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Yes, I realise this topic has already been talked over many times on our humble photo gallery. This time however, we have another big developement in front of us.
The famous Polish ban on photography had not really been in power, no matter what any person said. You were fully permitted to photograph anything you want, as long as you were on public grounds, which is a reasonable idea. All is to change now though.
My first post in this "no photo" topic has been published on 6.02.2024, when the Polish Ministry of National Defence published a draft of the ordinance containing the description of a "Photography forbidden" sign, along with many other things. This ordinance is what is required for the photo ban to be implemented in practice, as per a law published all the way back in 2022. The draft remained all that, just a draft, up until... this very day, 3.04.2025. It is now a full-blown ordinance of the allmighty Minister himself.
The published version can be seen on the official government service Dziennik Ustaw - dziennikustaw.gov.pl/DU
The ordinance itself, numbered 432 can be seen here - dziennikustaw.gov.pl/DU/2025/432 - contains a PDF file with the ordinance and a graphical display of the sign.
From now on, any person responsible for the security of an object of critical infrastructure (whatever that means...) will be able to hang out these legal signs and there is nothing the poor citizen can do about this, even when standing on public grounds.
*The ordinance comes into effect 14 days after its publishing, you have time until the 17th of April. For real now.*
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Photo was taken in Knurów (Krywałd), the old sign is on a wall of a tiny explosives production facility.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
Moins impactant pour le corps que la course, la marche, pratiquée tous les jours, est un remède naturel et doux. La marche renforce notre cœur et réduit les risques de maladies. La marche tonifie la silhouette et exerce vos muscles. La marche permet de lutter contre l’arthrose et l’ostéoporose. La marche est bonne pour notre cerveau. La marche est un antidépresseur naturel.
Pratiquer une promenade au quotidien, est l’activité sportive la moins chère, la plus facile à mettre en œuvre et d’une efficacité vérifié pour notre corps comme, notre esprit et surtout, le meilleur moyen d’embarquer votre compagnon préféré : l’appareil photo.
Menos efectivo para el cuerpo que correr, caminar, practicado todos los días, es un remedio natural y suave. Caminar fortalece nuestro corazón y reduce el riesgo de enfermedades. Caminar tonifica la silueta y ejercita tus músculos. Caminar ayuda a combatir la osteoartritis y la osteoporosis. Caminar es bueno para nuestro cerebro. Caminar es un antidepresivo natural.
Practicar una caminata diaria es la actividad deportiva menos costosa, la más fácil de implementar y la eficiencia verificada para nuestro cuerpo como, nuestra mente y lo más importante, la mejor manera de enviar a su compañero favorito: el cámara.
Less effective for the body than running, walking, practiced every day, is a natural and gentle remedy. Walking strengthens our heart and reduces the risk of disease. Walking tones the silhouette and exercises your muscles. Walking helps fight osteoarthritis and osteoporosis. Walking is good for our brain. Walking is a natural antidepressant.
Practicing a daily walk, is the least expensive sport activity, the easiest to implement and verified efficiency for our body as, our mind and most importantly, the best way to ship your favorite companion: the camera.
I went to the museum last weekend with some friends who were visiting. You know what struck me, more than any other detail? How interesting the supportive structures are. These bones are of course intriguing, but when I focused on the structures that hold them up… all the structures of display in the museum, in fact… I really saw the whole experience through new eyes.
Note: this photo was published in an undated (Jun 2010) issue of an Everyblock NYC Zipcodes blog, titled "10024."
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When the weather is nice on a holiday weekend, you can be reasonably sure that there will be lots of interesting people to photograph in Central Park. My typical plan, on such photo expeditions, is to walk through and around several different parts of the park -- in order to see different groups of people, and also to take advantage of different scenes and backdrops. But it means that I don't spend very much time in any one place, and most of my shots end up being "ad hoc" in nature, with almost no planning, preparation, framing, or composition.
On this Memorial Day weekend, I decided to restrict my wandering to just one area -- the "Great Lawn" that's more-or-less in the center of the north-south expanse of the park. I walked around the sidewalk perimeter of the large grassy area, starting at the north end (because I had entered the park at 86th Street), heading down to the south end by the Delacorte Theater and the Belvedere Castle, and then back north again to my starting point.
I had a 70-300mm zoom lens on my camera while I was walking, and while that made it relatively easy to capture some interesting scenes of people out in the middle of the lawn, it was almost impossible to take a quick picture of someone just a couple feet away from me. Normally, I would just shrug and mutter to myself, "Well, that's the way it goes" -- and perhaps resolve that, next time, I would use the 18-200mm zoom lens that covers both a wider range between wide-angle and telephoto.
But in this case, I decided to change lenses after the first circumnavigation, and then make a second circle around the Great Lawn with a 24-120mm zoom lens. (All of this involved full-frame lenses on the Nikon D700, rather than the half-frame DX 18-200 zoom lens on my older Nikon D300.) So, on the second walk around the lawn, I focused more on the people sitting on benches, walking past me, and stretched out on the grass near the sidewalk. It also gave me a chance to set the lens to its maximum wide-angle setting, and take advantage of quick, unfocused, wide-angle "hip shots" whenever there was something interesting nearby that I had to shoot quickly.
When I got home, I decided to take a quick look at the Wikipedia article about the Great Lawn, to see if there was anything special that I needed to mention in these notes. I didn't expect to find much, because -- as far as I knew -- it had always been part of Central Park, and had always been the same. To my surprise, I found that that was definitely not not the case. Indeed, today's Great Lawn is situated on a flat area that was occupied by the 35-acre "Lower Reservoir" that was constructed in 1842 to supply water to the residents of the city. After the Croton-Catskill reservoir system was completed, the Lower Reservoir became redundant -- but political battles ensued for several decades before the city finally settled on a plan for an oval lawn.
That plan basically fell apart because of the Depression, and the open area was filled with a "Hooverville" of improvised shacks for quite some time. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia finally brought in the legendary Robert Moses (the visionary force behind so many other parks around New York City and the rest of the state) to implement the plan -- and it was essentially finished in 1934.
And there's more to the history, too, but I'll let you read that on your own if you're interested. (You might be interested to know, for example, that in 1995, Pope John Paul II held an open-air mass for 125,000 on the Great Lawn. Yes, it is that big!)
In any case, I finished my second loop around the park, went home and uploaded several hundred photos, which I've winnowed down to the ones you'll find in this set...
An abandoned villa in the Italian countryside with some nice details in the living areas upstairs and a lot of large barrels in the basement. Unsure on the history of this but seems to have been abandoned for many years.
The man down Italian toll tour. Taking in some Italian delights on a 4 day explore.
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Farm implement near McBaine, Missouri. Photography by Notley Hawkins. Taken with a Canon EOS R5 camera with a Canon RF15-35mm F2.8 L IS USM lens at ƒ/4.0 with a 152-second exposure at ISO 50, processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.
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(049/365) Nice & cosy last Sunday inside our favourite pub which happens to be called "The Local" although I think "The Churn and Pram" would be a good alternative pub name. It's in a converted stable block in the grounds of Dunbrody Country House Hotel. HWW & HSS!
47790 "Galloway Princess" passes Derwent Junction on 07/April/2010 working the 2Z37 15.10 Maryport to Workington shuttle service,implemented after the 2009 floods causing the bridge at Workington to collapse.
Old loading dock door on the abandoned Morenci Water and Electric Building. This building, built in 1897 is having some serious structural issues with the brick work.
Clifton, Arizona, USA. Once a booming copper mining town but now mostly declining or already in decay and the majority of people and business have moved just up the road to Morenci. The Freeport McMoRan copper mine located in Morenci is one of the largest in the world
Cliff dwellings along the San Francisco and Gila Rivers are evidence of an advanced civilization that existed long before Caesar ruled Rome. Many specimens of pottery and stone implements are still to be found in these ancient dwelling places. In the mid-1500s, both Fray Marcos de Niza and Francisco Vasquez de Coronado passed through the area, following the San Pedro north to the Gila River. Geronimo was born in 1829 near the confluence of Eagle Creek and the San Francisco and Gila Rivers.
In 1856 the first mineral discoveries of the Morenci/Clifton area were found by California volunteers pursuing Apaches, and conflicts between the Apaches and advancing Anglo settlers touched off a 26-year-long war. Mining for gold and silver began in 1864, followed by copper in 1872, and the mine at Morenci quickly grew to become the largest copper producer in North America. Clifton's population ballooned from 600 in 1880 to 5000 by 1910, and it quickly earned its reputation as the wildest of the "Wild West" boomtowns. Neighboring Morenci was swallowed up by an open pit mine in the 1960s, but Clifton was preserved, and today Chase Creek Street is still graced with lovely Victorian-era buildings from the town's halcyon days as the place to quickly make and lose a fortune.
In 1983, Clifton survived two nearly fatal blows, first a nearly three-year-long strike that began on June 30, 1983. Then later that same year, on October 2, 1983, Tropical Storm Octave sent 90,900 cubic feet of water per second into the San Francisco River, which burst its banks, destroying 700 homes and heavily damaging 86 of the town's 126 businesse
ok, so i guess "feed me seymour" is a better title, huh?
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Mrs. Ford's love of gardening and horticulture was said to be second only to her devotion to her husband and family. Her tastes in gardening were simple, at least as far as design and color were concerned. She preferred old-fashioned plant varieties such as Bachelor Buttons, Petunias, Irises, Peonies, Tulips, Lillies, Heliotropes, Delphiniums, Forget-Me-Nots, English Primrose, Scilla and, of course, Roses planted in relatively informal patterns. Indoors, her fondness for gardening was expressed by a variety of small cut flowers in small glass vases that were displayed in each room. In addition, there were assortments of foliage plants, especially located in the Swimming Pool area.
Clara Ford spent many hours planning, touring, and pampering her treasured Blue, English, and Rose Gardens, always on the lookout for imperfections such as a misplaced marigold among a sea of aqua and sky-blue blossoms. Her efforts were recognized publicly when she served as a president of the Women's National Farm and Garden Association from 1927-34.
It has been a number of years since the majority of Fair Lane's elaborate gardens have been planted and pampered the way they must have been when Mrs. and Mr. Ford were in residence. Consider, if you will, that Mrs. Ford routinely employed 25 fulltime gardeners in 1926. However, while these gardeners helped to cultivate estate grounds, there were only five servants that maintained the entire residence.
It would be almost impossible for the Henry Ford Estate-Fair Lane, as a non-profit organization, to restore each garden area fully. However, restoration of certain areas to their early 1920's state is now proceeding. The garden scheme being implemented reflects the original plan of Jens Jensen.
---- some short stories, collected while walking down the street ... in search of fleeting moments ...(they are photographic shots taken one-two months ago, scenes of daily life obviously captured before the current restrictions, implemented to stem the spread of the now worldwide infection caused by the covid-19) ....
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---- alcune storie minime, raccolte camminando per la strada ... alla ricerca di attimi fugaci-s/fuggenti ... (sono scatti fotografici realizzati uno-due mesi addietro, scene di vita quotidiana catturate ovviamente prima delle attuali restrizioni, attuate per arginare il dilagare della infezione oramai mondiale, causata dal covid-19) ....
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The week got away from me so just remembered at 8 last night that I hadn't shot anything for this weeks theme. Rummaged through the kitchen until I came across this handy dandy little gem. A thingamajig to get your olives out of jars and cans.
For the group Collective 52 Photo Project "2015".
GroundHawks proved fairly successful when first implemented in the Falkriane wars. Their high rate of speed and higher accuracy rates due to increased stability greatly changed the current battlefield tactics. Their blitzkrieg style of attack confused and devastated opposing front lines and quickly had the enemies caught in their own crossfire. Almost when it seemed they would prove unbeatable on the battlefield the opposing Tillariants noticed something. What the GroundHawks gained in speed they lost in turning ability. This knowledge spread rapidly amongst the pilots and lead them to use the landscape to lure the GroundHawks into area's and situations where sharp turns are required, thus reducing their speed and levelling the playing field. This development contributed to prolonging the wars for another two decades.
A more unconventional mech design - although it has been done before. I thought
I would try it on this one, because if I'm going to pump out DBG mecha, I might as well try to keep it interesting. It was originally going to be a bi-ped but I took a different route based on weekend time constraints. The antler guns were also stolen off another one of my mecha.
There is a major lock down everywhere in the whole world. People are fighting for their lives, food. In my country the price of the mask had gone up. Just a week ago they implemented no mask no entry to the market. Will remain in the lock down till 14.4.2020. Hopefully everyone stay safe.
Τρόπαιο Λεύκτρων
Lefkta Victory Monument(Trophy)
Η Μάχη των Λεύκτρων ήταν μια από τις πλέον περισπούδαστες μάχες της αρχαιότητας, από πλευράς στρατιωτικής τακτικής.
Η περίφημη αυτή μάχη, μεταξύ Σπαρτιατών και Θηβαίων, που διεξήχθη το 371 π.Χ. στα Λεύκτρα της Βοιωτίας, στην οποία και νικήθηκαν οι μέχρι τότε θεωρούμενοι αήττητοι Σπαρτιάτες, έδωσε αφενός μεν τέλος στην Πελοποννησιακή Συμμαχία αφετέρου χάρισε στους Θηβαίους την ηγεμονική τους θέση στον τότε ελλαδικό χώρο.
Αφορμή στον μεταξύ Σπάρτης και Θηβών αυτόν πόλεμο έδωσε η στάση του θηβαίου στρατηγού Επαμεινώνδα στο συνέδριο των ελληνικών πόλεων-κρατών που είχε συνέλθει στη Σπάρτη μετά την Ανταλκίδειο ειρήνη. Αυτός τότε επέμενε στο συνέδριο ν' αναγνωρισθεί ως αντιπρόσωπος όλων των Βοιωτικών πόλεων και όχι μόνο της Θήβας. Οι αντιπρόσωποι των άλλων πόλεων όχι μονο δεν το δέχθηκαν, αλλά απέκλεισαν τους Θηβαίους από το συνέδριο. Τότε οι Έφοροι της Σπάρτης διέταξαν επιπρόσθετα, προκειμένου να πτοήσουν τους Θηβαίους, τον ευρισκόμενο στη Φωκίδα και κοντά στη περιοχή, Σπαρτιάτη βασιλέα Κλεόμβροτο να εισβάλει στη Βοιωτία. Οι Σπαρτιάτες αριθμούμενοι σε 11.000 έφθασαν στην περιοχή και στρατοπέδευσαν στη κοιλάδα των Λεύκτρων, ανατολικά του Ελικώνα. Οι Θηβαίοι ανερχόμενοι σε 6.000 έφθασαν στη περιοχή από βόρεια και στην αρχή δείλιασαν. Ο στρατηγός τους Επαμεινώνδας τους ενθάρρυνε και εφήρμοσε για πρώτη φορά στην ιστορία των μέχρι τότε πολέμων μια νέα στρατιωτική τακτική η οποία και τον ανέδειξε σε έναν από τους ευφυέστερους στρατηγούς όλων των εποχών.
Αντί της τακτικής τής ενιαίας γραμμής μετώπου που ακολουθείτο μέχρι τότε, χώρισε τη φάλαγγά του σε δύο τμήματα εκ των οποίων το ένα διενεργούσε επίθεση και το άλλο άμυνα. Η παράταξη αυτή κλήθηκε από τον εφευρέτη της λοξή φάλαγγα, ο δε τρόπος λειτουργίας αυτής ήταν ο εξής: Την κύρια δράση είχε η αριστερή πτέρυγα της επίθεσης, που προηγείτο της γραμμής μετώπου. Στηριζόμενη στο ενισχυμένο βάθος της εκ 50 ανδρών, είχε ως κύριο σκοπό τη διάσπαση της εχθρικής παράταξης. Η ολιγότερο ισχυρή δεξιά αμυντική πτέρυγα παρέμενε καθηλωμένη σε αναμονή του αποτελέσματος, προκειμένου να επέμβει και να προκαλέσει σύγχυση στην πληττόμενη και πλευροκοπούμενη σπαρτιατική φάλαγγα. Έτσι, αν το απέναντι σπαρτιατικό τμήμα επιχειρούσε αντεπίθεση δεξιά της θηβαϊκής πτέρυγας επίθεσης, η θηβαϊκή πτέρυγα άμυνας προχωρούσε σε περικυκλωτική επίθεση. Αν συνέβαινε το αντίθετο, αν δηλαδή το σπαρτιατικό τμήμα προέβαινε σε επίθεση στα αριστερά της θηβαϊκής πτέρυγας επίθεσης, τότε η θηβαϊκή πτέρυγα άμυνας έστρεφε και πλευροκοπούσε τον εχθρό. Η όλη αυτή εφαρμογή τακτικής ομοιάζει με την εικόνα του δεξιόστροφου ή αριστερόστροφου πτερωτού κοχλία. Εν προκειμένω στη μάχη των Λεύκτρων η όλη διάταξη κινήθηκε δεξιόστροφα.
Στην αρχή ο Επαμεινώνδας εξαπέλυσε το ιππικό του κατά των προμαχούντων Σπαρτιατών ιππέων οι οποίοι βλέποντας να μην υποχωρεί η εχθρική γραμμή, κάμφθηκαν. Οι Θηβαίοι ιππείς της πτέρυγας επίθεσης στράφηκαν τότε κατά του κέντρου και του αριστερού εχθρικού τμήματος, ενώ ο Επαμεινώνδας με την αριστερή πτέρυγα της πεζής παράταξής του και ο Πελοπίδας με τον Ιερό Λόχο επιτέθηκαν με θυελλώδη ορμή κατά των Σπαρτιατών των οποίων η σθεναρή παράταξη διασπάσθηκε. Οι σύμμαχοι των Σπαρτιατών που είχαν παραταχθεί στο κέντρο και την αριστερή πτέρυγα, βλέποντας ότι οι Σπαρτιάτες ήταν ανίκανοι να συνεχίσουν τη μάχη, αποφάσισαν να υποχωρήσουν καταδιωκόμενοι από το θηβαϊκό ιππικό.
Οι απώλειες των θηβαϊκών δυνάμεων έφθασαν τους 300 άνδρες ενώ οι Σπαρτιάτες έχασαν γύρω στους 1.000 άνδρες, μεταξύ των οποίων και τον βασιλιά Κλεόμβροτο.
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Lefktron Trophy
Lefktra Victory Monument(Trophy)
The Battle of Lefktra was one of the most studied battles of antiquity, in terms of military tactics.
This famous battle, between Spartans and Thebans, which took place in 371 BC. at Leuctra in Boeotia, in which the Spartans, considered invincible until then, were defeated, on the one hand it put an end to the Peloponnesian Alliance and on the other hand it gave the Thebans their hegemonic position in the then Greek area.
This war between Sparta and Thebes was caused by the attitude of the Theban general Epaminondas at the conference of the Greek city-states that had convened in Sparta after the Andalkidian peace. He then insisted at the conference to be recognized as the representative of all the Boeotian cities and not only Thebes. The representatives of the other cities not only did not accept it, but excluded the Thebans from the conference. Then the Prefects of Sparta additionally ordered, in order to deter the Thebans, the Spartan king Cleombrotos, who was in Phocis and nearby, to invade Boeotia. The Spartans numbering 11,000 arrived in the area and camped in the valley of Lefktra, east of Helikon. The Thebans numbering 6,000 arrived in the area from the north and at first were timid. Their general Epaminondas encouraged them and implemented for the first time in the history of the wars up to that time a new military tactic which made him one of the most intelligent generals of all time.
Instead of the tactic of the single front line followed until then, he divided his phalanx into two divisions, one of which carried out the attack and the other the defense. This formation was called by the inventor of the oblique phalanx, and its mode of operation was as follows: The main action was the left wing of the attack, which preceded the front line. Relying on its reinforced depth of 50 men, its main objective was to break up the enemy line. The less powerful right defensive wing remained pinned down to await the result, in order to intervene and cause confusion in the battered and flanked Spartan phalanx. Thus, if the opposing Spartan division attempted a counterattack to the right of the Theban attack wing, the Theban defense wing would advance in an encircling attack. If the opposite happened, that is, if the Spartan division attacked to the left of the Theban attack wing, then the Theban defense wing would turn and flank the enemy. This whole tactic application resembles the image of the clockwise or counter-clockwise propeller. In this case, in the battle of Lefktra, the whole arrangement moved clockwise.
At first Epaminondas unleashed his cavalry against the advancing Spartan horsemen who, seeing that the enemy line did not retreat, retreated. The Theban horsemen of the attacking wing then turned against the center and left of the enemy, while Epaminondas with the left wing of his infantry and Pelopidas with the Sacred Company charged with a storm against the Spartans, whose strong line was broken. The Spartan allies who had lined up in the center and left wing, seeing that the Spartans were unable to continue the battle, decided to retreat pursued by the Theban cavalry.
The losses of the Theban forces reached 300 men while the Spartans lost around 1,000 men, including King Cleombrotos.
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Implements including the chain used in an attempt to block the Hudson river and artillery from the revolution made with iron from Ringwood, NJ.
Oom Samie Se Winkel (General Store), Stellenbosch, South Africa
Probably used in the wine farms of the area for shovelling grapes.
Ría de Punta Umbría (Huelva - Andalucía)
SIgma 10-20 + Cokin filter : Gradual Neutral Grey ND8 (P121)
Kitchen Tools #2. © Copyright 2022 G Dan Mitchell.
Close up photograph of kitchen implements.
When looking for subjects to test (otherwise know as “get to know”) a new camera or lens, it is amazing what things one can find to photograph! This week I’m trying to get up to speed on a new camera — more about that below — and how it works with some lenses I already have. On this evening I slapped a macro lens on the thing and headed to the kitchen to photograph… a whisk, blender blades, coffee cups, and others stuff that was lying around.
It is important to me to both understand objectively how my camera equipment functions and to develop an intuitive familiarity with it. The former helps me make smart decisions, and the latter is very important in the field, where I don’t want to get stuck wondering how the gear works. In this case, the new equipment is a Fujifilm X-T5 that I got to upgrade from the XPro2 that I’ve been using for my “small camera” photography for the past few years. For this photograph and a few others like it I put the Fujifilm 80mm macro on the camera.
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kitchen implements for sale at a sidewalk . captured this image at a province known for making aluminum kitchenwares