century avenues don't converge with perfect symmetry, and because the central lanterns aren't suspended from the roof in perfect alignment, meaning it can be difficult to frame a tidy look-up. The December lights created such a nice sense of flow towards the lanterns, though, and I didn't think the image would be impossible with the right set-up, focal length and crop.
The final result is a combination of seven exposures blended using luminosity masks in Photoshop to control some intense highlights from the lanterns while bringing out the nuance within the cast-iron grilles, the Portland stone and the beautifully decorative patterns and inscriptions across the architecture. Once I'd isolated selections of the lanterns, the roof and the surrounding columns using a combination of the pen tool and targeted colour-range selections, I focused on striking the right balance between bringing out detail in the shadows and preserving the warm, dramatic vibrance from the lanterns. After this, I toned down the yellow colour cast on the walls and placed greater emphasis on the rich maroons, creams, golds and faded greens across the frame, as well as the muted blue in the roof above the lanterns.
My main aim after this phase of editing was preserving a sense of the magic that comes from the lanterns' radiant light, so I spent a lot of time very carefully dodging and burning portions of the roof to bring out the incredible texture and detail. Finally, I used Curves and Levels adjustments to tweak the intensity of the light beneath the roof, and a low-opacity Gradient Map set to Soft Light to inject some cooler tones into the space between the ventilation grilles, adding a hint of the cold night beyond the warm glow of the covered market.
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This is directly to the left of Sahalie Falls down in Central Oregon, which has to be one of the most impressive and beautiful waterfalls I've seen. There's a mossy little paradise at the base, and I hit it on a day where the snow had melted around it enough to not show (thankfully--snow is tough to shoot in long exposures, especially in full sun). There was really no safe way over there, but even seeing it reminded me of a fairy tale or two. The fairies probably tucked some treasures over there, knowing the blundering humans couldn't get to them without planting themselves face-first into the river.
Compositionally, I've never been quite sure about this shot, which is part of the reason I've taken so long in posting it. While the scene is beautiful, the lines are odd. The rainbow is diffused by light blockage from trees and such. I'm also not fond of stretching my 17-85 all the way to 85mm, since things get very soft and dreamy (Canon got it right on its new 18-55 lens). It did work out for this shot, and the more I look at it, the more I like it. Sometimes a supposed weakness in a piece of equipment can simply make a scene more interesting.
2-second exposure at 85mm - Canon 17-85mm IS lens - Hoya Moose filter
Sketched directly in ink on location at Marshal Creek in Long Island City. The creek is a superfund site, one of the worst in the country, where sewage and industrial pollutants have been dumped for a few hundred years. The little slice of highway in the front is the LIC(Long Island Expressway) which is at the entrance to the Midtown Tunnel on the left.
An oriental pied hornbill (anthracoceros albirostris) flying directly overhead. Photographed on Hat Yao Noi, Phang Nga, Thailand.
Looking directly into the setting sun is better than posing don't you know. Mana on a retaining wall post in the garden. It's a great cat posse up there surveying all he is king of. I must get around to making him a mane, he'll be a pretty cute tiny lion for the 3-5 seconds he'll wear it!
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The large expansive magnificent Registry Room or Great Hall as it is now called in the main building of the Immigration Museum at Ellis Island is completely lit with natural light because of its large semi-circular windows. When this edifice opened in 1900, it was touted as fire-proof which was a requirement of the United States government after the original station that opened 1892 had burned down, thus the use of bricks, concrete and ceramic tile is found throughout; the attention to detail is discernable in both this lovely open room as well as the exterior [ see image of exterior posted on my photostream flic.kr/p/eX6LEQ ].
First let’s make this clear that first and second class passengers on ships were inspected on the ships and allowed to go directly ashore. In this now open space on the second level back starting 1900 were bench after bench and enclosures for medical examinations. All steerage class passenger immigrants until 1924 believed that they started their process in this Registry Room and at its peak it is estimated that 10,000 immigrants were processed in 24 hour periods, 10,000….wow. However, the process actually started on the long flight of stairs to the second story registry room. There were doctors strategically posted at the top of the staircase who’s only purpose was to screen the immigrants as they went up the stairs, looking for signs like shortness of breath, limping and excessive gazing which allowed them to classify people with conditions like asthma, physical disability and mental illness respectively. If the doctors at the top of the stairs suspected one of the conditions based on his observation, he would mark that individual with chalk denoting what he suspected on their shoulder, for example the ‘L’ denoted lameness. If you had a chalk marking you were taken to special screening rooms away from the registry for a more in depth medical/mental evaluation. The truth is that only 1-2% of the eager immigrants were turned away, that number though totals a quarter of a million, 250,000 that were turned around, left the Registry Room, grabbed their belongings and re-boarded a steam ship returning as steerage passengers taking them back to their native country. Many were given a reprieve and shuttled to the infirmary on the south end of the island with hopes that whatever was ailing them would heal and allow their passage to America. In this hall, if you stop and think about it were so many anxiously awaiting, questioned, examined and given a yea or nay after being on a crowded, pungent sea vessel as the steerage area was nothing to write home about for 2 at least weeks with as much of their belongings that they could carry. The recurring theme through the immigration museum was “Island of hope, island of tears”. It is estimated even with all the immigration that’s occurred after Ellis Island 30 years of processing that stopped in 1924 that almost 40% of the current American population can trace its origin to Ellis Island.
Where does the island get its name? From its first proprietor, Samuel Ellis who opened a tavern for sea faring people in the latter part of the 1700’s, though the island Ellis owned was a much smaller plot of land barely visible during high tide. When Samuel passed, the Ellis family sold the island to New York State who in turn sold it the US government to build a fort for the war of 1812. When the excavation began for the New York City Subway, little Ellis Island initially doubled in size and as they city of New York continued to dig underground, the island continued to increase in size, they had to put the dirt & rocks somewhere. When the United States altered its policies to control and monitor immigration in the USA, New York City was the principal port for Trans-Atlantic sea travel from Europe, the small island just off the Jersey City shore already the property of the federal government, close to the Central New Jersey Railroad Terminal was a perfect way to keep in incoming immigrants isolated from the populations of New York and New Jersey until they could be properly processed and screened. This all stopped in 1924 when the immigration laws changed, but the facilities on the island continued to operate mainly as a detention facility for illegal aliens until 1954. It sat abandoned and neglected until 1965 when President Lyndon B Johnson declared it part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument which fell under the auspices of the National Park Service. However, it would not be until almost 20 years later in 1983 that actual work was done and the main building was restored to state it was in 1918-1920 and opened as the immigration museum in 1990. The southern part of the island, where the hospital and other medical buildings are have only been worked on in the past decade, mainly structurally fortifying them so they don’t collapse. I attended a lecture by Stephen Wilkes given by B&H Photo and Lexar, a professional photographer that was given the opportunity to shoot the buildings before they started clear them out. A New York photographer, he worked for 5 years until 2003 and captured the almost eerie deserted hospital buildings beautifully using only natural light. The work is in a book called ‘Ellis Island: Ghosts of Freedom’. I can’t imagine the emotion Stephen felt because I remember as I snapped this image, standing on the second floor balcony, I could almost see and feel the many people below with their hearts in their hands, with hope and anxiety. It is hard not feel like that in this place; I’m the offspring of immigrant parents as are my children as my ex-wife was an immigrant as well. Immigration is very much part of the fabric of America.
Captured with Olympus Evolt E-510 with an Olympus Zuiko 14-42MM F3.5-5.6 lens, processed in Photomatix and cleaned up in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
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New Year's morning 2016 at the Black Rock Desert, Gerlach, Nevada.
My plan was to shoot from the east side of the playa to get the alpenglow on the Granite Range. When I got near the playa it was practically white out conditions from blowing snow and I missed seeing the turn off to go up the east side. I drove at a crawl to get through Gerlach and decided to go up the west side where the wind wasn't too bad against the mountains. Driving out onto the playa, the blowing snow was worse the further I went. It wasn't yet 6 am and still dark so I back tracked my way to the road because I knew I wasn't going to be able to do any photography, nor did I have any idea when or if conditions would clear. Besides, allowing my car to become a very large snowball for no good reason did seem rather stupid. The wind did begin to let up as I made my way back to the east side road, and with the dawning light I could see a low fog over the playa. The dogs and I waited in my toasty warm truck until the fog began to lift and I could see the mountain peaks before venturing out onto this frozen landscape. I'm a total wimp when it comes to seriously cold below freezing weather and I spent more time thawing out in my truck between the very few shots I ended up getting, but at least I can say I got something for my efforts…and I think I'd do it again in spite of myself.
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Tule fog clears above Central Valley wetlands at dawn.
Despite viewing a couple of brilliant sunrises on our New Year’s photo jaunt, so far I have not really shared any actual sunrise photographs. It is time. We arrived here in foggy pre-dawn darkness on New Year’s Day. We assembled our gear and headed out on a network of levee roads through this wetlands terrain. Before long we came to a spot where the fog had thinned and we had a clear view to the east. We stopped and photographed the landscape and the intense pre-sunrise sky.
The experience of being out here before sunrise is profoundly removed from our day-to-day experience. Here time moves slowly or even seems to stop. The tule fog thins, leaving behind a faint, soft mist. Flocks of geese and cranes rise and circle, their cries echoing across the landscape. The light gradually increases in the eastern sky and here the outline of the distant Sierra Nevada is visible along the horizon.
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This is a photo story that fascinated me! I was photographing a great blue heron rookery (600mm lens), and suddenly a pair of red-tail hawks began circling the top of the tree where one GBH was standing guard. One hawk continually flew close to the guard heron, who then swelled up its chest, spread its huge wings, and screamed at the hawk. This happened numerous times. Finally the hawk flew back in carrying some dried weeds in its beak and landed on a nest directly below the fierce-looking heron. The hawk tucked its reeds into the nest and then settled in. The heron, seeming to accept the hawk's presence, relaxed its threatening posture and resumed its regular guard position!
A picturesque, little village called Flo, directly opposite our lovely lunch spot, on the way to Hjelle. ♥
Shooting directly into low, full sun as it washes the shoreline. I under exposed the frame around two full stops of this Dunlin feeding along at the water's edge, taken on the Isle of Uist, Outer Hebrides.
15/02/2015; I preferred to stand directly in front of the round Lutheran church from the other side of the Singel canal, but a houseboat blocked the view. So I was looking around for a nice alternative spot in the neighourhood, which I clearly found where I was standing.
Directly descended from ancestors that flourished the Permain period, some 250 million years ago.Its a living fossil.
It's a magnificent, harmless critter. No sting and no bite and its scorpion looking tail is the males reproductive parts. Its scorpian like appendage is for grabbing the female for mating.
They tend to steal dead insects from spiders webs and also the spider that intervenes while its pilfering its catches. It has no fear in getting caught in the web as they can dissolve the spiders silk. What a fabulous creature.
Korsika - Klippen von Bonifacio
Bonifacio (/bəˈniːfɑːtʃoʊ/; Italian pronunciation: [boniˈfaːtʃo]; French: [bɔnifasjo]; Corsican: Bunifaziu, [buniˈfatsju]; Bonifacino: Bunifazziu; Gallurese: Bunifaciu) is a commune at the southern tip of the island of Corsica, in the Corse-du-Sud department of France.
Bonifacio is the setting of Guy de Maupassant's short story "Vendetta".
The French leg of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series takes place in Bonifacio.
Bonifacio is located directly on the Mediterranean Sea, separated from Sardinia by the Strait of Bonifacio. It is a city placed on the best and only major harbour of the southern coast and also is a commune covering a somewhat larger region including the offshore Isles Lavezzi, giving it the distinction of being the southernmost commune in Metropolitan France. The commune is bordered on the northwest by the canton of Figari and has a short border on the northeast with the canton of Porto-Vecchio. The combined border runs approximately from the Golfe de Ventilegne on the west to the mouth of the Golfu di Sant'Amanza on the east. The coastline circumscribed by the two points is about 75 kilometres (47 mi). Highway N198 runs north along the east coast and N196 along the west.
The islands are part of the French portion, 794.6-square-kilometre (196,300-acre), of the international Bouches de Bonifacio ("Strait of Bonifacio") marine park, a nature reserve, signed into legal existence by France and Italy in 1993 for the protection of the strait against passage of ships bearing dangerous chemicals, and implemented in France by a ministerial decree of 1999 detailing the land to be included in the réserve naturelle de Bouches de Bonifacio for the preservation of wild birds, other fauna and flora, fish and nature in general.
The southern coast in the vicinity of Bonifacio is an outcrop of chalk-white limestone, precipitous and sculpted into unusual shapes by the ocean. Slightly further inland the limestone adjoins the granite of which the two islands, Sardinia and Corsica, are formed. The port of Bonifacio is placed on the Bay of Bonifacio, a drowned ravine of a fjord-like appearance separated from the ocean by a finger-like promontory 1,500 meters (4,900 ft) long and 200 meters (660 ft) wide. In prehistoric post-glacial times when sea levels were low and the islands were connected, the ravine was part of a valley leading to upland Corsica. The maximum draught supported by the harbour is 3.5 meters (11 ft), more than ample for ancient ships and modern small vessels.
The city of Bonifacio is split into two sections. The vieille ville (old town), or la Haute Ville (the Upper city), on the site of a citadel, is located on the promontory overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. The citadel was built in the 9th century with the foundation of the city. The Citadel has been reconstructed and renovated many times since its construction and most recently was an administrative center for the French Foreign Legion. Today it is more of a museum. Historically most of the inhabitants have resided in the Haute ville under the immediate protection of the citadel. The harbour facilities and residential areas below, la marine, line the narrow shelf of the inlet and extend for some distance up the valley, giving the settlement a linear appearance and creating a third residential section limited by St. Julien on the east.
The city and its fortifications also extend for some distance along the cliff-tops, which are at about 70 meters (230 ft) elevation. The cliffs have been undercut by the ocean so that the buildings, which have been placed on the very lip of the precipice, appear to overhang it. The appearance from the sea is of a white city gleaming in the sun and suspended over the rough waters below.
Bonifacio has two prehistoric sites of some importance: the ancient cave shelter of Araguina-Sennola near the village of Capello on Route N96 just north of the city and a chambered tomb of Vasculacciu further north near Figari. The first is the site of the notable Lady of Bonifacio, a female burial carbon-dated to about 6570 BC, which is either late Mesolithic or Early Neolithic, and the second belongs to the Megalithic Culture and is dated to the Middle Neolithic. The alignment of the two and the extensive use of chert from Monte Arci in Sardinia shows that the Bay of Bonifacio was a route to inland Corsica from the earliest times.
The only record of southernmost Corsica in Roman times comes from the geographer Ptolemy. He reports the coordinates of Marianum Promontory and town, which, plotted on a map, turn out to be the farthest south of Corsica. After listing the peoples of the east coast he states that the Subasani (ancient Greek Soubasanoi) were "more to the south."
The people do not appear subsequently and the town and promontory have not been identified, nor do any Roman roads point to it. The only official road, the Via Corsica, ran between the Roman castra of Mariana and Aleria on the east coast and further south to Pallas, according to the Antonine Itinerary. Ptolemy places Pallas unequivocally on the east coast north of Marianum. Although unrecorded tracks and paths to the far south are possible, it is unlikely they would have carried any significant Roman traffic.
Maritime traffic through the strait however was significant and it could hardly have neglected the fine harbour at Bonifacio. The most popular choice for Marianum Promontory therefore is Cape Pertusato, southernmost point of Corsica island, about 9 kilometers (6 mi) east of the harbor, with Bonifacio itself as Marianum town. A second possibility would be the first century AD Roman ruins adjoining Piantarella Beach near the village of Ciappili and next to the grounds of Sperone golf course, a recreational suburb to the west of Bonifacio, but those ruins appear to represent a Roman villa and the beach though eminently suitable for recreation is of little value as a port. More likely the villa belonged to a citizen of Bonifacio as Marianum.
Corsica was taken from the Roman Empire in 469 AD by Genseric, king of the Vandals, and recovered by the Eastern Empire in 534. The Lombards having taken it again in 725, Charlemagne cleared them out by 774 and handed the island over to the Papacy, which had been the most powerful complainant of the island's devastation by Germanics. Starting in 806 the Moors of Spain began to contend for the island and held it for a short time but in 828 the Papacy assigned its defense to the margrave of Tuscany, a powerful state of the Holy Roman Empire nominally under the Kingdom of Italy.
The city in evidence today was founded as a fortress by and subsequently named after Boniface II of Tuscany in 828. He had led a naval expedition to suppress the Saracens of North Africa and returned to build an unassailable fortress and naval base from which the domains of Tuscany could be defended at the outermost frontier. Most of the citadel postdates the 9th century or is of uncertain date but Il Torrione, a round tower, was certainly part of the original citadel.
(Wikipedia)
Bonifacio (prononcé en français : [bɔnifasjo], en italien : [boniˈfaːtʃo]; en corse : Bunifaziu ou Bunifazziu selon le dialecte bonifacien) est une commune française située dans la circonscription départementale de la Corse-du-Sud et le territoire de la collectivité de Corse. Elle appartient à l'ancienne piève de Bonifacio dont elle était le chef-lieu.
Bonifacio, située à l'extrême sud de la Corse, est la commune française la plus méridionale de la France métropolitaine.
Au sud, les Bouches de Bonifacio séparent la Corse de la Sardaigne italienne.
Elle constitue après Porto-Vecchio la deuxième agglomération de l'Extrême Sud de la Corse, qui s'étend depuis Bonifacio jusqu'à Sari-di-Porto-Vecchio au nord et Monacia-d'Aullène à l'ouest en passant par Figari et son aéroport.
Dès 1833, les terrains néogènes de Bonifacio sont signalés par J. Reynaud dans une note publiée dans les Mémoires de la Société géologique de France (n° 20). « L'âge des couches de Bonifacio correspondant très probablement au calcaire moellon du Midi et à la mollasse des Martigues, de Cucuron et de Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux ». En 1886, l'îlot de Néogène de Bonifacio est soigneusement étudié par Pérou (n° 114) qui en donne la description suivante :
« Tantôt les premières assises disparaissaient, affleuraient ou étaient supérieures au niveau actuel de la mer ; qu'en de nombreux endroits l'érosion les avait totalement enlevées en ne laissant que le substratum de granite, et cela aussi bien sur les bords de la mer, par exemple, entre les ruisseaux de Canalli et de Balava, qu'à l'intérieur des terres, entre les collines de Sappa et de Finocchio. »
— D. Hollande in Géologie de la Corse, Bulletin de la Société des Sciences historiques et naturelles de la Corse - Éditeur Veuve Ollagnier Bastia, janvier 1917 p. 237-238.
Les sédiments du Néogène de Bonifacio forment à l'extrémité sud de la Corse un plateau élevé entre 60 et 80 mètres, d’une superficie de 60 km2, reposant en plein sol granitique. La mer a fortement rongé, miné à la base cet immense bloc ; les constructions élevées sur le bord des falaises « donnent l'impression d'une chute prochaine, bien qu'un tel état des choses dure depuis des siècles et ne trouble en rien la quiétude des habitants. ». La surface de ce plateau est découpée par des fentes, de petites vallées, qui la transforment en une table mamelonnée à monticules s'élevant jusqu'à 80 mètres au-dessus du niveau de la mer. La falaise que domine le phare de Capo Pertusato comprend essentiellement des mollasses graveleuses et des calcaires blancs.
Les sédiments néogènes de Bonifacio comprennent sept couches avec fossiles identifiés1, qui sont de haut en bas :
De l’Helvétien : 7 - Des calcaires assez tendres, grisâtres ; 6 - Des calcaires blancs subcrayeux ; 5 - Des calcaires durs, jaunâtres ou d'un gris blanc ;
Du Burdigalien : 4 - Des marnes ou des marno-calcaires ; 3 - Des calcaires verdâtres et des marnes sableuses, grises, ocreuses, quelquefois à grains de granite, où les fossiles sont nombreux ; 2 - Des calcaires ou des marno-calcaires ; 1 - Des lits de galets, de gravier et de sable.
L'origine de la ville actuelle de Bonifacio n'est pas vraiment connue avec précision, mais des dates approximatives indiquent sa refondation entre 828 et 833 par Boniface II de Toscane qui lui donna son nom actuel. L'histoire attestée de Bonifacio remonte en 1195 mais la ville fut colonisée par les Génois qui imposèrent à la ville des modifications militaires structurelles importantes (et qui créèrent la citadelle actuelle).
Comme tous les ports de commerce, son histoire a été relativement mouvementée notamment par un conflit guerrier entre Pise et Gênes, ces deux républiques se disputant avec acharnement sa citadelle qui était un maillon stratégique militaire et un complexe portuaire sans égal en Corse. Dans un premier temps, Pise fut maîtresse des lieux jusqu'à la fin du XIIe siècle.
Le roi Alphonse V d'Aragon, maintint en 1420 un siège pendant cinq mois avant de baisser les armes face à l'intouchable cité qu'était Bonifacio.
Bonifacio a subi au cours des siècles, de multiples attaques ; mais la plus terrible fut celle de la peste qui en 1528 fit plus de 4 300 morts dans la cité qui à cette époque comptait 5 000 habitants. Les murailles imprenables se révélèrent inutiles face à ce fléau. La chapelle Saint-Roch, à l'entrée de la ville, reste un témoignage de la fin de cette sombre période. On y fait toujours une procession qui rappelle que c'est en ce lieu, où est mort le dernier Bonifacien atteint de la maladie, avant la fin de la peste.
En 1553, encore très affaiblie par le passage de la peste, Bonifacio subissait une nouvelle attaque et dut se rendre à Dragut, un ancien corsaire turc dont on dit qu'il avait été commandité par le Maréchal des Thermes. La ville assiégée capitula pour la première fois et fut mise au pillage.
Le roi François Ier de France prend possession d'une ville détruite et dépeuplée que les Français commencent à reconstruire, mais qui, en vertu du traité de paix passé en 1559, est cédée à la République de Gênes.
(Wikipedia)
Bonifacio (korsisch: Bunifaziu) ist eine Hafenstadt an der südlichen Spitze der französischen Mittelmeerinsel Korsika (Département Corse-du-Sud) mit 3118 Einwohnern (Stand 1. Januar 2017). Sie gab der Straße von Bonifacio genannten Meerenge zwischen Korsika und der zwölf Kilometer entfernten Insel Sardinien ihren Namen.
Bonifacio ist die südlichste Gemeinde des Départements Corse-du-Sud und der Insel Korsika. Der Ort teilt sich in zwei Gebiete: die Ville haute (Oberstadt) genannte mittelalterliche Altstadt und die Marina im Hafenbereich. Die Ville haute liegt auf einer 900 Meter langen, schmalen, parallel zur Küste verlaufenden Landzunge aus Kalk- und Sandstein, der Île de Fazio, die an ihrer Seeseite aus einer durchschnittlichen Höhe von 70 Metern faktisch senkrecht zum Meer hin abfällt. An der Landseite der Landzunge ist eine fjordartige Bucht (französisch Calanque) in den Kalkstein eingeschnitten, die einen gut geschützten Naturhafen bildet. Dort fällt das Kalksteinplateau weniger steil zum Wasser hin ab. Der Naturhafen dient gleichzeitig als Fischerei- und Yachthafen. Des Weiteren ist Bonifacio ein Zentrum der Handelsschifffahrt und des Fährverkehrs mit der benachbarten Insel Sardinien sowie des Fremdenverkehrs, insbesondere in den Sommermonaten.
Die offizielle Gründung Bonifacios geht auf das Jahr 828 und den toskanischen Grafen Bonifacio II. zurück. Archäologische Funde belegen allerdings, dass die Gegend bereits in frühgeschichtlichen Zeiten besiedelt war. 1187 gelang es den Genuesern mit einer List die Stadt einzunehmen. Abgesehen von einer Unterbrechung in den Jahren von 1553 bis 1559 (Sampiero Corso) blieb Bonifacio bis 1768 in der Hand Genuas. Seit 1768 ist Bonifacio unter französischer Herrschaft. 1793 bereitete Napoleon hier die gescheiterte Invasion Sardiniens vor. Im Zweiten Weltkrieg wurde Bonifacio 1942 wie ganz Korsika von deutschen und italienischen Truppen besetzt.
Die auf einem halbinselartigen Felsplateau gelegene Altstadt von Bonifacio ist wohl eine der eindrucksvollsten im Mittelmeerraum. Das Plateau ist an seinem Fuß auf der Seeseite stark ausgewaschen, sodass die Häuser darauf fast wie auf einem Balkon stehen.
Die Altstadt, deren enge, kopfsteingepflasterte Straßen von vier- bis fünfstöckigen Häusern gesäumt werden, ist über eine Zugbrücke und einen im Zickzack angelegten Tunnel zur Zitadelle zu erreichen. Das Panorama, das sich von den zahlreichen Aussichtspunkten bietet, verdeutlicht, warum Bonifacio stets als Schutzhafen vor den unberechenbaren Witterungs- und Strömungsbedingungen in der Straße von Bonifacio angesteuert wurde. Es gibt ebenfalls den Blick auf die mit Häusern bebauten weißen Kalk- und Sandstein-felsen frei, an denen das Meer seit Jahrtausenden ununterbrochen nagt, so dass sich Grotten bildeten, die ein beliebtes Ausflugsziel sind. Im Westen der Altstadt liegt der alte Meeresfriedhof (Cimetière marin de Saint-François), der beinahe den Charakter einer eigenen kleinen Stadt aus unzähligen Mausoleen und Familiengruften aufweist.
Die einzigartige Lage machte die Stadt immer wieder zum Zentrum kriegerischer Auseinandersetzungen, weshalb sie im Laufe der Zeit zu einer Festung ausgebaut wurde.
Die Grotten sind Ziel der vom Hafen aus organisierten Bootsfahrten, während der auch die Klippen vom Meer aus bewundert werden können. Von dort gut zu sehen ist auch die sogenannte Treppe des Königs von Aragon, deren Stufen in den Stein gehauen von der Oberstadt bis zum Meer führen.
Entlang der Klippen bietet sich eine Wanderung von Bonifacio aus in Richtung Südosten bis zum südlichsten Punkt Korsikas an, dem Capo Pertusato. Von dort eröffnet sich eine schöne Aussicht auf die Stadt.
Die Gastronomiebetriebe im Hafen sind auf die Zubereitung fangfrischen Fisches spezialisiert.
Das bei jedem Wetter gut geschützte Hafenbecken liegt am Ende der schmalen „Calanque“ und bietet daher Segelyachten keine Gelegenheit zum Kreuzen. Die Einfahrt selbst ist schwer auszumachen, die Häuser der Altstadt auf dem Plateau im Osten sind gut zu erkennen.
Gut erkennbar ist der weiße, viereckige Turm mit dem Wohngebäude des Leuchtturms auf Cap Pertusato, der von Süden und Westen zu sehen ist. Aus Norden kommend, ist der weiße Leuchtturm mit schwarzer Galerie auf Cap de Feno die beste Landmarke. An den Klippen unterhalb der Altstadt sind der restaurierte Wachturm und in den Fels gehauenen Treppen (Treppe des Königs von Aragon) zu sehen.
(Wikipedia)
In theater, the act of speaking directly to the viewer is known as "breaking the fourth wall". I think every great image does exactly that.
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En teatro, se conoce como "romper la cuarta pared", al acto de hablar directamente con el espectador. Creo que cualquier buena imagen consigue exactamente el mismo efecto.
The full moon rose directly behind the city Thursday. It was absolutely amazing. It was red when it came up, and as it rose it passed directly behind the top of the Space Needle. Definitely a night to remember.
Just in case you were wondering why the moon isn't blue: A blue moon is the second of two full moons to occur in the same calendar month.
i guess that was the heaviest aurora of the night. and a lucky capitan of a plane is flying directly into it. it was definitely a sublime moment, because it was so bright and so well seen with naked eye. just unbelievable.
Directions- head directly west from Calgary. when you reach the mountains, stop at the first mountain on your right. start climbing it. when you get about half way up take a picture. just because. enjoy the remainder of your climb!
The magnificent rock platforms at the southern end of Turimetta beach, near Sydney, New South Wales, as seen from on top of the cliff face directly above.
Directly opposite the Kew Gardens Palm House, on the other side of the pond, stands The Botanical restaurant, Museum No.1. The museum features exhibits related to: world cultures and natural sciences.
This building has existed as part of the gardens in various guises since 1856 and its history provides an insight into a very different side of Kew.
Built in 1856, the museum was the first purpose-made building on site at Kew. In his book The History of The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Ray Desmond notes however that the building was not very well received: It was designed by [Decimus] Burton in what Nikolaus Pevsner disparagingly described as “utilitarian minimum-classical” style.
Many visitors were members of the public who were perhaps more used to the gardens as simply a pleasant diversion and now were able to see all the ways in which plants were used for science, trade, and commerce. Researchers and scientists also frequented the museums to find information in support of their area of study. The museum displayed a range of unusual, and even delicious items from Kew’s Economic Botany Collection.
Kew Gardens is a botanic garden in southwest London that houses the "largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world". Founded in 1840, from the exotic garden at Kew Park, its living collections include some of the 27,000 taxa curated by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, while the herbarium, one of the largest in the world, has over 8.5 million preserved plant and fungal specimens. The library contains more than 750,000 volumes, and the illustrations collection contains more than 175,000 prints and drawings of plants. It is one of London's top tourist attractions and is a World Heritage Site.
Kew Gardens, together with the botanic gardens at Wakehurst in Sussex, are managed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, an internationally important botanical research and education institution that employs over 1,100 staff and is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
The Kew site, which has been dated as formally starting in 1759, although it can be traced back to the exotic garden at Kew Park, formed by Henry, Lord Capell of Tewkesbury, consists of 132 hectares of gardens and botanical glasshouses, four Grade I listed buildings, and 36 Grade II listed structures, all set in an internationally significant landscape. It is listed Grade I on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
Kew Gardens has its own police force, Kew Constabulary, which has been in operation since 1845.
Based directly on the King Shark build by Tim: www.flickr.com/photos/timlydy/50382415142/in/dateposted/
Ft. Chris, Floyd, Harleen, and Ben.
Shot taken directly from Second Life with no retouching in photoshop.
See what you can do with Prima Elite! I am using an identical SL body shape, and switched between petite and busty on the Prima HUD, and changed from the petite version of the top to the busty version. Voila!
The new Cozy cotton turtleneck is out now at the Prima main store :) It comes in 16 gorgeous colors, plus you can mix and match the trim portions with the main (not shown in this shot).
Style card:
*PRIMA* Femme Elite body
LeLutka Lilly with my own custom shape
*PRIMA* Cozy cotton turtleneck
*PRIMA* Smooth suede leggings
*PRIMA* Festive bow earrings
SIGMA Ethnic rings
Wings "WINGS-ES0430" hair
OMY Pose Deanna 1
"Bang! Bang!"
"The High Court of Eslandola is now in session! Be seated!"
"Bang! Bang!"
The blows of the judge's mallet reverberated throughout the room. The Secretary of State - Guy K. Wyndzon - walked the length of the hall and stood ceremoniously beside the judge, as if he were only just now revealing the important diplomatic determination of the High Council. As a matter of fact, Guy, the judge, and King Fernado himself had been up late last night, trifling delicately with a bit of freshly imported chocolate while they cracked jokes about "those weird Mardierians."
No, this declaration came as no surprise to the judge. Nor would it come as a surprise to any of the diplomats, councillors, and ambassadors in the room.
But for forms' sake, all things had to be done "decently and in order," so the judge was ready and present to pronounce the official declaration of war against Mardier.
Then came the usual invitation to the agrieved of the Kingdom to present themselves before the supreme judge of the land for redress. This was usually just a form too.
But this time, something was different. An older gentleman, with a monocle in his left eye, walked briskly up the red rug. Directly in front of the judge, he stopped and bowed slightly.
The judge recognized his good friend Rhys Thomson, and took the missive the latter offered him without hesitation. But as he read, he became manifestly more nervous and excited. At last he looked up at Rhys in surprise. "Is this true?" he queried, in a voice very different from his usual business-like tone.
"Every word of it, sir!"
The judge fidgeted - drummed his fingers - then, picking up the mallet, declared, "Your case is heard! The warrant for his arrest will go forth immediately. Expect another summons to present your evidence within two month's time!"
Rhys bowed again with a satisfied smile, and retreated down the rug once more.
Directly at Helsinki South Harbour (Port of Helsinki). All passengers arriving by ship have seen this.
10-20mm@10(15), f/8, 1/125, ISO 100 + polfilter
Directly across from the Nicholas County Court House. This small city has a population of 2010. Located midway between Maysville and Lexington, Kentucky.
The Albert Memorial, directly north of the Royal Albert Hall in Kensington Gardens, London, was commissioned by Queen Victoria in memory of her beloved husband Prince Albert, who died in 1861. Designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the Gothic Revival style, it takes the form of an ornate canopy or pavilion 176 feet (54 m) tall, in the style of a Gothic ciborium over the high altar of a church, sheltering a statue of the prince facing south. It took over ten years to complete, the £120,000 cost (the equivalent of about £10,000,000 in 2010) met by public subscription.
The memorial was opened in July 1872 by Queen Victoria, with the statue of Albert ceremonially "seated" in 1876. It has been Grade I listed since 1970.
Shore flowers...Lake Winona...fun playing with this and being creative. Ribbet has nice quick tools and can post directly to flickr. A great get-away last weekend with Beethoven and Shakespeare Festivals, biking too in 95 deg. heat....whew!
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Day 3 of treatment is done, 40 to go....I'm keeping a chart for us to see; I went the first day with Richard, will stand by and go if/when he wants me to.....:)....♥...a good way of learning better to enjoy and living one day at a time for us both.
A happy middle of the week to you flickr friends, thanks for stopping by!......Pat
Several had asked about processing....
Cloudy day, 5D Mark2 camera.....kept polarizer on the whole trip; this made the image muted even though the lighting was good....so many ways of bringing out the colors, I chose Ribbet cuz it's quick and easy....selective sharpening on the flowers through Aperture only. This and a subdued frame were all I did.