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Excerpt from www.waymarking.com/waymarks/wm1479N_Perseverance_Train_St...:
From the plaque:
Perseverance
The "Perseverance" rail sculpture was installed on December 12, 2017, to mark the opening of the Gateway Roundabout and celebrate the railway heritage in St. Thomas.
This unique work of art, made of steel as strong as resolve of the citizens of St. Thomas, represents the importance of the railway and its impact on the formative years of the City. Through determination and hard work, the people of St. Thomas have always strived to make their city a better place.
The sculpture is made from 20 tonnes of atmospheric corrosion resistant steel which forms impermeable oxide.
Created by Scott Mckay
Mayor Heather Jackson
City Engineer Justin Lawrence
General Manager of EDC Sean Dyke
In some cultures the Steller’s Jay symbolizes adaptability and fearlessness-this one symbolized begging for food as it seems to be without fear of my presence and more curious about what I was eating (sorry Jay you can’t have a piece of my ham sandwich).
Named the image "Perseverance". Not only for this rock standing the test of time and nature but for the clouds in the sky. You set up to take the shot and hope the skies will clear. Yet sometimes the clouds and light pollution from Moab can give an awesome image.
Yesterday I had woke up about 4:30 am and I was so ready to go just right back to sleep. I always use to have a really hard time waking up, but I reminded myself what I could be missing out on. Boy was I glad I went!
I, also, forgot to mention that when I got there it really seemed like the sun was going to rise behind the gray clouds and I wouldn't really get a great sunrise. I'm glad I waited it out.
Perseverance
These yellow flowers have burrowed underneath the wooden perimeter fence along the side of a busy road in Ottawa. Amazingly, they’re thriving in this urban environment, and are standing tall in the face of traffic, congestion and urban sprawl. Seemingly, life will find a way 💐
Happy Fenced Friday!
I have been working on this shot for a while now ,i loved the view when i saw it but it was very dark under the bridge and very bright sunshine out in the open with the sun right above us.,i found it very hard to get an even exposure ,it was dark under the bridge and exposed ok outside or ok under the bridge and blown right out in the sunshine....anyhow i rattled a few of and have been playing with them in Elements 14......this is the best i could get ...........the shot was taken looking down stream of the River Avon from under the Seven Meadows road bridge, Stratford-upon-Avon,Warwickshire,England
Darkroom print on ilford rc new. split contrast, dodge and burn selenium, bleach, agfa brown.
4x5 fp4 in pyro hd
linhof technika 4x5, 150mm lens.
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
Walter Elliot
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Being in nature is ingrained in our DNA, and we sometimes forget that. Hiking enables me to get away from the distractions of day-to-day life that sometimes can weigh me down. While hiking, I am always inspired by the experience of being lost in a moment of discovery, valuing the simple provisions life has offered and putting my perseverance into test.
A worn out barn leans on a silo companion to help it through one more storm rolling across the plains. One advantage of getting old is that we gradually realize there is only one Final Storm in life that is beyond our endurance.
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...11 year old Kynlee Grubbs desperately working to keep the leaking "Tax Collector" moving to the finish line....
Medicine Park Cardboard Boat Regatta (Oklahoma)
"She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted."
(everything is political ...)
I guess this is me at the moment persevering through life,and the more I look at other peoples photography the more I wish I had all my camera gear back again - and then be well enough to use it. And as I am sitting here writing this we have another rain shower with a few tiny little bits of
hail. Will it never end.
Enjoy your day people wherever you are.
È nota col nome di perseveranza quando si tratta di una buona causa, e di testardaggine quando la causa è cattiva.
Laurence Sterne
Ed essendo lunedì, oggi perseveriamo con testardaggine.
Foto di archivio, un ramo incastrato fra gli scogli, vicino alla foce dell'Adige, Veneto, un mattino di nebbia.
#monday #stand #perseverance #perseveranza #ramo #scogli #portocaleri #pontile #rocks #mare #nebbia #mistery #horizon #orizzonte #adige
about 2 weeks before we left, Scotch and I were driving around Thurmont, Maryland by the base of the Catoctin Mountains on a very rainy day when I came across a stream under a small bridge. We followed it up the road and found this perfect place. It's private land that has a sign reading it can be used respectfully and we ended up spending about an hour here until it got too dark and wet. I returned a few days later in the rain again without Scotch and stayed until it got dark. When he's with me and he needs to stay in the car, I never go out of sight. This time, I could explore about a half mile up the stream and only stopped when I ran out of light (and realized I was now somewhere on private property). There was enough solid ground around the pretty fast moving stream to get some very close and interesting angles and the drizzle really made everything shine just a bit more.
It's an amazing place and I had planned to return before we left for California but got too busy with all the preparations, packing and planning. When/If we ever return to Maryland, this will likely be the first place I go.
Friends Creek
Thurmont, Maryland
December 1st, 2015
Rain, fog, 41°F at 5pm
SETTINGS:
Canon Rebel T4i
EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
@50mm
ISO 100
f/16
30 seconds
ND 8
This is one of my favorite photos of this past summer. The photo is not really spectacular or anything like that, but this Ancient Bristlecone Pine looks like it has borne the weight of the world for millennia. I suspect it is several millennia old at least. It has taken all the abuse the earth could throw at it yet it persists, bent but not broken. In fact it seems to be quite healthy with a lot of foliage not shown here. Is there any better life lesson to learn? ________________________________________________ Low Level Lightening (LLL) used for lighting. A single Cineroid LED light panel was used, set on a 10 ft. (3 meter) light stand about 100 feet (30 meters) away, off to the left side. The light was turned all the way to low and set at a relatively neutral to slightly warm color temperature of 4200K. ________________________________________________11 light frames and one dark frame stacked in Starry Landscape Stacker. 14-24 mm lens, 20 mm, f/2.8, ISO 8000.
per·se·vere
/ˌpərsəˈvir/
verb
to persist in a state, enterprise, or undertaking in spite of counterinfluences, opposition, or discouragement
For the past two to three thousand years, this tree has been dug into this mountainside standing virtually alone as most of his brothers are located in a grove a bit further below. Standing bravely at an elevation of nearly 12,000 feet, I would imagine this tree has been buried under dozens of feet of snow, stood against 100 mph winds and endured horrible years of drought. And yet...here it still stood as I came across it last week on a scouting trip through the White Mountains with Greg Boratyn and Eric Gail.
I would say that perseverance is something that all of us need at the moment. We have a pandemic that some are predicting could last until next Spring...or beyond, an election that has people screaming at each other almost non-stop, and protests that have had people marching in almost every major city across our country. If you watch either side of the news for longer than a couple of hours, you really begin to feel like your head will explode.
Which makes it all the more amazing when you head off to the mountains and you come across something that has stood up against everything that nature has thrown at it for literally thousands of years. Suddenly you begin to feel like the end of 2020 is really not that far off. I was just watching an old episode of "The West Wing" tonight and the phrase that jumped out at me was "The things that unite us are far greater than the things that divide us" which, after snooping around, seems to be a quote from the late John F Kennedy. In spite of all evidence to the contrary, I'm hoping that this quote is still true today. And in spite of a pandemic, a contentious election and nightly violent protests...our country and its people will persevere.
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The fruit of patience in all its aspects – long-suffering, forbearance, endurance, and perseverance – is a fruit that is most intimately associated with our devotion to God. All character traits of godliness grow out of and have their foundation in our devotion to God, but the fruit of patience must grow out of that relationship in a particular way. - Jerry Bridges
Caractéristiques et performances
Longueur : 42 m
Largeur : 11 m
Tirant d’eau : 4,15 m
Vitesse de croisière : 10 noeuds
Capacité : 12 passagers
Cabines : 8
La Persévérance est une goélette construite pour l'avitaillement de la station océanographique Polar Pod de Jean-Louis Étienne. Elle est mise à l'eau le 28 novembre 2022 à Hô Chi Minh-Ville au Vietnam. Son port d'attache est Brest