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Chris is a frontline Paramedic by trade and is a caving instructor in her spare time, running her own business. She has been diving since 2004 and began through the Cave Diving Group. She is primarily a cave diver with the occasional nod to diving in the sea. She holds the current UK female cave diving depth record in the UK (Wookey Hole) and the end of the line in five caves in France and Croatia. She has run beach clean-ups on Chesil Cove and is project manager for the conservation initiative, Project Baseline South Wales Caves,
Chris has won awards for her dry cave photography and she is nominated photographer for the Ghost Fishing Project this year. She was a team member on last year's Ghost Fishing Scapa Flow project and is looking forward to returning this time in her new role.
Krushevo is one of the cities in Macedonia that has a profound cultural and historical value. Once a thriving city that was a refuge for the Macedonian people from the Ottomans, now a top tourist destination. At 1,350m above sea level Krushevo is the highest settlement classified as a city in the Balkans. An integral part of the Baba Mountain this small city that today counts only 9,684 citizens, that has a special part in Macedonian culture and history, at one point in history it was its own Republic.
For Macedonians, Krushevo is a synonym to the centuries long struggle against Ottoman rule, culminating with the Ilinden Uprising when the freed area was declared a Republic which unfortunately only lasted 10 days, from 2nd of August to the 12th of August, 1903. The rebellion was lead by Macedonian greats Nikola Karev and Pitu Guli. Today the statue Mechkin Kamen stands tall to commemorate the last moments of the uprising when the revolutionaries were killed and Krushevo was burned by an 18,000 strong Ottoman army. Therefore each year on the 2nd of August there are traditional manifestations that take place commemorating this achievement of our ancestors. A traditional horsemen march takes place from the capital Skopje to Krushevo which is led by a significant public figure.
Another monument highly identifiable with Krushevo is "Makedonium" which is a massive structure overlooking the city built to commemorate the same uprising. Makedonium is with unusual architecture and a mixture of everything which was built during Yugoslavian times.
Krushevo is also well known for the astonishing old Macedonian architecture throughout the city. Here the secluded location played in its favor, helping preserve the traditional houses and buildings which were constructed during its glory years. In 1926 Krushevo was visited by one of history's great architects, Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris), who was said to be a great fan of the local architecture.
Krushevo is also the home town of one of the most beloved Macedonian singers, Toshe Proeski, who passed away in a tragic car accident aged 26. In his honour there is a memorial house portraying his generosity, amazing voice and commitement to his nation during his short life and career.
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This is a photograph from the 11th annual running of the Meath Spring Half Marathon which was promoted and hosted by Bohermeen Athletic Club at Bohermeen, Navan, Co. Meath, Ireland on Sunday 12th of March 2023 at 11:00. The half marathon consists of a 11KM and 10KM repeated loop around the roads of Bohermeen and Oristown. The finish line is on the running track within Bohermeen Community Center. The course is a fast fair course with a few small hills. In 2016 the original course was 'reversed' which just meant that the traditional course changed to accomodate the large number of participants and the narrow country roads on which both the race participants and race traffic must both share before, during and after the race. Most runners agreed that this made the course much faster as a result. The race also includes the 49th Rennicks Cup (Men's overall team) and the 46th Father Delany Cup (Women's overall team). Over, 1400 participants finished the race.
This photograph was taken at the 6 mile/12 mile point in the course.
The weather was mild but very breezy and windy. A very strong westerly wind blew into the face of runners on the open stretches on the Navan Athboy road and on the additional section on Loop 1.
Bohermeen AC is steeped in Irish athletics history since 1927 and it is this experience and exceptional community spirit and volunteering which has made this event today so successful. Having now organised the event for six years running it is certain that the event will continue to grow and expand become one of the mainstays on the Irish athletic club road racing calendar for many years to come. This race takes place about one month after the Trim AC 10 Mile Road Race in Trim (just down the road from Bohermeen). Indeed these races truly kick-start the whole road racing season of fixtures amongst the clubs in Meath who are now famous for the quality and standard of the road races staged and organised.
The full Flickr photoset from the race today is at www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72177720306660522
Timing and event management was provided by www.myrunresults.com/. Their website is here [www.myrunresults.com/] and will contain the results to today's race.
Kumari Ghar is a palace in the center of the Kathmandu city, next to the Durbar square where a Royal Kumari selected from several Kumaris resides. Kumari, or Kumari Devi, is the tradition of worshipping young pre-pubescent girls as manifestations of the divine female energy or devi in South Asian countries. In Nepal the selection process is very rigorous. Kumari is believed to be the bodily incarnation of the goddess Taleju (the Nepali name for Durga) until she menstruates, after which it is believed that the goddess vacates her body. Serious illness or a major loss of blood from an injury are also causes for her to revert to common status. The current Royal Kumari, Matina Shakya, age four, was installed in October 2008 by the Maoist government that replaced the monarchy.
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There is little to report here, except the observation that the stands on the Pakistan side are slowly filling as well. Notice the India (left) and Pakistan (right) flags fluttering along in the foreground. These will be later taken down and retired to their respective sides of the border while the border itself closes for the night. Apologies for the poor photo quality- this was due to a defective zoom lens, oil stains on the lens filter thanks to kid the previous night in Amritsar and the general late afternoon haze. (India-Pakistan border at Wagah, near Amritsar, India, Nov. 2017)
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The Château de Chenonceau is a French château near the small village of Chenonceaux, in the Indre-et-Loire département of the Loire Valley in France.
The château was built on the site of an old mill on the River Cher, sometime before its first mention in writing in the 11th century. It was designed by the French Renaissance architect Philibert de l'Orme.
This is the Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, designed by Senenmut, and located outside of Luxor (site of the ancient Egyptian capital of Thebes) in Upper Egypt. Constructed during the reign of Queen Hatshepsut during the 18th Dynasty of the Ancient Egyptian New Kingdom between 1478 and 1458 BC. The temple complex was dedicated to the god Amun and Hatshepsut, and has three levels, and is aligned so that sunlight reaches the innermost chamber of the complex during the Winter Solstice sunrise each year. The structure is home to Hatshepsut’s burial chamber, a suncourt on the top level, three colonnades, and a chapel dedicated to Anubis, the Egyptian god of death, mummification, and embalming. The structure is considered to be the closest the Ancient Egyptians came to building Classical-style architecture like that of Rome and Greece. The structure contains many intact carvings and painted reliefs within, while the mortuary temple of Mentuhotep II sits in ruins nearby, having served as the inspiration and as a source of materials for the structure. The structure fell into disuse after Hatshepsut’s death in 1458BC, and eventually fell into ruins, with the lowermost level being partially buried by sand and debris that accumulated over almost 3400 years, while the uppermost level’s colonnade collapsed. In 1895, the ruins began to be excavated, and, over the course of about a century, the structure was partially restored by reconstituting the fallen stones and pieces back to their original locations, with the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw being responsible for much of the work.
This is simply the best carrot cake recipe ever. It's not terribly pretty on top, so you might have to flip it over and ice the bottom.
2 cups all-purpose flour
1+ 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups grated raw carrots (medium grate, about 300 grams ungrated)
4 large eggs
1 3/4 cups sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
desired amount of nuts-walnuts,almonds or pecans
1 cup canola or vegetable oilor olive oil
8 ounces crushed pineapple, undrained
For the cream cheese frosting
3 cups powdered sugar
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup butter (1 stick) softened
1 teaspoon vanilla
Heat the oven to 200C. In a large bowl, mix together flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt. Add grated carrots and toss to coat. Set aside.
In a mixing bowl, using medium speed of electric mixer, beat eggs, sugar and vanilla. Add oil and pineapple, mix well. In batches on low speed, add carrot mixture, mix until combined. Pour into your pan. Bake for 45-60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
To make the cream cheese frosting, run a dry whisk or fork through the powdered sugar to break up any lumps and set aside. In a medium mixing bowl, using electric mixer at medium speed, beat cream cheese, butter and vanilla until very smooth. Turn the mixer on low speed and add in the powdered sugar in batches.
Cool cake completely, about 1 hour. Frost with the cream cheese frosting.
This is listed on the menu at the new vegetarian chinese place in town as "mushroom strips." No description, just "mushroom strips." But holy cats these things are good. Mushrooms (portabello?) cut into strips, breaded, fried, coated in a sweet and slightly spicy sauce, and then topped with sesame seeds, served over broccoli.
I really hope this place stays open (the previous restaurants in this storefront haven't done well) because their food is so tasty and creative AND cheap. (this + rice + hot 'n sour soup + a spring roll = $6)
It is such a cold rainy miserable day in our part of the world today. This precious little pine siskin is huddled under some Roddie (Rhododendron) leaves just in-front of my window in an effort to escape the rain.
FootNote: this little bird arrived at my feeder several weeks back and appeared to be somewhat ill. The day was very warm yet it had its feathers all fluffed out as if it was cold. It just sat at one of the feeders all day long, this lasted for several days.
Today however, it is happy and seems content as it comes and goes to who knows where, who knows where? Although it does like to hang around the feeders almost as much as my three little chickadee friends.
This is the finished connectors after rewiring my Infineon eBike motor controller. Notice I staggered the hall sensor connectors block and the anderson powerpole connectors a bit. This helps them sit nicle side-by-side inside a small plastic box on the fork which you'll see later in this set. This is primarily for aesthetics, trying to cut down on the number of "loose wires" on my bike and cleanup the look.
Rewiring my Electric Bike:
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69 004 'RIDC Melton' is seen being dragged north through Huntingdon by 69 013, on October 14th 2024.
69 004 was originally built at Doncaster as a Class 56, numbered 56 069, entering service in December 1979. She worked in France between September 20th 2004 - January 11th 2007, when she was withdrawn. She was converted to 69 004, entering service in January 2022.
TOPS info:-
69004 GBRG PG G M 0 AA.
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Voronezh is a city and the administrative centre of Voronezh Oblast in southwestern Russia straddling the Voronezh River, located 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) from where it flows into the Don River. The city sits on the Southeastern Railway, which connects western Russia with the Urals and Siberia, the Caucasus and Ukraine, and the M4 highway (Moscow–Voronezh–Rostov-on-Don–Novorossiysk). In recent years the city has experienced rapid population growth, rising in 2021 to 1,057,681, up from 889,680 recorded in the 2010 Census, making it the 14th-most populous city in the country.
The first chronicle references to the word "Voronezh" are dated 1177, when the Ryazan prince Yaropolk, having lost the battle, fled "to Voronozh" and there was moving "from town to town". Modern data of archeology and history interpret Voronezh as a geographical region, which included the Voronezh river (tributary of the Don) and a number of settlements. In the lower reaches of the river, a unique Slavic town-planning complex of the 8th – early 11th century was discovered, which covered the territory of the present city of Voronezh and its environs (about 42 km long, about 13 forts and many unfortified villages). By the 12th – 13th centuries, most of the old towns were desolate, but new settlements appeared upstream, closer to Ryazan.
For many years, the hypothesis of the Soviet historian Vladimir Zagorovsky dominated: he produced the toponym "Voronezh" from the hypothetical Slavic personal name Voroneg. This man allegedly gave the name of a small town in the Chernigov Principality (now the village of Voronizh in Ukraine). Later, in the 11th or 12th century, the settlers were able to "transfer" this name to the Don region, where they named the second city Voronezh, and the river got its name from the city. However, now many researchers criticize the hypothesis, since in reality neither the name of Voroneg nor the second city was revealed, and usually the names of Russian cities repeated the names of the rivers, but not vice versa.
A comprehensive scientific analysis was conducted in 2015–2016 by the historian Pavel Popov. His conclusion: "Voronezh" is a probable Slavic macrotoponym associated with outstanding signs of nature, has a root voron- (from the proto-Slavic vorn) in the meaning of "black, dark" and the suffix -ezh (-azh, -ozh). It was not “transferred” and in the 8th - 9th centuries it marked a vast territory covered with black forests (oak forests) - from the mouth of the Voronezh river to the Voronozhsky annalistic forests in the middle and upper reaches of the river, and in the west to the Don (many forests were cut down). The historian believes that the main "city" of the early town-planning complex could repeat the name of the region – Voronezh. Now the hillfort is located in the administrative part of the modern city, in the Voronezh upland oak forest. This is one of Europe's largest ancient Slavic hillforts, the area of which – more than 9 hectares – 13 times the area of the main settlement in Kyiv before the baptism of Rus.
In it is assumed that the word "Voronezh" means bluing - a technique to increase the corrosion resistance of iron products. This explanation fits well with the proximity to the ancient city of Voronezh of a large iron deposit and the city of Stary Oskol. As well as the name of Voroneț Monastery known for its blue shade.
Folk etymology claims the name comes from combining the Russian words for raven (ворон) and hedgehog (еж) into Воронеж. According to this explanation two Slavic tribes named after the animals used this combination to name the river which later in turn provided the name for a settlement. There is not believed to be any scientific support for this explanation.
In the 16th century, the Middle Don basin, including the Voronezh river, was gradually conquered by Muscovy from the Nogai Horde (a successor state of the Golden Horde), and the current city of Voronezh was established in 1585 by Feodor I as a fort protecting the Muravsky Trail trade route against the slave raids of the Nogai and Crimean Tatars. The city was named after the river.
17th to 19th centuries
In the 17th century, Voronezh gradually evolved into a sizable town. Weronecz is shown on the Worona river in Resania in Joan Blaeu's map of 1645. Peter the Great built a dockyard in Voronezh where the Azov Flotilla was constructed for the Azov campaigns in 1695 and 1696. This fleet, the first ever built in Russia, included the first Russian ship of the line, Goto Predestinatsia. The Orthodox diocese of Voronezh was instituted in 1682 and its first bishop, Mitrofan of Voronezh, was later proclaimed the town's patron saint.
Owing to the Voronezh Admiralty Wharf, for a short time, Voronezh became the largest city of South Russia and the economic center of a large and fertile region. In 1711, it was made the seat of the Azov Governorate, which eventually morphed into the Voronezh Governorate.
In the 19th century, Voronezh was a center of the Central Black Earth Region. Manufacturing industry (mills, tallow-melting, butter-making, soap, leather, and other works) as well as bread, cattle, suet, and the hair trade developed in the town. A railway connected Voronezh with Moscow in 1868 and Rostov-on-Don in 1871.
This is the inner barrier around the "Green Zone", an area where Labour Party delegates, lobbyists and politicians can roam free in their own self-contained environment, safe from meeting the public.
The screen is perforated. I tried peering through it (see previous image to see that this didn't work, and agitated the guards)
The Stop The War images are a little of out of order in my photostream, so they are best viewed in the Set here.
This photo is from my mother's collection. I think it was taken somewhere in Mississipi. The back is stamped "Jiminez Studios - Sept 10, 1936" (update: Jiminez Studios was in Ashland KY). I think my father was working in Mississippi on highway construction. Don't know who the lady is on the left, but my mother (Katherine Waggoner Slone) is in the middle and my father (Odes Slone) is on the right. Also not sure about the baby, but it might have been my oldest sister, Maude Ruth Slone Fraley, who was born in March 1936. Dad was 29 and Mom was 26 at the time.
The building appears to be a country store or possibly a cafe, and notice that the Texaco gas, sold from the "visible" style pump, was 21 cents per gallon.
Poppy Backdrop is a computer wallpaper. Photo was taken with doll in front of the PC monitor.Parker (Sabrina)
Jumeirah is one of my favorite parts of Dubai. It's all villas and townhouses and has a wonderful Mediterranean feel, with the beach on one side and the skyscrapers of Sheikh Zayed Road (including the Burj Dubai, the tallest building in the world) on the other. There are lots of great places to eat here, and it's relatively close to the airport, Marina and old parts of town like Bur Dubai and Deira.
Except for #4, all are drive by shots (apologies for the unclean window).
I want to live in the one with the blue door, once I figure out where exactly it is :-)
Nipigon is the furtherest east that we ventured. It's a nice little town where we had a good lunch. Almost by accident we came across this fab trail. We had seen on the internet but weren't sure exactly where to access it, and bumped into it following one of the backroads out of town. The weather was passable at the start, but it started to rain on the way back to the car, and we had jog to prevent a repeat of the drenching we got earlier in the day at Ouimet Canyon...
This is a photograph from the 33rd annual Bohermeen AC Patrick Bell and Nicky Phillips Memorial 5KM Road Race, Jog, Walk, and Fun Run which was held at Bohermeen AC, Ardbracan, Navan, Co. Meath, Ireland at 19:30 on Saturday, 8th June 2018. The race was held in very sunny conditions. The race commemorates Patrick Bell, the late Bohermeen clubman who died tragically in the summer of 1985 following a traffic accident, whilst returning home from Cork having competed in the National track championships. Nicky Phillips is a former athlete and president of Bohermeen AC and is also remembered today. The wonderful atmosphere, the great racing and participation, the work by the club, Meath Athletics, the local community, and the beautiful summer's day, yet again, a fitting tribute to Patrick's memory and his contribution to Athletics in Ireland. The race also commemorates clubman Nicky Philips. Congratulations to everyone involved. Everything that is good about grassroots athletics and running in Ireland was on show in Bohermeen today. The race started 400m from the Bohermeen AC track and heads towards Navan. The course then makes 3 right hand turns around some beautiful rural country roads and turns back to Bohermeen AC and then back for the final kilometer which is straight to the track and the finish on about 60 meters of athletics track. Participants, friends and families were able to enjoy a BBQ outside on the infield of the athletics track at the club house. Over 450 runners, walkers and joggers took part in today's event with many more choosing to take part without chip timing.
All photographs were taken at finish line.
Timing and event management was provided by MyRunResults http://www.myrunresults.com/. Our full set of photographs is available here on Flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157697782067935]
The castle is situated on the Laich of Moray, a fertile plain that was once the swampy foreshore of Spynie Loch. This was originally a more defensive position than it appears today, long after the loch was drained.
The motte is a huge man-made mound, with steep sides and a wide ditch separating it from the bailey. The whole site is enclosed by a water-filled ditch, which is more a mark of its boundary than it is a serious defensive measure.
Duffus Castle was built by a Flemish man named Freskin, who came to Scotland in the first half of the 1100s. After an uprising by the ‘men of Moray’ against David I in 1130, the king sent Freskin north as a representative of royal authority.
He was given the estate of Duffus, and here he built an earthwork-and-timber castle. Freskin’s son William adopted the title of ‘de Moravia’ – of Moray. By 1200, the family had become the most influential noble family in northern Scotland, giving rise to the earls of Sutherland and Clan Murray.
In about 1270, the castle passed to Sir Reginald Cheyne the Elder, Lord of Inverugie. He probably built the square stone keep on top of the motte, and the curtain wall encircling the bailey. In 1305, the invading King Edward I of England gave him a grant of 200 oaks from the royal forests of Darnaway and Longmorn, which were probably used for the castle’s floors and roofs.
By 1350, the castle had passed to a younger son of the Earl of Sutherland through marriage. It may have been then that the keep was abandoned, possibly because it was beginning to slip down the mound, and a new residence established at the north of the bailey.
Viscount Dundee, leader of the first Jacobite Rising, dined in the castle as a guest of James, Lord Duffus in 1689, prior to his victory against King William II’s government forces at Killiecrankie. Soon after, Lord Duffus moved to the nearby Duffus House. The castle quickly fell into decay.
I'm working on a painting today. First step is transferring the printed out line drawing to watercolor paper. I use some ghetto carbon paper I made, taped to the back of the drawing.
"Here is a shot of an enormous cable car trestle that headed up to Portland Heights where Cable Avenue is today, 1890.
- Cable cars appeared in Portland in January of 1890. The first line ran from Irving Street, near Union Station, along 5th to Jefferson Street and along Jefferson past the Vista Bridge into Washington Park (formerly City Park). It had a sideline from 5th and Alder to Front Street and another at Soutwest 18th up to Spring Street. On the Spring Street segment, lay the line’s most impressive element, a trestle spanning one thousand feet.
The Portland Cable Railway Company was incorporated in 1887 to provide public transportation to the area west of the city. The Portland Cable Railway line was modeled on San Francisco cable cars lines, which worked well in that hilly city. Initial investments went to the purchase of real estate, and an intensive sales campaign followed since the only way to make the line profitable was to generate traffic along the route.
The line opened on February 22, 1890 after operators received a brief training from San Francisco workers. The first accident on the line occurred just two days later. When the car gained speed unexpectedly, the freshly trained crew jumped from the car in panic, leaving the three passengers to fend for themselves. Luckily, the passengers escaped with only minor injuries.
Like horse drawn cars, the cable cars could operate in flood conditions, something that the electric cars, that eventually replaced them, could not do. -
Courtesy Oregon Historical Society, Trudy Flores, Sarah Griffith"
From the Portlandism Facebook group: www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=452193898200396&set=a...
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There's a lot of good info on the Portland Heights Cable Car Line at the TinZeroes blog: tinzeroes.blogspot.com/2006/04/portland-heights-cable-car...
Ohio Caverns is the largest cave system in Ohio. It is located in a bedrock knob called Mt. Tabor on the southern side of the Bellefontaine Outlier (= Ohio's elevationally highest area). The cave is hosted in the Middle Devonian Columbus Limestone, which is part of a widespread shallow marine carbonate succession in eastern and midwestern America.
The cave ceiling shown above is a breakdown detachment surface. Small to large blocks of rock that fall down from ceilings or upper walls in caves are called breakdown. Such rocks sometimes form large piles that can block entire cave passages. The surface in the photo is not an ordinary bedding plane - it's a stylolite. Stylolites are pressure dissolution surfaces. They represent surfaces where some limestone was dissolved away. Stylolites can be present in limestone, marble, and dolostone. In cross-section view, stylolites make a jagged up-and-down pattern, somewhat like a seismographic recording of an earthquake. In bedding plane view, they are non-planar and rough. Crusts of insoluble material are frequently present at stylolite surfaces. Dissolution occurs in the first place due to pressure from the weight of overlying rocks.
At Ohio Caverns, breakdown detachment principally occurs along stylolites, but non-stylolite bedding planes are also breakdown surfaces.
Locality: Ohio Caverns, Mt. Tabor, east of the town of West Liberty, northern margin of Champaign County, western Ohio, USA
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For a recent technical article on the geology of Ohio Caverns, see:
Seen on 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street in Moscow. That's not allowed is it? Or maybe it's not really opposition...my phone doesn't have one of those weird barcode scanner things.
City of Beloit Parks & Leisure Services first (annual?) "Dirty Dash" mud run for kids of all ages.
Almost (over?) 1000 people and nearly 400 kids showed up to participate. Quite possibly this is the most people attending one event at Big Hill Park since Ski Jumping in the 1940's!
Destruction is an act of creation (that's a paraphrase from Pablo Picasso). In our context, it means that when that house got destroyed in my Cleveland neighborhood, I got access to a lot of cool things to use as the basis of new texture packs.
After the rusted blue metal textures, the brick textures, the extreme scratched metal textures, and the painted wood textures, I'm happy to bring you the weathered grime textures!
The set is made of thirty-seven (37) base textures. They feature some cool grime/mud/miscellaneous scum patterns, in all their smeared, dusty, dirty glory. Think of dripping sludge against the wall. What's amazing about them is that you can use them to build up the most intense of background, or to have the most organic of masking element.
They were edited using Adobe Camera Raw, and Photoshop, for minor adjustments (lens distortion, color, exposure, orientation). They come in many different formats, to be as versatile as your workflow demands: color JPGs, black and white (positives, negatives), transparent (positives, negatives), and Bitmap TIFFs (positives, negatives).
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- Thirty-seven (37) base textures
- Available in multiple formats, for a wide range of applications: JPG, black and white JPG, PNG, and Bitmap TIFF
- 3.40 GB archive
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The house teardown collection
- Blue rusted metal textures - creativemarket.com/theshop/4626815-Blue-rusted-metal-text...
- Brick textures - creativemarket.com/theshop/4637587-Brick-textures?u=theshop
- Extreme scratched metal textures - creativemarket.com/theshop/4670389-Extreme-scratched-meta...
- Painted wood textures - creativemarket.com/theshop/4717592-Painted-wood-textures?...
- Weathered grime textures - creativemarket.com/theshop/4734255-Weathered-grime-textur...
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This is a photograph from the third annual running of the Fr. Murphy Athletic Club 10KM Road Race and Fun Run which was held in Kildalkey, Trim, Co. Meath, Ireland on Easter Sunday April 16th 2017 at 11:30. This road race also features the Meath 10KM Road Race Championships which is open to entry from any athlete who is a full member of a Meath AAI club. The race starts and finishes in the village of Kildalkey and follows a right handed rural route out towards Rathcormick, Ballivor and Moyrath before returning on the same 2KM as the start which runners will easily remember as a long straight stretch of road. The route brings the runners through beautiful Meath Countryside on low-traffic country roads.
The conditions were reasonably good for road running. The first few kilometers seen runners tackle a very stiff breeze and cool dry conditions. However at around 6KM where the race turns back towards Kildalkey the breeze became a more favourable tail wind. While we say that this is the 3rd annual running of this race it is actually the 10KM version of the traditional annual 5 Mile road race which was promoted by the Fr. Murphy athletic club in the past. Traditionally this five mile races held in Athboy on St. Patrick's Day, then Ballivor before a move to Kildalkey on Easter Sundays. There was approximately 260 participants in the race with a very large support from athletics clubs in Meath.
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Please email petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com with the links to the photographs you would like to obtain a full resolution copy of. We also ask race organisers, media, etc to ask for permission before use of our images for flyers, posters, etc. We reserve the right to refuse a request.
In summary please remember when requesting photographs from us - If you are using the photographs online all we ask is for you to provide a link back to our Flickr set or Flickr pages. You will find the link above clearly outlined in the description text which accompanies this photograph. Taking these photographs and preparing them for online posting takes a significant effort and time. We are not posting photographs to Flickr for commercial reasons. If you really like what we do please spread the link around your social media, send us an email, leave a comment beside the photographs, send us a Flickr email, etc. If you are using the photographs in newspapers or magazines we ask that you mention where the original photograph came from.
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Many people offer payment for our photographs. As stated above we do not charge for these photographs. We take these photographs as our contribution to the running community in Ireland. If you feel that the photograph(s) you request are good enough that you would consider paying for their purchase from other photographic providers or in other circumstances we would suggest that you can provide a donation to any of the great charities in Ireland who do work for Cancer Care or Cancer Research in Ireland.
Let's get a bit technical: We use Creative Commons Licensing for these photographs
We use the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License for all our photographs here in this photograph set. What does this mean in reality?
The explaination is very simple.
Attribution- anyone using our photographs gives us an appropriate credit for it. This ensures that people aren't taking our photographs and passing them off as their own. This usually just mean putting a link to our photographs somewhere on your website, blog, or Facebook where other people can see it.
ShareAlike – anyone can use these photographs, and make changes if they like, or incorporate them into a bigger project, but they must make those changes available back to the community under the same terms.
Above all what Creative Commons aims to do is to encourage creative sharing. See some examples of Creative Commons photographs on Flickr: www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
I ran in the race - but my photograph doesn't appear here in your Flickr set! What gives?
As mentioned above we take these photographs as a hobby and as a voluntary contribution to the running community in Ireland. Very often we have actually ran in the same race and then switched to photographer mode after we finished the race. Consequently, we feel that we have no obligations to capture a photograph of every participant in the race. However, we do try our very best to capture as many participants as possible. But this is sometimes not possible for a variety of reasons:
►You were hidden behind another participant as you passed our camera
►Weather or lighting conditions meant that we had some photographs with blurry content which we did not upload to our Flickr set
►There were too many people - some races attract thousands of participants and as amateur photographs we cannot hope to capture photographs of everyone
►We simply missed you - sorry about that - we did our best!
You can email us petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com to enquire if we have a photograph of you which didn't make the final Flickr selection for the race. But we cannot promise that there will be photograph there. As alternatives we advise you to contact the race organisers to enquire if there were (1) other photographs taking photographs at the race event or if (2) there were professional commercial sports photographers taking photographs which might have some photographs of you available for purchase. You might find some links for further information above.
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Great! Thank you! The best link to spread the word around is probably http://www.flickr.com/peterm7/sets
IV Wesoła Czasówka MTB - Stary Gostyń (19/03/2023)
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So this is a picture from the first roll of film I have developed. It was exciting and fun and I was very anxious that the roll would just come out completely useless. All the debates back and forth online about processing and what to use and how long got me scared. I'm looking for comments, criticism, advice, and encouragement - so please leave your feedback!! Here's the important info:
This is Kodak Tri-X 400. The pictures were taken with a Pentax P30 using variously, a Pentax 50mm F2.0, a Pentax 28mm F2.8, and a JC Penney 135mm F2.8. I believe some of the exposure issues are in camera. I did not do any Photoshop post processing (my Mac crashed last week and I lost Photoshop!). These were scanned on an Epson V500. Some were scanned at 600 dpi, some 1200 and some 1600 (I was experimenting). All scanned at 12 bit greyscale.
I used a Ross darkroom bag. And boy, for a first time experience, that was different. Groping in the dark!
Processing was:
Developer: HC110 Dilution B for 6 minutes, agitation the first 30 seconds, then 5x every 30 seconds thereafter.
Stop Bath: vinegar and water mixture for 1:15, with agitation for first minute
Fix: Kodak fixer for 5 minutes, agitation for first minute, then 5x every 30 seconds thereafter
Wash: 20 minutes with a drop of Hyper-Wet
I'm a little concerned about grain (is it from the 400 speed film, the scan rate, the processing, or am I just picky), but overall, I'm pleased with my first try at developing. Even if the subjects are a bit dull.
San Gervasio is an archaeological site of the pre-Colombian Maya civilization, located at the approximate center of the island of Cozumel off the northeastern coast of the Yucatán Peninsula. It is situated in what is now the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. The ruins were once a hub of worship to the goddess Ix Chel, the Maya Moon Goddess. Pre-Colombian Maya people would travel to the site and make offerings at certain times of the year.
Most structures have roofs less than 4 feet tall and include interior stone walls and exterior columns. Much of the shape of the structures and their roofs remain a mystery as they were enhanced by wood and straw when in their original condition. It is also speculated that further wood and straw huts surrounded many of the buildings, particularly the Plaza Central.
At the time these ruins were discovered by a Spanish landing party they had already been abandoned. It is likely that the diseases Maya caught following the introduction of Caucasian explorers made the support of a purely religious site such as this untenable. In the alternative, the loss of their native religion by the Maya and the introduction of Christianity may have instead been the reason for the abandonment of this site.
San Gervasio is a federal and state park of the United Mexican States and Quintana Roo.
The ruins and the various roads to and from each site are overgrown and there are numerous animals, particularly lizards of every size including iguanas that reach over 4 feet long. As the roads are the only areas not completely shaded by the rain forest surrounding the ruins lizards sun themselves on the road throughout the park, and are relatively acclimatized to humans.
Brahmeswara Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva located in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, erected at the end of the 9th century CE, is richly carved inside and out. This Hindu temple can be dated with fair accuracy by the use of inscriptions that were originally on the temple. They are now lost, but records of them preserve the information of around 1058 CE. The temple is built in the 18th regnal year of the Somavamsi king Udyotakesari by his mother Kolavati Devi, which corresponds to 1058 CE.
HISTORY
Historians place the temple to belong to the late 11th century as ascertained from an inscription carried to Calcutta from Bhubaneswar. The inscription indicates that the temple was built by Kolavatidevi, the mother of Somavamsi king Udyota Kesari. It was built with four Natyasalas at a place known as Siddhatirtha in Ekamra (modern day Bhubaneswar). The inscription was recorded during the 18th renal year of Udyotha Kesari, corresponding to 1060 CE. Since the inscription is not in its original place, historians indicate the possibility of the reference to another temple, but based on the location and other features specified, it is ascertained that the inscription belongs to the temple. Also, another issue raised by Panigrahi is that the four cardinal temples are Angasalas (associate temples) and not Natyasalas (dance halls) as indicated in the inscription.
ARCHITECTURE
The temple is classified as a panchatanaya temple where apart from the main shrine, there are four subsidiary shrines in the four corners around the temple. The temple on account of its later origin, has perfectly developed structure compared to its predecessors. The vimana of the temple is 18.96 m tall. The temple is built with traditional architectural methods of wood carving, but applied on stone building. The buildings were built in a shape of full volume pyramid, and then they would be carved inside and outside.The basic structure of the Orissan temple has two connecting buildings. The smaller is the Jagmohana, or assembly hall. Behind it is the Shikhara, the towering sanctuary. Later temples have two additional halls in front - one for dancing, and the other for banquets.
The Brahmeswara shows quite a bit of affinity with the much earlier Mukteswar Temple, including the carved interior of the Jagmohana, and in the sculptural iconography such as the lion head motif, which appeared for the first time in the Mukteswara, and is here evident in profusion. There are quite a number of innovations, however, including the introduction of a great number of musicians and dancers, some holding lutes, on the exterior walls. For the first time in temple architectural history iron beams find their first use.
On sandstone walls there are symbolic decorations and the notion of godlike figures that helps the believer in his meditation. The carvings over the door frame contain beautiful flower designs as well as flying figures. Like the Rajarani, there are images of the eight directional Guardian Deities. There are also quite a number of tantric-related images, and even Chamunda appears on the western facade, holding a trident and a human head, standing on a corpse. Shiva and other deities are also depicted in their horrific aspects.
One of the lost inscriptions stated that a Queen Kolavati presented 'many beautiful women' to the temple, and it has been suggested that this is an evidence of the 'Devadasi' tradition, which assumed such importance in later Orissan temple architecture and temple life.
WIKIPEDIA
This is NOT an official "trail," and that by hiking here, you do so at your own risk. I did the hike with Jeremy a knowledgeable guide at Kauai Hiking Adventures. Kalepa Ridge hike will take you along the ridge line between Honopu and Kalalau Valley's, offering some of the most incredible views into Kalalau Valley. The panoramic views into Kalalau Valley as you hike out onto the ridge stretching towards Na Pali are simply incredible. The day we did the hike the weather was clear. We began the trail at 10:30 am and finished at 1:30 pm after a lunch at the point with local fruits and many photo stops along the way.
The GPS showed a total round trip of 2.1 miles with an elevation change of 650 feet. This completes all the ocean side trails in Kokee State Park. Of all the ocean side trails, this one is the best.
Day 340 - Is it still a selfie if the setup involves two tripods, a light, a diffuser, and a reflector panel?
Tanzanite is not a gemstone that many people are aware of, which is sad because its rich and velvety royal blue color can put many other precious stones to shame, more so because of its unbelievable price. Tanzanite does resemble sapphire but has almost surpassed the blue gemstone in popularity,...
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This is a portrait of Nathan. American, War-fighter, Singer/songwriter who shares the experiences of life and war thru music. The impression that you get from Nathan immediately is that he is on a mission to help out any Veteran. He is the quintessential Soldier and leader. He is on a mission, a portion of the proceeds of his song #FallenSoldier go to charities that aid in the transition and recovery from both the visible and invisible scars of war. A true patriot!
1. what is your first name? Stefan
2. what is your favorite food? Pasta
3. what high school did you go to? Fredrika Bremer
4. what is your favorite color? Blue
5. Who is your celebrity crush? Jennifer Aniston
6. favorite drink? Guinness -
7. dream vacation? Australia
8. favorite dessert? Strawberries with cream
9. what you want to be when you grow up? Forever Young
10. what do you love most in life? Waking Up
11. one Word to describe you. Creative
12. look up your flickr name and look for a dedication
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste the html into your blog or Flickr stream (the easiest way is to copy the URLs and then head over to the fd's flickr toys link above and use the mosaic maker)
1. Travel Gear Set 4: Frankfurt PaperWorld 2007, 2. 'stick' together, 3. Stockholm - Humlegården, Fredrika Bremer, 4. When I'm sleeping, I slow down my breathing...Living in dreams, dreams that come true...thinking of the color blue... ZZZzzzzzz..., 5. so i had this dream..., 6. Danny, 7. Quick overview, 8. Strawberry with Cream ~ Frutillas con crema, 9. Jump, 10. Ducks in the Mail: At the Post Office, 11. Latest Family Portrait, 12. Trouble Shaving
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