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My son looks at a Gorilla Mother while the Gorilla Mother looks back at him. Taken at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo by my awesome Wife!
It’s been nearly six years in the making, but Roane County is nearing the opening of it’s first Boys and Girls Club. Community leaders have worked on the project for a long time, and say it’s a sorely needed program for the county’s youth. There is a problem with funding to actually get the project rolling. Officials say that $150,000 must be raised by December, and so a fundraising campaign kicked off Labor Day, beginning with a 5K run at Harriman’s Riverfront Park. The Boys and Girls Club will be situated in the Harriman Middle School.
The 5K race began at Riverfront Park in Harriman and continued through the streets of the historic district and ended up at the starting point in the park.
Built in 1935-1939, this Modern house, an example of Organic Architecture, was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the family of department store owner Edgar J. Kaufmann, Sr. to serve as a weekend retreat. The house was a catalyst for the revitalization of Frank Lloyd Wright’s career, who was in his mid-60s at the time, along with two other commissions around the same time, the Johnson Wax Headquarters and the Jacobs House I, which were critically acclaimed and explored a bold new direction of organic architecture that was heavily inspired from their natural surroundings, and were streamlined, dropping most of the ornamental pretenses of his earlier work. The house was built for department store owner Edgar J. Kaufmann, Sr., his wife, Liliane Kaufmann, and their only son, Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., to serve as the family’s weekend retreat, with room to accommodate a small staff and guests alongside the family. The Kaufmann family became acquainted with the work of Wright through Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., who read Frank Lloyd Wright’s autobiography in 1934, and was so impressed that he decided to intern at the Taliesin Fellowship, where Edgar, Sr. and Liliane first met Wright while visiting Edgar, Jr. The family, at the time, resided in a traditional-style mansion in Fox Chapel, near Pittsburgh, and had a small rustic cabin overlooking the waterfall at the Fallingwater site. The cabins were falling into disrepair in the mid-1930s, which prompted the Kaufmann family to contact Wright to design a replacement structure. Wright visited and surveyed the area around Bear Run in 1934, but shelved the project while pursuing other work for the next few months, thinking through the design, before being surprised by a visit from Edgar J. Kaufmann, Sr. in September 1935, which prompted Wright to quickly draw a concept for a house at Bear Run, producing the initial design drawings in two hours. Edgar, Sr., upon seeing the plans, was surprised to see the house soaring above the waterfall, as he had expected it to sit below the falls in order to view them from a distance, but Wright’s charisma convinced a skeptical Kaufmann to buy into the concept.
The house was designed by Wright with input from structural engineers Mendel Glickman and William Wesley Peters to feature large cantilevers, which allowed it to embrace the waterfall and topography below, while providing ample outdoor space and the desired number of bedrooms and living spaces within. A second wing was constructed above the main house, linked to it via a covered breezeway, which houses a carport, servants quarters, and a guest suite. The stone utilized in the house’s construction was quarried on the site, and it utilized reinforced concrete in its construction, a building technique with which Wright was inexperienced, but which the design would be impossible to implement without utilizing. Kaufmann was skeptical of Wright’s experience with the technique, as well as the cantilevered forms of the structure, and commissioned an engineering report, compiled by an engineering firm, which caused Wright to threaten to walk away from the incomplete project. Kaufmann relented in the face of Wright’s ultimatum, and had the documents buried. However, the contractor, feeling uneasy about the strength of Wright’s design, added extra reinforcement in secret, which was revealed during the building’s restoration. Other changes were made due to skepticism of the cantilevered design, but many of these were reversed, which proved the resiliency and strength of the design. The house came in far over budget, but despite these cost overruns and complications with the design, the Kaufmann family enjoyed it as a weekend retreat between 1937 and 1963. Liliane Kaufmann died in 1952, and Edgar Kaufmann, Sr. died in 1955, leaving the house to their son, Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., who continued to utilize the house as a weekend retreat, with his life partner, Paul Mayén, becoming a regular visitor to the house as well. In 1963, Edgar, Jr. donated the property to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, along with the surrounding property, which was converted into a nature reserve, and the house was opened for public tours.
The house features multiple reinforced concrete cantilevers, wrap-around windows facing the falls and Bear Run, open, transparent corners on the side of the building facing the creek, stone cladding on the more opaque portions of the facade, large terraces on the cantilevered portions of the building, open tread staircases inside and outside the building, red metal trim, a suspended concrete canopy over the breezeway connecting the guest wing and carport with the main house, a swimming pool on the terrace outside the guest wing, rocks embedded into the floors of the interior of the house, a staircase from the living room down to Bear Run below, and red concrete floors inside. A driveway, following Bear Run, crosses a bridge next to the main wing of the house before following a narrow corridor between the main wing and an adjacent stone outcropping, before turning and arriving at the upper wing, which originally housed a four-bay carport on the lower floor. The interior of the house is very open to the exterior, with low furnishings that allow for maximization of the views out of the windows, and is home to art that was collected by Liliane, books collected by Edgar, Jr. and Paul, and furnishings collected by Edgar, Sr. The house’s kitchen features yellow-painted metal cabinets and appliances, and chrome handles, the living room features a fireplace with a spherical beverage warmer that is designed to swing over to the fireplace from its storage location next to the fireplace and coffered ceilings, and horizontal bands of trim, and various portions of the house feature built-in desks, cabinets, wooden slat screens, and bookshelves, simple beds featuring wooden headboards and nightstands in the bedrooms, and bathrooms with cork tiles, sunken bathtubs, ceiling-mounted shower heads, and toilets with wall-embedded tanks. The upper wing of the house has a carport and guest suite on the lower floor, with servants quarters above, and the main house features a living room, dining room, kitchen, terraces and lounge on the first floor, a primary suite and secondary bedroom and bathroom with large terraces on the second floor, and a suite intended for Edgar, Jr. on the third floor, which was later partially converted into an office. The house is very broad in the direction parallel to Bear Run and has a living room that cantilevers over the creek, but it is very thin, being rather thin, with primary interior spaces featuring windows that look out onto Bear Run below. The house, despite its size appearing massive due to its spatial arrangement, has only a small interior square footage, but the space is efficiently designed to offer maximum utility to the occupants, and allow a close connection with nature.
The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. It was designated as part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, in 2019. A visitor center was constructed on the property in 1977-1979, designed by Paul Mayen. The most visible modification to the house since it was opened to the public were the enclosure of three carport bays to house a museum and presentation space for visitors. The house underwent major alterations to its structural systems in 1995-2002, involving analyzing the performance of the cantilevers over time since the house’s construction, as the bold cantilevered forms had insufficient reinforcement and had deflected substantially, nearing their failure points. Additional steel supports and post-tensioning in the form of steel cables were added to the building to support the cantilevers, which has halted the progression of the deflection of the structure, though it is monitored by the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy in order to detect any further movement of the structure. The house today sees over one-hundred thousand visitors annually, and is one of the most well-known works of Wright, as well as being one of the best-known houses in the United States.
Nikon D90\Sigma 150-500 @ 450mm\1/60th\f11\ISO 200\Mode:Manual\D-Lighting - on\OS off\Tripod used
Tonight the sky is relatively clear and it is below freezing!! Some six hours after Moonshot I, I took the opportunity to open my bedroom window and take this image with my new Sigma 150-500's. I used the tripod as a two legged monopod, as the moon was high in the sky and at a very difficult angle. It is amazing how much the view changes in six hours!!!! I kept the focal length at 450mm but changed some other attributes like active D-lighting..
I prefer Moonshot I both from the actual moon itself and technically...
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Photograph taken at an altitude of One hundred and eighteen metres at 12.15pm on Monday 5th June 2023 off Mayfair Drive in the grounds of Mt Tolmie Park in Victoria on Vancouver Island in British Columbia.
Nikon D850 Single-lens reflex digital camera F Mount with FX CMOS 35.9mm x 23.9mm Image sensor 46.89 Million total pixels Focal length: 50mm Shutter speed: 1/125s (Mechanical shutter) Aperture f/13.0 iso64 Hand held with Nikkor VR Vibration Reduction enabled Image area Full Frame FX (36 x 24) NEF RAW L 45.4Million pixels (8256 x 5504) 14 Bit uncompressed AF-C Priority Selection: Release Nikon Back button focusing enabled 3D Tracking watch area: Normal 55 Tracking points Exposure mode: Manual mode Metering mode: Matrix metering White balance on: Natural light Auto, 0, 0 Colour space: Adobe RGB Picture control: (SD) Standard (Sharpening +3.00/Clarity +1.00)
Nikkor AF-S 24-120mm f/4G ED VR. Nikon GP-1 GPS module. Hoodman HEYENRG round eyepiece oversized eyecup. Black Rapid Curve Breathe strap. My Memory 128GB Class 10 SDXC 80MB/s card. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag. Nikon EN-EL15a battery.
LATITUDE: N 48d 27m 24.00s
LONGITUDE: W 123d 19m 30.80s
ALTITUDE: 119.0m
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HP 110-352na Desktop PC with Windows 10 Home edition AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU 64Bit processor. Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB Data storage. 64-bit Windows 10. My Passport USB 3.0 2TB portable desktop hard drive. Nikon NX STUDIO 64bit Version 1.2.2 (08/12/2022). Nikon Capture NX-D 64bit Version 1.6.2 (18/02/2020). Nikon Picture Control Utility 2 (Version 2.4.5 (18/02/2020). Nikon Transfer 2 Version 2.16.0 (08/12/2022). Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.
Reese Cup How Beautiful & Sweet You Are ~ Already Caring So Much for Others (Especially Your Babies- You’re Such A Good Little Mom haHA!) 🌸💞 We Are Unbelievably Blessed With You Reese! Happy 2 Years & 5 Months Old Today Babe! 🎀💝
VIDEO - Bagpipers and Voyagers www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbVQaYbvn6I
Fort Langley BC was built in 1827 by the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) as a trading post to enable the fur trade and was later expanded to include farming, salmon and cranberry production. Each year during the BC Day long weekend, a reenactment of the fur trade activities is held at the fort. Bag-pipers, soldiers in uniform, staff and volunteers dressed in authentic pioneer and frontier costumes gather at the banks of the Fraser River to greet the fur trappers (aka voyagers) who arrive in canoes to bring back pelts of beavers, otters and other small animals they have caught or traded with the First Nations to Fort Langley before shipping off the finished products to England and other markets.
[Photos by Ray Van Eng www.vancouver21.com ]
my other (less photographed) dog. she's only less photographed because she hates looking at the camera! she always tries to get away.
"The Other Side Of The Story" Reversible Wool Cape by BIBIDOAN-New York
Original Designed & Handmade by BiBiDoan in New York City
Photo by Pawel Luterek
(raw images, not a single photoshop retouching, nor editing)
Model: Me, BiBiDoan, No one would understand and love my design as much as I do. And I want to be the 1st wearing my original design.
Make-up: It's about my design. It's NOT about the make up. I just want to be the real me, in my own skin. I don't like make up... still using lotion & Burt's Bees lip shimmer as always.
Hair: Just wash & go
Location: NYC Central Park ( West Side & 86th St)
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On Thursday, March 10, the U.K. government released a list of Russian oligarchs who have been sanctioned and the list includes Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich and his one time business partner Oleg Deripaska. The others, according to the press release, include Igor Sechin and people who are said to belong to Putin’s inner circle. Their collective worth is roughly £15 billion.Foreign secretary Liz Truss announced a total asset freeze as well as a travel ban on 7 Russian oligarchs as their businesses and wealth is closely associated with the Kremlin. They will be banned from traveling to the U.K. and no citizen or company of the country may conduct business with them.The 7 on the list includeRoman Abramovich, owner of Chelsea F.C., worth roughly £9 billion. He also has stakes in Evraz, a giant steel company and Norilsk Nickel.Oleg Deripaska, worth roughly £2 billion, former partner of Abramovich, with stakes in En+ group.Igor Sechin, who is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Rosneft.Andrey Kostin, who is the chairman of VTB bank.Alexei Miller, who is the CEO of Gazprom, a huge energy company based in Russia.Nikolai Tokarev who is the president of Transneft, a company owned by RussiaDmitri Lebedev who is the chairman of Bank Rossiya.The U.K. government will enforce the Economic Crime Bill next week. This will let the government act further and faster to simplify the process of applying sanctions on individuals who are helping or have helped the Kremlin.Prime
www.cweb.com/abramovich-deripaska-and-other-russian-oliga...
File name: 08_06_004930
Title: Tug keeping Charles River clear of ice near draw, for coal barges and other traffic
Creator/Contributor: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 (photographer)
Date created: 1929
Physical description: 1 negative : glass, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.
Genre: Glass negatives
Subjects: Tugboats
Notes: Title and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.
Collection: Leslie Jones Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Copyright © Leslie Jones.
Preferred credit: Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.