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Diga del Panperduto - Canale Villoresi - Somma Lombardo
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Le Dighe del Panperduto sono il terzo sbarramento artificiale sul fiume Ticino a valle del Lago Maggiore, si trovano, nelle vicinanze dello scalo aeroportuale di Malpensa, tra Varallo Pombia e Somma Lombardo, tra le province di Varese e Novara. Sono un monumento del XIX secolo, frutto di un progetto che ha coinvolto il Canton Ticino (Svizzera) e la Lombardia, e rappresentano tuttora l'elemento cardine dell'intero sistema idraulico del Ticino orientale. Sono inserite nel Parco Regionale Lombardo della Valle del Ticino, in un contesto ambientale e paesaggistico unico. Le Dighe di Panperduto e il sistema idrico che esse originano sono l'ultimo tassello dell'articolato sistema di canali del Ticino che da secoli solca la pianura padana per finalità irrigue. Grazie a tali canali oggi sono irrigati oltre 100 mila ettari di terreno. Il percorso navigabile nel bacino di calma delle Dighe del Panperduto permette di apprezzare il funzionamento del sistema di regolazione delle Dighe. Lungo circa 700 metri, con larghezza variabile dai 90 ai 50 metri, il bacino di calma delle Dighe del Panperduto è costituito lungo la sponda sinistra dal terrazzo originario del fiume Ticino, su quella destra per i primi 120 metri da un muro di contenimento e più a valle da un doppio argine in terra. Lungo il perimetro sono presenti numerosi manufatti idraulici: uno sfioratore (ovvero un dispositivo per smaltire le acque presenti nel bacino quando il livello idraulico risulta superiore a quello previsto), le opere di presa dell'Incile e di regolazione del canale Villoresi, del condotto Industriale, del sistema dei Navigli e lo scarico delle sabbie. L'itinerario navigabile a oggi prevede il servizio di trasbordo dei turisti dal pontile di attracco a monte delle Dighe presso la foce dello Strona a Somma Lombardo fino all'Ostello "Locanda Panperduto", da lì all'isola di Confurto, una lingua di terra tra il fiume Ticino e il bacino di calma del Panperduto . Qui si ha la sede del Museo delle Acque Italo-Svizzere, pensato come un "museo diffuso" o "ecomuseo", ovvero come un museo con una propria sede espositiva ma pienamente integrato con l'ambiente e il territorio circostante. L'edificio, a pianta rettangolare, recupera attraverso una ristrutturazione conservativa la fisionomia e i manufatti dell'antico edificio originario.
***Fonte LombardiaBeniCulturali ***
Firma: Dadus Transport i Logistyka [ Polska (PL) ]
Ciężarówka: DAF XF105 SSC
Kraj pochodzenia: Polska (PL)
Tagi: naczepa, firanka, tuning, reakcja
Data: 08.03.2016
Miejsce: DK8, Suwałki
Pozdrawiam ! :D
S-12 SSC(Special Silenced Carbine)
A Build for consturctors' contest in russian community. Actually, it's just an AUG with a silencer in another body.
Credit to ZBot man for the mag base.
Shot taken for Saturday Self Challenge 01/11/2025 -- Silvery !!
Had a few ideas and tried a couple including a stack of trollies outside the local supermarket -they were so tarnished and absolute failures ! Then looking under the dining table and , the answer !! The fan is still there from the hot summer and apart from a little bit of black plastic trim and a couple of similar control knobs , the whole thing is bright and silvery and shiny and chromed !!
Well a dozen or so shots close in to best hide the black knobs etc , I think this one should fit the bill .
Just the obvious track for a Sight & Sound -----
Created for Saturday Self Challenge - 21/09/2019 - Post Processing .
Well quite a challenge for me as most of my processing is just cropping and adjustments for light and shadows and other minor tweaks , photoshop changes I do not normally tackle - do not have photoshop ! The only image manipulation I have access to is a couple of crafting software programmes , in this case everything was done with Serif CraftArtist . So here goes , thebase shot was taken on Sunday morning and all the jets except the DHL jet and all the light aircraft were captured on Sunday afternoon ! The police helicopter and Sky News helicopter were taken a week or so back as was the buzzard I must admit but needed them to get the balance right . My processing skills ( or lack of- with thanks to my daughter who helped me and stopped me from pushing all the wrong buttons ) have not yet run to working out how to match the sky within the landing skids of the helicopters . However it was great fun getting it all cut out and placed - and then starting again as mid week I captured by pure luck and chance an overflying Spitfire and I was not going to leave a bonus shot like that out !!
All the jets face the same way as that is a pattern of flight of them coming out from Heathrow Airport - the Etihad and the Qatar planes are regular flight that go over each afternoon usually just before 4 o'clock .
It would be a scary sight to see this density of planes in the air all at once for real and the pilots would certainly need to up their game and really start " Learning To Fly " .
so for sight and sound you can quess my couple of choices .
HWW Folks!!
Shot taken for Saturday Self Challenge 18/06/2022 -
Contre-Jour or Backlit .
Well this was taken in a darkened room with a light box for craftwork as the only light source . Placed on the lit surface are a selection of agate slices .
Agate is a variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz. Translucency, patterns of color, or moss-like inclusions may distinguish this stone from other forms of chalcedony. Agates can show a wide variety of vivid, multiple colors. These are principally the result of traces of oxides of iron, manganese, titanium, chromium, nickel, and other elements. All agates take a wonderful polish and are tough enough for most jewelry uses. Designers often take advantage of the intriguing patterns these stones have to offer to create unique and fascinating pieces.
And now to hear the " Light Flux " ------------
SSC - Shooting through a pane of glass.
Initially I set out to take a photo through a pane of a selected object. though I was quite pleased with the results I felt that the glass was not obvious or featured, so I took a different approach.
This shot of a window display was taken of "Bumble and Yarn" that has recently opened in the town it shows a very good and well composed display and the reflection, that defines the glass is of Halstead Library on the opposite side of the street.
SSC 1st July 2023 - "Scene, and seen distorted"
This week's challenge is to create a single image that contains both a scene, and a distorted version of that scene.
"What on earth does that mean ?" I hear you ask.
So here's a gallery for illustration and inspiration.
www.flickr.com/photos/amazingstoker/galleries/72157721857...
Another effort is in comments
NSW Australia
Dragon Tree.
It has grown quite quickly.
? Dracaena draco, the Canary Islands dragon tree or drago, is a subtropical tree in the genus Dracaena, native to the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Madeira, western Morocco, and possibly introduced into the Azores.
It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1762 as Asparagus draco. In 1767 he assigned it to the new genus, Dracaena.
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Satrurday challenge - spiky
World land speed record holder
1.227,985 km/h
763,035 mph
15th October 1997
SSC stands for Super Sonic Car. It lived up to its name, as it was the first car to go through the sound barrier. it achieved a speed of Mach 1,03.
Coventry Transport Museum
Millennium Place
Hales Street
Coventry
England - United kingdom
November 2018
Shot put together for SSC , 12/11/22 -- Blue .
Well not an out and out " Blue " capture , but the subject is called Blue - that is " Norbury Blue " cheese - it is an "Artisan" cheese whatever that is and me not being a fine diner or food expert has had to find out . This is a cheese that has been developed reasonable recently from Norbury Park Farm ( seen in the first comment box below ) which is just off of the A24 Leatherhead to Dorking road and sits at the edge of Norbury Park . Would you believe that long ago during my stint on the milk in between my surveying days and my days of dry cleaning , I delivered milk to the houses over in the right of the picture below .
Anyway , I have never tried Norbury Blue but luckily it is available to buy near to me , so a piece was purchased and used in the shot before I tasted any - a very fine blue cheese lovely and soft/creamy with quite a strong flavour .
I will let the makers tell their story from their web site and from the Surrey Hills website -----------
Started in 2001 Norbury Blue & Dirty Vicar soon became a cheese's noted locally for their distinct taste and flavour which is derived our family run closed herd of fresian cows whom have a rich and diverse diet, also which adds to the unique flavour is the fact that all the flavours are not cooked out with the commonly used pasteurisation process.
The closed herd of Fresian cows Graze on the lush meadow grasses at the foot of the South Downs by the Rother Valley. The cows roam freely Spring through to Autumn as of January 2018 are now being milked by robots, meaning that the cows are free to get milked when it suits them, producing a more relaxing atmosphere and ultimately happier cows!
The milk is collected from the farm and delivered to the cheese making dairy 45 minutes away where it is then pumped into a 900 litre vat and heated. The moulds are then loaded by hand and salted washed and transferred into the maturing room where they stay for around 4 weeks. When the test results are returned the cheese is ready to be marketed.
Norbury Park Farm Cheese Company Ltd is a small family run company and we pride ourselves in our handmade artisan product and our non commercial attitude towards our much loved cheese that cannot be found in any supermarket.
That's why you will always find Neil and Michaela put quality before profit.
We started making cheese in 2002 on the family dairy farm when milk prices were 18p a litre!
The idea was to add value to our milk and create a job for myself on the farm. Norbury blue was our first creation inspired by a Minton wall plaque of a blue dairy maid in the 16th century buttery based at the farm.
At the time no one was making cheese commercially in Surrey and in fact still aren’t!
Enter the Dirty Vicar
Dirty vicar came later in 2007 named jokingly after the local vicar who married rather quickly after the passing of his wife. All in good jest he is very proud to have a cheese named after him!
Moving forward we needed to expand our maturing space, so in 2016 we put our footprint on a disused barn at Sherborne farm, Albury (next door to Silent Pool gin).
New Premises at Silent Pool
We finally moved into our new premises in November 2018. We now have a retail outlet so can add value by selling direct to the customer.
Going forward we have plans to make a hard cheese cheddar type which will be called Dorking cock (after the famous Dorking cockerel). Then we will have a whole Surrey cheeseboard!
Supporting Local
We now buy our raw cows milk from Aldhurst farm in Capel who are now pasterising and selling to local farm shops. We pay the more than double what the dairy pay as this is our ethos to support the local dairy industry.
We are very happy in our new surroundings and pair up a lot with our neighbors Silent pool in many events which can be booked through their website.
So it seems they have moved their production to the Silent Pool Location near Albury and the herd of cows now to The Rother Valley or is it now Capel ? - I do not know if they are still connected to the farm at Norbury Park though .
For those intrigued about the story of the Norbury Blue Cheese , here is a small video - the only thing missing is the tastes and aromas !!
And after taking all of the above in - some beautiful and atmospheric music with some accompanying stunning photography -------------
Op een dag liepen er twee vrienden over straat. Zij praatten over alles en niks. Op een gegeven moment zei de een: “stel, als we nu 500 munten op straat vinden, hoe verdelen we dat?”
– Nou, ik 250 en jij 250?
– Wat? Is het niet eerlijker als ik er 300 krijg? Want ik zag het als eerste.
– Welnee, ik zag het als eerste, dus ik krijg dan 300.
En kregen ze ruzie en vochten ze met elkaar.
Zo kwamen ze voor de voeten van een bemiddelaar aan te liggen. Hij vroeg: wat is er aan de hand?
– Nou, hoe verdelen we 500 munten? Hij zei dat hij dat hij er 300 krijgt want hij vond ze als eerste.
– OK, het is heel eenvoudig. Jullie krijgen elk 200 munten, en de laatste 100 krijg ik als bemiddelaar!
– Wat? 100 munten? Inhalige vrek. We hebben het over 500 munten die we nog niet hebben gevonden.
De bemidellaar werd rood van schaamte en wist niet wat hij moest zeggen.
(gebaseerd op een Mongools sprookje)
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On a day two friends were walking over the street. They were talking about nothing and everything. Then, on a moment, the one said: ‘suppose, we would find 500 coins on the street, now. How do we divide that?”
– Well, I get 250 and you also 250.
– What? It is more honest if I get 300. Because I saw them first.
– Absolutely not. I saw it first, so I get 300.
And they got a quarrel and fought with each other.
And so they came fighting at the feet of a mediator. He asked: “what is going on here?”
– Well, how do we divide 500 coins? He said he would get 300 because he found them first.
– OK, it is very simple. You’ll get both 200 coins, and I’ll receive the last 100 as mediator.
– What? 100 coins? Greedy Scrooge! We are talking about 500 coins which we did not find yet.
The mediator became red of shame and did not know what to say.
(Based on a fairy tale from Mongolia)
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SSC 21/07/2018 - Glass .
Well I started out with a glass bell but it was clear glass on the handle and deep maroon for the bell - guess what ! It was not coming out whatever I tried background and or lighting - scratch head and start again !
My wife came to the rescue and said she had some glass eyes for crafting with teddy or felted animal etc . Well just a shot of the eyes looked a bit bland so I just got a bit silly with my reading glasses !!!
Hands up all those that remember the Wurzels ?
For the SSC challenge of this week, the theme is "connections". As an electrician, it was obvious to shoot all kind of wires reunion! But human connection is the reason for civilisations, so last sunday, my daughter and i were out for a walk in the center of Toulouse, and i saw an old couple. Sometimes links between people tend to loosen, but they were clinging to each other. They moved me.