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As the ships arrive, the little man's heartbeat races and he holds tight to his single piece of luggage. He packed all the essentials: toothbrush, sailboat blanket, change of clothes, wooden sword, a chocolate bar, and his beloved teddy bear. He can't believe that he finally made it, and, as he looks around, he can see the look of anticipation, the light of hope and dreams shining bright, in his fellow explorer's faces. He pushes his way towards the side of the boat, closest to the dock.
The plank walkway drops, and Skippy runs, the first one out...
The little man looks over his shoulder and smiles so happy
and waves for you to join him...
“It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.”
― Ken Kesey
Clouded Leopard (male), Khao Kheow Open Zoo, Chonburi, Thailand
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clancy warner fragile existence
(these figures made of wax, wood, and cloth mounted on a steel internal frame were designed to disintegrate, and have disintegrated, in the harsh environment of the eastern ranges)
10th palmer sculpture biennial, eastern mount lofty ranges, south australia
It rained and its over a shooting star
Landed directly on our broke down little car
We fold and we had made a wish
That we would be missed
If one another just did not exist
Cause thats what we're waiting for
That's what we're waiting for
That's what we're waiting on, aren't we?
That's what we're waiting for
That's what we're waiting for
That's what we're waiting for darlin'
Lyrics from the Modest Mouse song "Little Motel" ... it's a catchy and soft, moving song that I've been hooked on lately.
Image taken this past Spring at the Ira Keller fountain: Zero Image self-portrait, approximately two minutes.
Exploring some new photo locations. This was snapped at Sol Existence; and I'm going to be a frequent visitor :-) Fly birdies!
Calystegia sepium
heavenly trumpets
Echte Zaunwinde
Giving a face to the mundane with 30-59-11 raw development 😎
Mit einer 30-59-11-Raw-Entwicklung dem Profanen ein Gesicht gegeben 😎
2022-07-03_XT10895, b&w-version
my first step of this year is that go straight my goal, consequentially keep the reflection of life stably.
maybe it's too abstract to understand, but there are several things request - I'm 100% sure what I'm doing, what I'm talking, and make mistakes less and less.
wish you a gorgeous year and have full of inspirations of photography.
happy new year. *grin*
Korsika - Bonifacio
Sentier des Plages / Beaches Walk
Coucher du soleil / Sunset / Sonnenuntergang
Bonifacio (/bəˈniːfɑːtʃoʊ/; Italian pronunciation: [boniˈfaːtʃo]; French: [bɔnifasjo]; Corsican: Bunifaziu, [buniˈfatsju]; Bonifacino: Bunifazziu; Gallurese: Bunifaciu) is a commune at the southern tip of the island of Corsica, in the Corse-du-Sud department of France.
Bonifacio is the setting of Guy de Maupassant's short story "Vendetta".
The French leg of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series takes place in Bonifacio.
Bonifacio is located directly on the Mediterranean Sea, separated from Sardinia by the Strait of Bonifacio. It is a city placed on the best and only major harbour of the southern coast and also is a commune covering a somewhat larger region including the offshore Isles Lavezzi, giving it the distinction of being the southernmost commune in Metropolitan France. The commune is bordered on the northwest by the canton of Figari and has a short border on the northeast with the canton of Porto-Vecchio. The combined border runs approximately from the Golfe de Ventilegne on the west to the mouth of the Golfu di Sant'Amanza on the east. The coastline circumscribed by the two points is about 75 kilometres (47 mi). Highway N198 runs north along the east coast and N196 along the west.
The islands are part of the French portion, 794.6-square-kilometre (196,300-acre), of the international Bouches de Bonifacio ("Strait of Bonifacio") marine park, a nature reserve, signed into legal existence by France and Italy in 1993 for the protection of the strait against passage of ships bearing dangerous chemicals, and implemented in France by a ministerial decree of 1999 detailing the land to be included in the réserve naturelle de Bouches de Bonifacio for the preservation of wild birds, other fauna and flora, fish and nature in general.
The southern coast in the vicinity of Bonifacio is an outcrop of chalk-white limestone, precipitous and sculpted into unusual shapes by the ocean. Slightly further inland the limestone adjoins the granite of which the two islands, Sardinia and Corsica, are formed. The port of Bonifacio is placed on the Bay of Bonifacio, a drowned ravine of a fjord-like appearance separated from the ocean by a finger-like promontory 1,500 meters (4,900 ft) long and 200 meters (660 ft) wide. In prehistoric post-glacial times when sea levels were low and the islands were connected, the ravine was part of a valley leading to upland Corsica. The maximum draught supported by the harbour is 3.5 meters (11 ft), more than ample for ancient ships and modern small vessels.
The city of Bonifacio is split into two sections. The vieille ville (old town), or la Haute Ville (the Upper city), on the site of a citadel, is located on the promontory overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. The citadel was built in the 9th century with the foundation of the city. The Citadel has been reconstructed and renovated many times since its construction and most recently was an administrative center for the French Foreign Legion. Today it is more of a museum. Historically most of the inhabitants have resided in the Haute ville under the immediate protection of the citadel. The harbour facilities and residential areas below, la marine, line the narrow shelf of the inlet and extend for some distance up the valley, giving the settlement a linear appearance and creating a third residential section limited by St. Julien on the east.
The city and its fortifications also extend for some distance along the cliff-tops, which are at about 70 meters (230 ft) elevation. The cliffs have been undercut by the ocean so that the buildings, which have been placed on the very lip of the precipice, appear to overhang it. The appearance from the sea is of a white city gleaming in the sun and suspended over the rough waters below.
Bonifacio has two prehistoric sites of some importance: the ancient cave shelter of Araguina-Sennola near the village of Capello on Route N96 just north of the city and a chambered tomb of Vasculacciu further north near Figari. The first is the site of the notable Lady of Bonifacio, a female burial carbon-dated to about 6570 BC, which is either late Mesolithic or Early Neolithic, and the second belongs to the Megalithic Culture and is dated to the Middle Neolithic. The alignment of the two and the extensive use of chert from Monte Arci in Sardinia shows that the Bay of Bonifacio was a route to inland Corsica from the earliest times.
The only record of southernmost Corsica in Roman times comes from the geographer Ptolemy. He reports the coordinates of Marianum Promontory and town, which, plotted on a map, turn out to be the farthest south of Corsica. After listing the peoples of the east coast he states that the Subasani (ancient Greek Soubasanoi) were "more to the south."
The people do not appear subsequently and the town and promontory have not been identified, nor do any Roman roads point to it. The only official road, the Via Corsica, ran between the Roman castra of Mariana and Aleria on the east coast and further south to Pallas, according to the Antonine Itinerary. Ptolemy places Pallas unequivocally on the east coast north of Marianum. Although unrecorded tracks and paths to the far south are possible, it is unlikely they would have carried any significant Roman traffic.
Maritime traffic through the strait however was significant and it could hardly have neglected the fine harbour at Bonifacio. The most popular choice for Marianum Promontory therefore is Cape Pertusato, southernmost point of Corsica island, about 9 kilometers (6 mi) east of the harbor, with Bonifacio itself as Marianum town. A second possibility would be the first century AD Roman ruins adjoining Piantarella Beach near the village of Ciappili and next to the grounds of Sperone golf course, a recreational suburb to the west of Bonifacio, but those ruins appear to represent a Roman villa and the beach though eminently suitable for recreation is of little value as a port. More likely the villa belonged to a citizen of Bonifacio as Marianum.
Corsica was taken from the Roman Empire in 469 AD by Genseric, king of the Vandals, and recovered by the Eastern Empire in 534. The Lombards having taken it again in 725, Charlemagne cleared them out by 774 and handed the island over to the Papacy, which had been the most powerful complainant of the island's devastation by Germanics. Starting in 806 the Moors of Spain began to contend for the island and held it for a short time but in 828 the Papacy assigned its defense to the margrave of Tuscany, a powerful state of the Holy Roman Empire nominally under the Kingdom of Italy.
The city in evidence today was founded as a fortress by and subsequently named after Boniface II of Tuscany in 828. He had led a naval expedition to suppress the Saracens of North Africa and returned to build an unassailable fortress and naval base from which the domains of Tuscany could be defended at the outermost frontier. Most of the citadel postdates the 9th century or is of uncertain date but Il Torrione, a round tower, was certainly part of the original citadel.
(Wikipedia)
Bonifacio (prononcé en français : [bɔnifasjo], en italien : [boniˈfaːtʃo]; en corse : Bunifaziu ou Bunifazziu selon le dialecte bonifacien) est une commune française située dans la circonscription départementale de la Corse-du-Sud et le territoire de la collectivité de Corse. Elle appartient à l'ancienne piève de Bonifacio dont elle était le chef-lieu.
Bonifacio, située à l'extrême sud de la Corse, est la commune française la plus méridionale de la France métropolitaine.
Au sud, les Bouches de Bonifacio séparent la Corse de la Sardaigne italienne.
Elle constitue après Porto-Vecchio la deuxième agglomération de l'Extrême Sud de la Corse, qui s'étend depuis Bonifacio jusqu'à Sari-di-Porto-Vecchio au nord et Monacia-d'Aullène à l'ouest en passant par Figari et son aéroport.
Dès 1833, les terrains néogènes de Bonifacio sont signalés par J. Reynaud dans une note publiée dans les Mémoires de la Société géologique de France (n° 20). « L'âge des couches de Bonifacio correspondant très probablement au calcaire moellon du Midi et à la mollasse des Martigues, de Cucuron et de Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux ». En 1886, l'îlot de Néogène de Bonifacio est soigneusement étudié par Pérou (n° 114) qui en donne la description suivante :
« Tantôt les premières assises disparaissaient, affleuraient ou étaient supérieures au niveau actuel de la mer ; qu'en de nombreux endroits l'érosion les avait totalement enlevées en ne laissant que le substratum de granite, et cela aussi bien sur les bords de la mer, par exemple, entre les ruisseaux de Canalli et de Balava, qu'à l'intérieur des terres, entre les collines de Sappa et de Finocchio. »
— D. Hollande in Géologie de la Corse, Bulletin de la Société des Sciences historiques et naturelles de la Corse - Éditeur Veuve Ollagnier Bastia, janvier 1917 p. 237-238.
Les sédiments du Néogène de Bonifacio forment à l'extrémité sud de la Corse un plateau élevé entre 60 et 80 mètres, d’une superficie de 60 km2, reposant en plein sol granitique. La mer a fortement rongé, miné à la base cet immense bloc ; les constructions élevées sur le bord des falaises « donnent l'impression d'une chute prochaine, bien qu'un tel état des choses dure depuis des siècles et ne trouble en rien la quiétude des habitants. ». La surface de ce plateau est découpée par des fentes, de petites vallées, qui la transforment en une table mamelonnée à monticules s'élevant jusqu'à 80 mètres au-dessus du niveau de la mer. La falaise que domine le phare de Capo Pertusato comprend essentiellement des mollasses graveleuses et des calcaires blancs.
Les sédiments néogènes de Bonifacio comprennent sept couches avec fossiles identifiés1, qui sont de haut en bas :
De l’Helvétien : 7 - Des calcaires assez tendres, grisâtres ; 6 - Des calcaires blancs subcrayeux ; 5 - Des calcaires durs, jaunâtres ou d'un gris blanc ;
Du Burdigalien : 4 - Des marnes ou des marno-calcaires ; 3 - Des calcaires verdâtres et des marnes sableuses, grises, ocreuses, quelquefois à grains de granite, où les fossiles sont nombreux ; 2 - Des calcaires ou des marno-calcaires ; 1 - Des lits de galets, de gravier et de sable.
L'origine de la ville actuelle de Bonifacio n'est pas vraiment connue avec précision, mais des dates approximatives indiquent sa refondation entre 828 et 833 par Boniface II de Toscane qui lui donna son nom actuel. L'histoire attestée de Bonifacio remonte en 1195 mais la ville fut colonisée par les Génois qui imposèrent à la ville des modifications militaires structurelles importantes (et qui créèrent la citadelle actuelle).
Comme tous les ports de commerce, son histoire a été relativement mouvementée notamment par un conflit guerrier entre Pise et Gênes, ces deux républiques se disputant avec acharnement sa citadelle qui était un maillon stratégique militaire et un complexe portuaire sans égal en Corse. Dans un premier temps, Pise fut maîtresse des lieux jusqu'à la fin du XIIe siècle.
Le roi Alphonse V d'Aragon, maintint en 1420 un siège pendant cinq mois avant de baisser les armes face à l'intouchable cité qu'était Bonifacio.
Bonifacio a subi au cours des siècles, de multiples attaques ; mais la plus terrible fut celle de la peste qui en 1528 fit plus de 4 300 morts dans la cité qui à cette époque comptait 5 000 habitants. Les murailles imprenables se révélèrent inutiles face à ce fléau. La chapelle Saint-Roch, à l'entrée de la ville, reste un témoignage de la fin de cette sombre période. On y fait toujours une procession qui rappelle que c'est en ce lieu, où est mort le dernier Bonifacien atteint de la maladie, avant la fin de la peste.
En 1553, encore très affaiblie par le passage de la peste, Bonifacio subissait une nouvelle attaque et dut se rendre à Dragut, un ancien corsaire turc dont on dit qu'il avait été commandité par le Maréchal des Thermes. La ville assiégée capitula pour la première fois et fut mise au pillage.
Le roi François Ier de France prend possession d'une ville détruite et dépeuplée que les Français commencent à reconstruire, mais qui, en vertu du traité de paix passé en 1559, est cédée à la République de Gênes.
(Wikipedia)
Bonifacio (korsisch: Bunifaziu) ist eine Hafenstadt an der südlichen Spitze der französischen Mittelmeerinsel Korsika (Département Corse-du-Sud) mit 3118 Einwohnern (Stand 1. Januar 2017). Sie gab der Straße von Bonifacio genannten Meerenge zwischen Korsika und der zwölf Kilometer entfernten Insel Sardinien ihren Namen.
Bonifacio ist die südlichste Gemeinde des Départements Corse-du-Sud und der Insel Korsika. Der Ort teilt sich in zwei Gebiete: die Ville haute (Oberstadt) genannte mittelalterliche Altstadt und die Marina im Hafenbereich. Die Ville haute liegt auf einer 900 Meter langen, schmalen, parallel zur Küste verlaufenden Landzunge aus Kalk- und Sandstein, der Île de Fazio, die an ihrer Seeseite aus einer durchschnittlichen Höhe von 70 Metern faktisch senkrecht zum Meer hin abfällt. An der Landseite der Landzunge ist eine fjordartige Bucht (französisch Calanque) in den Kalkstein eingeschnitten, die einen gut geschützten Naturhafen bildet. Dort fällt das Kalksteinplateau weniger steil zum Wasser hin ab. Der Naturhafen dient gleichzeitig als Fischerei- und Yachthafen. Des Weiteren ist Bonifacio ein Zentrum der Handelsschifffahrt und des Fährverkehrs mit der benachbarten Insel Sardinien sowie des Fremdenverkehrs, insbesondere in den Sommermonaten.
Die offizielle Gründung Bonifacios geht auf das Jahr 828 und den toskanischen Grafen Bonifacio II. zurück. Archäologische Funde belegen allerdings, dass die Gegend bereits in frühgeschichtlichen Zeiten besiedelt war. 1187 gelang es den Genuesern mit einer List die Stadt einzunehmen. Abgesehen von einer Unterbrechung in den Jahren von 1553 bis 1559 (Sampiero Corso) blieb Bonifacio bis 1768 in der Hand Genuas. Seit 1768 ist Bonifacio unter französischer Herrschaft. 1793 bereitete Napoleon hier die gescheiterte Invasion Sardiniens vor. Im Zweiten Weltkrieg wurde Bonifacio 1942 wie ganz Korsika von deutschen und italienischen Truppen besetzt.
Die auf einem halbinselartigen Felsplateau gelegene Altstadt von Bonifacio ist wohl eine der eindrucksvollsten im Mittelmeerraum. Das Plateau ist an seinem Fuß auf der Seeseite stark ausgewaschen, sodass die Häuser darauf fast wie auf einem Balkon stehen.
Die Altstadt, deren enge, kopfsteingepflasterte Straßen von vier- bis fünfstöckigen Häusern gesäumt werden, ist über eine Zugbrücke und einen im Zickzack angelegten Tunnel zur Zitadelle zu erreichen. Das Panorama, das sich von den zahlreichen Aussichtspunkten bietet, verdeutlicht, warum Bonifacio stets als Schutzhafen vor den unberechenbaren Witterungs- und Strömungsbedingungen in der Straße von Bonifacio angesteuert wurde. Es gibt ebenfalls den Blick auf die mit Häusern bebauten weißen Kalk- und Sandstein-felsen frei, an denen das Meer seit Jahrtausenden ununterbrochen nagt, so dass sich Grotten bildeten, die ein beliebtes Ausflugsziel sind. Im Westen der Altstadt liegt der alte Meeresfriedhof (Cimetière marin de Saint-François), der beinahe den Charakter einer eigenen kleinen Stadt aus unzähligen Mausoleen und Familiengruften aufweist.
Die einzigartige Lage machte die Stadt immer wieder zum Zentrum kriegerischer Auseinandersetzungen, weshalb sie im Laufe der Zeit zu einer Festung ausgebaut wurde.
Die Grotten sind Ziel der vom Hafen aus organisierten Bootsfahrten, während der auch die Klippen vom Meer aus bewundert werden können. Von dort gut zu sehen ist auch die sogenannte Treppe des Königs von Aragon, deren Stufen in den Stein gehauen von der Oberstadt bis zum Meer führen.
Entlang der Klippen bietet sich eine Wanderung von Bonifacio aus in Richtung Südosten bis zum südlichsten Punkt Korsikas an, dem Capo Pertusato. Von dort eröffnet sich eine schöne Aussicht auf die Stadt.
Die Gastronomiebetriebe im Hafen sind auf die Zubereitung fangfrischen Fisches spezialisiert.
Das bei jedem Wetter gut geschützte Hafenbecken liegt am Ende der schmalen „Calanque“ und bietet daher Segelyachten keine Gelegenheit zum Kreuzen. Die Einfahrt selbst ist schwer auszumachen, die Häuser der Altstadt auf dem Plateau im Osten sind gut zu erkennen.
Gut erkennbar ist der weiße, viereckige Turm mit dem Wohngebäude des Leuchtturms auf Cap Pertusato, der von Süden und Westen zu sehen ist. Aus Norden kommend, ist der weiße Leuchtturm mit schwarzer Galerie auf Cap de Feno die beste Landmarke. An den Klippen unterhalb der Altstadt sind der restaurierte Wachturm und in den Fels gehauenen Treppen (Treppe des Königs von Aragon) zu sehen.
(Wikipedia)
Rural American Scenes
Every time I see one of the few drive-in theaters still in existence, I think about how much fun they were and how many lifetime memories were made "going to the drive-in". The 1950's and 1960's could be viewed as "backwards" compared to today's technology-laden culture, but having experienced both, I can say, for my money's worth, the experiences I had growing up in the 50's and 60's were priceless. Kids gave no thought to killing one another or their parents, or to committing suicide. Our parents didn't have to lock guns up to keep us from using them on each other. We left the keys in the ignition of our cars with the windows rolled down. We left our bikes parked out in the yard. We slept with our doors unlocked. We weren't exposed to incredibly violent movies and we weren't given a roadmap of how to commit horrific crimes. We didn't have 24/7 news reporting. We had a simple life, with a lot of joy, and we were taught morals and respect for one another. How we got to where we are today doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out. And now that the genie is out of the bottle, good luck on trying to put her back in.
Wabash, IN
2025
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Inks Lake State Park sits on the northeastern edge of the Llano Uplift, a 1,290-square-mile island of Precambrian igneous and metamorphic rock surrounded by younger Paleozoic and Cretaceous sedimentary rock. It makes for some hard scrabble existence for critters and plants. PA311741
Phoenix, Arizona
Cinestill 50Daylight (Pushed 2 Stops)
Nikon F3
Nikkor 50mm 1.4
Processed @ Oscar's Photo Lab
"A perfect beauty of a sunflower! a perfect excellent lovely
sunflower existence! a sweet natural eye to the new hip moon, woke up alive and excited grasping in the sunset shadow sunrise golden monthly breeze!"
- Allen Ginsberg
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whatever... we can smile and be pleased for our existence here and now
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As a thanks to all of my followers, and to try and help promote brickly, I'm doing a giveaway with this model. If you haven't heard of it before, brickly is a new app for sharing your original LEGO creations and seeing others' models. It is currently only available for iOS devices, but they have plans to expand to Android and a web platform as well. It is still just getting started, but I think it could become a very useful asset for the online LEGO community.
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Not unlike this object, losing our purpose in life will lead us to a certain path where even the slightest shadow of our existence will fade away like tears in the ocean.
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A wintry scene in northern China as the C2 loco heads back to Huanan with a loaded coal train from the mine in the distant hills. It was as cold as it looks. Be thankful you're not a cow.
Huanan Coal Railway, Heilongjiang Province, Northern China.
November 2006. © David Hill.
“I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.” ― Philip Larkin, Letters to Monica
This image will be reproduced in the Guardian's Guide to Photography (print version) on Saturday 17th November. This will be the first time an image of mine has been used in print so I'm pretty pleased to say the least.