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Now, just because we are in the midst of Holiday celebrations and shopping madness, there is no good reason to stop enjoying the great outdoors. There is still time to take your dog sledding for example.
Aretha and Ben, the couple who own the local sporting goods store have taught their dog how to ride an official Rosebud sled. You can see how excited she is about the prospect.
And remember, there is only one week remaining of the shopping madness.
As the holiday season continues we hope you all have a great one.
This is a forced perspective photograph of a 1/24 scale die-cast model truck in front of a real background.
Franklin Mint 1950 GMC Pickup Truck Christmas Limited Edition
This week's theme is Forced Perspective. I must admit I've struggled with this one as the ideas I was coming up with mostly required the help of someone else or a magic wand! I thought about trying to photoshop it but thought that that was not in the spirit of the challenge.
Here we have two coins of different value and size the smaller one is in front of the larger one but hopefully looks bigger than it. I have included a small pic of them side by side so that you can see the difference. Cropped and played with the colours in the original.
Broadsword Calling Danny Boy!
This is my first forced perspective photo.
I used a Opel Blitz omnibus blueprint to make the bus from the film, the real bus was a Gräf & Stift O-120.
tragicly the Swiss Ju52 plane that was rented for this film crashed in 2018, 17 passengers and 3 crew members died when the plane crashed in the alps.
I want to thank an individual user from Instagram called quiriacus for sharing the epic old-school brick-built mp40 design. he does some splendid stuff in the classic lego aesthetic.
I watched a couple of bob ross videos to make the mountains. just place a bunch of 1x1 plates as the canvas and bobs your uncle.
La ruota del tempo.
Ho fatto un viaggio nel passato, son andato indietro nel tempo. Son tornato in quel mondo che non c'è più. Ho rivisto le persone per com'erano in quel mondo, ho rivisto persone che non ci sono più. Ho sentito musiche scordate e sentito odori che percepivo da bambino. Tutto è come io ricordavo, solo che ora fa tutt'altro effetto. Un effetto bellissimo ma terrificante. La nostalgia fa tremare l'intera macchina del tempo mendandola quasi in tilt.
Torno nel presente.
Qui è tutto calmo, tutto maledettamente calmo. La vita è frenetica ma è tutto troppo calmo. Di quel mondo di un tempo, di quel mondo dove son stato prima ne rimane solo un’eco, un'ombra stanca e sbiadita, ne rimane la fine, una fine forzata.
The wheel of time.
I made a trip into the past, I am going back in time. I went back into that world that no longer exists. I saw the people as they were in that world, I saw people who are gone. I heard music and smelled forget that I felt as a child. All is as I remembered, only now does anything effect. A beautiful effect, but terrifying. The nostalgia is shaking the whole time machine in near fine tilt.
I go back to the present.
Here everything is calm, all damn cool. Life is hectic but it's all too quiet. In that world of long ago, that world where I was before it remains only an echo, a shadow tired and faded, it is the end, forced an end.
For people who know the name Cord, it usually brings to mind the iconic “coffin nosed” Cords of the late 1930s.
E.L. Cord gave us another automotive icon in 1929, the L-29. This car was the first American car with front wheel drive. It was powered by a 301 CID Lycoming inline 8 cylinder engine producing 125 HP. Limits to the gearing meant the car topped out at about 80 MPH, still plenty in 1929.
The car was priced at about $3000.00. Even with the depression hitting the world later on in 1929, the folks at Cord built 4,400 examples between 1929 and 1932. Then the company pretty much shut down until 1936 when they relaunched with the fabulous, Gordon Buehrig designed 810/812 models we know so well.
This is a forced perspective photo of a 1/24 scale model in front of a real background.
The car is a 1930 Cord L-29 Brooks Stevens Speedster by Automodello.
Pieces of a B-52 sitting in the desert. Blown apart to make the USSR happy after it was discovered on satellite photos that it had not been destroyed as it should have been per a Cold War-era agreement for disarmament.
180 second exposure, protomachines set to green.
Click on the image because its best BIG ON BLACK!!!
During the pandemic, restaurants have been forced to close to their usual activity. Many have kept their business' alive by offering takeaway fare from a street counter. Only cash cards were allowed but many could not accept all that were on offer.
L'abbazia di Viboldone è situata a Viboldone, frazione della città di San Giuliano Milanese, in provincia di Milano. Per la bellezza della sua architettura e dei suoi affreschi trecenteschi è uno dei più importanti complessi medievali della Lombardia.
Fu fondata nel 1176 e completata nel 1348 dagli Umiliati, un ordine religioso formato da monaci, monache e laici che, attorno all'attuale chiesa, conducevano vita di preghiera e di lavoro, in particolare fabbricando panni di lana e coltivando i campi con sistemi di lavorazione assolutamente innovativi. Dopo la soppressione degli Umiliati ad opera di Carlo Borromeo, l'abbazia passò ai Benedettini Olivetani, successivamente soppressi dal governo austriaco e costretti ad abbandonare l'abbazia.
The Abbey of Viboldone is an abbey in Viboldone, a frazione of San Giuliano Milanese, in the province of Milan, northern Italy.
The abbey was founded in 1176 and completed in 1348 by the Humiliati, an order of monks, nuns and lay people who worked in the abbey producing wool cloths and cultivated the nearby fields with innovative techniques.
After the suppression of the Humiliati by Pope Pius V (1571), the abbey went to the Olivetan Benedictines, who were forced to leave the abbey in 1773, when Lombardy fell in Austrian hands.
Commune 13, Medellin, Colombia.
One particular area of Medellín, an area called Comuna 13, also known as the San Javier, has the most tumultuous history of the city, once labeled the most dangerous community due to its astronomical homicide rates and forced displacement of thousands of residents.
Comuna 13 is an over-populated and low socio-economic zone that crawls up along the west hills of the city with thousands of brick and cement homes stacked close to one another. It was a pivotal center for paramilitary, guerrilla, and gang activity. Its location is ideal for crime, as it leads directly to the main highway (San Juan Highway), providing easy transportation of guns, drugs, and money.
Residents voiced their discontent and anger with the violence that occurred in 2002 through art and community events. Striking street art around the neighborhood depicts scenes with the white rags raised for peace and solidarity.
John Alexander, of his artist name Chota13, is a graffiti artist aged 27 years. His is called Comuna 13, in Medellin, Colombia, antechamber of hell yesterday, now famous for its graffiti gallery in the open air and its escalators. Colors and shapes paint the walls of houses. 90 graffitis are identified including a dozen made by Chota13.
For video, please visit youtu.be/AKcL2fiPn8U
Zum Valentinstag
flash forced,
S10
early morning, darkness
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Nah-, Großaufnahme
Close up
Nahe Einstellungen (close-ups)
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Closer:
Nahaufnahme, Makro, Macro
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Was bedeutet close ups?
Closeup, close up oder close-up steht für:
eine Naheinstellung bei Film- und Fotoaufnahmen
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Die Aufmerksamkeit des Zuschauers wird auf einen kleinen Bildausschnitt gelenkt.
Die intensive Bildwirkung vermittelt Intimität oder erzeugt auch eine abstoßende Wirkung.
Lower Manhattan from Jersey City’s Exchange Place back in 2018. The original Dutch colony of New Amsterdam only extended as far as present as present Wall Street. The Dutch formed the colony of New Netherland in 1624 by the Dutch West India Company and actually extended at one point to include all of present day Long Island, parts of Connecticut and parts of New Jersey. On the tip of the island of Manhattan was the successful colony and capital of New Amsterdam. 40 years later, a British naval squadron under the command of Colonel Richard Nicolls attacks New Amsterdam. The unpopular Dutch governor of New Amsterdam one Peter Stuyvesant was forced to surrender the capital of New Netherland because his Dutch subjects basically refused to defend the colony as they dislike Stuyvesant’s rule more than being under English rule. The organizer of the English mission, the Duke of York was honored with the renaming of the colony at the tip of Manhattan Island as the now English colony became New York.
Forlorn graveside tribute to a WWII veteran in the village cemetery. The once proud model of a C-47 is looking more like a crash site these days. Still it has as much poignance now as it ever did. Not so much the model airplane, but the courage and valor that it represents. I posted my own tribute to this veteran when I first noticed the little plane some years ago when it was still relatively intact (linked below). I was amazed the other day to find it still there after all these years.
New FP scene from Pripyat. I'm really happy on that Hotel Polissya, it is extremely accurate on its real-life counterpart.
Reykjavik appears to be full of sculptures and this one was close to a roundabout close to the outskirts of the city. Our guide explained to us that those who were declared to be OUTLAW were expelled from the community and forced to live away from other people. The outlaw could be killed on sight by anyone and there would be no repercussions! Living apart from the community must have been a bleak and grinding life with brutal hardship in such a difficult environment!
Tilikum Crossing, Bridge of the People is a cable-stayed bridge across the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, United States.
I never did understand why I couldn't speak in tongues, like everyone else.
I saw a gift, outpoured to everyone but me. I tried, but it always felt like a performance.
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Original pictures were taken summer 2002 by my sister, and unknowingly double exposed by myself in november 2024.
This and the pictures posted over the next few days are an exploration of our past that has forced us to confront some difficult truths.
Please see the album description for a more in-depth explanation.
Dzień Zaduszny na cmentarzu Rakowickim w Krakowie. Pomnik żołnierzy Armii Kraków, poległych we wrześniu 1939.
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The All Souls Day at Rakowicki Cemetery in Kraków. People lighting candles at the memorial to the soldiers of Krakow Army, fallen defending their homeland in 1939.
Kraków Army (Polish: Armia Kraków) was one of the Polish armies to take part in the Polish Defensive War of 1939. The Army was commanded by general Antoni Szylling and it consisted of five infantry divisions, one mountain brigade, one motorized cavalry brigade, and one cavalry brigade.
Both the fighter squadrons (121st and 122nd Escadrille) from Kraków were not able to provide any air cover for their army, because they were ordered to move to Dęblin to join the Pursuit Brigade defending Warsaw.
The main task of Kraków Army was to delay advancing German troops and withdraw eastwards along the northern line of the Carpathians and defend the heavily industrialized Upper Silesia region, together with western counties of Lesser Poland and the Carpathian foothills. Altogether, Kraków Army defended southwestern border of Poland.
However, its forces were not enough to halt German advance, especially in the area north of Częstochowa, where Kraków Army connected with Łódź Army. Main thrust of Wehrmacht panzer units was directed there, and this area was defended only by the Polish 7th Infantry Division, which was destroyed in the early days of September 1939, opening the way towards central Poland.
As the German push penetrated Polish defences, Kraków Army was forced to retreat to avoid the danger of encirclement. It tried to organize lines of defense on the rivers of Nida, Dunajec and later, San. Later in the course of war it joined the Karpaty Army, forming the Małopolska Army. Together they fought at the first battle of Tomaszów Lubelski (September 17-20), capitulating afterwards.
One moment winter story.
Lakhta .This small village on the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland, about 15 km northwest of the city, is home to human settlements on the banks of the Neva. It was on the territory of Lakhta that the remains of a man’s parking site of three thousand years ago were found.
In official documents, a settlement named Lakhta dates back to 1500. The name is derived from the Finnish-speaking word lahti - "bay". This is one of the few settlements that has not changed its name throughout its 500-year history. Also known as Laches, Lahes-by, Lahes and was originally inhabited by Izhora. In the last decades of the 15th century, Lakhta was a village (which indicates a significant population) and was the center of the eponymous grand-parish volost, which was part of the Spassko-Gorodensky graveyard of the Orekhovsky district of the Vodskaya Pyatina. In the village, there were 10 courtyards with 20 people (married men). In Lakhta, on average, there were 2 families per yard, and the total population of the village probably reached 75 people.
From the notes on the margins of the Swedish scribe book of the Spassky graveyard of 1640, it follows that the lands along the lower reaches of the Neva River and parts of the Gulf of Finland, including Lakhta Karelskaya, Perekulya (from the Finnish “back village”, probably because of its position relative to Lakhti) and Konduy Lakhtinsky, were royal by letter of honor on January 15, 1638 transferred to the possession of the Stockholm dignitary, Rickschulz general Bernhard Sten von Stenhausen, a Dutchman by birth. On October 31, 1648, the Swedish government granted these lands to the city of Nyuen (Nyenschanz). With the arrival of the Swedes in Prievye, Lakhta was settled by the Finns, who until the middle of the 20th century made up the vast majority of the villagers.
On December 22, 1766, Catherine 2 granted Lakhta Manor, which was then in the Office of the Chancellery from the buildings of palaces and gardens, "in which and in her villages with courtyards 208 souls," her favorite Count Orlov. Not later than 1768, Count J.A. Bruce took over the estate. In 1788, Lakhta Manor was listed behind him with wooden services on a dry land (high place) and the villages Lakhta, Dubki, Lisiy Nos and Konnaya belonging to it also on dry land, in those villages of male peasants 238 souls. On May 1, 1813, Lakhta passed into the possession of the landowners of the Yakovlevs. On October 5, 1844, Count A.I. Stenbok-Fermor entered into the possession of the Lakhtinsky estate, which then had 255 male souls. This clan was the owner of the estate until 1912, when its last representative got into debt and noble custody was established over the estate. On October 4, 1913, in order to pay off his debts, he was forced to go for corporatization, and the Lakhta estate passed into the ownership of the Joint Stock Company “Lakhta” of Count Stenbock-Fermor and Co.
After the revolution, Lakhta was left on its own for a while, here on the former estate of the counts Stenbock-Fermorov on May 19, 1919, the Lakhta excursion station was opened, which existed there until 1932. In the early 1920s, sand mining began on Lakhta beaches, and the abandoned and dilapidated peat plant of the Lakhta estate in 1922 took over the Oblzemotdel and put it into operation after major repairs. In 1963, the village of Lakhta was included in the Zhdanovsky (Primorsky) district of Leningrad (St. Petersburg).
At the beginning of Lakhtinsky Prospekt, on the banks of the Lakhtinsky spill, there was the village of Rakhilax (Rahilax-hof, Rahila, Rokhnovo). Most likely, under this name only one or several courtyards are designated. There is an assumption that the name of the village was formed from the Finnish raahata - “drag, drag,” because there could be a place for transportation through the isthmus of the Lakhtinsky spill (we should not forget that not only the bridge over the channel connecting the spill with the Gulf of Finland was not yet here, the duct itself was many times wider than the current one). The search book of the Spassko-Gorodensky graveyard of 1573, describing the Lakhta lands, mentions that there were 2 lodges in the “Rovgunov” village, from which we can conclude that we are talking about the village of Rohilaks, which the Russian scribes remade into a more understandable to them Rovgunovo. The village was empty in Swedish time and was counted as a wasteland of the village of Lahta.
On the banks of the Lakhtinsky spill, near the confluence of the Yuntolovka River, from the 17th century there existed the village of Bobylka (Bobylskaya), which merged into the village of Olgino only at the beginning of the 20th century, but was found on maps until the 1930s. It is probably the Search Book that mentions it Spassko-Gorodensky churchyard in 1573 as a village "in Lakhta in Perekui", behind which there was 1 obzh. With the arrival of the Swedes by royal letter on January 15, 1638, the village was transferred to the possession of the Stockholm dignitary, Rickshaw General Bernhard Sten von Stenhausen, a Dutchman by birth. On October 31, 1648, the Swedish government granted Lahti lands to the city of Nyuen (Nyenschanz). On the Swedish map of the 1670s, in the place of the village of Bobylsky, the village of Lahakeülä is marked (küla - the village (Fin.)). The village could subsequently be called Bobyl from the Russian word "bobyl."
The owners of Bobylskaya were both Count Orlov, and Count Y. A. Bruce, and the landowners Yakovlev. In 1844, Count A.I. Stenbok-Fermor entered into the possession of the Lakhtinsky estate (which included the village of Bobyl). This family was the owner of the estate until 1913, when the owners, in order to pay off their debts, had to go for corporatization, and the Lakhta estate was transferred to the ownership of the Lakhta Joint-Stock Company of Count Stenbock-Fermor and Co. By the middle of the 20th century, the village merged with the village of Lakhta.
The name Konnaya Lakhta (Konnaya) has been known since the 16th century, although earlier it sounded like Konduya (Konduya Lakhtinskaya) or just Kondu (from the Finnish kontu - courtyard, manor). Subsequently, this name was replaced by the more familiar Russian ear with the word "Horse". In the Search Book of the Spassko-Gorodensky Pogost in 1573, it is mentioned as the village "on Kovdui", where 1 obzh was listed, which indicates that there most likely was one yard. On January 15, 1638, together with neighboring villages, it was transferred to the possession of the Stockholm dignitary, Rickschulz General Bernhard Steen von Stenhausen, of Dutch origin. On October 31, 1648, the Swedish government granted these lands to the city of Nyuen (Nyenschanz). In a deed of gift, Konduya Lakhtinskaya is called a village, which indicates a noticeable increase in its population. Later, on the Swedish map of the 1670s, on the site of the present Horse Lahti, the village of Konda-bai is marked (by - village (sv)).
The owners of Konnaya Lakhta, as well as the villages of Bobylskaya and Lakhta, were in turn Count Orlov, Count Ya. A. Bruce, and the landowners Yakovlev. In 1844, Count A.I. Stenbok-Fermor entered the possession of the Lakhta estate (which included Konnaya Lakhta. This family was the owner of the estate until 1913, when the owners had to go to corporations to pay off their debts, and the Lakhta estate became the property of Lakhta Joint Stock Company of Count Stenbock-Fermor and Co. In 1963, Horse Lahta was included in the Zhdanov (Primorsky) district of Leningrad (St. Petersburg).
As the dacha village of Olgino appeared at the end of the 19th century and initially consisted of both Olgin itself and the villages of Vladimirovka (now part of Lisiy Nos) and Aleksandrovka. In the first half of the 18th century, this territory was part of the Verpelev palace estate, which in the second half of the 18th century was granted to Count G. G. Orlov, then it was owned by the family of landowners the Yakovlevs, in the middle of the 19th century the estate was transferred to the counts of Stenbock-Fermor. In 1905 A.V. Stenbok-Fermor, the then owner of Lakhta lands, divided the lands around Lakhta into separate plots with the intention of selling them profitably for dachas. So there were the villages of Olgino (named after the wife of Olga Platonovna), Vladimirovka (in honor of the father of the owner; the coastal part of the modern village of Lisy Nos) and Alexandrov or Aleksandrovskaya (in honor of Alexander Vladimirovich himself). It is likely that on the site of the village was the village of Olushino (Olushino odhe) - a search book of the Spassko-Gorodensky churchyard in 1573 mentions that there were 1 obzh in the village of Olushkov’s, which suggests that at least one residential the yard. On behalf of Olushka (Olpherius). Most likely, the village was deserted in Swedish time and then was already listed as a wasteland belonging to the village of Lahta. Thus, the name of the village could be given in harmony with the name of the mistress and the old name of the village.
The villages were planned among a sparse pine forest (the layout was preserved almost unchanged), so there were more amenities for living and spending time there than in Lakhta. A park was set up here, a summer theater, a sports ("gymnastic") playground, a tennis court, and a yacht club were arranged.
In the 1910s about 150 winter cottages were built in Olgino, many of which are striking monuments of "summer cottage" architecture. In 1963, the village of Olgino was included in the Zhdanovsky (Primorsky) district of Leningrad (St. Petersburg).
Near Olgino, in the area of the Dubki park, there was a small village Verpeleva (Verpelevo), which consisted of only a few yards. In the first half of the XVIII century. this territory was part of the palace estate "Verpeleva", which in the second half of the XVIII century. It was granted to Count G. G. Orlov, then passed to the Counts of Stenbock-Fermor. The village has not existed for a long time, but the entire reed-covered peninsula (barely protruding above the water of the Verpier-Luda peninsula (Verper Luda (from the Finnish luoto - “small rocky island”)) still existed, and there was another spelling the name of this island is Var Pala Ludo).
Kamenka. The Novgorod scribal book mentions two villages in the Lakhta region with a similar name, referring to the possessions of Selivan Zakharov, son of Okhten, with his son and 5 other co-owners. On the lands of this small patrimony, which, unlike the estate was inherited, peasants lived in 3 villages, including: the village "Kamenka in Lakhta near the sea" in 5 yards with 5 people and arable land in 1,5 obzhi, the village "on Kamenka "in 2 courtyards with 2 people and arable land in 1 obzhu. For the use of land, the peasants paid the owners of the patrimony 16 money and gave 1/3 of the rye harvest. Thus, in the 16th century on the Kamenka River (another name for the Kiviyoki River, which is the literal translation of kivi - "stone", joki - "river") there was one large village of Kamenka near its confluence with the Lakhtinsky spill and the second, smaller, somewhere upstream. On the drawing of Izhora land in 1705, a village under this name is depicted in the area of the modern village of Kamenka. The village of Kamennaya in the middle reaches of Kamenka and on the map of 1792 is designated. Other name options are Kaumenkka, Kiviaja.
In the second half of the 18th century, Kamenka became a vacation spot for Russian Germans. Here in 1865, German colonists founded their "daughter" colony on leased land. Since then, the village has received the name Kamenka Colony (so called until the 1930s). In 1892, a colony near the village of Volkovo "budded" from it. The inhabitants of both colonies belonged to the Novo-Saratov parish and since 1871 had a prayer house in Kamenka, which was visited by 250 people. He maintained a school for 40 students. The house was closed in 1935 and later demolished.
Currently, Kamenka exists as a holiday village, located along the road to Levashovo. Since 1961 - in the city, part of the planning area in the North-West, from the mid-1990s. built up with multi-storey residential buildings and cottages.
Volkovo. The settlement is about southeast of the village of Kamenka - on the old road to Kamenka, on the bank of a stream that flows into Kamenka between the village of Kamenka and the Shuvalovsky quarry. In 1892, a German colony emerged on the territory of the village, "budding" from a nearby colony in the village of Kamenka. The origin of Volkovo is not clear, the village is found only on maps of 1912, 1930, 1939, 1943. and probably appeared no earlier than the 19th century.
Kolomyagi. Scribe books of the XV — XVI centuries and Swedish plans testify that small settlements already existed on the site of Kolomyag. Most likely, these were first Izhora or Karelian, then Finnish farms, which were empty during the hostilities of the late XVII century.
The name "Kolomyag" connoisseurs decipher in different ways. Some say that it came from the "colo" - in Finnish cave and "pulp" - a hill, a hill. The village is located on the hills, and such an interpretation is quite acceptable. Others look for the root of the name in the Finnish word "koaa" - bark - and believe that trees were processed here after felling. Another version of the origin of the name from the Finnish "kello" is the bell, and it is associated not with the feature of the mountain, but with the "bell on the mountain" - a tower with a signal bell standing on a hill.
The owners of Kolomyazhsky lands were Admiral General A.I. Osterman, Count A.P. Bestuzhev-Ryumin, a family of Volkonsky. In 1789, the Volkonskys sold these lands to retired colonel Sergei Savvich Yakovlev. On his estate S. S. Yakovlev built a manor and lived in it with his wife and seven daughters. The once-Finnish population of Kolomyag was “Russified” by that time - it was made up of descendants of serfs resettled by Osterman and Bestuzhev-Rumin from their villages in Central Russia (natives of the Volga and Galich) and Ukraine. Then the name "Kellomyaki" began to sound in Russian fashion - "Kolomyagi", although later the old name also existed, especially among local Finns. And not without reason the indigenous Kolomozhites associate their origin with the Volga places, and the southern half of the village is now called “Galician”.
Yakovlev died in 1818. Five years after his death, a division of the territory of the manor was made. The village of Kolomyagi was divided in half between two of his daughters. The border was the Bezymyanny stream. The southeastern part of the village of Kolomyagi beyond Bezymyanny creek and a plot on the banks of the Bolshaya Nevka passed to the daughter Ekaterina Sergeevna Avdulina.
Daughter Yakovleva Elena Sergeevna - the wife of General Alexei Petrovich Nikitin, a hero of the Patriotic War of 1812, who was awarded the highest military orders and twice a gold sword with the inscription "For courage", died early, leaving her daughter Elizabeth. The northwestern part of Kolomyag inherited the young Elizabeth, so this part of Kolomyag was practically inherited by the father of Yakovlev’s granddaughter, Count A.P. Nikitin, who in 1832 became the owner of the entire village. It is his name that is stored in the names of the streets - 1st and 2nd Nikitinsky and Novo-Nikitinsky. The new owner built a stone mansion on the estate’s estate - an excellent example of classicism of the first third of the 19th century, which became his country house and has survived to this day and has been occupied until recently by the Nursing Home. It is believed that this mansion was built according to the project of the famous architect A.I. Melnikov. The severity and modesty of the architectural appearance of the facades and residential chambers of the Nikitin mansion was opposed by the splendor of ceremonial interiors, in particular the two-light dance hall with choirs for musicians. Unfortunately, with repeated alterations and repairs, many details of the decor and stucco emblems of the owners disappeared. Only two photographs of the 1920s and preserved fragments of ornamental molding and paintings on the walls and ceiling show the past richness of the decorative decoration of this architectural monument. The mansion was surrounded by a small park. In it stood a stone pagan woman brought from the southern steppes of Russia (transferred to the Hermitage), and a pond with a plakun waterfall was built. Near the pond there was a "walk of love" from the "paradise" apple trees - it was called so because the bride and groom passed through it after the wedding. Here, in the shadow of these apple trees, young lovers made appointments.
Under the Orlov-Denisov opposite the mansion (now Main Street, 29), the structures of an agricultural farm were erected, partially preserved to this day, and the greenhouse. Behind the farm were the master's fields. On them, as the New Time newspaper reported in August 1880, they tested the reaping and shearing machines brought from America.
In the 19th century, the provincial surveyor Zaitsev submitted for approval the highway called the Kolomyagskoye Shosse. The route was supposed to connect the village, gradually gaining fame as a summer residence of the "middle arm", with St. Petersburg. The construction of the road ended in the 1840s, and then horse-drawn and country-house crafts became the most important articles of peasant income. In addition, peasants either built small dachas in their yards, or rented their huts for the summer. Located away from the roads, surrounded by fields, the village was chosen by multi-family citizens.
The income from the summer cottage industry increased from year to year, which was facilitated by the summer movement of omnibuses that opened on the new highway from the City Council building. They walked four times a day, each accommodated 16 people, the fare cost 15 kopecks. Even when the Finnish Railway with the nearest Udelnaya station came into operation in 1870, the highway remained the main access road through which public carriages pulled by a trio of horses ran from the Stroganov (now Ushakovsky) bridge.
July 19, 2018 - Just west of Kearney Nebraska US
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Another Incredible Nebraska Skyscape. Beautiful July ambient light, against a dying thunderstorm. Nope it's not severe but it's what I do when the light is right. Plus, I was super sick... A few days away from being forced into the hospital. I'm better now, and thankful.. that's a story to come!
I honestly took extra time on these captures. I was using a new filter on my new lens. So no added color or any adjustments to the image in Photoshop on this set. Now I had to bring them through Photoshop from raw... but that's it and of course the pano's are done separately.
Also... I only had one camera...for video that evening. Otherwise you would have seen this first storm cross over and you would have seen some sweet Nebraska thunderstorm views. Just to the east southeast. July Mammatus... these are just as sweet as this video... Just captures though...These have been added to this set.
It seemed the sicker I got, the better the photography I took... It was only about 10 days till I was forced into the hospital. I shouldn't have been out. But you don't get captures like this if you don't go try to catch them...
I was sick but had a blast, and what I caught was just Awesome!
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I noticed some seriously sexy clouds at around sunset yesterday… so I grabbed my camera and went out searching for something interesting to photograph.
I had an idea to visit one of the local farm dams to shoot some reflections… but the clouds were looking so good that I was forced to stop and shoot them a couple of times along the way. This was one of those times… I really liked the way that the lines created by the young wheat seedlings were leading my eyes around the hill, towards the sun and those two farm dams in the distance.
Nikon D300, Sigma 10-20mm at 11mm, aperture of f11, with a 1/80th second exposure.
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It can trully be said that you can get in a rut. I have a certain approach to images. Now that can be good if you like what you are producing. I am a bit conceded in that I like my images for sure. Sorry. But you can also depend on those formulas, almost like a crutch.
This last weekend I had a friend of ours ask if they could borrow my trusty 15-30 Tamron. This is my staple lens for sure. Then we set out looking for fall colors at some trusty waterfall locations, in this case, Silver Falls State Park. Thing is, I did not have my favorite lens. So I was forced to think outside the box. Here I opted for my Canon 50mm f1.4 with an 8 stop ND filter. I tried to stack the image and do a panoramic vertical blend. I love doing pano's vertically.
We did not find any really popping colors sadly. There is some Fall yellow in there but not much.
Oh, this also gave me the chance to try out a second tripod. I got a bit beefier one for shooting in water and wind. Its heavier and bigger, but I like it so far. Its a Leofoto. I know, and odd brand. The stats on this thing a great though, 36mm legs and a new 40mm ball head. More stable in the water for sure.
Let me know what you think.
Scary petticoating scene from Insidious Ch 2. Watch the Youtube clip here -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b6biW_qicQ