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This is my entry for the final round of the IDSMO on imperiumdersteine.de (German LUG)
“One Movie, one MOC” was the topic.
Today there are 8 STAR WARS Movies. Each Movie a masterpiece and one-of-a-kind. Now it is time to celebrate the movies. The goal of this year’s final round is to catch one movie (episode 1-7, Rogue One) with your MOC.
Because there were no limits for the size of the MOC I decided to build something that I wanted to build for a long time. Until now there never was the right opportunity for this MOC but today I take advantage of a situation an build it:
The Petranaki-Arena on Geonosis, a location of STAR WARS Episode II – Attack of the Clones.
I didn’t chose the fight with the arena monsters, because what really impressed me when I watched the movie in cinema was the number of Jedi and lightsabers. After so many years of only talking about the Jedi or hearing them, now a huge number is in action to fight for the good…
Many thanks to Boba1980 for the translation
Greetings from Germany
Vauban
A GUARDA (Espanha): Caminho Português da Costa.
Guarda (A Guarda; em espanhol, A Guarda) é um município costeiro da Espanha na província de Pontevedra, comunidade autónoma da Galiza. Tem 20,5 km² de área e em 2021 tinha 9 991 habitantes. Limita com o oceano Atlântico pelo oeste, com o concelho do Rosal pelo norte e pelo leste e, a sudeste, com Portugal, através da fronteira natural do rio Minho. (Wikipedia)
Today we went to the NASA Ames Research Center to attend the GoFly event, where teams from around the world displayed their flying motorcycles, hoverboards, human drones and more, with the chance to win $2 million in prizes. Think Marty McFly in his DeLorean "back to the future," and Falcon with his Wingsuit in "The Avengers". Stay tuned for photos of selected flying machines.
The coast guard had a Lockheed C-130 Hercules military transport airplane on display. We could go into its belly, quite impressive. The cockpit was off limits. I asked a guard if I could get permission to take a photo in the cockpit. Luckily he agreed.
I took this shot with a Laowa 4mm f/2.8 Fisheye lens. This is a circular fisheye lens, meaning you get a full circle. The angle of view is an amazing 210°, e.g. the camera can see more than a half sphere!
I processed a balanced, a paintery, and a photographic HDR photo from three RAW exposures, blended them selectively, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.
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-- ƒ/5.6, 4 mm, 1/1200 sec, ISO 200, Sony A6000, Laowa 4mm f/2.8 Fisheye, HDR, 3 RAW exposures, _DSC9839_0_1_hdr3bal1pai5pho1j.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography
1. Taking pictures a tool (camera), not a photographer.
2. The choice of tool limits the possibilities.
3. Experience allows him (instrument) less and less to limit their capabilities.
4. The ability to see is given only when the observer allows ...
5. The moment of observation is the real find ...
6. Training and mastering it defies. Training leads to poor imitations of the original.
7. Often the result should ripen, like wine. Although time is the understanding of the mind, therefore it is very speculative.
8. The meaning of all this is the process!
9. Let it be!
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1. Taking pictures a tool (camera), not a photographer.
2. The choice of tool limits the possibilities.
3. Experience allows him (instrument) less and less to limit their capabilities.
4. The ability to see is given only when the observer allows ...
5. The moment of observation is the real find ...
6. Training and mastering it defies. Training leads to poor imitations of the original.
7. Often the result should ripen, like wine. Although time is the understanding of the mind, therefore it is very speculative.
8. The meaning of all this is the process!
9. Let it be!
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August 8, 2014 - North of Odessa Nebraska US
Some of my best severe weather photography came out of this night supercell. This was a storm to remember in 2014.
This storm cell was at first, a very slow mover moving southeast about 9-10mph before it even reached northern Buffalo County. I had to work late and I was considering not to even go out. Glad I made an effort to do so....
Most of these captures were north of Odessa Nebraska US, and some in the city limits of Kearney,
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Es treten oberhalb 400 m Sturmböen mit Geschwindigkeiten zwischen 55 km/h (15m/s, 30kn, Bft 7) und 70 km/h (20m/s, 38kn, Bft 8) aus südwestlicher Richtung auf.
Wind 320° 5kt,
varying from 270° to 340°.
Visibility 10km or more. Light rain.
Clouds scattered 1100ft, overcast 2000ft.
Temperature 9°C, dew point 7°C.
QNH 1014h Pa.
selbst die Nacht über permanenter Regen.
Die aktuelle Temperatur am Flughafen Stuttgart beträgt 9 °C, die Luftfeuchtigkeit ist bei 93 %.
Der Wind kommt mit einer Geschwindigkeit von 2 km/h aus 260°. Das Barometer zeigt 1015 mb und die Sichtweite liegt bei 10 km.
1. The tropical rain forest that leads to Santa's House., 2. ebb and flow, 3. Simplicity, 4. detail, 5. Vision, 6. Blue Torrents, 7. Here yesterday, gone today., 8. Feel the Peace Inside You.,
9. Just add seasoning, 10. Diamonds, Diamonds, Diamonds!, 11. The colors of Autumn......... really!, 12. sylvia's hotel, 13. Focus on Autumn, 14. Bokeh Web of atumn colors, 15. Missing..... Spiderman, if you see him, send him home to his web!, 16. Delish........ ous.,
17. All summer long., 18. Dinner time!, 19. Sky Scraper Art, 20. The Continental Divide, 21. Off to Edmonton... Do I need a Parka???, 22. Crab spider waiting for a snack, 23. Dancing in the wind....., 24. tip toeing through the ferns,
25. Tu Lips are better than one, 26. The waiting game, 27. A hint of lilac!, 28. WaVeS of GrEeN, 29. dance partners, 30. Peace:A state of tranquillity or quiet., 31. Chlorophyll, 32. May Macro Madness,
33. Happy Mothers Day, 34. Fernalicious, 35. Something to make you smile!, 36. things to come II, 37. simply spring ...., 38. Magnolia: The Opeing Act., 39. Fire and Rain, 40. Golden dreams of spring,
41. Peace and quiet, 42. Cherry Bokehliscious, 43. Pitt Meadows BC, 44. Crisis of Credit, Visualized- see the link below., 45. An Eyeful of Spring, 46. Springtime Dreams, 47. today I saw....... spring colored in PINK, 48. purple rain.... in the spring,
49. Spring forth, 50. flickr.com/photos/51211704@N00/3369605650/, 51. a winter dream, 52. dreaming, 53. Spring to life, 54. Introducing Spring!, 55. : ), 56. obstacles,
57. Queen of Peace Monastery, Langley BC, 58. Golden Ears Provincial Park, 59. Visitors Wanted, 60. Had a baddddddd day, week, month or year?, 61. Belated Bokeh Wednesday, 62. All signs point towards .......... spring, yes spring!, 63. Todays 07:45 am sunrise with coffee., 64. storms come, and storm go.,
65. sunrise, 66. spring sunrise, 67. endless limits in 2009, 68. Thru the bedroom window, 69. Berries with frosting, 70. 2008: A simpler Christmas., 71. flowering in November in my garden, 72. Changing colors of Autumn
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August 8, 2014 - North of Odessa Nebraska US
Some of my best severe weather photography came out of this night supercell. This was a storm to remember in 2014.
This storm cell was at first, a very slow mover moving southeast about 9-10mph before it even reached northern Buffalo County. I had to work late and I was considering not to even go out. Glad I made an effort to do so....
Most of these captures were north of Odessa Nebraska US, and some in the city limits of Kearney,
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Signs of climate change are everywhere in the arctic.
The photo shows a small glacier that has retreated markedly and almost reached the end of its life. The terminal moraine (rock debris from glacial erosion) visible here marks the historical maximum limit of the glacier's advance.
Photo taken: August 2019 in a remote part of East Greenland.
Camera: Olympus EM5 MkII
Lens: Olympus 8mm f1.8 Fisheye
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Misiones - Argentina
Las cataratas del Iguazú se localizan sobre el río Iguazú, en el límite entre la provincia argentina de Misiones y el estado brasileño de Paraná. Están totalmente insertadas en áreas protegidas; el sector de la Argentina se encuentra dentro del parque nacional Iguazú, mientras que la porción del Brasil se encuentra en el parque nacional do Iguaçu. Cerca de ellas se encuentra la frontera entre Paraguay y Argentina, a sólo 13,8 km en línea recta. Fueron elegidas como una de las «Siete maravillas naturales del mundo».
Estas cataratas están formadas por 275 saltos, 80 % están del lado argentino. Un espectáculo aparte es su salto de mayor caudal y, con 80 m, también el más alto: la garganta del Diablo, el cual se puede disfrutar en toda su majestuosidad desde solo 50 m, recorriendo las pasarelas que parten desde Puerto Canoas, al que se llega utilizando el servicio de trenes ecológicos. Por este salto pasa la frontera entre ambos países. Se pueden realizar paseos en lancha bajo los saltos y caminatas por senderos apreciando algunos animales de la selva semitropical.
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After many request on my Facebook-page, I decided to put this Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione on Flickr as well. Tomorrow, there will be a photo from my first fotoshoot, wich I had today!
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Playing around with 'metal' for Macro Monday. This won't work because it doesn't fit the size limits, but I still really liked the outcome. Somehow making a chain link fence pretty.
02-november-2021: thanks to the "Supercar" I reached the limit of transit allowed with motor vehicles, the one in the photo, one of the highest in the whole of Friuli-Venezia Giulia and which arrives in one of the most spectacular environments of this Alpine sector.
It did not seem true to me, also given the impossibility for my ankles to do more than 8-9km and 3-400m in altitude on foot, to be able to get up there, one step away from the sky of 2000m of altitude, without prohibition signs transit, without barriers, without ambiguous signs such as "if you go ahead it's just your choice, don't cry then!", widely used by the mountain municipalities of this region in order to avoid the heavy expenses to keep these roads, subject to landslides and avalanches, or the typical knowledge of the rainy and tormented Carnia, maintained.
The "Supercar", for its part, did not betray and in the top part, the fresh snow (average 12-15cm, with sections of about 30-40cm due to windy accumulations) was still floury and therefore with good grip despite the hairpin bends, the tires summer/all terrain type, rather worn, but the 4x4 made up for it.
I do these roads without a goal, in the sense that if they are passable I go as long as the road conditions allow, ready to reverse if I am not sure of my means.
Here everything went well, but there was a surprise, a nasty surprise, after all it all seemed TOO easy to me.
On the way back, descending from 2000m to about 1600m, just above the second houses (tourist houses) of "Pian delle Streghe" (1450m), where, from the valley, the road is perfect and largely asphalted, the snow had melted on the pavement and I noticed how the ground chosen for this cart was not gravel or beaten earth, but stones, as big as a fist (railway embankment type!), messily placed, according irregularly to fords and water work, decidedly pointed (probably only tracked vehicles go there...uhm...), absolutely not rounded by the (evidently) non-existent traffic, to the point that I went down with the small electronics of my non-off-road vehicle (it's a well-equipped SUV, not a real off-road vehicle) trying to avoid the sharpest stones, but almost all of them were sharp, and, as they say in Italian, I felt like "walking on eggs".
After Mount Tenchia and the detour to the summer farm "Zoufplan bassa", around 1600m, the ground changes and becomes accessible to all vehicles, while from Pian delle Streghe, as mentioned, the road is mainly asphalted down to the valley bottom, in Cercivento (607m a.s.l.).
The ridge of the Zoufplan, widely panoramic, grassy and flowery, with glacial lakes and marine origin fossils, is one of the most beautiful environments in Carnia, and it is possible, on foot, to do the whole soft chain, which reaches the first (and highest) summit, to the west, that of Mount Crostis (2251m a.s.l.), at the base of which peak, at a little less than 2000m, there is a summer farm/farmhouse, also reachable from the valley by car (for short periods), from Tualis village, thus being able to take a long circle, the highest part of which, between Crostis and Zoufplan, must be on foot.
If the road from Tualis to Crostis is often closed and inaccessible, the one from Cercivento to Zoufplan is, on the contrary, almost always open and the responsibility of continuing it as far as I was is left to the driver...and I agree with this choice: if you are not able/willing to maintain a road, the person who chooses to continue on (partly) abandoned roads must have the necessary to change a tire (and know how to do it) must have a sense of measure and must know how to get out of trouble by himself to a large extent, preferably with a full tank, clothes, a portable hoist and a shovel in winter.
Always better than bans on bans.
Anyway..., I strongly recommend everyone not to go beyond 1600m of altitude, best of all to stop at the comfortable "Pian delle Streghe" and, for those who can do it, do everything else exclusively on foot.
The cart track is still many kilometers long, but there is an almost "vertical path" that cuts through all the hairpin bends, for those with thighs and lungs in excellent condition.
My driving experience up to the top was certainly good from a naturalistic and photographic point of view, but I returned to Trieste with a flat tire, and the others, already worn, further shredded.
Fortunately, the day after, I had an appointment for the new set of thermal tires and the decision to do away with that day's A/T tires had been made a long time ago.
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Key information
Noisy and gregarious, these cheerful exploiters of man's rubbish and wastefulness have managed to colonise most of the world. The ultimate avian opportunist perhaps. Monitoring suggests a severe decline in the UK house sparrow population, recently estimated as dropping by 71 per cent between 1977 and 2008 with substantial declines in both rural and urban populations. While the decline in England continues, Breeding Bird Survey data indicate recent population increases in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
What they eat:
Seeds and scraps.
Measurements:
Length:14-15cm
Wingspan:21-25.5cm
Weight:24-38g
Population:
UK breeding:5,300,000 pairs
Where and when to see them
House sparrows can be found from the centre of cities to the farmland of the countryside, they feed and breed near to people. It is a species vanishing from the centre of many cities, but is not uncommon in most towns and villages. It is absent from parts of the Scottish Highlands and is thinly distributed in most upland areas.
Breeding
House sparrows usually nest in loose colonies and since they don't defend a proper territory, nests can be as little as 20-30 cm apart.
How house sparrows nest
Nests are often placed in holes and crevices within buildings and they will readily use nestboxes. Free-standing nests are also frequently built, in creepers against walls and in thick hedges or conifers.
Pairs often remain faithful to their nest site and to each other for life, although a lost mate of either sex is normally replaced within days. A hole is filled with dry grass or straw with a nesting chamber lined with feathers, hairs, string and paper. Feathers may be plucked from a live pigeon!
The main nesting season is from April to August, although nesting has been recorded in all months. Most birds lay two or three clutches, but in a good year fourth attempts are not uncommon.
About house sparrow chicks
The female lays two to five eggs at daily intervals and often starts to incubate part way through egg-laying. Both sexes incubate, and the chicks hatch after 11-14 days. The parents share nesting duties equally. Chicks are brooded for 6-8 days, but can control their own body temperature only when 10 or 11 days old.
The youngsters are fed on a variety of invertebrates, including aphids, caterpillars, beetles and grasshoppers. Seeds and vegetable matter are also given, particularly during periods when invertebrates are scarce (e.g. cold weather) and become more important after the chicks leave the nest.
The young fledge 14-16 days after hatching. They are unable to feed themselves for about a week after leaving the nest and are cared for by their parents for around a fortnight. Post-fledging care is frequently left to the male as the hen prepares for the next brood. She can begin laying her next clutch of eggs within days of the previous brood leaving the nest.
Newly independent young often gather in large flocks, anywhere there is an abundance of seed, invertebrates and other suitable foods. These may be areas of wasteland or around garden feeding sites. Later, rural flocks may move on to grainfields to feed on the ripening grain, often joined by adult birds, once they have finished nesting. Flocks tend to break up through the autumn and birds return to their nesting colony sites.
Population trends
The house sparrow is common through most of its world range, and can tolerate a wide variety of climates.
The recent decline of house sparrows
UK house sparrow populations have fluctuated greatly over the centuries, with a gradual decline during the last 100 years.
Causes for the rapid recent declines, particularly in urban and suburban environments, remain largely undetermined, although research is underway that aims to establish the cause(s), and develop conservation solutions.
Declines in rural house sparrow populations are thought to be linked to changes in agricultural practices, particularly the loss of winter stubbles and improved hygiene measures around grain stores.
House sparrow numbers were not monitored adequately before the mid-1970s. Since then, numbers in rural England have nearly halved while numbers in towns and cities have declined by 60 per cent. Because of these large population declines, the house sparrow is now red-listed as a species of high conservation concern.
Relations with humans and other animals
People have a love-hate relationship with the house sparrow. However, control attempts have failed to limit the sparrows numbers and range.
Their relationship with humans
People have a love-hate relationship with the house sparrow. For many they are the most familiar of wild animals, bringing life to city centres and other man-made places, bereft of wildlife.
The house sparrows partiality to grain crops and the damage and destruction this caused resulted in attempts to control their numbers. From the mid-18th century most parishes had sparrow clubs with the sole objective to destroy as many sparrows as possible. Bounties were paid for sparrows until the late 19th century, when it was accepted that the control measures did not work. Similar failures were recorded in a number of other European countries.
Ironically, as people in Europe were paid to kill sparrows as pests, others deliberately introduced them to places as far apart as Australia and New York. Initially they were welcomed, although later appreciation turned to serious concern for the impact on crops. By then sparrows had become well established and control attempts have failed to limit the sparrows numbers and range.
How sparrows behave with other animals
Sparrows are aggressive tend to dominate feeders in gardens and prevent other birds from getting to the food. They harass other birds and steal their food and take over their nests, particularly house martins. The eviction and interference often results in a reduction in breeding success and can cause desertion of even large martin colonies.
Sparrows frequently tear to pieces the nests of martins and swallows and eject any eggs or chicks therein. The owners are unable to stop them.
Sparrows are very resilient and for their size have remarkably few serious predators. Main predators are domestic cats, owls (especially tawny) and sparrowhawks, but none are capable of affecting the size of the sparrow population, with the possible exception of localised effects by cats.
A classic “stellar dendrite” snowflake – always a crowd-pleaser! But the real treasure here isn’t the snowflake itself, but the camera gear used to photograph it. This was shot with a Micro Four Thirds camera and a standard macro lens. Nothing exotic, nothing extreme; camera gear you may already have!
I often push the limits of what cameras can capture, right up to the resolving limits introduced through diffraction. At a certain point, no matter how expensive or advanced your camera equipment, you can go no further. However, such equipment can be intimidating to people that want to casually explore a subject. For this snowflake, I used the Lumix GX9 and the Leica 45mm F/2.8 macro lens. The Panasonic 30mm macro or the Olympus 60mm macro would have had comparable results. The Lumix GX9 is an excellent tiny travel camera!
I’ve long suggested that the Micro Four Thirds system is great for macro photography, as you have a perceived magnification increase when you compare the field of view of cameras with larger full-frame sensors. A 1:1 macro lens on full-frame camera would “feel” like a 2:1 (2x) macro lens at the closest focusing distance – which is a huge advantage for subjects like snowflakes. Ideally, you’d want to have at least 2x-3x magnification with larger sensors, sometimes much more than this.
The Leica 45mm macro (Panasonic Leica DG Macro-Elmarit 45mm f/2.8 ASPH. MEGA O.I.S. Lens) is a very decent macro lens that I happen to have had handy at the time of this shooting. However, if there was a lens I’d recommend people buy for snowflake photography on the m4/3 platform, hands down it’s the Laowa 50mm F/2.8 macro: www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1585695-REG/venus_optics_v... . Less expensive than most macro lenses, good quality glass, manual focus only but with the ability to shoot 2:1 magnification, you can get the equivalent of 4x on larger sensors. Perfect for snowflakes!
The photos are not just taken with a camera and a lens, but also a ring flash. The best on the market is also far from the most expensive. I always use the Yongnuo YN-14EX II: www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1462725-REG/yongnuo_yn_14e... . It’s designed to work with Canon TTL, but I just use it on my Lumix cameras in manual mode. Works perfectly that way (though they also make a native Sony version, manual exposure is ideal for snowflakes).
Are there some limitations? Sure. The GX9 as a small buffer, so only a few dozen images can be captured before you have to wait a while. The resolution of the camera is only 20MP, but for most of my career that was the range I was completely comfortable with. I would argue that there is also an advantage in having a larger camera body for certain subjects, as the extra heft can aid in stability. But the question is: can you photograph a snowflake with extreme detail with a smaller “every-day” camera setup? Yes.
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Bebenhausen Monastery is located near Tübingen, in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. The Abbey was established around 1180 and settled by the Premonstratensian Order, who was given extensive land grants. In 1190, the Cistercian Order took over the monastery. Under the Cistercians, up to 80 monks and 130 lay brothers resided at the abbey. During Reformation, the Duke of Württemberg took over Bebenhausen and turned it into a Protestant seminary. In 1807, Bebenhausen was awarded to the Kingdom of Württemberg. The first King, Frederick I converted some of the buildings into a hunting lodge. After the dissolution of the monarchy in 1918, King William II of Baden-Württemberg and Queen Charlotte were allowed to retire to Bebenhausen.
Besides the Panasonic Lumix LX3, the Canon Powershot S90 was one of the first compact cameras offering RAW format storage - and thereby professional editing via RAW converters and other software for post-processing. This photo was taken hand-held (tripods were not allowed) and for some reasons at the technical limits of the camera: (1) f/2 at the 1/1.7 inch sensor corresponds to about f/8 at full-format cameras, resulting in somewhat soft borders aside. (2) 1/25 sec is the longest shutter speed for receiving sharp images at a focal length corresponding 28 mm at full-frame cameras. Leaning against the wall helped to prevent camera shake. (3) ISO 400 was the upper limit for receiving low-noise shots using this camera.
watercolor on 300g (140lbs)/m2 white, textured, acid free Fabriano watercolor paper
13.8 x 10.6 inch
35 x 27 cm
unframed
made in 2016
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wast_Water
Wast Water or Wastwater (/ˈwɒst.wɔːtər/ WOST-waw-tər) is a lake located in Wasdale, a valley in the western part of the Lake District National Park, England. The lake is almost 3 miles (4.8 km) long and more than one-third mile (540 m) wide. It is the deepest lake in England[1] at 258 feet (79 m), and is owned by the National Trust. It is one of the finest examples of a glacially 'over-deepened' valley. The surface of the lake is about 200 feet above sea level, while its bottom is over 50 feet below sea level.
Surroundings
The head of the Wasdale Valley is surrounded by some of the highest mountains in England, including Scafell Pike, Great Gable and Lingmell. The steep slopes on the southeastern side of the lake, leading up to the summits of Whin Rigg and Illgill Head, are known as the "Wastwater Screes" or on some maps as "The Screes". These screes formed as a result of ice and weathering erosion on the rocks of the Borrowdale Volcanic Group, that form the fells to the east of the lake, towards Eskdale. They are approximately 2,000 feet, from top to base, the base being about 200 feet below the surface of the lake.
A path runs the length of the lake, through the boulders and scree fall at the base of this craggy fell-side. On the northwestern side are the cliffs of Buckbarrow (a part of Seatallan) and the upturned-boat shape of Yewbarrow. Wast Water is the source of the River Irt which flows into the Irish Sea near Ravenglass.
Name origin and pronunciation
"Wastwater" comes from "Wasdale" plus English "water". " 'Wasdale lake' or 'the lake of Vatnsá, lake river'. The present name rather curiously contains the reflexes of both Old Norse 'vatn' 'water', 'lake', and Old English 'wæter' 'water', with the meaning 'lake' probably influenced by the Old Norse 'vatn'.[2]
The valley is pronounced as in was, not with a hard a: the name of the lake similarly but with a soft "s" as in "thou wast". The lake is named "Wast Water" on Ordnance Survey maps but the spelling "Wastwater" is used with roughly equal frequency, including by its owner, the National Trust, along with the Cumbria Tourist Board, and the Lake District National Park Authority.
Points of interest
The Lady in the Lake
In 1976, The Wasdale Lady in the Lake, Margaret Hogg, was murdered by her husband and her body was disposed of in the lake. She was found after eight years, with her body preserved like wax due to the lack of oxygen in the water.
Underwater gnomes
In February 2005 it was reported that a "gnome garden" complete with picket fence had been placed in the lake as a point of interest for divers to explore. It was removed from the bottom of Wastwater after three divers died in the late 1990s.[3][4] It is thought the divers spent too much time too deep searching for the ornaments. Police divers report a rumour that the garden had been replaced at a depth beyond the lowest they were allowed to dive.
PC Kenny McMahon, a member of the North West Police Underwater Search Unit, said "Wastwater is quite clear at the bottom, but there's nothing to see. At a depth of about 48 m, divers had taken gnomes down and put a picket fence around them. But several years ago there were a number of fatalities and the Lake District National Park Authority asked us to get rid of them. We went down there, put them in bags and removed the lot. But now there's a rumour about a new garden beyond the 50 m depth limit. As police divers we can't legally dive any deeper so, if it exists, the new garden could have been purposefully put out of our reach."
Water extraction
Water was first pumped from the lake during World War II to supply the Royal Ordnance Factory at Drigg. It is pumped to the nearby Sellafield nuclear facility as an industrial water supply.[5] The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority is allowed to extract from the lake a maximum of 18,184.4 m³ a day (over 4 million gallons), or 6,637,306 m³ a year, to use on that site.
Favourite view
On 9 September 2007, Wast Water was announced as the winner of a vote to determine "Britain's Favourite View" by viewers of ITV.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Bridge
Tower Bridge is a combined bascule and suspension bridge in London, England, over the River Thames. It is close to the Tower of London, which gives it its name.Name[›] It has become an iconic symbol of London.
The bridge consists of two towers which are tied together at the upper level by means of two horizontal walkways which are designed to withstand the horizontal forces exerted by the suspended sections of the bridge on the land-ward sides of the towers. The vertical component of the forces in the suspended sections and the vertical reactions of the two walkways are carried by the two robust towers. The bascule pivots and operating machinery are housed in the base of each tower. Its present colour dates from 1977 when it was painted red, white and blue for the Queen's Silver Jubilee. Originally it was painted a chocolate brown colour.[1]
Tower Bridge is sometimes mistakenly referred to as London Bridge, which is actually the next bridge upstream.[2] A popular urban legend is that in 1968, Robert McCulloch, the purchaser of the old London Bridge that was later shipped to Lake Havasu City, Arizona, believed that he was in fact buying Tower Bridge. This was denied by McCulloch himself and has been debunked by Ivan Luckin, the seller of the bridge.[3]
The nearest London Underground station is Tower Hill on the Circle and District Lines.
The nearest Docklands Light Railway station is Tower Gateway.
In the second half of the 19th century, increased commercial development in the East End of London led to a requirement for a new river crossing downstream of London Bridge. A traditional fixed bridge could not be built because it would cut off access to the port facilities in the Pool of London, between London Bridge and the Tower of London.
A Special Bridge or Subway Committee was formed in 1876, chaired by Sir Albert Joseph Altman, to find a solution to the river crossing problem. It opened the design of the crossing to public competition. Over 50 designs were submitted, including one from civil engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette. The evaluation of the designs was surrounded by controversy, and it was not until 1884 that a design submitted by Horace Jones, the City Architect (who was also one of the judges),[4] was approved.
Jones' engineer, Sir John Wolfe Barry, devised the idea of a bascule bridge with two towers built on piers. The central span was split into two equal bascules or leaves, which could be raised to allow river traffic to pass. The two side-spans were suspension bridges, with the suspension rods anchored both at the abutments and through rods contained within the bridge's upper walkways.
Construction started in 1886 and took eight years with five major contractors – Sir John Jackson (foundations), Baron Armstrong (hydraulics), William Webster, Sir H.H. Bartlett, and Sir William Arrol & Co.[5] – and employed 432 construction workers. E W Crutwell was the resident engineer for the construction.[6]
Two massive piers, containing over 70,000 tons of concrete,[4] were sunk into the riverbed to support the construction. Over 11,000 tons of steel provided the framework for the towers and walkways.[4] This was then clad in Cornish granite and Portland stone, both to protect the underlying steelwork and to give the bridge a pleasing appearance.
Jones died in 1887 and George D. Stevenson took over the project.[4] Stevenson replaced Jones' original brick facade with the more ornate Victorian Gothic style, which makes the bridge a distinctive landmark, and was intended to harmonise the bridge with the nearby Tower of London.[6] The total cost of construction was £1,184,000.[6]
The bridge was officially opened on 30 June 1894 by The Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VII), and his wife, The Princess of Wales (Alexandra of Denmark).[7]
The bridge connected Iron Gate, on the north bank of the river, with Horsleydown Lane, on the south – now known as Tower Bridge Approach and Tower Bridge Road, respectively.[6] Until the bridge was opened, the Tower Subway – 400 m to the west – was the shortest way to cross the river from Tower Hill to Tooley Street in Southwark. Opened in 1870, Tower Subway was the world's first underground ('tube') railway, but closed after just three months and was re-opened as a pedestrian foot tunnel. Once Tower Bridge was open, the majority of foot traffic transferred to using the bridge, there being no toll to pay to use it. Having lost most of its income, the tunnel was closed in 1898.[8]
Tower Bridge is one of five London bridges now owned and maintained by the Bridge House Estates, a charitable trust overseen by the City of London Corporation. It is the only one of the Trust's bridges not to connect the City of London to the Southwark bank, the northern landfall is in Tower Hamlets.
The bridge is 800 feet (244 m) in length with two towers each 213 feet (65 m) high, built on piers. The central span of 200 feet (61 m) between the towers is split into two equal bascules or leaves, which can be raised to an angle of 83 degrees to allow river traffic to pass. The bascules, weighing over 1,000 tons each, are counterbalanced to minimize the force required and allow raising in five minutes.
The two side-spans are suspension bridges, each 270 feet (82 m) long, with the suspension rods anchored both at the abutments and through rods contained within the bridge's upper walkways. The pedestrian walkways are 143 feet (44 m) above the river at high tide.[6]
The original raising mechanism was powered by pressurised water stored in several hydraulic accumulators.Hydraulics[›][clarification needed]
The system was designed and installed by Sir W. G. Armstrong Mitchell & Company of Newcastle upon Tyne. Water, at a pressure of 750 psi, was pumped into the accumulators by two 360 hp stationary steam engines, each driving a force pump from its piston tail rod. The accumulators each comprise a 20-inch ram on which sits a very heavy weight to maintain the desired pressure.
In 1974, the original operating mechanism was largely replaced by a new electro-hydraulic drive system, designed by BHA Cromwell House. The only components of the original system still in use are the final pinions, which engage with the racks fitted to the bascules. These are driven by modern hydraulic motors and gearing, using oil rather than water as the hydraulic fluid.[9]
Some of the original hydraulic machinery has been retained, although it is no longer in use. It is open to the public and forms the basis for the bridge's museum, which resides in the old engine rooms on the south side of the bridge. The museum includes the steam engines, two of the accumulators and one of the hydraulic engines that moved the bascules, along with other related artefacts.
During World War II, as a precaution against the existing engines being damaged by enemy action, a third engine was installed in 1942:[10] a 150 hp horizontal cross-compound engine, built by Vickers Armstrong Ltd. at their Elswick works in Newcastle upon Tyne. It was fitted with a flywheel having a 9-foot diameter and weighing 9 tons, and was governed to a speed of 30 rpm.
The engine became redundant when the rest of the system was modernised in 1974, and was donated to the Forncett Industrial Steam Museum by the Corporation of the City of London.
To control the passage of river traffic through the bridge, a number of different rules and signals were employed. Daytime control was provided by red semaphore signals, mounted on small control cabins on either end of both bridge piers. At night, coloured lights were used, in either direction, on both piers: two red lights to show that the bridge was closed, and two green to show that it was open. In foggy weather, a gong was sounded as well.[6]
Vessels passing through the bridge had to display signals too: by day, a black ball at least 2 feet (0.61 m) in diameter was to be mounted high up where it could be seen; by night, two red lights in the same position. Foggy weather required repeated blasts from the ship's steam whistle.[6]
If a black ball was suspended from the middle of each walkway (or a red light at night) this indicated that the bridge could not be opened. These signals were repeated about 1,000 yards (910 m) downstream, at Cherry Garden Pier, where boats needing to pass through the bridge had to hoist their signals/lights and sound their horn, as appropriate, to alert the Bridge Master.[6]
Some of the control mechanism for the signalling equipment has been preserved and may be seen working in the bridge's museum.
Although the bridge is an undoubted landmark, professional commentators in the early 20th century were critical of its aesthetics. "It represents the vice of tawdriness and pretentiousness, and of falsification of the actual facts of the structure", wrote H. H. Statham,[11] while Frank Brangwyn stated that "A more absurd structure than the Tower Bridge was never thrown across a strategic river".[12]
Architectural historian Dan Cruickshank selected the bridge as one of his four choices for the 2002 BBC television documentary series Britain's Best Buildings.[13]
Tower Bridge is still a busy and vital crossing of the Thames: it is crossed by over 40,000 people (motorists and pedestrians) every day.[14] The bridge is on the London Inner Ring Road, and is on the eastern boundary of the London congestion charge zone. (Drivers do not incur a charge by crossing the bridge.)
In order to maintain the integrity of the historic structure, the City of London Corporation have imposed a 20 miles per hour (32 km/h) speed restriction, and an 18-tonne weight limit on vehicles using the bridge. A sophisticated camera system measures the speed of traffic crossing the bridge, utilising a number plate recognition system to send fixed penalty charges to speeding drivers.[citation needed]
A second system monitors other vehicle parameters. Induction loops and piezoelectric detectors are used to measure the weight, the height of the chassis above ground level, and the number of axles for each vehicle.[citation needed]
River traffic
The bascules are raised around 1000 times a year.[15] River traffic is now much reduced, but it still takes priority over road traffic. Today, 24 hours' notice is required before opening the bridge. In 2008, a local web developer created a Twitter feed to post live updates of the bridge's opening and closing activities.[16]
A computer system was installed in 2000 to control the raising and lowering of the bascules remotely. Unfortunately it proved less reliable than desired, resulting in the bridge being stuck in the open or closed positions on several occasions during 2005, until its sensors were replaced.[14]
The high-level walkways between the towers gained an unpleasant reputation as a haunt for prostitutes and pickpockets and were closed in 1910. In 1982 they were reopened as part of the Tower Bridge Exhibition, an exhibition now housed in the bridge's twin towers, the high-level walkways and the Victorian engine rooms. The walkways boast stunning views of the River Thames and many famous London sites, serving as viewing galleries for over 380,000 tourists[citation needed] who visit each year. The exhibition also uses films, photos and interactives to explain why and how Tower Bridge was built. Visitors can access the original steam engines that once powered the bridge bascules, housed in a building close to the south end of the bridge.
In April 2008 it was announced that the bridge will undergo a 'facelift' costing £4m, and taking four years to complete. The work entails stripping off the existing paint and repainting in blue and white. Each section will be enshrouded in scaffolding to prevent the old paint from falling into the Thames and causing pollution. Starting in mid-2008, contractors will work on a quarter of the bridge at a time to minimise disruption, but some road closures are inevitable. The bridge will remain open until the end of 2010, but is then expected to be closed for several months. It is hoped that the completed work will stand for 25 years.[17]
The walkway section of the renovation was completed in mid 2009. Within the walkways a versatile new lighting system has been installed, designed by Eleni Shiarlis, for when the walkways are in use for exhibitions or functions. The new system provides for both feature and atmospheric lighting, the latter using bespoke RGB LED luminares, designed to be concealed within the bridge superstructure and fixed without the need for drilling (these requirements as a result of the bridge's Grade I status).[18]
In December 1952, the bridge opened while a number 78 double-decker bus (stock number RT 793) was on it. At that time, the gateman would ring a warning bell and close the gates when the bridge was clear before the watchman ordered the lift. The process failed while a relief watchman was on duty. The bus was near the edge of the south bascule when it started to rise; driver Albert Gunter made a split-second decision to accelerate the bus, clearing a three-foot drop on to the north bascule, which had not started to rise. There were no serious injuries.[19]
Main article: Hawker Hunter Tower Bridge incident
On 5 April 1968 a Hawker Hunter FGA.9 jet fighter from No.1 Squadron RAF, flown by Flt Lt Alan Pollock, flew under Tower Bridge. Unimpressed that senior staff were not going to celebrate the RAF's 50th birthday with a fly-past, Pollock decided to do something himself. Without authorisation, Pollock flew the Hunter at low level down the Thames, past the Houses of Parliament, and continued on to Tower Bridge. He flew the Hunter beneath the bridge's walkway, remarking afterwards it was an afterthought when he saw the bridge looming ahead of him. Pollock was placed under arrest upon landing, and discharged from the RAF on medical grounds without the chance to defend himself at a court martial.[20][21]
In May 1997,[22] the motorcade of United States President Bill Clinton was divided by the opening of the bridge. Thames sailing barge Gladys, on her way to a gathering at St Katharine Docks, arrived on schedule and the bridge was duly opened for her. Returning from a Thames-side lunch at Le Pont de la Tour restaurant, with UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, President Clinton was less punctual, and arrived just as the bridge was rising. The bridge opening split the motorcade in two, much to the consternation of security staff. A spokesman for Tower Bridge is quoted as saying, "We tried to contact the American Embassy, but they wouldn't answer the 'phone."[23]
On 19 August 1999, Jef Smith, a Freeman of the City of London, drove a "herd" of two sheep across the bridge. He was exercising an ancient permission, granted as a right to Freemen, to make a point about the powers of older citizens and the way in which their rights were being eroded.[24] However, this was a hollow gesture as the so-called right is to drive sheep across London Bridge into the City of London, and Tower Bridge does not have its northern landfall in the City.[citation needed]
Before dawn on 31 October 2003, David Crick, a Fathers 4 Justice campaigner, climbed a 120 ft (37 m) tower crane near Tower Bridge at the start of a six-day protest dressed as Spider-Man.[25] Fearing for his safety, and that of motorists should he fall, police cordoned off the area, closing the bridge and surrounding roads and causing widespread traffic congestion across the City and east London. The Metropolitan Police were later criticised for maintaining the closure for five days when this was not strictly necessary in the eyes of some citizens.[26][27]
On May 11, 2009, six persons were trapped and injured after a lift fell 10 ft inside the north tower.[28][29]
For the Macro Mondays challenge "Crime" (May 1st 2017)
I love crime dramas - on TV, as books or films. Watch lots of them!! So I was surprised that I found this challenge really hard. I tried ideas out and found they just didn't work, or they were way outside the 3" size limit!
I finally decided on 'the tools of the trade' angle, and went for a magnifying glass and a dusting brush for fingerprints. But actually getting a good fingerprint? I could only get a meagre partial! OK so it was my face powder and brush and probably all the wrong colour - I confess ;o)
But I am now soooo sceptical of Abby and her lab in NCIS, she always gets wonderfully clear fingerprints to run against the database .... I think maybe she has been cheating. ;o))
Still recovering at a snail's pace from Shingles - and slowly catching up ;o)
Happy May Day Macro Monday! ;o)
My 2017 set: 2017 Macro Mondays
All the previous years of the challenge:
My 2016 set: 2016 Macro Mondays
My 2015 set: 2015 Macro Mondays
My 2014 set: 2014 Macro Mondays
My 2013 set: 2013 Macro Mondays
Maine Northern Railway Train 901-31 departs the south cautionary limits for Oakfield as the crew heads for Millinocket. Due to a sun kink on the bridge at Oakfield, about 30 cars back a track foreman is walking 901-31 over at a snails pace. However once the train goes by, the engineer will gun it to get the train up to track speed to get over the hill at Dyer Brook.
Evidence of the ongoing trackwork can be seen between the tracks, with freshly dumped ballast waiting to be tamped and spread. At the time, MNR had completed dumping fresh ballast from Mile 109 (start of DOT ownership) to Oakfield, with two surfacing crews working out of Island Falls to get everything surfaced.
This part of the Madawaska Sub has seen extensive track work over the summer, with MNR running a good sized tie gang, as well as a rail gang which installed new 115LBS stick rail at various points between Oakfield and Island Falls, in addition to the surfacing work.
Maine Northern Railway
Train: 901-31
8/31/2024
Oakfield, ME
MDOT/MNR Madawaska Subdivision
1. Taking pictures a tool (camera), not a photographer.
2. The choice of tool limits the possibilities.
3. Experience allows him (instrument) less and less to limit their capabilities.
4. The ability to see is given only when the observer allows ...
5. The moment of observation is the real find ...
6. Training and mastering it defies. Training leads to poor imitations of the original.
7. Often the result should ripen, like wine. Although time is the understanding of the mind, therefore it is very speculative.
8. The meaning of all this is the process!
9. Let it be!
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The Albert Bridge spans the river Thames in London from Chelsea to Battersea. It was originally a rigid suspension bridge but was modernised in 1884 as a conventional cable-stayed bridge. It is 710ft long and is made up of two side spans of 155ft and a centre of 400ft.
After World War II the bridge struggled to cope with the modern traffic load and was nearly demolished. The public resisted and the bridge was saved. In 1973, concrete supports were added to the bridge and a lighter deck installed. Traffic can once again use the bridge although there is a weight limit of 2 tons.
The Albert bridge is one of the prettiest bridges in London with its ornate appearance which includes lanterns and pagodas. It is also painted in delicate colours and is stunning at night when it is floodlit.
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Stitched in MS ICE
This is the byproduct of some testing I did this morning on my iOptron SkyTracker which I've had collecting dust for a year or so now. The image was taken at Sullivan's Rock, just outside the Perth city limits and features the Carina Nebula (the pink splotch) and the Large Magellanic Cloud, just left of the red airglow on the bottom right. I intended doing a full panorama but ran out of time while also learning that a tracker will mess with your grid pattern while taking panoramas :) A valuable lesson for next time....
Trying out the limits of an old Nikkor 24mm f2.8 AiS
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Red spider mites fighting in a territorial dispute ☺️
Today I was watching some red spider mites in the sun and they are quite fascinating. There are some with long front legs and flatter bodies and others with short legs and more rounded bodies - not sure if these are male and female, juvenile and adult or different species even. The ones with the long front legs appear to patrol a 'territory' and any other mite with similar long front legs that enters that territory is challenged in a fight; the ones with short front legs and round bodies that enter the territory are ignored. These things are really small, probably about 1mm long, and surprisingly fast, so I had to get inventive with some extension tubes and a reversed macro lens to get the magnification needed which is now somewhere about 3:1 - macro is anything of 1:1 or greater so this is approaching the limits of what is possible in the field. The images have been cropped for framing and to provide further 'magnification'.
You'll note that the mites have 8 legs not 6 so are not insects but are arachnids, related to spiders, ticks and scorpions.
Sevilla es un municipio y una ciudad de España, capital de la provincia homónima y de la comunidad autónoma de Andalucía. Cuenta con 689 434 habitantes en 2017,6 por lo que es la ciudad más poblada de Andalucía, la cuarta de España después de Madrid, Barcelona y Valencia y la 32.ª de la Unión Europea. El municipio tiene una extensión de 140,8 km². El área metropolitana de Sevilla está compuesta por 46 municipios, incluye a una población de 1 535 379 habitantes (INE, 2016), y ocupa una superficie de 4905,04 km².
Su casco antiguo es el más extenso de España y el sexto más grande de toda Europa tras los de Roma, Nápoles, Venecia, Florencia y Génova, con 3,94 kilómetros cuadrados, y su casco histórico uno de los más grandes de España (nótese la diferencia entre casco antiguo, que solo incluye la zona histórica anterior a la Revolución Industrial, y casco histórico, que abarca estadios posteriores). Su patrimonio histórico y monumental y sus diversos espacios escénicos y culturales la constituyen en ciudad receptora de turismo nacional e internacional, en efecto se trata de la tercera capital más visitada de España, tras Barcelona y Madrid.11 Entre sus monumentos más representativos se encuentran la catedral (que incluye la Giralda), el Alcázar, el Archivo de Indias y la Torre del Oro, de los que los tres primeros han sido declarados Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco de forma conjunta en 1987.
El puerto de Sevilla, situado a unos 70 km del océano Atlántico, es el único puerto marítimo de España en una ciudad de interior, pues el río Guadalquivir es navegable desde su desembocadura en Sanlúcar de Barrameda hasta la capital hispalense, aunque el tamaño de los barcos que acceden a la ciudad está limitado por una esclusa con un calado máximo de 8,5 m y el puente de circunvalación del Centenario que limita el calado aéreo a 42 m.
Sevilla dispone de una red desarrollada de transporte por carretera y ferrocarril, así como de un aeropuerto internacional. Es destacable la presencia histórica de la industria aeronáutica en la ciudad, así como de la industria militar.
Con la celebración de la Exposición Iberoamericana de 1929, la ciudad experimentó un gran desarrollo urbanístico marcado por la creación de parques y la construcción de edificios proyectados para dicho acontecimiento, como el parque de María Luisa o la plaza de España. La Exposición Universal de 1992 dejó como legado en la ciudad una importante mejora de la infraestructura, principalmente en las comunicaciones terrestres y aeronáuticas, entre las que destaca el acceso ferroviario del AVE a la estación de Santa Justa. Asimismo, el área de la Expo de 1992 se adaptó como sede del Parque Tecnológico Cartuja 93, sedes de la Universidad de Sevilla y el parque temático y de ocio Isla Mágica.
En 2014 se llevaron a cabo importantes proyectos en la ciudad, como la Torre Cajasol, el proyecto del Puerto Delicias o el Acuario Nuevo Mundo, algunos de ellos objeto de polémica debido a su posible impacto visual.
La Universidad de Sevilla, fundada en 1505, tiene más de 65 000 estudiantes. Asimismo, la Universidad Pablo de Olavide, cuenta más de 10 000 estudiantes. Son miles los estudiantes extranjeros que se matriculan en los programas Erasmus y cursos de español en la Universidad de Sevilla, que en 2006 fue una de las diez más visitadas de Europa junto con otras ocho universidades españolas.
Sevilla ha despertado desde antiguo, y especialmente durante la época del Romanticismo, la evocación de los artistas europeos, que ven en ella un lugar pintoresco y maravilloso. Tras los últimos estudios, se ha llegado a identificar un total de 150 óperas ambientadas en esta ciudad, como La fuerza del destino, Carmen, El barbero de Sevilla, Don Giovanni o Las bodas de Fígaro.
Seville (/səˈvɪl/; Spanish: Sevilla [seˈβiʎa]) is a Spanish city, the capital of the autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the Guadalquivir River, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. Seville has a municipal population of about 690,000 as of 2016, and a metropolitan population of about 1.5 million, making it the largest city in Andalusia, the fourth-largest city in Spain and the 30th most populous municipality in the European Union. Its Old Town, with an area of 4 square kilometres (2 sq mi), contains three UNESCO World Heritage Sites: the Alcázar palace complex, the Cathedral and the General Archive of the Indies. The Seville harbour, located about 80 kilometres (50 miles) from the Atlantic Ocean, is the only river port in Spain. Seville experiences high temperatures in the Summer, with daily maximums routinely above 35 °C (95 °F) in July and August.
Seville was founded as the Roman city of Hispalis. It became known as Ishbiliyya after the Muslim conquest in 712. During the Muslim rule in Spain, Seville came under the jurisdiction of the Caliphate of Córdoba before becoming the independent Taifa of Seville; later it was ruled by the Muslim Almoravids and the Almohads until finally being incorporated into the Christian Kingdom of Castile under Ferdinand III in 1248. After the discovery of the Americas, Seville became one of the economic centres of the Spanish Empire as its port monopolised the trans-oceanic trade and the Casa de Contratación (House of Trade) wielded its power, opening a Golden Age of arts and literature. In 1519, Ferdinand Magellan departed from Seville for the first circumnavigation of the Earth. Coinciding with the Baroque period of European history, the 17th century in Seville represented the most brilliant flowering of the city's culture; then began a gradual economic and demographic decline as silting in the Guadalquivir forced the trade monopoly to relocate to the nearby port of Cádiz.
The 20th century in Seville saw the tribulations of the Spanish Civil War, decisive cultural milestones such as the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929 and Expo '92, and the city's election as the capital of the Autonomous Community of Andalusia.
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Finally, I think I got the data blended for this image as best as possible with the least amount of artifacts. Two images from a 6 inch Schmidt-Newt were combined with one of my more recent C-8 images of the galaxy. I used Registar to scale and align each of the 3 images and then blended them in PS manually.