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The white form of Calopogon tuberosus or Common Grass-pink orchid is currently blooming in my bog garden.
Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. It was incorporated on March 26, 1915. The municipality is located on natural and man-made barrier islands between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter of which separates the Beach from the mainland city of Miami. The neighborhood of South Beach, comprising the southernmost 2.5 square miles (6.5 km2) of Miami Beach, along with downtown Miami and the Port of Miami, collectively form the commercial center of South Florida. Miami Beach's estimated population is 92,307 according to the most recent United States census estimates. Miami Beach is the 26th largest city in Florida based on official 2017 estimates from the US Census Bureau. It has been one of America's pre-eminent beach resorts since the early 20th century.
In 1979, Miami Beach's Art Deco Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Art Deco District is the largest collection of Art Deco architecture in the world and comprises hundreds of hotels, apartments and other structures erected between 1923 and 1943. Mediterranean, Streamline Moderne and Art Deco are all represented in the District. The Historic District is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the East, Lenox Court on the West, 6th Street on the South and Dade Boulevard along the Collins Canal to the North. The movement to preserve the Art Deco District's architectural heritage was led by former interior designer Barbara Baer Capitman, who now has a street in the District named in her honor.
Miami Beach is governed by a ceremonial mayor and six commissioners. Although the mayor runs commission meetings, the mayor and all commissioners have equal voting power and are elected by popular election. The mayor serves for terms of two years with a term limit of three terms and commissioners serve for terms of four years and are limited to two terms. Commissioners are voted for citywide and every two years three commission seats are voted upon.
A city manager is responsible for administering governmental operations. An appointed city manager is responsible for administration of the city. The City Clerk and the City Attorney are also appointed officials.
In 1870, a father and son, Henry and Charles Lum, purchased the land for 75 cents an acre. The first structure to be built on this uninhabited oceanfront was the Biscayne House of Refuge, constructed in 1876 by the United States Life-Saving Service at approximately 72nd Street. Its purpose was to provide food, water, and a return to civilization for people who were shipwrecked. The next step in the development of the future Miami Beach was the planting of a coconut plantation along the shore in the 1880s by New Jersey entrepreneurs Ezra Osborn and Elnathan Field, but this was a failed venture. One of the investors in the project was agriculturist John S. Collins, who achieved success by buying out other partners and planting different crops, notably avocados, on the land that would later become Miami Beach. Meanwhile, across Biscayne Bay, the City of Miami was established in 1896 with the arrival of the railroad, and developed further as a port when the shipping channel of Government Cut was created in 1905, cutting off Fisher Island from the south end of the Miami Beach peninsula.
Collins' family members saw the potential in developing the beach as a resort. This effort got underway in the early years of the 20th century by the Collins/Pancoast family, the Lummus brothers (bankers from Miami), and Indianapolis entrepreneur Carl G. Fisher. Until then, the beach here was only the destination for day-trips by ferry from Miami, across the bay. By 1912, Collins and Pancoast were working together to clear the land, plant crops, supervise the construction of canals to get their avocado crop to market, and set up the Miami Beach Improvement Company. There were bath houses and food stands, but no hotel until Brown's Hotel was built in 1915 (still standing, at 112 Ocean Drive). Much of the interior land mass at that time was a tangled jungle of mangroves. Clearing it, deepening the channels and water bodies, and eliminating native growth almost everywhere in favor of landfill for development, was expensive. Once a 1600-acre, jungle-matted sand bar three miles out in the Atlantic, it grew to 2,800 acres when dredging and filling operations were completed.
With loans from the Lummus brothers, Collins had begun work on a 2½-mile-long wooden bridge, the world's longest wooden bridge at the time, to connect the island to the mainland. When funds ran dry and construction work stalled, Indianapolis millionaire and recent Miami transplant Fisher intervened, providing the financing needed to complete the bridge the following year in return for a land swap deal. That transaction kicked off the island's first real estate boom. Fisher helped by organizing an annual speed boat regatta, and by promoting Miami Beach as an Atlantic City-style playground and winter retreat for the wealthy. By 1915, Lummus, Collins, Pancoast, and Fisher were all living in mansions on the island, three hotels and two bath houses had been erected, an aquarium built, and an 18-hole golf course landscaped.
The Town of Miami Beach was chartered on March 26, 1915; it grew to become a City in 1917. Even after the town was incorporated in 1915 under the name of Miami Beach, many visitors thought of the beach strip as Alton Beach, indicating just how well Fisher had advertised his interests there. The Lummus property was called Ocean Beach, with only the Collins interests previously referred to as Miami Beach.
Carl Fisher was the main promoter of Miami Beach's development in the 1920s as the site for wealthy industrialists from the north and Midwest to and build their winter homes here. Many other Northerners were targeted to vacation on the island. To accommodate the wealthy tourists, several grand hotels were built, among them: The Flamingo Hotel, The Fleetwood Hotel, The Floridian, The Nautilus, and the Roney Plaza Hotel. In the 1920s, Fisher and others created much of Miami Beach as landfill by dredging Biscayne Bay; this man-made territory includes Star, Palm, and Hibiscus Islands, the Sunset Islands, much of Normandy Isle, and all of the Venetian Islands except Belle Isle. The Miami Beach peninsula became an island in April 1925 when Haulover Cut was opened, connecting the ocean to the bay, north of present-day Bal Harbour. The great 1926 Miami hurricane put an end to this prosperous era of the Florida Boom, but in the 1930s Miami Beach still attracted tourists, and investors constructed the mostly small-scale, stucco hotels and rooming houses, for seasonal rental, that comprise much of the present "Art Deco" historic district.
Carl Fisher brought Steve Hannagan to Miami Beach in 1925 as his chief publicist. Hannagan set-up the Miami Beach News Bureau and notified news editors that they could "Print anything you want about Miami Beach; just make sure you get our name right." The News Bureau sent thousands of pictures of bathing beauties and press releases to columnists like Walter Winchell and Ed Sullivan. One of Hannagan's favorite venues was a billboard in Times Square, New York City, where he ran two taglines: "'It's always June in Miami Beach' and 'Miami Beach, Where Summer Spends the Winter.'"
Post–World War II economic expansion brought a wave of immigrants to South Florida from the Northern United States, which significantly increased the population in Miami Beach within a few decades. After Fidel Castro's rise to power in 1959, a wave of Cuban refugees entered South Florida and dramatically changed the demographic make-up of the area. In 2017, one study named zip code 33109 (Fisher Island, a 216-acre island located just south of Miami Beach), as having the 4th most expensive home sales and the highest average annual income ($2.5 million) in 2015.
South Beach (also known as SoBe, or simply the Beach), the area from Biscayne Street (also known as South Pointe Drive) one block south of 1st Street to about 23rd Street, is one of the more popular areas of Miami Beach. Although topless sunbathing by women has not been officially legalized, female toplessness is tolerated on South Beach and in a few hotel pools on Miami Beach. Before the TV show Miami Vice helped make the area popular, SoBe was under urban blight, with vacant buildings and a high crime rate. Today, it is considered one of the richest commercial areas on the beach, yet poverty and crime still remain in some places near the area.
Miami Beach, particularly Ocean Drive of what is now the Art Deco District, was also featured prominently in the 1983 feature film Scarface and the 1996 comedy The Birdcage.
The New World Symphony Orchestra is based in Miami Beach, under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas.
Lincoln Road, running east-west parallel between 16th and 17th Streets, is a nationally known spot for outdoor dining and shopping and features galleries of well known designers, artists and photographers such as Romero Britto, Peter Lik, and Jonathan Adler. In 2015, the Miami Beach residents passed a law forbidding bicycling, rollerblading, skateboarding and other motorized vehicles on Lincoln Road during busy pedestrian hours between 9:00am and 2:00am.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Beach,_Florida
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Form is no other than emptiness, emptiness no other than form.
Form is exactly emptiness, emptiness exactly form.
Sensation, conception, discrimination, awareness are likewise like this.
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Florence (Italian: Firenze [fiˈrɛntse] ( listen), alternative obsolete form: Fiorenza; Latin: Florentia) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area.
Florence is famous for its history. A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence is considered the birthplace of the Renaissance, and has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages. A turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful Medici family, and numerous religious and republican revolutions. From 1865 to 1871 the city was also the capital of the recently established Kingdom of Italy.
The historic centre of Florence attracts millions of tourists each year, and Euromonitor International ranked the city as the world's 72nd most visited in 2009, with 1,685,000 visitors. It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1982. Due to Florence's artistic and architectural heritage, it has been ranked by Forbes as one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and the city is noted for its history, culture, Renaissance art and architecture and monuments. The city also contains numerous museums and art galleries, such as the Uffizi Gallery and the Pitti Palace, amongst others, and still exerts an influence in the fields of art, culture and politics.
Florence is also an important city in Italian fashion, being ranked within the top fifty fashion capitals of the world; furthermore, it is also a major national economic centre, being a tourist and industrial hub. In 2008, the city had the 17th highest average income in Italy.
An old stalk of grass that weathered the winter has aged into graceful curls and stands out above the young Spring leaves.
Post-processing the photo to black & white emphasizes form over color, further highlighting the beautiful curls.
Garden .. creative work reflecting the colours and forms of an imagined undersea garden . Another way of looking at this is to think of all the discarded plastic that is dumped into the sea , some of it breaking down to microscopic particles where by its consumed by the fish and we eat the fish . When are we going to stop using the sea as a garbage tip and expect everything that comes from it to be and pure and good .
From an exhibition titled Water .
GOMA : Gallery Of Modern Art
Cultural Centre . Brisbane
Certainly in this unprecedented year, the sight of any form of 'timber' train albeit empty is unusual in the North West, so this had to be recorded. Cloas 70809 approaches Chapel Lane bridge, Acton Bridge with 6F56 08.52hrs Newton Abbot - Carlisle e/KFA wagons. A question, is the yellow end of the loco compliant as it seems to a very much lighter shade of yellow compared with all the other TOC / FOC's? 30th July 2020.
Copyright: 8A Rail
Another grainy film frame of melting and cracking ice in the shallow rocky waters at cape Lintuniemi in March 2019.
Taken with:
Olympus OM-2n
Olympus OM Zuiko 50mm f/1.4
Kodak T-Max 400
Scanned with:
Canon EOS 6D
Leica APO-Macro-Elmarit-R 100mm f/2.8
Negative Lab Pro
My personal stay-at-home abstract photography project for today.
Some cheesecloth was used because it is broadly woven and it is easy to see the threads. Some slightly warm toning was added, and there is a little "glow" as well.
Copyright Stan farrow FRPS
Un paio di mesi fa ho ricevuto un regalo.
Due noci.
E due numeri.
Ne ho scelto uno, il 25.
Dentro un bigliettino.
L'iscrizione ad una mezza maratona in montagna.
E da allora mi alleno per rispettare questo regalo.
Correndo.
Per riuscire almeno ad arrivare in fondo.
Anche quest'anno il mio 25 aprile, seppur in forma diversa, sarà un giorno di RESISTENZA.
China Wall has formed along a major fault known as the Pilgrim Fault. The Mount Philp Breccia crosses 2km into the China Wall track from Ballara, which consists of fragments of metadolerite and some calcsilicate rocks in a matrix of albite (sodium feldspar) hornblende, and megnetite. It may have been produced by the mixing of two differing types of magma during either the Wonga or Williams events. It can be seen in some low cuttings.
Roundabout 4.7km into the China Wall track from Ballara is a creek crossing, about 250m upstream rocks seen in the creek bed are dark grey calcsilicates of the Corella Formation, but not far on these rocks are intruded by pink finegrained rock composed of pink feldspar and subordinate hornblende, which contains numerous fragments of dark-green to black metadolerite and some calc-silicates. This is the Mount Philp Breccia. Farther on a cream coarse-grained rock in the southern bank is a pegmatite that seems to have intruded the breccia. Calc-silicates again outcrop farther upstream but are also cut by dykes of the breccia.
China Wall itself becomes visible after a further 1.8km. It is another narrow ridge of quartz filling a major fault, and is about 400m long, up to 20m high and only about 1m wide in some places. The Pilgrim Fault has been active over a long period of time from the Proterozoic until at least the Cambrian. Here is separates the Corella Formation on the west from the Overhand Jaspilite on the east. The latter is starkly evident as large black outcrops of manganese-stained siltstone.
Source: Rocks and Landscapes of Northwest Queensland by Laurie Hutton and Ian Withnall.
Innenfassade Oper Oslo, Erinnerungen an bizarre Eisstrukturen; eine komplexe Gestaltung Innen als auch Außen.
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Rolleiflex SL 66E, Carl Zeiss Planar 1:2,8/80 mm HFT, Fujifilm Velvia 50, Scan vom Dia
Es curioso ver como todos los dÃas cuando vas a fotografiar te encuentras con las mismas personas, los que pescan, pasean, corren, los ciclistas y este señor que todas las mañanas hacÃa lo mismo buscaba conchas....
Funny how every day when you're going to photograph the same people, those who fish, walk, run, cyclists and the man who every morning looking for shells did the same thing ....
Happy Easter
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