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Mt. Holly....the restaurant "Robin's Nest" is reflected in the window, and the blue on the right of the photo is the edge of a giant mural which contains my flickr buddy icon
Taken near to me with the trees that i have included a few times with other crops during the years..
Looks very similar to rape seed oil as it does appear in April.
I did take a few over a period this afternoon but liked the sky in this one.
UPDATE Confirmed as Oil Rape Seed
Local Lane, West Yorkshire.
Kodak Box Brownie No2, Ilford XP2. Developed in Kodak HC-110, 1+49 for 10 minutes @20'C. Scanned on my Epson V800.
Wycoller Hall was a late sixteenth century manor house in the village of Wycoller, Lancashire, England. The hall was the centre of a sizable estate but subsequently fell into disrepair. The ruins are now listed, and form part of Wycoller Country Park.
Holga 120N, Tri-X, eco film developer,
Agfa Brovira BN1
SE5 Lith A,B,D,water 25+25+15+950ml 8 minutes, followed by Catechol new 20ml + Lith B 20ml + NH4Cl 5ml + water 800ml 3:30 minutes.
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Timeline Events photo charter. Jinty 47406 making a spirited departure from Loughborough on the Great Central Railway.
On orders from Basalisk, Atrox follows his genetically engineered hunting-hellion on a mission to eliminate the local resistance leaders.
Taken in Finian's Dream (before it closes and becomes something new)
Veröffentlicht mit freundlicher Genehmigung des Eden Projects.
Das Eden Project entstand nach einer Idee des englischen Archäologen und Gartenliebhabers Tim Smit in einer stillgelegten Kaolingrube nahe St Austell. Von der Idee im Jahr 1995 bis zur Eröffnung der Anlage am 17. März 2001 dauerte es sechs Jahre. Charakterisiert wird der Garten durch die zwei riesigen Gewächshäuser, die aus jeweils vier miteinander verschnittenen geodätischen Kuppeln in der Bauweise von Richard Buckminster Fuller bestehen. Hier werden verschiedene Vegetationszonen simuliert. Die Gewächshäuser des Eden Projects sind derzeit die größten der Welt.
Die Entwürfe für die geodätischen Kuppeln stammen vom britischen Architekturbüro Nicholas Grimshaw, die Tragwerksplanung von Anthony Hunt, ihre Ausführung erfolgte durch die Würzburger Firma Mero. Gedeckt sind die mehrfach miteinander verschnittenen Kuppeln mit doppelwandigen Kissen aus ETFE, einem besonders leichten, transparenten Kunststoff. Die Folienkissen wurden in eine Konstruktion aus standardisierten, sechs- und fünfeckigen Stahlrohrrahmenelementen (Raumfachwerk) eingepasst. Die Raumfachwerkkonstruktionen überdecken stützenfrei eine Fläche von insgesamt 23.000 m² (Oberfläche etwa 30.000 m²) und haben eine Höhe von bis zu 50 m bei einem Durchmesser von bis zu 125 m.
Quelle: Wikipedia.de
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The project was conceived by Tim Smit and designed by architect Nicholas Grimshaw and engineering firm Anthony Hunt and Associates (now part of Sinclair Knight Merz). Davis Langdon carried out the project management, Sir Robert McAlpine and Alfred McAlpine[4] did the construction, MERO designed and built the biomes, and Arup was the services engineer, economic consultant, environmental engineer and transportation engineer. Land use consultants led the masterplan and landscape design. The project took 2½ years to construct and opened to the public on 17 March 2001.
The Tropical Biome, covers 1.56 ha (3.9 acres) and measures 55 m (180 ft) high, 100 m (328 ft) wide, and 200 m (656 ft) long. It is used for tropical plants, such as fruiting banana plants, coffee, rubber and giant bamboo, and is kept at a tropical temperature and moisture level.
The Tropical Biome
The Mediterranean Biome covers 0.654 ha (1.6 acres) and measures 35 m (115 ft) high, 65 m (213 ft) wide, and 135 m (443 ft) long. It houses familiar warm temperate and arid plants such as olives and grape vines and various sculptures.
The Outdoor Gardens represent the temperate regions of the world with plants such as tea, lavender, hops, hemp and sunflowers, as well as local plant species.
The covered biomes are constructed from a tubular steel (hex-tri-hex) with mostly hexagonal external cladding panels made from the thermoplastic ETFE. Glass was avoided due to its weight and potential dangers. The cladding panels themselves are created from several layers of thin UV-transparent ETFE film, which are sealed around their perimeter and inflated to create a large cushion. The resulting cushion acts as a thermal blanket to the structure. The ETFE material is resistant to most stains, which simply wash off in the rain. If required, cleaning can be performed by abseilers. Although the ETFE is susceptible to punctures, these can be easily fixed with ETFE tape. The structure is completely self-supporting, with no internal supports, and takes the form of a geodesic structure. The panels vary in size up to 9 m (29.5 ft) across, with the largest at the top of the structure.
The ETFE technology was supplied and installed by the firm Vector Foiltec, which is also responsible for ongoing maintenance of the cladding. The steel spaceframe and cladding package (with Vector Foiltec as ETFE subcontractor) was designed, supplied and installed by MERO (UK) PLC, who also jointly developed the overall scheme geometry with the architect, Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners.
The entire build project was managed by McAlpine Joint Venture.
source: www.//en.wikipedia.org/
Veröffentlicht mit freundlicher Genehmigung des Eden Projects.
Photo of 4 local residents returning from market circa 1968 (colorized)
Visit this location at Seogyeo Town Square and Hall in Second Life
Local boat and our cruise ship in Enmelen, a small Russian village in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug (not far from the Bering strait).
Enmelen is inhabited by Chukchi people and only accessible by sea.
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Happy Weekend !
Eurasian blue tit / Blaumeise (Cyanistes caeruleus, Syn. Parus caeruleus)
in our garden - Frankfurt-Nordend
Just down the road from here there’s a nice size farm where we pass by daily. This “Local Horse Pasture” like many others in Pennsylvania is a great piece of land. We like to watch horses graze and hope they come close enough for us take a picture or two, but not today. Whether in fog, or snow, sunrise or sunset this pasture is great place to visit. A peaceful place to spend even just a few minutes in quiet to just watch the horses graze and pose for me and my Apple phone camera.
Stay safe, be kind and please wear your mask.
This time, the reason I'm 'staying local' is that I only have quarter of a tank of petrol which I need to save as I'll need it during the week. We didn't have a fuel shortage in the UK earlier this week, but because the media decided we did, people who didn't really need any fuel panic-bought it all. Most of the petrol stations near me have been closed since Friday because they ran out. Annoyingly, my nearest one is just round the corner from Ipswich Hospital and I regularly see ambulances filling up there, and now they can’t. I'm assuming the emergency services have special arrangements for getting fuel in situations like this, but why should they have to just because of 'people'?! It's like the toilet paper all over again but worse.
So yes, I had planned to go a bit further afield this weekend but settled for a walk locally, and I was excited to see some new bales in my local farm fields. The fields looked beautiful bathed in the evening (‘evening’ now being 5.30pm!) sunlight. I think a photography judge would prefer to see those pylons and cables on the horizon cloned out, but as they are are a permanent part of the landscape, and I’ve already cloned out 2 dog poo bags and various insects, they are staying!
Onwards and upwards for a brand new week tomorrow :)
This raccoon is one of a family of five that have been raised under a neighbor's shed.
McLean, Virginia
Santa Fe’s CF&I local passes the Union Depot in Pueblo, Colorado. Today’s train has twelve cars for the Colorado Fuel & Iron plant just south of this location.
Behind a pair of NS SD60E's, thee local is slightly overpowered as it makes its way through Arcadia.
The climate here in Greece coupled with the fertile nature of the soil means an abundance of high quality cheap fruit and vegetables, eg, a kilo of oranges or lemons or grapefruit (around two pounds in weight) costs around one Euro!
For the last week and a half I have been resting a painful heel (I have plantar fasciitis), but yesterday my patience ran out and Shirl and I took a short visit to the RSPB reserve at Old Moor.
On our way home just as we arrived back in the village I spotted a pair of Buzzards in a farmers field. They were stationary and after getting a bagful of distant photos of them stood still I decided to leave the car and walk down a track to get a closer view. That had the desired effect of getting me a little closer and of course my presence meant that they moved further down the field. In doing so I was able to get a few decent in flight photos.
Behind our back garden there is a field and at the top of that are a few large trees. Buzzards nest in there and virtually every time we venture into the garden we hear or see at least one buzzard circling away. I wonder whether this was one of them.