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I shot this from the sidewalk. It's on Parliament Hill, east of the East Block, and it stands out alone against the sky, a memorial to the War of 1812, which Canada won. (We know we won because we're still here, not part of the US. Heh.) I don't recall seeing it the last time I was in Ottawa. I like it.
“When faced with a mountain, I will not quit! I will keep striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine, with God's help.”~Robert Half
I have this silly dream (currently working on it) to visit every lighthouse in the west coast of the USA. :)
Anyway, this tunnel is on the way to Point Bonita Lighthouse--located in the entrance of the San Francisco Bay, which it was an adventure to find. Thank goodness for GPS navigation systems. :-)
::|| Listening to DJ eko extended mix of this awesome song ::||
NOTE:
-This is one shot. NO HDR.
-I simply applied in PS CS3 unsharp 20/60/0 and re sized for web.
-I was really testing the metering system of the new camera (called Spot in Nikon or Partial in Canon) . I was testing how it handles super bright backgrounds. Read more about digital camera metering systems or consult your camera manual. :)
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Cholistan-Rohi,
Pakistan.
Rohi vithri megh malhaaraan,
Bootay bootay thiyaan gulzaraan,
Shala moriyam dost maharaan
Bhaag suhaag di mausam aayen
Tr.: “Every plant in sprouting and Cholistan is turning into a garden. This is because the rain has come. O friend, you also come back”.
I reached, the only standing fort out of thirty five built earlier, The Daravar Fort. On the eastern flank of this massive brick-built fort stands a beautiful and petit marble mosque. Erected on an artificial platform the design of this mosque reminds the visitor of the great jamia mosque of Delhi.
Passing through the mosque, I walked towards the fort and entered through a huge wooden spiked gate. Every portion of the fort held a mystery inside. I could see so many frames longing to be captured. The massive brick structure seemed to be striving for survival. The remains were calmly resting as if it has been ages they are like this. The more I moved further, I was being pushed into a state of sweet solitude. I was enjoying the experience to the utmost. The aroma of tranquility prevailed all over and the dominant seemed weaker. The fear of all the powerful started fading away. In the absence of colors, light and shade played a talismanic role. The amazing sciagraphy, due to the different levels in the typology and the changing angle of the rays of light, played magical feats and created shadows which spoke a different language every other hour. Shadows have always accompanied me; always been a companion to me in this journey where I love carrying this crowd of loneliness around me.
Soon the sun started to set down. The light was getting darker. And once again, I had to bid farewell to my companion and move on…for another journey!
Our Daily Challenge ... our parents war.
My parents fought to ensure that their children got the education they missed out on. My father qualified to go to High School but he had to leave to get a job, apprenticed to his father, who was a baker. My Mother went to High School but couldn't leave home to train as a nurse because her brothers were away at war and she was needed to help on the farm. So, education and working in our chosen field was high on the agenda. I know that it was often a struggle especially when Dad died at 46 and Mum had to do it alone.
I finally got my replacement camera on Tuesday and I spent a frustrating two days trying to work out how to change the Asian language to English. Finally went to a store today which had the same camera and had a look to see where the language control was in the menu and "Hey presto" I can now read what it says. It has some great new features to try out too. We also finally got a new aerial for our Internet today. So far it seems considerably better so hopefully I will now be able to catch up.
Coming from a formerly wealthy background Perrine strives to help her homeland Gallia recover from the invasion by the Neuroi. The fall of Gallia left deep emtional scars which persisted during her tenure in the Free Gallian 602nd Flying Corps this resulted in her having major difficulties working with teammates.
She holds great admiration for Sakamoto almost to the point of obssession, which in itself has resulted in a seemingly one sided jealousy with Yoshika. Apparently her deep admiration stemmed from dueling with Sakamoto and being defeated fifteen times when she was still with the 602nd, originally her perception of the Major was of a poorly skilled and unhardened veteran who had yet experienced the horrors of war.
She is based off the French ace Pierre Clostermann who in his time earned the Grand-Croix of the French Légion d'Honneur, French Croix de Guerre, DFC and bar, Distinguished Service Cross (USA), Silver Star (USA), and the Air Medal (USA). Of his 432 he scored 33 official aerial victories of which many were against fighters.
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For my Photography 3 class, we were assigned the challenge "faceless self portrait". And because I do self portrait photography, I was like "HELL Yes! Challenge Accepted!"
But once I put some thought into the challenge, I knew I couldn't submit the typical pretty photograph. In fact, I made it a point to do just the opposite. I wanted a conceptual image; and with that, I decided to use the available light alone.
Like most photographers, I am not a huge fan of a photo with noise. And we all strive to obtain as much possible detail that our camera sensors can handle haha. However, I wanted the photo to be gritty. I wanted to make the audience almost feel dirty: uncomfortable.
My camera settings and metadata aren't available because there are some special stuffs I did to this photo. I not only wanted to produce a narrative, but it was important to me to add some visual distortion.
I shot this whole photo with the Canon 16-35 f/2.8L on the Canon 6d at 1200 iso, and stitched six images together in Photoshop CS6 to achieve the crazy barrel distortion I wanted. I mean, I know this speaks for itself, but the distortion was a visual hyperbole in correlation with the mental distortion a person with an eating disorder is experiencing.
For me, I look at this image and I feel uncomfortable. I almost hate it. It is not traditional. It is not perfect and clean. But.... it means I did my job as a photographer. I really feel I got my message across, and the more I look at it, I start to appreciate what I produced. It took me a little bit to stitch all the images by hand (especially with images all shot at 16mm) ...
I ended up winning my class competition for the Faceless Self Portrait, so that felt pretty good. I can say I definitely made everyone in my class uncomfortable, as well as myself (since now everyone can say they have seen me in my underwear haha).
Dream big! Strive for more everyday 👍 With a 'Can Do' attitude you can achieve great things ♢
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Location : Malacca ( my school ) Malaysia.
P/s : Salam Maulidur Rasul kepada semua umat islam...
wish you have a nice day and take a good care.
Luv,
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Malaysia.
A very powerful word today: International Women's Day. Strive, whatever you do, do it well and with a passion.
"The St. Nicholas Historic District, known colloquially as "Striver's Row", is a historic district located on both sides of West 138th and West 139th Streets between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard (Seventh Avenue) and Frederick Douglass Boulevard (Eighth Avenue) in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It is both a national and a New York City district, and consists of row houses and associated buildings designed by three architectural firms and built in 1891–93 by developer David H. King Jr. These are collectively recognized as gems of New York City architecture, and "an outstanding example of late 19th-century urban design":
There are three sets of buildings: The red brick and brownstone buildings on the south (even-numbered) side of West 138th Street and at 2350–2354 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard were designed by James Brown Lord in the Georgian Revival style; the yellow brick and white limestone with terra cotta trim buildings on the north (odd-numbered) side of 138th and on the south (even-numbered) side of 139th Street and at 2360–2378 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard were designed in the Colonial Revival style by Bruce Price and Clarence S. Luce; the dark brick, brownstone and terra cotta buildings on the north (odd-numbered) side of 139th Street and at 2380 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard were designed in the Italian Renaissance Revival style by Stanford White of the firm McKim, Mead & White.
The district was designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1967, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. The district's name reflects the nearby St. Nicholas Park.
David H. King Jr., the developer of what came to be called "Striver's Row", had previously been responsible for building the 1870 Equitable Building, the 1889 New York Times Building, the version of Madison Square Garden designed by Stanford White, and the Statue of Liberty's base. The townhouses in his new project, which were originally called the "King Model Houses", were intended for upper-middle-class whites, and featured modern amenities, dark woodwork, and views of City College. King's idea was that the project would be "on such a large scale and with such ample resources as to 'Create a Neighborhood' independent of surrounding influences."
The houses sit back-to-back, which allowed King to specify that they would share rear courtyards. The alleyways between them – a rarity in Manhattan – are gated off; some entrance gates still have signs that read "Walk Your Horses". At one time, these alleys allowed discreet stabling of horses and delivery of supplies without disrupting activities in the main houses. Today, the back areas are used almost exclusively for parking.
King sold very few houses and the development failed, with Equitable Life Assurance Society, which had financed the project, foreclosing on almost all the units in 1895, during an economic depression. By this time, Harlem was being abandoned by white New Yorkers, yet the company would not sell the King houses to blacks, and so they sat empty until 1919–20, when they were finally made available to African Americans for $8,000 each. Some of the units were turned into rooming houses, but generally they attracted both leaders of the black community and upwardly-mobile professionals, or "strivers", who gave the district its colloquial name.
Between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, is 139th Street, known among Harlemites as 'strivers' row.' It is the most aristocratic street in Harlem. Stanford White designed the houses for a wealthy white clientele. Moneyed African-Americans now own and inhabit them. When one lives on 'strivers' row' one has supposedly arrived. Harry Rills resides there, as do a number of the leading Babbitts and professional folk of Harlem.
By the 1940s, many of the houses had decayed and were converted to single room occupancies (SROs). Much of the original decorative detail inside the houses was lost at this time, though the exteriors generally remained unaltered. With the post-1995 real-estate boom in Harlem, many of these buildings are being restored to something resembling their original condition.
Harlem is a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It is bounded roughly by the Hudson River on the west; the Harlem River and 155th Street on the north; Fifth Avenue on the east; and Central Park North on the south. The greater Harlem area encompasses several other neighborhoods and extends west and north to 155th Street, east to the East River, and south to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Central Park, and East 96th Street.
Originally a Dutch village, formally organized in 1658, it is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands. Harlem's history has been defined by a series of economic boom-and-bust cycles, with significant population shifts accompanying each cycle. Harlem was predominantly occupied by Jewish and Italian Americans in the 19th century, but African-American residents began to arrive in large numbers during the Great Migration in the 20th century. In the 1920s and 1930s, Central and West Harlem were the center of the Harlem Renaissance, a major African-American cultural movement. With job losses during the Great Depression of the 1930s and the deindustrialization of New York City after World War II, rates of crime and poverty increased significantly. In the 21st century, crime rates decreased significantly, and Harlem started to gentrify.
The area is served by the New York City Subway and local bus routes. It contains several public elementary, middle, and high schools, and is close to several colleges, including Columbia University, Manhattan School of Music, and the City College of New York. Central Harlem is part of Manhattan Community District 10. It is patrolled by the 28th and 32nd Precincts of the New York City Police Department. The greater Harlem area also includes Manhattan Community Districts 9 and 11 and several police precincts, while fire services are provided by four New York City Fire Department companies.
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over 300.46 square miles (778.2 km2), New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. The city is within the southern tip of New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area – the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous megacities, and over 58 million people live within 250 mi (400 km) of the city. New York City is a global cultural, financial, and media center with a significant influence on commerce, health care and life sciences, entertainment, research, technology, education, politics, tourism, dining, art, fashion, and sports. New York is the most photographed city in the world. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy, an established safe haven for global investors, and is sometimes described as the capital of the world." - info from Wikipedia.
The fall of 2022 I did my 3rd major cycling tour. I began my adventure in Montreal, Canada and finished in Savannah, GA. This tour took me through the oldest parts of Quebec and the 13 original US states. During this adventure I cycled 7,126 km over the course of 2.5 months and took more than 68,000 photos. As with my previous tours, a major focus was to photograph historic architecture.
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So many of us strive to look better and younger. This got me thinking about the way society perceives 'attractiveness' and how WE perceive being attractive. I personally have not enjoyed ageing - I don't mind the benefit of knowledge and experience, a life well lived..blah, blah, blah.., but why does the skin have to sag and our facial features change so drastically as we age? Do beautiful and attractive people enjoy life more? are they treated better wherever they go? and why do old people become invisible?...
I wanted to depict this visually as a mask. The mask being the flawless face we often perceive as perfect. The perfection so many women (and men) want to attain.
What is your mask? do you have the courage to share it with me and my project.?
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We are overwhelmed with the oversaturated images by internet, newspaper, and magazines. Our beauty products are centered to a false image of beauty, and our children are being raised to believe the hype. It's almost engrained in our minds that beauty in the traditional sense is the standard. Physical perfection whether by nature or surgery is a must have. Even in hard economic times there are people who can't wait to spend their last dime on some form of "hope in a bottle". A promise to look younger, have a straighter nose, pinned back ears, cellulite free thighs, bigger breasts, smaller breasts, larger calves, smaller waist, bigger biceps, rock hard abs, longer hair, stronger legs, and whiter teeth the list goes on infinitely. When will the pressure to be perfect end?- Cashmere Black
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There was no vulgar display here, no striving after Mediterranean villas or French châteaux, no fretwork, turrets, stained glass, or carved dragons clinging to the eaves. The house stood with the serene assurance of old money that had once been new money, and of success that had long ago ceased needing to explain itself. Its broad brick façade, perfectly balanced windows, classical doorway, and low-pitched roof expressed that peculiarly American conviction that prosperity ought to appear permanent, restrained, and entirely reasonable.
This was the architecture of Babbitt's aspirations made respectable by another generation.
One could almost imagine George F. Babbitt slowing his freshly polished Buick before the wrought-iron gate. He would admire the place with the practiced eye of a realtor, mentally calculating frontage, lot depth, replacement cost, and resale value, all while assuring himself that his own house was "every bit as good, if perhaps a little more modern." Yet he would feel, somewhere beneath the calculations, the unmistakable tug of envy. This house did not announce wealth; it assumed it. It suggested bankers whose fathers had been bankers, attorneys whose clients had remained with the family for decades, club memberships acquired before waiting lists became fashionable, and dinner invitations requiring no explanation of who one was.
The carefully clipped shrubs, brick walk, and ivy softening the masonry all perform their roles with impeccable discretion. Nothing clamors for attention. Even the arch framing the entrance seems less an ornament than an expression of confidence. The house expects visitors to arrive because they have been invited, not because they happened to notice it from the street.
It belongs to an America that believed stability itself could be designed.
The great deciduous trees complete the composition with the effortless dignity that only many decades can provide. Their branches veil the upper stories just enough to suggest privacy without secrecy, prosperity without ostentation. In midsummer, filtered sunlight dances across the brickwork while the deep shade cools the walk below, creating the impression that the house has settled comfortably into its neighborhood rather than imposed itself upon it. It appears less constructed than grown.
Sinclair Lewis would have recognized every social signal encoded in such a residence. A house like this was never merely shelter. It was biography written in brick. It announced education, respectability, civic responsibility, membership in the right committees, confidence in the stock market, subscriptions to respectable magazines, and unwavering faith that tomorrow would resemble yesterday, only slightly more prosperous.
Yet Lewis would also have noticed the faint irony lurking beneath the gracious proportions. The very perfection of the façade hints at the careful maintenance of appearances that occupied so much of middle- and upper-middle-class American life during the early twentieth century. Behind these orderly windows might unfold all the familiar dramas of ambition, conformity, quiet dissatisfaction, and private longing that animated Babbitt. The polished exterior reassures the passerby that all is well, while the lives within may be considerably more complicated.
Seen today, the house possesses an additional poignancy. It survives as a monument to an era when architectural dignity was expected to accompany social aspiration; when permanence, proportion, and craftsmanship were considered civic virtues as much as aesthetic ones; and when the ideal American home sought neither to dazzle nor to shock, but simply to embody the reassuring belief that success, properly earned, should look orderly, cultivated, and enduring. Whether Lewis regarded that belief with admiration, skepticism, or both is precisely what makes his novel "Babbit" —and houses like this—continue to reward a second look.
The Scottish Tractor Pullers Club
The Scottish Tractor Pullers Club (STPC) was formed in 1985 and consists today of around 25 members who all strive to put on the very best tractor pulling events in Scotland. The STPC are the only club in the United Kingdom to own and operate a fully licensed ETPC sledge, with all relevant safety features, as well as being the only club in Scotland to follow best practice safety rules. The STPC, together with the Midlands Tractor Pullers Club (MTPC) and the North West Tractor Pullers Club (NWTPC) are affiliated to the British Tractor Pullers Association (BTPA) who, along with a number of other European tractor pulling clubs, make up the European Tractor Pullers Committee (ETPC). The ETPC defines all safety and performance rules for all member countries, such as tractor classes and sledge rules. This enables tractors from all over Europe to pull together against each other in different countries. Although the STPC hold their own points championships, many Scottish Tractors compete in the BTPA championships alongside teams from the MTPC and the NWTPC. BTPA championship winners then have the option of travelling to the ETPC's European Championships, a two day event held in a different ETPC member country each year, for the chance to become a European Champion!!!
Men participate in the fifth annual SoCal Fitness Classic, the final stop of Summer Series as they strive for superiority and to be crowned the fittest team of summer!
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Sunrise, Florida, USA
June 18th/2011
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"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date
─Shakespeare
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"The St. Nicholas Historic District, known colloquially as "Striver's Row", is a historic district located on both sides of West 138th and West 139th Streets between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard (Seventh Avenue) and Frederick Douglass Boulevard (Eighth Avenue) in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It is both a national and a New York City district, and consists of row houses and associated buildings designed by three architectural firms and built in 1891–93 by developer David H. King Jr. These are collectively recognized as gems of New York City architecture, and "an outstanding example of late 19th-century urban design":
There are three sets of buildings: The red brick and brownstone buildings on the south (even-numbered) side of West 138th Street and at 2350–2354 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard were designed by James Brown Lord in the Georgian Revival style; the yellow brick and white limestone with terra cotta trim buildings on the north (odd-numbered) side of 138th and on the south (even-numbered) side of 139th Street and at 2360–2378 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard were designed in the Colonial Revival style by Bruce Price and Clarence S. Luce; the dark brick, brownstone and terra cotta buildings on the north (odd-numbered) side of 139th Street and at 2380 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard were designed in the Italian Renaissance Revival style by Stanford White of the firm McKim, Mead & White.
The district was designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1967, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. The district's name reflects the nearby St. Nicholas Park.
David H. King Jr., the developer of what came to be called "Striver's Row", had previously been responsible for building the 1870 Equitable Building, the 1889 New York Times Building, the version of Madison Square Garden designed by Stanford White, and the Statue of Liberty's base. The townhouses in his new project, which were originally called the "King Model Houses", were intended for upper-middle-class whites, and featured modern amenities, dark woodwork, and views of City College. King's idea was that the project would be "on such a large scale and with such ample resources as to 'Create a Neighborhood' independent of surrounding influences."
The houses sit back-to-back, which allowed King to specify that they would share rear courtyards. The alleyways between them – a rarity in Manhattan – are gated off; some entrance gates still have signs that read "Walk Your Horses". At one time, these alleys allowed discreet stabling of horses and delivery of supplies without disrupting activities in the main houses. Today, the back areas are used almost exclusively for parking.
King sold very few houses and the development failed, with Equitable Life Assurance Society, which had financed the project, foreclosing on almost all the units in 1895, during an economic depression. By this time, Harlem was being abandoned by white New Yorkers, yet the company would not sell the King houses to blacks, and so they sat empty until 1919–20, when they were finally made available to African Americans for $8,000 each. Some of the units were turned into rooming houses, but generally they attracted both leaders of the black community and upwardly-mobile professionals, or "strivers", who gave the district its colloquial name.
Between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, is 139th Street, known among Harlemites as 'strivers' row.' It is the most aristocratic street in Harlem. Stanford White designed the houses for a wealthy white clientele. Moneyed African-Americans now own and inhabit them. When one lives on 'strivers' row' one has supposedly arrived. Harry Rills resides there, as do a number of the leading Babbitts and professional folk of Harlem.
By the 1940s, many of the houses had decayed and were converted to single room occupancies (SROs). Much of the original decorative detail inside the houses was lost at this time, though the exteriors generally remained unaltered. With the post-1995 real-estate boom in Harlem, many of these buildings are being restored to something resembling their original condition.
Harlem is a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It is bounded roughly by the Hudson River on the west; the Harlem River and 155th Street on the north; Fifth Avenue on the east; and Central Park North on the south. The greater Harlem area encompasses several other neighborhoods and extends west and north to 155th Street, east to the East River, and south to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Central Park, and East 96th Street.
Originally a Dutch village, formally organized in 1658, it is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands. Harlem's history has been defined by a series of economic boom-and-bust cycles, with significant population shifts accompanying each cycle. Harlem was predominantly occupied by Jewish and Italian Americans in the 19th century, but African-American residents began to arrive in large numbers during the Great Migration in the 20th century. In the 1920s and 1930s, Central and West Harlem were the center of the Harlem Renaissance, a major African-American cultural movement. With job losses during the Great Depression of the 1930s and the deindustrialization of New York City after World War II, rates of crime and poverty increased significantly. In the 21st century, crime rates decreased significantly, and Harlem started to gentrify.
The area is served by the New York City Subway and local bus routes. It contains several public elementary, middle, and high schools, and is close to several colleges, including Columbia University, Manhattan School of Music, and the City College of New York. Central Harlem is part of Manhattan Community District 10. It is patrolled by the 28th and 32nd Precincts of the New York City Police Department. The greater Harlem area also includes Manhattan Community Districts 9 and 11 and several police precincts, while fire services are provided by four New York City Fire Department companies.
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over 300.46 square miles (778.2 km2), New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. The city is within the southern tip of New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area – the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous megacities, and over 58 million people live within 250 mi (400 km) of the city. New York City is a global cultural, financial, and media center with a significant influence on commerce, health care and life sciences, entertainment, research, technology, education, politics, tourism, dining, art, fashion, and sports. New York is the most photographed city in the world. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy, an established safe haven for global investors, and is sometimes described as the capital of the world." - info from Wikipedia.
The fall of 2022 I did my 3rd major cycling tour. I began my adventure in Montreal, Canada and finished in Savannah, GA. This tour took me through the oldest parts of Quebec and the 13 original US states. During this adventure I cycled 7,126 km over the course of 2.5 months and took more than 68,000 photos. As with my previous tours, a major focus was to photograph historic architecture.
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