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Olympus OM40 (film)

Fujichrome colour slide scanned to digital

The Shakespeare Limited

Night City, 2077, in a time where corporate rule, power struggles and impotent government have been the norm for over forty years.

The streets are filled with crime, drug lords, black market body modifications, cyberware and addictions to braindances.

A town that Detective Ivo has been attempting to protect with a high degree of success. He was so successful at his craft that the corporate giant Arasaka had the government expel him from the city ....

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In a small valley in the Luberon hills surrounded by forests in Provence sits the beautiful abbey of Sénanque. This shot was taken standing inside the Abbeys cloisters in 2018

The abbey was consecrated in 1178. Amongst its surviving structures, arefine examples of Romanesque architecture including the abbey church, cloister, dormitory and chapter house. The abbey is a remarkably untouched by time the architecture is quite severe , not to offer sensual distraction.

In the 13th and 14th centuries, Sénanque reached its apogee, operating four mills, seven farms and possessing large estates in Provence. In 1509 the community at Sénanque had shrunk to about a dozen monks. During the Wars of Religion the quarters for the lay brothers were destroyed and the abbey was ransacked by Huguenots. At the French Revolution the abbey's lands were nationalised, the one remaining monk was expelled and Sénanque itself was sold to a private individual. It was only in 1854 that the Abbey returned to its traditional role

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Mammoth Hot Springs Terraces - Impressed by the rock formations and their colors – white, yellow, gold, and orange! All these colors are due to the presence of bacteria and algae that flourish in the extremely hot waters of the springs. Over thousands of years they have formed terraces called travertine formations - Rain waters seep into the rocks, and once they reach a certain depth, they are heated by the action of boiling magma. They rise back to the surface of the earth. The waters at Mammoth Hot Springs are not expelled into the air. They cross the rocks up and deposit limestone sediments on the surface. The warm waters slowly flow from one basin to another, forming terraces as shown in the picture. It flows over some white limestone and orange travertine deposits. Mammoth Hot Springs is “journey to the center of Earth”, but outdoors!

The diversity of life in Yellowstone's thermal hot springs is more complex than we'd ever thought. Heat-loving microbes living in the Yellowstone's thermal pools – showing as living thermometer. The color of the bacteria is determined by the temperature of the water (You can tell the water temperature by the colors of microorganisms). The area is nature’s laboratory and provide unique opportunity to study and unveil earth’s secrets.

Sénanque Abbey

It was founded in 1148 under the patronage of Alfant, bishop of Cavaillon, and Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona, Count of Provence, by Cistercian monks who came from Mazan Abbey in the Ardèche. Temporary huts housed the first community of impoverished monks. By 1152 the community already had so many members that Sénanque was able to found Chambons Abbey, in the diocese of Viviers.

The young community found patrons in the seigneurs of Simiane, whose support enabled them to build the abbey church, consecrated in 1178. Other structures at Sénanque followed, laid out according to the rule of Cîteaux Abbey, mother house of the Cistercians. Among its existing structures, famed examples of Romanesque architecture, are the abbey church, cloister, dormitory, chapter house and the small calefactory, the one heated space in the austere surroundings, so that the monks could write, for this was their scriptorium. A refectory was added in the 17th century, when some minimal rebuilding of existing walls was undertaken, but the abbey is a remarkably untouched survival, of rare beauty and severity: the capitals of the paired columns in the cloister arcades are reduced to the simplest leaf forms, not to offer sensual distraction.

The abbey church is in the form of a tau cross with an apse projecting beyond the abbey's outer walls. Somewhat unusually, its liturgical east end faces north, as the narrow and secluded valley offered no space for the conventional arrangement.

In the 13th and 14th centuries, Sénanque reached its apogee, operating four mills, seven granges and possessing large estates in Provence. In 1509, when the first abbot in commendam was named, a sure sign of the decline of vocation, the community at Sénanque had shrunk to about a dozen. During the Wars of Religion the quarters for the lay brothers were destroyed and the abbey was ransacked by Huguenots. At the French Revolution the abbey's lands were nationalized, the one remaining monk was expelled and Sénanque itself was sold to a private individual.

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A jester is a karst formation that consists of a vertical hole formed a few meters from the edge of a limestone cliff and that inferiorly communicates with the sea. When the tide rises and the waves beat hard, it expels a stream of pulverized seawater upwards, which causes a characteristic sound that is what gives it the name of jester. The water spray can reach more than 10 meters high and the snort can be heard several kilometers away.

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As a storm blew in, witnesses spoke of a lone figure on the shoreline standing perfectly still and gazing at the sea. Once the storm got closer his eyes appeared to expel streaks of lights as he held his lamp aloft. Every so often a small orb would dance from the ocean and embed itself into the dark smoke. The French and Spanish call him Dahul, the spirit who collected the souls of sailors lost at sea before sailing away on his ship with his ghostly crew.

(The story of Dahul is little known and a similar tale to the Flying Dutchman)

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Being a supporter of Confucianism, Tokugawa Mitsukuni (徳川光圀) provided shelter to Zhu Shunshui (朱舜水), a Chinese Confucian scholar who came to Japan to seek assistance from the Tokugawa government to revive Chinese Ming dynasty (明朝) that was overthrown by Manchurian Qing dynasty (清朝) in 1644. Zhu became Mitsukuni's mentor, and he is supposed to have provided advice on the design of Kourakuen.

Karamon (唐門) or Gate of China may be a result of his involvement. It was burned down by an air raid during the WW II, and the current structure is a recent reconstruction.

The most notable achievement of Tokugawa Mitsukuni is probably the compilation of Dai Nihonshi (大日本史 the Great History of Japan). It emphasised the legitimacy of the imperial lineage and served as a backbone for the nationalist movement in 19th century called Son'nou Jou'i (尊王攘夷 revere the emperor, expel the barbarians), which eventually led to the Meiji Restoration that overthrew the Tokugawa regime.

It is ironic in that Mitsukuni was rather a xenomania and a core member of the Tokugawa clan.

Wild South Africa

Kruger National Park

The Mopane “worm” is actually the caterpillar form of the Emperor moth (Gonimbrasia belina), which lives nearly its entire life on the mopane tree. It lays its eggs on the tree’s leaves, which the larvae gorge on from the moment they hatch.

Mopane worms are an important species in their mopane tree-dominated habitats, and they play an important ecological role in converting plant matter into nutrients that are available to other animals and plants. They are also economically important as they are a seasonally abundant form of cheap, but nutritious protein for local people.

Once picked, the worm is pinched open at one end and squeezed to expel a vibrant green mass of half-digested leaves and innards. If any remnants of leaves are left in the worms, they impart a slightly tea-like flavor. The empty body of the worm is then pickled, dried, smoked, and/or fried to the individual’s specific tastes. Some say that the smoked and fried worms are similar in flavor to the jerky-like biltong or a well-done steak, while others cite an earthy, vegetal experience.

PS In season a Mopane worm pizza is also available????

Early evening sunshine bathes the ruins of Burnham Norton Friary in Norfolk. The friary was the fourth Carmelite house of friars to be established in England and the first to be founded after the order was expelled from Mount Carmel in 1238 by the Saracens. The friary, near Burnham Market, was founded by Sir William Calthorp and Sir Ralph Hemenhale in 1241.

This is the only shot I managed to fit the entire fish in the frame. It's about 5m/15ft from the nose to the tip of the tail. They grow to about 3 times this size. Despite only swimming quite slowly, it was hard work to keep up with this monster fish - more a matter of endurance than speed. Although it is swimming near the sea floor, it is only about 3-4m deep. When you dive under the surface with a snorkel, it is important to remember that when you re-surface, your first breath must be OUT! The snorkel I was using had a valve in the mouth piece so water could be expelled more easily than blowing it up the breathing tube.

Patio de Colégio, with the Anchieta Museum (on the left) and the buildings of the Secretariats of Justice and the Court of Justice (right).

Place of the first Jesuit mission of São Paulo, in 1554, with replica of the chapel built in 1896.

Anchieta Museum on the left.

First day of fall in Brazil.

GROUND ZERO

The Pateo do Collegio is associated with the foundation of São Paulo. The place chosen for the construction of the complex was strategic because it is high and was served by two important rivers: Anhangabaú and the Tamanduateí.

There, the Jesuits created a college to catechize Indians. The mass in commemoration of the opening of this small school in 1554 was chosen, years later, to mark the foundation of São Paulo.

Two centuries later, the Jesuits were expelled from Brazil and the space of the college became the seat of local government - which worked until 1930. Behind the white wall in front of the courtyard is the parish of São José de Anchieta and a museum.

The museum has collections of sacred art pieces such as crucifixes, oratories and holy water basins, as well as paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries. In the space you can still see, through photos, maps and models, the architectural changes for which Paul passed. Also it guards the mantle of the priest Jose de Anchieta (1534-1597), canonized in 2014 by the Pope Francisco.

Already the parish sports a relic for the catholics: the femur of Anchieta. The space is overturned by the Condephaat (state council of defense of the historical patrimony).

This green lynx spider will eat any insect,

Here is eating a grasshopper while the grasshopper is shedding,

Never seen that before,

It does not bite people Sheila:-)

Good luck today.

Note,

Most spiders don't eat their prey whole instead they expel digestive enzymes onto or into the animal to liquefy it.

Some spiders use their fangs to inject the digestive fluid directly into the animal as you can see this one is doing it.

Europe, The Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam, Feijenoord, Kop van Zuid, Tunnel boring equipment (uncut)

A while ago a remarkable operation took place at the Kop van Zuid. Two big electricity cables were installed, going from a transformation station somewhere in Rotterdam's deep South to the Wilhelminapier Cruise terminal. Reason: the cruise ships berthed there expel a lot of toxic exhaust fumes from their electricity generators and the people living in De Rotterdam high rise don’t really appreciate that. The solution: the installation of a ‘walstroom’ facility for the cruise ships (an industrial-sized electricity outlet on the quay) which is connected to the new cables.

These cables had to pass our dike (a medieval dike later heightened / strengthened for ‘Delta’ duty) and to avoid damaging its foundations these cables were run under them via a small tunnel thru which the cables were fed.

Shown here is a technical unit that also supplied water to the business end of the small tunnel boring machine (TBM) which performed the 'horizontal directional drilling (thanx Gerard Vanderlaan).

In the BG is the De Kuil construction site.

This is # 338 of Rotterdam harbour & industry.

Brilliantly colored and impossible to miss when in flight, the Macaws are the largest sized members of the parrot family. Despite their beautiful plumage you can also recognize these birds, often before you even see them, by the shrill and very unique squawk sound they make.

Of the 17 species that reside in Central and South America, only two species—the Scarlet Macaw and the Great Green Macaw—call Costa Rica home. Although they are family, the chance to see them together is very rare as the slightly smaller Scarlet Macaw is commonly found on the Pacific coast with the Great Green Macaw preferring the Caribbean.

Macaws, known in Costa Rica as Lapas, have large pointy beaks that can expel a tremendous amount of pressure and their scaly boned tongue helps them get inside the tough nuts and seeds that are found throughout Costa Rica. They are considered social birds and will be often seen roosting and feeding in large flocks using their unique toe structures to navigate through the branches.

This is the young male that was expelling the pellet in my previous photo, this was taken later in the day, a teeny bit of sun peeked out before it set for the evening

Kleiner Fuchs -- Small tortoiseshell -- Petite tortue

Jonny Clegg and Savuka ("Scatterlings of Africa") inspired me to take this photo. It's the similarity between English

"Scatterlings" and German "Schmetterling".

... and, yes, my grandparents were expelled from their homeland in Silesia in 1945.

huge female giant ichneumon wasp (Megarhyssa vagatoria)

identified by speech path girl

It landed on my trousers when I changed the battery. I felt afraid and expel it. But missed some more options to capture it! After that, it flown far away. See it for first time. Glad that I contrived to capture it. Because the insect was busy with something.

view of Hrad Český Krumlov (Český Krumlov Castle), Zámecká Věž (Castle Tower) and old town from Seminární zahrada (Seminary garden) viewpoint

Český Krumlov (German: Krumau or Böhmisch Krumau, also spelt Krummau) is a town in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 13,000 inhabitants. It is known as a tourist centre, which is among the most visited places in the country. The historic centre with the Český Krumlov Castle complex is protected by law as an urban monument reservation, and since 1992, it has been a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site because of its well-preserved Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque architecture.

Thanks to the convenient location by the river, the area has been permanently inhabited. The area's oldest settlement goes back to the Older Stone Age (70,000–50,000 BC), the mass settlement is proven in the Bronze Age (1,500 BC). Celtic settlements were here in the Younger Iron Age (c. 400 BC), and the first Slavic settlement from the 6th century AD. In the Early Middle Ages, trade routes led through this territory along the Vltava.

The Český Krumlov Castle was founded shortly before 1250 by a local branch of the noble Vítkovci family, descendants of Witiko of Prčice. The first written mention of Český Krumlov was in a 1253 deed as Chrumbenowe. The town was established in two stages. The first part called Latrán was built spontaneously below the castle, settled mostly by people who had some administrative connection with the castle. The second part was subsequently founded as a brand new settlement and called Old Town. Since the foundation of the town, both Czech and German nationalities were represented. A Jewish community is documented since 1334.

In 1302 the Vítkovci line became extinct and King Wenceslaus II, who acquired the estate and castle by escheat, ceded it to the Rosenberg family, who later made it the main residence of their family. Peter I of Rosenberg, the Lord Chamberlain of King John of Bohemia, had the present upper castle erected in the early 14th century. Under his rule the Rosenberg estates flourished. Český Krumlov achieved the highest prosperity in the 15th century during the rule of Oldřich II of Rosenberg, when the estate territory was considerably enlarged.

The Rosenbergs strongly promoted trade and crafts within the town walls. In the late 15th century, when gold was found next to the town, German miners came to settle, which shifted the ethnic balance even more. In one of the churches, the sermons were preached in Czech until the 1780s, when Church of Saint Judoc was closed. In 1555, William of Rosenberg joined the town parts of Latrán and Old Town, which had been up to then separate, and unified the town. In the late 16th century, he had the castle rebuilt in the Renaissance style.

In 1602, William's brother Peter Vok of Rosenberg sold Krumlov to Emperor Rudolf II, who gave it to his illegitimate son Julius d'Austria. After the Bohemian Revolt and the 1620 Battle of White Mountain, Emperor Ferdinand II gave Krumlov to the noble House of Eggenberg and the town became seat of the Duchy of Krumlov. From 1719 to 1947, the castle belonged to the House of Schwarzenberg.

In the 19th century, the industrialization and development of transport occurred, and most of the town fortifications was demolished.

There were 8,662 inhabitants in Krumlov in 1910, of which 7,367 (85%) were Germans and 1,295 (15%) were Czechs. After World War I, Český Krumlov became a part of the Bohemian Forest Region in a newly-created Czechoslovakia, but German-Austrian deputies declared the region be part of German-Austria. In 1919, the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye recognized the area as part of Czechoslovakia. In 1938, it was annexed by Nazi Germany, as part of the Reichsgau Oberdonau unit of Sudetenland, under the Munich Agreement. After World War II, the town's longtime German majority population was expelled and the town was returned to Czechoslovakia.

During the Communist era of Czechoslovakia, the historic Český Krumlov fell into disrepair. However, since the Velvet Revolution of 1989 much of the town's sights have been restored, and it is now a popular tourist destination.

In August 2002, Český Krumlov was damaged by 2002 European floods.

The Shelley Memorial is a memorial to the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley at University College, Oxford, England, the college that he briefly attended and from which he was expelled for writing the 1811 pamphlet "The Necessity of Atheism".

The left hind Vas'ka's leg hangs down from the desk, the cat is too big for this space on the desk. Partially it lies on the computer. But he will not leave until I expel him :-)

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Macho de Orthetrum coerulescens en la rambla de la Puça, Petrer (Alicante).

El fondo es el agua de la rambla con suelo pedregoso.

Desde esa percha controlaba su territorio y expulsaba a otros posibles rivales, incluso de otras especies.

Male of Orthetrum coerulescens in the Rambla de la Puça, Petrer (Alicante).

The bottom is the water of the boulevard with stony ground.

From that perch it controlled its territory and expelled other possible rivals, even from other species.

Jonathan Livingston è un gabbiano che ha la passione vera per il volo in sé e per sé e non come un mero strumento utilitaristico per procurarsi il cibo, come avviene per gli altri gabbiani. Se in un primo momento, per il timore di essere diverso dagli altri membri dello Stormo, reprime la propria passione, in seguito egli decide di dedicarsi al volo con metodo ed esercizio costante, al prezzo di grandi sacrifici. Diventa così un asso del volo, in grandi di compiere straordinarie acrobazie ma, insofferente al rigido conformismo dello Stormo, viene infine espulso dal Consiglio degli Anziani, che non accetta la sua spericolatezza. Jonathan continua ad allenarsi in solitaria e a sperimentare delle nuove acrobazie, finché un giorno incontra due gabbiani, dal piumaggio più luminoso e splendente degli altri, che lo convincono a seguirli in un superiore, seppur temporaneo, livello di esistenza, dove Jonathan incontrerà altri gabbiani che condividono la stessa passione per il volo.

Insegneranno a Jonathan come volare istantaneamente con il pensiero. Il percorso di formazione di Jonathan prevede che egli alleni soprattutto la sua mente, nella ricerca costante di un’idea di libertà che coincida con l’immagine di una creatura superiore, il Grande Gabbiano.

Il gabbiano Jonathan Livingston è un celebre romanzo breve di Richard Bach. Best seller in molti paesi del mondo negli anni settanta, diventato per molti un vero e proprio cult, Jonathan Livingston è essenzialmente una fiaba a contenuto morale e spirituale. La metafora principale del libro, ovvero il percorso di autoperfezionamento del gabbiano che impara a volare/vivere attraverso l'abnegazione, il sacrificio e la gioia di farlo è stata letta da diverse generazioni secondo diverse prospettive ideologiche, dal cattolicesimo al pensiero positivo, l'anarchismo cristiano e la New Age.

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Jonathan Livingston is a seagull who has a true passion for flying in and of itself and not as a mere utilitarian tool for obtaining food, as is the case with other seagulls. If at first, for fear of being different from the other members of the Flock, he represses his passion, he later decides to devote himself to flying with constant method and exercise, at the price of great sacrifices. Thus becomes an ace of flight, in great to perform extraordinary stunts but, intolerant to the rigid conformism of the Flock, is finally expelled by the Council of Elders, who does not accept his recklessness. Jonathan continues to train solo and experiment with new stunts, until one day he meets two seagulls, with the brightest and brightest plumage of the others, who convince him to follow them in a superior, albeit temporary, level of existence, where Jonathan will meet other seagulls who they share the same passion for flying.

They will teach Jonathan how to fly instantly with thought. Jonathan's training path involves him above all training his mind, in the constant search for an idea of ​​freedom that coincides with the image of a superior creature, the Great Seagull.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a famous short novel by Richard Bach. Best seller in many countries of the world in the seventies, becoming for many a true cult, Jonathan Livingston is essentially a fairy tale with a moral and spiritual content. The main metaphor of the book, that is the path of self-improvement of the seagull who learns to fly / live through self-sacrifice, sacrifice and the joy of doing it has been read by several generations according to different ideological perspectives, from Catholicism to positive thinking, the Christian anarchism and the New Age.

The seed of life feeds on nature's light with a fierce energy.

But starved, life feeds on life with clamor and malice.

For these creatures are tainted with dark magic.

So spread light to expel the demons; and, bring hope to these shores.

Illuminating nature's mysteries in dark places (or more mad late night experimental discoveries). From the series "Nature on Ice." Wishing everyone a wonderful Sunday! HSS!

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🇲🇫Lors de la conquête de la Sardaigne au 14e siècle, des juifs faisaient partie du contingent de soldats de Pierre IV d Aragon

Suite à la conquête, certains s’y installèrent, rejoints en 1370 par des familles juives de Catalogne et de France.

Mais la présence juive en Sardaigne semble être anterieure

Une synagogue fut construite à Alghero en 1381. Et un cimetière juif quatre ans plus tard.

Ils participèrent au développement économique et géographique de la ville, en finançant notamment ses fortifications.

Suite à l’application des mesures de l’Inquisition à la fin du 15e siècle, leur situation se détériora rapidement et ils furent expulsés ou forcés de se convertir en 1492

🇬🇧During the conquest of Sardinia in the 14th century, Jews formed part of the contingent of soldiers belonging to Peter IV of Aragon.

Following the conquest, some of them settled there, joined in 1370 by Jewish families from Catalonia and France.

However, the Jewish presence in Sardinia seems to date back further.

A synagogue was built in Alghero in 1381. And a Jewish cemetery four years later.

They contributed to the economic and geographical development of the town, in particular by financing its fortifications.

Following the implementation of the Inquisition at the end of the 15th century, their situation deteriorated rapidly and they were expelled or forced to convert in 1492.

🇮🇪 Durante la conquista della Sardegna nel XIV secolo, gli ebrei facevano parte del contingente di soldati di Pietro IV d'Aragona.

Dopo la conquista, alcuni di loro vi si stabilirono, raggiunti nel 1370 da famiglie ebraiche provenienti dalla Catalogna e dalla Francia.

Tuttavia, la presenza ebraica in Sardegna sembra risalire a tempi più remoti.

Ad Alghero fu costruita una sinagoga nel 1381. E un cimitero ebraico quattro anni dopo.

Gli ebrei contribuirono allo sviluppo economico e geografico della città, in particolare finanziando le sue fortificazioni.

In seguito all'attuazione dell'Inquisizione alla fine del XV secolo, la loro situazione si deteriorò rapidamente e nel 1492 furono espulsi o costretti a convertirsi.

🇩🇪 Bei der Eroberung Sardiniens im 14. Jahrhundert gehörten Juden zum Kontingent der Soldaten von Peter IV d'Aragon.

Nach der Eroberung ließen sich einige von ihnen dort nieder, und 1370 schlossen sich ihnen jüdische Familien aus Katalonien und Frankreich an.

Die jüdische Präsenz auf Sardinien scheint jedoch älter zu sein.

In Alghero wurde 1381 eine Synagoge errichtet. Und vier Jahre später ein jüdischer Friedhof.

Sie waren an der wirtschaftlichen und geografischen Entwicklung der Stadt beteiligt und finanzierten unter anderem ihre Befestigungsanlagen.

Jahrhunderts verschlechterte sich ihre Situation rapide und sie wurden 1492 vertrieben oder zur Konvertierung gezwungen.

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IC 1805 Heart nebula

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The Heart Nebula, IC 1805, Sh2-190, lies some 7500 light years away from Earth and is located in the Perseus Arm of the Galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia. This is an emission nebula showing glowing gas and darker dust lanes. The nebula is formed by plasma of ionized hydrogen and free electrons.

The very brightest part of this nebula (the knot at the right) is separately classified as NGC 896, because it was the first part of this nebula to be discovered.

The nebula's intense red output and its configuration are driven by the radiation emanating from a small group of stars near the nebula's center. This open cluster of stars known as Melotte 15 contains a few bright stars nearly 50 times the mass of our Sun, and many more dim stars that are only a fraction of our Sun's mass. The cluster used to contain a microquasar that was expelled millions of years ago.

Integration: 26.7 hours

Imaging telescopes or lenses: Takahashi TSA 102

Imaging cameras: Starlight Express SXVR-H18

Mounts: Sky-Watcher NEQ6 Pro

Guiding telescopes or lenses: Takahashi TSA 102

Guiding cameras: sx loadstar

Focal reducers: Takahashi TOA/FS Reducer

Software: Sequence Generator Pro, PHD, Photoshop CS5

Filters: Baader Ha, Hb, OIII & SII

Accessories: Starlight Xpress USB filter wheel, Baader Planetarium 36mm narrowband filters

Lac d'Annecy, Haute-Savoie, France.

El Lac d'Annecy es un lago de Alta Saboya, al este de Francia. Es famoso por ser uno de los lagos más limpios del mundo. Además es el segundo lago más grande de Francia tras el lago del Bourget, exceptuando la parte francesa del lago Lemán.

El lago se formó hace 18 000 años, durante el deshielo de los grandes glaciares alpinos.

Es alimentado por varios ríos pequeños, nacidos en las montañas próximas (Ire, Eau morte, Laudon, Bornette y Biolon), y por una potente fuente submarina, el Boubioz, que nace a 82 m de profundidad. Está rodeado: al este por el macizo de los Bornes; al oeste, por el macizo de los Bauges; al norte, por la aglomeración de Annecy; y al sur, por un amplio valle.

El lago expulsa su exceso de agua al río Thiou y al canal del Vassé, que se unen y alimentan el río Fier, a 1500 m al norte de Annecy, que finalmente se une al río Ródano.

Es un lugar turístico muy atractivo, conocido por sus actividades náuticas.

The Lac d'Annecy is a lake in Haute-Savoie, in eastern France. It is famous for being one of the cleanest lakes in the world. It is also the second largest lake in France after Lake Bourget, except for the French part of Lake Geneva.

The lake was formed 18,000 years ago, during the melting of the great alpine glaciers.

It is fed by several small rivers, born in the nearby mountains (Ire, Eau morte, Laudon, Bornette and Biolon), and by a powerful underwater source, the Boubioz, which rises at a depth of 82 m. It is surrounded: to the east by the Bornes massif; to the west, by the massif of the Bauges; to the north, by the agglomeration of Annecy; and to the south, through a wide valley.

The lake expels its excess water into the Thiou river and the Vassé canal, which join and feed the Fier river, 1500 m north of Annecy, which eventually joins the Rhone river.

It is a very attractive tourist place, known for its nautical activities.

Hnevank (Armenian: Հնեվանք; meaning "Old Monastery") is a 7th-12th century Armenian Apostolic Church monastery, located near the village of Kurtan in the Lori Province of Armenia. The monastery is situated on a hill within a gorge, near where the Dzoraget and Gargar rivers join.

The monastery was entirely rebuilt by lord Smbat of the House of Orbelian, a branch of the Liparitids who were expelled to Armenia in the late 12th century from Georgia. Liparitids were themselves a branch of the Mamikonians. Smbat was the ancestor of the Armenian princes of Syunik. A Georgian inscription around the drum attests his name.

The monastery has a gavit and various service buildings scattered around the site.

The government of Armenia has recently begun renovating the monastery. The collapsed dome of the main church has been restored entirely.

** From Fountains Abbey it is only a short walk along the river to the Studley Royal water gardens . The gardens were designed by John Aislabie in the early seventeenth century, they are a fine example of a Georgian water gardens

The Temple of Piety seen in the centre of the image is one of the many neo-classical buildings in Studley Royal.

a bit more background

In the early 18th-century John Aislabie had great plans to impress visitors to his Yorkshire estate and so turned the wild and wooded valley of the river Skell into one of England’s most spectacular Georgian water gardens.

John Aislabie inherited the Studley Royal estate in 1693. He was a socially and politically ambitious man and became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1718. Disaster struck his career in 1720 due to his part in the South Sea Bubble financial scandal and he was expelled from Parliament. It was then that John returned to Yorkshire and devoted himself to creating this ground-breaking garden. Inspired by the work of the great French landscape gardeners, the two gifted amateurs created the Water Garden with its formal, geometric design and extraordinary vistas; including the much photographed Temple of Piety.You can also find classical statues, follies and garden buildings carefully positioned within the landscape to discover and enjoy.

Amazingly the garden you see today is little changed from the one that would have impressed Aislabie’s visitors 200 years ago.

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Being out on the water with a family of Common Loons is petty special. It's especially wonderful to watch the young riding on the parents' backs. This one was doing that along with his sibling (not pictured). My friend Roy and I went for a long drive and were kind of thrilled it was pouring rain because we wanted nice photos of the loons in the sun but it actually turned out to be a magical experience and the rain added a moody effect. We found a Loon on a nest which was amazing to see and had an adult Northern Goshawk fly right over us. It was worth spending hours in an exposed boat in the rain and peaceful to sit their listening to the haunting cries of these very attentive parents who fed their young constantly. It's amazing that these birds that help to indicate water quality can eat 1/2 ton of fish in 15 weeks. They have solid bones that help them dive

This trip was a memory I won't soon forget.

A few cool facts about this indicator species. The oldest Common Loon ever recorded was just 2 months shy of 30 years old.

We know Loons need clear water quality to find fish but they also have solid bones unlike most birds. They can quickly blow air out of their lungs and flatten their feathers to expel air within their plumage, so they can dive quickly and swim fast underwater like an otter. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all my friends here.

Granada Charterhouse is a Carthusian monastery in Granada, Spain. It is one of the finest examples of Spanish Baroque architecture.

The charterhouse was founded in 1506; construction started ten years later, and continued for the following 300 years. While the exterior is a tame ember in comparison, the interior of the monastery's is a flamboyant explosion of ornamentation. Its complex echoing geometric surfaces make of it one of the masterpieces of Churrigueresque style. The most striking features include the tabernacle, constructed to a design by Francisco Hurtado Izquierdo, the church and the famous sacristy, built between 1727 and 1764 by Luis de Arévalo and F. Manuel Vasquez. The charterhouse displays an extensive collection of paintings, prominent among which the works of Fray Juan Sánchez Cotán.

It arose from the decision made in 1458 by the community of the monastery of Santa María de El Paular. Construction began in 1506 once its site was established, after the transfer of land by the Great Captain, Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba. The current site does not correspond to the land ceded by the Grand Captain so it was disrelented from the project. In 1516 works that would last three centuries were restarted without finishing the initial project, and of which only part is preserved, because in 1842 the cloister and monk's cells were destroyed. The priory house was affected; it was totally destroyed in 1943. The monastery was inhabited until 1835 when the monks were expelled from it. Its construction lasted from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century.

In a small valley in the Luberon hills in Provence sits the beautiful abbey of Sénanque. The abbey is surrounded by forests we visited the site in September, however the best time to visit is July when the field around the abbey are full of lavender it must be quite a sight .

The abbey church, consecrated in 1178. Other structures at Sénanque followed, laid out according to the rule of Cîteaux Abbey, mother house of the Cistercians. Among its existing structures, famed examples of Romanesque architecture, are the abbey church, cloister, dormitory, chapter house and the small calefactory, the one heated space in the austere surroundings, so that the monks could write, for this was their scriptorium. A refectory was added in the 17th century, when some minimal rebuilding of existing walls was undertaken, but the abbey is a remarkably untouched survival, of rare beauty and severity: the capitals of the paired columns in the cloister arcades are reduced to the simplest leaf forms, not to offer sensual distraction.

The abbey church is in the form of a tau cross with an apse projecting beyond the abbey's outer walls. Somewhat unusually, its liturgical east end faces north, as the narrow and secluded valley offered no space for the conventional arrangement.

In the 13th and 14th centuries, Sénanque reached its apogee, operating four mills, seven granges and possessing large estates in Provence. In 1509, when the first abbot in commendam was named, a sure sign of the decline of vocation, the community at Sénanque had shrunk to about a dozen. During the Wars of Religion the quarters for the lay brothers were destroyed and the abbey was ransacked by Huguenots. At the French Revolution the abbey's lands were nationalized, the one remaining monk was expelled and Sénanque itself was sold to a private individual. It was only in 1854 that the Abbey returned to its traditional role

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San Agustín del Guadalix,

For remains of pottery and utensils found by farmers and builders, it seems that it was founded by the Iberians along the current wide road. Roman columns and a stone sarcophagus have been found in the Alto de la Iglesia. Visigoth remains have also been found.

During the Reconquista many of the inhabitants of the region are recruited in 877 by the emir Mohamed I of Córdoba to fight against the Christians. In 932, the Leonese troops of Ramiro II de León crossed Somosierra and Guadarrama, expelling the Arabs. For a time the town is in no man's land.

It will not be until 1084, that Alfonso VI of Leon and Castile definitively conquered San Agustín in its march toward Toledo and ordered to repopulate the area with people of Castile. (Source Wikipedia)

San Agustín del Guadalix,

Por restos de cerámica y utensilios encontrados por labriegos y constructores, parece ser que fue fundado por los iberos junto al actual Camino ancho. Del período romano se han hallado columnas y un sarcófago de piedra en el Alto de la Iglesia. Igualmente se han hallado restos visigodos.

Durante la Reconquista muchos de los habitantes de la comarca son reclutados en 877 por el emir Mohamed I de Córdoba para luchar contra los cristianos. En 932, las tropas leonesas de Ramiro II de León atravesaron Somosierra y Guadarrama, expulsando a los árabes. Durante un tiempo el pueblo queda en tierra de nadie.

No será hasta 1084, que Alfonso VI de León y Castilla conquiste definitivamente San Agustín en su marcha hacia Toledo y manda repoblar la zona con gentes de Castilla. ( Fuente Wikipedia )

Camp Fire.....

Smoke rises and flames dance, embers floating on the invisible breeze dance and sway off into the inky black of the night sky.

The sudden crack and pop of firewood expelling trapped oxygen. life doesn't get much better than this.

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Loons have solid bones, unlike other birds. This makes them less buoyant and better at diving. They quickly expel air from their lungs and flatten their feathers to remove air from within their plumage so they can dive deep and swim quickly, and they're one of the best diving birds!

The physical attributes of this species makes it a natural diver. The loons bones are almost solid rather than hollow like other birds coupled with the ability to expel the air from both their lungs and their plumage allows them to dive quickly and quietly to depths up to 60 meters. They are strong swimmers and can stay submerged for up to 5 minutes. These qualities make it easy for this species to reach its quota of about 2 pounds of fish per day.

Cottagers know spring has arrived when the call of the loon echoes across the water in our many lakes in Ontario. This adult bird has arrived on Moira Lake and currently calls about every 30 minutes while awaiting the arrival of its mate I expect.

The forecourt of St George Church, Hamburg. A baroque church, bombed out during the war. Long before that, this was the place where missionaries were ordained and sent to New Zealand and then to West Africa. Hamburg has always been a seaport sending people around the world and also losing some at sea. The steel planks in the foreground are taken from the hull of ocean-going vessels. The city suffered when Napoleon expelled 20 000 poor people because he wanted to feed his troops - not them. That was in winter. Hamburg, the city that betrayed its Jews and did nothing to protect them. A place bombed to oblivion. My city. Golgotha can be everywhere, but it certainly was in Hamburg. Fuji X100F.

The Württemberg Hz were 0-10-0 rack and adhesion steam locomotives, that were initially developed by the Royal Württemberg State Railways (Königlich Württembergische Staats-Eisenbahnen), but were delivered to the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (DRG) in the mid-1920s.

The locomotives had a Winterthur cogwheel drive with one lower and one upper pair of cylinders. On the level, they ran like normal steam locomotives using the lower, higher pressure, pair of cylinders driving on the third coupled axle. Before entering the rack section the upper drive was started using live steam. At the same time the r.p.m. was matched to the running speed so that entry into the rack section could be achieved smoothly. Once the cogwheel had engaged the rack, the exhaust from the lower cylinders was routed to the upper, lower pressure, ones using a change valve and was expelled from the chimney. The locomotive now worked as a compound.

The cylinders of the adhesion and cogwheel drives have the same diameters (Ø 560 mm). The difference in volume (after expulsion from the adhesion system, the steam doubles its volume) is compensated for because the cogwheel drive turns twice as fast. The driving cogwheel is housed in a special frame, that lies above the second and third axle. The higher cogwheel drive and the lower cogwheel are coupled via an intermediate gear with a transmission ratio of 1:2.43.

The boilers were given steel fireboxes and the frame was reinforced, especially in the area of the drive. The outermost axles, which had side play, were given return springs to minimise hunting.

Of the four machines built, three have been preserved:

97501 in Reutlingen

97502 at the Bochum-Dahlhausen Railway Museum in Bochum-Dahlhausen

97504 at the Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin

Still trying to work through the long hot summer. I haven't ventured to the local tide pools in ages, so I gave it a shot. This guy looks to me a lot like a defensive football linesman. "Go ahead, try and get past me." There were a lot of them scurrying about at low tide on this day, lots of sizes from maybe an inch to several inches or more. Meanwhile, it might have been my first tide pool outing where I used the squat technique while balanced precariously on the sharp seashore rocks... I only lost it once while trying to back up when one kept coming closer and closer, challenging my lens's close focus limit. They do use those humongous pincers to gather algae and stuff off the rocks, munching with both fists so to speak, and blowing bubbles. Allegedly (from the web) crabs blow bubbles because that’s how their gills expel carbon dioxide.

Too negative? Always part of the demolition brigade? Incapable of enjoying the moment? Full of self-doubts? Perhaps. I am not defending the indefensible. I am just lucky enough to have had the chance of growing old and to understand why God, when he expelled Adam and Eve from paradise, did not say "have a nice day". Fuji X-Pro3.

In what kind of Country does the State Legislature expel duly elected representatives simply because the opposition does not like their views! The same one where a Republican legislature threatens to impeach a newly elected State Supreme Court Judge because it doesn't like her views, either. The same Country where a conservative Federal Supreme Court Judge can accept large gifts from right wing conservative donors for years, while at the same time ruling on hot button, right wing conservative issues like gun control, abortion, election security and more!

Český Krumlov_Czechia

History

The settlement arose beneath the castle, which was erected from about 1240 onwards by a local branch of the noble Vítkovci family, descendants of Witiko of Prčice. The fortress was first mentioned in a 1253 deed as Chrumbenowe. According to local legend, the name derives from Middle High German krumbe ouwe which can be translated as "crooked meadow", after a bend of the Vltava River. It was also mentioned in the 1255 Frauendienst poem by minnesinger Ulrich von Liechtenstein. Located at a ford of an important trade route in the Kingdom of Bohemia, a settlement arose soon after beneath the castle. The Czech name Krumlov is documented as early as in 1259.

In 1302 the Vítkovci line became extinct and King Wenceslaus II ceded the town and castle to the Rosenberg family (Rožmberkové). Peter I of Rosenberg (d. 1347), the Lord Chamberlain of King John of Bohemia, resided here and had the present upper castle erected in the early 14th century. The majority of inhabitants were German-speaking at that time, immigrating from neighbouring Austria and Bavaria in the course of the Ostsiedlung. A Jewish community is documented since 1334. By 1336, it can be expected that Czechs formed a small minority, which had its own priest.[2]

The Rosenbergs strongly promoted trade and crafts within the town walls. In the late 15th century, when gold was found next to the town, German miners came to settle, which shifted the ethnic balance even more. In one of the churches the sermons were preached in Czech until 1788, when St. Jošt Church was closed.[3] William of Rosenberg (1535–1592), High Treasurer and High Burgrave of Bohemia, had the castle rebuilt in a Renaissance style.

In 1602 William's brother Peter Vok of Rosenberg (1539–1611) sold Krumlov to the Habsburg emperor Rudolf II, who gave it to his natural son Julius d'Austria. After the Bohemian Revolt and the 1620 Battle of White Mountain, Emperor Ferdinand II gave Krumlov to the noble House of Eggenberg and the town became seat of the mediate Duchy of Krumlov. From 1719 until 1947 the castle belonged to the House of Schwarzenberg.

There were 8,662 inhabitants in Krummau an der Moldau in 1910, including 7,367 Germans and 1,295 Czechs.[citation needed] After the First World War, the city was part of the Bohemian Forest Region which was initially declared to be part of German-Austria. By the end of 1918 the Czechoslovak army had occupied the region, which became part of Czechoslovakia. In 1938 it was annexed by Nazi Germany, as part of the Reichsgau Oberdonau unit of Sudetenland under the Munich agreement. After World War II the town's longstanding German-speaking population was expelled and it was returned to Czechoslovakia.[4]

During the Communist era of Czechoslovakia, historic Krumlov fell into disrepair, but since the Velvet Revolution of 1989 much of the town's former beauty has been restored, and it is now a major holiday destination popular, with high numbers of tourists from Europe and from Asian countries such as China and Japan. In August 2002, the town suffered from damage in a great flood of the Vltava River.

Sights

Most of the architecture of the old town and castle dates from the 14th through 17th centuries; the town's structures are mostly in Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque styles. The core of the old town is within a horseshoe bend of the river, with the old Latrán neighborhood and castle on the other side of the Vltava.

Castle

Krumlov Castle

Český Krumlov Castle is unusually large for a town of its size; within the Czech Republic it is second in extent only to the Hradčany castle complex of Prague. Inside its grounds are a large rococo garden, an extensive bridge over a deep gap in the rock upon which the castle is built, and the castle itself, which in turn consists of many defined parts dating from different periods. After the garden had been inadequately maintained in the second half of the 20th century, the site was included in the 1996 World Monuments Watch by the World Monuments Fund. With financial support from American Express the garden's central fountain was documented and reconstructed, and remains functional today.[5]

Church of St. Vitus (Kostel Sv. Víta) is a Gothic church, inside the Castle, dating back architecturally to the 15th century, with frescoes from the same period.

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