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Usually sunsets on a fairly clear day are pretty boring. But this was one of the most spectacular sunsets I've ever seen.
As I was out walking at Three Oaks today, watching the sun sink below the horizon, I saw something I've never seen before: a single, HUGE ray of light shot up straight from the setting sun into the evening sky! It was an incredible sight, and I was pretty happy that my camera was able to capture it fairly accurately.
I have no idea what caused the sun to act this way, but it was really amazing!
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Three Oaks Recreation Area
Crystal Lake, Illinois
Lumix DMC-GH1
Lumix DMW-MA1 4/3 adapter
Olympus 9-18mm f/4-5.6 ED wide-angle zoom
ISO 100 -- 18mm -- f/5.6 -- 1/640
CI-2011-12-06-GH1-3OAK-199
Under the bridge, just looking up!
Its total length including approach spans is 1149 metres and its arch span is 503 metres. The top of the arch is 134 metres above sea level and the clearance for shipping under the deck is a spacious 49 metres. The total steelwork weighs 52,800 tonnes, including 39,000 tonnes in the arch. The 49 metre wide deck makes Sydney Harbour Bridge the widest Longspan Bridge in the world.
Around 1980 I captured this after placing my Canon AE1 against the Calgary Tower. In 1990 a surrounding enclosure with large windows was built around the base of the tower. Later a glass floor was constructed onto the observation deck at the top. This feature offered a whole new view to looking down. I've grown with this wonderful landmark and always appreciate what it offers to the city and visitors from around the world.
More about the tower: What is interesting to learn was the continual pouring of concrete using a relatively new slip-forming construction technique.
Pouring began May 15 -1967 and was completed 24 days later. The record pour in a 24 hour period was 39 ft. The total height is 190.8 meters (625.98 Feet).
Today, Dec. 7, is the 54th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Let us never forget the memory of those who died on that horrible day, and those who served and survived. This is in honor of their sacrifice. (I meant to put this at the front of my photostream earlier in the day)
I am the flag of the United States of America. My name is "Old Glory". I fly atop the world's tallest buildings. I stand watch in America's Hall of Justice. I fly majestically over great institutes of learning. I stand guard with the greatest military power in the world. Look up and see me!
I stand for peace, honor, truth, and justice. I stand for freedom. I am confident. I am arrogant. I am proud. When I am flown with my fellow banners, my head is a little higher, my colors a little truer. I bow to no one. I am recognized all over the world. I am worshipped, I am loved, and I am feared!
I have fought in every battle of every war for more than 200 years: Gettysburg, Shiloh, Appomattox, San Juan Hill, the trenches of France, the Argonne Forest, Anzio, Rome, the beaches of Normandy, Guam, Okinawa, the Philippines, Germany, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, and a score of places long forgotten by all but those who were there with me. I was there!
I led my soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines. I followed them and watched over them. They loved me. I was on a small hill in Iwo Jima. I was dirty, battle-torn and tired, but my soldiers cheered me. And I was proud!
I have been soiled, burned, torn, and trampled on in the streets of countries that I have helped set free. It does not hurt, for I am invincible. I have been soiled, burned, torn, and trampled on in the streets of my own country. When those whom I have served with in battle do it, it hurts. But I shall overcome, for I am strong! I have slipped the bonds of earth and from my vantage point on the moon; I stand watch over the un-charted new frontiers of space.
I am a silent witness to all of America's finest hours. But my finest hour comes when I am torn in strips to be used as bandages for my wounded comrades on the field of battle, when I fly at half-mast to honor my soldiers, my sailors, my airmen, my marines, and when I lie in the trembling arms of a grieving mother, at the gravesite of her fallen son or daughter. I am proud!
My name is "OLD GLORY!" Long may I wave, dear God, long may I wave.
~quote found on www.robertwade.com/oldglory.shtml
© 2010 Loren Zemlicka
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First Three Whiskeys, B-Side Brunch: Sazerac 18 yr rye, Thomas Handy Overproof bourbon, Weller barrel proof bourbon. My tasting notes (as sent to twitter):
Thomas handy over proof. Holy 5hit! 12:18 PM
Weller barrel proof. Magically delicious 12:25 PM
SAZERAC. 18 year rye. Too sweet for me, plus i don't think i'm a fan of rye flavor. Told it's good by rye fans. 12:29 PM
This sculpture (3.5 feet tall) doesn't fly yet. This guy has been sitting in my front yard for 3 years straight. He never closes his eyes. I think he's straightUp waiting for his wings to soar and eventually I'll help him fly high and be free.
StraightUp from the cam - 42sec exposure, f6.7, 100 iso
Ate at the diner last night... this is the diner's rounded aluminum corner with neon lights. I had a big plate of spaghetti and meatballs, which I gotta say, was pretty darn good for being a Greek diner. ;)
Interior view of the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood is one of the main sights of St. Petersburg, Russia. It is also variously called the Church on Spilt Blood and the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ, its official name. The name refers to the blood of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, who was assassinated on that site in 1881. The Church is prominently situated along the Griboedov Canal.
Construction began in 1883 under Alexander III, as a memorial to his father, Alexander II. Work progressed slowly and was finally completed during the reign of Nicholas II in 1907. The Church contains over 7500 square metres of mosaics—according to its restorers, more than any other church in the world. Nothing is painted here all are mosaics!
Blick ins Innere der Kirche. Die Kirche ist innen über und über mit Mosaiken bestückt - nichts ist hier gemalt! Die Kirche wurde in den letzten Jahren restauriert und so erstrahlen die wunderbaren Mosaike in den schönsten Farben.
Die Auferstehungskirche, auch als Blutkirche, Erlöserkirche und Bluterlöser-Kirche bekannt, ist eine Kathedrale in Sankt Petersburg. Die Kirche ist nach dem Vorbild der Moskauer Basilius-Kathedrale im so genannten „Neuen Stil“ (entspricht dem Jugendstil) gestaltet und als einziges Gebäude der Petersburger Innenstadt, das sich nicht an den italienischen und klassizistischen westlichen Baustilen orientiert, entsprechend auffällig. Erbaut wurde sie von 1883 bis 1912 an der Stelle, an der Alexander II. einem Attentat zum Opfer fiel.
Die Kirche steht in der Nähe des Newski-Prospektes am Gribojedow-Kanal. Die an altrussischen Vorbildern angelehnte Gestaltung des Gebäudes bedeckt eine Fläche von etwa 7000 Quadratmetern; die innere flächendeckende Ausgestaltung mit russischen Mosaiken im Ikonenstil und äußere Verzierung besteht vor allem aus Mosaiken. Die Kathedrale dient heute als Museum.
This straightup soldier is standinUP to support the troops stacked when the war began and still standin after all these years. This sculpture (2.5 feet tall) symbolizes strength in balancin life.
StraightUp from the cam - 24 sec exposure, f6.7, 100 iso
when you're in Nebraska, its crucial that you find a way to get inside a grain silo/elevator complex - looking up into these chutes that have been the backbone of the local economies (and our dinner plates) for so many years is incredible.
I'm really disappointed with this roll, but I had to post something from it..
the ornamental wooden ceiling of a chamber just outside the tomb of Moulay Ismaïl, in the Imperial City of Meknes, Morocco. in the forefront is the bar of the wide door leading to the tomb
I shot this straight up, looking at the new leaves on the red Japanese maple. The contrast with the blue spring sky was something I had to capture with the sunlight streaming through the leaves and illuminating them like lantern paper.
In Longyearbyen, an old coal mining town at 78°N, coal used to be transported by cable car from the various mines to the shipping point. The cars were called "kibb", and the towers supporting the cables were called "kibbstolper" (kibb poles). Today, the cable cars are no longer in use, the coal is transported by large lorries, and the towers are considered cultural heritage and protected. Here is one from the middle of Longyearbyen, in a perhaps unusual perspective.
A different angle on this tower can be found here.
- Voted up quark by the (now defunct) quantum selection group
"When I look down, I miss all the good stuff when I look up, I just trip over things."
Ani DiFranco
The edge of a small brick tower found along the walkway to the Congress Street Bridge in Austin Texas. I can't seem to remember the exact name of it however.
Straight up shot of the ornamented ceiling in the fountain room next to the tomb of Moulay Ismaïl, in the imperial city of Meknes, Morocco. the ceiling is in a pyramidal shape, called a koubba.
I put some tape on my Holga and wrote "take some multiples" on it. Cuz I always forget that I can. This is a double exposure of a tree somewhere near Lake Arrowhead.
"Stand up for what is right even if you're solo!" This is a common theme/style of mine. We can go any direction in life. I choose to stay with believing to shoot for the stars with faith in my soul you know. Straightup out of the cam.
The Landshut Residence is a palace in Landshut, Lower Bavaria.
In 1536 Louis X, Duke of Bavaria laid the foundation stone for a new residence in the inner city of Landshut. It was begun in German Renaissance style under the architect Bernhard Zwitzel from Augsburg, this palace is today called German building.
During a journey to Italy the duke got the inspiration for an additional palace. Behind the German building close to the river Isar the so-called Italian building was constructed in Italian Renaissance style with a spacious courtyard and the palace chapel. It was modelled 1537-1543 in particular after the Palazzo del Te in Mantua and was the first Italian style palace which was erected north of the Alps.
Deckenkonstruktion im Stil der italienischen Hochrenaissance in der Stadtresidenz Landshut
Die Stadtresidenz Landshut genießt als einziger Palast im Stil der italienischen Hochrenaissance nördlich der Alpen herausragenden kunst- und architekturgeschichtlichen Rang. Herzog Ludwig X. von Bayern, der als Statthalter seines in München regierenden Bruders in Landshut residierte, ließ 1536 den Neubau seiner Residenz beginnen.
Unter Leitung des Augsburger Baumeisters Bernhard Zitzel entstand zunächst der "Deutsche Bau" zur Altstadt noch im Stil der heimischen Renaissance. Beeindruckt von den oberitalienischen Palastbauten, insbesondere dem Palazzo Te in Mantua, ließ der Herzog nach einer Italienreise das Baukonzept ändern. Unter der Ägide italienischer Meister wurde bis 1543 der "Italienische Bau" errichtet.
Tegernsee Abbey or the Imperial Abbey of Tegernsee is a former Benedictine monastery in the town and district of Tegernsee in Bavaria.
Die ehem. Klosterkirche, Pfarrkirche St. Quirinus, ist ein Barockbau mit romanischen und gotischen Elementen.
Nach dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg gab der tatkräftige Abt Bernhard Wenzl (reg. 1673-1700), dem Kloster eine neue Gestalt. Von den mittelalterlichen Bauten blieb allein die Klosterkirche stehen; doch sie erhielt ein modernes, barockes Gewand übergezogen: Italienische Künstler schufen die üppige weiße Stukkatur. Hans Georg Asam, der Vater der berühmten Künstlerbrüder, malte in sechs Sommern einen der ersten und größten barocken Freskenzyklen Bayerns (mit Darstellungen aus dem Leben Jesu und des heiligen Quirinus).
"Nichts bleibt ohne Verzierung in dieser Klosterkirche, überall trugen Stuckateure aus Italien, sowie Bildhauer und Maler aus Süddeutschland dazu bei, den Betrachter nicht nur zu beeindrucken. Die üppige Bewegtheit der Formen soll zu innerer Bewegung anregen. „Delectare et movere“, Erfreuen und Bewegen war es, was ein gelungenes Kunstwerk leisten sollte. Der optische und damit sinnliche Zugang zur christlichen Lehre war Sinn und Inhalt der Werke von Hans Georg Asam, der Figuren von Johann Baptist Straub und der Architektur von Antonio Riva." www.schliersee.de/434.html
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straight up to the ceiling of Dar Saada, a 'palace' restaurant where we had lunch once. decent fare, shockingly kitch paintings on the wall i failed to photograph.
Kat had many dares throughout the night of her bachelorette party. My dare of course was to get her to ask a band to let her perform. We found an irish pub by the end of the night. Straight up by Paula Abdul is always a crowd pleaser.
W.L. Weller Barrel Proof (bourbon) - this was probably my favorite of the day. I think it's worth mentioning that they didn't ask any of us how we wanted our whiskey. All of these came served straight up.