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Camera : Ernst Leitz "IIf" with Summaron f=3.5cm 1:3.5
Film : Fujifilm Neopan SS (ISO100)
Pancratium maritimum L.
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Location: Elaphonisi islet, Crete
Date: February 22, 2008
Pancratium maritimum germinating. Not technically a flower as yet but wonderful to see this happening in its natural environment.
Added to the Darwin Endless Forms group under the theme "the struggle for existence" because the south west corner of Crete gets battered by extreme winds. The sandy dunes of Elaphonisi islet continually shift and along with many other plants, it is amazing how the plants struggle to survive. The roots anchorage is usually very deep.
[ref: February 22, 2008 Elaphonisi islet (54)]
The Athlone 10KM and 5KM road races were held in Clonown Village, Co. Roscommon, Ireland on Sunday 28th of April 2013 at 14:30 and 15:00. Clonown is a small townland on the west bank of the River Shannon and is situated about 3 miles south of the town of Athlone. Whilst the townland is almost completely rural it is accessed easily from major routes and towns by the M6 motorway.
This race completely defied the fact that it is only the second year of it's existence. Every aspect of the organisation was professional: from stewarting, registration, start of races exactly on time, car-parking, and post race refreshments. The 10KM route followed an anti-clockwise loop. The race started on the L2035 Togher Road (about 100m from Clonown Centre) and heads towards the old Ballinasloe Rd and back via Creggan with the finish at the Clonown Community Centre. The 5KM run was added this year to provide a managable challenge for people who are following programmes such as Operation Transformation. The 5KM race route follows a meandering around the townland. The race starts at the church in Clonown and head clockwise around the Ballinaculla townland which offers lovely views of the River Shannon. The route then goes to the Drumlosh road and runs for 1.5 km before the roundabout which is the 3km mark. The race then turns around and returns back to the village and finish at Clonown Community Centre. Both races share some of the race route for the Flatline Athlone Half held in September (www.athlonehalfmarathon.com/) which makes the race routes very fast and flat.
Overall Race Summary
Participants: Approximately 400 people took part in both events with runners, joggers, walkers, and families involved.
Weather: This was a wonderfully bright dry afternoon but a very strong wind made difficult running conditions in places.
Course: Very flat accurately measured course on rural roads and bog roadway. There were waterstops provided at various points and by locals along the route. Very well stewarded.
Refreshments: There were lots of refreshments served in the community center aftwards.
Location Map: This is the start/finish area on Google StreetView [goo.gl/maps/W0Hxc]
Some Useful Links
The Clonown area on Google Streetview [goo.gl/maps/W0Hxc]
Facebook Page for the Athlone 10KM Race 2013 www.facebook.com/Athlone10krun?fref=ts
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my art exam project has finally made a dent in my cluttered mind. thanks to miss bennett who spent a lot of time looking for the photographer she wanted to show me but couldn't remember the name of, i met Thomas Struth.
deserted streets, quasi-theatrical crowds in museums - i was, very plainly, captivated. he had completely transformed the idea i had of art upholding the mundane, the quotidian. after i had collected and prepared the photos i wanted to print out of my sketchbook, i logged off and looked round the empty BB1 art room. everything was a photograph. the sight that i lost in my period of un-inspiration (haha) was back.
i had quite a few to choose from today. even this photo has a partner, which i tried diptych-ing... in vain. it was a photo of two bananas that were also on the floor. all this overlooked existence. screaming discord. but overlooked.
A previous existence as a military parachutist helped Patrick Baty on this project. The 185ft bridge had to be scaled at night, when the trains had stopped running, in order for paint samples to be taken.
See the BBC clip here.
He was able to establish that this famous bridge by Isambard Kingdom Brunel had originally been painted with a white “anti-corrosive” paint containing ground glass. The bridge had been painted twenty times and with a combination of physical and documentary analysis Patrick was able to work out how it looked since it was built in 1859.
This shows the initial off-white scheme, which included ground glass in the undercoat.
Strandfontein Sewage Works
Although the uninitiated will often turn up their noses at the idea of voluntarily visiting a sewage farm, such places are often exceptionally rich in birdlife. This is especially true of the extensive Strandfontein sewage works, arguably the best waterbird locality close to Cape Town, whose existence is under threat from a new motorway. The abundant and diverse birdlife makes it an ideal destination for the beginner and serious twitcher alike, and it is possible to see more than 80 species on a summer morning. A major advantage is the opportunity to bird from the comfort and security of your car, which can be used as a moving hide. The vast network of reed-fringed pans which radiate out from the sewage plant buildings is connected by good gravel roads, but beware of occasionally treacherous sandy patches, especially along the southern coastal road.
To enter the Strandfontein sewage works from the Cape Town side, take the M5 free-way southwards from Cape Town and turn left into Ottery Road at the Ottery turn-off; continue for 4.5 km until the junction with Strandfontein Road (M17); turn right here, and continue (southwards) along Strandfontein Road for 4 km; turn right again at the ‘Zeekoeivlei’ sign (1 on site map, opposite) within a stand of gum trees just after a petrol station and opposite Fifteenth Avenue. To enter the works from the False Bay side, turn north onto Strandfontein Road from Baden Powell Drive, 6.8 km east of the Muizenberg traffic circle, and you’ll reach the Zeekoeivlei turn-off after 4.1 km.
Baden Powell Drive (R310) follows the False Bay coast westwards to Muizenberg and Simon’s Town, and eastwards to the N2 highway near Somerset West. Strandfontein can thus conveniently be visited after Sir Lowry’s Pass (p.60).
The poorly marked entrance to the works is adjacent to a derelict building at the south end of Zeekoeivlei (2), where African Fish Eagles are often seen roosting in the trees to the west. Bird numbers and water levels at Strandfontein vary widely depending on the year and season, and the route suggested below is intended as a general guide to the most productive areas.
Continue along the tar road towards the plant buildings, and check the deep pans on both sides of the road (3 and 4) for Black-necked Grebe, Maccoa Duck, Southern Pochard, and Cape Teal. Here too you will see the first of various other waterfowl species that are common throughout the sewage works, such as Cape Shoveller, Yellow-billed Duck and Red-billed Teal, while Purple Gallinule stalk along the reed-lined edges. Levaillant’s Cisticola is very common in long grass fringing the pans, and agitated birds draw attention to themselves with their characteristically frenetic calls. White-throated and European Swallows (summer) and Brown-throated Martin dart low overhead.
Where the road meets the sewage plant itself, continue to the left of the buildings, and scan pan 5 for a good variety of waterfowl. The adjacent small, muddy pan at 6 often host somewhat scarcer species such as Southern Pochard and Wood Sandpiper. The road between the two pans is regularly used in summer as a roost by large numbers of White-winged Terns, which can be seen flying over pans throughout the area.
At this point, retrace your route and continue to the pan at 7. This pan, and the small, reed-enclosed pond at its northern end, are usually also productive. At the ‘hub’ of the wheel of large pans, turn left. Pan 8, on your right, invariably holds good numbers of birds, notably Black-necked Grebe, White Pelican, Greater Flamingo and Maccoa Duck.
The western and northern corners of pan 9 are always worth investigating. The former often has an exposed beach frequented by waders (including Avocet); the latter is good for scarcer ducks such as Cape Teal and South African Shelduck, and occasionally Hottentot Teal. Continue around the northern apex of pan 9 and head south past pan 0. The reeds in this vicinity are particularly good for African Sedge Warbler, Cape Reed Warbler and, in summer, African Marsh Warbler. Very much more evident in the alien thicket are Cape Francolin and Cape Bulbul. Pan 0 itself usually offers great birding, providing a good selection of waterfowl and wading birds in its northern reaches.
Options are now limited by sandy roads, so we suggest that you retrace your route and turn left along the southern border of pan 9. This is an especially good area for African Marsh Harrier, which is virtually guaranteed to be seen flying low over the alien thicket and adjacent reedbeds. Head south again, and cast a glance over pan A for African Black Oystercatcher. Turn right where the road meets the coastal dunes, where Swift and Sandwich Terns and Little Stint (summer) often roost. Spare a moment to look up from your telescope and enjoy the splendid view over False Bay and its embracing mountains!
Good numbers of waterbirds can reliably be found on pan B. Cape and White-breasted Cormorants, White Pelicans and miscellaneous waterfowl roost on the large, sandy island and on the pan edge (C on map), while rafts of assorted ducks bob on the usually choppy water. A pair of South African Shelduck often frequents this pan, as do flocks of Greater Flamingo.
Having absorbed all pan B has to offer, continue past a series of relatively unexceptional pans before re-entering the central wheel at E. The small pan at D is often productive, as is E. Before leaving, you might find it worthwhile to check pan F for Great Crested Grebe.
This darn game... the bane of my existence. He is spoiled, I admit it. He begged Mike to play with him. I warned "He's a cheater and don't play with the 'golden' marble." KNOWING that it was going to lead to some screaming, because somehow the torture that comes from being an older sibling is lost on me. Plus my getting older... it's definitely true when they say that the babies get away with everything because you're too tired and concede to whatever *within reason* to find the quiet homeostasis. Before the game is even put together the screaming begins..... erupting into a 30 minute meltdown of torture and disappearing golden marbles, all the while with the shit-eating grin that erupts on the faces of siblings getting their digs in. He gathers up all of the pieces and deposits them away from him... snorting and snotting for another 15 minutes... at the end... somehow they seem to forget the previous 40 minutes of torture as Mike again asks if he wants to play. REPEAT the process all over again.
126/366 ― street flowers
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“The earth this city is built on was ready to move on before its surface had cooled. They say that after the bomb dropped and nearly blasted Hiroshima out of existence, the grass and flowers grew back almost immediately. Not months or years after the bodies had been burned and the radiation dissipated; by August 12, 1945, just a week after the Enola Gay gave birth to the nuclear age, the city was blanketed in green. “Weeds already hid the ashes, and wild flowers were in bloom among the city’s bones,” John Hersey wrote in Hiroshima, his wrenching minute-by-minute account of the aftermath of the first atomic bomb. “The bomb had not only left the underground organs of plants intact; it had stimulated them.” ―Matt Goulding
A heart somehow made it's way into this creation, unintentionally...
Credit morguefile for the tree and field, the rest are my older photos.
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Image from 'Relics from the wreck of a former world; or Splinters gathered on the shores of a turbulent Planet; proving the vast antiquity, and the existence of animal life before the appearance of Man. With an appendix on the scenery in a patch of infinite space. To which is added, accounts of the most wonderful bodies that have fallen from Heaven', 003070725
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Page: 58
Year: 1847
Place: New York
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In existence before "New Orleans" even bore its name, and having served as a Spanish armory, Tujague’s restaurant has survived decades of war, depression, fire and plague to bring you a tradition of culinary excellence undiminished today.
Prosperity had never smiled more broadly on New Orleans than it did in the period when Tujague’s first opened its doors. The city’s growth during the 1850’s was immense, and, for European emigrants in search of success in the New World, opportunity was everywhere for the taking.
Guillaume and Marie Abadie Tujague took this advantage in 1852 when they married and set sail for America from Bordeaux France. Guillaume Tujague became a butcher in the French Market for three years before they established Tujague’s Restaurant in 1856. They began by serving breakfast and lunch to the dock workers, market laborers and seamen who crowded that part of the riverfront. The South was still recovering from the Civil War, but Tujague’s never missed serving a meal!
A very gloomy day today - after a couple of weeks of beautiful weather, it is back to reality (i.e. clouds, rain, humidity etc.). I do not really mind rain - in fact, I am quite glad it is raining, beacuse I will not need to water plants on the balcony (yay!) - but I hate the greyness that (sometimes) comes with it. I feel deflated. And I get a bit sad, especially when thinking of my friends in Poland, with whom I do not keep in touch as much as I would like to. I used to be really close with them and now I feel more and more disconnected from their lives. Like I somehow stop existing for them. I guess it works both ways, but it is more intense for me (I am here 'alone' and they are there together).
Well, that is the price you pay for your life choices.
Found this on Elk Head, an outcropping of rock at the end of a bluff in Trinidad. It was all the way up to the edge of the rock and clearly got hit with spray pretty frequently, yet managed to stay alive somehow. Not usually a fan of Hasselblad style square crops, but it was the only thing that really worked with this shot. Anyway, I liked it.