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Vue sur La baie de Opunohu depuis le bateau de croisière "Paul Gauguin" ancré près de la passe . Ce site est l'un des plus beau de Moorea.On y aperçoit les pics du Mou’aroa. Il a servi de décor à de nombreux films dont « La Bounty » en 1983, avec Mel Gibson et Anthony Hopkins, et « Les faussaires » en 1994, avec Gérard Jugnot et Jean-Marc Barr.
Pour la petite histoire, le premier européen à visiter Moorea est James Cook en 1777. Il considéra ce mouillage comme le plus sûr des îles des mers du sud.
Pour plus d'informations : www.tahitiheritage.pf/baie-opunohu-moorea/
View of Opunohu Bay from the cruise ship "Paul Gauguin" anchored near the pass. This site is one of the most beautiful in Moorea. You can see the mountains of the Mou'aroa. It was the setting for many films : "La Bounty" in 1983, with Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins, and "The Forgers" in 1994, with Gérard Jugnot and Jean-Marc Barr.
The first European to visit Moorea was James Cook in 1777. He considered this anchorage like the safest of the islands in the southern seas.
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Anya Forger tiny doll is all plastic.
HMM!
Macro Mondays: Plastic
Her head and hair together measures 1.905cm/3/4 inch.
‘All people have a side of themselves they can’t reveal to others’. - Loid Forger [Spy X Family]
SMASH! 2022
ICC, Darling Harbour
July, 2022
The head of President Jackson on our American $20 bill. 😄 HaPpY CrAzY Tuesday 😄 Head
PS It goes without saying I guess that I edited the money shot! Didn't want anyone to think I was a forger with my perfectly focused shot! And a few other alterations just to be sure!
This photo was taken from the entrance road to Tambomachay, an archaeological site associated with the Incan empire approximately 5 miles northeast of Cusco.
Quote of the Day:
"He who does not bellow out the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers." (Charles Peguy)
Beverweerd Castle, locally known as Kasteel Beverweerd, lies north of the village of Werkhoven, in the province of Utrecht in the Netherlands.
The castle was built in the first half of the 13th century on a small island in the Kromme Rijn river. It then consisted of a simple tower house of 2 floors. In the second half of the 13th century the 2 square corner towers were added. The oldest known inhabitant of Beverweerd Castle was a Zweder van Zuylen and his wife Hildegardis or Hillegonda van de Velde. The castle was a fief of the Bishop of Utrecht and probably held by the family of Hildegardis. Because when she died in 1296 the castle did not go to Zweder but to a family member of her; Nicolaas van de Velde.
In later centuries Beverweerd Castle went to several families through marriages and inheritances, amongst them the Van Vianen, Van Bouchout and the De Lannoy families. In 1563 Philip William, Prince of Orange, inherited the castle. It stayed in the Orange-Nassau family for the next 200 years. During those times the castle was rebuilt several times though still keeping much of its medieval character.
In 1782 Beverweerd Castle went to the Van Heeckeren family. Between 1835 and 1862 the castle was rebuilt into a regular Gothic Revival style mansion by the architect C. Kramm for Baron H.J.C.E. van Heeckeren. Then it also recieved the white plaster on its exterior. This was removed in 1934, only to be applied again in 2010.
In 1958 the castle was sold to a foundation for Quaker schools. It served as a school until 1997 under the name International School Beverweerd. The boarded up outbuildings for housing the students can still be seen in the park next to the castle.
At present Beverweerd Castle is private property. It is now inhabited by the Dutch painter and former art forger Geert Jan Jansen.
Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
African elephant family posing for a photo. The male is not present though, was probably occupied somewhere else.
In the background you can see a huge boulder and part of Shikumbu Mountain, an Iron-Age archaeological site occupied during the 19th century by the Majola, a sub-group of the Sotho-speaking baPhalaborwa people. The Majola were iron smelters and forgers and probably traded metal, food and ivory products with other communities across the Lowveld and as far as the Mozambican coast. Shikumbu Mountain is still regarded by many as a sacred hill associated with powerful muthi. Traditionalists in the area say that to point a finger at the granite mountain is to invoke bad luck.
This began as, uh, well, I forget but it was very interesting so I tortured it and Deep Dreamed it and so on. I still forger what it started out as, but if it is your picture drop me a line.
BrunuhVille - The Wolf and the Moon 🎶
I finally found my way back Home. I escaped from the Abyss, and I am in one piece. I am Sigma. I laugh at the fancy Alpha and their ambition and swagger. I am the Prince of Solitude, the Forger of my own Destiny. I am the Protector and the Guardian of the Heart. I am who I am, and I am in love with the Moon. Instinct, Intuition and the deepest Emotion were Her gifts, for She loves me too. She took my shadow away, She sent me on an impossible quest, I will chase Her until the Gods meet their Fate, and my lament during the nights of Full Moon will send shivers down your spines and make you curl up and cover your heads under the blankets in your beds. For Her I stand strong, for Her I stand free, and for Her my Spirit will live forever.
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🌐 The solitary Wolf howls at the Moon in Joyful Gardens, and the Princess of the Night was captured in this texture by Kerstin Frank.
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Strobist: AB1600 with gridded 60X30 softbox camera right. AB800 with gridded HOBD-W overhead. AB800 with gridded 7 inch reflector behind lantern. Triggered by Cybersync.
This picture is accurately recorded in Claude's Liber Veritatis, the book of drawings the painter made to record his compositions and to protect himself against forgers and imitators.On the back of the drawing Claude noted that the picture was made in Paris,but the client is not named.In the eighteenth century this painting belonged to Dr Richard Mead,the famous collector in London.Then it was called Morning and was paired with another Claude landscape entitled Evening which was not conceived as its pendant.
The intrepid "Si-mox" and Rolli dare to cross Butcherpaper Canyon... do the forgers of Butcherpaper Canyon dare to cross them?... stay tuned.
Anya Forger is an anime figure and part of a spy family apparently.
Fiddly to pose as her head fell off, then her hands and not to mention a foot but it's a fun and cute thing.
...or 'Eppunstull...as I was brought up with....."..Standing high on a hill above the Calder Valley, the small Yorkshire village of Heptonstall began life as a centre for hand weaving during the medieval period......Tucked behind the cobbled main street is the shell of a 13/15th-c church, which was irreparably damaged in the great storm of 1847. The graveyard contains over 10,000 bodies, many of which succumbed to the great plague of 1631. One famous grave is that of a notorious 18th-c coin forger, 'King' David Hartley, of nearby Cragg Vale. The poet and novelist Sylvia Plath is also laid to rest here...."
Through the miserable rain suspended in mid-air, I biked from Wijhe in the Salland of Overijssel Province to Heino to revisit an ancient (1382) castle, 't Nijenhuis, and the fabulous sculpture exposition in its gardens and Wood.
't Nijenhuis is famous for having been the home of Dirk Hannema (1895-1984). Before World War II, Hannema was an influential art critic, collector and museum director (in Rotterdam). He collaborated with the German Occupation, and lost his job after the war. His overriding artistic principle was that of 'intuitive vision' over scientific and scholarly research. It led him to some remarkable discoveries but also trapped him into one of the great art scandals in Dutch history of art: he authenticated the infamous Vermeer forgeries by master-forger Han van Meegeren (1889-1947).
During previous visits in the '70s and early '80s I'd wandered in the Wood around the castle in better weather. Regardless, the Impatiens parviflora, Smallflower Touch-me-nots, so hard to photograph well (www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/7921429120/in/photolis...), were flourishing today not caring a whit about the damp.
And to my delight here's a favorite of my Hoverflies, Episyrphus balteatus, visiting for sustenance.My camera's LED allowed me to photograph not badly. Notice, too, the raindrop. The inset shows the Castle, of course.
The glacier with the the Pitt River valley in the background, both just north of Vancouver Canada (and just south of Whistler). Shot out the tiny vent window in my Piper Cherokee.
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Les deux pièces d'acier qui formeront l'outil ayant été assemblées, celui-ci va maintenant être façonné. Le borax va empêcher le métal de s'oxyder au contact de l'air. La dernière phase de l'opération consiste à étirer le métal pour donner la forme voulue à l'outil.
Le métal noircit et ne peut plus être travaillé dès que la température baisse aussi doit-il être remis à plusieurs reprises dans le feu. L'opération est longue et demande... des bras !
"Notre-Dame des charpentiers"
Parvis de Notre-Dame
Journées du Patrimoine 2020
As we saw in the previous photograph, the designer of this fine English style school house was Everard James Blackburn (1803-1854). Blackburn went on to survey the new city of Melbourne, and even has a suburb there named after him. But Blackburn had not come voluntarily to Van Diemen's Land.
He was transported in 1833 for forging a cheque of 600 pounds (a massive amount at the time) on the Bank of England in the name of his employers. Interestingly enough, Australia's greatest colonial architect, Francis Greenway (1777-1837) was also transported to Old Sydney Town for the same crime. So England's shame became Australia's gain!
This colour photograph shows off the lovely red brickwork. You must enlarge this one. Look at that wonderful name plate above the door.
The building is still run by St Luke's Anglican Church as an "Op Shop". A charity shop to raise funds for community projects.
So, scraplift one of my own layouts from one of the LOAD layouts I have already done or some random layout from the past.
I decided that my lift would be from my LOAD layouts
and asked one of my fellow LOADies and Master Forgers to choose from my LOAD Gallery.
Lisa (LisaInRe) had two favourites (2&10) but I decided that the sunburst would go perfectly with my Key West sunset photograph so I chose LOAD10
South of Oatlands is the little settlement of Pontville, right next to Brighton in Tasmania. Pontville-Brighton was a barracks town, and as the name suggests, Pontville was at the point where a bridge traversed the Jordan River. The first Church of England services were held in a stables in 1829, and with a number of officers and their families present it was decided a dedicated church building was required.
A former convict forger and civil engineer, James Blackburn (1803-1854), was employed to design the new sanctuary. Blackburn was then working closely with the colonial architect John Lee Archer, and later he sailed across Bass Strait to work in the newly formed town of Melbourne. In fact, so influential was he to become that today there is an entire suburb in Melbourne named Blackburn.
Blackburn employed convict labourers who worked with local stone. The design of the church is quite unique in Tasmania and has variously been described as having characteristics of Norman and Romanesque architecture. Historically both styles go together well, especially in Normandy, France.
The foundation stone was laid in 1839 by the then Lt. Gov. Sir John Franklin. Franklin went on to greater fame in his ill-fated attempt to discover a Northwest Passage. Franklin's ships disappeared in the ice in 1847. It wasn't until 2014 when the remains of the ships were found and the horrifying story of starvation and cannibalism emerged. "Arctic Tomb (Franklin expedition documentary)" www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j94t4tN1w0
The most interesting feature of the building of St Mark's is the entrance façade. The building itself is in great need of preservation work. The Rev. Rod Curtain kindly showed us around and work is soon to commence on some of the restoration.
adb.anu.edu.au/biography/blackburn-james-1789
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Franklin
NOTE: There is only minor cropping here. The Leica D-Lux 7 has four format selections 3:2, 1:1, 4:3, and this wide shot 16:9.
Last November agents of INTERPOL raided the home of Luigi Tracino, an Italian long suspected of possessing a number of purloined paintings including Vermeer’s “Het concert” stolen from the Gardner Museum in Boston in 1990. While the famed Verneer sadly was not among the recovered masterworks authorities were surprised to find a painting by Eyk Van Jenz titled “Woman with Medallion” heretofore only known from descriptions in the journal of Henk Saefert, one of Van Jenz’s many students, from the late 1400’s. The painting itself historians believed had been burned in a fire in the town of Haafsdorf in what is now Germany in the early 17th century. How the painting survived and where it has stored since is a bigger mystery still.
Henk Tollmann one of INTERPOL's art theft experts said, “The painting appears to be in good condition for its age. As to its authenticity I will leave it up to the experts.”
Indeed the painting has caused controversy since photographs of it first began to appear in the media. While the rendering of the woman in the painting appears to be very much in the style of Van Janz, the pendant hanging around her neck has caused some to declare it a hoax. Pictured on the pendant is a portrait of what appears to be 20th century pop star Elvis Presley.
Those who believe the painting to be authentic claim that the similarity between the portrait on the image and Elvis is a coincidence. Others claim that it is a master forger who is having a bit of fun with the public.
Either way the controversy has elevated the status of the painting beyond what might be expected without it. The painting will go on the auction block at Christie’s in the spring where bidding is expected to start at US$70 million but could bring in much more.
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Photo | Stable Diffusion | Photoshop
The Old Forge, and forger bank along High Street, Farnborough. The latter now in use as a surgery.
12th January 2020
This great valley boasts sandstone masterpieces that tower at heights of 400 to 1,000 feet. framed by scenic clouds casting shadows that graciously roam the desert floor. The angle of the sun accents these graceful formations, providing scenery that is simply spellbinding.
The landscape overwhelms, not just by its beauty but also by its size. The fragile pinnacles of rock are surrounded by miles of mesas and buttes, shrubs, trees and windblown sand, all comprising the magnificent colors of the valley.
* Mon métier et mon art, c'est vivre.
o Translation: My trade and my art is living.
o Book II, ch. 6
* L'homme est bien insensé. Il ne saurait forger un ciron, et forge des Dieux à douzaines.
o Translation: Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.
o Book II, ch. 12
- Ambition is not a vice of little people.
# Que sais-je?
* Translation: "What know I?" or "What do I know?"
More characters from DC's Justice League and the Sixth Dimension!
Perpetua (top) is the first creator and overseer of the DC Multiverse. She is also the mother of Mobius the Anti-Monitor (left), Alpheus the World Forger (middle), and Mar Novu the Over-Monitor (right).
Let me know what you guys think!