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Spectacle "L’Homme Cornu" le 11 Septembre 2010 à Lessines (Be) dans le cadre du festival "Les Unes fois d'un Soir".
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Aythorpe Roding Windmill. A Grade II listed Post Mill in Essex.
HDR created from one RAW file processed as three DNG files in Photomatix, adjustments in CS6 with some help from Topaz Filters.
London Underground's least used station. Between Chigwell and Woodford on a part of the Central Line that is only served by a relatively infrequent Hainault-Woodford shuttle for most of the time. It is remarkable in that it is the only station that doesn't have ticket gates. This is the secondary entrance to the Woodford bound platform.
I've lived nearly all my life in this area but only found out about this place a few weeks ago.
I walked from Wanstead down to the Redbridge roundabout and then along this part of the Roding to Woodford Bridge.
More to follow.
Betonnen ‘rode poort’, een deel uit een serie van 3 sculpturen van Hans Koetsier, die ook de nummer-aanduidingen in het Girokantoor ontwierp. De rode, gele en blauwe poort werden in de jaren 70 bij de 3 ingangen van het Girokantoor van de Postbank aan de Velperweg te Arnhem geplaatst.
ca. 1988. Fotograaf onbekend.
Red gate
Concrete "red gate", part of a series of 3 sculptures by Hans Koetsier, who also designed the number designations in the Giro Office. The red, yellow and blue gate were placed at the 3 entrances to the Postbank's Giro Office on Velperweg in Arnhem in the 1970s.
Le pedí a Agustín que posará para mi. Bueno, suele venir implícito, a mi no me importa que me utilice para sus fotos y el no tiene ningún reparo en hacer lo mismo. Así que cuando me había adelantado y había hecho esta misma foto sin ningún “human” (vocablo usado por el filósofo Jesús Mosterín en “La naturaleza humana” para designar a los humanos de cualquier género con una única palabra), le rogué, cuando me sobrepaso, que se parara. Le hice una foto de espaldas y luego está.
Al principio estaba en las sombras y quería conseguir que Agustín estuviera iluminado específicamente por la luz que entraba por la arcada, así que le pedí que se adelantará hasta tenerlo en el lugar ideal.
—Quiet! —le dije.
Tenía muy claro lo que quería hacer. La contraposición de ambos medios de locomoción me proporcionaba la emoción de choque. La luz, los espacios, las arcadas y la hora hacían el resto.
Una vez tuve la foto en la pantalla decidí eliminar casi todo el color. Únicamente deje la ropa de Agustín ya que quería que fuera el centro de atención y finalmente deje un levísimo rastro en las sombras de la bicicleta para que siguiera reforzando su antagonismo. En realidad no elimine el color, simplemente jugué con algunos parámetros hasta conseguir el efecto deseado. En ello tuvo mucho que ver las pistas que me proporcionó el mismo Agustín durante el día de ayer.
Ahora la percibo en toda su intencionalidad. La bicicleta me proporciona no sólo el contrapunto físico sino también, y más importante, el emocional para contar una historia sin palabras. Una en la que el espectador puede imaginar el principio, el desarrollo central y el final. Donde se puede especular con el drama y visualizar a los personajes. Incluso el ambiente regala simbología.
Alguno puede preguntarse que si la imagen ya cuenta la historia a que viene este texto. La respuesta está en mis propias inseguridades. No quiero que la gente se quede en la primera y más superficial capa de la cebolla, la foto no es tan sólo una imagen. Hay petróleo para extraer.
Además, metafóricamente, aprovechamos para abrir algunas ventanas y ventilar algunos armarios cerrados durante demasiado tiempo.
¡Gracias Agustín!
Naast de Sint-Willibrorduskerk aan de Singel in Berchem (Antwerpen) staat een rode beuk met een stamomtrek van 4m en een kruin van 35m. De boom is beschermd sinds 1949. In de boom hangt een eenvoudig madonnakapelletje.
Foto: Tijl Vereenooghe
From the May 2016 trip to Thailand and Cambodia:
Angkor Wat…is the “grandest and most sublime” of all of the Khmer temples. It means ‘city pagoda.’ It was built during the reign of King Suryavarman II in the first half of the 12th century. It was both the capital and the State temple dedicated to Vishnu.
Well, this is it. Save for a return flight to Bangkok on Tuesday, May 17 (a formality, really, just to pick up the return flight to China on the 18th…and no shoots on the 17th in Bangkok), Siem Reap/Angkor Wat is the last stop – and the one I was most looking forward to.
The flight over was pretty uneventful, though amusing. At Phnom Penh International Airport, we checked in at the gate, then went outside and hopped on a bus to take us to the plane…which was literally less than 100 meters away. That amused me to no end. A quick, comfortable 45 minute flight on the prop jet later – over completely black terrain; it seems the countryside is either sparsely populated, or electricity is a premium, but we may as well have been flying over a moonless ocean – brought us to Siem Reap (which, I’m glad to say, had lights). Siem Reap is the small town (and it’s basically a tourist/party kind of town where it’s great to go out at night after spending a full day in the sweltering hot sun. It’s about 10 kilometers south of Angkor Wat.
In overview, Angkor Wat is the ancient capital of the Khmer kingdom. What remains today are temples…temples…and temples. Hindu temples. Buddhist temples. They were also a people who were animists, so some temples are reminiscent of that system, too.
The detail of the temples is also fascinating. There are more asparas here than you can shake a stick at. Of the roughly 20,000 asparas, only one is shown smiling (baring teeth, that is). It fascinates – and impresses – me that people have done such extensive research and restoration that they know this. Those are the details, though.
A macro view of the Siem Reap area is just as impressive in that these temples are a study of a civilization close to one thousand years old (yet another jaw-dropping aspect of Angkor: the longevity) and their durability. The earliest temples are over a thousand years old, and the most recent are from the 14th century. (If the guide book I bought is correct, they were all built between 790-1307.) What survives today is all original (though there have been reinforcements with stone – many foreign countries support renovations of specific temples; I recall China and India among them). It’s quite obvious to tell what’s old and what’s new in most cases. However, the restorations are all good and necessary. One last note regarding the longevity of these temples is this: If these stone temples are what remained…how impressive must the society have been who created them? (That’s to say…think of the temples, houses, and all that didn’t survive as they were built of wood; these are simply the temples built by the royals or the aristocracy.)
A tour of modern-day Angkor Wat can be done in one or two fairly vigorous days. However, if you’re looking for any classic shots, you’ll want to spend longer here. (Common sense: the more time here, the more chances for good shots.) For this trip – it may be the only time I come here, though you never know – we arrived on a Saturday night and checked into our hotel (My Home Tropical Garden Villa; $20/night)
Siem Reap feels, at first, like a small dusty outpost of a town. The center of town is about four square blocks of small dive restaurants (and a bar street) and slightly pricier restaurants. There is also a night market street, an art street…all in all, it’s quite nice and has a bit of a party feel to it in addition to the endless souvenir stands you would expect. Though we didn’t go out on Saturday night (since we didn’t get checked in until around 9:30 p.m.), we did get a chance to go on Sunday.
Sunday morning was an awfully early start. Before having left Phnom Penh, I jumped on Facebook and, by chance, found and hired a local tuktuk driver, Mao Khvan, for $25/day. He agreed to pick us up at 4:50 a.m. to catch the sunrise at Angkor Wat.
Now, a quick note on tuktuks: almost every single hotel/hostel/guesthouse probably has tuktuks available for hire. Also, when we were picked up at the airport, the taxi driver offered to drive us for the time we were there. In short…it’s a competitive market, and finding a driver for the day will be no problem. $25 may even be slightly pricy (you could probably find a driver for $15-20), however, I was so impressed with Mao’s service that, if I were to return, I’d gladly hire him again. He wasn’t rude or pushy, provides all the ice water you could possibly want to drink, and though he’s not an “official” guide, he’s very, very knowledgeable and made both days pleasant. I even had him take us to the airport the morning we left, and he brought his wife and daughter to meet us. He’s just a genuinely good and decent guy. (For anyone who goes to Angkor Wat, here’s Mao’s contact info if you want to arrange his services ahead of time: www.facebook.com/maotuktuksiemreap/?fref=ts )
Back to the actual touring itself, Angkor is geared towards tourism and they do it well. You can buy an admission ticket for either one, three, or seven days. ($20, $40, or…$60?). It’s also nice because they don’t have to be used in consecutive days (for the three and seven day passes, obviously). The three days can be used in a given week. The seven day pass, within a month.
Conventionally, two days is enough to see the “main” sites (albeit quickly) in about 8 hours each day. There’s a small loop (which we did the first morning) in which we caught the sunrise (not a great one, but…there was one, and it wasn’t terrible, by any stretch) at Angkor Wat, followed by a quick tour of the grounds – but not the temple itself. Afterwards (we were at Angkor Wat from 5:30 until 7:00 or 8:00, I’d say), we hopped back in the tuktuk and headed over to Ta Prohm, about 15-20 minutes away. Ta Prohm is famous for those who are fans of the Lara Croft Tomb Raider movies. (The first, I think. I’m not, so I don’t recall it vividly.) After those two spots – probably two of the three most famous – we went to the Khmer Country Kitchen for a rather nice, relaxing, and cheap breakfast where we spent an hour with the other two members of our group. Around 10:00, we went to our third stop: Ta Keo Temple. In 40 degree heat (roughly 104F), I was feeling a bit too exhausted to climb the somewhat steep stairs to the top of this temple, but I did enjoy the lower area just as well. From Ta Keo, we made a quick stop at two temples (they form a pair): Thommanon and Chau Say Tevoda for about 20 minutes. Between these three, I’d say we spent about an hour. Our last stop of the morning, around high noon, was the Bayon complex of Angkor Thom. Passing through Bayon’s east gate, we stopped for a few quick pictures before going to the main compound of Bayon, which I would say is the the last of the three most-recognizable places here. We spent a good hour, or a little longer, shooting here after which point we were completely spent. Mao would have gladly taken us back to Angkor for sunset, but we actually decided to call it a day around 1:00. 9 hours in high heat was more than enough.
Back at the hotel, we rested, and I enjoyed myself immensely in the swimming pool. In the early evening, we walked about 600 meters to the “happening” part of town where we wandered the various streets and had a rather nice Khmer dinner. After eating and walking off a rather good dinner, we called it a night and headed back to our room. (For what it’s worth, the afternoon sky clouded over quite a bit and I heard we didn’t miss much as far as sunsets go. Mao also told us the following morning that the sunrise was a wash, as was Tuesday morning’s. Perhaps he was just trying to make us feel good.)
Monday morning we gladly skipped the sunrise and had a late start around…10:00. After a good old-fashioned breakfast of a ham & cheese omelet, Mao came by and we spent the second full day on the large loop. The first stop of the day was at Ba Phuon, a lesser temple just north of Bayon in Angkhor Thom. This was accompanied by quick stops at the adjacent Elephant Terrace and Leper King Terrace. After about an hour in the Ba Phuon area, we rode off to the northeast and stopped at Preah Khan, which was a rather interesting ruins. Another hour or so gone, we continued along the northeastern loop, bypassing Neak Pean (which, following English pronunciation rules, could theoretically be pronounced “neck pain,” which amused me for some reason…). The next stop was a rather small temple named Ta Som on the eastern end of the outer loop. Just down the road from Ta Som, we stopped at the East Mebon temple. When it was constructed, this was an island, only accessible by boat. That, however, was centuries ago. Now, it’s just a very dry, dusty area – with the temple still standing – and it’s hard to imagine it was once surrounded by water. At any rate, it was a quick stop at East Mebon, followed by another nice meal at the Khmer Country Kitchen before we continued with the tour. The next stop on the list was due east of the restaurant (southeast corner of the outer loop, which is really slightly northeast of Angkor Wat). Pre Rup (or Bre Rup) was a fairly photogenic temple. By this point, the heat – also around 40 degrees, just like Sunday – was starting to take a toll, though we still managed to stay out and see all we could. The last “new” temple for us was Banteay Kdei, a citadel that is at the corner of where the inner and outer loop meet on the eastern side of Angkor Wat. Directly across the street from Bnateay Kdei is what should be a nice lake called Sra Srang. A long, rectangular lake, which is also across the street from the Khmer Country Kitchen, it’s now nothing but a dustbowl. Though it’s rainy season now, there’s been so little rain that the lake has completely dried up. (But, please don’t tell any “right”-thinking politicians in my country that global warming is a problem. It certainly isn’t, despite what your eyes see.) After some rather sad contemplation at Sra Srang, we went back to Angkor Wat around 4:00 and were there until 6:30 or so for sundown. However, a boomer of a thunderstorm (light rain, but heavy on thunder & lightning) came through and there wasn’t much to see. However, we did finally get to tour the interior of Angkor Wat, and found that a pretty fitting way to end the initial Siem Reap shoot. From there, we went back to the hotel where we passed out from exhaustion.
The only thing left to do was wake up on Tuesday for a quick 45 minute flight at noon to Bangkok. We concluded the trip as we started it: eating well at a Thai restaurant. Other than that, we just had a quiet night in Bangkok (no shooting at all) and a very early (3:30 a.m.) wake up call for our return flights out of Thailand. I’m definitely looking forward to seeing Thailand again soon.
I've lived nearly all my life in this area but only found out about this place a few weeks ago.
I walked from Wanstead down to the Redbridge roundabout and then along this part of the Roding to Woodford Bridge.
More to follow.
London Underground Track Recording Train (Nos. L133, TRC666 and L132) approaches Roding Valley working Train No. 776
Naast de Sint-Willibrorduskerk aan de Singel in Berchem (Antwerpen) staat een rode beuk met een stamomtrek van 4m en een kruin van 35m. De boom is beschermd sinds 1949. In de boom hangt een eenvoudig madonnakapelletje.
Foto: Tijl Vereenooghe
Edited from the Victoria County History:
The parish church of St Edmund, Abbess Roding, consists of nave, chancel, west tower, north vestry, and south porch. The walls are of flint rubble, roughly coursed except where they have been restored, and the original dressings are of clunch. The plan indicates a 12th century origin and the dedication suggests that there was a church here before the Norman Conquest. The nave was probably rebuilt in the 14th century and the chancel in the 14th and 15th. The tower and porch were rebuilt in 1866-8 and the vestry was probably added before the end of the 19th century. The most interesting features of the church are the oak screen and the stained glass, both of the 15th century.
www.flickr.com/photos/barryslemmings/sets/72157629306452140/ to see the full set.
The position of the north and south doorways suggests that the nave was originally built in the 12th century. The font is of the late 12th century and is similar in type to others in the area. The square bowl, which is bound with iron, has vine ornament carved on two sides and conventionalized flowers on another. On the fourth side appear the disk, crescent, whorl, and stars which are characteristic of these fonts. The stem is circular and has small angle shafts. The nave was probably rebuilt in the 14th century. There are two pointed windows with tracery of this date. The doorways are also 14th-century in style but the south doorway has been completely rebuilt. West of the doorways are single-light windows which are either modern or very thoroughly restored. A 14th-century piscina in the south wall has an ogee head on a square drain.
The chancel arch, much restored, is of two moulded orders. The windows on the north side of the chancel have tracery of the 14th century, but the later rebuilding of the rear arches has blocked the spandrels. There is much 15th-century work in the chancel. The two south windows have moulded jambs and fourcentred heads. The east window, entirely rebuilt in the 19th century, has tracery in the style of the 15th century and may replace a similar window of that date. The late 15th-century south doorway has a fourcentred head with carved spandrels and a square label externally. The stonework has been partly renewed.
The chancel roof has two tie-beams and a deep moulded and embattled wall-plate. Below the east tie-beam are moulded wall-posts and arched braces springing from modern corbel brackets. The nave roof, of similar date, has two tie-beams with traceried spandrels between the arched braces and the moulded wall-posts. At the west end are indications of the former bell turret, 'a little wooden turret with a spire'. This is shown in an engraving of 1797. In the same picture appears a large timber-framed south porch, also probably of the 15th century, having seven pointed lights along the sides. The turret and porch were both rebuilt in 1867 but there is still a 15th-century stoup outside the south door.
The fine oak screen is of the late 15th century. It has evidently been brought from elsewhere and cut to fit the present chancel arch. There are three full bays, one of which forms the entrance to the chancel, and an extra half bay at the south end. The upper panels have four-centred heads and are filled with elaborately cusped perpendicular tracery. The principal mullions are carved with buttresses and crocketed finials. The rail is enriched with a running vine ornament and the lower panels have tracery carving. The cresting is modern.
In one of the 15th-century chancel windows is some painted glass of the same period. It includes tabernacle work and two figures, one being a bishop in mass vestments and the other a woman, probably St. Margaret. Above the pulpit is a fine early-18th-century sounding board with an inlaid soffit and an enriched cornice. It is supported on a fluted Doric pilaster in the angle between the south and east walls of the nave.
The octagonal oak pulpit may be partly of the same date, altered later. The wrought-iron hour-glass stand near the pulpit is probably also of the 18th century. In 1866-7 the church was restored and refitted at the expense of Capel Cure of Blake Hall. The work included the rebuilding of the tower and the south porch. The present tower is of flint rubble with freestone dressings and is of three stages surmounted by a castellated parapet. Its style is mainly of the 14th century. The south porch is of timber. At the same time the east wall of the chancel was completely rebuilt, there were repairs to windows and roofs, the nave was repaved and new seats and new stained glass were installed. The total cost of the restoration was about £2,000.
The carved oak reredos, which has traceried panels and other enrichments, is the work of the late Miss Capel-Cure and was added in 1938. There are three bells. Two are probably of the 15th century, one being by John Walgrave. The third is by John Hodson, 1665.
On the north wall of the nave is a fine carved and painted wall tablet of alabaster and black marble. It is in memory of Sir Gamaliel Capell (1613) and has figures of himself and his wife kneeling at a prayer desk. Below, also kneeling, are six sons and three daughters. The monument was formerly in the chancel. On the opposite wall of the nave is a tablet in similar materials but of very unusual design. It commemorates Mildred (Capell) wife of Sir William Lucklyn (1633) and shows a lady looking out from a curtained recess, the curtains being held back by cherubs. Behind her, angels are descending to place a crown on her head. Above is a segmental pediment and an achievement of arms.
During the Middle Ages the advowson of the parish church of Abbess Roding was held by Barking Abbey.
I took my AiPAS Ebike out for a ride to Sharp's Ridge Veterans Memorial Park and back home.
I rode to the Hanover St trail access and rode to the top. The rode all the way out to the end of the road. The turned around, stopping at the JB Owen Overlook. Capturing photos with my Sony a6000 and Sony E 18-135mm Zoom lens and Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max. The I rode down to the picnic area.I fired up my DJI drone and flew it along Sharp's Ridge capturing photos and video. Then I rode back down to the Hanover St access and then rode home.
Sharp's Ridge Veterans Memorial Park
Knoxville, Tennessee
Friday, October 2nd, 2026
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