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Split is the capital and largest city in Split-Dalmatia County, Dalmatia, and Adriatic Croatia and the largest city on the Eastern Adriatic, while it is the 2nd largest city in Croatia. It lies on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea and is spread over a central peninsula and its surroundings. An intraregional transport hub and popular tourist destination, the city is linked to the Adriatic islands and the Apennine Peninsula.
The city was founded as the Greek colony of Aspálathos (Greek: Aσπάλαθος) in the 3rd or 2nd century BC on the coast of the Illyrian Dalmatae, and later on was home to Diocletian's Palace, built for the Roman emperor in AD 305. It became a prominent settlement around 650 when it succeeded the ancient capital of the Roman province of Dalmatia, Salona. After the sack of Salona by the Avars and Slavs, the fortified Palace of Diocletian was settled by Roman refugees. Split became a Byzantine city. Later it drifted into the sphere of the Republic of Venice and the Kingdom of Croatia, with the Byzantines retaining nominal suzerainty. For much of the High and Late Middle Ages, Split enjoyed autonomy as a free city of the Dalmatian city-states, caught in the middle of a struggle between Venice and Croatia for control over the Dalmatian cities.
Venice eventually prevailed and during the early modern period Split remained a Venetian city, a heavily fortified outpost surrounded by Ottoman territory. Its hinterland was won from the Ottomans in the Morean War of 1699, and in 1797, as Venice fell to Napoleon, the Treaty of Campo Formio rendered the city to the Habsburg Monarchy. In 1805, the Peace of Pressburg added it to the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy and in 1806 it was included in the French Empire, becoming part of the Illyrian Provinces in 1809. After being occupied in 1813, it was eventually granted to the Austrian Empire following the Congress of Vienna, where the city remained a part of the Austrian Kingdom of Dalmatia until the fall of Austria-Hungary in 1918 and the formation of Yugoslavia. In World War II, the city was annexed by Italy, then liberated by the Partisans after the Italian capitulation in 1943. It was then re-occupied by Germany, which granted it to its puppet Independent State of Croatia. The city was liberated again by the Partisans in 1944, and was included in the post-war Socialist Yugoslavia, as part of its republic of Croatia. In 1991, Croatia seceded from Yugoslavia amid the Croatian War of Independence.
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Added to Monthly Scavenger Hunt (MSH) July 2013 5. Split
Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants thereof!
Split Rock Lighthouse, Lake Superior North Shore, Minnesota
After a storm on Nov. 28, 1905 had damaged 29 ships, Congress authorized $70,000 to build a lighthouse and fog signal at Split Rock. The light station was completed in 1910.
The light was taken out of service in 1969 when modern navigation methods made it obsolete, but the beacon is lit once a year on November 10th to commemorate the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Learn More about the history of the Split Rock light.
The dark haired Bergdorf look=alike Split Decision Poppy - unfortunately taken in not brilliant light, but her similarity to Bergdorf is stunning nonetheless.
Right Wing, Left Wing
This photo was taken by a Minolta Autocord Seikosha-MX (Chiyoko) TLR medium format film camera with it’s Chiyoko Rokkor 1:3.5 f=75mm taking lens and a HOYA HMC 49mm Y[K2] filter using Ilford HP4 Plus 125 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
A leaflet available at the lighthouse says a November 1905 storm that wrecked several ships on Lake Superior was the impetus for constructing Split Rock Lighthouse. Completed in 1910, the 54-foot lighthouse occupies a picturesque setting atop a 130-foot rock cliff on Beaver Bay on the west shore of Lake Superior, about 45 miles above Duluth, Minnesota; electricity replaced kerosene as the light's fuel in 1940. The lighthouse, retired in 1969, is a Minnesota Historical Society museum in Split Rock Lighthouse State Park. The lighthouse and other light station buildings have been restored to their 1920s appearance; the complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969 (69000073) and named a National Historic Landmark in 2011. Most of the photos I took of this lighthouse show it from a distance, to show the setting, but this provides a somewhat closer view than the earlier post. It was taken from a rather busy overlook, with people waiting for good position, so I dispensed with the tripod.
At some point, I want to try using Photoshop to substitute a more interesting sky into this and/or other images from the same day. I've never attempted such editing/manipulation.
Press "L" for a larger image, on black.
Bumped into this stranger while shooting images in Split Croatia for the Dutch Canon Grand Prix 2017 as a finalist :-)
All about the idea of this project can be read here:
Carl Zeiss Interview - English
f5.6 − 1/80 - ISO100 - No Flash - Nikon D800 - Nikon 105mm F2 D DC
RANDOM PHOTO. The original background color was blue and used this photo to learn the concept of "Split Toning" to change the color to green. Processed with LightRoom 2.0
Normally, if you use photoshop, you make the selection which can be a challenge and then need to do many other steps. LR 2 simply allows you to do this by moving slide controllers around.
My rule is to simply spend not more than 5 minutes for picture editing. Sorry, i don't have a lot of time to sit in front of the computer and spend hours for one photo.
See screen shot of the sliders/control used to change the color.
Next, I will try this with people. :)
Natrona County, Wyoming
"The Sweetwater Valley contains three distinctive granite landmarks: Independence Rock, Devil’s Gate and Split Rock. The last of these, Split Rock, with its unforgettable gunsight notch, was visible to emigrants for two days or more as they approached and then left it behind them.
Some emigrants on the Oregon, California and Mormon trails—all one road at this point—found this landmark in the Rattlesnake Range a useful navigational tool as they made their way west up the Sweetwater. “[Y]esterday,” Joseph Middleton wrote in 1849, “from the time we started we steered to this cliff with a steadiness that was astonishing, never deviating from it more than the needle does from the north pole, excepting once for a short time—I think this cleft or rent or chasm is very conspicuously seen from the Devil’s Gate, which I think is 11 miles from here; and I think it is still at least 6 or 8 miles ahead. …”
Rising some 1,000 feet above the sagebrush prairie, Split Rock aimed westbound emigrants directly at South Pass, still more than 75 miles away. The relatively gentle landscape offered them a short, but much needed, respite in their long journey.
Emigrants were struck by the rock’s beauty, too. “The picture was worthy the pencil of an artist,” William Carter wrote late in 1857. “Our camp was near what is called the Split in the Rock, a remarkable cleft in the top of the mountain which can be seen at a great distance in either direction.”
Split Rock Station is located a short distance west of Split Rock between Cranner Rock and the south bank of the Sweetwater River in what is now a hay meadow. In the early 1860s, the site served as a Pony Express station, stage station and telegraph station.
Diarist Henry Herr reported that, in 1862, 50 soldiers from the 6th Ohio Regiment were encamped here to protect the emigrants. A crude log structure and pole corral that were part of the station are now part of a private ranch homesite." (wyohistory.org)
For my sister !
My sister really loves this kind of images...
Baric Damir Dado a Real Estate Photographer
A rather strange thing happening here - is that one tree split in two at some stage, or two trees who deny each other the opportunity to grow in each other's direction?
A rainbow in infrared with a home-brewed tilt-shift lens.
Internal reflections are an added bonus!
Split Point Lighthouse at Aireys Inlet, Victoria, Australia.
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OK a little detail on this photo and the last uploaded photo.
As you have read I am in Viangchang Laos standing on a corner.
Street name: Boulevard Khouvieng
and Rue Mahosot, or some where close to mentioned streets ?
In the background of this photo you see what is a lot used by very poor vendors.
It is full of garbage and debris from a torn down building.
The lady in purple seems to be the boss of this lot and this man
was trying to impress her.
Apparently he used the wrong words and ended up walking away with a split lip. I wasn't fast enough to catch the upper cut from her left fist because like him I wasn't expecting it..;-0
So anyway life goes on and I have a gut feeling these two do this quite often.
Who knows maybe they are husband and wife ? ...;-)~
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Hope you have enjoyed the show and I'll keep them coming
for awhile. .... Hand Held D300 Nikon, 70-300VR Nikkor.
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No Gyrating Leaping Leg Licking Lizards,
Awards, Invites or Copy an Pastes.
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One minute JAXson is sleeping on the footstool, and in a split second, one in which I had my phone in my hands, he yawned, becoming all teeth and one tiny glint in his eye. #cy365 day291 'split second'
Split is the second-largest city of Croatia and the largest city of the region of Dalmatia. It lies on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea and is spread over a central peninsula and its surroundings. An intraregional transport hub and popular tourist destination, the city is linked to the Adriatic islands and the Apennine peninsula.