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22nd September 2019 - Mexican acoustic rock guitar duo 'Rodrigo Y Gabriela' were back in Liverpool's O2 Academy to promote their new album 'Mettavolution'. Of course I was there to record the events for posterity..
I've since processed maybe 30 images, but this is the one that draws me back..
Opinions please?
Braces his self!!
Care is taken again for posterity. Such a big bird, so clumsy in the movements, but so tender towards each other .... beautiful isn't it !!
Also this year I picked up the plan to follow the stork's nest at restaurant "'t Stokske" in Moergestel ( The Netherlands ). My first visit was on March 4, 2022. This picture is taken on the 16th of March ! Visit the album : 2022 Ooievaarsnest 't Stokske Moergestel ( Gemeente Oisterwijk ) Noord-Brabant for this lovely couple !
Went for an early morning walk in the Forest and came across Rylee who was lost. Luckily she had a number on her tag so I was able to call her owner. I put her in the back on my car whilst we waited for her owner to turn up. I thought I would grab a shot of her for posterity - Rylee had other ideas
For the Smile on Saturday group - nothing in focus
La commune de Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue abrite un patrimoine exceptionnel représenté par ses deux tours Vauban, à la Hougue et sur Tatihou, inscrites à l’Unesco en 2008 dans le cadre du Réseau des Sites majeurs de Vauban, avec 11 autres sites français, représentant chacun une facette de l’œuvre du célèbre poliorcète. Conjuguant l’observation et le tir à la mer, les tours de Saint-Vaast constituent l’archétype des tours tronconiques de défense côtière, à batteries hautes.
La frontière de mer du Cotentin prend toute son importance sous le règne de Louis XIV, avec la volonté de Vauban de mettre ce littoral en sécurité, car les coups de main ennemis contre notre côte s’intensifient au cours de la guerre de la Ligue d’Augsbourg (1688-1697) qui oppose la France à la majeure partie de l’Europe. Ainsi, en 1692, après une bataille de ligne tout à son honneur au large de Barfleur, le vice-amiral Tourville perd, les 2 et 3 juin, pratiquement sans coup férir, douze de ses vaisseaux incendiés par les brûlots anglais et hollandais, alors qu’ils étaient venus se réfugier sous l’île Tatihou et à la pointe de la Hougue, insuffisamment protégées.
Cet épisode, passé à la postérité sous l’appellation « Bataille de la Hougue », décide le roi à accorder à Vauban les subsides nécessaires pour renforcer la défense de Saint-Vaast. Le principe est arrêté dès 1693, et c’est à Benjamin Decombes que Vauban confie la tâche de faire bâtir deux tours dans le but de protéger la baie en rendant impossible tout débarquement grâce, notamment, au tir croisé des batteries.
Distantes l’une de l’autre, de 2,750 kms à vol d’oiseau, les tours s’élèvent à 20 mètres au-dessus de leurs fondations, mais elles se distinguent par leur silhouette : plus massive pour Tatihou qui a les pieds dans l’eau à marée haute et comporte 10 embrasures sur sa plate-forme de tir, plus élégante pour la Hougue qui s’élève sur son promontoire de granit si bien que la terrasse de tir à 6 embrasures culmine à 40 mètres au-dessus du niveau de la mer.
La construction des deux tours est achevée en 1699, lorsque Vauban effectue sa dernière visite en Cotentin. Elles s’intègrent alors totalement dans le système défensif côtier du Ponant. L’épreuve du feu a lieu en août 1708, lors d’une tentative de descente anglaise sous la Hougue, déjouée grâce au fameux tri croisé. Cet épisode prouve l’intérêt de la construction des deux tours, car les Anglais ne tenteront plus aucune descente sur le rivage saint-vaastais.
The commune of Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue is home to an exceptional heritage represented by its two Vauban towers, at La Hougue and on Tatihou, listed by UNESCO in 2008 as part of the Network of Major Vauban Sites, with 11 other sites French, each representing a facet of the work of the famous poliorcete. Combining observation and sea shooting, the towers of Saint-Vaast constitute the archetype of truncated conical coastal defense towers, with high batteries.
The Cotentin sea border took on its full importance under the reign of Louis Augsburg (1688-1697) which pitted France against most of Europe. Thus, in 1692, after a line battle to his credit off the coast of Barfleur, Vice-Admiral Tourville lost, on June 2 and 3, practically without firing a shot, twelve of his vessels set on fire by English and Dutch fireships, then that they had come to take refuge under Tatihou Island and at the Pointe de la Hougue, which were insufficiently protected.
This episode, passed down to posterity under the name "Battle of La Hougue", decided the king to grant Vauban the necessary subsidies to strengthen the defense of Saint-Vaast. The principle was decided in 1693, and it was to Benjamin Decombes that Vauban entrusted the task of building two towers with the aim of protecting the bay by making any landing impossible thanks, in particular, to the crossfire of the batteries.
Distant from each other, 2,750 km as the crow flies, the towers rise 20 meters above their foundations, but they are distinguished by their silhouette: more massive for Tatihou who has his feet in water at high tide and has 10 embrasures on its shooting platform, more elegant for La Hougue which rises on its granite promontory so that the shooting terrace with 6 embrasures culminates 40 meters above the sea level.
The construction of the two towers was completed in 1699, when Vauban made his last visit to Cotentin. They are then fully integrated into the coastal defensive system of Ponant. The trial by fire took place in August 1708, during an attempted English descent under La Hougue, foiled thanks to the famous cross sorting. This episode proves the interest in the construction of the two towers, because the English will no longer attempt any descent on the Saint-Vaast shore.
I'll let Australia poet Gwen Harwood speak for herself from what was possibly the most brilliant lecture to the Tasmanian Historical Research Association, ever!
“Wittgenstein, austere and lonely,
said, ‘What is history to me?’
adding ‘Mine is the first and only
world.’ Did he think that history
sat waiting by his wicker basket
for little Ludwig to unmask it?
‘Out, history, out! Vacate my place!
I’m everything that is the case.
Remember to be silent when a
philosopher has words to say.’
But history never goes away.
It lurked in Cambridge or Vienna
observing ‘You belong to me.’
So do we all: posterity
is what we were to be. The tenses
of English let us make some strange
assertions: all that greets the senses
we sort and sift and rearrange.
Things have been past, and will be future.
The present moment like a suture
holds time together. What’s to come
will be the past. The Fall of Rome
was in the future for long ages.
Sometimes the time seems out of joint,
but we can find a starting point
in any good historian’s pages,
and grasp, before our light is spent,
our place in the environment.”
- From Gwen Harwood, “On History” (1991): a lecture in verse.
Former WMPTE/WMT prototype MCW Metrobus 6831, pictured minus its axles, windows and mechanical units in PVS's scrap yard, Barnsley in May 1993. This is the one Metro Cammell Weymann ‘Metrobus’ that really should have been saved for posterity. Built in 1977, 6831 (SDA 831S) was WMPTE's very first MCW Metrobus, and was also the very first Metrobus to be used in operational service with WMPTE.
Initially based at WMPTE’s Washwood Heath Bus Garage (which was sited opposite the Metro Cammell Weymann factory), 6831 was not only a WMPTE service bus, but also acted as a ‘test bed’ vehicle. When it was new, MCW and WMPTE engineers carefully monitored 6831’s in-service performance, constantly making adjustments and modifications in preparation for future production examples of the type.
Some years later, 6831 was transferred to WMPTE’s Dudley Garage in the Black Country, where it joined other examples of pre-production Metrobuses (6832-6835). Passing to West Midlands Travel ownership in 1986, 6831 was eventually withdrawn from passenger service in the early 1990’s. Presumably it was not considered worthy of saving by West Midlands Travel at that time, and was instead unceremoniously stripped of valuable parts before being disposed of.
This isn't my shot, and honestly, at this point, I can't even remember who sent this to me. However, from January 2013, BNSF's unique "Warvomit" SD70MAC no. 9647 was inside of the road's Topeka, KS shops to receive a rebuilt prime mover. Anyway, while not the greatest photo of it, what a great memory to have recorded for posterity!
- Jeff Carlson collection
It has been a few hectic months of travel, first to the Czech Republic, then Hungary, Romania, India, Sri Lanka, Southern California, and most recently, Cambodia and Vietnam!
I'm still processing my photos. Will start uploading to Flickr, and also, try to catch up with my Flickr friends.
I plan to upload a lot of photos, so please don't feel compelled to comment on all of them; just enjoy some virtual tours, as I saw them!
Angkor Wat is the iconic temple in Cambodia, built in early 12th Century by king Suryavarman II. It is a massive temple complex built in a square shape, spanning over 400 acres (over 1.6 million sq. m). The temple is surrounded by a massive moat that separates it from the land at Siem Reap.
The temple was dedicated to Vishnu, one of the Hindu trinity of gods, although it contains numerous sanctums for other Hindu gods. This was at a time when Hinduism had spread to all of South East Asia, and had become the primary religion in this part of the world.
Along with Angkor Wat, there are dozens of other temples that were constructed in that time and in later years. Besides the unique khmer architecture, the walls of these temples have countless intricate carvings that depict stories from the major Hindu mythologies. Interestingly, these carvings also reflect a strong Chinese artistic influence.
In later centuries, when Buddhism took over the country (also imported from India), these temples went through many subtle changes that gave them Buddhist touches, including the addition of many Buddha statues and re-carving many of the old Hindu gods into Buddhas.
Today, with 97% of Cambodia Buddhists, these temples are serious places of worship, although most people visiting these temples are tourists. After languishing for many centuries and being reduced to the status of ruins, over the past 15-20 years, a lot of money and expert help has come from other countries to help restore these temples. Some 20-25% of these temples have been permanently damaged, but what remains is still quite extensive and fortunately, surviving for posterity.
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Dandelion lit with a 430exII @1/8 in small softbox overhead triggered by cable w/white paper reflector below.
50mm El-Nikkor enlarger lens @f8 on FD bellows. 12 images stacked.
Memories of the fine art of Vac bashing
Between 1983 and 1991 I spent many happy hours with my friends riding the rails behind the mighty 'Hoovers' or Class 50s on the Paddington-Oxford and Waterloo-Exeter routes, with many a ride and a drink or two in Oxford, regular forays down to Exeter, and on occasion into deepest Cornwall.
My interest in the railways waned permanently around 1990-91 with the demise of the Class 50s, initially from the Paddington-Oxford route in 1990, and finally when they retired from the Waterloo-Exeter services in 1992.
As well as enjoying the thrash, I managed to record many of the trips and railway scenes encountered on film for posterity. Those days are now long gone, but happily the photos remain for me to reminisce over and share ;)
Thank you for travelling!
50031 'Hood' is seen here about to leave Waterloo light engine after arriving with 1O35 from Exeter to Waterloo. By early 1991, 'Hood' had only a few months left in service, and was looking much the worse for wear, after spending a period in 1990 relegated to DCWA departmental service. The locomotive was covered in oil and grime.
A day in the life...
According to my trusty log books, I managed to get a couple of rides behind my adopted vac 50031 that icy day:
1O35 from Woking to Waterloo
1V16 from Waterloo to Salisbury
The Big Freeze - London, February 1991
At the beginning of February 1991, a bitterly cold spell of weather brought heavy snow to eastern and central England. Temperatures remained below zero in these areas continuously between the 6th and 9th of February and maximum temperatures were between -3 and -5C. During the night of the 7th the snow became heavy and persistent in London, bringing 20 cm in central London and 25cm in boroughs such as Croydon and Bromley, the deepest snow since the winter of 1962-1963.
This brought the rail network into chaos, Heathrow was forced to cancel flights and Gatwick and Birmingham airports were closed. On the 8th of February, the snow was lighter and started to ease. However, the cold spell and the snow lasted for several days. More information here:
www.weathercast.co.uk/nc/weather-news/news/article/heavy_...
and here: www.netweather.tv/forum/topic/34026-winter-1990-91-the-gr...
Locomotive History
D431 entered service 06-Jul-68
Renumbered 50031 in 1974
Named 'Hood' 28-Jun-78
Withdrawn 05-Aug-91
The 'Mighty Hood' happily made it into preservation, and is now located on the Severn Valley Railway. More information here: www.svrwiki.com/BR_Class_50_50031_Hood
and here: www.fiftyfund.org.uk/index.php/our-locomotives/50031-hood
Taken with a Nikon F-501 SLR camera and 75-200mm zoom lens.
You can see a random selection of my railway photos here on Flickriver: www.flickriver.com/photos/themightyhood/random/
Castle Valley, Utah, between the foot of the Wasatch Plateau to the west and the edge of the San Rafael Swell was the last "call" of Brigham Young on August 22, 1877 for Mormons to colonize "a place nobody else wanted".
Young Mormons did come and colonized the valley, but not without comment.
Hanna Olsson Seely's comment is recorded for posterity, "Damn the man who would bring a woman to such a God Forsaken country."
[Explored June 19, 2015 #100]
2402 (R152GNW) arrives at Speke having just formed an 80 trip from Liverpool city centre. This DAF SB220/Plaxton Prestige is most certainly on borrowed time at Speke, and its future hangs in the balance. Picture taken on 10/10/11.
Whether it will be scrapped or sold on remains to be seen, but either way this photo is here for posterity. The 6 Speke Prestiges have generally been used on the 79 with relatively infrequent appearances on the 80 and 81 as well.
Went for a little drive around CB this morning after hearing a bunch of UP dadh-9s deadheaded there en route to Albia. After finding them [albeit in a backlit spot] I made the rounds and noticed a UP engine apparently parked in the BN house track next to the City shop. I hiked in to grab a photo for posterity but as I was walking away, I noticed a crew van drop off some dudes, so I hung around to catch them bringing the power back home. Thankfully, they had the headlights on the correct end for me.
One of my house set-ups that I never posted from about a year ago or so. Retaining for posterity
Edit: Found it! Scarlet Creative - Oceania House :D
Please let me know which of these two you prefer.
It always saddens me to see an old dilapidated farm house like this. Someone's dreams of country living played out here and somewhere along the line their posterities ideas of what was important must have changed. Perhaps the state of disrepair and neglect was slow but sadly it sits here behind a no trespassing sign and a fence. It seemed to have a lot going for it with plenty of water from a running spring, fruit trees and great views of the Great Basin and surrounding mountains. If the former inhabitats can look down and view this place in its current state then I imagine they would be saddened by the sight.
At Cae Dai '50's museum. A Dennis pump, which worked at Denbigh and Mongomery, later on site at the Pirelli works, Wrexham.
Saved for posterity at the museum...and to the joy of many people ( men ! ) of a certain age.
22nd September 2019 - Mexican acoustic rock guitar duo 'Rodrigo Y Gabriela' were back in Liverpool's O2 Academy to promote their new album 'Mettavolution'. Of course I was there to record the events for posterity..
Noticed a technical error in my last uploads, so just putting this here for completeness and posterity. In theory, this should be a slightly more accurate representation of the rocks (particularly on Yewbarrow), but the differences are extremely subtle.
National Donut Day
Salvation Army celebration of 130 years in Santa Monica
Santa Monica, California
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ8dig33Iw4
Psalm 22:30
Posterity will serve him; future generations will be told about the Lord.
While out this morning I managed to trip over these roots - I therefore decided their needed to be recorded for posterity!
It has been a few hectic months of travel, first to the Czech Republic, then Hungary, Romania, India, Sri Lanka, Southern California, and most recently, Cambodia and Vietnam!
I'm still processing my photos. Will start uploading to Flickr, and also, try to catch up with my Flickr friends.
I plan to upload a lot of photos, so please don't feel compelled to comment on all of them; just enjoy some virtual tours, as I saw them!
Above: same image as below, about 8 minutes later.
Angkor Wat is the iconic temple in Cambodia, built in early 12th Century by king Suryavarman II. It is a massive temple complex built in a square shape, spanning over 400 acres (over 1.6 million sq. m). The temple is surrounded by a massive moat that separates it from the land at Siem Reap.
The temple was dedicated to Vishnu, one of the Hindu trinity of gods, although it contains numerous sanctums for other Hindu gods. This was at a time when Hinduism had spread to all of South East Asia, and had become the primary religion in this part of the world.
Along with Angkor Wat, there are dozens of other temples that were constructed in that time and in later years. Besides the unique khmer architecture, the walls of these temples have countless intricate carvings that depict stories from the major Hindu mythologies. Interestingly, these carvings also reflect a strong Chinese artistic influence.
In later centuries, when Buddhism took over the country (also imported from India), these temples went through many subtle changes that gave them Buddhist touches, including the addition of many Buddha statues and re-carving many of the old Hindu gods into Buddhas.
Today, with 97% of Cambodia Buddhists, these temples are serious places of worship, although most people visiting these temples are tourists. After languishing for many centuries and being reduced to the status of ruins, over the past 15-20 years, a lot of money and expert help has come from other countries to help restore these temples. Some 20-25% of these temples have been permanently damaged, but what remains is still quite extensive and fortunately, surviving for posterity.
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Dear Papa,
I'm still enjoying myself in Edinburgh as the great Festival of Arts gets under way and knowing that you will by now have almost finished examining the slates on the roof back home. You'd love all the street dancing and there's plenty of girls in short skirts too!
This is the former Bank of Scotland Headquarters, now headquarters of the merged HBOS. The impressive Roman Baroque architecture stands on Edinburgh's Mound looking down over East Princes Street Gardens. The site was bought in 1800 and the HQ building was initiated while Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville (1742 - 1811), was already Governor of the Bank.
Note the fine dome with tempietto lantern - that's the bit on the top that looks like a little Greek temple! There's also a gold figure on top holding two rings - a symbol of the bank's posterity perhaps? Or may be he just wants to play hoopla!
Wish you were here,
your loving son,
Stu. :o)
Memories of the fine art of Vac bashing
Between 1983 and 1991 I spent many, many happy hours with my friends riding the rails behind the mighty 'Hoovers' or Class 50s. As well as enjoying the thrash, I managed to record many of the trips and railway scenes encountered on film for posterity. Those days are now long gone, but happily the photos remain for me to reminisce over and share ;)
Here is one of a set of photos I took on one of my last visits to Old Oak Common in 1990 - with Class 50 50032 'Courageous' in reflective mood after a 22 career on British Rail. One of the ex-ScotRail 'Duffs' that replaced the 'Vacs' on the Oxfords can be seen lurking in the background.
50032 always stood out from the crowd in NSE livery because of the unique blue nameplate. The loco was a particular favourite of mine, and I was disappointed that she escaped preservation.
Locomotive History
D432 entered service 13-Jul-68
Renumbered 50032 in 1974
Named 'Courageous' 17-Jul-78
Withdrawn 15-Oct-90
After surviving in service until October 1990, the locomotive was stripped of useful parts at Old Oak Common and then cut up on site by Coopers Metals, along with my least favourite machine 50034 'Furious'. 50032 never carried the later version of NSE livery.
Taken with a Nikon F-501 SLR camera and 75-200mm zoom lens.
You can see a random selection of my railway photos here on Flickriver: www.flickriver.com/photos/themightyhood/random/
That first night in Kamloops with my cousins, found me restless at about 2:30am. So up I got to have a look outside. A low flying cloud hovered over the valley below so I intern went for my tripod.
The highway on the opposite side of the Thompson river was lit up like a house at Christmas. The many lights from the city reflected odd colors in the clouds. I set up, snapped a few for posterity and then back to bed for a more restful period.
I returned to this farmhouse to discover that it had been vandalized and items stolen. An inside picture shot blindly from outside the front door is immediately to the right.
My first shot of the inside taken through a closed window 2+ years ago is re-posted two positions to the right. I feel different degrees of emotion in seeing these old farmhouses. The 2020 picture of what the farmers left for posterity was particularly moving, I thiought.
So after shooting CSXT's Grand Rapids freight passing overhead we figured we'd hang out to at least get one nice sunny shot since we knew inbound South Shore train 504 would be sneaking up behind us in 15 min so decided to wait them out.
Sure enough right on time as they glided past so did another cloud and once again I got another partially lit scene. But for posterity I wanted to share it since it really is a pretty nice spot.
This is MP 31.5 on the South Shore maine and about MP CG 122.8 on CSXT's Grand Rapids Sub (ex Pere Marquette) passing overhead.
Michigan City, Indiana
Sunday August 16, 2020
this striated dove was able to enter our house through an open window yesterday . after a few attempts i was able to catch it. took some posterity photos before releasing it
Dating to the mid-1400's, and considered a master-piece of the early French Renaissance, the original of this painting was bought from the church for the Louvre in 1904 for 100,000 francs. During the restoration that was carried out before it went on display, this replica was created to replace it back at Notre-Dame.
The figures surrounding Christ represent St. John the Evangelist, the Virgin Mary, and Mary Magdalen (with their names written into their halos). The figure on the left, without a halo, is in fact a portrait of the donor; unfortunately, he's not identified anywhere else either, and his name has been lost to posterity...
Gray Catbirds are relatives of mockingbirds and thrashers, and they share that group’s vocal abilities, copying the sounds of other species and stringing them together to make their own song.
Not a life bird or even a life yard bird, just not very often do I get to see them here. I love their apple butter butts!
As the title indicates, not the best shot but so I don't forget I got to see one this year (haven't been anywhere as my health is awful). Blessed with birds and butterflies in my yard! Thank You, Jesus.
(Starring Pinky & Arjan)
Back in ye ol heady Internet days o' 1996 me and some mates tried to get an Internet cafe running.
We had this b/w quickcam webcam and had some fun imitating the corny photostory/strips starring a couple of stuffed animals, and us. Later even went color, whoa.
I took the original images and put them together in one JPG for posterity.
We thought it was extra fun to call the 'comics' "Pinky, the pink monkey". And we did have a good laugh when one laywer type threatened us and pulled a C&D because his client had just that character in... well whatever, i forgot if it was a piece of software or something dead tree-ish.
Enjoy
Kärnan (the tower on the top) is a medieval tower in Helsingborg city. It is the only part remaining of a larger Danish fortress which, along with the fortress Kronborg on the opposite bank of the Øresund, controlled the entranceway between the Kattegat and the Øresund and further south the Baltic Sea.
Dendrochronological dating has shown that the tower was built in the 1310s. It was surrendered to Sweden along with the rest of Skåneland as part of the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658. King Charles XI of Sweden ordered most of the fortress demolished fearing that it was too exposed to a sneak attack from Denmark. The only thing that was saved for posterity was the old medieval tower core.
The tower became slowly a ruin and was restored during 1893–94. The stairs and the terraces up to the tower were built in 1903.
A poor photo but included for posterity, 4030 (S270JUA) leaves its stand at Liverpool ONE working a 79 service. This is one of 6 original liveried DAF DB250s with Alexander ALX400 bodies left at Speke, 4025 having been transferred out. Photo taken on 21/11/11.
Die Freiheitsstatue in Colmar im Elsass
Die Freiheitsstatue ist das Symbol der Unanbhängigkeit und der Freundschaft zwischen Frankreich und den USA. Der Bildhauer der Freiheitsstaue Frédéric Auguste Batholdi ist in Colmar geboren und lebte in Paris, als er den Auftrag zur Erstellung der Statue erhalten hatte. Die Idee zur Statue auf einer Insel vor New York kam von dem Politiker Édouard René Lefebvre.
Die Gesichtszüge der Lady Liberty soll Batholdi denen seiner Mutter nachempfunden haben.
Die gesamte Original-Statue wiegt unglaubliche 224 Tonnen. In 200 Kisten transportierte man die in Einzelteile zerlegte Dame auf dem Schiff Isère über den großen Teich. Es war der Sommer 1886 als die Teile der Statue in Übersee auf Liberty Island zusammengesteckt und eingeweiht wurden.
Um die Statue zu sehen, ist es nicht zwingend notwendig nach New York zu reisen. Die verkleinerte Form vom selben Bildhauer steht auf dem Kreisverkehr vor dem Ortseingang von Colmar-Houssen, der Geburtsstadt des Bildhauers. Die Miniatur der Freiheitsstatue ist aus Harz und etwa 12 Meter groß.
Dem Bildhauer Bartholdi wurde in Colmar auch ein Museum gewidmet.
The Statue of Liberty in Colmar, Alsace The Statue of Liberty is the symbol of independence and friendship between France and the United States. The sculptor of the Statue of Liberty, Frédéric Auguste Batholdi, was born in Colmar and was living in Paris when he was commissioned to create the statue. The idea for the statue on an island off New York came from the politician Édouard René Lefebvre. Batholdi is said to have modeled Lady Liberty's facial features on those of his mother. The entire original statue weighs an incredible 224 tons. Disassembled into its individual pieces, the lady was transported across the Atlantic in 200 crates on the ship Isère. It was the summer of 1886 when the pieces of the statue were assembled and dedicated overseas on Liberty Island. It is not necessary to travel to New York to see the statue. A smaller version by the same sculptor stands on the roundabout at the entrance to Colmar-Houssen, the sculptor's birthplace. The miniature of the Statue of Liberty is made of resin and stands approximately 12 meters tall. A museum dedicated to the sculptor Bartholdi also exists in Colmar.
36 year old wine cork.
It’s not often we drink a dessert wine, mainly because we don’t have many sweet desserts and you really need enough people to make opening a bottle worthwhile. This was was the remains of a rare and pleasant exception.
My dafter (as in laughter) was home for Christmas, and we had our final dinner with her this holiday on New Years Day evening. Sweet pudding it was so I thought it would be a great time to use up an old half bottle of dessert wine mouldering in the wine cellar (which is our rather grandiose term for a bottle rack in a bedroom cupboard).
This bottle turned out to be rather older than I realised: at 36 years ancient it was 50% older than the youngest member of the family and had been lying around for far too long. I opened it with some trepidation but amazingly it was still in relatively good form: a testament to the preserving power of sugar and alcohol.
The wine was a Trockenbeerenauslese which is the sweetest class (or glass) of the Prädikatswein gradation of German wine. It’s made from hand-picked raisin-like grapes affected by the “noble rot”. It looked and tasted like a rich sweet sherry, probably well past its best but still delicious with chocolate cheesecake.
A good time was had by all (at least as far as I can remember anyway :) ) and I thought the ancient cork could do with being preserved in an image for posterity.
For the 7DWF Wednesday theme macro/close-up.
Thank you for taking time to look. I hope you enjoy the image as much as we did the wine :)
[Natural daylight overhead; white paper background on glazed black tile. Tripod; delayed shutter.
Five raw images focus merged in Affinity Photo.
Tweaked light with Levels (dropped white point); Clarity; White Balance (warmer); increased Brightness, dropped Contrast; Curves (in LAB mode added contrast curve in luminosity channel and made the colour channel ramps steeper without affecting midpoints to boost colour naturally).
Sharpened using High Pass filter and Linear Light blend mode which gave better results than Unsharp Mask.
Finally, a fairly strong dark vignette.]
Colorful Sorrell-Larkin Special SR-200 at Laguna Seca Raceway,
being lovingly restored and raced by the currant owner.
This SR-200 body was based on an earlier Sorrell design, the SR-100, that debuted at the 1953 Petersen Motorama to rave reviews. The Sorrell-Larkin Special SR-200 never quite lived up to its competition goals, but the crisp lines of its sleek fiberglass body and patriotic colors are visually striking.
It actually started life as an imposing Lister-Chevrolet, which changed hands a few times before it suffered a spectacular crash at the Los Angeles Times Grand Prix at Riverside in 1960, flipping end over end and catching on fire.
After the race, Bob Sorrell, a talented artist who worked in aluminum and fiberglass, acquired the wreck and took it back to his shop, where he and Jim Larkin shared space. Sorrell figured he could turn the pile of scrap into a competitive car by making some enhancements to the frame, brakes and power. Plus adding a new fiberglass body that the two men had developed a couple years earlier.
Ironically, the revamped car crashed again at Riverside in 1962, near where the Lister had back in 1960. It caught fire, which spread to the magnesium wheels as well, and the blaze couldn’t be extinguished. Track workers had to use a skip loader to cover the inferno with dirt in order to extinguish the flames.
Photos show the Sorrell being recovered from its grave and sadly sitting on a car trailer
It took almost 10 years for the Larkin brothers to complete a fresh recreation, but due to their advancing age and declining health, they never went racing in the SR-200. So they sold it to Wes Abendroth, a vintage racer and restorer of sports car specials. With an eye toward posterity, he set to work putting it back to its original competition trim and livery.
The engine is a 355 ci Chevy (CR 10.5:1), delivering 360 horses, or slightly more than 1 hp per cubic inch, which was a lofty goal first reached back in 1956. Power runs through a close-ratio four-speed transmission and then to a narrowed Ford 9-inch rear end with a 3.89 ratio and four-link setup with a Panhard bar. At the front are coil springs with dual arms and special adjusters. Brakes are discs, both front and rear. Total weight is 2,200 pounds.
Even though it has a race car look, the Sorrell-Larkin is street legal and even has a cassette player in the dash. Otherwise, the trim is full-on race car, and what a patriotic race car at that.
3 years ago Nick was our driver from Four Oaks to Redditch and he was very pleased to have retro liveried 323221 on 2R47 on its first day out after receiving the Centro colours, seen here at Redditch with his conductor recording the event for posterity.
The MRL's local to Harrison builds it's train in the yard in Logan, MT before running around the cars and heading west to Sappington Jct and Harrison, June 14, 2022. My friends recorded the moment for posterity. Ilford HP5+ at 800 ISO, Nikon F.
Several of my Flickr friends who were also on this trip have already posted some fine shots of this bus at this photo-stop but thought I'd post mine for posterity! Stagecoach Devon's Plymouth based Enviro 200MMC, YX65RDU, is pictured near Princetown on Dartmoor on a trip whilst taking part in the annual Plymouth bus rally.
Company: Stagecoach Devon
Registration: YX65RDU
Fleet Number: 26038
New: 2016
Chassis: Alexander Dennis E20D
Bodywork: Alexander Dennis Enviro 200MMC B41F
Route: Plymouth, The George Park & Ride-Princetown
Location: B3212), Princetown
Exposure: 1/1000 @ f6.3 200ISO
Date: 17 July 2016
My Dad ran across some old photos he had found over 30 years in an old building. Here's one for posterity. A building sets where this street was. You can see the Magnolia Building behind the Adolphus.
22nd September 2019 - Mexican acoustic rock guitar duo 'Rodrigo Y Gabriela' were back in Liverpool's O2 Academy to promote their new album 'Mettavolution'. Of course I was there to record the events for posterity..
Colas Railfreight Class 56 No. 56105 powers away from North Stafford Junction on 12th June 2014 heading 6S96 1317 Sinfin - Grangemouth discharged tankers. The now redundant cooling towers at the long closed Willington Power Station provide a back drop, allegedly saved for posterity due to being colonised by some rare and protected creatures. Copyright Photograph john Whitehouse - all rights reserved
[156/365] "We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity." - Benjamin Disraeli
My officemate's neice. Very active and playful kid. ^^ Also part of my practice and trial in flash photography since I got my new Speedlight. Flash bouncing from a plain wall on the left.
With its history 600 years long since fortification , Himeji Castle is an important assent to be preserved for posterity.Lets look at the colorful drama that played on the stage of Himeji Castle .1333 Akamatsu Norimura [Ensin ] raises an army and constructs a fort Himeyama Hill.1346 Akamatsu Sadanori completes Himeyama Castle .1441 Yamana Mochitoyo becomes the governor of Harima province and enters Himeji .1467 The Oni War Akamatsu Masanori takes control of Himeji Castle , and builds the Main Bailey and Tsurumi Bailey .Later,the Kodera clan are assigned to the castle .1545 Kuroda Shiguetada is posted to Himeji Castle .1993 Registered as Japan first World Cutural Heritage Site .Himeji Castle was registered on the list of UNESCOS World Cultural Heritage Site .
On my typical daily walk, there is a stretch where I have tripped on the same branch for...oh...maybe the last 17 times I've passed the spot. Repeated reminders to pick up my feet and mutterings of how this wouldn't happen to a younger hiker were of no purpose as yesterday in moving past, I stumbled again. Looking back in something akin to a combination of disbelief and disgust, I cleverly determined that the solution to this awkward dilemma might lie in moving the branch off the path, which I proceeded to do in a quick and overly dramatic fashion. "That'll teach that damn branch!" thought I...and I swear I heard it snickering in the brush it now occupied, knowing full well that other branches would repeatedly appear to torment me.
In any event, while leaning down to pick it up for relocation, I spotted this fall gathering of items posed and seemingly patiently waiting to be photographed. This I did, the results shown. Perhaps the entire purpose of this episode was for me to spot this autumnal group and record it for posterity. A fine alternative explanation and justification, methinks, for what otherwise might be deemed simple clumsiness.
I saw a few shots this morning on the Facesbooksite dot com that revealed what TI Russ had mentioned to me a few years back came true: with the DOT roadway improvement project, the pole line would be removed. This comes after the CP killed the Rock Island era searchlights here last year. Everything turns to shit; so, I’ve learned not to gatekeep in-the-ROW shots for posterity if you’re not in any real danger and you’re not doing anything particularly nefarious…
"Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity." Renzo Piano.
Francesco Borromini and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, two names associated with the history of architecture, two geniuses of the Italian Baroque, two artists whose fierce rivalry will remain forever engraved in their magnificent works that adorn the city of Rome. Without doubt, Bernini will always be recognized as the great winner of the 18th century, against a Borromini who was defeated by his enemy on numerous occasions. The success of Bernini should not detract from the magnificent work of Borromini, who perhaps did not enjoy the same recognition and important assignments, but whose innovation has left for posterity architectural works as unique as the Chiesa di San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane.
This small church, like other works made by the artist, shows a truly special architectural vision, the fruit of his ideas of creative freedom and his search to create different works. Borromini's lonely and difficult character not only did not help him in his professional confrontation with his hated opponent, it also brought him to a truly tragic end when the artist ended up taking his own life by falling on his own sword.
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"Los arquitectos pasan una vida entera con esta irracional idea de que se puede luchar contra la gravedad." Renzo Piano.
Francesco Borromini y Gian Lorenzo Bernini, dos nombres asociados a la historia de la arquitectura, dos genios del Barroco italiano, dos artistas cuya feroz rivalidad quedará para siempre grabada en sus magníficas obras que adornan la ciudad de Roma. Sin duda, Bernini será siempre reconocido como el gran triunfador del siglo XVIII, frente a un Borromini que se vio derrotado por su enemigo en numerosas ocasiones. El éxito de Bernini no debería quitarle importancia al magnífico trabajo de Borromini, quien quizás no gozó del mismo reconocimiento y de encargos tan importantes, pero cuya innovación ha dejado para la posteridad obras arquitectónicas tan únicas como la Chiesa di San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane.
Esta pequeña iglesia, como otros trabajos del artista, muestra una visión arquitectónica realmente especial, fruto de sus ideas de libertad creativa y de su búsqueda por crear obras diferentes. El carácter solitario y difícil de Borromini no solo no le ayudó en su enfrentamiento profesional con su odiado oponente, sino que le llevó a un final realmente trágico cuando el artista acabó quitándose la vida dejándose caer sobre su propia espada.