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El monumento al rey Alfonso XII es un conjunto escultórico situado casi en el centro del parque del Retiro.
En 1902 se convocó un concurso nacional para construir un monumento al rey Alfonso XII, a iniciativa de la reina madre María Cristina. El ganador fue el arquitecto José Grases Riera con un grandioso proyecto en uno de los lados mayores del Estanque del Retiro, compuesto por una gran columnata con gran número de esculturas que rodearía a la estatua ecuestre del rey, inmediata al estanque, todo ello en bronce y mármol. Al fallecer, fue sustituido en la dirección por Teodoro Anasagasti, que no introdujo modificaciones. El monumento, financiado por suscripción popular, fue inaugurado el 6 de junio de 1922.
Todo el conjunto mide 30 metros de alto, 86 metros de largo y 58 metros de ancho, y participaron en su elaboración más de veinte escultores. Fue la primera estatua conmemorativa de las que durante el pasado siglo fueron poblando los jardines: obras como las de Benlliure, Clará y Mateo Inurria entre otros.
En primer término aparece la estatua ecuestre del rey, fundida en bronce, realizada por Mariano Benlliure en 1904. En el basamento central, «La Paz» de Miquel Blay, «La Libertad» de Aniceto Marinas y «El Progreso» de Miguel Ángel Trilles. En el zócalo, tres relieves de bronce. Del monumento central avanzan unas escalinatas hacia el estanque, con cuatro leones de piedra que labraron Vallmitjana y Estany. Debajo de sus pedestales, en bronce, cuatro sirenas, obra de Parera, Atche, Coll y Alsina. También hay dos leones con amorcillos en cada uno de los accesos laterales al hemiciclo, obras de Francisco Javier Escudero Lozano, Bofill, Arnau y Campmany. A ambos lados del acceso central en la columnata, «El Ejército» de Montserrat y «La Marina» de Mateo Inurrria. En la cara interna, frente al estanque aparecen representadas, en bronce, «Las Ciencias» de Fuxá, «La Agricultura» de Alcoverro, «Las Artes» de Bilbao y «La Industria» de Clará. La ornamentación de frisos y basamento central fue realizada por Estany
Label 116 indicates the location of Hollywood Farm where Alexander Morson's (b1805 - d1850) family lived. Today, it would be located to the west a third of the way up Hollywood Farm Road just before getting to Wildcat corner. According to WPA researcher, Julia Marie Heflin, Hollywood was the estate of Arthur Alexander Morson (1803 - 1864), Alexander's brother, and is nine miles east of Falmouth in Stafford County, Virginia. [He and /or his brothers probably inherited it from his/their father who died in 1822 when he was 19, being the eldest in the brother and because his eldest sister, Marion died in 1819 at age 18]. This confuses some historians who naively mix it up with land owned by Arthur Morson in Hartwood to the west of Falmouth because Hartwood and Hollywood used to be part of King George county before 1777. After 1777, the boundary of King George county was moved east of Butzner Corner, VA. and Hartwood and Hollywood became part of Stafford county. The original Hollywood colonial home was built in 1823 and burned down in 1889. Real Estate records indicate that the brothers of Alexander and Arthur, Hugh and John Morson sold the rest of their grandfather's Hartwood land west of Falmouth which is known as the Morson tract. Later on, Hollywood would be sold to the Purkins about the same time Alexander Morson (b1805 - died before 1850) passed away. Alexander's wife, Maria May Berry (b1812 - ), died before 1860 and the kids were orphaned and taken care of by their Uncles as indicated by 1860 census records. The eldest, not an orphan, Alexander Morson (b1836 - d1854) would graduate from VMI and die of Yellow Fever in Louisiana working for the Army Corp of engineers. John A Morson (b1838 - d1880) would live with Uncle Arthur in Richmond, fight in the Civil War as an assistant surgeon, and settle in Mississippi. The sisters, Catherine Berry "Kate" Morson (b1841 - ) and Susan S Morson (b1841 - ) lived with their youngest Uncle James Marion Morson in Goochland. Finally, Arthur Alexander Morson (b1846 - d1914) lived with his Uncle Hugh until he attended VMI. In 1864, he fought at the Battle of New Market. Then he settled in Mississippi, married Bessie Eppie Dameron (1860 - 1835), and established a dairy business in Van Winkle, Jackson, Mississippi.
I'm still trying to find the Hollywood graveyard which, according the Heflin, is very large. Probably the best way to find the Morson's Hollywood home site is to ask folks in the area where Purkins' graveyard is. The original colonial home was 25 yards (another web site says 600 feet) south of it. If there is anything left, it would probably be just a brick foundation. The graveyard would be the easiest area to find although it may be enveloped by thick forestation. In January 2006, I drove up Hollywood Farm road and could not find it.
Here are all my references about the graveyard and Hollywood Farm: Hollywood Cemetery, Hollywood Farm Mountain Bike Trail, Driving Tour the Army of the Potomac in Stafford County 1862-1863, Master List of Places Mentioned in the Letters to Dr. Carmichael & Son, WPA Survey Report, Hollywood, research made by Julia Maria Heflin, January 7, 1937.
If anyone can help me identify the location of the cemetery or the home it would be greatly appreciated. Please post comments and clues here. THANKS in advance!!!
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BELIO:33: Adrenaline. Libro digital.
Tamaño 220 x 220 mm.
216 paginas a todo color.
Textos en castellano e ingles.
Contenido: Diseño gráfico, ilustración, fotografía, arte urbano, arte contemporáneo.
Para esta ocasión Belio se ha dejado inspirar por todos aquellos deportes y prácticas menos comunes y más extremas. Hemos dejado que un chute de adrenalina nos llegue al cerebro, nuestros ojos se han infectado con potentes imágenes y hemos recopilado un nutrido grupo de artistas que trabajan en los límites de la creatividad y la acción de riesgo. Artículos de artistas como Janine Gordon, Sterling Lorence, Haroshi, Slighty Choppy, Aryz y Dzine. En la sección INKjection tenéis dossiers de los artistas Raid71, Adam Haynes, Matt Beard, Ian Macarthur y Beto Janz.
Listado de artistas publicados en la sección EXP: Achim Riethmann, Alberto Pérez, Art3sano, Berje, BlueChicken, Chiko KF, Cless, Craiion, D. Caballero, dap, Diana Köhne, Diego Rondon, Drfranken, Endor Designs, Ene13, Halfanese, Hanako Mimiko, Jan Meininghaus, Josh Haye, Lady Shove, Lucas Noguera, Miguel Mejía, Miriampersand, Mitch Blunt, Mostrico, MTO, Napoleón Vuelaenpartes, Omega, Ooli, Sagana Bouffard, Shera One, Snowblinded, Soom Studio, Victor Sanz, Vitaly Virt, Zansky.
Listado de artistas publicados en la sección FLOG: Cristina Viscu, David de la Cruz, Fiumfoto, fOre1, Geso, Jonathan Dy, Jose Gallardo, Kai Kuusisto, Looker Photography, Luis Sartori do Vale, Matteo Malagutti, Sebastian Linden, Sergey Loie, Stefan Eigner.
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BELIO:33: Adrenaline. Digital Book.
Size 220 x 220 mm.
216 pages in full color.
English and Spanish texts.
Content: Graphic design, illustration, photography, street art, contemporary art.
For this time Belio has been inspired by all those sports and practices less common and more extreme. We've let our mind float in a rush of adrenaline, our eyes have been infected with powerful images and we have gathered a large group of artists working within the limits of creativity and risk action. Articles about artists like Janine Gordon, Sterling Lorence, Haroshi, Slighty Choppy, Aryz and Dzine. At INKjection section you have dossiers of the artists Raid71, Adam Haynes, Matt Beard, Ian Macarthur and Beto Janz.
List of artists published on EXP section: Achim Riethmann, Alberto Pérez, Art3sano, Berje, BlueChicken, Chiko KF, Cless, Craiion, D. Caballero, dap, Diana Köhne, Diego Rondon, Drfranken, Endor Designs, Ene13, Halfanese, Hanako Mimiko, Jan Meininghaus, Josh Haye, Lady Shove, Lucas Noguera, Miguel Mejía, Miriampersand, Mitch Blunt, Mostrico, MTO, Napoleón Vuelaenpartes, Omega, Ooli, Sagana Bouffard, Shera One, Snowblinded, Soom Studio, Victor Sanz, Vitaly Virt, Zansky..
List of artists published on FLOG section: Cristina Viscu, David de la Cruz, Fiumfoto, fOre1, Geso, Jonathan Dy, Jose Gallardo, Kai Kuusisto, Looker Photography, Luis Sartori do Vale, Matteo Malagutti, Sebastian Linden, Sergey Loie, Stefan Eigner.
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The Magnificent and beautiful lady, the Statue of Liberty, Liberty Island, New York City. I was so moved by her stunning beauty and impressed by the absolute perfection of this marvelous representation of liberty. I took this photo of the magnificent Statue of Liberty on my first trip to Liberty Island and New York City in October 2004. She is of utmost beauty and I was totally blown away by her magnifigance.
THE STATUE OF LIBERTY
Liberty Enlightening the World (French: La liberté éclairant le monde), known more commonly as the Statue of Liberty (Statue de la Liberté), is a large statue that was presented to the United States by France in 1886. It stands at Liberty Island, New York in New York Harbor as a welcome to all visitors, immigrants, and returning Americans. The copper-clad statue, dedicated on October 28, 1886, commemorates the centennial of the United States and is a gesture of friendship from France to America. Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi sculpted the statue, and Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (designer of the Eiffel Tower) engineered the internal structure. Eugène Viollet-le-Duc was responsible for the choice of copper in the statue's construction and adoption of the repoussé technique.
The statue is of a female figure standing upright, dressed in a robe and a seven point spiked rays representing a nimbus (halo), holding a stone tablet close to her body in her left hand and a flaming torch high in her right hand. The tablet bears the words "JULY IV MDCCLXXVI" (July 4, 1776), commemorating the date of the United States Declaration of Independence.
The statue is made of a sheeting of pure copper, hung on a framework of steel (originally puddled iron) with the exception of the flame of the torch, which is coated in gold leaf. It stands atop a rectangular stonework pedestal with a foundation in the shape of an irregular eleven-pointed star. The statue is 151' 1" (46.5 m) tall, with the pedestal and foundation adding another 154 feet (46.9 m).
Worldwide, the Statue of Liberty is one of the most recognizable icons of the United States, and, more generally, represents liberty and escape from oppression. The Statue of Liberty was, from 1886 until the jet age, often one of the first glimpses of the United States for millions of immigrants after ocean voyages from Europe. The Statue of Liberty's obviously classical appearance (Roman stola, sandals, facial expression) derives from Libertas, ancient Rome's goddess of freedom from slavery, oppression, and tyranny. Broken shackles lie at her feet. The seven spikes in the crown represent the Seven Seas and seven continents. Her torch signifies enlightenment. The tablet in her hand shows the date of the nation's birth, July 4, 1776.
Since 1903, the statue, also known as "Lady Liberty," has been associated with Emma Lazarus's poem “The New Colossus” and has been a symbol of welcome to arriving immigrants. The interior of the pedestal contains a bronze plaque inscribed with the poem, which reads:
“Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
There are 354 steps inside the statue and its pedestal. There are 25 windows in the crown which comprise the jewels beneath the seven rays of the diadem. The tablet which the Statue holds in her left hand reads, in Roman numerals, "July 4, 1776" the day of America's independence from Britain. The Statue of Liberty was engineered to withstand heavy winds. Winds of 50 miles per hour cause the Statue to sway 3 inches (7.62 cm) and the torch to sway 5 inches (12.7 cm). This allows the Statue to move rather than break in high [wind load] conditions.
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Everest trekking www.trekshimalaya.com/everest_region.php region, although fairly effortless compare to some of other trek, takes you high along trails to Tengboche monastery Everest Solu Khumbu is the district south and west of Mount Everest. It is inhabited by sherpa, cultural group that has achieve fame because of the develop of its men on climbing expeditions. Khumbu is the name of the northern half of this region above Namche, includes highest mountain (Mt. Everest 8848m.) in the world. Khumbu is in part of Sagarmatha National Park. This is a short trek but very scenic trek offers really superb view of the world's highest peaks, including Mt. Everest, Mt. Lhotse, Mt. Thamserku, Mt. Amadablam and other many snowy peaks. Fly from www.adventurestrekking.com Kathmandu to Lukla it is in the Khumbu region and trek up to Namche Bazzar, Tyangboche and into the Khumjung village, a very nice settlement of Sherpas people. This trek introduction to Everest and Sherpa culture with great mountain views, a very popular destination for first time trekkers in Nepal. Justifiably well-known world uppermost mountain (8848m.) and also for its Sherpa villages and monasteries. Few days trek from Lukla on the highland, takes you to the entry to Sagarmatha National Park and town of Namche Bazaar is entrance of Everest Trek. Environment of the towering Himalayas is a very delicate eco-system that is effortlessly put out of balance.
Langtang trekking www.trekshimalaya.com/langtang_region.php region mixture of three beautiful trek taking us straight into some of the wildest and most pretty areas of Nepal. Starting from the lovely hill town of Syabrubensi our trek winds during gorgeous rhododendron and conifer forests throughout the Langtang National Park on the way to the higher slopes. Leads up to the high alpine yak pastures, glaciers and moraines around Kyanging. Along this route you will have an chance to cross the Ganja La Pass if possible from Langtang Valley. Trail enters the rhododendron (National flower of Nepal) forest and climbs up to alpine yak pastures at Ngegang (4404m). From Ngegang we make a climb of Ganja La Pass (5122m). We start southwest, sliding www.adventurestrekking.com past Gekye Gompa to reach Tarkeghyang otherwise we take a detour and another unique features of trekking past, the holy lakes of Gosainkund (4300 m.) cross into Helambu via Laurebina to Ghopte (3430 m) and further to Trakegyang. Northern parts of the area mostly fall within the boundaries of Langtang National park.
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There is this awesome, amazing, epic band that is known as Jack's Mannequin. On their latest album, The Glass Passenger, one of the tracks is 'Annie Use Your Telescope'. My dear friend Megan, who is hopelessly in love with Andrew McMahon, the brains behind Jack's Mannequin and my obsession, /Something Corporate. (I was turned on to SoCo when I was 12, hardcore love.) Soon after their most recent album was released, I turned Megan on to Flickr, and that is why her Flickr name is Megan Use Your Telescope.
benjifriedman, ishkamina, pareeerica, sxc.hu
I'm all linked out now.
Back log. Still have 3 more days to edit and upload. Gah.
Oh, and one last thing. Have to give credit to Caitlin for the Post-It note idea. I was just going to use a Sharpie on my shirt :p
Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es: Miyavi and Natalia / Miyavi y Natalia
(Read in order, this is: SHOT/FOTO 10 of 28) PAG: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28.
FOTOSTORY: In English / En Español
Natalia: What's wrong? Has the cat got your tongue? XD
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Natalia: Que pasa? Se te ha comido la lengua el gato? XD
LINKS:
- Las FOTOHISTORIAS de Sheryl en el Foro de Pullips: Pullip .es
- Sheryl Photostories at Flickr
- Mad_Pullips' Miyavi Collaboration
- Hilo de las Fotohistorias de Miyavi y las Pullips de Sheryl en el Foro de Pullips: Pullip .es
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Nueva etapa dentro de poco también en Biodiversidad virtual
Un huevo verde y estrellado es esta zigospora, pequeño embrión de alga que ha crecido dentro de su esférica placenta gelatinosa. Asistimos a la formación de un nuevo ser en el mundo de las algas. Cosmarium es un désmido de contornos redondeados, primo hermano de los alrgados y sonrientes Closterium y de las algas estrella, Staurastrum Micrasterias o Euastrum y esa estrella va en los genes, aunque en Cosmarium el paso del tiempo borre su huella.
Con frecuencia los désmidos se reproducen asexualmente, se quiebran por la mitad para reconstruir después la otra parte de la que han prescindido y que las complementa, así vuelven a regenerar su otra mitad hasta alcanzar el equilibrio en un cuerpo formado por dos porciones que se miran al espejo, exactamente gemelas y este proceso de división asexual y reconstrucción exacta se va repitiendo una y otra vez hasta que algo cambia. Es entonces cuando los désmidos se emparejan, se unen y funden sus cuerpos por completo y así, mezclándose, desaparecen.
Es algo mágico, la unión, aparentemente extinguió dos vidas para formar ahora una sola, ésta, una estrella, armada y protegida aguantará el sol y el hielo, el agua y el polvo y cuando el tiempo mejore se dividirá dos veces para formar no dos, sino cuatro nuevas vidas que serán la mezcla de sus padres y al mismo tiempo sus padres mismamente.
Cosmarium botrytis es un désmido relativamente común en cualquier tipo de medio acuático. Las hormonas vegetales determinan que aparezcan en estas algas fenómenos de reproducción sexual. Dos individuos se aproximan, fabrican una envuelta gelatinosa y transparente que los envuelve como en una burbuja, su cuerpo se romperá por la mitad liberando el interior verde que se funde con el de su pareja, los cascarones de sus antiguos cuerpos quedarán vacíos y se formará así esta forma resistente y estrellada, la zigospora. Como contiene una información genética doble, para poder generar nuevas algas tendrá que dividirse por meiosis formando así cuatro y no dos células hijas.
Cosmarium botrytis , ha sido encontrado así, comenzando a nacer en unas muestras recogidas hace un par de días en unas praderas encharcadas próximas a la localidad zamorana de Villaflor y se ha fotografiado a 400 aumentos empleando la técnica de contraste de interferencia.
Gracias a Santiago Ortiz por incorporar nuestro proyecto a su magnífico Bestiario.
Con nuestra gratitud también para Pilar Gil por la publicación en Qúo, a Antonio Martínez Ron ...y también Paul/
Puedes tener otra infomación en la exposición LA VIDA OCULTA DEL AGUA
Y en este catálogo
También en la galería de Fotolog
Y nuestro granito de arena por la Paz
Sant Romà de Sau, Girona (Spain).
ENGLISH
The reservoir of Sau, constructed between 1949 and 1962, covered the town of Sant Romà de Sau, the rest of which, specially of the bell tower of the romnesque church of 11th century, they are visible when the level of the dammed water is low and at times of drought prolonged the town is in the open and even it is possible to visit.
The origins of Sau go back to year 917, and the parochial church to 11th century. The present population formed in 1962 when finalizing the construction of the dam and the waters had to cover the old town of Sant Romà de Sau. Although he was enough uninhabited (in the nomenclator of 1860 the parish appeared like “uninhabited”), counted with some masias, a Romanesque bridge and a Romanesque church of 11th century of Lombard style.
At the moment of the photos the reservoir is approximately at 10% of its capacity, its historical minimum, mainly because the long run drought that has been undergoing this part of Catalunya for years. The proliferation of nonnative fish introduced by practisers of sport fishing, the low water level and the high insolation of the zone cause a high level of plancton and microscopic seaweed that contaminates the water, reason why in autumn of the 2005 began a draining of this dam in the one of Susqueda to improve the quality of the drinking water, and the collection of fish before they die by lack of oxygen and gets worse still more the quality of the water. Rains of October 2005 temporarily interrupted the draining, that has become to reactivate at beginning of 2008.
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El pantano de Sau, construido entre 1949 y 1962, cubrió el pueblo de Sant Romà de Sau, los restos del cual, especialmente del campanario de la iglesia románica del siglo XI, son visibles cuando el nivel del agua embalsada es bajo e incluso en épocas de sequia prolongada el pueblo queda al descubierto y es posible visitarlo.
Los orígenes de Sau se remontan al año 917, y la iglesia parroquial al siglo XI. La población actual se formó cuando en 1962 al finalizar la construcción del embalse y las aguas debían cubrir el antiguo pueblo de Sant Romà de Sau. Aunque estaba bastante despoblado (en el nomenclátor de 1860 la parroquia figuraba como "deshabitada"), contaba con algunas masías, un puente románico y una iglesia de estilo románico lombardo del siglo XI.
En el momento de las fotos el embalse está aproximadamente al 10% de su capacidad, su mínimo histórico, debido principalmente a la larga sequía que sufre esta parte de Catalunya desde hace años. La proliferación de peces no autóctonos introducidos por practicantes de pesca deportiva, el bajo nivel de agua y la alta insolación de la zona provocan un alto nivel de plancton y algas microscópicas que contaminan el agua, por lo que en otoño del 2005 se inició un vaciado de este embalse en el de Susqueda para mejorar la calidad del agua potable, y la recogida de peces antes de que mueran por falta de oxígeno y empeore aún más la calidad del agua. Las lluvias de octubre del 2005 interrumpieron temporalmente el vaciado, que se ha vuelto a reactivar a primeros del 2008.
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The Registan was the heart of the ancient Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The name Registan (ریگستان) means "Sandy place" in Persian.
The Registan was a place of public executions, where also people gathered to hear royal proclamations, heralded by blasts on enormous copper pipes called dzharchis.
The three madrasahs of the Registan are: Ulugh Beg Madrasah (1417–1420), the Sher-Dor Madrasah (1619–1636) and the Tilya-Kori Madrasah (1646–1660). Madrasah is an Arabic term meaning a Muslim clergy academy.
The Ulugh Beg Madrasah has its imposing portal with lancet arch facing the square. The corners are flanked by the high well-proportioned minarets. Mosaic panel over the entrance arch is decorated by geometrical stylized ornaments. The square-shaped courtyard includes a mosque, lecture rooms and is fringed by the dormitory cells in which students lived. There are deep galleries along the axes. Originally the Ulugh Beg Madrasah was a two-storied building with four domed darskhonas (lecture room) at the corners. The madrasah was one of the best clergy universities of the whole Moslem Orient of the 15th century. Abdurakhman Djami, a prominent poet, scientist and philosopher studied there. Ulugh Beg himself gave lectures there. During Ulugbek's government the Madrasah was a centre of secular science. In the 17th century the ruler of Samarkand Yalangtush Bakhodur ordered the construction of the Sher-Dor and Tillya-Kori madrasahs. The Sher-Dor (Having Tigers) Madrasah was designed by architect Abdujabor. The decoration of the madrasah is not as refined as that on the 15th century - "golden age" of Samarkand architecture. Anyway, the harmony of large and small rooms, exquisite mosaic decor, monumentality and efficient symmetry - all these put the structure among the best architectural monuments of Samarkand.
Ten years later the Tilya-Kori Madrasah was built, the name means "Gilded". It was not only the place of training students, but also it played the role of grand mosque. It has two-storied main facade, vast courtyard fringed by dormitory cells with four galleries along axes. Mosque building (see picture 6) is situated in the western section of the courtyard. The main hall of the mosque is abundantly gilded.
To the east of Tilya-Kori Madrasah the mausoleum of Shaybanids (16 century) is located (see picture). The real founder of Shaybanid power was Muhammad Shaybani - grandson of Abu'l Khair. In 1500, with the backing of the Chaghataite Khanate, then based in Tashkent (Uzbekistan), Muhammad Shaybani has conquered Samarkand and Bukhara from their last Timurid rulers. The founder of the dynasty then turned on his benefactors and in 1503 took Tashkent. He captured Khiva in 1506 and in 1507 he swooped down on Merv (Turkmenistan), eastern Persia, and western Afghanistan. The Shaybanids stopped the advance of the Safavids, who in 1502 had defeated the Akkoyunlu (Iran). Muhammad Shaybani was a leader of nomadic Uzbeks. During the ensuing years they substantially settled down in oases of Central Asia. The Uzbek invasion of 15 c. was the last component of the today's Uzbek nation ethnogeny.
The ancient trading dome Chorsu is situated right behind the Sher-Dor. Now it is well restored. The existence of the trading dome at this place confirms the information that Registan was medieval Samarkand's commercial center and the plaza was probably a wall to wall market. During the Soviet era, the site was restored, which included digging down 3 meters to its original level to expose the buildings' full height.
I've been doing a lot of wedding and portrait photography recently, some of which I will post here in the near future. I also have 16 GB of photography from a recent trip to Paris to work through, so expect a flavour of France too. For now, here's a selfie as I had no models to work with today :-(
Golden Gate Bridge during twilight along Baker Beach.
Camera : EOS 50D
Lens : EF-s 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5
Focal lenght : 22mm
Aperture : f/29.0
Shutter : 30s
ISO : 100
Psalm 139 (King James Version)
O lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.
Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
A Ponte Vecchio (Ponte Velha) é uma Ponte em arco medieval sobre o Rio Arno, em Florença, na Itália, famosa por ter uma quantidade de lojas (principalmente ourivesarias e joalharias) ao longo de todo o tabuleiro.
Acredita-se que tenha sido construída ainda na Roma Antiga e era feita originalmente de madeira. Foi destruída pelas cheias de 1333 e reconstruída em 1345, com projecto da autoria de Taddeo Gaddi. Consiste em três arcos, o maior deles com 30 metros de diâmetro. Desde sempre alberga lojas e mercadores, que mostravam as mercadorias sobre bancas, sempre com a autorização do Bargello, a autoridade municipal de então. Diz-se que a palavra bancarrota teve ali origem. Quando um mercador não conseguia pagar as dívidas, a mesa (banco) era quebrada (rotto) pelos soldados. Essa prática era chamada bancorotto.
Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, a ponte não foi danificada pelos alemães. Acredita-se que tenha sido uma ordem direta de Hitler.
Ao longo da ponte, há vários cadeados, especialmente no gradeamento em torno da estátua de Benvenuto Cellini. O facto é ligado à antiga ideia do amor e dos amantes: ao trancar o cadeado e lançar a chave ao rio, os amantes tornavam-se eternamente ligados. Graças a essa tradição e ao turismo desenfreado, milhares de cadeados tinham de ser removidos com frequência, estragando a estrutura da ponte. Devido a isso, o município estipulou uma multa de 50 euros para quem for apanhado, em flagrante, a colocar cadeados na ponte.
Fonte: pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_Vecchio
Ponte Vecchio, the oldest of Florence's six bridges, is one of the city's best known images. Probably going back to Roman times with its stone pillars and wooden planks; it was built in stone but then newly destroyed by a flood in 1333. It was built again twelve years later, perhaps by Neri da Fioravante (or Taddeo Gaddi, according to Giorgio Vasari).
The five arches became three and the main part was widened. The shops, housed under the porticos, first belonged to the Commune which then rented them out. But later on, towards the 15th century, they were sold to private owners and began to change through subsequent additions, raised parts and external terraces, extending towards the river and altering the original architecture in an anarchical, suggestive way.
In the 15th century these shops were greengrocers, butchers, fishmongers. But then perhaps because of their bad smell, Ferdinando I replaced them with goldsmiths, making the road more elegant and cleaner.
In 1565, Cosimo I de' Medici, Duke of Florence, had the famous Corridor built by Vasari on the upper side passing over the shops. There's a curious story about that. The Mannelli family who owned a medieval tower at the southern end, towards Pitti Palace, did not want to give the Duke right of passage. So the corridor had to be deviated, as we can still see today, around the tower.
The row of shops is interrupted in the center and the bridge opens over the Arno with two splendid, panoramic terraces. Here in 1900, they put up the bust of Benvenuto Cellini, that ingenious Florentine goldsmith and sculptor.
Font: www.italyguides.it/us/florence/ponte_vecchio/old_bridge.htm
PARA TODOS LOS AMIGOS DE BIODIVERSIDAD VIRTUAL POR COMPARTIR DOS MAGNÍFICOS DÍAS DE AMISTAD Y TRABAJO
Exposición LA VIDA OCULTA DEL AGUA; en el Centro del Agua de Daimiel del 21 de diciembre al 20 de febrero.
Artículo LA BIODIVERSIDAD OCULTA
Cephalodella es un rotífero de pequeño tamaño y generalmente gran cabeza, y está representado por cerca de 190 especies que se reparten por las aguas de todo el Planeta.
La corona de Cephalodella se dispone oblicua con respecto al eje del cuerpo de este rotífero y es muy discreta si la comparamos por su tamaño con las de otros géneros más o menos próximos como Philodina o Ptygura. Su corto pie está formado por dos dedos alargados en forma de espina con los que se ancla a las algas o a los grumos de sedimento desde donde filtra el agua.
El género Cephalodella pertenece a un grupo de complicado reconocimiento. Las características de cada una de las especies, con frecuencia resultan difíciles de observar...y más todavía en ejemplares vivos. La cabeza de este rotífero es ancha y su aparato masticador puede presentar hasta seis formas diferentes.
Cephalodella tiene solo un pequeño ojo situado en la frente, otras veces, desplazado un poco hacia atrás se dispone en la “nuca”.
Hoy Cephalodella se ha asentado en un mullido colchón de sedimento y se dedica a bascular filtrando el agua y en este balanceo va recogiendo las pequeñas algas y otros diminutos organismos que le sirven de alimento.
La fotografía se ha tomado a 400 aumentos empleando la técnica de contraste de interferencia sobre una muestra recogida hace unas semanas en una laguna próxima a la localidad zamorana de Ricobayo
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☁ la nube negra de una justicia pervertida en nuestro país, movida por la envidia y la venganza, permanecerá aquí, hasta que soplen los vientos limpios que todos necesitamos. La Justicia es uno de los cimientos necesarios para la Paz. Desde aquí todo nuestro apoyo al Juez Baltasar Garzón -el buen Juez de Saramago- y a las personas de buena voluntad como él que trabajan por la Justicia.
This is a photo I took of fresh strawberries, then I used Photoshop filter Fractalius and poster edges to enhance the result.
INFORMATION ON THE STRAWBERRY:
The Garden strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa and related cultivars) is the most common variety of strawberry cultivated worldwide. Like other species of Fragaria (strawberries), it belongs to the family Rosaceae. Technically, its fruit is known as an accessory fruit, in that the fleshy part is derived not from the plant's ovaries (achenes) but from the peg at the bottom of the bowl-shaped hypanthium that holds the ovaries.
The Garden Strawberry was first bred in Europe in the early 18th century, and represents the accidental cross of Fragaria virginiana from eastern North America, which was noted for its flavor, and Fragaria chiloensis from Chile, which was noted for its large size.
Cultivars of Fragaria × ananassa have replaced in commercial production the Woodland Strawberry, which was the first strawberry species cultivated in the early 17th century.
Several theories exist in popular etymology as to the origin of the English name "straw" berry:
It could come from gardeners' practice of mulching strawberries with straw to protect the fruits from rot (a pseudoetymology that can be found in non-linguistic sources such as the Old Farmer's Almanac 2005).
It might derive from the Anglo-Saxon verb for "strew" (meaning to spread around) which was streabergen (Strea means "strew" and Bergen means "berry" or "fruit") and thence to streberie, straiberie, strauberie, straubery, strauberry, and finally, "strawberry," the word which we use today. The name might have come from the fact that the fruit and various runners appear "strewn" along the ground.
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El papamoscas cerrojillo, (Ficedula hypoleuca), es una especie de ave paseriforme de la familia de los papamoscas (Muscicapidae), extendido por la mayor parte del Viejo Mundo. No está amenazada y su población europea se estima entre 24.000.000 y 39.000.000 ejemplares.
Descripción
Es un pájaro pequeño, mide entre 12 y 13,5 cm de largo. La especie presenta dimorfismo sexual. El macho en época de cría es principalmente negro en sus partes superiores y blanco en las inferiores. En otoño e invierno su plumaje es más parecido al de la hembra, con el dorso y la cabeza pardas y las alas negras. En ámbos plumajes el macho presenta una mancha blanca en la frente, justo encima del pico. La hembra es blanca por debajo, y de color pardo por encima, excepto las alas que son negruzcas. En ámbos sexos las las tienen una mancha blanca en las terciarias siendo de mayor tamaño en los machos. El pico es negro, alargado, fino y puntiagudo.
Su reclamo es un "pik" corto, metálico y lo repite incansablemente.
Distribución y hábitat
Cría por la mayor parte de Europa y del oeste de Asia. En invierno migra al oeste de África.
Son aves forestales, sobre todo de bosques de frondosas, también en parques con árboles maduros.
Distribución y hábitat
Comportamiento
Es un pájaro muy inquieto y activo. Cuando está posado, suele chasquear el ala hacia arriba, rápidamente y bastantes veces. Son insectívoros, cazando al vuelo buena parte de su alimentación.
إن مع العسر يسراً
يا إنسان ان بعد الجوع شبع، وبعد الظمأ ري، وبعد السهر نوم، وبعد المرض عافية،
سوف يصل الغائب ويهتدي الضال، ويفك العاني، وينقشع الظلام
(( فعسى الله أن يأتي بالفتح أو أمر من عنده ))
بشر الليل بصبح صادق يطارده على رؤوس الجبال، ومسارب الأودية،
بشر المهموم بفرج مفاجئ يصل في سرعة الضوء ولمح البصر،
بشر المنكوب بلطف خفي وكف حانية وادعة .
إذا رأيت الصحراء تمتد، فاعلم أن ورائها رياضاً خضراء وارفة الظلال .
إذا رأيت الحبل يشتد يشتد، فاعلم أنه سوف ينقطع .
مع الدمعة بسمة،
ومع الخوف أمناً،
ومع الفزع سكينة،
النار لا تحرق إبراهيم التوحيد؛ لأن الرعاية الربانية فتحت نافذة برداً وسلاماً .
البحر لا يغرق كليم الرحمن؛ لأن الصوت القوي الصادق نطق بكلا "إن معي ربي سيهدين" .
المعصوم في الغار بَشَّرَ صاحبه بأنه وحده معنا فـتـنـزل الأمن والفتح والسكينة .
إن عبيد ساعدتهم الراهنة وأرقاء ظروفهم القاتمة لا يرون إلا النكد والضيق والتعاسة، لأنهم لا ينظرون إلا إلى جدار الغرفة وباب الدار فحسب .
ألا فليمدوا أبصارهم وراء الحجب وليطلقوا أعنة أفكارهم إلى ما وراء الأسوار .
إذاَ فلا تضق ذرعاَ فمن المحال دوام الحال، وأفضل العبادة انتظار الفرج، الأيام دول، والدهر قلب، والليالي حبالى، والغيب مستور، والحكيم كل يوم هو في شأن، ولعل الله يحدث بعد ذلك أمرا ،
و "إن مع العسر يسراَ"
من كتاب لا تحزن للشيخ : عائض القرني
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Eating follows hunger, drinking follows thirst, sleep comes after restlessness , and health takes the place of sickness . The lost will find there way , and the one in difficulty will find relief, and the day will follow the night .
(perhaps Allah may bring a victory or a decision according to his will) Qur'an 5:52
Inform the night of a coming morning, the light of which will permeate the mountains and valleys. Give to the afflicted tidings of a sudden relief that will reach them with the speed of light or with the blinking of an eye .
if you see the desert extends for miles and miles , then know that beyond that distance are green meadows with plentiful shade.
If you see the rope tighten and tighten, know that it will snap.
tears are followed by a smile , fear is replaced by comfort,
and anxiety is overthrown by serenity. When the fire was set for him, Prophet Ibraheem (Abraham) (may peace be upon him) did not feel its heat because of the help he received from his lord.
{We [Allah] said : O' fire! be you coolness and sefety for Ibraheem ! }
Qur'an 21:69
The sea wouldn't drown Prophet Moses (may peace be upon him) because he uttered in a confident, strong, and truthful manner:
{'Nay, verily! With me is my Lord , he will guide me.'} Qur'an 26:62
Prophet Muhammad (bpuh) told Abu Bakr in the cave that Allah was with them ___ then peace and tranquility descended upon them.
Those that are slaves of the moment see only misery and wretchedness. This is because they look only at the wall and door of the room, whereas they should look beyond such barriers as are set before them.
Therefore do not be in despair ; it is impossible for things to remain the same. The days and years rotate, the future is unseen , and everyday Allah has matters to bring forth. You know it not, but it may be that Allah will afterwards bring some new thing to pass.
And {Verily, With hardship, There is a relief .}Qur'an 94:6
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A closer look at a fan reveals that it has the form of a woman’s body. According to legend, the Goryeo monk
who made the first hapjukson fan was in love with a woman that he, as a Buddhist priest, could never have. He strived to be
faithful in his quest for the absolute truth and for nirvana but could not succeed because of his passionate emotions
towards her. In the end, the monk decided to make a fan in the shape of the woman of his heart. He made the ribs of the
fan with carefully cut bamboo strips and covered them with mulberry paper, which had a poem written on it. When he folded
the fan, the figure of the beautiful woman appeared before his eyes, complete with the head
(the part held with the hands) ornamented with a hairpin (a metal piece joining the bamboo strips),
bosom (the gently protruding part under the head) and the loose-fitting skirt that spreads
beautifully when the fan is unfolded. A bat design inscribed on the bamboo ribs symbolizes
the secret meeting of a man and woman at night, like this nocturnal animal, while the
design of a chrysanthemum represents a woman's fidelity, like an elegant
chrysanthemum opening its graceful fragrant blossom despite the late autumn frost.
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植物科目系列:芍药科-牡丹 手工皮手包
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牡丹名称:
拉丁语学名:Paeonia suffruticosa
英文名:Subshrubby Peony、Tree Peony(在英语和其他欧洲语言中,牡丹和芍药是同一个词----peony 或 paeony (Paeonia))
中文别名:百花王、鹿韭、木芍药、洛阳王、富贵花等
牡丹科属:
域:真核域 Eukarya
界:植物界 Plantae
门:被子植物门 Magnoliophyta
纲:双子叶植物纲 Magnoliopsida
目:虎耳草目 Saxifragales
科:芍药科 Paeoniaceae
属:芍药属 Paeonia
种:牡丹 P. suffruticosa
(其他的分类系统有将芍药科作为毛茛科(Ranunculaceae)芍药属(Paeonia)的。)
牡丹简介:
牡丹原为陕、川、鲁、豫以及西藏、云南等一带山区的野生灌木,散生于海拔1500米左右的山坡和林缘。我国牡丹的种植可追溯到二千多年前,1972年甘肃武威东汉圹墓中发现的医简中已有牡丹入药的记载。
牡丹根系肉质强大,少分枝和须根。株高1-3m,可达2m,老茎灰褐色,当年生枝黄褐色。二回三出羽状复叶,互生。花单生茎顶,花径10-30cm,花色有白、黄、粉、红、紫及复色,有单瓣、复瓣、重瓣和台阁性花。花萼有5片。
牡丹的分尖方法很多,按株型可分为直立型、开展型和半开张型;按芽型可分为圆芽型、狭芽型、鹰嘴型和露嘴型;按分枝习性可分为单枝型和丛枝型;按花色可分白、共、粉、红、紫、蓝、黑和复色(实际上并无纯正的蓝与黑色);按花期可分为早花型、中花型、晚花型和秋冬型(有些品种有二次开花的习性,春天开花后,秋冬可再次自然开花,即称为秋冬型);按花型可分为系、类、组型四级。四个系即牡丹系、紫斑牡丹系、黄牡丹系和紫牡丹系;二个类即单花类和台阁花类;二个组即千层组和楼子组;组以下根据花的形状分为若干型,如单瓣型、荷花型、托桂型、皇冠型等。
牡丹为多年生落叶小灌木,生长缓慢,株型小,株高多在0.5~2米之间;根肉质,粗而长,中心木质化,长度一般在0.5~0.8米,极少数根长度可达2米;根皮和根肉的色泽因品种而异;枝干直立而脆,圆形,为从根茎处丛生数枝而成灌木状,当年生枝光滑、草木,黄褐色,常开裂而剥落;叶互生,叶片通常为二回三出复叶,枝上部常为单叶,小叶片有披针、卵圆、椭圆等形状,顶生小叶常为2~3裂,叶上面深绿色或黄绿色,下为灰绿色,光滑或有毛;总叶柄长8~20厘米,表面有凹槽;花单生于当年枝顶,两性,花大色艳,形美多姿,花程式为:♂*K5C∞G2~5:1:2~5,花径10~30厘米;花的颜色有白、黄、粉、红、紫红、紫、墨紫(黑)、雪青(粉蓝)、绿、复色十大色;雄雌蕊常有瓣化现象,花瓣自然增多和雄、雌蕊瓣化的程度与品种、栽培环境条件、生长年限等有关;正常花的雄蕊多数,结籽力强,种籽成熟度也高,雌蕊瓣化严重的花,结籽少而不实或不结籽,完全花雄蕊离生,心皮一般5枚,少有8枚,各有瓶状子房一室,边缘胎座,多数胚珠,骨果五角,每一果角结籽7~13粒,种籽类圆形,成熟时为共黄色,老时变成黑褐色,成熟种子直径0.6~0.9厘米,千粒重约400克。
牡丹喜凉恶热,宜燥惧湿,可耐-30℃的低温,在年平均相对湿度45%左右的地区可正常生长。喜光,亦稍耐阴。要求疏松、肥沃、排水良好的中性壤土或砂壤土,忌粘重土壤或低温处栽植。花期4-5月。多采用嫁接方法进行栽培,因为与芍药同属芍药属,又多选用芍药作为砧木。
牡丹由野生变家种后,因环境条件变化及人工不断地选育和栽培,除花色、花型、花期早晚有变异外,而且在株的形态、根的长短、粗细、叶的色泽、形状等方面也发生了变异。
牡丹的用途很多。可在公园和风景区建立专类园;在古典园林和居民院落中筑花台养植;在园林绿地中自然式孤植、丛植或片植。自身存在的酶水解,成为牡丹酚(C15H20O8)及一份子L阿拉伯糖。根皮咽炎引起的咽痒、咽干、刺激性咳嗽等症,效果良好。
牡丹文化:
牡丹,是中国固有的特产花卉,有数千年的自然生长和两千多年的人工栽培历史。其花大、形美、色艳、香浓,为历代人们所称颂,具有很高的观赏和药用价值,自秦汉时以药植物载入《神农本草经》始,散于历代各种古籍者,不乏其文。形成了色括植物学、园艺学、药物学、地理学、文学、艺术、民俗学等多学科在内的牡丹文化学,是中华民族文化和民俗学的一组成部分,是中华民族文化完整机体的一个细胞,透过它,可洞察中华民族文化的一般特征,这就是“文化全息”现象。
牡丹文化的起源,若从《诗经》牡丹进入诗歌,算起距今约3000年历史。秦汉时代以药用植物将牡丹记入《神农本草经》,牡丹已进入药物学。南北朝时,北齐杨子华画牡丹,牡丹已进入艺术领域。史书记载,隋炀帝在洛阳建西苑,诏天下进奇石花卉,易州进牡丹二十箱,植于西苑,自此,牡丹进入皇家园林,涉足园艺学。唐代,牡丹诗大量涌现,刘禹锡的“唯有牡丹真国色,花开时节动京城”,脍炙人口;李白的“云想衣裳花想容,春风拂槛露化浓”,千古绝唱。宋代开始,除牡丹诗词大量问世外,又出现了牡丹专著,诸如欧阳修的《洛阳牡丹记》、陆游的《天彭牡丹谱》、丘浚的《牡丹荣辱志》、张邦基的《陈州牡丹记》等。元姚遂有《序牡丹》,明人高濂有《牡丹花谱》、王象晋有《群芳谱》,薛凤翔有《亳州牡丹史》,清人汪灏有《广群芳谱》、苏毓眉有《曹南牡丹谱》、余鹏的有《曹州牡丹谱》等。散见于历代种种杂著、文集中的牡丹诗词文斌,遍布民间花乡的牡丹传说故事,以及雕塑、雕刻、绘画、音乐、戏剧、服饰、起居、食品等方面的牡丹文化现象,屡见不鲜。
解放后,牡丹种植有长足地发展,牡丹文化被人逐渐重视,出现了大批牡丹研究工作者和专家。
牡丹文化兼容多门科学,其构成非常广泛,它包括哲学、宗教、文学、艺术、教育、风俗、民情等所有文化领域。牡丹文化中所提供的文化信息,可以反映出民族文化的基本概貌,符合宇宙间的“全息律”。
牡丹文化是民族文化的一部分,与其他类型的文化相比,牡丹文化有其:(一)较浓重的生物学特点(二)较浓重的药物学特点(三)较浓重的园艺学特点(四)较浓重的美学特点(五)较浓重的文学特点(六)较浓重的乡土气息(七)浓重的富贵之感(八)浓重的人生回味(九)浓重的生活氛围(十)浓重的旅游氛围等特点。
牡丹文化是精神文明和物质文明的相结合产物,从古今中外牡丹发展的历史来看的确如此,牡丹发展在盛世,太平盛世喜牡丹,牡丹文化也如此。“国运昌时花运昌”,历史又一次证明了这一深刻的哲理。
历史上,古都洛阳的牡丹为最多、最好,有两个传统名种,一个开黄花的名姚黄,另一个开紫花的名魏紫,一直流传到今天。“洛阳牡丹天下无”,牡丹已被洛阳市定为市花,并确定每年4月15日——25日为“洛阳牡丹花会”。每当花会期间,中外游人群集,共赏花王。
牡丹诗词:
清平调 李白(唐)
一枝红艳露凝香, 云雨巫山枉断肠。 借问汉官谁得似, 可怜飞燕倚红妆。
题御笔牡丹 王国维(清)
摩罗西域竟时妆, 东海樱花侈国香。 阅尽大千春世界, 牡丹终古是花王。
惜牡丹 白居易(唐)
惆怅阶前红牡丹, 晚来只有两枝残。 明朝风起应吹尽, 夜惜衰红把火看。
栽牡丹 陆游(宋)
携锄庭下苍苔, 墨紫红手自栽。 老子龙钟逾八十, 死前犹见几回开。
赏牡丹 刘禹锡(唐)
庭前芍药妖无格,池上芙蕖净少情。 惟有牡丹真国色,开花时节动京城。
红牡丹 王维(唐)
绿艳闲且静,红衣浅复深。 花心愁欲断,春色岂知心。
——以上图片和文字资料来源于网络。
这件手工的设计是送给外婆的,融合了妈妈、小七和我的设计,从这个意义来讲,是我们做晚辈的给长辈最好的礼物。妈妈设计配色,小七画稿,我做。当我们终于完成,拿回来放到外婆手里的时候,她开心极了,我们也是:)
原料、工艺:0.8-1mm一层牛皮,刻、染色,机缝合成。
款式和功能:内置隔层为同色调猪皮,做成插袋(小号1个,中号2个,大号3个),隔成2个隔层。可放置烟盒、火机和手机、MP3、和钱包、驾驶证套、纸巾包等物件,方便好用。胶牙拉链金属拉片。
可选配件:拉链皮拉片(替换金属拉片)/腕带/内袋改尺寸,需定做
尺寸和价格:
大号成品宽25×高14cm
中号成品宽20×高14cm
小号成品宽15×高11cm
青花银蓝底+埃及黑牡丹。手腕绳定做。2009.4.29设计制作完工。
See the article at www.eriegaynews.com/news/article.php?recordid=201110pride...
Erie Pride Parade & Rally a Great Time!
by Michael Mahler
On Saturday, August 27, about 230 people participated in the Erie Pride Parade & Rally. This year’s Pride events were organized by the Pride Planning committee, which is an informal coalition of groups and individuals.
Parade
About 100 people marched in the parade from the Zone Dance Club to Perry Square. John Daly King was the Grand Marshal for the parade, in a convertible driven by Caitlyn. Also in the parade were beloved local gay icons Jesse and Ricardo, who rode their tandem bike.
Parade units included
Lake Erie Belly Dance
Doctor Who contingent
PFLAG Erie/Crawford County
Erie Gay News
Lake Erie Derby Dames
LBT Women
Latonia Theatre
PFLAG Butler
Erie Sisters
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Erie
Community United Church
OUT (Pittsburgh newspaper)
There were also many people marching as individuals, as well as a float carrying current and former Miss Eries.
Rally
The rally in Perry Square begins at 2 PM and will include speakers and performers. Please check in at the registration table when you arrive in Perry Square. The rally will include a variety of vendors and information booths.
Speakers and performers included:
Greg Rabb, Openly gay Jamestown City Council President and Councilman at Large
Misty Kall, Miss Erie 2011
Rich McCarty of Equality PA, Greater Erie Alliance for Equality and Community United Church
Chris Wolfe, Erie Idol finalist 2011
Tammie Johnson, 2 term President of ACLU-NWPA
Brian T, singer, also with Pittsburgh Out TV
Jason Landau Goodman, founding Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Student Equality Coalition. The first and only youth-led statewide LGBTQ organization in the nation
Michelle Michaels, Former Miss Erie and Coordinator for FACE Show at Zone
Fiona Hensley, Chair of the Student Network Across Pennsylvania, SNAP, Regional Chair of the Erie-West region for SNAP and President of Queers and Allies at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA.
Diva D’Vyne
Games
The Dunk a Drag Queen game was very popular! We look forward to making this an annual tradition
Donors
Many businesses and organizations gave generously to help support Pride this year. These included
AdultMart
Allegheny College Bookstore
BeautiControl
Blue Heron Inn
Body Language
Chicory Hill Herbs
Coca-Cola/Erie
Country Fair
Craze Night Club
Crime Victim Center of Erie County
Douglas Kolcun
Drenched Fur
Earthshine Company
Eerie Horror Film Festival
emma's revolution
Erie Book Store
Erie County Democratic Party
Erie County Department of Health
Erie Playhouse
Erie Seawolves
Erie Sisters
Erie Spine and Wellness
Family United Counseling
Gaudenzia / SHOUT Outreach
Giant Eagle - Buffalo Road
Glass Growers
Good Health Rejuvenation
Greater Erie Alliance for Equality, Inc.
Hal Leonard Performing Arts Publishing Group
Hollywood Stories
Horomanski's DJ'ing Services
JR's Last Laugh
Kensington Books
La bella
Larese Floral Design
LBT Women
Lion's Den Adult Super Store
MLR Books
Pennsylvania Coaltion to End Homelessness
Pie in the Sky Cafe
Presque Isle Gallery Coffeehouse
Sam's Club
Shakira Nakelle's Mementos, Gifts & More
Silk Screen Unlimited
Smith's Hot Dogs
State Farm Insurance Agent Natalie Braddock
Tanglez Hair and Nail Studio
The Ringbearer
Tops Friendly Markets - W 38th St
Wegman's- Peach St
Wendy's of Erie
Zone Dance Club
Committee Members & Volunteers
Many people from the committee worked hard to make the day enjoyable for everyone! Committee members included
Season
Chris
Preston
Mark H
Erin Moll
Amy
Sue McCabe
Alex
Jeff H
John Daly King
Kerry
In addition to the committee members, volunteers included:
Kevin Schultz
Dok
Johauna
Wanda
Bob H
Eric Rogers
Maria S.
Deb Spilko
Brian
Info Tables & Vendors
Info tables included:
Adagio Health
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), NWPA Chapter
Community United Church
Crime Victim Center of Erie County
Equality Pennsylvania
Erie County Democratic Party
Erie County Human Relations Commission
Erie Gay News
Erie Sisters
Lake Erie Derby Dames
LBT Women
Pennsylvania Student Equality Coalition
PFLAG Erie/Crawford County
SafeNet Center
United Way of Erie County
Voices for Independence
Vendors included
BeautiControl
Book Merchant
Christopher's Novelty Gifts
Shakira Nakelle's Mementos, Gifts & More
Collecting Food
We collected 23 pounds of food for the Second Harvest Food Bank of NW PA.
Parc Natural del Garraf - Olivella, Barcelona (Spain).
ENGLISH
Prayer flags are colorful panels or rectangular cloths often found strung along mountain ridges and peaks high in the Himalayas to bless the surrounding countryside or for other purposes. Unknown in other branches of Buddhism, prayer flags are believed to have originated with Bön, which predated Buddhism in Tibet. Traditionally they are woodblock-printed with texts and images.
The Indian Buddhist Sutras, written on cloth in India, were transmitted to other regions of the world. These sutras, written on banners, were the origin of prayer flags. Legend ascribes the origin of the prayer flag to the Shakyamuni Buddha, whose prayers were written on battle flags used by the devas against their adversaries, the asuras. The legend may have given the Indian bhikku a reason for carrying the 'heavenly' banner as a way of signifying his commitment to ahimsa. This knowledge was carried into Tibet by 800 CE, and the actual flags were introduced no later than 1040 CE, where they were further modified. The Indian monk Atisha (980-1054 CE) introduced the Indian practice of printing on cloth prayer flags to Tibet.
Lung Ta (meaning "Wind Horse") horizontal prayer flags are of square or rectangular shape and are connected along their top edges to a long string or thread. They are commonly hung on a diagonal line from high to low between two objects (e.g., a rock and the top of a pole) in high places such as the tops of temples, monasteries, stupas or mountain passes.
Traditionally, prayer flags come in sets of five, one in each of five colors. The five colors represent the elements, and the Five Pure Lights and are arranged from left to right in a specific order. Different elements are associated with different colors for specific traditions, purposes and sadhana:
- Blue (symbolizing sky/space)
- White (symbolizing air/wind)
- Red (symbolizing fire)
- Green (symbolizing water)
- Yellow (symbolizing earth)
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_wheel
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CASTELLANO
Las banderas de oración son coloridos paneles o paños rectangulares a menudo encadenados a lo largo de las crestas y de los picos de las montañas en el Himalaya para bendecir el terreno circundante o para otros propósitos. Desconocido en otras ramas del Budismo, se cree que las banderas de oración se originaron con Bön, que precedió el Budismo en el Tíbet. Tradicionalmente los textos y las imágenes son impresiones con plancha.
El Sutras budista indio, escrito en el paño en la India, fue transmitido a otras regiones del mundo. Estos sutras, escritos en banderas, eran el origen de las banderas de oración. La leyenda atribuye el origen de la bandera del rezo al Buda Shakyamuni, cuyos rezos fueron escritos en las banderas de batalla usadas por los devas contra sus adversarios, los asuras. La leyenda pudo haber dado al bhikku indio una razón para llevar la bandera “divina” como manera de significar su compromiso al ahimsa. Este conocimiento fue llevado en Tíbet por el año 800 DC, y las banderas reales fueron introducidas antes del 1040 DC, donde fueron modificadas más a fondo. El monje indio Atisha (980-1054) introdujo en el Tíbet la práctica india de la impresión en banderas de oración.
Las banderas horizontales de oración Lung Ta (significa “caballo del viento”) son de forma cuadrada o rectangular y están conectadas a lo largo de sus bordes superiores con una larga cuerda o hilo. Normalmente se cuelgan en una línea diagonal de arriba a abajo entre dos objetos (por ejemplo, de una roca a la punta de un poste) en lugares altos tales como las puntas de templos, de monasterios, de estupas o de pasos de montaña.
Tradicionalmente, las banderas de oración van en grupos de cinco, cada una de uno de cinco colores. Los cinco colores representan los elementos, y las cinco Luces Puras se disponen de izquierda a derecha en un orden específico. Los diversos elementos se asocian a diversos colores para tradiciones, los propósitos y el sadhana específicos:
- Azul (simbolizando cielo/espacio)
- Blanco (simbolizando aire/viento)
- Rojo (simbolizando fuego)
- Verde (simbolizando agua)
- Amarillo (simbolizando tierra)
Intha weaver at work in a village on Lake Inle.
The Intha
The dominant ethnicity of Lake Inle are the Intha, meaning sons of the lake. They are thought to have arrived from the Tavoy region of Southern Burma many centuries ago, and are linguistically related to the Bamar group. Today they speak an antiquated Burmese and are Buddhist.
The Intha live in bamboo houses built over the water on stilts and grow vegetables and fruit hydroponically on floating gardens that rise and fall with the tidesthus giving rise to the perception of 'floating villages'. The fertile water ensures an abundant harvest which get sold on 'floating markets' where goods are traded from one boat to another. The itinerary follows a five day cycle, rotating between the five larger villages on Lake Inle.
Most transport is by flat bottom canoes, propelled by a particular rowing style where the rower stands on one leg on the flattened stern of the canoe and wrapping the other around a long oar. The standing rowing method evolved to enable rowers to see over the tall reeds. Nevertheless the women row seated, eventhough they are equally adept at the standing style.
The Intha are best known for their unique fishing method, which is an extension of the rowing style, using a cone shaped bamboo framed wrapped with a fishing net, which is lowered to the bottom of the shallow Lake Inle with one hand and one foot. A bamboo stake is then driven into the net to agitate the water and drive the fish up. The net is then closed and the entire contraption is raised from the water.
The Intha should also be noted as weavers, producing the lotus cloth unique to the area, and worn by monks as ceremonial robes. They are best known however for creating traditional distinctive cotton cloth, the Inle Longyi. The patterns were originally Cambodian inspired, but now also drive from Thai and Indonesian influences. Silk brought in from China and Thailand are also used for more luxurious textiles, which are sold to tourists.
Lake Inle
Lake Inle is a freshwater lake of around 115square kilometers in Myanmar's Shan State located at an altitude of 880 meters. The lake is very shallow reaching no more than 2 or 3 meters depending on the season.
The lake is a tourist attraction for its images of the fishermen and their flat bottom canoes on mirror still water, as well as the the floating villages and markets. Time of course never stands still, and larger motor powered boats have made their way onto the lake, mainly as tourist transport, causing wakes that never existed before, while the market increasingly caters for tourist souvenirs. However given the political situation, tourism is still limited in Myanmar, but a number of very high quality lodges have sprung up along the lake shores.
Shan State
Shan State forms Myanmar's border with China, Laos and Thailand, and encompasses a quarter of Myanmar's total territory. Shan State derives its name from the local Shan people, who live largely rural lifestyles.
From the 1948 Myanmar independence, Chinese state and ethnic activity has increased, as have armed rebellions fueled by the emergence of war lords, who developed Shan State into a major opium growing area. Accordingly, the state is better known as the Golden Triangle or Shwe-Tri Gan and to this day, Myanmar is the world's second largest opium producer after Afghanistan, whilst the local people growing poppy continue to live below the poverty line. Heroin base is mostly produced within Myanmar and then transported by donkey across the mountainous Thailand border for conversion to heroin and transport to Bangkok and wider trafficking.
The heavily armed insurgence groups, including the 20,000 strong United Wa State Army (UWSA) that represent an undefined independent Wa State which would enclose Shan State, still render the zone unstable. The Wa people openly use the Yuan as currency, as opposed to the Myanmar Kyat, and in 2008 parts of Shan State were ceded autonomy.
Myanmar
Burma, or Myanmar as it has been renamed by the military dictatorship, derives its name from the Burmese word Bamar, which is pronounced 'Bama', and became 'Burma' in the colonial days. However in old Burmese it is pronounced Mranma or Myanmah, thus giving rise to Myanmar. The renaming remains the subject of debate, where the UN refers to 'Myanmar', the US, UK and France still refer to 'Burma', and yet the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal refer to 'Myanmar'. We've followed the UN and used current naming throughout this collection of photos, however with the alternatives included in the tags.
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Sarracenia are carnivorous plants indigenous to the eastern seaboard, Texas, the Great Lakes area and southeastern Canada, with most species occurring only in the south-east United States (only S. purpurea occurs in cold-temperate regions).
The plant's leaves form tall lidded pitchers, which have evolved to trap insects, and which produce enzymes to digest their prey. The insects are attracted by a nectar-like secretion on the lip of pitchers, as well as a combination of color and scent.
Slippery footing at the pitchers' rim, aided in at least one species by a narcotic drug lacing the nectar, causes insects to fall inside, where they drown and are digested by the plant as a nutrient source.
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Con sus dos largos brazos de hilo la verde Eutreptia se abre paso en los caminos del agua, a veces despejados como un cielo limpio y en otras ocasiones salpìcados de diminutos viajeros como ella que buscan para vivir una pequeña ventana a la luz del sol.
Eutreptia es un flagelado primo hermano de Euglena, que adopta forma de cometa cuando puede nadar libre en la inmensidad de cualquier gota de agua, su prolongada cola estabiliza la tortuosa navegación que le imponen sus dos largos flagelos y de este modo, avanza sin contratiempos enhebrando su silueta de pez entre las corrientes de agua.
El interior de Eutreptia está cargado de pequeños cloroplastos discoidales que apenas tienen espacio para moverse dentro de su cuerpo y que no caben en la estrecha cola-timón de este flagelado viajero. Eutreptia está vestida con una fina y plástica membrana transparente elegantemente adornada por unas delicadísimas estrías paralelas casi invisibles. Esta película que recubre su cuerpo como una ajustada camisa, igual que la de algunas especies de Euglena, Distigma o Astasia permite el cambio de forma y la completa transformación de sus aspecto.
Los dos largos flagelos de Eutreptia ondulan y parecen trenzarse para deshacerse después en sus movimientos rizados, pero cuando tropiezan con algún obstáculo como marañas de algas o redes de diatomeas, se desacompasan al mismo tiempo que Eutreptia se altera y sus contornos de comenta se revuelven hasta transformarse mágicamente en los de un globo.
Eutreptia, como Euglena, es ser misterioso de vida animal y vegetal al mismo tiempo, una pequeña mancha ocular de color rojizo constituye su ojo de cíclope que sólo ve la luz
La especie que mostramos hoy, probablemente Eutreptia viridis puede vivir en aguas dulces, como éstas de las que procede y es capaz de soportar una notable carga de materia orgánica. Se trata de un hallazgo singular, del que no tenemos constancia de citas precedentes en la Península Ibérica - las únicas conocidas del continente europeo proceden de Gran Bretaña y Rumanía - y tan solo se ha constatado su presencia en otros continentes a partir de tres citas, una en Brasil, otra en China y la tercera de Australia.
Eutreptia ha sido fotografiada a 400 aumentos con la técncia de contraste de interferencia a partir de una muestra recogida a 3 metros de profundidad en el Lago de Sanabria (Zamora), desde el catamarán Helios Sanabria el primer catamarán construido en el Planeta propulsado por energía eólica y solar.
More photographs of Torquay, can be viewed by visiting my photography website - Beautiful England
Torquay has long been regarded as one of the most glamorous resorts of the English Riviera. In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte, who was a prisoner, stood on the deck of HMS Bellerophon in Tor Bay and pronounced Torquay to be, "Beau". It is easy to see why he felt this. Built on seven green hills, overlooking Tor Bay, Torquay is a resort with a genuine European atmosphere. Sparkling white villas built by the Victorians, adorn the hill tops. The promenade is lined with palm trees and colourful gardens. There is a lively harbour and an international marina.
The Victorians named Torquay, "Queen of the Riviera" and it became one of the most popular resorts in the south of England. In 1848, South Devon Railway made the town easily accessible. Bathing became fashionable and separate beaches were designated for ladies and gentlemen to bathe. It was not until 1899 that mixed bathing was permitted.
Kent's Cavern attracted many visitors. Here were found human bones, together with those from Ice Age creatures, indicating for the first time that man had existed far earlier than previously thought. It is now a floodlit spectacle of stalagmites and stalactites situated close to Anstey's Cove and is open to the public.
The English Riviera has 22 miles of coastline, coves and cliffs and provides 19 varied beaches, some small and secluded, but still easily accessible. From Marine Drive there are extensive views over Thatcher Rock, across Tor Bay to Berry Head at Brixham. From Babbacombe Bay the red cliffs of Dawlish can be seen.
The BBC TV series, 'Fawlty Towers', is closely associated with Torquay. This comedy programme, staring John Cleese, as the eccentric hotelier, was first broadcast in 1975 and has been screened in over sixty countries. The hotel shown in the opening shots was, in fact, not in Torquay, but was the Wooburn Grange Country Club at Bourne End in Buckinghamshire, which has now been demolished.
The inspiration for Basil Fawlty was Donald Sinclair, the owner of Hotel Gleneagles, who Monty Python's Flying Circus team encountered in 1971. Whilst they were staying there, Donald Sinclair criticised Terry Gilliam for not using his knife and fork correctly and it is alleged Eric Idle's bag was thrown outside because Sinclair believed that there was a bomb in it! The Monty Python team moved out, but John Cleese, realising the potential, stayed on and brought his first wife, Connie Booth, to join him to experience Sinclair's unusual behaviour at first hand. She later co-wrote the programmes with her husband.
Sadly, Donald died in 1981. John Cleese affectionately described Donald Sinclair, a war hero, as, "the most wonderfully rude man I have ever met". Hotel Gleneagles still exists in Asheldon Road, Torquay. It has been transformed into a luxury boutique hotel, overlooking Lyme Bay.
Agatha Christie, the world famous crime writer, was born in Torquay and spent most of her life in the area. She often bathed at Beacon Cove, an original "ladies only beach" and Meadfoot Beach. The family home was in Barton Road. She was married on Christmas Eve 1914 and spent her honeymoon at The Grand Hotel. She owned 'Greenway', standing above the River Dart, near Brixham, for thirty-eight years, which she used as a summer home and retreat, until she died in 1976. It is now owned by the National Trust and is open to the public. Visitors can travel by ferry from Torquay or Brixham.
The Vines, 81 Lime Street, Liverpool, 1907.
By Walter William Thomas (1849-1912).
Walkers Ales of Warrington.
Grade ll* listed.
See also:-
pubheritage.camra.org.uk/pubs/112
breweryhistory.com/wiki/index.php?title=Vines,_Liverpool
www.govserv.org/GB/Liverpool/236929139665303/The-Vines-%2...
m.facebook.com/The-Vines-the-Big-House-236929139665303/
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www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/feb/07/liverpool-pu...
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The Vines public house
Statutory Address: 79-87 Lime Street, Liverpool, L1 1JQ
Grade II* Listed
List Entry Number: 1084210
National Grid Reference: SJ3505890334
Summary
Public house, 1907, by Walter Thomas for Robert Cain & Sons. Neo-Baroque style.
Reasons for Designation
The Vines, constructed in 1907 to the designs of Walter W Thomas for Robert Cain & Sons, is listed at Grade II* for the following principal reasons:
Architectural interest:
* it has an impressive neo-Baroque design with flamboyant principal elevations that maximise its prominent corner location;
* its imposing composition and highly ornate interior reflect the status, wealth and ambition of Robert Cain who sought to create public houses of great beauty;
* the interior decoration is of a superior quality and includes plasterwork by the Bromsgrove Guild and H Gustave Hiller, carved mahogany woodwork throughout, repousse copper panels, and a stained-glass dome in the former billiards room;
* the interior retains high-quality original fixtures and fittings, including elaborate fireplaces, carved baffles with Art Nouveau stained glass, ornate wall panelling, arcaded screens, a striking wave-shaped beaten-copper bar counter in the lounge, and Art Nouveau fireplaces in the upper-floor accommodation.
Group value:
* it has strong group value with its sister building, the nearby Grade I-listed Philharmonic Dining Rooms, which was also designed by Walter W Thomas for Robert Cain & Sons, as well as other listed buildings on Lime Street and Ranelagh Place, including the Grade II-listed Crown Hotel, Adelphi Hotel and former Lewis's department store.
History
The Vines was constructed in 1907 to the designs of Walter W Thomas for the Liverpool brewery Robert Cain & Sons and replaced an early-C19 pub operated by Albert B Vines from 1867; hence the current pub's name. The interior decoration includes works by the Bromsgrove Guild and H Gustave Hiller.
Walter W Thomas (1849-1912) was a Liverpool architect who is best known for his public house designs, but who also produced designs for Owen Owen's department store known as Audley House, and houses around Sefton Park. As well as The Vines, Thomas also designed The Philharmonic Dining Rooms (1898-1900, Grade I) on Hope Street for Robert Cain & Sons, and rebuilt The Crown (1905, Grade II) for Walkers Brewery of Warrington, which is also on Lime Street.
Robert Cain (1826-1907) was born in Ireland but grew up in Liverpool. As a teenager he became an apprentice to a cooper on board a ship carrying palm oil from West Africa and after returning to Liverpool in 1844 he established himself first as a cooper, and then subsequently as a brewer in 1848. Cain began brewing at a pub on Limekiln Lane, but soon moved to larger premises on Wilton Street, and finally to the Mersey Brewery on Stanhope Street in 1858, which Cain extended in the late C19 and early C20. As well as brewing Cain also invested in property, built pubs, and ran a hotel adjacent to the Mersey Brewery. As his brewery business grew (known as Robert Cain & Sons from 1896) it bought out smaller brewers and took control of their pubs, evolving into a company that owned over 200 pubs in Liverpool by the late 1880s. In 1921 Robert Cain & Sons merged with Walkers Brewery to become Walker Cains and the Liverpool brewery at Stanhope Street was sold to Higsons in 1923. After a succession of owners from the 1980s onwards the brewery is being converted for mixed use.
The Bromsgrove Guild of Fine Arts was established in 1898 by Walter Gilbert as a means of promoting high-qualify craftsmanship in metal casting, woodcarving and embroidery in the style of a medieval guild, and included the creation of apprenticeships. The Guild subsequently expanded into other areas of art and design, including jewellery, enamelling, and decorative plasterwork, and recruited the best craftsmen. In 1900 the Guild was showcased at the British Pavilion at the Exposition Universelle in Paris and in 1908 it received a royal warrant. Famous works included the gates at Buckingham Palace, interior decoration on RMS Lusitania and RMS Queen Mary, and the Liver bird statues on the Royal Liver Building in Liverpool. Although the Guild survived the loss of key craftsmen and the Great Depression of the late 1920s it was finally wound up in the 1960s.
Henry Gustave Hiller (1864-1946) was a Liverpool-based designer and manufacturer of stained glass who trained at the Manchester School of Art under Walter Crane. He established a studio in Liverpool in around 1904 and retired in 1940. Although primarily known for his stained glass he worked in a wide variety of mediums, including plasterwork.
Details
Public house, 1907, by Walter W Thomas for Robert Cain & Sons. Neo-Baroque style.
MATERIALS: sandstone ashlar with a pink-granite ground floor, slate roof coverings.
PLAN: The Vines has a V-shaped plan with a north corner in-filled at ground-floor level by a former billiards room. It occupies a corner plot at the junction of Copperas Hill and Lime Street with principal elevations onto both streets. It is bounded by Copperas Hill to the south-east, Lime Street to the south-west, and adjoining buildings to the north-east and north-west.
EXTERIOR: The Vines is of three-storeys plus attic and basement with a nine-bay elevation onto Lime Street, a canted south corner bay, and a six-bay return on Copperas Hill, and entrances on each elevation. The pub has a steep slate roof set behind ornate Dutch gables and a balustraded parapet, and the ground floor has banded rustication to the pink-granite facings. The ground floor is lit by large bow windows containing original patterned brilliant-cut glass and replaced etched glass, whilst the upper-floors have casement windows set within carved surrounds. A cornice projects out from the main face of the building above the ground floor and stood atop it to both the Lime Street and Copperas Hill elevations are later gold letters that read 'WALKERS WARRINGTON ALES', with additional letters to Lime Street that read 'THE VINES'. Above the first floor is a stringcourse interrupted by segmental floating cornices over some of the windows, and in between the windows are floriated drops attached to corbelled pedestals that support Ionic engaged columns between the second-floor windows. The Lime Street elevation has two large Dutch gables with scroll detailing, elaborate finials, paired casement windows with elaborate surrounds, and oculi to the gable apexes, whilst the Copperas Hill elevation has a single gable in the same style. Projecting out from the right gable on Lime Street is a large bracketed clock.
SOUTH CORNER The south corner has a tall doorway to the ground floor accessing the public bar with a decorative wrought-iron and gilded-copper gate with a vestibule behind containing a patterned mosaic floor incorporating the lettering 'RCS' (Robert Cain & Sons) and two partly-glazed and panelled doors; that to the right is no longer in use. The entrance doorway itself is flanked by engaged Ionic columns with copper capitals and drops, and above are large triple keystones and a segmental open pediment, all exaggerated in size. Inscribed to the central keystone is 'The Vines' in gilded lettering. To the south corner's first floor is a glazed oculi with a festoon above incorporating a figurative head keystone, whilst the second-floor window mirrors that of the other elevations. Rising from the top of the corner bay behind the parapet and sandwiched by the Dutch gables on Lime Street and Copperas Hill is a tall round tower topped by a dome with a squat obelisk finial.
LIME STREET The Lime Street elevation incorporates a further entrance to the centre of the ground floor, which is identically styled to that to the south corner, but the lower section of the original gate has been removed and replaced by late-C20 concertina gates. The vestibule behind is lined with pink granite and has a decorative plasterwork ceiling and a small bow-shaped window (possibly an off-sales opening originally and in 2019 now covered with an advertising sign) directly opposite the doorway with a multipaned segmental overlight above. Partly-glazed panelled doors to each side lead into the lounge and public bar to the left and right respectively; both doors are multipaned to their upper halves with panes of brilliant-cut glass. To the left of the main building on Lime Street is an additional lower, rendered single-bay that comprises 79 Lime Street; part of an earlier (now demolished) building that was partly raised, altered and re-used in the early C20 to house The Vines' main accommodation stair. It has a tall doorway to the ground floor flanked by Corinthian columns with two panelled doors with overlights; that to the left previously served a now-demolished part of the building to the left whilst that to the right accesses the stair for The Vines. Single plate-glass sash windows exist to the right on two floors above; that to the second floor has been altered and made smaller, presumably when the stair was inserted internally. Corresponding windows to the left have been blocked up, but are partly visible internally.
COPPERAS HILL The ground floor of the pub's Copperas Hill elevation also has a number of entrances, including one with a doorway incorporating a scrolled floating cornice and prominent keystone that leads into the public bar and originally also a former snug (now altered into a kitchenette). A plainer doorway to the right leads to a stair accessing the upper floors at this end of the building. A single-storey flat-roofed section to the far right of the elevation with a plain recessed doorway is a later addition and provides external access to the former billiards room.
REAR ELEVATIONS The rear (north-east and north-west) elevations are plainer and of brick with large casement windows, some of which incorporate Art Nouveau stained glass. The entire rear yard area is occupied by a flat-roofed billiards room with a large lantern roof over a stained-glass dome visible internally. A cast-iron fire escape provides access down onto the roof of the billiards room.
INTERIOR: internally the pub has a linear sequence of rooms from south-east to north-west formed by a public bar, lounge and smoke room, with a large former billiards room at the rear. There are high ceilings and carved mahogany woodwork throughout the ground floor, and plasterwork by the Bromsgrove Guild and H Gustave Hiller.
PUBLIC BAR The south corner entrance leads into a large public bar with a richly moulded plasterwork ceiling and a panelled mahogany bar counter to the north corner that originally ran down the north-east side of the room, but was shortened in 1989. Rising from the bar counter are short mirror-panelled piers supporting a pot shelf surmounted by three twin-armed brass lamps, and in front of the counter is a brass foot rail. The bar-back behind forms part of a carved, arcaded and panelled screen that runs down the north-east side of the public bar and incorporates stained, leaded, and cut glass, and two openings; the opening to the right has lost its original panelled infill, which would have been in similar style to the bar-back, whilst that to the left is an original open doorway with a broken segmental pediment above containing a clock face that gives the appearance of an outsized grandfather clock with the doorway through the pendulum case. The screen separates the public bar from a rear corridor cum drinking lobby that accesses toilets and leads through to the lounge and smoke room at the opposite end of the pub. Bench seating and a mahogany and tiled fireplace with a carved overmantel exist to the public bar's south-west wall, and a small late-C20 stage has been inserted at the south-east end of the room. At the north-west end of the room adjacent to the Lime Street entrance is a panelled and stained-glass arcaded screen with an integral drinking shelf that conceals the bar service area, possible off-sales and basement access from view. In the eastern corner of the bar adjacent to a lobby off the Copperas Hill entrance is an altered glazed screen covered with modern signage chalkboards that probably originally led through to another small room/snug, which is now a kitchenette.
Behind the public bar the corridor/drinking lobby's north-east wall is panelled and incorporates a wide arched opening to the centre with early-C20 signage plaques with incised and gilded lettering and arrows pointing towards the ladies and gents lavatories, which are accessed through an inner screen with Art Nouveau stained glass and a vestibule with panelled doors. Off to the right is a doorway through to the altered snug and access to a stair leading up to the first floor.
LOUNGE The lounge is accessed from the Lime Street entrance and shares a bar servery with the public bar, although the bar counter in the lounge is set within a wide arched opening and is more elaborate and wave-shaped with a decorative beaten-copper front. Above the counter are brass lighting rails with paired globe lights. Ornate carved and fluted Corinthian columns stood atop panelled pedestals support the room's ceiling, which continues the same richly decorated plasterwork as the public bar. Similarly detailed pilasters also exist to the walls, which are panelled. To the room's north-west wall is a tall mahogany and marble fireplace with a decorative beaten-copper panel depicting torches and swags, and a beaten-copper Art Nouveau fire hood, and large caryatids to each side supporting an entablature and segmental pediment above. Two doorways either side of the fireplace with their doors removed (one of the doors with an etched-glass upper panel that reads 'SMOKE ROOM' survives on the second floor in the Lime Street range) lead through into the smoke room, which has a back-to-back fireplace with the lounge.
SMOKE ROOM The smoke room has booth seating set around three walls separated by baffles with Art Nouveau stained-glass panels and fluted octagonal uprights surmounted by paired lamps. The walls above the seating have highly decorative mahogany panelling with fluted pilasters, carved mouldings, marquetry detailing and built-in bell pushes set within decorative plates. To the top of the walls, and set below a coffered ceiling that incorporates a large plasterwork oval to the centre depicting the signs of the zodiac, is a deep plasterwork frieze depicting putti in various Arcadian scenes. The room's elaborate fireplace is also of mahogany, marble and beaten copper, with a semi-circular panel depicting Viking ships in relief and flanking fluted octagonal columns with Art Nouveau floriate capitals supporting an entablature.
FORMER BILLIARDS ROOM At the rear (north-east side) of the ground floor, and accessed from the lounge and rear corridor, is a vast room (probably a billiards room originally and now known as the Heritage Suite) with an exposed floorboard floor, wall panelling incorporating doorcases with shaped heads, giant Corinthian pilasters, carved festoons and cartouches, and a coffered ceiling with a massive, oval, stained-glass domed skylight to the centre with a plasterwork frieze at its base depicting apples, foliage and lion's heads. To the south-west wall is an elaborate carved mahogany and marble fireplace with a large mirror built into the panelling above and surviving to the south-east wall is original built-in bench seating. At the north-west end of the room is a later panelled bar counter with a substantial bar-back behind incorporating Roman Doric columns supporting a deep entablature and flanked by later shelving. A doorway in the east corner leads through to an altered entrance foyer off Copperas Hill.
UPPER FLOORS A steep, narrow stair off Copperas Hill leads up to the first floor and rooms in the south corner and south-east end of the building. The stair has modern tread coverings and has lost its balusters, but an original newel post and handrail survive. The main accommodation stair serving the upper floors in the Lime Street range is contained within the neighbouring single-bay property of 79 Lime Street and rises from a ground-floor foyer with later inserted partitioning. The stair is a wide dog-leg stair with substantial carved newel posts and balusters, pendant drops, a closed string, and a glazed-tiled dado.
The upper floor rooms at the south-east end of the building have been modernised to accommodate en-suite bathrooms and toilets, but the floor plan largely survives with only minor alteration, including boxing-in on the second-floor landing. The rooms and landings retain plain moulded cornicing and door architraves, and a mixture of original four-panel and modern doors. Chimneybreasts also survive, and most rooms retain Art Nouveau cast-iron and tiled fireplaces. A stair flight up to the second floor survives with closed strings and turned balusters and newel posts. On each of the first and second floor landings is a doorway through to the upper-floor rooms facing onto Lime Street, which are no longer in use. These spaces, except for the main stair at the north-west end, have been altered and modernised, along with the attic rooms.
The attic at the south-east end of the building and the basement were not inspected.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 359023
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Brandwood, G, Davison, A, Slaughter, M, Licensed to Sell. The HIstory and Heritage of the Public House, (2004), 77, 78, 115, 147, 150
Brandwood, G, Britain's Best Real Heritage Pubs. Pub Interiors of Outstanding Historic Interest, (2013), 118
Pye, K, Liverpool Pubs, (2015), 68-72
Sharples, J, Pevsner Architectural Guides: Liverpool, (2004), 184
Websites
The Bromsgrove Guild, accessed 7 November 2019 from www.architectural-heritage.co.uk/garden-ornament-history
La foto está hecha en interior con un flash yongnuo 460II a 20 centimetros del sujeto. El Flash está colocado a la izquierda de la cámara, a unos 50º y con un paragüas blanco a modo de difusor. Se ha utilizado una Canon EOS 350D con un objetivo Tamron 70-300 a 200 mm en macro, velocidad 1/250 y apertura 6.3. ISO 200.
I think this is another form of female seaside dragonlet. If anyone knows better, please let me know.
The 2nd day of our trip to Yellowstone National Park featured a guided safari by Safari Yellowstone safariyellowstone.com/index.php. Our guide was the owner and very knowledgeable Carl Swoboda. His keen eyes and knowledge of the park, animals and connections to people gave us once in a lifetime experience.
We started early in the morning driving into the park. First animal spotted was an elk in Mammoth Hot Springs. From there we headed to the Lamar Valley where we saw bison after bison. First time you see a bison - cool! By the 200th time you're yelling at the tourists that stop in the middle of the road to take a picture for their first sighting.
Carl got a signal in passing from one his friends that wolves had been sighted in the valley. We drove to where the wolf watchers had gathered. Luckily Safari Yellowstone provides scopes since we didn't own any at them time. We were able to spot and track the Lamar Valley pack with about 10 other regular wolf watcher enthusiasts. Rick McIntyre, a Biological Technician for the Yellowstone Wolf Project, was there as well recording everything that each person narrated that they saw the wolves doing.
Everyone was very friendly and helpful. If you couldn't find them in your scope they would give you directions for aiming your scope or come over and find them for you. I learned how to take pictures using my Panasonic Lumix ZS7 through the scope. Setting it to Macro Zoom was the key.
We followed the wolves as they traveled a couple of miles through the valley. At one point they came across a coyote that was in their path. We saw them kill it. Afterward they came down into the grassy valley floor for nap. It appeared to the wolf watchers that the wolves had eaten previously that morning.
Carl then took us to look for the carcass of the wolf kill. We learned what kind signs to look for in a recent kill. We also learned a lot about Yellowstone National Park. Carl shared his knowledge about conservation, the animals in the park, geological makeup and history of the park. We never found the carcass but the lessons we learned stayed with us the rest of our trip.
We were able to see mountain goats and bighorn sheep through the scopes before having a nice sandwich lunch. Before our safari ended Carl pulled out a map and marked out must-see locations and tips and tricks to catching the best views.
Looking back on our trip, having the experience of the tour with Safari Yellowstone at the beginning of trip totally changed the trip for the better. We noticed things we would not have noticed before. We looked for things would never have looked for. We came away from our trip knowing, seeing and remembering so much more than if we had just gone in cold as newbie tourists. Definitely consider spending a little extra on your trip if you want a much more memorable trip to Yellowstone.
Really that's all it is. Another from Barber Mill in Georgetown.
I was going to do a good-bye Flickr shot, but the Potato really has a problem with those - and he already hates me, so I gave up that idea.
But, I do want to say that I won't be around for a little while .... I'm doing a little tour through SE Asia (after 26 hours of travel time *sob*) and even though I am sure I will be shooting a ton, I doubt I'll have much time for processing, comments and posting.
Enjoy the winter while I'm in Bali (and Thailand/Vietnam/Hong Kong) Canada. ;)
www.catedraldevalencia.es/en/index.php
Source : Valencia Cathedral
Inside the altarpiece
Virgin Mary, polychrome wood carving by I. Vergara
(18th century), it comes from the Cartuja de Porta Coeli.
Doors of the high altarpiece
Masterpiece of the 16th century (1506-1510), they kept a renaissance altarpiece made of silver, melted in 1812 in Majorca to make coins during the war against Napoleon Bonaparte. Painting in temper and oil on panel by Fernando de Los Llanos and Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina, imitating the style of Leonardo Da Vinci and other Italian renaissance authors.
The exterior of the left door displays beautiful paintings (from the bottom): The Adoration of the Shepherd, The Adoration of the Magi and the Resurrection of Christ. Three magnificent paintings are on the right door: The Ascension of the Lord, The Arrival of the Holy Spirit and the death and the Assumption of the Virgin.
The interior of the left door depicts the meeting of St. Joachim and St. Anne, parents of the Virgin Mary, her birth and her presentation in the temple.
On the right is the Visitation of Mary to St. Elizabeth, the presentation of child Jesus in the temple and the flight into Egypt.
The doors of the high altarpiece are a master work. They were finished in 1510 and kept an altarpiece made of silver. It was also melted in 1812 to make coins in the war against Napoleon Bonaparte.
The paintings on panel by Fernando de Los Llanos and Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina imitate the style of Leonardo Da Vinci and other Italian renaissance authors.
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I saw this beautiful stand of wildflowers, which I later learned are called Scarlet Buglers, while we were training our dogs and I decided to go back later on to try to capture them. While I was shooting, a couple of Hummingbirds showed up, followed by dozens, to chase each other all over the sky at break-neck speeds and amazingly abrupt changes of direction, and to feed on the wildflowers. I was naturally excited, but I didn't have my long lens with me, and every time that I tried to move in close enough, they would fly away.
Finally, I decided to sit on the ground and wait for them to come back, which they did, eventually, but they were still too far away, except for the one that was hovering about two feet behind my head, where it would have been an impossible catch, since it was too close and because I'm sure it would have flown off, even it I was able to twist around enough to see it, which I wasn't.
I went ahead and shot them, even though they were too far away and the light wasn't right, because I figured that I might be able to zoom in close enough in post-processing to make acceptable shots and since it was easy enough to delete them, if I couldn't. They didn't come out that great, but at least I'll have them to remind me of the fun I had, sitting on the ground, with the aerial show and interesting feeding going on.
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Anisonema se mueve y deja atrás su larga cola, mientras avanza serenamente tirado por un carro que no existe. Son dos los flagelos de este protozoo, que nacen juntos para marcar sentidos opuestos. Anisonema es un primo de las Euglenas, primo blanco y dorado, que prescinde de la energía del sol y que tiene que buscarse la vida entre las algas y los restos vegetales en los que encuentra el sustento.
En Anisonema el flagelo que se dirige hacia adelante es el que ejerce la fuerza motora y el que explora, mientras que el que rezagado se deja arrastrar, gobierna la nave con rumbo seguro. Es un movimiento silencioso y estable que nace del equilibrio entre la acción y la pasividad, el dirigirse hacia adelante y el de señalar lo ya navegado.
El cuerpo de Anisonema es algo rígido, pero también flexible, no tiene la plasticidad de otros familiares casi contorsionistas como Distigma o Peranema, pero es capaz de encontrar la salida entre los túneles de restos orgánicos de hojas y tallos que tapizan el lecho de los ríos en los que vive. Hoy nos encontramos con un personaje infrecuente, Anisonema ¿?. Nos ha visitado ya en alguna ocasión , Anisonema acinus, de menor talla y con interior casi de transparencia de agua, el que se muestra aquí, desconocido para nosotros, se mueve igual que aquel y conserva algunos rasgos de su identidad todavía no bien conocida y por eso misteriosa.
El Anisonema de hoy, flagelado de hilos desiguales, procede de unas muestras recogidas en un pequeño regato de aguas limpias junto a la localidad alistana de Samir de los Caños, en la provincia de Zamora, y ha sido fotografiado a 400 aumentos empleando la técnica de contraste de interferencia.
Con nuestra gratitud para Pilar Gil por la publicación en Qúo, a Antonio Martínez Ron ...y también Paul/
Puedes tener otra infomación en la exposición LA VIDA OCULTA DEL AGUA
Y en este catálogo
También en la galería de Fotolog
Y nuestro granito de arena por la Paz
Depuis le 3 Octobre, plus de 200 familles dorment dans la rue de la Banque pour protester contre l'absence de logements décents. Français ou immigrés en situation régulière, tous travaillent mais vivent dans des conditions déplorables: le plus souvent à l'hôtel, ou dans des appartements minuscules, parfois menacés d'expulsion.
Malgré la pluie, les mal logés ont l'interdiction d'installer des tentes sur les trottoirs (elles ont de toute façon été confisquées lors des précédentes évacuations par les forces de l'ordre). Les cartons et les bâches sont plus ou moins tolérés, selon les jours, notamment sur le trottoir du Ministère de la Crise du Logement (mais pas en face !), mais peuvent très bien résulter en une intervention policière.
Il n'y a qu'une heure de soleil dans la rue de la Banque, entre 14h et 15h environ (les jours où il fait beau !). C'est un peu la transition entre la torpeur du matin et l'animation du soir. Dès 5h du matin, les gens commencent à se lever, beaucoup travaillent très tôt et de toutes façons, on ne dort pas bien sur le trottoir. Ils rangent leurs affaires, mises à l'abri dans le Ministère de la Crise du Logement, où ils vont aussi prendre une boisson chaude. Jusqu'à 8h, c'est le ballet des départs au travail, souvent avec des enfants à déposer à l'école au passage, à peine interrompu vers 7h par la relève des gendarmes et le va-et-vient de leurs camions qui suscite toujours un peu d'angoisse. Quand le jour se lève enfin, la rue est en grande partie désertée, et les militants qui montent la garde tout ou partie de la nuit profitent de l'ouverture du bistrot "A la petite corbeille" pour aller se réchauffer et prendre un café. Puis on tue le temps, on discute, on fume, on somnole. Certains balaient le trottoir et la rue, discutant avec les éboueurs qui passent régulièrement. Une pile de quotidiens gratuits a été déposée sur le rebord d'une fenêtre de l'AFP, en face, et on commente les nouvelles, on cherche les articles sur le campement, sur eux, les "mal logés". On s'indigne souvent des approximations de la presse d'ailleurs: le Ministère de la Crise du Logement est décrit comme étant un squat, les familles deviennent "les mères africaines", ou bien ne sont qu'une dizaine. Au moins, l'amalgame initial avec les sans papiers a disparu !
La journée s'étire. Des familles regagnent leur logement, pour précaire qu'il soit, le temps de souffler un peu, se laver, se changer. Certains se relaient entre père et mère pour éviter aux enfants de dormir là (encore que la plupart des enfants, les petits surtout, soient hébérgés à l'intérieur du Ministère de la Crise du Logement pour la nuit).
Parfois, la police intervient pour enlever une bâche, ou dégager un carton qui "déborde" du périmètre tacitement établi depuis quelque temps (les quelques m2 de trottoir qui vont de l'entrée du 24 rue de la Banque jusqu'à l'angle de la Place de la Bourse). Il semble que les évacuations plus "musclées" ou au petit matin des premières semaines ne soient plus de mise, mais personne ne sait vraiment. Certains discutent avec les forces de l'ordre, d'autres se méfient. Certains gendarmes avouent leur ennui et/ou leur incompréhension devant cette situation qui s'éternise, certains confient que leur vie n'est pas facile non plus (horaires, conditions de logement, rémunération, reconnaissance sociale, etc.). L'autre jour, quelqu'un avait placardé sur le mur un article de Libération sur la grogne chez les gendarmes, et ceux-ci se relayaient pour le lire (il a été arraché depuis) !
En fin d'après-midi, il y a un regain d'activité, surtout les soirs où sont organisés les rassemblements de soutien hebdomadaires. De nombreux militants d'autres organisations (LCR notamment) viennent alors se joindre aux familles, occupant parfois toute la rue. Prises de parole, témoignages, point sur la situation et les "négociations" avec le Ministère de la Ville et du Logement et rappel des revendications se succèdent, ponctués d'applaudissements et de slogans ("Solidarité avec les mal-logés", "un toit, c'est un droit", "Mme Boutin, arrête ton baratin", etc.). Des personnalités viennent parfois apporter leur soutien, focalisant l'attention des medias: Joey Starr, Josiane Balasko, Carole Bouquet, Florence Aubenas, Guy Bedos, Mgr Gaillot, Emmanuelle Béart, Richard Bohringer, etc. La musique et les chants viennent donner un air de fête, certains dansent, les enfants courent dans la foule.
Mais vers 22h, parfois un peu plus tôt ou un peu plus tard selon l'affluence, le calme revient. Les familles s'installent pour une nouvelle nuit, avec toujours cette incertitude: combien de temps encore ?
Merci de lire les explications en début d'album / Please read the explanations at the beginning of the set
"Koi Fish"
Color Corrected (it still has a slight yellow tint due to my fluorescent lights in my room.
Colors Used: Team Orange, Stadium Green, Silver, Black and White.
The next Shoe from my "Koi Fish Pack". You can check more images and a write up here. It will also have a comparison between both Team Orange hues.
Ordered on 04.04.2010
Camera - Panasonic DMC ZS3
Setting - Placed on top of a Ikea dresser with a smoke glass top.
Photoshop - Used for Levels, Exposure, Brightness & Contrast, Selective Color, Gradient and Masking.
Lighting Good old ceiling light
BTW, I color correct some of my images on a calibrated monitor. If the orange looks red or the green looks teal, then fix your screen. I view my images on mulitple monitors and they all look the same. Even on the cheap monitor at work. Just wanted to let you all know.
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Studio pics from readers of MATRIXSYNTH via the MATRIXSYNTH Lounge.
Facebook gallery where you can find follow-up comments for each here. Also keep an eye out for new studio pics there.
Featured in order:
1 & 2. Erwan Coïc
This is my studio !
3. Lorenzo D Metallan
This is my setup for a live recording few weeks ago
4. Stu Smith
Seeing as we're doing studio selfies here's my little corner of the world.
5. Phil Croker
And here's my little setup at Pooh Corner (so named 'cos of the wallpaper..) Please be kind, I know it's nowhere near as good as some of your rigs
6. Francesco Synth Meeting Mulassano
Homework!
7. Jason Duerr
Location: Chicago
Results: belmontandclark.bandcamp.com/
8. Nick Morey
Most of my collection Betamaxx
9 & 10. Erik Chalmers
my place
11. Eric Vetterick
blurry ipad shot of my crap...
12. Steve Drakeem
13. Adam Gahan
Okay so i may as well join in. I don't have a huge setup but i try and make the most of what I've got. After all I'm only 19, I will most definitely acquire more gear as time progresses.
14. Gabriel Morley
15. Charles Mickaelstein
Same thing as Adam Gahan, I don't have a huge analog setup but I'm glad to have what I have
(plus some small synths, like monotrons, Casio VL-Tone, etc).
I do that kind of things with those :
soundcloud.com/warngmusic/extreme-transudation
16. Marco Vedder
My setup — at Club Tabu.
17. Marco Vedder
My setup
night lights
18 & 19. Jeremy Olson
20. Hani Debbache
21. Mark Milanovich
Jumping on the bandwagon. Couldn't fit all this in one shot.
It's a hell of a mess right now. More pics as I organize it more.
22. Matthew Willox
I'm a complete minimalist.
23. Ricardo Schnidrig
Acid House from Argentina !
24. Brandon McWhorter
Sure, why not? Here's 1/2 of my "mess" — with Roland TB-303 with Kenton CV Mod, Kawai R-100, Tom Oberheim SEM Pro, Roland TR-909 Rhythm Composer, Roland RS-505, Roland SBX-10, Roland TR-808 with Kenton MIDI, Roland Jupiter 6 with Europa, Genoqs Octopus, Roland JP-8 Jupiter 8, John Bowen Solaris, Oberheim M-12 Matrix 12, Garfield Electronics MiniDoc, Oberheim OB-X 8 Voice, Oberheim OB-Xa 8 Voice, Roland JP-4 Jupiter 4, Roland PG-800, Oberheim OB-8 with MIDI, Roland Juno 106 with Kiwi106 and Roland SH-101 (Red).
25. Martin Ley
There you go ‘Synth sluts’ Me at the controls back in 1985
26. Huskypop Huskypopo
27. Michal Patulski
Wow, some of your collections are sick! This is my current setup and nothing is there in comparison ha ha.
28 & 29. Hideously Disfigured Hipsters
30. Thomas Götze
Wanna play a game?
31. Dmitri Sfc
32. Shawn Shirey
This is ground control to Major Tom...
33. Nicolas Guichard
How to choose?
34. Colin Johnson
Since everyone's doing one of these right now.. here my spot. just moved in last month.. so you'll have to tolerate the mess and.. also one picture came off instagram. oh well.
35. Fede Manfredi
This is my little studio, at last, in order!
36. Michael Dennis Raleigh
I guess if everyone's putting up their studios... Here's me and mine
37. Bjørn Viggo Andersen
And here is ours
38. Nicky Bendix
My little workspace - thank you for all your inspiring photos!
39. Gavin McCloy
My modest setup
40. Mike Bradberry
Joining the bandwagon.
41. David J Warman
42 & 43. Trevor Gavilan
44. Joshua Andrew Coburn
45. Max Sokoleski
My tiny dungeon studio
46 & 47. TB Aothree
48. Walter Coter
Many Thanks for all members
49. Mark Ireland
My minimal (but very usable) studio setup.
50. Walter Coter
51. Adrian Earnshaw
As everyone is sharing pictures of their studios, here's my humble setup.
52. Discretman Jeff
Ok, this is my my gaming room !
53. David J Warman
54. Yuuki Koide
my studio
55. Olivier Lebra
my "living studio"
56 & 57. Matthew Thomas 1:48pm Mar 23
When in Rome. Geoscience Studio, kind of set up in an awkwardly shaped room, hence two pictures.
58. Jon Adams
This is my studio while I'm confined to bed - missing my hardware - microbrutes +modular the most
Its incredible how FAST the butterflies are.. Shot at 1/750s and still the motion blur...this is not camera shake (evident with the bottom left flower sharpness!)
WOW.. getting motion blur at such speed just shows how the butterflies take off and why its so hard to photograph them IN-FLIGHT!
I tried to catch the butterflies in flight literally dozens of times during this vacation... but this is the only one i have with me to showcase!
para los que estéis en el foro: www.pullipspain.com/showthread.php?924-Sorteo-pullip-jinx-!!!
Para los que no:
La muñeca incluye outfit por ninia´s shop "VISTEME", Armas, maquillaje por Lydioteision , carving, zapatos, peluca de calidad peinada y obitsu con sus tatuajes.
¡¡En este sorteo habrá varias normas y pasos que se han de tener muy en cuenta. Por favor, LEEDLAS QUE NO CUESTA NADA.!!
-habrá 100 papeletas de 00 a 99.
-cada papeleta tiene un coste de 2 euros.
-el ganador lo dirán las últimas dos cifras del sorteo de la ONCE (el día lo pondré una vez efectuados los pagos TODOS ELLOS)
-primero se harán las reservas de los números que se quieran, comentándolo en esta publicación. Y cuando no haya papeletas SE EFECTUARÁN LOS PAGOS SOLO POR PAYPAL.
-NO HAY LIMITE DE PAPELETAS POR PERSONA!
-se tendrá en cuenta los números comentados antes. Es decir, si alguien comenta “numero 13” y el mismo número lo cogió alguien antes que esa persona, el numero será del que comentó primero.
-la persona que haya reservado un numero que ya se ha dicho podrá elegir otro comentando nuevamente un número no ocupado o bien dejarme la elección aleatoria de este (hay que avisarlo comentando “mi numero ya fue escogido, ponme uno aleatoriamente”.
-si no se sabe los números que se quiere, comenten “aleatorio X cantidad”
-una vez hechas todas las reservas se realizarán los pagos. SE PAGA POR PAYPAL. y el plazo para pagar será de 7 días (desde que se empiecen a aceptar)
-si los pagos terminasen antes del 7º día comentaría avisando del día que se realizará el sorteo de la ONCE.
-una vez reservados o pagados los números no está permitido retirarse.
-ATENCION: SI RESERVAS UN NÚMERO NO SE PUEDE CAMBIAR! (exceptuando aquellos que ya se hayan cogido u equivocaciones)
-El paypal para pagar se dará cuando todas las papeletas hayan sido reservadas.
GRACIAS POR PARTICIPAR EN EL SEGUNDO SORTEO DE GRIMM SISTERS DESIGNS!!!
(las papeletas serán apuntadas en el foro, os apuntaré ahí con vuestro nick de flickr)