View allAll Photos Tagged Three
I'm very pleased and honored to finally have the opportunity to collaborate with Peter Torraca G.G. (ptorraca on this commission. I've been itching for a long time to get some of his fine, expert gemcutting work into some of my work. Peter did an exceptional job on these three matching Asscher Cut Aquamarines. I hope he and our client are pleased with the outcome. A thank you is also due to my friend, Carrie Nunes, of poohnted fame, who helped immensely with her consultation and advice. Thank you both!
This is a true scale drawing of a ring which will hold three custom cut Asscher aquamarines. It will be a size 9. The paper size is standard 8.5" x 11". Believe it or not...all those lines are necessary. You'll see when I made the overlay, I discovered the height of the table in the center aqua was not measured correctly and needed to be lowered to it's proper dimension. Fortunately.....correcting this error had no consequences on the rest of the drawing.....the culet will just be that much deeper into the ring.....but there is still room to spare.
For the Flickr Group Roulette theme: A Tribute to.... Tiffany {tlp photography}. Her photos inspire me. Due, a week before me, and also mom to three little ones, she and I share similar "life lines" on our protruding bellies.
Pregnancy Update: Officially three weeks left. But I am currently 3 centimeters dilated! Whoo hoo! I went to the hospital on Sunday thinking my water broke, but apparently I just peed my pants. Ha! But I'm now 50% effaced and 3 cm dilated...so it could be any day now. (I'm secretly hoping for tomorrow...because 8/8/8 would be a kick ass birthday).
Three of Finn's favourite people are Maggie, Lexi and Blossom. We call them his harem! hee!hee!
He especially loves the middle one Lexi. They have a Pepe' Le Pew thing going where she's always trying to get away!
"Ah my loave, we will make beautefool muzeek togethair!"
The three bridges. Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. This amazing piece if engineering combines a road bridge (where the photo has been taken from) over a canal, which is going over the railway... In Hanwell, near Ealing.
The Hanwell flight of six locks raises the Grand Union Canal by just over 53 feet (16.2 m) and has been designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by English Heritage.[13] At the top of the flight of locks towards Norwood Green is the Three Bridges designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. It is still often referred to locally as simply Windmill Bridge and is very close to the spot where the eponymous windmill once stood; attracting the attention of a local Brentford artist named Joseph Mallard William Turner. These are actually within the boundary of Southall but are named after the local village of Hanwell, which is much closer than either of the villages of Norwood or Southall.
Three Magnificent Frigatebirds over Fort Jeffesrson, Garden Key, Dry Tortugas National Park
This species feeds mainly on fish, and also attacks other seabirds to force them to disgorge their meals. Frigatebirds never land on water, and always take their food items in flight. (Wikipedia)
Please visit my blog for more info.
Robot Star Camera
takes 24x24mm negatives
37.5/2.8 Schneider Xenar Lens
Fuji Superia 400 Silde Film
Cross Processed in C-41
Epson 4180 Scanner
This is my second, and more formal, portrait of The Three Peters.
The first "portrait" was an unposed shot taken in a computer lab at the OTF Google Workshop for Educators in the fall of 2010.
However, in this instance, we are located in the lobby of the Sheraton hotel convention centre in Richmond Hill, and we found a nice alcove with two chairs and a glass table.
As explained to me, Peter Beens (left, @pbeens) is Peter #1. Peter McAsh (right, @pmcash) is Peter #2. (I liked the story about how Peter McAsh used to go by the handle of Peter(notBeens) as the second Peter on the ancient electronic message board.
And Peter Skillen (centre, @peterskillen), ECOO Ambassador to ISTE (and vice versa), is Peter #3.
As far as I'm concered, all of these fine gentlemen are #1.
Makkah Masjid (Arabic: and Urdu: مکہ مسجد, Telugu: మక్కా మసీదు) is one of the oldest mosques in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, And it is one of the largest Mosques in India. Makkah Masjid is a listed heritage building in the old city of Hyderabad, close to the historic landmarks of Chowmahalla Palace, Laad Bazaar, and Charminar.
Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, the fifth ruler of the Qutb Shahi dynasty, commissioned bricks to be made from the soil brought from Mecca, the holiest site of Islam, and used them in the construction of the central arch of the mosque, thus giving the mosque its name. It formed the centerpiece around which the city was planned by Muhammad Quli Qutub Shah
Makkah Masjid was built during the reign of Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, the 6th Qutb Shahi Sultan of Golconda (now Hyderabad). The three arched facades have been carved from a single piece of granite, which took five years to quarry. More than 8,000 workers were employed to build the mosque. Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah personally laid the foundation stone. The construction was later completed by Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb after conquering Hyderabad.
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, the French explorer, in his travelogue observed;
"It is about 50 years since they began to build a splendid pagoda in the town which will be the grandest in all India when it is completed. The size of the stone is the subject of special accomplishment, and that of a niche, which is its place for prayer, is an entire rock of such enormous size that they spent five years in quarrying it, and 500 to 600 men were employed continually on its work. It required still more time to roll it up on to conveyance by which they brought it to the pagoda; and they took 1400 oxen to draw it.
Architecture and design
The main hall of the mosque is 75 feet high, 220 feet wide and 180 feet long, enough to accommodate 10,000 worshipers at a time. Fifteen arches support the roof of the main hall, five on each of the three sides. A wall rises on the fourth side to provide Mihrab.
At the peak of the minarets flanking the mosque is an arched gallery, and above that a smallish dome and a spire. Inscriptions from the Qur'an adorn many of the arches and doors. The main structure of the mosque is sandwiched between two massive octagonal columns made out of a single piece of granite. The cornices running around the entire mosque structure and the floral motifs and friezes over the arches remind the tourist of the great attention paid to detail in Qutub Shahi architecture. They have a close resemblance to the arches at Charminar and Golkonda Fort.
On the four sides of the roof on the main mosque, the ramparts are made of granite planks in the shape of inverted conches perched on pedestals. From the cornice of the mosque, its minarets are not as high as the minarets on the mazaar (Nizams tombs) haven from their cornice. The octagonal columns have arched balconies on level with the roof of the mosque with an awning for a canopy, above which the column continues upwards till it is crowned by a dome and spire.
[edit]Tombs
The entrance courtyard of the mosque, a rectangular, arched and canopied building houses the marble graves of Asaf Jahi rulers. This structure came up during the rule of the Asaf Jah rulers. It contains the tombs of the Nizams and their family.
At both ends of this resting place for the Asaf Jahs and very much a part of it, are two rectangular blocks with four minarets each. These minarets have elegant and circular balconies with low ornamental walls and arches. Above them is an octagonal inverted platter from which the rest of the minaret soars till it is arrested by a dome and a spire.
The Three Sisters as seen from just north of Bend, Oregon. From left to right, South Sister (Faith or Big Sister), Middle Sister (Hope or Little Sister), and North Sister (Charity or Ugly Sister). Broken Top is seen at the left edge of the frame.
2005-07-27_10.13.21_a95_OR-ThreeSisters
We adopted these three kittens from the Cocheco Valley Humane Society. Macaroni (orange tabby - original name), Cloud (black - original name), and Bruschi (after Tedy of the NE Patriots).
The Dubois KOA proudly displays its presidential award from KOA, along with the US and Wyoming flags.
i can't remember what i saw when i took this shot, but it's what i see right now.
how about you? what do you see in the clouds today?
Three-banded Courser, Rhinoptilus cinctus,
seen on night safari at South Luangwa National Park, Zambia