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Celebrating Flickr's 21st birthday - day 9's theme is Exploration.
"Monument to the Discoveries" (Portuguese: "Padrão dos Descobrimentos")
The monument is located along the Tagus River where ships departed to explore and trade with India and Orient. It celebrates the Portuguese Age of Discovery (or Age of Exploration) during the 15th and 16th centuries. The top three figures are Prince Henry the Navigator (with a model ship in his hands), Ferdinand the Saint (kneeling) and João Goncalvez Zarco (captain of the ship that first sailed to Madeira in 1419).
The monument was conceived in 1939 by Portuguese architect José Ângelo Cottinelli Telmo, and sculptor Leopoldo de Almeida, as a temporary beacon during the Portuguese World Fair opening in 1940. 1958-1960, a new monument was constructed in cement and rose-tinted stone. Although the project was based on Cottinelli Telmo's plan, he was replaced after his death by António Pardal Monteiro as primary architect.
This was simply amazing, a true urbex experience. I have had an idea for sometime to shoot each and every former Italian Asylum or ex ospedale psichiatrico as they are known.
There is a lot of them, but I have made a cracking start. However this is going to be difficult as the months and years pass as each one is being renovated or turned into other institutions, such as museums or clinics or simply being ripped down as myself and Jade experienced here.
Just after shooting these amazing cells we moved into the corridor and we went under some barrier tape unaware of what was about to happen. Jade went up some stairs to our left and went in search of hidden treasures. Then, as I shot a very long corridor in front of me, through my view finder I see the door straight ahead open. Then a man wearing white overalls walks through it and down the corridor towards me, scared and not wanting to be caught inside what I now knew was a part live hospital in Italy, I simply grabbed my camera and legged it up the stairs as he turned and went through a side door.
After ten minutes upstairs hidden in a back room, Jade and I crept back down the stairs and then proceeded to depart the premises with our hearts pumping as we left through the amazing undergrowth and vegetation that surrounded the rear of the building.
I will give an over-view of derelict Italian asylums and the series that I have planned in due course.
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*if you visit the salton sea, you must come visit Leonard and his Salvation Mountain at the bottom east of the sea, in a town called niland..
*i was so happy i almost cried...
i got to see Leonard the creator of the Salvation Mountain...
I can't belive he still can walk around greeting visitors...
nearly 300 visitors a day...
*you wonder if there are more people like him after he leaves..
official website : www.salvationmountain.us/menu.html
*i will post some more pictures of this later on. please feel free to download these and disitribute them... print them .. hang them on a wall...
*for your desktops www.flickr.com/photos/tofu_minx/2290712536/sizes/o/
Please feel free to print, copy, distribute, sell these. any proceeds if you like may be sent to Leonard:
A Japanese Spider Chrysanthemum, again; a different type.
The name "chrysanthemum" is derived from the Greek words chrysos (gold) and anthemon (flower)
Chrysanthemums, sometimes called mums or chrysanths, are flowering plants of the genus Chrysanthemum in the family Asteraceae.
They are native to Asia and northeastern Europe. Most species originate from East Asia and the center of diversity is in China.
Chrysanthemums were first cultivated in China as a flowering herb as far back as the 15th century BC.
The flower was brought to the Western World in the 17th century.There are about 40 valid species and countless horticultural varieties and cultivars.
For many years, chrysanthemum signifies praise and admiration. A chrysanthemum is considered as a noble flower of the Chinese noble class.
The Japanese hold this flower as the symbol of the sun.
Wishing you a day full of good light and thank you for your visit, M, (*_*)
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La vocation première du banc est d'offrir un refuge en un milieu ouvert, comme la haute mer. Les individus se trouvant au centre du banc se trouveront protégés par ceux qui en occupent les flancs. Face à l'attaque d'un prédateur, la plupart des espèces grégaires adoptent la même stratégie comportementale, et le banc se resserre pour prendre l'aspect d'une « boule », protégeant les individus les plus faibles (juvéniles...) au centre. Le banc permet également une meilleure exploitation des ressources, dans un milieu très dilué : en augmentant localement le volume global du banc, par rapport au volume d'un individu, on multiplie la probabilité de trouver une source de nourriture, car, si un seul des membres du banc détecte, par exemple, un banc de plancton, le groupe entier peut en profiter.
This is what it looked like before it got torn apart. (See further into the photo stream to see the outcome of this place)
Doomed Ship
For October's issue of Bright Metallic! Make sure to grab an issue of October's magazine before the change over to November's for more information on these destinations, and more!
First people-shots with my 40D, and while I'm not BLOWN AWAY, there IS a noticable difference in quality moving up from the XTi.
Since they don't have internet, Chibi Requia decided that they would do some exploration. Chibi Eruei knows that she won't accept a negative, so... Here they go!
I was going out for a walk with my Lil' Bratz (I love taking pix of them around Tufts University, since I live on campus :P) when I noticed the abandoned VERY old dollhouse on my back porch :P I've never paid much attention to it, but lately, I've been uber-interested in Urban Exploration, and thought this would be such a cute shot :)