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A photo taken at a cafe in Dong Van.
Vietnam has many unique inventions. The dripper in the photo does not need paper as coffee is filtered through pinholes in the metal plate inside. And more importantly, it is very cheap.
Coffee cultivation was first introduced to Vietnam in the mid-19th century by the French, but it was the Doi Moi economic reform in the 1980s that spurred private individual farmers to grow coffee as a cash crop, which eventually made it one of Vietnam’s major export products. Vietnam is now the second largest coffee producer in the world only next to Brazil.
With the increase of coffee production, Vietnam developed its own coffee culture.
The taste of Vietnamese coffee is similar to, but different from, French coffee and now has its own right thanks to the dripper and a distinctive roasting techniques.
Cafes are everywhere like in France, but the difference is that the stools are often very low. Someone said that the price of a cup of coffee in Vietnam is in proportion to the height of stool in the cafe. I mean, low stool cafes are cheaper.
The Abbot Hall Art Gallery is set in an attractive Georgian House in a beautiful setting beside the River Kent, surrounded by a park, and overlooked by the ruins of Kendal Castle. Next to the gallery is Kendal Parish Church
It is one of Britain’s finest small art galleries and a wonderful place in which to see and enjoy art in the elegantly proportioned rooms of a Grade I listed building.
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"The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size."
Gertrude Wister
In the photo, the flower is Dark Red with a purple tint - almost purple. This was due to the interference of my camera + the ability of your monitor to display color. The natural color of the lily is dark red with a large proportion of black. You could even say it's black with a small amount of red.
Lilium 'Black Out' (Dark Secret) is a fascinating Asiatic Lily with large, dark carmine-red, upward-facing flowers with an even darker red-to-black shading in the center of each petal.
One of the darkest red lilies, it produces clusters of 4-5 blossoms per stem which look fabulous when combined with yellow or creamy colors.
• Blooming in earl-mid summer, this Lily constitutes an excellent border plant, providing striking color and contrast to the perennial border and mixes beautifully with annuals and other summer flowering bulbs.
На фото квітка має Темно-Червоний з фіолетовим відтінком - майже пурпуровий колір. Тут не обійшлося без втручання моєї камери + здатності вашого монітору відображати колір. Природний колір лілії - темно-червоний з невеликою часткою чорного. Можно навіть сказати - чорний з великою часткою червоного.
«Лілія «Black Out» – це захоплива азійська лілія з великими, темно-кармінно-червоними, спрямованими вгору квітами з ще темнішим червоно-чорним відтінком у центрі кожної пелюстки.
Одна з найтемніших червоних лілій, вона утворює суцвіття з 4-5 квіток на стеблі, які виглядають чудово в поєднанні з жовтими або кремовими кольорами.
• Цвіте на початку-середині літа, ця лілія є чудовою бордюрною рослиною, забезпечуючи вражаючий колір і контраст багаторічній бордюрі та чудово поєднується з однорічними та іншими літніми цибулинними рослинами.»
The grey-headed woodpecker (Picus canus), also known as the grey-faced woodpecker, is a Eurasian member of the woodpecker family, Picidae. Along with the more commonly found European green woodpecker and the Iberian green woodpecker, it is one of three closely related species found in Europe.
Its distribution also stretches across large parts of the central and Eastern Palaearctic, all the way to the Pacific Ocean and south to the Himalaya and the Malay Peninsula.
The grey-headed woodpecker is more demanding than the European green woodpecker in terms of its habitat. It prefers deciduous forest with a high proportion of dead trees, feeding primarily on ants, although not being as exclusively dependent on this group as the green woodpecker. The grey-headed woodpecker's nest is typically excavated into dead or severely damaged trees.
This wonderful tree top exceeded my expectations when massaged to reflect an emotion; Warmth, comfort, steadfastness, with a reliance on health and time to resolve our dilemmas.
Ahh but dilemmas require dialog, decision, action, and consequences. We will move to be like a perfectly proportioned tree who knows not of compromise or extremism. It just knows growth and prosperity or decline and oblivion.
A left over Christmas decoration silhouette still remains in May. I have yet to be in the area during the season to see it illuminated. I bet it's both stunning and very distracting on the side of a rural road.
ZERO founder Heinz Mack had his very first idea for his "Zikurat" series in the 1950s, when he created the first kinetic model. Having further elaborated on the Zikurat concept in the 1990s, Mack reached a high point with this Zikurat in 2010, and not only because of its large size. Split into three parts, "Zikurat (2010)" is an outdoor sculpture that rotates while illuminated by spotlights. Due to the harmonic proportion, the work develops a strong rhythm and a dynamic momentum, while the spectator's gaze is vertically fixed to the top. The play of the changing light on the reflective material is striking since the material is differently structured. This creates a powerful optical effect, intensified even more by the slow turning of the sculpture.
"For me, light is immaterial, and in my case, I prefer to make works that are instruments for light. My sculptures do have a kind of function: of making light visible. If you look at some examples, of course, there is a certain similarity to what you can see if you look at the sea and if the sun is shining on the sea and there is wind that makes the waves reflect the light in a particular way - there is a certain similarity to what happens in nature in the work but it's not comparable with nature. It's not an illusion of nature: it has its own reality."
(Heinz Mack)
The stained glass windows of Notre-Dame, particularly the three rose windows, are among the most famous features of the cathedral. The west rose window, over the portals, was the first and smallest of the roses in Notre-Dame. It is 9.6 metres in diameter, and was made in about 1225, with the pieces of glass set in a thick circular stone frame. None of the original glass remains in this window; it was recreated in the 19th century.
The two transept windows are larger and contain a greater proportion of glass than the rose on the west façade, because the new system of buttresses made the nave walls thinner and stronger. The north rose was created in about 1250, and the south rose in about 1260. The south rose in the transept is 12.9 metres in diameter; with the claire-voie surrounding it, a total of 19 metres. It was given to the cathedral by King Louis IX of France, known as Saint Louis.
The south rose has 94 medallions, arranged in four circles, depicting scenes from the life of Christ and those who witnessed his time on earth. The inner circle has twelve medallions showing the twelve apostles. During later restorations, some of these original medallions were moved to circles farther out. The next two circles depict celebrated martyrs and virgins. The fourth circle shows twenty angels, and saints important to Paris, such as Saint Denis, Margaret the Virgin with a dragon, and Saint Eustace. The third and fourth circles also have some depictions of Old Testament subjects. The third circle has some medallions with scenes from the New Testament Gospel of Matthew which date from the last quarter of the 12th century. These are the oldest glass in the window.
Additional scenes in the corners around the rose window include Jesus's Descent into Hell, Adam and Eve, the Resurrection of Christ. Saint Peter and Saint Paul are at the bottom of the window, and Mary Magdalene and John the Apostle at the top.
Above the rose was a window depicting Christ triumphant seated in the sky, surrounded by his Apostles. Below are sixteen windows with painted images of Prophets. These were painted during the restoration in the 19th century by Alfred Gérenthe, under the direction of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, based upon a similar window at Chartres Cathedral.
The south rose had a difficult history. In 1543 it was damaged by the settling of the masonry walls, and not restored until 1725–1727. It was seriously damaged in the French Revolution of 1830. Rioters burned the residence of the archbishop, next to the cathedral, and many of the panes were destroyed. The window was rebuilt by Viollet-le-Duc in 1861 who rotated it by fifteen degrees to give it a clear vertical and horizontal axis, and replaced the destroyed pieces of glass with new glass in the same style. The window now contains both medieval and 19th-century glass.
In the 1960s, after three decades of debate, it was decided to replace many of the 19th-century grisaille windows in the nave designed by Viollet-le-Duc with new windows. The new windows, made by Jacques Le Chevallier, are without human figures and use abstract designs and colour to try to recreate the luminosity of the cathedral's interior in the 13th century.
The fire left the three great medieval rose windows mostly intact, but with some damage. The rector of the cathedral noted that one rose window would have to be dismantled, as it was unstable and at risk. Most of the other damaged windows were of much less historical value.
In early 2024 Macron proposed removing six of the seven undamaged 19th-century stained glass windows created by Eugene Viollet-le-Duc in the chapels along the south aisle of the nave, and replacing them with new windows with more contemporary designs. He invited contemporary artists to submit designs for the new windows. This proposal inspired a backlash in the press, and 140,000 people signed a petition to keep the old windows. The plan for contemporary windows was rejected by the French Commission on Architectural Monuments and Patrimony in July 2024.
Been digging deep in the hunt for food...
he Oystercatcher is a striking and familiar wader, its pied plumage contrasting with the bright orange bill and pinkish legs.
The species breeds widely, both around the coast and inland, particularly in northern Britain, whilst during winter large flocks congregate on our estuaries. In Ireland the breeding population remains predominantly coastal. Britain & Ireland support a significant proportion of the global population of this species.
Ringing studies highlight that there is little interchange between the Atlantic subpopulation – which includes those breeding in Iceland, the Faeroes, Britain and Ireland – and the continental subpopulation, which is made up of birds from Scandinavia and the Low Countries.
location : Kyoto Honen-in ,Kyoto city ,Kyoto prefecture , Japan
京都 東山鹿ヶ谷 法然院
In the foreground is "The Byakusadan" ( twin white sand platforms/mounds) which symbolize the water, and a monk draw a seasonal new pattern like waves ,cherry blossoms ,maple leaves ,a fan with Kanji ( Chinese charer )on in the early morning every three or four days .
Passing trough the stone path between the Byakusadan means that the worshipers are purified themselves and enter a kind sanctuary of the temple. - maco-nonch
This temple has an explicit no-tripod policy, so tripods, including monopods, are usually prohibited.
watermarked replace 2025/10/09
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The Honen-in, whose formal name is the Zenki-san Honen-in Bambukyo-ji善気山 法然院 萬無教寺,is located at the foot of Zenki-san which is one of the 36 Higashiyama mountains.The principal Buddhist image of the temple is the statue of Amida Nyorai.The Honen-in stands on the site where Priest Honen ( 1133-1212),who is the founder of the Jodo sect of Buddhism ,and his two disciples Anraku and Juren erected and image of Amida Nyorai to worshhip him and perform services in front of the image six time a day.
The exsiting Hondo ( main hall) was built in 1680 by Priest Nincho (1645-1711) who regreted the fact that the proportion of earnest disciplinants became less while the doctrine of Honen flitered into the public,on the advice of his master Priest Bambu( 1607-1681),the 38th superior of the Chion-in Temple.- He shose Shikagatani where Honen and his discilpes erectted the image of Amida Nyorai for the site for the monastery to practice Sehnju-Nenbutsu,the invocation of Honen which leads to salvation of Amida's paradise by just reciting Nanu-Amidabutsu many times.
Afterwards,many monks studied in the monastery keeping the original doctrine of Honen, who started Senju-Nenbutsu . Howeve ,since the beginning of 20th century,the Honen-in has been turning to be a family temple of the supporters. After the World WarⅡ,the temple left from the Jodo-sect and it hawsw been an independent religious corporation since then. Today the temple is aimed to help the people achieve calmness of their minds with faith and make their own lives spiritually richer with all living creatures. - Honen-in
The original photo was taken at Bryce Canyon. I took the hoodoos and solitary hiker to get a sense of proportion. Photoleap was used to add kite creatures and create this image.
Pat Dougherty is one of those guys who makes mere mortals wonder why they're so lame. At least that's the effect he has on your author. Pat's happily married and has raised three kids, he can sing and act, his "Blues Patrol" Blues Brothers stage show has packed New England venues for 20 years, he's an ASA Certified master automotive technician, but most of all, Pat can draw cars.
No computers are involved, and he isn't the type to obtain realism via retouched digital photos. The only digital aspect of his drawings are his 10 fingers. Everything on the paper comes directly from his inquisitive and detail-oriented mind. Ever since elementary school art class, Pat's had an innate ability to create highly realistic renderings without much training beyond the usual public-school curriculum. But it was during architectural graphics class at Stamford High School (the same Connecticut public school that hatched star-crossed Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane a generation earlier) where Pat says, "My teacher, Mr. Burkhardt, was very supportive and fed my interest with helpful commentary. It took off from there."
In particular, Pat's grasp of the technical sideline of drawing, as described with terms like "fineness of line," "perspective," "realism," "shading," and "proportion" is highly calibrated. Beyond that, his attention to realistic details like factory part numbers, correct surface textures, and—to this writer's opinion—getting the correct rocker panel "tuck under" or "fuselage effect" are what separate Pat's work from that of other automotive cartoonists. Check for yourself: too many automotive illustrators and cartoonists fail to properly capture the tube-like surface development of most automobile bodies. They're rendered with vertical slab sides that simply aren't correct. Dougherty's stuff differs.
After high school, Pat went to work at an architect's office. There, he "discovered the empty feeling of doing work that others took credit for." Following his passion for cars, he left the architect after a year and went to work at Fairbanks Racing Transmissions, a leading East Coast retailer of high-performance automatic transmissions and components. At Fairbanks, Pat did a lot of everything, from assembly to marketing to answering tech questions by phone. Yes, Pat even applied Fairbanks' trademark black tiger stripesoverCaterpillar Tractor Yellow graphics to completed transmissions and torque converters prior to shipment: "We used a template to mask off the stripes." No, Pat's transmissions weren't "signed by the artist," but he took extra care to make sure the paintwork was applied with care. Maybe there's one in your garage or under the floorboards of your hot rod.
After leaving Fairbanks, Pat spent the next 30 years working for AAMCO transmission shops in Connecticut. But through it all, Pat remained active at his hobby of drawing automotive subjects while also finding time to raise a happy family of three. Today, Pat is transitioning into the world of self-employment with a business centered around his hand-drawn renderings of cars and trucks. During the car-show season, he can be found at more than 30 outdoor events, including the Syracuse Nationals in New York, Carlisle Chrysler Nationals in Pennsylvania, and others where he's given spotlight space to do his thing before the passing crowd. We visited Pat's Stamford, Connecticut, home and studio for a look at his work. If you dig what you see, Pat sells reprints and is also ready to render your vehicle in his unique cartoon-realist style.
Credit: HotRod www.motortrend.com/features/jobs-cars-automotive-art-pat-...
“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.” ~Francis Bacon, “Of Beauty” (Essays, 1625).
Everything is this compact town is so perfect – the Market Square, the Cathedral, the numerous parks all look as if they were crafted by artists of note, which they were!
The city is very well preserved and clean to boot. It is almost like a stage set, nay, make that a movie set, perhaps a Disney flick?
Every window has lace curtains and flower boxes with geraniums, all the buildings are in good repair, and the architecture is infinitely interesting. Low-country designs of the Middle Ages were a matter of pride; every detail down to the outline of a window frame is beautifully proportioned.
In the heart of the downtown, motor vehicles are prohibited, except for deliveries during restricted hours, making it one of the easiest walking cities of the world, safe and well-signed. The winding cobbled streets, adjacent to the canals, are shared by pedestrians and the occasional horse-drawn carriage. Sweepers follow the horses and keep the streets litter free.
Restaurants serve authentic Belgian cooking, a strong rival to French cuisine, as well as numerous international style dishes. Fresh fish, cooked a thousand different ways, is plentiful, as are beautiful homegrown vegetables. Of course, this country is famous for its chocolate, a worthy choice for dessert. My own personal favorite Belgian meal is carpes frites plus pommes frites, which would be called ‘fish and chips’ anywhere else, but is in fact a perfect delicacy here in Bruges.
Yes there is a mathematical equation I could conjure up for the ratio of the proportions of these but for this Flickr Friday shot let us just say small, medium and large mixing bowls.
"Due to the shrike's small size in proportion to the size of its prey, it must rely on specialized adaptations to facilitate its hunting. ... Larger prey are subjected to impaling, in which they are pushed down into a sharp projection, such as a thorn or barbed wire."
Die Brücke scheint zu klein zu sein für das große Schiff, das durch die Büsche fährt. Es ist aber alles in Ordnung, ein großes Cargo Schiff fährt auf dem Nord-Ostsee-Kanal und passierte die 42 m hohe Levensauer Hochbrücke.
The bridge appears to be too small for the large ship that sails through the bushes. But everything is fine, a large cargo ship is sailing on the Kiel Canal and passed the 42 m high bridge
Song of the day (from the 60's): Jefferson Airplane - "White Rabbit"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWWsfrfq69A
"...when logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead..."
Island Of Madagascar
Off the East Coast of Africa
Berenty Reserve
This lemur was photographed in an area called the spiny forest. Here it is sitting in the middle of some cactus.
Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi), or the white sifaka, is a medium-sized primate in one of the lemur families, the Indriidae. It lives in Madagascar and can be found in a variety of habitats from rainforest to western Madagascar dry deciduous forests and dry and spiny forests.
Its fur is thick and silky and generally white with brown on the sides, top of the head, and on the arms. Like all sifakas, it has a long tail that it uses as a balance when leaping from tree to tree. However, its body is so highly adapted to an arboreal existence, on the ground its only means of locomotion is hopping. The species lives in small troops which forage for food.
The Madagascar spiny forests (also known as the Madagascar spiny thickets) is an ecoregion in the southwest of Madagascar. The vegetation type is found on poor substrates with low, erratic winter rainfall. The ecoregion contains an outstanding proportion of endemic plant species and is part of the Global 200.
Notable inhabitants of the spiny thickets include the spider tortoise (Pyxis arachnoides) and the radiated tortoise (Astrochelys radiata), the gecko Ebenavia maintimainty, several lemurs including Verreaux's sifaka, Grandidier's mongoose, and eight endemic birds. – Wikipedia
Graceful, well-proportioned bodies and sharp features bring out the elegance of the female figure. The gestures of the subjects of the paintings express more than their looks.
Bundi is one of the few places in India, which can lay its claim to an authentic School of Painting. "The Bundi School" is an important school of the Rajasthani style of Indian miniature painting that lasted from the 17th to the end of the 19th century in this princely state (see picture 1 for more information).
Pyramid Of Death
Ilioupoli Athens Greece 28/6/2007
Mount Parnitha is a densely forested mountain range north of Athens, the highest on the peninsula of Attica, with an elevation of 1,413 m.
Much of the mountain is designated a national park and is a protected habitat for wildfowl, first created in 1961.
The mountain covers approximately 250 km² of land.
Parnitha suffered extensive damage from a wildfire on Thursday, June 28, 2007. Continuing for several days and burning approximately 56 km² of land. The magnitude of the devastation was unforeseen. A smaller fire had, however, taken place in the 1960s.
The fire claimed an 80% proportion of the rare Greek Fir and Aleppo Pine forest, 150 animals of the red deer population (an endangered species), birds, and other rare animals. The remains of the green firs and pines are sporadically located around its edges. The smoke from the massive destruction formed a line that traveled east over Attica, southern Euboea, Chios, to the edge of Turkey, at a distance of approximately 350 km.
Scientists estimate the area's recovery time may be as long as a century.
Canon Powershot A710is
I saw this light art installation online and couldn't work out how big it was from the photos, so I thought it needed a sense of scale; waiting for these people in the shot to stand still during the 0.3 seconds' exposure with the colour changing lights hitting the right combination was tricky!
The blurb:
"This large light installation comes to the UK for the first time for Winter Lights at Canary Wharf. On entering OVO, visitors are surrounded by light and soundscapes. Its dynamic form is a combination of 24 crossed spiral pairs based on the Golden Proportion that is present everywhere in the universe, from infinitely small in the DNA helix to infinitely large in the cyclical movement of planets and galaxies. Four artists created OVO: Mostafa Hadi and Pol Marchandise (Odeaubois) designed the sculpture; Koert Vermeulen (ACT Lighting Design) conceived the lighting design and Marcos Viñals Bassols (Art Director) shaped the global scenography."
Yo contaba con la décima parte de mi edad y tú con la misma proporción de muros en pie, ¿recuerdas? Eran tus piedras caídas, tus aljibes y alguna que otra dependencia que se quería adivinar el escenario de mis juegos llenos de aventura viva. Eran veranos sin televisor -había uno en blanco y negro que se ponía poco porque gastaba- jugando a la pelota en la calle mientras las abuelas tomaban la fresca en la puerta de la casa antes de ir a dormir, donde para bañarte calentaban una vez a la semana agua al sol en una recipiente de metálico que llamaban caldereta y ya. ¡Cuánto ha cambiado todo y no sé si para mejor!
I was one tenth my age and you had the same proportion of standing walls, remember? They were your fallen stones, your cisterns and some other room the scenario of my games full of live adventures. They were summers without a television - there was a black and white one at home but was turned on a little because it wasted light - playing ball in the street while the grandmothers took the fresh air at the door of the house before going to sleep, where they warmed up to bathe me once per week water in the sun in a metallic container. How much everything has changed and I don't know if it's always for the better!
Portraitshooting mit unserer Fotogruppe
- Allen immer den richtigen Blick für die Proportionen und das Schöne.
The Black-necked Stilt is an elegant black and white shorebird with a long neck, and long red legs. They have the second-longest legs in proportion to their bodies of any bird—only a flamingo's are longer. Copyright © Kim Toews/All Rights Reserved.
This bird's reddish legs (8-10") may be the largest, in proportion to its body size, among all birds. Shoveler Pond, Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge, Texas.
It is not an everyday thing for you to see an image like this. And it’s no fun if I tell you right away what exactly this is. Somehow, it’s not short of an artistic form it makes up to be with the bright light in the middle of well-proportioned dreary illuminations in the orbit.
NOTE: This image was uploaded on April 11, 2008. But, I put this up front once again using the magic of "posting date" in flickr just to give the answer to this so-called trivial image. Go click on it, you'll see the image with different exposure in comments, then you'll say,
"Ohhh... I see...!!!".