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Transports de Barcelona, S.A. (empresa municipal que opera bajo la marca Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona, TMB): el midibús híbrido número 4459 (Vectia Teris.9, matrícula 5337 KSV) prestando servicio en la línea urbana 132, del servicio de proximidad Bus del Barri.
Transports de Barcelona, S.A. (municipal company that operates under the brand Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona, TMB): the hybrid midibus number 4459 (Vectia Teris.9, registration 5337 KSV) providing service on city line 132, of the proximity service Bus del Barri.
Old Castle Street at night. The body of Alice McKenzie was found on this street in the early hours of July 17 1889. She had some mutilations, but not as severe as the known Ripper victims, so she is generally not considered to have been a victim of Jack The Ripper.
This building is the facade of the old Whitechapel Wash Houses. The spot where McKenzie was found is on the pavement about where the street light on the left is (the proximity anyway).
This street I think is still unsettling at night.
Nikon F4. Nikkor 50mm F1.2 lens. Mr. Negative Bat Country 400T 35mm ECN2 film.
Petra (Arabic: البتراء, Al-Batrāʾ; Ancient Greek: Πέτρα), originally known as Raqmu (Nabataean Arabic: الرقيم), is a historical and archaeological city in southern Jordan. Petra lies on the slope of Jabal Al-Madbah in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Arabah valley that run from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. Established possibly as early as the 4th century BC as the capital city of the Nabataean Kingdom. The Nabataeans were nomadic Arabs who invested in Petra's proximity to the trade routes by establishing it as a major regional trading hub.
The trading business gained the Nabataeans considerable revenue, and Petra became the focus of their wealth. The earliest recorded historical reference to the city was when an envious Greek dynasty attempted to ransack the city in 312 BC. The Nabataeans were, unlike their enemies, accustomed to living in the barren deserts, and were able to repel attacks by utilizing the area's mountainous terrain. They were particularly skillful in harvesting rainwater, agriculture and stone carving. The Kingdom's capital continued to flourish until the 1st century AD when its famous Al-Khazneh facade was constructed, and its population peaked at an estimated 20,000 inhabitants.
Encroaching troops of the Roman Empire in 106 AD forced the Nabataeans to surrender. The Romans annexed and renamed the Kingdom to Arabia Petraea. Petra's importance declined as sea trade routes emerged, and after a 363 earthquake destroyed many structures. The Byzantine Era witnessed the construction of several Christian churches. By 700, the city became an abandoned place where only a handful of nomads grazed goats. It remained an unknown place until it was rediscovered by Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt in 1812, sparking renewed interest in the city.
The city is famous for its rock-cut architecture and water conduit system. Another name for Petra is the Rose City due to the color of the stone out of which it is carved. It is a symbol of Jordan, as well as Jordan's most-visited tourist attraction. It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1985. UNESCO has described it as "one of the most precious cultural properties of man's cultural heritage".
St Bees is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in the Copeland district of Cumbria on the Irish Sea coast just south of St. Bees Head, the most westerly point of Northern England.
In the parish is St Bees Head which is the only Heritage Coast between Wales and Scotland which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and is the spectacular location of the largest seabird colony in north-west England. St Bees Lighthouse stands on the North Head.
St Bees is a popular holiday destination due the coastline and proximity to the Lake District, and in the village there is St Bees Priory, and the St Bees School site (the school is temporarily closed). The Wainwright Coast to Coast Walk starts from the north end of St Bees Bay which is within easy walking distance of the main village centre.
Early history
Evidence of Mesolithic and Bronze Age habitation has been found in St Bees,[2] but nothing of the Roman occupation. The name St Bees is a corruption of the Norse name for the village, which is given in the earliest charter of the Priory as "Kyrkeby becok", which can be translated as the "Church town of Bega",[3] relating to the local Saint Bega.[4] She was said to be an Irish princess who fled across the Irish Sea to St Bees to avoid an enforced marriage. Carved stones at the priory show that Irish-Norse Vikings settled here in the 10th century.
The Normans did not reach Cumbria until 1092, and when they took over the local lordships, William Meschin, Lord of Egremont, used the existing religious site[5] to found a Benedictine priory for a prior and six monks sometime between 1120 and 1135. The priory was subordinate to the great Benedictine monastery of St Mary at York. The magnificent Norman doorway of the priory dates from just after this time; probably about 1150.
The priory had a great influence on the area. The monks worked the land, fished, and extended the priory buildings. The ecclesiastical parish of St Bees was large and stretched to Ennerdale, Loweswater, Wasdale and Eskdale. The coffin routes from these outlying areas to the mother church in St Bees can still be followed in places.
The priory was closed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries on the orders of Henry VIII in 1539. The nave and transepts of the monastic church have continued in use as the parish church to the present day, but much of the extensive monastic buildings were plundered or fell into decay.
Remarkably, the small West Cumbrian village of St Bees produced two of the archbishops of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I: Edmund Grindal; Archbishop of Canterbury and Edwin Sandys; Archbishop of York.[6]
In about 1519 Edmund Grindal was born in Cross Hill House, St Bees, which still exists, and is marked with a plaque.[7] He was probably educated at the priory across the valley. A devout Protestant, he made his mark in the reign of Edward VI, but had to flee to Strasbourg when the Catholic Mary I ascended the throne. On Mary's death the country once again became Protestant, and Grindal became Bishop of London, Archbishop of York and then Archbishop of Canterbury. His undoing was opposing Queen Elizabeth I on liberal religious meetings and he was suspended. He died in 1583 still in disgrace, but, virtually on his death bed, he founded St Bees School which existed until July 2015, when it closed. The present primary school in the village was established in the 1870s.
Growth of the village
The site of the priory is on an area of firm ground higher than the peat beds that fill the valley, and it is logical that the original settlement would grow up there. However the area was constricted, and as the village expanded it grew on up the opposite side of the valley. The oldest existing house dates from the early 16th century and the present Main Street was created from a string of farms and farmworkers' dwellings.
The 19th century saw the start of great changes. In 1816 St Bees Theological College was founded, and was the first theological college for the training of Church of England clergy outside Oxford and Cambridge. To house the college, the monastic chancel of the Priory was re-roofed and served as the main lecture room, and additional lecture rooms were built in the 1860s. At one time the college had 100 students, and over 2,600 clergy were trained before it closed in 1895.[8]
St. Bees School started its era of expansion with the building of the quadrangle in 1846 using compensation from the rich mine-owning Lowther family, who had illegally obtained the lucrative mineral rights for Whitehaven from the school in 1742 at a derisory sum.[9] This was the first step in St. Bees School's rise from a local institution to becoming one of the new "public schools" on the fashionable model of Dr Arnold's Rugby School. By 1916 numbers had reached 350, many new buildings had been erected, and the school had become known nationally.
Perhaps some of the greatest changes were after 1849 when the Furness Railway reached the village. St Bees attracted the professional classes which commuted to Whitehaven or Workington. This led to the building of many of the larger houses and Lonsdale Terrace. The railway brought tourists, and as early as 1851 the Lord Mayor of London stayed at the Seacote Hotel. This long history of attracting tourists for "bucket and spade" holidays has continued to this day.
The railway made possible the export of St Bees sandstone. Huge amounts of stone were quarried, much of it for building the boom town of Barrow-in-Furness. This industry died out in the 1970s, but has since been revived, and there are now two working quarries in the parish.
Agriculture was originally the mainstay of the village economy. Gradually, during the 19th century, service employment for the school and lodgings for the college gave additional income, and with the advent of commuters, the village's social mix was becoming more middle class. Tourism and quarries also provided employment, and many village men found work in the iron ore mines at Cleator. Thus the 19th century saw the change from a rural backwater based on agriculture, to the more diversified role of a dormitory village for professional and industrial worker alike, and its growth into a minor academic centre.
The start of the 20th century saw yet another decline in agriculture, and this has continued to today, when there are only a few farms left. Industrial decline also hit West Cumbria as a whole, particularly after the boom years of both world wars. However, following the Second World War, two major industries were established which have had a profound effect on the community.[10] The former Marchon Chemical Company at Whitehaven, and UKAEA/BNFL at Sellafield both soaked up village labour released by the declining heavy iron and mining industries, and brought a large influx of the technical and scientific university-educated middle class into the village; rather like the first arrival of the professional classes a century earlier. There is now an extensive science park – Westlakes, on the northern fringe of the parish, at which the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has its national headquarters.
The last two decades have seen a significant revival in tourism, boosted by the Coast to Coast walk and increasing recognition of the unique landscape of the St Bees Heritage Coast.
In 2014, it was rated one of the most attractive postcode areas to live in England.[11]
St Bees Man
In 1981 an archaeological excavation at the priory revealed a vault with a lead coffin containing an astonishingly well preserved body – now known as the St Bees Man. He has been identified as Anthony de Lucy,[12] a knight, who died in 1368 in the Teutonic Crusades in Lithuania. Although the body was over six hundred years old, his nails, skin and stomach contents were found to be in near-perfect condition.[13] After his death the vault was enlarged to take the body of his sister, Maud de Lucy, who died in 1398. The effigies which are probably of both Maud and Anthony can be seen in the extensive history display which includes the shroud in which he was wrapped.
Transport links
The village has a railway station in the village centre which is served by St Bees railway station on the Cumbrian Coast Line, with trains from Barrow-in-Furness, Lancaster, Preston and Carlisle. There are currently (2015) 22 stopping passenger trains a day. There is no Sunday service.
The village is on the B5345 from Whitehaven to Iron Bridge junction near Beckermet.
Sport and recreation
The village has a football team which competes in the Cumbria County league. The most successful player to come through its ranks was Zac Starkie who joined Gretna FC as a youth player and went on to play for Zimbabwe Under 21's football team as he was eligible through his grandmother's origin.[citation needed]
There are facilities for rugby, football and cricket at the Adams recreation ground adjacent to the Seacote beach. This playing field was created in memory of Baron Adams of Ennerdale. The sports facilities of St Bees School are also available, which include a sports hall, squash, tennis and fives courts, and an indoor swimming pool.
Coast-based recreational activities at St Bees are: windsurfing, kite-surfing, rock climbing, bouldering, swimming, jet-skiing, water-skiing, canoeing and para-gliding. These are undertaken on St Bees Head and off the large sandy surf beach.
For downloadable walking guides, see [1] The circular walk to St Bees Head and Birkhams quarry featured in the May 2012 booklet of the best coastal walks in UK published by the Daily Telegraph newspaper; it being one of only two walks covered in the north west of England.
Wainwright Coast to Coast walk
St Bees is the start of the Wainwright Coast to Coast walk, which was devised by Alfred Wainwright in 1973. It is an 192-mile (309 km)[14] unofficial and mostly unsignposted long-distance footpath in Northern England. Devised by Alfred Wainwright, it passes through three contrasting National Parks: the Lake District National Park, the Yorkshire Dales National Park, and the North York Moors National Park.
Wainwright recommended that walkers dip their booted feet in the Irish Sea at St Bees and, at the end of the walk, in the North Sea at Robin Hood's Bay. At St Bees the start is marked by the "Wainwright Wall" which explains the walk and its history. A new interpretation board and the steel banner were installed in summer 2013 by St Bees Parish Council and the Wainwright Society.
The Helix Nebula, also known as The Helix, NGC 7293, is a large planetary nebula (PN) located in the constellation Aquarius. Discovered by Karl Ludwig Harding, probably before 1824, this object is one of the closest to the Earth of all the bright planetary nebulae. The estimated distance is about 215 parsecs (700 light-years). It is similar in appearance to the Cat's Eye Nebula and the Ring Nebula, whose size, age, and physical characteristics are similar to the Dumbbell Nebula, varying only in its relative proximity and the appearance from the equatorial viewing angle. The Helix Nebula has sometimes been referred to as the "Eye of God" in pop culture, as well as the "Eye of Sauron".(Wikipedia)
Taken:
August/September 2016
Prinsenbeek, The Netherlands
48x 600sec Lum
32x 900sec Ha
28x 900sec OIII
27x 600sec RGB
Total 27,5Hr
Equipment:
Orion VX 1200
SBIG ST8300M
Baader + IDAS LPS filters
Software: PS, Pixinsight
Both the Aviation Museum and the National Railway Museum are in close proximity to each other at Port Adelaide as National Railway Museum's preserved Redhen railcar set 400,321 pass the Aviation Museum with a shuttle trip on 14-9-13
Standing on the A46 outside Newark looking east with the Newark flat crossing just out of view centre left.
The 0730 LNER service, working 1B81, from Lincoln to London Kings Cross is rounding the Newark East Junction for the scheduled stop at Newark Northgate.
The view is good from here, but the proximity to a very busy and noisy road does detract from the enjoyment.
The beauty of the common bent. Probably due to the proximity of riparian forests, at some point a seed has strayed into the garden and is multiplying. For many, this grass is undesirable. I like it and especially when the sun shines through the garden in the late afternoon, you can see its true beauty.
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Hamilton's proximity to the centre of the universe has helped it maintain a degree of economic prosperity during the decline of the steel sector.
The XTA Proximity "The Tracker" a gun that took very long to make and had to save it as a JPEG so it may look kinda bad or blurry. Anyways The XTA Proximity or known as "The tracker" is know for its Enemy finding and detecting abilities. The tracker has a special bullet usage (which i forgot to make sorry) that has a GPS chip installed in each one so that if the enemy escapes with the bullet wound the tracker is able to find him/her. The tracker has a radar and a satellite scanner that could detect enemies in range. Also with a heart beat sensor for those areas where satellite connection is not really at its best. It has 2 optional scopes for great aim and a knife installment in the stock for the stealth melee kills.
My proximity didn't seem to bother this fellow as he desperately tried to attract attention of a mate and defend his territory. Taken near the Dee Estuary at Burtonmere Wetlands RSPB reserve, Wirral.
Spending time in close proximity to this Common Loon, as I did one late April afternoon at Inglewood Bird Sanctuary in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, led me to consider how varied the responses of birds are to human presence.
The loon was undoubtedly aware of my presence, but seemed not to care as it continued searching for food in the shallow water. At times it was less than two metres away. That formidable pointed bill, the ruby red eyes, the head glowing glossy green in the right light, the water droplets spread out on its face like dew on a spider web or jewels in a row, the white spangles on its black back — they all held the essence of this amazing bird. Singularly unconcerned by me, it focused on its own life.
Of course, its large size and its position high in a food chain let the loon feel at ease. This same unthreatened nonchalance has come through in my observations of species such as Peregrine Falcon, American White Pelican, and Bald Eagle. These birds generally have little to fear from people, at least directly.
Yet there are certain birds that I have found to be surprisingly shy. Belted Kingfisher is a classic example: dashing off with rattling alarm, even at considerable distance. Obviously birds with young are protective, ushering their offspring away from potential danger. In hunting season, and on migration, usually tolerant species such as ducks flush quickly. Warblers are often so busy darting about feeding that they seem not to notice a quiet observer — however, move suddenly and they’re gone.
Patience can reward with close views of otherwise nervous birds. I recall a fall afternoon spent hunkered down at the edge of a small stormwater pond, when after a while the Bufflehead on the pond swam in very close and began diving. The glistening iridescence of the heads of the males shone in the sunlight, and the females revealed their splendour too: the white mark on the cheeks standing out on the otherwise chocolate brown plumage.
I also fondly remember watching Western Grebes fishing in an irrigation canal in southern Alberta, caring not a whit that I was sitting on the nearby edge. Their essentially plain colouration belied their elegance, with long necks, bright red eyes, and long yellow bills.
So although many birds are quick to move away, requiring us to cherish brief moments with them, we can truly savour time spent with those whose “personal space” allows us to watch and enjoy them at leisure.
Tonight is the night you can see the moon at it closest proximity to Earth since January 16, 1948. If you can, take a step outside tonight and view the beautiful full moon - it won't be this close again until 2034!
Despite their proximity to the west coast of Africa these islands were apparently entirely uninhabited when Portuguese navigators João de Santarém and Pero Escobar arrived on Saint Thomas’s day the 21st of December 1470. The Portuguese quickly settled the islands and were soon importing slaves from the mainland to work in their newly established sugar plantations. The sugar produced here was of poor quality compared to that from elsewhere and from the beginning of the 19th century was replaced with coffee, this crop was in turn largely replaced by cocoa. Slavery in the islands’ plantations or roças carried on until 1875 when it was abolished and replaced with a system of contract labour this did not significantly improve the lives of the island’s labour force and the Portuguese continued to import labourers from their mainland colonies. At the beginning of the 20th century the plight of the plantation workers reached the outside world, protests from the Aboriginal Protection Society and the Anti-Slavery Society, prompted William Cadbury to send an agent to the islands to investigate. Possibly to protect his company's own commercial interests and to allow time for them to establish their own plantations in the Gold Coast (Ghana), he chose not to act for some years until after he visited the Islands in 1909 to see for himself. Cadburys and other chocolate companies then started a boycott of Cocoa from the Islands. However, little changed for the plantation workers who remained as virtual slaves.
In 1953 descendents of former slaves known as Forros, fearing they would be conscripted and forced to work on the plantations protested at Batepa, Portuguese troops attacked the protesters and in the massacre that followed over 1,000 Forros may have been killed. This event sparked the establishment of a liberation movement, however, despite the Batepa Massacre, unlike in Portugal’s mainland colonies there was no war for independence. Following Portugal’s bloodless Carnation Revolution in 1974, the islands demanded their independence and this was granted the following year.
Although STP's independence had been achieved peacefully the Portuguese plantation owners fled, abandoning their plantations and the islands. Soon afterwards the roças were nationalised by STP’s new Marxist government, many of them fell in to disrepair during this period.
The entrance to the roca no longer looks quite like this, since my visit (in 2008) it has become the Roca Belo Monte Hotel. As part of the renovations the gates and the wall have been painted a nice shade of cream. I've no doubt the new owners felt they had to do this but looking at the photos on their website I feel they've taken away some of the character of the place.
queen butterflies on milkweed, Lake Travis Library butterfly garden, Lakeway, TX. Sony A6500 and FE70-300G.
Proximidades fragmentadas
São Paulo, 2024
De perto ninguém é normal, e todos somos comuns. A fotografia permite uma aproximação ao mesmo tempo profunda e superficial, concreta e fragmentada. Esses pedaços de cotidiano são apenas vislumbres de uma investigação sobre o dia a dia, uma pretensão de adentrar a vida, que talvez apenas a fragmente.
[ENGLISH] Fragmented proximities - Up close, no one is normal, and we are all ordinary. Photography allows an approach that is both deep and superficial, concrete and fragmented. These pieces of everyday life are just glimpses of an investigation into everyday routine, an attempt to enter life, which perhaps only fragments it.
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Another perfect end to the day!! The Master of all painters places his design in the sky and I am merely there to record the moment!! Photo taken at El Franco Lee Park!
Some ask why we have so many scenes such as this in the sky and I suspect that it has to do with our proximity to the Gulf Coast and the way the moisture flows in off of the Gulf of Mexico!! Large thunderstorms build up from that flow and it is caused by the heating during the middle of the day. By the end of the day those storms tend to dissipate and are blown apart by the upper level winds!! If they are in the right place the setting sun playing on the surface of those clouds can offer up some very colorful moments!!
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Red Kites were reintroduced into County Down, Northern Ireland in 2008 from Welsh stock. The small population is closely monitored.
The Red Kite Retreat in Castlewellan, Co. Down is a commercial hide following the examples of Gigrin Farm in Wales and Bellymack Hill Farm in Dumfries, Scotland.
Food is provided at the same time every day for the Kites who cautiously fly in. The local Buzzards also take a keen interest and the Crows take the final leavings.
PROXIMITY MALT
Along the Rio Grande River ...
... revisiting the site of one of my more popular photos, I find this facility to be a very picturesque part of
San Luis Valley Agriculture
1001 N County Rd 3 E, Monte Vista, CO 81144
c1974 at Gravelly Point Park at the north end of KDCA. Used the lens cap to capture multiple exposures of several aircraft on the same frame of Anscochrome.
Nikkormat FTn w/Vivitar 28mm f 2.8 Prime
Nikon Film Camera
Washington National Airport
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (IATA: DCA, ICAO: KDCA, FAA LID: DCA), also known as National Airport, Washington National, Reagan National Airport or simply Reagan, is in Arlington, Virginia, next to the border of Washington, D.C. It is the smaller of two airports operated by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority that serve the National Capital Region (NCR) around Washington (the larger airport being Washington Dulles International Airport about 25 miles (40 km) to the west in Virginia's Fairfax and Loudoun counties).[2][6] The airport is 5 miles (8.0 km) from downtown Washington D.C. and the border is visible from the airport.
The airport's original name was Washington National Airport. Congress adopted the present name to honor President Ronald Reagan in 1998.[7][8] MWAA operates the airport with close oversight by the federal government due to its proximity to the national capital.
Flights into and out of the airport are generally not allowed to exceed 1,250 statute miles (2,010 km) in any direction nonstop, in an effort to send coast-to-coast and overseas traffic to Washington Dulles International Airport, though there are 40 slot exemptions to this rule. Planes are required to take unusually complicated paths to avoid restricted and prohibited airspace above sensitive landmarks, government buildings, and military installations in and around Washington, D.C.,[9] and to comply with some of the tightest noise restrictions in the country.[10]
The airport's small size constrains its capacity, but Reagan National currently serves 98 nonstop destinations. Reagan is a hub for American. The airport has no United States immigration and customs facilities; the only scheduled international flights at the airport are those from airports with U.S. Customs and Border Protection preclearance facilities, which generally encompasses flights from major airports in Canada and from some destinations in the Caribbean. Other international passenger flights to the Washington, D.C. area use Washington Dulles International Airport or Baltimore–Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. There are currently five scheduled international routes, which are to cities in Canada, the Bahamas, and Bermuda.[11]
The airport served 23.5 million passengers in 2018.[12] In 2019, DCA served 23,945,527 passengers, an increase of 1.8% over 2018, and a new passenger record for the airport.
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You may ask: why the frame border? It’s a long story but here’s the relatively short version. Some 8 years ago I stopped creating frame borders around my images. Reason: people found it distracting. And I found it distracting that people were distracted so I stopped doing it, for no real reason other than eliminating an external distraction. Fast forward, present day. I’m in an ‘artistic interbellum’. Which is good because that means I’m changing and change is good. I’ve been searching for different artistic motives in my work, deeper meanings, stronger emotions and how to communicate them. Perhaps you’ve noticed, since I didn’t post much the past year. Which doesn’t mean I wasn’t doing anything, artistically speaking. Actually I was doing more in the past year than in the 5 years before that, but only in my head. Anyway, I found, among many other things, that art needs to be physical. It’s not just what you express and depict in your images and what you intend with those images that matter, it’s also how you present it. It needs to be tactile. Concrete. Physical. So I print almost all of my work. Large. On very nice paper, maybe textured, maybe glossy. Mount it on something really solid. Put a frame around it. That’s concrete and physical. But on the Internet it loses all physicality. It’s just one image out of billions. It tends to be more illusory then. Take a family snapshot or a snapshot of your cat that you like. Print it large. Really large like 20 by 20. Feet, that is, not inches. Put a frame around it. Get the picture? It becomes something different. Perhaps not art, but anyone confronted with this 20 by 20 feet large framed print of your cat snapshot will sense this is more than a picture. The viewer can’t ignore it. It’s there taking up quite some space and it will dominate anything in its proximity. It communicates to you saying: I’m big and I’m in your way. And if the print falls on his/her head, they will feel it’s quite tactile. Put it on the Internet and, unless your cat is Grumpy cat, no one will be impressed. I feel I’m digressing now although I was trying to make a point. The Internet degrades a picture to something without any tactility. It levels out all great art and all snapshots to just a collection of pixels that you can’t touch. A Rembrandt will look faded, a Rothko will look like something any 3 year old could paint. Very different from when you see it in real life: the frame, the canvas, the layers of paint. The subtlety and transparency of colors, and most importantly, the size. And the depiction of the object/subject matter itself. It’s communicating with you. All that, that’s art. My photos will look like meaningless, non existing, illusory snapshots on the Internet. Because you can’t touch it. There’s no scale. No matter what picture you look at, they always have the same size on the computer screen. It can’t communicate. So I put a frame border around it. To communicate to the viewer I give meaning to it and that it’s not just a random image. Not for me at least. To give it the illusion of something that is meant to be tactile as soon as I print it, large, and it takes up space in this world. And you can touch it, smell it, throw rotten eggs at it if you want. You may or may not like my frame border, you may find it distracting. That’s all okay. But I’m not going to remove it. If this relatively short version was too short and you want to hear the long version then you will have to wait till I finish my (pseudo) philosophical musings on art, fine-art and photography. Or maybe I won’t.
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A massive crop of this USAF15C Eagle as it banked past these onlookers... I thought you might like to see the scene with some people in it. The compression of the long lens makes it look like the jet is almost going to hit the people but they're not flinching!
All the pictures below are clickable if you want to see them larger.
Whitby is a seaside town, port and civil parish in the Scarborough borough of North Yorkshire, England. Situated on the east coast of Yorkshire at the mouth of the River Esk, Whitby has a maritime, mineral and tourist heritage. Its East Cliff is home to the ruins of Whitby Abbey, where Cædmon, the earliest recognised English poet, lived. The fishing port emerged during the Middle Ages, supporting important herring and whaling fleets, and was where Captain Cook learned seamanship. Tourism started in Whitby during the Georgian period and developed with the arrival of the railway in 1839. Its attraction as a tourist destination is enhanced by the proximity of the high ground of the North York Moors national park and the heritage coastline and by association with the horror novel Dracula. Jet and alum were mined locally, and Whitby Jet, which was mined by the Romans and Victorians, became fashionable during the 19th century.
The earliest record of a permanent settlement is in 656, when as Streanæshealh it was the place where Oswy, the Christian king of Northumbria, founded the first abbey, under the abbess Hilda. The Synod of Whitby was held there in 664. In 867, the monastery was destroyed by Viking raiders. Another monastery was founded in 1078. It was in this period that the town gained its current name, Whitby (from "white settlement" in Old Norse). In the following centuries Whitby functioned as a fishing settlement until, in the 18th century, it developed as a port and centre for shipbuilding and whaling, the trade in locally mined alum, and the manufacture of Whitby jet jewellery.
The abbey ruin at the top of the East Cliff is the town's oldest and most prominent landmark. Other significant features include the swing bridge, which crosses the River Esk and the harbour, which is sheltered by the grade II listed East and West piers. The town's maritime heritage is commemorated by statues of Captain Cook and William Scoresby, as well as the whalebone arch that sits at the top of the West Cliff. The town also has a strong literary tradition and has featured in literary works, television and cinema, most famously in Bram Stoker's novel Dracula.
Globe Street in Sanford, NC looks like any other dirt side street, except for one thing: There's a train track. If you were just passing through, you'd think it was abandoned, as the ruts from the locomotive wheels quickly disappear. However, with several movements a week, residents know to keep their vehicles clear.
Here, I&M RS1325 #30 leads a few scrap cars down Globe Street.
L'artiste sonore Paul Devens a créé une nouvelle œuvre d'art dans l'église Saint-Servais de Groot-Loon. Proximity Effect est une installation sonore faite sur mesure pour la belle église, dont certaines parties datent du 12ème siècle. À l'aide de haut-parleurs et de capteurs, le visiteur est absorbé dans un jeu de tonalités, de sons d'enregistrements extérieurs, d'acoustique, d'écho et d'espace.
Devens présente ainsi une expérience unique au sein de cette architecture historique, avec la proximité et la distance comme concepts clés.
Sound artist Paul Devens has created a new artwork in the Church of Saint Servatius in Groot-Loon. Proximity Effect is a sound installation tailor-made for the beautiful church, parts of which date from the 12th century. Using speakers and sensors, the visitor is absorbed in an interplay of tones, sounds of outside recordings, acoustics, echo and space.
Devens thus presents a unique experience within this historic architecture, with proximity and distance as key concepts.
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Sir Douglas Hazen Park is a people place. In the very early days it was the center of the fur trade; The ancient Maliseet Trail from the Saint John River system to the Passamaquoddy bay on the Bay of Fundy started here at the mouth of the Oromocto River. For nearly 75 years, ship building was the main industry because of it’s proximity to all building materials. The great white pine masts ,the hemlock decks and oak were simply cut off the river banks and floated to the mill site. The war of 1812 saw the block house rebuilt to aid in stopping the planned invasion coming via the Oromocto Route. Saw mills and lumbering carried the local economy for nearly 50 years.
Today the beautiful park setting plays host to the largest Marina on the Saint John River System, The TransCanada Trail, and ECO-LOGICAL Adventures Inc. Sir Douglas Hazen Park is also a great place to enjoy many different types of outdoor activities. Come experience history and beauty that Sir Douglas Hazen Park and the Trans Canada trail have to offer.
We came to the Tokeland Marina at high tide specifically to see Willets, and we were not disappointed. Moreover, some of them were even happy enough to rest quietly and be viewed. The down side to Willets resting quietly is that they aren't showing their wings flapping. We enjoyed seeing them fly (didn't get photos of that), this is the best I got for that, this willet stretching. This was not that good an angle (given lighting and proximity) to see this group of birds (not all willets...), got better views by far from elsewhere as seen in DSCN1296.
Excerpt from aecom.com/projects/hong-kong-zhuhai-macao-bridge-and-hong...:
The Hong Kong Port connects to the HZMB from a site with approximately 130 hectares of reclaimed land. The port’s Passenger Clearance Building (PCB) is iconic, with aesthetically striking architecture. Its long span curved roof mimics the surrounding sea and offers unobstructed views. Its skylights filter natural light to minimize power usage for the whole building. Tree-like columns support the roof and provide an airy feel inside.
Given the project’s proximity to the airport, our team had to overcome airport height restrictions and limited space onsite, together with the mandate to complete the PCB in 30 months whilst the whole Port was to be completed in about four years. The design and construction of the PCB roof were the most notable innovations to meet these challenges.
Its key features include:
•The integration of BIM and 3D scanning. In 2014, the use of digitalization in civil engineering was still in its infancy in Hong Kong. By overlaying the complex roof design and as erected models, any out of tolerance areas could be readily identified and rectified.
•Pre-fabrication of a total of 81 roof segments, with all necessary fittings and building services including pre-installed MEP completed offsite, form the roof that stretches to the size of nine FIFA football pitches. The largest segment measures 61 meters x 25 meters and weighs 680 tons and remains the largest and heaviest spatial structural frame for a building as of 2022.
•First ever use of installation by vertical lifting and then horizontal jacking of this scale in Hong Kong. This not only overcame the space and height limitations but also allowed parallel construction of the concrete works below to accelerate project time. On-site safety was also enhanced by the subsequent reduction in the need for working at height.
Since then, innovative construction methods, including Modular Integrated Construction (MiC) and MiMEP, inspired by Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) have become important elements in Hong Kong’s construction industry.
Sustainable features at the Port such as the District Cooling System, and the use of treated effluent from the onsite tertiary sewage treatment plant for toilet flushing helped earn the project two platinum and one gold BEAM Plus awards.
The port also contains other associated infrastructure and auxiliary facilities, such as:
•Cargo clearance facilities
•Road network
•Transit interchange
•Traffic control surveillance system
•Accommodations for frontline departments such as Immigration and Customs and Excise
Awards and Recognition:
•HKIE Grand Award 2023 – Grand Prize (Infrastructure Category)
•Hong Kong Green Building Council BEAM Plus Award 2020 – Platinum
•The Lighthouse Club Safety Leadership Awards 2016 – Gold (Architect-Consultant Category)
The airshow at Huntington Beach Pier. Blue Angels leave the trace in the air... @Bolsa Chica ecological reserve
Pam Bok waterfall is one of three commonly visited waterfalls in close proximity to the lovely mountain village of Pai, in North Western Thailand.
At Pam Bok there's a seemingly never-ending stream of backpackers coming to hang out in the cool mountain spring-fed waterfall, and it took quite a bit of patience to capture this shot. While waiting, waist-deep in water, I must have been asked by at least twenty groups of bathers to have their picture taken. I guess seeing someone with a large camera rig waiting in the water made them think I was a photographer or something :)
I'm pretty happy how this shot turned out, I feel it's the best waterfall shot I've made so far. We'll be heading to Laos pretty soon where I hear they have some pretty stunning waterfalls as well--can't wait to see what we find!
I am very immobile. I normally shoot pictures within proximity of my home (around a few km from my home for example).
I would love to shoot the beautiful fall colours and grand landscapes in the Canadian National Parks but I could not.
The best I can do is to enjoy the little fall scenes in my town.
In the Saturday afternoon, I passed by Minoru library and I took a few snaps of the fall colour in Richmond city centre.
Happy Tuesday!