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It encompasses large protected woodlands in the Blean, and the wide open spaces of the Lower Stour Marshes. There are internationally important coastal habitats at Sandwich and Pegwell Bay and near Reculver, and precious chalk downlands in the nationally protected Kent Downs.
The Swiss Riviera stretches from Lausanne to Montreux and encompasses the beautiful Lavaux vineyards perched on steep hills with a dramatic view of the lake and the Alps on the other side.
Lausanne is situated on the shores of Lake Geneva, 62 kilometres (38.5 miles) northeast of Geneva. It is a city in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and the capital and biggest city of the canton of Vaud. It is the second-largest city on Lake Geneva and the fourth largest city in Switzerland.
Lausanne lies in a noted wine-growing region. It combines a dynamic commercial town with the locality of a holiday resort. The capital of the canton of Vaud is also a lively university and convention town. The city has a 28-station metro system, making it the smallest city in the world to have a rapid transit system.
Sports and culture are given a high profile, because Lausanne is a focus of international sport, hosting the International Olympic Committee, which recognizes the city as the "Olympic Capital" since 1994, the Court of Arbitration for Sport and some 55 international sport associations.
Encompassing 38,000 acres (150 square kilometers), Lake Lanier is a popular spot with boaters and jet skiers. However, in the early morning hours, the reservoir in the Northern portion of Georgia, USA, is a magnificent and tranquil place.
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Happy Earth Day 2022 on April 22, 2022!
A wickedly wild woodland scene overlooking Tod Creek from one of my favourite woodland parks…Gowlland Tod Provincial Park, Vancouver Island, BC.
“Located near Victoria on southern Vancouver Island, the park preserves a heritage of green space for present and future generations. It encompasses nearly the entire east side of Saanich Inlet, stretching from Goldstream to Brentwood Bay and the world-famous Butchart Gardens.
Gowlland Tod protects a significant part of the Gowlland Range, one of the last remaining natural areas in Greater Victoria, and a significant portion of the natural shoreline and uplands of Tod Inlet. The Gowlland Range is a particularly rich area of biodiversity, with more than 150 individual animal and plant species identified.” (Source: BCParks.ca)
Photography: Fujifilm XS-10, Fujinon 16-80mm, @16mm, f10.
Fading light at Hidden Lake. Third of three photos from that evening. Was great to be there and watch as the light and colors changed.
I had wanted to go to Glacier
National Park for a long time and Hidden Lake was the place I wanted to see the most.. The weather during the week that I was there was not the best. A winter storm rolled in and they actually closed the Going to the Sun Road for the season while we were there, but I was lucky that the day I made the hike to Hidden Lake we got some great clouds and color in the sky.
Glacier National Park is an American national park located in northwestern Montana, on the Canada–United States border, adjacent to the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia. The park encompasses over 1 million acres (4,000 km2) and includes parts of two mountain ranges (sub-ranges of the Rocky Mountains), over 130 named lakes, more than 1,000 different species of plants, and hundreds of species of animals. This vast pristine ecosystem is the centerpiece of what has been referred to as the "Crown of the Continent Ecosystem," a region of protected land encompassing 16,000 square miles (41,000 km2).
Encompassing 38,000 acres (150 square kilometers), Lake Lanier is a popular spot with boaters and jet skiers. However, in the early morning hours, the reservoir in the Northern portion of Georgia, USA, is a magnificent and tranquil place.
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The Clarksville Architectural District (as listed on the National Register of Historic Places) encompasses several buildings in the major portion of a 2½ square block area of Downtown Clarksville, Tennessee. This area includes a large group of 1870's and 1880's buildings, many of excellent & attractive design, together with a small cluster of mid-19th century buildings near the original center of the city. One of the specific buildings is the Clarksville City Hall, which records indicate originally was a bank building in the 1870's. The present facade, added in 1914, which is out of character with the rest of the district is, none the less, an interesting Romanesque composition anchored by a massive entrance way arch. Four terra-cotta medallions, in the spandrel panels, separate the conventional first floor windows from those on the second story which are each capped by a brick arch. And, Public Square Fountain located just across the street from City Hall building adds to the historical ambiance of the scene in the photograph above as the sun sets in the background.
The Clarksville Architectural District was added to the NRHP on May 13, 1976. All the information above and much more about the rest of the district was found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration that can be found here:
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This photo was taken in 2013 during my previous Project 365…please visit my album for this “REMASTERED” Project 365 as I revisit each day of 2013 for additional photos to share!!
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D5200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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The Old Synagogue
The Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue situated in the Kazimierz district of Kraków, originally built in the mid 1400's the building has been altered over the years.
Kraków is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland, growing from a stone age settlement based around Wawel hill.
Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 and is as one of Europe's most beautiful cities. The historic centre encompasses three urban ensembles, the medieval City of Kraków, the Wawel Hill complex (the royal residence together with the Wawel Cathedral where the kings are buried), and the town of Kazimierz, including the suburb of Stradom, which was shaped by Catholic and Jewish residents. In 1978 the Old Town was declared the first UNESCO World Heritage Site in the world.
I took this shot of my lensball during an evening golden hour at Littlehampton Beach. I was trying to include the wooden structure in the background of the shot as well as the main focus in the lensball.
Returning to the trove of vantage points to shoot from inside Ely Cathedral, this image was captured from the top of the building's octagonal tower, more than 100ft up. The view encompasses the seats in the north transept, the choir stalls and presbytery to the east, and the stained-glass windows surrounding the central podium directly below. The opportunity to photograph this perspective came during an hour-long tour of the Cathedral, which included a visit to the rooftop around the tower, as well as a glimpse behind the tower's wooden panel walls, which open out and allow a dizzying view both upwards towards the roof and downwards to the ground below.
The tour was moving at a swift pace so this image was captured handheld, resting the camera on the ledge of the tower and using a wide aperture and high ISO to ensure a fast shutter speed and sharp finish. I shot nine bracketed exposures, manually aligning these in Photoshop before using luminosity masks to blend the exposures, which allowed for a balanced finish between the mid-morning light streaming through the windows and the deep shadows in the Cathedral's corners. I then used the Pen Tool to isolate the windows, the arches and the ground, which enabled me to colour-grade the various segments of the scene individually, as well as to target and blend in my bracketed exposures. I used a darker exposure for the lower-left arch, where the intensity of the sunlight was slightly distracting, and brighter exposures (using a combination of radial and reflective gradient masks) to add emphasis to the seats in the north transept, the memorial brass between the choir stalls, the panelling along the tip of the arch above the choir, and the striking timber fan-vaulting on top of the stone pillars.
My aim with this image was to convey the immense scale and magnificence of the building, but I was eager for the look and tone to be consistent with my previous two images from the location, and also wary of a very busy image because of the sheer amount of detail in the frame. For these reasons, I opted for a more muted palette, retaining the vibrant colours in the Cathedral's windows while desaturating much of the rest of the image and focusing on a cold shade of cyan along the tower's stone pillars and a warm mixture of orange and magenta along the timber. This was achieved by using Hue/Saturation and Selective Colour adjustments, as well as Apply Image to layer-mask two Colour Balance adjustments, and finally two low-opacity Colour Lookups set to Soft Light and using the Crisp Warm preset for the highlights and Futuristic Bleak for the shadows.
Using Nik's Silver Efex Pro set to Luminosity, I lowered the overall midtone exposure and increased the Soft Contrast, which helped to draw emphasis to the stunning light striking the stone pillars and casting a glow across the ground of the building, and then used Control Points to selectively add structure to the timber in order to bring out its texture. In Colour Efex Pro, I applied a very small amount of the Dark Contrasts filter to mute the highlights along the stone pillars, as well as a sparing amount of Tonal Contrast to lower the structure of the shadows and tighten the contrast in the highlights.
Having photographed Ely Cathedral at ground level, I was excited to try to convey something of the exhilarating experience of standing at the top of what is rightly described as one of the wonders of the medieval world. Aside from the artistry of the building's architecture and the remarkable attention to detail in its carvings, taking in the Cathedral from this viewpoint seemed to highlight what an extraordinary engineering feat it was to construct something so vast nearly 800 years ago.
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In the InterCity era that encompassed the late 1980s to the late 1990s, 86204 'City of Carlisle' leads a dead 86212 'Preston Guild' past the site of Dillicar troughs with the Sussex Scot, the 0920 Brighton to Edinburgh service.
Even by the standards of the 1840s, the west coast route south of Lancaster had only modest gradients. However, north of Carnforth the west coast route would face two significant gradients - first to climb over the fells of Westmorland, and then to climb over Scotland's southern uplands.
Various routes through Westmorland were investigated, but ultimately the route chosen was to the immediate east of the Cumbrian Mountains, climbing to the summit at Shap and then descending to Penrith and then north to Carlisle. The route was opened by the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway in December 1846.
After Carnforth, the line climbed virtually continually until reaching the valley of the Lune Gorge, where a brief respite between the hamlets of Low Gill and Tebay allowed level running. In steam days the straight behind the train was equipped with water troughs, fed from the river Lune, allowing steam trains to pick up water without stopping.
In my image, the river Lune is visible just above the first locomotive. Above are the Howgill Fells, the slate and gritstone range that spans the border between Cumbria and North Yorkshire.
Encompassing 38,000 acres (150 square kilometers), Lake Lanier is a popular spot with boaters and jet skiers. However, in the early morning hours, the reservoir in the Northern portion of Georgia, USA, is a magnificent and tranquil place.
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Natural Garden at the Portland Japanese Garden: The Natural Garden is the most immersive of all gardens. Hidden benches and waiting areas provide spaces to rest and reflect while being surrounded by nature in its idealized form.
The Garden sits nestled in the West Hills of Portland, Oregon overlooking the city and providing a tranquil, urban oasis for locals and travelers alike. Designed in 1963, it encompasses 12 acres with eight separate garden styles, and includes an authentic Japanese Tea House, meandering streams, intimate walkways, and a spectacular view of Mt. Hood. This is a place to discard worldly thoughts and concerns and see oneself as a small but integral part of the universe.
Born out of a hope that the experience of peace can contribute to a long lasting peace. Born out of a belief in the power of cultural exchange. Born out of a belief in the excellence of craft, evidence in the Garden itself and the activities that come from it. Born out of a realization that all of these things are made more real and possible if we honor our connection to nature.
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The Painted Desert area is a broad region of rocky badlands encompassing more than 93,500 acres, this vast landscape features rocks in every hue – from deep lavenders and rich grays to reds, oranges and even pinks.
Located in Northern Arizona, the Painted Desert stretches from Grand Canyon National Park eastward to Petrified Forest National Park, with a large portion lying within the Navajo Nation.
A natural canvas millions of years in the making, no one event shaped the Painted Desert. Instead, the area – which is home to many memorable formations and features – serves as proof of the earth’s volatility: volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, floods and sunlight all combined to create the Painted Desert. Deposits of clay and sandstone, stacked in elegant layers, play with the setting Arizona sun in an altering display of colorful radiance.
Both the Navajo and Hopi people have lived in the region for hundreds of years, but it was Spanish Colonialists who gave this landscape the name we know it by today – El Desierto Pintado.
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This is a wide shot encompassing the constellation of Cassiopeia the Queen in the northern autumn sky, showing the variety of colours in the starclouds and nebulas that populate this section of the Milky Way. The colours are brought out by the long exposure used and by contrast enhancements in processing. But yes, they are real! This is not false colour.
The pink emission nebulas of the Heart and Soul Nebulas (IC 1848 and IC 1805 respectively), at left, and the NGC 7822/Ced 214 complex, at top, dominate. The small pink patch at bottom is the Pacman Nebula, NGC 281. At upper right are the faint nebulas around the star cluster M52, including the Bubble Nebula, NGC 7635. The purple glows near the star Gamma Cassiopeiae, aka Navi, at centre are the reflection nebulas IC 59 and IC 63.
Lots of star clusters populate the area, including the Double Cluster in Perseus at lower left, and NGC 7789, Caroline's Rose, at right. NGC 663 and NGC 457 are the star clusters below the left side of the W that marks Cassiopeia.
This is a stack of 14 x 2-minute exposures with the Canon RF 28-70mm lens at 62mm and f/2.5 on the Canon EOS Ra at ISO 1600, and on the Star Adventurer Mini tracker. The lens had a URTH Night filter on it to reduce light pollution and airglow discolouration. Taken from home October 1, 2021 on a night with some loss of transparency due to haze. Nebulosity was brought out with the aid of luminosity and colour range masks created with Lumenzia. An additional exposure through an Alyn Wallace/Kase Starglow filter layered in adds the subtle star glows to make the "W" stars pop.
All stacking, alignment and blending done in Photoshop.
Washington State's Columbia Plateau exists in the rain shadow of the Cascades Mountains, yielding a semiarid climate that, excepting population centers at Spokane, the Tri-Cities (Kennewick, Pasco, and Richland), Wenatchee, Moses Lake, and Yakima, encompasses a broad expanse of sagebrush-covered volcanic plains and valleys. An archetype of this geology serves as a terrific backdrop for the pre-dawn passage of BNSF Train C-SXMRBG3-68F (Loaded unit coal, Signal Peak Mine, Mont.–Export Terminal, Roberts Bank, B.C.) through Cactus, a convenient stretch of two-main track along BNSF Railway's busy Lakeside Subdivision.
Palouse, a beautifully distinct geographic region, encompasses parts of southeastern Washington and north central Idaho. It is not only a photographer's heaven but also a major agricultural area producing wheat and legumes. Thousands of acres of wheat and legumes blanket the rolling hills. Their colors, from spring green to autumn gold, tell of the passing of seasons.
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nrhp # 89001148- Provincetown Historic District- The Provincetown Historic District encompasses most of the dense urban center of Provincetown, Massachusetts. The district is roughly bounded to the north by U.S. Route 6; to the west by the west end of Commercial St.; to the south by Provincetown Harbor; and to the east by the southeast end of Commercial St. It covers about 300 acres (120 ha), and includes more than 1,000 buildings. Its historic character spans more than 200 years of settlement, from the city's early years as a fishing community, to its development as a summer resort area and artists' colony beginning in the late 19th century.[2] The district was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
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Steveston Harbour is home to 500+ commercial fishing vessels and encompasses over 17.5 hectares, making it the largest small craft harbour in Canada.
Ocean Destiny aluminium commercial fishing boat was built by Shore Boat Builders Ltd in 1989.
Steveston village is a historic salmon canning centre at the mouth of the South Arm of the Fraser River, on the southwest tip of Lulu Island in Richmond, British Columbia.
Torres del Paine National Park encompasses mountains, glaciers, lakes, and rivers in southern Chilean Patagonia.
The mountain on the left is named Paine Grande, the mountain on the right are the Cuernos del Paine (horns of the Paine). The area also boasts valleys, rivers such as the Paine, lakes, and glaciers. The well-known lakes include Grey, Pehoé (on the photo), Nordenskiöld, and Sarmiento. The glaciers, including Grey, Pingo and Tyndall, belong to the Southern Patagonia Ice Field.
In the latter half of the first millennium the Tehuelche (Aonikenk) people arrived in Patagonia. They were nomadic hunter-gatherers and as they migrated north through Patagonia they saw the silhouette of this incredible rock formation in the distance and called it ‘Paine’, meaning ‘blue’ in their language (the predominant colour they saw in the distance).
On the right you can spot burned fields. In late December 2011 through January 2012, a fire blamed on an Israeli backpacker burned about 176 km2 (68 sq mi) of the reserve, destroying about 36 km² of native forest and affecting most of the areas around Lake Pehoé and the western areas around Lake Sarmiento, but moving away from the Cordillera del Paine, the park's centerpiece. The Israeli government sent reforestation experts to the zone, and has committed to donate trees to replant the affected areas.
Nevertheless, recent paleoenvironmental studies performed within the Park indicates that fire have been a frequent phenomena at least during the last 12,800 years.
The house in the island is the hosteria Pehoé (auberge/hotel) where you can start your trekking journey.
The park is a pure joy for trekking and landscape photography :)
These wooden steps lead up War Down in Queen Elizabeth Country Park, Hampshire, England. The area is part of the South Downs National Park and features trails through woodland and downland. The route to War Down is a popular hiking trail that offers views of the surrounding countryside.
War Down is part of the South Downs. The hill is 244 metres high, making it the second-highest summit in the Hampshire section of the South Downs. This viewpoint is at an elevation of 171m. The hill is covered in a mixed forest. There are various trails in the area, including the "War Down Loop" and the "Holt Down and War Down Circular". The area has a rich history, with the region once being part of the ancient Forest of Bere. The woodlands contain ancient beech and oak trees, and the forest floor is often covered in wildflowers in the spring and summer.
Queen Elizabeth Country Park is a large country park located in southern England on the South Downs, 5 km south of Petersfield, Hampshire. It is Hampshire's largest country park, encompassing over 810 hectares of woodland and downland. The park is part of the South Downs National Park and includes Butser Hill, the highest point in the South Downs, which offers panoramic views. The park is free to enter, but car parking fees apply. There are numerous activities available, including walking trails, cycling trails, horse riding, and a dog activity course. The park also features an adventure play area for children and a military-style assault course. A visitor centre, café, and kiosk are on-site, offering food, drinks, local products, and trail maps. The woodland in the park was mostly planted in the 1930s and consists mainly of beech trees. It is home to various wildlife, including deer, badgers, and red kites, and is a habitat for many butterfly species.
Encompassing 320 acres, this geologic oddity is composed of deep ravines, caves, rock formations and hard-packed eroded earth. Hell's Half Acre was used as the location for the fictional planet of Klendathu in the movie Starship Troopers.
The colour green encompasses a wide range of varieties. From the grey green of the Old Man's Beards plant to the brown greens of the ferns growing in huge numbers around the aged trees in Mait's Rest Rainforest Walk in the Otway Ranges. The deep darkness and quietness of the fecund forest is broken only by our voices, that of birds and insects and the feet on the boardwalk.
www.visitvictoria.com/regions/Great-Ocean-Road/see-and-do... and walk91.com.au/maits-rest-a-small-taste-of-the-rainforest-...
Morano encompasses three districts that encircle the castle and the most significant churches, the town stretches towards the valley all fortified by a system of walls. The town’s complex and dense urban design has earned Morano the distinction of being one of Calabria’s most well-preserved medieval historical centers as well as being one of its 16 most beautiful towns. For a truly enchanting experience navigate through the labyrinth of narrow winding streets that slope steeply, partially hewn from the rock itself, this intricate network immerses you in the town’s magical ambiance.
I took this on Sept 21rst 2023 with my D850 and Nikon 28-300mm f3.5-5.6 at 55mm, 1/250s, f5.6, ISO 80 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia ,Topaz, and DXO
Encompassing 38,000 acres (150 square kilometers), Lake Lanier is a popular spot with boaters and jet skiers. After sunset, the reservoir in the Northern portion of Georgia, USA, is a magnificent and tranquil place.
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Barton Nature Area encompasses a sizable plot of natural land at the very northwest tip of the city of Ann Arbor. The name is derived from Barton Pond along the Huron River. Barton Pond lies beyond the ridgeline along the right side of my photo. Barton powerhouse at one time supplied a large percentage of power for the city.
I took my photo on June 12, 2021 during a visit to the nature area with my cousin Mark. Location is geotagged.
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We must try to remember everything, every movement, every stretch, every convulsion that made us how we move as we readily grow in our outer body that encompasses the planets, the suns and the moons in every other body that we touch, in every other mouth that we kissed, in every other language that we try to comprehend; for they are not the outside of a stranger, nor are they just images of our psyche, but the very being of ourselves, the dimensional levels of our very existence weaving colours in the tapestry of creation, yet the very non-existence of the template is proof of consciousness, of ascension, of Life.
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Denali National Park encompasses 6 million acres of Alaska’s interior wilderness. Its centerpiece is 20,310-ft.-high Denali, North America’s tallest peak. With terrain of tundra, spruce forest and glaciers, the park is home to wildlife including grizzly bears, wolves, moose, caribou and sheep. Popular activities in summer include biking, backpacking, hiking and mountaineering. This image was created using various digital imaging software programs, including Topaz Gegapixel and Sharpen, Snapseed, and Midjourney AI. Click on the image for a more detailed view . . .
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The epidendrum genus of orchids is one of, if not the largest genera of orchids, encompassing more than 1,000 separate species, and a plethora of hybrid varieties to choose from. They are among the easiest orchids to propagate and care for.
The name Epidendrum comes from the Greek words “epi” and “dendron” meaning upon trees. But this one grow best in the ground.
Cordoba is a city in Andalusia, southern Spain, and the capital of the province of Córdoba. Originally a Roman settlement, it was taken over by the Visigoths, followed by the Muslim conquests in the eighth century.
During these Muslim periods, Córdoba was transformed into a world leading center of education and learning and by the 10th century it had grown to be the second-largest city in Europe.
It was conquered by the Kingdom of Castile through the Christian Reconquista in 1236.
Córdoba is home to notable examples of Moorish architecture such as The Mezquita-Catedral, which was named as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984 and is now a cathedral. The UNESCO status has since been expanded to encompass the whole historic centre of the city.
Encompassing 38,000 acres (150 square kilometers), Lake Lanier is a popular spot with boaters and jet skiers. However, in the early morning hours, the reservoir in the Northern portion of Georgia, USA, is a magnificent and tranquil place.
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This encompasses everything I learned about drawing in art school as far as line and value are concerned. Unlike many contemporary landscape photographers I don’t sharpen the far reaches of the landscape because that flattens the sense of depth. I decrease the value range in the distance. The darks and are not all that dark and the lights are not that light. The foreground, however, does have strong contrast, which tends to pull it forward. Finally: overlap. Objects that are in front of other objects create a careful order of front to back.
The line of the handrail, of course, leads the eye to the background.
Glacier Bay Basin in southeastern Alaska, in the United States, encompasses the Glacier Bay and surrounding mountains and glaciers, which was first proclaimed a U.S. National Monument on February 25, 1925, and which was later, on December 2, 1980, enlarged and designated as the Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, covering an area of 3,283,000 acres (1,329,000 ha). In 1986, UNESCO declared an area of 57,000 acres (23,000 ha) within a World Biosphere Reserve. This is the largest UNESCO protected biosphere in the world. In 1992, UNESCO included this area as a part of a World Heritage site, extending over an area of 24,300,000-acre (98,000 km2) which also included the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Kluane National Park (Canada) and Tatshenshini-Alsek Park (Canada). Part of the National Park is also designated a Wilderness area covering 2,658,000 acres (Wikipedia)
The Mekong Delta (Vietnamese: Đồng bằng Sông Cửu Long "Nine Dragon river delta"), also known as the Western Region (Vietnamese: Miền Tây) or the South-western region (Vietnamese: Tây Nam Bộ) is the region in southwestern Vietnam where the Mekong River approaches and empties into the sea through a network of distributaries. The Mekong delta region encompasses a large portion of southwestern Vietnam of 39,000 square kilometres (15,000 sq mi). The size of the area covered by water depends on the season.
The Mekong Delta has been dubbed as a "biological treasure trove". Over 1,000 animal species were recorded between 1997 and 2007 and new species of plants, fish, lizards, and mammals has been discovered in previously unexplored areas, including the Laotian rock rat, thought to be extinct.
The West Burton Place District encompasses a portion of one short residential block on West Burton Place in the Old Town neighborhood of Chicago. Old Town is one of Chicago's oldest residential neighborhoods, located at the foot of Lincoln Park, a few blocks west of the lakefront and approximately two miles north of the Loop. The district is comprised of twelve principal structures on either side of West Burton Place and five residential coach houses behind principal structures on the north side of the street, from LaSalle Street on the east to the alley adjacent to a
small park on Wells Street on the west. The earliest structures on the block date from the mid-1870s and early 1880s, but the architectural, artistic and cultural significance of the street is primarily found in the remodelings of many of the buildings into artist studios from the late 1920s
through the 1940s.
Darling, brilliant is the light that has carried you back to the surface. These waters are silver and the shore is gilded in gold.
There are moments when you are the light in a darkened place, and others when lights encompasses and dances around you.
Has your situation ever been illuminated for you?
Freiston Shore is a tidal saltmarsh which also encompasses the habitats of saline lagoons and wet grassland. Freiston Shore has one of the the UK's largest 'managed realignment' projects, in which the RSPB has worked with the Environment Agency to convert 66 hectares of coastal farmland into tidal saltmarsh. This project will benefit many birds, including nesting redshanks. It will also help to compensate for the loss of such tidal habitats elsewhere in England, and to ensure that The Wash remains the most important estuary for waterbirds in the UK. Now the area is tidal again, the saltmarsh has naturally regenerated, creating valuable wildlife habitat and increasing the level of flood protection for the surrounding area. Freiston Shore protects 683 hectares of saltmarsh and mudflats, which form part of the Wash Special Protection Area. We manage and improve this habitat for the benefit of wintering, passage and nesting birds. A 15 hectares saline lagoon has been created at Freiston Shore its managed to create a rare habitat for the benefit of breeding water birds, especially avocets and ringed plovers. There is also 72 hectares of converted sheep fields and arable land into a wet grassland for the benefit of breeding waders and waterfowl.
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"Sault Ste. Marie (/ˌsuː seɪnt məˈriː/ SOO-seint-ma-REE) is the only city in, and county seat of, Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Michigan. With a population of 14,144 at the 2010 census, it is the second-most populated city in the Upper Peninsula after Marquette. It is the central city of the Sault Ste. Marie, MI Micropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Chippewa County and had a population of 38,520 at the 2010 census.
Sault Ste. Marie was settled as early as 1668, which makes it Michigan's oldest city and among the oldest cities in the United States. Located at the northeastern edge of the Upper Peninsula, it is separated by the St. Marys River from the much-larger city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. The two are connected by the Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge, which represents the northern terminus of Interstate 75. This portion of the river also contains the Soo Locks, as well as a swinging railroad bridge. The city is also home to Lake Superior State University.
For centuries Ojibwe (Chippewa) Native Americans had lived in the area, which they referred to as Baawitigong ("at the cascading rapids"), after the rapids of St. Marys River. French colonists renamed the region Saulteaux ("rapids" in French).
In 1668, French missionaries Claude Dablon and Jacques Marquette founded a Jesuit mission at this site. Sault Ste. Marie developed as the fourth-oldest European city in the United States west of the Appalachian Mountains, and the oldest permanent settlement in contemporary Michigan state. On June 4, 1671, Simon-François Daumont de Saint-Lusson, a colonial agent, was dispatched from Quebec to the distant tribes, proposing a congress of Indian nations at the Falls of St. Mary between Lake Huron and Lake Superior. Trader Nicolas Perrot helped attract the principal chiefs, and representatives of 14 Indigenous nations were invited for the elaborate ceremony. The French officials proclaimed France's appropriation of the immense territory surrounding Lake Superior in the name of King Louis XIV.
In the 18th century, the settlement became an important center of the fur trade, when it was a post for the British-owned North West Company, based in Montreal. The fur trader John Johnston, a Scots-Irish immigrant from Belfast, was considered the first European settler in 1790. He married a high-ranking Ojibwe woman named Ozhaguscodaywayquay, the daughter of a prominent chief, Waubojeeg. She also became known as Susan Johnston. Their marriage was one of many alliances in the northern areas between high-ranking European traders and Ojibwe. The family was prominent among Native Americans, First Nations, and Europeans from both Canada and the United States. They had eight children who learned fluent Ojibwe, English and French. The Johnstons entertained a variety of trappers, explorers, traders, and government officials, especially during the years before the War of 1812 between Britain and the United States.
For more than 140 years, the settlement was a single community under French colonial, and later, British colonial rule. After the War of 1812, a US–UK Joint Boundary Commission finally fixed the border in 1817 between the Michigan Territory of the US and the British Province of Upper Canada to follow the river in this area. Whereas traders had formerly moved freely through the whole area, the United States forbade Canadian traders from operating in the United States, which reduced their trade and disrupted the area's economy. The American and Canadian communities of Sault Ste. Marie were each incorporated as independent municipalities toward the end of the 19th century.
As a result of the fur trade, the settlement attracted Ojibwe and Ottawa, Métis, and ethnic Europeans of various nationalities. It was a two-tiered society, with fur traders (who had capital) and their families and upper-class Ojibwe in the upper echelon. In the aftermath of the War of 1812, however, the community's society changed markedly.
The U.S. built Fort Brady near the settlement, introducing new troops and settlers, mostly Anglo-American. The UK and the US settled on a new northern boundary in 1817, dividing the US and Canada along St. Mary's River. The US prohibited British fur traders from operating in the United States. After completion of the Erie Canal in New York State in 1825 (expanded in 1832), the number of settlers migrating to Ohio and Michigan increased dramatically from New York and New England, bringing with them the Yankee culture of the Northern Tier. Their numbers overwhelmed the cosmopolitan culture of the earlier settlers. They practiced more discrimination against Native Americans and Métis.
The falls proved a choke point for shipping between the Great Lakes. Early ships traveling to and from Lake Superior were portaged around the rapids in a lengthy process (much like moving a house) that could take weeks. Later, only the cargoes were unloaded, hauled around the rapids, and then loaded onto other ships waiting below the rapids. The first American lock, the State Lock, was built in 1855; it was instrumental in improving shipping. The lock has been expanded and improved over the years.
In 1900, Northwestern Leather Company opened a tannery in Sault Ste. Marie. The tannery was founded to process leather for the upper parts of shoes, which was finer than that for soles. After the factory closed in 1958, the property was sold to Filborn Limestone, a subsidiary of Algoma Steel Corporation.
In March 1938 during the Great Depression, Sophia Nolte Pullar bequeathed $70,000 for construction of the Pullar Community Building, which opened in 1939. This building held an indoor ice rink composed of artificial ice, then a revolutionary concept. The ice rink is still owned by the city." - info from Wikipedia.
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Milano Design Week - Euroluce 2023
Among the exhibitions and events encompassed under the name "The City of Light", the fair Euroluce has offered an Exhibition dedicated to creative works made with or inspired by the light bulbs, called "Fiat Bulb - La Sindrome di Edison".
In a portion of a pavillion, it has been re-created a section of an imaginary airport, a baggage reclaim area with carousel and conveyor belt where many boxes containing works by artists and designers inspired by the bulb light and bulb structure have been exhibited.
Instead of passengers, here visitors have been called to turn around the carousel and watch every single work on show.
I believe this show has also been a "memory" tribute to the primary incandescent lights and the warm illumination they produce.
Here, a view from outside the show, where the watery effect is obtained by the transparent curtains made of windproof pvc slats.
(In the next photo, 2 creations I particularly liked).
Further photos + descriptions in my new Album (in progress)
"Anteprima Design Week" where I'll keep on adding new up-loads for the whole month of May.
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Ref._MG_9360 OK La sindrome di Edison con tende VM e firma DEF
RAJA AMPAT encompasses more than 40,000 km² of land and sea, which also contains Cenderawasih Bay, the largest marine national park in Indonesia. It is a part of the newly named West Papua province of Indonesia which was formerly Irian Jaya. Some of the islands are the most northern pieces of land in the Australian continent.
Raja Ampat is considered the global epicenter of tropical marine bio-diversity and is referred to as The Crown Jewel of the Bird's Head Seascape, which also includes Cenderawasih Bay and Triton Bay.
Jostedal Glacier National Park is a national park in Norway that encompasses the largest glacier on the European mainland, Jostedalsbreen. Jostedalsbreen covers 487 km², and lies in the municipalities of Luster, Balestrand, Jølster and Stryn (in the county of Sogn og Fjordane). The highest peak in the area is Lodalskåpa at 2,083 meters. The glacier's highest point, Brenibba, lies 2,018 meters above sea level while its lowest point is 350 meters above sea level.
Norgesguidane offers blue ice climbing on the glacier.
Het Jostedalsbreen nationaal park is een nationaal park in Noorwegen. Het natuurgebied, in de provincie Sogn og Fjordane, omvat de grootste gletsjer van het Europese continent, de Jostedalsbreen. Het nationaal park is 1310 km2 groot, en bijna de helft hiervan wordt door de Jostedalsbreen bedekt. Het gebied omvat ook andere gletsjers. Het hoogste punt van het park is de top van de berg Lodalskåpade, op 2083 meter. Het park heeft een breed scala aan vegetatie, van het beboste laagland tot de alpiene vegetatie in het hooggebergte.
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The "Empty Quarter" or the "Rub' al Khali" is the largest contiguous sand desert in the world, encompassing most of the southern third of the Arabian Peninsula. The desert covers some 650,000 square kilometres including parts of Saudi Arabia, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. It is part of the larger Arabian Desert. One very large pile of sand!!!
The desert is 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) long, and 500 kilometres (310 mi) wide. Its surface elevation varies from 800 metres (2,600 ft) in the southwest to around sea level in the northeast. The terrain is covered with sand dunes with heights up to 250 metres (820 ft), interspersed with gravel and gypsum plains. The sand is of a reddish-orange color due to the presence of feldspar. There are also brackish salt flats in some areas, such as the Umm al Samim area on the desert's eastern edge. Along the middle length of the desert there are a number of raised, hardened areas of calcium carbonate, gypsum, marl, or clay that were once the site of shallow lakes.
These lakes existed during periods from 6,000 to 5,000 years ago and 3,000 to 2,000 years ago. The lakes are thought to have formed as a result of "cataclysmic rainfall" similar to present-day monsoon rains and most probably lasted for only a few years. Evidence suggests that the lakes were home to a variety of flora and fauna. Fossil remains indicate the presence of several animal species, such as hippopotamus, water buffalo, and long-horned cattle. The lakes also contained small snails, ostracods, and when conditions were suitable, freshwater clams. Deposits of calcium carbonate and opal phytoliths indicate the presence of plants and algae.
There is also evidence of human activity dating from 3,000 to 2,000 years ago, including chipped flint tools, but no actual human remains have been found. The region is classified as "hyper-arid", with typical annual rainfall of less than 3 centimetres (1.2 in). Daily maximum temperatures average at 47 °C (117 °F) and can reach as high as 51 °C (124 °F). Fauna includes arachnids (e.g. scorpions) and rodents, while plants live throughout the Empty Quarter. As an ecoregion, the Rub' al Khali falls within the Arabian Desert and East Saharo-Arabian xeric shrublands. The Asiatic cheetahs, once widespread in Saudi Arabia, are regionally extinct from the desert.
Geologically, the Empty Quarter is one of the most oil-rich sites in the world. Vast oil reserves have been discovered underneath the sand dunes. Sheyba, at the northeastern edge of the Rub' al Khali, is a major light crude oil-producing site in Saudi Arabia. Ghawar, the largest oil field in the world, extends southward into the northernmost parts of the Empty Quarter.
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