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the Torre dell'Arenella, part of the complex of the Tonnara, Quattro Pizzi etc ... was built in 1852 by Don Vincenzo Florio Sr. (1799-1868), who had called a Dutchman to draw up the project. It served as a windmill or mechanical mill to grind sumac, a grass which, reduced to powder, was indispensable for the tanning of hides.
It worked for a few years, the exports were booming, then the workers began to get smart, mixing fake herb powder with that of the precious sumac, the result: the mill closed and business in smoke.
The tower also served as a lighthouse, as reported by an old nautical map of the port.
Arenella perhaps owes its name to the fine sand that once covered its coast.
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la Torre dell'Arenella, facente parte del complesso della Tonnara, Quattro Pizzi etc...fu fatta costruire nel 1852 da Don Vincenzo Florio Sr. (1799-1868), che aveva chiamato un olandese per redigerne il progetto. Ebbe funzione di mulino a vento o meccanico per macinare il sommacco, un'erba, che, ridotta in polvere, era indispensabile per la concia delle pelli.
Funzionò per qualche anno, le esportazioni a gonfie vele, poi le maestranze cominciarono a fare i furbi, mescolando polvere di erbe fasulle a quella del prezioso sommacco, risultato: mulino chiuso e affari in fumo.
La torre ebbe anche funzione di Faro, come riportato da una vecchia carta nautica del Porto .
L'Arenella forse deve il suo nome alla fina sabbia che una volta ricopriva il suo litorale .
... or is it ??
Crazy Tuesday - Theme of June 22, 2021: Knots
gift ribbon on a little curved glass bottle ... no fancy knot, but it's a knot at least ... : ))
Background: sidelit texture wrapping paper with tiny metallic dots to create some bokeh bubbles ... I partly added a layer of Topaz "Starlight Glitter" with reduced opacity (I like its dreamy / glittery effect on images and it's Crazy Tuesday, after all ; ))
Happy Tuesday to you all !
I will be browsing later in the evening (crazy day at work)
IORY 1 year ago looked completely different than it does now, the yellow SD60s took over quite quickly and it's definitely reduced my reasons to photograph the railroad, but sometimes you just end up doing it anyways out of boredom.
Mrs. K was kind enough to capture a shot of me sloshing in the rain across the Alaska Tundra to photograph an Alaska Brown Bear.
It was the thrill of a lifetime and truly a Bucket List Item.
In the Alaska Tundra, conditions are cold. The summer is brief, with temperatures above freezing lasting for only a few weeks at most. However, this "warm" summer coincides with periods of almost 24 hour daylight, so plant growth can be explosive.
A wide variety of plants species can be found on the tundra. What most of them have in common are growth characteristics - they tend to grow low to the ground.
Among the common types of tundra plants are willows, sedges and grasses. Many in dwarf forms compared to their growth forms in warmer climes. Lichens and mosses are also important, particularly in the harshest climates.
The long day length that accompanies the short summer is a boon to plants, which are able to photosynthesize 24 hours a day in some places. This leads to rapid plant growth.
A surprising number of insects are able to endure the harsh winters (many as frost-resistant eggs); these also undergo rapid development in the summer. Many bird species migrate from southern areas to the tundra each year for the reduced competition and plentiful insect harvest; this rich diet enables them to rear their young in an otherwise bleak environment.
Canon EOS 6D - f/11 - 1/60sec - 100mm - ISO 1600
encapsulated lights in oval soft gels
- for challenge Flickr group Macro Mondays, theme iSpy.
- soft-gels
All modern soft-gel encapsulation uses variations of a process developed by R. P. Scherer in 1933. His innovation was to use a rotary die to produce the capsules, with the filling taking place by blow molding. This method reduced wastage, and was the first process to yield capsules with highly repeatable dosage.
Softgels can be an effective delivery system for oral drugs, especially poorly soluble drugs. This is because the fill can contain liquid ingredients that help increase solubility or permeability of the drug across the membranes in the body. Liquid ingredients are difficult to include in any other solid dosage form such as a tablet.
shot with a fujifilm x-s10, a pixco 0.71x focal reducer, and a pentax smc 50mm f/1.4 screw-mount lens.
The Bighorn Sheep were in an area in Jasper where I don't usually see them, near the turnoff to the Maligne Lake Road. The Ewes were grazing and had obviously shooed several lambs up on the rocks to get some peace.
The lambs were full of energy and were quite entertaining for a few minutes, scrambling around on the rocks. I couldn't manage to get a good action shot but did get this lamb isolated, standing up on a ledge.
The traffic was awful, including several long haul truckers and the local province tourists, in their monster F-350 diesels. I swear the behavior of the lunatic fringe is getting worse all the time - where are the police to enforce the reduced speed limit zones in known animal areas?
A strong dairy barn stands ready to do what it once did but instead now houses goats. Once we reach a certain stage in life, our life's work is replaced by something else, usually with us playing a reduced role.
This shot was taken at Four Winds, just off the Tavistock to Princetown road on Dartmoor. There is now a car park on the far side of the stone enclosure. But many years ago there was a local school there. The stone enclosure seems to have been used as the playground.
The school was attended by the children of families working in local quarries and agriculture. Foggintor School opened in 1914 and at one point had over 80 pupils. But as employment opportunities declined so too did the size of the school roll. The school finally closed down in July 1936 when the decline in the quarry industry at Merrivale and elsewhere reduced the number of families in the area. The school buildings gradually crumbled away over the years but were not finally demolished until the 1960s.
Having seen old photos of the school I was interested to see that it was purpose-built in brick. I suspect this substantial stone enclosure could be a much earlier structure that was taken over and used by the school as a playground, though I have not been able to find any confirmation.
A mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) climbs a hill inside the city limits of Cody, Wyoming. Cody currently has a population of around 150 deer living in the city . That has been reduced from a high of ~250 in 2015 according to Wyoming’s Game and Fish Commision. The deer eat flowers, bushes, and gardens so some residents are not happy with their 4-legged neighbors. The City of Cody puts out a brochure on how to live with the urban deer.
Bad weather photography. Only rain at the moment. Therefore black and white with a bit of macro. Some waterdops hanging on the line.
Strong winds drive the snow sideways through the tree-lined avenue. The bare trees stand in evenly spaced rows, while the dense snowfall reduces visibility along the path. Despite the movement, the scene carries a quiet sense of nature whispering through the winter wind.
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Lautlose Bäume, flüsternder Sturm
Starker Wind treibt den Schnee quer durch die Baumallee. Die kahlen Bäume stehen in gleichmäßigen Reihen, während das dichte Schneetreiben die Sicht in der Tiefe des Weges reduziert. Trotz der Bewegung wirkt die Szene, als würde die Natur im Winterwind leise flüstern
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WHISPERS OF NATURE is the topic for 3.- 9. January 2026, Group Our Daily Challenge
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#FlickrPhotoChallenge and #Weather
shot with a fujifilm x-s10, a pixco 0.71x focal reducer, and a pentax smc 50mm f/1.4 screw-mount lens.
The Gas Station now available @ Cosmopolitan Event for a reduced price.
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/No%20Comment/84/19/23
Sounds include:
- Touch the Paper Towel Dispenser
- Touch the Gas Pump
- Touch the Coffeemaker
- Touch the Phone on the Counter
- Touch The Radio on the Shelf!
- Touch the Tiffy Car
- Every Lamp has a Light Script
- Touch to turn on & off
- Both Cars animated
A fence I used once before. I use it again to christen a new lens, and because the fence pickings ain't so good in our neighborhood. Is anyone running fence tours?
HFF to all: Looking forward to seeing everyone's handiwork.
Here I am standing on the edge of Lake Michigan during a polar vortex. The wind and blowing snow made it nearly impossible to get one shot without snow completely covering my lens. But somehow I managed to get a few. The sun was trying to shine thru the clouds at sunset. Snow squalls come and go making a very dramatic stormy feel to it.
The Damme Canal (French: Canal de Damme. Dutch: Damse Vaart or Napoleonvaart) is a canal in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The canal links Bruges with the Western Scheldt at Sluis (now across the frontier in The Netherlands). It was constructed on the orders of Napoleon Bonaparte who wished to create a canal network in order to permit the efficient transport of troops without the risk of disruptive interventions from the British navy.
Following the defeat of Napoleon, the original strategic imperative for the canal was removed. The plans in the Napoleonic era had called for a link to the Scheldt at Breskens. Half a century later the canal opened to traffic in 1856, and the link with the sea had moved to Sluis.
At Damme the canal crosses the Leopold Canal and the Schipdonk Canal, both of which were dug in the middle years of the nineteenth century in order to reduce the vulnerability of the Belgian canal network to Dutch interference, after the achievement in 1830 of Belgian independence. It was necessary to create a system of Siphons because of the differences in water level of the three canals. The canal was used until 1940 when French troops destroyed the siphon system: this put an end to maritime transport on the Damme Canal.
After war use of the canal resumed, but it was used now by pleasure boats, along with a tourist boat connecting Damme and Bruges.
Returning from the Berentzen factory at Hahlen, passing the bridge over the river Wezer.
* picture taken using pole
** some graffiti on the bridge and wagons reduced/removed.
The schooner Margaret Todd and the Tiger Shark ... the red one sunk back a season ago as I heard. Increased the ISO here to 1250 so the shutter speed could be reduced with the slight wave action, wanted a capture in this light with the boats not moving.
Outside Madison, Indiana, I discovered a cloud factory. Must have been on reduced capacity that day. Still, it was putting out quality work.
The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with over 6,000 species spread across most of the world. They belong to the superfamily Papilionoidea and are usually medium to large butterflies. Most species have a reduced pair of front legs and many keep their colorful wings flat when resting. They are also called brush-footed butterflies or four-legged butterflies, as they are known to stand on only four legs while the other two are coiled; in some species, these forelimbs have a brush-like set of hairs, which gives this family its other common name. Many species are brightly colored and include popular species such as the emperors, monarch butterflies, admirals, tortoises, and nacres. The underwings, on the other hand, are often dull and in some species look remarkably like dead leaves, or are much paler, creating a cryptic effect that helps the butterflies blend in with their surroundings.
In spite of reduced traffic in the Southern Tier, Conrail implemented a comprehensive track improvement program in 1992. Double stack train 253 is seen on October 8 negotiating bridge work at East Corning, as the morning fog begins to lift over the railroad and parallel Route 17.
Angles via squint bricks at 45 degrees. A high-quality build with careful placement of windows to reduce looking over each other, as space was tight.
If you look at the Google Street View of Ulm, you'll find this house as it was in 2014. The house is well-maintained, with an American flag flying on the porch. The yard is filled with a happy and vibrant selection of plants, and decorated with various knickknacks and bird baths. But on this rainy day in 2023 the house was abandoned. The yard was overgrown with brown weeds, with a crooked "Price Reduced" sign nearly hidden by a bush. I don't know what happened here, but we can guess. I can easily imagine a scenario, where the original owners were elderly, but they loved and dedicated their lives to this house and its yard. But when they sadly passed on, and there was no one to take care of the house or the property. It was put up for sale, but there were no takers. And then time passed along, as it always does.
Fotografiert mit einem durchfahrenden Zug.
Die Bahnhofswände wurden abgeschrägt, um den Flächenverbrauch an der Oberfläche während der Bauarbeiten zu reduzieren. Die unbearbeiteten Bohrpfähle bilden die Hintergleiswände. Die Bahnhofsbeschriftung ist in Rot gehalten, ebenso die Lampenschirme. Eine Aluminiumkonstruktion reflektiert das Licht der Lampen und verteilt es so im Bahnhof. An Gleis 2 ist ein Kunstwerk angebracht, das auf die Mangfall und ihre Funktion als Trinkwasserlieferant für München verweist. Gestaltet wurde der Bahnhof von Paolo Nestler.
Das wusste Wikipedia.
Photographed with a passing train.
The station walls were bevelled to reduce the amount of space used on the surface during construction. The unprocessed bored piles form the back track walls. The station lettering is in red, as are the lampshades. An aluminum construction reflects the light from the lamps and distributes it in the train station. A work of art is attached to track 2, which refers to the Mangfall and its function as a drinking water supplier for Munich. The station was designed by Paolo Nestler.
Wikipedia knew that.
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NO GROUP INVITES
As there was a decent weather forecast, I decided to take an early morning two hour drive to the Lake District. I spent a fruitless morning and early afternoon between Ashness Bridge and Derwent Water. I decided to call in at Blea Tarn on the way home to see if I could catch some last rays of sun on The Langdales.
This is a blend of nine images, using bracketing and focus stacking. Composition could be better, I should have got lower to reduce the gap between the foreground rocks and the background.
May I take this opportunity to wish all my Flickr friends a happy and healthy 2022 and of course some decent light!
In Explore 28/12/2021
After the storm, La Vue des Alpes , Canton of Neuchâtel . No. 1366.
"La Vue des Alpes (el. 1282 m.) is a high mountain pass in the Jura Mountains in the canton of Neuchâtel.
It connects La Chaux-de-Fonds and Neuchâtel. The pass road has a maximum grade of 10 percent.
A road tunnel for the motorway has greatly reduced the traffic over the pass.
As implied by its name, the pass provides a panoramic view of the Swiss Alps on a clear day.
La Vue des Alpes est un col routier du massif du Jura à 1 283 mètres d'altitude. Il est situé dans le canton de Neuchâtel, entre les villes de Neuchâtel et de La Chaux-de-Fonds. Il tire son nom de la vue panoramique sur les Alpes. Un tunnel autoroutier inauguré en 1994 évite le transit routier par la route du col.
Die Vue des Alpes ist ein Pass im Schweizer Jura im Kanton Neuenburg. Er liegt zwischen den Orten La Chaux-de-Fonds und Malvillier, die Passhöhe liegt auf 1'283 m ü. M.
Seit 1995 entlastet der 3250 m lange Vue des Alpes-Tunnel zwischen Les Hauts-Geneveys und La Chaux-de-Fonds die Passstrasse und ermöglicht eine wintersichere Verbindung. Bereits seit 1860 besteht ein 3259 m langer Eisenbahntunnel, der ebenfalls unter der Vue des Alpes verläuft, jedoch nach dem Plateau Les Loges benannt wurde."
Il valico Vue des Alpes è un valico nel Massiccio del Giura che collega il comune di Neuchâtel al comune di La Chaux-de-Fonds nel Canton Neuchâtel, Svizzera. Il nome indica la vista che si gode dalla sommità del passo, che in caso di bel tempo permette di vedere gran parte della parte nord delle Alpi Occidentali. Il collegamento stradale tra le due località dal 1994 è anche assicurato da un tunnel autostradale.
Wikipédia.
Despite this Red Squirrel's environment being severely reduced by forestry works it has chosen [at less temporarily] not to relocate.
One of 2 new arrivals at Hertfordshire Zoo aka Paradise Wildlife Park - sun bears in a marvellous new enclosure with walkways above and paths below.
Large-scale deforestation and degradation throughout southeast Asia over the past three decades (clear-cutting for plantation development of palm oil, unsustainable logging practices, illegal logging) has dramatically reduced sun bears' forest habitat, and are pushing this bear to the brink of extinction.
Standing before the Viaur railway viaduct, I wanted to move beyond engineering prowess to reveal the dream woven into steel. By framing the structure diagonally and stripping away all context, reducing the scene to black and white, I sought to exalt the raw power of metal, the complex interplay of bracings, and the graphic tension of a suspended work.
My intention is to invite the viewer to see this giant not as a bridge, but as calligraphy traced across the sky—a monumental signature in lines and rhythms, of light and shadow. In this abstraction, matter becomes drawing, and technique transforms into poetry.
Through this gaze, I celebrate the essential: the human gift for shaping—and imagining—the landscape. The Viaur, in this frame, is a symbolic passageway: it joins the force of engineering with the creative breath of the imagination, bridging earth and idea, utility and art.
A reduced palette again, only this time I went for the dark. Mannequins continue to be a favoured subject for me. I live and work in the downtown of a major metropolis, one that's growing at break-neck speed. So urban themes are the most immediately accessible and by being a 'downtowner' such themes are subject to my constant observation.
Music Link: "Nightporter" - Japan, from their album "Gentlemen Take Polaroids". David Sylvian's deeply moody, nighttime lament came to mind when looking at this finished image. The loneliness of night in his song is beautifully palpable. Here the image can be seen as both a portrayal of the denizens of night in a big, dark city and literally of mannequins in a shop window that one might see during a long, solitary walk in urban caverns. "Nightporter" is still a favourite of Sylvian's audience even though he left Japan over 30 years ago for a remarkable solo career.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCHg5RitlDw
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This image is included in 9 galleries :- 1) "MIX_02" curated by Willie Sturges, 2) "natura, solo natura!" by fabiofoni, 3) "賞心悅目的博覽館" by ggx2ggx2@kimo.com, 4) "Yellowstone National Park" by Black Diamond Images, 5) "Neue Galerie 2020 0202" by BAKAWI, 6) "Landschaft" by Michael Gschwind, 7) "Landscapes" by Süskind Dostoevsky Poe, 8) "(((O)))" by Waldgeist and 9) "placeres visuales-volumen 2" by byktor -f.d.
It is a hot spring located in the Upper Geyser Basin. Its average temperature is around 69.8 °C (157.6 °F) and is 23 feet (7 m) deep. The pool was named by Mrs E. N. McGowan, wife of Assistant Park Superintendent, Charles McGowan in 1883. She called it "Convolutus", the Latin name for the morning glory flower, which the spring resembles.
The distinct colour of the pool is due to bacteria which inhabit the water. On a few rare occasions the Morning Glory Pool has erupted as a geyser, usually following an earthquake or other nearby seismic activity. Several entryways have been clogged due to objects being thrown in by tourists, reducing the hot water supply, and in turn altering the overall appearance of the pool.
(not explored)