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The orange glow you see reflected on the second to right building is the last light from the sun before going under the horizon. these apartments have easy access to water where they can moor thwir boats if they like. You can see two people mooring a boast in this photo even. It is actually a massive pool from the area shipyard days with a huge crane above dwarfing the buildings.
You might remember these buildings from this photo shot later the same evening.
You can see other images from Sweden in my Sweden set
You should really watch this Large On Black since that brings out more details. My pictures aren't balanced for a white background and a lot of the finer details are lost in this small format. the large version is a sixth of the original - The medium size shown here even smaller...
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These guys came over from Wales to Bristol last weekend and met me at Temple Meads station...eventually, after much driving around hunting each other down and me getting stressed with the traffic and one way systems!
We had zero plans...just wandered down the road, where we found a hole in a fence and went under the railway bridge, which was pretty awesome, but very drug den like and dirty, and when I got home that day I found a cm piece of glass imbedded in the sole of my foot which I had to dig out with a needle. And get a tetanus jab for. aha the price of getting a few good pics eh!
Anyway I had a wicked afternoon with them...all lovely Welsh lads!!
Strobist: 430 EX ii x 2, through umbrellas, band left and band right
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Today was my last day of work at Dal. So I am now technically unemployed... That sounds bad, but I'm not too worried. Anyways, note the symbolism here. It's pretty deep.
Last camp at Wabasso Campgrounds, Jasper National Park.
Like the car, my Tarn 2 became more than just a tent over the 80 days I spent on the road. It was my refuge from the rain, escape from the day's travels, bed for the night, and home away from home. The photo of it with the Rocky Mountains behind under sunset light reminds me of all the evenings and nights I spent inside the tent, staring up at the off-white ceiling, wondering what the next day would bring.
A week after returning home I journeyed out to Manning Provincial Park for an overnight on the Heather Trail with a friend. While breaking down camp, I laid down inside the tent to compress my air mattress. Strangely, looking up at that off-white ceiling, I felt at home.
Journal Entry
15 July 2008
... It's nice to be around mountains again and tall trees. It's revitalizing.
NAS Oceana and the Virginia Beach City Public School (VBCPS) system have once again partnered to provide every fifth-grader enrolled in Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) the opportunity to take a one-of-kind field trip to Naval Air Station (NAS) Oceana, Friday, Sept. 15. The special Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Lab Day, was part of the annual Air Show. This event is being provided free of cost for all students and every child had a chance to take part in hands-on activities and learn about STEM careers in a real-world setting. This included displays and exhibits from NASA Langley, the Office of Naval Research and Naval Research Laboratory, Navy Expeditionary Combat Command, Wesleyen University, Engineering for Kids, Old Dominion University, Landstown High School, Navy history and heritage command, U.S. Naval research laboratory and Virginia Department of Transportation.
Photo by Craig McClure
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Ava, in last year's nutcracker Christmas jammies. Both kids' jammies from last year were looking borderline too small this year. Not ideal for photos of them reaching up high...
Like the wind
Healing all my pains away
Like the kiss
Washing me to the seashores
Home is;
Each eye
Giving me birth
Each smile
Cheering my hopes
Each wing of wine
The ecstasy of flight
Each small touch
After a long goodbye
The imagination of being
The reality of a feeling.
Home is;
The seven skies of life
Coming
Knowing
Loving
Gaining
Bringing
Impressing
Going
The Last Supper. Leonardo's experiment with oil on plaster, a failed experiment, still remains a tour de force. Its faded deterioration can't hide its genius. Harvey translated it into a modern marvel. I did nothing more than add faces to the thirteen, and add some fingers and toes. I had never studied the painting closely before, and I'm not much of conspiracy theorist, but I was baffled by some of the mystery. That hand with the knife...hmmm.
This year, the Virginia Beach Central Business District Association is hosted “Last Night on the Town” a kid-friendly New Year’s Eve celebration at The Town Center of Virginia Beach and Pembroke Mall. The festivities began in the afternoon at Pembroke Mall with entertainment for the whole family, including a kid friendly mock countdown at 5:00 PM. The adult fun continued throughout the night at the Town Center with live music by Carbon Jam, Cheap Thrills and the headlining band the Gin Blossoms. A spectacular laser light, fireworks and midnight countdown rang in 2014. All activities and entertainment were free and open to the public with Food and adult beverages available for purchase.
Photographs by Craig McClure
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I was so late with my Christmas pics last year. It seemed the whole month of Dec. my kids were sick. I took this I think a week before Christmas. All three of them were just getting over a nasty stomach bug when I took this photo. Knock on wood we are all healthier this Dec. :)
Last MetroLink On The Fleet
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Date Taken: Thursday May 11th 2017
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Transit Agency: Halifax Transit
Fleet Number: #619
Make: New Flyer
Model: D40LF
Year: 2005
Engine: Cummins ISL
Transmission: Allison B400R5
Garage: Burnside Transit Centre (BTC)
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Notes: This stop was closed off on Barington street for several months. The link buses were moved to Duke street until today back on Barrington!
Our MetroLink buses have comfy reclining seats and have carpeted walls and ceilings to reduce as much noise as possible.
bruce teabagging jeffrey zeldman because he stole the standards champion award from him at last night's .net magazine awards...
I was attempting to try every beer our resort offered. There is one beer that when I asked for it, they kept replying it would be there tomorrow. On the last day, as we ate lunch before catching a taxi to the airport, I asked one more time for Barrilito - and they had it! Too bad it wasn't very good.
Sunset at the Fleet
There is little more therapeutic than watching the sun go down with calm waters and the last warmth of summer slowly passing by.....
Last week’s photo shoots were of Tianfu Square (at night) and a day trip to Huanglongxi Ancient Town southeast of Chengdu. This week, I changed it up a little and went to a museum that I’d been wanting to visit for quite some time (but, honestly, was just too lazy to go to until now).
Sanxingdui (literally, “three star mound(s)”) is an archaeological site/museum. To give you perspective, I’ll make a few comparisons. The easiest (and less impressive) comparison is to the Jinsha Archaeological Site within the Chengdu city limits.
Jinsha is a very nice site in its own right, and has a lot of source material that dates from around 2,500-3,000 years ago. The Jinsha site was more recently discovered (2001) than the Sanxingdui site (early 20th century; excavations began in earnest in 1986). At Jinsha, things just feel like “leftovers.” I mean to say…there doesn’t feel like anything that the world at large necessarily needed to know about – though some of the art there, the skeletal remains, etc. are incredibly interesting if you have an interest in human history. However, I digress. The main point I should make regarding Jinsha and Sanxingdui is that it’s believed that the sites are from a related culture, though the timing is off by about 500 years (if I remember right from the signage at Jinsha).
The other comparison I will make is to China’s most famous archaeological site: the Terracotta Warriors in Xi’an. Those are more important from a nationalistic point of view, I suppose, in that they were made (or ordered to be made, to be more precise) by China’s first emperor circa 200 BC. Aside from that, the terracotta army is quite impressive.
I feel Sanxingdui is much more important to human history, though, and I say this for a few reasons. First, it predates China (as a “nation-state”) by about 1,000 years. Almost everything that has been unearthed here is from roughly the 12th or 13th century BC (per carbon dating). Finding this site was (rightfully so) a huge shock in the archaeological record. It wasn’t known that people were in this area, if I’m not mistaken, and that they were as advanced as they were.
As you can see from the collection, this is a people who were highly advanced, had a monetary system (based on the knowledge of cowry shells, etc.), religious practices, and a high technical skill with bronze and other alloys. The masks from Sanxingdui are the most famous part of this collection and are still in such good shape 3,000 years later that they could honestly be placed in any museum in the world. They’re truly quite impressive.
Another reason I say so little is known of the people who lived here is that, while this museum is of exceptional quality – architecturally, in presentation, in every aspect – there is so little background information provided about the people’s origins. We can see how they lived, what was important to them, and other things, but the one thing that is missing is…where they came from. I continually found myself saying, “Wow,” over and again throughout the afternoon here.
Getting here is relatively easy now. A bus goes from Xinnanmen long distance bus station in downtown Chengdu (leaving at 9:30 a.m.) and takes you directly to the Sanxingdui parking lot, about 50 km (at most) towards the northeast on the Mianyang freeway. The closest town is Guanghan, and the cost of the ticket, for a round trip ride, is 50 RMB. (The bus returns at 2:40 p.m., which gives about 4 hours to see the entire museum and grounds.)
Upon getting to the visitor center, you have to pass through security scanners (in each of the three other buildings, too, for that matter). After paying the very reasonable 80 RMB admission, you pass through security yet again and are finally in the museum/site proper. I don’t recall much information available at the visitor center, but I may have just missed it. In retrospect, it would be very nice to have some informational videos – even if they were just to say much isn’t known about the history of the people. It could have given suppositions of life in video format, or even focused on the discovery of the site. (Again, maybe they’re already there, and I missed them…but, I don’t think so.)
Upon leaving the video center, the first of the three buildings you arrive at is the Comprehensive Gallery. This gallery is wonderful in that it has actually been built into one of the three mounds. (I’m not 100% sure that this is one of the three original mounds; perhaps it’s a replica of the mound. Either way, it was a good use of the land.) The comprehensive gallery consists of five areas that, for the most part, focus on earthenware and stone ware artefacts that were unearthed in the pits. The relics are well-presented, well-labeled, and well-maintained. Besides earthenware and stoneware, there are also plenty of artefacts made of jade, some of bronze, some of gold foil, and so on. The comprehensive gallery ends with a display of bronze money trees that were (are?) important in Chinese culture.
After finishing in the Comprehensive Gallery, my second stop was to go to the Cultural Relics & Restoration Gallery. This is the smallest of the three, and most comprehensive (in terms of presenting artwork from all of Chinese history) of the three galleries. There are plenty of pieces here from the Song, Tang, Ming, and Qing Dynasties. I went through here in a bit of a hurry, so am not certain whether or not the relics in this hall are local to the Chengdu plain or not. I think they are.
Hurrying along, I found my way outside and passed the Echo Altar (sacrificial stage) and quickly wandered around the Bronze Hall before going in. I was enjoying the landscape at the site as it’s spring and magnolias are in bloom all around the grounds, along with rapeseed (a little), and a lot of landscaped flowers along the way.
The Bronze Hall is the highlight of the Sanxingdui site. It almost exclusively contains nothing but masks. You would think it gets a little redundant after a while, as most of the masks are similar (exaggerated pupils, though two or three have protruding pupils), mostly of bronze, and all with the sparse signage that they were excavated from either pit #1, #2, or #3 in the 13th-12th century BC. However, like the Comprehensive Gallery, the Bronze Hall is an architecturally pleasing building that presents the masks in six different sections, also ending with a large (3.5 times the original size) replica of a bronze money tree.
Feeling completely satisfied with Sanxingdui, and fresh out of galleries to visit, I left the Bronze Hall and walked the grounds towards the main exit. There is a restaurant and shopping area on the way out (though I didn’t stop to eat or buy anything). I did take a very quick glance into the gift shop, but wasn’t really excited by anything I saw offhand.
After a little more photographing, I made it back to the bus with about 45 minutes to spare. All in all, it was a perfect day out of town at a museum, and I was also thrilled that there weren’t too many people out here. I couldn’t have asked for much more from this experience.
I finished the day off at Tai Koo Li, eating Thai food at Lian (in a very early preparation for an upcoming holiday in May). Before the May holiday, though, the goal of getting out to shoot every weekend continues. Monday (today), March 14th was spent in Pingle, another ancient town, which was completely underwhelming…especially after last week’s shoot at Huanglongxi and yesterday’s shoot at Sanxingdui. Fortunately, there is plenty more to photograph between now and May.