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During the Vietnamese war, the cultural and religious status of the Imperial City was off limits to allied bombs. As the war came to the gates and allies weren’t getting their way, these limits were removed and thus now very little glory remains of the forbidden city.
Wandering around the site there is that feeling of a grand society that changed direction so quickly. The structure, some 200 years old, now mostly gone and walls streaked with machine gun fire.
ISO100 f4.5 1/350 58mm LR
GWR no. 800310 arrives into Reading P10 working 1L66, the 1329 IET from Swansea to London Paddington.
This was one of 21 9-car IETs that were supposed to be delivered as an 801/0 (AC power only with a "last mile" engine for emergencies), but due to the late-running of the GWML Electrification Programme, was delivered as an 800/3.
Minimal Project
Fotocamera Canon EOS 450D
Esposizione 15
Aperture f/20.0
Lente 55 mm
ISO 100
Lightromm 3.0
Raw to Jpeg
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-Il verde è uno dei colori dello spettro che l'uomo riesce a vedere, molto comune in natura. Le piante sono verdi dal momento che la clorofilla assorbe tutte le lunghezze d'onda (e quindi i colori) tranne il verde, che viene "riflesso" e quindi captato dall'occhio umano.
-La parola verde deriva dal latino popolare vìrdem a sua volta derivato da vĭridis "vivo", "vivace".
-La luce verde ha lunghezza d'onda intermedia rispetto agli altri colori visibili, tra 490 e 570 nanometri.
-È uno dei tre colori primari additivi, il suo colore complementare è il magenta. Molti artisti, tuttavia, considerano ancora il rosso il suo colore complementare.
-L'unico pigmento verde in natura è la clorofilla e gli animali non sanno utilizzarla.
-L'invidia, uno dei tradizionali sette peccati capitali è spesso chiamato nella lingua inglese "il mostro dagli occhi verdi"; una persona invidiosa "verde d'invidia".
When you feel you fail sometimes it hurts
For a meaning in life is why you search
Take the boys on the train, drive to school on the church
It's like that, and that's the way it is
~ Run DMC ~ It's Like That ~
ČD (České Dráhy a.s. - Czech Railways) four-wheel railcar 809 057-3 (with the European Vehicle Number CZ-ČD 95 54 5 809 057-3) stands at Hustopeče u Brna, having arrived as 18.03 from Šakvice (train Os14629); it would depart back to Šakvice as train Os14630 at 18.43.
The driver can be seen entering the station building to carry out the necessary operational duties, while my travelling companion is examining the departures poster. This short, single-track branch line with a journey time of ten minutes has no intermediate stations and no staff at the terminus. The train was a true one-person operation, with the driver also checking and selling tickets before the train set off from each end (although on this run there were two plain-clothed ticket inspectors) as well as dealing with signalling matters at this end. The train had arrived with only five normal passengers (plus the two of us), and we were the only passengers on the return. However, the 19.03 from Šakvice had fourteen passengers on board.
I was staying in Brno as part of a European trip lasting fourteen days, planned around the Branch Line Society three-day "Silesian Explorer" based in Klagenfurt in Austria. I travelled out and back by Eurostar to Brussels, so setting foot in Belgium, Germany (overnight in Frankfurt am Main), Austria (Klagenfurt for four nights), Italy, Austria again (Innsbruck for one night then Vienna for one night), Slovakia, the Czech Republic (Brno for two nights), Germany again (Parchim for two nights, Hamburg for one night and Köln for one night) and finally Belgium again - six countries, plus travelling through France without alighting from the train.
The reason for staying in Brno was that for the whole of the December 2018 to December 2019 timetable period Brno hlavní nádraží (main station) was not available as a through route, and many trains were taking alternative and, in some cases, normally non-passenger routes - details of that, and today's itinerary, can be found in the caption to this photo. This branch was the last required track of the day, and we only did it because it was less than half an hour away from Brno.
This design of four-wheel railbus, found across the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary are sometimes called "wheelie bins", but also also known by their Hungarian classification of "Bzmot".
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County Wexford, July 2023. A scarce immigrant moth species from southern Europe, with less than 200 Irish records. This is only the second time I've seen this species. The first was much closer to home.
Two more or less original 1G trams before these were redecorated for one person service. Tramline 16 at the former terminus Havenstraat and the 554 on it's way from the depot to start duty on tramline 2. © Henk Graalman 1-1969
This lonely backroad traverses some charming countryside near Blenheim, between the city of Chatham and the Lake Erie shoreline. Photographed in the evening light of June 22, 2019.
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Recipe from Hershey's
2/3 cup sugar (it is pretty sweet, I'd suggest less sugar)
6 tablespoons cornstarch
2 tablespoons Hershey's Cocoa
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 cups milk
4 egg yolks
2 tablespoons butter, softened
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
5 Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bars (1.55 oz each), broken into pieces
1 packaged chocolate crumb crust (I opted for graham cracker crust)
Cool whip or homemade whipped cream for topping
Stir together the sugar, cornstarch, cocoa and salt in a saucepan. combine the milk and egg yolks in a bowl. Gradually blend milk mixture into the sugar mixture.
Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture comes to a boil. Boil and stir for 1 minute. Remove from the heat and stir in the butter and vanilla extract. Add the chocolate bar pieces and stir until melted and mixture is well blended. Pour into crumb crust. Next, press plastic wrap onto the filling. Refrigerate several hours or until chilled and firm. Remove the plastic wrap and garnish with whipped cream or cool whip.
Refrigerate any leftovers.
Pie serves 6-8.
First day in the field (pun intended) with my new toy - the sigma 10-20mm. I bought it for architecture, however since there aren't many interesting buildings on this island, I put it to other uses, and I wasn't dissapointed...
Ok it’s time to post something a bit less dark! Here is a Cornish Tin Mine that has been photographed countless times! None the less, it’s a lovely spot looking down on the amazing turquoise sea!
Because less "dress up", is more (Jedi).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P66ehzBM9U
Shame on me well I had the beast you see
and if he can take it I can take him home with me
Shame on her she's a lovely little number
and when we go lassoing you get lassoed, all of you
If you can take it, I can take it
And we're moving, so moving, so we are a boy, we are a girl
so moving, so moving...
Shame on the girl, she's got a big black dog in her
and while tough kids sing about tough kids she just skins the world
We'll never never play the harp, and we'll stick like sick on the stars
and if you can take it I can take these stones from my heart
if you can take it, I can take it
and we're moving, so moving, so we are a boy we are a girl
so moving, so moving....
If you can take it, I can take it, all of me
If you can take it, I can take it all
If you can take it, I can take it, all of me
If you can take it, I can take it all!
Almost a thousand years old, less than a mile from the Renfe AVE stop linking Madrid and Barcelona, and both pleasure palace and defensive fortress in the Al-Andalus era.
See the itty-bitty humanoids walking inside? You can join them, if you heed the schedule at:
www.spain.info/en_GB/que-quieres/arte/monumentos/zaragoza...
I didn't spend as much time here as I should have, now dearly wish I'd inquired about a tour. I passed a Spanish-language tour-in-progress while inside.
Finally, about two months after getting back from our two-week trip to Pt Pelee, Ontario, and Tadoussac, Quebec, I have edited the first few photos from our second day in Ontario, 8 May 2018. On this day, we drove to Rondeau Provincial Park and enjoyed walking some of the trails. We found all sorts of things, from turtles and snakes to birds and wildflowers.
Anyone who has been following me for a long time will probably know that I try not to post two photos of the same thing next to each other. For this holiday, though, I am posting photos in more or less the order they were taken. This will help me to better remember where we went and when. Also, I often took similar photos using two different cameras, which makes everything more complicated. It is going to be a challenge to remember much now that two months have already slipped by! Please bear with me, especially as so many of my photos are simply distant, often blurred, rapid captures. I will try and post as many of them as I can at night, when hopefully most people are off Flickr. As for marking them on my map, I have no idea exactly where we saw what, so I will place all the Rondeau photos in one general location, mainly to show where Rondeau Provincial Park actually is. Also, a few of the photos may have been taken while driving to and from the park, back to our hotel in Leamington.
I will be adding Anne Belton's and Janet Gill's e-bird lists of birds seen on our four days at Pt Pelee (7 - 10 May 2018), in comment boxes under some of the photos, mainly to remind myself of what was seen. Each day, I, myself, did not see every one of the species listed.
Four friends and I left Calgary airport on 6 May 2018 and flew to Toronto. There, we rented a van and did the long drive to Point Pelee for four whole days of birding. We stayed at the Best Western Hotel, which is close to Point Pelee National Park. It fills up very quickly (with birders) and our rooms were booked months ago.
Our four days walking at Point Pelee were interesting and I, for sure, saw various things I had never seen before, including my very first Raccoon : ) Various friends had told me that the Warblers at Pelee were fantastic - so many and numerous species, and so close. Have to disagree with the "closeness" when we were there! I don't have binoculars as a camera(s) is enough for me to carry around, so I know I missed all sorts of birds. Though my Warbler count was lower than my friends', I was happy to at least get a few distant photos of some species. So many of my shots are awful, but I will still post some of them, just for the record of seeing them. Some photos are so bad that I doubt anyone can ID them.
We covered several different trails at Pelee, and also drove to a few places somewhat further afield, such as Hillman Marsh. If you are unfamiliar with this Conservation Area, the barn there was amazing! I couldn't believe my eyes! I was in so much pain that I wasn't sure if I would be able to walk across a grassy area to take a few photos. However, it was so unusual and beautiful, that I reckoned I could try and move forward inch by inch - and crawl (ha, ha) if necessary. Another place we enjoyed was Rondeau National Park. One amazing and totally unexpected sighting just outside Pelee was a very distant male Snowy Owl sitting in a fieldl!!
We walked every single day that we were at Pelee and the areas mentioned above, seeing not just birds, but a frog/toad, snakes that we suspect were mating, several Painted turtles, a few plants (including both white and red Triliums, that I had never seen growing wild before, and a couple of Jack in the Pulpit plants).
The Friends of Point Pelee have food available that one can buy. They also have a shuttle bus that one can take from the Visitor Centre all the way to the southern tip of Pelee, which is the most southern part of Canada. They also have birding walks each day (there is a charge). On 9 May, we spent the morning from 6:00 am to 11:00 am on a birding walk at Pelee with guide, Tom Hince, whom we had contacted while we were still in Calgary.
At the end of our stay at Point Pelee, we had to drive all the way back to Toronto, from where we flew to Quebec airport. From there, we had a four-hour drive to Tadoussac on the coast of the St. Lawrence Seaway. This is such a delightful, small place and in a beautiful setting. One of our friends, Anne B, and her husband have a summer cabin further along the cliff from the few stores and port. She had invited the four of us to go with her from Pelee to spend a week at her beautiful home. What an absolute treat this was! We were able to meet some of her relatives, too, who also have built cabins out there. We were looked after so well, and we were able to see and photograph all sorts of birds, including many of the little White-crowned Sparrows seen in the third photo. Here, in and around Calgary, I so rarely see one of these birds, though I do hear them singing sometimes. We made several trips to see different places, including the Cap Tourmente National Wildlife Area, where we were able to see endless thousands of Snow Geese. Breathtaking!
We also had two boat trips from Tadoussac - one was a whaling trip in a Zodiac, where we saw very, very distant Beluga and Minke Whales. The Belugas looked almost like the white wave crests - but they were Belugas. The other boat trip was to the Brandy Pot Islands, inhabited by thousands of Razorbills and Common Murres, which were new birds for us, and Double-crested Cormorants that were nesting in tree tops. That long boat trip (in a tiny boat) started off in the rain and dark clouds and it was soooo cold! Thermal underwear, layers of fleece and toque and gloves were needed. This day was arranged through a contact of Anne's and it was so much enjoyed! Of course, we anchored a distance away from the island and sat there and ate our sandwiches and took endless photos.
Anne, I can't thank you enough for organizing this holiday for us all and for inviting us to spend a week at your cabin. You worked so hard and it was so much appreciated by each and every one of us. Thank you for doing all the many hours of driving, too! Janet and Anne, thank you so much for compiling the lists of birds seen each day at various locations, and posted to ebird. These entries will be a huge help while I try and sort out where we were and when, and what species we saw. Miss your cookies and muffins, Janet, that you kindly made for us in Tadoussac, to go along with the wonderful meals that Anne planned and made for us : )
A stereopair I had shown as anaglyph. The side by side style just gives me less headache :)
Three Dimension Company TDC Stereo Colorist and its two Rodenstock 35mm f/3.5 Trinar, Kentmere 400 shot as 200 in Rodinal 1+50 for 15 min @ 20°C and digitalized using kit zoom and extension tubes.
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per raggiungere le immagini
scolpite ormai nella coscienza
come indelebili emozioni
che non posso più scordare
e il pensiero andrà a cercare
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tutte le volte che ti vorrei parlare
per dirti ancora
che sei solo tu la cosa
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