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Glacier des Bossons - Les Houches, Vallée de Chamonix (Hte Savoie)
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Slovakia, Highland; former historical Hungary /Felvidék.
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It is a completely preserved medieval mining town. The fate of Selmecbánya/Banská Štiavnica has been closely linked to the exploitation of its abundant resources of silver ore. In the High and Late Middle Ages, the town was the main producer of silver and gold in the Kingdom of Hungary. The town was called “terra banensium” (the land of miners) as early as in 1156. The original Hungarian population was joined by skilled German settlers who started arriving in the 13th century. Selmecbánya/Banská Štiavnica gained the status of a royal town in 1238, as one of the first towns in the Kingdom of Hungary. During the Ottoman Wars, the Turks made concerted efforts to conquer rich mining towns in Upper Hungary (Banská Štiavnica, Banská Bystrica, and Kremnica). This new threat led Banská Štiavnica to build powerful fortifications, including two castles, in the 16th century. As one of the most important centers of Protestant Reformation in the country, the town belonged to the Protestant "League of Seven Mining Towns". The town was also a foremost center of innovation in mining industry. In 1627, gun powder was used here for the first time in the world in a mine. In 1735, the first mining school in the Kingdom of Hungary was founded there by Samuel Mikovíny. In the years 1762-1770, the Hofkammer in Vienna, with support from Queen Maria Theresa, transformed the school into the famous Mining Academy, creating the first technical university in the world. In 1919, after the creation of Czechoslovakia, the Academy was moved to Sopron in Hungary.In 1782, Banská Štiavnica was the third biggest town in the Kingdom of Hungary (with 23,192 or incl. suburbs 40,000 inhabitants), after Pozsony (today Bratislava) and Debrecen. But the town’s development was too closely linked to the mining activity which had been progressively declining since the second half of the 19th century.
corporations and religious control freaks eager to exploit them — the Republican Party and its allies have a bright future :-(
Ted Rall, "The Right Stuff: Conservatism is dead. Long live fictional conservatism!", 2007
copper-flowered common witchhazel, 'Jelena', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, Raleigh, north carolina
Lagos de Covadonga, Asturias, España.
Los lagos de Covadonga son dos pequeños lagos, el Enol y el Ercina, de origen glaciar situados en la parte asturiana del parque nacional de los Picos de Europa, en el macizo occidental de dicha cadena montañosa. Existe un tercer lago, el Bricial, que solo tiene agua durante el deshielo, pero también pertenece al conjunto
Se sitúan en el concejo de Cangas de Onís y se accede a ellos a través de una carretera de 14,5 km que nace en el Real Sitio de Covadonga para llegar en primer lugar al lago Enol, incluyendo también una pequeña carretera que les llevaría hasta el Lago Ercina. Su frecuente uso desde 1983 como final de etapa en la Vuelta ciclista a España ha popularizado internacionalmente el paraje.
La afluencia masiva de turistas, sobre todo aficionados al ciclismo, ha obligado a limitar el desarrollo de pruebas ciclistas en el entorno de Los Lagos. No obstante, la zona cuenta con una infraestructura turística.
La excesiva afluencia de visitas, en especial en temporada alta, también ha supuesto que el acceso en coche a los Lagos esté restringido, pudiendo acceder únicamente utilizando el transporte público habilitado para ello. Los vehículos particulares no pueden circular por la carretera de acceso a Los Lagos durante 6 meses al año, en temporada alta. En temporada baja, no hay restricciones de acceso con vehículo particular.
En las proximidades del lago Ercina, en Buferrera, hasta 1979 se explotaron minas de hierro, manganeso y mercurio. Las personas que visitan dicho paraje tienen a su disposición un aparcamiento "aparcamiento de Buferrera", un centro de visitantes , un refugio y dos bares restaurante para su disfrute.
The lakes of Covadonga are two small lakes, Enol and Ercina, of glacial origin located in the Asturian part of the Picos de Europa national park, in the western massif of said mountain chain. There is a third lake, Bricial, which only has water during the thaw, but also belongs to the group
They are located in the municipality of Cangas de Onís and are accessed through a 14.5 km road that begins in the Royal Site of Covadonga to first reach Lake Enol, also including a small road that would take them to Lake Ercina. Its frequent use since 1983 as the end of the stage in the Cycling Tour of Spain has made the place internationally popular.
The massive influx of tourists, especially cycling fans, has forced the development of cycling events in the Los Lagos area to be limited. However, the area has a tourist infrastructure.
The excessive influx of visitors, especially in high season, has also meant that access by car to the Lakes is restricted, with access only possible using public transport enabled for this purpose. Private vehicles cannot circulate on the access road to Los Lagos for 6 months a year, during high season. In low season, there are no access restrictions with a private vehicle.
In the vicinity of Lake Ercina, in Buferrera, iron, manganese and mercury mines were exploited until 1979. People who visit this area have at their disposal a parking lot "Buferrera parking", a visitor center, a shelter and two restaurant bars for their enjoyment.
staff of zurich's lush shop campaigning against the use of animals in circuses.
aktion zircus ohne tiere: www.azot.ch
kein applaus für tierquälerei: www.zirkusinfo.ch
lush switzerland: www.lush-shop.ch
Yamdrok Yutso ཡར་འབྲོག་གཡུ་མཚོ་ yar 'brog g.yu mtsho turquoise lake/a glittering blue glacial lake/name of lake yamdok གཡུ་མཚོ་ g.yu mtsho It is over 72 km (45 miles) long. The lake is surrounded by many snow-capped mountains and is fed by numerous small streams. The lake does have an outlet stream at its far western end. Around 90 km to the west of the lake lies the Tibetan town of Gyantse and Lhasa is a hundred km to the northeast. According to local mythology, Yamdok Yumtso lake is the transformation of a goddess. The lake (621 km² in area, of depth unknown) is fan-shaped, spreading to the South but narrowing up to the North. The mountainous lakeshore is highly crenellated, with numerous bays and inlets. The lake has a dozen of islands. Lakes Yamdok Yumtso freezes up in winter.Like mountains, lakes are considered sacrosanct by the Tibetan people, the principle being that they are the dwelling places of protective deities and therefore invested with special spiritual powers. For instance, Lhamo La-tso (Oracle) Lake is thought to be divinatory; everyone from the Dalai Lama to the local villagers makes pilgrimages there. Yamdrok Lake is one of four such holy lakes, the others being Lhamo La-tso (mentioned above), Namtso and Manasarovar. It is revered as a talisman and is said to be part of the life-spirit of the Tibetan nation. The largest lake in southern Tibet, it is said that if its waters dry, Tibet will no longer be habitable. The lake has nine islands, of which one houses the famous Samding Monastery. This monastery is interesting, as it is the only Tibetan monastery to be headed by a female re- incarnation. Since it is not a nunnery, its female abbot heads a community of about thirty monks and nuns. The Samding Monastery, where Dorje Pamo, the only woman Living Buddha in Tibet, stayed and presided, stands to the south of the Lake Yamdrok Yumtso . Today, both pilgrims and tourists can be seen walking along the lake's perimeter, enjoying the diversified fauna and flora, admiring the snow-capped mountains in the distance and visiting the villages scattered along its shores. One of the most newly popular pastimes for Tibetans is fishing, new because Tibetans are traditionally not allowed to eat fish. One of the lake's islands contains an old fort or castle called Pede Dzong. Exploitation There are shoals of fish living in Yamdok Yumtso lake, which are commercially exploited by local population. From April to October, fish caught from this lake are sold at markets in Lhasa, the provincial capital. Additionally, the lake's islands serve as rich pasture land to local herdmen. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamdrok_Yumtso
Est une espèce de passereaux de la famille des paridés. Facilement identifiable avec sa petite taille, sa forme un peu rondouillarde, ses fines pattes, son minuscule bec, et son joli plumage à dominante de bleu et jaune, cette mésange commune fait partie des espèces les plus emblématiques de l'avifaune européenne. Elle occupe préférentiellement les habitats pourvus de nombreux arbres et de verdure où elle trouve sa nourriture : les forêts de feuillus et les bocages sont ses milieux de prédilection, elle fréquente aussi les parcs et les jardins, jusqu'en ville. Elle partage son habitat avec d'autres espèces de mésanges (comme la mésange charbonnière) qui montrent des différences dans la distribution spatiale et dans la niche écologique exploitée. La monogamie sociale de cette espèce est associée à des niveaux élevés d'investissement parental avec la femelle immobilisée pour l'élevage des oisillons qui se spécialise dans la couvaison et le mâle dans le nourrissage de la couvée.
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Is a species of passerine birds in the family Paridae. Easily identifiable with its small size, its slightly plump form, its fine legs, its tiny beak, and its pretty plumage predominantly of blue and yellow, this common chickadee is one of the most emblematic species of the European birdlife. It preferentially occupies habitats provided with many trees and greenery where it finds its food: deciduous forests and hedgerows are its favorite environments, it also frequents parks and gardens, even to the city. It shares its habitat with other species of chickadees (such as the great tit) which show differences in spatial distribution and in the exploited ecological niche. The social monogamy of this species is associated with high levels of parental investment with the female immobilized for the breeding of young birds which specializes in brooding and the male in the feeding of the brood.
Limestone pavement an a lone tree above Malham.
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"Controllers"
Train journey to Hanoï (Gia Lam station)
Voyage en train en direction de Hanoï - Gare de Gia Lam (Vietnam)
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“There are three kinds of violence. The first, mother of all the others, is institutional violence, that which legalizes and perpetuates domination, oppression and exploitation, that which crushes and laminates millions of men in its silent and well-oiled wheels.
The second is revolutionary violence, which arises from the desire to abolish the first.
The third is repressive violence, the object of which is to stifle the second by making itself the auxiliary and the accomplice of the first violence, that which engenders all the others.
There is no worse hypocrisy to call violence only the second, while pretending to forget the first, which gives birth to it, and the third which kills it. »
Don Helder Camara (February 7, 1909 – August 27, 1999)
"Khmer Fresco"
Temples d'Angkor (Siem Reap - Cambodge)
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~~Le moulin Renard sur la Sarthe, le Mans.
~~Ce moulin à blé est construit sur un barrage formant la barrière des Moulins d'Enfer en amont de la Sarthe dans la traversée du Mans. IL est exploité vers 1850 par le Sieur Buon Lhermite. Celui-ci garde une roue pour la farine et utilise ensuite la seconde roue pour la fabrique de couvertures de laine.
~~Vers 1868, le moulin et la filature sont détruits par un incendie et le moulin reconstruit va être dévolu au chanvre. Cette exploitation appartient à Casimir Boulay puis à son fils et petit-fils jusqu'en 1935. Pendant la seconde Guerre, on remet le moulin en service pour entraîner un groupe électrique. Les habitants du quartier profitent ainsi de l'électricité obtenue.
~~Depuis 1964, le moulin sert d'habitation avec maison et jardin à un propriétaire privé.
Ville: Carros village
Réseau: Lignes d'Azur
Exploitant: TACAVL
Numéro de parc: 91
Ligne: 67 Langevin - La Fontonne / Le Broc
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This is not a specific anti-videogames statement nor a violence-glorifying picture - and it's by no means a suicide portrait. It's more about certain aspects of virtuality and reality getting mixed in a bad way. The picture should draw attention to the complexity of videogames with their potential harmful (media violence, videogames addiction etc) and their potential beneficial effects (entertainment, escapism etc.).
As with any of my pictures: Please contact me if you want to use this photo. Just send me a flickr message. Usally no big deal, just a question of money ; ] Serious: this picture is too easy exploited for several purposes - and I'de like to deicide whether I approve of the purpose or not.
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www.psychologicalscience.org/pdf/pspi/pspi43.pdf
"Heaven or Hell"
Tryptique de Van der Weyden - Hospices de Beaune (Bourgogne - Côte d'Or)
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Barr (Bas-Rhin)
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A new picture of this wonderful and magical place is the beach of Barrika. (Basque Country).
For this time, I had very clear whether risk going since I was alone, and it is very dangerous to nights out with no one who can help you if you pass anything.
I made up my mind that all variables were favorable:
- Full moon.
- Night cloudless (Very rare in these northern lands, it always rains or is cloudy).
- Low tide.
The feeling of watching the moon rise over the cliff, illuminating all this beach was spectacular.
Silence reigned at the scene at 1:00 am, only heard in the distance the sea.
The tide began to rise and it was nearly 2:00 am the water started to get too close and the danger increased but wanted to have my own take on this night spot.
I must say that I was very sorry to see that the part of the left had very many light pollution from a nearby village, but is something that can not be controlled.
After taking the picture, the worst was climbing the 300 steps down the cliff to the beach.
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(Texturas logradas con distintos filtros de PS.)
(Bourgogne - Côte d'Or)
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Il s'agit d'une ancienne église déclassée et utilisée comme grange par l'exploitation agricole voisine. Le toit a été emporté par la tempête de 1999. Un toit métallique provisoire a été posé récemment pour limiter la dégradation du bâtiment. A noter le bel appareil de pierre calcaire blanche et de silex.
It is a former church used as a barn by the nearby farm. The roof was washed away by the 1999 storm. A temporary metal roof was recently installed to limit the degradation of the building. Note the beautiful apparatus of white limestone and flint.
Pentax Super Me
Film Konica Super Centuria 400 périmé en 2004 - Expired Film
Traitement Kit Tetenal Colortec C41
I'm still exploiting the little plant I bought about 6 weeks ago. I believe that these are my favorite flower to light and photograph because of the elegant shapes. Some of the black and white photos I've seen that were done a long time ago by famous photographers are amazing works of art.
Lighting stuff: I placed a YN560 in a Rogue grid behind the flower and slightly to the right at 1 o'clock for backlighting, and used a YN560-III in an 8.6 inch Lastolite softbox in front and slightly to the left of center for fill. Both flashes, in manual mode, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other Calla Lily pictures are in my Calla Lilly album. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157626082181550/...
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. In the description for that set, I list resources that I've used to learn how to light with off camera flash. www.flickr.com/photos/9422
Dans le cimetière de bateaux de Kerhervy (Morbihan - France)
Sur les rives d’une boucle de la rivière du Blavet, le cimetière de bateaux de Kerhervy abrite des épaves. Ces embarcations y ont été déposées à partir de la fin des années 1950.
Quand les moteurs et l’acier remplacent les voiles et le bois,une nouvelle génération de bateaux, répondant aux nouvelles exigences de modernisation et d’exploitation halieutique est construite.
La question du recyclage des bateaux ne se pose pas. Devenus inutiles, ils sont mis à la casse dans la vasière de Kerhervy.
Le lieu est avant tout une décharge qui raconte l’histoire de la pêche dans le pays de Lorient et plus largement, le rapport de l’homme à la mer.
The blue Shipwreck - II
In the Kerhervy boat cemetery (Morbihan - France)
On the banks of a loop of the River Blavet, the Kerhervy boat cemetery is home to a number of shipwrecks. These boats were deposited here from the late 1950s onwards.
As engines and steel replaced sails and wood, a new generation of boats was built to meet the new demands of modernization and fishing.
There was no question of recycling the boats. No longer needed, they were scrapped on the Kerhervy mudflat.
The site is above all a dumping ground that tells the story of fishing in the Lorient region and, more broadly, of man's relationship with the sea.
I'm editing some family photos for my sister's chritmas cards, and found this one among them. We had lots of pink beauties in the background of their portraits.
It's actually a white waterlily (Nymphaea alba), but the red waterlily variety (Nymphaea alba f. rosea) that was cultivated from Sweden, where it was discovered in the early 19th century. The discovery led to large-scale exploitation which nearly made it extinct in the wild before it was protected.
(Rød nøkkerose, som er variant av hvit nøkkerose, in Norwegian)
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La Grande Saline de Salins-Les-Bains, comme toutes les salines de la région de Franche-Comté, utilisait les sources d'eaux salées comme matière première.
Le sel, "l'Or Blanc", était obtenu par évaporation artificielle, par opposition aux marais salants.
"Salins du Jura" doit sa renommée et son pouvoir dès le Moyen Age, au sel qu'elle exploite et dont elle fait commerce.
Différentes techniques se sont succédées dans le temps pour puiser puis pomper cette saumure (l'eau salée).
La résurgence de sources d’eau salée au fond de la vallée s’explique géologiquement par la présence d’un banc de sel gemme à 240 mètres de profondeur, lessivé par des infiltrations.
La Grande Saline de Salins-les-Bains a été reconnue le 27 juin 2009 au Patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO en extension de l’inscription de la Saline Royale d’Arc-et-Senans en 1982.
Dans un souci de cohérence, l’ensemble des Salines de Salins a été classé Monument Historique le 8 décembre 2009.
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From film to infrared.
I've shown you in the past days some old photographs taken with this Panasonic DMC-TZ40 compact camera, before I had it converted to monochromatic infrared. Actually the images in camera come out a kind of duotone, which allow me in processing with Capture One 23 to play around with the final result. It would be possible to hand colour these images as well, something I started to do once. www.flickr.com/photos/luminosity7/50545870597/in/album-72...
In this shadow image my conversion is to a straight black and white and you can see the effect of the infrared on the green grass. In the next image "Tasmanian Gothic IR" is have exploited the duotone to bring out contrasts between the organic and non-organic elements.
My cycling exploits continue. Before I went away there was a lot of press about the Mayor of London introducing a bicycle hire system similar to the one recently successful in Paris. When I arrived in Seville I noticed that they had one themselves. Seville is ideal for cycling - the centre has very little traffic and as everyone walks in the shade it leaves the sunny side of the avenues free to cycle on. Even I had a go - took me a while to work out the strange ticketing system and several attempts to get the bike moving, but I did manage two very short rides before I was defeated by my lack of skill, the cobblestones and the 40 degree heat.
Long exposure at blue hour, just a few moments after the sunset, on a cloudy and warm day.
These large rocks in the sea, known as "The Friars", create a totally magical place.
I must admit, that as a first impression, it's like meeting with some gods still asleep.
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As featured in the latest exploits of the Owen family in the Channel 4 TV series "Our Farm Next Door" The building was previously called "Smithy Holme".
16-January-2025
Northeast of Stara (old) Baška, after passing a rocky ridge, the large bay of Baška opens up (without "Nova"/new, it is not used in croatian, only for the old names in Italian it is Bescanuova as opposed to Bescavecchia, precisely Stara Baška) whose over 2 kilometers long gravel beach separates the sea from the lower part of the consistent furrow (draga), first narrow, fluvial, V-shaped, then wide, detrital, U-shaped.
Baška is larger than Stara Baška, and more touristy due to the imposing resort that exploits the large white gravel beach.
In winter, however, it is very quiet and sparsely inhabited.
Unfortunately, (also) this winter does not offer much snow in the Alps (I hate photographing the barren Alps in the middle of winter...) and so I dedicate myself to the winter sea which is always fascinating.
"Temper"
Oriole à queue jaune (Icterus mesomelas) Hda La Pacifica - Cañas (COSTA RICA 2019)
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Kolmanskop is an old deserted mining town 12 kilometres inland from Luderitz in southern Namibia.
It's a strange and eerie place. It was abandoned 60 years ago and the shifting sands have taken over many of the buildings.
A wonderful place to wander around with your camera.
"In 1908 the worker Zacharias Lewala found a diamond while working in this area and showed it to his supervisor, the German railway inspector August Stauch. Realizing the area was rich in diamonds, German miners began settlement, and soon after the German government declared a large area as a 'Sperrgebiet', starting to exploit the diamond field.
Driven by the enormous wealth of the first diamond miners, the residents built the village in the architectural style of a German town, with amenities and institutions including a hospital, ballroom, power station, school, skittle-alley, theatre and sport-hall, casino, ice factory and the first x-ray-station in the southern hemisphere, as well as the first tram in Africa. It had a railway link to Lüderitz."
Lenka's story at the Venice Biennale 2024.
Colonialism, exploitation of plant and animal resources, anthropocentrism and speciesism: a denunciation at the Venice Biennale.
La storia di Lenka alla Biennale di Venezia 2024.
Colonialismo, sfruttamento delle risorse vegetali e animali, antropocentrismo e specismo: una denuncia alla Biennale di Venezia.
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"The war in Ukraine reminds us how unjust and painful the construction of a people's identity, the affirmation of national independence and the reclamation of one's roots can be. Repairing serious and profound wounds inflicted throughout history is a slow, complex and difficult process. A metaphor and monument of a similar condition is Lenka, in the Czech Pavilion. The famous giraffe captured in Kenya in 1954, transported to the Prague zoo, survived in captivity for only two years, then taxidermied and preserved in the museum, after having thrown its organs into the city sewers. Eva Kotakova's work, «The heart of a giraffe in captivity is twelve kilos lighter», is a walkable environmental installation that reproduces the inside of the long dissected neck of the animal arranged in a circle. In the center of the room there is a blackboard and a space for meeting and reflection to learn about its history, its meaning and its cultural implications. On the floor, Lenka's skeleton is reproduced and as a sound that pervades the Pavilion the hymns of the countries that the giraffe crossed on its long journey to Prague, many of which no longer exist today."
"La guerra in Ucraina ci ricorda quanto ingiuste e dolorose possano rivelarsi la costruzione di un’identità di un popolo, l’affermazione dell’indipendenza nazionale e la rivendicazione delle proprie radici. Risarcire gravi e profonde ferite inflitte nel corso della storia è un processo lento, complesso e difficile. Metafora e monumento di simile condizione è Lenka, nel Padiglione della Cecoslovacchia. La celebre giraffa catturata in Kenya nel 1954, trasportata allo zoo di Praga, sopravvissuta in cattività solo due anni, poi tassidermizzata e conservata nel museo, dopo aver gettato gli organi nelle fogne cittadine. L’opera di Eva Kotakova, «Il cuore di una giraffa in cattività è dodici chili più leggero», è un’installazione ambientale percorribile che riproduce l’interno del lungo collo sezionato dell’animale disposto a cerchio. Al centro della sala una lavagna e uno spazio di incontro e riflessione per conoscerne la storia, il suo significato e le sue implicazioni culturali. Sul pavimento lo scheletro di Lenka riprodotto e come suono che pervade il Padiglione gli inni dei Paesi che la giraffa attraversò nel suo lungo viaggio verso Praga, molti oggi non più esistenti."
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