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Taken at Colony Farm, Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, CA.
From the archives. Another memory from an enjoyable summer afternoon that I spent with my son, Mike (Canonshooterman) www.flickr.com/photos/canonshooterman waiting for shots of this beautiful bird.
Red-breasted Sapsucker
*Better On Black*
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Route 66 Back in the late 50,s .............
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Finally, we stop at the Blue Swallow Motel ("100% refrigerated air") and meet a Route 66 institution, Lillian Redman (now deceased). Mrs. Redman arrived in New Mexico by way of covered wagon in 1916, worked as a Fred Harvey Girl in her youth, and received the Blue Swallow as an engagement present in 1958. In our 1996 conversation, she recalled when the highway was paved with cinders because of its proximity to the railroad and expounded upon her belief that we are all travelers in some way. Even into her nineties, she offered a clean room, hardwood floor, and black and white television to road weary travelers for eleven bucks and change. On the back of her postcard, I read: "From 'birth 'til death' we travel between eternities. May these days be pleasant for you, profitable for society, helpful to those you meet, and a joy to those who know and love you best." If you're curious, Blue Swallow represents two ideas: blue stands for truth, while the bird stands for love.
During our Summer 2000 return to the Mother Road, we met Dale and Hilda Bakke, the new owners of the Blue Swallow Motel. Turns out Dale was a licensed electrician employed by the Colorado prison system for nine years. He loved the first seven but grew to dread the increasingly administrative functions of his job. So he picked up, sold everything, and moved the family the New Mexico after hearing about a chance to buy an old motel. "I didn't know it was on Route 66 or anything, only that it was beat up and needed a lot of work." After winning a competitive grant from USWest, he added a phone system to the formerly communication-challenged court, but made sure that the phones would be vintage rotary models. The floors are now carpeted and the walls are freshly painted, but the overall attitude remains the same. Step into the office, pet a fourteen year old cat, grab a postcard, and settle into a nice room. Given all the refurbishment and upgrade, don't be surprised that the price has more than doubled since Lillian Redmond owned the place, and don't be stingy either. This is the best motel on Route 66. Sure, some folks may quibble over the enhancements. Hilda remarks: "We get some purists who complain, 'you should have left the old black and white TVs, you should have left the old stuff.'" Of course, she adds: "we could have left the old creaky mattresses, too . . . we won't make any structural changes, and most people like what we've done to it."
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After returning their rented Fiat 500 at Frankfurt International Airport, taking a 70-Euro taxi ride to the city's train station, riding a pair of trains to Paris, navigating the Paris subway system, hopping on another train bound for Bayeux, and waving down one more taxi for a ride to the French seashore, Olivia and John set foot on Omaha Beach, a stretch of sand made sacred by 43,000 American Soldiers who stepped onto its shore 70 years earlier.
Omaha Beach was one of four beachheads along the Normandy coastline used by the Allies during the opening act of Operation Overlord. After a carefully orchestrated series of aerial and naval bombardments proceeded by mass airborne assaults behind German lines, approximately 160,000 Allied troops crossed the English Channel on June 6, 1944 to commence the largest amphibious assault in human history.
The years of planning, training and intelligence gathering ultimately resulted in a successful invasion that led to the liberation of Paris less than three months after the first wave of Allied soldiers stormed the Normandy beaches. Victory, however, came at ghastly price. The Allies suffered approximately 226,000 casualties from June 6 to Aug. 30. Omaha Beach stood as one of the bloodiest battles in the entire operation. Of the 43,250 American Soldiers that attacked 7,800 German troops fortified by bunkers, pill boxes, mortar pits, anti-tank guns and machine gun nests, nearly a quarter would fall within a quarter mile of of their landing craft.
Although their travel time far exceeded their stay at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, John and Olivia agreed that their somber experience among those who made the ultimate sacrifice upon the altar of freedom was worth every cent and second.
Photos by John Carkeet and Olivia Carkeet
time chased
by the will of time
so was time and times friend
all that there was
time being kept by times friend
jeans would tear
holes that bear
old skirts of fear
time being chased
by time
This was Regent Street in London on a day when they stopped traffic in the street for a day. How lovely London would be without cars.....
This time he was raising his trunk. Don't think he was impressed with us. Taken in Munnar, India.
Canon T-90
Vivitar Series One 70-210mm
Provia 35mm
An "own brand" 35mm film from a Safeway supermarket that was produced in Germany and sold or often supplied free when they supplied your prints from their in-house processing units. Originally in Britain as a subsidiary of the American Safeway Inc before being sold off in 1987 and listed on the UK Stock Exchange. In 2004 it was taken over by Morrisons and the majority of stores re-branded although several stores were disposed of to other supermarket chains with the Safeway brand disappearing by November 2005.
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Description: Commemorative whisky barrels sit in a warehouse while the years pass outside.
Why I like it:
1. Evidence of time passing.
2. Compositionally, is has lots of 'threes'.
3. Cobwebs really add a lot to it, and the detail is incredible in the original high-res version.
4. Technically, I like the way that it contains shadow detail while maintaining the highlights from the (very bright) window - this is not a HDR shot: it's 12-bit RAW, deliberately under-exposed, and adjusted to reveal shadow detail.
Processing: raw, curves, -> black & white -> duotone -> RGB, sharpen, dodge, blur.
What would I do differently next time?
1. Crop a little off the right.
2. Place an object of interest, at the focal point of the image (which I think is between the plank and the lower-right point of the window shutter. That new object would need to be 'grafted in', perhaps a filled whisky glass.
3. Perhaps compress the window into two columns of panes, to shorten the 'dead zone' in the width.
4. Could a human subject add to this picture in any way?
5. There's a little perspective distortion in the window geometry, which is correct for the angle of this shot, but it could be distracting in a presentation context, where a frame or mount would be at odds with it.
6. In print, the black levels might not quite be dark enough, as compared with the noise levels in the shadows. Perhaps opting to lose the deep blacks would make a picture with better impact.
Picture Ref: DSC_7587 (Time Passes)
"Time Shift" The Big Land masters time, transforming, transposing, transcending, distorting, disfiguring, disposing; as putty in a child's grasp. A lifetime of emotion captured in a breath. A lifetime of longing at no time contented.
I spent 3 years on the north and south coast. Though 30 years or more have passed since returning to the island, I am more akin to calling it home than the place of my birth for it cradles the heart and banishes fears. It fragrances the soul and whistles through the mind in hallowed devotion.
Six employees of the scrapping company throwing tie plates, clips and spikes into the bucket of a skid loader on the old CGW bridge in downtown St Charles, IL I have never seen pictures or motion video of these guys working on the bridge in Sept of 2013 when the line from Randall Rd, to near the Du Page County Airport was scrapped. This line at one time hosted 150+ car trains with 8-10+ engines on it. All Gone now.
Federal Chancellery (1, Ballhaus square 2, identical to Löwel street 2-4). Instead of an Imperial Meierhof (which stretched in the area of today's Ballhaus square and Löwel street, a Pfisterei (bakery) is mentioned already 1347) was 1717-1719 on order of Charles VI built by the imperial court architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt (architect Christian Alexander Oedtl) a representative building for the Secret/Effective (Austrian) Court Chancery at that time (bordering the Court Hospital in the north). The foundation stone was laid on 13 September 1717.
Court Chancery
The Court Chancery had until then been lodged in a tract of the Hofburg. It was the counterweight to the Imperial Chancery, led by the Imperial Chancellor (see Imperial Chancellery of the Hofburg). The foreign policy department, established from 1705 under the auspices of the Hofkanzlei under Sinzendorf (Philipp Ludwig Wenzel Sinzendorf (26 December 1671 – 8 February 1742) was an Austrian diplomat and statesman who for nearly four decades served as Court Chancellor responsible of foreign affairs of the Habsburg Monarchy), received the name Staatskanzlei in 1719.
When Maria Theresia united the former Austrian and Bohemian Court Chancellery in 1749 into a joint administrative authority responsible for both groups of countries, the new "Directorate" moved into the former building of the Bohemian Court Chancery (Jewish Square - Wippling street), this designation is already listed around 1770 on the Huber plan), the house on Ballhaus square was assigned to the Staatskanzlei (later German Federal Foreign Office) for the sole use. State Chancellor was 1753-1792 Wenzel Anton Count Kaunitz (starting from 1764 Reichsfürst/Princes of the Holy Roman Empire von Kaunitz-Rietberg), especially after the death Franz' I (1765) this one had a great influence on the government business (especially with regard to his opposition to Prussia and his alliance with France).
Secret Court Chancery according to Salomon Kleiner, 1733 (detail) (pictures are clickable by activating the link at the end of page!).
Hofkanzlei with its small garden on Löwel Bastion, above it the Paradeisgartel (Tomato garden), on the left the Amalienburg (detail from the Huber-Plan, published 1773).
The Staatskanzlei with the surroundings 1824. Above the Löwel Bation with the bastion garden belonging to the Staatskanzlei. The state chancery bordered the Minorite Monastery.
Conversion by Pacassi
From 1764 to 1767, the building on order of Maria Theresa was modified and extended by her Court Architect Nikolaus Pacassi. The main facade (Ballhausplatz) (however, apart from the altered roof and the missing attic statues) still corresponds to the construction of Hildebrandt. The extension served mainly the accommodation of the office and the establishment of an archive in which Maria Theresia, in particular, housed the Austrian and Lorraine state and house documents as well as the Hungarian and Bohemian state certificates (house, court and state archive). At that time the house of Hiernonymus Reichsfreiherr/Imperial Baron of Scalvinioni (at that time the supervisor of the court buildings) opposite the front, placed in front of Amalienburg, erected and expanded yet 1700, was also abolished, thus giving us the present floor plan of the Ballhausplatz.
Ballhausplatz 2, former Secret Court and State Chancery, c. 1850
The "Ballhausplatz" in the era of Metternich experienced great events (1810-1848 State Chancellor): the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815), the Police State before 1848, but also the tumults of the revolution of 1848 and the passing of Metternich. During his term of office happened the reconstruction of the wing at Löwel street (1821) and renovations (1826) The interior of the building is still predominantly from the 19th century as far as architecture is concerned. 1881-1882, the Löwel street wing was extended to Metastasio alley, 1900-1903 (after the demolition of the Court Hospital and the Minorite Monastery) it came to the construction of the House, Court and State Archives (plans of Otto Hofer), adjoining the Federal Chancellery.
Use by the Republic
From November 1918, the building was the seat of the government formed by the "Provisional National Assembly for German-Austria", led by Chancellor Dr. Karl Renner.
Ballhausplatz 2, 1., Ballhausplatz 2 (c. 1941)
War Damages on the Federal Chancellery (1946)
From 1920, the ministerial council meetings were held here. In 1922, the Federal Chancellery also moved from its original seat in Palais Modena (now the Ministry of the Interior), so that both the Federal President (Wing in Löwel street) and the Federal Chancellor and the Foreign Minister in this building officiated. On July 25, 1934 during the National Socialist coup attempt, Federal Chancellor Dr. Engelbert Dollfuss in the Chancellor's Office was murdered.
After the "Anschluss" a kind of liquidation office of the "Austrian provincial government" was quartered in the house, while Reichskommissar/Reich Commissioner Gauleiter/district leader Josef Bürckel resided in the parliament. It was not until his successor, the former Reichsjugendführer (highest paramilitary rank of the Hitler Youth), and now the Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter/Reich Lieutenant Baldur von Schirach, as the Federal Chancellery was chosen as his office. On September 10, 1944, the building was damaged by bombs (destruction of the former Chancellor's room).
After the Second World War, the Federal Chancellery was once again the seat of the Federal Chancellor and the Federal Government, which also meet here for the ministerial council meetings (the Federal President is in the Leopoldine tract of the Hofburg). The Federal Chancellery has been restored and partially reconstructed (such as the stucco ceiling of the stairwell). The reconstruction was completed on 20 February 1950.
The most important rooms on the main floor: the large reception hall ("Congress Hall") is located above the main entrance, on the left (corner Löwel street), the former small dining room (today the Gray Corner Hall). Afterwards follow the great dining room (today Council of Ministers hall) in Löwel street, the library, the study of Metternich and the audience room. On your right (corner towards Minorite square) lies the Blue Conference Hall (today Marble Corner Room), alongside follow the Green Reception Hall (later Yellow Salon and Study of the Chancellor), the Column Hall (today the working room of the Chancellor) and (again on the corner) the meeting room (today study of the Head of Cabinet, in the direction of the House, Court and State Archives still follow the sleeping room of Metternich (today reception hall).
Bundeskanzleramt (1, Ballhausplatz 2, identisch mit Löwelstraße 2-4). Anstelle eines kaiserlichen Meierhofs (der sich Im Bereich des heutigen Ballhausplatzes und der Löwelstraße erstreckte; eine Pfisterei (Bäckerei) wird schon 1347 erwähnt) wurde 1717-1719 über Auftrag Karls VI. vom kaiserlichen Hofarchitekten Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt (Baumeister Christian Alexander Oedtl) ein repräsentatives Gebäude für die damalige Geheime (Österreichische) Hofkanzlei erbaut (das im Norden an das Hofspital angrenzte). Die Grundsteinlegung erfolgte am 13. September 1717.
Hofkanzlei
Die Hofkanzlei war bis dahin in einem Trakt der Hofburg untergebracht gewesen. Sie war das Gegengewicht zu der vom Reichsvizekanzler geleiteten Reichshofkanzlei (siehe Reichskanzleitrakt der Hofburg). Sie im Rahmen der Hofkanzlei unter Sinzendorf ab 1705 aufgebaute Außenpolitische Abteilung erhielt 1719 den Namen Staatskanzlei.
Als Maria Theresia 1749 die bisherige Österreichische und Böhmische Hofkanzlei zu einer gemeinsamen, für beide Ländergruppen zuständigen Verwaltungsbehörde vereinigte, zog das neue „Direktorium" in das ehemalige Gebäude der Böhmischen Hofkanzlei (Judenplatz - Wipplingerstraße) ein, und das Haus am Ballhausplatz (diese Bezeichnung ist bereits auf dem Huber-Plan um 1770 eingetragen) wurde der Staatskanzlei (später Auswärtiges Amt) zur alleinigen Benützung zugewiesen. Staatskanzler war 1753-1792 Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz (ab 1764 Reichsfürst von Kaunitz-Rietberg), der besonders nach dem Tod Franz' I. (1765) auf die Regierungsgeschäfte großen Einfluss nahm (vor allem hinsichtlich seiner Gegnerschaft zu Preußen und seiner Allianz mit Frankreich).
Geheime Hofkanzlei nach Salomon Kleiner, 1733 (Ausschnitt).
Hofkanzlei mit dem zugehörigen kleinen Garten auf der Löwelbastei, darüber erkennbar das Paradeisgartel, links die Amalienburg (Ausschnitt aus dem Huber-Plan, erschienen 1773).
Die Staatskanzlei mit Umgebung 1824. Oberhalb die Löwelbastei mit dem zur Staatskanzlei gehörigen basteigarten. Die Staatskanzlei grenzte an das Minoritenkloster.
Umbau durch Pacassi
1764-1767 wurde das Gebäude im Auftrag Maria Theresias von ihrem Hofarchitekten Nikolaus Pacassi verändert und bedeutend erweitert. Die Hauptfassade (Ballhausplatz) entspricht jedoch (abgesehen vom veränderten Dach und den fehlenden Attikafiguren) noch heute dem Bau Hildebrandts. Die Erweiterung diente vor allem der Unterbringung der Kanzlei und der Einrichtung eines Archivs, in welchem Maria Theresia insbesondere die österreichischen und lothringischen Staats- und Hausurkunden sowie die ungarischen und böhmischen Staatsurkunden unterbringen ließ (Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv). Damals wurde auch das der Front gegenüberliegende, der Amalienburg vorgelagerte und noch um 1700 aufgestockte beziehungsweise ausgebaute Haus des Hieronymus Reichsfreiherrn von Scalvinioni (damals Oberinspektor der Hofgebäude) abgetragen, sodass sich der uns heute geläufige Grundriss des Ballhausplatzes ergab.
Ballhausplatz 2, ehemalige Geheime Hof- und Staatskanzlei, um 1850
Der „Ballhausplatz" erlebte in der Ära Metternich (1810-1848 Staatskanzler) große Ereignisse: den Wiener Kongress (1814/1815), den vormärzlichen Polizeistaat, aber auch die Tumulte der Revolution 1848 und die Verabschiedung Metternichs. Während seiner Amtszeit kam es zu einem Umbau des Trakts an der Löwelstraße (1821) und zu Renovierungen (1826). Die Ausstattung des Gebäudes im Inneren stammt noch heute überwiegend aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, soweit es sich um die Architektur handelt. 1881/82 wurde der Löwelstraßenflügel des Gebäudes bis zur Metastasiogasse verlängert, 1900-1903 kam es (nach dem Abbruch des Hofspitals und des Minoritenklosters) zum Bau des an das Bundeskanzleramt angrenzenden Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchivs (Pläne von Otto Hofer).
Nutzung durch die Republik
Ab November 1918 war das Gebäude Sitz der von der „Provisorischen Nationalversammlung für Deutsch-Österreich" gebildeten Regierung, die von Staatskanzler Dr. Karl Renner geleitet wurde.
Ballhausplatz 2, 1., Ballhausplatz 2 (um 1941)
Kriegsschäden am Bundeskanzleramt (1946)
Ab 1920 wurden hier die Ministerratssitzungen abgehalten, 1922 übersiedelte auch das Bundeskanzleramt aus seinem ursprünglichen Amtssitz im Palais Modena (heute Innenministerium) hierher, sodass schließlich in der Ersten Republik im Gebäude sowohl der Bundespräsident (Trakt in der Löwelstraße) als auch der Bundeskanzler und der Außenminister amtierten. Am 25. Juli 1934 wurde während des nationalsozialistischen Putschversuchs Bundeskanzler Dr. Engelbert Dollfuß im Kanzleramt erschossen.
Nach dem „Anschluss" quartierte sich im Haus eine Art von Liquidationsstelle der „österreichischen Landesregierung" ein, während Reichskommissar Gauleiter Josef Bürckel im Parlament residierte. Erst sein Nachfolger, der vorherige Reichsjugendführer und nunmehrige Gauleiter und Reichsstatthalter Baldur von Schirach, wählte das Bundeskanzleramt zu seinem Amtssitz. Am 10. September 1944 wurde das Gebäude durch Bomben beschädigt (Zerstörung des früheren Kanzlerzimmers).
Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wurde das Bundeskanzleramt wieder Amtssitz des Bundeskanzlers und der Bundesregierung, die hier auch zu den Ministerratssitzungen zusammentritt (der Bundespräsident amtiert im Leopoldinischen Trakt der Hofburg). Das Bundeskanzleramt wurde wiederhergestellt, teilweise (wie etwa die Stuckdecke des Stiegenhauses) auch rekonstruiert. Der Wiederaufbau war am 20. Februar 1950 abgeschlossen.
Die wichtigsten Räumlichkeiten im Hauptgeschoß: Über dem Haupteingang liegt der Große Empfangssaal („Kongreßsaal"), links (Ecke Löwelstraße) der ehemalige Kleine Speisesaal (heute Grauer Ecksalon), dem in der Löwelstraße der Große Speisesaal (heute Ministerratssaal), die Bibliothek, das Arbeitszimmer Metternichs und das Audienzzimmer folgen; rechts (Ecke zum Minoritenplatz) liegt der Blaue Gesellschaftssaal (heute Marmorecksalon), daneben folgen der Grüne Empfangssaal (später Gelber Salon und Arbeitszimmer des Bundeskanzlers), der Säulensaal (heute Arbeitszimmer des Bundeskanzlers) und (wiederum an der Ecke) das Sitzungszimmer (heute Arbeitszimmer des Kabinettschefs); in Richtung Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv folgt noch das Schlafzimmer Metternichs (heute Empfangsraum).
Kapelle
Im Zuge des Pacassischen Umbaus wurde 1767 eine über zwei Geschoße reichende Kapelle errichtet. Als der überkuppelte hohe Raum 1818 durch eine Zwischendecke geteilt wurde (um ein Bibliothekszimmer zu gewinnen), verschoben sich die Proportionen. Das ursprüngliche Altarbild „Heiliger Nepomuk vor Maria" (1741) kam 1821 nach Gerasdorf (dort verschollen).
Posted on behalf of Diane - Many Thanks for the contribution to the Moulton Mk3 pool.
This Mk3 special recently sold on an auction site for serious money - hope it remained in the UK?
What a gem!
Vendors info:
Special build Moulton time trial bike, with specially built factory rear triangle, total rebuild and respray this year, built by Arthur Smith (Moulton Bicycle Club, Technical Advisor).
Specification:
- Milremo bars and stem, Series I front forks
- Weinman centre pull brakes
- Alloy seat pin
- Leather racing saddle
- Stronglight cranks with 62t TA chainring
- Lyotard pedal
- Christophe toe clips and straps
- 6 speed Zeus close ratio alloy block
- Zeus rear mech
- Cyclo bar end shifter
- Moulton 28h alloy rims, stainless steel spokes
- New old stock Large flange Maillard team professional hubs with Mavic quick release
- Wolber Moulton slick tyres
It's a Christmas wreath, however it was seen on a rural walk away from any housing, at Easter time, so a bit of a mystery how it came to be there.
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A delightful old tea cup I inherited from my Grandmother. The tatting underneath is my copy of a tatted doily made by my Grandmother - hers was all white, but I added colour to mine.
See my Etsy site www.knotshire.etsy.com for this and more tatted items!
Day 331 of 365 - Officially Christmas Time
Nicer Large on Black
Well with Thanksgiving over (in the US) in the Golden household we have begun our Christmas season in full :). The tree went up tonight. This is undoubtedly not the only Christmas shot you will see from me as my 365 comes to a close :P.