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I really like this one in b+w because it has a different mood than the colour version. Maybe I'll post the colour version later but this one almost demanded to be converted into a monochrome pic!
Love this colourful bench on the banks of the River Suir in Clonmel. Note to self check your ISO before you shoot. No need to be anywhere near 2000 for this.
There's been so much criticism of all inclusive holidays lately that more and more holiday makers are tending towards "normal" styles. Yes, you’re bound to one or limited number of places to eat: why go pay somewhere else if you already paid for what’s here included... I agree, all inclusive is a limiting holiday basis. But, again and again, before praising or banning one must learn the goal that drove the decision. Our goal was to relax and have the kids swimming and sun-bathing. No restaurants or shops bothering what to buy or what to order, no kids boring and waiting for the waiter to bring the food... Just doing really nothing except changing clothes (no so much on, actually), laying (careful about the sun), eating (as little as possible), sleeping (perfect with the sea breezes), and the list is almost complete!
No matter how busy you are or how important you feel. Seeing other people, and being inclusive is a trait that is always highly appreciated ...
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Here is a view from my room back in August of 2016 when I went to Playa Del Carmen in Mexico. Had a wonderful time with my wife while we were there and thought this would make a cool shot.
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Participants at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa 2017. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Jakob Polacsek
We all navigate very different paths thru this life and if we are lucky enough we find someone who is willing to share the way with us, to navigate its sometimes rocky and uncomfortable lows and see past the gloom and find the brighter ways ahead . . . to share its joys and success, fun and laughter & celebrate the potential of the 'everyday' .
Sometimes its not easy to say, sometimes it gets lost in translation, but whether it be your lifes partner, family or dearest friend be thankful for the moments you have together . . . though this day is most known for representing 'romantic' love, lets all be inclusive and share the love all round!
HUGS!!
Went on our Mexico honeymoon from Tues, Oct 26th to Sat, Nov 6th, 2021. Splitting things up with four nights on Isla Mujeres and seven nights at Excellence Playa Mujeres. And we fit in an excursion day at: Grand Cenote Hubiku, Chichen Itza and Vallavodid.
Second full day at the all-inclusive resort.
Captured a bunch of sunrise photos from our balcony.
Excellence Playa Mujeres
Cancun - Quintana Roo, Mexico
Monday, November 1st, 2021
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A pool side view of the sinking hotel. I find an irony of a getaway island and abandoned structures.
Elfrida, Arizona (population 459).
Elfrida's less than thirty miles from the US-Mexico border. Stopped here for lunch on the way back to Tucson from Whitewater Draw. (The Sundown Steakhouse was pretty good.)
Uptown, downtown, entering and leaving... much of Elfrida is seen here. Truly a taste of small-town America.
St Peter, Stutton, Suffolk
The Ipswich to Manningtree road cuts off a long tongue of land from the rest of Suffolk. As the great Rivers Orwell and Stour roll towards the sea, the edge inexorably closer to each other, until at Shotley gate they meet before emptying into the North Sea. This huge natural harbour is now home to England's largest container port, but you wouldn't think anything of the kind could be so close in the gentle woods and lanes of the Peninsula, except for the cranes which occasionally peep above the treetops, of course. The setting of St Peter is idyllic: you head down through Holbrook, and then into the woods. It sits in a close with several awesomely grand houses for company, and the Stour estuary is below, wild Essex beyond.
The appearance of the church is a little unusual, and requires some investigation. This is one of the south towers found commonly in the Ipswich area. No south aisle was ever built beside it as at neighbouring Holbrook, but several successive Victorian restorations saw the addition of a long south transept which contains an organ chamber and a vestry which is largely invisible from inside the church, and the rebuilding of the chancel with the addition of a north aisle and transept. But the original tracery of the chancel east window was moved into the chancel aisle, which explains why such an overwhelmingly 19th century extension has a medieval window.
None of the restorations were the work of a major local architect. There seems to have been a rolling programme of refurbishment throughout the 1840s and 1850s, probably at the behest of a Tractarian-minded Rector. The two major restorations came in the 1860s and 1870s, and although Richard Phipson, as Norwich Diocesan Architect, certainly oversaw the work, the combination of, first, Hawkins of London, and then the firm of Francis, has left something unusual and interesting.
Stepping inside, this is an almost-entirely early Victorian interior of some high quality. The furnishings are the work of the great Ipswich woodcarver Henry Ringham, who, despite going bankrupt after overspending on his infamous Gothic House, was still sufficiently highly thought of some decades after his death to have an Ipswich road named after him. If they really date from 1842 then they are the major example of his early work.
An outstanding feature of the west end is Stutton's millennium window. These were installed in many churches at the turn of the century, and are too often kitschy and dull. No such charge could possibly levelled against Stutton's. The window is absolutely outstanding of its kind, at once enthralling, theologically articulate and inclusive. The artist was Thomas Denny, whose work is more familiar in the west of England. The upper part depicts a passage from Isaiah: And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind and a covert from the tempest; as rovers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim and the ears of them that hear shall hearken. The lower part depicts the counterpoint passage from the book of Revelation: And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Either side of the west end are memorials to 17th century Jermys. These are rather striking - they were moved here at the time the chancel was rebuilt, and depict Sir Isaac and Lady Jane Jermy on the south wall, with their son Sir John and Lady Mary Jermy opposite. The verses are well worth a second glance for an insight into 17th Century eloquence.
A remarkable memorial from more than a century earlier is at first sight rather unexciting. It is under the carpet at the east end of the nave, commemorating John Smythe of Stutton Hall, who died in 1534. It is a brass plaque in English, reading O(f your charity pray for the soule) of John Smythe, Knight. John deceased the XIIIIth day of August in the year of Our Lord MCCCCCXXXIIII O(n his soul)e Jesus have mercy. There is no figure, no heraldic devices, no trimmings at all. So what makes it so interesting? Well, at some stage, probably in the late 1540s, possibly in the early 1640s, or perhaps at some time between or shortly afterwards, all the parts of the inscription that reflect Catholic theology and doctrine have been viciously raked out, with either a sword-tip or chisel. So, we have lost f your charity pray for the soul and, at the end, n his soul. A fascinating document of the protestant intolerance of early modern England.
The chancel has been reordered in a curious manner. The rood screen is almost certainly also by Henry Ringham, making it a work of some significance, and was installed here before the chancel arch was rebuilt in 1862. It has been set further east, with the altar brought forward, and now provides an elegant backdrop to the sanctuary.
All the 19th Century glass is worth a look, being a record of work through the decades of the 19th century. Some is the 1840s work of Charles Clutterbuck, which as Pevsner points out makes them rare survivals in Suffolk. As often on the peninsula, the church suffered blast damage during the last War and several windows are lost, but these losses are recorded in their replacements. The Ward & Hughes-style window of St Helen and St Peter appears to date from the 1850s, and if so it is a remarkably early example of such a thing in Suffolk, where such papistry would have been controversial until well into the 1860s. Powell's glass of the post-Resurrection Christ greeting his Disciples on the shores of Galilee of a couple of decades later must have struck a chord of familiarity in this coastal parish, and remains a good example of the workshop's early work in Suffolk.
There is more good work in the north transept and chapel, but unfortunately this is now used as a meeting room, and is kept locked. You can see it through the glass partition, but it is impossible to photograph. Otherwise, this is a interesting and welcoming church, with a beautiful setting and a strong sense of continuity.
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Kitrhona Cerri, Executive Director, Thinking Ahead on Societal Change (TASC) Platform, Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland ; Sanda Ojiambo, Assistant Secretary-General and Chief Executive Officer, United Nations Global Compact, New York; Alex Campbell, Director, Washington Office, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), Belgium; Amol Mehra, Director, Industry Transformation, Laudes Foundation, Switzerland; Daan Wensing, Chief Executive Officer, Chair of the Executive Board, IDH - The Sustainable Trade Initiative, Netherlands; Mirek Dušek, Managing Director; Global Programming Group, World Economic Forum; Pham Binh Minh, Permanent Deputy Prime Minister of Viet Nam. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Jeffery Jones
Sustainable Development Impact Meetings, New York, USA 19 - 23 September 2022
Kupari nr Srebreno, Croatia.
Spent a very interesting and sobering couple of hours exploring the abandoned hotels in Kupari bay.
Bit of info here if you're interested.
www.thedubrovniktimes.com/lifestyle/feature/item/336-kupa...
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I've been surprised sometimes at how inclusive various leaders have been in history. In these stone churches in Lalibela one can see crosses from many parts of the world, including India, and also David's star. Inside one of the buildings in Agra one can find similar inclusiveness, symbols depicting different faiths.
Went on our Mexico honeymoon from Tues, Oct 26th to Sat, Nov 6th, 2021. Splitting things up with four nights on Isla Mujeres and seven nights at Excellence Playa Mujeres. And we fit in an excursion day at: Grand Cenote Hubiku, Chichen Itza and Vallavodid.
Third full day at the all-inclusive resort. Spent some time at another resort pool. And some more time in our room & on our balcony.
Excellence Playa Mujeres
Cancun - Quintana Roo, Mexico
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021
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