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Tundra Swan
Cygnus columbianus
One of a couple flooded agricultural fields filled with Tundra Swans staging during their northern migration. There was another area nearby with at least as many birds.
I estimate (very roughly) 300 birds in this shot. I welcome you to double-check my count!
Lenawee County, MI
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HRH Prince Harry in March 2014, at an announcement for the staging of the Invictus Games which took place later that year.
The Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Harry and the Defence Secretary Phillip Hammond launched a brand new international sporting event for wounded, injured and sick (WIS) Service personnel across the world.
The UK would host the first Invictus Games which officially commenced on 10 September at iconic venues in London – including the Olympic Park and the Lee Valley Athletics Centre. It saw more than 300 competitors from 13 nations across the world take part in eight adaptive sports ranging from athletics, wheelchair basketball to road cycling.
Building on the legacy of the London 2012 Paralympic Games, the Invictus Games represented another celebration of adaptive sport in the UK.
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A trip to the moon is underway. The first stage of the mighty Saturn V has been expended, and the second stage is in the process of igniting its five J-2 engines. The separation motors are pushing the rocket away from the spent stage, and are forcing the second stage's liquid propellant to the bottom of it's tanks.
I'm not a graphic artist, but I tried to play one anyway because otherwise the flames of the separation motors look even worse.
I didn't change the official model much, so the image deviates from reality a bit. The two stages are actually held together by an interstage section, but the model makes the interstage part of the lower stage. That wouldn't work in reality since a torque on the lower stage could easily allow it to impact the nozzles of the J-2 engines. What really happened was the interstage detached the first stage and remained with the second stage for a while. That would cover up the engines in this picture. Also, the separation motors were on the interstage, not the second stage. After the J-2 engines were all running, the interstage was jettisoned.
This was filmed on at least one mission (Apollo 4), and the film successfully recovered.
Cairns is a city in Queensland, Australia, on the tropical north east coast of Far North Queensland, with a population of 180,000.
The city is the 5th-most-populous in Queensland, and 15th in Australia.
The city was founded in 1876 and named after Sir William Wellington Cairns, following the discovery of gold in the Hodgkinson river. Throughout the late 19th century, Cairns prospered from the settlement of Chinese immigrants who helped develop the region's agriculture.
During World War II, the city became a staging ground for the Allied Forces in the Battle of the Coral Sea. By the late 20th century the city had become a centre of international tourism. In the early 21st century it has developed into a major metropolitan city.
The economy of Cairns is based primarily on tourism, healthcare and education, along with a major capacity in aviation, marine and defence industries. The city has a gross regional product at about $10.2 billion. The city is served by Cairns International Airport, the seventh busiest airport in Australia. Cairns also has a major cruise ship industry servicing both domestic and international markets, with terminals at Cairns Seaport and Cairns Wharf Complex.
Cairns is a major tourist destination, with access to two UNESCO world heritage sites; the Daintree Rainforest as part of the Wet Tropics of Queensland, and the Great Barrier Reef, one of the seven natural wonders of the world.
Shamu family - SeaWorld, Orlando, Florida, 2012
One Ocean show, 3 swim up to the staging re in front of the spectators
Explored 25/8/2012, #461
HOME STAGING avec Astro - dAcRuZ - Katre - Maite Sant - Marko93 - Nico Giquel - Shaka - Xare
Vernissage le Samedi 1er Octobre 2016 de 14h à 19h en présence des artistes
Exposition du 1er au 3 Octobre 2016, du 7 au 10 Octobre 2016
LOFT DU 34 – 34, rue du Dragon - 75006 PARIS
Métro : Saint Germain Des Prés
The behind-the-scenes shot for Object Lesson.
Yes, that is a hideous blanket, but it did a fair stand-in job for clouds on a Jovian world, especially with the LED strip lighting below the window making it appear luminescent.
No, I'm not building the JF flagship in minifig scale anytime soon. :) I am, however, likely to do other scenes with these guys when I get the urge to do SP3 stuff.
Yosemite Rim Fire: 10th in a series -- They let me wander here greeting friendly crews everywhere and about 100 trucks. The crews were resting, for they would be heading out soon. Other truck crews were already heading out of town – to the South, the North and East. It was just beyond this crew here that a local resident – hair long (an oddity among fire fighters – camera and legal pad befriended me. The local historian. The smoke hung heavy, everyone eying the ridge at the eastern end of town. My new friend told me that that ridge is where Tuolumne would make its last stand, survive or fall, on the backs of these young men and women (mostly men) around us.
Former LNER Class 91s, 91122 and 91128 "InterCity 50" await their next assignment as they sit in warm storage at Crewe under the care of Locomotive Services Limited.
The former ECML workhorses are being kept in warm store (with regular panning up to keep the batteries alive) pending use by Rail Operations Group (ROG) on the Midland Main Line OHLE test train in due course.
Keeping them company is former Caledonian Sleeper Mk3 10544, which is awaiting road transfer to a heritage railway once the weather improves and the virus subsides.
The last Friday of each month sees the regular Speakeasy night at the award-winning Edinburgh Bookshop - some socialising, book browsing, chat, some gin and tonics then a talk with an author or other speaker.
For April's Speakeasy it was a very timely subject with Patrick Dunne talking to us about taking part in the Extinction Rebellion movement which has been staging demonstrations and protests in numerous cities in the UK and Europe and further afield (with young Greta Thunberg being one of the most publicly visible demonstrators).
It was a terrific evening, generating a good bit of debate about what individuals can do to try and play a part in not just trying to avert environmental catastrophe, but in changing our politics and economic system to something more humane and fair, that involves us all.
Patrick and others will have a Fringe show in Edinburgh this August on this time, you can follow him here twitter.com/paddywpd
The Speakeasy takes place the last Friday of each month from 5.30pm in the Edinburgh Bookshop in Bruntsfield, right on Holy Corner, and is free, all welcome to come along: www.edinburghbookshop.com/
Bartabas: Golgota
Acclaimed equestrian theatre artist Bartabas returns to the Sadler’s Wells stage accompanied by contemporary flamenco dancer Andrés Marín, four horses and a donkey, to present the UK Premiere of Golgota. 14-21 March.
Credits:
Creation, stage design, direction: Bartabas
Choreography, performance: Andrés Marín & Bartabas
Horses: Horizonte, Le Tintoret, Soutine, Champagne & Lautrec the donkey
Music: Tomás Luis de Victoria, motets for solo voice
Countertenor: Christophe Baska
Cornet: Adrien Mabire
Lute: Marc Wolff
Actor: William Panza
Costumes: Sophie Manach & Yannick Laisné
Props: Sébastien Puech
Scenery: Les Ateliers Jipanco
Lights: Laurent Matignon
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My friend John has had a pair of Eastern Bluebirds move into one of the nest boxes on his property. He has set up some staging perches (that the birds can land on as they move to and from the box carrying food items for the little ones) and a pop-up blind that have yielded some great views.
47th Capital Pride Parade Staging along T at 14th Street, NW, Washington DC on Saturday afternoon, 11 June 2022 by Elvert Barnes Photography
CENTAUR MOTORCYCLE CLUB
Elvert Barnes 47th DC GAY PRIDE 2022 docu-project at elvertxbarnes.com/dc-gay-pride
Elvert Barnes June 2022 docu-project at elvertxbarnes.com/2022
Maroon Crater, Coconino National Forest, Arizona USA
Shen-Hao PTB 617
Fujinon 150mm F5.6 NWS SC
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All of us waiting for the parade to start. Left to right Arnie (his belly anyways), Smokey (Melissa), Leanne, Chelsea and Vikki.
Santa Claus Parade
Staging area at Christie and Bloor
Toronto, Nov 16, 2014.
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Apply sunscreen, change shoes as required, check waters, sandwiches, granola bars and cookies (if we're lucky), mark start point on GPS and we're off.
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Summer 2015: "Up was Down"
June 4: Exploring Collins Canyon, a tributary to Grand Gulch.
20th Annual LAW RIDE Staging at RFK Stadium Parking Lot off Independence Avenue and 22nd Street, SE, Washington DC on Sunday morning, 10 May 2015 by Elvert Barnes Photography
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Elvert Barnes National Police Week LAW RIDE docu-project at elvertbarnes.com/LawRide.html
Elvert Barnes 2015 NATIONAL POLICE WEEK / Washington DC at elvertbarnes.com/NPW2015.html
It's part of an area not open to the public, but it's visible from a distance. This is where sculptures are created, repaired, and touched up. I recognize some of them; they're either replicas of the ones on display or they're ones that have disappeared from the grounds. Others are unfamiliar. For example, I'd like to take a closer look at the woman with the umbrella! In case you're wondering about the scale, she's lifesize.
Here in the backstage area, these characters are probably arranged randomly. Yet, their gathering is interesting!
NYC Gay Pride Parade Staging along West 32nd Street between Broadway and 5th Avenue in NYC on Sunday morning, 26 June 2022 by Elvert Barnes Photography
Elvert Barnes 52nd NYC GAY PRIDE 2022 at
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Elvert Barnes June 2022 docu-project at elvertxbarnes.com/2022
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The Vienna Opera Ball
Viennese Opera Ball
Just as already the operetta and the waltz had been imported from Paris to Vienna, comes also the model for the Vienna Opera Ball from the Seine metropolis. By a corresponding approval of Duke Philip of Orleans, on 2 January 1716 a "public ball" can be held for the first time, to which everyone has access who can pay the admission fee of five livres. First, the balls take place at the Comédie française, but already in 1717 was given the Académie de Musique, the Paris Opera House, the special right of the organization. Nevertheless, in the Comédie furthermore take place balls, with the audience far more popular than the 'opera balls'.
In 1861 the construction of an opera house begins at the Ringstrasse, on the explicit desire of Emperor Franz Joseph not solely intended for performances of operas and ballets, but also for the staging of the Opera Ball. With this, have been created both the spatial and the official conditions for a genuine Viennese Opera Ball according to Parisian model. It should, however, take another eight years before a dance event in the opera could be held for the first time after the completion of the house in 1869.
Initially, due to the increasing violence at the Paris balls but only Court Opera soirees take place. This includes elegant evening soirees with musical entertainment, but without dancing. On 11 December 1877 opened the court musical director Wilhelm Gericke the first Court Opera Soirée with the "Wedding March" by Felix Mendelssohn. After several concert pieces the baton is handed over to the Strauss family. First, Johann Strauss son conducts the Vienna Philharmonic with a waltz, followed by his brother Edward with a specially for this day composed "Opera Soirée Polka". After that, the dance-crazed Viennese are no longer stoppable: all chairs were put to the side, and the evening, which was thought without dance pleasure, ends like a ball. This is the hour of birth of the opera ball, even though for the time being still far away from being called so.
Already the second event on 15 January 1878 is announced officially as "Second Hofopernsoirée (Ball)". The third, for 12 February 1878 scheduled Soirée, is canceled for reasons of piety, since Pope Pius IX. a few days earlier had died. After the uncomplicated election of Leo XIII. to new head of the Church the ball is on 23 February rescheduled.
After these three opera soirees from March of the same year take place redoutes in the Court Opera, continuing the tradition of masked balls and linked with strict dress code: "in the hall, with the exception of the lodges, the ladies the stay is only permitted in an elegant mask, short costumes are not allowed. The gentlemen of civil appear in evening dress with white cravat, cylinder or Claquehut (opera hat - chapeau claque). "During the next twenty years during the carnival time each year should be organized two, in some seasons even three redoutes. However, at these festivals the Viennese society is not as boundless as once united in the common ball pleasure, because in the meantime the guests are spread across three different levels, not only differing in space but also in the appearance of guests from each other. Are the boxes the aristocratic guests in elaborate ball gowns reserved, so gather in the stalls the bourgeois guests, for which there is no mask constraint. In addition, there are the galleries that are accessible to every viewer without special admission ticket.
1899 the popular balls for the time being come to an abrupt end, as is discovered that the opera for such festivals does not comply with the safety regulations. Since an appropriate conversion proves to be too costly, the redoutes are discontinued for an unforeseen period of time. A certain compensation for those festivals offers in the following years the in the new town hall held "Ball der Stadt Wien".
Only in 1921, the tradition of the redoutes in the Court Opera has been resumed, but without being able to follow on the success of previous years. After several breaks followed in 1924, 1928 and 1929 again opera redoutes, neither musically nor stylistically corresponding with the level of the defunct imperial monarchy-time and they are not characterized by the former wit, charm and temperament. The twenties are not only politically, but also culturally a very different time in which with the progressive emancipation of women the meaning of a redoute became obsolete.
And so 1935 is launched the first as such referred to Opera Ball. In a time of political uncertainty, it complied in addition to social also with diplomatic and official representative purposes. Therefore, it takes no wonder that the guest list has many personalities from politics. The last opera ball before the outbreak of the Second World War should be organized in 1939, when Austria was already 'connected' by Adolf Hitler to the German Reich. Therefore respectively stiff and artificial resulted according to that this night on which no happiness will raise, previously the rule.
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Reopening of the Vienna State Opera, 1955
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Shortly before the end of World War II, the Vienna Opera House on 12 March 1945 almost completely was destroyed by a bomb. It should take ten years until the house was rebuilt and with Ludwig van Beethoven's opera "Fidelio" at the 5th November 1955 ceremoniously could be opened. In the following carnival season with this also the first opera ball of the post-war period can be celebrated, but which has changed its face much: "Actually, the Opera Ball is not a Viennese event anymore, but already a pan-European one. A ball night for which the world envies us".
This new image has remained to this day, with the only difference that the Opera Ball is now no longer considered only as a pan-European, but as an international event. A highlight of the evening is the annual opening of the ball by about 180 debutantes who on the arm of the to them for this evening assigned Cavaliers in a Polonaise move in. After the Vienna Philharmonic for many years had taken over the musical interpretation of the evening, there is since 1982 a Vienna Opera Ball Orchestra grounded specifically for this purpose. In addition, since 1984, there is also a Viennese Opera Ball Ladies Ensemble, made up of 15 musicians and beyond the ball unfolding a very busy concert schedule.
Today on the Opera Ball there is not exclusively danced just waltz anymore. Up to ten orchestras or soloists play at the same time in different places of the house, and as a concession to modern times there is since some years even a nightclub. And yet, the waltz enjoys as the king of dances to this day unbroken popularity, without which for many no Viennese Opera Ball is thinkable. Another innovation is also the since 1981 in the Schwind Foyer installed Viennese Opera Ball Casino, which is a special attraction especially for the younger guests. Collectors will also appreciate the annually by the casino issued special Opera Ball chips.
How to become a debutante?
Proposals are now mostly send in by the dance schools of the country. The first condition is the perfect mastery of the links waltz, which is checked at a Vortanztermin (dance audition date - don't worry, the Lipizzans are doing the same!). Has the potential debutante overcome this hurdle with flying colors, it is about to find a suitable partner for the big night. The criteria for this choice are less situated in personal relationships than in pure dance qualities. After finally the couples have found each other, for five days under the expert guidance of several ballet master not only the links waltz, but also the choreography of the marching in is practiced until everything is perfectly rehearsed. The question of clothes is strictly regulated for the couples: the ladies in white dresses with a little crown on the head and the gentlemen in evening dress. To underline the internationality of the ball, every year also Debütantinnen and Debütanten from around the world are invited.
Guests
Artists from the world of the theater and the music, film and television can be found on the Vienna Opera Ball as well as well-known athletes and fashion designers. Diplomats and politicians from home and abroad appreciate the special atmosphere, and every now and then you meet also members of the European nobility. The Opera Ball today is no longer just a lavish celebration in which together a whole evening and a full night is celebrated, but increasingly also a social forum that connects professional and political contacts in a pleasant way with a social event.
Scandals
In recent decades, the Vienna Opera Ball, however, has not only found unanimous support, but has been increasingly criticized. In the 80s made fights between angry citizens that characterized the event as a "festival of the political and monetary bigwigs" and the police the headlines. Unforgettable is also the demonstration against the reprocessing plant Wackersdorf when in 1987 the Bavarian Prime Minister Franz-Josef Strauss participated in the Opera Ball. In addition, now almost every year during the opera ball take place demonstrations against these seemingly senseless waste of funds in the face of hardship and misery, hunger and wars, social and health problems in the world.
Nevertheless, the Opera Ball has lost none of its fascination and all over the world - from Bangkok via Kuala Lumpur and Korea to Tokyo, Singapore, Seoul and Dubai, Ankara, Istanbul, Kiev, Prague and Budapest to Rome, New York, Los Angeles and Washington - it found imitation, without being able to ever really come close to the Viennese model. Even if the question of the contemporaneity of the Vienna Opera Ball ever and again was controversially discussed, at the latest in 2005 has been shown that even this traditional event cannot stop short before general social changes: for the first time a smoking ban for the Opera Ball was pronounced.
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Ford's Theatre is a historic theatre in Washington, D.C., used for various stage performances beginning in the 1860s. It is also the site of the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. After being shot, the fatally wounded president was carried across the street to the Petersen House, where he died the next morning.
The theatre was later used as a warehouse and office building, and in 1893 part of it collapsed, causing 22 deaths. It was renovated and re-opened as a theatre in 1968. During the 2000s it was renovated again, opening on February 12, 2009, in commemoration of Lincoln's bicentennial. A related "Center for Education and Leadership" museum experience opened February 12, 2012 next to Petersen House.
The Petersen House and the theatre are preserved together as Ford's Theatre National Historic Site, administered by the National Park Service; programming within the theatre and the "Center for Education" is overseen separately by the Ford's Theatre Society in a public-private partnership.[2] Ford's Theatre is located at 511 10th Street, NW.