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Waiting for their owner to finish shopping, saw these 2 dogs anxiously waiting outside a store. Taken in West Vancouver, BC on a cold winter day in 2017, but without the snow. Looks like a Golden Labrador dog and a small black Bull Terrier. They are minding each other, I guess, while patiently waiting.
Le rhinocéros, graffiti in Arles
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Arles
Arles is located in France
Arles is located in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Coordinates: 43°40′36″N 4°37′40″ECoordinates: 43°40′36″N 4°37′40″E
Country France
Region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Department Bouches-du-Rhône
Arrondissement Arles
Canton Arles
Intercommunality CA Arles-Crau-Camargue-Montagnette
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020) Hervé Schiavetti (PCF)
Area1 758.93 km2 (293.02 sq mi)
Population (2012)2 52,439
• Density 69/km2 (180/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code 13004 /13200
Elevation 0–57 m (0–187 ft)
(avg. 10 m or 33 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.
Arles (French pronunciation: [aʁl]; Provençal [ˈaʀle] in both classical and Mistralian norms; Arelate in Classical Latin) is a city and commune in the south of France, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, of which it is a subprefecture, in the former province of Provence.
A large part of the Camargue is located on the territory of the commune, making it the largest commune in Metropolitan France in terms of territory (though Maripasoula, French Guiana, is much larger). The city has a long history, and was of considerable importance in the Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis. The Roman and Romanesque Monuments of Arles were listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1981. The Dutch post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh lived in Arles from 1888 to 1889 and produced over 300 paintings and drawings during his time there. An international photography festival has been held in the city since 1970.
Geography
The river Rhône forks into two branches just upstream of Arles, forming the Camargue delta. Because the Camargue is for a large part administratively part of Arles, the commune as a whole is the largest commune in Metropolitan France in terms of territory, although its population is only slightly more than 50,000. Its area is 758.93 km2 (293.02 sq mi), which is more than seven times the area of Paris.
Climate
Arles has a Mediterranean climate with a mean annual temperature of 14.6 °C (1948 - 1999). The summers are warm and moderately dry, with seasonal averages between 22 °C and 24 °C, and mild winters with a mean temperature of about 7 °C. The city is constantly, but especially in the winter months, subject to the influence of the mistral, a cold wind which can cause sudden and severe frosts. Rainfall (636 mm per year) is fairly evenly distributed from September to May, with the summer drought being less marked than in other Mediterranean areas.[1]
Climate data for Arles, 1948–1999
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Average high °C (°F) 10.4
(50.7) 12.3
(54.1) 15.7
(60.3) 18.5
(65.3) 22.8
(73) 27.1
(80.8) 30.3
(86.5) 29.7
(85.5) 25.5
(77.9) 20.3
(68.5) 14.4
(57.9) 11.0
(51.8) 19.8
(67.6)
Average low °C (°F) 2.1
(35.8) 2.8
(37) 5.3
(41.5) 7.5
(45.5) 11.2
(52.2) 14.5
(58.1) 17.7
(63.9) 17.3
(63.1) 14.4
(57.9) 10.4
(50.7) 5.9
(42.6) 3.1
(37.6) 9.4
(48.9)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 54.7
(2.154) 50.8
(2) 49.3
(1.941) 50.3
(1.98) 48.6
(1.913) 37.3
(1.469) 17.1
(0.673) 39.2
(1.543) 81.7
(3.217) 85.7
(3.374) 66.7
(2.626) 54.7
(2.154) 636.1
(25.043)
Source: Italian Wikipedia article on Arles
History
Arles Amphitheatre, a Roman arena.
Passageway in Roman arena
Church of St. Trophime and its cloister.
Ancient era
The Ligurians were in this area from about 800 BC. Later, Celtic influences have been discovered. The city became an important Phoenician trading port, before being taken by the Romans.
The Romans took the town in 123 BC and expanded it into an important city, with a canal link to the Mediterranean Sea being constructed in 104 BC. However, it struggled to escape the shadow of Massalia (Marseilles) further along the coast.
Its chance came when it sided with Julius Caesar against Pompey, providing military support. Massalia backed Pompey; when Caesar emerged victorious, Massalia was stripped of its possessions, which were transferred to Arelate as a reward. The town was formally established as a colony for veterans of the Roman legion Legio VI Ferrata, which had its base there. Its full title as a colony was Colonia Iulia Paterna Arelatensium Sextanorum, "the ancestral Julian colony of Arles of the soldiers of the Sixth."
Arelate was a city of considerable importance in the province of Gallia Narbonensis. It covered an area of some 40 hectares (99 acres) and possessed a number of monuments, including an amphitheatre, triumphal arch, Roman circus, theatre, and a full circuit of walls. Ancient Arles was closer to the sea than it is now and served as a major port. It also had (and still has) the southernmost bridge on the Rhône. Very unusually, the Roman bridge was not fixed but consisted of a pontoon-style bridge of boats, with towers and drawbridges at each end. The boats were secured in place by anchors and were tethered to twin towers built just upstream of the bridge. This unusual design was a way of coping with the river's frequent violent floods, which would have made short work of a conventional bridge. Nothing remains of the Roman bridge, which has been replaced by a more modern bridge near the same spot.
The city reached a peak of influence during the 4th and 5th centuries, when Roman Emperors frequently used it as their headquarters during military campaigns. In 395, it became the seat of the Praetorian Prefecture of the Gauls, governing the western part of the Western Empire: Gaul proper plus Hispania (Spain) and Armorica (Brittany). At that time, the city was perhaps home to 75,000–100,000 people.[2][3][4][5]
It became a favorite city of Emperor Constantine I, who built baths there, substantial remains of which are still standing. His son, Constantine II, was born in Arles. Usurper Constantine III declared himself emperor in the West (407–411) and made Arles his capital in 408.
Arles became renowned as a cultural and religious centre during the late Roman Empire. It was the birthplace of the sceptical philosopher Favorinus. It was also a key location for Roman Christianity and an important base for the Christianization of Gaul. The city's bishopric was held by a series of outstanding clerics, beginning with Saint Trophimus around 225 and continuing with Saint Honoratus, then Saint Hilarius in the first half of the 5th century. The political tension between the Catholic bishops of Arles and the Visigothic kings is epitomized in the career of the Frankish St. Caesarius, bishop of Arles 503–542, who was suspected by the Arian Visigoth Alaric II of conspiring with the Burgundians to turn over the Arelate to Burgundy, and was exiled for a year to Bordeaux in Aquitaine. Political tensions were evident again in 512, when Arles held out against Theodoric the Great and Caesarius was imprisoned and sent to Ravenna to explain his actions before the Ostrogothic king.[6]
The friction between the Arian Christianity of the Visigoths and the Catholicism of the bishops sent out from Rome established deep roots for religious heterodoxy, even heresy, in Occitan culture. At Treves in 385, Priscillian achieved the distinction of becoming the first Christian executed for heresy (Manichaean in his case, see also Cathars, Camisards). Despite this tension and the city's decline in the face of barbarian invasions, Arles remained a great religious centre and host of church councils (see Council of Arles), the rival of Vienne, for hundreds of years.
Roman aqueduct and mill
Aqueduct of Arles at Barbegal
The Barbegal aqueduct and mill is a Roman watermill complex located on the territory of the commune of Fontvieille, a few kilometres from Arles. The complex has been referred to as "the greatest known concentration of mechanical power in the ancient world".[7] The remains of the mill streams and buildings which housed the overshot water wheels are still visible at the site, and it is by far the best-preserved of ancient mills. There are two aqueducts which join just north of the mill complex, and a sluice which enabled the operators to control the water supply to the complex. The mill consisted of 16 waterwheels in two separate rows built into a steep hillside. There are substantial masonry remains of the water channels and foundations of the individual mills, together with a staircase rising up the hill upon which the mills are built. The mills apparently operated from the end of the 1st century until about the end of the 3rd century.[8] The capacity of the mills has been estimated at 4.5 tons of flour per day, sufficient to supply enough bread for 6,000 of the 30-40,000 inhabitants of Arelate at that time.[9] A similar mill complex existed also on the Janiculum in Rome. Examination of the mill leat still just visible on one side of the hill shows a substantial accretion of lime in the channel, tending to confirm its long working life.
It is thought that the wheels were overshot water wheels with the outflow from the top driving the next one down and so on, to the base of the hill. Vertical water mills were well known to the Romans, being described by Vitruvius in his De Architectura of 25 BC, and mentioned by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia of 77 AD. There are also later references to floating water mills from Byzantium and to sawmills on the river Moselle by the poet Ausonius. The use of multiple stacked sequences of reverse overshot water-wheels was widespread in Roman mines.
Middle Ages
Place de la République.
Cafe Terrace at Night by Vincent van Gogh (September 1888), depicts the warmth of a café in Arles
In 735, after raiding the Lower Rhône, Andalusian Saracens led by Yusuf ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri moved into the stronghold summoned by Count Maurontus, who feared Charles Martel's expansionist ambitions, though this may have been an excuse to further Moorish expansion beyond Iberia. The next year, Charles campaigned south to Septimania and Provence, attacking and capturing Arles after destroying Avignon. In 739. Charles definitely drove Maurontus to exile, and brought Provence to heel. In 855, it was made the capital of a Frankish Kingdom of Arles, which included Burgundy and part of Provence, but was frequently terrorised by Saracen and Viking raiders. In 888, Rudolph, Count of Auxerre (now in north-western Burgundy), founded the kingdom of Transjuran Burgundy (literally, beyond the Jura mountains), which included western Switzerland as far as the river Reuss, Valais, Geneva, Chablais and Bugey.
In 933, Hugh of Arles ("Hugues de Provence") gave his kingdom up to Rudolph II, who merged the two kingdoms into a new Kingdom of Arles. In 1032, King Rudolph III died, and the kingdom was inherited by Emperor Conrad II the Salic. Though his successors counted themselves kings of Arles, few went to be crowned in the cathedral. Most of the kingdom's territory was progressively incorporated into France. During these troubled times, the amphitheatre was converted into a fortress, with watchtowers built at each of the four quadrants and a minuscule walled town being constructed within. The population was by now only a fraction of what it had been in Roman times, with much of old Arles lying in ruins.
The town regained political and economic prominence in the 12th century, with the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa traveling there in 1178 for his coronation. In the 12th century, it became a free city governed by an elected podestat (chief magistrate; literally "power"), who appointed the consuls and other magistrates. It retained this status until the French Revolution of 1789.
Arles joined the countship of Provence in 1239, but, once more, its prominence was eclipsed by Marseilles. In 1378, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV ceded the remnants of the Kingdom of Arles to the Dauphin of France (later King Charles VI of France) and the kingdom ceased to exist even on paper.
Modern era
Arles remained economically important for many years as a major port on the Rhône. In the 19th century, the arrival of the railway diminished river trade, leading to the town becoming something of a backwater.
This made it an attractive destination for the painter Vincent van Gogh, who arrived there on 21 February 1888. He was fascinated by the Provençal landscapes, producing over 300 paintings and drawings during his time in Arles. Many of his most famous paintings were completed there, including The Night Cafe, the Yellow Room, Starry Night Over the Rhone, and L'Arlésienne. Paul Gauguin visited van Gogh in Arles. However, van Gogh's mental health deteriorated and he became alarmingly eccentric, culminating in the well-known ear-severing incident in December 1888 which resulted in two stays in the Old Hospital of Arles. The concerned Arlesians circulated a petition the following February demanding that van Gogh be confined. In May 1889, he took the hint and left Arles for the Saint-Paul asylum at nearby Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
Jewish history
Main article: History of the Jews in Arles
Arles had an important and evident Jewish community between the Roman era and until the end of the 15th century. A local legend describes the first Jews in Arles as exiles from Judaea after Jerusalem fell to the Romans. Nevertheless, the first documented evident of Jews in Arles is not before fifth century, when a distinguished community had already existed in town. Arles was an important Jewish crossroads, as a port city and close to Spain and the rest of Europe alike. It served a major role in the work of the Hachmei Provence group of famous Jewish scholars, translators and philosophers, who were most important to Judaism throughout the Middle Ages. At the eighth century, the jurisdiction of the Jews of Arles were passed to the local Archbishop, making the Jewish taxes to the clergy somewhat of a shield for the community from mob attacks, most frequent during the Crusades. The community lived relatively peacefully until the last decade of the 15th century, when they were expelled out of the city never to return. Several Jews did live in the city in the centuries after, though no community was found ever after. Nowadays, Jewish archaeological findings and texts from Arles can be found in the local museum.[10]
Population
Historical population
Year Pop. ±%
1806 20,151 —
1820 20,150 −0.0%
1831 20,236 +0.4%
1836 20,048 −0.9%
1841 20,460 +2.1%
1846 23,101 +12.9%
1851 23,208 +0.5%
1856 24,816 +6.9%
1861 25,543 +2.9%
1866 26,367 +3.2%
1872 24,695 −6.3%
1876 25,095 +1.6%
1881 23,480 −6.4%
1891 24,288 +3.4%
1896 24,567 +1.1%
1901 28,116 +14.4%
1906 31,010 +10.3%
1911 31,014 +0.0%
1921 29,146 −6.0%
1926 32,485 +11.5%
1946 35,017 +7.8%
1954 37,443 +6.9%
1962 41,932 +12.0%
1968 45,774 +9.2%
1975 50,059 +9.4%
1982 50,500 +0.9%
1990 52,058 +3.1%
1999 50,426 −3.1%
2008 52,729 +4.6%
2010 57,328 +8.7%
Main sights
Gallo-Roman theatre.
The Alyscamps.
Arles has important Roman remnants, most of which have been listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites since 1981 within the Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments group. They include:
The Gallo-Roman theatre
The arena or amphitheatre
The Alyscamps (Roman necropolis)
The Thermae of Constantine
The cryptoporticus
Arles Obelisk
Barbegal aqueduct and mill
The Church of St. Trophime (Saint Trophimus), formerly a cathedral, is a major work of Romanesque architecture, and the representation of the Last Judgment on its portal is considered one of the finest examples of Romanesque sculpture, as are the columns in the adjacent cloister.
The town also has a museum of ancient history, the Musée de l'Arles et de la Provence antiques, with one of the best collections of Roman sarcophagi to be found anywhere outside Rome itself. Other museums include the Musée Réattu and the Museon Arlaten.
The courtyard of the Old Arles hospital, now named "Espace Van Gogh," is a center for Vincent van Gogh's works, several of which are masterpieces.[11] The garden, framed on all four sides by buildings of the complex, is approached through arcades on the first floor. A circulation gallery is located on the first and second floors.[12]
Archaeology
Main article: Arles portrait bust
In September–October 2007, divers led by Luc Long from the French Department of Subaquatic Archaeological Research, headed by Michel L'Hour, discovered a life-sized marble bust of an apparently important Roman person in the Rhône near Arles, together with smaller statues of Marsyas in Hellenistic style and of the god Neptune from the third century AD. The larger bust was tentatively dated to 46 BC. Since the bust displayed several characteristics of an ageing person with wrinkles, deep naso-labial creases and hollows in his face, and since the archaeologists believed that Julius Caesar had founded the colony Colonia Iulia Paterna Arelate Sextanorum in 46 BC, the scientists came to the preliminary conclusion that the bust depicted a life-portrait of the Roman dictator: France's Minister of Culture Christine Albanel reported on May 13, 2008, that the bust would be the oldest representation of Caesar known today.[13] The story was picked up by all larger media outlets.[14][15] The realism of the portrait was said to place it in the tradition of late Republican portrait and genre sculptures. The archaeologists further claimed that a bust of Julius Caesar might have been thrown away or discreetly disposed of, because Caesar's portraits could have been viewed as politically dangerous possessions after the dictator's assassination.
Historians and archaeologists not affiliated with the French administration, among them Paul Zanker, the renowned archaeologist and expert on Caesar and Augustus, were quick to question whether the bust is a portrait of Caesar.[16][17][18] Many noted the lack of resemblances to Caesar's likenesses issued on coins during the last years of the dictator's life, and to the Tusculum bust of Caesar,[19] which depicts Julius Caesar in his lifetime, either as a so-called zeitgesicht or as a direct portrait. After a further stylistic assessment, Zanker dated the Arles-bust to the Augustan period. Elkins argued for the third century AD as the terminus post quem for the deposition of the statues, refuting the claim that the bust was thrown away due to feared repercussions from Caesar's assassination in 44 BC.[20] The main argument by the French archaeologists that Caesar had founded the colony in 46 BC proved to be incorrect, as the colony was founded by Caesar's former quaestor Tiberius Claudius Nero on the dictator's orders in his absence.[21] Mary Beard has accused the persons involved in the find of having willfully invented their claims for publicity reasons. The French ministry of culture has not yet responded to the criticism and negative reviews.
Sport
AC Arles-Avignon is a professional French football team. They currently play in Championnat de France Amateur, the fourth division in French football. They play at the Parc des Sports, which has a capacity of just over 17,000.
Culture
A well known photography festival, Rencontres d'Arles, takes place in Arles every year, and the French national school of photography is located there.
The major French publishing house Actes Sud is also situated in Arles.
Bull fights are conducted in the amphitheatre, including Provençal-style bullfights (courses camarguaises) in which the bull is not killed, but rather a team of athletic men attempt to remove a tassle from the bull's horn without getting injured. Every Easter and on the first weekend of September, during the feria, Arles also holds Spanish-style corridas (in which the bulls are killed) with an encierro (bull-running in the streets) preceding each fight.
The film Ronin was partially filmed in Arles.
European Capital of Culture
Arles played a major role in Marseille-Provence 2013, the year-long series of cultural events held in the region after it was designated the European Capital of Culture for 2013. The city hosted a segment of the opening ceremony with a pyrotechnical performance by Groupe F on the banks of the Rhône. It also unveiled the new wing of the Musée Départemental Arles Antique as part of Marseille-Provence 2013.
Economy
Arles's open-air street market is a major market in the region. It occurs on Saturday and Wednesday mornings.
Transport
The Gare d'Arles railway station offers connections to Avignon, Nîmes, Marseille, Paris, Bordeaux and several regional destinations.
Notable people
Vincent van Gogh, lived here from February 1888 until May 1889.
The Provençal poet Frédéric Mistral (1830–1914) was born near Arles
Jeanne Calment (1875–1997), the oldest human being whose age is documented, was born, lived and died, at the age of 122 years and 164 days, in Arles
Anne-Marie David, singer (Eurovision winner in 1973)
Christian Lacroix, fashion designer
Lucien Clergue, photographer
Djibril Cissé, footballer
Antoine de Seguiran, 18th-century encyclopédiste
Genesius of Arles, a notary martyred under Maximianus in 303 or 308
Blessed Jean Marie du Lau, last Archbishop of Arles, killed by the revolutionary mob in Paris on September 2, 1792
Juan Bautista (real name Jean-Baptiste Jalabert), matador
Maja Hoffmann, art patron
Mehdi Savalli, matador
The medieval writer Antoine de la Sale was probably born in Arles around 1386
Home of the Gipsy Kings, a music group from Arles
Gael Givet, footballer
Lloyd Palun, footballer
Fanny Valette, actress
Luc Hoffmann, ornithologist, conservationist and philanthropist.
Saint Caesarius of Arles, bishop who lived from the late 5th to the mid 6th century, known for prophecy and writings that would later be used by theologians such as St. Thomas Aquinas
Samuel ibn Tibbon, famous Jewish translator and scholar during the Middle Ages.
Kalonymus ben Kalonymus, famous Jewish scholar and philosopher, Arles born, active during the Middle Ages.
Twin towns — sister cities
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in France
Arles is twinned with:
Pskov, Russia
Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
Fulda, Germany
York, Pennsylvania, United States
Cubelles, Spain
Vercelli, Italy
Sagné, Mauritania
Kalymnos, Greece
Wisbech, United Kingdom
Zhouzhuang, Kunshan, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China
Verviers, Belgium
See also
Archbishopric of Arles
Montmajour Abbey
Trinquetaille
Langlois Bridge
Saint-Martin-de-Crau
Communes of the Bouches-du-Rhône department
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Archdiocese of Aix". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton.
INSEE
The table contains the temperatures and precipitation of the city of Arles for the period 1948-1999, extracted from the site Sophy.u-3mrs.fr.
www.academia.edu/1166147/_The_Fall_and_Decline_of_the_Rom...
Rick Steves' Provence & the French Riviera, p. 78, at Google Books
Nelson's Dictionary of Christianity: The Authoritative Resource on the Christian World, p. 1173, at Google Books
Provence, p. 81, at Google Books
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"Ville d'Histoire et de Patrimoine". Patrimoine.ville-arles.fr. Retrieved 2013-03-25.
"La meunerie de Barbegal". Etab.ac-caen.fr. Retrieved 2013-03-25.
jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1784-arles
Fisher, R, ed (2011). Fodor's France 2011. Toronto and New York: Fodor's Travel, division of Random House. p. 563 ISBN 978-1-4000-0473-7.
"Espace Van Gogh". Visiter, Places of Interest. Arles Office de Tourisme. Retrieved 2011-04-29.
Original communiqué (May 13, 2008); second communiqué (May 20, 2008); report (May 20, 2008)
E.g."Divers find marble bust of Caesar that may date to 46 B.C.". Archived from the original on 2008-06-05. Retrieved 2008-05-14. , CNN-Online et al.
Video (QuickTime) Archived May 28, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. on the archaeological find (France 3)
Paul Zanker, "Der Echte war energischer, distanzierter, ironischer" Archived May 29, 2008, at the Wayback Machine., Sueddeutsche Zeitung, May 25, 2008, on-line
Mary Beard, "The face of Julius Caesar? Come off it!", TLS, May 14, 2008, on-line
Nathan T. Elkins, 'Oldest Bust' of Julius Caesar found in France?, May 14, 2008, on-line
Cp. this image at the AERIA library
A different approach was presented by Mary Beard, in that members of a military Caesarian colony would not have discarded portraits of Caesar, whom they worshipped as god, although statues were in fact destroyed by the Anti-Caesarians in the city of Rome after Caesar's assassination (Appian, BC III.1.9).
Konrat Ziegler & Walther Sontheimer (eds.), "Arelate", in Der Kleine Pauly: Lexikon der Antike, Vol. 1, col. 525, Munich 1979; in 46 BC, Caesar himself was campaigning in Africa, before later returning to Rome.
Of the series, Thou Shalt Not Wander, Thou Shalt Not Ponder.
Featured in Gothesque magazine; issue #18, volume 2...Nov. 2014
My website: www.kalinskyphotography.com/
Cassandra
A walk in the woods at twilight is always a special time, but today was particularly special, I came across this fawn walking the dog, luckily the dog didn't see the fawn so I tethered him to a tree, and slowly walked up to the little guy. The baby deer was very still as that is their instinct so as not to be seen. His mother was nowhere in sight, I took a few photos and a short video and left him curled up, big eyes shining, pure magic!
Zorki-4K
Jupiter-8
Agfa APX 100
Caffenol
Editing PhotoScape
Fri 22~8~14
Bottom half crop.
Below my Zorki-4K's
Color Infrared Panorama of the Prairie Creek Power Station in Cedar Rapids.
Photos taken using a Tether Quad camera platform.
File: Pano 9841,43,45 crop_tm1 viv crop1.jpg
I was just honestly playing around with this one. I'll let you guys interoperate the meaning behind it. ;)
SLURL : maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Tethers%20End/181/119/2052
Tether's End website : tethersend.enjin.com/home
Blog : thelittleworldsl.wordpress.com/2016/01/12/tethers-end/
photo was not processed with any software, except my name was tagged and cropping. no color change...nothing! the film is 17 years outdated...amazing.
nikon fm
nikkor 50mm f1.4 lens
kodak gold 100 bright light film - expired 08/2000, yes, the film is 17 years past date.
Decommissioned in 1974 after 31 years of service, the USS Intrepid (CV-11) is now firmly anchored on the Hudson. Weathered and tethered, one might say.
Desactivado em 1974 após 31 anos de serviço, o USS Intrepid (CV-11) está agora firmemente ancorado no rio Hudson. Pode dizer-se que está marcado pelo tempo e amarrado.
Today's theme was "Planet"
So there was some blood involved with this photo. Long story short, I was tugging at some cables under Kevin's desk and one of his speakers (yes, a speaker) fell on my head and left me with a nice little gash on the top of my head. I noticed after a few moments of cringing from the pain that I was bleeding. I had to remind myself not to panic as Kevin and I ran upstairs to assess the damage. Luckily for me, it wasn't too bad, so there was no need to go to the emergency room. But MAN, it hurt like hell. I'm currently doing better after the bleeding finally stopped and the pain meds kicked in. But I think that's enough excitement for today.
And no, I actually didn't photoshop Jupiter in. This is actually a planet lamp that I gifted to Kevin a while back. Which sits at his desk... on top of that speaker... yep.
Somebody had tied up their prize possesion with a very new looking piece of rope...
Check out that brand new rope large on black! :)
07-087
On the beach at Walcott Norfolk uk.
DMC-G80M - ISO 200 - 1/250sec - Lumix G Vario 100-300F4.0-5.6 @ f/7.1
On a day like this it's hard to imagine the slanting sideways rain and wind which can dominate the landscape.
Taken for Our Daily Challenge (ODC): SEEN FROM ABOVE, the Topic for Sunday, 2 February 2014
This is the coolest thing--perhaps it's common elsewhere, but I've not seen one before. The silvery base at the upper right supports a stand on which a bicycle may be hung by its seat or top tube. The tools at the end of the cords are for repairing the bicycle. (Advice is available from a website).
This handsome and useful contraption is at the downtown end of the South Lake Union Streetcar. Hop off, tune up and ride away!
Tethered donkey, vicinity of Hazorchashma, the 7th Marguzor Lake, Fan Mountains, Zarafshan Range, Tajikistan 4 Aug 2024
I'm very certain I tethered them to this gate after our walk!!!! But now they are nowhere to be found!!!!!!
Toy Sunday : Lost
Duel in the Sand
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Peering cautiously around a bend, his horse tethered a few meters behind him, Haymar watched as the two spies he was chasing entered the secluded cove just up ahead.
The first guy peered around suspiciously, but Haymar was far enough back and so well hidden that the Loreesi didn’t notice him.
“I think we can converse safely now.” The first guy said.
“Huh,” the second guy grumbled, “We could have conversed safely several miles back. You’re too paranoid Jaques.”
“I am not.” Jaques responded testily. “We were still too close to their city.”
The other said nothing, advancing farther into the cove instead.
“Oh good, our boat is still here.”
Haymar leaned slowly out from behind the boulder, staring into the cove. The water fronting the beach inside the cove was spotted with sharp rocks, which no doubt made for some tricky navigating. These sporadic rocks continued all the way to and on the beach itself, and it was to one of these that a distinctly Loreesi rowboat was tied to. Sitting on the sand next to the boat was a burlap sack one of the spies had placed there, and in the rowboat itself was a barrel, covered over with a canvas lid.
“Let’s get this thing cast off and get out of here.” Jaques said, reaching down for the burlap sack.
“Agreed,” the other guy said, and moved over to the rock the boat was secured to.
Haymar took a deep breath. This was it. If he didn’t do something now, the spies would get away, taking who knew what in valuable information, back to their Prince.
Slowly reaching back, Haymar withdrew an arrow from his quiver, and nocked it to the string of his longbow. Drawing it back, he prepared to step out from his hiding spot.
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Haymar had been exiting the Durrough City Hall, having just finished delivering a report from the border about the Loreesi military build-up there, when he’d first noticed the two men.
The first one was dressed in simple, yet fancy clothes, including a rather nice looking wide-brimmed fedora with a feather in the band. The second one was wearing considerably less fancy clothes, and a dinged and scratched black helm. All this combined, they gave the appearance of a pair of Outlaws, up to no good.
Contradicting this image however, was the fancy leather sheath over the first guy’s back, containing a gold katana, as well as the gold knife at his side, and the poorly-concealed scimitar, also gold, that the second guy carried.
The clothes were a good disguise, but there was no mistaking their true alliance; They were Loreesi spies.
Turning away from the docks, where he’d been headed, Haymar began to follow the two men, as they made their way through Durrough’s busy streets.
As each successive minute passed, Haymar became more and more convinced of his conclusion. The two men were acting quite suspicious, looking back over their shoulders a little too often, as well as suddenly stopping or ducking down side streets. It was quite obvious to Haymar that these guys were amateurs. Not that Haymar would have claimed himself an excellent spy, but he did pride himself in knowing at least some spy techniques. These guys didn’t seem to know any!
Their intermediate destination quickly became obvious; the east gate of Durrough. Picking up their horses from the stable they had left them in, the two spies rode out of the city, heading for the nearby coastline. Haymar hurriedly rented a horse from the stable-owner, and rode out in pursuit.
That had been two hours ago. The spies had ridden east for half an hour, then turned north, making like they were going to Garheim, for an hour, then turned back east, and rode a half hour, until reaching this rather rocky part of the coast, where they dismounted, released their horses into the wild, and headed into the rocky passageway that ended in this cove.
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The Loreesi were totally caught off-guard when Haymar spun out from behind the boulder.
Both looked up, startled, and Black Helm reached for his scimitar, but that was all they managed before Haymar let fly with the arrow, which struck Black Helm in the side, dropping him where he stood.
Before the arrow had even hit, Haymar was charging forward, drawing his sword and dropping his bow in the same smooth movement.
Jaque however, was almost as fast, and when Haymar swung his sword in a vicious overhead strike, intending it to land on Jaques’ left shoulder, thus disabling him, it was stopped mid-swing by Jaques’ knife, which he’d managed to draw.
“Ah,” Jaque said, deflecting Haymar’s blow to one side and spinning away, “You nearly had me there.” He drew his katana from it’s sheath as he spoke, the sun glinting off the razor-sharp blade.
Haymar barely had time to reverse his swing before Jaques launched his counter-attack.
Feinting with his knife, Jaques swung his katana underhand, aiming to slip under Haymar’s guard.
“Oh no you don’t,” Haymar said, deftly blocking first the knife, then the sword.
“You’re almost as good as me,” Jaques replied, darting around Haymar, and launching a counter-strike that nicked the other’s arm. “Almost.”
Jaques constant commentary was unnerving and distracting Haymar, which was surely the intent.
“You seem awfully cocky for a guy fighting for his life,” Haymar commented, in an attempt to counter this, while deflecting a side-swing.
“Likewise,” Jaques fired back, deftly evading Haymar’s overhead strike. Haymar had no answer.
“We don’t have to be fighting like this though,’ Jaques continued, swiping at the other with his knife, “You could just let me go.”
“Yea,” Haymar said sarcastically, blocking the other’s knife, “Like that’ll happen.”
Before Jaques could respond, Haymar launched a blistering series of counter-attacks, keeping his opponent constantly on guard, thus leaving him no time to talk.
To Haymar’s surprise, Jaques managed to block, sidestep, or deflect all of Haymar’s expertly time blows, and talk. What couldn’t this guy do?!?
“You don’t know that I’ll take all this stuff right to Jarius.” Jaques commented in between blocks.
“For that matter, you don’t even know that I have stolen information from anybody. I could just be delivering the mail, or a love letter or two.” As he finished speaking, Jaques spun away from Haymar, keeping the rock between them.
The other laughed. “Oh really?” Haymar said, moving around the rock to the water’s edge.
“Then why is there a map with a bunch of islands that are supposed to be a secret on it lying next to this guy?” Haymar was pointing at Black Helm as he said this.
“Huh?” Jaques said, confused. To his knowledge, that map had been of Stonewald’s defenses.
Predictably, he leaned around the rock to see for himself, which was exactly what Haymar had been waiting for.
Over the past five minutes, Haymar had noticed that Jaques’ fancy gold katana had been weakened by their fight, not to mention the weapon was made of gold, which was a poor metal for an actual fighting tool. Counting on this, Haymar now swung his sword in a double-handed strike at the middle of the blade, putting all his strength behind the blow.
It connected solidly with Jaques’ sword, snapping the blade in half.
Jaques staggered back, shock etched on his face, half a second before he was flung backwards, as Haymar reversed his strike, and slammed the pommel of his sword into Jaques’ gut, flinging him back and knocking the hat off his head.
Jaques, shockingly, started to rise, bringing his knife up, but the other swung his sword again, knocking the knife away and slicing Jaques’ shoulder. The Loreesi fell back into the sand with a grunt of pain.
“Guess you’re not a better fighter than me, after all.” Haymar said.
He then stepped back from his opponent, breathing heavily, and, after wiping Jaques’ blood off on the sand, sheathed his sword.
Leaving Jaques on the ground, Haymar walked over to where the Loreesi spy’s hat had fallen, and picked it up. Placing it upon his head, Haymar decided he liked the hat, and looked over to where Jaques lay injured.
“I like your hat,” he said, “I’m keeping it.”
The Loreesi sighed.
“That was my favorite hat.”
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Hope you all get the GOTG reference in there. ;)