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They said if I add some cute animals to my pictures I'd get more likes. Lets put this to the test! :D
One of three relief panels from a triumphal arch which depict the exploits of the emperor Marcus Aurelius. The presumed monument is thought to be the lost Arch of Marcus Aurelius which was erected in the Forum Romanum in 176 CE to celebrate the emperor's victories over the Germanic peoples and the Sarmatians. In the 6th century CE, the arch seems to have been dismantled, and the reliefs were inserted into the walls of the church of S. Martina, which was erected in the forum on the ruins of the Secretarium Senatus, a hall of the Curia Julia, site of a penal tribunal (established in the 4th century CE). The reliefs were brought to the Palazzo dei Conservatori in 1515 on the orders of Pope Leo X and initially added to the walls of the courtyard. In 1572, they were moved to their current location in the wall of the staircase of the palace.
ca. 177-180 CE. From Rome, church of SS. Luca e Martina.
Musei Capitolini, Palazzo dei Conservatori (inv. MC0808)
Exploitant : Cars Hourtoule
Réseau : SQY Terre d'Innovations
Ligne : 10
Lieu : Gare de Plaisir – Grignon (Plaisir, F-78)
Lien TC Infos : tc-infos.fr/id/41511
It's pretty well known that I had little love for Arriva Trains Wales. From their exploitative fares policy to their testy customer services, they just weren't a nice company to deal with.
They, of course, are gone now, St. Mary's House on the Penarth Road has a sticking plaster with a big 'T' logo over the Arriva signage, the staff have sticking plasters with a big 'T' over their Arriva logo jumpers, and the whole ramshackle operation lumbers on much as before.
Or does it?
Well, actually no, it doesn't.
And, I can't actually believe I'm saying this, but...
It's worse.
In the five weeks that have passed since the WAG finally got their dirty hands on the trains, it's absolutely gone down the pan.
Up here in never never land, timekeeping is just something that we fondly remember. Y'know, a bit like Izal toilet paper or Maxpax coffee. I've had the misfortune to travel on six TfW trains this week. The best performer was 17 down.
Cancellations are rife, again on the coast we now regularly have a ninety minute gap in eastbound trains at tea time. Two or three days a week, every week.
And, for the third Saturday in a row, there's cancellations and short running pretty much over the entire TfW network. Except for around Cardiff, of course.
The Cambrian is only two hourly, although they promise not to turf you out at Wolverhampton this week, half the Pembroke and Fishguard trains are caped, Wrexham to Bidston, the much vaunted North East Wales Metro, is only two hourly. Imagine that, a two hourly metro. Good eh?
And the North Wales to Manchester Airport trains will go no further than Oxford Road, the advice for pax heading to the airport is to use Northern or TPX forward.
Has no-one in Cardiff seen that, for the 915th Saturday in a row, the RMT Manchester and Northern division is having another unpaid holiday, and you'd be lucky to get on the TPX step boards as a result.
And you can forget going to Blaenau Ffestiniog by train. Again.
And there's still not a peep about when our promised 10% fares reduction will come. Probably after they've gone up by 20%...
(Historical note, fares in North Wales were hiked in the late 1980's to pay for those nasty things up above. Oddly, when the trains were paid for, the fares didn't go back down. Instead, they flogged the trains to a bank for three parts of fuck all...)
So, you'll be bored by now, so I'll finish here. But to Arriva Trains Wales, I humbly apologise. You are only the second worst Welsh TOC, not the first.
Sorry.
1D34 Manchester Oxford Road-Holyhead doesn't produce the loco-hauled goods, instead it's 158834 and 158838.
Sums it up, really.
Just one more thing, memo to Carwyn and Ken. Ain't it funny how you two have crawled back into the woodwork since it's all gone tits up?
World class my arse.
Rhyl, 15 November 2018.
Véhicule : IRISBUS IVECO Citelis 18 GNV
Identification : 2663 (BL-089-JA)
Exploitant : Keolis Bordeaux Métropole
Réseau : TBM (Bordeaux Métropole)
Dépôt : Centre d'Exploitation du Lac (CEL)
Ligne : 14 NAVETTE RELAIS TRAM C
Voiture : 30022
Destination : Gare Saint-Jean
Suite à l'incendie du parking souterrain des "Salinières" le 18 Mai 2019, la circulation des tramways de la ligne Tram C (passant au-dessus) a été suspendue entre Quinconces et Gare Saint-Jean. Il s'agit pour les équipes techniques d'experts d'évaluer l'état de la structure après le sinistre, pour ainsi déterminer les travaux à engager, et la date de rétablissement de la circulation des rames.
Des navettes de substitution ont donc été mises en places, en mobilisant le parc articulé disponible, et en délestant des bus standards de réserve sur les lignes pour libérer des articulés supplémentaires.
21/05/2019 16:36
Quai des Salinières ; Bordeaux
an exciting exhibition in the Völklingen ironworks, which is itself an exciting place...
voelklinger-huette.org/en/exhibitions/the-true-size-of-af...
"The Diaspora series references historical portraits of Black individuals who achieved social prominence in their diasporic lives but were largely ignored by traditional histories due to racism. Diop revisits these exceptional life stories, incorporating soccer accessories into the portraits to draw parallels with modern African athletes striving to succeed in Europe."
The Völklingen Ironworks (German: Völklinger Hütte) is a former blast-furnace complex located in the German town of Völklingen, Saarland. Pig iron production occurred at the site from 1882 through 1986. As one of the only intact ironworks surviving from the 19th and early-20th centuries in Europe and North America, it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994 because of its exceptional preservation and its testimony to ferrous metallurgy and the Industrial Revolution.
"Family Life"
Hué (Vietnam)
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The reproduction, publication, modification, transmission or exploitation of any work contained here in for any use, personal or commercial, without my prior written permission is strictly prohibited. All rights reserved."
Exploitant : Keolis Argenteuil Boucles de Seine
Réseau : IDF Mobilités – Argenteuil – Boucles de Seine
Lieu : Gare de Sartrouville (Sartrouville, F-78)
Lien TC Infos : tc-infos.fr/vehicule/35132
Police from Tameside investigating modern slavery and drugs trafficking between Tameside and #Humberside have made arrests this morning.
Warrants were executed at addresses in #NewtonHeath, #Failsworth, and the #NorthernQuarter area as part of an operation dedicated to disrupting a drugs line between Tameside and #Hull that involves the criminal exploitation of vulnerable children.
The action is part of #OperationMarconi which was formed in June 2020 and concerns the exploitation of children from Tameside aged between 16 and 17.
It is one of over 20 investigations being led by GMP Tameside's Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) team dedicated to modern slavery and the exploitation of vulnerable people who have been coerced into criminal activity in the district.
The CCE team have already made an additional eight arrests as part of those investigations and four people have been charged with modern slavery and drug offences.
A number of vulnerable individuals coerced into 'county lines' and identified as high-risk have been safeguarded and re-housed with support from local partner agencies.
County lines describes organised criminal networks involved in exporting illegal drugs into one or more importing areas within the UK, using dedicated mobile phone lines.
Children and vulnerable adults are often exploited to move and store the drugs and money often through coercion, intimidation, violence and weapons.
Police continue to collaborate with social services and schools, in particular, to help spot the signs of any children that may have been identified to be at risk of such exploitation.
Detective Constable Laura Hughes, of GMP Tameside's Child Criminal Exploitation team, said: "Today's action is a significant statement as we continue to tackle the pernicious exploitation of vulnerable young people for illicit gains.
"We have been working tirelessly in the CCE team in Tameside to work with local agencies in identifying and safeguarding potential victims of this criminality, while pursuing those that we believe are responsible for such exploitation.
"Tackling 'county lines' by its nature requires closely co-ordinated work, not just with local partners, but also policing partners from across the country and I would like to thank Humberside Police for their support during this operation so far.
"A lot of our work is based on intelligence and we are forever gaining a clearer picture as to how these criminal enterprises operate and are developing a real understanding of how these groups recruit and coerce vulnerable young people.
"It is important people know to spot the signs of when someone may be being exploited; whether it being withdrawn from family and friends and skipping school, to having more than one phone and going missing from home more regularly.
"Anyone with suspicions or concerns should contact police online via our website, call 101 and always dial 999 in an emergency. Details can be passed to the independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111."
From here, curious to exploit a spot I've never used before, I took position on the corner of the 'Pazzo Gelato' building to get a good shot of buses coming both ways - and paid off that certainly did! This one was taken mid-phone call, but it kicked off that series of photos from here, and if you want my advice? It's a good spot to go to if you're careful around the unbarriered road and occasional pedestrian traffic. As well as if you don't mind the cold.
Exactly a year to the day since I last got a photo of this bus, Stagecoach in Hull's 11194, a 2019 ADL Enviro 400MMC - I wonder when the repaints scheme will get around to these? - swings out of North Point Shopping Centre on a 2 to Boothferry Estate.
The grand scenery of Skagen, impressionist painters took advantage of 150 years ago lie adjacent to the merchants' harbour, industry and factory plants. - Not so different to the fishermen exploiting and working on the beaches in many of those paintings.
"Uproarious"
Zèbre de Grévy - Zoo de la Palmyre (Poitou-Charente - Charante-Maritime)
Album "Zoo de la Palmyre" :
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"Exploitation of the deep leads, which was complicated and costly, required capital to fund the shaft sinking and underground tunnelling, the infrastructure of poppet heads, machinery, equipment, steam engine houses, puddling machines, water pumps and sluice apparatus, and the employment of miners and support workers."
Véhicule : IRISBUS Agora L GNV
Identification : 2278 (DD-352-KR)
Exploitant : Keolis Bordeaux Métropole
Réseau : TBM (Bordeaux Métropole)
Dépôt : Centre d'Exploitation du Lac (CEL)
Ligne : 14 NAVETTE RELAIS TRAM C
Voiture : 1411
Destination : LE BOUSCAT Place Ravezies
Véhicule : IRISBUS IVECO Citelis 18 GNV
Identification : 2601 (BC-416-WN)
Exploitant : Keolis Bordeaux Métropole
Véhicule : IRISBUS IVECO Citelis 18 GNV
Identification : 2667 (n.c.)
Exploitant : Keolis Bordeaux Métropole
Véhicule : IRISBUS IVECO Citelis 18 GNV
Identification : 2666 (n.c.)
Exploitant : Keolis Bordeaux Métropole
Du Lundi 15 au Jeudi 25 Avril 2019, 2 phases d'interruptions se sont succédé sur la ligne Tram C, pour que les équipes de maintenance effectuent des travaux sur les voies.
Durant la première phase, la ligne était coupée entre les stations "Grand Parc" et "Gare Saint-Jean". Lors de la seconde phase, l'interruption a été réduite à la section de "Quinconces" à "Gare Saint-Jean".
17/04/2019 15:56
Allée de Bristol ; Bordeaux
HMS Exploit is one of the 14 Archer-class patrol vessels that form the Coastal Forces Squadron. Versatile and able to operate in confined waters she conducts many roles including Maritime Security, Support to NATO Operations and assisting in the training of future Warfare Officers of the Royal Navy.
Taken with a Nikon D90
27 Gennaio 1945 - 27 Gennaio 2009, Giornata della Memoria
Dedicata ai bambini di Terezin, dedicata ai bambini vittime di tutte le guerre, dedicata a tutti i bambini sfruttati, dedicata a tutti i bambini che soffrono, dedicata a tutti i bambini del mondo.
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January 27, 1945 - January 27, 2009, Memory Day
I am dead that I was child, I am dead with other one hundred past for the fireplace and now I am in the wind...
Dedicated to children of Terezin, dedicated to the children victims of all the wars, dedicated to all the exploited children, dedicated to all the children that suffer, dedicated to all the children of the world.
La paura
Di nuovo l’orrore ha colpito il ghetto,
un male crudele che ne scaccia ogni altro.
La morte, demone folle, brandisce una gelida falce
che decapita intorno le sue vittime.
I cuori dei padri battono oggi di paura
e le madri nascondono il viso nel grembo.
La vipera del tifo strangola i bambini
e preleva le sue decime dal branco.
Oggi il mio sangue pulsa ancora,
ma i miei compagni mi muoiono accanto.
Piuttosto di vederli morire
vorrei io stesso trovare la morte.
Ma no, mio Dio, noi vogliamo vivere!
Non vogliamo vuoti nelle nostre file.
Il mondo è nostro e noi lo vogliamo migliore.
Vogliamo fare qualcosa. E’ vietato morire!
Eva Picková, age 12, (died in Terezin il 18/12/1943)
27 Gennaio 1945 - 27 Gennaio 2009. Per non dimenticare...Schindler's List, Itzack Perlman
Exploitant : Transdev TVO
Réseau : R'Bus (Argenteuil)
Ligne : 9
Lieu : Gare d'Argenteuil (Argenteuil, F-95)
Lien TC Infos : tc-infos.fr/id/37466
This early-cycle small box edition of "Schoolgirls in Chains" (1973) was a 'common' back in the day, but now quite rare. The film gained a minor cult following for being a cut above the usual grindhouse fare of the era. Released on the prolific Samboo label.
à destination de Paris, Porte d’Orléans, place du 25 août 1944, Paris (14ème arrondissement, Île-de-France, France, FR)
Go-Go for a wild ride with the action girls! Russ Meyer, the king of exploitation, directs this lurid thrill-ride starring Tura Satana, Haji, and Lori Williams as a trio of dancers who turn to murder and mayhem on a road trip from hell. Varla is well-endowed, beautiful, physically powerful, savvy and conniving. She lives for kicks, but she's also got a serious mad on for the world, and anyone who crosses her finds out the hard way. Her job as a go-go dancer, supplemented by a part time career in petty crime has afforded her a sleek and fast sports car, which she enjoys riding in the desert with her fellow dancers. One of them, Rosie, has a crush on Varla, which she happily encourages, even if Varla is really more interested in the control it gives her over Rosie than in Rosie herself. The other dancer, Billie, is a little harder for Varla to manage, but Billie isn't bright enough to outmaneuver Varla.
When the little gang run into a square drag racer, he winds up getting into a fight with Varla, losing of course. Varla makes sure he never talks back again, then kidnaps his girlfriend and makes a run for it. BIllie and Rosie tag along, and they soon become involved in intrigue with an old letch in the desert rumored to have a stash of cash hidden away somewhere. When Varla starts to lose control of the situation, things (again) become violent, leading to a revved-up climax! Three strippers seeking thrills encounter a young couple in the desert. After dispatching the boyfriend, they take the girl hostage and begin scheming on a crippled old man living with his two sons in the desert, reputedly hiding a tidy sum of cash. They become houseguests of the old man and try and seduce the sons in an attempt to locate the money, not realizing that the old man has a few sinister intentions of his own.
synopsis
Exploitation maven Russ Meyer created a cult classic with this turbo-charged action film. Three curvaceous go-go dancers in a cool sports car go on a desert crime spree, led by Varla (the amazing Tura Satana), a busty, nasty woman dressed entirely in black. Varla's lesbian moll, Rosie (Haji) -- who has an extremely overwrought accent -- and reluctant bimbo Billie (Lori Williams) are along for the ride. When they meet a naïve young couple, Tommy and Linda (Ray Barlow and Sue Bernard), Varla challenges the man to a race then kills him by breaking his back. They take Linda hostage and drive to a house owned by a crippled old lecher (Stuart Lancaster) and his muscular but retarded son, Vegetable (Dennis Busch). Varla discovers that the old man has money hidden on the property, so the girls try to find it. Meanwhile, Vegetable's perverted father tries to trick him into assaulting one of the girls as he watches, but his other son (Paul Trinka) finally shows up to save the day. A great deal of bloodshed, campy catfighting, and funny dialogue fills the bulk of this fast-paced comic book of a movie.
Born 1946 Quebec,Canada
Passed on 2013
Birth Name - Barbarella Catton Nickname - Haji
Haji was a Cando-American actress renowned for starring in Russ Meyer's sexploitation classic Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965), in which she made her theatrical film debut. Barbarella Catton was born in Quebec City, Quebec on January 24, 1946, and at the age of 14, began dancing topless. The renamed Haji caught the eye of cinema's "King Leer" while performing as an exotic dancer.
He also cast her as one of three go-go dancers who turn into avenging furies in "Pussycat", which was her theatrical film debut as it was released before Motor Psycho (1965). She also appeared in Meyer's potboiler Good Morning... and Goodbye! (1967), his big budget Hollywood sextravaganza Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970), and his cartoonish amalgamation of sex and violence, Supervixens (1975).
Haji died on August 10, 2013 at the age of 67.
Was a fervent supporter of animal rights and environmentalism. Interviewed in the book "Invasion of the B-Girls" by Jewel Shepard. Began as an exotic dancer. Moved to California at the age of fourteen and was discovered by filmmaker Russ Meyer performing in a topless bar. Her only child, a daughter she had at age 15, is named Cerlette. Haji was of British and Filipino descent, and her nickname was bestowed on her by an uncle. Was a friend and co-star of former stripper and long-time Russ Meyer paramour Kitten Natividad.
Haji, an Actress Featured in Cult Films by Russ Meyer, Dies at 67
By DANIEL E. SLOTNIK
Published: August 17, 2013
Haji, a voluptuous actress who played one of three homicidal go-go dancers in Russ Meyer’s 1965 cult film “Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!,” died on Aug. 9 in Southern California. She was 67.
Her death was confirmed by the dancer and actress Kitten Natividad, a friend, who said she did not know the cause. She said Haji had high blood pressure and heart problems in recent years and was taken to a hospital after falling ill at a restaurant in Newport Beach.Haji, a brunette of Filipino and British descent, met Meyer, the celebrated B-movie director, in the mid-1960s while she worked in a strip club in California. He cast her as the lead in his biker movie “Motorpsycho” (1965) even though she had no acting experience.Later that year Haji appeared in “Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!,” the tale of three dancers who beat a young man to death, kidnap his girlfriend and flee into the desert. She played the lesbian paramour of the lead character, Varla, played by Tura Satana. The film has acquired a devoted following and has been embraced by the filmmakers John Waters and Quentin Tarantino and even some feminists, including the film critic B. Ruby Rich, who praised it in The Village Voice as a “female fantasy.”“You just didn’t see women taking over and beating up men in those days,” Haji said in an interview posted on Russ Meyer’s Ultravixens, a Web site devoted to Meyer, who died in 2004, and his films. “Russ did something no one else had the imagination to do. And he was smart to use three bodied-up women, so whether the picture’s good or not, you still sort of stare at it.”Haji played a scantily clad bartender in Meyer’s “Supervixens” in 1975 and appeared in “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls,” the story of an all-woman rock band’s descent into debauchery. It was the first of Meyer’s films produced by a mainstream studio. She also acted in John Cassavetes’s gritty drama “The Killing of a Chinese Bookie” in 1976.
Haji was born in Quebec on Jan. 24, 1946. Ms. Natividad said that Haji’s last name at birth was Catton, and that she thought her given name was Cerlette. (The name Haji, she said, was a nickname given to her by an uncle.) Haji left school before finishing the sixth grade and began stripping at 14. She had a daughter, also named Cerlette, at 15. She lived in Oxnard, Calif. Her survivors include her daughter and a granddaughter. Haji’s last screen role was in the 2003 comedy “Killer Drag Queens on Dope.”
www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/arts/haji-an-actress-featured-...;
The purpose here is not to duplicate the original image, from Okinawa Soba's stream, but to generate an animated gif to assist viewing. Unfortunately, animation is not automatic - to animate you must view the image at original resolution (click all sizes) or simply scroll down.
Okinawa Soba posted several CC licensed stereoimages by T. Enami documenting life in early 20th century Japan (the Meiji period). The original image (circa 1900), presented for cross-eyed viewing and showing girls who broke the window in Meiji era Japan, is one of many remarkable stereo compositions. This animated gif version exploits motion parallax to give a stereo illusion without eyestrain, to see what the photographer envisioned.
Animated gif generated with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes
Cotton
Loan from the Gary Westford Collection, L2024.12.30
Designers exploited bright colors and intricate patterns to
signal their creativity and defiance of the staid sartorial norms of the previous generation. Starburst and vortex patterns were particularly popular, perhaps because they mimic the effects of the light shows that accompanied rock concerts
and suggest a prismatic (and drug-fueled?) view into a new world.
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Portland Art Museum
Psychedelic Rock Posters and Fashion of the 1960s
Overview
Psychedelic Rock Posters and Fashion of the 1960s reveals the passion and creativity of the era through the iconic rock posters of San Francisco and beyond. The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco was an incubator for ideas, expression, social thought, and, above all, music. Young people from across the nation gathered there to explore alternative ways of living and to challenge contemporary paradigms. At the heart of it all was the psychedelic experience, or an altered state of consciousness.
To capture the heady experience of life and music at this time, poster artists invented a graphic language to communicate the excitement of rock concerts, which featured liquid light shows and film projections. They drew on disparate historical precedents such as Art Nouveau, Wild West posters, and Victorian engraving and combined them with vibrating color, inventive lettering, and witty and provocative design. The exhibition brings together more than 200 rock posters, including work by the “big five” designers of the day—Rick Griffin, Alton Kelley, Victor Moscoso, Stanley Mouse, and Wes Wilson—as well as other superb talents, such as Bonnie MacLean and Bob “Raphael” Schnepf.
Fashion both reflected and influenced the psychedelic look of the posters. The exhibition showcases approximately 20 eclectic vintage styles ranging from embroidered denim and hippy fringe to crochet and velvet.
Psychedelic Rock Posters and Fashion of the 1960s draws from the collection of the Portland Art Museum, most of which comes from a major donation from Gary Westford, who serves as a consultant on the project. Key loans round out the visual story of the psychedelic era.
The exhibition is curated by Mary Weaver Chapin, Ph.D., Curator of Prints and Drawings. Supported in part by Exhibition Series Sponsors.
Véhicule : HEULIEZ BUS GX 327 Hyb EEV
Identification : 1136 (CM-992-SA)
Exploitant : Keolis Bordeaux Métropole
Dépôt : Dépôt de Lescure
Réseau : TBM (Bordeaux Métropole)
Ligne : 17 NAVETTE FESTIVAL ANIMASIA
Voiture : n.c.
Destination : hors service
Véhicule : HEULIEZ BUS GX 327 Hyb EEV
Identification : 1132 (CM-420-SA)
Exploitant : Keolis Bordeaux Métropole
Dépôt : Dépôt de Lescure
Réseau : TBM (Bordeaux Métropole)
Ligne : 17 NAVETTE FESTIVAL ANIMASIA
Voiture : 1701
Destination : LE HAILLAN Collège Émile Zola
À chaque édition du Festival Animasia au Haillan, TBM met en place une Navette Spéciale reliant "LE HAILLAN Collège Émile Zola" (arrêt le plus proche du festival) au terminus "LE HAILLAN Rostand" du Tram A, afin d'assurer une correspondance. Les véhicules utilisés sont tous les ans des HEULIEZ BUS GX 327 Hyb, au nombre de 2 sur la journée. À noter pour l'édition 2019 un changement du numéro de ligne : elle circule sous l'indice 17, en lieu et place du 12 pour les précédentes années.
27/04/2019 16:06
Avenue Jean Mermoz ; F-33 LE HAILLAN
Exploitant : Keolis Argenteuil Boucles de Seine
Réseau : IDF Mobilités – Argenteuil – Boucles de Seine
Lieu : Gare de Sartrouville (Sartrouville, F-78)
Lien TC Infos : tc-infos.fr/vehicule/29279
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I was originally enrolled as a SHUTTERSTOCK contributor on January 28th 2019. Shutterstock is an American stock photography company with headquarters in New York City, founded in 2003 by Photographer Jon Oringer. With a library in excess of 200 million royalty free stock photographs, I am delighted, and most grateful to have been accepted into the fold.
Having been passionate about photography since the age of seven years old, with a box brownie and black and white 120 roll film, these days I take a far more leisurely approach to my photographic exploits, a Nikon D850 FX Pro body as my trusted companion, I travel light with less constraints and more emphasis on the pure capture of the beauty that I see, more akin to my original persuits and goals some five decades previously when starting out. I would like to say a huge and heartfelt 'THANK YOU' to GETTY IMAGES, SHUTTERSTOCK, and the 28.385+ Million visitors to my FLICKR site.
***** Selected for sale in the SHUTTERSTOCK COMMERCIAL COLLECTION Image ID:1312671641 on February 15th 2019.
This photograph became my 152nd frame to be selected for sale on SHUTTERSTOCK, and I am very grateful to them for this wonderful opportunity.
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Photographs taken at an altitude of Eighteen metres in the golden hour around sunset at 18:09pm on March 24th 2012, off undercliff Drive and opposite Menzies East Cliff Court on the golden sands of Boscombe Beach in Bournemouth, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England.
The end of a wonderful day having driven hundreds of miles for a daytrip to Bournemouth. I'd been taking shots of the beach as the golden sunlight streamed into the lens and noticed the young guy and his girlfriend kicking the football about. A stray shot had him coming into my frame and so I waited and composed a few frames as he gathered up the ball.This is a merged version of all four frames that I shot, using Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 software.
I used the 'Scene cleaner' tool and had to induividually draw the pencil over each silhouette and shadow and merge into the final finished frame. So now we have the entire sequence as the young man gathered up the ball from the sea and headed back up the beach to his girlfriend.
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Nikon D7000 Focal length 78mm/85mm Shutter speed 1/400s Aperture f/20.0 iso200 -0.3EV RAW (14-bit) uncompressed. Size L 4984 x 3258 pixels. Manual exposure. Auto white balance. RGB Photometric interpretation. Exposure Compensation EV -0.3 step.
Nikkor AF-S 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED. Jessops UV filter. Nikon MB-D11 battery grip. Hoodman H-EYEN22S Hood eye eye cup. My memory 32GB class 10 20MB/s SDHC. Nikon GP-1 GPS unit
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LATITUDE: N 50d 43m 1.83s/1.84s
LONGITUDE: W 1d 51m 47.98s
ALTITUDE: 13.0m/14.0m
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Nikon D850 Firmware versions C 1.01 (16/01/2018) LD Distortion Data 2.017 (20/3/18)
HP 110-352na Desktop PC with AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU 64Bit processor. Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB Data storage. 64-bit Windows 10. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. WD My Passport Ultra 1tb USB3 Portable hard drive. Nikon ViewNX-1 64bit (Version 1.2.11 15/03/2018). Nikon Capture NX-D 64bit (Version 1.4.7 15/03/2018). Nikon Picture Control Utility 2 (Version 1.3.2 15/03/2018). Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.
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From yesterday... #2 Taken one evening with my bud Grantthai while sipping a cool one looking for an alluring capture to take place.. along she came hustling to us the perfect shoeshine... Just a kid driven by some greedy individuals.. who thrive on exploiting kids... all is done in a good natured way but you can see and feel their pain.. while on the other side of the street a man is watching... smoking and drinking the fruits of his labor..:-(
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Suite d'hier de la meme serie #2... Prise voici deja un petit bout de temps avec mopn pote Grantthai.. Elle est venue cette gamine avec son approche de vente directe a qui veut bien l'entendre.. Une gentille mais aguerrie petire gamine sous la tutelle d'idiots de premiere qui en profite et exploite leur jeunesse pendant qu'eux se gavent de Mekong avec une cigarette tout en surveillant leur proie..
Du classique en Asie helas.. Celle-ci etait tres lucide et affaires... On sent aussi qu'ils sont surveilles par des connards de la pire espece.. On exploite les gamins ici et en pleine vue du tout venant.. Pas rellement drole :-( Mais une realite tres dure ..
Ranting and raving by society rejected
He stood all alone one of the exploited
A life of public service was once suggested
20 years of education for him had been invested
Standing for election the polls he contested
The electorate in him could not be interested
With his interest in expenses more than vested
A recount at least was what he requested
..................... Copyright (c) Rodney Harrison 2014
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SOCIAL VANDALISM & NETWORK ACTIVISM
Despised, exploited, admired, copied, hit, insulted, manipulated .. The protagonist of this historical moment, compelling to some and unacceptable to others. It is perceived as a tool for socializing, instrument of claim and why not.. also as a sales tool. Mask artists and ski jump for careerists.
For better or for worse:
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SOCIAL VANDALISM & NETWORK ACTIVISM
Disprezzata, sfruttata, ammirata, copiata, colpita, insultata, strumentalizzata.. La protagonista di questo momento storico, irresistibile per alcuni ed inaccettabile per altri. Percepita come strumento di aggregazione, strumento di rivendicazione e perchè no.. anche come strumento di vendita. Maschera per artisti e trampolino per arrivisti. Nel ben e nel male:
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“To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee”
(Captain Ahab. Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville/ Also quoted by Khan Noonien Singh. in Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan)
Actor Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán y Merino (born Mexico City, November 25, 1920) died on January 14th, 2009.
His seventy year career in both the United States of America and Mexico spanned radio, television, movies, and theatre. A champion of U.S/Mexican friendship and active in the cause of raising the profile of latino actors. Montalbán often, during his early career in Hollywood at least, played Asian, Arab and Native American characters, as well as "Latin Lovers", particularly in musicals, where he also showcased his talents as a song and dance man. (Khan Singh? Yes. He. Can! The Powers That Be wanted him to change his name to "Ricky Martin"....a bullet he fortunately dodged!)
To science fiction and fantasy fans he was famous for his roles as Star Trek's villainous Khan Noonien Singh and Fantasy Island's Mr Roarke.
Montalbán played the 20th Century genetically engineered 'superman', Khan, twice, in the 1967 episode of classic Trek, "Space Seed" (written by Gene L. Coon and Carey Wilber, based on a story by Carey Wilber, and directed by Marc Daniels) and fifteen years later in the second Star Trek movie, "The Wrath Of Khan". (Written by Nicholas Meyer and Jack B. Sowards, Directed by Nicholas Meyer) He was Mr Roarke in the Fantasy Island television series from 1977 to 1984. Ironically, Montalbán was replaced in the revival of Fantasy Island by Malcom McDowell, the actor whose character in the film Star Trek: Generations WOULD infamously succeed where Khan failed in bringing about the death of Captain James T. Kirk.
Genre buffs may also recall that Montalbán played the circus owner in Escape From The Planet Of The Apes (1971) and Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes (1972).
Other movies he acted in included The Saracen Blade, Across The Wide Missouri, The Queen of Babylon, Sayonara, Madame X, The Singing Nun, Fiesta, Santa, La Fuga, The Naked Gun, The Kissing Bandit, Cannonball Run II and of course the Spy Kids series. It was during the filming of the 1951 Western, Across The Wide Missouri that Montalbán was reportedly injured in a riding accident, which left him with back and leg pain that would trouble him for the rest of his life, ultimately resulting in him becoming wheelchair bound after an operation in 1993. His disability does not seem to have slowed his career much, as he was still playing an action hero grandfather in a rocket assisted wheelchair in the 21st Century's Spy Kids series!
Apart from a notable roles in The Colbys and Dynasty he also appeared in person or as a voice actor on television in genre shows like Wonder Woman, Kim Possible, Heaven Help Us, Mission Impossible, Freakazoid!, The Man From Uncle, Buzz Lightyear Of Star Command and Dora The Explorer. One of his final roles was playing a genetically Engineered cow in an episode of Family Guy, where he satirised his Khan character.
I first saw Montalbán in The Saracen Blade, and kept spotting him in both movies and television, finally catching up with his Khan role in Star Trek sometime in the 1970s. It became a favourite episode and I was quite chuffed when the actor reprised his role in the second Star Trek movie. Although I was very much impressed by the first Star trek film's mix of upbeat futurism and spectacular special effects I also welcomed the more traditional space opera approach of the second film in the long running series and thought that Khan was a terrific villain, so effectively played by Montalbán exploiting his commanding voice and physical presence (still serious buff in his sixties...and apparently into his seventies as well!).
I saw both films far more times than I did Star Wars, and those first two movies helped consolidate what I expect will be a lifelong love of Star Trek. Happily, Star Trek was also instrumental in helping to give me an enduring interest in general literature, supplementing my passion for science fiction and fantasy. Captain Kirk was always quoting this or that book, which, with the help of Bjos Trimble's Star Trek Concordance I would then dutifully track down and devour. (Trivia note: Ironically, I would later go on to contribute Khan related illustrations, amongst other artwork, to a later edition of the Concordance.)
The Wrath Of Khan, famously, contains a shuttlecraft full of references, from the copy of A Tale of Two Cities that Spock gives as a birthday gift to Kirk, to the ramshackle bookshelf of titles that Chekov discovered in the cargo containers that Khan and his followers made as their home when marooned on the doomed Ceti Alpha V. (Incidentally, Khan's original spaceship was the S.S Botany Bay, a name guaranteed to make any Aussie sit up and take notice..)
The books were chosen for the film to reflect Khan's vengeful, arrogant mindset, and he quotes extensively from that epic Whale's Tail of obsessive revenge, Moby-Dick. There's also a couple of copies of Milton's "Paradise Lost" (qouted in Space Seed), King Lear, Dante's Inferno and a Bible.
I had copies of most of these books from the 1980s and coupled with some Micromachines Star Trek starships (U.S.S Enterprise and the hijacked U.S.S Reliant) I thought these would make an appropriate setting to display the 6 inch Art Asylum Khan Action Figure. There's a couple of books that I left out, such as what looks to be 'mundane' Federation guide to Statutes Governing Commerce and what may be a Complete Works Of Shakespeare. I've never been religious so it's charitable of me to include the Bible, but it seems to me that Khan, if anything, soaked up all the 'wrathful' content ("An eye for an eye"). Setting them up as monolithic steps seemed to work well, and for the base how could I possibly bypass a length of "Soft Corinthian leather...." (To quote one of R.M's automobile commercials)
Photoshop was my ally for eliminating assorted rigging and providing a suitably dark and stormy spacescape as well as creating firey phaser blasts for Khan to smite poor Enterprise, harpooning his nemesis in best Ahabian tradition...
Ricardo Montalbán was, by all accounts, a remarkably chivalrous and unfailingly polite old school gentleman so it does him something of a disservice to memorialise him by referencing the tyrannical Khan.
Still, what a great role for an actor!
And what a great inspiration for the young Trekker that I was back then. I fondly recall writing a long fan story about Khan's adventures on Ceti Alpha V, where he fought and defeated the survivors of a Klingon shipwreck...collecting an old Klingon proverb or two as a trophy. ("Reveng is a dish best served cold"...is actually Sicilian, but what's an attribution amongst enemies!) Little did I know back then that Greg Cox would expand splendidly on the whole Khan saga in his trilogy "The Rise & Fall Of Khan Noonien Singh" or that the supermen/augments would later feature in Star Trek: Enterprise. Vonda McIntyre also did a wonderful job expanding upon the movie script and Khan's character. amongst others, in her sophisticated novelization.
But it all started with Ricardo, and his masterful turn as Khan.....
After my exploits last summer and autumn, I'm good for photos of the brown and purple E200s, which is just as well since several faced sudden withdrawal last month. Not among them was 370; the one that doesn't have any branding on the front. You'd've thought it would have made a prime candidate for being sold on, as part of the de-branding job is already done.
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Author: Andreas Nierhaus, Curator of Architecture/Wien Museum
Last updated January 2014
Architecture in Vienna
Vienna's 2,000-year history is present in a unique density in the cityscape. The layout of the center dates back to the Roman city and medieval road network. Romanesque and Gothic churches characterize the streets and squares as well as palaces and mansions of the baroque city of residence. The ring road is an expression of the modern city of the 19th century, in the 20th century extensive housing developments set accents in the outer districts. Currently, large-scale urban development measures are implemented; distinctive buildings of international star architects complement the silhouette of the city.
Due to its function as residence of the emperor and European power center, Vienna for centuries stood in the focus of international attention, but it was well aware of that too. As a result, developed an outstanding building culture, and still today on a worldwide scale only a few cities can come up with a comparable density of high-quality architecture. For several years now, Vienna has increased its efforts to connect with its historical highlights and is drawing attention to itself with some spectacular new buildings. The fastest growing city in the German-speaking world today most of all in residential construction is setting standards. Constants of the Viennese architecture are respect for existing structures, the palpability of historical layers and the dialogue between old and new.
Culmination of medieval architecture: the Stephansdom
The oldest architectural landmark of the city is St. Stephen's Cathedral. Under the rule of the Habsburgs, defining the face of the city from the late 13th century until 1918 in a decisive way, the cathedral was upgraded into the sacral monument of the political ambitions of the ruling house. The 1433 completed, 137 meters high southern tower, by the Viennese people affectionately named "Steffl", is a masterpiece of late Gothic architecture in Europe. For decades he was the tallest stone structure in Europe, until today he is the undisputed center of the city.
The baroque residence
Vienna's ascension into the ranks of the great European capitals began in Baroque. Among the most important architects are Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach and Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt. Outside the city walls arose a chain of summer palaces, including the garden Palais Schwarzenberg (1697-1704) as well as the Upper and Lower Belvedere of Prince Eugene of Savoy (1714-22). Among the most important city palaces are the Winter Palace of Prince Eugene (1695-1724, now a branch of the Belvedere) and the Palais Daun-Kinsky (auction house in Kinsky 1713-19). The emperor himself the Hofburg had complemented by buildings such as the Imperial Library (1722-26) and the Winter Riding School (1729-34). More important, however, for the Habsburgs was the foundation of churches and monasteries. Thus arose before the city walls Fischer von Erlach's Karlskirche (1714-39), which with its formal and thematic complex show façade belongs to the major works of European Baroque. In colored interior rooms like that of St. Peter's Church (1701-22), the contemporary efforts for the synthesis of architecture, painting and sculpture becomes visible.
Upgrading into metropolis: the ring road time (Ringstraßenzeit)
Since the Baroque, reflections on extension of the hopelessly overcrowed city were made, but only Emperor Franz Joseph ordered in 1857 the demolition of the fortifications and the connection of the inner city with the suburbs. 1865, the Ring Road was opened. It is as the most important boulevard of Europe an architectural and in terms of urban development achievement of the highest rank. The original building structure is almost completely preserved and thus conveys the authentic image of a metropolis of the 19th century. The public representational buildings speak, reflecting accurately the historicism, by their style: The Greek Antique forms of Theophil Hansen's Parliament (1871-83) stood for democracy, the Renaissance of the by Heinrich Ferstel built University (1873-84) for the flourishing of humanism, the Gothic of the Town Hall (1872-83) by Friedrich Schmidt for the medieval civic pride.
Dominating remained the buildings of the imperial family: Eduard van der Nüll's and August Sicardsburg's Opera House (1863-69), Gottfried Semper's and Carl Hasenauer's Burgtheater (1874-88), their Museum of Art History and Museum of Natural History (1871-91) and the Neue (New) Hofburg (1881-1918 ). At the same time the ring road was the preferred residential area of mostly Jewish haute bourgeoisie. With luxurious palaces the families Ephrussi, Epstein or Todesco made it clear that they had taken over the cultural leadership role in Viennese society. In the framework of the World Exhibition of 1873, the new Vienna presented itself an international audience. At the ring road many hotels were opened, among them the Hotel Imperial and today's Palais Hansen Kempinski.
Laboratory of modernity: Vienna around 1900
Otto Wagner's Postal Savings Bank (1903-06) was one of the last buildings in the Ring road area Otto Wagner's Postal Savings Bank (1903-06), which with it façade, liberated of ornament, and only decorated with "functional" aluminum buttons and the glass banking hall now is one of the icons of modern architecture. Like no other stood Otto Wagner for the dawn into the 20th century: His Metropolitan Railway buildings made the public transport of the city a topic of architecture, the church of the Psychiatric hospital at Steinhofgründe (1904-07) is considered the first modern church.
With his consistent focus on the function of a building ("Something impractical can not be beautiful"), Wagner marked a whole generation of architects and made Vienna the laboratory of modernity: in addition to Joseph Maria Olbrich, the builder of the Secession (1897-98) and Josef Hoffmann, the architect of the at the western outskirts located Purkersdorf Sanatorium (1904) and founder of the Vienna Workshop (Wiener Werkstätte, 1903) is mainly to mention Adolf Loos, with the Loos House at the square Michaelerplatz (1909-11) making architectural history. The extravagant marble cladding of the business zone stands in maximal contrast, derived from the building function, to the unadorned facade above, whereby its "nudity" became even more obvious - a provocation, as well as his culture-critical texts ("Ornament and Crime"), with which he had greatest impact on the architecture of the 20th century. Public contracts Loos remained denied. His major works therefore include villas, apartment facilities and premises as the still in original state preserved Tailor salon Knize at Graben (1910-13) and the restored Loos Bar (1908-09) near the Kärntner Straße (passageway Kärntner Durchgang).
Between the Wars: International Modern Age and social housing
After the collapse of the monarchy in 1918, Vienna became capital of the newly formed small country of Austria. In the heart of the city, the architects Theiss & Jaksch built 1931-32 the first skyscraper in Vienna as an exclusive residential address (Herrengasse - alley 6-8). To combat the housing shortage for the general population, the social democratic city government in a globally unique building program within a few years 60,000 apartments in hundreds of apartment buildings throughout the city area had built, including the famous Karl Marx-Hof by Karl Ehn (1925-30). An alternative to the multi-storey buildings with the 1932 opened International Werkbundsiedlung was presented, which was attended by 31 architects from Austria, Germany, France, Holland and the USA and showed models for affordable housing in greenfield areas. With buildings of Adolf Loos, André Lurçat, Richard Neutra, Gerrit Rietveld, the Werkbundsiedlung, which currently is being restored at great expense, is one of the most important documents of modern architecture in Austria.
Modernism was also expressed in significant Villa buildings: The House Beer (1929-31) by Josef Frank exemplifies the refined Wiener living culture of the interwar period, while the house Stonborough-Wittgenstein (1926-28, today Bulgarian Cultural Institute), built by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein together with the architect Paul Engelmann for his sister Margarete, by its aesthetic radicalism and mathematical rigor represents a special case within contemporary architecture.
Expulsion, war and reconstruction
After the "Anschluss (Annexation)" to the German Reich in 1938, numerous Jewish builders, architects (female and male ones), who had been largely responsible for the high level of Viennese architecture, have been expelled from Austria. During the Nazi era, Vienna remained largely unaffected by structural transformations, apart from the six flak towers built for air defense of Friedrich Tamms (1942-45), made of solid reinforced concrete which today are present as memorials in the cityscape.
The years after the end of World War II were characterized by the reconstruction of the by bombs heavily damaged city. The architecture of those times was marked by aesthetic pragmatism, but also by the attempt to connect with the period before 1938 and pick up on current international trends. Among the most important buildings of the 1950s are Roland Rainer's City Hall (1952-58), the by Oswald Haerdtl erected Wien Museum at Karlsplatz (1954-59) and the 21er Haus of Karl Schwanzer (1958-62).
The youngsters come
Since the 1960s, a young generation was looking for alternatives to the moderate modernism of the reconstruction years. With visionary designs, conceptual, experimental and above all temporary architectures, interventions and installations, Raimund Abraham, Günther Domenig, Eilfried Huth, Hans Hollein, Walter Pichler and the groups Coop Himmelb(l)au, Haus-Rucker-Co and Missing Link rapidly got international attention. Although for the time being it was more designed than built, was the influence on the postmodern and deconstructivist trends of the 1970s and 1980s also outside Austria great. Hollein's futuristic "Retti" candle shop at Charcoal Market/Kohlmarkt (1964-65) and Domenig's biomorphic building of the Central Savings Bank in Favoriten (10th district of Vienna - 1975-79) are among the earliest examples, later Hollein's Haas-Haus (1985-90), the loft conversion Falkestraße (1987/88) by Coop Himmelb(l)au or Domenig's T Center (2002-04) were added. Especially Domenig, Hollein, Coop Himmelb(l)au and the architects Ortner & Ortner (ancient members of Haus-Rucker-Co) by orders from abroad the new Austrian and Viennese architecture made a fixed international concept.
MuseumQuarter and Gasometer
Since the 1980s, the focus of building in Vienna lies on the compaction of the historic urban fabric that now as urban habitat of high quality no longer is put in question. Among the internationally best known projects is the by Ortner & Ortner planned MuseumsQuartier in the former imperial stables (competition 1987, 1998-2001), which with institutions such as the MUMOK - Museum of Modern Art Foundation Ludwig, the Leopold Museum, the Kunsthalle Wien, the Architecture Center Vienna and the Zoom Children's Museum on a wordwide scale is under the largest cultural complexes. After controversies in the planning phase, here an architectural compromise between old and new has been achieved at the end, whose success as an urban stage with four million visitors (2012) is overwhelming.
The dialogue between old and new, which has to stand on the agenda of building culture of a city that is so strongly influenced by history, also features the reconstruction of the Gasometer in Simmering by Coop Himmelb(l)au, Wilhelm Holzbauer, Jean Nouvel and Manfred Wehdorn (1999-2001). Here was not only created new housing, but also a historical industrial monument reinterpreted into a signal in the urban development area.
New Neighborhood
In recent years, the major railway stations and their surroundings moved into the focus of planning. Here not only necessary infrastructural measures were taken, but at the same time opened up spacious inner-city residential areas and business districts. Among the prestigious projects are included the construction of the new Vienna Central Station, started in 2010 with the surrounding office towers of the Quartier Belvedere and the residential and school buildings of the Midsummer quarter (Sonnwendviertel). Europe's largest wooden tower invites here for a spectacular view to the construction site and the entire city. On the site of the former North Station are currently being built 10,000 homes and 20,000 jobs, on that of the Aspangbahn station is being built at Europe's greatest Passive House settlement "Euro Gate", the area of the North Western Railway Station is expected to be developed from 2020 for living and working. The largest currently under construction residential project but can be found in the north-eastern outskirts, where in Seaside Town Aspern till 2028 living and working space for 40,000 people will be created.
In one of the "green lungs" of Vienna, the Prater, 2013, the WU campus was opened for the largest University of Economics of Europe. Around the central square spectacular buildings of an international architect team from Great Britain, Japan, Spain and Austria are gathered that seem to lead a sometimes very loud conversation about the status quo of contemporary architecture (Hitoshi Abe, BUSarchitektur, Peter Cook, Zaha Hadid, NO MAD Arquitectos, Carme Pinós).
Flying high
International is also the number of architects who have inscribed themselves in the last few years with high-rise buildings in the skyline of Vienna and make St. Stephen's a not always unproblematic competition. Visible from afar is Massimiliano Fuksas' 138 and 127 meters high elegant Twin Tower at Wienerberg (1999-2001). The monolithic, 75-meter-high tower of the Hotel Sofitel at the Danube Canal by Jean Nouvel (2007-10), on the other hand, reacts to the particular urban situation and stages in its top floor new perspectives to the historical center on the other side.
Also at the water stands Dominique Perrault's DC Tower (2010-13) in the Danube City - those high-rise city, in which since the start of construction in 1996, the expansion of the city north of the Danube is condensed symbolically. Even in this environment, the slim and at the same time striking vertically folded tower of Perrault is beyond all known dimensions; from its Sky Bar, from spring 2014 on you are able to enjoy the highest view of Vienna. With 250 meters, the tower is the tallest building of Austria and almost twice as high as the St. Stephen's Cathedral. Vienna, thus, has acquired a new architectural landmark which cannot be overlooked - whether it also has the potential to become a landmark of the new Vienna, only time will tell. The architectural history of Vienna, where European history is presence and new buildings enter into an exciting and not always conflict-free dialogue with a great and outstanding architectural heritage, in any case has yet to offer exciting chapters.
HMS Exploit on its way up the River Thames yesterday: it moored at Tilbury landing stage just beyond this.
HMS Exploit is one of 14 "Archer" class patrol vessels and in based at Portsmouth. It has a crew of 5. It was commissioned in 1988 and built in the UK.
The recent commemorations of the Dunkirk evacuations were marked by a fleet of Dunkirk Little Ships sailing from Ramsgate to Dunkirk last week: they are returning this week. The were accompanied by a number of Navy patrol vessels (7, I believe) and I imagine HMS Exploit was one of these. Another was further down the river a I shot this (I left when it began to rain...). I'd been hoping to see any of the Little Ships which were returning but wasn't successful.
The Little Ships were private vessels that sailed from Ramsgate across the channel to help in the evacuation of over 300,000 Allied troops. There were over 800 Little Ships. One of the owners of a surviving vessel made the point that, with the passage of time, the Little Ships themselves are our last link with an extraordinary episode from a terrible time. I love to see them, whatever the reason.
(Just visible behind the greenery across the river: 3 tower blocks, masked by smoke from a fire a short distance up river).
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