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The city was haunted by fire, and the last major city fire in 1892 tore the southern half of the quadrature up to Rådhusgata. The masonry from after the 1880 fire was burned out, but the cladding stood. After the fire, a new prison for all new houses was also introduced in Kristiansand, despite protests against the increased building costs this entailed.
Passengers for "The 'Pool" wait quietly at Green Lane station as class 508 no. 508122 drops down into the underground section for the final leg of its journey into Liverpool, which will entail travelling under the River Mersey.
The train is the 11.01 Chester - Liverpool - Chester (2C20) which, on arrival in Liverpool, will do a clockwise loop around the city centre before heading back under the Mersey to Birkenhead and Chester, a round trip of just under an hour and a half.
The journey from here to Liverpool Lime Street is about 10 minutes, so there's plenty of time to listen to a certain Jam tune while living the experience.
8th July 2016
Hi everyone,
This was my first Monarch cat sighting this season! It was pretty difficult to capture because it entailed me creeping under a guard rail without losing balance on the steep grade. I clicked a few shots and then backed up under the rail to terra firma! Shortly after that I saw a Monarch flying around, but wasn't able to get a photo of it.
Thanks a million for stopping by and for leaving me a comment. I do love hearing from you!
Have a marvelous day!
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Short-eared owls are most often seen in the late afternoon and at
dawn or dusk. They primarily eat small mammals, but occasionally
take small birds; their young sometimes eat insects. When
hunting, these owls dive from perches or fly low over the ground
and pounce on their prey from above.
These birds prefer the open country of grasslands and marshes,
inhabiting areas where small mammals are plentiful. Their
population changes, breeding behaviors and nest success change
from year to year based on their food supply. Breeding occurs in
March through June. Their courtship entails elaborate flight
displays that include wing-clapping, exaggerate wing beats and scuffles.
Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) on post Spain_0058
It seems my desktop PC is having issues so I don't have access to my photos just now. The photos on my Laptop are older ones but I am just going to add one of the butterfly shots that I took at the Butterfly house in New York last fall. I sure do dislike computer issues as it always entails a trip to the repair shot an hour drive away! Guess what I am doing today! LOL I will say that Anita and I had a lovely day out yesterday and traveled up north a bit and got some nice photos and saw some cool stuff that I hope to be able to share with you soon! :) Enjoy your day!
Bitterns like to hide among cattails; in fact, they do an excellent imitation of a cattail stalk. They've fooled me many a time. This time, however, the bittern was at the margin of a small wetland, where last year's tall grass provided some cover. To reach the safety of a dense stand of cattails would entail crossing open ground, and so he tried to fool me into thinking he was grass. It almost worked...
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2020 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
4 of 6 photos for the
Monthly Photography Assignment Group - September
In April 2008 it was announced that Tower Bridge in London, would undergo a 'facelift' costing £4 million, and taking four years to complete. The work entailed stripping off the existing paint down to bare metal and repainting in blue and white.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Bridge
This photo is taken from a boat passing beneath the newly painted bridge and given a 'painterly' look
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Spring is just round the corner and this Swan has only one thing on its mind - possession! and everything that it entails.
Last Saturday, a couple of friends and I toured Idyll Farms in Northport, Michigan. Part of the tour entailed visiting the 41 female goats, called does, in their pasture area. See more photos in the first comment box.
The Wisconsin and Southern E9s had the 2002 Baraboo Circus Train rolling somewhere in Milwaukee.
The Great Circus Parade, which featured historic circus wagons from the Circus World Museum, was held in Milwaukee in 1963, and in various cities between 1985 and 2005, primarily Milwaukee (1985–2003) and Baraboo, Wisconsin (2004–2005).
When held in Milwaukee, the parade entailed a two-day journey by train across Wisconsin, from Baraboo to Milwaukee, making brief stops at cities along the way.
The city was haunted by fire, and the last major city fire in 1892 tore the southern half of the quadrature up to Rådhusgata. The masonry from after the 1880 fire was burned out, but the cladding stood. After the fire, a new prison for all new houses was also introduced in Kristiansand, despite protests against the increased building costs this entailed.
Solitaire and solitude is not the same as loneliness!
A distinction has been made between solitude and loneliness.
In this sense, these two words refer, respectively, to the joy and the pain of being alone.
Solitaires like being alone, happy with just themselves and their world.
That does not mean that you are not social!
I love being with people however I am not sad when I am alone.
Solitude does not necessarily entail feelings of loneliness, and in fact may, for those who choose it with deliberate intent, be one's sole source of genuine pleasure.
Loneliness is a complex and usually unpleasant emotional response to isolation.
Loneliness typically includes anxious feelings about a lack of connection or communication with other beings, both in the present and extending into the future.
As such, loneliness can be felt even when surrounded by other people and one who feels lonely, is lonely.
The causes of loneliness are varied and include social, mental, emotional, and physical factors.
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White Winter Orchids.....
is there a more beautiful flower than an orchid? obviously this is up to personal taste. yet as an avid orchid grower and knowing all too well the struggles that keeping them in bloom entails. I am captured by the fragility of this exotic flower and the extreme care and energy spent to keep this flowers in bloom...
its been a few weeks since my last photo and now even more flowers are in bloom. it makes me smile every time i look at this gorgeous plant in bloom. so satisfying.
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Huayna Potosí is a mountain in Bolivia, located near El Alto and about 25 km north of La Paz in the Cordillera Real.
Huayna Potosí is the closest high mountain to La Paz, a city which is surrounded by high mountains, and itself is the highest capital city in the world. Huayna Potosí is roughly fifteen miles due north of the city, which makes this mountain the most popular climb in Bolivia. The normal ascent route is a fairly straightforward glacier climb, with some crevasses and a steep climb to the summit. However, the other side of the mountain, Huayna Potosí West Face, is the biggest face in Bolivia. Several difficult snow and ice routes goes up this 1000 meter high face.
The first ascent of the normal route took place in 1919 by Germans Rudolf Dienst and Adolf Schulze. Some climbing books report this mountain as the "easiest 6000er in the world", but this claim is arguable. The easiest route entails an exposed ridge and sections of moderately steep ice, with a UIAA rating of PD. There are many 6000m mountains that are easier to climb in terms of technical difficulty. Perhaps, the main reason Huayna Potosí has been called the easiest 6000m climb is that the elevation gain from trailhead to summit is less than 1400 m; with easy access from La Paz. Since La Paz is at 3640 m, climbers have an easier time acclimatizing.
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Europe, Holland, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam Zuid, Rijnhaven, Katendrecht, Bayhouse (uncut)
‘Bayhouse’ has a long and convoluted history. It started its life as 'The View—European China Centre Rotterdam (ECCR)', the materialization of a large-scale cross-cultural business project created by a team of Dutch (Volker Wessels Vastgoed) and Belgian & Chinese (Shanghai Construction Group) investors. The project involved houses, shops, offices, and public spaces.
Construction started in April 2011 and was halted again after the completion of the twin-layered underground parking in 2012 because the Belgian partner jumped ship and the Dutch government didn't make up its mind about providing the Chinese investors with residence permits. That last part seems to be a curious flaw in a plan with a significant cross-cultural and economic scope like this. After a while, the Chinese partners left the project, too.
The construction site lay vacant for many years, and the project was eventually realized according to the new plans by Joke Vis Archi-tecten. They entail a hotel and upmarket residential units (1-3 million per unit).
The reflected high rise in the BL corner is 'Montevideo'.
This number 1555 of the Minimalism / explicit Graphism album 350 of Urban Frontiers.
« The history of Paris teaches us that beauty is a by-product of danger, that liberty is at best a consequence of neglect, that wisdom is entwined with decay. Any Paris of the future that is neither a frozen artifact nor an inhibited holding company will perforce involve fear, dirt, sloth, ruin, and accident. It will entail the continual experience of uncertainty, because the only certainty is death. »
Luc Sante, The Other Paris, 2015.
The power station for an old gunpowder factory.
Of the 100 buildings existing while there was gunpowder production between 1882 and 1978, the old power station, in poor shape, but still standing.
The workforce in the gunpowder factory consisted of between 16 and 50 workers, the production entailed a great risk of explosion and a total of 17 people were killed in accidents at the factory.
The production during winter was rather cold since it was no source of heating in the factory due to the risk of explosion.
The biggest accident occurred on May 7, 1919, when 7 people died.
The last accident on the 30th of December 1976 claimed 2 lives.
There’s a barrel left for display at the sight which contained explosives, which is totally torn when it exploded in one of the accidents.
The barrel was made of solid steel, with a thickness of 10mm, so the blast was powerful.
It can also be seen by the leftovers of the powerhouse, which was ruined by the explosives.
Camera: Linhof Master Tech Classics
Lens: Caltar II-N 180mm f5.6 at f22 - 1sek
Film: Fomapan 400 at 200
Negative scan, R09 1/40 9.30min
You have heard the ultimate truth [but], noblesse oblige [ i.e. privilege entails responsibility], you have to remember it. You are at the stage when you must put all emphasis on the pure ‘I’-principle, the subject, the changeless, so as to establish your being in lasting happiness.
(c) Sri Ramanasramam
from "The Long Road to Bhagavan
Tracing the Pilgrim Life of Ella Maillart" (Part VII: Conclusion)
on my 1st of November walk from Fü to N.
This week I was PUSHED on the theme of WATER by "You Got Framed" photography by Mindy Atkins'
Mindy mentioned beaches creeks oceans etc but as we have none of those round here in middle England I tried for something connected to how we use water for leisure in our city-Oxford-which lies on the confluence of the rivers Thames and Cherwell.
Not many cities have punts and all the fun and games that they entail..if you get it wrong see in comments what can happen to you .....I then tried to make my picture look more like ART by processing it more than I usually do
Thanks for the PUSH Mindy -hope you like it
Explored Highest position: 246 on Friday, June 8, 2012
I think that each of us makes our own line in the sand. There are those for whom anything goes, while others are content to bend things very slightly. While many want their image to tell the world what they saw, others want to share how they felt. "Photograph what you feel, not what you see," I read somewhere recently. Of course there are also people who refuse to use the editing suite, or filters. Personally I'm in favour of whatever it is that makes you happy. We each get to decide where our boundaries are. I was reminded just yesterday that Mads Peter Iversen, a landscape photographer I much admire and respect isn't averse to adding a completely alien sky to an image - he has an aurora that he quite happily adds over whatever sub-arctic landscape he's set his viewfinder on. His prerogative of course, and in his honesty he makes no apology on the subject and knows it will divide opinions; it's not something I've ever been tempted to do. Perhaps you have - nobody's judging who's right and who's wrong. It's all about choice after all.
I think I probably fall into the category of wanting to share how a view I took a picture of (or some pictures of) made me feel. So while for me personally, a sky that wasn't there is going to remain in the "Add Unicorns Menu," I'm no stranger to the practice of combining a few images taken within a short space of time to pull together the elements I wanted. Living in an area where the sea is the obvious and ever changing subject, I'm quite relaxed about taking the greatest hits from a series of incoming waves and blending them into a single frame. Ironically Mads taught me this through his Photoshop editing course, the first few chapters of which very quickly reminded me how little I knew, having always resorted to its easier to use cousin in Lightroom. I still do, but Photoshop grabs a lot more of the action than in the days when I knew what the spot removal tool was for, but the rest of the screen was just a magical hinterland of unexplained buttons. In fact most of the rest of the screen remains a strange and mysterious place to me, but gradually I'm making use of the bits I've begun to make sense of.
In this example, I'd recently happened across a sea stack at Gwithian I'd never noticed before, largely because I'm usually somewhere on that headland across the water waiting for the sky to change. But on this occasion I'd decided I needed brighter light to catch the flight of the gulls without resorting to an ISO setting of about two hundred gazillion, even though the courses they plotted were slowed by a strong cold northerly that was making the day a challenge for us all. I was glad I had a warm van with a gas stove, a kettle and a diesel heater waiting for me just a couple of hundred yards away. Two days earlier I'd stood here on the dunes above a receding tide and taken another composite, before deciding that what I really wanted was an incoming surge wrapped around the base of the stack. A tempestuous sky would have been more to my taste, so I'll probably end up going again when the conditions combine in my favour - preferably with a bit of side light to illuminate the gulls against a big black cloud. I'd better have my waterproofs handy that day.
What I'd also decided I needed was the sea to be moving at the right speed, and in my world there are only three of them; "forever," "just enough to blur the motion" and "really very fast." "Forever," is my go to setting when the sea can't be bothered to do very much, while "really very fast" only comes into play when it's ferocious - something I never seem to get quite right - I usually just come home with six hundred nondescript grainy white splodges on the memory card and end up deleting the lot. "Just enough to blur" entails the happy deployment of the six stop and a shutter speed usually somewhere between half a second and two seconds, and that's where I wanted to be for the sea itself. The gulls arrived within quick succession of one another - very good of them to be so obliging as that cloud was shifting towards us all at quite a pace and the blend might otherwise have been a lot more tricky to deliver. Have you spotted the fourth gull yet? Neat eh? I had to wait for it to be in that exact spot for it to have any chance of joining the party. The overall result isn't the sharpest picture I've ever delivered - I'm going to blame the wind and the fact that my tripod needs to acquire some spikes. Bad workman, tools, you know the rest of the proverb. Still, the picture does carry me back to that windy afternoon on the clifftop in the dunes, watching the gulls forever flying eastward - exactly what it's supposed to do.
So there's my confession, although you'd have worked it out for yourself anyway. I do composites from time to time, but only when I haven't travelled too far from reality. After all, those gulls had probably arranged themselves in far more interesting attitudes together across this scene at different times throughout the day. Obviously they'd have got a lot further in 1.3 seconds than the lie I've tried to sell here suggests, even against that last icy blast of winter, but the textures in the water wouldn't have been quite so much fun. And that line in the sand I drew for myself - it's hidden there somewhere under all that water, probably moving all the time.
And whether you're a purist or a fantasist, or somewhere in between like most of us, I hope you've got a plentiful supply of chocolate to get you through the weekend. Have a good one.
Here we are at the Alaka'i Swamp trailhead on Kauai. According to one of the trail guides, this hike takes you through the highest rainforest in the world (and then you get to the swamp). I haven’t done a lot of hiking in Hawaii but from what I’ve been able to tell so far, their trail builders don’t believe in switchbacks. There wasn’t much elevation gain/loss on this particular hike, just about 1,000 feet over the course of 4 miles to the Kilohana overlook, but what there was was steep and slippery — and that was on a dry day. I can’t imagine what this hike must entail in the rain, which seems to be the standard weather at 4,700 feet up on the north side of the island. Still well worth the trip. Gorgeous scenery, even through the fog at the view point. We even saw a couple of the few remaining native bird species, ones that only live high up in the mountains on this one relatively small island, and no where else in the world. I’m glad I got to see them now as climate change seems to be pushing them further and further up the mountain until there is no where to go but into extinction. I’m still trying to catch up from my time away but hope to make some progress later this week.
Sometimes images and words reach you
that entail a complex closing mechanism.
The doors close, clack, clack, clack, one after the other, the windows close, the roller shutters rattle down, keys turn in the lock. The hut is sealed.
'Klappe zu, Affe tot' is a saying in Germany.
End of the story
I simply can't take any more.
I really ought to become a bit more adventurous at bluebell time. There are plenty of quiet intimate woodlands in the area, many of them explored and reported back on over morning coffee by my colleague Katie before I packed work in for good. I made mental notes of all of her weekend wanderings and resolved to go and act upon the secrets that had been so generously shared with me. While I see plenty of fantastic images from the more widely visited hotspots, I prefer to hide in a little known backwater where only a few locals tread. Even Katie's recommendations lie as yet untouched by my boots and tripod, in favour of the spot that I've visited with unerring predictability for the last seven springtimes and the last seven autumns. One day I really ought to try another location.
But you see the woodland without a name has it all for me in abundance. A stream runs right through the mostly beech filled wilderness, a network of small paths cutting through the swathes of spring bluebells and wild garlic. While the struggle to produce images under those watchful trees continued to mystify me, the familiarity brought by the continual visits, coupled with the way the light filters through the forest on a sunny evening helped me to begin to make sense of that eternal woodland photography challenge. The time spent within these few acres has brought some of the happiest moments or pure abandon, even when the art of delivering a compelling image remained so aloof. I recently watched a hiking programme during which our intrepid adventurer was introduced to something called "forest bathing" in the nearby Helford Passage, a practice which entails simply opening your senses to the sights, smells and sounds around you and letting go of everything else. Well you might imagine what I thought - although I really had no idea that what I'd been doing for years had a name. But if I find a group of seemingly entranced celebrities sitting on tree stumps gazing into nothingness on my next visit I will not be impressed.
This particular area of the woods also managed to hide from me for a number of years, until a search for wild garlic brought me here twelve months ago. While a substantial patch of the white stuff lay in another part of the wood, it never seemed to catch that dappled light I wanted, so further exploration was on the agenda. Eventually I stumbled across the stream into a colourful corridor white I'd never come to in spring before. At the edge of the trees, sunlight bled softly through the canopy and spread itself across so many thousands of tiny white and purple flowers. It took a couple of visits before I went home with something that I was happy enough to share, and from then the new spot became one I'd return to in the future.
And so I did, three times in a span of five days last week, each time heading to this exact spot and hoping the evening light would do what I hoped for. Each time I'd find myself waiting for as much as an hour for the light, and each time I saw not a single person in this quiet corner of perfection. It makes me wonder how on earth that narrow path even exists. This shot came from the second of those three visits, on an evening when an unrelenting breeze forced the ISO beyond where I'd normally want to take it, but the light was just how I hoped it would be at that moment.
The bluebells in the wood were especially good this season, smothering the forest floor, full of vitality and packed with a scent I'd never noticed before. But I really need to spread my wings a little next time and venture into new spaces to continue this strange affair with woodland photography; ever challenging, often frustrating, but always especially rewarding when a moment delivers a shot worth sharing.
Here's another one in my series while in my Lakeview neighborhood in Chicago looking South towards downtown at night with a blue vinyl record on top.
This was a night when everyone was looking for the "Northern Lights" that appeared for about 45 seconds when I had my back turned after waiting for a couple of hours before and after. I may post another photo at some point of the city architecture that is in focus but I liked this feeling a bit better....
Chicago is a city of music with many adventures awaiting and yet it is not completely clear what those adventures entail so there's a bit of magic in the future. Chicago can be a rough city and a city (just like any city in America) full of classism and racism. It can also be a beautiful city where people look out for each other and you can see and experience beautiful art and music. Only the people who live here can determine the experience and its up to us to make the city thrive in its true potential and not succumb to all of the political upheavals and evils that are about to take place. Keeping Chicago a blue city means keeping it a Sanctuary City. It means not banning books. It means protecting the LGBTQ community. It means providing safe options for all. It means looking out for and celebrating diverse voices. All of these things we can continue to do if we work together.
A city like Chicago has a constant flux of visitors that move in and out of it each day and each small but definite interaction also changes the city. We want to welcome everyone in even in this precarious position but if there are those who bring in their hatred and their ignorance, we want to also show them a different way of life so that, when they return home, they realize there are some changes that can be made in their own homes and in their own towns.
**All photos are copyrigjted**
Red Squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus)
These little guys are ubiquitous in our area and watching them forage for food (usually around our bird feeders) and engage in play time and ‘fight club’ with other squirrels is always fun. Their tail flicking, foot stomping and vocal chirping as they challenge other red squirrels and the much larger black squirrel is always entertaining. They’re curious, bold, and not easily intimated.
I should add that although the photograph makes it appear that this little guy is missing a right ‘hand’, s/he does in fact have all limbs :) And, thanks to my title, I now have Abba's "knowing me and knowing you" song in my head... groan ;)
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Courtesy of the Alberta Institute for Wildlife Conservation, here are some fun facts about red squirrels:
“The red squirrel is closely related to chipmunks, and a litter of red squirrels usually clocks in at four or five babies
Red squirrels are feisty and territorial towards intruders, and confrontation between two red squirrels often entails a lot of tail flicking, chattering, and foot stomping. Though these actions may seem adorable to us as onlookers, it can mean that things are getting heated in a squirrel argument.
There’s a reason why a red squirrel’s tail is so big and bushy: when it’s not being flicked around to intimidate a rival, the tail of a red squirrel is primarily used for balance as the animal jumps from tree to tree in wooded areas. With a tail that measures to be about half the size of an average red squirrel (six and 12 inches, respectively), half of the animal’s body’s length is devoted to helping it keep balance and intimidating other squirrels.”
Monday this week entailed a brief stop by the Port of Tuscon operation, which sees two GP30s and a GP28 spotting cars retrieved from UP earlier in the mornings on weekdays.
True belonging is not passive. It's not the belonging that comes with just joining a group. It's not fitting in or pretending or selling out because it's safer. It's a practice that requires us to be vulnerable, get uncomfortable, and learn how to be present with people without sacrificing who we are.
Dr. Brené Brown
Belongingness entails an unwavering commitment to not simply tolerating and respecting difference, but to ensuring that all people are welcome and feel that they belong.
John A. Powell
Today, if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Theresa, Saint Teresa of Calcutta
The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don't talk anymore, they don't sit down to talk and listen. They go to the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, update their status on the internet, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell stories
Paulo Coelho
We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say, ‘It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.’ Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.
Fred Rogers
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
When we choose to wonder about people we don’t know, when we imagine their lives and listen for their stories, we begin to expand the circle of those we see as part of us.
Valarie Kaur
We must remain hopeful that a universal ethic of courage, caring, sharing, respect, radical compassion, and love will make a difference. We can never be too generous or too kind.
Marc Bekoff
I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life — whoever you are, whatever our differences.
John Denver
With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, and stay safe! ❤️❤️❤️
Ripponden
There is a circular walk around Ryburn Reservoir which entails climbing up the valley side from a bridge over the river at the bottom, up a public footpath to the top, before you drop back down to the other side of the reservoir. This photo was taken about half way to the top, with views looking towards the dam of Baitings Reservoir, which is still quite full despite the lack of rain, a gentle breeze is just pushing some of its contents down the overflow and into the River Ryburn.
Thank you for your visit and your comments, they are greatly appreciated.
Crown land (sometimes spelled crownland), also known as royal domain, is a territorial area belonging to the monarch, who personifies the Crown. It is the equivalent of an entailed estate and passes with the monarchy, being inseparable from it. Today, in Commonwealth realms such as Canada and Australia, crown land is considered public land." - Wikipedia
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Thanks for your visit, much appreciated. Enjoy each day.
another short eared owl shot from last week . the light on the day was terrible and most good shots entailed shooting into a late afternoon setting sun . so the latest changes to L/R where you can p/p the subject and background totally separately are a godsend ,last year I doubt I would have more than one or two worth posting this new LR is a total game changer .
Här kommer mitt bidrag till fotosöndags veckotemat - ett ögonblick.
Here comes my contribution to fotosöndag's weekly challenge - a moment.
I'm not the most morning person going at all, just ask my wife! So when spring starts to turn into early summer here in Sweden I don't get up for sunrises as that would entail waking up at silly O'clock. Just checked my photos in LR and the last sunrise I did was 1st April - 5½ months ago! Now though, with the days getting shorter I can just about stumble out of bed in time for sunrises - the moment I have been waiting for. Taken about 30 minutes before sunrise when blue hour was still in full swing.
Castle of La Roche Courbon
This 15th century castle, hugely altered in the 17th century, can be found in Saint-Porchaire, 16 km north of Saintes. It was primarily built by Jehan II de Latour in 1475, who wanted a defensive castle. He therefore erected it in the middle of a swamp, and gave it a triangular shape.
The name of La Roche Courbon first appeared in the 17th century. Jean-Louis de Courbon, owner of the castle, transformed it and surrounded it with wonderful French gardens. He had tall windows pierced, and added a double staircase (horseshoe shaped) to go to the gardens, as well as balustrated terraces.
It is not until the 18th century that new works will be undertaken by Sophie-Jacques de Courbon Blenac, who added a stone staircase inside the castle and iron-wrought fences in the gardens.
Afterwards the castle was more or less forgotten. But in 1908, the writer Pierre Loti called for someone to save the castle in an article in Le Figaro newspaper (he called it "The Sleeping Beauty castle"). One of his Friends, Paul Chenereau, bought it in 1920 an spent his entire fortune to bring it back to life. He also decorated it with a lot of typical furniture and objects from Charentes.
Today, the castle belongs to his children. They take good care of their patrimony, but they are faced with the damages entailed by the swamp swallowing everything slowly. They therefore have to use stakes topped by planks in order to prevent the masonry and the plants from crumbling into the earth.
I took a short hiatus from yard work on Saturday to catch an engineer's last trip on the CP. I was wanting this shot for a couple of reasons; one being his last trip and the other being his mentioning of the bridges being worked on.
I'm not sure what it all will entail, but the CP has been working on these bridges to provide for better walking safety. He said they were replacing the wooden railings with metal and adding some sort of grating for the walkway on the northern bridge. If they do that same treatment to this bridge, it'll really change how this looks.
(From my own archived photos, 2024)
On January 24, 1940, dictator Adolf Hitler gave dictator Francisco Franco a Mercedes Benz 540 G4 W31 car for his birthday, which was delivered by the then ambassador of the Third Reich in Spain, Eberhard von Stohrer, at the Royal Palace in Madrid.
The Führer had two of these models, and a fourth model was given to dictator Benito Mussolini.
With an eight-cylinder in-line engine, 5.4 liters and 115 horsepower, it was capable of moving its 3,840 kg. at a top speed of 67 km/h. With a consumption of 38 litres per 100 km in the city and ten litres less on the highway, with a 98 litre tank, two electric fuel pumps and one mechanical one
However, this Mercedes was not a pure off-roader.
Its four rear wheels propelled the car, but its front axle was not driven.
Even so, equipped with a gearbox with a reduction gear, two rigid rear axles, off-road tyres and a good height, it was really capable of going well off the asphalt.
Its braking system was hydraulic, with servo-assistance on the three axles of the vehicle.
The vehicle was equipped with a set of custom-made chains and six suitcases signed by Karl Baisch.
Franco was not completely convinced by this model, since due to a breakdown, the dictator, who had returned from a hunting trip, had to return to the palace in a Willys Jeep belonging to his personal guard.
However, the change in the Second World War and the defeat of the Third Reich led the Spanish Government to not use this and other vehicles due to the political connotations they entailed.
Mercedes, for its Stuttgart museum, offered the then enormous sum of 1,000 million pesetas for Franco's Mercedes, which at current exchange rates and inflation, we could be talking about more than seven million euros (or US dollars).
DISMANTLED PIECE BY PIECE: A few years later, already in the 21st century, Patrimonio Nacional accepted Mercedes' offer to overhaul the G4, despite the mechanics of the Royal Guard, who take care of it, as well as the rest of the fleet of official vehicles, manufacturing themselves parts for which there were no spare parts.
In the Mercedes workshops, the jewel was dismantled piece by piece in Stuttgart and for three years the German technicians drew the blueprint of the car and, took advantage of the opportunity to faithfully repair the only one of the lower series cars that is exhibited in their museum. (Source: Wikipedia and other websites).
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UN MERCEDES MUY ESPECIAL, 2024
(De mis propias fotos archivadas, 2024)
El 24 de enero de 1940 el dictador Adolf Hitler le regaló al dictador Francisco Franco por su cumpleaños un coche Mercedes Benz 540 G4 W31, que lo entregó el entonces embajador del III Reich en España, Eberhard von Stohrer, en el Palacio de Oriente de Madrid.
El Führer tenía dos de estos modelos, y un cuarto modelo le fue regalado al dictador Benito Mussolini.
Con un motor de ocho cilindros en línea, 5,4 litros y 115 caballos de potencia, era capaz de mover sus 3.840 kg. a una velocidad punta de 67 km/h. con un consumo de 38 litros a los 100 km en ciudad y diez litros menos por carretera, contando con un depósito de 98 litros, con dos bombas eléctricas de combustible y una mecánica
Sin embargo este Mercedes no era un todoterreno puro.
Sus cuatro ruedas traseras impulsaban al coche, pero su eje delantero no era motriz.
Aún así, dotado de una caja de cambios con reductora, dos ejes rígidos traseros, neumáticos todoterreno y una buena altura, era realmente capaz de marchar bien por fuera del asfalto.
Su equipo de frenado era hidráulico, con servo-asistencia en los tres ejes del vehículo.
El vehículo iba equipado con un juego de cadenas hechas a medida y seis maletas firmadas por Karl Baisch.
A Franco no le acabó de convencer este modelo, ya que debido a una avería, el dictador, que venía de una jornada de caza, tuvo que volver al palacio en un Jeep Willys de su guardia personal.
Sin embargo el cambio de signo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la derrota del Tercer Reich llevaron al Gobierno español a no utilizar este y otros vehículos por los connotaciones políticas que conllevaban.
La casa Mercedes, para su museo de Stuttgart, ofreció la entonces enorme cantidad de 1.000 millones de pesetas por el Mercedes de Franco, que al cambio e inflacción actuales, podríamos estar hablando de más de siete millones de euros (o dólares USA).
DESMONTADO PIEZA A PIEZA: Unos años más tarde, ya en el siglo XXI, Patrimonio Nacional aceptó el ofrecimiento de Mercedes de revisar el G4, a pesar de los mecánicos de la Guardia Real, que cuidan de él, así como del resto de la flota de vehículos oficiales, fabricando ellos mismos piezas de las que no había repuesto.
En los talleres de Mercedes, la joya fue desmontada pieza a pieza en Stuttgart y durante tres años los técnicos alemanes dibujaron el plano del coche y, aprovecharon para reparar con fidelidad el único de los automóviles de la serie inferior que se exhibe en su museo. (Fuente: Wikipedia y otras webs).
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would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching - there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster :-)
Ansel Adams
HBW!! Hands Off Our Democracy! Resist the Despicable Authoritarian Orange Cockroach and his Cabinet of Stooges and Buffoons!!
rose, 'Honey Perfume', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
Toyo 45G View Camera Fujinion A 240/9. Ilford FP4+ 125 rated at ASA 64. 1/125 sec F16.
Speedlight in softbox with inner baffle removed - full power, camera right. White V-flat on left.
Developed in Ilfosol-3 for 5:30 (N+1.)
Contact printed on Ilford MG Fiber paper with Ilford MG developer. 16 sec exposure with dodging of the orchid petals and burning of the upper right corner (to remove the softbox flap that was in the frame...)
Toned in selenium 1:40 dilution for seven minutes.
The initial versions were very flat and appeared underexposed. After several iterations, I achieved denser negatives by rating the film a full-stop slower, and extending the developing time to lift the whites. I also pulled back on the selenium toning.
After accounting for the bellows factor, I was at F16, which was a more open aperture than I wanted - I was maxed-out on my lighting. I tried to compensate for the shallow DOF by utilizing swing in the front standard to bring the three orchid flowers into focus - I think I achieved partial success...
Overall, I think that I could have used another stop of light. I am still finding it somewhat difficult to account for the print "dry down."
This is all new to me, and I am having a lot of fun. The next step may be to try the silver chloride paper that I recently bought - this will entail a lot of testing, since the paper is much slower than the typical "enlarger" paper that I have been using.
I've been meaning to upload this since LAST year... taken at Pemaquid Beach in Maine...
It is our 2nd anniversary on May 27th (of course we won't be here.. so I'm putting this up now)...
I honestly cannot believe how much my life changed when I met my husband... he truly is my soulmate.....I love him soooo very much.....it's amazing how much love makes the world a better place.
Sorry... so not in a sappy or sentimental mood right now (I'd write some really nice poem or something.. LOL)... just finished a huge project for a meeting tomorrow which will entail probably more work!!! LOL...
GHOST OF THE MOUNTAIN • Dark Country Blues Slide Guitar
- Justin Johnson -
Mount Whitney is the highest mountain in the contiguous United States and the Sierra Nevada, with an elevation of 14,505 feet. The peak is just left of center, I was about 30 miles away as the crow flies when taking this photo.
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To climb Mt Whitney you must enter a lottery for permits. with applicants obliged to choose whether they plan to climb in a day or over multiple days. Results will be announced online March 15, when good or bad news will be posted to hikers’ personal profiles on the website. Last year, 29% of lottery entrants got good news. The year before, 28%.
At 14,505 feet, Mt. Whitney is the highest peak in the Sierra Nevada and the contiguous U.S. The most common path to the top includes 6,200 feet of vertical gain from the trailhead at Whitney Portal, 14 miles west of Lone Pine in Inyo County.
It can be dangerous, especially when snow remains on the trail. The Inyo County Sheriff’s Department reported at least four Whitney climbing deaths in 2021 and 2022, many of them “in spring or early summer due to falls on snow and ice.” Despite drought conditions throughout the West, the National Weather Service and California Department of Water Resources officials have reported an unusually heavy snowpack in the Sierra Nevada so far this winter.
“At higher elevations the snow might linger as late as July,” said Lisa Cox, public information officer for Inyo National Forest, in an email Tuesday. “People will need ice axes, crampons, and additional skills (and training) to travel on snow and ice-covered slopes. This shouldn’t necessarily deter people from going, but [be] prepared to turn around before reaching the destination of your choice, a.k.a the peak.”
The trailhead is 8,374 feet above sea level. From there, the most popular route is a 22-mile route up the mountain and back, including a stretch of 99 switchbacks near the top. In all, the trail typically entails 12-14 hours of climbing (and packing out your own waste in a WAG bag, named for Waste Aggregation and Gelling).
U.S. Forest Service officials call the route “non-technical, but strenuous” when it’s free of snow, which is usually from July to late September.
With the amount of snowfall this winter there may be snow and ice through the year.
Kristiansand was founded in 1641, but has a much older settlement and was an important royal estate and church place already in the Middle Ages. Today, Kristiansand is the administrative site for Vest-Agder county and the natural capital of Southern Norway.
The city was haunted by fire, and the last major city fire in 1892 tore the southern half of the quadrature up to Rådhusgata. The brick church from after the 1880 fire was burned out, but the cladding stood. After the fire, a new prison for all new houses was also introduced in Kristiansand, despite protests against the increased construction costs this entailed.
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Venezia Gondola's Parking - ITALY
Venezia En la Antigüedad esta región estaba habitada por el pueblo véneto. Cuando los germanos empezaron a invadir Italia en el siglo V, los habitantes de algunas ciudades se refugiaron en estas islas. Se establecieron y llegaron a tener su propio gobierno presidido por 12 tribunos, tantos como islas principales había. Casi desde el principio esta comunidad fue autónoma y obtuvo su independencia en el siglo IX, el gobierno de la ciudad lo ostenta un dux o dogo, cargo de carácter vitalicio, no hereditario.
En la Alta Edad Media, Venecia se expandió gracias al control del comercio con Oriente y a los beneficios que esto suponía, expandiéndose por el mar Adriático. El apogeo de Venecia alcanzó su cénit en la primera mitad del siglo XV, cuando los venecianos comenzaron su expansión por Italia, como respuesta al amenazador avance de Gian Galeazzo Visconti, duque de Milán.
Venecia supo aprovecharse de todos los cambios que ocurrieron en el Occidente:
Acertó al aliarse con los francos contra los longobardos.
Acertó al aliarse con el Imperio Bizantino contra los normandos.
Acertó en su benevolencia y tolerancia con el Islam, de manera que al estar el Imperio Bizantino en guerra con los árabes éste no podía traficar sin gran riesgo y fue entonces cuando las naves venecianas iban a Alejandría, Beirut y Jaffa, monopolizando aquel comercio.
La toma de Constantinopla por los turcos en 1453 marcó el principio de la decadencia. El descubrimiento de América desplazó las corrientes comerciales y Venecia se vio obligada a sostener una lucha agotadora contra los turcos. En 1797, fue invadida por las tropas de Napoleón. A la firma del tratado de Campoformio, se repartió el territorio de la República entre Francia y Austria.
Venecia está rodeada de lagunas de poco fondo; eso le valió siempre como gran defensa. En sus aguas encallaban fácilmente las naves que no conocían los fondos, así es que era como una ciudad atrincherada dentro de grandes murallas.
Venezia In antiquity this region was inhabited by the Venetian people. When the Germans started to invade Italy in the V century, the inhabitants of some cities took refuge on these islands. Were established and came to have its own government headed by 12 galleries, as many as there were major islands. Almost from the beginning the community was autonomous and was granted its independence in the ninth century, the city government holds a rioja or Doge Doge, a position for life, not inherited.
In the High Middle Ages, Venice was expanded through the control of trade with the East and the benefits that this entailed, expanding on the Adriatic Sea. The heyday of Venice reached its peak in the first half of the fifteenth century, when Venetians began its expansion in Italy, as a response to the threatening advance of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan.
Venice was able to take advantage of all the changes that occurred in the West:
Andalusia successful alliance with the Franks against the Lombards.
Andalusia successful alliance with the Byzantine Empire against the Normans.
In his benevolence and tolerance of Islam, so that when the Byzantine Empire in its war with the Arabs could not without great risk to traffic and it was then when the Venetian ships were going to Alexandria, Beirut and Jaffa, that monopolize trade.
The taking of Constantinople by the Turks in 1453 marked the beginning of the decline. The discovery of America trade flows went to Venice was forced to hold an exhausting struggle against the Turks. In 1797, it was invaded by Napoleon's troops. In signing the treaty Campoformio, the territory was divided between the Republic of France and Austria.
Venice lagoon is surrounded by little background, it provided him as a great defense. Easily bogged down in its waters the ships had no knowledge of funds, so it was like a town entrenched in large walls.
La Gran Vía de Colón es la principal arteria del centro de Granada.
Su construcción a finales del siglo XIX conllevó la demolición del 20 % de la superficie de entonces de la ciudad. Fue urbanizada entre 1895 y 1934. Incorpora a lo largo de su recorrido una destacada serie de ejemplos de arquitectura ecléctica. En 1961 el edificio de Correos en la cabecera de la calle fue demolido y sustituido por la plaza de Isabel la Católica. En las siguientes décadas de 1970 y 1980 diversas construcciones historicistas fueron reemplazadas por bloques de viviendas descontextualizados.
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The Gran Vía de Colón is the main artery in the centre of Granada.
Its construction at the end of the 19th century entailed the demolition of 20% of the city's surface area at that time. It was urbanised between 1895 and 1934. Along its route it incorporates an outstanding series of examples of eclectic architecture. In 1961 the Post Office building at the head of the street was demolished and replaced by the Plaza de Isabel la Católica. In the following 1970s and 1980s various historicist buildings were replaced by decontextualised blocks of flats.
El vuelo hacia la libertad. ( Delta del Ebro - Cataluña).
The flight towards freedom. (Delta de l'Ebre - Catalonia).
Català: Fotografia amb un escombrat per capturar els flamencs en ple vol cap a nous horitzons i a la recerca de tranquil·litat i un ambient mes càlid.
Pel que representa la foto i pel missatge que comporta, la dedico amb molt d'afecte a la meva bona amiga "Maria" de Madrid.
Español: Fotografía con barrido para capturar a los flamencos en pleno vuelo hacia nuevos horizontes en busca de tranquilidad y un ambiente más cálido.
Por lo que representa la foto y por el mensaje que conlleva, se la dedico con mucho afecto a mi buena amiga "María" de Madrid.
English: Sweeping photography to capture the flamingos in flight to new horizons in search of tranquility and a warm atmosphere.
For what the photo represents and for the message that it entails, I dedicate it with a lot of affection to my good friend "María" from Madrid.
These photos are from another hike I did for the Kickapoo Valley Trail Challenge 2022.
My goal was to get to the look out on Hanson Rock Loop.
It entailed a 5 mile hike with Charlie through some old maple and oak forests.
Since it was so overwhelmingly GREEN, I switched to infrared to capture it in a different way.
This hike included: West Ridge Trail, Hanson Rock Trail, Hanson Rock Overlook Trail.
All photos are in Infrared with an 850nm.
Europe, The Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam Zuid, Afrikaanderwijk, Huis op Zuid development (slightly cut)
The eastern edge of the Rotterdam Afrikaanderwijk is a bit raw. It's being redeveloped ;-) It used to be a joint NS /RET railyard and now is being prepared to accommodate a new project, the Huis op Zuid entailing an apartment building / sports and swimming facility.
A lot of sand was brought in to elevate the building plot. In the BG is the nondescript modernist (1970) former office of the NTI once started by Bram van Leeuwen aka the 'Prince de Lignac' ;-)
The name 'terraforming' was used by the good old "Sim City' urbanism computer game when it was drawing the canvas on screen for a new game.
Shot with the compact (retractable) Lumix PZ 14-42 (power zoom) lens, once developed in conjunction with the GF6 - one of the few G cams that offer a zooming lever.
This is number 1100 Minimalism & explicit graphism album and 256 of Urban Frontier.
Ruby Cheeked Sunbird
Ruby-cheeked Sunbird, Anthreptes singalensis, Kelicap Pipi Merah
This is a female Ruby-cheeked Sunbird or Kelicap Pipi Merah, only the male bird got the ruby colour at the cheek. This species is the lowland rainforest dwellers but can be seen at the forest edges bordering villages. Early morning is the best time to photograph this birds because they are busy jumping from branch to branch looking for ants as breakfast. When they found their food, they will ignore you for a while.
Looking for birds in the lowland rainforest very often entails many hours of walking in the humid forest along damp trails and also often craning one's neck upwards to view them in the canopy. To one unaccustomed to the sweltering heat and the humidity of the lowland rainforest, this may not appear desirable but the efforts are almost certainly worth the while. Here there are opportunities for seeing a great number of species.
The last film I took before 'retiring' from rail photography entailed a trip to the West Country. It had been coming a long time - the previous film I'd exposed on railway 'stuff' was just over 12 months before. Aside from the very occasional trip out for old times sake, the next time I'd seriously use a camera again on the UK network would be 2011, and it would be digital.
For this trip, the weather seemed to reflect the mood although the train, a BRC&W built class 118 3-car suburban DMU, made a spirited enough start from Newton Abbot. Plymouth allocated set P462 was doing the honours, and is signalled for the Paignton line.
In the background the engine shed is still standing although by now disconnected, at least at this end. The rest of the sidings look suspiciously empty, save for what may be a fuel tank wagon.
Just visible at right are the carriages painted in the colours of the David & Charles Publishing Company, who occupied premises around the station at the time and used the carriages for storage purposes. The nearest coach looks like it could be of LNER vintage and, if so, is presumably one of those now restored and in use on the Severn Valley Railway.
The engine shed, carriage and wagon works were eventually demolished and the land adjacent to Torquay Road used for a new Aldi supermarket. Happily the splendid GWR signal gantry survived the inevitable resignalling, and is now installed as a non-working exhibit on Aldi's land for everyone to enjoy and, for those of a certain age, to maybe dream.
Agfa CT18
7th April 1985