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I've included this shot to help show the contrast of colours.
Foreground: green paint pot created by a fresh water spring.
Background: orange paint pot created by high undiluted iron oxide content.
The paint pots themselves are formed by the accumulation of iron oxide around the outlets of three cold mineral springs. As the rim of iron builds up around each pot, they gradually increase in height. The greenish colour of the two larger pots is the result of the mixing of fresh water from a small creek, which empties into the largest pool.
Colonial Williamsburg is the historic district of the independent city of Williamsburg, Virginia. It consists of many of the buildings that, from 1699 to 1780, formed colonial Virginia's capital. The capital straddled the boundary of two of the original shires of Virginia, James City Shire (now James City County), and Charles River Shire (now York County). For most of the 18th century, Williamsburg was the center of government, education and culture in the Colony of Virginia.
Colonial Williamsburg is meant to be an interpretation of a Colonial American city, with exhibits including dozens of authentic or accurately-recreated colonial houses and relating to American Revolutionary War history. Prominent buildings in Colonial Williamsburg include the Raleigh Tavern, the Capitol, The Governor's Palace, and Bruton Parish Church. However, rather than simply an effort to preserve antiquity, the combination of extensive restoration and thoughtful recreation of the entire colonial town facilitates envisioning the atmosphere and understanding the ideals of 18th century American revolutionary leaders. It was here that Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, James Monroe, James Madison, George Wythe, Peyton Randolph, and dozens more helped mold democracy in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the United States.
The Historic Area is located just east of the College of William and Mary, founded at Middle Plantation in 1693, just prior to the establishment of the town as capital of Virginia and its renaming. The university's historic Wren Building stands at the west end of Duke of Gloucester Street.
Colonial Williamsburg is a major source of tourism to Williamsburg, as well as a touchstone for many world leaders and heads of state, including U.S. Presidents. The United States hosted the first World Economic Conference at Colonial Williamsburg in 1983. It is the centerpiece of the surrounding Historic Triangle of Virginia area, which has become a popular tourist destination for visitors domestic and foreign. The other two points of the Historic Triangle are Jamestown and Yorktown.
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Early in the 20th century, the restoration and recreation of Colonial Williamsburg, one of the largest historic restorations ever undertaken, was championed by the Reverend Dr. W.A.R. Goodwin and the patriarch of the Rockefeller family, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., along with the active participation of his wife, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, who wanted to celebrate the patriots and the early history of the United States.
Many of the missing Colonial structures were reconstructed on their original sites during the 1930s. Other structures were restored to the best estimates of how they would have looked during the eighteenth century, with all traces of later buildings and improvements removed. Dependency structures and animals help complete the ambiance. Most buildings are open for tourists to look through, with the exception of several buildings that serve as residences for Colonial Williamsburg employees.
Notable structures include the large Capitol and the Governor's Palace, each carefully recreated and landscaped as closely as possible to original 18th century specifications, as well as Bruton Parish Church and the Raleigh Tavern.
The major goal of the Restoration was not to merely preserve or recreate the physical environment of the colonial period, but to facilitate education about the origins of the idea of America, which was conceived during many decades before the American Revolution.
In this environment, Colonial Williamsburg strives to tell the story of how diverse peoples, having different and sometimes conflicting ambitions, evolved into a society that valued liberty and equality.
En nuestras vidas tendremos momentos donde debemos tomar decisiones, ya sean difíciles o fáciles; éstas nos conducirán por un camino, puede que hasta el bien o hasta el mal, nuestra parte es escoger, teniendo en cuenta que no siempre el camino aparentemente fácil es el mejor, la mayoría de las veces el camino que tenga mas angosto y con más tropiezos será el que nos conduzca a la mayor bendición.
This photo was taken at Fraser, Colorado on March 19, 2003 during a vacation that I happened to take right at the time that a 60 inch snowfall came along.
This is the bed and breakfast's SUV at the end of the storm, before we got it dug out. It's the only "two-story" SUV I've ever seen.
View my collections on flickr here: Collections
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Using a rapid stroke helps me to be accurate, which seems counterintuitive
11x14 Graphite
*Created at the Alex and Alyson Grey Workshop
Canonet QL17 GIII
film: Kodak TriX
scanner: Epson V500
Unintentional double-exposure, but really I couldn't have done any better had I tried. I love how the main engineer (frame center) looks like he's smiling at the guitar player far left :)
Two Czech "Škodas" (class 181), nos. 181 018-3 and 181-106-6 work an unidentified rake of empty box wagons west through Radibórz on 20 September, 2013
During the weekend of the 3rd & 4th August 2013 I attended one of the two Chris Marquardt photography workshops that he held in the UK. I’ve listened to Chris’s photography podcast (Tips from the Top Floor) for about four years now and it was great to finally meet him in person and learn from him first hand.
Tips from the Top Floor:
Chris Marquardt:
During the weekend Chris recorded an episode of Tips from the Tip Floor with all the participants and a link to Show 605 is below:
www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com/2013/08/07/tfttf605-liverpool/
The weekend was also hosted by John Arnold from Photowalkthough which is a free online post processing podcast (and also somebody who personally taught me how to use Lightroom). Links to Photowalkthough are below:
The workshop itself was held at an amazing location in Liverpool called “Camp and Furnace” and the link is below:
The two bridges across the Kiel-Canal at Holtenau.
Hints and fair comments are always appreciated.
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July 29, 1978
Reporter "investigates" the River Kwai tube ride on Crown Mountain at Crystal Beach... one of two of the country's biggest water rides opening in the area.
Reporter Tests Suicidal Thrills in New Fun Rides
By Michelle Coffas
THE INNER tube teetered at the edge of the waterfalls and the woman clung desperately as the water forced her over the edge. She took one last breath and held her nose. The fall was long and perilous but she made it to the end. She looked heavenward and was grateful that she had been saved.
A sniffling child behind her pushed a hand into her back and said: “Come on, lady, you’re holding things up.” Such is the life when a Courier-Express reporter is given the honor of being the first down the White Water Raft Ride at Darien Lake Fun Country, which opened for a preview on Friday.
Later, things went downhill, so to speak, as the same reporter, pushing her luck, took a plunge on the new “Crown Mountain,” the “world’s largest” water slide, which opens officially today at Crystal Beach. It was a tough day.
THE WHITE WATER RAFT RIDE is billed as the biggest water-propelled inner tube ride in the United States. The ride features plunges down waterfalls and through whirls and rapids: shades of the movie “Deliverance.” But it’s for those fairly courageous persons who don’t want to risk their necks and backsides on the real thing.
It’s two - or three - minute ride, depending on whether you get stuck in a whirlpool or get bumped through, the 300 feet of rough waters by the adventurers behind you. For a fee of $2 per half-hour the rider gets a colored inner tube and a chance to take the hairy ride for as many times as he or she can climb the steps back to the starting point.
The ride is climaxed by the largest of the waterfalls, which unceremoniously dumps the rider into a wading pool. The whole thing is a kind of mini – fantasy for those who have ever wondered about riding Niagara Falls in a barrel.
DESIGNER G. DOUGLAS Walter, the Snyder – Darien Corporation vice president who worked out every detail of the ride, called the successful preview (nobody got hurt, everybody loved it) his “crowning achievement.”
“There is an element of suspense about this ride. You don’t know where you’re going until you get there, he said, explaining that his creation is only the second of its kind in the United States. The original, at Disney World, is a smaller version.
As he watched the hundreds of children who were riding for free Friday, he noted the smiles and screams were his biggest pleasure. “If they don’t scream, they’re not having fun,” he said.
Darien Lake Fun country can be reached by taking the Thruway to Exit 48A. Then head south five miles on Route 77 to Corfu.
BY THE SCREAM measure, the fun was just as great at Crown Mountain in the
Ontario amusement park of Crystal Beach.
Their water slide is about 68 feet height and has four channels which are about 400 feet in length which vary in fright value. The two “killer” tubes, which start at the waterfall which caps the mountain, are called “Deliverance” and “River Kwai.”
The rider, who pays $1.00 for half hour’s worth of rides, gets a colored sponge mat to sit upon in the tubes. The mat, pushed by the water (keep your elbows tucked in), slides the rider into gravity defying positions as the tubes cure around and down the hill.
This ride also has a pool to catch the rider – who again must climb to the top of the hill for another ride…if the knees have not turned to jelly.
For the not – so – bold, and the smaller children, Crown Mountain offers a “tame” tube for a sample of the fun.
To get to Crystal Beach, Ont., take the Peace Bridge and follow the signs. Bring your swimsuit.
Sharon Sayles Belton, former mayor of Minneapolis, with newly elected St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter III.
Leyland LT1 ex Lancashire United TF818.Roe B30F 1930.
Leyland Badger ex Bradford Welfare committee Plaxton B20F.
KW474.
photo Alan Farrow.
Self portrait influenced by a similar portrait of Harry Houdini. Loads of great versions of this can be found on the internet.
This bright and very “beachy” piece depicts two starfish in shades of pink and orange on a sandy background of browns, yellows and orange. The Star Fish Mug is 4 1/2 inches tall with a 4 inch mouth, 3 inch base, and holds 16 ounces. It is made of clay with fired ceramic glazes and is dishwasher safe.
You may find other pieces of interest amongst my collection of unique hand-painted trivets, plates, bowls, vases & urns, pitchers, mugs and tiles at my Etsy site www.etsy.com/shop/janisrileyceramics
Thank you!