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Tournai (en neerlandés Doornik, en alemán Dornick, en latín Tornacum) es una ciudad francófona de Bélgica situada en la Región valona, cabecera de arrondissement en la provincia de Henao y sede del obispado de Tournai.
Tournai es una de las ciudades más antiguas de Bélgica junto con Arlon y Tongeren. Tuvo un papel histórico, económico y cultural importante en el Condado de Flandes durante la Edad Media.
Tanto el campanario cívico de Tournai (Beffroi en francés; Belfort en neerlandés), el más antiguo de Bélgica, como la Catedral de Notre-Dame de Tournai están incluidos en la lista del patrimonio mundial de la UNESCO. La catedral, imponente construcción de arte románico y de arquitectura gótica, es célebre por sus cinco campanarios así como por su tesoro. Junto a la ciudad francesa de Lille y la ciudad flamenca de Cortrique forman la Eurometrópolis Lille-Tournai-Kortrijk.
Cuenta entre sus monumentos más importantes el Belfort o Beffroi, torre desde la que se domina la ciudad y sus alrededores y la catedral de Nuestra Señora, de amplias naves, y en la que se están realizando trabajos arqueológicos (año 2007) y de restauración (año 2014).
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Tournai or Tournay is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the Province of Hainaut, Belgium. It lies 89 km (55 mi) by road southwest of the centre of Brussels on the river Scheldt, and is part of Eurometropolis Lille–Kortrijk–Tournai, In 2022, the municipality of Tournai had an estimated population of 68,518 people.
Tournai is one of the oldest cities in Belgium and has played an important role in the country's cultural history. It was the first capital of the Frankish Empire, with Clovis I being born here.
Tournai lies 89 km (55 mi) by road southwest of the centre of Brussels on the river Scheldt. Administratively, the town and municipality is part of the Province of Hainaut, in the Wallonia region of southwest Belgium. The municipality has an area of 213.75 km2 (82.53 sq mi).
Tournai is considered to be one of the most important cultural sites in Belgium. The mixed Romanesque- and Gothic-style Cathedral of Our Lady and the city's Belfry, considered the oldest in Belgium, have been designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites. Inside the cathedral, the Châsse de Notre-Dame flamande, a beautifully ornate 12th-century reliquary, gives witness to Tournai's wealth in the Middle Ages.
Other places of interest are the 13th-century Scheldt bridge (Pont des Trous) and the main square (Grand-Place), as well as several old city gates, historic warehouses, and a variety of museums. As in many Belgian cities, there are a number of cafés and pubs on the Grand-Place. In the middle of the square, there are a series of water fountains, while a circular staircase to the top of the Belfry can be climbed.
On the Rue Barre-St-Brice are two of the oldest private houses in Europe, dating from between 1175 and 1200 and built in the Romanesque style, while the Rue des Jésuites includes a Gothic house from the 13th century. There are also several buildings in the Art Nouveau style across the city.
Some of the great Flemish Primitives are from Tournai: Robert Campin, Rogier van der Weyden, and Jacques Daret.
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A fleeting moment captured at first light at Lackford Lake.
Relatively local to home, it is a diverse and varied habitat which I very much enjoy to visit.
Snuck out early awhile back to get a couple shots as smoke filled the air from the terrible fires in California which makes for some great shots but wish the fires were not the cause. The California fires put out a lot of smoke and destroyed towns and ranches causing many people to leave their homes and for those our heart goes out. A local news team was out getting ready to do a live report when this shot was taken, thanked them later for adding interest to the photo. My wife is doing very well and a hearty Thank You to all the well-wishers. Am still very busy and will work on getting caught up as time permits.
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A few of my Flickr contacts have posted wonderful images from Barrow lately and it has rekindled my interest for that trip... short of being able to travel there right now, the consolation prize is to dig into the so many images unprocessed and never posted... hope you like these ones... the best option would off course to return … hope to be back one day.
This Great Horned Owl completely ignored me, looking in every direction except for where I stood - so no piercing stare into the camera.
At one point he seemed to spot something of interest in the distance. Clearly I had been dismissed.
Seen at Dauset Trails Nature Center. The animals here are all rescued and rehabilitated
As an explore/adventurer I find that I often lose interest in certain types of adventures I take part in. What I mean is I get bored of certain types of locations. For example: I absolutely loved exploring the mafia boss mansion however in recent months I had visited quite a few locations that were quite clean. I love exploring everything so I shifted my focus over the last two months & visited some waterfalls, storm drains & have done some night time shooting with light paint & capturing stars. All this was great but I felt there was still something missing.
I was recently out heading to visit my mother & knew of a house I had visited roughly 3 years ago & had always wanted to revisit & shoot it with my wide lens...which I happened to purchase the week after I first visited this house. The house is not quite a time capsule in terms of how I would classify one however it was VERY close by definition. A few rooms had beds that were still made & some other rooms still had furniture arranged as if the owners just walked away.
The weather was unseasonably warm which I gladly welcomed after the seemingly endless deep freeze we've been suffering in the province of Ontario. It was quite a treat to explore without the concern of frost bite! I was please to find that the house was virtually in the same state as when I had first visited it. Obviously the decay has accelerated, but for the most part nothing else had been moved, damaged or removed.
Here is a large living room from this awesome house. I have plenty more from this location to share including a video however I also have a pristine vacant mansion to showcase this week as well & the full photo set from the Abandoned Mafia Boss Mansion!
I must say 2018 has been pretty darn amazing so far & from what I have planned, it will only get better!!
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I took a walk back to a spot near the den to drop some ham scraps off for the fox.
I didn't see any sign of them and I made my deposit.
Then I made a quick scan, and sure enough the male was spying on me from a nearby tangle of vines.
He should thank me for helping him with his job!
While the female is in the den nursing the kits, it's up to him to keep her fed!
The children from N2 Monsters have been following their interest in dinosaurs and have recently learned how a potential asteroid or volcano created enough 'smoke' or 'dust' to cover the sun (aka dinosaur wipeout). Later, they also heard about cave art from the ice age.
On the Atelier wall, they began to create their own unique wall marks and soon began to narrate their ideas. 4 year old Clara decided she was "drawing a shelter for the sun" with vivid, compressed charcoal. She decided she was doing this "so the flowers don't die." After this, she wiggled excitedly as she drew an addition to the sun: "I got the sun a hat. That's the sun's hat."
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Yesterday was a much-needed mental health day for this kid as I desperately desired watching another Ohio River sunrise, followed by several hours of playing in the mud in search of ancient Indian artifacts.
As often happens, several potential obstacles presented themselves making me wonder if I should just stay home. Just as I was setting my alarm for the next morning’s adventure, a dense fog warning posted on my phone. The next morning, I awoke a full hour (4am) before my alarm was set to go off…making me question if I would have the energy needed to walk for miles in the mud. Not to mention…I’m pretty sure that our bed has never felt better!
Putting all that aside, I was on the road in time to be launching the boat an hour away at daybreak. With no other cars on the road, my music blaring and coffee in hand put all of life’s concerns aside…nothing clears my head more than going on an adventure! All was right with the world…
And then, on a fogless stretch of the highway, not 5 minutes from home, she appeared! An adult female whitetail deer decided to trot out right in front of me. With reflexes I had assumed were long gone, I swerved into oncoming traffic, releasing my coffee cup mid-air to grab the wheel with both hands as I attempted to put my car and now severely swaying trailing boat back in our lane. The deer was missed by both my car and boat by inches, my paper coffee cup with lid on landed right in my lap and remarkably only spilled a few large drops.
The blessing of this encounter was that I now had my heart in my throat…and there was no way that I could possibly fall asleep anytime on the next hours’ drive.
The launching ramp was reached without any further ado and my much-anticipated sunrise was completely obscured by the heavy fog. However, my spirits were rejuvenated instantly as I just enjoyed the blessing of being there, having another day and the anticipation of what might be both found and seen as adventure awaits!
The river was still out of its normal banks by some 6-7 feet and was full of drift…the banks…pretty muddy with only 7-8 artifacts retained, all broken but still cherished. The main blessing of the day quickly became this young lady (presumed based on my limited eagle knowledge base) who seemed to have as much interest in me and what I was doing as I had in her.
The problem with juvenile eagles is that you often disturb them, placing them in flight when you have no desire to. Without the white heads, they easily blend perfectly in the shadows of the trees canopy…no doubt part of God’s plan.
This young lady flew ahead once disturbed, then veered out over the river. I assumed she was heading for Kentucky so I just went on my way back to the ramp to conclude my day. I glanced back to see her change direction again, now heading right back at me. I slammed my boat into neutral, grabbed my camera and waited some 20 seconds or so before lifting my lens to start capturing her in flight…waiting is the hard part as experience has taught me that eagles will often drastically change direction once you point anything at them. Giving her time to close the gap was a gamble that paid off as she came directly overhead, maybe 80-100 feet off the water, granting this shot.
As I trailered the boat and sent a text to the Mrs. letting her know that I was safely off the water, an understanding of, an appreciation for the gift I had been given filled my head and heart with the joy that only another successful day of adventure can do. Getting the shot of my eagle fly by from a rocking 16’ flat-bottom aluminum boat is simply a bonus!
Adventure before dementia!
Last time I saw these guys it was 3 weeks ago. They are growing fast!
And they looooove the camera...
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Morgendämmerung am Münchner Hauptbahnhof, die Silhouette der Doppeltürme des Liebfrauendoms sind zwischen den vielen Baukränen zu erkennen.
Dawn at Munich Central Station, the silhouette of the twin towers of the Liebfrauendom are visible between the many construction cranes.
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The sight and sound of a calling Chaffinch is something that doesn't really generate a lot of interest and yet to me our gardens and woodlands would be a different place without them.
From a high base they are sadly in decline. There are two diseases that affect the Chaffinches, Fringilla Papillomavirus and Trichomonosis. Fringilla Papillomavirus is a mite which causes lumps and a ‘scaly’ look on the birds legs/feet. It can also spread to their beak. Trichomonosis affects a bird’s digestive system and is a disease caused by a parasite which is spread during breeding season when a bird regurgitates its food to feed its young.
This photo was taken in the woodlands closeby the visitors centre at Bempton. It is a great example of the variety to be found at this RSPB managed reserve. Everyone automatically thinks, seabirds when Bempton is mentioned, but there is also a good variety of farmland and woodland birds to be found.
I had forgotten about this photograph I took back in the spring. It is a stunning male Pied Flycatcher in full breeding plumage. In springtime males sing and display to attract a female but the females hold out as long as possible for very good reason. This is because females build the nest and incubate the eggs, but while they are preoccupied the male will sometimes go off and find a second or even third mate. But the male does catch insects to help rear the chicks, but if his attentions are divided the success rate is lower. Just say a female can rear three chicks with the exclusive help of a male, but only two chicks if a male divides his labours between two nests. But this would mean a male could rear four chicks from two nests but only three from a single nest. So it is in the male's interest to have a second nest. But it is not in the female's interest to share him as she will rear fewer chicks. This is why the female holds out as long as possible, as the longer she makes him wait, the more likely it is that other females will be paired up, so she will have his sole attention. A true battle of the sexes.
Not finding as many raptor in sierra valley that I was hoping for, when we did find this Prairie Falcon on the road to Frenchman's lake, it was exciting and more than I had hoped for as my only other shot of this species was at quite a distance! I normally don't like pole shots but I really liked the 'added interest' of the elements in this pole...hope you do too!...:) PS...since there were no trees I was happy to get this!
Early mornings along the east coast. The Avocet is a black & white wader with a long up-turned beak. Best known thanks to the RSPB, (incorporated in their emblem), it's a Schedule 1 species. Numbers have increased significantly over the past twenty years from near decimation & it's a conservation success story.
Britain's only desert habitat.
National Nature Reserve (NNR).
Special Protection Area (SPA).
Special Area of Conservation (SAC).
Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).
Roundhouse keepers cottages (Built 1792).
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One of a set of four, the best free gifts (buy three packet soups, get a soup bowl free) I think I've ever had, courtesy of Vitana and acquired at the Albert supermarket in Nové Město nad Metují, c. 2003.
The inscription reads: The Visitors' Law: A neighbour will come round just as there's food on the table.
When I got to Dovercourt to photograph the lighthouse I was slightly perturbed to find it covered in scaffolding...a fair amount of photoshop work removed that ;-)
"If it is on the wall is it art?"
I have been dying to shoot this segment of the series for a month now. As of late, I have had an intense interest in sculptures, they have such a quiet resonance about them. In this segment I hope to capture the silent allure of classical sculpture.
What do sculptures dream of in the never ending cycle of their stoic state?
The Beginning.
Unfortunately my favorite lens malfunctioned right before the shoot.
RIP 50mm