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I've been very fortunate this past week.....three different dragonfly encounters on three separate days.
The shimmer of color on this fellow's wings was magical to see through the lens....
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It's been a while since I ventured down the cut.....
The Stour Valley and the BCN run pretty much arrow straight, within a few feet of each other for the section between Tipton and Albion. Here, a Cross country Voyager approaches Watery Lane (Tipton) with 1M45 1050 Paignton to Manchester Piccadilly.
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The top section is undergoing restoration work.
Construction began in 1883 during the reign of Alexander III, 2 years after the assassination of his father Alexander II. The church was dedicated to be a memorial to his father, Alexander II. Estimates suggest that the construction cost 4.5 million rubles. The construction was completed during the reign of Nicholas II in 1907. Funding was provided by the Imperial family with the support of many private donors.
The church is prominently situated along the Griboedov Canal; paved roads run along both sides of the canal. On March 13, 1881 (Julian date: March 1), as Tsar Alexander II's carriage passed along the embankment, a grenade thrown by an anarchist conspirator exploded. The tsar, shaken but unhurt, got out of the carriage and started to remonstrate with the presumed culprit. A second conspirator took the chance to throw another bomb, killing himself and mortally wounding the tsar. The tsar, bleeding heavily, was taken back to the Winter Palace, where he died a few hours later.
A temporary shrine was erected on the site of the attack while plans and fundraising for a more permanent memorial were undertaken. In order to build a permanent shrine on the exact spot where the assassination took place, it was decided to narrow the canal so that the section of road on which the tsar had been driving could be included within the walls of the church. An elaborate shrine, in the form of a ciborium, was constructed at the end of the church opposite the altar, on the exact place of Alexander's assassination. It is embellished with topaz, lazurite and other semi-precious stones, making a striking contrast with the simple cobblestones of the old road, which are exposed in the floor of the shrine.
Text curtesy of Wikipedia.
Quasi-cross-section of a grand Pirate vessel built for Rebellug's Vignweek Challenge. Today's prompt was 'Pirate'.
Out of the 30 Southern Railway Merchant Navy 4-6-2s built during the 1940s to the design of Oliver Bulleid, 11 survive, all as rebuilt by British Railways during the 1950s. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to state that ten-and-half class members survive. The odd one out is 35029 ‘Ellerman Lines’, which is on display as a sectioned locomotive at the National Railway Museum in York.
218. - Vertical Section of the Skull, showing the Sinuses of the Dura Mater.
Original photograph taken by Polaroid SX70 Alpha1 SE using Impossible Project Color SX70 instant film.
Emulsion transfer onto heavyweight matt laser print of a scan from Gray's Anatomy 1st edition reprint.
This is 66532 on the Hartlepool to Willesden Euro Terminal taken back in the summer passing along the embankment near Heck Ings on the east coast mainline. These sections are for a tunnel in conection with HS2.
On Memorial Day (2015), I visited Arlington National Cemetery and made a point to visit Section 60, the section where many of those killed in Iraq and Afghanistan have been laid to rest alongside service members from earlier wars. What I did not know is that many families spend the day in Section 60 on Memorial Day, meeting old friends and those with shared experiences while remembering their loved ones. In addition, the Memorial Day Flowers organization places a rose on every headstone in the section. All of this was very moving and very humbling when thinking of what all the families around me had sacrificed for our country. It was a heartfelt Memorial Day.
A few weeks ago I shot an assignment for the Metropolitan section of the New York Times which included a panorama you can see here if you scroll down a bit: www.nytimes.com/interactive/nyregion/new-york-panorama.ht...;
This is the full version of a similar shot
A section of Glenawilling Strand, East Cork. This is a combination of two shots - a long exposure of 25 secs at f/11 to get the silky effect in the sea and the other at 1/250 sec. The reason for the latter is that the long exposure shot suffered from water droplets on the lens - there was a very high wind blowing towards the camera - and so I used the short exposure shot to mask those in post-processing.
Northern Section
Little visited and largely unknown, the Bisti Badlands is an amazingly scenic and colorful expanse of undulating mounds and unusual eroded rocks covering 4,000 acres, hidden away in the high desert of the San Juan Basin that covers the distant northwest corner of New Mexico, yet this area is just one of many similar regions in the region, the remainder even less publicized. The badlands are administered by the BLM (Bureau of Land Management), are free to enter, and are known officially, but less evocatively as the Bisti Wilderness Area. There are no signposts pointing the way to Bisti from any nearby towns, but the usual approach route is along NM 371 from Farmington, the largest town in the Four Corners region - this heads due south through wide open prairie land at the east edge of the great Navajo Indian Reservation, which extends for 200 miles across into Arizona. After 36 miles, a historical marker records the history of this area and of the nearby Bisti Trading Post, now derelict, while the main entrance to the badlands is 6.5 miles further south. Bisti is the smaller component of a 15 mile wide wilderness area that also includes much larger De-Na-Zin Wilderness which is equally colorful and even more remote, although partially covered with vegetation.
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A tomb built in an Islamic style with a stained glass window that reads "in memoriam". Built by former confederate general P.T.Beauregard for his daughter who passed away in 1884.
Night, near full moon, 120 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to orange, green and white.
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The Roman Theater in Amman.
Amman's Roman Theatre is a 6,000-seat, 2nd-century Roman theatre. A famous landmark in the Jordanian capital, it dates back to the Roman period when the city was known as Philadelphia. The theatre and the nearby Odeon are flanking the new Hashemite Plaza from the south and the east respectively, while the Roman Nymphaeum is just a short stroll away in south-westerly direction.
The theatre was built during the reign of Antonius Pius (138-161 CE). The large and steeply raked structure could seat about 6,000 people: built into the hillside, it was oriented north to keep the sun off the spectators.
It was divided into three horizontal sections (diazomata). Side entrances (paradoi) existed at ground level, one leading to the orchestra and the other to the stage. Rooms behind these entrances now house the Jordan Museum of Popular Tradition on the one side, and the Jordan Folklore Museum on the other side.
The highest section of seats in a theatre, known in British English as "the gods", even though far from the stage, offer here excellent sightlines, while the actors can be clearly heard, owing to the steepness of the cavea.
The theatre is now used as a venue for cultural activities including the Amman International Book Fair, the Amman Marathon prize ceremony, and musical concerts, most notably the Al-Balad Music Festival.