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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.
Long gone now, but the (very) long lasting fleet of T4s were synonymous with the brand, and it was clear that they were on borrowed time by this stage, so I got one photo for posterity.
P111ELC is on retention.
Updating the image for posterity, as in the original long-shot I didn't have the new pickguard hand-cut (my first attempt) and installed yet- it really puts the icing on this beauty. The prior shot didn't really convey the painfully-exacting refinishing work on the body, either. This is still my primary stage/session bass (as it has been for damn near 17 years now), but now it can cover any tonal range you want it to - including the requisite Jazz tones - with grace and ease. Doesn't hurt that the neck has always nearly played itself, either. ;-)
(complete list 'o mods: Duncan Bass Lines 'Classic Stack' double-coil pickups, Bartolini preamp - volume + killswitch/pickup blend/concentric bass & treble EQ knob, Badass II bridge, Hipshot D-Tuner, full neck/fret rebuild and body refinish/repaint job w/pearloid pickguard.)
Where there was sun not even an hour ago there is now murk as the Proctor based R921 crew is uphill on Main 1 just above Gary on the former DMIR (the DW&P grade can be seen as a horizontal white line above and to the right of the trailing loco.)
The Spreader has been moved around a little bit in the past week plus as well as supposedly spreading the hill without a railfan caravan but it was well covered today with Mr Schauer getting it here in sunlight a couple hours and change before. For posterity power was a DMIR GE C40 set, 2013,2011 and 2001.
In the yard of that ruin around the corner.
Agfa Isolette III and Zeiss Novar-Anastigmat 1:4,5 f = 75mm (a case of combining two broken cameras into a good one), Bergger Pancro400 in Rodinal 1+50 for 21 min @ 20°C and digitalized using kit zoom and extension tubes.
Thank you everyone for your visits, faves and comments, they are always appreciated :)
While grabbing photos of the beautiful Sicilian town of Ragusa, a photographer is also captured for posterity.
Not my usual thing this and, (as usual!) quite a bit of experimentation was needed! Gemma was remarkably comfortable doing this, I think she is very proud of her bump and wanted it recorded for posterity.
I wasn't too sure about posting it up either, it is the most personal photo I've ever uploaded, (although if you dig deep enough into my photostream you will find shots of me in drag - for charity you understand!) but Gem encouraged me to, (and it fits into the latest Blind Pig Speakeasy group challenge) so what the hey!
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I really like the low key shots like this and I enjoyed the process very much. I have a mono version also, but the red from the scarf pops so much that this is the one I chose to upload...
Canon 600D, Canon 17055 f/2.8 @33mm
1/6sec, f/2.8, ISO100
One of the last of 'our' swans!
'We' used to have flocks of them gracing our Lagoon,
now only memories and photos of them.
So next time you see a swan, snap it for posterity...
G514 hauls 6 car New Regional Fleet (NRF) Set R2 from Dubbo to Sydney to undertake testing.
This was the first time a NRF has travelled on the network outside the Mindyarra Maintenance Centre in Dubbo.
Huntley, NSW.
Monday, 30 September 2024.
Macro Mondays - Theme: Sparkle ... I am endebted to Her Majesty for the opportunity to capture one of her finer pieces ... for posterity ..!
The ill-fated architect of this spiderweb met its maker a few days ago, somewhere inside the hollow belly of my mother´s vaccum cleaner. Even the tiniest living things leave a mark for posterity.
Our Daily Challenge 26 March -1 April : For Posterity
Well, I don't actually hold out much hope for that, I expect when I die the whole plot will be built over. Our council is not interested in wildlife or anything natural.
Chris bravely offered to gain a higher vantage point to get a better angle of the winery I was trying to photograph, and while she was up there, it would have been a waste not to do something silly and record it for posterity.
Poem.
Sea of liquid mercury.
Setting sun dipping down below a grey, alto-stratus sky.
The dappled gleam of rippled quicksilver is the stuff of Tolkien fantasies.
Volcanic island slabs, seemingly set on the edge of the ocean,
on the edge of time, for ever.
A view from Gribun Cliffs on the Isle of Mull
that is timeless.
Beautiful.
Captivating.
Preserving such moments for posterity
is the magic and power of a simple image.
Thought I'd use this morning's extra leap second to press the shutter release and preserve the moment for posterity with timeanddate.com rolling in the background.
It was nice to use the extra second in a creative way.
I'll spare you the 50 test shots taken prior to this one with a variety of lens options and different angles. What I've discovered is that the flat is generally quite cluttered and fairly challenging to shoot naturally and give me a satisfying image.
Also, I may need to invest in some off-camera flash options in order to get more creative with the lighting ...
October 12, 2012.
One year ten months ago I embarked on the 365 because I was bored, it was the holidays, I had a camera but didn't know how to use it, and I thought I might as well learn a new skill. I was clueless about Photoshop; didn't know what exposure, aperture, and shutter speed were; and enjoyed auto focus because, well, it was convenient.
One year and ten months later, photography's become a part-time job while I study (slave away :P) at university. It's motivated me to look at life from a different perspective and to capture all my memories so I can save them again for posterity's sake. Out of focus lights; blue skies; rain; scudding clouds; silhouettes; shadows; and especially the sun, from its rise to its set, are things that I have grown to love and hold dear. Wide apertures are my best friend.
Faceless portraits was a style I never deliberately tried to do in the beginning, but somehow just developed into something I always did. The motion of hair by the wind fascinated me. Looking at faceless photographs allowed me to imagine countless different stories behind each photograph, instead of being constricted to only looking at one person. Without a face, I felt that people would be able to identify with what I was trying to say without being held back by unconscious, possibly judgmental barriers.
The Flickr community has changed immensely from 2010, to 2012. Friends have left, new ones have joined, and some of my favourite contacts just don't upload anymore. I love Flickr and I promise that I'll continue uploading even if this turbulent project is over. I thought I would have a lot to say when this day came. Over the last 100 days of the project I constantly thought of a lot of things to write for my description, but somehow when the time itself is here I've forgotten all that I wanted to say. But thank you all for the unwavering support, encouragement, and love that you have shown through your comments, favourites, likes, and follows.
To view my complete 365 set, click here . I will be posting all the outtakes on my blog right here.
I have yet to cave and have one of those virtual assistant gizmos in my house, but last Labor Day we were having a picnic at one of my siblings and it was there... getting abuse from all of us... and my brother, Dave, was getting more amused after each response.
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I love getting moments like this for posterity. My camera is forever with me and my family ignores me as I click away, since I have been doing it for decades. It's wonderful. They are relaxed and I get to shoot images at my heart's content. So someday the nieces and nephews will understand that their special insanity is genetic!
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Smile on Saturday: Catch a smile
The "sound" captured in this photo matches what happened. The engineer on the "3 Hill" has just yanked the throttle open from RUN 1 to close to RUN 8 as these three RSD-15s left Eagle Mills, MIch., in typical "UP" weather: cloudy and light rain.
My brother was making recordings at the time and captured this sequence on tape, now digitized for posterity. The 3 Hill was creeping down to the east lead when all of a sudden the engineer opened them up, backed off for a second or two when the wheels started to slip, then put the throttle in the corner as the train headed across Highway M35.
Here is another from the tops of 2018 files I'm just now getting on Flickr. This way first time shooting a painted C40-8 back when there were only three and they were shiny and looked good! Here is the story I wrote at the time on FB, copied here for posterity:
After chasing the OCS down to Worcester I fully intended to follow the deadhead move back as it was towed in reverse by a pair of those ratty ex CSX C40-8s. But the sense of urgency was gone and once I found out that the original crew was having lunch and a dog catch was coming I figured I should consider other options.
Meanwhile, another old railroader/railfan friend has called to let me know that PAR's train POED was at Ayer working and would soon be headed west with a clean repainted Pan Am Dash 8 in the lead. Having never shot one of these moving, I figured why not head back from whence I'd just come and see if I could beat them!
Well, it was less than a 30 min drive, and I made it before they finished their work and got on the move west from Ayer.
It was a nice little chase with a good friend and mixed results. Take a look for yourself. And stay tuned here for yet a other surprise from this epic day.
This long telephoto is taken from Walker Road crossing at MP 37.5 on the Fitchburg Route mainline or MP 317.5 on Pan Am's freight main.
Shirley, Massachusetts
Thursday August 16, 2018
Explore #293 12/24/09
“Gentlemen, why in heaven’s name this haste? You have time enough. Ages and ages lie before you. Why sacrifice the present to the future, fancying that you will be happier when your fields teem with wealth and your cities with people? In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours, and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but your posterity will look back to yours as the golden age, and envy those who first burst into this silent, splendid nature, who first lifted up their axes upon these tall trees, and lined these waters with busy wharves. Why, then, seek to complete in a few decades what the other nations of the world took thousands of years over in the older continents? Why, in your hurry to subdue and utilize nature, squander her splendid gifts? Why hasten the advent of that threatening day when the vacant spaces of the continent shall all have been filled, and the poverty or discontent of the older States shall find no outlet? You have opportunities such as mankind has never had before, and may never have again. Your work is great and noble; it is done for a future longer and vaster than our conceptions can embrace. Why not make its outlines and beginnings worthy of these destinies, the thought of which gilds your hopes and elevates your purposes?”
James Bryce
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This is one of my favourite shots of the lot. I worked hard with Sammy to make her look natural, feigning a whole series of shutter clicks until she thought I'd lost interest, and then BAMB! one more image recorded for posterity. I'm sure her husband Chris has enjoyed this photo as much as I enjoyed taking it.
And the sad news keep on coming. This favourite abandoned house of mine, which sat in southwestern Manitoba near the U.S. border, doesn't exist anymore. There's nothing left of it. According to what I've been told, it looks like the cause of death might have been a huge storm with damaging winds.
I was only able to photograph it twice (it was always kinda out of the way). I'm glad I stole her soul for posterity.
In somewhat different conditions compared to the previous Flickr upload, and some three years earlier, on 26th August 2012, when mature birch trees bordered the London Road Goods Depot located out of view beyond; the virtually predictable dull conditions for a steam charter have already arrived and heavy rain is falling as Stanier 'Black 5' 44932 emerges from the gloom of London Road tunnel, approaching Petteril Bridge Junction at Durranhill, making a sure-footed departure from Carlisle at the head of the return 1Z73 'Waverley' charter to York. Despite the foul conditions, one brave soul is sampling the atmospheric conditions from a drop-light window, plus of course one equally enthusiastic photographer is taking this shot for posterity!
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Louis Braille (/breɪl/; French: [lwi bʁɑj]; 4 January 1809 – 6 January 1852) was a French educator and the inventor of a reading and writing system, named braille after him, intended for use by visually impaired people. His system is used worldwide and remains virtually unchanged to this day.
Braille was blinded at the age of three in one eye as a result of an accident with a stitching awl in his father's harness making shop. Consequently, an infection set in and spread to both eyes, resulting in total blindness. At that time there were not many resources in place for the blind, but he nevertheless excelled in his education and received a scholarship to France's Royal Institute for Blind Youth. While still a student there, he began developing a system of tactile code that could allow blind people to read and write quickly and efficiently. Inspired by a system invented by Charles Barbier, Braille's new method was more compact and lent itself to a range of uses, including music. He presented his work to his peers for the first time in 1824, when he was fifteen years old.
In adulthood, Braille served as a professor at the Institute and had an avocation as a musician, but he largely spent the remainder of his life refining and extending his system. It went unused by most educators for many years after his death, but posterity has recognized braille as a revolutionary invention, and it has been adapted for use in languages worldwide.
03/29/2023 will mark the 50th Anniversary of the end to The Vietnam War. This is the embroidered cap of a veteran who served on the U.S.S. Midway. I had to crop the photo to meet Monday Macro's size requirements but for posterity it is better than not submitting.
"Macro Mondays" and "Stitch"
And
Our Daily Challenge:
FOR POSTERITY is the topic for Sunday March 26th, 2023
I don't know if this counts a s a fence but if so HFF.
This was take at the Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam, Germany.
Sanssouci is a historical building in Potsdam, near Berlin. Built by Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, as his summer palace, it is often counted among the German rivals of Versailles. While Sanssouci is in the more intimate Rococo style and is far smaller than its French Baroque counterpart, it too is notable for the numerous temples and follies in the park. The palace was designed/built by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff between 1745 and 1747 to fulfill King Frederick's need for a private residence where he could relax away from the pomp and ceremony of the Berlin court. The palace's name emphasises this; it is a French phrase (sans souci), which translates as "without concerns", meaning "without worries" or "carefree", symbolising that the palace was a place for relaxation rather than a seat of power. The name in past times reflected a play on words, with the insertion of a comma visible between the words Sans and Souci, viz. Sans, Souci. Kittsteiner theorizes that this could be a philosophical play on words, meaning "without a worry/concern" or it could be some secret personal message which nobody has interpreted, left to posterity by Frederick II. [Wikipedia]
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. ;)
50007 'Hercules' is seen here parked up at the buffers on P9 alongside one of the large-logo members of the fleet - under the lights at London Paddington when it was still a decent place to visit! Quite a good view of Brunel's roof structure too :)
Locomotive History D407 / 50007
D407 entered service 16-Mar-68
Renumbered 50007 in 1974
Named 'Hercules' 06-Apr-78
Renamed as 'Sir Edward Elgar' & repainted into GWR Brunswick green livery 1984
Withdrawn 31-Mar-93
'Sir Edward Elgar' happily made it into preservation [see below]
50007 Hercules (renamed Sir Edward Elgar between 1984-2014) was one of the two class members that worked the final railtour, The 50 Terminator, in March 1994. The tour went from London Waterloo to Penzance and back into London Paddington. The locomotive was withdrawn the same month due to it being surplus to requirements, thereby becoming one of the final two Class 50 locomotives to be withdrawn after over 26 years of active service. Its engine hours stood at 9,624.
After its withdrawal, 50007 was purchased by the Class 40 Appeal and left Laira depot for the last time in July 1994. It was moved to a new home at the Midland Railway Butterley, attending a Doncaster Works open day whilst en route.
In 2013, 50007 was bought by a private individual and relocated to the former Alstom facility at Washwood Heath, Birmingham. It was repainted in British Rail corporate blue livery and had its original (and more appropriate) name reapplied. [Courtesy: www.englishelectric.org.uk/50007]
In 2016, the locomotive was purchased by The Class 50 Alliance Ltd, a company formed by the merger of The Fifty Fund and Project Defiance.
In 2019 UK rail freight operator GB Railfreight (GBRf) and the Class 50 Alliance (C50A) announced that mainline registered Class 50 locomotives 50007 Hercules and 50049 Defiance were to be repainted in the latest GBRf livery. The decision to repaint the locomotives in the striking new livery was a recognition of the developing relationship between the two organisations.
Taken with a Soviet made Zenith TTL SLR camera and standard lens, using Kodak ASA100 colour negative film. Scanned from the original negative with no digital restoration.
You can see a random selection of my railway photos here on Flickriver: www.flickriver.com/photos/themightyhood/random/
For the kids this year that have been extra bad.
It's time once again for the annual Christmas MOC. Not my best effort, but sometimes the time just creeps up on you. It really only looks good from the one angle, but I snapped a few extra pics for posterity's sake. A good friend of mine had to suddenly move and he couldn't take all of his LEGO Collection with him, which meant I got a few new (to me) parts, and I wanted to try and put some of these contraction parts to use. And aside from some editing to remove the clear stands because this thing can't hold its own weight, everything you see lighting wise was done in camera. It's amazing how long a second can be and what can be done in that time when the shutter is open.
For extra pics, here's a LINK
I hope you all have a safe and wonderful Christmas, and nothing like this winds up under the tree!
recommend.jr-central.co.jp/others/museum/kyoto/autumn_199...
「東福寺の境内は千松林といい松の木が植わり渓谷には桜の木があった。
桜を愛するあまり多くの桜の木を植えれば、後世かならず遊興の場となるからと伐採した。
通天橋を架け楓の樹林になったが明治初年には楓も修行のさまたげに なるからと伐採した記録があります。」
"Precincts of Tofukuji in valley planted a pine tree called thousand pine forest there was a cherry tree.
If Uere too many cherry trees love Sakura, it was cut down because you posterity always the entertainment field.
In a bet but became a forest of maple Meiji first year Tsuten-kyo might record that logging and because maple is also in the way of training. "
I do not know how many times I have walked past this footprint and not had my camera. I always jokingly think to myself, "Wow, he really left his mark on the world." This time I had the camera, and his mark is now imortalized for posterity.
Statue of Queen Anne (1665-1714) by John Michael Rysbrack (1694–1770)
Below the sculpture reads the following inscription
"To the memory of Queen Ann
Under whose auspices John Duke of Marlborough
Conquered
And to whose munificence
He and his posterity with gratitude
Owe the possesion of
Blenheim
A : D: MDCCXXXX : VI"
The Augustine Priory of the Holt Trinity was founded at Michelham in 1229. The Priory was dissolved in the 1537 by King Henry VIII. The Church and some of the building were demolished and between 1599 and 1601 the house was sold to Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset. It was then sold to James Gwynne in 1896 where his children Rupert, Roland and Violet grew up. The property remained in private hands into the 20th century, when it was restored by the Sussex architect and antiquarian, Walter Godfrey. It was used as a base for Canadian troops during the winter of 1941-42 while they prepared for the Dieppe Raid. Later it was the East Sussex headquarters of the Auxiliary Territorial Service.
In 1958 Mrs R.H. Hotblack purchased the property with the aim of preserving it for posterity. With an endowment from Kenneth, Earl of Inchcape, as a memorial to his friend John Fletcher Boughey who was killed during the Second World War, Mrs Hotblack gave the property in trust to the Sussex Archaeological Society on 1 November 1959.
The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the one-mile-wide strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The structure links the U.S. city of San Francisco, California—the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula—to Marin County, carrying both U.S. Route 101 and California State Route 1 across the strait. It also carries pedestrian and bicycle traffic, and is designated as part of U.S. Bicycle Route 95. Being declared one of the Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers, the bridge is one of the most internationally recognized symbols of San Francisco and California. It was initially designed by engineer Joseph Strauss in 1917. The bridge was named for the Golden Gate strait, the channel that it spans.
The Frommer's travel guide describes the Golden Gate Bridge as "possibly the most beautiful, certainly the most photographed, bridge in the world." At the time of its opening in 1937, it was both the longest and the tallest suspension bridge in the world, with a main span of 4,200 feet and a total height of 746 feet.
Strauss was the chief engineer in charge of the overall design and construction of the bridge project. However, because he had little understanding or experience with cable-suspension designs, responsibility for much of the engineering and architecture fell on other experts. Strauss's initial design proposal (two double cantilever spans linked by a central suspension segment) was unacceptable from a visual standpoint. The final graceful suspension design was conceived and championed by Leon Moisseiff, the engineer of the Manhattan Bridge in New York City.
Irving Morrow, a relatively unknown residential architect, designed the overall shape of the bridge towers, the lighting scheme, and Art Deco elements, such as the tower decorations, streetlights, railing, and walkways. The famous International Orange color was Morrow's personal selection, winning out over other possibilities, including the US Navy's suggestion that it be painted with black and yellow stripes to ensure visibility by passing ships.
Senior engineer Charles Alton Ellis, collaborating remotely with Moisseiff, was the principal engineer of the project. Moisseiff produced the basic structural design, introducing his "deflection theory" by which a thin, flexible roadway would flex in the wind, greatly reducing stress by transmitting forces via suspension cables to the bridge towers. Although the Golden Gate Bridge design has proved sound, a later Moisseiff design, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge, collapsed in a strong windstorm soon after it was completed, because of an unexpected aeroelastic flutter. Ellis was also tasked with designing a "bridge within a bridge" in the southern abutment, to avoid the need to demolish Fort Point, a pre–Civil War masonry fortification viewed, even then, as worthy of historic preservation. He penned a graceful steel arch spanning the fort and carrying the roadway to the bridge's southern anchorage.
Ellis was a Greek scholar and mathematician who at one time was a University of Illinois professor of engineering despite having no engineering degree. He eventually earned a degree in civil engineering from the University of Illinois prior to designing the Golden Gate Bridge and spent the last twelve years of his career as a professor at Purdue University. He became an expert in structural design, writing the standard textbook of the time. Ellis did much of the technical and theoretical work that built the bridge, but he received none of the credit in his lifetime. In November 1931, Strauss fired Ellis and replaced him with a former subordinate, Clifford Paine, ostensibly for wasting too much money sending telegrams back and forth to Moisseiff. Ellis, obsessed with the project and unable to find work elsewhere during the Depression, continued working 70 hours per week on an unpaid basis, eventually turning in ten volumes of hand calculations.
With an eye toward self-promotion and posterity, Strauss downplayed the contributions of his collaborators who, despite receiving little recognition or compensation, are largely responsible for the final form of the bridge. He succeeded in having himself credited as the person most responsible for the design and vision of the bridge. Only much later were the contributions of the others on the design team properly appreciated. In May 2007, the Golden Gate Bridge District issued a formal report on 70 years of stewardship of the famous bridge and decided to give Ellis major credit for the design of the bridge.
6th grade poetry project - we had to write poetry in various forms, illustrate them and then bind them into a book. I thought I'd post these for posterity. I was 10 when I wrote them!
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From the Achieves, reprocessed using Photoshop CC 2024,
Waddesdon Manor is a country house in the village of Waddesdon, in Buckinghamshire, England. The house was built in the Neo-Renaissance style of a French château between 1874 and 1889 for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild (1839–1898). Since this was the preferred style of the Rothschild's it became also known as the Goût Rothschild. The house, set in formal gardens and an English landscape park, was built on a barren hilltop overlooking Waddesdon village. The last member of the Rothschild family to own Waddesdon was James de Rothschild. He bequeathed the house and its contents to the National Trust in 1957. Today, following an extensive restoration, it is administered by a Rothschild charitable trust that is overseen by Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild. In 2007–08 it was the National Trust's second most visited paid-entry property, with 386,544 visitors. The Baron wanted a house in the style of the great Renaissance châteaux of the Loire Valley. The Baron, a member of the Viennese branch of the Rothschild banking dynasty, chose as his architect Gabriel-Hippolyte Destailleur. Destailleur was already experienced in working in this style, having overseen the restoration of many châteaux in that region, in particular that of the Château de Mouchy. Through Destailleur's vision, Waddesdon embodied an eclectic style based on the châteaux so admired by his patron, Baron Ferdinand. The towers at Waddesdon were based on those of the Château de Maintenon, and the twin staircase towers, on the north facade, were inspired by the staircase tower at the Château de Chambord. However, following the theme of unparalleled luxury at Waddesdon, the windows of the towers at Waddesdon were glazed, unlike those of the staircase at Chambord. They are also far more ornate. The structural design of Waddesdon, however, was not all retrospective. Hidden from view were the most modern innovations of the late 19th century including a steel frame, which took the strain of walls on the upper floors, which consequently permitted the layout of these floors to differ completely from the lower floors. The house also had hot and cold running water in its bathrooms, central heating, and an electric bell system to summon the numerous servants. The building contractor was Edward Conder & Son. The towers were modelled on the staircase towers of Château de Chambord. One of the twin staircase-towers inspired by those at the Château de Maintenon. Once his château was complete, Baron Ferdinand installed his extensive collections of French 18th-century tapestries, boiseries, furniture and ceramics, English and Dutch paintings and Renaissance works of art. Extensive landscaping was carried out and the gardens enhanced with statuary, pavilions and an aviary. The Proserpina fountain was brought to the manor at the end of the 19th Century from the Palace of the Dukes of Parma in northern Italy: the Ducal Palace of Colorno. The gardens and landscape park were laid out by the French landscape architect Elie Lainé. An attempt was made to transplant full-grown trees by chloroforming their roots, to limit the shock. While this novel idea was unsuccessful, many very large trees were successfully transplanted, causing the grounds to be such a wonder of their day that, in 1890, Queen Victoria invited herself to view them. The Queen was, however, more impressed by the electric lighting in the house than the wonders of the park. Fascinated by the invention she had not seen before, she is reported to have spent ten minutes switching a newly electrified 18th-century chandelier on and off. When Baron Ferdinand died in 1898, the house passed to his sister Alice de Rothschild, who further developed the collections. Baron Ferdinand's collection of Renaissance works and a collection of arms were both bequeathed to the British Museum as the "Waddesdon Bequest". During World War II, children under the age of five were evacuated from London and lived at Waddesdon Manor. Following Alice de Rothschild's death in 1922, the property and collections passed to her great-nephew James A. "Jimmy" de Rothschild of the French branch of the family, who further enriched it with objects from the collections of his late father Baron Edmond James de Rothschild of Paris. When James de Rothschild died in 1957, he bequeathed Waddesdon Manor, 200 acres (0.81 km2) of grounds and its contents to the National Trust, to be preserved for posterity. The Trust also received their largest ever endowment from him: £750,000 (£15,310,270 as of 2014).
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Had a lot of rain the last few months and you have to take the opportunity to get out when the Sun is shining. Taken around 1 PM and shows you how low that Winter Sun is. This is known as Wolsey Island and all the new buildings on the left was once where the Wolsey Factory was. The chimney and an office tower remain for posterity.
Unfortunately, neither of the cool units were on the point, but when I heard that UP's Tier 4 GEVO no. 2644 was leading the MSANP towards Topeka, complete with ex-SP patch no. 6310, and "UP ONE" SD70M no. 1979, I was happy to go out and shoot it.
Unfortunately, the sun had gone down by the time that they made it to Menoken, but it was still worthy of recording it for posterity.
American Coot (Fulica americana) - East Gator Road, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Titusville, Florida
Coot don't much like to fly, and when they need to move a couple hundred yards or less they'll simply run on the water using their wings to help keep balance. One of the reasons I think they don't like to fly, is that they generally land on their chest (which is fine if it's a water landing), but every once in a while they have trouble clearing the road through the marsh (the road bed is all of 5 or 6 feet above water level), and they perform a forced landing on the roadway. Believe me, it's not a pretty sight when they crash to the ground and the drag (friction) between their chest and the ground causes their feet to flip up directly over their head as their face skids through the dirt. After seeing that a couple of times I have to say I don't think that grace and/or beauty is even in their vocabulary!
With the motivational help of my hungry gator buddies I tracked countless Coot as they separated themselves from the hungry gators by crossing the road, but was unable to capture one landing on its face. It wasn't because they didn't crash and slide face first through the dirt, but because when they came in too low to clear the road I'd lose AF when the shrubs along the roadway got between them and my camera.*
I did however get to see one flip over completely and wind up on its back with its crazy lookin' green feet running in the air!
A real shame I was unable to capture that landing for posterity. :{(
Over forty years ago(!), when I dreamed of owning a kit car, I went to see these being built at the ‘factory’ near London.
Moulded GRP body, bolted onto a Volkswagen Beetle floor pan, this is the Mk2 iteration of the original model, designed and built (I believe) by Mike Carlton - hence the ‘phonetically’-spelled name and the MBC on the registration plate.
I loved the design of both Marks - especially the gull-wing doors - and the finish on the body was fantastic - but sadly I didn’t have the time, money nor skills to build one (even though I had a running VW Beetle donor).
I recently found the photographic slides that I had taken at the time with my trusty Olympus Trip 35mm camera, so I thought I’d post this for posterity’s sake. Re-photographed - roughly - with the Macro setting on my mobile phone for now, I’m having a few scanned, so I’ll post the results when they arrive.
It’s a bit of a reach, but if anyone knows Mike Carlton, maybe they can point him in the direction of the photos - he might like to see them for nostalgia’s sake.
Colorful Thai Restaurant, Yelm, Washington, USA.
Great food, ordered full course meal for 4 people, all were satisfied. This is not a promotion for the restaurant. I was visiting in Yelm and decided to eat here. I am a photographer and take pictures whenever I see an opportunity for a good shot. This is all it is, a subject worth capturing for posterity.
The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the one-mile-wide strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The structure links the U.S. city of San Francisco, California—the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula—to Marin County, carrying both U.S. Route 101 and California State Route 1 across the strait. It also carries pedestrian and bicycle traffic, and is designated as part of U.S. Bicycle Route 95. Being declared one of the Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers, the bridge is one of the most internationally recognized symbols of San Francisco and California. It was initially designed by engineer Joseph Strauss in 1917. The bridge was named for the Golden Gate strait, the channel that it spans.
The Golden Gate Bridge is described in Frommer's travel guide as "possibly the most beautiful, certainly the most photographed, bridge in the world." At the time of its opening in 1937, it was both the longest and the tallest suspension bridge in the world, titles it held until 1964 and 1998 respectively. Its main span is 4,200 feet and total height is 746 feet
Strauss was the chief engineer in charge of the overall design and construction of the bridge project. However, because he had little understanding or experience with cable-suspension designs, responsibility for much of the engineering and architecture fell on other experts. Strauss's initial design proposal (two double cantilever spans linked by a central suspension segment) was unacceptable from a visual standpoint. The final graceful suspension design was conceived and championed by Leon Moisseiff, the engineer of the Manhattan Bridge in New York City.
Irving Morrow, a relatively unknown residential architect, designed the overall shape of the bridge towers, the lighting scheme, and Art Deco elements, such as the tower decorations, streetlights, railing, and walkways. The famous International Orange color was Morrow's personal selection, winning out over other possibilities, including the US Navy's suggestion that it be painted with black and yellow stripes to ensure visibility by passing ships.
Senior engineer Charles Alton Ellis, collaborating remotely with Moisseiff, was the principal engineer of the project. Moisseiff produced the basic structural design, introducing his "deflection theory" by which a thin, flexible roadway would flex in the wind, greatly reducing stress by transmitting forces via suspension cables to the bridge towers. Although the Golden Gate Bridge design has proved sound, a later Moisseiff design, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge, collapsed in a strong windstorm soon after it was completed, because of an unexpected aeroelastic flutter. Ellis was also tasked with designing a "bridge within a bridge" in the southern abutment, to avoid the need to demolish Fort Point, a pre–Civil War masonry fortification viewed, even then, as worthy of historic preservation. He penned a graceful steel arch spanning the fort and carrying the roadway to the bridge's southern anchorage.
Below Golden Gate Bridge
Ellis was a Greek scholar and mathematician who at one time was a University of Illinois professor of engineering despite having no engineering degree. He eventually earned a degree in civil engineering from the University of Illinois prior to designing the Golden Gate Bridge and spent the last twelve years of his career as a professor at Purdue University. He became an expert in structural design, writing the standard textbook of the time. Ellis did much of the technical and theoretical work that built the bridge, but he received none of the credit in his lifetime. In November 1931, Strauss fired Ellis and replaced him with a former subordinate, Clifford Paine, ostensibly for wasting too much money sending telegrams back and forth to Moisseiff. Ellis, obsessed with the project and unable to find work elsewhere during the Depression, continued working 70 hours per week on an unpaid basis, eventually turning in ten volumes of hand calculations.
With an eye toward self-promotion and posterity, Strauss downplayed the contributions of his collaborators who, despite receiving little recognition or compensation, are largely responsible for the final form of the bridge. He succeeded in having himself credited as the person most responsible for the design and vision of the bridge. Only much later were the contributions of the others on the design team properly appreciated. In May 2007, the Golden Gate Bridge District issued a formal report on 70 years of stewardship of the famous bridge and decided to give Ellis major credit for the design of the bridge
Cada salida de sol es totalmente distinta y poco predecible. Sacrificar horas de sueño para estar al pie del cañón con el trípode y la cámara es la única forma de garantizar que ese momento quede capturado para la posteridad.
Cada eixida de sol és totalment diferent i poc predictible. Sacrificar hores de somni per a estar al peu del canó amb el trípode i la càmera és l'única manera de garantir que aqueix moment quede capturat per a la posteritat.
Each sunrise is totally different and unpredictable. Sacrificing hours of sleep to be on the ball with the tripod and camera is the only way to ensure that moment is captured for posterity.
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One of the things I cherish about my passion for photography is how it forces me to look, not just glance at the world around me. I've been to Kozjak Waterfall in Slovenia a few times during my life, but I never saw it through the viewfinder. This time, I went there as a photographer. I have to say, it was a revelation and it felt like I was experiencing it for the very first time. When I finally found the right spot, not too far and not too close to the subject, I waited for the sunlight to enter the canyon. I patiently waited until the sun found its way into this magical crevasse. When the spot of light appeared, the iridescent water for just began to glow as if touched by a magic wand. This special moment lasts barely 10 minutes during the summer days. The place lit up with colours and you could taste the fragrance in the air coming from the grass, the pines, the mountain flowers, damp moss, the fresh mist coming off of the waterfall and the glow of the summer light bouncing off the rocks above me. This, all of this, I wanted to capture with a single frame. The whole experience, not just what my eyes saw...This may be a controversial statement, but I believe that nobody walks away from a visited destination with as much as photographers. Because traveling to a new place shouldn't just be about ticking the mark next to its name and taking a few selfies for the road. It's about savoring its essence, feeling it on your skin, in your heart and in your mind and then, only then, capturing the moment for posterity. This waterfall is a sublime work of nature. Nothing less than a total surrender merits its existence.
More about this location:
The Kozjak brook, feeding the Soča river from the east (on the left), springs high beneath Mt. Krnčica (2142 m), and runs through many pools making six waterfalls. One of Slovenia’s most picturesque waterfalls, the Veliki Kozjak, was created in the outlet of the lower Korita of the Kozjak Brook.
Approximately 250 meters lower, the water falls again. Here, the waterfall carved an underground hall. Its bottom is covered by a vast blue and green pool, and its walls are reminiscent of those in the Karst caves. A 15 meter high white water column offers its visitors an unforgettable scenery.
Tech info: This shot was taken in a 2012 with Canon 5D mk2, Canon 24mm TS-E lens fit with Heliopan 82mm CPL filter and Tiffen 4-stop ND filter. I re-processed it in April 2016 with my current post-production techniques which never cease to evolve. I used luminosity masks to blend 3 various exposures into a much better controlled representation of light and shadows. I used Photoshop CC 2016, NIK Collection to turn the vision into the image. I worked on a custom built PC, powered by Windows 10 Pro 64 bit and Wacom Intuos Pro graphic tablet.
Poem.
Glowing winter sunset,
mirrored tree reflections.
Tall, patterned, orange Pugin chimneys,
black, white and brown Canada Geese.
Sandstone cottages and
Pine-topped hills.
Near the pond, edged by Reeds and Rushes,
the once Mill-driving Tillingbourne stream
trickles westwards to join the Wey.
Tucked in its largely rural valley in early Spring.
A seat with a view.
Solace.
What is this world if full of care,
we have no time to stand and stare?
(and click a shutter for posterity.)
The dogs did not take kindly to this masked intruder roaming about on our deck at 3:30 this morning. Dooley sprang at the door to the deck, warning of some danger, and waking me from a dead sleep nearby. I’m pretty sure Dooley wanted to hurt him.
Raccoon did not take kindly to leaping dog, and climbed up on our bird feeder pole. It was a precarious position, and he spit some threats back at us. (They aren’t as friendly as they look, and petting him seemed out of the question.)
I snagged a photo for posterity, and for evidence that we share our lives with all kinds of others.
No one was injured, but much adrenaline was spent. Sleep came after, but it took some time to settle “ourselves” back down.
Good morning to you.
July 28, 2022.