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Climbing up from Aberglaslyn on an old miner's track through beautiful yellow and orange coloured autumn trees you eventually break out into the open of Cwm Bychan. And it is further up here that you are first met by the strange sight of "Transformer" style pylons leading up into the mountain. Apparently they date back to the start of the twentieth century and were built to exploit the workings of the old copper mine that was started in the early 18th century.
This shot shows the remains of the top station, the whole thing being very similar to a modern ski lift, but this one for carrying heavy copper ore and rock.
It's amazing what you discover in them thar hills of Snowdonia. In fact, it amazes me at the endeavour of mankind that they could find something like copper in such a remote and high place and then spend all that human effort carrying thousands of tons of raw rock down by hand for processing a couple of hundred years before they even built this ropeway. I just don't know what today's youth would even make of it. Far too much trouble. Far too much trouble to even learn about it!
Exploité par la société Farafina Tours qui dispose d'une flotte hétéroclite de cars de seconde main venus d'Europe (Setra S213RL, Renault Tracer...) ou d'Asie.
Willet on Assateague Island, MD
The willet is still common in some parts of its range despite an apparent decline since the 1960s. It is also considered to be a species at risk of becoming threatened or endangered without conservation action. The western subspecies is threatened by the conversion of native grasslands and drainage of wetlands for agriculture while the wintering habitat has been degraded locally in California by coastal development. Willets are also vulnerable to being killed by colliding with power lines laid through their wetland breeding areas. The passage of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act in 1918 protected the willet from intensive exploitation by hunters for food and allowed its numbers to rebound to present levels.
Curzon Street Tunnel is on the Digbeth Branch Canal, completed in 1799.
The Grade II listed structure is 161 yards long and carries the Birmingham to London railway across the canal. The older brick tunnel was constructed at the same time as Curzon Street station in 1838 and lengthened later when the line was extended into New Street station, opened in 1854.
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Pierre-Jean David, dit David d’Angers, né à Angers le 12 mars 1788 et mort à Paris le 6 janvier 1856, est un sculpteur et médailleur français, représentatif du romantisme dans la sculpture française du XIXe siècle.
Jean Bart, né le 21 octobre 1650 à Dunkerque (comté de Flandre) et mort le 27 avril 1702 dans cette même ville (Flandre française), est un corsaire célèbre pour ses exploits au service de la France durant les guerres de Louis XIV.
Pierre-Jean David, known as David d'Angers, born in Angers on March 12, 1788 and died in Paris on January 6, 1856, is a French sculptor and medalist, representative of Romanticism in nineteenth-century French sculpture.
Jean Bart, born October 21, 1650 in Dunkirk (county of Flanders) and died April 27, 1702 in the same city (French Flanders), is a corsair famous for his exploits in the service of France during the wars of Louis XIV.
🇫🇷 L'Argentiera est le nom d'un hameau situé sur le littoral de la commune de Sassari au nord-ouest de la Sardaigne
.La mine était exploitée par les Romains et les Phéniciens.
L'exploitation est rouverte au XIXe siècle par une société minière belge
.Le site connaît une période florissante vers 1940 puis décline après la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
La mine est fermée en 1963.
On peut y voir les vestiges de la laverie avec ses charpentes de bois et les fours destinés à la fonte des minerais formant un des plus intéressants exemples d'archéologie industrielle en Sardaigne. La restauration a commencé .
🇬🇧 L'Argentiera is the name of a hamlet on the coast of the municipality of Sassari in north-west Sardinia.
The mine was exploited by the Romans and Phoenicians.
It was reopened in the 19th century by a Belgian mining company.
The site enjoyed a flourishing period around 1940, before declining after the Second World War.
The mine closed in 1963.
The remains of the washing plant with its wooden frameworks and the furnaces used to smelt the ore can still be seen, making it one of the most interesting examples of industrial archaeology in Sardinia. Restoration work has begun.
🇮🇹 L'Argentiera è il nome di una frazione della costa del comune di Sassari, nella Sardegna nord-occidentale.
La miniera fu sfruttata dai Romani e dai Fenici.
Fu riaperta nel XIX secolo da una società mineraria belga.
Il sito conobbe un periodo di fioritura intorno al 1940, per poi declinare dopo la Seconda Guerra Mondiale.
La miniera chiuse nel 1963.
Sono ancora visibili i resti dell'impianto di lavaggio con le sue strutture in legno e i forni utilizzati per la fusione del minerale, che ne fanno uno degli esempi più interessanti di archeologia industriale in Sardegna. Sono iniziati i lavori di restauro.
🇩🇪 L'Argentiera ist der Name eines Weilers an der Küste der Gemeinde Sassari im Nordwesten Sardiniens.
Die Mine wurde von den Römern und Phöniziern betrieben.
Jahrhundert von einer belgischen Bergwerksgesellschaft wiedereröffnet.
.Die Anlage erlebte um 1940 eine Blütezeit und ging nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg zurück.
Die Mine wurde 1963 geschlossen.
Die Überreste der Wäscherei mit ihren Holzbalken und den Öfen zum Schmelzen der Erze, die eines der interessantesten Beispiele für Industriearchäologie auf Sardinien darstellen, sind noch zu sehen. Die Restaurierung hat begonnen.
🇪🇸 L'Argentiera es el nombre de una aldea situada en la costa del municipio de Sassari, en el noroeste de Cerdeña.
La mina fue explotada por romanos y fenicios.
Fue reabierta en el siglo XIX por una compañía minera belga.
El yacimiento conoció un periodo de florecimiento hacia 1940, antes de decaer tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
La mina cerró en 1963.
Los restos de la planta de lavado, con sus armazones de madera, y los hornos utilizados para fundir el mineral aún pueden verse, lo que la convierte en uno de los ejemplos más interesantes de arqueología industrial de Cerdeña. Se han iniciado trabajos de restauración.
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I find the job goes quicker if I use two saws.
Damn, finally another "explore" photo and I didn't even take the shot. I mainly set up the photo for the amusement of some of my long time followers that are familiar with my past exploits with a chainsaw. Now my neighbor that snapped the photo will want a cut of my flickr royalties!
La Ribera Salada al seu pas pel Pont de la Ginebrosa, al oest del Solsonès.
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The Ribera Salada river seen from the old stone bridge at La Ginebrosa, in central Catalonia. The unusual river name (translated more or less like "salted bank" or "salted shore", although I presume a less literal would be "salted river") is explained because in one of it's sources the water has a high salt content, even exploited to this day).
🇫🇷 La Cala dell'Argentiera se trouve dans un impressionnant cadre d'archéologie industrielle, composé des bâtiments de la mine de l'Argentiera qui a été exploitée pendant des siècles pour ses abondantes réserves de plomb, argent et zinc. Le village de mineurs, fermé en 1962,
🇬🇧Cala dell'Argentiera is set in an impressive setting of industrial archaeology, consisting of the buildings of the Argentiera mine, which was exploited for centuries for its abundant reserves of lead, silver and zinc. The miners' village, closed in 1962,
🇮🇹 Cala dell'Argentiera è inserita in un suggestivo contesto di archeologia industriale, costituito dagli edifici della miniera dell'Argentiera, sfruttata per secoli per le sue abbondanti riserve di piombo, argento e zinco. Il villaggio dei minatori, chiuso nel 1962,
🇩🇪 Die Cala dell'Argentiera befindet sich in einer beeindruckenden industriearchäologischen Umgebung, die aus den Gebäuden der Argentiera-Mine besteht, die jahrhundertelang wegen ihrer reichhaltigen Blei-, Silber- und Zinkvorkommen ausgebeutet wurde. Das Dorf der Bergarbeiter, das 1962 geschlossen wurde,
🇪🇸 Cala dell'Argentiera se encuentra en un impresionante entorno de arqueología industrial, formado por los edificios de la mina Argentiera, explotada durante siglos por sus abundantes reservas de plomo, plata y zinc. El pueblo de los mineros, cerrado en 1962,
"Small farm"
Vallée de Muong Hoa, Sapa (Vietnam)
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Belvédère des 4 lacs (Jura)
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We owe a lot to this planet on which we live and exploit all its resources to the fullest. Although we do our best to protect it individually, the world is getting damaged day by day due to reasons beyond our control. Our seas have turned into plastic garbage and there is nuclear and chemical waste in the soil. It is deliberately destroyed and we just watch. I am an environmental volunteer. I am not an activist, but I support them and I hope everyone will support them as well.
Despite everything, I feel happy as I see the stubborn attitude of plants. When you see a daisy rising from the cobblestones in the middle of the industry hell, say "hello" to it. Because he is braver than most of us.
Meeting aérien "Air Legend" 2019 (Melun-Villaroche)
North American T-6G Texan - F-HLEA s/n 40-3056 - Aero Vintage Academy pilote Baptiste Salis
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Ce n'était certainement pas un ciel gris qui allait m'empêcher d'exploiter les spots que j'avais prévu pendant cette journée dans le Var et les Alpes Maritimes ! Ici en l'occurence, c'est un spot que j'ai souvent pu apercevoir sur les galeries Flickr de photographes renommés.
Il faut dire que ce coin est vraiment magnifique, puisqu'il offre à la fois la vue sur les massifs de l'Esterel, la plage à droite de l'image, ainsi que les nombreuses propriétés et résidences de vacances secondaires aux alentours.
Juste après ce pont métallique, ce train TER Nice - Marseille Saint-Charles franchira sans arrêt la petite gare d'Agay, située quasiment à mi-parcours entre Cannes et Saint-Raphaël, deux arrêts que ce train TER effectue. Après Saint-Raphaël, le train s'arrêtera en gare des Arcs - Draguignan, puis de Toulon, avant d'atteindre la cité phocéenne.
We found this flower in a grocery store parking lot, and brought it home to exploit.
Lighting stuff: The main light was a Yongnuo manual flash in an 8.6 inch Lastolite softbox positioned on a light stand to the left of the flowers at camera left and just out of the frame. Back lighting from a second Yongnuo manual flash in a Rogue grid positioned behind the flower at camera right. Fill light is from a hand held mirror at camera right and just out of the frame. The strobes and my tripod mounted camera were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N.
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"Outing in town"
Phnom Penh (Cambodge)
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The Carreau Wendel Museum is the museum of the Wendel-Vuillemin coal pit, in Petite-Rosselle on the Saarland, Lorraine border. Though often in Germany, since 1945 it has been in Moselle department France.
The museum is an Anchor point on the European Route of Industrial Heritage.
The Wendel 1 pit was closed in 1989, Wendel 2 in 1992 and Wendel 3 in 2001. The first piece of coal was mined in Petite-Rosselle in June 1856, at the Saint-Charles pit. These pits are in France but surrounded on three sides by the national border with Germany. Several pits were dug between 1862 and 1889: Wendel 1, Wendel 2, Vuillemin 1 and Vuillemin 2. Emile Vuillemin was the consulting engineer for Charles de Wendel and Georges Hainguerlot's company- Compagnie Anonyme des Mines de Stiring. The coal produced was primarily used to fire the Wendel steelworks. The company became - Les Petits-fils de François de Wendel et Cie in 1889.
After the Second World War, the government required the industry to triple the Lorraine coal production within ten years. In the 1946 nationalising, the Wendel assets were assigned to public company Houillères du bassin de Lorraine. The Wendel 3 pit was dug in 1952, and in 1958 was equipped with the new wash house 3. The Wendel 1 and 2 pits were modernised and equipped with new headframes. After 1960, the coal recession hit: the company modernised wash house 1-2 in 1962 by creating a new module on top of the former wash house, adapted to the existing equipment. Operations and investment continued up until 1986 when central activities ceased. Some infrastructure continued to be used up until 1989 serving other pits in the Wendel franchise.
The museum is presented in several section. The simple tour shows the life of the miner and the hazardous working conditions. There is then an opportunity to take a guide tour down the workings seeing the machinery current when the last deep mine in France closed in 2004. There is an AM 100 heading machine, G210 electro-hydraulic loader, Electra 2000 shearer and ANF winning machine, roof supports etc.
"High authorities"
Le Monument international de la Réformation, généralement connu sous le nom de Mur des réformateurs (Genève - Suisse)
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Ce voyageur au repos chantonne calmement en sourdine. Outre la phrase introductive classique, il a mêlé à son répertoire des imitations de chants entendus dans ses forêts d'origine : ici, le chant du Pouillot fitis, de la Fauvette babillarde et du Roselin cramoisi... cela situe ses terres natales probablement en Finlande ou en Carélie russe !
Rallier deux fois l'an les savanes africaines aux taïgas européennes est un exploit fantastique pour ce petit passereau de 14 cm de long et pesant 12 à 17 grammes !
Toulouse Rangueil (31) le 14 avril 2021
This flower was soaking up the sun this afternoon on a hillside on our property when I decided to exploit it this afternoon
My wife was the voice activated light stand and held the Yongnuo manual flash in an 8.6 inch Lastolite soft box at camera left and just out of the frame. The flash was triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N trigger. I used camera settings that let the background go fairly dark so that I would have separation from the background.
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La nouvelle vectron d'Alpha Trains, la 7193 101, est louée par RheinCargo et elle est revêtue d'une livrée spéciale pour les 25 ans d'exploitation de RheinCargo en Allemagne.
Le train pétrolier se dirige vers le terminal de Rümlang en passant par la ligne le long du Rhin. Ce dernier s'approche du Viaduc ferroviaire Koblenz-Felsenau.
Sprimocoop est copropriétaire d’un parc éolien de 5 machines.
Concrètement, la société d’exploitation des 5 machines appartient pour 3/4 au développeur (VENTIS), le quart restant se partageant en deux parties égales entre la commune de Sprimont et Sprimocoop.
Les éoliennes sont situées au Nord de l’autoroute E25, de part et d’autre de la nationale 678 qui relie Sprimont à Louveigné.
Les cinq machines sont identiques. Ce sont des Nordex N117/3600 Delta. Chacune a une puissance maximum de 3,6 mégawatts (3.600 kW) et fournit de la puissance tant que le vent a une vitesse comprise entre 10 et 75 km/h.
Chaque mât mesure une centaine de mètres de haut et supporte une nacelle qui contient un alternateur connecté à l’axe d’une énorme hélice à trois pales en composite polyester-fibre de verre d’un diamètre de 116 mètres. La surface du cercle parcouru par chaque hélice est de 10.715 m2, soit un peu plus d’un hectare. Chacun des ces mètres carrés amène une puissance de 336 watts à la machine.
Le sommet des pales montera à environ 150 mètres et descendra à un peu plus de 40 mètres du sol. La vitesse de rotation est de 14,1 tours par minute. On verra donc passer une pale au même endroit toutes les 1,4 secondes.
Sprimocoop co-owns a five-turbine wind farm.
Specifically, the operating company for the five turbines is three-quarters owned by the developer (VENTIS), with the remaining quarter being split equally between the municipality of Sprimont and Sprimocoop.
The wind turbines are located north of the E25 motorway, on either side of the Route Nationale 678, which connects Sprimont to Louveigné.
The five turbines are identical. They are Nordex N117/3600 Delta turbines. Each has a maximum output of 3.6 megawatts (3,600 kW) and provides power as long as the wind speed is between 10 and 75 km/h.
Each tower is about 100 meters high and supports a nacelle containing an alternator connected to the shaft of a huge three-bladed polyester-fiberglass composite propeller with a diameter of 116 meters. The surface area of the circle covered by each propeller is 10,715 m², or just over one hectare. Each of these square meters provides 336 watts of power to the machine.
The blade tips will rise to approximately 150 meters and descend to just over 40 meters from the ground. The rotation speed is 14.1 revolutions per minute. Therefore, a blade will pass over the same spot every 1.4 seconds.
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4528 ! 20 nouveaux articule viennent de rejoindre le parc du réseau TAG, premier tour de roues sur la ligne C1 pour ces Scania Citywide LFA GNC avant d'être exploite sur la ligne C5.
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apologies for not much commenting ect lately as some of you may know my mum was seriously Ill In Hospital for a while and I nearly lost her she was disharged from hospital a few weeks ago and I have been busy looking after her at my home and preparing her for her return to her own home she is now back at home and doing well but still needs alot of care as as I am the only person she has got to help its down to me the past 8 weeks or so have been a total nightmare and I have been running on auto pilot and finally everything has caught up with me feel totally exhausted and run down at one point I was spending 11 hours per day at the hospital Just so glad my mum is still here and I thank god every day for that and for getting me through the toughest 2 months of my life xx
Giustiziata anche KJ1.
Sarebbe troppo bello se il Papa dicesse una parola contro l'abbattimento degli orsi, contro lo sfruttamento degli animali nei circhi, contro gli zoo che li sfruttano, a migliaia di chilometri dal loro habitat naturale....ma quando mai? Tante lodi al Creato (Papa Francesco, Laudato si', 2015) ma nessuna parola mai di pietà nei confronti delle Creature non umane.
Ma si accorgerà che le mancate parole di pietà nei confronti degli animali, porteranno lentamente ma inesorabilmente a far sbiadire come un'ombra la sua voce quando poi parlerà dei diritti umani. Già adesso è così.
Papa Francesco, quale rivoluzione?
KJ1 also executed.
It would be too nice if the Pope said a word against the culling of bears, against the exploitation of animals in circuses, against the zoos that exploit them, thousands of kilometers from their natural habitat.... but when ever? Many praises to Creation (Pope Francis, Laudato si', 2015) but never a word of pity towards non-human Creatures.
But he will realize that the lack of words of mercy towards animals will slowly but surely lead to his voice fading like a shadow when he then talks about human rights. It's already like this now.
Pope Francis, what revolution?
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Vallée de Muong Hoa, Sapa (Vietnam)
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Just when I thought I had exploited every corner of my apartment and contorted every limb on my body, I discovered a new location and a new method of tripod-less selfies. I randomly stuck my camera out of my side window just for kicks and giggles one day, and ended up really loving the evening light, so I did it again, only this time, I stuck my head out as well. Was really pleased with the results.
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Tombeau de Saint Firmin, évêque d'Uzès. La cathédrale Saint-Théodorit d'Uzès (Gard)
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Vallée de Varzob près de Douchanbé (Asie Centrale - Tadjikistan)
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"New Generation"
Hanoi (Vietnam)
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Hamhung is the main chemical city in North Korea. We were supposed to visit it.
But the guides cancelled it at the last moment. So instead of visiting the museum with no light inside (real!), we asked for another visit, and they agreed to go in the biggest farm of the area.
We could see the tractors, share pears with people etc.
North Korean agriculture works under quite difficult conditions. Most of North Korea's territory is occupied by mountains and is thus not arable. The little land that is left faces many problems.
In 1995, 2007 and 2011, floods of unsuspected size washed away rice and corn fields, destroying a good part of the crops. These floods brought the population to famine, a problem which is still lingering within the unwealthy North Koreans. For the past twenty years, North Korea has been relying on international aid such as that of the United Nation, Japan or South Korea to feed its people, and the number of people who died from illness related to hunger or malnutrition is estimated to about two million.
Moreover, was it not for the floods, North Korea still has difficulty producing enough to match its population's nutritional needs.
Most agriculture in North Korea relies on manual work. The government tries to compensate the lack of mechanization by implementing programs that call for the farm workers to get up earlier and be at work in the fields “at the break of dawn”, but the lack of productivity itself is not compensated. The still deep-rooted principle of Juche prohibits buying soil fertilizer from abroad, but the country could not afford a lot in any case due to its lack of foreign currency. In the search for exploitable land, people burn off patches of forest on the mountains. The soil being no longer held by tree roots, it in turn brings floods. Another problem is industrial pollution, which seems to come from coal-burning industries, and some cases of acid rains.
One solution seems to be favored by countryside inhabitants ; they make their own garden and sell the products on local markets or on the street, or raise their own animals, such as goats. Goats produce dairy, not a traditional North Korean food, but to which people are gradually getting used.
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"During the first months on Atlas, we marked out mining fields and progressively established outposts close to each field, to operate and maintain the harvesters from. My parents were stationed at one of those outposts for maintenance duty. For the remaining years of my scholarship in The Ring, before joining service as a drone operator on the sun-side, I only saw them on rare occasions. One of those was the regular medical check they would undergo, as traces of the raw materials on the machinery they were taking care of could be toxic despite all protective equipment. Our med staff quickly discovered that, curiously, not everyone reacted to such exposure.
After refining the resources, command launched unmanned carriers in closely spaced intervals towards other star systems controlled by the confederation. Given Atlas' thin atmosphere and comparably low mass, our engineers had developed highly efficient launch systems early on, halving our colony's fuel expenses for exports. The saved budget was partially redirected towards local causes, the majority however was shoved into the pockets of the Confederation."
Part III of ATLAS, a collaboration hosted in The Workshop.
This scene, like all in this series, was captured entirely in camera. Screen background with complementary light on the left; brickbuilt forced perspective foreground.
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Marihuana is a 1936 exploitation film directed by Dwain Esper and written by Hildegarde Stadie. A propaganda film, the movie depicts the "horrors" of using marijuana.
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Plage de Pietranera (France - Cap Corse)
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