Albi Cathedral is one of the most unique, awe-inspiring churches ever concieved, quite simply one of the wonders of the medieval world.

Although contemporary with the great gothic cathedrals of Northern France, this largely 13th century structure is radically different, being constructed almost entirely of brick and built like a mighty fortress; mostly unadorned walls rise uninterrupted from the ground like sheer cliff-faces of brick. The simplicity of the design gives it an almost modern appearance, and the massive scale gives it a quite overpowering presence.

The cathedral's powerful fortified appearance is largely down to two factors, the shape of the building is consistent with local forms of gothic churches in southern France and northern Spain, whilst thr fortified solidity can be associated with the supression of the Cathars in this area during the Albigensian Crusades, the building serving a lesson in strength and permanence as a warning to any rebellious locals.

The plain exterior was relieved in the more stable climate of the 16th century by the huge flamboyant porch on the south side of the nave, more like an enormous spikey canopy open on three sides. It remains the main entrance to the cathedral, the base of the enormous tower being so massively constructed as to leave no room for a traditional west entrance.

On entering this vast edifice one's senses are overwhelmed yet again, this time by the profusion of decoration in the cavernous interior. The walls and ceilings are entirely covered by frescoes dating from the early 16th century (mostly in Renaissance style, much of it colourful geometric patterns. The most memorable sections are the earliest frescoes at the west end from an enormous Last Judgement; the central section was sadly removed in the 18th century but the extensive and graphic depiction of the torments of Hell remains.

In addition this cathedral is rare in preserving it's 'jube' or choir screen), a late medieval masterpiece of decoration an sculpture which extends into a lavishly sculpted choir enclosure adorned with a riot of angels and saints.

All in all this unforgettable cathedral is a monument that defies description alone and bombards the senses!

Mozilla is once again investing in Chattanooga's future. They are bringing their mission to" build a web where people know more, do more and do better" to our city with serious project funding for partnerships in the community that are mission driven to serve end user needs in education and workforce development

It's simple. Mozilla wants to fund project teams with the best viable ideas that take the power of the city's gig network and applies ways to improve learning platforms and workforce development . Many of these teams and projects will be forming at the kickoff. We've heard it described as a 'call-for-RFP meets hack-a-thon.'​​ Organizers consider this kickoff event a community sprint for educators, technologists & community catalysts to come together to build the network that communities will need in the future.​

Beijing, formerly romanized as Peking, is the capital of the People's Republic of China, the world's third most populous city proper, and most populous capital city. The city, located in northern China, is governed as a municipality under the direct administration of the central government with 16 urban, suburban, and rural districts. Beijing Municipality is surrounded by Hebei Province with the exception of neighboring Tianjin Municipality to the southeast; together, the three divisions form the Jingjinji metropolitan region and the national capital region of China.

Beijing is an important world capital and global power city, and one of the world's leading centers for politics, economy and business, finance, education, culture, innovation and technology, architecture, language, and diplomacy. A megacity, Beijing is the second largest Chinese city by urban population after Shanghai and is the nation's political, cultural, and educational center. It is home to the headquarters of most of China's largest state-owned companies and houses the largest number of Fortune Global 500 companies in the world, as well as the world's four biggest financial institutions. It is also a major hub for the national highway, expressway, railway, and high-speed rail networks. The Beijing Capital International Airport has been the second busiest in the world by passenger traffic since 2010, and, as of 2016, the city's subway network is the busiest and second longest in the world.

Combining both modern and traditional architecture, Beijing is one of the oldest cities in the world, with a rich history dating back three millennia. As the last of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China, Beijing has been the political center of the country for most of the past eight centuries, and was the largest city in the world by population for much of the second millennium A.D. Encyclopædia Britannica notes that "few cities in the world have served for so long as the political headquarters and cultural center of an area as immense as China." With mountains surrounding the inland city on three sides, in addition to the old inner and outer city walls, Beijing was strategically poised and developed to be the residence of the emperor and thus was the perfect location for the imperial capital. The city is renowned for its opulent palaces, temples, parks, gardens, tombs, walls and gates. It has seven UNESCO World Heritage Sites—the Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Summer Palace, Ming Tombs, Zhoukoudian, and parts of the Great Wall and the Grand Canal— all tourist locations. Siheyuans, the city's traditional housing style, and hutongs, the narrow alleys between siheyuans, are major tourist attractions and are common in urban Beijing.

Many of Beijing's 91 universities consistently rank among the best in China, such as the Peking University and Tsinghua University. Beijing CBD is a center for Beijing's economic expansion, with the ongoing or recently completed construction of multiple skyscrapers. Beijing's Zhongguancun area is known as China's Silicon Valley and a center of innovation and technology entrepreneurship.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing

This is a photograph from the finish of the 36th Michael Manning Memorial "Dunshaughlin 10KM" Road Race and Fun Run which took place in Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath, Ireland on Saturday 20th June 2015 at 19:30. This race is widely acknowledged within the Irish running community as one of the best races in Ireland. While being very well attended and competitive it is also one of the oldest 10KM races in Ireland. The numbers for this race have exceeded expectations year on year for the past number of years. In 2008 a record field of 306 took to the start line but by 2012 this number had more than doubled with 647 runners taking part. The starting numbers in 2013 topped this again at 668. Last year, 2014, the numbers rocketed to a new record of 883. This year 862 finished the race showing that the race continues to attract very substantial crowds. This year, as in previous years, the race attracted runners from not just all of Leinster but from the four corners of Ireland. Who knows but this race could reach 1,000 entrants next year? The work of the organising committee must be commended on making this event possible. The Dunshaughlin 10KM has earned it's place at the top of the pedestal of Irish running through the sheer hard work of Dunshaughlin AC over the years. Road race events do not survive on their own. There must be dedication, hard work and a development vision amongst the committee and the host club. Well done to all.

We have an extensive set of photographs from the race tonight taken at the 9KM mark and at 400M to go. The full set is available at: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157654823417232

Timing and event management was provided by Precision Timing. Results are available on their website at www.precisiontiming.net/result.aspx?v=2748 with additional material available on their Facebook page (www.facebook.com/davidprecisiontiming?fref=ts) See their promotional video on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-7_TUVwJ6Q

Some useful links

Our Photographs from 2014: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157645329098733/

2015 Results: www.precisiontiming.net/result.aspx?v=2748

2014 Results: www.precisiontiming.net/result.aspx?v=2037

2013 Results: www.precisiontiming.net/result.aspx?v=1320

2012 Results: www.precisiontiming.net/result.aspx?v=891

History of the Dunshaughlin 10KM www.dunshaughlinac.com/

Dunshaughlin AC on Facebook: www.facebook.com/dunshaughlin.athleticclub?fref=ts

USING OUR PHOTOGRAPHS - A QUICK GUIDE AND ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS

Can I use these photographs directly from Flickr on my social media account(s)?

Yes - of course you can! Flickr provides several ways to share this and other photographs in this Flickr set. You can share directly to: email, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Tumblr, LiveJournal, and Wordpress and Blogger blog sites. Your mobile, tablet, or desktop device will also offer you several different options for sharing this photo page on your social media outlets.

BUT..... Wait there a minute....

We take these photographs as a hobby and as a contribution to the running community in Ireland. We do not charge for our photographs. Our only "cost" is that we request that if you are using these images: (1) on social media sites such as Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, Twitter,LinkedIn, Google+, VK.com, Vine, Meetup, Tagged, Ask.fm,etc or (2) other websites, blogs, web multimedia, commercial/promotional material that you must provide a link back to our Flickr page to attribute us or acknowledge us as the original photographers.

This also extends to the use of these images for Facebook profile pictures. In these cases please make a separate wall or blog post with a link to our Flickr page. If you do not know how this should be done for Facebook or other social media please email us and we will be happy to help suggest how to link to us.

I want to download these pictures to my computer or device?

You can download this photographic image here directly to your computer or device. This version is the low resolution web-quality image. How to download will vary slight from device to device and from browser to browser. Have a look for a down-arrow symbol or the link to 'View/Download' all sizes. When you click on either of these you will be presented with the option to download the image. Remember just doing a right-click and "save target as" will not work on Flickr.

I want get full resolution, print-quality, copies of these photographs?

If you just need these photographs for online usage then they can be used directly once you respect their Creative Commons license and provide a link back to our Flickr set if you use them. For offline usage and printing all of the photographs posted here on this Flickr set are available free, at no cost, at full image resolution.

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.

I would like to contribute something for your photograph(s)?

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.

Don't like your photograph here?

That's OK! We understand!

If, for any reason, you are not happy or comfortable with your picture appearing here in this photoset on Flickr then please email us at petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com and we will remove it as soon as possible. We give careful consideration to each photograph before uploading.

I want to tell people about these great photographs!

Great! Thank you! The best link to spread the word around is probably http://www.flickr.com/peterm7/sets

This is my fifth Ever After High doll, Briar Beauty, daughter of Sleeping Beauty. She's one of my holiday gifts, gifted to me by my sister via her eBay. She's such a sweetheart. She's actually younger than me, yet she's the one who keeps giving me gifts. :P

Anyways, overall, I love the way she looks. I love the color used on her. It's very similar to Barbie's signature color (Barbie pink, Pantone 219 C) which, to me, is great because I'm very fond of that shade of pink. The dress is great and I love how they shaped the skirt to look like a tulip or rosebud. I love the overall rose and thorns theme (I myself am very fond of roses in real life). And the accessories are just fabulous! From the earrings, the sunglasses, the ring, the bag and the stockings, down to the gorgeous necklace/shoulderpad piece on her neck. Just fabulous! I wish her bracelet looked more like a watch though, but it's still pretty cute as it is.

I didn't like the texture of her hair very much. It's very course, frizzy and brittle to the touch. But it's very easy to shape and it looks a lot thicker than the other dolls' hair.

And, oh, I am SO glad she has perfect eyes! I was feeling a bit discouraged because my recent purchases have all been dolls with wonky eye paint (Apple, Raven, I'm looking at you). I'm just so glad I got lucky on this one.

I'm still expecting two more packages. One will show up by maybe next week.

Is anyone else have trouble searching on Flickr? I search something and it comes up with no photos..

This is my kid's outfit after he did his thing.

This just in, for Halloween!

Fear of Fright Night Noe Gadget_10-27-11

doctornoemedia.blogspot.com/2011/10/just-in-time-for-hall...

My perrennial Halloween Horror Movie think piece, "Fear of Fright Night" is here:

www.angelfire.com/ma/babybrownsplace/articles/art7.html

My localized update to this story pegged to the filming of the movie "Halloween" in West Hollywood is here on patch.com:

patch.com/A-RbW

See my blog here:

noemedia

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I have a seasonal blog entry I'd like to call your attention to. It's called "Fear of Fright Night and is available at the following URL: doctornoemedia.blogspot.com/2007/10/from-hell.html

The original post is viewable here: http://www.angelfire.com/ma/babybrownsplace/articles/art7.html

Is this the oddest structure on a Chicago high-rise rooftop?

Get a fresh take on new homes, apartments, neighborhoods and the way life’s lived in Chicago at YoChicago.

Leilani is grounded, so today I made her suffer through taking some pictures. lol She had fun, but she is 5 and got bored fast. lol

I just can't believe how pretty she is. My goodness. She is going to break a lot of hearts.

Oh and that bench there. FREE. The hotel that I work at is doing renovations and getting rid of a bunch of old stuff. This bench was really ugly, but I refurbished it and now it's AMAZE-BALLS!

The Lighthouse in Glasgow is Scotland's Centre for Design and Architecture. It was opened as part of Glasgow's status as UK City of Architecture and Design in 1999.

The Lighthouse is the renamed conversion of the former offices of the Glasgow Herald newspaper. Completed in 1895, it was designed by the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The centre's vision is to develop the links between design, architecture, and the creative industries, seeing these as interconnected social, educational, economic and cultural issues of concern to everyone.

The Lighthouse Trust went into Administration in August 2009. At its peak the Lighthouse Trust employed around 90 staff. Its Directors moved on: Nick Barley is now Director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Following a substantial redundancy programme the remaining staff were transferred to Architecture and Design Scotland (A+DS) and Glasgow City Council (GCC). The Lighthouse building remains in the ownership of Glasgow City Council, which has made financial provision to meet the costs of operating the Centre, re-establishing it as Scotland's National Centre for Architecture and Design.

A Steering Group - made up of representatives of Glasgow City Council, Glasgow School Of Art, Scottish Enterprise, Creative Scotland, and various independent architects and designers - has now implemented a range of permanent and temporary uses within the building including a conference/events programme, catering facilities, temporary and permanent exhibitions, a limited amount of business space, and a design shop (TOJO) on the ground floor. Architecture and Design Scotland (A+DS) now occupy one of five floors of the building and continue to run a range of programmes on that floor. The remaining staff have recently been awarded extended contracts of employment with GCC.

One of the key features of The Lighthouse is the uninterrupted view over Glasgow's cityscape available from the Mackintosh Tower at the north of the building, which is accessible via a helical staircase from the third floor.

There is also another modern viewing platform at the south of the building, on the sixth floor and is only accessible via lift

This is a photograph from the Leinster Cross Country Championships which was held at Moyvalley Hotel and Golf Estate at Balyna Estate, Moyvalley, Co. Kildare, Ireland on Sunday 25th October 2015 begining at 11:00 until the final race at 14:20. The programme for today included Boys and Girls even ages, Junior male and female, Novice male and female and Masters male and female. The races were run on a superb course beside the Moyvalley hotel where the vast acres of prime farmland provided a large space to have a fair but challenging course on good firm ground.

The Leinster event was hosted by local club Na Fianna from Co. Meath. However the venue was actually just inside Co. Kildare in a part of the county where Meath and Kildare borders intersect several times along the route of the old N4/N6 road. The luxury Moyvalley Hotel & Golf resort is set amidst 550 acres of historic Kildare countryside and is easily accessed from the M6/M4 at Enfield or Kinnegad.

Results can be found at MyRunResults.com and their website www.myrunresults.com/results.html

Balyna Estate where the races were held can trace its history back to the 1500s. More recently the estate was owned by the Bewley Family of the Bewley Cafe fame. The hotel and resort were taken over by new management in 2014 who are implementing big plans to expand Moyvalley further.

Our full collection of photographs from the races today are available on Flickr at this set www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157659898745159

USING OUR PHOTOGRAPHS - A QUICK GUIDE AND ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS

Can I use these photographs directly from Flickr on my social media account(s)?

Yes - of course you can! Flickr provides several ways to share this and other photographs in this Flickr set. You can share directly to: email, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Tumblr, LiveJournal, and Wordpress and Blogger blog sites. Your mobile, tablet, or desktop device will also offer you several different options for sharing this photo page on your social media outlets.

BUT..... Wait there a minute....

We take these photographs as a hobby and as a contribution to the running community in Ireland. We do not charge for our photographs. Our only "cost" is that we request that if you are using these images: (1) on social media sites such as Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, Twitter,LinkedIn, Google+, VK.com, Vine, Meetup, Tagged, Ask.fm,etc or (2) other websites, blogs, web multimedia, commercial/promotional material that you must provide a link back to our Flickr page to attribute us or acknowledge us as the original photographers.

This also extends to the use of these images for Facebook profile pictures. In these cases please make a separate wall or blog post with a link to our Flickr page. If you do not know how this should be done for Facebook or other social media please email us and we will be happy to help suggest how to link to us.

I want to download these pictures to my computer or device?

You can download this photographic image here directly to your computer or device. This version is the low resolution web-quality image. How to download will vary slight from device to device and from browser to browser. Have a look for a down-arrow symbol or the link to 'View/Download' all sizes. When you click on either of these you will be presented with the option to download the image. Remember just doing a right-click and "save target as" will not work on Flickr.

I want get full resolution, print-quality, copies of these photographs?

If you just need these photographs for online usage then they can be used directly once you respect their Creative Commons license and provide a link back to our Flickr set if you use them. For offline usage and printing all of the photographs posted here on this Flickr set are available free, at no cost, at full image resolution.

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.

I would like to contribute something for your photograph(s)?

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.

Don't like your photograph here?

That's OK! We understand!

If, for any reason, you are not happy or comfortable with your picture appearing here in this photoset on Flickr then please email us at petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com and we will remove it as soon as possible. We give careful consideration to each photograph before uploading.

I want to tell people about these great photographs!

Great! Thank you! The best link to spread the word around is probably http://www.flickr.com/peterm7/sets

This is a photograph from the 2nd Annual Rock 'n' Roll Dublin Half Marathon which was held in Dublin, Ireland on Monday 4th August 2014 at 08:30. The Rock 'n' Roll Dublin Half Marathon also incorporated the Athletics Association of Ireland (AAI) National Half Marathon Championships which was open to all eligible runners registered with an AAI affiliated athletics club. The race started in Dublin City center at North Wall Quay and Castleforbes Road on the Liffey. The route then went West out of the city bringing runners along the famous South Quays to Inchicore and then taking a slight northerly direction into the Phoenix Park. The race finished in the Phoenix Park with runners following over half of the course within the grounds of the famous park. Over 7,000 people took part. The Rock 'n' Roll Marathon series is one of the largest running series in the world with events primarily taking place in North American Cities. However, recently the franchise has spread to Europe. One of the unique aspects of the race is that every course features live bands along the course along with cheering teams of supporters at water stations. In the Phoenix Park today there was a large entertainment area at the Finish line for competitors, families and friends to enjoy.

Reading on a Smartphone or tablet? Don't forget to scroll down further to read more about this race and see important Internet links to other information about the race! You can also find out how to access and download these photographs.

Please Note: The photographs are completely unofficial photographs of the 2nd Annual Rock 'n' Roll Dublin Half Marathon. We have absolutely no affiliation with the organisers of this event. We have no commercial links to the event in anyway way. We advise you to consult the official website of the Rock 'n' Roll Dublin Half Marathon (link below) to find information about the official event photography, video and other commericial multi-media.

There is an extensive set of photographs from this event on our Flickr photostream. The complete set is available at www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/14640001580/

Some useful Internet Links

2014 Rock 'n' Roll Dublin Half Marathon | Course Tour on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJmraLd6r5I and Course Profile Map ie.competitor.com/dublin/course

2014 Rock 'n' Roll Dublin Half Marathon Results: ie.competitor.com/dublin/results

2014 Rock 'n' Roll Dublin Half Marathon on Facebook: www.facebook.com/RnRDublin

MarathonPhoto on Facebook; www.facebook.com/marathonfoto

2014 Rock 'n' Roll Dublin Half Marathon on TWITTER: twitter.com/RnRDublinHalf

2014 Rock 'n' Roll Dublin Half Marathon Discussion Thread on Boards.ie: www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057103891

Can I use these photographs directly from Flickr on my social media account(s)?

Yes - of course you can! Flickr provides several ways to share this and other photographs in this Flickr set. You can share to: email, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Tumblr, LiveJournal, and Wordpress and Blogger blog sites. Your mobile, tablet, or desktop device will also offer you several different options for sharing this photo page on your social media outlets.

We take these photographs as a hobby and as a contribution to the running community in Ireland. Our only "cost" is our request that if you are using these images: (1) on social media sites such as Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, Twitter,LinkedIn, Google+, etc or (2) other websites, blogs, web multimedia, commercial/promotional material that you must provide a link back to our Flickr page to attribute us.

This also extends the use of these images for Facebook profile pictures. In these cases please make a separate wall or blog post with a link to our Flickr page. If you do not know how this should be done for Facebook or other social media please email us and we will be happy to help suggest how to link to us.

I want to download these pictures to my computer or device?

You can download the photographic image here direct to your computer or device. This version is the low resolution web-quality image. How to download will vary slight from device to device and from browser to browser. However - look for a symbol with three dots 'ooo' or the link to 'View/Download' all sizes. When you click on either of these you will be presented with the option to download the image. Remember just doing a right-click and "save target as" will not work on Flickr.

I want get full resolution, print-quality, copies of these photographs?

If you just need these photographs for online usage then they can be used directly once you respect their Creative Commons license and provide a link back to our Flickr set if you use them. For offline usage and printing all of the photographs posted here on this Flickr set are available free, at no cost, at full image resolution.

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 does take 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.

I would like to contribute something for your photograph(s)?

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.

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.

Creative Commons aims 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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"The Church of St. Wenceslas in Loket is a Roman Catholic parish church standing on an elevated site near the western end of the historic square in the center of the town of Loket in close proximity to the royal castle of the same name in the Sokolov district of the Karlovy Vary Region. The current baroque form of the church dates from 1734. It is located at Kostelní 14/3. Since 1963, the church has been protected as a monument.

The first written mention of the church is from 1240, and its location in the immediate vicinity of the castle suggests that it was created in connection with it. The church was built by the Knights of the Red Star Crusaders and has been a parish since its inception, and since 1248 they have administered the parish.

According to a charter from 1325 of King John of Luxembourg, the parish was supposed to be transferred from the church to a more representative place, but this never happened. From the original structure of the Romanesque church, only the northern portal and the block masonry of the northern wall have survived.

At the end of the 15th century, there were disputes between the town and the powerful Šlik family from nearby Ostrov, during which the church burned down in 1473 or 1474. Then Mikuláš Šlik and his son Matyáš started and implemented the construction of a new Gothic church. It was consecrated in 1490 and was also supposed to serve as the ancestral tomb of the Šliks.

In 1521, thanks to the support of the Lutheran Counts Šlik, the Reformation developed in Lokti, but the church remained Catholic for the time being. Until 1550, mass was held alternately in Czech and German. In 1565, Prague Archbishop Antonín Brus of Mohelnice, who was also Grand Master of the Order of the Crusaders, elevated the parish church to a dean's church. In addition to Lokte itself, the parish also included the villages of Loučky, Nové Sedlo, Hory, Nadlesí and Třídomí.

From 1594, the church served the Protestant faithful, but a year after the Battle of the White Mountain, it again served the Catholic Church, which modified the building several more times.

In 1701, the construction of a new church was started on the same site. Part of the northern wall, the perimeter walls of the chancel and the lower part of the tower were used from the original temple. In 1725, a great fire broke out in the city, and the building could not be completed until 1734. Construction work was carried out by the builder Wolfgang Braunbock from Teplá and his son Jan Ondřej. The sculptural decoration in the interior of the church (main columned altar with statues and pulpit) was provided by Jakub Eberle in 1757.

The main columned altar, until recently with an image of St. Wenceslas, dates from 1759. On the stone mensa is a painted antependium from 1744 with the Celebration of the Holy Trinity by Eliáš Dollhopf.

Loket (German Elbogen) is a historic town on the eastern edge of the Sokolov district. Approximately 3,100 inhabitants live here. Loket is located at the foot of the Slavkovský forest on the meander of the Ohře river and used to be an important royal town and the center of the Loket region. Loket is a popular tourist destination. The dominant feature of the city is the Gothic castle rising on a stone promontory above the river. The city center is a conservation area.

The history of the Loket castle dates back to the 12th century, the foundation of the town below it is of a younger date (the first written mention of Loket dates from 1234; it is also mentioned in Latin as Cubitum ) and is apparently related to the German colonization of the borderlands by Wenceslaus I. By the beginning of the 14th century, the grid was completed royal cities of Bohemia and Moravia. The government of the Czech king Přemysl Otakar II contributed the most to this. Only he gave the pace of urbanization the necessary dynamism. The network of royal cities thickened and practically completed.

Loket also belongs to more than fifty cities connected with the foundations of this great king, as historian Josef Žemlička writes in his publication Přemysl Otakar II. king at the edge of the ages. Žemlička further writes that the strong castle in Lokti belonged to the land supports on the border with Chebsk since the second quarter of the 13th century. Under Přemysl Otakar II. gained in Loketsk at the pace of colonization penetrating from Chebsk. It can therefore be assumed that the king's initiative to populate the borderlands led to the establishment of a municipality under the Loket castle, even if the opinions on this are not clear-cut. The king equipped the Loket castle fortress with a system of manors, whose hereditary users he removed from the provincial jurisdiction and assigned to the court of the burgrave or the king, although clear documents date back to the time of John of Luxembourg. The existence of the Manx system in Loketsk can be derived from the Manx system founded by Přemysl Otakar II. in Kladsk, where some charters of privileges have been preserved.

From the above, it can be concluded without much construction that Loket belonged to the area of ​​strong interest of Přemysl Otakar II. in the fortification and settlement of the borderlands, just as it is with nearby Ostrov and Kadana.

Bohemia (Latin Bohemia, German Böhmen, Polish Czechy) is a region in the west of the Czech Republic. Previously, as a kingdom, they were the center of the Czech Crown. The root of the word Czech probably corresponds to the meaning of man. The Latin equivalent of Bohemia, originally Boiohaemum (literally "land of Battles"), which over time also influenced the names in other languages, is derived from the Celtic tribe of the Boios, who lived in this area from the 4th to the 1st century BC Bohemia on it borders Germany in the west, Austria in the south, Moravia in the east and Poland in the north. Geographically, they are bounded from the north, west and south by a chain of mountains, the highest of which are the Krkonoše Mountains, in which the highest mountain of Bohemia, Sněžka, is also located. The most important rivers are the Elbe and the Vltava, with the fertile Polabean Plain extending around the Elbe. The capital and largest city of Bohemia is Prague, other important cities include, for example, Pilsen, Karlovy Vary, Kladno, Ústí nad Labem, Liberec, Hradec Králové, Pardubice and České Budějovice, Jihlava also lies partly on the historical territory of Bohemia." - 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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Lania is one of the grape cultivating villages of the island. Whilst its residents were mainly employed in the cultivation of vines - and the production of wines, Zivania (spirit) and Soutzoukos (grape sweet) in older times - due to urbanization, there are now only a few harvesters and grape producers left.

According to tradition,the village got its name from Lana, daughter of Dionysus, God of Wine, or it may be derived from the word ‘valania’ (acorn), due to the fruit of the oak trees growing abundantly in the region.

Interesting sights include the old wine press, the Commandaria Storage Museum, and an old olive press. The church of Panagia Valana is located in the centre of the village.

This is the village, where I did my resettlement course on 'Ethnic Woodturning' after serving 8 yrs in the PMRAFNS. I considered it quite a coup. : )

Gdańsk is de hoofdstad van het woiwodschap Pommeren en een voormalige Hanzestad in Polen. Gdańsk is gelegen aan de Oostzee, op de plaats waar de westelijke arm van de Wisła de Bocht van Gdańsk bereikt.

Bron: nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gdańsk

Rondreis Polen met Djoser van 11 t/m 24 mei 2019 ...

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This is a true story of Mother’s Sacrifice during the Japan Earthquake.

After the Earthquake had subsided, when the rescuers reached the ruins of a young woman’s house, they saw her dead body through the cracks. But her pose was somehow strange that she knelt on her knees like a person was worshiping; her body was leaning forward, and her two hands were supporting by an object. The collapsed house had crashed her back and her head.

With so many difficulties, the leader of the rescuer team put his hand through a narrow gap on the wall to reach the woman’s body. He was hoping that this woman could be still alive. However, the cold and stiff body told him that she had passed away for sure.

He and the rest of the team left this house and were going to search the next collapsed building. For some reasons, the team leader was driven by a compelling force to go back to the ruin house of the dead woman. Again, he knelt down and used his had through the narrow cracks to search the little space under the dead body. Suddenly, he screamed with excitement,” A child! There is a child! “

The whole team worked together; carefully they removed the piles of ruined objects around the dead woman. There was a 3 months old little boy wrapped in a flowery blanket under his mother’s dead body. Obviously, the woman had made an ultimate sacrifice for saving her son. When her house was falling, she used her body to make a cover to protect her son. The little boy was still sleeping peacefully when the team leader picked him up.

The medical doctor came quickly to exam the little boy. After he opened the blanket, he saw a cell phone inside the blanket. There was a text message on the screen. It said,” If you can survive, you must remember that I love you.” This cell phone was passing around from one hand to another. Every body that read the message wept. ” If you can survive, you must remember that I love you.” Such is the mother’s love for her child!!

It is amazing, that with just two changes of train, I can get off at Brussels Centraal. Or with just one, get off at Brussels Midi.

The Southeastern services from Dover even link up with a stress free change at Ebbsfleet, so the whole experience is enjoyable.

Only downside is, I have to travel 45 minutes up to Ebbsfleet, on the banks of the Thames, only to get on another train that will go back down the line I have just come up. And that would happen on the way back too as well.

But then with a panoramic view from the terminal looking over the junction with the Medway Valley line and then as HS1 plunges into the Thames Tunnel, plenty to see and enjoy.

This is part of the Portrait Project.

I met Donna one night at Union Square Park. She was walking down Geary, sobbing and talking out loud to no one in particular. As she passed, she said "Every day is f***ed up for me!"

She turned back, and asked for a dollar. I explained the $2 portrait project to her, and she nodded her head, wiped tears from her eyes, and posed for her portrait.

I asked her how long she had been in San Francisco, and she said "two years", while trying to hold back tears. She seemed uncomfortable talking, so I wished her well and she went on her way.

This is what I'm working on right now. This corset is 50% finished,

lot's of work to do, but I already love it.

I'm working on it almost 3

months already

Houston Zoo, TX

She is a Work in Progress.

It took a lot of hard work and ingenuity to create this girl (considering you cannot buy spray paint in the city of Chicago). I had to use other tanning methods to get the perfect shade of Ebony . I think it turned out well for my 1st time

Another 1st for me, Boil perms :/

Also i applied my Opalescent porous skin tone technique to the final coats.

With all these firsts I figured Edison would be a good name for her.

Details:

1) Nose, Eye, and Philtrum Carving

2) Painting of face and body in Ebony color

3) Pure Azone Flextion Body upgrade

4) the face and body was treated for a Opalescent porous skin look

5) AllProtected with UV MSC

6) Lips painted with Acrylic red paint and gloss varnished

7) Eyes bogggled and gaze corrected

8) Sleep eye

9) 2 custom color eye chips by Me

10) Factory face plate and eye mechanism used with a Nicky lad Scalp, which has been boil permed

Thank you Melly Kay for the tips. Even though I could not use spray paint, your kind words of encouragement pushed me through this process. :D

Lincoln is the luxury brand of Ford Motor Company. Founded in 1917 by Henry M. Leland and acquired by Ford in 1922, Lincoln has manufactured vehicles since the 1920s. Leland named the brand after his longtime hero Abraham Lincoln.

The 1932 Depression sunk car sales to pre-WWI levels whilst over 12 million people were unemployed. Edsel Ford, President of the Lincoln division, saw a sales opportunity at the top end of the market. Correctly figuring luxury cars like Pierce-Arrow and Duesenberg would not survive, Lincoln developed the new luxurious “KB” series— featuring a massive 447 cubic inch V-12 engine and an enormous 145-inch wheelbase. Weighing over 2 tons, costing more than the average house, and with bodies built by the great coach makers at the Walter Murphy Co., only 30 Sport Phaetons and 3 Sports Roadsters were built in 1932, but they helped Lincoln gain its place as one of America’s premier luxury auto marques

A matching-numbers automobile and one of a mere 125 LeBaron KB convertible roadsters ever produced, this car received a thorough restoration which was completed in the mid-1980s and the car presents very well. When the top is lowered it folds below the belt line, adding to the car's impressively long and dashing appearance. Here is a classic car that gracefully combines a sophisticated, sporty style with a memorable presence and an aura of the highest quality inside and out. The ease of driving smoothness these cars deliver may come as a revelation to those not familiar with the operation of a KB.

Lonely Mailbox

Poor lonely mailbox is so sad these days,

Sad mailbox cries for messages of love that never come.

The night waits. It's heart is so empty.

Standing, wanting in the sun, rain, snow 'til the Sun falls to the ground.

Its dull rusting beauty is a thing of the past,

Wondering where has all the gifts gone?

Crying is all I do,

Where has all the shiny paper gone?

I stood as flowers come and go.

Afraid cars would knock me over.

Fighting off squirrels from making me their home.

I cry for messages of love that never come.

Is it time for me to go? I am so old.

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June 7, 2013

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PizzaBuzz is, in a city so full of new restaurant openings, a very good idea indeed. The concept can be summed up (crudely) as âDIY Pizzaâ or "we have the toppings, you do the rest!" or "Subway, but with pizzas!". This doesnât really do it justice however and there is, obviously, much more to it than that - which Iâll now try to elaborate upon:

Essentially the idea is semi-self service pizza/food assembly. You take your place at the start of their "DIY pizza assembly lineâ and prepare yourself a pizza entirely of your own devising (though you donât have to do anything really asides from tell them what you want your pizza to be made of - it arrives pre sliced too, woo!).

You choose from 5 types of bases (gluten free options are available). These range from a âregularâ Margherita (cheese, tomato etc) to the Bianca (white sauce, mozzarella, parmesan) - plus a pretty fkn extensive range of toppings, divided into vegetables, proteins (i.e meats, fish) and cheese. Said toppings include such gastronomic curiosities such as bacon jam and wild rock shrimp. The recommended number of toppings for a pizza is about 4-5, though apparently one guy came in (drunk) on a Friday night once and ordered a £20+ pizza that contained EVERY SINGLE topping they offered. It ended up looking like a pyramid (hahahahaha!)

And, if you donât fancy coming up with your own pizza, their âsignature collectionâ of pre-designed pizzas come in around £10, and have names like Middle Earth and Etna. Once youâve picked your combo of ingredients, it takes them about 1-3 minutes to cook the whole thing in their wood fired ovens - so you might even be able to describe it as fast food. Takeaway is also an option. In the Southern Italian style, you can also get a burrata (and choose what ingredients to have it with, which is the recurring theme...)

As for the ambiance - PizzaBuzz lives inside the brand spanking new Alphabeta development on Worship street. On the inside it has a minimal vibe - almost the feel of an industrial space about it. Except theyâve made it more friendly with offcentre animal illustrations drawn onto the walls (pictured) plus their colourful logo and a recurring love of hexagonal things. Plus staff singing along to the music (not sure if this is an actual feature or if I just came in at the right time ^_^)

I must also tell you about the dough - which took a yearâs development and is quite something (theyâve got a video called âJane Doughâ in which the dough explains this all to you in a Yorkshire accent, lol). Anyway, it comes from a small mill in Oxfordshire and is, unusually, 50% spelt. I am told that this results in better texture, digestibility and mouthfeel than regular pizza. This is a big claim to make, and Iâm not sure I agree - the pizza I had, however, WAS very good and thatâs all I can say about that.

All in all, Pizzabuzz is taking a very good idea from another restaurant (*ahem*) and applying it to pizza very, very well. I wasnât surprised to hear that they have another site opening soon and can see them doing pretty well in future. Inherently, itâs fun, a bit silly, and provides you with a lot more choice than most of the (pizza based) competition. Definitely a place Iâd recommend to everybody (because who the hell doesnât like pizza, really?!)

Criccieth is a town and community on the Llyn peninsula in the Eifionydd area of Gwynedd in Wales. The town lies 5 miles (8 km) west of Porthmadog, 9 miles (14 km) east of Pwllheli and 17 miles (27 km) south of Caernarfon.

The town is a seaside resort, popular with families. Attractions include the ruins of Criccieth Castle, which have extensive views over the town and surrounding countryside. Nearby on Ffordd Castell (Castle Way) is Cadwalader's Ice Cream Parlour, opened in 1927, whilst Stryd Fawr (High Street) has several bistro style restaurants. In the centre lies Y Maes ("The Field", or town square), part of the original medieval town common.

This is almost the same shot as the one I took from the train 47 years previously! I am standing on part of the bridge support. Vegetation now dominates the scene and the main line is invisible. A part of the road bridge over the canal can just be seen and the gable-end on the right is common to both pictures.

Cargolux 747-400 making a rare approach to the North side of LAX with an Air Tahiti Airbus A340 in the background.

© Chris Heising / www.worldwildimages.com

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This is a photograph from the 3rd round of the 2017 Pat Finnerty Memorial 5KM Road League which was held in Belvedere House and Gardens, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, Ireland on Wednesday 17th May 2017 at 20:00. The Road League is promoted and organised by Mulligar Harriers Athletic Club and sponsored by local sponsors including O'Brien's Renault dealership. This is a very well established as an annual event which takes place on every Wednesday night in the month of May. Following on from the great weather from last week's race this evening's racing seen a more changeable evening. There were some heavy showers earlier in the dead and the sky showed the possibility of rain. There was a strong headwind facing the runners in the first kilometer of the race. As this was the third out of four races in the league there were slightly less participants tonight. Just under 200 participants took part in the race which runs a traffic free course over a mix of road and hilly forest trail.

Timing and event management was provided by http://www.myrunresults.com/. Their website will contain the results to today's race.

The full set of photographs is available at: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157683845935536

Can I use these photographs directly from Flickr on my social media account(s)?

Yes - of course you can! Flickr provides several ways to share this and other photographs in this Flickr set. You can share directly to: email, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, Tumblr, LiveJournal, and Wordpress and Blogger blog sites. Your mobile, tablet, or desktop device will also offer you several different options for sharing this photo page on your social media outlets.

BUT..... Wait there a minute....

We take these photographs as a hobby and as a contribution to the running community in Ireland. We do not charge for our photographs. Our only "cost" is that we request that if you are using these images: (1) on social media sites such as Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, Twitter,LinkedIn, Google+, VK.com, Vine, Meetup, Tagged, Ask.fm,etc or (2) other websites, blogs, web multimedia, commercial/promotional material that you must provide a link back to our Flickr page to attribute us or acknowledge us as the original photographers.

This also extends to the use of these images for Facebook profile pictures. In these cases please make a separate wall or blog post with a link to our Flickr page. If you do not know how this should be done for Facebook or other social media please email us and we will be happy to help suggest how to link to us.

I want to download these pictures to my computer or device?

You can download this photographic image here directly to your computer or device. This version is the low resolution web-quality image. How to download will vary slight from device to device and from browser to browser. Have a look for a down-arrow symbol or the link to 'View/Download' all sizes. When you click on either of these you will be presented with the option to download the image. Remember just doing a right-click and "save target as" will not work on Flickr.

I want get full resolution, print-quality, copies of these photographs?

If you just need these photographs for online usage then they can be used directly once you respect their Creative Commons license and provide a link back to our Flickr set if you use them. For offline usage and printing all of the photographs posted here on this Flickr set are available free, at no cost, at full image resolution.

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.

I would like to contribute something for your photograph(s)?

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.

Don't like your photograph here?

That's OK! We understand!

If, for any reason, you are not happy or comfortable with your picture appearing here in this photoset on Flickr then please email us at petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com and we will remove it as soon as possible. We give careful consideration to each photograph before uploading.

I want to tell people about these great photographs!

Great! Thank you! The best link to spread the word around is probably http://www.flickr.com/peterm7/sets

This is the original image of decorative windows near the top of the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park that I made during Melody's and my abbreviated visit on July 15, 2020 amid Covid-19 restrictions in our area of Northern California. I shot this from a couple of hundred feet away with a Low point of view from the Dahlia Garden. Before 2020, we would have used our membership passes to wander through this enchanted five gallery Victorian Greenhouse; not to be during its closure during Covid-19 lockdown. The open vent windows show in this original image. You can see the cropped version in the next slide.

This here is a picture I actually took around Christmas time up at my Aunt's house. This is her goofy and lovable German Shepherd, Zack. He is a rescue dog that is a little over a year old. Not sure about exact months haha. I took this while my bf and I were playing fetch with him in the backyard. I got him to stay put for a second while I had the ball in my hand.

I was excited to get outside and take pictures of him that day because my bf had just given me my gift from him: a 50mm f/1.4!! So I loaded it onto my 5D Mark II and started snapping away :)

Also, I think for a while now I will only be posting pictures with watermarking on them because people have been stealing pictures from my bf and I through flickr and editing them and putting their own symbol on them and we don't appreciate it. So we are both doing this now. My flickr account is set to where you can NOT save them for a reason. I know majority of everyone here takes pictures and knows exactly what I am talking about. But there are people that just get on flickr to find pictures for something on their own website without consent.

Taken with:

Canon 5D Mark II

50mm f/1.4

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twitter: rocknrollpoet91

photography business with bf: www.facebook.com/ShutterMemoriesPhotography

bf's stream: www.flickr.com/photos/x_therumor/

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This image is part of a set on the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, Minnesota, one of Frank R. Gehry’s masterpieces. Hope the set conveys an impression of the splendor, beauty and complexity of the building and of my ongoing quest to discover the essence of Gehry…

The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum (WAM) alone is worth a trip to Minneapolis. It has been a teaching museum since 1934. The WAM is located on the Mississippi river banks on the campus of the University of Minnesota and houses its huge art collection; only a small fraction is on display at a time.

The building is one of Frank R. Gehry’s gems that isn’t nearly as well recognized as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao or the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA. Built in 1993 it underwent a major renovation and addition that opened in 2011. In keeping with the building’s location facing the river, the main façade is said to represent a waterfall, whereas the floor plan resembles a fish, with the 3 galleries of the new addition representing the tail fins.

More useful information on the history of the building, architectural planning and challenges can be found at:

finance-commerce.com/2011/09/weisman-art-museum-reopens-w...

Spring is like a perhaps hand

(which comes carefully

out of Nowhere) arranging

a window, into which people look (while

people stare

arranging and changing placing

carefully there a strange

thing and a known thing here) and

changing everything carefully

spring is like a perhaps

Hand in a window

(carefully to

and fro moving New and

Old things,while

people stare carefully

moving a perhaps

fraction of flower here placing

an inch of air there) and

without breaking anything.

~E. E. Cummings~

Explored

This is an awesome venue located in Seminyak, Bali. It overlooks the ocean, with an infinity pool just at the edge. It's a restaurant, a bar and a club. The furniture in this place is all 50s/60s inspired (ie - I want to take it home with me). This is the exterior of the building. It's like the Colosseum of window shutters.

We were lucky enough to see Mark Ronson play during our stay.

This is my elbow. You may be thinking it doesnt look like an elbow and id have to agree. But i took a fall last Wednesday and by Friday i could barely move my fingers. Saturday i spent a few hours in the ER and was told theres nothing broken but I may have some serious tendon damage. I have to see a specialist but until then I'm on some good pain meds and stuff to get the crazy swelling down. right now I can't lift my camera so no new posts from me for a while. Hopefully the hospital didn't give me corona!

Kolu is a popular (South?) Indian custom / force of habit celebration during the religious festival of Navratri. Nav (not him) means 9 and ratri is night. Navratri therefore means 9 nights. A celebration of the three goddesses of Hindu mythology.

In the Kolu (also spelt golu) families arrange dolls (used to be clay dolls. Now plastic and metal make their appearance too) on steps (steps are always odd numbered) and invite other families to come visit. There's a bit of competition in these visits. A gentle one-up-man ship, as people see who has the better display.

One reason people have the golu, apparently, is to promote local artisans and local crafts. Dolls used to differ from region to region - wooden dolls had different features while clay ones would be different - and this festival is a great way to bring them all in one place.

Food is served

Mozilla HQ, Mountain View, California

Nikon D200, 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G VR

DxO (color/exposure, optics, lighting, noise, sharpening)

1/15 sec @ f/3.5, iso 110, 18.0mm (27mm)

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Lunch 2.0 at Mozilla

Just a shot of people filling up their plates with free (as in food) food. Note that the tablecloth is held down by Firefox stickers. Nice touch.

(Batch processed to keep the natives happy. If there is a good photo here I'll work on them.) See other Lunch 2.0 photos

See where this picture was taken. [?] (You can now see it in Yahoo! Maps by looking to the right.

So this is a little structure we have down in the field where we keep some of the boy's goodies. A little hay, grain, brushes, ropes, ect. I was out getting some nice shots of Rocky standing in the last bit of sun for the day when I looked over my shoulder and saw this.

I think Ranger wanted a little snack ; )

(Oh and please excuse his angry face in shot #1. I guess he was hungry, hehe ; ) )

MediaCityUK is a 0.82km² (200-acre) property development based on the media industry, located in Salford Quays, in Salford, Greater Manchester, England. MediaCityUK is developed by a partnership of the Central Salford Urban Regeneration Company, Peel Holdings and Salford City Council. One of the original advisors on the development was Michael Joroff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who also advises on the development of Digital Media City in Seoul, South Korea, and Digital Mile in Zaragoza, Spain. The development is supported by Salford City Council. The main tenant upon initial completion will be the BBC at its new 12,500m² BBC Centre, and it is hoped that other media related companies will join them. (Wikipedia)

This image is about the best of what I had been planning my whole trip to Manhattan for. I think Ernest Hass had done the main pavilion at twilight before, and in truth I think the exterior design is rather a bore despite the reputation of the Center itself. Still I want to leave nothing noteworthy out in my Manhattan collection so on to my mission.

I had tried a shot like this a few months back and from that experience knew the police and security would object to the use of a tripod. That experience was a failure because I got so upset and distracted that I calculated all but the obvious need to focus manually, bust! None the less that time I was allowed to set up on the sidewalk.

This time I hedged my bet by snapping this to kill time while waiting for the crowd to die down. This was a no tripod deal and simply holding the camera steady on a traffic cone which was on the stairs. Thus technically a Canon 5D Mark II & EF 24 mm with a Hoya Intensifier and a 6th of a second exposure. That done I went for the biggie!

No sooner had I set up the tripod, a cop comes over, bum rushes me off the sidewalk, and even objects to my standing in a vacant parking space. Figure out how to do it from across the street he says. So you tell me who are they really looking out for, and since when are the sidewalks and streets private?

I’ve heard it all, 9-11 security claims, the stop and frisk , suspicious character cracks, no tripods,no flash, get a permit, wrong time of day, on down to what’s your business, who’s it for and, who do you know. Bottom line is New York is as graft minded and crocked as back in the days of Tammany Hall when the Federal Government called in the National Guard to run the city because nobody local could be trusted.

Hence a tripod would have insured a sharper image but if you ever do see one of Lincoln Center all you’ll be looking at is crony payoffs!