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In the misty winter dusk the front lights of a ÖBB "Taurus" class 1116 appear in the darkness of the Polleroswand Tunnel, before traversing the adjacent Krauselklause Viaduct at Breitenstein on the "Semmering" mountain railway ... Feb. 2013
Strobist info: Frontlight from open rooftop. Bare 580EX11 below on camera right as backlight and to lighten background. Fired by Pock Wizard. 16mm - 35mm L
View of the central chimneys and roof windows of the Château de Chambord, Chambord, Loire Valley, France
Some background information:
The Château de Chambord is a large palace, which is located in the Loire Valley in the village of Chambord. The palace is situated in the department of Loir-et-Cher between the cities of Tours to the west and Orléans to the east, just 15 km (9 miles) to the northeast of the town of Blois. It is one of the most recognisable châteaux in the world because of its very distinctive French Renaissance architecture which blends traditional French medieval forms with classical Renaissance structures. The building, which was never completed, was constructed by King Francis I of France.
Chambord is the largest château in the Loire Valley. It was built to serve as a hunting lodge for Francis I, who maintained his royal residences at the palaces of Blois and Amboise. The original design of the Château de Chambord is attributed, though with some doubt, to Domenico da Cortona, but there is some evidence that Leonardo da Vinci was also involved. Archeological findings have established that the lack of symmetry of some facades derives from an original design, abandoned shortly after the construction began, and which ground plan was organised around the central staircase following a central gyratory symmetry. Such a rotative design has no equivalent in architecture at this period of history, and appears reminiscent of Leonardo Da Vinci's works on the hydraulic turbine and the helicopter.
On 6th September 1519 Francis Pombriant was ordered to begin construction of the Château de Chambord, but work was interrupted by the Italian War that lasted from 1521 to 1526. Building resumed in 1526, at which point 1,800 men were employed to continue the construction works. In 1540, the main building was completed. The château was built to act as a hunting lodge for King Francis I. However, the king spent barely seven weeks there in total, that time consisting of short hunting visits. But the palace was not only a huge hunting château for Francis I, but also – more importantly – an enormous symbol of wealth and power and hence, a property to show off with. To this effect the king hosted his old archrival, Emperor Charles V, at Chambord in 1539, although the monumental mansion wasn’t even fully completed at that time.
As the palace had been constructed with the purpose of only short stays, it was not practical to live in on a longer-term basis. The massive rooms, open windows and high ceilings meant that heating was almost impossible. As a result, the château was completely unfurnished during this period. All furniture, wall coverings, eating implements and so forth were brought specifically for each hunting trip, which was a major logistical exercise. It is for this reason that much furniture from the era was built to be disassembled to facilitate transportation. After Francis had died of a heart attack in 1547, the Château de Chambord was not used for almost a century.
For more than 80 years after the death of King Francis I, French kings abandoned the château, allowing it to fall into decay. Finally, in 1639 King Louis XIII gave it to his brother, Gaston d'Orléans, who saved the château from ruin by carrying out much restoration work. King Louis XIV had the great keep restored and furnished the royal apartments. The king then added a 1,200-horse stable, enabling him to use the château as a hunting lodge and a place to entertain a few weeks each year. Nonetheless, Louis XIV abandoned the château in 1685. From 1725 to 1733, Stanislas Leszczyński (Stanislas I), the deposed King of Poland and father-in-law of King Louis XV, lived at Chambord. In 1745, as a reward for valour, the king gave the château to Maurice de Saxe, Marshal of France, who installed his military regiment there. Maurice de Saxe died in 1750 and once again the colossal château sat empty for many years.
In 1792, the revolutionary government ordered the sale of the furnishings. The wall panellings were removed and even floors were taken up and sold for the value of their timber. One more time the empty château was left abandoned until Napoleon Bonaparte gave it to his subordinate, Louis Alexandre Berthier. The château was subsequently purchased from his widow for the infant Duke of Bordeaux, Henri Charles Dieudonné, who took the title Comte de Chambord. A brief attempt at restoration and occupation was made by his grandfather King Charles X but in 1830 both were exiled. After the Comte de Chambord had died in 1883, the château was left to his sister's heirs, the titular Dukes of Parma. And since 1930, the Château and its surrounding areas, some 5,440 hectares (13,400 acres resp. 21.0 sqare miles) as vast as inner Paris, belong to the French state.
Some more words about the architecture:
Built in Renaissance style, the internal layout of the Château de Chambord is an early example of the French and Italian style of grouping rooms into self-contained suites, a departure from the medieval style of corridor rooms. The massive château is composed of a central keep with four immense bastion towers at the corners. The keep also forms part of the front wall of a larger compound with two more large towers. Bases for a possible further two towers are found at the rear, but these were never developed, and remain the same height as the wall. The château features 440 rooms, 282 fireplaces, 84 staircases and more than 200 chimneys. Four rectangular vaulted hallways on each floor form a cross-shape.
The château was never intended to provide any form of defence from enemies; consequently the walls, towers and partial moat are decorative, and even at the time were an anachronism. The roofscape of Chambord contrasts with the masses of its masonry and has often been compared with the skyline of a town. It shows eleven kinds of towers and three types of chimneys, without symmetry, framed at the corners by the massive towers. The design parallels are north Italian and Leonardesque. One of the architectural highlights is the spectacular open double-spiral staircase that is the centrepiece of the château. The two spirals ascend the three floors without ever meeting, illuminated from above by a sort of light house at the highest point of the château.
The château also features 128 metres of façade, more than 800 sculpted columns and an elaborately decorated roof. When Francis I commissioned the construction of Chambord, he wanted it to look like the skyline of Constantinople. The palace is surrounded by a 52.5-square-kilometre (13,000-acre) wooded park and game reserve maintained with red deer, enclosed by a 31-kilometre (19-mile) wall.
The design and architecture of the château inspired William Henry Crossland for his design of what is known as the Founder's building at Royal Holloway, University of London. But Château de Chambord’s architecture also influenced the architecture of other well-known buildings like Fettes College in Edinburgh, Scotland, Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire, England, and Schwerin Palace in Schwerin, Germany. The Château de Chambord is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1981 and belongs to the much larger UNESCO Word Heritage Site "The Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes" with its many breathtaking châteaux since 2000.
Galway Cathedral seen from the Salmon Weir Bridge, Galway City, County Galway, Ireland
Some background information:
The Cathedral of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven and St Nicholas, commonly known as Galway Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the Irish city of Galway. It is not as old as it perhaps looks like: Construction began in 1958 on the site of the old city prison. It was completed in 1965, lending it the designation of being "the last great stone cathedral to be built in Europe".
Around 1750, a parish chapel was built around 1750 on Middle Street at Lower Abbeygate Street. In 1821 the chapel was replaced with a limestone church built in the Gothic style, and dedicated to St. Patrick. When the Diocese of Galway was established in 1831, St. Patrick's became the pro-cathedral. But after the new cathedral was opened in 1965, St. Patrick's Church was deconsecrated.
Galway is a city in the West of Ireland, in the province of Connacht, one of the four historic provinces of Ireland. It is also the county town of County Galway. Galway City lies on the River Corrib between Lough Corrib and Galway Bay. With a population of roughly 86,000, it is the most populous settlement in Connacht, the fifth most populous city on the island of Ireland and the fourth most populous in the Republic of Ireland.
Erected on the site of an earlier settlement and a then little fishing village, a castle was completed on the spot in 1124. Its name was Dún Gaillimhe ("Fort at the Mouth of the Gaillimh") and it was built by the King of Connacht and High King of Ireland Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair.
The castle served as a naval base from which his fleet operated. Subsequently, the settlement grew around it. During the Norman invasion of Connacht in the 1230s, Dún Gaillimhe was captured by Richard Mor de Burgh, who had led the invasion. As the de Burghs eventually became gaelicised, the merchants of the town, the so-called Tribes of Galway, pushed for greater control over the already walled town. This led to their gaining complete control over the city.
The Tribes of Galway were an oligarchy of fourteen merchant families (twelve who claimed to be of Norman origin and two of Irish origin), who ruled the town during the Middle Ages. In 1477 Christopher Columbus visited Galway, possibly stopping off on a voyage to Iceland or the Faroe Islands. In 1484, the town was granted a municipal charter, which allowed the citizens to form a council and mayoralty. Still comtrolled the Tribes of Galway, the city grew into a trading port and became the principal Irish port for trade with Spain and France.
However, Galway endured difficult relations with its Irish neighbours. A notice over the west gate of the city, completed in 1562 by Mayor Thomas Óge Martyn, stated "From the Ferocious O'Flahertys may God protect us". A by-law forbade the native Irish (as opposed to Galway's Hiberno-Norman citizens) unrestricted access into Galway, saying "neither O' nor Mac shall strutte nor swagger through the streets of Galway" without permission.
During the 16th and 17th centuries, Galway remained loyal to the English crown for the most part, even during the Gaelic resurgence, perhaps for reasons of survival. However, by 1642 the city had allied itself with the Catholic Confederation of Kilkenny in the course of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. During the resulting Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, Cromwellian forces captured the city after a nine-month siege.
At the end of the 17th century, the city supported the Jacobites in the Williamite war in Ireland. Galway was captured by the Williamites following a very short siege not long after the Battle of Aughrim in 1691. Subsequently, the great families of Galway were ruined and later, under the Great Famine of 1845 to 1852, the city suffered even further.
In the upheaval in Ireland from 1916 to 1923 Galway City played a relatively minor role. Before the outbreak of the Irish Civil War, in March 1922, Galway saw a tense stand off between Pro-Treaty and Anti-Treaty troops over who would occupy the military barracks at Renmore. After fighting broke out in July 1922 the city and its military barracks were occupied by troops of the Irish Free State's National Army. Two Free State soldiers and one Anti-Treaty fighter were killed and more wounded before the National Army secured the area. The Republicans burned a number of public buildings in the centre of town before they abandoned Galway.
Today, Galway has a strong local economy with complementary business sectors, including manufacturing industry, tourism, retail and distribution, education, healthcare and services that include financial, construction, cultural, and professional. But Galway is also a renowned university city. There are two university campuses located in the city, the University of Galway and the Atlantic Technological University, and the city is popular among students from home and abroad.
Buntspecht 2014 № 14
Belichtung: 1/320 sec.
Blende: ƒ6,3
Empfindlichkeit: ISO 1000
Brennweite: 750 mm
Distanz: 2,66 m
Stativ: Einbein
Chip: DX Format
Ausschnitt: allseitig
Seitenverhältnis: 5:2
NJ Pinebarrens.
Sunrise can be a slippery subject, photographically that is. More often than not I find myself fighting the backlight in an effort to retain highlights and contrast. Many times after an undesirable result I'll lecture myself aloud, "You should have turned around and captured the frontlight."
The advice of simply "turning around" is sound, if not too often ignored. I'd like to say that is why I took this image - that is that I listened to the advice - but, it was not. Rather, I wanted to capture the foggy landscape with my camera, because lord knows I can never articulate the beauty of it in words.
Mornings like this I feel like I am on the floor of some grand aquarium - be it atop the food chain and without predators, natural or otherwise - soaking in the beauty of my surroundings. In my mind's eye I want to remember these moments as they were, but in the event that my mind fails me, I have this to remind me of the still spring air, cool mist and the sounds of the spring forest.
Would this be more compelling if there were a mountain, waterfall or man-eating unicorns? Sure, I suppose. In the meantime, this is what I have.
Best in Lightbox.
Olympus E-3
ZD 7-14mm f/4 ED
Aperture Priority Mode
f/8
ISO 100
7mm
1/250
Metering: Spot
White Balance: Cloudy
No Photoshop
No HDR
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Dieppe-based Alpine, once an independent company specialising in faster Renaults, later a Renault subsidiary, established a fine competition history with the Alpine A110 winning the 1973 Monte Carlo Rally and World Rally Championship. The successor was the Alpine A310, initially powered by tuned 17TS/Gordini four-cylinder engine, still rear-mounted. The maximum power reaching 127 PS (93 kW; 125 hp), thanks to the use of 2 twin-barrel 45 DCOE Weber carburetors.
The first model of the A310, built 1971-1976, was a car with a four-cylinder engine and six frontlights. In 1976 the A310 was restyled by Robert Opron and fitted with the more powerful and newly developed 90-degree 2,664 cc V6 PRV engine, as used in some Renaults, Volvos and Peugeots.
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hehe strobist 1/4 canon 580ex2 octabox from right for bit frontlight , canon 40d+ ef 50mm f1.8 ( i dont like and dont use it must bought 85mm f1.8) triggered by PW edited in aperture ( curves)
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This is a scale model of the Aston Martin DB11. It has the folowing features:
- Independent suspension on all wheels
- Steering with functional steeringwheel and HoG in the back
- Swiveling frontlights (right lamp turns right when steering right, left light turns left when steering left)
- LED lights front and rear
- Sequential gearbox operated with paddles next to the steering wheel and HoG in the rear. It is an 8D+N+R gearbox (ie eight speeds forward, one reverse and one neutral).
- Highly detailed V12 fake engine
- Adjustable front chairs (forward, backward and tilting backrest)
- Aerobrake in the back coupled to the gearbox
- Opening doors, bonnet and tail
Instructions are available at
Colorful lighting in the Guler Ice Cave, Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Washington.
After making some images from this infrequently visited spot last year which were not terribly well received, it was back to the drawing board to figure out what was missing. We made some observations:
* While the cave was well lit in last year's experiment, the light didn't do much to the scene other than light it. It was flat. Colorless. Perhaps even a bit harsh. Just plain boring.
* This cave is hardly iconic or recognizable, thus one needs to work MUCH harder to make a compelling image. I've discovered there are good reasons why iconic locations are iconic. They just work. Easily. And the chances that you or I will find a yet undiscovered iconic location are pretty close to slim and none.
* Honestly, most cave pictures kind of stink.
* Most caves feature colored lighting.
* This cave lacks colored lighting. Or any lighting at all, for that matter.
* Ice formations transmit backlighting nicely, allowing us to backlight and frontlight with different colors and get some interesting effects.
So this time, John and I headed back, armed with three flash units, an assortment of flashlights and headlamps, and an even larger assortment of colored flash gels.
I guess you can let us know if this is any more compelling than last year. We can take constructive criticism. This was very much a combined effort which could not be pulled off with just one person. Actually, we really needed a third person. Oh well.
One note, the comps here can be a bit limited. We concluded this one was likely the best one due to all of the ground formations which were not present in such quantities deeper in. Hence the same comp as last year. And we both have similar comps this year as it is difficult enough to keep the lighting out of one camera, let alone two! There were only so many places for me to hide in the dark.
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