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Take a bit of the D.C. Metro roof, tile it so the top and bottom are the same, spin it a bit and shift the color to blue and this is what you get, my Sunday Slider!
BTW: One of the reasons I went the path I did with this is because my first go around left me with an image that I couldn't get perfectly aligned/symetrical. You know that's kind of a thing with me and with the 20mm, any misalignment is magnified, you can see this in the lowest horizontal curve, so it goes but I like the result!!
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It was somewhat comical and yet actually endearing to see these five Hoatzin lined up like this at a creek near the lowest part of the renowned Manu Road in Peru. The repetition serves to emphasize their unique appearance. The range of the Hoatzin encompasses the basins of the Amazon and Orinoco rivers and some tributaries in north-central South America.
From Wikipedia:
Ein Ovdat is a canyon in the Negev Desert of Israel, south of Kibbutz Sde Boker. Archaeological evidence shows that Ein Avdat was inhabited by Nabateans and Catholic monks. Numerous springs at the southern opening of the canyon empty into deep pools in a series of waterfalls. The water emerges from the rock layers with salt-tolerant plants like Poplar trees and Atriplexes growing nearby.
The canyon of Ein Ovdat is part of Nahal Zin, the largest Wadi or dry riverbed in the Negev. The 120 kilometer-long riverbed begins at the northwestern tip of Makhtesh Ramon and heads north before veering sharply eastwards. Ein Ovdat was created by erosion.
Springs:
The southernmost spring is Ein Ma'arif,[3][9] featuring a series of waterfalls and pools.[10] A Byzantine fortress overlooks the spring and adjacent agricultural land.[5][10]
Further north is Ein Ovdat, a 15-meter high waterfall that flows into an 8-meter deep pool of water divided by a small artificial dam.[11]
Located near the northern entrance of the park is a spring called Ein Mor, named for the spice myrrh.[9][12]
Growing around the springs are Poplar trees and Atriplexes, commonly known as saltbush, which grows on riverbanks and can tolerate salinity.[3][7]
Climate:
According to statistics compiled by a weather station at Sde Boker, the summers are hot with almost no precipitation while the winters are cold with some rain. The lowest recorded temperature for January was −3.6 °C (25.5 °F). In the summer temperatures can reach over 40 °C (104 °F). The humidity is relatively high.[13]
The lowest point in North America is a surreal landscape of vast salt flats.
Badwater Basin is the lowest point in North America at 282 ft (86 m) below sea level. The salt flats here cover nearly 200 square miles (518 square km), and are composed mostly of sodium chloride (table salt), along with calcite, gypsum, and borax.
Stories suggest that Badwater Basin earned its name when a mule belonging to an early surveyor refused to drink from the spring-fed pool near the present-day boardwalk. However, the water here is not truly “bad,” just very salty. Despite this high salinity, many organisms not only survive, but thrive here. The pool is home to an endemic snail naturally found only at this location, and its rim is dotted with salt tolerant plants, including pickleweed.
The lowest point in North America (about 26 stories below sea level) has amazing patterns in the salt and provides endless photo opportunities - but combined with a beautiful sky and its magic
The seashore(the Pacific Ocean side) in Hualien County, Taiwan.
Hualien County is a county on the east coast of Taiwan. It is the largest county by area, yet due to its mountainous terrain, has one of the lowest populations in the country. The county seat and largest city is Hualien City.
When I compare
What I have lost with what I have gained,
What I have missed with what attained,
Little room do I find for pride.
I am aware
How many days have been idly spent;
How like an arrow the good intent
Has fallen short or been turned aside.
But who shall dare
To measure loss and gain in this wise?
Defeat may be victory in disguise;
The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.
Loss and Gain ~ Longfellow
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Change Islands
on film
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Nikon FM10 | Nikkor 35-70mm | Kodak Gold 200
Digitized with Sony A7riii | Skier Sunray Copy Box 3
Home developed in Cinestill Cs41 | 3.5 min dev, 102 F / 8 min bleach & fix, 105 F
Negative Lab Pro v2.2.0 | Color Model: Basic | Pre-Sat: 3 | Tone Profile: LAB - Standard | WB: Auto-Neutral | LUT: Frontier
I took this picture back in May when I visited Hoover Dam and the water levels were surprisingly low ... even tho I can only assume they must be even lower now !
I researched this and seems like Lake Mead is currently at the LOWEST level ever (excluding the time before the dam was built and was filling up, obviously) and is as of June at 1075.08 feet (was at 1076.57 during May when this picture was taken) which is a problem for the people who rely on it for their water supply and the electricity that the dam generates.
Engineers are working on installing new turbines that could work even if the water falls below 950 feet !
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Die Klarinette gilt als "junges Instrument"., es ist in Wirklichkeit recht betagt, ihre Geschichter reicht bis in die Antike zurück. Zum Beispiel in der altgyptischen Arghul, dem arabischen Zummarah und in vielen asiatischen Instrumenten ist das Urbild eines Schnabel-Instrumentes mit einem Rohrblatt vorgebildet.
Von meiner schon sehr alten B-Klarinette mit vielen Gebrauchspuren ist es das von mir sogenannte Herz(Klappen) zusehen. Die Gesamlänge meines Instrumentes beträgt 68 cm.
Die abgebildeten Klappen befinden sich im Unterstück dicht unter dem Oberstück.
Die Klarinette ist überall zu Hause, z.B. Klassik, Kammermusik, Jazz, Blasorchster, Klezmer, sie hat einen warmen runden Ton, kann aber auch schrill klingen.
"In Europa war der erste Klarinetten-Star Anton Stadler (1753-1812),
dem Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart fast sämtliche seiner Werke für Klarinette, Bassetthorn oder Bassettklarinette „auf den Leib“ schrieb."
"Um einfacher hergestellt, transportiert und gewartet werden zu können, besteht die Klarinette aus fünf getrennten Teilen, die mit korkbelegten Zapfen ineinander gesteckt werden:
dem Mundstück, genannt auch Schnabel,
der Birne (auch Fass oder Fässchen genannt),
dem Oberstück,
dem Unterstück
und dem (Schall-)Trichter oder Schallstück (auch Becher oder Stürze genannt).
Der Trichter ist für den Klang der tiefsten Töne ausschlaggebend.
Die Geschichte der Einfachrohrblattinstrumente reicht bis in die Antike zurück. Seit altägyptischer Zeit, in der klassischen Antike sowie im Mittelalter ist eine große Fülle unterschiedlicher Instrumentenformen, häufig mit gedoppeltem Schallrohr, nachgewiesen. Bei den Rohrblättern dieser Instrumente entsteht die schwingende Zunge durch einen Einschnitt in den Halm eines Rohres (idioglottes Rohrblatt).
In Regionen mit lebendiger traditioneller Musiktradition sind entsprechende Instrumente zum Teil bis in die Neuzeit erhalten geblieben (zum Beispiel Sipsi)" Wikipedia
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The clarinet is considered a "young instrument", in reality it is quite old, its history goes back to antiquity. For example, in the ancient Egyptian arghul, the Arabic zummarah and in many Asian instruments the archetype of a beak instrument with a reed is preformed.
From my already very old Bb clarinet with many traces of use it is the so-called heart (keys). The total length of my instrument is 68 cm.
The illustrated keys are located in the lower part just below the upper part.
The clarinet is at home everywhere, e.g. classical music, chamber music, jazz, brass orchestras, klezmer, it has a warm round tone, but can also sound shrill.
"In Europe the first clarinet star was Anton Stadler (1753-1812),
to whom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote almost all of his works for clarinet, basset horn or basset clarinet "on the body".
"In order to be easier to make, transport and maintain, the clarinet consists of five separate parts, which are inserted into each other with cork-covered pegs:
the mouthpiece, also called the beak,
the pear (also called barrel or barrel),
the top piece,
the lower part
and the (sound) funnel or bell (also called cup or lintel).
The funnel is decisive for the sound of the lowest notes.
The history of single-reed instruments goes back to antiquity. Since ancient Egyptian times, in classical antiquity as well as in the Middle Ages, a large number of different instrument forms, often with a double bell, have been recorded. In the reeds of these instruments, the vibrating reed is created by cutting into the stem of a reed (idioglottes reed).
In regions with a living traditional music tradition, some of these instruments have been preserved until modern times (e.g. Sipsi)" Wikipedia
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The lowest of the 3 Sisters shrouded in early morning sunlit clouds.
"The 3 peaks are known individually as Big Sister (Faith), Middle Sister (Charity) and Little Sister (Hope). The three peaks were originally named "The Three Nuns" because they were thought to resemble three praying nuns after a veil of snow was left on each after a storm. They were officially designated as the Three Sisters in 1886." wiki
A view of all 3 Sisters in comments.
Thanks for taking a look! Always appreciated.
Have a wonderful week!
Winter heightens the drama at Death Valley National Park.
Certainly, this is known as the hottest place on earth, and contains the second lowest point in the western hemisphere, but most people are unaware that this is the largest national park in the lower 48 of the continental United States. The park also contains large portions of the Argus, Panamint and Amarcosa mountain ranges, with Telescope Peak reaching 11,049' in elevation.
The view from Zabriskie Point (named for a Vice-President of the Borax company, which mined here with their famous 20 mule-teams in the early twentieth century), captures the sandstone badlands of the Amarcosa in the foreground (including the Manly Beacon and Red Cathedral), Death Valley, and the Panamint Range as the backdrop.
On a chilly winter morning following an exceedingly rare rainfall, the skies are dramatic with the sun reaching through some of the cloud layers, but not others, to create drama and colors, not normally captured here.
then it is the foundation of wit. :-)
Goldsmith
A pun is the lowest form of humor — when you don't think of it first :-)
Oscar Levant
HBW!!
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..when beauty awes you, you must halt and try to catch your breath and your staggered heart
- Kate Elliot
Life offer abundance of experiences, evoking a wide range of emotions, the high of the highest, the low of the lowest.
Hopefully we learn to be a better person to others and most importantly to self.
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Athabasca Falls is located in Jasper National Park on the upper Athabasca River, approximately 30 kilometres south of the townsite of Jasper, Alberta, Canada. Athabasca Falls is not known so much for the height of the falls (23 metres), as it is known for its force due to the large quantity of water falling into the gorge. Even on a cold morning in the fall, when river levels tend to be at their lowest, copious amounts of water flow over the falls. It was impressive when we visited in September, 2014.
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Badwater Basin is an endorheic basin in Death Valley National Park, Death Valley, Inyo County, California, noted as the lowest point in North America, with a depth of 282 ft (86 m) below sea level.
At the edge of the basin, where water is not always present at the surface, repeated freeze–thaw and evaporation cycles gradually push the thin salt crust into hexagonal honeycomb shapes.
We are just back from Death Valley, will share more images in the coming days.
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© Melissa Post 2020
03-october-2021: this is the lowest/deepest area of the (ghost) Lake, a small zone where the main sinkholes/springs of this intermittent karstic lake are located, close together.
So it is, therefore, the last part of the Lake (except the artificially embanked one to save a part of the abundant fish fauna from increasingly long and frequent dry periods) to have water and the first to fill up when the aquifers are full after a period of consistent rain.
The absence of water starts from July 2021 and at the moment (28-October-2021), without intervals, it is still empty.
In the Karst area, this is one of the clearest visible effects of the change in the meteorological trend of the area, certainly linked to Global Warming.
In fact, it should be pointed out that the Lake Cerknica, although with variations in water level, in the past was present for most of the year (there have been many years in which it has always been present), often reaching the dimensions that make it, temporarily, the largest lake in the State, while the periods of emptying were very rare and short (from a few days to a maximum of 2-3 weeks), resulting, at least until the 1990s, the ONLY EXAMPLE in the World of fish adaptation to survive in the aquifers in complete darkness for even 15-20 days; the fish re-emerged, alive, when the rains returned, together with the water coming out of the sinkholes that become resurgences.
For about twenty years now, and more and more markedly year after year, the water disappears for ever longer times (now we are talking about months, not days or a couple of weeks) and with great frequency, even in the wettest seasons, such as spring and autumn, naturally fish fauna that ends up in the sinkholes today, dies.
Volunteers and foresters lend themselves to saving fish as much as possible, but those who manage to bring to the perennial part of the lake are a very small minority.
The problem of the decrease in the frequency of precipitation meant that the underlying aquifers had less and less water, so, today, for the water to re-emerge on the surface, greater amounts of precipitation are required and for longer times, while 40-50 days of dry weather are sufficient to empty the lake.
The lowest band of yellow appears to be air pollution now - and the nuclear power station is pollution being held in store for future generations.
What are we doing to our beautiful Earth.
Alagna Valsesia. Italy.
The lowest waterfall of Rio Otro.
I was very close and I had to clean the lens (well, I should say the neutral filter that I always use as a protection) several times from the water spry.
That flare comes from a drop of water on tge glass.
Used a small cairn built my myself as a tripod.
Sometimes to use an old camera lets you act with more freedom.
La Caldaia inferiore dell'Otro
Riva Valdobbia. Italy.
This the first, and lowest, of the three lakes hidden in the deep, remote valley named Rissuolo.
This is Lago Bianco, White lake, 2.332m (7,650 ft).
The summit towering above is called Punta Rissuolo, or Corno Carro.
Other two lakes are hidden above this one, above thefist ridge on the right, there is the biggest tarn of the valley, Lago Nero, Black lake.
From the last paved road, it usually takes from 2.30 to 3.30 hours to get here, with an elevation gain of 3,280ft.
Il primo dei tre laghi nascosti nel Vallone del Rissuolo, il Lago Bianco, a 2.332m.
Più in alto si trovano il Lago Nero e il Lago Verde.
Un bel posto, solitario e silenzioso. A metà Giugno, dopo l'abbondanza di quest'ultimo inverno, ancora tanta neve in quota.
Small lake in Plitvice Lakes National Park :)
Plitvice Lakes National Park is one of the oldest and largest national parks in Croatia. Founded in 1949 and is in the mountainous karst area of central Croatia, at the border to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The national park is world-famous for its lakes arranged in cascades. Sixteen lakes can be seen from the surface. They are grouped into the 12 Upper Lakes (Gornja jezera) and the four Lower Lakes (Donja jezera). These lakes are a result of the confluence of several small rivers and subterranean karst rivers. The Plitvica Stream, flowing into the area of the lowest of the lakes, falls deep into the valley with a 78 m high Great Waterfall. It is the largest waterfall in Croatia. The lakes are renowned for their distinctive colors, ranging from azure to green, grey or blue. The colors change constantly depending on the quantity of minerals or organisms in the water and the angle of sunlight. In 1979, Plitvice Lakes National Park was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list, due to its outstanding and picturesque series of tufa lakes, caves, connected by waterfalls.
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Małe jeziorko w Parku Narodowym Jezior Plitvickich :)
Park Narodowy Jezior Plitwickich – park narodowy w Chorwacji, położony w środkowej części kraju, założony w 1949 roku. Jego największą atrakcją jest 16 jezior krasowych połączonych ze sobą licznymi wodospadami, znanych jako Jeziora Plitwickie. Jeziora dzielą się na dwa zespoły połączone kaskadowo – Górne i Dolne Jeziora. Jeziora oddzielone są od siebie trawertynowymi groblami, na których tworzą się wodospady, których naliczono tutaj ponad 90. Potok Plitvica, dopływający po powierzchni otaczającej Plitwickie Jeziora wierzchowiny w rejon najniższego z jezior, spada w głąb doliny wysokim na 78 m Wielkim Wodospadem. Jest to największy wodospad Chorwacji. Jeziora słyną z charakterystycznych kolorów, od lazurowego po zielony, szary lub niebieski. Kolory zmieniają się w sposób ciągły w zależności od ilości minerałów lub organizmów w wodzie oraz kąta padania promieni słonecznych. Pierwszy rezerwat na tym terenie został założony w roku 1928. Park narodowy natomiast rozpoczął swą działalność w kwietniu 1949 r. W 1979 Park Narodowy Jezior Plitwickich znalazł się na liście Światowego Dziedzictwa Kulturalnego i Przyrodniczego UNESCO.
The way to The Simplon Pass . Canton of Valais, Switzerland. izakigur 22.08.12, 11:09:52. no. 6716.
"The Simplon Pass (French: Col du Simplon; German: Simplonpass; Italian: Passo del Sempione) (2,005 m or 6,578 ft) is a high mountain pass between the Pennine Alps and the Lepontine Alps in Switzerland. It connects Brig in the canton of Valais with Domodossola in Piedmont (Italy). The pass itself and the villages on each side of it, such as Gondo, are in Switzerland. The Simplon Tunnel was built beneath the vicinity of the pass in the early 20th century to carry rail traffic between the two countries.
The lowest point of the col, and the lowest point on the watershed between the basins of the Rhone and the Po in Switzerland lies in marshland about 500 m (1,640 ft) west of the Simplon Pass settlement at an altitude of 1,994 m or 6,542 ft.
Rotelsee is a lake located near the pass at an elevation of 2,028 m (6,654 ft).
There are several great peaks around that can be climbed directly from the pass. These include Wasenhorn, Hubschhorn, Breithorn (Simplon), and Monte Leone."
"Der Simplonpass oder kurz Simplon (italienisch Sempione)[1] ist ein Strassenpass in den Walliser Alpen und gehört zur Hauptstrasse 9. Es handelt sich um eine Nationalstrasse dritter Klasse."
"Le col du Simplon est un col des Alpes situé en Valais. Culminant à 2 008 mètres, il est ouvert toute l'année et fait partie intégrante de la route nationale H9 menant de Brigue à Stresa, en Italie. Long de 62 kilomètres, il a une déclivité de 9 %. Contrairement au col du Grand-Saint-Bernard fermé plusieurs mois par an, la route du Simplon est ouverte toute l'année et donne lieu à un important trafic de poids lourds."
Wikipédia.
From Badwater Basin (the lowest point in North America at 282' below Sea Level) Telescope Peak to the west seems just a slightly higher point on a long ridge of the Panamint Range.
Telescope Peak is the highest point in Death Valley National park at 11,043 feet. Because of the short distance from the lowest point to the highest (about 15 miles), Telescope Peak has one of the greatest vertical rises above its local terrain in the United States. By comparison, Everest rises a mere 13,000' above its northern base on the Tibetan Plateau.
From the peak, it's possible to see both the lowest point in the contiguous United States and the highest point (Mt Whitney at 14,505'), just over 70 miles to the northwest.
This image was made at sunrise, mid-December 2018. Visiting Death Valley in winter is a great experience with wide temperature variations between night and day that are tolerable for visitors. And, being the wetter season, there's a potential to catch the rare rain that falls in Death Valley, sometimes enough to return the basin to its lake form (if only a few cm deep). I wasn't so lucky on this trip. But, seeing the amazing pastel colored skies at sunrise was a nice treat.
I had always believed that shooting with the lowest possible ISO was the best (going back to the days of film), but a video I watched last night suggested some experimentation with higher ISO settings for wildlife shots could yield results. So here we go - ISO 6800 and these mundane Black-headed Gulls become almost ethereal
Landscape of Tibet
Tibet is the highest country on earth with an average elevation of over 4000m. The lowest regions of Tibet are still over 2000m above sea level with Jomo Langma (Everest,Sagarmatha) ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ being the highest point at 8848m. Tibet is covered in grasslands, mountains and valleys.
Many of Asia’s largest rivers have their headwaters in Tibet such as the Ma chu རྨ་ཆུ་ ( Yellow River), Dri chu འབྲི་ཆུ་ (Yangtze), Nag chu ནག་ཆུ་ - རྒྱ་མོ་རྔུལ་ཆུ (Salween), Yarlung Tsangpo ཡར་ཀླུངས་གཙང་པོ་ (Brahmaputra) and Dza chu རྫ་ཆུ་ (Mekong). Western Tibet (Ngari) is a high, arid region with few people, while southeast Tibet (Kham) is forested and suitable for farming. Northern Tibet (Amdo) is covered in vast grasslands filled with yaks and sheep and central Tibet (U-Tsang) is the most densely populated area of Tibet lying along the fertile Yarlung Valley.
Gubbio is an Italian town and comune in the far northeastern part of the Italian province of Perugia (Umbria). It is located on the lowest slope of Mt. Ingino, a small mountain of the Apennines.
The city's origins are very ancient. The hills above the town were already occupied in the Bronze Age. As Ikuvium, it was an important town of the Umbri in pre-Roman times, made famous for the discovery there in 1444 of the Iguvine Tablets, a set of bronze tablets that together constitute the largest surviving text in the Umbrian language. After the Roman conquest in the 2nd century BC – it kept its name as Iguvium – the city remained important, as attested by its Roman theatre, the second-largest surviving in the world.
Gubbio became very powerful in the beginning of the Middle Ages. The town sent 1000 knights to fight in the First Crusade under the lead of Girolamo of the prominent Gabrielli family, who according to an undocumented local tradition, they were the first to reach the Church of the Holy Sepulchre when Jerusalem was seized (1099).
The following centuries in Gubbio were turbulent, featuring wars against the neighboring towns of Umbria. One of these wars saw the miraculous intervention of its bishop, Ubald, who secured Gubbio an overwhelming victory (1151) and a period of prosperity. In the struggles of Guelphs and Ghibellines, the Gabrielli, such as the condottiero Cante dei Gabrielli (c. 1260–1335), fought for the Guelph faction, supporting the papacy. As Podestà of Florence, Cante exiled Dante Alighieri, ensuring his own lasting notoriety.
In 1350 Giovanni Gabrielli, count of Borgovalle seized power as the lord of Gubbio. His rule was short, and he was forced to hand over the town to Cardinal Gil Álvarez Carrillo de Albornoz, representing the Papal states (1354).
A few years later, Gabriello Gabrielli, the bishop of Gubbio, also proclaimed himself lord of Gubbio (Signor d'Agobbio). Betrayed by a group of noblemen which included many of his relatives, the bishop was forced to leave the town and seek refuge at his home castle at Cantiano.
With the decline of the political prestige of the Gabrielli, Gubbio was thereafter incorporated into the territories of the House of Montefeltro. The lord of Urbino, Federico da Montefeltro rebuilt the ancient Palazzo Ducale in Gubbio, incorporating in it a studiolo veneered with intarsia like his studiolo at Urbino. The maiolica industry at Gubbio reached its apogee in the first half of the 16th century, with metallic lustre glazes imitating gold and copper.
Gubbio became part of the Papal States in 1631, when the della Rovere family, to whom the Duchy of Urbino had been granted, was extinguished. In 1860 Gubbio was incorporated into the Kingdom of Italy along with the rest of the Papal States.
The name of the Pamphili family, a great papal family, originated in Gubbio then went to Rome under the pontificate of Pope Innocent VIII (1484–1492), and is immortalized by Diego Velázquez and his portrait of Pope Innocent X.
St. Georg, Reichenau, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland.
La Iglesia de San Jorge es una iglesia católica romana. Es parte de la Abadía de Reichenau fundada en el año 724, ubicada en la isla de Reichenau en el lago Constanza en el sur de Alemania. La isla alberga las iglesias de Santa María, Marco, Pedro y Pablo. La iglesia fue construida a finales del siglo IX para albergar la reliquia de la cabeza de San Jorge, un regalo del Papa Gregorio II, que conmemoraba la visita a Roma del abad Hoito en 896.
La iglesia es propiedad y está dirigida por el Fondo de la Iglesia Católica de San Jorge. El interior de la iglesia está decorado con pinturas murales que representan historias y figuras de las Escrituras y fue diseñado para aquellos que dedican sus vidas a la oración y la adoración.
La iglesia alberga frescos que se añadieron en el siglo X. Las pinturas murales representan una expresión artística de la Edad Media y son únicas por su antigüedad y ubicación. Son el único conjunto completo
conservado de pinturas murales realizadas al norte de los Alpes antes del año 1000 d.C.
Los frescos se dividen en tres zonas. La primera zona y la más baja se sitúa entre la nave y los arcos. La segunda zona está encima de los arcos. La tercera y más alta zona se encuentra encima de las ventanas. El panel inferior muestra los monasterios de la isla Reichenau. La segunda es la zona más investigada. Representa los milagros de Cristo. El panel superior representa a los profetas del Antiguo Testamento y a los apóstoles del Nuevo Testamento.
Cada fresco detalla una historia específica de la vida de Cristo. Inscripciones descriptivas, o Tituli, acompañan a las pinturas.
The Church of Saint George is a Roman Catholic church. It is part of Reichenau Abbey founded in 724, located on the island of Reichenau on Lake Constance in southern Germany. The island is home to the churches of Saint Mary, Marcus, Peter and Paul. The church was built in the late 9th century to house the relic head of Saint George, a gift from Pope Gregory II, which commemorated a visit to Rome by Abbot Hoito in 896.
The church is owned and run by the Catholic Church of Saint George Fund. The church interior is decorated with wall paintings that depict stories and figures from scripture and was designed for those who dedicate their lives to prayer and worship.
The church hosts frescoes were added in the 10th century. The wall paintings typify artistic expression from the Middle Ages and are unique for their age and location. They are the only preserved complete set of wall paintings produced north of the Alps before 1000 AD.
The frescoes are divided into three zones. The first and lowest zone is located between the nave and the arches. The second zone is above the arches. The third and highest zone is located above the windows. The lowest panel depicts the monasteries at Reichenau Island. The second is the most researched zone. It portrays Christ's miracles. The top panel depicts Old Testament prophets and New Testament apostles.
Each fresco details a specific story from the life of Christ. Descriptive inscriptions, or Tituli, accompany the paintings.
Passenger boats on the Sea of Galilee or Lake Tiberias, a freshwater lake in Israel. It is approximately 53 km (33 mi) in circumference, about 21 km (13 mi) long, and 13 km (8.1 mi) wide. It is the lowest freshwater lake on Earth and the second-lowest lake in the world (after the Dead Sea, a saltwater lake). The lake is fed partly by underground springs although its main source is the Jordan River which flows through it from north to south.
America is mired in optimistic nihilism. no real photo shopping just stupid.
America is magic. It will all work out. we don't need to do anything. Taking pictures in these area is ...dangerous.
Bad Water Basin Salt Flats, best Death Valley photo spot for sunset. The Bad Water Basin Salt Flats definitely became my favorite Death Valley photo spot! This place is actually the lowest point in North America and sits 282 feet below sea level.
"Glacier National Park is not actually in the Rocky Mountains but in the Columbia Mountains which are comprised of the Purcell, Selkirk, Cariboo and Monashee ranges. The Columbia Mountains are geologically and climatically distinct from the Rockies. The region has three different life zones determined by elevation.
The lowest zone, Rainforest, is a unique interior rainforest characterized by dense vegetation and large trees such as Western Red Cedar and Western Hemlock, as well as ferns and mosses. The middle zone, Snowforest, is characterized by Subalpine Fir, Mountain Hemlock and Spruce. The highest zone, No Forest, is above the treeline and provides habitat for much of the area’s wildlife."
The Church of the Veil was built in Ploske village of Svaliavskyi district in Zakarpatska Region in 1792. In 1920th it was transported to Kanora village near Volovets. In Ploske the church was devoted to the Holy Virgin, and in Kanora – to Her Veil. The locals say that in the new place it has been re-mounted by masters from Rekity village. This church is a sample of a lemky church of 18th Century, almost ideal in shape.
The building is double-logged, has three floors and is made of ash and oak beams (14 – 40 cm). The angles are made in dovetail technique. The church is unique for unequal height of its lobed domes: the lowest one is above the sanctuary, the lower one – above its nave, and the highest, bell-tower is over narthex. A gallery with small engraved columns comes along its frontal and side facades.
Original iconostation of the church was not preserved: only a part of apostolic row, two patron icings and details of the iconostation’s engraving. From 2005 to 2009 the iconostation was restored. It was put in place by a brigade of engravers from Lviv, headed by Grygoriy Petryshchak. Art painting was fulfilled by an artist Oleksandr Okhapkin.
The church is active; church services of a Ukrainian Greek-Catholics are run here.
Total area of the church is 134 square meters.
Церква Покрови Божої Матері із села Канора, Воловецького району, Закарпатської області.
Зразок одного з найдосконаліших за формою лемківського храму 18 століття.
Покровська церква збудована в селі Плоскому Свалявського району Закарпатської області у 1792р. У 1920-х роках її перевезли до села Канора поблизу Воловця. У Плоскому церква мала посвяту Святій Марії, на новому у Канорі - Покрові. Жителі села Канори розповідали, що на новому місці церкву збирали майстри із села Рекіти. Церква є зразком одного з найдосконаліших за формою лемківського храму XVIII ст.
Будівля двозрубна, триверха, рублена із ясенових і дубових брусів (14-40см), кути виконані у техніці «ластівчиний хвіст». Своєрідність храму полягає в тому, що гранчасті бані неоднакової висоти: найнижча постає над вівтарем, нижча над навою() а над бабинцем (бабинець — це нартекс у західній термінології) найвища дзвіниця. Уздовж чільного та бічного фасаду проходить галерея з фігурно різьбленими колонками.
Оригінальний іконостас церкви не зберігся, залишилась тільки частина апостольського ряду, дві ікони намісного і деталі різьблення іконостасу. В 2005-2009 роках було проведено реставраційні роботи по відновленню іконостасу церкви. Встановлено іконостас бригадою різьбярів зі Львова під керівництвом Григорія Петрищака. Іконописну частину виконав художник Олександр Охапкін.
Храм діючий. Тут постійно проходять служби парафії Української греко-католицької церкви.
Загальна площа споруди – 134 кв.м.
Лемки будували виключно дерев'яні храми до кінця XVIII століття, тобто до часу появи нових будівельних матеріалів: цегли і каменю. В основі лемківської церкви «закладена асиметрична композиція з виразним спадом висот із заходу на схід, а не симетрична рівновага пропорцій поміж верхами бабинця і вівтаря». Головна відмінність лемківського типу від словацького і польського полягає у тому, що храми лемків мають ступінчасто-пірамідальну форму перекриття над центральним і східним зрубами.
Badwater Basin is an endorheic basin in Death Valley National Park, Death Valley, Inyo County, California, noted as the lowest point in North America, with a depth of 282 ft (86 m) below sea level. Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous 48 United States, is only 84.6 miles (136 km) to the northwest.
The site itself consists of a small spring-fed pool of "bad water" next to the road in a sink; the accumulated salts of the surrounding basin make it undrinkable, thus giving it the name. The pool does have animal and plant life, including pickleweed, aquatic insects, and the Badwater snail.
Adjacent to the pool, where water is not always present at the surface, repeated freeze–thaw and evaporation cycles gradually push the thin salt crust into hexagonal honeycomb shapes.
I was there 2 times for sunset and got a good tipp from a photographer where to find an area with fully untouched honeycombs...
I have stitched 4 highres 16mm Portrait format Photographs for this panorama and finally had to reduce it in size to be able to upload it here...
Badwater ist eine Senke im Death Valley in Kalifornien und der tiefste Punkt Nordamerikas mit einer Höhe von 85,5 Metern unter dem Meeresspiegel. Badwater ist ein Überbleibsel des vorzeitlichen Sees Lake Manly.
In der Senke gibt es ein quellengespeistes Becken neben der Straße; das umgebende Salz macht das Wasser ungenießbar – daher stammt der Name Badwater (engl.: „schlechtes Wasser“). Im Becken leben Tiere und Pflanzen, wie z. B. Queller, Wasserinsekten und die Badwater-Schnecke. In der Umgebung des Beckens, die nicht ständig von Wasser bedeckt ist, bildet die Kruste des Bodens sechseckige Strukturen aus.
Ich war zweimal dort zum Sonnenuntergang und hatte auf meiner Tour einen Fotografen kennengelernt, der mir genau beschrieben hat, wo man noch unberührte Waben findet - so wie hier zu sehen...
Ich habe 4 hochauflösende 16mm Fotos für dieses Panorama zusammengesetzt.
The lowest recorded temperature at Uranus' tropopause is 49 K (−224.2 °C), making Uranus the coldest planet in the Solar System.
My Uranus is an ice sphere ! :-)
Hikers heading for an overlook, 5,475 feet above the floor of Death Valley. They will look down on the lowest point in North America (-262 feet).
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"You held me down, I'm at my lowest boiling point
Come help me out, I need to get me out of this joint
Come on let's bounce, counting on you to turn me around
Instead of clowning around, let's look for some common ground
So baby, times get a little crazy
I've been getting a little lazy waiting on you to come save me
I can see that your angry by the way that you treat me
Hopefully you don't leave me, wanna take you with me
If I could escape and recreate a place that's my own world
And I could be your favorite girl forever, perfectly together
And tell me boy now wouldn't that be sweet'"
for my video youtu.be/VfVlrC75MpQ
-7C,
Garden Village, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada,
Lowest temperature (1937-2012) -11.8°C1990,