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Anflug zum Touch-and-go in Leipzig, der Airbus A319 OH, 15+03, Offener Himmel - Open Skies, Aufklärungs Airbus der Luftwaffe.
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Hello dear friends ... well it's official. Palo and I are now in business ... Dragon Papillon is our name .... and photos are our game ... The studio is up, the lighting has been purchased and what a joy it is to be in ... So for those of you who are interested in checking us out here is our addresses...
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I know I haven't been around much and I do have my reasons ...which are to long to enumerate .... ha !!! but my physical health is looking up ... therefor my mental and spiritual health should be coming up right bout the same time ... here's hoping ....
I miss you all so very.very much .....
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Marty xox
Several open toppers were on display at the Scottish Vintage Bus Museum's open day, including McGill's DAF
DB250/Wright Gemini (G6906) parked next to Tayside's Volvo Ailsa. The DAF proved to be a head turner with a large group congregating to photograph the bus as it arrived.
Routes of McGill's Album: flic.kr/s/aHsmazmotm
To make a change from beach reflections, this was a superbly coloured blue and green Rhododendron, that looked so wrong from a distance, but so right close up ,from Sheffield Park in Sussex. Open your wings, is a track by The Sand Band, a hauntingly beautiful track!!
Opeens zeer lokaal een winters aangezicht. Nog geen kilomter verder was er amper nog wat van te zien - Zwartewaal/NL
May2025.
501 Club in East Little Rock, Arkansas USA.
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After I finished the last two retouched images I realized that if I were going to let folks download the card, I should probably open it up for scans and start over after the lessons learned in the first attempts. Here it is.
I have to switch from my load of unedited recent stash of out and about pix. I got a load of scanning and retouching recently maliciously dumped on me. So far, I have three solid days packed into the project so far and the collection has not shrunk that much. As long as I have to do this, I will do my reasonable best with only short cuts that are really difficult to notice. I have a real pile to get through when I have a lot on my plate otherwise. I just as well post several of the more interesting retouches I go through. Another real series will have to wait just as the Fourth of July fireworks are on tonight.
I'd set the date as about 1944. The Leica Standard 35mm camera was released in 1932. I'm sure Kodak started to crank out cameras that could use their 35mm film stocks soon after. The picture book title is The Night Before Christmas. It must have been a picture book for parents to read. It must have been shot during the Christmas season. I wonder if the fire was painted on the negative. It looks pretty cheesy to me.
The original was a ready made card for a photo insert. The closed card was 4 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches in size. The opening cutout was 2 X 3 inches in size. Was it sized for a 35mm print? It seems so. I would date the shot to about 1944.
From the series "Secret life of the trees".
Created after very last 5 days in Canada...
Who were the Druids? Popular folklore tells us they were ancient Celtic wise men. They wore long robes and had long, flowing beards. Merlin, the famous magician of King Arthur's court, was reputedly a Druid. They are credited with having built Stonehenge and other megalithic monuments throughout Great Britain and Europe.
Other sources tell us Druids were men and women who were really into trees. Their ceremonies were conducted in the open air, often in oak groves. The word Druid is apparently derived from the ancient Celtic words for oak and truth--dru and druidh. Other trees were also very important to them, including yew, hazel, walnut, willow, rowan, ash and birch. Tree symbolism was used in their religious and philosophical teachings, and in their calendar and system of writing, called Ogham.
Druids also believed that trees are like a humans. They deliver a babies, they grow, sometimes they get an illness, they fight, and they die...
Much better view in large
Explore #81, 11/20/08
The exterior shots were recorded on Lister Avenue in Balby, a suburb of Doncaster; the shop itself was a hairdresser's salon, which closed for a Summer break each year in order to allow filming by the BBC. It remains a hairdresser's salon. The same location was used for the sequel series Still Open All Hours.
The Netherlands - Texel
Reindeer lichen (Open rendiermos - Cladonia portentosa) on a bed of Cypress-leaved plait-moss (Hypnum cupressiforme - Gesnaveld klauwtjesmos). © Tom Kisjes
"The U.S. Custom House or U.S. Customhouse is the custom house in Charleston, South Carolina. Construction began in 1852, but was interrupted in 1859 due to costs and the possibility of South Carolina's secession from the Union. After the Civil War, construction was restarted in 1870 and completed in 1879. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 9, 1974. It is also a contributing property of the Charleston Historic District.
In the tense pre-Civil War period, the federal government felt that building a new custom house in Charleston to replace the Old Custom House would be a positive sign to South Carolina. A design competition with a US$300 prize was announced. About ten architects submitted entries. The four known entrants were three Charlestonian architects: Edward Brickell White, Edward C. Jones, and Peter H. Hammarskold and one Savannah, Georgia architect, John S. Norris. Noted New York architect, James Renwick submitted a late entry, which was returned. The commission judging the entries selected the Jones design and submitted the plans to the Secretary of the Treasury in Washington, DC.
There was lobbying while the decision was being made. Robert Mills submitted plans to the Secretary. Eventually, Ammi Burnham Young was selected to produce a new design incorporating features of the four competitive entries. White was appointed the superintending architect. Jones, Hammarskold, Norris, and White were awarded US$200 for their entries.
The final plans were for a two-story, cross-shaped building with an elevated, rusticated basement. It was to be 259 ft (79 m) from west to east and 152 ft (46 m) from north to south. The west and east arms had Roman porticoes supported by Corinthian limestone columns and steps down to grade. The north and south arms were porticoes. The walls had Corinthian engaged columns between the windows. There was a dome supported by Corinthian columns. The building was to be 160 ft (49 m) above grade. Except for the change from Doric to Corinthian order and for the high dome, the building bore resemblance to the Boston Customhouse that Young had recently designed.
Land was purchased at Fitzsimons' Wharf at East Bay and Market. Construction started in 1853 under White's direction. Since the location was marshy, 7,000 piles that were 40 ft (12 m) long were driven into the sand and were cut off at grade. A grillage or network of timber was laid. and a thick bed of concrete was constructed for the foundation. The granite walls of the basement were finished by 1855. After the marble-faced walls were erected, the columns were begun in 1858.
In 1859, there was increasing concern in Congress over the possible secession of South Carolina and the costs of construction. Representative John Letcher from Virginia called for a cessation of construction. Representative William Porcher Miles defended the construction with little enthusiasm. No funds were appropriated to continue construction in 1859.
White proposed eliminating the costly dome and replacing it with skylights. With the possibility of war, Congress only appropriated funds for protecting the construction from rain.
During the war, the building was damaged by shelling. In 1870, construction resumed. The original marble came from Hastings, New York. Because that quarry was abandoned, new marble was obtained from Tuckahoe, New Jersey. Alfred B. Mullett prepared revised drawings. Alterations made at his direction included the loss of the dome, the elimination of the north and south porticoes, and changes to the west entrance. The dome in Ammi B. Young's original design was replaced in 1876 with skylights that covered a two-story, square cortile or inside patio. Fluted Corinthian columns surround the iron second floor gallery. The gallery is ornamented with fluted pilasters. The north and south porticoes were probably converted to office space at this stage.
The windows are rectangular with pediments. The portico entrance doors are also pediment-ed. The buildings were topped with an entablature with architrave and an unadorned frieze with a dentiled cornice. The building has a low roof with an open balustrade.
Construction was completed in 1879. The total cost of construction was about US$2,806,000.
It is possible that the north and south portico were enclosed to increase office space in repairs after the 1886 Charleston earthquake.
In 1906, a heating system replaced the use of stoves and coal grates. In 1910, plumbing and electrical lighting were installed.
By the 1960s, the Custom House was used by a number of federal agencies. Threatened with demolition, local preservationists with the help of Representative Mendel Rivers worked to save the building.
In 1964, "UNITED STATES CUSTOM HOUSE" was engraved in the frieze above the west portico. In 1968, over US$212,000 was spent on restoration.
Charleston is the largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston–North Charleston metropolitan area. The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint of South Carolina's coastline on Charleston Harbor, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean formed by the confluence of the Ashley, Cooper, and Wando rivers. Charleston had a population of 150,277 as of the 2020 U.S. Census. The 2020 population of the Charleston metropolitan area, comprising Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties, was 799,636 residents, the third-largest in the state and the 74th-largest metropolitan statistical area in the United States.
Charleston was founded in 1670 as Charles Town, honoring King Charles II, at Albemarle Point on the west bank of the Ashley River (now Charles Towne Landing) but relocated in 1680 to its present site, which became the fifth-largest city in North America within ten years. It remained unincorporated throughout the colonial period; its government was handled directly by a colonial legislature and a governor sent by Parliament. Election districts were organized according to Anglican parishes, and some social services were managed by Anglican wardens and vestries. Charleston adopted its present spelling with its incorporation as a city in 1783. Population growth in the interior of South Carolina influenced the removal of the state government to Columbia in 1788, but Charleston remained among the ten largest cities in the United States through the 1840 census.
Charleston's significance in American history is tied to its role as a major slave trading port. Charleston slave traders like Joseph Wragg were the first to break through the monopoly of the Royal African Company and pioneered the large-scale slave trade of the 18th century; almost one half of slaves imported to the United States arrived in Charleston. In 2018, the city formally apologized for its role in the American Slave trade after CNN noted that slavery "riddles the history" of Charleston." - info from Wikipedia.
The fall of 2022 I did my 3rd major cycling tour. I began my adventure in Montreal, Canada and finished in Savannah, GA. This tour took me through the oldest parts of Quebec and the 13 original US states. During this adventure I cycled 7,126 km over the course of 2.5 months and took more than 68,000 photos. As with my previous tours, a major focus was to photograph historic architecture.
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