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I used to work in a large factory area, complete with a huge chimney and various metal constructions (the purpose of which remained unknown to me). I would often wander around with my camera, drawing unwanted attention of security guards, who could not comprehend why someone in their right mind would want to take pictures of any of that stuff, other than being some sort of spy or criminal planning a big score.
(Polaroid Impulse Portrait)
One word Tuesday: Split , post it then Tag it with #TP735
from last week but fits the title!
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Maybe in some parts of the world, splitting wood is easy, but I grew up with the adage "Split your own wood and warm yourself twice" - once when you split it and again when you burn it. This stubborn piece of oak had me going. In fact, I had buried an inch of a wedge into the chopping block before I realized it had gone all the way through. Then, it took some work to remove the wedges so I could flip the hunk over and work at it from the other side.
"you're goddamn right I'm a criminal" - Eminem
Emulsion lift from Polaroid Instant Lab print of an old police mug shot. On surface of 6" x 6" white ceramic tile.
Le palais de Dioclétien est l'attraction la plus célèbre de Split et un site classé au patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO. Même si l'histoire n'est pas votre tasse de thé (ce n'est sûrement pas mon cas), vous serez époustouflé par cet endroit !
Cet impressionnant vestige de l'architecture romaine remonte au IVe siècle. Si certaines parties des anciens murs subsistent encore aujourd'hui, le palais n'a pas de frontières claires et ses vestiges occupent une grande partie de la vieille ville de Split, avec des bâtiments plus récents, des bars et des boutiques disséminés entre eux et autour d'eux.
Le palais de Dioclétien n'est donc pas un palais au sens habituel du terme, mais plutôt une ville fortifiée qui a été habitée et transformée en ce qui est aujourd'hui le centre-ville de Split. Il n'y a pas d'entrée, ce qui signifie qu'il n'y a pas de droits d'entrée ni d'heures d'ouverture. Le palais fait partie de la ville et la ville fait partie du palais.
À la base, le palais de Dioclétien était un complexe résidentiel et militaire. Vous pourrez y découvrir les vestiges de plus de 200 bâtiments romains encore debout aujourd'hui. Le péristyle (cour centrale), le vestibule (antichambre circulaire) et les caves (Podrumi) comptent parmi les curiosités les plus époustouflantes du palais de Dioclétien. Nous allons nous pencher un peu plus sur chacun d'entre eux !
/The Diocletian’s Palace is the most famous attraction in Split and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Even if history isn’t really your cup of tea (it surely isn’t mine), you’ll be blown away by this place!
This impressive Roman architectural remain dates back to the 4th century. While parts of the old walls still stand today, the palace has no clear borders and its remains take up much of Split’s old city, with newer buildings, bars and shops scattered in between and around it.
So the Diocletian’s Palace isn’t a palace in the usual sense of the word, but more like a fortified town that’s been lived into and morphed into what is the city center of Split today. There is no entrance, meaning there aren’t any entrance fees nor are there any opening hours. The palace is part of the city and the city is part of the palace.
At it’s core, the Diocletian’s Palace used to be a residential and military complex. Here you’ll be able to explore the remains of over 200 Roman buildings that are still standing today. Among the more breathtaking sights in the Diocletian Palace are the Peristyle (central courtyard), the Vestibule (a circular anteroom) and the Podrumi (the cellars). Let’s dig a little bit deeper into each of these!
Split is the second-largest city of Croatia and the largest city of the region of Dalmatia, with about 300,000 people living in its urban area. It lies on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea and is spread over a central peninsula and its surroundings.
Split Mountain was long thought to be an anticline -- rock folded upwards to form a ridge. But we were there at the same time as a geology field trip; & doing a little eavesdropping, we learned the correct technical term for the baroque peak of the fold (seen here): "The Crazycline."
All that goes out the window if, as more recently suggested, it is not an anticline, formed by slow uplift, but a drag fold formed when a submarine landslide plowed into layers of sediments in the Gulf of California.
When I walked over to stand in front of the wall & do my best to look like a human being for scale, I also discovered my one & only specimen of Orcutt's aster, growing straight out of the rock.
This plant has been there since at least 1989 (see photo from Tom Feldman below). And it was still there in 2019: www.flickr.com/photos/aking1/49305998248/.
Schwarzsee trail, canton of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Shot with M42 Asahi Pentax Spotmatic SP II 35mm reflex camera and SMC Takumar 50mm f/1.4 lens at f/16, 1/125sec on Kodak Kodacolor (new) ISO-100 film.
La cathédrale Saint-Domnius de Split :
Au départ, c'est le mausolée de l'empereur romain Dioclétien.
Converti en église qu'en 650 par Jean de Ravenne.
Au xiie siècle fut ajouté un campanile.
Split is the second-largest city of Croatia and the largest city of the region of Dalmatia, with about 300,000 people living in its urban area. It lies on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea and is spread over a central peninsula and its surroundings.
Split Lip Rayfield performing at Bear Creek Bluegrass in Columbia, Missouri. Photography by Notley Hawkins. Taken with a Canon EOS R5 camera with a Canon RF24-70mm F2.8 L IS USM lens at Æ’/2.8 with a 1/800-second exposure at ISO 1600. Processed with Adobe Lightroom Classic.
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I must apologise in advance. For the foreseeable future, all the pictures i will probably post will be of the sea, beach, firework and long exposure variety. thats all i've got!
I took 100s of photos of this relatively rough sea, just so i could could get a photo like this. Where the wave folds over itself and just explodes skywards as well. Waves fascinate me, its as close to being hynotised as i come! The title is because thats all i had to take this photo