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The 2020 Ferrari 812 Superfast is an example of what happens when an automaker commits to crafting a vehicle that offers the best performance money can buy. With almost 800 horses under the hood, this coupe provides brutish power, facilitating a zero-to-60-mph sprint that clocks in at less than three seconds. Fuel economy is poor, and the 812 Superfast's $330,000-plus price makes it accessible only to the very privileged few. Still, if you have deep pockets and a thirst for spectacular handling, this skilled Ferrari won't disappoint.
Ferrari's 812 Superfast gets its muscle from a 6.5-liter V-12 powerplant, and this engine delivers a bracing 788 horsepower and 529 lb-ft of torque. A seven-speed automatic transmission sends power to the rear wheels. The 812 Superfast holds a place among the quickest of the quick. In our track tests, it sprinted from zero to 60 mph in a scant 2.8 seconds. That's a dazzling performance, but it trails that of the McLaren 720S. That car made the run in just 2.7 seconds. Handling is nimble, especially when you consider this Ferrari's relatively hefty curb weight. The engine note is mellifluous, and the car's brakes are potent enough to bring this beast to a quick and decisive standstill.
Thanks to Car And Driver for the above.
A Happy new year!
These are Japanese New year cuisine "Osechi Ryori". Each food has its own meaning. For example, small fish dishes "Tazukuri" symbolize wishes for abundant harvests and the prosperity of descendants.
明けましておめでとうございます。本年もどうぞよろしくお願いします。
This is one example of the decaying grandeur of an old Soviet spa in Georgia.
In the 1920s, Tskaltubo was a thriving spa town with an exclusively Soviet clientele. Citizens would flock here as part of a state-funded health program on sanctioned vacations meant to reenergize them while they contemplated socialist ideals. If the workers were healthy, as the theory went, the workforce would be healthy and thus more productive to support the regime.
Another example of when I timed it just right. This gull had just plucked this feather and let it go. Monterey, California.
I thought before we went to England that there would be no open spaces. This is a example of how wrong I was.
The vertical lines on the wings of this species are an example of a disruptive pattern that helps keep the butterfly safe from birds. The only species in it’s entire genus, the Banded Orange Butterfly has several nicknames such as the Orange Tiger and Banded Orange Heliconian. Banded Orange Butterflies have been spotted in the wild sipping the tears of crocodiles for their salt.
- Quick Facts -
‧ Range - Brazil to Central Mexico
(occasional sightings within the U.S., specifically Texas)
‧ Habitat - Forest clearings and riverbanks
‧ Wing Span: 3 3/8 - 3 1/2 inches
‧ Diet - Nectar, fluids from sand, mud, and dung
‧ Conservation status - Least concern
-- Technical Information (or Nerdy Stuff) --
‧ Camera - Nikon D7200 (handheld)
‧ Lens – Nikkor 18-300mm Zoom
‧ ISO – 1600
‧ Aperture – f/5.6
‧ Exposure – 1/400 second
‧ Focal Length – 300mm
The original RAW file was processed with Adobe Camera Raw and final adjustments were made with 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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I promised a birthday card for Adriana, and this silvery evening shot seems perfect. My Lighthouse is by Villagers.
She loves poetry so this is a poem by Pablo Neruda
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Write, for example,'The night is shattered
and the blue stars shiver in the distance.'
The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
Through nights like this one I held her in my arms
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.
She loved me sometimes, and I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.
To hear the immense night, still more immense without her.
And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.
What does it matter that my love could not keep her.
The night is shattered and she is not with me.
This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance.
My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.
My sight searches for her as though to go to her.
My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.
The same night whitening the same trees.
We, of that time, are no longer the same.
I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her.
My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.
Another's. She will be another's. Like my kisses before.
Her voide. Her bright body. Her inifinite eyes.
I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms
my sould is not satisfied that it has lost her.
Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer
and these the last verses that I write for her.
I wanted the car in this shot to give a sense of just how huge the rock formations are in Arches National Park near Moab, Utah, and how abruptly they rise from a flat plain. This Courthouse Towers peak is way bigger than most buildings in Philadelphia. Okay, that was a bad example. Most things are bigger than a Philadelphia building. But the high walls of these rocks really are spectacular. Photographed on Jeff Clow's Dirt Cheap Photo Tour.
The chapels of St Margaret and St Edmund in the north-east corner of Tewkesbury Abbey. Perfect for maximising the amount of chantry masses that could be said back in the day.
The Abbey Church of St Mary the Virgin, Tewkesbury – commonly known as Tewkesbury Abbey – is located in the English county of Gloucestershire. A former Benedictine monastery, it is now a parish church. Considered one of the finest examples of Norman architecture in Britain, it has the largest Romanesque crossing tower in Europe. Tewkesbury had been a centre for worship since the 7th Century. A priory was established there in the 10th Century. The present building was started in the early 12th Century. It was unsuccessfully used as a sanctuary in the Wars of the Roses. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, it became the parish church for the town. George Gilbert Scott led the Restoration of the building in the late 19th Century.
The churchmanship of the Abbey is strongly Anglo-Catholic.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
Our cattle descends from a wild ox ("Ur") which was living in the middle-european woods until the 16th century. It was bigger than this backbreeding attempt, and the original colour was rather black.
This cattle are living as wild, but for security fenced in a wide area. Their task is to maintain the vegetation ("landscaping") in the nature reserve and to prevent trees from capturing the landscape.
These animals are as shy as real wild ones and let me not come closer than about 50m of distance. Otherwise they would escape immediately like any other wild cattle. So they have been watching me very intensively if I'm approaching or not :-)
© 2016 Thousand Word Images by Dustin Abbott
Part of what is so intriguing about photography is the unique way that different exposures can fundamentally change scenes. This, for example, was the purposeful underexposure of a scene for a series of bracketed shots. But the heightened drama by imperfections in the lighting (dark, moody shadows, heavy vignette) made the image particularly stunning to me.
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In 1862, the Countess of Ripon commissioned Sir George Gilbert Scott to build this church in memory of the first Earl, her husband, on their estate at Nocton, near Lincoln. This was completed in 1863 in an elaborate Early English style in Ancaster stone, with plate tracery and a 130 foot steeple. The builder was Mr W Hudleston. Scott also designed a monument to the Earl in 1859, the effigy by Noble in 1862, executed by Farmer, to go in the completed church.
In the village, Scott designed terraces of partly three storey stone houses (for example, 18-21 Main Road) in an asymmetrical style, a lodge to Nocton Hall, and a Gothic style school. Her son, the new Marquis of Ripon, who became Lord President of the Council during Gladstone’s first administration (1868–73), would have further dealings with Scott.
Pevsner, N., Harris, J. and Antram, N., Lincolnshire, Buildings of England (Penguin Books, London, 1989), pp. 577-8.
Here you can see how early car manufacturers used lead (instead of Bondo) to fill in roof joints. Notice how sanding (file) marks are still present in the lead. More importantly, just how thick the early paint jobs had to be to cover these scratches up.
Image:
Konica T4
40mm f1.8
Fuji 4791 duplicating film.
POTA developer, 12 Minutes.
Example of felt floor underlayment vapor barrier underneath a damaged portion of older wood-plank floor system, in this case the sub-layer material tested positive for asbestos. Sometimes older wood floor systems may also contain mastic or adhesive with asbestos content as well.
This smaller Aster has a perfect example in front, the full bloom... FOR ALL THE LOVELY DETAIL, BEST View HERE On Black
Always keep a bit of mystery... you show all... loss of interest?
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Why not view the set as a slide-show?
Also I often upload more than one image at the same time, I see a tendency to only view the last uploaded...
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Yesterday was a great example of why I always keep a camera in my car. I was doing the normal, simple task of going to the grocery store when I noticed that the sky was amazing.
The White Swan Building was built in 1925 Buchanan & Builders by and designed by Thomas S. Byrne & Company. It was originally known as the Waples-Platter Coffee Roaster Building.
The Waples-Platter Coffee Roaster stands as an excellent example of an early twentieth century industrial facility in Dallas. This was the third and grandest of the company's coffee roasters, and this facility was the last to remain.
In 1978, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. This building is located near the West End on Lamar Street in Downtown Dallas.
Like other historical houses of Kashan, Borujerdi House is an example of a wealthy Kashan family residence of the 19th century. This house belonged to Borujerdi family and is an outstanding masterpiece of Persian architecture.
Borujerdi House was built in 1857 by Seyyed Mehdi Borujerdi, a merchant from Kashan. Seyyed fell in love with a girl from the affluent Tabatabaei family. To impress her family, the merchant dedicated this house to the girl, who became his wife. The construction took 18 years and 150 craftsmen – no wonder it is one of the most impressive buildings of the city.
In 2014, Hao Ping, President of UNESCO General Conference, visited Kashan and nominated Borujerdi House as the most beautiful historical house in Asia. In 2015, Borujerdi House was chosen as UNESCO Top Choice to visit in Iran.
Example shows Rico's Tea House, which is well-built yet I reckon could shine further with personalized lighting!
Now, for our leaders / it doesn't take that much / to arrive at real cooperation / just a reduction of your Ego.
(example from foundation that recycles material for use in counties with lower level of wellfare: portagora.eu/)
Ryōan-ji (Shinjitai: 竜安寺, Kyūjitai: 龍安寺, The Temple of the Dragon at Peace) is a Zen temple located in northwest Kyoto, Japan. It belongs to the Myōshin-ji school of the Rinzai branch of Zen Buddhism. The Ryōan-ji garden is considered one of the finest surviving examples of kare-sansui ("dry landscape"), a refined type of Japanese Zen temple garden design generally featuring distinctive larger rock formations arranged amidst a sweep of smooth pebbles (small, carefully selected polished river rocks) raked into linear patterns that facilitate meditation. The temple and its gardens are listed as one of the Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto, and as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Les manifestations dans les grandes villes ont souvent été le théâtre de revendications diverses, notamment en lien avec la pandémie de COVID-19 et les droits des femmes.
La pandémie de COVID-19 a exacerbé les inégalités urbaines, transformant une crise sanitaire en une crise d’accès urbain et d’équité. Les conditions de logement ont accru la vulnérabilité des femmes à la violence, et les restrictions de mobilité ont limité leurs possibilités de fuir ces situations. De plus, la fréquentation des transports publics a chuté, ce qui pourrait compromettre les efforts pour un transport durable et sûr.
Les femmes ont joué un rôle crucial dans les manifestations, exprimant leur colère face aux inégalités persistantes. Par exemple, le 8 mars 2024, plus de 30 000 femmes en Belgique ont participé à des grèves et manifestations pour exiger plus de respect pour le travail du care.
Ces actions soulignent l’importance de reconnaître et de valoriser le travail souvent sous-estimé des femmes 🤔
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Demonstrations in large cities have often been the scene of diverse demands, particularly in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic and women's rights.
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated urban inequalities, turning a health crisis into a crisis of urban access and equity. Housing conditions have increased women's vulnerability to violence, and mobility restrictions have limited their ability to escape these situations. In addition, the use of public transport has declined, which could jeopardise efforts to achieve sustainable and safe transport.
Women have played a crucial role in demonstrations to express their anger at persistent inequalities. For example, on 8 March 2024, more than 30,000 women in Belgium took part in strikes and demonstrations to demand greater respect for care work.
These actions highlight the importance of recognising and valuing women's work, which is often undervalued.
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Alright! Spring has sprung here in Oklahoma - and the salticids are returning once again!
This handsome little Maevia inclemens may not be the best example I've seen of his species in terms of boldness of coloration/markings - but he was in pretty good shape and was quite a bit of fun to work with. The shot above was taken by holding the dandelion leaf he was perched upon up towards the clouds yesterday afternoon. A single shot cropped to about 75% of the original frame to balance out the composition a bit (just now noticed this is almost the exact same diagonal composition I've used in my last couple salticid shots: high left down to a low right). Taken with my 50mm reversed to extension tubes and my usual flash diffuser.
To read about the odd dimorphism present in the males of this species - head over here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maevia_inclemens
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In other news - BugShot, the macrophotography workshop I will co-teach with Alex Wild and John Abbott in Florida this coming August, has now filled up - but go ahead and check out the website HERE to keep track of updates on where we will be next year!
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Another example of a loan in from First Manchester to Dukinfield that could have just retained its original number (in this case 412), but instead had a seven added, albeit temporarily.
New to Shearings, of course, and acquired by First with their portion of the Timeline business.
Dukinfield, Pennine yard (well, just next door in fact), 28/01/2001.