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The Alaska Highway travels through some pretty gorgeous but remote and unforgiving country. It has changed a great deal since I first travelled it in the mid 70's, and probably bares little to no resemblance to the original military road that shares its name.
Unfortunately, as the highway has been straightened, improved and paved, the need for many of the lodges that festooned its length and provided much needed respite for those travelling on older versions of the trail has diminished. In some cases, they were abandoned when the road shifted, in other cases, the owners may have died, moved on, or simply given up. This photo was taken on the site of one of those many boarded up and decaying vestiges of the past.
Photo taken with the Olympus OM-D E-M1 and M.Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro hand held. Image processing was performed in DxO PhotoLab 5.3.X and in Nik Analog Efex Pro. I hope you like the result.
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London Kings Cross Station - Western Concourse, London, England
UPDATE MARCH 2012 - #306 on Explore for 20.03.2012 - thank you very much everybody! :-)
I could not resist in taking photos of the new Western Concourse at London Kings Cross station which opened today. To celebrate this I thought I would upload my photo that I took of the the awesome roof.
I was lucky enough to take this photo last week in special preview of the concourse and I spent quite a while taking photos of it. Also another new perspective is the bridge that goes over the current platforms in the main shed. I suppose this has not been seen since the old bridge was removed so have a wonder over that if you get chance to visit.
I was amazed how much light and space this new concourse gave and it is a massive improvement on the original 'temporary' 1970s concourse on Euston Road. Some nice shops and food outlets (although not as many as St Pancras across the road) and also a new pub too. I also like how they have mixed together the old and new. It really does contribute each other very well.
I wanted to get closer to the steel work in this photo however there was loads of lights at the bottom of it that looked very expensive so I didn't want to go anywhere near them but that will be for next time as I believe the perspective of looking up will be far more effective. I also found this image quite hard to process due to extremes of light in there, I think it will be an easier station to photograph on more dull day or at night when its lit up perhaps.
I'm sure that all those who use this station now will really enjoy it and I look forward to seeing all of your photos of it.
Hope you all have a good Monday.
Photo Details
Sony A700
Samyang 8mm F3.5 MC Fisheye
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f/8
8mm
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1/15s exposure
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Lightroom 4
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King's Cross railway station also known as London King's Cross is a major London railway terminus opened in 1852. It stands on the northern edge of central London, at the junction of the Euston Road and York Way, in the London Borough of Camden on the border of the London Borough of Islington. It is one of 18 UK stations managed by Network Rail.
King's Cross is the southern terminus of the East Coast Main Line, one of Britain's major railway backbones. Some of its most important long-distance destinations are Leeds, Newcastle and Edinburgh. It also hosts outer-suburban services to Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire, and fast regional services to Peterborough, Cambridge and Kings Lynn.
Immediately to the west across Pancras Road is St Pancras International, the London terminus of the Midland Main Line, international Eurostar trains and high-speed trains to Kent via High Speed 1, and a major interchange for Thameslink services between Bedford and Brighton. The two stations are operationally completely separate, but as they are adjacent they may be regarded as a single complex for interchange purposes. They share King's Cross St. Pancras tube station on the London Underground network, where six Underground lines meet. Taken together, these two main-line stations and the associated underground station form one of Britain's biggest transport hubs. The station is also within walking distance of Euston Station, the southern terminus for the West Coast Main Line.
The Dhofar (Ẓufār) Governorate (Arabic محافطة ظفار) is the largest of the eleven Governorates in the Sultanate of Oman in terms of area. It lies in Southern Oman, on the eastern border with Yemen. It is a rather mountainous area that covers 99,300 km2 (38,300 sq mi) and has a population of 250,000 as of the 2010 census.[1] The largest city, as well as capital of the Governorate, is Salalah. Historically the region was the chief source of frankincense in the world.
People
While Arabic speakers from the dominant Omani culture have come to live in the province, especially the larger cities and towns, Dhofar has been the traditional homeland of many tribespeople speaking a variety of South Arabian Semitic languages. One of the languages most commonly spoken by the Al-Hakli (Qara), Al-Shahri, Al-Barami, Al-Mashaiki and Al-Bat'hari mountain tribes is Jeballi (Shehri). The Yemeni language Mehri is somewhat linked to Jeballi. Other indigenous groups speaking smaller languages such as Bat'hari live in the coastal towns of Shuwaymiya and Sharbithat. The Harasis, speaking Harsusi, number 1,000–2,000 and live in Jiddat al-Harasis.
Dhofar's area geographically consists of coastal, mountainous, flat, and desert areas. Generally the people of Dhofar can be identified as either Jeballi (living in the mountains, or from the mountains), Badawi (living in the desert, or from the desert), or Hadhari (living in the cities or settlements).
Climate.
Dhofar has a tropical climate. Dhofar and a small portion of the northern tip of Yemen are directly exposed to the South East monsoon from mid-June to mid-September;[2] this is known as the Khareef. As a result, it has a lush green climate during the monsoon season and for some time after until the vegetation loses its moisture. Dhofar's temporarily wet climate contrasts sharply with the neighboring barren Empty Quarter Desert. The Salalah plain was once a well cultivated area with a sophisticated irrigation system.
History
Prior to Omani rule, a portion of Dhofar was partially part of the Kathiri Sultanate and later mostly controlled by tribes of Al-Hakli (Qara), thus given the name Qara Mountain Range. It is thought that the Al-Shahri were the original inhibitors of Dhofar.
Dhofar was a major exporter of frankincense in ancient times, with some of it being traded as far as China. The Chinese writer and customs inspector Zhao Rugua wrote on the origin of Frankincense being traded to China:
"Ruxiang or xunluxiang comes from the three Dashi countries of Murbat (Maloba), Shihr (Shihe), and Dhofar (Nufa), from the depths of the remotest mountains.[3] The tree which yields this drug may generally be compared to the pine tree. Its trunk is notched with a hatchet, upon which the resin flows out, and, when hardened, turns into incense, which is gathered and made into lumps. It is transported on elephants to the Dashi (on the coast), who then load it upon their ships to exchange it for other commodities in Sanfoqi. This is the reason why it is commonly collected at and known as a product of Sanfoqi."[4]
Ruxiang was the Chinese name for frankincense, and Dashi the Chinese name for Arabia.[citation needed] As of 1920, frankincense was being exported to India.[5]
During World War I it was fertile enough to produce food and grain to supply a large proportion of the requirement of the British Army fighting in Mesopotamia.
A counter-insurgency campaign—the Dhofar Rebellion—was fought here by the Sultan of Oman's Armed Forces in 1965–1975 against guerrilla fighters of the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman and the Persian Gulf (PFLOAG), supported by Communist South Yemen after that territory's independence and several other socialist states including East Germany. It aimed to depose the Sultan. The Sultan's forces, assisted by the United Kingdom, Iran, and support from loaned officers and doctors from Pakistan and India,[6] prevailed, and once the campaign was declared over in December 1975, the active remainder of PFLOAG forces surrendered.
In Mormon culture, Dhofar is the most popular traditional location of the Book of Mormon land of Bountiful, from which the nomadic family of Lehi sailed in a ship constructed by his son Nephi, to the New World. This association is not an official LDS Church doctrine, however.
Culture and landmarks[edit]
Dhofar has a tribal community, and is home to many ancient tribes. The Arab tribes include Al-Hakli (Qara), Al Kathiri, Al-Hashimi, Al-Yafei, Al-Mashaikhi, Al-Shahri, Al-Mahri, Al-Bat'hari, and Al-Barami. It also houses many expatriates. Still, Dhofar is not a rural region but, in fact, has a combination of cultures. It is a mixture of traditional Omani heritage and an international way of living.
The city of Salalah acts as the regions capital. It has an International Airport, one of the largest seaports in the Middle East, several resorts including Marriot & Crowne Plaza, well-kept streets, international retail chain outlets, more than five 3D cinemas under construction, a University, Colleges & Schools (both English and Arabic medium). But the main attraction of the region is the natural beauty that has been preserved despite its industries. Dhofar has been praised for its scenic beauty from time immemorial. The Dhofar region is rich in meteorites.
The Burj-al-Nadha Clock-tower is a popular landmark and is featured in the Dhofar Municipality coat of arms.
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I am back again for a while ..so well catch up when I can.
On my walk around the city catching up on events. Christchurch September 27, 2015 New Zealand.
At this time, I was challenged by PegBecks to ilustrate Andy Goldsworthy's art.
She loves Goldsworthy's work. On her words" His art is temporary - it is created, photographed and then (for many of his works) can be gone."
Because of the low temperatures we’ve been having, (minus 30 degrees Celsius right now ; with the wind chill it feels like minus 44 degrees Celsius), I really struggled with the challenge, the materials used in Andy Goldsworthy's art often include brightly-colored flowers, icicles, leaves, mud, pinecones, snow, stone, twigs, and thorns. He has been quoted as saying, "I think it's incredibly brave to be working with flowers and leaves and petals. But I have to: I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole." Goldsworthy is generally considered the founder of modern rock balancing. For his ephemeral works, Goldsworthy often uses only his bare hands, teeth, and found tools to prepare and arrange the materials; however, for his permanent sculptures he has also employed the use of machine tools.
Photography plays a crucial role in his art due to its often ephemeral and transient state. According to Goldsworthy, "Each work grows, stays, decays – integral parts of a cycle which the photograph shows at its heights, marking the moment when the work is most alive. There is intensity about a work at its peak that I hope is expressed in the image. Process and decay are implicit.
Goldsworthy produced a commissioned work for the entry courtyard of San Francisco's De Young Museum called "Drawn Stone", which echoes San Francisco's frequent earthquakes and their effects. His installation included a giant crack in the pavement that broke off into smaller cracks, and broken limestone, which could be used for benches. The smaller cracks were made with a hammer adding unpredictability to the work as he created it.
Peg, I would love to be an artist, but I know I am far for it… This is what I was able to come up with.
I'll also double dip it for ODC2 - Making tracks !
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The Place Georges Pompidou in front of the museum is noted for the presence of street performers, such as mimes and jugglers. In the spring, miniature carnivals are installed temporarily into the place in front with a wide variety of attractions: bands, caricature and sketch artists, tables set up for evening dining, and even skateboarding competitions.
This Volga-Dnepr Ilyushin is among those aircraft temporarily basing themselves at FLL for PR relief flights.
Data la temporanea indisponibilità di varie E483 Nordcargo, il gruppo DBS ha stanziato temporaneamente una coppia di Re486 BLS sui servizi interni italiani provenienti dal deposito di DomoII.
Nella foto l'unità 504 transita a Sud di Milano al traino dell'ormai classico servizio quotidiano su Reggio Emilia. (8/2/11)
The breackdown of some Nordcargo E483s force the DBS group to transfer temporary two BLS Re486 in Italy to cover the domestic services from DomoII.
Here the unit 504 leads a southbound clay train to Reggio Emilia near Milan. (2011-2-8)
sunset in the Columbia Gorge is pretty fun this time of year, if you do not mind the cold! I really love the waterfalls...
or should I say ICEfalls?
This is one of many runoff waterfalls coming over the cliffs along Highway 14 just East of Bingen, Washington.
As always, my photos are all taken with a Canon Powershot A630
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Fairfield is part of the Church of England parish of Brookland and Fairfield on Walland Marsh (part of Romney Marsh) in the Shepway District of Kent, England. Until 1934 it was a civil parish, but was then absorbed into the civil parish of Snargate.The area lies west of the village of Brookland.
The area is most notable for the isolated church of St Thomas a Becket, a Grade I listed building, in the Romney Deanery.
This church was used as a filming location for the 2011 BBC adaption of Great Expectations.
Fairfield lies between Brookland and Brenzett on a minor road in a deserted part of the Walland Marsh .
The area was won from the sea (inned) sometime between 1200 and 1270. The monks from Canterbury built dykes to the western edge of the Rhee Wall (the sea defenses built by the Romans) and enclosed the land so reclaiming the rich and fertile soil from the sea.
1287 saw the great storm in which Broomhill was swept away and New Romney barely survived. The Rother changed its course to the sea, and exited the marshes at Rye, whereas before the storm the river found its way to the sea near to modern day Greatstone and Littlestone .
Fayrefelde existed before 1595 as a map of the time shows the village approximately where the church now sits. It is likely that as the land became more reclaimed so the village sprung up.
Nowadays all that can be seen is the church lying down from the road embankment which is probably the original inning wall. The church was built as a temporary structure of timber lath and plaster in the 1200's to support the local farming community. The exterior has been strengthened with brick, and in 1913 the whole building was reconstructed and encased to preserve it.
St Thomas a Beckett at Fairfield is one of those churches supported by the Romney Marsh Historic Churches Trust .
TEMPORY (TEMPORARY)
I guess the other two letters will be along shortly!
There’s a similar one across the road!
Route SL7 (Superloop (Limited Stop)) : Heathrow Central Bus Station - West Croydon, Delta Point (WN)
Route SL9 (Superloop (Limited Stop)) : Heathrow Central, Bus Station (19) - Harrow, Bus Station (E)
📍 Hayes & Harlington Station
Edit : The SL7 ended up at Hayes & Harlington due to a temporary road closure in the Harlington Corner area and the driver taking the wrong turn
The Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve is a protected area consisting of wetlands and surrounding monsoon and dry forests approximately 70 km (43 mi) east of Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia (a comfortable 1 hour drive from Darwin CBD or suburbs).
The Reserve lies within the Adelaide and Mary River Floodplains, which is an Important Bird Area.
Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve was created after the demise of an unsuccessful rice farming project which operated in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The dam was originally created as dry season water storage facility for the rice crop.
The reserve attracts a wide range of local and migratory water birds and other wildlife including one of the largest populations of snakes within Australia (including the Water Python and Death Adder), and includes a several raised observation platforms.
Saltwater Crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus) and Freshwater Crocodiles (Crocodylus johnstoni) can be seen at Fogg Dam all year around.
Fogg Dam is open 24 hrs per day all days of the year. The only limitation is that during very heavy monsoon rain periods, water may overflow the dam wall (which serves as a road through the reserve) and limit traffic to high-clearance vehicles.
In some years, the dam wall may be temporarily damaged by monsoon rain overflows and be impassable for a short section.
The open nature of the reserve along the dam wall makes it an excellent site for birds in flight (BIF) photography.
The highest bird activity for BIF photography occurs later in the wet and early dry season (say March to June) when thousands of waterbirds and other water-attracted species are moving around the reserve.
Passerine species can be best photographed from treed areas, and the Woodlands and Monsoon Forest tracks.
A quick, low-light shot of a loon off the dock in the backyard. At one point we had 5 of them! Usually it's one or two at a time.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the city of Bucha in the Kyiv region, where mass killings of civilians took place during the occupation by Russian troops.
The Head of State visited the humanitarian aid center and talked to local residents.
Bucha Mayor Anatoliy Fedoruk told the President about the humanitarian situation in the city, the progress of the search for the bodies of the dead, the assessment of the damage caused by the occupiers to private and communal property, and the pace of reconstruction of the city.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy awarded Anatoliy Fedoruk with the Order of Courage of the III Degree.
The Head of State also spoke with international and Ukrainian journalists who came to Bucha to document Russia's war crimes.
"It is very important for us that journalists are here. We want you to show the world what was happening here, what the Russian military was doing, what the Russian Federation was doing in peaceful Ukraine," the President said, addressing the media.
As Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted, what the Russian occupiers did to this modern town is genocide.
"These are war crimes and they will be recognized by the world as genocide. We are aware of thousands of people killed and tortured, with their limbs cut off. Raped women, murdered children. I believe this is genocide," the President said.
In addition, the President watched the road with destroyed equipment of the Russian army, as well as the destroyed bridge across the Irpin River on the M-06 Kyiv – Chop highway.
The President noted that part of the bridge over the Irpin River will be repaired and opened in a few months.
Preparations for the construction of a temporary crossing have now begun. It will be opened in about two weeks, said Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov.
According to him, full-fledged movement of one passage of the bridge can be started in two months, both passages - in three or four months.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy also visited the destroyed bridge over the Irpin River on the R-30 highway. It will take ten days to build a temporary crossing here, and a full-fledged repair will take two to three months.
This is a photograph of a temporary lighthouse in Hartlepool. Built in 1847 the wooden tower was in service until June 14th 1927. On that day the new all electric, automatic Heugh light came into service.
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The result of an adapted lesson in Photoshopping, Molly sports back and arm tattoos... but only for this photo.
Volenteer law enforcement and first responders on duty at a temporary U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (D-SNAP) processing centers such as this one in the North Charleston Coliseum where county residents recovering from severe flooding have come to, in North Charleston, SC, on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015.In times of emergency, FNS coordinates with state and federal partners, as well as local volunteer organizations, such as the American Red Cross and Salvation Army, to provide USDA Foods to shelters and other mass feeding sites and, in limited cases, distribute food packages directly to households in need. USDA Foods are 100% domestically produced, processed and procured agricultural commodities that are made available to schools, tribes, and low-income individuals through FNS Nutrition Assistance Programs. Once retail food stores reopen, if survivors still need nutrition assistance and the area has received a ‘Presidential Disaster Declaration with Individual Assistance,’ State agencies may request to operate D-SNAP. People who may not normally qualify for nutrition assistance benefits may be eligible for D-SNAP if they had disaster-related expenses, such as loss of income, damage to property, relocation expenses, and, in some cases, loss of food due to power outages. Those already participating in the SNAP may be eligible for supplemental benefits under D-SNAP. For more information please visit this web site: www.fns.usda.gov/disaster. USDA photos by Lance Cheung.
25 Ontario Street, Toronto
Toronto's disappearing old mid-century architecture. A few months ago I sort of accidentally went to downtown's Adelaide/ Richmond Streets area, and came across architecture of Toronto's industrial past. Many such old and vintage buildings are being demolished to make room for residential high-rises which in Canada and the U.S. are called condominiums (or condos). I thought I'd capture what remains before they are also re-developed.
Eurocopter EC.135 T1 F-GOPG of SAF Helicopteres in snow at Tignes and going nowhere while the conditions remained poor.
Class 640 'LINT 27' single-car diesel-hydraulic unit No. 640 015 waits at Bad Ems station in the German Land of Rhineland-Palatinate with a service that will head east towards Limburg on Monday 26th May 2025.
When this photo was shot, the line heading west - towards Koblenz - was subject to long-term closure for substantial engineering work, effectively making Bad Ems the temporary terminus of the Lahntalbahn (the Lahn Valley Railway). As you can see, the station itself was also undergoing refurbishment at this time.
Bad Ems is twinned with Droitwich Spa in the UK.
After more than 80 years of service in Philadelphia, PCC trolleys will make their final run this Saturday, January 25.
The conversion of Route 15 to bus operations is supposed to be temporary. But that's what SEPTA said 20 years ago as it "temporarily" converted many routes to bus, took down the wires, and removed or paved over the tracks.
Here, we see Route 15 PCC II 2329 making the turn from Lancaster onto Girard.
It's been nice knowing you.
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