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I took this at Martin Mere nature reserve, Lancashire, using a slow shutter speed to blur the movement of the geese in flight
Amtrak's Silver Star, the southbound No. 97, slows for its station stop in Sebring, Fla., on May 8, 2016.
Taking a break from poplar trees and fall colors. I took this December 2006 with the Canon Powershot S2 IS. Today I played around with it and made the finches' silhouettes instead of the dull colors they were (it was overcast). I left the branches and buds the way they were. I like the way they add depth.
Der Hühnermarkt ist ein Platz in der Altstadt von Frankfurt am Main am Markt zwischen Kaiserdom und Römerberg. Der Hühnermarkt wurde durch die Luftangriffe auf Frankfurt am Main im Zweiten Weltkrieg und den Abriss der letzten stehengebliebenen, ausgebrannten Gebäude in der direkten Nachkriegszeit zerstört. Zwischen 1974 und 2012 war der Platz mit dem Technischen Rathaus vollständig überbaut. Im Rahmen des Dom-Römer-Projekts entstand der Hühnermarkt nach dem Abriss des Technischen Rathauses mit seinem historischen Grundriss und Rekonstruktionen von bedeutsamen Altstadthäusern von 2014 bis 2018 neu.
Der Hühnermarkt öffnet sich nach Süden zum Alten Markt, der als eine der Hauptverkehrsadern der Frankfurter Altstadt vom Kaiserdom aus zum Römer führt. Er wird heute auch als Krönungsweg bezeichnet, den die römisch-Deutschen Kaiser nach ihrer Krönung im Dom durchschritten. Nördlich schließt sich an den Hühnermarkt die Neugasse an und westlich von der Nordseite des Platzes die Gasse Hinter dem Lämmchen. Alle Häuser am Hühnermarkt tragen die Adresse Markt, bis auf das nordwestliche Eckhaus, das schon zur Gasse Hinter dem Lämmchen gehört.
Der Stoltze-Brunnen ist ein Denkmal im Stil der Neorenaissance. Er wurde nach Entwurf von Friedrich Schierholz zu Ehren des Dichters und Schriftstellers Friedrich Stoltze (1816–1891) geschaffen und 1892 auf dem Frankfurter Hühnermarkt in direkter Nähe zu Stoltzes Geburtshaus Zum Rebstock aufgestellt. Die feierliche Einweihung erfolgte am 2. November 1895. Der bisher auf dem Hühnermarkt stehende Freiheitsbrunnen wurde an das Roseneck am Weckmarkt versetzt.
Der Stoltze-Brunnen zeigt einen stufigen Aufbau mit Wasserbecken, Brunnenstock aus Rotem Mainsandstein mit einem Relief der Francofurtia (Kopie), darüber Bronzebüste des Dichters. Das Kapitell der Säule zeigt Figuren aus Stoltzes Werken, darunter der David mit der Kapp,[1] der Kranke Mann[2] und der Rote Schornsteinfeger.[3] Auf der Säule eingemeißelt ist der Sinnspruch
„Der lebte nicht vergebens
Auch ihm sei Dank und Sang
Der um den Ernst des Lebens
Den Menschen Rosen schlang“
Nach den Luftangriffen auf Frankfurt am Main im Jahr 1944 wurde der Brunnen vom zerstörten Hühnermarkt entfernt. Von 1981 bis 2016 hatte er seinen Standort auf dem Friedrich-Stoltze-Platz hinter der Katharinenkirche
Die Neue Frankfurter Altstadt (auch bekannt als Dom-Römer-Viertel bzw. -Quartier) ist das Zentrum der Altstadt von Frankfurt am Main, das von 2012 bis 2018 im Rahmen eines städtebaulichen Großvorhabens rekonstruiert wurde. Unter dem Namen Dom-Römer-Projekt wurde ein rund 7.000 Quadratmeter großes Grundstück zwischen Römerberg im Westen und dem Domplatz im Osten, begrenzt durch die Braubachstraße im Norden und die Schirn Kunsthalle im Süden, neu gestaltet und bebaut. Der Alte Markt verbindet als sogenannter Krönungsweg die beiden für die Krönung der römisch-deutschen Könige und Kaiser bedeutenden Orte. Das Gebiet bildet den Kern der Altstadt, die bis zur Zerstörung bei den Luftangriffen 1944 mit ihren rund 1250 größtenteils aus dem Mittelalter und der Renaissance stammenden Fachwerkhäusern als eine der größten und bedeutendsten Fachwerkstädte galt. Von Anfang der 1970er-Jahre bis 2010 war das Grundstück vollständig mit dem Technischen Rathaus und dem U-Bahnhof Dom/Römer bebaut.
Im Zuge des Dom-Römer-Projekts wurden die Plätze und Straßenzüge Alter Markt, Hühnermarkt, Hinter dem Lämmchen und Neugasse mit ihren historischen Grundstücken und Innenhöfen, darunter dem Hof Rebstock am Markt und dem Goldenen Lämmchen, weitgehend wiederhergestellt. Insgesamt entstanden 35 Neubauten, darunter 15 als schöpferische Nachbauten bezeichnete Rekonstruktionen von historischen Altstadthäusern. Als wertvollste Rekonstruktion und Prunkstück des Areals gilt das Haus zur Goldenen Waage. Für alle Neubauten galt eine 2010 erlassene Gestaltungssatzung, die unter anderem ausschließlich steile Satteldächer zuließ und die Verwendung bestimmter Baumaterialien vorschrieb, die für Frankfurt regionaltypisch waren und sind.
Im Zweiten Weltkrieg wurde die mittelalterliche Altstadt von Frankfurt am Main, bis dahin eine der besterhaltenen Mitteleuropas, durch Bombenangriffe nahezu komplett zerstört. Nur wenige Gebäude mit historischer Bausubstanz blieben erhalten, in der Nachkriegszeit wurden zudem weitere beschädigte Gebäude überwiegend zugunsten „autogerechter“ Verkehrsplanungen abgerissen. Sehr vereinzelt kam es zur äußerlichen Rekonstruktion von Bauwerken, der überwiegende Teil der einstigen Altstadt wurde unter weitgehender Aufgabe des historischen Straßennetzes im Stil der 1950er-Jahre neu bebaut.
Nur der Bereich zwischen Römerberg und Dom blieb nach der Enttrümmerung Brachland, über dessen Bebauung lange Zeit gestritten wurde. Währenddessen konnten Archäologen ab 1953 auf dem Areal unter den hochmittelalterlichen Schichten die Überreste einer römischen Niederlassung, aber auch jüngere Spuren, vor allem aus karolingischer Zeit freilegen. Damit galt eine jahrhundertelange Suche nach dem Ursprung der Stadt als beendet, wenngleich auch die zuvor nur durch Urkunden überlieferte Königspfalz Frankfurt nicht vom legendären Gründer Frankfurts, Karl dem Großen, sondern nach Befund erst von seinem Sohn, Ludwig dem Frommen, erbaut worden war.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%BChnermarkt
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoltze-Brunnen
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Stoltze
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neue_Frankfurter_Altstadt
Day 89/365
In Montmartre in Paris in an attic, I found this portrait of a saucy looking woman, the artist chose, though the woman is wearing a shirt, to draw her breasts in anyway in surprising detail with the nipples showing and everything. Obviously I couldn’t resist photobombing. In his mind (or was it a woman) was the artist thinking, well, there may be a shirt here but lets also stick in some boob?
Istanbul, an open-air museum on an extraordinary geographical site at the crossroads of worlds, between modernity and tradition.
- Part II
ComicCon began in San Diego in 1970 with 100 people in attendance. This year, its 45th event, will have over 130,000 in attendance, with thousands more spectators enjoying the grounds & events outside of the paid admissions areas. The convention center is more than maxed out, and the convention now takes over a good part of downtown San Diego for 5 days each summer.
ComiCon showcases comic books, science fiction/fantasy related film, television, popular arts, pop culture and entertainment in horror, animation, anime, collectibles, card games, video games, fantasy games, etc. The convention is the largest convention of its kind in the world.
My sister was kind enough to venture into ComiCon territory with me this weekend. An indescribable, over-crowded event. She was also kind enough to let me borrow her bridge camera, since my camera is 'in the shop' for 4-6 weeks. I had a really fun day with her; people watching and being amazed that thousands would wait in 5 hour lines and sleep in lawn chairs overnight to participate in it all. When I saw Britney from far away, I was hoping she would be my Stranger for the day, but just as I approached her, a t.v. crew asked her if they could film and interview her. After she signed their waivers, they asked her to wait on a bench for "just a couple minutes" while they finished up with Batman and his cohorts. I thought she might be waiting a bit longer, so I asked her if she would be part of 100 Strangers, and we'd work around the t.v. crew. She cheerfully agreed, and every few minutes we would pause our conversation to let people take pictures with her, and media photograph or video her. She is extremely popular at ComicCon!
Britney is 26 years old, from Sacramento, California, about an 8 hour drive from San Diego. Last year was the first year that she and her friends attended ComicCon, and they hope to go every year now. Britney's "character" is "Eevee" from Pokemon. She chose Eevee because she has never seen one done in CosPlay (costume play), she loves the character, and Britney made it all herself, including the makeup. That's how she spends most of her free time: thinking about, researching, designing and creating costumes for Halloween and ComicCon. She never wears the same costume twice! She looked so professional and beautiful that I asked if she wanted to go into makeup and/or costume design professionally. To my surprise, she said no, she really wants to be a mortician. She's unsure, though, because she's not sure she can learn to memorize & identify all of the biology needed for that career. Currently, she works at Spencer Gifts retail store.
She has a male Chihuahua named Itachi, meaning weasel, because he's a silly, burrowing, weasel-y dog! He especially likes to burrow into blankets and things. Britney said for a while, often she wouldn't be able to find him, but then he'd appear. Recently, she moved some furniture, and she found he had made a nest from "paper/materials stuff-he'd-collected" under a big, stuffed chair. She got him when he was just 4 weeks old, and he's 5 years old now. As much as Itachi loves to "be" places with Britney, (dog parks, stores, friends'), he hates to "go" places. He ignores and evades her if she invites him to go, and if she takes him in the car, he makes funny, other-worldly sounds the entire car ride.
Britney was born and raised in Sacramento, and has only left it for a couple years at age 13 to move with her family to Salem, Oregon. She loved the people there - very nice, friendly, polite, and welcoming, but she couldn't stand the weather. Too much grey and rain when we are used to living in sunshine most days.
She is also an accomplished karaoke singer, (just for fun!), and her favorite song of choice is "Zombie" by the Cranberries. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv5wF-E9D8Y
Britney: thank you for being sweet and gracious to give me so much of your time when there were so many distractions and others vying for your attention. I had a great time chatting with you, and I encourage you to go for your mortician's degree. I think you would be wonderful and comforting, helping people through a difficult time of losing someone. Go for it! Please leave a "hi" comment if you got to see your portraits here, and I can email you copies if you'd like them.
Find out more about this project, and see other photographers' portraits at www.flickr.com/groups/100strangers/
editorial fashion shoot for STREETFASHION MAGZZINE | Model: Melina
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Try #3-
Fulfilling the needs of the American and British automatic riflemen, Sweetwater's Kodiak™ light machine is on the top tier of infantry automatic weapons. The Kodiak was designed and tested to surpass the needs and replace the FN 249 SAW; The Kodiak beats the 249 in almost ever needed criteria -Kodiak weighs 12 and half pounds unloaded, features a simple gas tappet system, is capable of changing to .300BLK and 6.8SPC with barrel removal, is more versatile and is cheaper to produce. The Kodiak standard fire rate is less than the 249's at about 850 ROF and has its barrel chrome-lined for accuracy and flutted for reduced weight. The extractor geometry is designed to keep hot brass away from the shooter's arm and reduce extractor wear. The US Army's 173rd Airborne Combat Brigade tested the Kodiak while on a 1-year deployment and reported that the weapon system sustained zero jams while in the field, was easier to carry and shoot, required little maintenance, and didn't overheat as quickly as the 249.
Credit to the following...
Cpt. Freedom for his flutted barrel
El Mattia for the MOE grip.
Shockwave for his Magpul STR.
Miko for the KAC handstop.
and Sweetwater.
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There are only few places where I became utterly silent inside, as thought in a gap between thoughts, where one becomes completely perception and thought-free. Banks of Saif-ul-Maluk is one place. With the vast valley closing behind the Lake, creating a pass called Kach Gali, from where I just returned.
Of course I must feel isolated, alienated , alone and lonely, for I am cut off from all the elements around me and still I feel myself in the valley, feeling lost in the beauty of nature, feeling how small I am in this universe.
Quite simply, this is the area I know most about. As I sit enjoying the cool breeze whistling in my ears, all those folk tales and my past experiences run through my eyes like a film. I never had such a clear and vivid vision of the past ever.
As I opened up my eyes after a silent break and journey through the memory lane, an early evening light fall over the mountains, with monster clouds coming over the place I was some hours ago. The only sound I then heard was a Click... And I started my journey as I have no sound around me.
Taken: On return from Kach Gali, Lake Saif-ul-Maluk, Kaghan Valley, NWFP, Pakistan.
The Library of Congress Steel workers in Denver
I claim no rights other than colorizing this image if you wish to use let me know
Title
Denver, Colorado. Twenty-four hours a day the sparks from acetylene torches of steel workers in eight Denver fabricating plants are flying thick and fast that the U.S. Navy may carry the battle to the enemy in all parts of the world. Here in secluded Denver, the world's largest city not on a navigable waterway, this war production worker, who has never seen a battleship or an ocean, fashions the steel hull parts which are being assembled at Mare Island Navy Yard--1,200 miles from where he and his fellow wokers are on the job to help "keep 'em sailling."
Created / Published
1942?
Subject Headings
- United States--Colorado--Denver County--Denver.
- Colorado--Denver County--Denver
Format Headings
Nitrate negatives.
Notes
- Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
- Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card.
- LOT 2113 (Location of corresponding print.)
- Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
- More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
- Film copy on SIS roll 34, frame 393.
Medium
1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
Call Number/Physical Location
LC-USE6- D-010589 [P&P]
Source Collection
Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
Repository
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id
fsa 8b08625 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b08625
Control Number
oem2002009002/PP
Reproduction Number
LC-USE6-D-010589 (b&w film nitrate neg.) LC-DIG-fsa-8b08625 (digital file from original neg.)
Online Format
image
Description
1 negative : nitrate ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
Rights Advisory
No known restrictions on publication.
In past centuries, First Nations people of the Pacific Northwest – Kwakiutl, Haida, Tlinglit, Coast Salish, Nuxalt. Tsimshian – raised up huge poles of red cedar, carved and painted in bright colors with red, black, green.
In Vancouver's Stanley Park a collection of these examples of indigenous culture can be viewed by visitors to the city and locals alike. Grouped on Brockton Point, they feature creatures from ancient stories - some easily recognisable, like eagles and fish, while others are combined characters, such as sea-bears.
Dream in colours never seen before. Be creative.
(magnoodle)
7 Days with Flickr - Friday: flora
Macro Mondays - Into the Woods
(photo by Freya)
In the early days the Dodge Brothers made parts for Ford cars, but Henry wanted more control, so the Dodge boys decided to make their own car.
A couple Walk hand in hand along the sea shore as the sun sets. St Lucia in The Caribbean. #Sandals #SandalsHalcyonBeach
In a garden..... this cake was made for a dear little girl.... Rachel who turned 4 yesterday. When I asked her a few weeks ago what color would she like her cake to be she said " I like....hmmmm...pink, yellow, red, blues, green, purple, white...in that short time she almost listed the entire range of the rainbow. She also told me she liked lady bugs and pretty flowers.
So here is my little version of a beautiful garden....for a dear little girl.
Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did in make it.
Double barrel bottom 9 inch choc'n cherry and 6 inch choc'n cherry layered with Swiss butter cream, covered with dark chocolate ganache and fondant finish.
Yeah! Made Flickr explore on 2010-05-29 #331
Wolverines are scavengers but also skillful hunters. In Finland they take down reindeer while an adult moose is more difficult for them. They also eat small mammals, hares, foxes, birds and frogs as well as berries. The scientific name "gulo gulo" means glutton, which means excessively greedy eater.
Wolverines are known to follow wolf and lynx trails to feed on carrion those predators have already killed.
RUFOUS-TAILED HUMMINGBIRD Amazilia tzacatl. This Rufous-tailed Hummingbird is feeding at a red Sleeping Hibiscus Malvariscus arboreus flower at our house in Mindo. The hummingbird almost appears to be flying upside down, a sort of optical illusion. However, its back, wings and tail (as viewed here from above) are in a "normal" back above/abdomen below orientation, while the head and neck are rotated a little more than 90 degrees so that the bill faces to the left with the bill tip somewhat upward.
Malvariscus arboreus is a large shrub which blooms year round in Mindo and is widely used for hedges; it produces abundant flowers and the Rufous-tailed Hummingbird feeds extensively at these flowers. In the Sleeping Hibiscus flower, the petals do not furl out but remain swirled around the pistil forming a sort of tube. The bill of the Rufous-tailed Hummingbird is not long enough to reach all the way from the distal opening of the petals to the base and it pierces the petals near their base to reach the nectar. It does so by using the force of its hovering flight to press the bill tip against the petals, often penetrating two petals. Frequently the flowers are suspended at an angle and the Rufous-tailed Hummingbird pierces these flowers from their upper surface. The bill is somewhat decurved and probably for this reason the hovering Rufous-tailed Hummingbird often rotates its head as much as 90 degrees or more for the bill to be able to reach the nectar which is located above the hole produced by the bill.
This photo was taken in Mindo in northwestern Ecuador on December 15, 2014.
Un colibrí llamado Amazilia Colicastáño Amazilia tzacatl está penetrando los petalos de una flor roja Malvariscus arboreus para alcanzar en néctar en Mindo en el noroccidente de Ecuador el 15 de diciembre de 2014.
No flash - I never use flash!
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Ken & I witnessed a great phenomena on our way home! The little patch of mown ground looked like leftover cotton, or maybe trash, maybe white pelican feathers? I got out to take a closer look and discovered it was a rare form of frost! Frost feathers, or frost flowers- something we have NEVER seen before, and apparently requiring JUST the right conditions! It was like cotton candy/candy floss, scattered along the side of the road!
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3026 disappears in the distance as it departs Cowra on another shuttle to Cowra West during Easter 1994