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Aarla Delvingwood
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The oldest daughter of a retired Lenfel army commander, Aarla was born and raised in Stonewald, on her father’s estate, along with her two sisters and her brother.
When she was of age, Aarla chose to join the Ranger Corps, a move her father ardently supported, but her mother did not, having wanted her daughter to marry a close friend’s son and start a family.
Aarla defied her, and after joining the Ranger Corps, quickly rose through the ranks, becoming one of the best Rangers in or around Stonewald, with an impressive mission count.
That is, until one day, when she quit, leaving the Corps and Stonewald, although she still maintains contact with her family.
She cited having tired of the rules and restrictions of the the Corps, as well as a desire to roam the land and do her own thing, as the reasons she left, although there are some who say there were other, more personal reasons involved.
Whatever the reasoning, she now roams the nation as a traveling adventurer, and occasionally a mercenary, her trusty longbow, custom-made by Tilmund of Ainesford, at her side.
Having heard of the C.R.A.S.H games from a friend, Aarla decided to enter, as the chance for glory, as well as the sheer thrill of the competition, were too much for her to resist.
Strength: 1
Accuracy: 2
Intelligence: 3
Bravery: 2
Luck : 1
“How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?”
Dr. Seuss
I took these photos today because of something that was on my mind. Gathered up my props, and headed off to one of my favorite places,
climbed through the back door and and spent an hour or so shooting. I headed home, thinking about the reasons that I wanted these
photos, and then I realized that I was exhausted. I stayed up too late last night because I can’t sleep after a closing shift, then got up too
early to crawl back into work to finish what I wasn’t able to finish last night, even though it’s my day off, because I didn’t want to leave it for the next person coming in because work has been really tough lately, and no one needs any extra thrown on their plate. So, I ended up taking a long nap
(way too long) and when I woke up, I really couldn’t remember my reasoning behind these photos. And there was a thought process at one point. Apparently, I dumped my memory banks
during my nap. (This is not a good thing, is it?!)
Anyway.... this is what I know about time:
1. It passes too quickly
2. There is never enough
3. You don’t get it back
4. Mom always said “Don’t wish your life away.”
5. I get it now, Mom ... It’s true, time is the most valuable thing you have to give,
or can receive. Even when you have nothing left to give, you still have your time to share and it doesn’t cost a dime. What can
be better than someone that is willing to give up their precious time to spend with you? Mom was
always right. So was Dad. Why does it take so long to understand these things?
6. Time marches on...and on... and on....
Another photo I took from within the old Sentinel Works in Polmadie on my visit over the last festive season. For more info, history etc see the earlier photo I posted at the time here:
The rights & wrongs of accessing these abandoned, derelict buildings is something that exercises my conscience often but in my own mind if I'm not causing any damage or distress and the place is genuinely derelict so I have no problem with taking a look- even if a fence needs climbed or entrance is through a window. 'Keep Out' warning signs don't deter me either(I usually regard them as the owners covering themselves legally if intruders come a cropper). I never cause any damage in order to get in or while I am there.
Despite all my reasonings many friends & colleagues seem unconvinced. They don't deter me though because I do so enjoy the whole adventure and some of the photographic results are quite exciting and seem to appeal to an audience out there on Flickr and Facebook. That's good enough for me.
This snowflake has a definitely sense of depth in the center with symmetry only strongly broken on the bottom branch. Curious why? Read on and view large!
Whenever you see one branch smaller than the others on a snowflake so uniformly like this, it’s almost always because of interference caused by another snowflake. Imagine if this crystal locked into another snowflake like cogs in a machine. What if one branch of another crystal overlapped this snowflake and covered up this bottom branch? It would starve it of some building blocks by preventing access to all the available water vapour. This would make the branch smaller, and the growth would always be stunted compared to the other branches.
This is supported by a lack of “impacts” from super cooled water droplets. See the darker dots on the other branches? This snowflake passed through a layer of clouds that didn’t contain pure water vapour but larger droplets of water that freeze on impact with the snowflake. The fact that these droplets are missing from the lower branch would be evidence that it was somehow shielded from these impacts by another crystal. Whether or not that extra snowflake broke away in the air or when the crystal landed is unknown, but it wasn’t there when I discovered and started photographing this little gem.
The center has a brighter hexagon area which is a fun feature, but the details of which are actually on the opposite side of the snowflake. This crystal split in two by a cavity growing so large that it divided the plate into two new planes of growth independent of one another, and in this scenario is very common that one plate grows faster than the other. The smaller plate is behind the larger one, and where the two are both overlapping you see the snowflake as brighter. The crystal is brighter in this area simply because there are more layers of ice to reflect light back to the camera, and that’s also the reason why bubbles in the ice are usually brighter as well.
The physics of these tiny gems is easy to understand from a deductive reasoning standpoint, and it becomes a fun puzzle to put together each time, depending on just a few simple rules of growth. If you’d like to know all of these rules and put the puzzles together yourself, grab a copy of Sky Crystals: www.skycrystals.ca/book/ - which also comprehensively details the photographic equipment, settings, technique and post-processing so you can make similar images yourself!
"Dancing With Clouds - Never Take 'No' For An Answer"
ISBN: 978-0-6484855-7-5
The re-write or revision of my First Edition is complete and ready to be sent to the Printer.
I am planning for an initial 50 copies, and go from there.
Let me know if you are interested.
A person who writes a book, either needs name recognition from some famous event or be an established author, already, or be damned lucky to be picked up by a big name publishing house. I would advise to proceed with extreme caution.
Look at the pricing for this publisher who contacted me-
www.balboapress.com/en/packages-services
They pushed hard, kept calling. I finally disengaged.
Another issue is the size and shape of a finished book to consider and it seems each company offers a different format and sizes. My finished book will be 6" X 9" (152.4mm X 228.6mm) . . . Not all offer that dimension.
Each publishing company will offer different grades of paper, some that are suited to little better than newspaper quality all the way up to one piece of paper that would accept color images and print that will not bleed through or be seen from the other side costing $0.14 to $0.20 per page, based on weight of paper and quality.
Then, there is the type of cover, such as softcover, hard cover with image wrapped around it from front to back, and traditional hard cover with a dust jacket that gets easily torn or lost over the years . . . And, with each type of cover the cost increases.
Then, there is internal design of the book . . . And, to understand all of that and the reasons and the vernacular peculiar to the software is time consuming. There is publishing vernacular that one needs to become familiar with. Dimensions and lots of measurements to take into consideration and to think of it correctly, the measurements are really taken from the spine-side of the page. Book measurements are not straight forward. If a person wants a specific size book, let's assume 6" X 9" and it could be any size, that is up to you and there is a reasoning behind selecting a certain size. When laying out or designing the book, it must be made over-sized, because it will be cut or trimmed to the final size, so that can add an element of confusion, if not properly explained by Support personnel.
Also, photos that you upload to Flickr will not suffice for printing and publishers. The .TIF or .JPG must be 300dpi. CMYK Color is preferred, and GRACoL2006 or FOGRA39 profile applied, but Adobe RGB will also work.
Text applied to it must be vector graphic, not rasterized.
Next and certainly not the least, is what book layout/design software should the book be created with? The industry standard used to be Quark Express, but Adobe InDesign has taken over, but some publishers have their own which they prefer.
So, there is a lot to writing a book and getting it published, not merely putting words on paper. That is the easy part. In fact, creating an Index is almost as hard as writing the book.
Note: I took the front cover photo, while flying under a thunderstorm. The back cover was taken with my 35mm film camera. The photo of the winglet was taken years later, with a different camera and layered onto the base image.
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I woke up to a cloudless morning in Yosemite. After looking at the sky, I had a feeling that some ground fog might develop right around sunrise. It's a wild guess but my reasoning was that since it was really cold the night before, and the forecast calls for a warmer day than yesterday, the cloudless sky might warm up the ground really fast, which will cause ground fog to develop. With that hope in mind, I headed over to a meadow that I pass by everyday but never shot in, hoping for something good.
Sure enough, ground fogs were developing as I was walking into the meadow. I found a tall stand of trees swimming in fog as my foreground and settled in for the sunrise. To my delight, some wispy clouds started to form right behind me as the sunrise approaches. I kept hoping that the wind will carry the clouds over to the top of the Half Dome before the sun peaks over the mountains.
Finally, after an agonizingly long wait, just before the sun gets too high, the clouds floated over Half Dome, and a perfect swirl of fog drifted over the tree stand in front of me. The timing was perfect! I used a 3 shot bracket here to balance out the exposure, since the shape of the Half Dome made it impossible to use my trusty graduated ND filters.
Canon 5D Mark III
24-105mm F/4
3 shot bracket, manual blend
I will leave it to you as to whether this is a good situation or not. I would be curious as to your reasoning should you choose to decide.
One of my favorite local refuges has let some loggers come in and cut some really old growth hardwoods. I found several trees over 60 years old that were cut. I am not sure of the reasoning behind the logging but I do know it has really messed up one of my favorite birding spots. So sad.
The David W. Dyer Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, formerly known simply as the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, is a historic United States Post Office and federal courthouse of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida located at 300 Northeast 1st Avenue in Miami, Florida. Completed in 1933 of limestone, it is the largest such structure in South Florida.
The building was listed in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1983. In 1997, it was renamed to honor David W. Dyer, a former Chief Judge of the Southern District who was appointed to the circuit court in 1966.
In 1926, a devastating hurricane decimated southern Florida, prompting Congress to appropriate more than $2 million for a new courthouse in Miami in 1928. The Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury selected the highly regarded architectural partnership of Phineas Paist and Harold D. Steward. In the 1920s, Paist had been one of the primary architects for developer George E. Merrick, for the Miami suburb of Coral Gables. Designing the building between 1930 and 1931, Paist and Steward blended classically inspired Renaissance Revival forms and design elements with Mediterranean ornamentation.
Paist and Steward developed two sets of plans, each to be built upon a poured concrete and steel structural frame, ensuring the new federal building would resist hurricane-force winds. The first was envisioned using imported marble and bronze, while the second was to use aluminum and local coralline limestone, a lithified coral quarried at Windley Key near Key Largo and called Keystone. The government opted to clad the building in Keystone, reasoning that local materials added to the regional appeal of the building. Construction commenced in 1931 and the opening ceremony was held on July 1, 1933. It remains the most monumental Keystone structure in South Florida.
When it opened, the building housed all Miami-area federal agencies with the exception of the Weather Service. The U.S. Postal Service vacated the building in 1976. It was occupied by federal courts and various federal agencies until 2008. It is contained within Federal Courthouse Square, a two-block area that includes two other courthouses. On May 12, 2016, neighboring Miami Dade College signed a $1 a year, 115-year lease of the building for use as classrooms and lecture halls.
The building is an example of Mediterranean Revival architecture that combines Renaissance Revival elements with regional Florida architectural features. The building, which is faced in Keystone, is three stories in height, with the third story set above a widely projecting entablature on the north, east, and south elevations.
The facade, which has a slightly projecting central bay, faces east onto First Avenue and is dominated by a colonnade composed of regularly spaced engaged Corinthian columns supporting the classical entablature crowning the second story. Cast-aluminum casement window frames have embossed repeating chevron patterns. Spandrel panels depicting scenes from Florida's history are above the second story's arched windows.
The bays adjoining the colonnade feature paired Corinthian pilasters. Bas relief medallions containing classical figures in profile decorate lintels. The central parapet features a carved marble frieze incorporating a large eagle, flanked by a repeating motif of pelicans supporting heraldic shields. The entrances at the ends of the facade have surrounds of carved Floridene buff marble. The north and south elevations feature two-story Corinthian pilasters evoking the facade's colonnade. Ornate mascarons (carved faces) are found on the building's exterior.
The north and south elevations are dominated by central pavilions with bays separated by evenly spaced two-story engaged columns, placed singly and in pairs. An annex is attached to the west elevation. The building's shallow hipped roof is covered with terra-cotta tiles, typical of the Mediterranean Revival style.
Interior spaces are equally elaborate and incorporate eleven different types of marble. Entry vestibules with arched openings lead to the main lobby, where marble covers floors and forms wainscot. Marble pilasters have striking gilt capitals. An inset, multi-colored marble star pattern adorns the center of the floor. Original aluminum and glass chandeliers hang from the painted and gilt wood-and-plaster coffered ceiling. Marble postal tables retain original lamps and inset cast-brass grilles.
The double-height ceremonial District Courtroom is another significant space with well-preserved original details, including the carved wooden judge's bench, jury box, witness stand, and clerk's desk. Decorative details include fluted pilasters, rosettes, and carved plaques with floral rinceaux. At the walls, seven feet of paneled wood wainscot is located beneath scored plaster. Marble Ionic pilasters divide the window openings.
The mural Law Guides Florida Progress completed by artist Denman Fink in 1941 is located above the judge's bench and is flanked by two pairs of Ionic marble pilasters. The mural depicts the positive impact of justice guiding Florida's economic development. Fink included a likeness of himself as a draftsman and a likeness of architect Phineas E. Paist, with whom he worked in Coral Gables, as a chemist. The coffered ceiling features rosettes, stars, and shells.
Other significant artwork in the courthouse includes two striking cast-stone lunettes by Yugoslav-born American artist Alexander Sambugnac. Executed in 1938, the low-relief panels portray two allegorical figures representing themes of the spirit of justice and are placed on the lintels above the leather-covered doors. Love and Hope shows a young woman playing the lyre, while Wisdom and Courage depicts a seated figure gazing at a tablet of the law.
The interior brick courtyard admits light into the building while also providing a beautiful outdoor space commonly found in Florida architecture. A two-story loggia with a vaulted ceiling and columns surrounds the courtyard on three sides.
Keystone pilasters support arched lunette windows above the public lobby's paired French doors. Quoins (corner blocks) and Doric columns add decorative elements to the space. The courtyard's interior walls are unplastered brick, as are the exterior walls that face toward the courtyard from the north, east and south wings. The loggia's plaster walls and ceiling are ornamented with the multi-colored Frescoes in Courtyard, added by artist David Novros in 1984. An original postal marble writing table with an elaborate pedestal occupies the west side of the courtyard,
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
www.emporis.com/buildings/332633/dyer-federal-building-an...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_W._Dyer_Federal_Building_and_...
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
I don’t think the driver of the car actually arrived here at the site with the machine gun erected as shown. I’m not exactly sure of the reasoning for this. I’m sure it’s all in humor though.
Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2017
Reasoning behind the photo can be found in my blog at www.fernandocoelho.photography/blog
COURSE, THAT NEVER happened…(see quote within photo)
Had the AVRO ARROW, Number 106, flown with the newly completed and newly fitted “MIGHTY” IROQUOIS Orenda engines, the world speed record would have been shattered! Not just broken.
Unofficially, the Arrow had already broken the record with only the American Pratt and Whitney jet engines.
And Orenda’s “Mighty Iroquois” were just that, with a tested (at the Nobel, Ontario Orenda facility) and confirmed 27 % more engine thrust…than the Arrow’s then currently used Pratt and Whitneys.
The Federal Government of the day, led by Canada’s most inept Prime Minister of all-time, John G. Diefenbaker, that obtuse, small-town prairie lawyer, who gave the word to the RCAF that 106 was not to fly…
It was not, must not, be allowed to break the world speed record with those new Canadian engines.
If the record was smashed, the rationale went, how could “Dief” explain to the Canadian public, that in spite of that notable accomplishment, he was cancelling the Arrow and Iroquois Projects, and he would also be destroying all existing Arrow aircraft and Iroquois engines…blueprints, tooling, jigs etc., until not a trace was left.
Well, he couldn’t.
But despite John G.'s megalomaniac order, and decree of absolute destruction, some of Canada’s aviation love story did survive!
The nose, wings, and front undercarriage of Arrow 106 remain intact today. And are on display in Ottawa, at the Canadian Aviation Museum.
The Arrow presently gets hundreds of thousands of visitors a year.
So a nation that was supposed to forget…didn't.
Arrow 106 was a Mark II, meaning it came with Orenda Iroquois engines.
But how, HOW did these parts escape……when all the others didn’t?
Because someone in the RCAF, at great personal risk (criminal prosecution) had these top secret project artifacts hidden away…until such a time when “cooler heads would prevail.”
Course…that never happened either. Canada as a nation never did get over the debacle.
So, when it was safe to do so…when "Dief" was out of office, the remaining Arrow treasure was “discovered” at some RCAF Station and transported to the Canadian Aviation Museum in the early 60s.
And remember, if my party was in charge, under our “Right Those Wrongs” Policy we would commission an Arrow II Project that would aim to be all the present F-22 is and more…and its design would be based on an evolved Arrow.
The AVRO Newsmagazine featured on an all-Canadian quilt, was an in-house Avro Canada production produced twice monthly for Avro personnel. It had the latest company news, featured entertainment reviews by legendary Canadian Elwy Yost!…and even had a classifieds section.
This edition, only three months away from infamous Black Friday (February 20th) noted that the Arrow pre-production projects would be cancelled in February of '59…because the federal Government had concluded fighter interceptors were obsolete! AVRO Canada was openly optimistic that line of reasoning could be countered noting various USAF commitments to similar US jet interceptor programmes that were contracted through to the mid 70s. If unmanned Bomarc missiles were the answer…why was the USAF so committed to these non-missile, fully manned, aircraft programmes?
ALSO IN THIS EDITION, in response to media requests, the general public was informed that the Mark II Arrow fitted with Iroquois engines would be able to set a new world speed record “anytime we wanted to” but such an achievement would be a secondary byproduct of aircraft testing and not a goal, in, and of itself–
(That's Avro test pilot, "Spud" Potocki, in that Mark I Arrow. Spud was the test pilot who flew one of the Arrows "unofficially" to Mach 2.1)
11/365
I was so excited about it being rainy today, I've lied in the rain, and hula hooped in the rain already.
And tomorrow I leave for Minnesota. I'll hopefully still be posting my pictures, but if I don't I'll still be taking them and upload as soon as I have free time. :D
Oh and I dyed my hair pink.
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By day there is never a clear shot of Buckingham Palace but at midnight I had the palace all to myself.
I was disappointed at how many post lights were out. I had to use PS to turn on a dozen lights. I wonder at the reasoning behind not replacing broken lights outside this iconic building.
LA LETTURA FA VIAGGIARE LA MENTE
Leggere fa bene. Migliora le competenze linguistiche, logiche e di comprensione del testo. Aumenta la conoscenza del mondo ma anche la conoscenza di sé e degli altri, mantiene attive le funzioni cognitive di memoria, attenzione e concentrazione, ragionamento e capacità critica. I libri insegnano a comprendere il mondo, ad approfondire, a riflettere, a pensare. Propongono la calma e la temperanza.
Note tratte dal sito:
www.dors.it/2024/01/la-lettura-come-fonte-di-benessere---...
READING MAKES THE MIND TRAVEL
Reading is good for you. It improves linguistic, logical and text comprehension skills. It increases knowledge of the world but also knowledge of oneself and others, it keeps the cognitive functions of memory, attention and concentration, reasoning and critical ability active. Books teach us to understand the world, to delve deeper, to reflect, to think. They propose calm and temperance.
CANON EOS 6D Mark II con ob. SIGMA 70-200mm f/2.8 EX DG OS HSM
The David W. Dyer Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, formerly known simply as the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, is a historic United States Post Office and federal courthouse of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida located at 300 Northeast 1st Avenue in Miami, Florida. Completed in 1933 of limestone, it is the largest such structure in South Florida.
The building was listed in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1983. In 1997, it was renamed to honor David W. Dyer, a former Chief Judge of the Southern District who was appointed to the circuit court in 1966.
In 1926, a devastating hurricane decimated southern Florida, prompting Congress to appropriate more than $2 million for a new courthouse in Miami in 1928. The Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury selected the highly regarded architectural partnership of Phineas Paist and Harold D. Steward. In the 1920s, Paist had been one of the primary architects for developer George E. Merrick, for the Miami suburb of Coral Gables. Designing the building between 1930 and 1931, Paist and Steward blended classically inspired Renaissance Revival forms and design elements with Mediterranean ornamentation.
Paist and Steward developed two sets of plans, each to be built upon a poured concrete and steel structural frame, ensuring the new federal building would resist hurricane-force winds. The first was envisioned using imported marble and bronze, while the second was to use aluminum and local coralline limestone, a lithified coral quarried at Windley Key near Key Largo and called Keystone. The government opted to clad the building in Keystone, reasoning that local materials added to the regional appeal of the building. Construction commenced in 1931 and the opening ceremony was held on July 1, 1933. It remains the most monumental Keystone structure in South Florida.
When it opened, the building housed all Miami-area federal agencies with the exception of the Weather Service. The U.S. Postal Service vacated the building in 1976. It was occupied by federal courts and various federal agencies until 2008. It is contained within Federal Courthouse Square, a two-block area that includes two other courthouses. On May 12, 2016, neighboring Miami Dade College signed a $1 a year, 115-year lease of the building for use as classrooms and lecture halls.
The building is an example of Mediterranean Revival architecture that combines Renaissance Revival elements with regional Florida architectural features. The building, which is faced in Keystone, is three stories in height, with the third story set above a widely projecting entablature on the north, east, and south elevations.
The facade, which has a slightly projecting central bay, faces east onto First Avenue and is dominated by a colonnade composed of regularly spaced engaged Corinthian columns supporting the classical entablature crowning the second story. Cast-aluminum casement window frames have embossed repeating chevron patterns. Spandrel panels depicting scenes from Florida's history are above the second story's arched windows.
The bays adjoining the colonnade feature paired Corinthian pilasters. Bas relief medallions containing classical figures in profile decorate lintels. The central parapet features a carved marble frieze incorporating a large eagle, flanked by a repeating motif of pelicans supporting heraldic shields. The entrances at the ends of the facade have surrounds of carved Floridene buff marble. The north and south elevations feature two-story Corinthian pilasters evoking the facade's colonnade. Ornate mascarons (carved faces) are found on the building's exterior.
The north and south elevations are dominated by central pavilions with bays separated by evenly spaced two-story engaged columns, placed singly and in pairs. An annex is attached to the west elevation. The building's shallow hipped roof is covered with terra-cotta tiles, typical of the Mediterranean Revival style.
Interior spaces are equally elaborate and incorporate eleven different types of marble. Entry vestibules with arched openings lead to the main lobby, where marble covers floors and forms wainscot. Marble pilasters have striking gilt capitals. An inset, multi-colored marble star pattern adorns the center of the floor. Original aluminum and glass chandeliers hang from the painted and gilt wood-and-plaster coffered ceiling. Marble postal tables retain original lamps and inset cast-brass grilles.
The double-height ceremonial District Courtroom is another significant space with well-preserved original details, including the carved wooden judge's bench, jury box, witness stand, and clerk's desk. Decorative details include fluted pilasters, rosettes, and carved plaques with floral rinceaux. At the walls, seven feet of paneled wood wainscot is located beneath scored plaster. Marble Ionic pilasters divide the window openings.
The mural Law Guides Florida Progress completed by artist Denman Fink in 1941 is located above the judge's bench and is flanked by two pairs of Ionic marble pilasters. The mural depicts the positive impact of justice guiding Florida's economic development. Fink included a likeness of himself as a draftsman and a likeness of architect Phineas E. Paist, with whom he worked in Coral Gables, as a chemist. The coffered ceiling features rosettes, stars, and shells.
Other significant artwork in the courthouse includes two striking cast-stone lunettes by Yugoslav-born American artist Alexander Sambugnac. Executed in 1938, the low-relief panels portray two allegorical figures representing themes of the spirit of justice and are placed on the lintels above the leather-covered doors. Love and Hope shows a young woman playing the lyre, while Wisdom and Courage depicts a seated figure gazing at a tablet of the law.
The interior brick courtyard admits light into the building while also providing a beautiful outdoor space commonly found in Florida architecture. A two-story loggia with a vaulted ceiling and columns surrounds the courtyard on three sides.
Keystone pilasters support arched lunette windows above the public lobby's paired French doors. Quoins (corner blocks) and Doric columns add decorative elements to the space. The courtyard's interior walls are unplastered brick, as are the exterior walls that face toward the courtyard from the north, east and south wings. The loggia's plaster walls and ceiling are ornamented with the multi-colored Frescoes in Courtyard, added by artist David Novros in 1984. An original postal marble writing table with an elaborate pedestal occupies the west side of the courtyard,
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
www.emporis.com/buildings/332633/dyer-federal-building-an...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_W._Dyer_Federal_Building_and_...
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
Cerro de los Siete Colores (The Hill of Seven Colors) is one of the hills bordering the Quebrada de Purmamarca in Jujuy Province.
Its unique color range is the product of a complex geological history including marine sediments, lake and river movements elevated with the movement of the tectonic plates.
Aside from the commonly known name this colourful hill carries, the locals of the town of Purmamarca also refer to it as the Hill of the Seven Skirts. This is an unofficial name, and not many people other than those who live here refer to it this way. The reasoning behind this second name is because of the resemblance between the colours on the hill and that of the traditional, long skirts worn by Andean women.
Like it or not, in 2024 this is the common motive power on CPKC. While most fans would rather shoot the geep than the AC4400, in the right scenery even a beat up Poo Boat can be acceptable. (sometimes!)
While gassing up the truck in Assiniboia, I looked across the street and spotted this scene just as the sun poked out through the clouds. This is the first time I've seen 2 sets of CP power in the yard at Assiniboia, but with no crews on duty the reasoning behind the event was never found.
The sun sets over the fields west of Cambridge as train 159-27 enters the new siding at Wolverton. The old ABS signals still stand beneath the new signal bridge, turned away and out of service. Their purpose now redundant. The original siding will remain as a future storage track for the yard that will built here in the coming years. Today Wolverton in addition to the siding has 9 tracks and centres as a feeding point for the area Toyota plants. The following is a snip it from an OS I made from that evening at the East Switch Wolverton:
** Most of you maybe aware from one of my previous posts that Wolverton (between Galt and Woodstock) on the Galt Sub is receiving a railyard which will be the heart of all the Toyota traffic for the area. They are making this 10,000 foot section of the sub an "island" of CTC in the middle of the OCS. Reasoning behind it will make for easier movement of trains into and out of the yard, especially during switching moves.
As 243 approached Guelph Jct the RTC informed him of trouble ahead. The two trains ahead of him, 159 and the Ham Turn were cleared as far as Orr's Lake. The plan was for these three trains to go into the brand new siding at Wolverton and wait for 5 eastbounds! So here is how it went down.
159-27 9833-9603 East B/E CTC sign Wolverton @ 1758
525-28 8231-8237 East B/E CTC sign Wolverton @ 1817
243-28 9567-8772 East B/E CTC sign Wolverton @ 1918
-worked Galt behind 525.
Let the flood gates open.
240-27 9621-8707-9506-5763 East B/E CTC sign Wolverton @ 1924
T69-28(London Pickup) 5847-5757 East B/E CTC sign Wolverton @ 1930
152-27 9576-9760 East B/E CTC sign Wolverton @ 1941
244-27 9504-9667-KCS2820-KCS2824-KCS2818-KCS3151-KCS2810-KCS2852 East B/E CTC sign Wolverton @ 1956
424-28 8540-8779-5691-5642 East B/E CTC sign Wolverton @ 2008
Mile 69, CP Galt Sub
Ayr, ON
February 28, 2009
Ruby-throated Hummingbird pair - Boothbay Harbor, Maine
Musta been something he/she said, and there was no reasoning with her that morning! Here he had to put on the brakes, and do a rethink about sitting next to her on the branch.
Coulda been worst, if it had been a Great Blue Heron pair,
'cause there's nothin' like GBHes when it comes to bad attitude!!!
This print is now for sale. 100 print run, on archival ink / semigloss finish, $50.00 print only, 12" x 18". Contact me via Flickrmail if you're interested.
Testing my newly gained understanding of HDR and photoshop skills.
7-shot RAW HDR tonemapped via PhotoMatix 3, then imported into Photoshop for artifact correction. Final color balance tweaks, cropping and rotation in Lightroom.
This is another step forward to where I want to be, as far as techniques and workflow ability goes. The next step will be getting panorama tools setup correctly to shoot this as a ultra-high resolution panorama.
During post-processing, all 3Gb of RAM was taken up by Photoshop and Lightroom (mostly Photoshop). I will need a computer upgrade to be processing things this way when I get my 5D Mk II. (Along with monitor calibration hardware if I'm serious about selling prints).
Update
Someone had FlickrMailed me about the post processing on this photo. I'll share the technique here.
I read through StuckInCustom's excellent tutorial here - before I headed out into the field. The enlightenment moment for me is realizing that when I first started doing HDRs, I wanted to capture that magical glow in the scene, and typically I go for the overexposures. However, I've always neglected the underexposed frames and as a result I don't have the data to fix the blown out light sources.
I think this scene works, because the arches in the pac sci center, and the neon signs on top of Key Arena, is very readable and not blown out / blurry due to overexposure. If this scene had a body of water in front of it I would have shot the long exposure shots to capture the glow off the water, but longer exposures here just blow out the scene and doesn't give me any more usable data to work with.
Now that you understand my reasoning going into taking this picture, the rest of the technique / workflow:
* I shot a series of shots in manual mode, ISO50 on the 5D, on a tripod with mirror lockup and self-timer (did not have cable release).
* The shots were bought into Photomatix, combined and tone mapped for detail enchancement. I up the white and black points to spread the histogram out and make the scene brighter and I played with the smoothing of the luminosity until I got something I liked.
* I then tone map this into a 16 bit TIFF, and send this TIFF into Photoshop
* I exported the RAW files for the darkest and a medium exposure out of Lightroom into Photoshop. I should play with this as a smart object, but I didn't have a lot of time editing this.
* The exposures are stacked top to bottom: HDRed TIFF, darkest exposure, normal exposure. Note that despite careful use of tripod and mirror lockup the camera still shifts between shots. I used the auto-align feature (layers, autoalign) to correct for the camera movement. I thought it was pretty cool... (I'm a photoshop n00b).
* Mostly I just use a layer mask, 30% transparency brush to brush away the blown / artifacts from the neon to expose the lowest exposure (middle layer) to repair the neon signs.
* I did some blending of the lowest and median exposure layers to try to give a better result with the neons.
* The result is saved into a flattened TIFF and bought back into Lightroom.
* I applied a white balance correction on the *final* product. I shot this on RAW, tungsten balance and found it too warm for my liking, so I decreased the color temperature until I got something I liked.
* Cropped and rotated it so that the buildings are actually vertical. I need to buy a new bubble level :-)
That's it! :-)
Thanks for all the comments, guys!
I have had a lifelong fascination with the weather…..that makes me sound a bit weird, let me try that again. I have had a lifelong fascination with thunderstorms…..yes, marginally less nerdy! Hearing distant rumbling always got me excited as a boy until I found out that most of the time it was just my Dad farting! But occasionally the rumbles would come from above, enveloped in huge dark thunderheads and often accompanied by a flash of intense light that would illuminate the clouds from within. If I got really lucky you would see forks of pure electricity streaking across the sky and snaking its way to a distant point of land, existing for just a brief moment but leaving an impression in my mind that would last a lifetime. I remember when I was a child and staring out of my bedroom window at night, excitedley awaiting the next flash and rumble, always trying to work out how far away the storm was by the time between the two.
Unfortunately though, here in the UK we don’t get thunderstorms that often. I am sure there is some scientific reasoning behind this that I cant be bothered to Google but its just a fact we rarely see a good storm over here. Until a few nights ago….
I had actually headed off to bed despite reports saying we were due some thunder and lightning. The Met Office had even issued a yellow warning for it. Is that like yellow snow?? Anyhow, I had stayed outside until after sunset staring off to the horizon looking for clouds but it remained stubbornly clear and I eventually decided it wasn’t going to happen round these parts. Half an hour later my partner Jayne is calling up the stairs that she can see lightning just as I was dozing off under the duvet. I hurriedly exited the bed, tossing the duvet and the snuggled up cat aside and stubbing my toe on the ottoman as I rushed to dress myself and peer out of the bedroom window. And there it was, off to the south, a huge bank of cloud with flashes of lightning going off among the outriders. Oddly no thunder though.
I grabbed the camera gear and bolted down to the van(geddit?) It looked like the storm was forming right behind my favourite tree Lonely Joe so my first stop was there and sure enough it was behind the tree but heading right towards it! I have photographed Joe to death but the one thing I still hadn’t managed to get was a good storm going off above it. What made the scene even more special though was one side of the cloud was backlit by the rising moon, casting moonbeams across the night sky while the other side was being lit up by wave after wave of lightning. Incredible scene!
After this the storm appeared to be moving north east of me so I made the call to head over to a place in Wiltshire called the Deverills. A series of hills near Warminster that offer wide vistas of the surrounding countryside and great views of the skies. I decided to head to an Old Dutch barn that was right at the top of one of said hills with a lovely bridleway that went straight past it. I once again set the camera up on its intervelometer mode as this is the best way to capture lightning as the camera will constantly be taking images. The added benefit is you can stitch these series of images together to create the time-lapse too! MY process is to capture 240 images at a time which makes for a 10 second timelapse at 24fps, the same speed as motion pictures are filmed in, to give it a real cinematic feel. Shutter speeds were kept at 2.5 seconds with an ISO of 400. A low ISO is important as you do NOT want to overexpose the lightning. Think of the lightning as a flash going off on your camera. It will briefly light everything up as clear as day so make sure you fire off a couple of test shots before doing anything like this to get the balance right for the lightning.
Whilst up near this barn I noticed two other stormcells, one to my left the other to my right but I remained focussed on the one in front of me as that was by far producing the best light show. And then the wind changed direction and it started to head towards me and at that point I suddenly became painfully aware I was stood in the middle of three storm clouds, on top of a hill, in an open field, stood next to a carbon fibre tripod with a lump of metal on top of it……yeah, time to bail! I hastily packed up and headed back to the relative safety of the van but when I turned around (always look behind!) I could see a great composition so despite risking instant bbq I set the camera up again to get a shot
I eventually got home at 3am and crept into bed, still awestruck with witnessing this almighty storm of the previous few hours. Its amazing how the little boy in me still gets excited by things like this!
I hope we get a few more storms like this over the summer. I am heading to France in a couple of weeks and every time I have been there we have had a thunderstorm of some description so hoping this trend continues.
In the meantime I am still available for workshops, either half day or full day. please feel free to get in touch if you are interested in some one to one tuition.
Thats it for this week, toodles!
Meeting point for persons interested in the Rastafarian culture
Traditional reference at the festival for all those who are interested in approaching the Rastafari livity or are simply curious to learn more about it. A space to reflect upon and discuss around this theme.
House Of Rastafari, features Nyabinghi chants, Reasoning Grounds, art and photography exhibits, as well as fundrising activities to support solidarity projects in Ethiopia and Jamaica.
Program:
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Rototom SunSplash 26º European Reggae Festival.
Benicàssim 16-22 August 2019 (Spain)
As you walk along this bridge the arches above have paintings from scenes of middle ages theological reasoning; absolutely captivating
Я не могу его забыть. Глупо и бесполезно все это. Недели в месяцы и все как один день. Я не могу его забыть.
Canon EOS 6D - f/9 - 13sec - 100 mm - ISO 200
Labyrinth is a game of physical skill consisting of a box with a maze on top with holes, and a steel marble.
The object of the game is to try to tilt the playfield to guide the marble to the end of the maze, without letting it fall into any of the holes. The game features a suspended maze surface that rotates on two axes, each of which is controlled by a knob.
A classic wooden tilt steel ball/marble game
Encourages fine motor skills, visual-spatial skills, reasoning
A classic game, still as challenging as ever
Twist knobs to change board position and keep the marble rolling!
If marble falls, it rolls out from the lower level - Try Again!
Obstacles are numbered 1 to 60
paradox
/ˈparədɒks/
a statement or proposition which, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems logically unacceptable or self-contradictory.
Another one from a fair while ago that I've only just got around to processing. There was a stunning sunset going on over the left however I wanted a shot of the bridge at high tide so I was shooting out into the cloud (I know where did that stuff come from!).
Anita, you would have been impressed, I'm knee deep in water in my waders here, my primary camera was on a tripod in the water taking this LE shot. My primary camera being my new Pentax K30 at this point, and my K200D which had done me proud for a good few years was acting as temporary backup. I'd always wanted to have two cameras so that I could shoot LE with one and use the other to grad other shots. Anyway it was a little bit difficult trying to do that knee deep in water... so I did get some hand held shot of the sunset which I may or may not post as I'm not convinced I like them.
The thing is I don't really like doing anything that isn't LE as I enjoy the smoothing out of time and features you get in LE work whereas the sunset shot I've got I feel just looks like a mess. I might just post it for a laugh or I might try doing something to it in photoshop, faux LE.
Talking about the K30, I paid £500 for it and then about a week later they dropped the price of it and also started giving away a cashback. So I was able to buy a second one for £320. By my reasoning I was averaging it out so it was roughly £400... not bad considering the prices I see for some of the Canikons. So I've now got two pretty decent cameras and no need to change lens so I'm hoping for less of that pesky dust!
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"If we close our eyes the brain immediately conjures up a medley of impressions of light and color, apparently a sort of imitation and echo of the impressions forced in upon the brain during its waking moments. And now the mind, in co-operation with the imagination, transforms this formless play of light and color into definite figures, moving groups, landscapes. What really takes place is a sort of reasoning from effect back to cause."
Image copyright claims Eiffel Tower by the Seine river, Paris, May 2014
The tower and its representations have long been in the public domain. However, in June 1990 a French court ruled that a special lighting display on the tower in 1989 (the tower's 100th anniversary) was an "original visual creation" protected by copyright. The Court of Cassation, France's judicial court of last resort, upheld the ruling in March 1992.[63] The Société d'Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel (SETE) now considers any illumination of the tower to be under copyright.[64] As a result, it is no longer legal to publish contemporary photographs of the tower at night without permission in France and some other countries.
The imposition of copyright has been controversial. The Director of Documentation for what was then the Société nouvelle d'exploitation de la tour Eiffel (SNTE), Stéphane Dieu, commented in January 2005, "It is really just a way to manage commercial use of the image, so that it isn't used in ways we don't approve." However, it also could be used to prohibit tourist photographs of the tower at night from being published,[citation needed] as well as hindering non-profit and semi-commercial publication of images of the tower. French doctrine and jurisprudence traditionally allow pictures incorporating a copyrighted work as long as their presence is incidental or accessory to the main represented subject,[65] a reasoning akin to the de minimis rule. Thus, SETE could not claim copyright on, for example, photographs or panoramas of Paris including the lit tower
Dedicated to my staunch critic T.V.Kalyan or fondly known as KTV
Every shot of mine that I liked, he absolutely hated it and those I disliked, he loved it.
Re-uploading this shot for him as he did not like the "blue" in the previous attempt
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BTW worry not....I have often paid him back on his shots in the same coin ;)
Critic invited. Which one you liked (if at all) from the two post processings ? you reasoning will greatly help me to learn more.
Also this happens to be my 200th upload on flickr !!
Chicago,, 2018
Reasoning behind the photo can be found in my blog at www.fernandocoelho.photography/blog
"...by silent voice,
indeed(!) of yours, Almighty!
as spelled by whispering
above, and possibly within,
without lengthily inter-mezzo,
by utter Sun of shining beams
without preface of solid propositions,
and reasoning, and proofs of facts
from pages of abolished libraries,
and catalogs compressed by dust,
and folios on languages unknown
and then abstract
for purpose of transmitting words
from script of enigmatic Past
*****
encapsulated by the spectrum
into the Light already reigning far above
and tightly pressed upon retina of every day
by cleaning empty dust of words as if
from memory by every single image
evoked by expose' of Mother-Nature
by Wind and Sun, by pseudo-equilibrium
of proper means of jet-propulsion
of chaotic lines and images invisible,
but tangible as if on canvas,
as if dimensional, or sketched by tempera,
or flashing sparks of mute tonality
accentuating sight, and vain, but focused
upon objects of reconstructed mind..."
Taken on August 28/2011
Lauderhill, Florida, USA
LG Electronics MS690
CCR-Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
Texture by lenoirrtextures: texture 06
Thank you very much Marion!
and
A touch of French Kiss Brushes Thanks a lot Leslie!!
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By the time of this shot on 4/5/2005, the CSX former B&O Heights Subdivision had been embargoed south of this bridge, and the tracks to the north were used for head space whenever a long cut of ballast cars were taken out of the Thornton Quarry. So I was a bit surprised to see this crewless CSX former Conrail GP40-2 parked on the 1957-built bridge, reasoning that if I was the crew I'd probably want to park on solid ground!
I got my shots and went back to patrol, when I saw 3 guys walking back from Burger King about a mile to the west. They were the crew! All 3 piled into my police car and gladly rode back to their faithful steed, still perched on the bridge above the rushing waters of Thorn Creek. Despite an invitation, I declined a chance to walk across the bridge and climb aboard for a look inside the cab. You just don't tempt fate when you are wearing 12 pounds of police gear!
Glenwood, IL
Photo by John Eagan
"My cat never laughs or laments. It is always reasoning."
Miguel de Unamuno.
Esta foto tiene derechos de autor. Por favor, no la utilice sin mi conocimiento y autorización. Gracias.
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Month 6: Compassionate
For the passed 7yrs, March 3rd has been the toughest day to get through, in my personal life, for personal reasoning. And though, the very next day marks another incredible milestone for us, you've managed to mold such sadness, into a compassionate moment I'll never forget. The fact that you took the time to create a space of Zen, peace and positive messages to uplift my spirits, show your genuine concern for my mental health. And without such compassion, theres no telling how long I could have held it together. The willingness to put my wellbeing before your own, and even considering to remain silent to give me that moment of quietness. Who does that but a kind soul? I am truly captivated by you, and intertwine in your heart strings. Thank you for extending your hand and picking me up whenever I fall. Keep singing to my heart. Happy 6! I love you more than words.
I am often asked why dolphins leap out of the water when swimming. People often think they are having fun and it certainly looks that way. Dolphins have spindle cells in their brains as do elephants, apes,whales and humans. This gives them the capacity to express emotions along with cognitive reasoning, individual identification and problem solving.
During the summer i see and observe their behaviour three time a week.
Dolphins are mammals and breath the same air we do, when they are hunting they can demonstrate amazing bursts of speed, to facilitate a sustained chase and to increase speed they will leap out of the water where there is less friction and also enabling them to grab a breath without slowing down.
They also travel the seas, the dolphins that live in Lyme Bay cover vast distances and when on a fast swim will often breach to grab a breath.
Dolphins also get marine parasites on their skin, it is thought they will often do some extreme leaping to help remove the pesky parasites. And of course they do love to play. I have seen them over and over playing in the surf, leaping and surfing down large waves for no other reason than it is just a fun thing to do.
(Published in Photo Technique, Spring 2013)
(Explore #270)
Living in Devon, I'm very lucky to have easy access to a wealth of picturesque, iconic, and even downright dramatic locations both here and in the surrounding counties. Many of these are world renowned, and arguably none more so than is the case with Botallack Mine in Cornwall - just a couple of hours drive from me. Bizarrely, I've recently been enviously studying a lot of images from Dungeness in Kent, and then suddenly realised I've perhaps been overlooking sites closer to home. It's not that I was unaware of Botallack - far from it - it's been on my list of places to visit for years, yet somehow I just hadn't got around to it. It was something of an eye-opener to get the opportunity recently, and I'm glad I did. Some places have an indescribable, rather unique aura about them and in this regard Botallack doesn't disappoint. Certainly there's a wealth of information about this historic area available on the internet, so I shan't bore you with tales of it's past. I shall instead point out that should you decide to investigate further and as a result pay a visit you're in for a treat - it's rare to find yourself in such a place steeped with an almost palpable sense of heritage and intrigue.
Of course, the summer of 2012 being what it is, my trip coincided with dour skies and drifting bands of rain. This in itself wasn't necessarily a bad thing - somehow I couldn't imagine Botallack in anything less than forbidding circumstance, yet as anyone knows rain droplets are the enemy of a photographer's lens. As my visit had been something of an unplanned affair, I'd done nothing in the way of research, but was anxious to at least take a couple of shots before the incoming weather worsened and the light faded completely. I've since come to realise just how frequently this vantage point has been used before me, but at the time I felt it was perhaps one of the few I could take advantage of due to it's sheltering position from the elements. Hunkering down behind a huge vertical outcropping of rock (and yes, I cast several wary glances at it while the wind veered around it's contours), I found a spot where I could wedge my tripod in the dry and go to work. In truth, I have resolved to return as don't think I really sought out 'my' angle here, yet at least another time I will have the benefit of some familiarity - plus the knowledge of one or two other vantage points I spied having checked out the lie of the land. I feel as if I'm touching on this a lot lately - the relative pros and cons of shooting the overly familiar as opposed to the completely overlooked... I don't believe there's a right and a wrong approach - such binary reasoning is for mathematicians and pregnancy tests(!), yet I personally get more satisfaction from successfully exploiting a hitherto unexplored vista. This may not mean on a different occasion I'll shoot from the hip while abseiling down one of these engine houses, but the brave never say never!
As for Dungeness, well, I'm still massively enthusiastic to pay a visit, and intend to do so in the winter months to empthasise the bleak atmosphere thoughts of the place always conjure for me. Even the rugged allure of Botallack can't dampen my ardour... Any photographic trip including five lighthouses, numerous decrepit buildings, boats, and a couple of nuclear power stations can't be bad!
Female catches and killing a white-vented Myna.
The myna fights for dear life but its fate is sealed after a brief moment of struggle. Equipped with powerful talons, it does not take much effort for the hawk to overpower and squeeze the life out of this helpless myna.
I realized that myna bird comprises a large part of the hawk's diet. My hypothetical reasoning would be that goshawks are not part of the urban community where mynas and pigeons strive. These abundant city dwellers do not recognize the hawk as a natural predator (except human and domestic cats) and therefore they end up as easy preys.
To the hawk, it's a wining formula, nonetheless.
What we see is not what we expected, because it is not what we wished for. You can never tell what thoughts run inside a person though and there reasonings for behaving the way they do. It is a major problem when it affects millions. Maybe eventually it could affect the whole world. And more than in the cost of fuel. We can only sit and wait.
I spent many good hours with this man, he showed me how his city was, he showed me the way, their way. He is part of Kryvyi Rih, it is his home. They speak Russian, they live in Ukraine.
Like most in his country, he is always willing to help. it showed many times through many people. And in the country of his vast neighbour too. So many helped me out. People are the same. Its just a shame about the rulers. Often voted in, sometimes it becomes late to turn back..
Lets hope for better times. And I hope we will meet again some day.
Anton Blashchuk stands before Petrove across the Irkrivs'ke reservoir, Kirovohrads'ka oblast Ukraine. September the 17th 2018.
I was reading the classic by John Calvin circa 1536, written in Basel, Switzerland.
"God left us with many gifts of the Spirit. We see in these a trace of the image of God, which distinguished humans from the other creatures. 11.ii.18 – 11.ii.21 – Reasoning with regard to heavenly things consists of three things; 1) knowing God, 2 ) knowing his fatherly favour, and 3) knowing how to live by his Law. In regard to the first two, without the illumination of the Spirit of God, we are like travelers in a rain storm at night, in which brief flashes of lightening show the way, but glimpses are too quickly lost to be of any real good. In reality we are as good as blind to spiritual matters when left on our own. "
Food for thoughts.
Post Cards from the vacation that is my life. the go back and see what you missed why don't ya file. "
This from my one of my trips in 2005 to Myanmar. Soooo.... I shot this in Yangon just before one of my journeys to the outskirts of the absolute middle of nowhere and traveling back to the 19th century.
Josef Sude, one of my strongest visual photographic influences, had a practice of after developing the negatives he shhot he'd wait six months before he would print the images from those negatives. His reasoning was "so that he could see the image with eyes a new." Which is why I do not delete anything. Hard drives are cheap. So on rainy days (usually on Sundays) I go back and look at the past for things I may have missed.
I hand held this image at a 1/15 of a second. So we know vibration reduction works.... and I must have been on my first cup of coffee.
Shot with the D200 enhanced color IR modification the 28-300mm Nikkor (AKA "The Street Sweeper") my when in doubt go to lens.
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The River Wensum at Taverham.
The River Wensum is a chalk river in Norfolk and a tributary of the River Yare, despite being the larger of the two rivers. The river is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Special Area of Conservation.
The rivers name derives from the Old English adjective wandsum or wendsum, meaning 'winding'
Modern Ordnance Survey Maps list the source of the Wensum as lying between the villages of Colkirk and Whissonsett in northwest Norfolk. The reasoning behind this claim is unknown given that other tributaries are further from the mouth. Pre-modern maps and other written sources refer to the source to be in West Rudham from springs arising on the aptly named Wensum Farm.
From the source the river flows close to the villages of South Raynham, West Raynham and East Raynham, passing Raynham Hall, home of the Marquis Townshend. The Wensum then turns and flows north through a number of small villages until it reaches Sculthorpe, where it turns east through the market town of Fakenham. The river then flows in a south-easterly direction through the Pensthorpe Nature Reserve and the village of Great Ryburgh.
The Wensum continues through or close to the villages of Guist, North Elmham, Worthing, Swanton Morley, Lyng, Lenwade and Taverham before entering Norwich from the north-west via Drayton, Costessey and Hellesdon. The Wensum is the principal river on which the city of Norwich was founded
At New Mills Yard the river becomes tidal and navigable by boat. Flowing through the city, the river forms a broad arc which would have influenced the site of the settlement for defensive reasons
Remnants of boom towers can be seen near Wensum Park and Carrow Hill which formed part of the city wall and a large defensive tower can be seen on the riverbank near Barrack Street. Called Cow Tower, the tower dates to the 12th. century and was also used for collecting tolls. The Wensum flows through the Carrow area of Norwich and then out of the city via Trowse to Whitlingham and its confluence with the River Yare.