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Ryan sets the mood while the slow-moving motor takes its sweet time lifting the connecting block from the floor.
The plaque tells the story, which I kind of knew about. If you like hiking and jogging, especially up hills in a small area, then this place is for you.
This week, for the New York Times summer birding project, we invite birders of all experience levels to try their hand at drawing a bird. You can do this from life or from a photograph. Try to produce at least one sketch in the upcoming week using any medium you wish. Share it with us by emailing birds@nytimes.com.You don’t need to spend hours honing your illustration (unless you want to). As the master illustrator David Sibley, of the widely popular Sibley field guides, describes in the interview below, the most important aspect of drawing a bird may just be that it changes how you see.This interview has been edited for clarity and length.Do you have any formal training in illustration?No, I am self-taught.I should say that I don’t consider myself really an artist as much as a scientific illustrator. I am trying to convey information, and it’s all about the details of the bird: the shape, the posture, the colors, the patterns. The outline is the most important part; if that’s right, everything else sort of falls into place, and it’s just like a coloring book.How often, and where, do you go birding?I’m lucky now to live in a place where I can just step outside and walk into the woods or around some fields and go birding right here. But I am always aware of birds. I am listening and watching through a window or along the road — wherever I am, I am always birding.Do you think technology will ever replace illustration in the birding world?I’ve wondered about that.
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Our guide explains the cyclotron as Woaksie (top right corner) snaps a picture of me taking this, here.
The relief behind him is of the sons of Ramesses II processing to their father's new pylon at the front of Luxor Temple.
ImaginOn was a new idea when it opened. Today, many kids in Charlotte don't remember a time before we were here. We wondered how they would describe ImaginOn...so we asked! youtu.be/o3-WeQaiEpU