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Photo Title: PEEK Eye Selfie
Submitted by: Lindsay Hampejskova
Category: ♥ YOUR EYES
Country: Canada
Organization:
Photo Caption: Using PEEK Vision for the first time after a visit to the ophthalmologist.
Professional or Amateur Photographer: Professional
Country where the photo was taken: Canada
Photo uploaded for the #LoveYourEyes Photo Competition on iapb.org held for World Sight Day 2021.
Photographer:
Pip was certain this would be a boring picture w/o him in the background ... I think he was right.
Lion's Gulch & Homestead Meadows hike
On national forest land just outside of Rocky Mountain National Park, trailhead at mile marker 8 on Hwy. 36 south of Estes Park.
Highlights:
- Dogs allowed off-leash
- Numerous stream crossings, great for the dogs to cool off
- Lots of shade along gulch
- Lots of green due to our rainy spring
- Blooming wildflowers
The plan was to get up early to beat the forecasted afternoon rain, high winds, and possible hail, but does 9:00 count as early? Didn't think so, but we went anyway, got to the trailhead a little before 11. The skies didn't look that bad, so we embarked on the hike.
The dogs really seemed to enjoy the hike -- along the gulch there were plenty of opportunities to splash in the creek, and there was lots of room to run in the meadow. They even tolerated the history lesson once we got to the homestead remains.
I suppose I'd remember the history better if I'd taken a picture of the markers, but oh, well. The gist is that people settled this meadow via the homestead act ... basically people could lay claim to land at $1.25 an acre, but had to occupy the land at least 6 months out of the year and had to build a house within the first 5 years. The meadow was "settled" until about the mid-1950's, then the land was consolidated into a private ranch. The forest service acquired the land in the 1990's and preserves the area as a historical site -- so the broken-down buildings, broken china, rusted-out woodstoves, bedsprings, tools, etc. are considered historical artifacts.
This is about as green as I can remember most any hike I've taken in the middle of the summer in CO -- undoubtedly a result of our unseasonably wet spring. In places (and with the rain we got on the hike out) I could almost imagine that we were somewhere in the Pacific northwest.
Peek & Cloppenburg Flagship Store, Vienna, Austria
The new Peek & Cloppenburg flagship store will be located on Kärtner Strasse, between
Johannesgasse and Himmelpfortgasse, in Vienna’s historic centre, a district protected as a
UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The starting point for the design was the idea of a “building with windows” – a modern, abstract
interpretation of a classical building typology, which is not freestanding but part of the overriding
structure of the urban area. The building will assert itself as tectonically powerful, and
demonstrate a long-lasting and institutional character through the selection of its materials and
proportions, whilst remaining modest and above all becoming an integral part of the street
façade. The defining material for the façade is a light-coloured, finely pointed Danube Limestone
(Donaukalk) – a typical Viennese building material. The façade will be solidly built, corresponding
in its materiality and craftsmanship with the historic context.
The new building volume will close the urban block as a continuation of the neighbouring
buildings. In its rational structure the design ties in strongly with the tradition of late Viennese
department stores. The façade will subtly react to the structure of the neighbouring buildings.
The window proportions and the ratio between closed wall and openings will reflect the historic
neighbouring buildings. The otherwise recessed glass layer will be brought forward on the ground
floor, transforming the wall openings into display windows at street level. On the fourth floor, the
façade will open up to the city through a loggia.
The six sales levels will be accessed from the main entrance on Kärtner Strasse via a central
atrium, flooded by daylight. A translucent glass and bronze structure crowns the atrium in the
tradition of the large department stores of the 19
th
century, acting as a counterpoint to the sales
areas with its textile stock.
Client: Peek & Cloppenburg KG
Competition date: 2007
Completion due: 2010
Gross floor area: 23,000 m2
Architect: David Chipperfield Architects
Structural Engineer: Porr Projekt und Hochbau AG, Vienna
Quantity Surveyor: IGP Ingenieur AG, Berlin
Presentation model: Christoph Leistenschneider, Cologne
Photomontage: Jens Gehrcken, Berlin
This is Fuego pretending to be camera shy.
You can see him peeking.
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The Washington Monument peeking out above a grove of cherry trees in full blossom near the Tidal Basin.
Washington, DC / April 3, 2010
From an article in Snack Food, September 1974 titled "English Company's Success in Canada". From my collection.
I think that Red Milkweed Beetles are the cutest! I enjoyed chasing this one around a milkweed leaf, taking his picture on August 10, 2013, at Roeliff Jansen Park in Hillsdale, New York, USA. Does he look like he minds very much?
Taking a peek between the legs of a rock. Millions of years of wind, rain and isolation up on a plateau that is 2,700m high has left the most remarkable rock shapes.
My face sticking out the bottom of the chiropractor's table. Like I said, medieval torture device. You can't see the zapper attached to my spine.