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Railtown 1897 State Historic Park, and its operating entity, the Sierra Railway, is known as "The Movie Railroad." Both entities are a heritage railway and are a unit of the California State Park System. Railtown 1897 is located in Jamestown, California. The entire park preserves the historic core of the original Sierra Railway of California (later reincorporated as the Sierra Railroad). The railway's Jamestown locomotive and rolling stock maintenance facilities are remarkably intact and continue to function much as they have for over 100 years. The maintenance facilities are listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Sierra Railway Shops Historic District
JAPAN
I've fantasized about visiting and photographing its tumultuous modern and ancient 'otherness' for so long that it's hard to believe it's finally happening. For most of the month of October, I will be traveling (via train) with compatriots navidj, ranjit and nuzz over as much of Honshu and Hokkaido and maybe even Shikoku as humanly possible.
Emboldened by ms. spicey kicey's recent and ingenious idea to offer advance prints in sponsorship of her grand Icelandic photo excursion, I hope that you too will lend a hand in support of photographic exploration!
1. How it works Choose your sponsor level and corresponding print size and check out via google cart.
2. I spend October in Japan submerged in photographic bliss (and possibly some hot springs).
3. I return in November and you choose your print(s) from a set of flickr photos.
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Railtown 1897 State Historic Park, and its operating entity, the Sierra Railway, is known as "The Movie Railroad." Both entities are a heritage railway and are a unit of the California State Park System. Railtown 1897 is located in Jamestown, California. The entire park preserves the historic core of the original Sierra Railway of California (later reincorporated as the Sierra Railroad). The railway's Jamestown locomotive and rolling stock maintenance facilities are remarkably intact and continue to function much as they have for over 100 years. The maintenance facilities are listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Sierra Railway Shops Historic District
I will return to the wedding photos later, I want to start on a new series with these branches since I've only taken random photos of them before.
The universe is a complete unique entity.
Everything and everyone is bound together
with some invisible strings.
Do not break anyone's heart, do not look down
on weaker than you.
One's sorrow at the other side of the world
can make the entire world suffer,
one's happiness .....
- Shams Tabrizi
Experimenting with new MJ insights, I was listening to Kendra Morris. To see what would happen I inserted her name in the prompt in combination with various album names. Whatever happened, for one, Kendra Morris is not an unified entity in the MJ language models.
photographie surréaliste et abstraite 40 x 30 cm par Em’Art,.
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After the strange lights we witnessed in the skies,the visitation from an Extraterrestrial Biological Entity wasn't really much of a suprise at this point.
Test shot from wales, bit noisy but love the halo around Tim's head.
Cwb and raw conversion with 16:9 crop in camera.
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The Serracozzo cave is a cave located on Mount Etna created by the lava flow from the eruption of 1971.
During a photographic excursion in the summer I had the opportunity to visit it for the first time.
Once inside, the cave shows a unique spectacle: the opening in the upper part lets the light enter and illuminate the place beautifully, showing details of the streaks left by the scrolling lava.
The position of the light in that moment seemed to have taken the shape of an entity.
Location : Kyoto Saga Tenryu-ji Temple - Hougon-in
京都嵐山 嵯峨天龍寺境内塔頭 宝厳院
Daikisan Hougonin is a sub-temple (a semi-autonomous entity) of,an dlocated within the Tenryuji Temple complex,a major religious ,cultural and historic site in the Arashiyama district of Kyoto.Tenryuji is part of Rinzai sect of Zen Buddhism.The sub-temple was built in1461 by Hosokawa Yoriyuki,a hibh ranking official in the government of the Muromachi shogun,for temple founder Seichueikou Zenshi,third grand disciple of Muso Kokushi,founder of Tenryuji. -Hougon-in
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= Savor ' Buddha's spirit' kept secret for 140 years =
The Arashiyama area in western Kyoto along the banks of the Katsura River is famous for its cherry blossoms in spring and its glorious autumn foliage. Until this month, a less popular attraction had been the gardens of Hogonin Temple, a sub-temple of Tenryuji Zen Temple — largely because they had been closed to the general public for 140 years.
The gardens, known as Shishiku-no-niwa, are believed to be at least 600 years old and were created during the Muromachi Period (1338-1573) by Sakugen Shuryo, a Zen priest and garden designer who was a disciple of another, more famous Zen priest, called Musou Kokushi (aka Soseki). During the Edo Period (1603-1867) the gardens were well known and are mentioned in “Miyako-rinsen Meisho Zukan (Guidebook to the Gardens of Miyako [the former name of Kyoto])” by Ogawa Tazaemon, published in 1799. As part of a long and careful process of restoration, just now a teahouse near the entrance is being repaired by carpenters, and in time the entrance gatehouse will also be repaired.
The 8,000 sq.-meter gardens — whose name roughly translates as Spirit of Buddha Garden — showcase nature in a natural setting, and the atmosphere of this wooded area designed for strolling is profoundly tranquil. Iroha-momiji (Japanese maple; Acer palmatum) grow here in large numbers and Tawara Gisen, the head priest, said that many of them are self-sown seedlings. And indeed, the ground is littered with maple seedlings, which Tawara said he will soon put in small pots and give to visitors free of charge.
Another attractive feature of Shishiku-no-niwa are the colossal rocks that dot the garden. These rocks were not positioned by the garden’s designers; instead the garden was made around them. Long ago, when the river’s waters were higher, the softer stone was gradually eroded so that, when the water level fell, these impressive rocks were high and dry.
Elsewhere, the woodland floor is covered with various species of moss, the most common being oosugikoke (hair moss; Selaginella remotifolia). In the middle of the garden there is an akamatsu (Japanese red pine; Pinus densiflora) growing out of a rock which, over the centuries, has been split by its roots.
Growing on this rock is a hitotsuba (tongue fern; Pyrrosia lingua). Also known as Japanese felt fern, this is a creeping, evergreen epiphytic variety that spreads by rhizomes. The simple strap-shaped upright fronds have a leathery texture and are around 30 cm long and 5 cm across, with rust-colored spores growing on the underside. There are numerous cultivars of this variety, which is native to China, Taiwan and Japan, and some have cristate or contorted fronds.
Throughout the garden, considerable effort has been made to erect traditional-style bamboo fences. One of these styles, known as takeho-gaki (bamboo-branch fence), is made from branches of bamboo packed tightly together. Further examples can be seen in the Sagano area of Kyoto behind Tenryuji Temple.
There is also a hanging bamboo gate. Known in Japanese as shiorido (bent-branch door) or agesudo, this uses strips of bamboo woven into a diamond pattern. The gate is suspended from stout oak branches. Though not very common, this style of gate is used in tea-ceremony gardens. The niwashi (gardeners) who are presently restoring the gardens also constructed an unusual bamboo fence they call a Hougan-gaki in honor of a priest adept at bamboo-work.
Both the Hogonin and Tenryuji temples were burned to the ground in 1877 by die-hard Satsuma soldiers from southern Kyushu who were opposed to the new government in Tokyo. Hence the hondo (main building) of Hogonin Temple dates back to early in the Taisho Era (1912-26). Visitors can enter this building and sip Japanese tea while admiring the trees in the garden. At this time of the year the vivid green color of the new leaves is known as shinryoku.
The gardens will remain open until May 31 and will then reopen from October until early December. Aside from the autumn leaf colors, visitors in fall will also be able to see fine shows of susuki (eulalia; Miscanthus sinensis) and hagi (bush clover; Lespedeza thunbergii). Next year the gardens will again also open in spring and autumn.
As an added incentive to visit, by pre-arrangement small parties can be held in the teahouse in the garden, with food delivered from nearby restaurants.
- The Japan Times 2002/4/25
Japan : The Official Guide / Central Kyoto
www.jnto.go.jp/eng/location/regional/kyoto/centralkyoto.html
Shot for the Entity Dance Collective dancers during their practice session - 11/09/2008
Dancer: Anna
(Strobist info: Cross lighting with 1 bare strobe on camera right at 1/8 zoomed to 105mm; sunset light from window on camera left.)
Left to right: cuirassier, hussar, officer, line infantry (2x), Märditsch Gebirgsjager
Background:
The Duchy of Bamburg is a peculiar entity amongst Carnite states. While most of the constituent polities of Carno are either Free Cities or city-states, with a strong parliamentarian or mercantile nature in most cases, Bamburg is the epitome of Carnite conservatism and politically leans more towards a traditional system of rule, such as seen in Mardier and Oléon where power resides in those who own land, with a complete absence of any sort of general council or parliament.
Situated in northern Carno, on the border with Mardier, Bamburg is one of the larger entities of Carno in terms of land. Because of its more mountainous nature than the rest of Carno, which consists mostly of flatlands, Bamburg is somewhat more thinly populated, with most of its people living in the rich Styr valley. As this valley is the base for Bamburg's wealth and the nucleus of its social and political life, the Bamburg elite is often also referred to as the 'Lords of the Vale'. This semi-secluded nature that cuts of the Bamburgers from most of Carnite flatland has led to a specific Bamberg dialect of Carnite, which is often mocked as being "nigh-incomprehensible babbling" by other Carnites, especially those living in the West and South of the river Karn.
Bamburg economy is mostly based on extensive agriculture in the valley and the cultivation of grapes for the production of the finest luxury wines, which are exported all over Carno and beyond. Contrary to many Carnites who live a frugal lifestyle, Bamburgers are well-known to enjoy life and love to display their wealth, through fashion, architecture and patronage of arts.
They are sometimes regarded as haughty or arrogant by other Carnites, but the Bamburgers have accepted such notions with a certain pride. There is a marked animosity between the Bamburgers and the Essians, who they view as "dour, bleak, too stoic, republican and untrustworthy traitors". A sentiment likely stemming from the wide cultural gap and being on opposing sides during the Carnite civil war, with Bamburg firmly in the Royalist camp of Aden and the King.
Culturally, they share superficial similarities in with the Mardierian people, who are also gourmands who love to flaunt their wealth. This stems from the origins of the Duchy, which was founded during the time of the Great Trek, when the first ancestors of the Carnites arrived in what was to become Carno one day. While most of Carno was grasslands and marshes, the Vale was already populated, urbanized and cultivated by the Mardierians. As powerful newcomers, the Carnites conquered the valley and its surroundings and drove most of the remaining Mardierians into the higher mountains, where their descendants live to this day. Little animosity remains however, and both peoples now share one culture. Descendants of the Mardierians who live in the mountains are called the Marditsch by the Bamburgers of the valley, and serve as scouts in Bamburg's state army. When Carno declared its independence, Bamburg was one of the last states to join the fledgling nation, opting to become an independent kingdom itself first.
On the battlefield, the Bamburgers stand out with their gold-trimmed carmine uniforms and the ridged boiled-leather helmets of the infantry. The heavy cuirassiers wear a Raupenhelm, of similar pattern to those used by the Principality of Wisimar. Bamburg doctrine is rather defensive and depends on reaction, rather than action, with smart counterattacks and attempting to lure the opponent into making mistakes.
Note:
Another sub faction for Carno! I bought some red bellhop torsos and I knew I had to do something with those. I've long been wanting to make an antagonist faction to Essen (or vice versa), so I'm pretty glad with how these came out. While I normally strive to work with purist parts, sadly Lego had to defile the torso with a silly badge, so I rubbed that off.
I have more background for these guys, but the post is already long enough :D
Times were changing. On Dec. 13, 1986, Chesapeake & Ohio was still a separate corporate entity, but CSX was beginning to really mix up the power. Here we see the eastbound "Patriot" between Noel and Verdon, VA, led by SBD SD45-2 No.8963. And that goes to another change, CSX got a bee in its bonnet and started naming trains. Eastbound No. 794 became the "Patriot" and westbound No. 795 became the "Statesman." If I recall correctly, the naming business didn't last long. I was sorry to see it go. B&O had named freight trains for years, and it was a touch that I always liked.
Three iconic railroad entities in the West meet up in the Apache's yard. The crew had an easy day set up with only 3 inbound cars and 13 to go back with them. However the BNSF X-FTXHOL from Friona, TX showed up to drop off 109 empties for cleaning about 5 minutes before they did.
After some quick conversation, a plan was put together to unplug the yard. The APA stuck their 3 inbound cars into the depot track, then ran down 3 track to pickup their 12 tank and feed cars. The BNSF filled track 2 with hoppers until the DP's were in the clear, seen here, then set the rest of the headend over onto track 3. The APA had to do a quick shuffle to get the tanks together and the feed cars together, and used track 1 to do that. A perfect spot of the ATSF hopper on track 1 allowed this shot when they came back over to 3 with some tanks. After the tanks were secured on 3, they grabbed the 5 hoppers off of 1 and pulled forward onto the connection to hang the EOT and do the air test. With track 1 open, the single BNSF motor came back down to pick up the 2 DPU's and prepare for a light engine move onto Winslow. The APA left the tanks as the car they had planned to use as a buffer was now on the wrong side of the power in the depot track and they were unable to run around it.
This metallic finish with strange engravings resembling an entity with oversized head is just a close up view of a transparent featureless ice sheet.