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Some days you get lucky some days not so much despite all the careful planning luck/fate is that ethereal ingredient to great captures that cannot be regulated only hoped for but luck is in my opinion also what you make of it.
This scene captures fall in Kinderdijk quite nicely with nature helping a fellow out with some autumn colored fauna and lighting it all with a golden hue capturing the mills as I would imagine they looked when first constructed.
The premise of the mill for land reclamation was that the sails revolve in the wind turning a great screw drive that lifts the low lying water to a higher level then from that level the water is usually spread out through irrigation channels eventually ending up in a river then finally the ocean.
Today Kinderdijk is still pumped out continuously just now with diesel driven screws that you can observe at the pump building near the entrance of the site in the car park area, they keep the windmills as a back up in case of a major long-term power disruption and as a display of Dutch ingenuity.
I took this on Sept 17th, 2017 with my D750 and Nikon 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens at 68mm 1/3 sec f/16 ISO100 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia, Topaz , Luminar and DXO
Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress
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English
There are several interesting cities in the Ruhr area in Germany. One of these is Bottrop. It is a town with a nice ski center where you can practice for the real high mountains. Besides that, the city has a very special landmark that can be easily seen from the highway, the train and from an airplane. The watchtower from this photo is located on one of the highest German slag heaps. Such an artificial mountain was intended for the mining industry a long time ago. It is absolutely worth climbing this mountain to see the triangular object. For the best view you can go all the way up the stairs in the observation tower and at the outlook platform you can see a large part of the Ruhr area there. It's great to experience this and I really recommend it to everyone to visit if you are in the area. A regular tetrahedron is a spatial figure with four triangular faces, four vertices and six edges. The pyramid-like shape gives the designer object a very special appearance, which is approximately 50 meters high. The landmark is designed by master architect Wolfgang Christ. I took the photo with an eye for perspective and composition. I hope this makes the idea of the tetrahedron and the mathematical premise even better.
Nederlands
In het Ruhrgebied in Duitsland zijn meerdere interessante steden te vinden. Een daarvan is Bottrop. Het is een stad waar een leuk skicentrum is waar men leuk kan oefenen voor de echte hoge bergen. Buiten dat heeft de stad een heel bijzonder herkenningspunt dat zowel vanaf de rijksweg, de trein en vanuit een vliegtuig goed te waarnemen is. De uitkijktoren is namelijk gevestigd op een van de hoogste Duitse steenbergen. Zo'n kunstmatige berg was bedoeld voor de mijnindustrie heel lang geleden. Het is absoluut de moeite waard om de berg op te klimmen en het driehoekige object te aanschouwen vanaf daar. Voor het mooiste uitzicht kan je helemaal naar boven gaan in de uitkijktoren en een groot deel van het Ruhrgebied kan je daar dan zien. Het is geweldig om dit te ervaren en ik het raad het een ieder ook echt aan om er een bezoek te brengen als je er in de buurt bent. Een viervlak uit de wiskunde vormt de basis van de uitkijktoren. Een regelmatig viervlak ofwel tetraëder is een ruimtelijke figuur met vier driehoekige vlakken, vier hoekpunten en zes ribben. De pyramide achtige vorm geeft een zeer bijzondere extra dimensie aan het circa 50 meter hoge object van toparchitect Wolfgang Christ. Tijdens het maken van de foto heb ik in het bijzonder opgelet op de compositie en heb geprobeerd om het wiskundig idee van het ontwerp door mijn perspectief nog beter tot zijn recht te laten komen. Ik hoop dat het gelukt is.
These are the only plum flowers that were fully blossoming at Kaiakuen Garden in early February. The website says ten percent of the plums on the three-hundred hectare premise were blossoming but that wasn't true. Kairakuen Garden is one of the three renowned Japanese Gardens, along with Kourakuen Garden and Kenrokuen Garden. The silhouette in the background is Kobun-tei House, a traditional Japanese-style house built on the premise. It offers a house tour.
偕楽園の梅の花(水戸市)
“De Bataaf” te Winterswijk
Windmill "Bataaf" te Winterswijk The Netherlands
History of the 'Bataaf' mill
At the end of the 18th century it was the nobility who determined the number of mills, because the nobility had the right to wind and pumping. Because of the French times these privileges have disappeared and everyone had the right to start a mill. In Winterswijk the 'Bataaf' was the first mill to use that right.
On August 28, 1880 "was the first meeting that led to the establishment of the" Bataafse "mill. Construction began at the time of the Batavian Republic, from where the name 'Bataaf' was derived. By selling shares, the ministers of the Ned. Herv. To be able to provide Church with maintenance. The tender for the wood of the mill took place on 16 September 1800 for a total amount of 3255 guilders. The 'Rigtemasten' for building the octagon was established on 20 January 1801. The ongoing work and the mill axis were applied in the same year on 9 April. The 'Bataaf' is a so-called belt mill and has a flight of 24 meters. On 21 May 1801, the 'Bataaf' turned for the first time, still without sails. The inauguration of the mill took place on June 2, 1801 and on that day was also actually milled for the first time. The first miller of the 'Bataaf' was Jan Bolthof, born on the 'Nieuwe Watermolen' (Berenschotmolen). On August 19, 1801, a letter arrived which stated that the mill had been built without permission from Arnhem. On May 19, 1802, however, the news came that a trial against the establishment of the "Batav" had been lost. By J.W. Boeyink and G. Tenkink (shareholders) were submitted on 3 March 1843 to the District Commissioner for permission to set up a roller flour mill at the 'Bataaf'. This request was approved on 5 May 1843. By the marriage of Johanna Bolthof (daughter of miller Jan Berend) with Garrit in Lintum in 1848 the name in Lintum was connected to the 'Bataaf'. According to a notarial deed, A. te Lintum bought the last shares of the 'Bataaf' on 1 May 1915 and now had the mill in its possession. The 'Bataaf' was stripped of its wicks around 1920. In 1937 the windmill was made turnable again for the wind. The 'Bataaf' was equipped with so-called Dekker-premise and Ten Have-brake valves (used here for the first time in the Netherlands). Until 1956 the 'Bataaf' milled on wind force. In 1963 the sails cross and the inside were removed, which meant the end of working with the windmill. The various expansions of the modern mill have partially hidden the mill body from view. On June 2, 2001 the founding of the 'Molen' Bataaf 'Foundation took place; exactly 200 years after the mill was taken into use.
At the border
In the early thirties there was a lively border trade with Germany. The grain was imported at the border in Kotten (Holtstegge) and again carried out at the border in Huppel (Knuver). The earnings came from the difference between the import and export levy of the grain. Was it not earned by the fact that unprocessed grain was imported and ground flour was exported? You just need the mill for that? When the wind was being ground, there was a specific sound of the rotating blades. Because of this, it happened regularly that a driver, from horse and wagon, asked if the vanes could be stopped. The horse often did not dare to come to the windmill due to the sound of the blades. After stopping the blades, the problem was solved.
If you walk 100 miles into the life you don't want. Often, you must walk those same 100 miles to get out of that life. This is the answer to why the journey to fulfillment is often so difficult. However, if you can find a shortcut, a new path, you can get to the life you want much quicker. This is the premise of personal development, self-improvement and self-discovery..!
I went out today with the premise of getting a big dog for my new apartment.... so I stopped at Rezz Room ... well ... and then I lost my ❤️ .... to this little baby
love Harls
The United Nations General Assembly has designated November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (Resolution 54/134).[1] The premise of the day is to raise awareness of the fact that women around the world are subject to rape, domestic violence and other forms of violence; furthermore, one of the aims of the day is to highlight that the scale and true nature of the issue is often hidden.
Sunday is my one day to treat myself to a delicious, flaky croissant. Where do I get my fresh croissant you ask?, well at McDonald's. They are baked on the premise as part of their McCafe lineup, and are truly amazing. Flaky, mealy, and buttery. A real treat!
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This house was constructed at the end of 19th -20th Century. This estate is an original building from a farmstead of Poltavshchyna of 19th-20th Century. The building has carved elements, typical of northern Poltava area (on tips of ceiling beams, on furniture, on window shutters, etc.). It has a porch with awning on columns.
It stays next to the homesteads from Leliukhivka and Popivka villages.
This building arose at the end of 19th Century. It represents a type of multi-room dwelling (home + mudroom +small room + storeroom + larder). This is a typical house of a Poltavshchyna grain-grower. Its owner practiced additional craft – pottery. Besides a big premise of the house, where the family lived, there is also a small room for making pieces of pottery. For his craft, the owner used potter’s lathe, fixed here to a sitting bench. He made different things: pots, bowls, big bowls makitra, banky (ancient mason-jars), tykvy (homemade bottles) and many others, required for every home.
In the same room, there are upper shelved (piarta) for drying the just-made pieces. The house is made of oak-tree semi-timbers, clayed and whitewashed from inside and outside. In front of the house, there is a porch with awning on columns. Its windows have carved single-leaf shutters. Around the house, there is a perimeter walk, supported by boards fixed with perches. The perimeter walk is outlined with red clay. On edges of the sidewall, tips of the beams are decorated with carving in form of horses, a popular pattern for farmers’ dwellings on Poltavshchyna.
The walls are made of oak-tree semi-timbers, doors, windows, roof of straw and clay perimeter walk.
Dimensions are 9.43 x 4.96; its total area – 46.77 square meters
Хата з с. Велика Павлівка, Зіньківського р-ну, Полтавської обл.
Хата збудована наприкінці ХІХ ст. Об'єкт є оригінальною житловою будівлею селянської садиби Полтавщини ХІХ-ХХ ст. Будівля має характерні для північної Полтавщини елементи різьблення деталей (коники на випусках сволоків, на меблях інтер’єру, віконниці та випуски платв оздоблені різьбленими елементами). Ганок з піддашком на стовпчиках.
Розташована біля садиб із с. Лелюхівка та с. Попівка.
Хата збудована наприкінці ХІХ ст., за типом є багатокамерним житлом (хата+сіни+хатина+комора+чулан). Типове для хлібороба Полтавщини селянське житло, господар якого займався додатковим промислом – гончарством. Крім великого хатнього приміщення, де жила вся сім’я, є ще мала хатина, де гончар виготовляв вироби з глини. У хатині гончар займався виготовленням гончарних виробів, користуючись гончарним кругом, що тут прикріплений до лави для сидіння. Вироблялися різноманітні вироби – горшки, миски, макітри, баньки, тикви та багато іншого посуду, без якого не обходиться домашнє господарство.
У цій же хатині розташовані верхні полиці («п'ятра») для просушування свіжовиготовлених гончарних виробів. Сама хата збудована з рублених плах, що обмазані й побілені зовні та всередині. Перед хатою – ганок з піддашком на стовпчиках. Вікна хати мають одностворчаті віконниці з різьбленням. Навколо хати влаштована призьба з глини, яка підтримується заставленими за кілки дошками. Призьба підведена червоною глиною. На причілковій стіні на кутах – випуски платв, оздоблені різьбленими елементами у вигляді «коників» – розповсюджений мотив селянського житла на Полтавщині.
Зруб – дубові плахи, двері, вікна, солом'яний дах, глиняна призьба.
У плані – 9,43 х 4,96 м. Площа – 46,77 кв. м.
view of the western part (from the outer garden) of the Walewscy Palace in Walewice
Classicist building designed by Hilary Szpilowski or Stanislaw Zawadzki, built in 1773-1783 by Anastazy Walewski (chamberlain to King Stanislaw August Poniatowski); located on the Mroga River.
The palace is counted among the most interesting examples of classicist country seats in Poland, built at the end of the 18th century. The front faces east. It consists of a one-story rectangular main body and one-story side pavilions, also built on a rectangular plan, connected with the main body by communication galleries broken at right angles. The premise is based on the Palladian style, very popular in Poland in the second half of the 18th and first 19th centuries. From the front, the palace has a massive, four-column Ionic battered portico topped with a triangular pediment (tympanum) with the coat of arms of Pomian, the later owner Stanislaw Grabiński. From the garden there are two prominent extreme (side) risalits. Inside the palace, large representative halls with decorative brick fireplaces and elaborate furnishings were created, as well as spacious palace rooms. In one of the pavilions original painted wallpaper from the 19th century with mythological motifs has been preserved.
On May 4, 1810, the son of Napoleon Bonaparte and Maria Walewska, Alexander Colonna-Walewski, later French ambassador to Great Britain and foreign minister to Napoleon III, was born there. He also became heir to the estate, which he sold to Maria Walewska's brother, Teodor Łączyński, in 1831.
Much of the palace's charm is added by the perfect composition of the building with an extensive landscape park designed by Walerian Kronenberg. Original late Baroque and classicist sandstone sculptures depicting Mars, Venus, and Diana have been preserved there, as well as two hermits and an armed man in ancient costume.
In the mid-19th century, the palace and its estate passed into the hands of the Grabiński family of the Pomian coat of arms. The Grabinskis modernized and rebuilt the palace at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, established a stud farm for half-breed horses (Anglo-Arabians), developed the breeding of cockerel sheep (the only one in the country), a huge fish farm (on more than 100 hectares of ponds), a factory of potato flour and starch. The last owners of Walewice were papal chamberlain Stanislaw Bohdan Grabiński and his wife Jadwiga, née hr. Potocki, and after his death in 1930 their minor children Stanislaw Wojciech, Maria, Wladyslaw, Róża and Jan Grabiński. The palace still contains some of the furnishings and furniture from the last owners.
During World War II, on the night of September 9-10, 1939, the 17th Regiment of Wielkopolska Uhlans from Gniezno of the Wielkopolska Cavalry Brigade fought battles for the Palace and the village of Walewice during the Battle of the Bzura River.
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Street portrait from Glasgow, Scotland.
Alternate shot from a brief shoot with Stevie, number 53 of my 100 Strangers project, captured in October 2017. Obviously the premise of 100 Strangers being that I didn't know her before introducing myself while out in the city. You can see more of my 100 Strangers project in my Albums. Enjoy!
#245 On Explore
The Convention conserning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, an international agreement adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO in 1972, was founded on the premise that certain placed on Earth are of outstanding universal value and as such should form part of the common heritage of humankind.
"DNA barcoding is a method of species identification using a short section of DNA from a specific gene or genes. The premise of DNA barcoding is that, by comparison with a reference library of such DNA sections (also called "sequences"), an individual sequence can be used to uniquely identify an organism to species, in the same way that a supermarket scanner uses the familiar black stripes of the UPC barcode to identify an item in its stock against its reference database".
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I found this outside a shuttered up premise in North Fremantle Port area. The path would be rarely used and its cool to see the weeds taking advantage of the cracks in the pavement. Wonderful contrast of colours highlighting the struggle to survive under harsh conditions. This was taken with a film simulation mode on my Fujifilm XT3 and is otherwise unedited except cropping.
International Day 2021 Nov 25
The United Nations General Assembly has designated November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (Resolution 54/134). The premise of the day is to raise awareness of the fact that women around the world are subject to rape, domestic violence and other forms of violence; furthermore, one of the aims of the day is to highlight that the scale and true nature of the issue is often hidden.
Bright Light..
A balmy December day was the perfect day for a walk..
The Fir Tree in the Premise garden Lost nearly twenty feet off the top in July this year; the last big storm to hit the area.had sustained winds of almost 100mph and did a lot of damage to the trees in the park.
The Conservation Authority (TRCA) did their best to save this old tree and keep it healthy. it certainly does give it a bonsai type look.
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257 Adelaide Terrace was built as the family residence of successful colonial merchant Ernest Chawner Shenton. It was designed by Melbourne architectural practice, Terry & Oakden, and completed in 1888. Named ‘Sydenham’ the Shentons lived there with their five children. In 1905, it was sold to another well-known Perth family, the Hayes who re-named it ‘Kincora’. The Hayes also lived an opulent and gracious life style at ‘Kincora’ where they raised their four children and housed several servants. Their daughter, Sheila (later Gwynne) would go on to establish an outstanding career as an expert horse breeder, including breeding a Perth Cup winner, and made a significant contribution to the Western Australian horse-racing industry. In the 1930s, the remaining sisters Eileen and Mary converted it into flats the sold it in 1955 when it was converted into commercial premise for the Motor Vehicle Insurance Trust and the Rural & Industries Bank of Western Australia. In September 2003, the place was sold at auction for a major redevelopment but then quickly sold again to a private owner who had planned to live there but it has been vacant ever since.
A life bird for me, taken last month during our trip to the interior of BC.
A quick note about 3rd party use I was ranting about sites using my photos, particularly the photos that had been in Explore. After some investigation here is what I found, Flickr thrives on 3rd party use that is what they are all about "sharing" . So what to do? Go into your settings and remove your photos from 3rd party use, sitewide searches, the works. Your views are reduced plus you will never have any chance of being in explore in the future, not an exciting option is it? I've done it but not sure that I will keep it feeling like I have been throttled back. A very close friend said to me, " how much money are you losing?" I replied "I don't sell much really none" he then said, "quit worrying about it and let it go, the only way to stop it is to take your photos off the internet." So based on the premise Flickr is a "sharing platform" we have to learn to live with it or move to another site that may not be any safer, photos will be stolen if they are on the internet.
Sorry, I don't have better news, I did find out if you are unhappy about your photos being on sites that offer free downloads you can email them and request they remove your work, some people have had success according to what I found in the Flickr forum.
view of the western part (from the garden) of the Walewscy Palace in Walewice
Classicist building designed by Hilary Szpilowski or Stanislaw Zawadzki, built in 1773-1783 by Anastazy Walewski (chamberlain to King Stanislaw August Poniatowski); located on the Mroga River.
The palace is counted among the most interesting examples of classicist country seats in Poland, built at the end of the 18th century. The front faces east. It consists of a one-story rectangular main body and one-story side pavilions, also built on a rectangular plan, connected with the main body by communication galleries broken at right angles. The premise is based on the Palladian style, very popular in Poland in the second half of the 18th and first 19th centuries. From the front, the palace has a massive, four-column Ionic battered portico topped with a triangular pediment (tympanum) with the coat of arms of Pomian, the later owner Stanislaw Grabiński. From the garden there are two prominent extreme (side) risalits. Inside the palace, large representative halls with decorative brick fireplaces and elaborate furnishings were created, as well as spacious palace rooms. In one of the pavilions original painted wallpaper from the 19th century with mythological motifs has been preserved.
On May 4, 1810, the son of Napoleon Bonaparte and Maria Walewska, Alexander Colonna-Walewski, later French ambassador to Great Britain and foreign minister to Napoleon III, was born there. He also became heir to the estate, which he sold to Maria Walewska's brother, Teodor Łączyński, in 1831.
Much of the palace's charm is added by the perfect composition of the building with an extensive landscape park designed by Walerian Kronenberg. Original late Baroque and classicist sandstone sculptures depicting Mars, Venus, and Diana have been preserved there, as well as two hermits and an armed man in ancient costume.
In the mid-19th century, the palace and its estate passed into the hands of the Grabiński family of the Pomian coat of arms. The Grabinskis modernized and rebuilt the palace at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, established a stud farm for half-breed horses (Anglo-Arabians), developed the breeding of cockerel sheep (the only one in the country), a huge fish farm (on more than 100 hectares of ponds), a factory of potato flour and starch. The last owners of Walewice were papal chamberlain Stanislaw Bohdan Grabiński and his wife Jadwiga, née hr. Potocki, and after his death in 1930 their minor children Stanislaw Wojciech, Maria, Wladyslaw, Róża and Jan Grabiński. The palace still contains some of the furnishings and furniture from the last owners.
During World War II, on the night of September 9-10, 1939, the 17th Regiment of Wielkopolska Uhlans from Gniezno of the Wielkopolska Cavalry Brigade fought battles for the Palace and the village of Walewice during the Battle of the Bzura River.
Tiny Little Houses - You tore out my heart
November 25th is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
The premise of the day is to raise awareness of the fact that women around the world are subject to rape, domestic violence and other forms of violence; furthermore, one of the aims of the day is to highlight that the scale and true nature of the issue is often hidden.
For 2019 the official Theme framed by the UN is "Orange the World: Generation Equality Stands Against Rape".
(Wikipedia)
Amsterdam - Van Baerlestraat - Museumplein
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Very very happy day and THANKS my friends.
(feeling a bit better......)
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The United Nations General Assembly has designated November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (Resolution 54/134).[1] The premise of the day is to raise awareness of the fact that women around the world are subject to rape, domestic violence and other forms of violence; furthermore, one of the aims of the day is to highlight that the scale and true nature of the issue is often hidden.
For those of you who are big fans of the American comedian & actor, Don Knotts, there is no need to explain the title of this image. For the rest of you, here is the basic information you need. Don was a very successful entertainer from the 1950's through to the 80's, appearing in many sitcoms and movies. One of those movies, which I have seen, was The Ghost & Mr. Chicken. Premise: "A wannabe reporter decides to get the scoop on local ghosts by spending a night at a haunted house where there's been an unsolved murder."
What does the movie or Don Knotts have to do with this image? Nothing, really, except when I was going through my images from this photo shoot, I thought the willet in the background looked really ghostly and the memory of that movie title came to me in a flash. Chicken became Willet. Simple as that.
The photo shows a willet pair exhibiting their protective side. They came out on the road as I drove down it (slowly, as I was lookin for photo ops). Like godwits and some other wading birds, they seem to protest a lot even when their nest/youngsters are safely hidden in vegetation 30 or 40 meters away.
If the premise of a place being known as a city because it has a cathedral is accepted...then St.Davids, in Pembrokeshire, South Wales is the smallest city in the U.K. at least in terms of population.
The city of London, "The square mile", and the city of Westminster, London may be smaller in terms of area.
RUFER UND RUFERPLATZ IN LAUENBURG/ ELBE
Die Bronzestatur "Der Rufer" steht neben dem geschichtsträchtigen Dampferanlegerplatz in der Lauenburger Elbstraße. Von dem heutigen Ruferplatz aus ragt als Uferbefestigung eine Steinkiste in die Elbe hinein. Seit dem Aufkommen des regelmäßigen Dampferverkehrs zwischen Lauenburg und Hamburg Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts landeten tausende von "Sommerfrischlern" an diesem Anleger und gelangten so nach Lauenburg. Die freie Platzfläche entstand jedoch erst nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. In einem fünfstündigen Artillerie-Angriff durch britische Truppen am 29. April 1945 wurden drei Häuser am Anlegerplatz so schwer beschädigt, dass sie abgerissen wurden.
Da Lauenburg/Elbe kein Denkmal für eine besondere Persönlichkeit besaß, hatte der damalige Bürgermeister Richard Reuter die Idee, eine Schiffergestalt als Zeichen der Verbundenheit der Elbschifffahrt mit der Stadt Lauenburg und als Dank für die über Jahrhunderte in der Stadt lebenden und arbeitenden Schiffer darzustellen. Gleichzeitig sollte es als Mahnmal für die deutsch-deutsche Wiedervereinigung mit der Prämisse „Macht uns den Strom wieder frei“ dienen. Nach langen Diskussionen mit den verschiedensten Institutionen und Vereinen in der Stadt wurde der im Kreis lebende und wirkende Bildhauer Karl-Heinz Goedtke mit der Gestaltung beauftragt.
Am 22. März 1959 wurde der Rufer feierlich eingeweiht. Seitdem grüßt er alle Gäste und vorbeifahrenden Schiffe.
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CALLER AND CALLER AREA IN LAUENBURG / ELBE
The bronze statue "Der Rufer" stands next to the historic steamer landing stage in Lauenburger Elbstraße. From today's Ruferplatz, a stone box protrudes into the Elbe as a bank reinforcement. Since the advent of regular steamboat traffic between Lauenburg and Hamburg at the end of the 19th century, thousands of "summer visitors" have landed at this pier and thus made their way to Lauenburg. However, the free space was not created until after the Second World War. In a five-hour artillery attack by British troops on April 29, 1945, three houses on the pier were so badly damaged that they were demolished.
Since Lauenburg / Elbe did not have a memorial for a particular personality, the then mayor Richard Reuter had the idea of depicting a ship's figure as a sign of the ties between Elbe shipping and the city of Lauenburg and as a thank you for the shipmen who had lived and worked in the city for centuries. At the same time it was to serve as a memorial for the German-German reunification with the premise “Make us the electricity free again”. After long discussions with various institutions and associations in the city, the sculptor Karl-Heinz Goedtke, who lives and works in the district, was commissioned with the design.
On March 22, 1959, the Rufer was inaugurated. Since then he has been greeting all guests and passing ships.
Info: Duchy of Lauenburg district
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This is the hotel you want to stay if you come to this area. Reasonable price and good restaurant on the hotel premise.
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I have decided to reduce the number of groups of which I am one of the administrators. I shall be staying with
At Your Best in Black and White
Beauty is Power
Innocent Beauty - and I shall be adding
Street Lives - to the the list.
I feel that I have lost connection with Universal Art and the other two groups, Ecole and Uncomplicated have lost direction or perhaps drifted from the original premise and by removing myself as someone who is obviously a part of the lost direction and lost premise and certainly partly responsible for those things, perhaps a new course will be steered by the remaining administrators. I wish all the groups well.
I am not sure what my relationship is to Art for Everyone as I am not an administrator, just a member. It is a private group, but wasn't when I originally joined it. Should you wish to join just let me know and I will send you an invite. I shall continue inviting pictures to this group.
Allow me to begin by adamantly stating that I am against animal incarceration of any sort. Whether it be in sanctuaries or zoos. I understand the reasoning behind bringing wildlife to be accessible to be viewed, but the entire premise still disregards the rights of the animal involved. Yes, temporary sheltering of injured animals is fair and noble, but otherwise I can not see the point of this type of display. You want to see an elk? Go to Colorado and see herds of hundreds of elk. Go to Montana and see herds of a thousand.
I was going to take a picture of a large tree out on the prairie when I turned the corner of this fenced off field to see this sad elk basking in the morning light.
Sure he and his harem are well fed, watered, protected from coyotes and wolves, even receive top veterinary care, but freedom, which we all cherish so much is denied. Just so some people can pull over on their way to little league and see an elk.
“Winogrand's zoo book The Animals is a grotesquery. It is surreal where unlikely human beings and jaded careerist animals stare at each other through bars, exhibiting bad manners and a mutual failure to recognize their own ludicrous predicaments.”
--John Szarkowski
Zenit 122
manual exposure and focus.
industar pancake 50mm
Ilford deta 100
SOOC
Happy Black History Month! This month is not only about remembering the past but acting in the present and changing the future.
Whenever you have some spare time or a moment, use it to learn something new about the African American community.
"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."
- Kofi Annan
"Restoring the Normal Life of Man and Taking Him to a Wonderful Destination" Part Two
Introduction
Almighty God says, "Once the work of conquest has been completed, man will be brought into a beautiful world. This life will, of course, still be on earth, but it will be totally unlike man’s life today. It is the life that mankind will have after the whole of mankind has been conquered, it will be a new beginning for man on earth, and for mankind to have such a life will be proof that mankind has entered a new and beautiful realm. It will be the beginning of the life of man and God on earth. The premise of such a beautiful life must be that, after man has been purified and conquered, he submits before the Creator. And so, the work of conquest is the last stage of God’s work before mankind enters the wonderful destination. Such a life is man’s future life on earth, it is the most beautiful life on earth, the kind of life that man longs for, the kind that man has never before achieved in the history of the world. It is the final outcome of the 6,000 years of work of management, it is what mankind yearns for most, and it is also God’s promises to man."
There is an interesting Japanese philosophy called MA. Its basic premise is that the space between things is an important factor in composition and mostly goes unnoticed by the photographer, but that space holds meaning. It’s not emptiness because it is ripe with potential. It should be used deliberately and add value to a photo. The same principles hold true in music.
Secondly I used silence to allow the spaces to develop without intrusion.
And I used a Meyerowicz rule; “leave the center empty and make the viewer read around your photo.”
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
I recently re-watched After LIfe, the masterpiece by director
Kore-eda Hirokazu, and it's such an interesting premise for a film-for your after life, you choose just one memory for your time when you were alive to take with you and you'll live in that space forever.
When I first watched this film, it was twenty years ago and my experiences on Earth (and time on Earth) is now doubled. At the time that I watched it, I had only traveled to different states, Canada, and once to London. The memory I would take with me now happened very recently on my trip to Rome. My partner, Cinchel, had booked a hotel for us with a balcony overlooking the cat ruins. Every night when the sun started to go down, the cats would get the zoomies and start running across the ruins until the early morning. One morning, I also heard a nun who seemed to have come to visit the ruins just to see the cats. I can get behind that sort of religion!
In any case, if I had to pick one memory for my after life, it would be sitting on that balcony watching those cats having their best adventures.
What memory would you pick?
Here's a link to the film:
**All photos are copyrighted**
For Halloween this year, I asked my hairdresser to make me look like a star....someone famous in movies or TV.
He asked me who I had in mind.
I told him I'd leave that up to him.
I wish I'd known how fond he was of Marge Simpson.
Thank you all for bearing with me thru this annual fit that comes over me, and for your views and comments. You are patient.....you are wonderful.
Our former on premise office manager wasn't very encouraging of kids being out and about even tho it's a cul de sac with wide expanses of lawn and no thru traffic.
So there's hardly been any trick or treaters on Halloween.....last year I got none.
We have a new manager and she sent out a notice that if we wanted to hand out candy, come to the office and pick up a sign for our door that welcomed them. The hours would be 2-8 pm.
It lets everyone know it's allowed and whose door to knock on.
I'm hoping I get a little parade tonight, tho the weather isn't so good.
But I'm really pleased to see the change of attitude.
Happy Halloween, everyone.
Premessa, lo ammetto, non aveva piovuto e l'acqua che vedete sulla gemma ce l'ho aggiunta io (non avevo voglia di aspettare che venisse a piovere " naturalmente" ;-) )
Premise, I admit, it had not rained and the water that you see on the gem I have added myself (I did not want to wait for it to be raining "naturally" ;-) )
Apps used: Hipstamatic, Snapseed, iColorama, Rollworld, Delta, Stackables, Superimpose, Big Photo
Backstory: This piece is one of a dozen in my Fragments series, some of which are still in development. The series is premised on the notion that we are all made whole by God, but that we only ever live our lives in fragments, inches to time lived, then remembered, then remade. Each of the pieces in this series are made of fragments from other images, like the impressions, and knowledge, and friendships, and experiences that comprise our individual lives.
Each has a background built for it, then a square image collection of fragments superimposed over it.
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Ballet Coppélia
Greek national opera
Summary of the play:
Young men and women celebrate the wedding of Svanilda and Franz. When Franz encounters Coppelia, a mechanical doll who appears at the festival with Coppelius, her crafty creator, he immediately falls in love with her. The mechanical doll needs one last thing to come to life: a human soul. Coppelius' ultimate goal is to take one of his victims' souls and give it to the lifeless Coppelia. After a kiss with Swanilda, Coppelia appears to acquire a soul and briefly behaves like a human. Coppelius is overwhelmed by his achievement, but it doesn't last long. As Swanilda recovers, Coppelia becomes a doll again. Coppelius is furious at his failure and seeks revenge. Suddenly, however, Coppelia turns against her creator and together with Swanilda defeats him. Swanilda frees Franz and the two are reunited.
The choreography and the libretto. In its original form the premise of the ballet was formulated by Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuittier and Arthur Saint-Leon, who based the novella "Sleep" ["Der Sandmann"] from the first part of the Nocturnes (1817) by E. T.A. Hoffman. Saint-Leon did the choreography. In its new form, the conception, libretto and choreography are by Edward Klug.
THE MAKING OF COPPÉLIA
youtu.be/3f32b51eqIk?si=I2s2aTyFhtJb-82W
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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
A previously unpublished shot from May 2017. Like many street shooters I have avoided, as much as possible, posting too many images of people staring at their mobile phones. Even, as in this case, they are walking so obliviously they might walk right into you! The sad truth is that this is a reflection of life in our time and that, as far as I am concerned, is the premise of street photography. A photographic documentary of life in our times as a record for future generations (hopefully) to reflect upon, as we do now with street photographs from 60 or more years ago. At the moment I have no new work so I am digging out a few more of these smartphone shots than usual, hope you don't mind! :)
20.000 photostream vews; thank you to all that drop in with a special thanks to all in my contact list...Explore #447, August 13/07
The interior of the ForeFather’s Book Shop with George Lamey ( an English and Journalism major at Lock Haven University) and the Exterior of Saint Peter’s Church on Main Street in Rebersburg, Pennsylvania. Side story - Premise Nothing happens by chance , especially with photography, books and teaching ! George recounted his personal history attending Lock Haven University. Then, continuing his life story within the book shop, he recalled how several years ago a young women from Ohio stopped in the store and requested a specific, rare book. After talking with her for a while longer to learn more about her interests, putting on his metaphorical detective hat, he realized that this woman was the daughter of his former English professor when he had attended Lock Haven University twenty-five years earlier!
Digital art Bandits
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"This is wonderfully funny. . . .I'm on somewhat unsure ground here, but wasn't the original picture called something like "The Anatomy Lesson"????? Here we have a delightful visual pun on dissection where a man from the academie de beaux artes "explains" (i.e. dissects) the painting (corpse). . . and the Dutchmen all lean forward as if they are vitally interested. . . while, of course, the picture being dissected, cringes at the dissectors work. . .and the other two selfies stare at us as if appealing for help. . . .("can you make this guy stop?????"). . .and a scribe mulls over the whole scene in disbelief. This picture is tremendously thorough in it's rejection, seriously, of the premise that we can every truly understand art through analysis. So, yes, that applies to people like me who need to be cautious in their commentary. . . and focus on helpful feedback to the artists so that they know their work is fully appreciated."
respon on social media by Diehl Mackey-Pyfer
,Portland, Oregon
Ice plant (Carpobrotus edulis) carpets the dunes in Marina, California. A native to Australia, ice plant was enthusiastically planted by CalTrans along highways and train tracks through the sixties and seventies, and sold as a landscaping plant to home owners. Ice plant thrives in California’s Mediterranean climate and crowds out every other plant, as well as providing the perfect habitat for black rats, also invasive.
Officials finally realized ice plant was destroying native plant communities. The initial premise, that ice plant stabilizes soil, is incorrect - it does the opposite. Its foliage is thick succulent leaves that drink in available water and increase the weight of the plant to the point that banks collapse and dunes flatten. Like all succulents, it is very hard to eradicate. Leave just a fragment of the plant behind and off it goes, recarpeting cleared areas.
This is a view of where the officer’s club used to stand at Fort Ord - the Army planted acres of ice plant. Attempts are being made to get rid of it - the dead zone in the foreground has been sprayed with a powerful herbicide even though the waters of Monterey Bay are at the bottom of the dunes (a big splash from today’s giant surf is visible in the notch on the left). So, maybe not a great plan.
Yes, ice plant is pretty with its many shades from green to red and even spectacular when it blooms - many folks here are unaware that it shouldn’t be here and not particularly impressed by the native plants of the dune ecosystem. Ice plant is edible. Maybe if we all take a few bites every time we are around the stuff...
Electric / radio towers are common fodder for New Topographics photographers. Assuming the premise in maintaining the banal I stepped out of their straight forward technique and made this one my own.
An overcast sky was a requirement. Speed and timing were crucial. Yes, several passes were needed to create what I was pursuing. Specifically and exactly what I intended.
Due to health concerns, the temples at International Buddhist Society advised worshippers to offer flowers instead of burning incense when paying their respect to the deity. As such, the containers in front of the temples were now filled with water, and people threw in (or left behind) bright coloured flowers when leaving the premise.