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For all those who think its a typical posed shot from a wedding, its not..I just got this split second when Dipika looked down and I was quick enough to click it..One of the better portraits I have clicked..
They're pro bikini swimsuit models too! Nikon D810 Photos Pro Women's Surfing Swatch Women's Pro Trestles Sports Photography With New Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD Lens for Nikon!
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Swatch Women's Pro in Trestles San Clemente with pro surfers /models Alana Blanhard, Lakey Peterson, Laura Enever, Sally Fitzgibbons, Coco Ho, Stephanie Gilmore, newcomer Nikki Van Dijk, and more!
The new Nikon D810 rocks for sports photography! New Instagram!
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Nikon D810 Photos Pro Women's Surfing Van's US Open Sports Photography Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD !
I shot in DX mode which crops away the extra pixels and takes me 1.5X closer while allowing for up to 7 FPS with the Nikon D810's Nikon MB-D12 Battery Grip using the 8 AA battery option! 8 Duracels took me through around 3,000 shots no problem--maybe more! I was shooting at the equivalent of 900mm with the 1.5x crop factor! Pretty close! Had I gone with the Nikon D4s, I would have gotten 12 fps, but no DX crop factor, as the sensor has only around 14mp, compared to the d810's 36 megapixels! Sure the larger pixel size on the Nikon D4s full frame sensor comes in handy indoors or at night, but in the bright sun, there's more than enough light for the smaller pixels in crop mode! Sure we lose some pixels from the outer edges when shooting in DX crop mode, but most of those pixels would be cropped away in lightroom anyway. And the smaller files make the memory cards last longer, while also upping the FPS to 7 shots per second! Not quite 12 FPS, but still awesome and enough I felt!
What a beautiful way to test the Nikon D810 and Tamron 150-600mm zoom lens for sports photography!
Athletic graceful girl goddesses! Tall, thin, fit and in shape! Pro women's surfers form the van's us open wearing both long wetsuits and bikini bottoms with shorty wetsuit tops/summer wetsuits. Sexy, beautiful beach babes and water goddesses all! Many are professional swimsuit bikini / surf lifestyle models too!
Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD Autofocus lens for Nikon AF-D Cameras.
The new Nikon D810 rocks for sports photography New Instagram!
Spring Time in the Malibu Canyons! Nikon D800E Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Photography for Los Angeles Gallery Show!
Yet more photos and more final edits! I was up at 4:30 AM the past four days shooting sunrises! Awesome sunrises over Point Dume thie time of year in Malibu.
Then I spent all day today moving over 75 large photos into the gallery! Most of these are framed and matted with 13"x19" metallic prints and an 18"x24" mat and a 3" wood-grain black frame! They look awesome! Stop on by Bel Air Camera's Gallery downstairs if you are close to UCLA or in Westwood. Give me a head's up, and I will meet you there if I'm free.
I thought I was done a couple days ago for December's LA Gallery show, but art is never done until it's done, and even then. . . Will be busy printing and framing in nice large, matted formats and frames and museum glass! Five of these photos will be printed on 40" x 60" floating wall mounted metal sheets! I think I know which--will share photos of the photos hanging on the walls!
And I am mounting some on plexiglass/acryllic--front mounting them! Some I am printing on lossy fuji-crystal archival paper too, and then front mounting 40"x60" versions to plexiglass--will send photos!
The secret to HDR photography is that you want people to say, "Woe dude--that's unreal!" And not, "Dude--that's not real!" "Unreal" is the word they use when they're trying to figure out the photo--what makes it cool--is it a photo? Is it painted? How'd it come to be--how'd you bend the light that way? "That's not real," is what they say if you have the saturation/HDR/ etc. turned up too high. :)
Some (almost) final edits for December's Los Angeles Gallery Show! Printing them on metallic paper at 13" x 19" and mounting and framing them on a 4mm 18x24 white mat and 2" dark wood frame. Also printing some 40" x 70" whihc is over three feet by five feet! Wish you all could come (and hang out with the goddesses)!
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Nikon D800E / D800 HDR Malibu Landscapes / Seascapes for Gallery Show!
Yay! I booked a major photography show at a major LA gallery in December! Will also be giving some lectures on the story--the Hero's Journey Mythology--behind the photography!
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Preparing for some gallery shows this fall to celebrate 100,000,000 views! Printing a few dozen photographs in ~ 30"x40" formats and mounting/framing. Here are some close-to-final edits. HDR photography 7 exposures shot at 1EV and combined in photomatix: 36 megapixel Nikon D800E with the awesome Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens. 45SURF Hero's Journey Mythology Photography!
Epic Scenic HDR Landscapes / Seascapes of the Malibu Canyons & Beaches Shot with Nikon D800: Hero's Journey Mythology Photography!
Shot with the Nikon Nikkor wide-angle 14-24 mm 2.8 lens!
Seven exposures @ 1EV finished in photomatix.
Enjoy the Hero's Journey Mythology Photography, and all the best on a hero's journey of your own making!
These were shot with Nikon's best D800 with the 14-24mm wide-angle Nikkor lens. 7 exposures were taken at 1 EV intervals, and combined in photomatix to bring out the shadows and highlights.
Rather large HDR (high dynamic range) photo--you can see great detail both near and far! View the detail at full size!
The Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens rocks!
High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos rock in capturing the full dynamic range of the scene!
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Palais Daun-Kinsky
If the Freyung once has been one of the most prestigious residential addresses in town, so for it was next to the Palais Harrach especially the Grand Palais Kinsky responsible. In its place in the middle ages were two parcels, each with a small building. The front part of the Freyung was since the 16th Century always in aristocratic in hands (Bernhard Menesis Freiherr von Schwarzeneck, Countess Furstenberg, Counts Lamberg). 1686 acquired Karl Ferdinand Count Waldstein the house of Count Lamberg. His son bought also the adjacent house in Rose Street (Rosengasse) and united both plots to one parcel. He had three granddaughters, who sold the site in 1709 to Wirich Philipp Laurenz Graf Daun. This came from an old Rhenish nobility. His ancestors were mostly working for the Elector of Trier as officers. In the battle of the Habsburgs against the Turks, Spanish and Frenchmen, he acquired great military merit. He brought it to the General Feldzeugmeister (quartermaster) and Viceroy of Naples. In 1713 he had the house at the Freyung demolished and by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt built in its place until 1716 a palace, him serving as Vienna's city residence. Down may have been Antonio Beduzzi requested the creation of reconstruction plans, but was eventually Hildebrandt entrusted with the work. In 1719, the palace was largely completed. Daun lived there but rarely because he stayed a lot in Italy and in Austria preferred his country castles Ladendorf, Kirchstetten and Pellendorf. In 1746 acquired Johann Joseph Count von Khevenhüller the Palais from Leopold Joseph von Daun, the son of the owner, who happened to be in financial difficulty. The Reichsgraf (count of empire) was appointed in 1763 by the Empress Maria Theresa for his services to the Lord Steward and Lord Chamberlain, and raised to the hereditary imperial princes (princes of the Holy Roman Empire).
Door knocker
He sold the palace in 1764 to the Imperial Councilor President Ferdinand Bonaventura Harrach Count II. This worked as a diplomat, especially in Holland and Italy. At times of Maria Theresa, the building was inhabited by her Swiss Guards until they 1784 moved to their new quarters in Hofstallgebäude (court stable building). Ferdinand Bonaventura's daughter Rosa brought the palace in 1790 into her marriage to Josef Graf Kinsky. Whose family belonged to the Bohemian nobility. Its members appear at the beginning of the 13th Century documented. Wilhelm Freiherr von Kinsky was a colonel and friend of Wallenstein. He was murdered with this 1634 in Eger. His confiscated estates were divided among the assassins. Only two masteries (Chlumez and Bohemian Kamnitz ) remained through the timely change of front of his nephew, Johann Octavian with the family. The Kinsky but succeeded soon to rise again. They occupied again high positions in the administration and the military. 1798 the had modernized their Viennese palace by the architect Ernst Koch inside. Thus, the original Baroque interior was lost. As in 1809 the Frenchmen had occupied Vienna, a french Marshal and General were billeted in the palace. Prince Ferdinand Kinsky was a great patron of Beethoven, which he paid an annual salary of 4,000 florins for life along with two other nobles. In 1856, the Palace was refurbished in the interior by the architect Friedrich Stache. In the 19th Century lived the Princes Kinsky mostly on their Bohemian goods or in Prague. The building was therefore temporarily rented to some posh tenants. So lived here temporarily Field Marshal Radetzky and Archduke Albrecht. 1904 redecorated the French interior designer Armand Decour the piano nobile.
Staircase - second floor
With the end of World War II began a tough time for the Kinsky family. Almost all goods and industrial holdings, with the exception of the hunting lodge Rosenhof at Freistadt lay in Bohemia. By 1929, 50 % of the extensive Bohemian possessions were expropriated. There were still about 12,000 acres, a sugar factory and breweries. 1919 had to be a part of Vienna's Palais force-let. During World War II it was requisitioned by the German army. For fear of air raids the in the palace remaining objects of art were transferred to some Bohemian castles. The Palais Kinsky was not destroyed, its art treasures but remained in Bohemia. After the Second World War, the remaining Czech possessions were lost by nationalization for the family. In the Viennese palace were temporarily housed the embassies of China and Argentina. In 1986 it was sold by Franz Ulrich Prince Kinsky. After several short-term owners, the palace was acquired by the Karl Wlaschek private foundation in 1997. It was generously restored from 1998 to 2000 and adapted for offices and shops. The Grand Ballroom is often used because of its excellent acoustics as a concert hall. Since 1992, acclaimed art auctions are held at the Palais.
The Palais Kinsky is probably next to the Belvedere the most prominent secular work of the great Baroque architect and one of the best preserved baroque palaces in Vienna. Despite multiple changes of ownership and of numerous rearrangements inside the main components such as Baroque facade, vestibule, staircase, hall and gallery remained largely unchanged. The building extends between Freyung and Rosengasse. The property is only 30 meters wide, but three times longer. It was therefore not an easy task to build on it a representative palace with a grand staircase. Hildebrandt but has brilliantly overcome by putting up four floors at 24 m height, and yet preserving the proportions. He grouped the construction with two long side wings and a cross section around two consecutive large courtyards. The pomp and living rooms of the palace are mounted around the first courtyard, while the second contained carriage houses and stables. Here have yet been preserved the marble wall panels with the animal waterings made of cast iron and enamel from the late 19th century. Hildebrandt integrated various parts of the previous building into the new building. The seven-axle face side at the Freyung is divided several times. Stability is procured by the rusticated ground floor with its inserted diamond blocks. On it sit the two residential floors. They are embraced by Corinthian Riesenpilaster (giant pilasters). The mezzanine floor above it features in comparison with the underlying main floor tiny windows.
Hercules
The large windows on the main floor are particularly detailed designed. While the outer pairs of windows possess pagoda-like over roofings, those of the three windows of the central projection are round-arched. The trophies and weapons depicted in the lintel fields refer to the military profession of the owner. Vertically is the extensive looking facade accented by the slightly protruding, tri-part central risalite, the pilasters are decorated much richer than that of the side projections. In the Fantasiekapitelle (fantasy capital) of the pilasters are diamond lattices incorporated, an important component of the coat of arms of the Counts Down. The with figures and trophies decorated attica is over the central part formed as balustrade. The sculptures are believed to originate from Joseph Kracker, representing the gods Minerva, Juno, Hercules, Neptune, Diana and Constantia. Very elegant looks the plastically protruding portal. Its composition goes back to Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt. It is considered one of the most beautiful Baroque portals of Vienna. The draft was submitted in 1713 and carried out until 1715. The richly decorated wooden gate dates from the period around 1856, when it was renewed. It is outside flanked by two, obliquely placed Doric columns that match the rusticated ground floor. Sloped to the inside carry two, on pillar stumps standing atlases (also from Kracker) the entablature with the overlying structured segment gable. On it sit the stone figures of Prudence and Justice. The middle window in between is much richer decorated than the rest of the window openings on the first floor. Instead of the usual trapezoidal over roofings here it is crowned by a cartouche held by two putti. The originally thereon located coat of arms of the owner was replaced after the change of ownership by that of the Kinsky family with three boar's teeth. Above the shield hangs an chain with the Order of the Golden Fleece. Both the gusset of the archway as well as the overlying triglyph frieze are decorated with trophies.
Banquet Hall
If someone passes the portal, so one gets into one, by strong pillars divided three-aisled gatehouse. The massive spatial impression is something mitigated by the large sculptures in the niches. They were created by Joseph Kracker. Among the somewhat restrained stucco decorations you can see the coat of arms of the owner, with its characteristic diamond motif. At this gate hall adjoins the widely embedded and more than twice as high vestibule with its domed ceiling. This transverse oval space is divided by pilasters and Doric columns. The rich stucco decoration of the ceiling provided with lunettes could come from Alberto Camesina or from his workshop. The here used motifs are again relating to the career of the client as a commander. For instance, in the lunette caps are reliefs of Roman soldiers. On the left side of the vestibule leads an anteroom to the grand staircase. It is dominated by a vault carrying Hercules, a work by Lorenzo Mattielli. As the monogram of Charles VI proves, with it the Emperor was meant to be worshiped. In two oval niches stand above the two double doors of the Treppenvorhauses (stairway hall way) busts of Caesar and Emperor Titus Flavius Vespasian. The elongated stairway occupies almost the entire length of the left wing of the first courtyard. In the stairwell are eleven statues of Roman deities in stucco niches. The relatively narrow, crossed grand stairway is considered one of the most beautiful of Vienna. It overall design might go back to Antonio Beduzzi. On the second floor stand on the from winded perforated volute forms constructed stone balustrade four groups of playing or scrapping putti. They serve in part as a lantern holders, partly just as a decoration. The statue cycle in the staircase is a work of Lorenzo Mattielli, but the cherubs are believed to stem from Joseph Kracker. This type of decoration already points to the coming Rococo. A fresco by Carlo Innocenzo Carlone adorns the ceiling. The simulated architecture painted Antonio Beduzzi. The large wall mirror of the staircase were added after 1907 .
Staircase/ceiling fresco
The somewhat playful balustrade leads to the reception rooms on the second floor. The large oval ballroom above the entrance hall is oriented towards the courtyard. Its allegorical ceiling painting stems from Carlo Innocenzo Carlone. The other frescoes are of him and Marcantonio Chiarini. The walls are covered with marble. The room was several times, most recently in 1904 changed structurally. In front of the banquet hall is the former dining room. It is now called Yellow Salon. In 1879/80 was installed in it a choir stalls from the Pressburg Cathedral by Georg Raphael Donner ( 1736) and partly completed. The also acquired confessionals were converted into boxes that are in the antechamber of the second floor today. In the chapel, designed by Hildebrandt, was until 1741 as altarpiece Francesco Solimena's "Holy Family with the Infant John the Baptist". 1778 the sacred space, however, was already desecrated. The altarpiece is already since the 18th Century in Wiener Neustadt Neuklosterkirche (church in Lower Austria). In the cross-section between the first and the second courtyard lay the paneled gallery whose spatial effect in 1856 by an attached conservatory was changed something. Its vaulted ceiling is decorated with frescoes by Carlo Innocenzo Carlone. Marcantonio Chiarini created 1716/18 the quadrature paintings. At it followed a larger hall in which Francesco Solimena's oil painting "Phaeton and Apollo" was located. It can be admired today in the National Gallery in Prague. The hall was later used as a library. Part of the state rooms 1714 was equipped with ceiling paintings by Peter Strudel. In the course of a radical redesign of the building's interior Ernest Koch has cut off all stucco ceilings of the staterooms 1798-1800 and also redesigned the walls. Since 1879 Carl Gangolf Kayser tried to restore the original spatial impression by the of Rudolf von Weyr created new Neo-Baroque stucco ceilings. Only in a few areas (vestibule, staircase, ballroom), the original substance remained. In the palace there are numerous Mamorkamine (marble fireplaces) and stoves from the 18th and 19th Century. The star parquet floors and many original door fittings date from the third quarter of the 19th Century. The facades of the first courtyard are structured by Tuscan pilasters. The arcades on the ground floor have already been closed in 1753. The with a mascaron decorated wall fountain is a work of Rudolf von Weyr. The second courtyard is kept simple. Remarkable at it rear end is the cenotaph for the current owner Karl Wlaschek.
Location/Address: 1010 Vienna, Freyung 4
Activities: The courtyards are freely accessible, the staircase usually also. A look at the state rooms is only possible if these are not just rented.
Bunhill Fields Dissident Cemetery London City Road with the Memorial for Daniel Defoe Born 1661 Died 1731 Author of Robinson Crusoe with Justina and Thenjiwe Out on the Town
Orange the World 2018 - Hanoi, Viet Nam - Speak Up for Gender Equality Event
The event began with “The journey for Gender Equality”. Four buses carrying the message of ending violence against women and girls departed from four universities and high schools in Hanoi (Hanoi University of Science and Technology, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Transportation and Bac Thang Long High School) with the participation of Ambassadors of Norway, New Zealand, Switzerland and Head of Office of UN Women Viet Nam, Country Director of Plan International, Vice President of Youth Union Federation, Mrs. World Wide Duong Thuy Linh and over 100 Hanoi students. On the bus journey, distinguished guests and students had the opportunity to exchange and discuss topics related to gender equality.
The “Speak Up for Gender Equality” event at UNIS offer 400 participants the opportunity to listen to 10 speakers in in the new Pecha-Kucha presentation format. In the spirit of "No Left Behind" of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, UN Women Viet Nam created an open forum on gender issues with representatives of youth, people with disabilities, celebrities, the LGBTIQ + community, the scientific community and people working in both formal and informal sectors.
This event is co-organized by UN Women Viet Nam, and Embassies of Canada, Norway, New Zealand and Switzerland in Vietnam, Vietnamese Women's Museum, VVC, Plan International Vietnam and the United Nations International School of Hanoi, TRAMOC.
24 November 2018.
Photo: UN Women/Duc Nguyen
Read More: www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-focus/end-violence-against-women
Chiara Corazza and guests attend a cocktail at the Villa Medici for Women's Forum Rome 2017
Rome 26 June 2017
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For those interested, this is our rain barrel system. We took video to explain it, haven't gotten around to editing it yet.
We have 7-55 gallon barrels all hooked together. They fill at the same time and drain together. We have one spigot to fill watering cans and a pump with another spigot for use with the hose or sprinkler.
There's an overflow as well, they're all hooked together and overflow into the downspout if they're full. We have a clear tube at the end so we can see how much water we have. The system is also easily expandable if we want to add more barrels, we think we can fit 7-10 more across the back of the garage.
One of the best things about this system is the cost. We only spent about $120 for the entire system (including deck). The deck was built with lumber we removed from the deck on our house, we wanted a smaller sized deck on the house. The barrels are food grade plastic barrels and cost us only $10 each (you want to make sure you don't get barrels that had chemicals in them). We spent about $50 on other materials, posts, PVC (we also had some of that sitting around that we used up).
Britannia Class Loco No. 70013 'Oliver Cromwell' renumbered and renamed 70048 'The Territorial Army 1908 - 2008' for the occasion.
Seen here at the National Railway Museum in York soon after hauling the 'Help For Heros' railtour from Lancaster together with 8F loco No. 48151.
For Jo. Real human baby shoes in the first size fit my Zwergnase Junior 55cm girl perfectly! And go so well with her dress :)
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A collection of humorous poetry for children.
Title: More beasts (for worse children)
Identifier(s): P BEL (FOLIO)
Creator: Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953
Date created: 1897
Contributor(s): B. T. B. (Basil Temple Blackwood), 1870-1917
Publisher: London ; New York : Published by Edward Arnold, [1897]
Extent (dimensions & scale): 48 p.
Description: Verses by H.B. [i.e. Hilaire Belloc] ; pictures by B.T.B. [i.e. Lord Ian B.G.T. Blackwood]. Undated. Date from BLC.
Collection: Osborne Collection of Early Children’s Books
Rights access: Public domain
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Photo Credit: Ann Batdorf, Smithsonian’s National Zoo
In this photo: Batang
For the first time in 25 years, staff at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo are making preparations for the highly anticipated birth of an endangered Bornean orangutan. With a breeding recommendation from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ Species Survival Plan (SSP), the 19-year-old parents to be, female Batang and male Kyle, bred in January. On Feb. 2, a common human pregnancy test confirmed that Batang had successfully conceived. Earlier today, the Zoo announced Batang’s pregnancy through a broadcast via Facebook Live of her ultrasound; it will continue to provide weekly updates on Batang through Facebook, Twitter and Instagram using the hashtag #OrangutanStory.
Zoo veterinarians have conducted bi-weekly ultrasounds since Feb. 2 and are encouraged that the ultrasounds have shown fetal growth and development, heightening hopes that Batang will give birth for the first time. They are cautiously optimistic that she will deliver a healthy baby around mid-September. However, just like any animal pregnancy, there is a possibility that miscarriage, stillbirth or a complication could occur.
“All of our perseverance and planning paid off when we confirmed Batang’s pregnancy,” said Dr. Meredith Bastian, curator of primates and member of the Orangutan SSP Steering Committee. “Watching her fetus develop over the past few months has been incredibly exciting, and we’re making every effort to ensure our efforts come to fruition.”
For the past three years, keepers have been acclimating Batang to the experiences of motherhood and training her to care for an infant. Building upon behaviors Batang has learned through routine training sessions, keepers presented her with a plush, bean-shaped pillow and an orangutan stuffed animal to simulate a baby. Keepers trained her to hold the “fake” baby upright, carry it around the enclosure and return the pillow baby to keepers through a specially designed “baby box” when asked. Should animal care staff need to evaluate a real orangutan baby’s health, this training would help staff retrieve the infant in a way that is safe and not stressful for the animals. Batang has also been trained to use a breast pump for milk collection in the event she is unable to successfully nurse.
“Training increases the likelihood that orangutan mothers will care for their infants,” said Becky Malinsky, assistant curator of primates. “This training is especially important for a first time mother, like Batang. It is our goal for the infant to be raised by her mother, learning how to be an orangutan from Batang and the other orangutans at the zoo.”
In the event that Batang is unable or unwilling to care for her infant, keepers are training females Bonnie and Iris to act as surrogate mothers. They receive similar training to Batang, but with a slight twist: keepers ask them to bring the pillow baby and present it to the keepers for bottle feedings. Batang is also trained to present the infant for bottle feedings if she is unable to nurse. As a last resort, keepers will prepare a nursery in the event it is necessary for them to hand-raise the baby with the goal of returning the infant to its mother or surrogate as soon as possible.
Native to Indonesia, orangutans live in the tropical rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra. For the past seven decades, humans have cleared land that was originally orangutan territory in order to meet the growing demand for palm oil products, fast-growing pulp wood and food crops leaving orangutans in competition with one another for space, food and mates. Scientists estimate that in the past 75 years, the number of wild orangutans has decreased by 80 percent. The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists the Bornean orangutan as endangered and the Sumatran orangutan as critically endangered.
Visitors can see the Zoo’s six orangutans daily at the Great Ape House and the Think Tank. At the Great Ape House, visitors can meet a great ape keeper to learn about the fascinating world of apes at 11:30 a.m. daily. At Think Tank, staff and interpretive volunteers perform daily demonstrations and lead discussions on research in cognitive science, highlighting current and ongoing Zoo studies at 1:30 p.m. Visitors can also see the orangutans traveling on the O-Line on warm-weather days in the late morning and early afternoon.
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Victorian Alpine Huts survey, for Parks Victoria 1994-5.
In 1865, E George Treasure married Emily Langford and by the early 1870s had moved to Victoria to work at a Seymour vineyard. George Treasure junior had been born to the family at Wangaratta, in 1873, and the next two children at Wandiligong, in 1875 and 1877, as a mark of their gradual progress towards the Dargo area. Treasure worked on reef mining at Wandiligong, doing underground work as he had done in New South Wales. He moved to another mine, the Alpine, for a healthier working environment, in 1877 { Stapleton: 28-}. In 1878, E George Treasure (then described as a Harrietville miner), selected land at Kings Spur on the Dargo High Plains{ Stephenson: 107-}. The family (3 boys, one girl) made an arduous journey on horseback via Mt Freezeout and the Lankey's Plain, to a bark roof two-room log hut built on the High Plains near Kings Spur on the eastern edge of Gow's Plains, by George and his mining associate, Harry Stitt in late 1877. The hut had a verandah at the entry, a slab chimney `stoned up' to 7-8 feet high, two modified armchairs and bush furniture made on the spot. This served as the residence for a small dairy farm which provided for the miners who crossed to the Grant and Crooked River goldfields{ Stephenson}. The house became a licensed hotel and a store was added. Three miles south there was also Gow's hotel, the `half-way house'. Cessation of mining around 1900 meant the store was wound down. George and Emily purchased a 700 acre property at Lindenow (Grassvale) while their son Harry remained at King's Spur. George senior died at Lindenow of cancer in 1901, aged 58 { Stapleton: 116}. Emily then arranged the gradual transfer of the High Plains holdings to her sons who managed the properties and stock in the interim. Emily died in 1939, aged 90. Harry L Treasure (George's son) selected the 200 acre property Castleburn (45 miles distant on the Stratford side of Dargo, later enlarged to 3000 acres), c1904, to serve summer grazing. This was after his marriage in 1903 to local girl, Clare Gamel. About the same time he and his father-in-law built a new shingle and paling house at Mayford, east of the King's Spur property, as a winter base. From 1907 Harry's brothers sold him their shares and eventually departed north. Gamel built Harry another house, Rockalpine, in 1910 - located further to the south on the Dargo Road. The family spent the winter at the house in c1912 after the house at Mayford was burnt, leaving only some old huts. Harry, Clare and family developed their High Plains holdings in the inter-war period, including a near 100,000 acre grazing lease, George's 600 acre selection, a fenced freehold at Riley's Creek to spell the cattle on their way to the mountains in summer, and `a sheltered saddle near Mt Ewan…another substantial hut and set of bush yards capable of holding large mobs' { Stapleton: 159}. The 1939 fires meant losses for the family as for many others in the region but they saved the homestead complex, losing 700 stock, fences, and several huts and yards. The family worked hard to replace them, splitting some 4000 snow gum posts in the following season along with woolly but rails for yards and gates but wire and snow gum droppers replaced the old logs in the fences. Harry and his three sons (Don, Jack & Jim) rebuilt the Mt Ewan hut and yards as a `magnificent new log hut' { Stapleton: 214}. The paling hut beside the 1939 log hut was reputedly built for Freda Treasure (Harry & Claire's daughter) as her bedroom in about 1945- presumably allowing the men to sleep in the 1939 log hut { Kosciuszko Huts Association website 2004}. However a picture of Freda at Mt Ewan (in her 20s-30s?) has her seated on her bunk, next to her saddle, knitting in the log hut. Educated at MLC in the 1930s, Freda married Wally Ryder, from another pioneering cattle family, in 1957. She shifted to Tawonga as a result but maintained a keen interest in the High Plains along with her brothers{ Stapleton: 219}. Harry gave her a paddock at Castleburn, known as Bryce's and she became known by local scribes as `Maid of the Mountains' or `Cowgirl of the Alps'}. Harry gave her a 28,000 bush grazing block to work after 1939, known as Jones' where she used an existing hut and yards. She lived there through winter with her cattle, visited occasionally by her mother. Freda died in 1988, one year after Wally { Stapleton: 267-}. Harry Treasure served as an Avon Shire councillor 1918-1949, often riding to the council meetings at Stratford. Harry made many submissions to government inquiries concerning the causes of the 1939 fires and alpine grazing. He died at Rockalpine in 1961{ Stephenson}. As a postscript, Sydney (Jack) Treasure (son of Harry) sought a selection on the High Plains in the 1940s but met with government opposition{ HO15895}. Some 20 years later the Treasures tried again stating that they had added many improvements to their grazing block (4A) and desired some freehold security. Their father and grandfather had held it for some 80 years{ HO15895}. The improvements on the adjoining freehold which served the grazing lease then included four residences (Harry's sons), sheds, fences, stockyards (CAs 2,2A,4,5){ HO15895 }. The department granted a seven year lease instead, noting the good management of the property.
The Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation (Hivos), a leading Dutch organisation with a worldwide presence, and its partner organization Venture Capital for Africa (VC4Africa.biz), the leading Africa focused business community for entrepreneurs and investors, are pleased to announce CESACOPA the winner of 2012 Incubator Award.
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The pretzels were pretty authentic as far as I could tell. There was a choice of plain with salt, or with pumpkin seeds. A stickler for tradition, I chose the plain :)
The insides were quite light and the outsides had savoury alkaline flavour typical in a pretzel.
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bar cafe design, Polish designer and Stepien Paulina Magdalena Piwowar from Wunderteam, has designed a cafe and bookstore for the Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz, Poland. Conversion of ground floor of the building design of the building to modernize and adapt to new functions. The division of functions formerly of the room at the entrance to the Museum to create the illusion of accessibility. Part gateway, cafeterias and bookstores (left). Certain places identified visually by color and light. A clear division of space will make it easier for visitors to understand and use the intuitive function. Across the locker room wall, multiply the mirror and optical space. This space included in the glass box by opening a bookstore in the club, the club’s two-room / canteen, bar facilities and changing rooms and toilets. The materials used simple, such as plywood, metal and glass. The interior will resemble a warehouse of art, contains the mobile furniture, reminiscent of transport crates used to carry the works of art, cart, platform. The most difficult element of the overall design, both for us and a carpenter. undefined,Cafe shop design,cafe design,cafeteria design,cafe shop,design cafe,cafe interior,cafe bar design,cafe interior design,desain cafe,Shop interior,cafe design pictures,coffee shop interiors,book cafe interior,CAFETERIA INTERIOR DESIGN,interior cafe design,optical shop design,CAFE DIZAIN,lodz modern cafe,design cafe shop,designe café,cafeteria designs,cafetaria design,dizain cafe,optical illusions muzeum,office cafeteria design,cafe shop designs,design cafeteria,cafeteria floor design,modern cafes interiors book Tags: a cafeteria, a collection of the Museum, artwork, bar facilities, bar stools, bars, bookstore, Building, building design, canteen, carts, castles, changing rooms, Ckowskiego Street, cloakroom, club, color and light, contemporary design, conversion design, conversion of the building design, dressing rooms, floors and walls, glass, interior beauty, metal, Mirrors, Museum, Museum of Art, Muzeum Sztuki Café, mysterious statues, office, optical space, platforms, plywood, the glass in the door, toilets, Wunderteam This entry was posted on Friday, May 28th, 2010 at 4:39 amand is filed under Interior Design. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site., cafe interior
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Hundertwasser Haus (Vienna)
Hundertwasser House 2007
Facade of Hundertwasser house
The Hundertwasser House is a from 1983 to 1985 of the City of Vienna constructed residential building and it is located at the corner Kegelgasse 34-38 and Löwengasse 41-43 in the third District of Vienna, country road (Landstraße).
History
The Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser dealt since the 1950s with architecture. He began his involvement with manifestos, essays and demonstrations. Particularly became known his Mouldiness Manifesto. In 1972 he exhibited in the Eurovision Contest broadcast "Wünsch dir Was" (make a wish come true) architecture models with which he illustrated his ideas of the roof forestation, the tree tenants and the window right and architectural forms such as the high-meadows-house, eyes slit house or terrace house. In lectures at universities and architects associations and offices Hundertwasser talked about his concern of an architecture that is more natural and more appropriate for human beings.
In a letter dated of 30 November 1977 to the mayor of Vienna Leopold Gratz, recommended Chancellor Bruno Kreisky to give Hundertwasser the opportunity to put his concerns in the field of architecture in the construction of a residential building in practice. Gratz invited Hundertwasser thereupon by letter dated of 15 December 1977 to create a house in Vienna to his ideas. It followed the years-long search for a suitable property. Since Hundertwasser was not an architect, he asked the City of Vienna, beizustellen (to provide) him an architect who would be willing to transpose his concept into adequate plan drawings.
A conflictual cooperation
The city administration procured Hundertwasser the architect Josef Krawina. This one presented Hundertwasser in August and September 1979 his preliminary designs, based on the then valid rules for social housing as well as a Styrofoam model, however, corresponding to the architectural concept of the closed construction and which Hundertwasser shocked rejected because it corresponded exactly to the rectilinear and leveling grid architecture, against the he had always fought. Hundertwasser wanted a "house for people and trees", just as he had described years earlier in his text "Verwaldung (forestation) of the City": in his model of the "terrace house" for the program "Make a wish" he had already visualized this house.
It succeeded Hundertwasser still 1979 to win the City of Vienna for his concept of a green terrace construction and thus for exceptions from the building regulations, normally applicable. In March 1980 followed a second preliminary draft Krawinas' along with associated perspective or axonometric drawings and an accompanying balsa wood model. Krawina developed in the process under intense utilization of the granted legal options a from the building regulations considerably differing structure shell where a consensus could be found. This structure shell was left substantially unchanged over all planning steps and also came actually to execution.
"Subsequently, there were clashes between Hundertwasser and Krawina, which escalated in the design of the facade. The controversy led to the resignation Krawinas' from cooperation on 14th October in 1981. "The artist in a letter had turned to Rudolf Kolowrath, Head of the Municipal Department 19 (Architecture), asking him to replace the architect so that he could realize his own ideas. Architect Peter Pelikan, an employee of the Municipal Department 19, took over the further planning. He became for hundreds of water (Hundertwasser) a long-term partner for numerous other construction projects. The Supreme Court stated out but in 2010 on the occasion of a long-standing dispute over the authorship of the building: "The opinion of the Court of Appeal, architect Krawina and Hundertwasser were co-authors , [ ... ] is based on comprehensible conclusions from the proceedings for the evidence procedure [ ... ]"
2001 Krawina by the H. B. Media distribution company mbH could be convinced to claim that the "Hundertwasser House" was his work. After an eight-year process, the Supreme Court decided on 11 March 2010: "The fact that Krawina own creative contributions has provided to the building, there is, according to further evidences by the assessment of the legal expert, no doubt, on it the Court of Appeal based its applying legal view of a co-authorship Krawinas': "Since then it is now necessary in the distribution of illustrations or replicas of the house to mention Joseph Krawina next Hundertwasser as co-author.
Characteristics of the house
The according to the concept and the ideas of Friedensreich Hundertwasser designed, by Josef Krawina as co-author and Peter Pelikan planned, colorful and unusual house has in the hallways uneven floors and is lavishly planted. In 1985 about 250 trees and shrubs were planted and are now thanks to the care of tenants and representatives of the owners grown to stately trees, - a real park on the roof of the house.
The house does not follow the usual standards of architecture. Hundertwasser's role models are clearly visible: among others, Antoni Gaudí, the Palace idéal of Ferdinand Cheval, the Watts Towers, the anonymous architecture of the allotment gardens and those of the storybooks. The house has 52 apartments and four shops, 16 private and three communal roof terraces. The media response to the building was worldwide enormous. In Vienna, the Hundertwasser Krawina house is among the most photographed tourist attractions.
"A painter dreams of houses and a beautiful architecture in which man is free and this dream becomes reality".
- Hundertwasser
Other buildings of Hundertwasser
The artist designed some 40 buildings, of which several houses, also popularly known as "Hundertwasser house (Hundertwasserhaus)". Located less than 400 meters away from the Hundertwasser House in Vienna, in the Lower Weißgerberstraße 13, is the in 1991 opened and after designs by Hundertwasser and Peter Pelikan planned Kunsthaus Vienna (KunstHausWien), where in addition to temporary exhibitions a permanent Hundertwasser retrospective is offered.
Similar buildings were in cooperation of Friedensreich Hundertwasser with architect Peter Pelikan and Heinz M. Springmann, among others, in Bad Soden am Taunus, Darmstadt (Forest Spiral), Frankfurt am Main, Magdeburg (Green Citadel of Magdeburg), Plochingen (Living Beneath the Rain Tower), Wittenberg (Luther-Melanchthon-Gymnasium), Bad Blumau (Rogner Bad Blumau), Israel, Switzerland, the United States, Osaka in Japan and New Zealand realized.
See also: buildings by Friedensreich Hundertwasser.
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