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Stream descending from Lake Saif ul Muluk in Naran Valley.
It was a difficult shot due to the position of the sun, so excuse some flares, but somehow I like them.
A vertorama with AEB.
Photo: Samu Hintsa / www.samuhintsa.com
Belfast (/ˈbɛl.fɑːst/ or /ˈbɛl.fæst/; from Irish: Béal Feirste, meaning mouth of the sandbanks) is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, on the River Lagan. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 286,000. Belfast was granted city status in 1888.
Belfast was a centre of the Irish linen, tobacco processing, rope-making and shipbuilding industries: in the early 20th century, Harland and Wolff, which built the RMS Titanic, was the biggest and most productive shipyard in the world. Belfast played a key role in the Industrial Revolution, and was a global industrial centre until the latter half of the 20th century. Industrialisation and the inward migration it brought made Belfast the biggest city in Ireland at the beginning of the 20th century, and industrial and economic success was cited by unionist opponents of Home Rule as a reason why Ulster should fight to resist it.
Today, Belfast remains a centre for industry, as well as the arts, higher education, business, and law, and is the economic engine of Northern Ireland. The city suffered greatly during the period of conflict called "the Troubles", but latterly has undergone a sustained period of calm, free from the intense political violence of former years, and substantial economic and commercial growth. Additionally, Belfast city centre has undergone considerable expansion and regeneration in recent years, notably around Victoria Square.
Belfast is served by two airports: George Best Belfast City Airport in the city, and Belfast International Airport 15 miles (24 km) west of the city. Belfast is a major port, with commercial and industrial docks dominating the Belfast Lough shoreline, including the Harland and Wolff shipyard, and is listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) as a global city.
Name
The name Belfast is derived from the Irish Béal Feirsde, which was later spelled Béal Feirste. The word béal means "mouth" or "rivermouth" while feirsde/feirste is the genitive singular of fearsaid and refers to a sandbar or tidal fordacross a river's mouth. The name would thus translate literally as "(river) mouth of the sandbar" or "(river) mouth of the ford". This sandbar was formed at the confluence of two rivers at what is now Donegall Quay: the Lagan, which flows into Belfast Lough, and its tributary the Farset. This area was the hub around which the original settlement developed. The Irish name Béal Feirste is shared by a townland in County Mayo, whose name has been anglicised as Belfarsad.
An alternative interpretation of the name is "mouth of [the river] of the sandbar", an allusion to the River Farset, which flows into the Lagan where the sandbar was located. This interpretation was favoured by Edmund Hoganand John O'Donovan. It seems clear, however, that the river itself was named after the tidal crossing.
In Ulster Scots the name of the city is Bilfawst or Bilfaust, although "Belfast" is also used.
History
The site of Belfast has been occupied since the Bronze Age. The Giant's Ring, a 5,000-year-old henge, is located near the city, and the remains of Iron Age hill forts can still be seen in the surrounding hills. Belfast remained a small settlement of little importance during the Middle Ages. John de Courcy built a castle on what is now Castle Street in the city centre in the 12th century, but this was on a lesser scale and not as strategically important as Carrickfergus Castle to the north, which was built by de Courcy in 1177. The O'Neill clan had a presence in the area.
In the 14th century, Cloinne Aodha Buidhe, descendants of Aodh Buidhe O'Neill built Grey Castle at Castlereagh, now in the east of the city. Conn O'Neill of the Clannaboy O'Neills owned vast lands in the area and was the last inhabitant of Grey Castle, one remaining link being the Conn's Water river flowing through east Belfast.
Belfast became a substantial settlement in the 17th century after being established as a town by Sir Arthur Chichester, which was initially settled by Protestant English and Scottish migrants at the time of the Plantation of Ulster. (Belfast and County Antrim, however, did not form part of this particular Plantation scheme as they were privately colonised.) In 1791, the Society of United Irishmen was founded in Belfast, after Henry Joy McCracken and other prominent Presbyterians from the city invited Theobald Wolfe Tone and Thomas Russell to a meeting, after having read Tone's "Argument on Behalf of the Catholics of Ireland". Evidence of this period of Belfast's growth can still be seen in the oldest areas of the city, known as the Entries.
Belfast blossomed as a commercial and industrial centre in the 18th and 19th centuries and became Ireland's pre-eminent industrial city. Industries thrived, including linen, rope-making, tobacco, heavy engineering and shipbuilding, and at the end of the 19th century, Belfast briefly overtook Dublin as the largest city in Ireland. The Harland and Wolff shipyards became one of the largest shipbuilders in the world, employing up to 35,000 workers. In 1886 the city suffered intense riots over the issue of home rule, which had divided the city.
In 1920–22, Belfast became the capital of the new entity of Northern Ireland as the island of Ireland was partitioned. The accompanying conflict (the Irish War of Independence) cost up to 500 lives in Belfast, the bloodiest sectarian strife in the city until the Troubles of the late 1960s onwards.
The Troubles
Belfast has been the capital of Northern Ireland since its establishment in 1921 following the Government of Ireland Act 1920. It had been the scene of various episodes of sectarian conflict between its Catholic and Protestant populations. These opposing groups in this conflict are now often termed republican and loyalist respectively, although they are also referred to as 'nationalist' and 'unionist'. The most recent example of this conflict was known as the Troubles – a civil conflict that raged from around 1969 to 1998.
Belfast saw some of the worst of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, particularly in the 1970s, with rival paramilitary groups formed on both sides. Bombing, assassination and street violence formed a backdrop to life throughout the Troubles. The Provisional IRA detonated 22 bombs within the confines of Belfast city centre in 1972, on what is known as "Bloody Friday", killing eleven people. Loyalist paramilitaries including the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) claimed that the killings they carried out were in retaliation for the IRA campaign. Most of their victims were Catholics with no links to the Provisional IRA. A particularly notorious group, based on the Shankill Road in the mid-1970s, became known as the Shankill Butchers.
In all, over 1,600 people were killed in political violence in the city between 1969 and 2001. Sporadic violent events continue as of 2015, although not supported by the previous antagonists who had reached political agreement in 1998.
Action Records, Preston
This is my first shoot for a while but I'm really happy with this one. It was taken upstairs in a record shop which was really cool. Never thought there would be so many 12" vinyls up there.
Strobist: 580ex behind at full power, a 430ex in front at 1/4 power to the right of camera.
Bonjour à tous et à toutes!
Aujourd'hui voici une nouvelle séance de ma délicate Umi,j'espère qu'elle vous plaira!
Pour cette occasion ma puce pose en compagnie des cadeaux qu'elle a reçu de son adorable marraine Badoulagrenouille,merci miss elle est ravie!
Ma petiote a donc un joli bandeau crocheté et une jolie fleur!
Elle porte aussi un tout nouveau chemisier fleuri,ça fait longtemps qu'il est fait mais elle ne l'avait encore jamais porté!
J'espère que cette séance vous plaira!
Hello one and all!
Now here's a new session with my delicate Umi, I hope you enjoy it!
For this occasion sweetie poses with gifts she received from her adorable Badoulagrenouille godmother, thank you Miss is delighted!
So my little one has a nice crocheted headband and a pretty flower!
She also wears a new floral blouse, it's been done that but she had never worn!
I hope you enjoy this session!
Future water flows can move fast,
Now that present day man,
Lifts away barriers of the past.
Poem: Jan Elemans
2013
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River Waal has won. To prevent
flooding the dikes are removed
and old winter beddings are
restored.
The small village Lent will bear
the consequences of this all.
Lent
The Netherlands
Following up on the success of their subcompact Bento, Concentric Motors released the Flow. This newest release is targeted at the sports market, with its sleek yet muscular lines. In addition to the production model, Concentric is entering the world of Rally Sport with the Flow-R.
This is another wonderful view from the Papigo villages in Northern Greece.
I had visited the place you see in the picture in my first day over Papigo, but the snowfall was so thick that I could even see in front of me. I decided to revisit the place on a different day, so the visit was scheduled for the last day of my stay over there.
I got up really early in the morning, with the hope to maybe catch a nice sunrise as well (never happened though, since the sky was overcast). Since my hopes for a sunrise vanished quickly, I decided to move on and head towards Ovires the location between Megalo Papigo (Big Papigo) and Mikro Papigo (little Papigo).
It was a lovely walk, I really enjoyed since no-one was awake that morning and I had the whole landscape for myself, no people walking around getting in the frame or cars disturbing anything, so my walk lasted a while stopping and moving till I reached the place.
I decided to move a bit inside the river, to get a better view of the flow coming from the distance, it was not that easy since there was plenty of water around and with the combination of snow and ice things where not that pleasant. I was lucky enough to have brought with me my hiking boots which made sure my feet would remain warm…and dry!
Of course as always and according to the Murphy law, something has to go wrong at the time you are doing something fun, so even though no catastrophe met me, I still had to deal with snowfall once I started shooting, luckily I had my Optech rain sleeve with me which I used to cover my camera and continued shooting even if snow was falling.
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Canon 5D
Canon 17-40L f/4
B+W CPL MRC
Aperture: f/16
Shutter: 3.2sec
Focal Length: 35mm
WB: Set through Whibal card
Location: Ovires, Papigo, Epirus, North Greece
Date / Time: 15/2/2010 8:14am
The château of Chambord is one of the most unique constructions left to us by the Renaissance. Its architecture is a carefully balanced blend of traditional elements of Medieval French architecture and other elements borrowed from the Italian Renaissance. The massive keep, enclosed by four towers with their corbelled walkway and the rampart path are so similar to medieval fortresses. Similarly, the walls, moats and gothic look of the rooftop constructions. But the central placement of the keep, the position of the double helix staircase, the geometric lightness of the facades and their decoration, the symmetry of the buildings, how openings are included to provide a flow through the building and the presence of vaulted ceilings on the second storey are the many innovative parts of the chateau that make the monument unique.
With its dual inspiration, the château was the perfect instrument to sing the praises of the king and the perfect reflection of the personality of the man who had it built – a knightly king, heir to French traditions but at the same time a modern man who was fascinated by culture and the arts, inspired by the greatest artists of his time.
www.chambord.org/en/decouvrir-chambord/the-chateau/throug...
The mystery of the architect and the shadow of Leonardo da Vinci
The château of Chambord is an exceptional architectural creation that draws its inspiration from the French tradition as much as from the new ideas of the Italian Renaissance. The genius behind the project remains a mystery. Some art historians attribute it to an Italian while others maintain that it is a purely French creation and still others say it is a result of collaboration between artists from the two lands. At the beginning of the 20th century, the name of Leonardo da Vinci was first put forward. While the multi-talented genius may have had a hand in the initial design of the keep, his death in 1519 means he could not have directed any of the construction. However, the central placement of the keep, the presence of the double helix staircase, latrines with a double tank system and air vents or the water-tightness of the terraces are many hints that mean he could have been the inspiration behind François I’s masterpiece.
www.chambord.org/en/decouvrir-chambord/the-chateau/throug...
What it is?
Probably caused by natural saponins, this foam streams down our creek, collects in eddies and along the lakeshore where it forms interesting patterns.