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From my point of view, this is the most beautiful lake on the Swiss Alps. It's called Vierwaldstättersee (or lake Lucerne) and goes trough different regions of Switzerland in a sneaky way. A lovely place that worth to visit all year round.
My thoughts are with all those affected by yesterday's horrific killings in Paris. A sad, sad day, indeed.
This is the fourth, and I think it will be the last, photo of one of two Common Loons seen at Emerald Lake, British Columbia, on 11 July 2015. Rather a distant shot, but I didn't dare crop it any closer than I did. That day, I had a wonderful day out with friend Sandy, driving westwards from Calgary and eventually reaching the next province, British Columbia (B.C.). Sandy had two destinations in mind - a stop at the Spiral Tunnels and then to explore the forest around Emerald Lake. I had only been to B.C. a handful of times in 37 years, so this was an absolute treat.
"The lake is enclosed by mountains of the President Range, as well as Mount Burgess and Wapta Mountain. This basin traps storms, causing frequent rain in summer and heavy snowfalls in winter. This influx of moisture works with the lake's low elevation to produce a unique selection of flora. Trees found here are more typical of B.C.'s wet interior forests, such as western red cedar, western yew, western hemlock and western white pine. The alluvial fan on the northeast shore produces wildflowers in abundance during late June and early July.
Due to its high altitude, the lake is frozen from November until June. The vivid turquoise color of the water, caused by powdered limestone, is most spectacular in July as the snow melts from the surrounding mountains.
The first European to set sight on Emerald Lake was guide Tom Wilson, who stumbled upon it by accident in 1882. A string of his horses had gotten away, and it was while tracking them that he first entered the valley. The lake had an impression on even the most seasoned of explorers: "For a few moments I sat [on] my horse and enjoyed the rare, peaceful beauty of the scene." It was Wilson who gave the lake its name because of its remarkable colour, caused by fine particles of glacial sediment, also referred to as rock flour, suspended in the water. However, this was not the first time Wilson had dubbed a lake 'Emerald'. Earlier that same year he had discovered another lake which he had given the same moniker, and the name even appeared briefly on the official map. This first lake however, was shortly renamed Lake Louise." From Wikipedia.
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Our trip started just after 7:00 am, to get a good, early start, especially before the temperature soared. The drive from Calgary to Emerald Lake takes about 2 and a half hours and is a 218.5 km drive via Trans-Canada Hwy/AB-1 W. We took a quieter route home at the end of the day. Rain arrived just in time for this drive home and, by the time I got back to my car in Calgary, the rain was really heavy and a few of the roads were beginning to flood very quickly. It was raining again this morning. I was kind of hoping for a few rainy days, as I suddenly have a build-up of quite a few very major, very urgent things to deal with and I didn't want to be tempted to go out with my camera.
Shortly after we began our walk though the forest along the right hand side of the lake, we heard a commotion coming from the water. When we found a place to see through the trees, we could see two beautiful Common Loons and a female duck with several babies, possibly Common Mergansers. My guess would be that the Merganser mother kept chasing away the Loons, creating a lot of splashing. This distant photo of one of the Loons was taken at the end of our walk. It was in the smaller section of the lake at Emerald Lake and we noticed it when we were walking along the boardwalk/bridge. It was swimming towards us and I managed to get one quick shot. Then it swam under the boardwalk and was disappearing into the distance by the time I took this shot. This photo also shows why this lake is named Emerald Lake : )
Also, at the beginning and the end of our "hike", we watched a family of Violet-green Swallows that were nesting. Not sure how many young ones there were, but I saw three. Though we do get these birds in Calgary, I've never seen one properly - just when a mass of Swallows swarms over the Bow River and someone calls out "Violet-green!" The adults flew to feed their babies at top speed and barely stayed a second at the nest hole. I was just thrilled to see one of these birds - thanks, Sandy, for your patience, allowing me to try and get a few photos! Thanks, too, for such a great day, as usual!
A stolen shot taken while queuing in NYC. Have a great day!
Uno scatto rubato facendo la fila a NYC
Many thanks for your visit!!
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A San Pietro in Vincoli templomot az V. században annak a legendának emlékére emelték, hogy Szt. Péter Rómában őrzött bilincse egybeforrott a Jeruzsálemből idehozott másik darabjával, melyet az oltárnál helyeztek el. A régi háromhajós bazilikát többször átalakították.
A templom az óriási látogatottságát mégsem az ereklyének köszönheti, hanem II. Gyula pápa síremlékének, melyet Michelangelo Mózes szobra díszít. A gigantikusra tervezett emlékműből csak néhány mellékalak készült el, köztük a Mózes-szobor két oldalán álló női alak. Ráchel a szemlélődő életet, Lea a tevékenységet jelképezi. A Mester abban a pillanatban ábrázolja az Ótestamentum nagy alakját, amikor – miután az Úrtól megkapta a két kőtáblára vésett Tízparancsolatot – megtudja, népe hűtlenné vált Istenéhez. Az erkölcsi felháborodás, a pattanásig feszült indulat tükröződik Mózesnek nemcsak az arcán, de egész testtartásán is.
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Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas
Das Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas, kurz Holocaust-Mahnmal genannt, soll als Mahnmal für die unter der Herrschaft des Nationalsozialismus im Holocaust ermordeten Juden dienen. Zwischen 2003 und Frühjahr 2005 wurde das Bauwerk im Zentrum Berlins auf einer etwa 19.000 m² großen Fläche in der Nähe des Brandenburger Tores errichtet. Der Entwurf stammt von Peter Eisenman. Das Mahnmal wurde am 10. Mai 2005 feierlich eingeweiht und ist seit dem 12. Mai 2005 der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich. Im ersten Jahr kamen über 3,5 Millionen Besucher.
Aufbau
Auf der gewellten Grundfläche wurden 2711 innen hohle und zwischen 0,5° und 2° geneigte Betonquader (Stelen) in parallelen Reihen aufgestellt (54 Nord-Süd- und 86 Ost-West-Achsen). Die Stelen sind bei identischem Grundriss (2,38 mal 0,95 Meter) unterschiedlich hoch, zwischen ebenerdig (112 Stück im Gehweg) und 4,7 Meter. Von den nicht-ebenerdigen Stelen sind 367 kleiner als ein Meter, 869 haben Höhen von ein bis zwei Metern, 491 Stelen sind zwischen zwei und drei Metern hoch, 569 Stelen haben eine Höhe zwischen drei und vier Metern und 303 sind größer als vier Meter. Das durchschnittliche Gewicht einer einzelnen Stele beträgt ungefähr acht Tonnen. Die schwerste wiegt etwa 16 Tonnen. In einem mehrstufigen Verfahren sind die Stelen speziell oberflächenbehandelt, um einfache Entfernung von Graffiti zu gewährleisten. Es befinden sich 41 Bäume im Stelenfeld. Die gepflasterte 13.100 m² große Bodenfläche führt unter das Niveau der umgebenden Straßen. Die gleichmäßig 0,95 Meter schmalen Gänge zwischen den Stelen sind für die Besucher voll begehbar, bieten allerdings nicht genügend Platz, um zu zweit nebeneinander zu gehen.
Die Zahl von 2711 Stelen hat nach Auskunft der Denkmals-Stiftung keine symbolische Bedeutung, sondern ergibt sich aus den Maßen, die der Architekt für diesen Standort wählte.
Ein unterirdisches, 930 m² großes Museum (Ort der Information) ergänzt den Komplex. Es enthält unter anderem eine Liste aller Namen der bekannten jüdischen Holocaustopfer. Es besteht aus Ausstellungsräumen (778 m²), Vortragsräumen (106 m²) und einem Buchladen (46 m²).
Kosten
Für den Bau des Denkmals wurden 27,6 Millionen Euro aus Mitteln des Bundeshaushalts ausgegeben: 25,3 Millionen Euro für das Stelenfeld und den Ort der Information, 2,3 Millionen Euro für den Ausstellungsbau. Die Kosten nur für das Stelenfeld beliefen sich auf 14,8 Millionen Euro.
Die Stiftung, die das Denkmal trägt, hat einen laufenden Jahresetat von 2,1 Millionen Euro, die aus dem Haushalt des Bundes-Kulturstaatsministers finanziert werden. Wolfgang Thierse trat im Juni 2006 von seinem Posten als Vorstandsvorsitzer der Denkmalsstiftung zurück, weil er diesen Etat für um mindestens 600.000 Euro unterfinanziert hielt. Er forderte eine Erhöhung des Etats auf mind. 2,7 Millionen Euro jährlich.
Deutungsversuche
* Die 2711 Stelen erinnern an Grabsteine. Es bestehen Ähnlichkeiten zwischen dem Mahnmal und den Sarkophag-Gräbern jüdischer Friedhöfe (insbesondere dem Alten jüdischen Friedhof in Prag oder dem Ölberg in Jerusalem).
* Die Stiftung sieht laut Webseite in der kaum merklichen Neigung der Pfeiler die Möglichkeit, ein "Gefühl der Verunsicherung" zu erzeugen.
* Der Architekt Peter Eisenman sieht im strukturellen Aufbau des Denkmals die einem scheinbaren System inhärente Instabilität. Andere Äußerungen, insbesondere in seiner Wettbewerbsbegründung, deuten darauf hin, dass er das Denkmal als Platzhalter sieht, aus dem Neues entsteht. Dies würde auch sein Zitat anlässlich der Eröffnung erklären: „Graffiti wären gut“
* Der Förderkreis um Lea Rosh erklärt das Denkmal zum Kenotaph und vergleicht es mit Kriegerdenkmälern und Soldatenfriedhöfen: Es sei nötig, weil die meisten ermordeten Juden kein eigenes Grab hätten.
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Another view of Ipanema from the top of the Hotel Sol Ipanema. The beach is packed because it is the peak of the summer and all cariocas and the tourists pour out to soak in the sun.
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A single molecule of my Two-in-one Flower Tessellation together with a frame, folded from a single sheet of Satogami paper (16×16 grid).
The same trick can of course also be applied to many other tessellations. I will post some more variants of the frame and of the tessellation molecule shortly.
The theme for the second week of the year is Bokeh and is supposed to refer to the out of focus areas in the image. For this I used my 85mm prime lens set at f2.8 to hopefully create an interesting oof background. The light was provided by the sun. The flowers are on my Winter flowering cherry tree which provides flowers most of the winter.
Zaubzer-Straße in Bogenhausen in München. Das Bild habe ich vom Erkerfenster unserer Wohnung aufgenommen.
"Life is a Rainbow - One year in colours"
November : Brown [47/52 weeks]
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Now that I am in DC with awesome people, I didn't want to miss out on taking some awesomeness portraits!
This Bar Relief is in San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome.
We enjoyed a bicycling trip to the Tuscany region of Italy and Rome in September, 2016.
Begin augustus was ik een antal dagen langs de Rhein te vinden, het was die dagen grotendeels bewolkt. Enerzijds natuurlijk jammer, anderzijds gaf het wel veel meer mogelijkheden. Op de middag van 3 augustus belandde ik in Kaub, ideaal voor dit weer. Naast het feit dat je beide kanten op mooi kunt fotograferen kon ik hier ook nog schuilen voor de korte maar hevige buitjes. Na een van die buitjes kwam even na 15 uur het sein richting Frankfurt weer uit de stand stop. Om 15:10 passeert dan de 193 999 van RTB Cargo (Györ) met een gesloten ARS-Altmann-autotrein, de trein slingert verder langs de Rhein richting Frankfurt. Op de achtergrond is het dorpje Kaub te zien inclusief Burg Gutenfels.
I photographed this gorgeous critter last month at Santee Lakes, which is my go-to spot for dragonflies.
Other pictures that I've taken over the years of dragonflies are in my cleverly titled Butterflies & Dragonflies Album.
Me in front of Erfurt town hall enjoying to be out in the city even if the weather was not really good.
Hier stehe ich vor dem Erfurter Rathaus und freue mich, dass ich unterwegs sein kann, auch wenn das Wetter nicht so schön ist.
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Union Pacific is situated in the up and coming design district of downtown Victoria in one of the newly revitalized Chinatown alleyways know as "Dragon Alley". This unique architectural setting of brick and beam construction gives Union Pacific its foundation of it's character location.
The donkey path from Vualt to Cjavals, in the Alba valley (Carnic Alps) while the Sun is falling. Another shot from the last hike with Alberto.
This path is partially cut into the dolomitic stone and climbs up at the side of a 300 high wall, creating a step on the western side of the Zuc dal Boor – Cjavals ridge. One of the features of this area is the dramatic tectonic activity. Consequently the rock is usually friable. The intense ice and water erosion make rock towers and screes the most common landscape marks of this area. These mountains are not well known by hikers, and are usually despised by climbers, thought they are wonderful and the environment is unspoiled in most areas. These places were seldom inhabited by Man in the past. There are few places where it is possible to cultivate, there are no fruits to collect and hunting is difficult due to the roughness of the territory. Villages laid at the bottom of Fella, Aupa and Pontebbana valleys, while just few buildings, called in Furlan stalis (sing. stàli), were built on the steep mountain slopes and occupied only during the summer.
Only in the XVIII century, after a great demographic increase, some people left valley villages and created smaller villages in the secondary valleys or in higher positions. One of this villages, called Riulade, lays in the Alba valley. They were all abandoned during the XX century, definitely after the 1976 earthquake.
La mulatiere che di Vualt mene in Cjavals, te val di Albe (Alps Cjargnelis) ta chel che il Soreli leve a mont. Chist troi è in part sgjavât te dolomie e si rimpine su par il flanc di une parêt di tresinte metros, che crée un scjalin tal flanc de cueste Zuc dal Bòor – Cjavals. Une des carataristichis di chiste arie è la intense ativitât sismiche. Par conseguence il crêt è toc. La erosion di bande de glace e de aghe e je intense e lis tors e i gravons son i caratars pui comuns dal paisac’. Chiscj monts son pôc cognossûs dai cjaminadôrs e par solit vegnin disprezeadis de bande dai alpiniscj, distés son monts maraveôs e l’ambient è dispés incontamenât in buine part des arìis. Chiscj puests an stâs abitâs pôc dal Omp tal timp stât. Chenti son pôcs i puescj dulà che si pues cultivâ, no si cjatin fruts di ingrumâ e lâ a cjaçe è dificil par vie de severitât de morfologjie dal teretori. I paîs si cjatavin dome tal font dai canai dal Fiâr (de Fele), di Aupe e te Pontebane, tan che dome pôcjis cjasis, ditis par Furlan stâlis, ari costruidis su par lis clevis dai monts par sei abitadis dome vie par l’estât.
Dome tal XVIII siecul, daûr di une grande montade demografiche,une pocje di ìnt a vût lasâdis lis vilis tal bas dai canai e â vût creât des vilis tai canai pui piçui e par alt tai monts. Une di chistis vilis, dite Riulade, è poade tal canal di Albe. Chistis vilis an stadis bandonadis tal XX siecul, par simpri daspò dal taramot dal 1976.
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