REPEATING PATTERNS
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Sunrise ~ Lake Michigan Shore ~ South Side ~ Chicago, Illinois
Nikon D5100, Tamron 18-270, ISO 200, f/7.1, 30mm, 1/200s
This is a very old shot, to be exact from June 26th, 2010...which marks the day of the last encounter of Germany vs. Great Britain in a European football championship...Germany won 4:1.
Let´s see how it will turn out tonight.
My British friend and I were discussing the upcoming match in a very friendly and relaxed manner (and were still good friends afterwards ;)
Taken at a place I once called home.
The projection of the arches is fascinating, and makes the vision follow the depth as far as the eye can see.
(of the series: trip to Portugal - december 2019)
* I'm grateful for visit, favs and comments of my photo.
For Crazy Tuesday - repeating piano keys. Photographed using Adaptalux lighting pods and one white arm to illuminate.
This image was taken on my back porch at one of my desks. One vase after another, book on top of book, and pencil next to pencil.
Explored 18 June, 2023
#sliderssunday
Actually, I'd wanted to upload something sunshiny and summery for Sliders Sunday, but then I remembered that 2023 marks the 70th anniversary of 17 June 1953, the Day of the East German Uprising. The uprising started on June 16 in East Berlin. Construction workers had decided to strike against unbearable work quotas. The momentum of this strike spread across the GDR and accumulated in a massive uprising in numerous East German cities and villages against the East German Government and the SED (the Socialist Unity Party). Workers were joined by students, people demanded free elections and the release of all political prisoners. Just like in Prague 15 years later, the East German Uprising could only be brutally stopped by Soviet forces who sent tanks to the streets of East Berlin. More than 50 people were killed during the uprising, several more were sentenced to death later. In West Germany and West Berlin, 17 June was celebrated as a public holiday until 1990 when it was replaced by the Tag der Deutschen Einheit (German Unity Day) which we celebrate each year on 3 October.
This photo doesn't have a direct connection to 17 June, it is related to the German division in general and specifically to the Berlin Wall since the White Crosses memorial remembers the people who were killed in their attempt of fleeing the GDR. The last victim of the Berlin Wall and the German division, Chris Gueffroy, was shot on 5 February 1989, only nine months before the Berlin Wall fell. He was only 20 years old.
In this particular spot in Berlin's government district, the border between West and East Berlin ran right through the river Spree. In fact, the opposite side of the Spree where you can now see the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus, one of many government buildings in the Mitte district, belonged to East Berlin, while this side of the Spree, the Reichstag building included, belonged partly to West Berlin. The white, highlighted strip in the lower right corner (next to the steps) marks the course of the Berlin Wall.
I am repeating myself in as much as I am posting yet another black and white flower image. But it's different from yesterday's and it's one of my favourite groups b&w day. I photographed this vase a good week ago and then, as the background was boring, tried working with textures . As I was still not satisfied I clicked on my usual presets and wow suddenly most of them looked fab. I saved lots of versions but whittled it down to two, this b&w here and another colour version which I might post another day.
For Crazy Tuesday# "Repeating Object"
Be safe and careful, and thank you for visiting.
Happy Crazy Tuesday!
A view of Lake Te Anau as we left the glow worm caves in a fast ferry boat. No photos allowed inside the caves but it was like looking up at a starry sky just a short distance from our faces in pitch black darkness. Our guide was silently pulling our small boat through the darkness somehow avoiding the walls of the cave and the other boat we knew went out into the cave lake before us.
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Cabot Tower a historical landmark located on Signal Hill a National Historic site in the City of St. John's on the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland and Labrador Canada
Cabot Tower is a tower in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, situated on Signal Hill. Construction of the tower began in 1898 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of John Cabot's discovery of Newfoundland, and Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.
In 1901, Guglielmo Marconi received the first trans-Atlantic wireless message at a position near the tower, the letter "S" in Morse Code sent from Poldhu, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Cabot Tower is now the centre of the Signal Hill National Historic Site of Canada,] with walking trails and an interpretation centre.
Located at the highest point of Signal Hill, overlooking the city and the ocean, Cabot Tower is an example of late-Gothic Revival style. Built of irregularly coursed red sandstone, it is composed of a two-story, 30 foot, square structure with a three-story, 50 foot octagonal tower that stands on the southeast corner of the building. The corners are buttressed at the first floor level and further emphasized through the use of heavier blocks of stone. On the main body of the building, at the top of the second storey level, is a line of repeating pattern like an exaggerated dentil row or inverted crenelations. The attached tower, which houses the main entrance, is very plain with a double string course marking the divisions between second and third storeys and heavy corbel tables marking the eight corners of the turret at the flared upper level. The windows on both the corner turret and the body of the tower proper are rectangular and set under heavy stone lintels.
The architect of Cabot Tower, William Howe Greene, was a prominent St. John's architect and an associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Wikipedia
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This week's theme for Mosaic Montage Monday was Repeating Patterns. One is a little more fluid than the other. HMMM!