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Gmail isn't the only inbox I'm a slave to. The only things I get in the mail nowadays are bills, cards from my grandmothers, and junk. Today, I got an IKEA catalogue that was addressed to someone else (news flash: USPS sucks in Chicago), the Herald Extra (which is just a reprint of the ads and coupons from the Hyde Park Herald), and a bill for my next two months of health insurance (biggest goddamn scam in the whole world).
Nowadays we delete whatsapps or mails but time ago when a love was unrequited they used flames to destroy letters.
Once, when I was working in a hospital in London, one of my patients gave me a letter. It said:
Love you forever and ever more, John.
I must say that this patient had dementia. He also asked to marry me. The day he gave the letter was my last day working there, he knew and he gave me this piece of paper.
As the photo is macro and because of the depth of field it is not possible to read what is written. It is written the same as John's letter. Don't forget the flame. HMM.
Peaceful evening hike into the pines and hardwoods of the 3 Lakes Prairie. Nowadays there aren’t as many….
Not quite sure why this beauty visited Manchester at the time but it was very welcome.
9K-ADE 747-400 Kuwait Airways.
Return to the old factory. Nowadays, it is one of the most imposing and luxurious hotels in the city.
Nowadays we have all of this or more on a single device...
Strobist info:
Minolta Auto 220X, honeycomb grid, half CTO gel, on left of camera pointing to the background.
Sony HVL-F60M, 1/4 level, snoot, half CTO gel, far right of the camera, pointing to gramophone.
Aputure Trigmaster II 2.4GHz remote triggers.
Stylized with Capture One Pro 8.1
In Explore Mar 13, 2015
The arm is on the wrong side, S... happens!
When there was a real service for TGV-connexion between Frasne and Berne with ex-TEE 'RABe'. Nowadays in times of ecological urgency this service has been reduced to a fully uncomfortable shuttle limited to Neuchâtel... La Cluse-et-Mijoux, February 1997
Nowadays, the central channel of Aveiro's coastal lagoon is almost always teeming with "moliceiro" boats that allow tourists to appreciate the city in a different way. These boats were once used to collect aquatic vegetation ("moliço", in Portuguese) to be used in agriculture.
The building in the photo is the former captaincy of the Port of Aveiro, and it's currently the Municipal Assembly building.
Aveiro Lagoon, Aveiro - Portugal
O Canal Central da Ria de Aveiro está quase sempre repleto de moliceiros que hoje em dia permitem aos turistas apreciar a cidade de uma forma diferente.
O edifício na fotografia é a Antiga Capitania do Porto de Aveiro (também denominado "Casa dos Arcos") onde actualmente funciona a Assembleia Municipal.
Ria de Aveiro, Aveiro - Portugal
We had met the (nowadays) Mlowathi Male Lions during our previous visits to Mala Mala. They used to be called 'The Mapochos' (the Devils) as they formed a brotherhood of 5 big adult Males and as such were sheer invincible. They were seen bringing down huge prey such as rhino. On numerous occasions they have killed other lions; both male as female as well as many cubs. They have no fear .. and it shows.
This year's visit, 2 encounters with 2 of the brothers had a huge impact on me;
The first encounter was with both Males. It was already pitch dark and apparently the smell of a willing lioness was in the air. They were sizing each other up in order to determine who would be the lionesses’ date. There was restlessness and aggression in the air. At one moment we found ourselves situated between the two impressive males. One started roaring. I don’t know if you’ve ever heard a Lion’s roar up close but I can tell you it is heart stopping; especially from 3 meters away. Your whole body vibrates with those deep thunderous tones. Then the other male answered the call with his own roar. Those haunting roars, coming from both sides, as close as that, is a sound I’ll never forget.. (picture above is one of the brothers on that particular night).
On the second occasion, a couple of days later, ranger Dean and I had gone out during the heat of the day to try and photograph Giant Kingfishers. When after 5 minutes we stumbled upon a big herd of elephants playing and frolicking in the Sand River, the Kingfishers were forgotten :-)
After a while a message came in through the radio; The ‘Mohawk” Mlowathi Male was seen at the airstrip in the company of an Eyrefield Pride Lioness.. So we went to have a look.
We found them in thick bush heading towards the river. The other brother had clearly been defeated in the fight over the favours of the female and waited a bit further away. The 2 lovers went off together and we followed them as best as we could until they stopped on the sloping riverbed. Dean parked the big Landrover in front of them and we waited..
All of a sudden the 2 big lions stood up to have a drink in the puddle right next to the landrover. Nothing out of the ordinary in Mala Mala until the huge Mapocho suddenly turned and stepped towards the (entirely open – not even a door) Landrover until he almost touched Dean’s foot, constantly staring at us with those huge yellow eyes. His whole body all muscle and clearly aggressively demanding privacy. And the stare lasted.. and lasted… And you know, so well, it would only take one lash with that giant paw…
I can’t even begin to describe what goes through you in such a moment. Pure fear is probably the closest. Dean explained later that he didn’t want to start the engine as the sound might have startled the Lion, which would have made it even more dangerous. Also he wanted to stand ground as he didn't want to teach the Lion that cars were 'to be intimidated'. Later on he said bravely that he was only waiting for the clicking of my camera to save the moment for eternity. Yeah right.. I’m quite sure that he also had nothing else in his mind than survival.. (I was so completely scared stiff that I totally forgot to press that shutter!).
The Status Quo lasted and lasted and someone had to do something to clear the tension.. In the end Dean did start the engine and we backed off a little which made the Mapocho turn and join his lady… Guess he won the staring contest...
Pfuw!!!!
Nowadays, one wing serves as Denmark's parliament, while the other one is open to tourists and is used by the queen for important ceremonies.
В наши дни, в одном из крыльев дворца расположился парламент Дании, а в другом - музейная часть, которая используется королевой для торжественных церемоний.
The fortifications of Naarden date back to the 17th century. This kazerne (barracks) was built in 1875-77. Nowadays there are a restaurant and offices in the old building.
Bakery x Bartimeu
Bartimeu - Denji Shorts [FATPACK]
Sizes : Legacy, Jake, Gianni, Davis
TMD EVENT LM: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/TMD/101/108/22
BxC - Maxi Lace-up Boots - FATPACK
Comes in sizes Legacy M/F, Jake, Reborn, Kupra, and Gianni
9 Diffferent colors
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Nowadays we’ve got almost-completed “American” cars and trucks sitting idle in parking lots waiting for computer chips from God-only-knows-where foreign countries. I didn’t stay long to compose this image, as it was 118-degrees out.
Such is countryside driving nowadays: most of the time, you don’t even bother to look at a road map, you just program your destination into the GPS system and go wherever the lady in the speakers tells you to go. And thus it was that, wandering leisurely through southern Burgundy on a late January afternoon, and patiently waiting to be taken back to the A6 freeway that would lead us home, we happened upon this memorable and truly unique sight: the Romanesque church in the village of Manlay in the département of the Côte-d’Or.
I have, of course, seen many fortified churches, in ruins or still standing, and I know what they were for: protection of the local populace towards the latter part of the Middle Ages, when a relatively peaceful era gave way to the countrywide Hundred Years War. However, I had never seen an édifice that looked almost entirely like a Mediæval castle, and only very secondarily like a church...! The way the scales tip here in favor of the fortification v. religion is truly remarkable.
Dedicated to Saint Laurent (Lawrence), this late Romanesque church/castle was built, as expected, in the early 1300s —the war in Burgundy began in 1337 and ended only in 1430— and its walls are 1.8 meters thick. Apparently, it served its purpose well and survived that war and the subsequent Wars of Religion in the late 16th century, only to be burned down with the rest of the village by retreating Nazi troops in July 1944.
The sad fate of the church was brought in the 1950s to German Chancellor Adenauer’s attention by the parish priest, and Adenauer organized a fundraiser that produced 200,000 deutschemarks that were used in the early 1960s to fund the substantial restoration the church needed.
On the technical side, these three shots are noteworthy because, while they were taken with my usual and trusty 19mm tilt-shift lens, they were also taken handheld, as I was too lazy pressed for time (for fear that the great light would go away) to take the tripod out of the boot and set it up!
Due to a technological advances photography nowadays cannot be considered the unconditional documentation tool and photographer isn‘t anymore a necessity for it to happen. Thanks to such tools like satellites, drones, street view, etc., it‘s not even necessary to get on location to capture it. As a consequence, every landscape photograph can be considered just a senseless digital record made by someone.
Despite being a visual mark, artificial lightning in landscape photography becomes a sensual link between the viewer and photographer.
I wanted to visit the spookiest places in my city and convey the atmosphere of explorations through the totally different approach.
Project ‘Been there’ explores the industrial periphery of Vilnius at night. A series of photos depict the intersection of time and space, which is very intriguing yet so scary for a random person to explore. The red light, creating the surreal, cinematographic plot is used to hyperbolize the senses that are triggered by those places. Vibrant light becomes a visual expression of the mental state that I was accompanied by while wandering around totally alone.
work in progress / 2016 - 2017 / www.simaslin.com
Nowadays, it seems that any Class 1’s locomotive can show up anywhere in North America. In the 1970’s, foreign power showing up in a distant location was more uncommon. The Delaware & Hudson’s “Apollo” intermodal service to Oak Island would sometimes have UP power, but those trains were elusive and often nocturnal. Here a westbound Apollo makes a setout at Allentown on an overcast July morning. For some reason, I couldn’t stick around to get the train on the road, but any shot of UP power in the Lehigh Valley was a relative rarity.
Due to a technological advances photography nowadays cannot be considered the unconditional documentation tool and photographer isn‘t anymore a necessity for it to happen. Thanks to such tools like satellites, drones, street view, etc., it‘s not even necessary to get on location to capture it. As a consequence, every landscape photograph can be considered just a senseless digital record made by someone.
Despite being a visual mark, artificial lightning in landscape photography becomes a sensual link between the viewer and photographer.
I wanted to visit the spookiest places in my city and convey the atmosphere of explorations through the totally different approach.
Project ‘Been there’ explores the industrial periphery of Vilnius at night. A series of photos depict the intersection of time and space, which is very intriguing yet so scary for a random person to explore. The red light, creating the surreal, cinematographic plot is used to hyperbolize the senses that are triggered by those places. Vibrant light becomes a visual expression of the mental state that I was accompanied by while wandering around totally alone.
work in progress / 2016 - 2017 / www.simaslin.com
Mirow Palace Island: Palace Courtyard between Mirow Palace and the Cavalier House, nowadays called the "3 Queens' Palace". In the background you see the church of the Order of St. John.
Mirow ist eine kleine Stadt mit knapp 3890 Einwohnern im Süden des heutigen Landes Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Sie entstand am Ort eines früheren slawischen Dorfes, dessen Namen sie übernahm. Er bedeutet so viel wie Frieden oder Ruhe. Die Geschichte als deutscher Ort geht auf eine Niederlassung des Johanniterordens zurück, dem Fürst Heinrich Borwin II. im Jahre 1226 60 Hufen Land geschenkt hatte. Da im Mittelalter die mecklenburgische Hufe etwa 13 ha entsprach, wären das also in heutigen Maßen 780 ha. Bei der Bestätigung dieser Stiftung durch Borwins Söhne wird bereits ein Dorf Mirow erwähnt. Spätestens 1242 hatte sich die Ordensniederlassung am Ufer des Sees zu einer Komturei entwickelt. In den folgenden Jahrhunderten wuchs der Grundbesitz des Ordens beständig weiter. Seit dem Übergang des Mirower Ordensbesitzes an das herzogliche Haus Mecklenburg am Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts wurde das Komtureihaus auf der Schlossinsel Mirow immer wieder als fürstlicher Wohnsitz genutzt. Dem domanialen Amt Mirow fielen Versorgungsfunktionen für herzogliche Witwen oder apanagierte Nebenlinien des mecklenburgischen Fürstenhauses zu. Herzog Johann Georg zum Beispiel, ein nachgeborener Sohn Adolf Friedrichs I., erhielt Mirow in der zweiten Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts als Apanage. 1707 bis 1712 wurde nach Plänen von Joachim Bormann ein neues Schloss errichtet, das heutige Obere Schloss.. Das wurde ab 1748 bis in die 1760er Jahre erweitert und zum Teil neu ausgestattet. Das Obere Schloss wurde in den letzten Jahren aufwendig restauriert und 2014 als Museum der Öffentlichkeit übergeben. Bekannt wurde Mirow vor allem durch Königin Charlotte, Gattin des britischen Königs George III., die 1740 in Mirow geboren wurde.
Während sich der Mirower Hof noch in den 1740er Jahren zu einem wichtigen geistig-intellektuellen Zentrum von Mecklenburg-Strelitz entwickelt hatte, hörte mit dem Regierungswechsel 1752/53 die fürstliche Hofhaltung in Mirow allmählich auf und fand schließlich 1761 mit dem Tod der Herzoginwitwe Elisabeth Albertine ein Ende. Seither führte Schloss Mirow ein stilles, verträumtes Dasein und erwachte nur dann kurzzeitig zu neuem Leben, wenn ein Mitglied des Strelitzer Herrscherhauses verstorben war und in der 1704 an die Kirche angebauten Fürstengruft beigesetzt wurde.
In dem 1735 bis 1737 außerhalb des alten Burgbezirks errichteten Nebenschloss (dem so genannten Unteren Schloss), das nach Umbauten in den 1760er Jahren zunächst unvollendet geblieben war, wurde 1820 das Großherzogliche Lehrerseminar von Mecklenburg-Strelitz eröffnet, welches bis in die 1920er Jahre knapp 800 Volksschullehrer ausbildete. Heute sind Mirow und seine seenreiche Umgebung ein beliebtes Urlaubsziel.
Angaben auf Grundlage von de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirow
Mirow is a small town with just under 3890 inhabitants in the south of what is now the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. It was founded on the site of a former Slavic village, whose name it took over. It means something like peace or tranquillity. Its history as a German village goes back to a settlement of the Order of St John, to which Prince Heinrich Borwin II donated about 780 hectares of land in 1226. When Borwin's sons confirmed this donation, the village of Mirow was already mentioned. By 1242 at the latest, the order's settlement on the shores of the lake had developed into a commandery. In the centuries that followed, the Order's land holdings continued to grow steadily. Since the transfer of the Mirow estate to the ducal house of Mecklenburg at the end of the 16th century, the commandery house on the castle island of Mirow was repeatedly used as a princely residence. The domanial office of Mirow was responsible for providing for ducal widows or collateral lines of the Mecklenburg dynasty. Duke Johann Georg, for example, a descendant son of Adolf Friedrich I, received Mirow as an allowance in the second half of the 17th century. Between 1707 and 1712, a new palace was built according to plans by Joachim Bormann, today's Upper Palace. This was extended and partly refurnished from 1748 until the 1760s. The Upper Palace has been extensively restored in recent years and opened to the public as a museum in 2014. Mirow became famous above all through Queen Charlotte, wife of the British King George III, who was born in Mirow in 1740.
While the Mirow court had developed into an important intellectual centre of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in the 1740s, the princely court in Mirow gradually ceased with the change of government in 1752/53 and finally came to an end in 1761 with the death of the dowager duchess Elisabeth Albertine. Since then, Mirow Palace has led a quiet, dreamy existence, only briefly coming back to life when a member of the Strelitz dynasty died and was buried in the princely crypt added to the church in 1704.
The Grand Ducal Teachers' Seminary of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was opened in 1820 in the secondary palace (the so-called Lower Palace) built between 1735 and 1737 outside the old Palace district, which initially remained unfinished after being remodelled in the 1760s and trained almost 800 primary school teachers until the 1920s. Today, Mirow and its lake-rich surroundings are a popular holiday destination.
Information based on de.wikipedia.org/
or the tactics of communication guerrilla ...
hunting Banksy near Southampton ... I almost caught him ... ;-) ...
Banksy is nowadays often mentioned in one breath with Picasso, Van Gogh and similar famous artists ...
one of his artworks changed hands for 18 million dollars ...
Von Wiki erfuhr ich, dass Banksy (* vermutlich 1973 oder 1974 in oder in der Nähe von Bristol, England) das Pseudonym eines britischen Streetart-Künstlers ist. Seine Schablonengraffiti wurden anfangs in Bristol und London bekannt.
Seine Aktivitäten auch außerhalb des Vereinigten Königreichs machten Banksy weltweit bekannt. Banksy bemüht sich, seinen bürgerlichen Namen sowie seine wahre Identität geheim zu halten.
Es wird spekuliert, dass der Brite Robin Gunningham Banksy ist. Andere Spekulationen halten Banksy für eine Frau oder den Teil eines Kollektivs.
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Banksy bedient sich der Taktiken der Kommunikationsguerilla, insbesondere bei seinen Inspirationsquellen (wie beispielsweise der des französischen Pochoir-Künstlers Blek le Rat und Massive Attacks Frontman Robert del Naja, alias 3D) und der Adbusters, um eine alternative Sichtweise auf politische und wirtschaftliche Themen zu bieten.
Er verändert und modifiziert dabei oftmals bekannte Motive und Bilder. Er nahm Auftragsarbeiten für wohltätige Zwecke an (beispielsweise für Greenpeace) und gestaltete eine Reihe von CD-Covern, u. a. für das Label Wall of Sound sowie 2003 für die Band Blur. Als Künstler wirkte er bisher in Australien, Frankreich, Deutschland, Großbritannien, Israel, Italien, Jamaika, Japan, Kanada, Kuba, Mali, Mexiko, Österreich, den Palästinensischen Autonomiegebieten, Spanien, der Ukraine und den USA.
Neben der Umsetzung von Schablonen-Graffiti installierte Banksy eigene Arbeiten auch unautorisiert in Museen. Auf diese Weise hingen Arbeiten von ihm im Londoner Tate Modern, New Yorker Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, American Museum of Natural History und im Louvre. Im Mai 2005 wurde Banksys Version einer Höhlenmalerei, die einen jagenden Menschen mit Einkaufswagen zeigte, im British Museum gefunden.
Seit 1999 zeigte Banksy seine Werke mehrfach in selbst organisierten Ausstellungen, da er Galerien sowie den traditionellen Kunstbetrieb dem Vernehmen nach ablehnt.[8] Die erste Einzelausstellung fand im Jahr 2000 im Restaurant Severnshed in Bristol statt. Gezeigt wurde unter anderem die bekannte Bilderreihe Simple Intelligence Testing in Dumb Animals.
In der Turf-War-Ausstellung 2003 in einer Londoner Lagerhalle waren u. a. lebende, von ihm bemalte Tiere zu sehen. 2006 fand in Los Angeles die Banksy-Ausstellung Barely Legal statt, wieder in einer Lagerhalle, zu der 30.000 Besucher kamen.[9] Seine Ausstellung Banksy vs. Bristol Museum zog 2009 in nur sechs Wochen 308.719 Besucher an. Seine Ablehnung des Kunstbetriebs demonstrierte auch eine Aktion in New York im Oktober 2013, bei welcher Bilder zu Schnäppchenpreisen an unwissende Laien verkauft wurden.
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Banksy (* probably 1973 or 1974 in or near Bristol, England) is the pseudonym of a British street artist. His stencil graffiti initially became known in Bristol and London.
His activities also outside the United Kingdom made Banksy known worldwide. Banksy strives to keep his civil name as well as his true identity a secret.
It is speculated that the Briton Robin Gunningham is Banksy. Other speculations consider Banksy to be a woman or the part of a collective.
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Banksy uses the tactics of communication guerrilla, particularly with his sources of inspiration (such as those of French pochoir artist Blek le Rat and Massive Attacks frontman Robert del Naja, a.k.a. 3D) and the Adbusters, to offer an alternative take on political and economic issues.
In doing so, he often changes and modifies familiar motifs and images. He has accepted commissions for charities (such as Greenpeace) and has designed a number of CD covers, including for the Wall of Sound label and, in 2003, for the band Blur. As an artist he has worked in Australia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Canada, Cuba, Mali, Mexico, Austria, the Palestinian Territories, Spain, Ukraine and the USA.
In addition to implementing stencil graffiti, Banksy also installed his own works in museums without authorization. In this way, works of his hung in London's Tate Modern, New York's Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, American Museum of Natural History and the Louvre. In May 2005, Banksy's version of a cave painting depicting a chasing human with a shopping cart was found in the British Museum.
Since 1999, Banksy has shown his work several times in self-organized exhibitions, as he reportedly rejects galleries as well as the traditional art establishment.[8] The first solo exhibition was held in 2000 at the Severnshed restaurant in Bristol. Among the works on display was the well-known series of paintings Simple Intelligence Testing in Dumb Animals.
The 2003 Turf War exhibition in a London warehouse included live animals painted by him. In 2006, Banksy's exhibition Barely Legal was held in Los Angeles, again in a warehouse, and attracted 30,000 visitors.[9] His 2009 exhibition Banksy vs. Bristol Museum attracted 308,719 visitors in just six weeks. His rejection of the art establishment was also demonstrated by an action in New York in October 2013, in which paintings were sold at bargain prices to ignorant laypeople.
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Nowadays, it is often very important not to be in the clouds to hold on!
Very small this Dragonfly up there
De nos jours, il est souvent très important de ne pas être dans nuages pour tenir le coup !
Bien petite cette Libellule tout là-haut
A real rarity nowadays, so I couldn’t resist leaving a note! Got a call back from the owner soon after. He bought it at the Daewoo ‘motor show’ around the corner from his house, to replace another Espero which was stolen at only a year old. He said he is going to give me first refusal on the car as he has to sell it because of the ULEZ extension towards the end of this year.
Mileage in between MOTs - 559 Miles
Mileage at last MOT - 71,367 Miles
Last Ownership Change - 16th March 1998
N365 BEB
✓ Taxed
Tax due: 1 September 2021
✓ MOT
Expires: 7 August 2021
Nowadays rebuilt to rather exclusive apartments.
View from west-northwest (through the southern city cemetery)
Nowadays, the central channel of Aveiro's coastal lagoon is almost always teeming with "moliceiro" boats that allow tourists to appreciate the city in a different way. These boats were once used to collect aquatic vegetation ("moliço", in Portuguese) to be used in agriculture.
The building in the photo is the former captaincy of the Port of Aveiro, and it's currently the Municipal Assembly building.
Aveiro Lagoon, Aveiro - Portugal
O Canal Central da Ria de Aveiro está quase sempre repleto de moliceiros que hoje em dia permitem aos turistas apreciar a cidade de uma forma diferente.
O edifício na fotografia é a Antiga Capitania do Porto de Aveiro (também denominado "Casa dos Arcos") onde actualmente funciona a Assembleia Municipal.
Ria de Aveiro, Aveiro - Portugal
Nowadays my bokeh fever has calmed down and I am into a lot of processing... I was looking at some old photos and realized how boring they were. So I have decided to resubmit them after some processing.
I hope you like the new version.
Regards to all...
Camera Model : Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure : 0.010 seconds
Aperture : f/5
ISO Speed : 100
Focal Length : 19 mm
Subject Distance : 256.0 meters
An unusually early start for me (nowadays anyway!) in order to shoot my first ever class 50 at my local shack. I so nearly didn't get this shot of the arrival though as I was obviously working on an out-of-date bus timetable and just missed one by a minute and so being early on a Saturday morning had 15 minutes to wait for the next one. It is a ten minute journey to the station and my bus turned up 10 minutes before the 50s were due to arrive so I had resigned myself to not getting an arrival shot. Sure enough, after alighting from the bus, signal maps showed the 50s were already at a red signal outside the station as they were approach controlled for the crossover into platform 2. However the signalman was thankfully tardy giving them the road as I was able to half run the 200 yards to the station entrance and arriving on platform 4 saw that they were still about 75 yards away. I am pretty sure this is the first up passenger train I have ever seen arrive into platform 2 and normally at this early hour the sun is directly behind the Hoovers but that was not a problem today as it was almost completely solid dark grey overcast. The reason for the train utilising the down main platform was courtesy of it being a strike day today and only the second up service to London of the day was booked into platform 4 midway through the 50s ten minute pause here which they then followed as far as Stratford. I made a major error (although not apparent until after the up Clacton had departed) as a clearance from the west only became evident as the 50s departed. Indeed the sun came out in the first break in the clouds while the rear of the train was still in sight. I should have gone to Witham on the up Clacton as there is a good chance they may have been well lit there. Indeed 10 minutes later it was clear blue skies here!
Nowadays, the central channel of Aveiro's coastal lagoon is almost always teeming with "moliceiro" boats that allow tourists to appreciate the city in a different way. These boats were once used to collect aquatic vegetation ("moliço", in Portuguese) to be used in agriculture.
The building in the photo is the former captaincy of the Port of Aveiro, and it's currently the Municipal Assembly building.
Aveiro Lagoon, Aveiro - Portugal
O Canal Central da Ria de Aveiro está quase sempre repleto de moliceiros que hoje em dia permitem aos turistas apreciar a cidade de uma forma diferente.
O edifício na fotografia é a Antiga Capitania do Porto de Aveiro (também denominado "Casa dos Arcos") onde actualmente funciona a Assembleia Municipal.
Ria de Aveiro, Aveiro - Portugal
Nowadays I can only stay with simple composition and I guess this is true even when I have better vision before.
Have a great day!
Fuji X-T1
Fuji XF 50-140mm
Velvia Film Simulation
Nowadays, one wing serves as Denmark's parliament, while the other one is open to tourists and is used by the queen for important ceremonies.
В наши дни, в одном из крыльев дворца расположился парламент Дании, а в другом - музейная часть, которая используется королевой для торжественных церемоний.
Buchendorf, nowadays incorporated into Gauting, is an ancient village. Already the Romans and before them the Celts left their traces here. This is the church of St Michael. dating back to the 12th century.
Nowadays, almost any garden with a peanut feeder will attract Blue Tits, and they readily breed in nest boxes. ... They eat mixed bird seed and peanuts from hanging feeders, as well as suet pellets and suet balls
Pedra do Baú, located in the neighboring municipality of São Bento do Sapucaí, is one of the points sought by adventurers who seek to explore and contemplate the beauties of the Serra da Mantiqueira. The rocky formation that has a ridge of 1850 meters of altitude, with a dimension of 350 meters of height and 540 meters in length and abyss of 200m, is nowadays a place for paragliding, hang gliding, climbing, as well as hiking and mountain- bike
The first to cross the Pedra do Baú were brothers João and Antônio Teixeira de Souza, in the year 1940, after years of attempts. Later, Luiz Dummont Villares, a wealthy entrepreneur, also decided to open it with the Teixeira de Souza brothers, where he devised and built one of the first mountain shelters in Brazil, inaugurated on January 12, 1947.
Source - Internet
Unusual nowadays to see this working on the Marches. DB Cargo Class 66 No. 66089 rounds the curve on the approach to Abergavenny working the 6M86 Margam Dee Marsh loaded steel. The steel goes to the plant in Shotton for coating which produces galvanised and pre-finished (painted) strip, of which 40 per cent is exported.
Nowadays, I wonder if our world has much more love and affection to give! Everyday something horrible and avoidable happens ~ it's hard to get by just upon a smile!!
Our Daily Challenge ~ The Glass Menagerie ....
Thanks to everyone who views this photo, adds a note, leaves a comment and of course BIG thanks to anyone who chooses to favourite my photo .... Thanks to you all.
Nowadays the overbuilding is too present in our lives. Let's give more space to Nature and its beauty!