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Most of my photos are taken in and around the city of Molde, in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway.
This one was taken from the city of Molde
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One of the interesting windows in the infamous Winchester mansion. Most of the creative touches in the house involved the occult and the number 13 being that their aim was to confuse restless spirits of those killed by the Winchester rifle...
If I had posted this on the 13th,I might have angered a few of those spirits....Happy window Wednesday all!
Most of my photos are taken in and around the city of Molde, in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway.
This one was taken is not far from the city limits. In Moldemarka
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Most great egrets (Ardea alba) I’ve encountered are rather shy, often taking flight long before I can get close enough for a good photo. That changed last Sunday during a visit to the Ochsenmoor. There were quite a few of these elegant birds around, and this particular individual allowed me to approach unusually close. It might have had a slightly grumpy expression – probably it wasn’t thrilled about my presence – but in the soft fog that has lingered over the area for weeks, its bright white plumage truly stood out.
Ochsenmoor, Hüde, Lower Saxony, Germany
Of course, most everyone in the neighborhood thought Roy was an insufferable old cuss, who loved nothing better than siccing his one-eyed Vizsla, "Beauregard", on to any unsuspecting children who might venture too close to Roy's property line.
As a result, Roy was always generously rewarded with soaped window screens each and every Halloween night; and sometimes, even a gloriously-flaming bag of poo at his front door.
The Cathedral of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat, more known under the name of the Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed, which trones to the south of the red square in Moscow.
La cathédrale de l'intercession-de-la-vierge, plus connue sous le nom de la cathédrale de Saint Basile le bienheureux, qui trône au sud de la place rouge à Moscou.
Not the most detailed shot, but still I chose this one to end this series of American Avocets for two reasons. First I think the flying away symbolizes the end, and secondly it is a stepping stone to the next set of shots I will post that were taken the same evening under some really great light.
Earlier when I saw that the light may be nice, I quickly headed to Elk Island in hopes of getting a particular shot that I had imagined. The image that I was going to try to get would have been a backlit shot looking into the sun in order to get a silhouette type shot with rim lighting accentuating an outline of their graceful curves. Not asking for too much, eh? Well it never happened. The beach still had many visitors and there were only two Avocets, both of which were packing it in for the night and flew away upon my arrival near the beach allowing me only a couple of quick unprepared shots, this being the best of them. I hung around a short while thinking they may return, but they didn't, likely leaving to join the rest of their friends who were no where in sight.
Not the magical image I had imagined, but all in all I am still quite happy with it, plus the outing furnished me with a bunch of other shots that I am thrilled with. So often the case, plan for one thing and come home with something completely different.
Most of my pictures are taken in and around the city of Molde, witch is the capital of Møre og Romsdal, in the country of Norway
This one was taken in "The green corridor."
"The green corridor runs from the seafront at Reknes to the baroque Chateau villa, continuing through the Reknes Park up to the "Pavillion" at the Rekneshaugen viewpoint. The nature trail then passes through the Romsdal Museum and proceeds to the viewpoint Varden (407 m.a.s.) where you can enjoy a marvellous view of the town, the fjord and the Molde panorama."
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is covered by water. A fisherman's job is simple. Pick out the best parts. ~ Charles Waberman
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Most think a hawk hunts and kills from above, but this hawk uses a different technique. This hunter works its way among low bushes, hunting inside the bushes, under them, whatever it takes.
Most of my pictures are taken in and around the city of Molde, witch is the capital of Møre og Romsdal, in the country of Norway
This one was taken is not far from the city limits.
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Most of my pictures are taken in and around the city of Molde, in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway.
This one was taken on the trail to Varden viewpoint (Molde panorama)
"From the Varden viewpoint (407 m.a.s.) there is a fantastic view over the town of Molde, the fjord with the islands, and the famous Molde panorama with its 222 partially snow-clad peaks."
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Most of the migratory passerines bypassed my backyard this September, for reasons unknown, but I did catch up with a few of them elsewhere. This White-crowned Sparrow was in a small tree in the park. However, it insisted on flying down to land on a picnic table, and it looked better there, at eye level, than in my shots of it in the tree or in the grass. Of course I prefer my subjects in totally natural settings, but I'll always be grateful for any close photo op in splendid early morning light.
Tomorrow, the start of a new series featuring one of my favourite prairie wildlife species. Some unusual behaviour, too. I was thrilled with this encounter; don't miss it!
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2024 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Bana (ბანა) is the most unusual Cathedral in the history of Georgian architecture. Built in the historical region of Georgia Lower Tao (now part of Turkey) and is considered a kind of copy of the Armenian temple Zvartnots, built in the VII century. Now it is in a very dilapidated state and even the turn to it from the highway is not marked.
In the middle of the seventh century, a large temple was built here. Under adarnassus II (881-923), the bishopric of ban was founded, and the Cathedral was rebuilt. The chronicler of the XI century Sumbat son of David tells us that the temple was built by the son of David I Kurapalat - Adarnese II and was directly built by Kvirike Baneli, who became the first Bishop of the temple. After his death, he was buried here. Bana was the summer residence of the Georgian kings, as well as their tomb. In the X-XI centuries, under the leadership of Zakariya Baneli, many valuable manuscripts were created in the temple. According to historical sources, the temple was named after the Holy cross.
According to the historian Vakhushti Batonishvili, the power of Bishop Ban extended to Panaskert, Tao, Oltis and the surrounding territories.
The significance of the Ban is indicated by the fact that here the Georgian king Bagrat IV (1027-1072) married the sister of the Byzantine Emperor Romanos III Argyros (968 — 1034) - Ellen. This wedding is depicted on the mural of the temple of Oshki, where the image of the temple of Ban is still preserved. Here in the XV century, was buried king Vakhtang and his wife Situaton.
From the Chronicles of the Russian-Ottoman war of 1877-1878, it becomes clear that on may 20, 1877, the Ottomans left the village of Penek and fortified themselves in Oltis, waiting for additional reinforcements. On may 21, the Ottomans left Oltis. On may 22, the Russian army occupied Oltis and the village of Penek (Bana) without a fight.
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ბანა (თურქ. Penek Kilisesi) — ძელი ჭეშმარიტის (ანუ ძელი ცხოვლის, იგივე წმ. ჯვრის) სახელობის საკათედრო ტაძარი ისტორიულ სამხრეთ საქართველოში — ტაოში. ძეგლი მდებარეობს თურქეთში, ერზურუმის პროვინციის, შენქაიას ილჩეს, სოფელ პენეკში, მდინარე პენეკ-ჩაის მარჯვენა ნაპირზე.
VII საუკუნის შუა წლებში აქ ააშენეს დიდი ტაძარი. ადარნასე II-ის დროს (881-923) დაარსდა ბანის საეპისკოპოსო, ხოლო ტაძარი გადაკეთდა. XI საუკუნის ისტორიკოსი სუმბატ დავითის ძე გვამცნობს, რომ ტაძარი აუგია დავით I კურაპალატის ძეს — ადარნესე II-ს, კვირიკე ბანელის ხელით, რომელიც ბანას პირველი ეპისკოპოსი გამხდარა. გარდაცვალების შემდეგ იქვე დაუკრძალავთ. ბანა ქართველ მეფეთა საზაფხულო სამყოფი და აგრეთვე მეფეთა განსასვენებელიც იყო. X-XI საუკუნეებში ბანაში მოღვაწე ზაქარია ბანელის თაოსნობით ბევრი ძვირფასი ხელნაწერი შეიქმნა. საისტორიო წყაროს მიხედვით, ტაძარი ძელი ცხოველის (ძელისა ჭეშმარიტისა) სახელობის იყო.
ვახუშტი ბატონიშვილის ცნობით, ბანელი ეპისკოპოსის ძალაუფლება ვრცელდებოდა ფანასკერტზე, ტაოზე, ოლთისზე და მათ მომიჯნავე ტერიტორიებზე.
ბანას დიდ ისტორიულ მნიშვნელობაზე მეტყველებს ის ფაქტიც, რომ აქ დაიწერა ჯვარი საქართველოს მეფე ბაგრატ IV-მ (1027-1072 წწ.) ბიზანტიის იმპერატორის რომანოზ III არგირუსის დაზე — ელენეზე. ეს ჯვრისწერა ასახულია ოშკის სამხრეთ მკლავის ფრესკაზე, სადაც ბანას გამოსახულება დღემდე შემორჩენილია. აქვე, XV საუკუნეში დაკრძალეს საქართველოს მეფე ვახტანგი და მისი მეუღლე სითიხათუნი.
1877-1878 წლების რუსეთ-ოსმალეთის ომის ქრონიკებიდან ირკვევა რომ: 1877 წლის 20 მაისს ოსმალებმა დატოვეს სოფელი პენეკი (რუს. Пеньяк — პენიაკი) და გამაგრდნენ ოლთისში დამატებითი ძალების მოლოდინში. 21 მაისს ოსმალებმა ოლთისიც დატოვეს. 22 მაისს რუსეთის არმიამ უბრძოლველად დაიკავა ოლთისიც და სოფელი პენეკიც.
I was thinking of flipping this vertically, then realized the duck would drown if I did :)
Compositionally Challenged June Most Versatile: Great Outdoors (water)
Most people who photograph birds have one or two species that seem to elude photography - even when they are not uncommon to see. Such is my relationship to the Black and White Warbler. It is present every spring during northbound migration in our area, for a few weeks, and again in the fall. I love seeing them and somehow they defy my attempts at photography.
This female was bouncing along right-side-up and upside-down on the interior of a coniferous tree. She was scouting out the insects hiding from the late summer heat. You can see the antennae of the insect she ultimately caught and consumed poking out from the bottom of the branch. She snatched the insect and disappeared.
A friend and bird expert thinks of the species as similar to Nuthatches but sped up considerably. That works for me.
1936 Bugatti Atlantic Type 57SC
Most expensive car in the world, this Bugatti sold in 2010 for an estimated $38 - 40 million dollars to Peter Mullin of the Mullin Auto Museum, Oxnard, CA.
Only three Bugatti Atlantic's (a fourth is disputed) were produced. One was destroyed in a train wreck, the other is in the private collection of Ralph Lauren.
being knowledgeable is essential, because, to me, nothing appears quite so difficult as to pose a model well and light him correctly, for the very reason that it seems so simple to do.
In the interest of photography and photographers I cannot urge amateurs enough to understand that photography is not a trade but an art and that, as a consequence, their feeling and their knowledge must be reflected in their works just as the feeling of a painter is reflected in his paintings :-)
Adalbert Cuvelier
Truth Matters!
narcissus, daffodil, 'Golden Sunbeam', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
For most travellers to Far-West Tibet (Ngari) in Purang county, the prime focus of their journey is the sacred peak of Mount Kailash (6714 m), Tibetan name is Gang Ti Se. This extraordinary mountain is regarded as the `heart of the world`, the àxis mundi`,the centre of Asia, by Buddhists, Hindus, Jains and followers of other spiritual traditions. Of all the special destinations for the traveller to reach, Mount Kailash is surely one of the most sublime and sacred. Its geographical position as the watershed of South Asia is unique and it is this which gives it a cosmic geomantic power. From its slopes flow four great rivers in the four cardinal directions - the Senge Tsangpo སེང་གཙང་པོ་ (Indus River) north, the Yarlung Tsangpo ཡར་ཀླུངས་གཙང་པོ་ (Brahmaputra) east, Karnali south into the Ganges གང་ག་, and the Langchen Tsangpo གཙང་པོ་ ( Sutlej River) west.
Mount Kailash itself is known in the Tibetan language as Gang Ti-se and informally as Gang Rinpoche ("Precious Snow Mountain"), to the Bon as Yungdrung Gutsek ("Nine stacked Svastikas").
"Lotus flowers [Nelumbo nucifera] are one of the most prominent tokens in Eastern cultures. In Hinduism and Buddhism, they’re considered the most sacred flower. Hieroglyphics from Ancient Egypt show this delicate flower alongside priests and pharaohs. Statues of Buddhist monks often include a lotus flower. Vietnamese and Indian people often associate the flower with gods and goddesses.
What is it about the lotus flower that has pushed it into legends for centuries? Beyond its beauty, it is the mystery that enshrouds the flower. The question surrounds its survival.
To understand, we must first explore the details of the lotus flower. We’ll delve into its history, properties, and symbolic meaning.
A cause for much of the mystery surrounding lotus flowers is that they are living fossils. Their existence stretches back some 145.5 million years. Lotus flowers even survived the Ice Age (1.8 million – 10,000 years ago). The Ice Age was a time of great geological and ecological change. Most plants in the northern hemisphere became extinct during this era.
This hardy flower also grows naturally from Russia to Australia, China to Iran. It seems they can survive the extremes of any climate.
These facts have contributed to lotus symbolism in cultures and religions throughout time." Source: flowerglossary.com
When I took a trip to south Texas in February one of the snakes I most wanted to see was the Texas Indigo snake. These are one of our biggest non-venomous snakes. They eat other snakes, frogs, lizards and a variety of other things. On my last full day of the trip I travelled to a location that a friend told me these beautiful snakes could be found.
Here is a youtube video of the search followed by the written account below.
I arrived at the location in the afternoon. The habitat consisted of farmland and scrubland which was intersected by a deep sided ditch. Waterways are often the best places to spot reptiles and amphibians so I searched carefully along the ditch hoping to see a big black snake somewhere in the vegetation or under a rock or at the mouth of a burrow. I was walking along one side of the ditch when I looked over to the other side and couldn't believe my eyes. There was a big Texas Indigo snake sitting there in the grass next to a shrub on the edge of the ditch. I was recording some video at the time and took my camera out to try to get some pics and it disappeared. The ditch was too wide to jump across at that point so I went down stream to where I could cross over a bridge and back to the spot I had seen the snake. I looked all around where I had seen it and it was unfortunately no where to be found.
As I stood in the spot where I had originally seen the snake in the grass, I thought about how close I had come to catching that beautiful snake and wondered if I had even gotten it on video. I thought that the snake had gone down a rodent hole or something. As I stood there in a mixture of emotions I happened to glance into the water and something dark caught my eye in the water in the undercut bank on the opposite side of the ditch where I had first seen the snake. As I looked closer, I was amazed and elated to see that the long dark object was the Indigo snake hiding there in the water under the bank. I think it had seen me and then dove into the water and decided to hide under the bank. I wasn't going to lose it this time so I decided I needed to jump the ditch. I got as much of a start as I could on the steep downhill next to the ditch and made my jump. I barely made it safely to the other side, ran over to the bank where I saw the snake and reached in to make a grab. I was overjoyed to pull this beautiful snake out of the water.
Indigo snakes are very gentle and this snake never made any attempt to bite but it did flatten out its neck as a threat display.
After a little photo session with this beautiful snake I returned it to its habitat along the bank of the ditch. I was very grateful for the opportunity to see this snake on my visit to Texas.
Note please don't confuse the Texas Indigo snake with the threatened Eastern Indigo snake which lives in the SE United states. They are closely related but the Texas Indigo snake has healthy populations in Texas and Mexico and is not threatened or endangered and is thus OK for me to catch, photograph and release. If this was an Eastern Indigo snake that would not be allowed without a permit.
Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland. It is the third-most populous city in the United Kingdom and the 27th-most populous city in Europe, and comprises 23 wards which represent the areas within the city boundaries. Glasgow is a leading city in Scotland for university education and research, finance, industry, commerce, shopping, culture and fashion, and was commonly referred to as the "second city of the British Empire" for much of the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
Whilst most part of the country was experiencing this atmospheric river, I was happy to spend some time in Otago riding the rail trail in (mostly) fine weather. Last night the last of the clouds dissipated for a while which allowed me to spend a couple of hours at the Butchers Dam. I arrived close to midnight, hence it was a bit of a challenge finding a spot to set up.
Foreground: pano of 5 images, 5 min, f/4.5, ISO 3200
Sky tracked: pano of 13 portrait images, 30 s, f/2.8, ISO 1600
Pre-processed in DxO PhotoLab, stitching, blending and final processing in Affinity Photo.
01 May '25: Replaced image. Sky re-stitched with Image Composite Editor.
Even the most vivid memories fade with age.
Memories fade with age:
Due to normal brain changes like shrinking, reduced white matter (disrupting brain cell communication), and declining neurogenesis (new brain cell growth) in areas like the hippocampus, alongside less blood flow and fewer protective hormones/proteins, affecting memory storage and retrieval. It's a natural process, like a muscle weakening, where less-used connections falter, making recall slower.
Memories change:
Because they are dynamic and reconstructed, not perfect recordings; each time you recall a memory, it can be updated with new information, emotions, or suggestions, similar to the game of whispers, leading to distortions, added false details, or fading details to keep them relevant, useful, and less cluttered for the present. This process, called reconsolidation, allows the brain to adapt memories for future use, even if it sacrifices perfect accuracy, - - - - sad but you can't really trust your memory.
most mornings I start on our deck (whatever the weather) with a coffee and my iPhone - this was last Wednesday, 7:10 am.
Das Gebäude des Restaurants "Maison des Tanneurs" (Gerwerstubb) in Straßburg, bildet mit seiner zur Ill hin gelegenen Galerienfassade einen der malerischsten Anblicke im Viertel "Petit France".
Das Gebäude selbst trägt an einem Fenster die Jahreszahl 1572, wurde aber in den folgenden Jahrhunderten vielfach erweitert und erneuert. Die Seite zur Ill hin war ursprünglich offen und bildete eine zweistöckige offene Galerie zur Trocknung der hier verarbeiteten Häute.
The building of the restaurant "Maison des Tanneurs" (Gerwerstubb) in Strasbourg, with its gallery facade facing the Ill River, forms one of the most picturesque sights in the "Petit France" district.
The building itself bears the date 1572 on one window, but was extended and renovated many times in the following centuries. The side facing the Ill River was originally open and formed a two-story open gallery for drying the hides processed here.
My most recent moonscape featuring the prominent Copernicus, Aristarchus and Gassendi craters.
The image has been shot on January 18 from my backyard in Luxembourg. The seeing conditions were pretty good.
It's a crop out of a 6 pane mosaic. For each pane I stacked 20% of about 2.000 frames.
The saturation is increased by a fair amount in order to highlight the mineral composition of the moon's surface.
Gear: Skywatcher Maksutov 180/2.700mm & ASI 178mc
Most of those moments where one just stops and soaks in the beauty of nature with its vibrant colors! For me, this image was about the vibrant colors of the aspens on the hillsides all around me, with blue skies and clouds above. To my front was a road, a journey if you will, to lead me and enjoy all the beauty around.
View over Covão do Ferro. On the left hand side, you can see the Unhais road and its winding.
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Most birds have left Colorado for warmer climes but the robins still linger despite the early snow we received in Boulder, Colorado.
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”
― H.P. Lovecraft
Taken at the Contraption Team's Fantasy Faire region, Bassett Town. That was the SKY y'all...
Memorable. Amazing. Creepy af.
(Bassett Town Forever)
Like most owls, the barn owl is nocturnal, relying on its acute sense of hearing when hunting in complete darkness. It often becomes active shortly before dusk and can sometimes be seen during the day when relocating from one roosting site to another. In Britain, on various Pacific Islands and perhaps elsewhere, it sometimes hunts by day. This practice may depend on whether the owl is mobbed by other birds if it emerges in daylight. However, in Britain, some birds continue to hunt by day even when mobbed by such birds as magpies, rooks and black-headed gulls, such diurnal activity possibly occurring when the previous night has been wet making hunting difficult. By contrast, in southern Europe and the tropics, the birds seem to be almost exclusively nocturnal, with the few birds that hunt by day being severely mobbed.
Barn owls are not particularly territorial but have a home range inside which they forage. For males in Scotland this has a radius of about 1 km (0.6 mi) from the nest site and an average size of about 300 hectares. Female home ranges largely coincide with that of their mates. Outside the breeding season, males and females usually roost separately, each one having about three favored sites in which to conceal themselves by day, and which are also visited for short periods during the night. Roosting sites include holes in trees, fissures in cliffs, disused buildings, chimneys and haysheds and are often small in comparison to nesting sites. As the breeding season approaches, the birds move back to the vicinity of the chosen nest to roost.
The Forth Bridge was opened in 1890, having been 8 years in the construction. It was started in the knowledge that, given the poor safety standards of the time, men would die in the process. At its peak, approximately 4,600 workers were employed in the bridge's construction.
As of 2009 it was recorded that 73 men lost their lives in accidents. A memorial on shore records their names and occupations.
Two new bridges have since been constructed nearby: The Forth Road Bridge and The Queensferry Crossing.
For me, this original bridge is the most 'handsome' and characterful. We visited on a late autumn evening and stayed for sunset. The gathering dusk gave a sombre and reflective mood.
One of the most important Baroque pilgrimage churches in Germany is the Basilica of the Vierzehnheiligen in Bad Staffelstein, Upper Franconia.
Construction of the church began in 1743, but wasn't completed until 1772.
The planning process until construction could finally begin was confusing and complicated.
The origins of the pilgrimage lie in the Middle Ages: in 1445, the shepherd of the monastery (Langheim Monastery) saw a crying child in a field, which disappeared as he approached. This child appeared to the shepherd three times, and on July 2, 1446, he and a woman witnessed two burning candles descending from heaven at this spot. Shortly thereafter, a miraculous healing occurred at exactly the same spot. The miraculous healing was then recognized by the nearby Langheim Monastery (this monastery no longer exists). A pilgrimage quickly gained momentum, and the first church was built. A pilgrimage brings in revenue, and, as so often happens, a dispute erupts over this revenue. The dispute was between Langheim Monastery and Staffelstein, which was the responsible parish. An arbitration court ruled that the church and the offerings should remain in Langheim, but that a third of the revenue must be paid to the Bishop of Bamberg. In return, the bishop must bear a share of the construction costs, provided he knows the plans and agrees. In other words, no construction can take place without the bishop's consent.
In 1693, the Bishop of Bamberg demanded the third of the pilgrimage revenue he was entitled to from Langheim Monastery. The abbot countered by reminding the bishop that the diocese had long since failed to fulfill its proportional construction obligations, and he presented the bishop with an expert opinion on the necessity of a new building. The dispute fizzled out; the diocese was not expected to pay.
The planning confusion began. The protagonists were the Abbot of Langheim, Stephan Mösinger, and Bishop Friedrich Carl von Schönborn. They now negotiate who will pay what. The bishop succeeds in getting Langheim Abbey to bear the costs alone, but in return the pilgrimage fees are reduced. However, the building plans still have to be signed off by the bishop.
Since his abbey now has to bear the costs, the abbot wants to keep them as low as possible. He commissions the Weimar court architect Gottfried Heinrich Krohne to redesign the church. Krohne, himself a Protestant, has no sympathy for a rural pilgrimage. This is reflected in his plans. The bishop rejects Krohne's plans. The plans for the pilgrimage church are abandoned. The abbot turns to the redesign and construction of the monastery church. He hires Balthasar Neumann for this task. His plans for the new monastery church overshadow all other Baroque church plans. The project is abandoned, and the abbot has to turn his attention back to Vierzehnheiligen. In the meantime, the bishop has commissioned his court architect, Jakob Michael Küchel, to design the pilgrimage church. However, the bishop rejects these plans, deeming them too expensive. At the same time, the abbot commissioned Balthasar Neumann to draw up plans. These plans were approved, but secretly the abbot wanted to forgo the brick vaults for cost reasons. The abbot's master builder Krohne was to begin construction based on Neumann's plans, but as a cost-effective version. On April 23, 1743, the foundation stone was laid, and by December the walls in the choir and transept area were three meters high. Becoming suspicious, the bishop sent Balthasar Neumann and Küchel to Vierzehnheiligen for an inspection. Neumann was shocked; Krohne deviated significantly from Neumann's plans, surely on the abbot's instructions. The bishop blamed Krohne solely, and the abbot dismissed the master builder. Bamberg now took control, and the road was clear for Neumann. And Neumann now showed why he was one of the leading Baroque architects; he was at his best. In 1744, he presented his plans for the new building, incorporating the walls that had already been built. He completely redesigned the building, with the vault being the greatest challenge. Neumann died in 1753 and did not live to see its completion. His master mason, Thomas Nissler, continued the work in Neumann's spirit. The church was consecrated in 1772.
What would Vierzehnheiligen be without its fantastic stucco decorations and frescoes (unfortunately, since a fire caused by lightning in 1835, water damage because the temporary roof was built too late, and whitewashing in the late 19th century, the frescoes have suffered greatly today).
Johann Michael Feichtmayr and his workshop, together with Johann Georg Üblhör, all masters of their craft, were responsible for the magnificent stucco and the freestanding altar of grace. Feichtmayr also designed the high altar.
Most Monday afternoons I get some free time, so if the conditions are ok I'll grab the gear and head out - this week with all the insanity over a flu strain getting around, the chance to catch some head space and a sunset was quite what the Dr ordered.
Love getting up to Carrington falls at any time but today was particularly tasty... Hope you enjoy the view.
Steev
One of the most unique VIA units makes an appearance for "MLW Monday". Even though it's from my collection and not taken by me, I thought this John C. Benson photo was interesting enough to be worth sharing. VIA 8558 was the only hood type roadswitcher unit to officially end up on the VIA roster, as CP had wrecked one of the F's being transferred to VIA before the actual handover took place. I'm sure VIA wasn't "thrilled" at this being the substitute for an F-unit, and ex-CP 8558 was usually in trailing service on power consists until supposedly retired in 1982. I know it's seen here at the CP shop in 1983, so I'm not sure about the retirement date or maybe it went back into CP service, just don't know.
that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event ;-)
Oscar Wilde
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ENG: The Victory Column on the Großer Stern in the Großer Tiergarten is one of Germany's most important national monuments and one of Berlin's most important sights. Built between 1864 and 1873 by Heinrich Strack on Königsplatz to commemorate the Wars of Unification, it was moved to its current location between 1938 and 1939 together with the monuments to Bismarck, Roon and Moltke. When it was inaugurated on 2 September 1873, Prussia had also defeated Austria and its German allies in the Austro-Prussian War (1866) and France in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), which gave the monument a new purpose. The addition of the 8.3 metre high bronze sculpture of the Roman goddess of victory Victoria, designed by Friedrich Drake, gave the Victory Column its current height of 67 metres. In the Berlin vernacular, she is also known as the "Goldelse".
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GER: Die Siegessäule auf dem Großen Stern im Großen Tiergarten gehört zu den bedeutendsten Nationaldenkmälern Deutschlands und den wichtigsten Sehenswürdigkeiten Berlins. Erbaut 1864 bis 1873 von Heinrich Strack auf dem Königsplatz zur Erinnerung an die Einigungskriege, wurde sie 1938 bis 1939 zusammen mit den Denkmälern Bismarcks, Roons und Moltkes an den heutigen Standort versetzt. Als sie am 2. September 1873 eingeweiht wurde, hatte Preußen auch Österreich und seine deutschen Verbündeten im Österreichisch-Preußischen Krieg (1866) und Frankreich im Deutsch-Französischen Krieg (1870-71) besiegt, was dem Denkmal einen neuen Zweck gab. Das Hinzufügen der 8,3 m hohen Bronzeskulptur der römischen Siegesgöttin Victoria, die von Friedrich Drake entworfen wurde und der Siegessäule ihre heutige Höhe von 67 m verleiht. Im Berliner Volksmund wird sie auch „Goldelse“ genannt.