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Dovercourt, Harwich UK
Nikon D810 + Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8 with Progrey 3 Stop ND + 0.9 GND Soft Edge
Gloomy morning to start with when the sun finally breaks on the horizon giving colors to the rather dull sky, reflecting its light while the tide swift in and out.
at the NC Arboretum, Asheville. Much of the grounds are wooded, with trails. But there are landscaped open areas, exhibit buildings, geometric gardens, education spots, etc. Even a model RR village for the kiddies and the child in all of us.
www.ncarboretum.org/plan-a-visit/garden-exhibits/
Apparently, on Explore, I'm told.
As the sun began to rise and flood the cloud layer with colour, it seemed to omit a vertical burst of extreme colour, this only lasted a matter of seconds but was awesome to see. Thanks for looking :-)
The early morning sun casts long shadows as Freightliner's heavy haul 66617 sweeps into Tamworth in charge of 6G67, the 05.33 from Tunstead Sidings to Small Heath Lafarge.
This was the only moth/butterfly in a huge meadow I found on Wednesday about 20mm wingspan, I thought it would have been full of butterflies................where are they ? lol. I'll be on and off flickr for the next few weeks,got to do some work up on the moors.
38th International Meeting of Chimney Sweeps - Santa Maria Maggiore
In Val Vigezzo, from Friday August 30th to Monday September 2nd, 2019 the International Meeting of Chimney Sweeps takes place.
The venue is particularly significant: in 1548, in the Alpes map, Vigezzo Valley was already specified as the Chimney Sweeps one because traditionally young people used to emigrate also to Northern Europe to do this job.
The International Meeting of Chimnew Sweeps, this year arrived at its 38th edition, is an event full of history that offers an entertaining program but also the opportunity to know better the job of chimney sweep through testaments and stories.
In particular on Saturday the cerimony dedicated to the Chimney Sweep Monument takes place in Malesco with the deposition of flowers in memory of such important job in the past.
In Druogno chimney sweeps parade and demonstration of chimney cleaning.
On Sunday the program includes a big parade with more than 1000 chimney sweeps coming from Europe, but also from the USA o Japan in Santa Maria Maggiore.
The chimney sweeps, with their job tools, walk through the town streets accompanied by music bands and folcloristic groups up to Gennari Square where the historical reenactment of chimney cleaning is played with old tools: the rasp, the iron spatula with the hook grip (that used to be hanged at the belt of the pants), riccio (sunburst blades obtained with the springs of alarm clocks and bell tower clocks), the squareta (extendible stick, that was hooked to the riccio), the brischetin, the street sweeper, a long rope, some weights and the sach (the sack where the soot is put).
Gum trees in Australia don’t usually have yellow-coloured trunks like the one in my photo is sporting. The mustardy hue here is due to the nearby road intersection that is illuminated by two sulphur-vapour safety lamps. The arc of white light coming over the hill marks the headlights of a car that is driving towards that same intersection. I captured Jupiter and Saturn making their way up the eastern sky, seen here to the upper-left of the towering tree, standing out prominently against the otherwise unremarkable night sky.
There’s plenty of breathing space in the photo, and that’s what drew me to this particular shot as I scrolled through my Lightroom library tonight, looking for an image to brighten your day. I hope you have a great day, whatever part my photo plays in that experience.
The shot is a single-frame image, captured with my Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera, a Sigma 35mm f/1.4 Art lens @ f/1.4, using an exposure time of 13 seconds @ ISO 6400.
"walk with me".... This is Maldives, the Sunny Side of Life.
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Mr Sweep has recently come to live with me. He had been at the rescue centre for several months, and was very pleased to have a house and a human all to himself. He's eleven years old so is quite the elderly gentleman; a bit arthritic but very friendly and laid back.
I used an old Soviet Helios-44 lens for this. 58mm is a really good focal length for portraits on DX cameras.
Being a chimney sweep in the Victorian era was a difficult existence for many children who were required to clean chimneys for a living. Some of the boys who carried out this work were as young as 3-4 years old, they had to work in sooty unhealthy conditions. Their small bodies made them the perfect size for entering climbing and cleaning the chimneys. The boys often 'buffed it', that is, climbed in the nude, propelling themselves by their knees and elbows which were scraped raw. They were often put up hot chimneys.
From 1775 onwards there was increasing concern for the welfare of the boys, and Acts of Parliament were passed to restrict, and in 1875 to stop this usage
A surprise on my trip home was the girlfriend asking "any trains you want to see on our drive home?" Well, of course I can route our drive through the Finger Lakes delaying our 16 hour drive even later!
Here we have a nice Sunday edition of the Finger Lakes Railway Geneva-Solvay GS-2 turn, also known as the Sweep seen rolling off the causeway around Cayuga, NY. Gorgeous weather and fall color, what more can you ask?
Cayuga, NY
2022.10.23
I sweep leaves up almost as regularly as I have my meals!! Each time I get up in the morning and look out into the garden I think "not again!"
Flickr Lounge - Sunday Theme (Week 44) ~ Low Point of View ....
Thanks to everyone who views this photo, adds a note, leaves a comment and of course BIG thanks to anyone who chooses to favourite my photo .... thanks to you all.
Sweeping up a spillage of dry mango leaves. The sound of these brooms is characteristic of Ghana. Kokomlemle, Accra, Ghana.
Kodak 100 TMax, 4" x 5", 80 iso, Normal development in 510 Pyro 1:100, 7:45 minutes, 24C. Taken June 2016. Ebony SV45TE. Schneider Super Symmar XL 110mm.
Slab Siding, abandoned barn, Municipal District of Pincher Creek, Alberta.
The Val d’Orcia (in English: "Valley of the Orcia") towards the volcanic mountain of Monte Amiata, seen from the elevated town of Pienza, Province of Siena, Tuscany, Italy
Some background information:
Monte Amiata (in English: "Mount Amiata") is the largest of the lava domes in the Amiata lava dome complex located in the southern Tuscany region of Italy. The volcanic mountain is standing at 1,738 metres (5,702 feet) above sea level. Its trachytic lava flow, 5 km (3.1 miles) long and 4 km (2.5 miles) wide, extends to the east. Radiometric dates indicate that the Amiata complex had a major eruptive episode about 300,000 years ago.
For the last time Monte Amiata erupted about 180,000 years ago. During the Holocene no eruptive activity has occurred, but thermal activity including cinnabar mineralization continues at a geothermal field near the town of Bagnore, at the southwestern end of the dome complex. Geysers and hot springs in this area are used for geothermal energy generation and there’s even a geothermal power plant in the town of Piancastagnaio.
The main economical resources of the Amiata region are chestnuts, timber and increasingly also tourism (with ski resorts including the peak area). The lower areas are characterized by olive trees and vines. Other vegetation include beech and fir. In ancient times cinnabar was extracted there.
The Val d'Orcia, or Valdorcia, is a region of Tuscany, central Italy, which extends from the hills south of Siena to Monte Amiata. Its endless gentle, cultivated rolling hills, which are covered with grain or sunflowers in the summer and vineyards, olive groves, cypresses, beech or chestnut trees all year round alternate with medieval habitations, rural villas and castles boasting impervious towers – all of which is diffused in a tranquilly-isolated nature. This is the scenario that is laid out before the eyes of the visitor to Val d’Orcia.
In 2004, the Val d'Orcia was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. According to UNESCO the valley is an exceptional exemplar of the way in which a natural setting was redesigned during the Renaissance (in the 14th and 15th centuries), reflecting the ideals of good governance in the Italian city-state. Additionally, these splendid localities were celebrated by the painters of the Sienese School, which flourished between the 13th and 15th centuries.
The Val d‘Orcia is often described as the perfect combination of nature and culture, but it is also an ecosystem which bears witness oft he rural population that has cultivated and farmed the ground since the Middle Ages. However, also five-million years of geological history have left their mark on this territory that, today, is abundant in plant and animal species. Even the deposits of lava from volcanoes no longer active – such as Mounts Radicofani and Amiata – have contributed to the delineations and details of the area; the lava, hardened, gave form to those dark stones known as trachytes.
The valley is not only traversed by the river Orcia, but also by the rivers Asso, Formone, Vellora and Vivo. Furthermore the historic road Via Francigena and the Roman road Via Cassia pass through valley that covers and area of altogether 61,188 hectare (151,200 acres). Occasionally the landscape is broken by gullies and picturesque towns and villages such as Montalcino, San Quirico, Pienza, Castiglione and Radicofani. In the northwest the Val d’Orcia borders the Crete Senesi landscape while in the northeast it is flanked by the Val di Chiania.
Until 1250, the Val d’Orcia was under the rule of the noble family Aldobrandeschi, but subsequently noble families of the nearby town of Siena took control of the valley. They were attracted by the continuous transit of men and commerce along the fundamental pathways Via Francigena and Via Cassia. The most notable of these families was the family Piccolomini, which also provided several popes, among them the famous Pius II. It was him who commissioned to transform the little village of Corsignano into the town of Pienza and hence into a place which he thought is the "ideal town". However, after the mid-1500s, Val d’Orcia became a valuable part of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and thereby of the Florentine orbit – solely for its agricultural aspect. Thus, it was the family Medici that improved the valley’s infrastructure in the years that followed.
Within the Val d'Orcia is a strip of land following the Orcia river that is used as a wine-growing area between the DOCG zones of Brunello di Montalcino and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano. Here the Sangiovese and Trebbiano-based wines are produced under the Orcia Denominazione di origine controllata (DOC) status. The DOC red wine is composed of at least 60 percent Sangiovese with other local varieties, such as Abrusco, permitted to fill in the remainder of the blend. The dry white wine and Vin Santo style DOC wines are composed of at least 50 percent Trebbiano with other local varieties filling out the rest of the blend. All grapes destined for DOC wine production are limited to a maximum harvest yield of 10 tonnes/hectare with the finished wines required to have a minimum alcohol level of at least 12 percent.
But the region is also very rich in other high quality local products such as the "Pecorino" cheese of Pienza (a typical cheese made with sheep's milk), the genuine olive oil, saffron, mushrooms, (including truffles), sweet chestnuts, honey and a lot of other specialties.
In the 1950s, the only method of heating a private home was with an open coal fire, one for each room in the house, so lots of fires and lots of chimneys needed many chimney sweeps to keep them clean.
Thanks to Gordon Mason for photo of re enactor chimney sweep background photo from timepix.uk is greater Manchester in about 1950 )
The last film frame I shot on my first day in Florence on our Christmas trip in 2019.
That building with funky Christmas lights is the Mercato Centrale (Central Market) of Florence.
Taken with:
Olympus OM-2n
Olympus OM Zuiko 50mm f/1.4
Kodak Portra 800
Scanned with:
Canon EOS 6D
Leica APO-Macro-Elmarit-R 100mm f/2.8
Negative Lab Pro
I was out shooting dragonflies in a heat index of 111o yesterday. Found my first Little Blue Dragonlet in GA and got possibly THE worst shot of it that I've ever taken of an ode ;-) They are incredibly tiny - make Amberwings look big. Robberflies and hoppers were everywhere as well as quite a few butterflies.
And the S5 kept giving me error messages - I almost didn't get it restarted in the field.
Gotta relocate the Dragonlet so I can get better shots - it's a county record.
Have a great weekend!
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Winner, Beautiful World Challenge Group 10, Fllies & flying insects, 8-10
Winner (Sweep), Game, 2nd chooses, 11-14
Winner (Sweep), Game, gamex2, 1-15
Winner, Game, gamex3, 2-15