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he present State House is the oldest state capitol in continuous legislative use, and the only state house to have served as the nation's capitol (November 26, 1783 to August 13, 1784). The State House is open to the public for visitors (a photo ID is required to enter).
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Come by and see the new Photo & Video Sim that is REDROCKS. We scaled some things back and only are bringing you the best of the best. Some areas of the sim will change weekly. Stay tuned and make sure you join our group! ALSO!!!! If movie makers need a set…Tavon will make one for them. Come by the sim and check it out today.
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If you have never been to Monument Valley Utah, you are missing out.
The key to capturing images here is the "Light" so it will require you to spend some time in the valley waiting on it to move.
As I was driving around the main road late in the afternoon the light was silhouetting the landscape. To the right you can see the "Three Sisters" as the light lays across the valley floor.
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First time visitor to our backyard ... Patiently waiting for a turn at the birdbath ... Didn't seem interested in the bird feeder? ...
* Help required ... I'm sure it's not a robin ... What is it?
The MAN TGA 35.350 is a model of truck, specifically a heavy-duty truck, known for its robust design and performance. It is commonly found as a tipper (dump truck) with an 8x4 configuration, meaning it has four axles, with eight wheels, and drive on four of them. The "350" in the name typically refers to the engine's horsepower, indicating 350 horsepower. These trucks are often used in construction, mining, and other industries requiring heavy hauling and dumping capabilities
This truck seen in Rīga, at the building site.
Happy Truck Thursday!
just a test shot.
I would like to have two versions. Each while snowing...
1. Daylight. Strong high key with strong contrasts. --> with a WHITE background
2. Nighttime again with snow. Flash the basket and the snowflakes from below. --> with a BLACK Background!
where is the problem? It was snowing this early morning/night. I could have made both pictures. ...But I had to work...
so I just made a test at noon if the perspective works
🇫🇷 La cathédrale catholique Saint - Jean - Baptiste de Fira , a été construite au XVIIe siècle par les jésuites de l'ordre apostolique. Ces missionnaires avaient pour mission de propager le catholicisme sur l'île.
Lors du grand tremblement de terre de 1956 ,le toit s'est effondré et l'église a nécessité d'énormes travaux de reconstruction et de rénovation qui se sont poursuivis jusqu'en 1970. Pendant ce temps, l'église de l'Immaculée Conception de la Sainte Vierge servait de cathédrale. L'architecture de la cathédrale est de style baroque. Cette cathédrale possède une façade couleur pêche, rehaussée d'éléments bleus. Le bâtiment possède un haut clocher, qui fait également office de tour d'horloge.
🇬🇧 The Catholic Cathedral of St John the Baptist in Fira was built in the 17th century by the Jesuits of the Apostolic Order. The mission of these missionaries was to spread Catholicism on the island.
During the great earthquake of 1956, the roof collapsed and the church required extensive rebuilding and renovation work, which lasted until 1970. During this time, the Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin served as the cathedral. The architecture of the cathedral is in the Baroque style. The cathedral has a peach-coloured façade with blue accents. The building has a tall bell tower, which also serves as a clock tower.
🇬🇷 Ο καθολικός καθεδρικός ναός του Αγίου Ιωάννη του Βαπτιστή στα Φηρά χτίστηκε τον 17ο αιώνα από τους Ιησουίτες του Αποστολικού Τάγματος. Η αποστολή αυτών των ιεραποστόλων ήταν να διαδώσουν τον καθολικισμό στο νησί.
Κατά τη διάρκεια του μεγάλου σεισμού του 1956, η οροφή κατέρρευσε και η εκκλησία χρειάστηκε τεράστιες εργασίες ανοικοδόμησης και ανακαίνισης, οι οποίες συνεχίστηκαν μέχρι το 1970. Κατά τη διάρκεια αυτής της περιόδου, η εκκλησία της Άμωμης Σύλληψης της Υπεραγίας Θεοτόκου χρησίμευσε ως καθεδρικός ναός. Η αρχιτεκτονική του καθεδρικού ναού είναι σε μπαρόκ ρυθμό. Ο καθεδρικός ναός έχει πρόσοψη σε ροδακινί χρώμα με μπλε πινελιές. Το κτίριο διαθέτει ένα ψηλό καμπαναριό, το οποίο χρησιμεύει επίσης ως πύργος ρολογιού.
🇩🇪 Die katholische Kathedrale St. Johannes der Täufer in Fira wurde im 17. Jahrhundert von den Jesuiten des Apostolischen Ordens erbaut. Diese Missionare hatten die Aufgabe, den Katholizismus auf der Insel zu verbreiten.
Während des großen Erdbebens von 1956 stürzte das Dach ein und die Kirche musste bis 1970 umfassend renoviert und wieder aufgebaut werden. Während dieser Zeit diente die Kirche der Unbefleckten Empfängnis der Heiligen Jungfrau Maria als Kathedrale. Die Architektur der Kathedrale ist im Barockstil gehalten. Die Fassade der Kathedrale ist pfirsichfarben mit blauen Elementen. Das Gebäude hat einen hohen Glockenturm, der auch als Uhrenturm dient.
🇮🇪 La cattedrale cattolica di San Giovanni Battista a Fira fu costruita nel XVII secolo dai gesuiti dell'Ordine Apostolico. La loro missione era quella di diffondere il cattolicesimo nell'isola.
Colpita dal grande terremoto del 1956, la chiesa necessitò di ingenti lavori di ricostruzione e ristrutturazione, che proseguirono fino al 1970. Durante questo periodo, la chiesa dell'Immacolata Concezione della Beata Vergine fungeva da cattedrale. L'edificio ha un'architettura in stile barocco. La facciata, di colore pesca con accenti blu, è caratterizzata da un rosone. L'edificio vanta un alto campanile, che funge anche da torre dell'orologio.
🇪🇸 La catedral católica de San Juan Bautista de Fira fue construida en el siglo XVII por los jesuitas de la Orden Apostólica. La misión de estos misioneros era difundir el catolicismo en la isla.
A causa del gran terremoto de 1956, el tejado se derrumbó y la iglesia necesitó una gran obra de reconstrucción y renovación que se prolongó hasta 1970. Durante este tiempo, la Iglesia de la Inmaculada Concepción de la Santísima Virgen hizo las veces de catedral. La catedral es de estilo barroco. La fachada es de color melocotón con toques azules. El edificio tiene un alto campanario que también hace las veces de torre del reloj.
Everyone knows that most agricultural products require the fields to change every season, meaning you need to let fields sit fallow sometimes, to rest. The same is true at the Wooden Show Tulip Farm. Every year the tulips are in a different field. They have one field that lines up particularly well with Mt. Hood, that's the field they used this year. The last time this field was used was when they shut down the whole event for Covid. It's been about 6 years since the public got to see flowers in this field.
I had the treat this year of having my son greet me there, he worked at the event this year, his first job. He is also know getting into photography, so we were shooting side by side, how neat is that?
Let me know what you think if this one, my wife liked it, which means it had tons of color (she only likes the colorful shots).
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Union Pacific's LOA32 "Anaheim Local" strolls through Santa Ana Street as it crosses the southern part of Downtown Anaheim as the train heads for it's first customer at International Paper (Their spot cars are the Boxcars on the rear) before heading south for Costa Mesa.
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Probably best place right now for hiking with plenty of space around you for the required social distancing.
Stay safe everyone!
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On Wednesday I spent a few hours at our zoo which wasn't really a great idea for several reasons. Due to this week's school holidays the place was crowded and it was incredibly noisy. On top of that it's quite warm at the moment, 30° C and more. The animals were either lethargic or seeking refreshment like this village weaver. I think it's a young bird as it still has quite a lot of grey feathers.
Camellia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae. Camellias are evergreen shrubs or small trees up to 20 m tall. They are found in eastern and southern Asia, from the Himalayas east to Japan and Indonesia. There are about 300 species and around 3,000 hybrids. Their flowers are usually large and conspicuous, one to 12 cm in diameter, with five to nine petals in naturally occurring species of camellias. The colors of the flowers vary from white through pink colors to red. Of economic importance in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent, leaves of C. sinensis are processed to create the popular beverage tea. The ornamental C. japonica, C. sasanqua and their hybrids are the source of hundreds of garden cultivars. C. oleifera produces tea seed oil, used in cooking and cosmetics. The various species of camellia plants are generally well-adapted to acid soils rich in humus, and most species do not grow well on chalky soil or other calcium-rich soils. Most species of camellias also require a large amount of water, either from natural rainfall or from irrigation, and the plants will not tolerate droughts. However, some of the more unusual camellias – typically species from karst soils in Vietnam – can grow without too much water. 34666
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Whatever your opinion is of David Finchers Alien 3 there can be no doubt in the excellent choice of location for the opening scenes. Chemical beach and Blast beach on the Durham coastline provide some very unusual and rugged settings. The harsh light of the cloudless sky proved quite challenging though, requiring full use of the filters.
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Les Eves Lines
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Majestic hall leading to the chapel at the St Benoit Du Lac Monastery. Silence required !
This is a view into the valley below Machu Picchu, Peru. To get to Machu Picchu, you have to get to Ollantaytambo usually by road. It's also on the Inca Trail which requires a four day hike from Cusco to MP. The modern town of Ollantaytambo is built on the foundations of the old Incan town and features a large important archeological site of its own. From there you take a train down the valley following the Urubamba River for about one and half hours to the modern town of Michu Picchu at the bottom of the valley. On the way the climate changes from arid to semitropical cloud forest. From there you take a bus for about 40 minutes which climbs an unpaved switchback road with hairpin turns up to the top of the mountain from the river at the bottom. It's a hair raising ride. The week before we were there a bus lost control and plunged from one level of the road to the level below; over 20 people suffered broken bones or worse. They space the visitors out so you have a reserved window of time so you have to arrive by that time or you don't get in. It was a full 12 hour day to get there and back. We got back to Ollantaytambo about 8:30pm.
Can't imagine the finess required to pilot these cars at speed using a wheel like this, with such little protection from the elements.
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Per Petra, la regina della Sardegna.
SARDENYA 2024
Spiaggia La Pelosa is widely regarded as one of the most spectacular beaches in Sardinia, Italy, located near the town of Stintino. It is renowned for its incredibly fine, white sand and its shallow, crystal-clear turquoise waters, giving it a Caribbean look and feel. The landscape is dominated by the emblematic Torre della Pelosa, a 16th-century Aragonese watchtower situated on a small rocky islet just offshore. Due to its great popularity and to protect its delicate sand, access to the beach is limited during peak season and requires a prior reservation. Furthermore, the use of a straw mat underneath towels is mandatory to prevent the sand from being carried away.
The Catalonian tradition of building human towers (Castells) dates back to the 18th century. By tradition the tower is topped by a child "enxaneta", light weight, agile and of course fearless ! After the fatal fall of Mariona Galindo in 2006, enxaneta have been required to wear helmets. This shot was taken as a Castell was being assembled, a performance by the Falcons de Barcelona.
This required very little editing. Just walking along the street and saw this phenomenon on the roof of a parked Tesla. Shot using the macro mode.
Maypop and bombus (aka purple passionflower and bumblebee)!
On the shores of Postal Pond in Legacy Park
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
6 August 2024.
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True belonging is not passive. It's not the belonging that comes with just joining a group. It's not fitting in or pretending or selling out because it's safer. It's a practice that requires us to be vulnerable, get uncomfortable, and learn how to be present with people without sacrificing who we are.
Dr. Brené Brown
Belongingness entails an unwavering commitment to not simply tolerating and respecting difference, but to ensuring that all people are welcome and feel that they belong.
John A. Powell
Today, if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Theresa, Saint Teresa of Calcutta
The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don't talk anymore, they don't sit down to talk and listen. They go to the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, update their status on the internet, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell stories
Paulo Coelho
We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say, ‘It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.’ Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.
Fred Rogers
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
When we choose to wonder about people we don’t know, when we imagine their lives and listen for their stories, we begin to expand the circle of those we see as part of us.
Valarie Kaur
We must remain hopeful that a universal ethic of courage, caring, sharing, respect, radical compassion, and love will make a difference. We can never be too generous or too kind.
Marc Bekoff
I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life — whoever you are, whatever our differences.
John Denver
With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, and stay safe! ❤️❤️❤️
The first mention of a church in Durach can be found in the Kempten calendar in 1390.
In 1527 the church was enlarged.
In 1748 the church was expanded again and in 1754 it was given its current appearance through a baroque design.
In 1871, large pieces of the ceiling fell, which required a complete renovation.
In 1880 a new high altar is purchased.
Wow......what a gorgeous day at the beach.I actually had to remove my jacket, the sun was just so warm and comforting....I could feel tingling on my head...and that is a really cool thing..... ;-)
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Seemingly freshly minted Hoover, 50008 'Thunderer', lives up to its name as she makes a spirited start from Totnes station up the infamous Rattery Bank - one of the three significant inclines on the route between Exeter and Plymouth collectively known as the South Devon Banks.
While it's not particularly visible in this view Rattery Bank starts almost at the end of the platform and lasts for just over 4 miles varying between 1 in 45 and 1 in 80, before easing to 1 in 90 and then increasing to 1 in 65.
The route was such a challenge in steam days that an extra loco was required for the heavy expresses, and later even the diesels wouldn't treat this route lightly with any weakness potentially a source of delay, or worse, an embarrassing failure. It wouldn't be the first time I've ridden up where, even under clear signals, the train was barely doing 10 mph over the top.
Given the apparently relaxed ambience of the driver looking out of the side window, I'm presuming on this occasion 50008 was as good 'under the bonnet' as she looked externally. Or maybe he was just waiting for the right-hand curve a few hundred yards up the track to look back and check he still had eleven on!
Despite being withdrawn from BR service in 1992, 50008 has lived on under private ownership and has even hauled a few freight trains around the network over the last 12 months.
I'm guessing I took this from Malt Hill over-bridge before the A381 'Western Bypass' was built impeding the view looking the other way.
Agfa CT18
31st July 1979
This shot required quick action, I was taking a macro shot of the flower when the butterfly swooped in and landed. No crop on this image.
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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Previously unpublished shot of a juxtaposition that caught my attention - captured in January 2018.
The current 'cost of living crisis' is just the tip of the iceberg of coming problems for our society. Ukraine is basically the breadbasket of Europe and together with grain from the invading nation, Russia, we will be seeing massive shortages of staple crops and increasing food prices for all. Millions will be choosing between food and shelter or warmth. The top six energy companies in the UK made £1bn in profits last year and yet energy prices are going through the roof - my own energy bill has risen by 124% and I already strictly keep my energy use down for the sake of our planet!
There is enough wealth in this world to end poverty on this scale. When should a humane society consider that food, water, shelter and warmth are basic human necessities that everyone ought to be entitled to? Instead of taxing wealth, however, we take from the ordinary folks and the poorest suffer. I'm not expressing my politics here and you can draw no conclusions from my thoughts on that, but I am expressing my basic humanity. We are one species sharing one tiny planet in the vastness of space. Why do we not care more about our fellow humankind? When do we consider that we actually need to help each other?
Stay safe my Flickr friends.
ENG: You can see the Tram TM 36 (3587) of the Berlin Transport Company (BVG) in front of the Kleinmachnower lock directly at the river Teltow canal and dates back to 1938. This now serves as an information center of the regional heritage association. Part of the lock building can also be seen in the background.
It is part of the Tram (Street Car) line 96, which once connected Behrenstrasse in Berlin Mitte and Tempelhof with Teltow, Stahnsdorf and Kleinmachnow. In 1887, a 5-kilometer streetcar line was built from Groß-Lichterfelde, now called Lichterfelde-Ost, to Teltow. It was initially single-tracked and required a travel time of 30 minutes. Four years later, the line was extended to Stahnsdorf and in 1905 to Machnower Schleuse. The steam vehicles (also known as lame ducks) were not very powerful at the time, so the line was converted to electric operation in 1907. From 1930, it then drove as line 96. But with the construction of the Berlin Wall, the Tram operation was unfortunately discontinued. Since 2012, the car is open to visitors after extensive renovation.
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GER: Zu sehen ist der Triebwagen TM 36 (3587) der Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) vor der Kleinmachnower Schleuse direkt am Teltow-Kanal und stammt aus dem Jahr 1938. Dieser dient jetzt als Informationszentrum des regionalen Heimatvereins. Im Hintergrund ist auch ein Teil des Schleusen Gebäudes zu sehen.
Er ist ein Teil der Bahn Linie 96, die einst die Behrenstraße in Berlin Mitte und Tempelhof mit Teltow, Stahnsdorf und Kleinmachnow verband. 1887 wurde eine 5 Kilometer lange Straßenbahnstrecke von Groß-Lichterfelde, heute heißt es Lichterfelde-Ost, nach Teltow gebaut. Sie war zunächst eingleisig und benötigte eine Fahrzeit von 30 Minuten. Vier Jahre später wurde die Strecke dann bis Stahnsdorf und 1905 bis zur Machnower Schleuse verlängert. Sehr kraftvoll fuhren die Dampffahrzeuge (auch lahme Enten gennant) damals nicht gerade, daher wurde 1907 die Bahn dann auf elektrischen Betrieb umgestellt. Ab 1930 fuhr sie dann als Linie 96. Doch mit dem Bau der Berliner Mauer wurde der Straßenbahnbetrieb leider eingestellt. Seit 2012 steht der Wagen nach umfassender Sanierung für Besucher offen.