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At the moment I am on a "Eurotour"..............so I am travelling around Europe(hahahah)
I will try to post ........one a day.
It's Sunday morning..........a beautiful day and I can hear the congregation of a local church singing a hymn.
At the moment I am in Dresden,(5 days) and Berlin till the end of June,
Then I will be visiting Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia..........and so on and so on....................... other places at the moment are Austria and Belgium, so if any of you folks want to meet up let me know...I might be in a town near you (so you can also hide as well..............hahahahah)
Onwards.................
A photo that didn't make the cut for some reason back in 2018 when Terry and I ventured out on a wild winters day.
If I recognise the scenery correctly we were working our way up 'The Band' to reach the ridge between the Crinkle Crags and Bowfell. Crinkle Crags form the backdrop here. What we didn't know at this pointy was that the weather was about to turn nasty.
For my last photo of 2015, i am posting a re edit of a old photo.
2015 was another 'worst' year in a series of unkind years. The best highlight for my photography this year is this photo, which was used as a cover for a CD of Spanish rock group 'Correos' for their 2015 album 'Seres'. There was no money exchanged, but it felt good to be on a CD! www.youtube.com/user/CorreosBandTube/videos
For 2016...i wish end of wars; forgiveness; tolerance; peace and happiness for everyone. For myself...i wish!
The Royal Victoria Dock is the largest of three docks in the Royal Docks of east London, now part of the redeveloped Docklands.
Although, the structure was in place in the year 1850, it was opened in 1855, on a previously uninhabited area of the Plaistow Marshes. It was the first of the Royal Docks and the first London dock to be designed specifically to accommodate large steam ships. It was also the first to use hydraulic power to operate its machinery and the first to be connected to the national railway network, via the Eastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway section of what is now the North London line. It was initially known as "Victoria Dock"; the prefix "Royal" was granted in 1880.
The dock was an immediate commercial success, as it could easily accommodate all but the very largest steamships. By 1860, it was already taking over 850,000 tons of shipping a year – double that of the London Docks, four times that of St Katharine Docks and 70% more than the West India Docks and East India Docks combined. It was badly damaged by German bombing in the Second World War, but experienced a resurgence in trade following the war. From the 1960s onwards, the Royal Victoria experienced a steady decline – as did all of London's other docks – as the shipping industry adopted containerisation, which effectively moved traffic downstream to Tilbury. It finally closed to commercial traffic along with the other Royal Docks in 1981.
In 1988, the then-dilapidated site was chosen by French electronic musician Jean-Michel Jarre as the site for one of his signature large-scale concerts, eventually titled Destination Docklands. The area also inspired him to write the album Revolutions specifically for the event.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Victoria_Dock
The fourteen cranes at Royal Victoria Dock, two from the 1920s and twelve from 1962, have been listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * this is the most concentrated ensemble of cranes surviving in London's Docklands and the group represents the swansong of the docklands as an industrial area in the 1960s, poignantly redolent of this vanished industry; * twelve of the cranes are innovative DD2s of 1962, a strikingly modern design in welded tubular steel; * all fourteen are by Stothert & Pitt, the most famous makers of cranes in the world; * both types are impressive in scale and form and the group has an almost sublime quality, particularly in silhouette.
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/139352...
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100x: The 2024 Edition
70/100 London landmarks by night
Trying something different with editing. Subdued colours and an extra serve of graininess.
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Just a new personal back-to-basics project of mine. In lieu of the new layout by Flickr, I'm inspired again to finally break away from the square formats to do something I have been wanting to do for a long time: Full A4 sized images, similar to magazine pages.
This is part of 8 pages, including 3 "two-page" spreads, lol! The rest will be coming tomorrow onwards!
Outfit: Kabukimono from Bare@Rose
I've encountered this climber in the Mines of Moria (I mean Dinorwic), she was doing an amazing job, working hard whilst we were standing and just clicking, encouraging her on the way up. It was a long way down, foggy and visibility pretty low, so it is a mere wee record of the moment.
This was taken in January this year on a very cold and frosty winters morning over the Crayford Marshes! ( see map for location)
With the most up to date Airborne Tactical Observation and Surveillance mission system in the Italian Air Force this Leonardo-Finmeccanica P-72A taxes in after landing at RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland for a short fuel stop before departing onwards to Iceland back in October 2018.
climbing up l to r:
St Cross almshouses
the local church
Chichester Cathedral
posting for MosaicMontageMonday: stairs
HMMM!
And onwards ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_Museums
www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/en/collezioni/...
Autumn in Europe 2025
A closer crop of a previous upload finds 60007 as it leaves Onllwyn for Swansea Burrows. I was lucky with my visits here as I managed to get a 60 each time.
On and Onwards
Evolution is all about looking forward.
Gerard Pique
with Haida M10 - II Filter Holder + Haida Red Diamond ND - 4 Stops + Haida Red Diamond Medium GND - 3 Stops (Haida Filter)
with Canon EOS R5 + Canon RF 15-35 F2.8ISL (Canon Portugal)
with Leofoto LN 364-C Tripod and LH-55 Ball Head
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Portugal here www.leofoto.es, Leofoto en España
With MiopsTrigger and X-Rite Photo & Video
@ Lisboa, Portugal
Duarte Sol Photography
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The KohiNoor-i-Kor is the most expensive diamond in the world, having been given priceless status due to its brilliance and uniqueness. The diamond is owned, guarded and worshipped by the Mahaganjas, a fierce warrior tribe of the Himalayas, typically armed with Kukris, Karambits and fearsome stares.
Once a century, when Neptune is aligned with both Triton and the Poseidon Belt, from the 12th stroke of midnight onwards until exactly one minute thereafter, the diamond necklace is exhibited to the general public. Photos can be taken on this occasion, and only on this occasion. Non-adherence to this ancient Law can result in draconian punishment involving the Claw Of The Tiger, followed by the Wheel of Death. Thereafter it gets horrible.
Here we see the KohiNoor-i-Kor diamond necklace being modeled by Claudia Schiffer. Also notice the stunning pearl earrings previously owned by Marco Polo, and later by the Queen of Sheba (estimated street value USD 130,000,000). And Claudia just looks stunning, as always.
Budget Impersonator: Kangsom
Bodyguard: Par the Slayer
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Matera is a city and the capital of the Province of Matera in the region of Basilicata, in Southern Italy. With a history of continuous occupation dating back to the Palaeolithic (10th millennium BC), it is renowned for its rock-cut urban core, whose twin cliffside zones are known collectively as the Sassi.
Matera lies on the right bank of the Gravina river, whose canyon forms a geological boundary between the hill country of Basilicata to the south-west and the Murgia plateau of Apulia to the north-east. The city began as a complex of cave habitations excavated in the softer limestone on the gorge's western, Lucanian face. It took advantage of two streams which flow into the ravine from a spot near the Castello Tramontano, reducing the cliff's angle of drop and leaving a defensible narrow promontory in between. The central high ground, or acropolis, supporting the city's cathedral and administrative buildings, came to be known as Civita, and the settlement districts scaling down and burrowing into the sheer rock faces as the Sassi. Of the two streambeds, called the grabiglioni, the northern hosts Sasso Barisano and the southern Sasso Caveoso.
The Sassi consist of around twelve levels spanning the height of 380 m, connected by a network of paths, stairways, and courtyards (vicinati). The medieval city clinging on to the edge of the canyon for its defence is invisible from the western approach. The tripartite urban structure of Civita and the two Sassi, relatively isolated from each other, survived until the 16th century, when the centre of public life moved outside the walls to the Piazza Sedile in the open plain (the Piano) to the west, followed by the shift of the elite residences to the Piano from the 17th century onwards. By the end of the 18th century, a physical class boundary separated the overcrowded Sassi of the peasants from the new spatial order of their social superiors in the Piano, and geographical elevation came to coincide with status more overtly than before, to the point where the two communities no longer interacted socially.
Yet it was only at the turn of the 20th century that the Sassi were declared unfit for modern habitation, and the government relocation of all their inhabitants to new housing in the Piano followed between 1952 and the 1970s. A new law in 1986 opened the path to restoration and reoccupation of the Sassi, this time – as noted by the architectural historian Anne Toxey – for the benefit of the wealthy middle class. The recognition of the Sassi, labelled la città sotterranea ("the underground city"), together with the rupestrian churches across the Gravina as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in December 1993 has assisted in attracting tourism and accelerated the reclaiming of the site. In 2019, Matera was declared a European Capital of Culture.
A footpath through native woodland in the Vicente Perez Rosales National Park, Region de los Lagos, Chile
Sagrada Familia...and cyclist. Gaudí's ever a-building masterpiece: meanwhile, everyday life continues as the decades slip by. Here it is pedestrians (likely tourists) and a cyclist pass the landmark structure.
In Explore January 1, 2023. Happy New Year indeed! :D
From a few years ago. This is the steep and slippery approach to the pinnacle ridge of Liathach, in Glen Torridon, Scotland.
It's like The Land That Time Forgot. It's on my bucket list to be up there and see this view at sunrise.