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Shot across Hwy 401. The steam plumes in the background are from the plant of "Ingredion Canada Incorporated" and closer, just behind the highway is the "Petro-Pass Truck Stop".
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The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation was incorporated in 1993 to facilitate the merger of Burlington Northern, Incorporated, parent of the Burlington Northern Railroad, and Santa Fe Pacific Corporation, which owned the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (Santa Fe). The corporate merger was consummated on September 22, 1995, at which point shareholders of the previous companies became shareholders of BNSF and the two companies became wholly owned subsidiaries of BNSF. In December 1996, the two holding companies and two railroads were formally merged, and in January 1998 the remaining intermediate holding company was folded into the railroad.
Robert D. Krebs of Santa Fe Pacific was president of BNSF from the merger until 1999, chief executive from the merger until 2000, and chairman from 1997 until 2002. He was succeeded in all three positions by Matthew K. Rose.
On November 3, 2009, Berkshire Hathaway made a $26 billion offer to buy the remaining 77.4% of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation it did not already own, valuing the purchase at $34 billion. The deal, which including Berkshire's previous investment and the assumption of $10 billion in Burlington Northern debt brings the total value to $44 billion. Consummated February 12, 2010, it is the largest acquisition in Berkshire Hathaway's history.
The deal was structured so that the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation would merge with and into R Acquisition Company, LLC, an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway. The deal closed on February 12, 2010, and at the same time, the now merged company changed its name to Burlington Northern Santa Fe, LLC that remains an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway.
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Temple Concord's roots reach back over one hundred years to the first Jewish organization in this area. The original Jewish settlers in Binghamton organized the Hebrew Benevolent Society, founded in 1862. Subsequently, they created a number of Jewish organizations and religious societies. Temple Concord was incorporated in November, 1950, and in February 1951 regular services were instituted in the Kilmer Mansion. The historic mansion now houses our Hebrew and Judaic schools as well as a library.
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The Canadian Pacific Railway, known as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996 and simply Canadian Pacific, is a historic Canadian Class I railway incorporated in 1881. The railway is owned by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, which began operations as legal owner in a corporate restructuring in 2001
Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, it owns approximately 20,100 kilometres (12,500 mi) of track in six provinces of Canada and into the United States, stretching from Montreal to Vancouver, and as far north as Edmonton. Its rail network also serves Minneapolis–St. Paul, Milwaukee, Detroit, Chicago, and Albany, New York in the United States.
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This section of the track is shared with the West Coast Express Commuter train, that carries riders between Vancouver and Mission, BC
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Believe it or not this hand made mug has a very comfortable handle with a thumb rest incorporated into it.
"It's a beautiful day, well it seems as such
Beautiful thoughts means I dream too much..."
Blue Lines is the debut studio album by the English music group Massive Attack, released on 8 April 1991.
It featured breakbeats, sampling, and rapping on a number of tracks, but the design of the album differed from traditional hip hop. Massive Attack approached the American-born hip hop movement from an underground British perspective and also incorporated live instruments into the mixes.
Blue Lines is generally considered the first trip hop album, although the term was not widely used before 1994. A fusion of electronic music, hip hop, dub, 1970's soul and reggae, it established Massive Attack as one of the most innovative British bands of the 1990s and the founder of trip hop's Bristol Sound. Music critic Simon Reynolds stated that the album also marked a change in electronic/dance music, "a shift toward a more interior, meditational sound. The songs on Blue Lines run at 'spliff' tempos – from a mellow, moonwalking 90 beats per minute ... down to a positively torpid 67 bpm. (From Wikipedia)
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Vasarely always incorporated into his art the latest scientific findings from physics, as far as color theory was concerned, geometry and the space-time relation and, of course, how to create optical illusions by diffraction of geometric bodies ...
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Vasarely a toujours intégré dans son art les dernières découvertes scientifiques en physique, en ce qui concerne la théorie des couleurs, la géométrie et la relation espace-temps, et bien sûr la manière dont on peut créer des illusions d'optique par la diffraction de corps géométriques ...
Vasarely hat in seine Kunst immer die neuesten wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse aus der Physik aufgenommen, was die Farblehre anging, die Geometrie und die Raum-Zeit-Relation und natürlich, wie man durch Beugung geometrischer Körper optische Täuschungen erzeugen kann ...
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Incorporated in 1907, the City of Toppenish is located in Central Washington and is situated about 20 miles southeast of the City of Yakima. The City covers approximately two square miles and has a population of 9,000 residents.
The City of Toppenish has preserved its beginnings as a rugged western town through restoration and beautification efforts that make it a popular tourist attraction today. At the heart of the City and its beautification are over 70 outdoor, historical murals. They tell the story of early development of the City of Toppenish, and its rich history and cultural diversity.
The village was incorporated in 1848.
At around 11:00 pm on September 23, 1916, Phoenix was nearly completely devastated by a fire that destroyed most of the business district, killing 1 person. The fire knocked out use of the fire fighting pumps that the village relied on. The fire lasted until early morning of the 24th.
Oswego Canal Lock 1 is located beside Culvert Street, off Main Street (County Road 57). It was built around 1911, and has a lift of 10.2 ft (3.11 m) to the south.[4] Just north of the canal lock is a heel trunnion single-leaf bascule bridge carrying Culvert Street which raises up when the downstream gates of the lock are opened in order to provide adequate clearance for passing marine vessels
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view of Stari Most (Old Bridge) and Old Town from Lučki Most (Bridge)
Mostar is situated on the Neretva River and is the fifth-largest city in the country. Mostar was named after the bridge keepers (mostari) who guarded the Stari Most (Old Bridge) over the Neretva during the Ottoman era. The Old Bridge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, commissioned by Suleiman the Magnificent in the 16th century, is one of Bosnia and Herzegovina's most visited landmarks, and is considered an exemplary piece of Islamic architecture in the Balkans.
The oldest single arch stone bridge in Mostar, the Kriva Cuprija (""Sloping Bridge""), was built in 1558 by the Ottoman architect Cejvan Kethoda. It is said that this was to be a test before the major construction of the Stari Most began. The Old Bridge was completed in 1566 and was hailed as one of the greatest architectural achievement in the Ottoman controlled Balkans. This single-arch stone bridge is an exact replica of the original bridge that stood for over 400 years and that was designed by Hajrudin, a student of the great Ottoman architect Sinan. It spans 28.7 m (94 ft) of the Neretva river, 21 m (69 ft) above the summer water level. The Halebija and Tara towers have always housed the guardians of the bridge and during Ottoman times were also used as storehouses for ammunition. The arch is a perfect semicircle 8.56 m (28.1 ft) in width and 4.15 m (13.6 ft) in height. The frontage and vault are made of regular stone cubes incorporated into the horizontal layers all along the vault. The space between vault, frontal walls and footpath is filled with cracked stone. The bridge footpath and the approaching roads are paved with cobblestones, as is the case with the main roads in the town. Stone steps enable people to ascend to the bridge either side. During the armed conflict between Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats in the Bosnian War in the 1990s, the bridge was destroyed by the HVO (Croatian Defence Council).
Since the end of the wider war in 1995, great progress has been made in the reconstruction of the city of Mostar. Over 15 million dollars has been spent on restoration. A monumental project to rebuild the Old Bridge, which was destroyed during the Bosnian War, to the original design, and restore surrounding structures and historic neighbourhoods was initiated in 1999 and mostly completed by spring 2004. A grand opening was held on 23 July 2004. In July 2005, UNESCO inscribed the Old Bridge and its closest vicinity onto the World Heritage List.
In the Spring of 1998, a team of 440 Chinese artists and artisans from Suzhou constructed the garden. It opened in June of 1999. The five design elements of a Chinese Garden incorporated are water, plants, architecture, rocks and tracery windows.
Angkor Thom"Great City", located in present-day Cambodia, was the last and most enduring capital city of the Khmer empire. It was established in the late twelfth century by King Jayavarman VII.:378–382:170
It covers an area of 9 km², within which are located several monuments from earlier eras as well as those established by Jayavarman and his successors. At the centre of the city isJayavarman's state temple, the Bayon, with the other major sites clustered around the Victory Square immediately to the north.
Map of Central Angkor Thom
Angkor Thom was established as the capital of Jayavarman VII's empire, and was the centre of his massive building programme. One inscription found in the city refers to Jayavarman as the groom and the city as his bride.:121
Angkor Thom seems not to be the first Khmer capital on the site, however. Yasodharapura, dating from three centuries earlier, was centred slightly further northwest, and Angkor Thom overlapped parts of it. The most notable earlier temples within the city are the former state temple of Baphuon, and Phimeanakas, which was incorporated into the Royal Palace. The Khmers did not draw any clear distinctions between Angkor Thom and Yashodharapura: even in the fourteenth century an inscription used the earlier name.:138 The name of Angkor Thom—great city—was in use from the 16th century.
The last temple known to have been constructed in Angkor Thom was Mangalartha, which was dedicated in 1295. Thereafter the existing structures continued to be modified from time to time, but any new creations were in perishable materials and have not survived.
The Ayutthaya Kingdom, led by King Borommarachathirat II, sacked Angkor Thom, forcing the Khmers under Ponhea Yat to relocate their capital southeast.:29
Angkor Thom was abandoned some time prior to 1609, when an early western visitor wrote of an uninhabited city, "as fantastic as the Atlantis of Plato".:140 It is believed to have sustained a population of 80,000–150,000 people.
Ungheria, Budapest, Ponte Margherita, Primavera 2016
Il ponte Margherita o Margit hid è un ponte a tre vie a Budapest, in Ungheria, che collega Buda e Pest attraverso il Danubio.
Fu costruito tra il 1872 e il 1876. Questo è il secondo ponte permanente di Budapest dopo il ponte delle Catene. Il ponte conduce all’isola Margherita, con le sue due parti che la racchiudono a 165 gradi e la terza che si dirige verso l'isola. La ragione di questa insolita geometria è che la piccola estensione per la connessione alI’isola Margherita è stata frettolosamente inserita nel progetto originale, ma inizialmente non costruito a causa della mancanza di fondi. Nel Gennaio 1945, durante la seconda guerra mondiale, tutti i ponti di Budapest furono fatti saltare dalla Wehrmacht durante la loro ritirata verso il lato Buda della ormai circondata capitale. Durante la ricostruzione, gran parte del materiale in acciaio originale è stato ripescato dal fiume e reinserito nella struttura.
Margaret Bridge or Margit híd is a three-way bridge in Budapest, Hungary, connecting Buda and Pest across the Danube.
It was built between 1872 and 1876. Margaret Bridge is the second permanent bridge in Budapest after Széchenyi Chain Bridge. This bridge leads up to Margaret Island, its two parts enclosing 165 degrees with each other at the embranchment towards the island. The reason for this unusual geometry is that the small extension to connect to Margaret Island was hastily inserted into the original design but not built until two decades later due to lack of funds. All the bridges of Budapest were blown up by World War II Wehrmacht troops in January 1945 during their retreat to the Buda side of the surrounded capital. During reconstruction, much of the original steel material was lifted from the river and incorporated into the rebuilt structure.
The village was incorporated in 1848.
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At around 11:00 pm on September 23, 1916, Phoenix was nearly completely devastated by a fire that destroyed most of the business district, killing 1 person. The fire knocked out use of the fire fighting pumps that the village relied on. The fire lasted until early morning of the 24th.
Oswego Canal Lock 1 is located beside Culvert Street, off Main Street (County Road 57). It was built around 1911, and has a lift of 10.2 ft (3.11 m) to the south.[4] Just north of the canal lock is a heel trunnion single-leaf bascule bridge carrying Culvert Street which raises up when the downstream gates of the lock are opened in order to provide adequate clearance for passing 214
1950 Crosley Type Hotshot Series VC (July 1949-July 1952) Model Roadster
- longitudinal beams with crossbars chassis and separate aluminum body
- 724cc straight-4 OHC engine (by CIBA)
- 3-speed manual gearbox
- Tillotson DY-9C single downdraft carburetor
- power 26.5 bhp / 5.200 rpm
- torque 45.4 Nm / 3.000 rpm
- curb weight 540 kg
- top speed 120 km/h
- 1,494 units assembled (1949-1952)
Sometimes you just have to get out and push… A rare 1912 650cc AC Sociable Tricar, BP 383, at the Pre-war Prescott event for vehicles built before World War II on 11th September 2021.
AC Cars, originally incorporated as Auto Carriers Ltd., is a British specialist automobile manufacturer and one of the oldest independent car makers founded in Britain. The company was renamed or liquidated a number of times until its present form.
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(My dog Hannah, sitting on the shore of an inlet on Merritt Island, quite interested in what was swimming just out of her reach)
Hokusai incorporated by reference.
This is the last of the Mt. Assiniboine helicopter series. It sacrifices the little patch of blue sky, but otherwise the greyscale version is faithful to the original.
Happy Mono Monday!
You can see here on the rock floor the tessellated pattern that the sculptors incorporated into "Stratose". The most famous example of this in Tasmania is the Tessellated Pavement at Eaglehawk Neck. www.atlasobscura.com/places/eaglehawk-neck-tessellated-pa...
The pattern of lines is so regular that it appears strange it would occur in nature - which in most cases avoids straight lines. But there is a simple geological reason for these patterns. The cobble stone appearance we see here was caused a long time ago when the Great Western Tiers was a massive area of volcanic activity.
Essentially what happened was that the basaltic lava cooled and then fractured along these lines. Unlike the more famous Tessellated Pavement (see the link above) that shows in some cases deep erosion of what is called the sedimentary layer, these fracture lines have been smoothed out over the years by the steady flow of water in the stream.
More Livingston, Montana Architecture.
On December 21, 1882, Livingston was incorporated and named in honor of Johnston Livingston, pioneer Northern Pacific Railway stockholder, director and friend of Northern Pacific Railroad President Henry Villard. Johnston Livingston was director from 1875 to 1881 and 1884–1887. Crawford Livingston Jr., Johnston's nephew, is more commonly considered the town's namesake. Crawford bought the real estate after the survey and on July 17, 1883, established the First National Bank in the city. Often he spoke of Livingston as "his town," and he apparently enjoyed the publicity of supposedly having a city named for him. But the name Livingston has always stood out in the Northern Pacific official family.[5]
Livingston is along the Yellowstone River where it bends from north to east toward Billings and in proximity to Interstate 90. In July 1806 Captain William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition camped on the city's present outskirts on the return trip east preparing to descend the Yellowstone River. Clark's party rejoined the Lewis party at the confluence with the Missouri River, near Williston, North Dakota.
Although small, Livingston has a number of popular tourist attractions. The Livingston Depot, built in 1902 after two predecessors, is a restored rail station that houses a railroad museum open from May to September. The Yellowstone Gateway Museum documents regional history from one of the oldest North American archaeological sites to Wild Western and Yellowstone history. The International Fly Fishing Federation's museum is an extensive introduction to a popular game sport and hosts annual enthusiast meetings. The city was inhabited for two decades by Calamity Jane and visited by a number of traveling members of European royalty.
In 1938, Dan Bailey, an eastern fly-fisherman, established Dan Bailey's Fly Shop and mail order fly tying business on Park Street.[6] Also in Livingston is the Fly Fishing Discovery Center, a museum operated by the Federation of Fly Fishers.[7] Actors Peter Fonda and Margot Kidder, Saturday Night Live alumnus Rich Hall, musician Ron Strykert, novelist Walter Kirn, and poet Jim Harrison have lived in the city. Jimmy Buffett mentions Livingston in multiple songs.
Its economy is flat, and like the rest of the state, the unemployment rate is below the national average. Almost 50% of its workforce commutes to Bozeman,[citation needed] as well as the destination resort Chico Hot Springs 25 miles south, and various campsites and ranches in Paradise Valley. Recently the city has invested in attractions and accommodation for tourists visiting during the Lewis and Clark bicentennial years.
Livingston and its immediately adjacent area has 17 sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places, enumerated within Park County's NRHP listings.
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Elements of a triple-apse Byzantine basilica were uncovered by archaeologists in the 1930s, and have been incorporated into the structure of the modern church building, known as the Memorial Church of Moses. The church design follows a typical basilica pattern. The previous building was taken down to re-construct the basilica, the renovations started circa 2008 CE and finalized in 2019 CE.
The Diakonikon Baptistery inside the rebuilt basilica houses several remains of antique mosaics but the masterpiece is a hunting and herding scene interspersed with an assortment of African fauna, including a zebu (humped ox), lions, tigers, bears, boars, zebras, an ostrich on a leash and a camel-shaped giraffe. The modern chapel presbytery, built to protect the site and provide worship space, remnants of of mosaic floors from different periods can be seen.
In August 2007, I found Vintage Locomotives, Inc. (VILX) Alco RS3 512 sitting at the Southern Appalachia Railway Museum in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She was built as Reading Railroad (RDG) 495 in 1952, to United Railway Supply Co.(URS) 495, to the rather wordy Oglebay Norton Industrial Sands Incorporated (ONSX) 512.
Morristown, incorporated in 1865 is the county seat of Morris County, New Jersey. Print Size 13x19 inches.
The area that was to become West Palm Beach was settled in the late 1870s and 1880s by a few hundred settlers who called the vicinity "Lake Worth Country." These settlers were a diverse community from different parts of the United States and the world. They included founding families such at the Potters and the Lainharts, who would go on to become leading members of the business community in the fledgling city. The first white settlers in Palm Beach County lived around Lake Worth, then an enclosed freshwater lake, named for Colonel William Jenkins Worth, who had fought in the Second Seminole War in Florida in 1842. Most settlers engaged in the growing of tropical fruits and vegetables for shipment the north via Lake Worth and the Indian River. By 1890, the U.S. Census counted over 200 people settled along Lake Worth in the vicinity of what would become West Palm Beach. The area at this time also boasted a hotel, the "Cocoanut House", a church, and a post office. The city was platted by Henry Flagler as a community to house the servants working in the two grand hotels on the neighboring island of Palm Beach, across Lake Worth in 1893, coinciding with the arrival of the Florida East Coast railroad. Flagler paid two area settlers, Captain Porter and Louie Hillhouse, a combined sum of $45,000 for the original town site, stretching from Clear Lake to Lake Worth.
On November 5, 1894, 78 people met at the "Calaboose" (the first jail and police station located at Clematis St. and Poinsettia, now Dixie Hwy.) and passed the motion to incorporate the Town of West Palm Beach in what was then Dade County (now Miami-Dade County). This made West Palm Beach the first incorporated municipality in Dade County and in South Florida. The town council quickly addressed the building codes and the tents and shanties were replaced by brick, brick veneer, and stone buildings. The city grew steadily during the 1890s and the first two decades of the 20th century, most residents were engaged in the tourist industry and related services or winter vegetable market and tropical fruit trade. In 1909, Palm Beach County was formed by the Florida State Legislature and West Palm Beach became the county seat. In 1916, a new neo-classical courthouse was opened, which has been painstakingly restored back to its original condition, and is now used as the local history museum.
The city grew rapidly in the 1920s as part of the Florida land boom. The population of West Palm Beach quadrupled from 1920 to 1927, and all kinds of businesses and public services grew along with it. Many of the city's landmark structures and preserved neighborhoods were constructed during this period. Originally, Flagler intended for his Florida East Coast Railway to have its terminus in West Palm, but after the area experienced a deep freeze, he chose to extend the railroad to Miami instead.
The land boom was already faltering when city was devastated by the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane. The Depression years of the 1930s were a quiet time for the area, which saw slight population growth and property values lower than during the 1920s. The city only recovered with the onset of World War II, which saw the construction of Palm Beach Air Force Base, which brought thousands of military personnel to the city. The base was vital to the allied war effort, as it provided an excellent training facility and had unparalleled access to North Africa for a North American city. Also during World War II, German U-Boats sank dozens of merchant ships and oil tankers just off the coast of West Palm Beach. Nearby Palm Beach was under black out conditions to minimize night visibility to German U-boats.
The 1950s saw another boom in population, partly due to the return of many soldiers and airmen who had served in the vicinity during the war. Also, the advent of air conditioning encouraged growth, as year-round living in a tropical climate became more acceptable to northerners. West Palm Beach became the one of the nation's fastest growing metropolitan areas during the 1950s; the city's borders spread west of Military Trail and south to Lake Clarke Shores. However, many of the city's residents still lived within a narrow six-block wide strip from the south to north end. The neighborhoods were strictly segregated between White and African-American populations, a legacy that the city still struggles with today. The primary shopping district remained downtown, centered around Clematis Street.
In the 1960s, Palm Beach County's first enclosed shopping mall, the Palm Beach Mall, and an indoor arena were completed. These projects led to a brief revival for the city, but in the 1970s and 1980s crime continued to be a serious issue and suburban sprawl continued to drain resources and business away from the old downtown area. By the early 1990s there were very high vacancy rates downtown, and serious levels of urban blight.
Since the 1990s, developments such as CityPlace and the preservation and renovation of 1920s architecture in the nightlife hub of Clematis Street have seen a downtown resurgence in the entertainment and shopping district. The city has also placed emphasis on neighborhood development and revitalization, in historic districts such as Northwood, Flamingo Park, and El Cid. Some neighborhoods still struggle with blight and crime, as well as lowered property values caused by the Great Recession, which hit the region particularly hard. Since the recovery, multiple new developments have been completed. The Palm Beach Mall, located at the Interstate 95/Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard interchange became abandoned as downtown revitalized - the very mall that initiated the original abandonment of the downtown. The mall was then redeveloped into the Palm Beach Fashion Outlets in February 2014. A station for All Aboard Florida, a high-speed passenger rail service serving Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, and Orlando, is under construction as of July 2015.
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Lodi is a city of roughly 70,000 in the northern part of California’s Central Valley. The company I work for owns vineyards and a large wine bottling and distribution plant there, so I have reason to take the hour-long drive east to visit from time to time.
Lodi was settled by pioneers in the 1850’s and incorporated into a city in 1906. In 2006 there was a big celebration on its 100th birthday. One event with lasting impact was the work of 100 Walldogs painting 11 murals commemorating the town’s history. My collage of Lodi scenes includes one of those murals, sponsored by General Mills who operated a plant there at the time. The plant has since closed, but the mural remains. I’ve also included a shot of the town’s water tower with its homage to the centennial.
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Entered in the Kreative People Painterly Art February Contest.
Come see Spotlight Your Best where the February 2020 theme is “Urban Color.”
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This same picture I already incorporated to my gallery about a year ago and it was the first one that I published when I returned from my summer vacation in this area.
But this is at night and it is completely different although the buildings and the river are the same. For me it was very easy, because although I lacked a tripod, I could support the camera on the sill window of my room and shoot the times I wanted to achieve the final.
Strasbourg is crossed by number of rivers, tributaries and channels, so I do not know if this is the Rhine or any of the tributaries that come together in the same city.
This part of the city they call "la petite France" is beautiful and I was fortunate to be staying in the same center. Pure bliss.
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Esta misma fotografia ya la incorporé a mi galeria hace cerca de un año y fue la primera que publiqué al regreso de mis vacaciones veraniegas por esta zona.
Pero esta es de noche y es completamente distinta aunque los edificios y el rio, sean los mismos. Para mi fue muy facil, pues aunque carecia de tripode, pude apoyar la camara en al alfeizar de la ventana de mi habitación y disparar las veces que quise hasta lograr la definitiva.
Estrasburgo está cruzada por cantidad de rios, afluentes y canales, por lo que ignoro si este es el Rhin o cualquiera de los afluentes que confluyen en la misma ciudad.
Esta parte de la ciudad que llaman "la petite France" es preciosa y tuve la fortuna de estar alojado en su mismo centro. Una gozada.
Portmeirion Village, which was designed and built by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis between 1925 and 1975 in the style of an Italian village. In Gwynedd, North Wales.
Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, Portmeirion's designer, denied repeated claims that the design was based on the town of Portofino, Italy. He stated only that he wanted to pay tribute to the atmosphere of the Mediterranean. He incorporated fragments of demolished buildings, including works by several other architects. Portmeirion's architectural bricolage and deliberately fanciful nostalgia have been noted as an influence on the development of postmodernism in architecture in the late 20th century.
The main building of the hotel and the cottages "White Horses", "Mermaid", and "The Salutation" had been a private estate called Aber Iâ, developed in the 1850s on the site of a late 18th Century foundry and boatyard. Williams-Ellis changed the name (which he had interpreted as "frozen mouth") to Portmeirion: "Port-" from its place on the coast; "-meirion" from the county of Merioneth (Meirionydd) in which it was sited. The very minor remains of a mediaeval castle (known variously as Castell Deudraeth, Castell Gwain Goch and Castell Aber Iâ) are in the woods just outside the village.
In 1931 Williams-Ellis bought from his uncle, Sir Osmund Williams, the Victorian crenellated mansion Castell Deudraeth with the intention of incorporating it into the Portmeirion hotel complex, but the intervention of the war and other problems prevented this. Williams-Ellis had always considered the Castell to be “the largest and most imposing single building on the Portmeirion Estate" and sought ways to incorporate it. Eventually, with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the European Regional Development Fund as well as the Wales Tourist Board, his original aims were achieved and Castell Deudraeth was opened as an 11-bedroom hotel and restaurant.
The grounds contain an important collection of rhododendrons and other exotic plants in a wild-garden setting, which was begun before Williams-Ellis's time by the previous owner George Henry Caton Haigh and has continued to be developed since Williams-Ellis's death.
Portmeirion is now owned by a charitable trust, and has always been run as a hotel, which uses most of the buildings as hotel rooms or self-catering cottages, together with shops, a cafe, tea-room, and restaurant. Portmeirion is today a top tourist attraction in North Wales and day visits can be made on payment of an admission charge.
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Ellsworth, incorporated in 1800 and first known as the Union River Settlement is the county seat of Hancock County. It is situated on U.S. Route 1 about 20 miles from Bar Harbor Maine and close to Acadia National Park. Print Size 13x19 inches. HWW.
Sporting a wing-mounted store, (and a slight dent in her tip tank), Flight Systems Incorporated's Lockheed T-33AN Shooting Star N305FS parked at Mojave, California in 1996
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It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Oscar Wilde.
Last of the series but not the least. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did making them. Thank you all for your kind thoughts.
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was a prolific Irish writer who wrote plays, fiction, essays, and poetry. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.
Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish, Dublin intellectuals. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university, Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.
As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art", and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversation, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French in Paris but it was refused a licence for England due to the absolute prohibition of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London. Source Wikipedia.
Vasarely always incorporated into his art the latest scientific findings from physics, as far as color theory was concerned, geometry and the space-time relation and, of course, how to create optical illusions by diffraction of geometric bodies ... through the dynamics of the pendulum he shows here in an impressive way how two bodies influence each other with their respective reflection of light ...
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Vasarely a toujours intégré dans son art les dernières découvertes scientifiques en physique, en ce qui concerne la théorie des couleurs, la géométrie et la relation espace-temps, et bien sûr la manière dont on peut créer des illusions d'optique par la diffraction de corps géométriques ... à travers la dynamique du pendule, il montre ici de manière impressionnante comment deux corps s'influencent avec leur réflexion respective de la lumière ...
Vasarely hat in seine Kunst immer die neuesten wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse aus der Physik aufgenommen, was die Farblehre anging, die Geometrie und die Raum-Zeit-Relation und natürlich, wie man durch Beugung geometrischer Körper optische Täuschungen erzeugen kann ... durch die Dynamik des Pendels zeigt er hier beiendruckend, wie sich zwei Körper mit ihrer jeweiligen Lichtreflexion beeinflussen ...
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The Cathedral Church of St Peter and St Wilfrid, commonly known as Ripon Cathedral, and until 1836 known as Ripon Minster, is a cathedral in Ripon, North Yorkshire, England. Founded as a monastery by monks of the Irish tradition in the 660s, it was refounded as a Benedictine monastery by St Wilfrid in 672. The church became collegiate in the tenth century, and acted as a mother church within the large Diocese of York for the remainder of the Middle Ages. The present church is the fourth, and was built between the 13th and 16th centuries. In 1836 the church became the cathedral for the Diocese of Ripon. In 2014 the Diocese was incorporated into the new Diocese of Leeds, and the church became one of three co-equal cathedrals of the Bishop of Leeds.
The cathedral is notable architecturally for its gothic west front in the Early English style, considered one of the best of its type, as well as the Geometric east window. The seventh-century crypt of Wilfrid's church is a significant example of early Christian architecture in England. The cathedral has Grade I listed building status. Wikipedia
Small marina in Muggia. Very nice place :)
Muggia is an Italian town in the region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia on the border with Slovenia. Lying on the eastern flank of the Gulf of Trieste, Muggia is the only Italian port town in Istria. The town's architecture is marked by its Venetian and Austrian history, and its harbour hosts a modern 500-berth marina for yachts (Porto San Rocco). Muggia originated as a prehistoric fortified village (castelliere), around 8th-7th century BC. The territory was conquered in 178–177 BC by the Romans, who created here a settlement. In 1420 it became part of the Republic of Venice and in 1797, Muggia became part of the Austrian Empire. After World War I and the dissolution of Austria-Hungary, the town was annexed to the Kingdom of Italy and incorporated into the Province of Trieste. Muggia provides many evident traces of its Venetian traditions and origin, as showed by the dialect, the gastronomic traditions, the gothic-venetian style of some houses, the loggias, the ogive arches, the ancient coats of arms on the façades but mostly the main square, a true Venetian "campiello".
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Miasteczko Muggia i niewielka przystań. Ładnie tam było :)
Muggia - miejscowość we Włoszech na półwyspie Istria, w regionie Friuli-Wenecja Julijska, w prowincji Triest. Jest jedynym włoskim miastem portowym na półwyspie Istria. W architekturze miasta dominują wpływy weneckie i austriackie, zaś w porcie znajduje się nowoczesna przystań dla jachtów z 500 miejscami postojowymi (Porto San Rocco). Muggia powstała jako prehistoryczna ufortyfikowana wioska (castelliere) około VIII-VII wieku p.n.e. Obszar ten został podbity w latach 178–177 p.n.e. przez Rzymian, którzy stworzyli tutaj osadę. W 1420 r. Muggia stała się częścią Republiki Weneckiej, a w 1797 r. weszła w skład Cesarstwa Austriackiego. Po I wojnie światowej i rozpadzie Austro-Węgier miasto zostało przyłączone do Królestwa Włoch i włączone do prowincji Triest. W Muggii można znaleźć wiele śladów weneckich tradycji i kultury, o czym świadczą dialekt, tradycje gastronomiczne, gotycko-wenecki styl niektórych domów, loggie, ostrołuki, starożytne herby na fasadach, ale przede wszystkim główny plac, prawdziwe weneckie „campiello”.
Even though I was standing far back, this owl has a turn-away from me incorporated at the outset of its takeoff here.
This build marks the first time I have fully incorporated my own design language into a LEGO creation. It represents a monster inspired by sapphire, and it is intended as the starting point of a series of creatures based on different gemstones.
Historically, sapphire has been associated with the sky and the blue cosmos, and was often regarded as the gemstone closest to the divine. Drawing from this symbolism, I chose black as the primary color for the monster’s body—representing outer space and the night sky—while adding sapphire-inspired decorations throughout the design. To further emphasize its godlike presence, I incorporated a dragon, a creature often imagined as one of the most powerful beings in fantasy.
To recreate the texture of dragon scales, I used a large number of black diamond-shaped elements, creating a sharp yet cohesive surface. For the sapphire details, my initial plan was to rely mainly on trans-light blue bricks and slopes. However, they felt a bit too cheap and flat visually. Instead, I decided to use marbled elements, which I personally love. Their slightly lower transparency adds depth and richness, better evoking the feel of a gemstone. The name of the creature comes from “Nox,” the Latin word for night, and “sapphirus,” the origin of the word sapphire—reflecting both its visual theme and conceptual roots.
During the design process, the Woomy World blog was incredibly helpful. Through his writing, I learned how to verbalize design intent and translate it into thoughtful part selection. In particular, the line beneath the eyes was inspired by his Sand Beast build, which strongly influenced this model’s facial expression.
I took this image in early July, when a break in the monsoon pattern gave me a clear night.
I refrained from using my usual light painting technique, it made this two shot panorama easier to do.
Instead, I incorporated the the light coming from the porch of my other house to give some definition to the foreground
The light that is illuminating the sky on the right side is light pollution from one of the outlying neighborhoods of Santa Fe. Every year it seems to get worse.
But I thought a silhouetted tree against the brighter part of the sky worked well in this circumstance.
It is my aim to preserve and convey the feeling of night time in my images, the stillness and the wonderment that I experience under the stars.
Which is another way of saying: It's so awesome to be under the night sky, dude!
Kissimmee, incorporated as a city in 1883 is the largest city and county seat of Osceola County, Florida. Print size 8x10 inches. HSS.
The Town of Palm Beach is an incorporated town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. The Intracoastal Waterway separates it from the neighboring cities of West Palm Beach and Lake Worth. In 2000, Palm Beach had a year-round population of 10,468, with an estimated seasonal population of 30,000. In 2018, Bloomberg ranked Palm Beach as the 27th-wealthiest place in the United States.
Prior to being established as a resort by Henry Morrison Flagler, who made the Atlantic coast barrier island accessible via his Florida East Coast Railway, Palm Beach was a sparsely populated part of Lake Worth. The nucleus of the community was established by Flagler's two luxury resort hotels, the Royal Poinciana Hotel and The Breakers Hotel. West Palm Beach was built across Lake Worth as a service town and has become a major city in its own right.
Flagler's house lots were bought by the beneficiaries of the Gilded Age, and in 1902 Flagler himself built a Beaux-Arts mansion, Whitehall, designed by the New York-based firm Carrère and Hastings and helped establish the Palm Beach winter "season" by constantly entertaining. The town was incorporated on 17 April 1911.
An area known as the Styx housed the people who built up the island. Workers rented small houses from the landowners. In the early 1900s, the landowners agreed to evict all of the residents of the Styx (who moved to West Palm Beach, Florida) and Edward R. Bradley bought up much of this land. The houses were razed, according to the Palm Beach Daily News.
The wreck of the Providencia is credited with giving Palm Beach its famous name. The Providencia was traveling from Havana to Cádiz, Spain with a cargo of coconuts harvested on the Caribbean island of Trinidad, when the shipwrecked near Palm Beach. Many of the coconuts were naturalized or were planted along the Palm Beach coast. A lush grove of palm trees soon grew on what would later be named Palm Beach. Today the tallest coconut palms in the United States can be found along the Palm Beach coast.
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Portrait of an adult female New Holland Frog from tropical
savannah woodland habitat near the township of Mt Surprise in far north eastern Queensland Australia.
Image taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark 3 DSLR coupled to a vintage, German made, M42 mount Pentacon 30/3.5 lens from the early 1970's with a 9mm M42 extension tube attached. A third party M42 to EOS adapter incorporated. Image shot wide-open at F.3.5 and hand-held, with a touch of fill-flash. Apart from RAW conversion and the most basic of editing, image shot as is.
Ellsworth, incorporated in 1800 and first known as the Union River Settlement is the county seat of Hancock County. It is situated on U.S. Route 1 about 20 miles from Bar Harbor Maine and close to Acadia National Park. Print Size 13x19 inches. HSS.
No. 89 was originally built in February 1910 by the Canadian Locomotive Company in Kingston, Ontario, for the Grand Trunk Railway as number 1009.
The Strasburg Rail Road Company is America’s oldest short line railroad, incorporated in 1832.
Bis Anfang der 1970-er Jahre war Marzahn, das 1920 nach Berlin eingemeindet worden war, ein von Landwirtschaft geprägtes Dorf. Seine Struktur ist die eines typisch märkischen Angerdorfs, d. h. die Häuser des historischen Ortskerns liegen an einer Straße, die sich an beiden Enden gabelt und so den Anger, eine große Grünfläche, umfasst. Auf dem Anger stehen stehen die Kirche, die Schule und die ehemalige kleine Poststelle. Um diesen 1977 unter Denkmalschutz gestellten Ortskern wurde in den 1970-er und 1980-er Jahren die Großsiedlung Marzahn errichtet. 1979 wurde die Großsiedlung Marzahn mit mehreren weiteren Gebieten aus dem damaligen Stadtbezirk Lichtenberg herausgelöst und zu einem eigenen Stadtbezirk. Auch dieser wurde 1986 erneut geteilt in die Stadtbezirke Marzahn und Hellersdorf, die wiederum 2001 wieder unter dem Namen Marzahn-Hellersdorf zu einem einzigen Stadtbezirk mit ca. 269.000 Einwohnern vereinigt wurden. Die Erinnerung an die landwirtschaftliche Tradition Marzahns wird durch den Kleintierhof in einem alten Bauernhof im Dorf und seine Außengehege unterhalb der Bockwindmühle gepflegt.
Until the early 1970s, Marzahn, which had been incorporated into Berlin in 1920, was an agricultural village. Its structure is that of a typical Brandenburg village, i.e. the houses in the historic centre of the village are situated along a road that branches off at both ends, thus enclosing the village green, a large green area. The church, the school and the former small post office stand on the village green. The large housing estate of Marzahn was built in the 1970s and 1980s around this village centre, which was listed in 1977. In 1979 the large housing estate Marzahn and several other areas were separated from the borough of Lichtenberg and became a separate borough under the name of Marzahn. In 1986 this was again divided into the boroughs of Marzahn and Hellersdorf, which in turn were reunited in 2001 under the name of Marzahn-Hellersdorf to form a single borough with approx. 269,000 inhabitants.
The memory of Marzahn's agricultural tradition is cherished by the Small Animal Farm in former farmstead in village and its outdoor enclosures below the windmill.
The Original Headbanger
Pileated Woodpecker - Male
Caught another opportunity to take some photos of this woodpecker. He apparently found a tree he really liked because unlike the previous encounter, he spent a good 20 minutes pounding away at this dead tree. Managed some nice debris shots like this one.
- 2021 Tyler Arboretum
Morristown, incorporated in 1865 is the county seat of Morris County, New Jersey. It is known as "the military capital of the American Revolution" because of its strategic role in the war for independence from Great Britain. Digitally created with various software programs. Print Size 13x19 inches. HSS.