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What is less? Colors
What is more? Everything besides colors.
If you give yourself a few more seconds on this photo, you will know what I mean, maybe.
This is the memorial to not one but two mining disasters at Auchengeich. In 1931 six miners were killed by an explosion - a number of their comrades tried to go back to save them, but were overcome by fumes and had to be rescued themselves.
The second disaster was in 1959, when 47 men were trapped by a blaze, a thousand feet below the surface of the Earth. So severe was the fire and smoke (most were overcome by the smoke, it is thought) that the rescue attempts could not get close, and eventually they were left with no choice but to flood the put to dowse the flames.
47 men gone just like that, dozens of families shattered. My mother was a wee girl when it happened, but she remembered some of the children whose family members were in the pit being taken out of school, wailing and screaming their grief. The history books like to talk about the Great Events - the Industrial Revolution, exploration, empire and all of that, but often neglects that everything was built on the broad backs of men who laboured in such dangerous conditions for little reward.
Surfing is Poetry in Motion! Athletic & Talented Professional Surf Girl Goddess! Lower Trestles San Clemente! Athletic Bikini Swimsuit Wetsuit Models Surfing Trestles Beach, San Diego! Nikon D810 + Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD G2! Surf's Up!
*Project Neverland is a way for us to show our love for Movies, TV Shows and Books in a Fashion way. We make references, not cosplays.
Model: Julia Olivo.
Team:
-Daniela Salvador
-Jenniré Narváez
-Neuzely Siqueira
-Julia Olivo
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This is a totally different post...feel free to watch these clips and read the "Rainbow Bridge" story.
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I love trees...love to support animals and the environment...Through a whole year I let my passion slip away.
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I sat at the doctor's office today. I looked at a magazine and the first page that opened up - it was a story about an Illegal monkey buisness. It hit me -- I was too much self centered the last couple of months...did not focus on the importance anymore.
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Rainbow Bridge by Author unknown...
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Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.
When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge.
There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together.
There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.
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All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor; those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by.
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The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.
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They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent; His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.
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You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.
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"Surgeons' Hall in Edinburgh, Scotland, is the headquarters of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSED). It houses the Surgeons' Hall Museum, and the library and archive of the RCSED. The present Surgeons' Hall was designed by William Henry Playfair and completed in 1832, and is a category A listed building.
Surgeons' Hall Museum is the major medical museum in Scotland, and one of Edinburgh's many tourist attractions. The museum is recognised as a collection of national significance by the Scottish Government.
The museum reopened in September 2015, after being closed for an eighteen-month period of redevelopment.
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh was incorporated in 1505, when it received its Seal of Cause or charter and became styled as 'The Incorporation of Surgeons and Barbers of Edinburgh'. The Museum at Surgeons Hall, Edinburgh dates from 1699 when the Incorporation announced that they were making a collection of ‘natural and artificial curiosities’. and advertised for these in the first edition of a local paper, the Edinburgh Gazette. Daniel Defoe, an early visitor in 1726, wrote in his Tour thro' the whole Island of Great Britain that the 'chamber of rarities' contained many curious things too numerous for him to describe. Much of this early collection was given to the University of Edinburgh in the 1760s.
By the early years of the 19th Century, the Incorporation had received a Royal Charter to become the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. The College saw its primary role as the teaching of anatomy and surgery, the training of surgeons, and examination of their acquired knowledge. Anatomy and pathology specimens were crucial to that function. The museum expanded dramatically with the acquisition of two large collections. John Barclay, a successful anatomy demonstrator in the extramural school of medicine donated his collection, while Sir Charles Bell, Professor of Surgery in the University of London and latterly in the University of Edinburgh sold his collection to the museum. These collections were much too large to be housed in the original 1697 Surgeons' Hall, and so the surgeons commissioned the leading Edinburgh architect William Playfair to build the present day Surgeons Hall, which opened in 1832. At first the entire upper floor of the building was devoted to the museum collections, which were open to the public and attracted large visitor numbers. Throughout the 19th and early 20th century the collection expanded as it became customary for surgeons and pathologists to donate not only specimens which they regarded as interesting or instructive, but surgical instruments and equipment. With the great scientific and technical advances of the time, the museum began to acquire anaesthetic equipment, histology slides, X-rays and photographs.
Edinburgh (/ˈɛdɪnbərə/; Scots: Edinburgh; Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Èideann [ˈt̪uːn ˈeːtʲən̪ˠ]) is the capital of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian on the Firth of Forth's southern shore.
Recognised as the capital of Scotland since at least the 15th century, Edinburgh is the seat of the Scottish Government, the Scottish Parliament and the supreme courts of Scotland. The city's Palace of Holyroodhouse is the official residence of the monarch in Scotland. The city has long been a centre of education, particularly in the fields of medicine, Scots law, literature, philosophy, the sciences and engineering. It is the second largest financial centre in the United Kingdom (after London) and the city's historical and cultural attractions have made it the United Kingdom's second most visited tourist destination attracting 4.9 million visits including 2.4 million from overseas in 2018.
Edinburgh is Scotland's second most populous city and the seventh most populous in the United Kingdom. The official population estimates are 488,050 (2016) for the Locality of Edinburgh (Edinburgh pre 1975 regionalisation plus Currie and Balerno), 518,500 (2018) for the City of Edinburgh, and 1,339,380 (2014) for the city region. Edinburgh lies at the heart of the Edinburgh and South East Scotland city region comprising East Lothian, Edinburgh, Fife, Midlothian, Scottish Borders and West Lothian.
The city is the annual venue of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. It is home to national institutions such as the National Museum of Scotland, the National Library of Scotland and the Scottish National Gallery. The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1582 and now one of four in the city, is placed 20th in the QS World University Rankings for 2020. The city is also known for the Edinburgh International Festival and the Fringe, the latter being the world's largest annual international arts festival. Historic sites in Edinburgh include Edinburgh Castle, the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the churches of St. Giles, Greyfriars and the Canongate, and the extensive Georgian New Town built in the 18th/19th centuries. Edinburgh's Old Town and New Town together are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, which has been managed by Edinburgh World Heritage since 1999." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
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"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself."
Solo per chi ha piacere di veder meglio la sua espressione.........View large
The Black-bellied Whistling-Duck is a large, gooselike duck
with a long neck, long legs, and short tail. In flight, look for their broad wings, long neck, and hunched back. The Black-bellied Whistling-Duck is also a boisterous duck with a brilliant pink bill
and an unusual, long-legged silhouette. In places like Texas and Louisiana, watch for noisy flocks of these gaudy ducks dropping
into fields to forage on seeds, or loafing on golf course ponds. Listen for them, too—these ducks really do have a whistle for
their call. Common south of the U.S., Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks occur in several southern states and are expanding northward.
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This is a photograph I scanned in of my Wife's Mother - Elizabeth Craigie Baird - (b 1907 Hull - d 1995 Cardiff) - in her late teens or very early 20's as she was 22 when she was married.
The scene is of her gutting fish but we're undecided as to where it was taken. It could be in Milford Haven or in Hull.
It was in a sorry state when handed to me with several large creases, rips, and 'sellotaped' tears running through the centre / diagonally, and at both the centre top and bottom of the 'photo. Add to this the hundreds of scratches / blemishes / pieces missing etc.
I set about repairing the image and removing the 'defects' etc. and emphasising my Mother-in-Law. It's not perfect by a long way, but I'm in my Wife's 'Good Books' for attempting it ! ;-)
Click on the RHS 'arrow' to see the repaired image ...
Is It Safe mural, part of the Hope for Health project, in Downtown Austin Texas during the COVID-19 pandemic, May 15, 2020.
HOPE for Health is an effort by artists in collaboration with the HOPE Outdoor Gallery to spread hope on the walls of closed, boarded-up bars on 6th street.
Here is Allen Bill Pond, a lovely manmade fishing pond just down the road from Elbow Falls, a little ways into the Canadian Rockies.
It is truly a gorgeous and idyllic spot, and always brings back happy memories for me, as it is a place I have been visiting with my family and friends as far back as I can remember!
This is the first time I've had the opportunity to photograph this fine looking AEC ’Regent' III with Park Royal body dating from about 1950, these vehicles were a familiar sight in Morecambe until the 1970s. This example is pictured at the Keighley Bus Museum, West Yorkshire, 24-04-2016.
Deboxing my Red Jasmine doll. After removing the backing from box, her skirt is partially freed from the backing to show her shoes and pants. You can see that one of her legs is tied to the doll stand, and the back of her skirt is folded and hiked above the tie. Then she is freed from the backing and the stand, and laid down on the floor.
I purchased the D23 Exclusive Limited Edition Red Jasmine 17'' Doll on her release day, Saturday August 15, 2015, from the Disney Store in the D23 Expo 2015. She is a red colored and enhanced variant of the LE 5000 Teal Jasmine, which I pre-ordered on August 4, 2015, and will be released on October 13, 2015. She is LE 500, and costs $119.95.
My doll is #226 of 500. She is such a beautiful doll, and is by far my favorite item from the Expo. She is on my desk right now, so I can admire her beauty up close as I work on my computer.
One aspect of Jasmine that I haven't mentioned before, and wasn't obvious to me when she was still boxed, is the distinct golden tone of her torso. Her head and arms have a more normal pinkish tan color. It's almost as if she got the Goldfinger treatment on her torso, both front and back. By the way, her painted on panties are gold colored, and not red as you might have guessed.
Her hair is massive and very heavy. It is permanently styled into a fancy puffy pony tail, the bottom third of which is heavily gelled to keep its curl. The upper two thirds are nice and soft. The weight of her hair make her tilt to the back and to her right, unless she is carefully posed and balanced in her stand. I didn't like the way the stand was placed behind her skirt, severly crimping it in the back. Fortunately, the slit at the waist of the skirt/pants combo was large enough to place the top of the display stand through it, so the post is inside of her skirt, instead of behind it.
I'm don't know if all the Red Jasmine dolls have the same golden tint, but I don't mind it too much. It gives her an otherworldly aura, and in my mind doesn't detract from the beauty of her face and outfit and jewelry.
I will post photos of Red Jasmine boxed, during deboxing and fully deboxed.
This title is a song by a band i like called Cursive. Their incredibly different and have a great sound! Check em out. So these last three shots are most likely the last of this chair series. They all turned out pretty solid and i'm really glad to have these in my arsenal of images, hopefully i can continue to think of shoots and if i can't lauren has about 10 spare ideas at all times. Which is awesome!
There are many different ways you can interpret this, for me it is there is no pain worse than losing a loved one.
This is a female Gorgon Copper (Lycaena gorgon) butterfly perched on her host plant - native Longstem Buckwheat aka Wand Buckwheat (Eriogonum elongatum) in the Polygonaceae plant family. I know it's a female because I saw her ovipositing on another plant a few moments before. I also got a photo of the male butterfly today visiting flowers of Golden Yarrow, but I like this one better. Unfortunately, neither photo shows the pretty upper wings - see this photo for the upper wings of male and female together. (East Camino Cielo, Santa Ynez Mountains, 11 June 2018)
The winds finally died down today, leaving us with a gorgeous day. I saw hundreds of Variable Checkerspot (Euphydryas chalcedona) butterflies today, as well as an unusual Callippe Fritillary (Speyeria callippe) and the first California Clearwing Moth (Hemaris thetis) of the year. No photos yet, but a quest begins!
dedicated to Clive Andrews ;-)
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If this is a pun, it's really bad.
If it is a mistake, it's really sad.
Or is there a deeper meaning I don't get?
Or is it an underground movement I should know?
This is some industrial building I've been trying to photograph several times but always had bad luck with the sky or weather. When I got my ND400 filter this was one of the first places to try out long exposures that came to my mind and i finally got something release-worthy
Filters used: Circular polarizer & ND400 (9-stop gray)
Originally released on my DeviantArt gallery
This area of Swindon is becoming a [minor] hotspot for this rare native species. Several sightings over the last 3 or 4 years, originally of males attracted to light traps, have now included a few females with egg masses. They seem to favour garden fences as this one has. The female will die shortly but the eggs will overwinter protected within the 'duvet' of the hairs from the females abdomen! North Swindon, Wiltshire, UK. 2017-07-28.
Bruges Brugge, Bruges or Brügge, is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located in the northwest of the country.
The historic city centre is a prominent World Heritage Site of UNESCO. It is oval-shaped and about 430 hectares in size. The area of the whole city amounts to more than 13,840 hectares, including 1,075 hectares off the coast, at Zeebrugge (meaning "Brugge aan Zee" or "Bruges on Sea"). The city's total population is 117,073 (1 January 2008), of which around 20,000 live in the historic centre. The metropolitan area, including the outer commuter zone, covers an area of 616 km² and has a total of 255,844 inhabitants as of 1 January 2008.
Along with a few other canal-based northern cities, such as Amsterdam, it is sometimes referred to as "The Venice of the North".
Bruges has a significant economic importance thanks to its port. At one time, it was the "chief commercial city" of the world.
Source: Wikipedia
Belgium 2011 ||| Night set ||| Bruges - Belgium
The Arthurs Seat Eagle is the Mornington Peninsula’s newest attraction. Opened early December 2016, you can jump aboard a state of the art gondola and enjoy the Peninsula as never before.
The all-weather Eagle carries passengers between the Base Station in Dromana to the summit of Arthurs Seat, passing high over the beautiful State Park. Passengers can board at either station. The ride is approximately 14 minutes each way and in busy periods such as school holidays, guests may have to disembark at each station.
A combination of enclosed and open cabins provides an all-weather experience for passengers. The Eagle is all inclusive and caters to the disabled, elderly, frail and toddlers. It is wheelchair and pram friendly.
The Eagle has 24 gondolas
Each gondola can hold eight guests.
The summit is 314 metres high
The flight takes approximately 15 minutes each way
There is 120t of steel in the towers
Each gondola weighs 750 kgs
Over 10,000 metres of electrical cable is used overhead to transport the gondolas up and down the slope
The gondolas were manufactured in Switzerland
The tallest tower is 19 metres from the ground to rope level
Arthur Seat, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
3x2 project.
That is, three targets for two astrophotographers (or self-styled so), myself and Alessandro Bucci.
Second target of the joint project, in fact the main subject, what pushed us to "join forces" for this project was the reflection nebula M78, in Orion. Beautiful subject, yet difficult if not taken from sufficiently dark skies, which requires a lot of care even in the processing phase. It took me about a week of attempts and "pauses for reflection" before reaching the result below, which seems to me quite satisfactory overall.
Unfortunately we were unable to dedicate the two entire evenings to shooting, due to the atmospheric problems I mentioned in the previous post, but 13 hours of shooting still proved to be enough to finally obtain a good photo on this target which I had never shot in optimal conditions.
Hope you like it as well!
Techinical data:
159x300s T-20°/-10° Gain 100 (13h25m Total Integration Time)
Bortle 3 rural sky, Pietralunga, PG (Italy)
Equipment:
Skywatcher Newton 254/1200 @F4.5 1140mm
Tecnosky 0.95x Coma Corrector
Omegon veTEC571C Color
ZWO OAG + ASI290MM Mini
Ioptron CEM70
Skywatcher Newton 254/1200
Skywatcher Coma Corrector 1x
Toupteck 571c Color
ZWO OAG + ASI224MC
Skywatcher Eq6-R
Software:
N.I.N.A., PHD2
Processing(Francesco Radici):
Pixinsight, Photoshop
Progetto 3x2.
Ovvero, tre target x due astrofotografi (o sedicenti tali), il sottoscritto ed Alessandro Bucci.
Secondo obiettivo del progetto congiunto, nonché il soggetto principale, quello che ci ha spinto ad "unire le forze" per questo progetto era la nebulosa a riflessione M78, nella costellazione di Orione. Soggetto bellissimo, quanto ostico se non ripreso da cieli sufficientemente bui, che richiede molte accortezze anche in fase di elaborazione. Ho impiegato circa una settimana tra tentativi e "pause di riflessione" prima di giungere al risultato qui sotto, che mi sembra abbastanza soddisfacente, nel complesso.
Purtroppo non siamo riusciti a dedicare le due intere serate alle riprese, per i problemi atmosferici di cui accennavo nel precedente post, ma 13 ore di riprese si sono rivelate comunque abbastanza per ottenere finalmente una buona foto su questo target che non avevo mai ripreso in condizioni degne.
Spero piaccia anche a voi!
Dati di ripresa:
159x300s T-20°/-10° Gain 100 (13h25m Total Integration Time)
Cielo rurale Bortle 3 Località Pietralunga (PG)
Questi i due setup:
Skywatcher Newton 254/1200 @F4.5 1140mm
Tecnosky 0.95x Coma Corrector
Omegon veTEC571C Color
ZWO OAG + ASI290MM Mini
Ioptron CEM70
Skywatcher Newton 254/1200
Skywatcher Coma Corrector 1x
Toupteck 571c Color
ZWO OAG + ASI224MC
Skywatcher Eq6-R
Software di ripresa:
N.I.N.A., PHD2
Elaborazione (Francesco Radici):
Pixinsight, Photoshop
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Sugarloaf is the second most popular site to visit in Rio. There are two cable-car rides to get to the top. The Sugarloaf Cable Car is called Bondinho do Pão de Açúcar. Moving between Praia Vermelha and the Sugarloaf Mountain, it stops at Morro da Urca (at 722 feet (220 m)) on its way up and down, and finally reaches the summit of the mountain at 1,299-foot (396 m).
The name "Sugarloaf" was coined in the 16th century by the Portuguese during the heyday of sugar cane trade in Brazil. According to historian Vieira Fazenda, blocks of sugar were placed in conical molds made of clay to be transported on ships. The shape given by these molds was similar to the peak, hence the name.
Here is a link to a nice map of Rio: www.orangesmile.com/destinations/img/rio-de-janeiro-map-b...
Many people may hate from " physics " but
physics is life for some of people and physics is love for someone
>> it is not love for me =D , it s just a hobby for me
:)
this photo is dedicated to Einstein
This is Ahira.
Ahira's dream is to go to a university and be a computer scientist or doctor or whatever her parents want.
Ahira is currently at the Batu Caves in Malaysia, just outside of Kuala Lumpur, walking up the hundreds of steps. She and her family are making the traditional Hindu pilgrimage to the peak, where she will light incense to Lord Murugan and other Hindu deities whose shrines lay at the top inside the cave network. While she talks to me telling me about doing whatever her parents want, her parents look on and nod approvingly.
This comes from my Portraits Portfolio here: www.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/sets/721575942039392...
This is the Nord 1500. Better known as a Griffon. This one is 02, aka F-ZWUI, the Griffon II. 01 didn't survive.
I want to keep a sense of truth. Photo is honest. Photo is myself.
This upload is a declare my determination to say I love real instant film works.
This is my own creation of vtuber Nanashi Mumei. 😊
Check out my Ko-Fi post: ko-fi.com/s/39f1d74519
Check out my Rebrickable post: rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-86724/BrickHugger171/nanashi-mum...
This is a courtesy wake-up call to anyone building something for the "Space Jam!" contest:
- You have 2 days left to enter.
- You DO have to post your entries into their appropriate entry discussions for them to count.
Just uploading them into the group pool is not enough. Just uploading them to your photostream and typing in the description that it was for the contest is not enough (...I have seen both).
We try to do the nice thing and post reminders on MOC's that we think are for the contest, but we certainly can't go through every build that has been posted over the last 2 months. Please be sure to double-check your entries while you still have time.
Thanks to everyone for entering - and good luck to all!
Raymond Terrace.
This town is located at the confluence of the Hunter and Williams Rivers as they enter the estuary region of Newcastle. Not linked to the rivers is Lake Grahamstown which is really a water storage dam taking waters from the Williams River through a canal to the dam. It provides about 40% of the Hunter region water supply and the dam and lake was created between 1956 and 1965. The town of Raymond Terrace was named after Lieutenant Raymond who was in the party led by Lieutenant Shortland who discovered the Hunter River region in 1797 when looking for escaped convicts. The terrace name was meant to describe the terraced or layered appearance of the trees along the Hunter River where they camped. On a visit to this spot in 1818 Governor Macquarie named it Raymond Terrace. Australian cedar cutters were here from the early 1800s but the first land grants only date from the early 1820s and the town itself was established in 1837. In the 19th century Raymond Terrace was a bustling river port and some river barges and ships were constructed here. The area along the Hunter River soon had warehouses, ship yards etc. The town has many sandstone and heritage buildings. These include in King Street: the Richardson and Scully warehouse/action rooms from around 1854; the old commercial building from 1847 which is now marked the Masonic Lodge as it was from 1920 to 2013; and several 1880s hotels and general stores. Look for the Marriage Trees in King Street too. In Sturgeon Street is the sandstone Anglican Church built in 1862 and across the street from it facing Jacaranda Street is the former Anglican rectory. This fine colonial house built in 1844 is now a function centre. The Norfolk Island pines in the garden were planted in 1850.
An 1850 split slab cottage known as Sketchley Cottage, built for an ex-convict William Sketchley, is now the town museum. William Sketchley was assigned as a convict to work for John Richardson in 1830 on the Hunter River. John Richardson’s son later had auction rooms in King Street in Raymond Terrace. They were then purchased by his grandson James Richardson in 1902 when his grandfather retired. The business was then known as Richardson and Scully until he sold it in 1910. The old 1854 warehouse was owned by the University of Newcastle Rowing Club from 1969 to 2004. Now privately owned since 2016. Sketchley cottage is of slab construction built before 1850 and moved to this site some decades ago. It has an extensive historical collection.
Near Raymond Terrace the National Trust has a fine historic property called Tomago House which is now permanently closed. A young barrister named Richard Windeyer had the house built. He bought around 30,000 acres of land in the Hunter Valley and 850 acres of land at this then swampy site around 1838. He had the house site drained and had the acreage planted in grape vines, sugar cane and wheat. He also had some livestock here. He was especially interested in wine and planted 12 acres of vines in 1842 and imported a German vineyard worker from South Australia in 1844 and others from Germany. They produced their first wine in 1845 making Windeyer one of the first successful wine makers in the Hunter Valley. For his wheat he imported the first wheat reaping machine into NSW from South Australia in 1846. Work began on Tomago House in 1840. Richard Windeyer died in 1847 at just 41 years of age. Their only child William Charles Windeyer was just 13 years of age at that time. Richard Windeyer’s wife Maria retained the 850 acres of Tomago estate and she eventually designed the estate chapel in 1860-61. Three generations of the Windeyer family lived on Tomago estate until 1944 when the property was sold. In the 1980s the Tomago Aluminium Smelter bought the property as a buffer around the smelter. In 1988 the smelter company donated 5 hectares (twelve acres) of land and the mansion to the National Trust. Only the chapel is visible from the road.
"Childhood is a meadow,
and as the years depart,
it remains evergreen
and can only be seen
by those who are young in heart . . ."
Perry Como
The entrance to the high meadows of Clay Cliffs, near Leland, MI, at the height of summer.
The Ferris Wheel is the largest part of the Carnival and an American expression of Freedom.
Sky Wheel,
Blue sky.
Looking at you wishing the day by.
Blue sky,
Purple sky.
Storm coming in, here it is, there's the eye.
Blue sky,
Grey sky.
The earth is wailing, the thunder yells and the clouds cry.
Blue sky,
Grey sky,
Black sky.
Tore away at the moon, swallowed stars and made the sun die.
Black sky
Green sky
Orange sky
Red sky
Pink and yellow sky.
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The Ferris Wheel was introduced to the world at the World's Colombian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago.
It was built to rival the Paris creation of the Eiffel Tower, a landmark exhibition in 1889 in France. It is interesting to note that the first Ferris Wheel was built by bridge-builder George W. Ferris, from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania; his knowledge of struts, beams and supports, as well as a skilled mastery of foundation and balance of larger constructions made him the man for the job.
George W. Ferris built the Ferris Wheel for the 1893 World's Fair, which was held in Chicago to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's landing in America.
The Chicago Fair's organizers wanted something that would rival the Eiffel Tower.
Gustave Eiffel had built the tower for the Paris World's Fair of 1889, which honored the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution.
Ferris Wheels are still very popular today. In fact, a carnival is not considered a carnival without the Ferris Wheel. Because this invention was an American contribution to the World's Fair, it has become a staple of the fairground.
The Wheels that exist today are model replicas of the original Ferris Wheel.
(Featured) The Sky Wheel Canada:
Number of enclosed Gondolas - 42
Max passengers per Gondola - 6
Gondola loading - 6 simultaneously
Height: 53 meters tall (over 175' feet)
Ride duration: 10 minutes.
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Here's Rae, a wonderful person who's become one of my closest friends lately. We went on a little adventure this afternoon, taking photos on the beach before a cheeky Costa on the way home.
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This was my first dedicated photo-trip out of the year, and I can say now that I really needed to get out and take some photos because I was getting sick of sitting doing schoolwork or playing Skyrim (despite how awesome it is).
The Château de La Ferté-Imbault (Loir-et-Cher) is a stately home in the Loire Valley, France. A fortress of the Middle Ages rebuilt during the Renaissance, it is the largest brick château in Sologne, and one of the oldest. It was the family seat of the House of d'Estampes for four centuries.
The seigneurie (lordship) of La Ferté-Imbault was the largest in the south of Sologne, whose lands included the parishes of Salbris, Saint-Genou (now Selles-Saint-Denis), Marcilly, Loreux and Souesmes. It comprised more than one hundred farms spread over tens of thousands of hectares, stretching from Loreux to Souesmes and from Saint-Viâtre to Theillay.
The château is a large "rectangular building, with large and fine windows, and flanked by four towers ; shrubberies and alleys of mature trees lend an air of grandeur and poetry that strikes both the heart and the imagination". Its position "is quite pleasant and joyful, in a place where the Sauldre divides into several channels ... The red turrets of the château rise amid these waters and this greenery, and crown marvellously the rich picture".
Traces of Roman occupation were found on the site of the present château.
The first medieval fortress was built around 980 by Humbold (or Humbault) Le Tortu, Seigneur de Vierzon and son-in-law of Thibault, comte de Blois. The foundations of the two main towers remain to this day, as does the old armoury. The nearby Sauldre feeds the moat. Hervé I, lord at Vierzon, a descendant of Humbold, on his return from the Crusades, had a collegiate church built in honor of Saint Taurinus. This church and the need to supply the fortress favored the emergence of the village of La Ferté-Imbault around it. In 1280 Jeanne de Vierzon, heiress to the lands of La Ferté-Imbault, married Godfrey of Brabant, comte d'Aerschot, son of Henry III, Duke of Brabant and Adelaide of Burgundy, Duchess of Brabant.
Godfrey of Brabant was the brother-in-law of the King of France, Philip III the Bold. His daughter, Alix de Brabant, married Jean III d'Harcourt in 1302. His marriage to the rich heiress Alix de Brabant, which brought him the seigneurie of La Ferté-Imbault, made him a close relative of Henry III, Duke of Brabant and the kings of France, as Alix was also the niece of the queen of France, Marie de Brabant.
The son of Jean III d'Harcourt and Alix de Brabant, Jean IV, first comte d'Harcourt, married Isabeau de Parthenay. Their son Guillaume d'Harcourt was the seigneur of La Ferté-Imbault. From his marriage to Blanche de Bray, Dame de Cernon, he had one daughter, Jeanne d'Harcourt, Dame de La Ferté-Imbault, who married Hugues de Montmorency. Their sons, Louis and Antoine, died at the Battle of Agincourt (1415) and the Battle of Verneuil (1424) respectively. Their sister, Catherine de Montmorency, inherited the vast estate of La Ferté-Imbault after the deaths of her two brothers.
During the Hundred Years' War, the castle and village were taken and destroyed by the troops of Edward the Black Prince. After belonging for several uninterrupted centuries to the dynasty of Humbold Le Tortu, Seigneur of Vierzon, by the alliance of the families of Brabant, Harcourt and Montmorency, the estate was sold by Catherine de Montmorency to Robert II d'Estampes, Seigneur de Valençay, in 1424. Joan of Arc stayed at La Ferté-Imbault on March 4, 1429.
The castle was rebuilt during the Renaissance. Royal power was present nearby in Blois, and Francis I of France came from neighboring Romorantin.
Partially destroyed by a fire in 1562 during the Wars of Religion, the castle was rebuilt and enlarged by the addition of two residential wings and a large outbuilding in the early seventeenth century by Jacques d'Estampes, marquis de Mauny, the richest landlord of the region, and the grandson of Guillaume de Hautemer, the duc de Grancey, better known as the Maréchal de Fervaques. (Stendhal used this name for one of the characters in The Red and the Black). Jacques d'Estampes, head of the House of d'Estampes, was also the first marquis of La Ferté-Imbault. His eldest son was the Seigneur de Salbris.
Born in the reign of Henry IV, the marquis de La Ferté-Imbault died in the reign of Louis XIV, after fighting alongside Louis XIII, whose bust still adorns the former guardhouse of the château. He was ambassador to England from 1641 to 1643, lieutenant-general of Orléanais, Vendômois and Dunois in 1645, and marshal of France in 1651. Louis XIV made him a knight of the Order of the Holy Spirit in 1661. His friendship with Gaston, Duke of Orléans, brother of Louis XIII (Monsieur, the King's brother), was flawless throughout his life; as a lieutenant of the company of gendarmes of the Duc d'Orléans, in 1620 he had a huge outbuilding constructed at the Château de La Ferté-Imbault to accommodate his company. His wife, Catherine-Blanche of Choiseul (whose godfathers were Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully and the Prince of Rohan and whose father was Charles de Choiseul, marquis de Praslin, advisor to Marie de' Medici, one of the most remarkable men of the end of the sixteenth century), was first lady-in-waiting to la Duchesse d'Orléans.
The château had its apogee in the Grand Siècle. The hearts of the Maréchal d'Estampes and his wife, Madame la Marquise d'Estampes de la Ferté-Imbault, remain at La Ferté-Imbault in the chapel of Saint-Taurinus, under an epitaph. A full-length portrait of the Maréchal d'Estampes de La Ferté-Imbault was painted in 1835 by Jean-Léonard Lugardon for King Louis-Philippe. It hangs in the sixth hall of the marshals, in the Musée de l'Histoire de France at the Palace of Versailles.
In the eighteenth century, the Prince Regent, Philippe II, Duke of Orléans renamed the regiment of Chartres-Infantry the La Ferté-Imbault regiment.
In 1743, King Louis XV acquired the marquisate of La Ferte-Imbault for his mistress, Madame de La Tournelle, on whom he wanted to confer a prestigious title in order to present her to the court. Madame de La Tournelle eventually became Duchesse de Châteauroux.
The last marquise de La Ferté-Imbault was Marie-Thérèse Geoffrin d'Estampes, daughter of the illustrious Madame Geoffrin, whose literary salon in the rue Saint-Honoré was famed throughout Europe and as far away as Russia, where the Empress Catherine II wrote to her as a friend. The marquise, whose magnificent portrait by Jean-Marc Nattier is exhibited at the Fuji Art Museum in Tokyo, enjoyed La Ferté for "the freshness of large chestnut trees that extend their shade". Her presence was requested in Versailles; Louis XV asked her to teach philosophy to his granddaughters, the princesses Elisabeth and Clotilde de France (sisters of the Duc de Berry, future Louis XVI), on the recommendation of the governess of the Enfants de France, Marie Louise de Rohan, comtesse de Marsan. She also gave Madame de Marsan scripts for skits performed by the princesses for the Dauphin and the Dauphine Marie Antoinette. Madame de La Ferté-Imbault was invited to the coronation of Louis XVI in Reims on June 11, 1775.
Madame de La Ferté-Imbault was clever, recognized for her culture and moral qualities. A woman of letters, she regularly attended her mother's salon along with most of the great minds of the Enlightenment: Denis Diderot, Voltaire, Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, Montesquieu her tutor, and Jean le Rond d'Alembert. She never remarried despite her early widowhood and several marriage proposals, including one from Stanisław Leszczyński, King of Poland, father of the Queen of France Marie Leszczyńska, who called the marquise "my Imbault".
Queen of the "Sublime Order of Lanturelus", she resisted the intrigues of the court and won the friendship of the royal family (including Madame Elizabeth, who wrote to her, "You must love, said a princess. I go further, for I love you, Imbault, and I defy my critics and my rivals to find anything to say against my tenderness", and Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, who invited her to Chantilly and always sought her advice, help and consolation) courtiers and favorites like the Marquise de Pompadour, who was her friend.
In the French Revolution the House of d'Estampes fell, and the Château de La Ferté-Imbault lost influence. The surrounding village was annexed to the neighboring town of Selles-Saint-Denis. The two wings of the château were torn down. The marquis de Pierrecourt, son of Sophie d'Estampes, owner of the château, was imprisoned during the Reign of Terror but later released. He sold the estate in 1807 to the Comte de Belmont, whose widow sold it in 1819 to the comtesse de Grandeffe, Marie-Louise de Poix.
In May 1824, a rich English family, the Lee-Kirbys from Leeds, acquired the estate of La Ferté-Imbault and moved into the château. They modernized local agriculture by adopting English innovations (forage plants and improving crops, such as clover and alfalfa) in their many farms, spread over 5,000 hectares. This foreign family was unappreciated in the village. In the Revolution of 1830, the people of La Ferté-Imbault invaded the château armed with pitchforks and spades, and sought to lynch the fleeing owner. The Protestant family's forceful proselytism led to serious opposition in the village community throughout the nineteenth century, as in 1868 during the construction of the new parish church of Saint-Taurinus, built in front of the main entrance to the château.[5] When William Lee died in 1853, his nephew and niece inherited the estate of La Ferté-Imbault and the estate was divided into two parts, the Sauldre forming the boundary. Mary-Ann Kirby received the château and part of the farms on 3,500 hectares, while Edward Howarth, her brother, received other farms and the area of La Place on the right bank of the river (on which a new château was built between 1880 and 1883), for a total surface of 1,500 hectares.
The village regained its administrative independence in 1860 but faced financial problems. The former collegiate church near the château was destroyed.
The château, whose land was significantly reduced after 1872 to a little over 1,100 hectares, was bought by the Comte Fresson. His niece, Marie Say, one of the richest heiresses of France and owner of the Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire, married Prince Amédée de Broglie, then Louis-Ferdinand d'Orléans-Bourbon, Infante of Spain. Many trips were undertaken between the two châteaux. The park, of about 50 hectares, was surrounded at that time by a brick wall.
The Château de la Ferté-Imbault, sold in 1900 to Dr. Georges Bouilly, then to Henry-René Bertrand, was seized by the Kommandantur on June 17, 1940, and saw four years of German occupation. The building suffered extensive damage in a bombing raid on May 8, 1944.
In August 1960, a "sound and light" show tracing its millennial history was organized in the castle with the voices of actors Madeleine Sologne and André Le Gall.[7] It has since been sold to new private owners but is open to visitors during the summer.
This lady is 78 years old. Whilst her grandchildren are busy making ends meet in Southern Thailand, this lady takes care of 3 of her great-grandchildren alone. This is her secret to staying young at heart.
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This is HMS Nottingham (D91), a Batch 2 Type 42 destroyer of the Royal Navy, in the English Channel. She is seen conducting manoeuvres during the 1986 Staff College Sea Days. Having been passed by several warships, each providing a commentary on her capabilities, weapons and equipment to the students on the upper deck, she is turning sharply under the stern of the last in line, HMS Boxer, and accelerating off to the next evolution. The combination of an application of power to the propellers and a hard "left hand down a bit" is producing the heel as she begins crossing our wake.
Launched on 18 February 1980, and commissioned on 8 April 1983, she was the sixth ship to bear the name. "The Notty" was the last of the short Type 42s and suffered from the usual stressing of the flexible joint amidships (but structural strengthening was not fitted at the time of this photo).
She was eventually decommissioned in February 2010 and sent to Turkey for scrapping in 2011.
My Grandmother used to say "Curiosity is a woman's curse, but in a man it's ten times worse!" - well, I have to say that I'm naturally nosey, and don't mind at all who knows it!
For some unaccountable reason I decided to visit Dunraven Bay this evening; I had been in work until nearly 6.30 emptying my desk before my two weeks leave and on a whim after returning home changed out of my suit, grabbed my camera and went to the beach. Why Dunraven I know not, it was heaving with cars and people but the light looked reasonable (what was left of it) so decided to tackle the beach despite the crowds.
In the distance I could see a couple of photographers and after taking a number of pics the curiosity got the better of me so over I strolled. I was a little surprised to find a couple of my flickr friends Angela and Leighton, but an even bigger surprise to find that my friend David (Wiffsmiff) was also on the beach! There was one other tripod I noticed - own up whoever you are!
OK, enough from me for now, off to consume the F & C I'm cooking!
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Here is the full show online.
And here is a teaser video on autonomous cars and AI.
And more backstage photos.