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Chicago Burlington and Quincy EMD E5 9911A and Atlantic Coast Line E3/E6 501 were looking fantastic at Spencer Shops during the fantasticaler Streamliner event.
It was a great weekend in Carolina amongst some tasty BBQ and beer.
McLaren Orange MP4 in Rancho. One of my best panning shots to date, I love this car and shot so much.
Slanted because of asian driver.
**View on Black for Boner.
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The rather strange looking Slant-faced Grasshopper is a large insect at 3 - 4 inches long. I had no idea what they were when I first found these on Crete recently.
CSX C760 is seen rolling by the Starnes passing siding at Slant,VA. The consist is mostly EMD with two more MACs shoving hard on the rear.
Ocean Towers, English Bay, Vancouver, Canada.
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SMC Pentax 50mm f1.7
Fuji Acros Neopan 100 asa
Canoscan 9000f
Developed by me in caffenol cm.
Slant by Phillip King
Taken at the Beyond Limits exhibition at Chatsworth House
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Place Saint-Pierre in the old town of Vannes, with the portal of the cathedral Saint-Pierre de Vannes on the right, City of Vannes, Brittany, France
Some background information:
Vannes is the capital of the French department of Morbihan in the region of Brittany and a city with about 55,000 inhabitants. Its larger urban area has more than 175,000 inhabitants. With that said, it is the second it is the second most populous city in the department after Lorient, and ranks fifth in Brittany overall. And it also hosts the third-largest university hub in the region. The city is located slightly north of the coast of the Gulf of Morbihan. The Marle River flows through the city and later empties into the inland sea. The municipality of Vannes is part of the Regional Natural Park of the Gulf of Morbihan.
The city is built like an amphitheater. The historic center with its many late medieval half-timbered houses is enclosed by ramparts and clustered around the cathedral Saint-Pierre de Vannes. It has been transformed into a pedestrian zone, with shops nestled in quite a number of the timber-framed buildings.
The name Vannes comes from the Veneti, a seafaring Celtic people who lived in the south-western part of Armorica in Gaul before the Roman invasions. The region seems to have been involved in a cross channel trade for thousands of years, probably using ferry boats. Wheat that apparently was grown in the Middle East was part of this trade. At around 150 BC the evidence of trade (such as Gallo-Belgic coins) with the Thames estuary area of Great Britain dramatically increased.
In Gallo-Roman times, after the war between the Veneti and Caesar’s legions, the Roman administration established Darioritum – the city’s ancient name – as the capital of the Veneti at the end of the 1st century BC, during the reign of Augustus. In 465, during the Council of Vannes, the city became home to a bishopric and Catholic religious orders. This council consecrated Paternus, the city's patron saint, as the first known bishop of Vannes and one of the founding saints of Brittany.
From the 5th to the 7th century, the remaining Gauls were displaced or assimilated by waves of immigrant Britons fleeing the Saxon invasions of Britain. In the year 560, Chlothar I defeated the army of the Breton leader Conomor here, under whose protection Chlothar's son Chram had taken refuge. At the heart of a frontier county, the city was conquered in 578 by King Waroch, who established the Bro Waroch, a political territory with Vannes as its capital. Its central position in southern Brittany gave Vannes and its political and religious leaders a key role in maintaining the balance between Brittany and France and the counts and bishops of Vannes were major figures in this dynamic.
Nominoë, Count of Vannes during the first half of the 9th century, is considered by some Bretons to be the first king of Brittany. By the end of the first millennium, Vannes had become a royal city of Brittany. Partially destroyed during Viking invasions in the 10th century, the city endured numerous sieges until the end of the War of the Breton Succession in 1365, before becoming the favored residence of the dukes John IV and John V, and hence, the seat of ducal power.
In 1485, the Parliament of Brittany, which resided in Vannes, became a sovereign court, and in 1491, the Chamber of Accounts of Brittany was also established in the city. The Parliament of Brittany stayed in Vannes until 1553, when Nantes and Rennes competed for it. It returned to Vannes from 1675 to 1690, bringing with it a significant influx of wealthy residents, their household staff, and their suppliers.
In 1759, Vannes was used as the staging point for a planned French invasion of Britain. A large army was assembled there, but it was never able to sail after the French naval defeat at the Battle of Quiberon Bay in the same year. During the French Revolution, the city was divided between the Convention (the Republicans) and the Chouannerie (the Royalists). Like in all of France, the Convention held the upper hand and 700 adversaries of the Revolution were executed in Vannes.
As the prefecture of Morbihan, Vannes has continued to develop since the 19th century, despite a collapse in maritime activity during the same period. From the 1870s onward, the city saw the construction of new public buildings and a revival of activity with the arrival of the railway and the stationing of military regiments. From 1940 to 1944, Vannes was occupied by German troops, but was finally liberated by the Allies after more than 1,500 days of German occupation.
Modern Vannes Vannes has developed around the historic center, which lies at the junction of three hills: the Mené Hill, the Boismoreau Hill, and the Garenne Hill. The Porte Saint-Vincente (in English: "Saint Vincent Gate"), the main entrance to the old town, stands at the edge of the marina, which is accessed via a 1,500-meter-long channel that brings boats from the Kérino Bridge to the tidal basin.
The economy of Vannes is primarily based on the tertiary sector. Industry mainly consists of a network of small and medium-sized enterprises, with the most significant sectors being agri-food, intermediate goods production, as well as boating and maritime industries. But agriculture and seafood production play a certain role too. The local economy also benefits from tourism, thanks to the Gulf of Morbihan and the city’s many historic monuments.
A three part panorama of a vaulted living area in the main building at Castle Acre Priory, Norfolk, with Howie Marsh.