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This is in east Oahu, Hawaii, in an area called Wailupe Gulch I think.
(In the previous aerial you can see this portion near the point on the right.)
Avoid big box malls! They're bad for local business and employment, often using poor labour practices and illegal "predatory pricing". They also increase dependency on cars, increase urban sprawl and congestion, and are bad for pedestrians, cyclists, seniors and public transit. They transfer hidden costs from the store onto the consumer and community. The result is that products seem cheaper – but we all end up paying in other ways. The good news: there are much better altenatives – and people in smart communities are achieving them. In the links below you'll find information on how and why to fight big box developments, and examples of communities that have successfully blocked them.
What's wrong with big box malls? What are the alternatives?
www.sprawlwatch.org/superstore.html
www.preservationnation.org/issues/smart-growth/additional...
www.ptvermont.org/commentary/big_box.htm
directory.google.com/Top/Society/Issues/Business/Allegedl...
www.google.com/search?q="big+box"+sprawl
www.google.com/search?q="big+box"+poverty
www.google.com/search?q="big+box"+"predato...;
www.google.com/search?q="predatory+pricing"+law...
Why Buy Local?
www.google.com/search?q="why+buy+local"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_purchasing
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_food
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Alternative_economy
www.planetfriendly.net/organic.html#local
About Small Business en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_business
www.planetfriendly.net/goodworklinks.html#smallbusiness
directory.google.com/Top/Business/Small_Business/Resources/
Community Economic Development (CED)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_economic_development
directory.google.com/Top/Science/Social_Sciences/Urban_an...
Sustainable Development
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_development
directory.google.com/Top/Society/Issues/Environment/Susta...
Questioning Business
www.planetfriendly.net/business.html
(The above sign/graffiti is across the road from a big-box mall in Ontario, Canada)
A sprawling 25 hectares in Jamuna Dighi (Bardhaman District) is used for pisciculture under the State Fisheries Development Corporation. There are thirty-nine fishing ponds and a long, narrow canal - all in a row. Big carps (freshwater fishes) are cultivated here. People from the fisheries department regularly drop huge nets in the ponds. Rui (Rohu), katla and mrigel are the common catch.
A part of the area has been turned into a tourist spot. Former office buildings have been transformed into rest houses, with modern facilities. Amrapali Tourist Complex offers good accommodation. In true sense, the place is a picture of rural tranquillity and offers the perfect destination for a quiet weekend.
Jamuna Dighi is 7km from Mankar station on the Howrah-Asansol section of Eastern Railway and 13km from Paraj on Durgapur Expressway near Panagarh.
Images of Bengal, India
“Derrinook”, on the corner of Gellibrand and Manifold Streets in Colac, was originally built as a private hospital for Doctor William Henry Brown (1861 – 1926) in 1900.
Built in the Federation Queen Anne architectural style, “Derrinook” is, unusually for the style, built of timber. Federation Queen Anne architectural style, which was mostly a residential style which was inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement in England, but also encompassed some of the more stylised elements of Art Nouveau, which gave it a much more decorative look. Sprawling across a large block with two street frontages, “Derrinook” has a very complex roofline, a common trait of Federation Queen Anne buildings, aided by a large number of half timbered gables. The former private hospital also has some beautiful Art Nouveau stained glass windows. “Derrinook” has a number of “fish scale” pattern panels decorating its façade above the tall windows. “Fish scales” were very popular thanks to the worldwide craze for all things Japanese in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries. “Derrinook” also features very sinewy Art Nouveau fretwork around its bay windows, along its verandahs and employed as decoration on the half timbered gables. This was also common amongst Federation Queen Anne buildings. However it is perhaps “Derrinook’s” many elaborate, tall chimneys capped with ceramic chimney pots where the prevailing, and then fashionable, Art Nouveau decorative style is most apparent. One of the first buildings in Colac to employ electric lighting, “Derrinook” was eventually superceded by the Colac Hospital as a place for medical treatment and recouperation. With the change in fortunes for so many during the Great Depression, “Derrinook” was converted into smaller self-contained flats in 1935 and remains private residences to this day.
Queen Anne style was most popular around the time of Federation. With complex roofline structures, ornamental towers of unusual proportions and undulating facades, many Queen Anne houses fell out of fashion at the beginning of the modern era, and were demolished.
Doctor William Henry Brown was born in Erinth in Kent in 1861 and was educated in both England and Germany. He studied medicine at University College in London. He migrated to Australia in 1885 and originally established a practice in the Victorian Gippsland town of Maffra. In 1891 he moved to Colac where he practiced as a partner with local Doctor T. Foster, before acquiring the practice entirely. Doctor Brown became very well known in Colac as a physician and surgeon, and recognition of his skills spread across the state and across the country. His work gained attention world-wide when he published pieces in various medical journals. With the growth of his renown and his practice, he established “Derrinook” in 1900. When the Great War commenced in 1914, Doctor Brown travelled to various country towns as a representative of the army and acted as a dynamic speaker at recruitment drives, attempting to raise community responsibility and patriotism. His wife Clara (1862 – 1939) also worked enthusiastically for the war effort including for the Red Cross Society. His son, Doctor Arthur Edward Brown (1889 – 1975) followed in his father’s footsteps as a medical practitioner and they two worked in partnership at “Derrinook” after the war. Doctor Brown retired to his beachside Sorrento residence “Kennagh” in 1921 where he continued to play tennis (as he had in Colac where he presided over the tennis club for a number of years as president), and also took up improvement of the local foreshore. He also became a member of the Flinders Shire Council in 1923. He died of heart disease in 1926.
Located approximately 150 kilometres to the south-west of Melbourne, past Geelong is the small Western District city of Colac. The area was originally settled by Europeans in 1837 by pastoralist Hugh Murray. A small community sprung up on the southern shore of a large lake amid the volcanic plains. The community was proclaimed a town, Lake Colac, in 1848, named after the lake upon which it perches. The post office opened in 1848 as Lake Colac and was renamed Colac in 1854 when the city changed its name. The township grew over the years, its wealth generated by the booming grazing industries of the large estates of the Western District and the dairy industry that accompanied it. Colac has a long high street shopping precinct, several churches, botanic gardens, a Masonic hall and a smattering of large properties within its boundaries, showing the conspicuous wealth of the city. Today Colac is still a commercial centre for the agricultural district that surrounds it with a population of around 10,000 people. Although not strictly a tourist town, Colac has many beautiful surviving historical buildings or interest, tree lined streets. Colac is known as “the Gateway to the Otways” (a reference to the Otway Ranges and surrounding forest area that is located just to the south of the town).
I spent most of yesterday afternoon photographing a beautiful apartment on the top floor of a very tall building in Dubai Marina and just after sunset I stepped out on the balcony to shoot a couple of images for myself.
As you an imagine, the view was spectacular and it seems even more unreal to me since the first time I visited Dubai in 2001, none of this was there – I mean, not even one of these buildings. This city has been growing at an incredible rate and there’s no signs of stopping.
Technically, the 24mm tilt-shift lens really comes into its own when it comes to photographs like this. I was able to set my camera completely level (both horizontally and vertically) and then just shift up and down to capture the whole scene. Couple of curves later and here it is.
To view the original shot (straight from the camera) visit the blog entry here: www.momentaryawe.com/blog/a-sprawling-city/
Taken on the Python rock trail, at Lamington National Park. This Buttress roots reach out across the subtropical jungle floor in search of moisture and nutrients .
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A commission for an Arcade FIre fan who's moved to the country. Lyrics taken from their song - Sprawl.
A sweeping panoramic view of Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, showcasing its unique and colorful urban landscape under the soft light of a hazy day. The cityscape is characterized by a dense collection of apartment blocks, each painted in a distinct pastel shade of pink, green, yellow, or blue. This high-angle, aerial perspective captures the sprawling, meticulously planned nature of the city, with rolling mountains visible on the horizon providing a dramatic backdrop to the distinctive, Soviet-influenced architecture.
Esta foto es una de las mas hermosas que te capturado y me gustaría contarles el contexto de como la tomé:
Fue el día 24 de septiembre de 2011 a ñas 20:27 a 10 min de que se cortara toda la luz en la mitad de Chile por más de 1 hora…
Esta es una pileta en al frente de mi casa, en un parque en honor a nuestra Fuerza Aérea (metro Salvador - Providencia, Santiago de Chile, es enorme esta pileta (40mt x15mt) y muchas familias el día sábado se juntan a mirar el juego de luces y agua que es realmente hermoso...
Estas niñas hermanas estaban corriendo por el interior de la pileta cuando las vi corriendo por dentro y mi ojo vio el a contraluz de ellas corrí por toda la pileta para adelantarme a ellas y pillaras quietas, tengo mas de 50 disparos de estas dos hermanas, fue un momento que sabes que tienes una foto solo falta el segundo preciso apretar el disparador y trasmitir eso.
Mientras la tomaba se me vino a la cabeza la canción de Arcade Fire: Sprawl se las dejo en el link:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH_7_XRfTMs
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Whilst in London I went up the Shard on its opening weekend with Aaron Yeoman, he talked about his experiences here.
From a photography point of view it was a bit disappointing as the glass was very reflective and the glass surfaces were dirty, tripods were not allowed but we knew that before we went up and they would definitely cause problems if every photographer had one up there.
If I was to go up again I would take a fast zoom lens and a gorrillapod. With the zoom lens I would have been able to be a bit more selective with my shots and avoid some of the glare encountered using a wide angle lens. There was one person with tripod up there and they were shooting with it without any interruption from the officials, i'm guessing they managed to store it in their bag to get past security, even though they used bag scanners. As an alternative i think a gorillapod would be better as it would be more discreet and I guess it could be wrapped around the hand rails which surround the top viewing platform. There are also two viewing areas, a top level and bottom level. The bottom level has dimmed lighting so the reflective light was not as much as an issue, especially when down the sides of the floor where the stairwell light did not affect the shot.
I have only made small changes to this shot, I toned down the saturation of yellows in lightroom and I have blurred the foreground to give the shot a bit more sense of depth.
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Manilas Urban Sprawl.
Another shot from the condo rooftop.
Its amazing to see all the lights and the halos lighting up the darkness..
Details:
Taken with the Sigma 10-20 lens
Shot @ 10mm
Minor Sharpening & Curves applied through Photoshop
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