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ISTANBUL, TURKEY - AUGUST 27: Jake "Boaster" Howlett of Fnatic at VALORANT Champions 2022 Istanbul Features Day on August 27, 2022 in Istanbul, Turkey. (Photo by Lance Skundrich/Riot Games)
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL - FEBRUARY 09: Mehmet "Turko" Ozen of BBL Esports poses during the VALORANT Champions Tour 2023: LOCK//IN features day on February 9, 2023 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Photo by Lance Skundrich/Riot Games)
Yep, it's Treasure Island. I always thought that was just the name the cottage owners gave it (it's on a sign on the boathouse), unofficially, but apparently it is official!
My grandparents had a cottage very close to this island, on shore.
(Note: the satellite image doesn't show on the geotag map, until you zoom out four times or so, but Google Maps shows the satellite photo, no problem.)
Near Gravenhurst, Ontario.
Victorian gothic - this bib necklace features black lace on a purple cotton broadcloth background with a swarovski rivoli focal and a beaded edging that makes a lasting impression!
I created this bib necklace using cotton backed with fabric interfacing to give it a bit of stiffness. I then stitched on a black floral lace applique and embellished that with tapestry embroidery using mainly a chain stitch. Purple, pink and silver floss were used - the silver floss is a shiny metallic polyester thread that will not tarnish as there is no actual metal component in it. Clear glass foil lined seed bead embellishments accent the lace, and a diamond like swarovski crystal rivoli that I bezeled in peyote stitch using foil lined glass delica beads creates a focal point. The bib is backed in soft black suede leather and edged with tiny size 15 black rocaille beads in a brick stitch. The bottom edge has a net like edging in silver and black accented with tiny Swarovski bicones. At the longest center section, the accent crystal is a vintage aurora borealis crystal bead. Two silver plated rings are stitched on the back and black organza ribbon was looped through - there are two strands of ribbon on each side with plenty of length so that the necklace can be adjusted to either choker length or longer as desired.
This NAVCAM view from 14th August shows not only Philae's flight path across Landing Site B, but how 67P might have been streched and pulled apart into the two lobes. The features on the two lobes marked with red arrows clearly match, with the face of the fracture plain visible on the body lobe. Credits: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL - FEBRUARY 19: Wan "CHICHOO" Shunzhi of EDward Gaming poses during the VALORANT Champions Tour 2023: LOCK//IN features day on February 19, 2023 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Photo by Lance Skundrich/Riot Games)
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The 2015 Silverado 3500 features an all-new exterior designed to reduce wind noise and enhance powertrain cooling for more consistent performance. The all-new interior is quiet and comfortable, with ample storage for work or travel and the intuitive connectivity of Chevy MyLink. Customers can chose from gasoline, CNG or diesel power, including the legendary Duramax turbodiesel and Allison transmission. The Silverado 3500 offers class-leading available payload and conventional towing.
This photo features a young woman wearing a pink shirt and white shorts, posing for a picture. She is leaning against a wall and has her hands on her hips. The woman is standing in front of a chair, which is placed to the right of her.
In the background, there is a car parked on the left side of the scene. Another person can be seen in the middle of the scene, but they are not the main focus of the image. The woman's confident pose and stylish outfit make her the center of attention in this scene.
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL - FEBRUARY 17: Konur "qw1" Sahin of FUT Esports poses during the VALORANT Champions Tour 2023: LOCK//IN features day on February 17, 2023 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Photo by Lance Skundrich/Riot Games)
Members of the Kaiserslautern Military Hispanic Heritage Committee kick off the first day of Hispanic Heritage Month with traditional Hispanic dancing, poetry and special speakers at the Officers Club located at Ramstein Air Base, Germany on Sept. 16, 2014. Hispanic Heritage month goes through October 15th and during that month the committee will share their heritage and traditions with others throughout the community by providing cultural, Spanish speaking and dancing classes. (DoD News Illustration by SSgt Brian Kimball)
BERLIN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 11: Alexis "alexis" Guarrasi (L) and "katsumi" of Cloud9 White pose at the VALORANT Game Changers Championship 2022 Features Day on November 11, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)
Model: Heckler & Koch HK23E General Purpose Machine Gun
Caliber: 5.56x45/.223
Rate of fire: 800 rounds per minute
Firing modes: Safe, single shot, 3 shot & fully automatic bursts
Features: Mechanical recoil buffer incorporated in the stock, adjustable 1200 meter sight, adjustable foldable bipod, belt feeding tray, front grip, quick change barrel & 22 caliber muzzle brake
Country of origin: West Germany
If the gun is accurate & the shooter has aim, tough luck for Super Mario & Luigi, they cannot avoid the Bullet Bills any longer
Peshastin Pinnacles State Park is located in the desert region of Central Washington State. The park features sandstone slabs and spires that overlook the Wenatchee Valley.
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL - FEBRUARY 09: Park "Seoldam" Sang-min of DetonatioN FocusMe poses during the VALORANT Champions Tour 2023: LOCK//IN features day on February 9, 2023 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Photo by Lance Skundrich/Riot Games)
This photo features a group of women standing outside a bar, possibly a strip club, as they are dressed in blue dresses. They are gathered in front of the bar, with some of them wearing name tags. The women are standing in various positions, with some closer to the foreground and others further back.
There are a few chairs visible in the scene, one near the left side of the image and another towards the right side. Additionally, there is a TV mounted on the wall in the background, likely providing entertainment for the patrons of the bar.
BERLIN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 11: Constanza "Conir" Reyes of KRÜ Fem poses at the VALORANT Game Changers Championship 2022 Features Day on November 11, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)
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The Sea Rabbit (Monafluffchus americanus) of Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York – This unique sea-dwelling rabbit, which is actually a close relative of the sea lion, was officially discovered and investigated by Henry Hudson when he first visited this land to colonize the area by order of the Dutch government. It was named New Amsterdam -- today’s New York City. This island was named after he saw the beach covered with strange swimming wild rabbits. The word “Coney Island” means “wild rabbit island” in Dutch (originally Conyne Eylandt, or Konijneneiland in modern Dutch spelling). Sea rabbits were also referred mermaid rabbit, merrabbit, rabbit fish or seal rabbit in the natural history documents in the 17th century. The current conservation status, or risk of extinction, of the sea rabbit is Extinct in the Wild.
This website features two species of sea rabbits, which have been taken care of by Dr. Takeshi Yamada (山田武司) at the Coney Island Sea Rabbit Repopulation Center, which is a part of the Marine biology department of the Coney Island University in Brooklyn, New York. They are – Coney Island Sea Rabbit (Monafluffchus americanus) called “Seara” and Coney Island Tiger-striped Sea Rabbit (Monafluffchus konjinicus) called “Stripes”.
The photographs and videos featured in this website chronicle adventures of the Coney Island sea rabbits and the world as seen by them. This article also documented efforts of Dr. Takeshi Yamada for bringing back the nearly extinct sea rabbits to Coney Island in the City of New York and beyond. Dr. Yamada produced a series of public lectures, workshops, original public live interactive fine art performances and fine art exhibitions about sea rabbits at a variety of occasions and institutions in the City of New York and beyond. Dr. Yamada is an internationally active educator, book author, wildlife conservationist and high profile artist, who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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Sea Rabbit
Other Common Names: Coney Island Sea Rabbit, Beach Rabbit, Seal Rabbit, mer-rabbit, merrabbit, Atlantic Sea Rabbit.
Latin Name: Monafluffchus americanus
Origin: Atlantic coast of the United States
Description of the specimen: In the early 17th century’s European fur craze drove the fleet of Dutch ships to the eastern costal area of America. Then Holland was the center of the world just like the Italy was in the previous century. New York City was once called New Amsterdam when Dutch merchants landed and established colonies. Among them, Henry Hudson is probably the most recognized individual in the history of New York City today. “This small island is inhabited by two major creatures which we do not have in our homeland. The one creature is a large arthropod made of three body segments: the frontal segment resembles a horseshoe, the middle segment resembles a spiny crab and its tail resembles a sharp sword. Although they gather beaches here in great numbers, they are not edible due to their extremely offensive odor. Another creature which is abundant here, has the head of wild rabbit. This animal of great swimming ability has frontal legs resemble the webbed feet of a duck. The bottom half of the body resembles that of a seal. This docile rabbit of the sea is easy to catch as it does not fear people. The larger male sea rabbits control harems of 20 to 25 females. The meat of the sea rabbit is very tender and tasty.” This is what Hadson wrote in his personal journal in 1609 about the horseshoe crab and the sea rabbit in today’s Coney Island area of Brooklyn, New York. Sadly, just like the Dodo bird and the Thylacine, the sea rabbit was driven to extinction by the European settlers’ greed. When Dutch merchants and traders arrived here, sea rabbits were one of the first animals they hunted down to bring their furs to homeland to satisfy the fur craze of the time. To increase the shipment volume of furs of sea rabbit and beavers from New Amsterdam, Dutch merchants also started using wampum (beads made of special clam shells) as the first official currency of this country.
At the North Eastern shores of the United States, two species of sea rabbits were commonly found. They are Coney Island Sea Rabbit (Monafluffchus americanus) and Coney Island Tiger-striped Sea Rabbit (Monafluffchus konjinicus). Sadly, due to their over harvesting in the previous centuries, their conservation status became “Extinct in the Wild” (ET) in the Red List Endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Currently, these sea rabbits are only found at breeding centers at selected zoos and universities such as Coney Island Aquarium and Coney Island University in Brooklyn, New York. The one shown in this photograph was named "Seara" and has been cared by Dr. Takeshi Yamada at Coney Island University.
The sea rabbit is one of the families of the Pinniped order. Pinnipeds (from Latin penna = flat and pes/pedis = foot) are sea-mammals: they are homeothermic (i.e having high and regulated inner temperature), lung-breathing (i.e dependant on atmospheric oxygen) animals having come back to semi aquatic life. As soon as they arrive ashore, females are caught by the nearest adult male. Males can maintain harems of about 20 females on average. Several hours to several days after arriving ashore, pregnant females give birth to eight to ten pups with a dark brown fur. As soon as birth occurs, the mother’s special smell and calls help her pups bond specifically to her. The mother stays ashore with her pup for about one week during which the pup gains weight. During the first week spent with her newborn, the mother becomes receptive. She will be impregnated by the bull, which control the harem. Implantation of the embryo will occur 3 months later, in March-April. During the reproductive period, the best males copulate with several tens females. To do so, males have to stay ashore without feeding in order to keep their territory and their harem. In mid-January, when the last females have been fecundated, males leave at sea to feed. Some of them will come back later in March-April for the moult. The other ones will stay at sea and will come back on Coney Island only in next November. After fecundation, the mother goes at sea for her first meal. At sea, mothers feed on clams, crabs, shrimps, fish (herring, anchovy, Pollock, capelin etc.) and squids. When she is back, the mother recovers her pups at the beach she left them. Suckling occurs after auditive and olfactory recognition had occured. In March-April, the dark brown fur is totally replaced by an adult-like light brownish grey fur during the moult that lasts 1-2 months. This new fur is composed by 2 layers. Externally, the guard fur is composed by flat hairs that recover themselves when wet. By doing so, they make a water-proof barrier for the under fur. The underfur retains air when the seal is dry. Because of isolating properties of the air, the underfur is the insulating system of the fur. In March-April, the fur of adults is partially replaced. First reproduction occurs at 1-yr old in females. Males are physiologically matures at 1 year old but socially matures at +2 years old.
NOTE: The name of Coney Island is commonly thought to be derived from the Dutch Konijn Eylandt or Rabbit Island as apparently the 17th century European settlers noted many rabbits running amuck on the island.
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This collaboration features 4 contemporary artists based in London and New York: Je BAAK, Meekyoung SHIN, Buhm HONG and Jean SHIN.
From 25 October 2011 to 26 November 2011 the exhibition NyLon: London-New York Exchange Exhibition brings together four Korean artists based in London and New York.
As it marks our first exchange exhibition with the Korean Cultural Service New York, NyLon attempts to pave a new way for these two institutions to promote Korean artists on the global art scene.
Our four exciting artists Meekyoung SHIN, Je BAAK, Buhm HONG and Jean SHIN explore a range of cross-cultural influences through their work, inspired by their lives in two of the world’s leading cultural capitals.
Four artists were selected by the local advisory panels, consisted of Ralph Rugoff, the Director of the Hayward Gallery and Dr. Sook-Kyung Lee, the first Korean curator at the Tate. The works of these artists will also be exhibited at the Korean Cultural Service New York, from 16 November 2011 to 16 December 2011.
This model features a display stand, two Railway Museum workers; Dale Patyi and Bob Sampson and it can either be equipped with either the English Electric 6-cylinder diesel engine (if you want it as a display model) or can be motorized with Power Functions!
Also, you can take off the roof to reveal the inner workings and even put the crew inside!
To see more about the real 800 Class Loco:
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Dale & Bob in human:
LXF Downloads:
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Happy 60th Birthday Locomotive 801!
OPENING FEATURES (July 30, 1993):
- Rising Sun (105, 410, 705, 955)
- Coneheads (115, 315, 515, 715, 915)
- Robin Hood: Men in Tights (120, 420, 720, 940)
- So I Married an Axe Murderer (110, 320, 530, 735, 940)
- Much Ado About Nothing (125, 415, 725, 955)
- Another Stakeout (125, 425, 730, 950)
- The Firm (100, 400, 700, 1000)
- Jurassic Park (105, 405, 720, 950)
- In the Line of Fire (130, 430, 730, 1005)
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [1993 Re-Release] (110, 310, 510)
- Sleepless in Seattle (740, 1000)
FINAL FILMS (July 14, 2005):
- War of the Worlds (115, 415, 720, 1025)
- Batman Begins (110, 425, 725, 1020)
- Rebound (120, 405, 740, 1005)
- Land of the Dead (145, 440, 745, 1035)
- Bewitched (130, 430, 705, 1000)
- Herbie: Fully Loaded (100, 410, 700, 945)
- Mr. & Mrs. Smith (105, 400, 735, 1030)
- The Longest Yard (125, 435, 715, 1010)
- Madagascar (150, 420, 730, 940)
- Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (1250, 355, 710, 1015)
BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA - MAY 18: Kyle "Danny" Sakamaki (L) and Philippe "Vulcan" Laflamme of Evil Geniuses pose at the League of Legends - Mid-Season Invitational Rumble Features Day on May 18, 2022 in Busan, South Korea. (Photo by Lee Aiksoon/Riot Games)
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL - FEBRUARY 09: Mehmet "Turko" Ozen of BBL Esports poses during the VALORANT Champions Tour 2023: LOCK//IN features day on February 9, 2023 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Photo by Lance Skundrich/Riot Games)
BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA - MAY 08: Hakan "Ferret" Mert Cakmak of fastPay Wildcats poses at the League of Legends - Mid-Season Invitational Features Day on May 8, 2022 in Busan, South Korea. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)
FEATURES:
The SEIKO QUARTZ watch Cal. 6M13 is an analogue watch with three hands featuring alarm, calendar and calendar search functions.
TIME:
Indicated by three hands.
CALENDAR:
Date is displayed in numerals, and day of the week, month and year are indicated by the hands. The calendar automatically adjusts for odd and even months including February of leap years from 1400 to 2499.
ONE-DAY ALARM:
Can be set to ring once at a designated time and date within a month.
DAILY ALARM:
Can be set to ring regularly once a day.
CALENDAR SEARCH FUNCTION:
The day of the week for any desired date, month and year from 1400 to 2499 can easily be determined and displayed by one of the hands.
BATTERY LIFE INDICATOR:
The second hand moves at two-second intervals when the battery needs to be replaced.
Red Dao woman with typical headgear.
The Red Dao ethnic people reside mainly in the northern mountainous provinces of Vietnam . One of the most typical features of the ethnic group is their attire that consists of a turban, tunic, trousers, belt, leggings and shoes. The outfit is created with five basic colors, but red is prominent. According to the custom, the Red Dao women wear an indigo or black tunic with four flaps and sleeves being directly attached to the tunic’s body. The hems of the tunic’s neck and chest are adjoined together and richly embroidered with patterns and designs created with red thread. The two ends of the chest’s hem are adorned with strings of glass-beads and red fringes. The cuffs of sleeves are embroidered using red and white thread. The bottom of the tunic has separate hems overlapping, making the attire look like two tunics, with the outside being shorter than the inside. The Red Dao women also wear a brassier with an embroidered round neck. Two straps are added to the middle of the brassier and fastened in the back.
The turban of the Red Dao is decorated with five-layered patterns of flowers, trees etc., that is squared in the center, helping highlight the charm of the turban. Patterns to decorate the belt at the two ends are traces of tiger feet, pipe trees, figures in dress, etc. The belt is wrapped around the waist for 3-4 times and fastened in the back. The trousers are carefully embroidered with patterns and designs with red, yellow and white square and rectangular shapes, pipe trees, Wan script and canarium fruit on the lower trouser legs while the upper part is plain and black, all creating the balance and harmony of the attire. The outfit of the Red Dao not only shows their diligence, patience, skilfulness and creative imagination but also their exceptional taste in color and composition that create the unique features of the ethnic group.
BERLIN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 12: (L-R) Anastasiya "Glance" Anisimova, Petra "Petra" Stoker and Maryam "Mary" Maher of G2 Gozen pose at the VALORANT Game Changers Championship 2022 Features Day on November 12, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)
Made in 1916 by British born, German trained, Melbourne stained glass artist William Montgomery, the William Major Olive Memorial Window features Saint Alban.
St Alban is venerated as the first recorded British Christian martyr. He is traditionally believed to have been beheaded in the Roman city of Verulamium (modern St Albans) sometime during the 3rd or 4th century, and his cult has been celebrated there since ancient times.
The vignette at the base of the memorial window features the following inscription; "In memory of William Major Olive a member chorister of this church killed on active service in France Easter Day 1916". The subject of Saint Alban, England's first martyr saint, may have been chosen to commemorate Lieutenant Olive's service to his country.
The window was ordered by the Reverend A. J. Drewett, and was unveiled by the Dean of Melbourne in a dedication ceremony on the 17th of April 1917, almost a year after Lieutenant Olive was killed. The service included the choir singing "Blessed are the Dead", a tribute to a former member of the choir.
The window, a large fully-painted single light cost £70.00. It was the third window by Melbourne's leading stained glass artist, William Montgomery, to be installed in the north nave, the others being St. Mark (1913) and St. Stephen (1915).
William Major Olive was born on 25 August 1890 to Henry Thomas and Ella Ada Olive at "Surbiton" in Studley Park, Kew. After an excellent studentship at Scotch College where he was a prefect and Senior Cadet, William Olive completed an equally successful bachelor's degree in civil engineering but joined up before the conferring ceremony. He was one of four men whose loss was noted at the Commencement Day ceremony 1917: William Olive; Edward Courtney Thomas MA; Eric Craven Jowett BE; Walter Alan Leckie BE. William Olive joined the 5th Field Company Australian Engineers and proceeded to Alexandria in November 1915, then went on to Marseilles, disembarking on 23 March 1916. Precisely one month later Lieutenant Olive was killed by a shell explosion at Bois Grenier at midday on 23 April. He was buried at Erquinhem Communal Cemetery Extension, France.
Built amid workers' cottages and terrace houses of shopkeepers, St. Mark the Evangelist Church of England sits atop an undulating rise in the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy. Nestled behind a thick bank of agapanthus beyond its original cast-iron palisade fence, it would not look out of place in an English country village with its neat buttresses, bluestone masonry and simple, unadorned belfry.
St. Mark the Evangelist was the first church to be built outside of the original Melbourne grid as Fitzroy developed into the city's first suburb. A working-class suburb, the majority of its residents were Church of England and from 1849 a Mission Church and school served as a centre for religious, educational and recreational facilities. The school was one of a number of denominational schools established by the Church of England and was partly funded by the Denominational School Board.
St. Mark the Evangelist Church of England was designed by architect James Blackburn and built in Early English Gothic style. Richard Grice, Victorian pastoralist and philanthropist, generously contributed almost all the cost of its construction. Work commenced in 1853 to accommodate the growing Church of England congregation of Fitzroy. On July 1st, 1853, the first stone of St. Mark the Evangelist was laid by the first Bishop of Melbourne, The Right Rev. Charles Perry.
Unfortunately, Blackburn did not live to see its completion, dying the following year in 1854 of typhoid. This left St. Mark the Evangelist without an architect to oversee the project, and a series of other notable Melbourne architects helped finish the church including Lloyd Tayler, Leonard Terry and Charles Webb. Even then when St. Mark the Evangelist opened its doors on Sunday, January 21st, 1855, the church was never fully completed with an east tower and spire never realised. The exterior of the church is very plain, constructed of largely unadorned bluestone, with simple buttresses marking structural bays and tall lancet windows. The church's belfry is similarly unadorned, yet features beautiful masonry work. It has a square tower and broach spire.
Inside St. Mark the Evangelist Church of England it is peaceful and serves as a quiet sanctuary from the noisy world outside. I visited it on a hot day, and its enveloping coolness was a welcome relief. Walking across the old, highly polished hardwood floors you cannot help but note the gentle scent of the incense used during mass. The church has an ornately carved timber Gothic narthex screen which you walk through to enter the nave. Once there you can see the unusual two storey arcaded gallery designed by Leonard Terry that runs the entire length of the east side of building. Often spoken of as “The Architect’s Folly” Terry's gallery was a divisive point in the Fritzroy congregation. Some thought it added much beauty to the interior with its massive square pillars and seven arches supporting the principals of the roof. Yet it was generally agreed that the gallery was of little effective use, and came with a costly price tag of £3,000.00! To this day, it has never been fully utlised by the church. St. Mark the Evangelist has been fortunate to have a series of organs installed over its history; in 1854 a modest organ of unknown origin: in 1855 an 1853 Foster and Andrews, Hull, organ which was taken from the Athenaeum Theatre in Melbourne's Collins Street: in 1877 an organ built by Melbourne organ maker William Anderson: and finally in 1999 as part of major renovation works a 1938 Harrison and Harrison, Durham, organ taken from St. Luke's Church of England in Cowley, Oxfordshire. The church has gone through many renovations over the ensuing years, yet the original marble font and pews have survived these changes and remain in situ to this day. Blackwood reredos in the chancel, dating from 1939, feature a mosaic of the last supper by stained glass and church outfitters Brooks, Robinson and Company. A similar one can be found at St. Matthew's Church of England in High Street in Prahran. The fine lancet stained glass windows on the west side of St. Mark the Evangelist feature the work of the stained glass firms Brooks, Robinson and Company. and William Montgomery. Many of the windows were installed in the late Nineteenth Century.
The St. Mark the Evangelist Parish Hall and verger's cottage were added in 1889 to designs by architects Hyndman and Bates. The hall is arranged as a nave with clerestorey windows and side aisles with buttresses. In 1891 the same architects designed the Choir Vestry and Infants Sunday School on Hodgson Street, to replace the earlier school of 1849 which had been located in the forecourt of the church.
The present St. Mark the Evangelist's vicarage, a two-storey brick structure with cast-iron lacework verandahs, was erected in 1910.
I am very grateful to the staff of Anglicare who run the busy adjoining St. Mark's Community Centre for allowing me to have free range of the inside of St. Mark the Evangelist for a few hours to photograph it so extensively.
James Blackburn (1803 - 1854) was an English civil engineer, surveyor and architect. Born in Upton, West Ham, Essex, James was the third of four sons and one daughter born to his parents. His father was a scalemaker, a trade all his brothers took. At the age of 23, James was employed by the Commissioners of Sewers for Holborn and Finsbury and later became an inspector of sewers. However, his life took a dramatic turn in 1833, when suffering economic hardship, he forged a cheque. He was caught and his penalty was transportation to Van Diemen’s Land (modern day Tasmania). As a convicted prisoner, yet also listed as a civil engineer, James was assigned to the Roads Department under the management of Roderic O’Connor, a wealthy Irishman who was the Inspector of Roads and Bridges at the time. On 3 May 1841 James was pardoned, whereupon he entered private practice with James Thomson, another a former convict. In April 1849, James sailed from Tasmania aboard the "Shamrock" with his wife and ten children to start a new life in Melbourne. Once there he formed a company to sell filtered and purified water to the public, and carried out some minor architectural commissions including St. Mark the Evangelist in Fitzroy. On 24 October he was appointed city surveyor, and between 1850 and 1851 he produced his greatest non-architectural work, the basic design and fundamental conception of the Melbourne water supply from the Yan Yean reservoir via the Plenty River. He was injured in a fall from a horse in January 1852 and died on 3 March 1854 at Brunswick Street, Collingwood, of typhoid. He was buried as a member of St. Mark The Evangelist Church of England. James is best known in Tasmania for his ecclesiastical architectural work including; St Mark's Church of England, Pontville, Tasmania (1839-1841), Holy Trinity Church, Hobart, Tasmania (1841-1848): St. George's Church of England, Battery Point, Tasmania, (1841-1847).
Leonard Terry (1825 - 1884) was an architect born at Scarborough, Yorkshire, England. Son of Leonard Terry, a timber merchant, and his wife Margaret, he arrived in Melbourne in 1853 and after six months was employed by architect C. Laing. By the end of 1856 he had his own practice in Collins Street West (Terry and Oakden). After Mr. Laing's death next year Leonard succeeded him as the principal designer of banks in Victoria and of buildings for the Anglican Church, of which he was appointed diocesan architect in 1860. In addition to the many banks and churches that he designed, Leonard is also known for his design of The Melbourne Club on Collins Street (1858 - 1859) "Braemar" in East Melbourne (1865), "Greenwich House" Toorak (1869) and the Campbell residence on the corner of Collins and Spring Streets (1877). Leonard was first married, at 30, on 26 June 1855 to Theodosia Mary Welch (d.1861), by whom he had six children including Marmaduke, who trained as a surveyor and entered his father's firm in 1880. Terry's second marriage, at 41, on 29 December 1866 was to Esther Hardwick Aspinall, who bore him three children and survived him when on 23 June 1884, at the age of 59, he died of a thoracic tumor in his last home, Campbellfield Lodge, Alexandra Parade, in Collingwood.
Lloyd Tayler (1830 - 1900) was an architect born on 26 October 1830 in London, youngest son of tailor William Tayler, and his wife Priscilla. Educated at Mill Hill Grammar School, Hendon, and King's College, London, he is said to have been a student at the Sorbonne. In June 1851 he left England to join his brother on the land near Albury, New South Wales. He ended up on the Mount Alexander goldfields before setting up an architectural practice with Lewis Vieusseux, a civil engineer in 1854. By 1856 he had his own architectural practice where he designed premises for the Colonial Bank of Australasia. In the 1860s and 1870s he was lauded for his designs for the National Bank of Australasia, including those in the Melbourne suburbs of Richmond and North Fitzroy, and further afield in country Victoria at Warrnambool and Coleraine. His major design for the bank was the Melbourne head office in 1867. With Edmund Wright in 1874 William won the competition for the design of the South Australian Houses of Parliament, which began construction in 1881. The pair also designed the Bank of Australia in Adelaide in 1875. He also designed the Australian Club in Melbourne's William Street and the Melbourne Exchange in Collins Street in 1878. Lloyd's examples of domestic architecture include the mansion "Kamesburgh", Brighton, commissioned by W. K. Thomson in 1872. Other houses include: "Thyra", Brighton (1883): "Leighswood", Toorak, for C. E. Bright: "Roxcraddock", Caulfield: "Cherry Chase", Brighton: and "Blair Athol", Brighton. In addition to his work on St. Mark the Evangelist in Fitzroy, Lloyd also designed St. Mary's Church of England, Hotham (1860); St Philip's, Collingwood, and the Presbyterian Church, Punt Road, South Yarra (1865); and Trinity Church, Bacchus Marsh (1869). The high point of Lloyd's career was the design for the Melbourne head office of the Commercial Bank of Australia. His last important design was the Metropolitan Fire Brigade Headquarters Station, Eastern Hill in 1892. Lloyd was also a judge in 1900 of the competition plans for the new Flinders Street railway station. Lloyd was married to Sarah Toller, daughter of a Congregational minister. They established a comfortable residence, Pen-y-Bryn, in Brighton, and it was from here that he died of cancer of the liver on the 17th of August 1900 survived by his wife, four daughters and a son.
Charles Webb (1821 - 1898) was an architect. Born on 26 November 1821 at Sudbury, Suffolk, England, he was the youngest of nine children of builder William Webb and his wife Elizabeth. He attended Sudbury Academy and was later apprenticed to a London architect. His brother James had migrated to Van Diemen's Land in 1830, married in 1833, gone to Melbourne in 1839 where he set up as a builder in and in 1848 he bought Brighton Park, Brighton. Charles decided to join James and lived with James at Brighton. They went into partnership as architects and surveyors. The commission that established them was in 1850 for St Paul's Church, Swanston Street. It was here that Charles married Emma Bridges, daughter of the chief cashier at the Bank of England. Charles and James built many warehouses, shops and private homes and even a synagogue in the city. After his borther's return to England, Charles designed St. Andrew's Church, Brighton, and receiving an important commission for Melbourne Church of England Grammar School in 1855. In 1857 he added a tower and a slender spire to Scots Church, which James had built in 1841. He designed Wesley College in 1864, the Alfred Hospital and the Royal Arcade in 1869, the South Melbourne Town Hall and the Melbourne Orphan Asylum in 1878 and the Grand Hotel (now the Windsor) in 1884. In 1865 he had designed his own home, "Farleigh", in Park Street, Brighton, where he died on 23 January 1898 of heat exhaustion. Predeceased by Emma in 1893 and survived by five sons and three daughters, he was buried in Brighton cemetery.
William Montgomery (1850 - 1927) was an artist who specialised in stained glass painting and design. He was born in England in 1850, and studied at the School of Art in Newcastle-on-Tyne. In his final year William was awarded one of only three National Art Scholarships that year to study at South Kensington School of Art (now the Royal College of Art). He was employed by the leading London stained glass firm, Clayton and Bell, before joining Franz Mayer and Company in Munich, Germany. Over the next seven years he not only designed windows he also trained others in the English style of glass painting. William arrived in Melbourne, Australia, in 1886 during the Boom Period provided by the Gold Rush. Melbourne was at the time one of the wealthiest cities in the world, and was in the throes of a building boom. He quickly set up his studio at 164 Flinders Street in the heart of Melbourne, bringing with him the latest in European style and design and achieving instant success amongst wealthy patrons. He worked equally for Catholic and Protestant denominations, his windows being found in many churches as well as in mansions, houses and other commercial buildings around the city. This extended to the country beyond as his reputation grew. A painter as well as stained glass window designer William was a founding member of the Victorian Art Society in Albert Street, Eastern Hill. William became President of its Council in 1912, a position he held until 1916. He was a trustee of the National Gallery of Victoria. His commissions included; stained glass windows at Christ Church, Hawthorn: St. John's, Heidelberg, St. Ignatius', Richmond: Christ Church, St Kilda: Geelong Grammar School: the Bathurst Cathedral and private houses "Tay Creggan", Hawthorn (now Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar), and "Earlsbrae Hall", Essendon (now Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School). The success of William Montgomery made Melbourne the leading centre of stained glass in the Southern Hemisphere. William Montgomery died in 1927.
Features a folding canvas top, which basically is more of a large sunroof than a proper convertible and in a very similar design to the one on the Fiat 500C. Soon there will be a Vauxhall/Opel Adam cabriolet with the same feature. These cabriolets feature a new rear LED tail lamp design which I first saw being used last night. Looked great!
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL - FEBRUARY 09: Panyawat "sushiboys" Subsiriroj of Talon Esports poses during the VALORANT Champions Tour 2023: LOCK//IN features day on February 9, 2023 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Photo by Lance Skundrich/Riot Games)
BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA - MAY 07: Daniel ''Grevthar'' Xavier of RED Canids poses at the League of Legends - Mid-Season Invitational Features Day on May 7, 2022 in Busan, South Korea. (Photo by Lee Aiksoon/Riot Games)
This image features arcuate ridges in the high northern plains. It has been suggested that arcuate ridges were formed by ancient glaciers on Mars.
The plains surrounding the arcuate ridges have two textures. The plains on the left half of the image have linear streaks trending from the top to the bottom. These might have been caused by wind moving material. The plains on the right side have more of a pitted texture that was probably caused by the removal of ground ice.
Image cutout is less than 5 km (3 mi) across and the spacecraft altitude was 315 km (196 mi). For full observation details including images with scale bars, visit the source link.
www.uahirise.org/PSP_009717_2545
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL - FEBRUARY 11: Nathan "leaf" Orf of Cloud9 poses during the VALORANT Champions Tour 2023: LOCK//IN features day on February 11, 2023 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Photo by Lance Skundrich/Riot Games)
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Sculpture by the Sea - Bondi Beach to Tamarama.
Sydney, NSW, Australia.
The annual 3 week exhibition features around 100 sculptures by artists from all over the world.
The sculptures are located along the scenic walk between Bondi Beach & Tamarama.
It would be hard to find a more spectacular location for this free public art event.
David Handley started this annual art event back in 1996, with the first actual exhibition in 1997.
In the early 90’s he was living in Prague & was inspired by an outdoor sculpture event in northern Bohemia.
Handley had a vision for a major free outdoor public arts event in Sydney.
In the early years the exhibition was run on a shoestring, but its grown gradually with more sponsors getting involved & the prize money on offer for artists also becoming more substantial.
Around 25,000 people visited the exhibition in the early days & the numbers have steadily grown over the years.
Recently, as many as 500,000 people attended this event with it now becoming a major tourist attraction on the Sydney calendar.
Light Painting @ Sculptures.
I drove down from the Blue Mtns twice to do some light painting at Sculptures.
Light painting is becoming more popular these days and there was a bunch of photographers running around the sculptures at night.
Only a couple of years ago there were very few people out at night and you basically had the place to yourself.
Still, shooting at night is one of the only ways to get ‘clean shots’ of the sculptures and not have to deal with crowds.
I also made it down for a sunrise shoot with the FOCUS group and was amazed at how many photographers were there to greet the sun.
Photographing at night is a bit of a challenge as its hard to see, so tricky to frame images & get good focus.
Also, some sculptures don’t really suit night photography for various reasons, especially bright metallic ones that reflect a lot of light.
Some sculptures are just at their best during daylight, so part of the challenge is to choose the right subjects to shoot.
The best time of day to light paint is at blue hour, when there’s still some colour in the sky.
Shooting at this hour makes it possible to capture some stars using high ISO or even some cloud movement.
That limits how many sculptures its possible to light paint in one evening as blue hour is over quickly.
Basically, you need it to be dark enough to allow for a minimum shutterspeed of about 30secs to give you time to paint the scene.
When its completely dark, the results are not as attractive though still can be interesting.
Light Painting is a bit of an art & it usually takes several attempts to get it spot on, assuming you want to capture it all in a single image.
Another approach is to light parts of the scene in each frame & combine the results in Photoshop using layers & masks.
Also, working with a group can certainly have its benefits and allow for more creative compositions.
No two attempts at light painting a scene are ever exactly the same & this is one of the interesting aspects of this type of photography.
Its a creative process & very much experimental with a lot of trial & error.
I was armed with my 200 lumen LED Lenser P7 torch, Mag-lite torch (for warmer light), and a Streamlight Stylus for delicate work.
Also brought my Yongnuo YN568EX speedlight for off-camera flash work and some Lee coloured gels to enhance colours during light painting.
I had four different coloured lengths of el-wire & a large & powerful Brinkmann spotlight for illuminating large sculptures or even the landscape.
Let there be light!!
This amazing nesting doll features the likeness of a girl and flowers which have been made by very skilled Russian artisan using wood burning or pokerwork techniques perfected over years. The dolls face is also accented by a golden gilding. The largest doll in this set measures about 8" tall, and features smaller dolls nested within it. All seven dolls included are made of wood, and each one was hand-crafted. This is really a piece of folk art and would make a fantastic display piece to give any room a nice accent, it would also make an unforgettable gift - especially for that hard to shop for individual.
BERLIN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 12: (L-R) Anastasiya "Glance" Anisimova, Maryam "Mary" Maher and Petra "Petra" Stoker of G2 Gozen pose at the VALORANT Game Changers Championship 2022 Features Day on November 12, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL - FEBRUARY 17: Pontus "Zyppan" Eek of Natus Vincere poses during the VALORANT Champions Tour 2023: LOCK//IN features day on February 17, 2023 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Photo by Lance Skundrich/Riot Games)
Many custom features throughout this beautiful home. This home has just been updated with light tile and wood floors throughout the downstairs and fresh paint. This very functional floor plan with 3 bedrooms downstairs. There are two living areas downstairs plus study. The study can also be a 5th bedrooms if needed as it has a closet and full bathroom. There is a game room/theater upstairs along with one bedroom and bathroom. You’ll find a very nice master suite with large walk-in closet. The kitchen has open shelving and custom cabinetry. Between the kitchen and formal dining room is a beautiful pantry area. The patio has an outdoor fireplace and mature landscape. Tiff and zoysia grass makes for golf course look!