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Sidaway Bridge, Cleveland, OH
Cleveland's only suspension style bridge which was built in 1931. The area underneath the bridge is known as Kingsbury Run; the site of the unsolved "Torso" murders in the 1930's.
️♂️Tread carefully, Detective. The Cold Case Boots by 718 have seen more than their fair share of unsolved mysteries. With every step, they whisper secrets from the crime scenes they’ve walked through. Every scuff tells a story, every step leaves a question. Are they part of the evidence or the escape plan?🏃♂️
The case isn’t closed yet, keep following the clues.🔎
🚕Taxi: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/MadPea%20Adventures/128/10...
So I've been super quiet on here of late. Sorry I'll try pick up the pace. Anyway here is one from a few days ago, peace to the brother Zayn
Dragon Priest : "Where are we heading, ma'am?"
Anna : "..."
Dragon Priest : "..."
Anna : "You're the time traveller. You can tell me about it."
Dragon Priest : "Indeed, I can see all of the past and the future holds. But, there are 2 souls that I couldn't see. One of them is yours, madam Valeriya."
Anna : "...Mindi Badweyn."
I am not sure what is the origin of the blue area on the column. I do not see it in my day photos.
The Temple of Hercules Victor ('Hercules the Winner') or Hercules Olivarius ((Hercules the Olive Branch Bearear) is a Roman temple in Piazza Bocca della Verità in the area of the Forum Boarium near the Tiber in Rome. It is a tholos, a round temple of Greek 'peripteral' design completely surrounded by a colonnade. The temple is the earliest surviving marble building in Rome. The Hercules Temple of Victor is also the only surviving sacred temple in ancient Rome that is made of Greek marble. Today it remains unsolved who this temple was dedicated to and for what purpose.
Dating from the later 2nd century BC, and perhaps erected by L. Mummius Achaicus, conqueror of the Achaeans and destroyer of Corinth, the temple is 14.8 m in diameter and consists of a circular cella within a concentric ring of twenty Corinthian columns 10.66 m tall, resting on a tuff foundation. These elements supported an architrave and roof, which has disappeared.
The original wall of the cella, built of travertine and marble blocks, and nineteen of the originally twenty columns remain but the current tile roof was added later. The temple's original dedication is dated back to circa 143-132 BCE, a time when intense construction was taking place in Portus Tiberinus. By 1132, the temple had been converted to a church, known as Santo Stefano alle Carozze (St. Stephen 'of the carriages'). Additional restorations (and a fresco over the altar) were made in 1475. In the 12th century, the cella wall was replaced with brick faced concrete and windows were added as well. Between 1809 and 1810, the surrounding ground level was lowered and the temple was restored once again. The temple was recognized officially as an ancient monument in 1935 and restored in 1996. [Wikipedia]
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"Machu Picchu is a trip to the serenity of the soul, to the eternal fusion with the cosmos; where we feel our fragility. It is one of the greatest marvels of South America. A resting place of butterflies in the epicentre of the great circle of life. One more miracle." - Pablo Neruda, The Heights of Machu Picchu.
Located 120 km northwest of Cusco, the Inca city of Machu Picchu lay hidden from the world in dense jungle covered mountains until 1911. This 'Lost City' is one of the world's archaeological jewels and is one of South America's major travel destinations.
The well preserved ruins of Machu Picchu seem to almost cling to the steep hillside, surrounded by towering green mountains overlooking the Vilcanota River Valley. Even after having seen the classic photos of Machu Picchu in guide books, web sites and postcards you still cannot fail but to be impressed by the awe-inspiring location of the ruins.
When you read about its discovery and the unsolved mystery of its purpose and how it came to become 'lost to the world' you will realize why so many people make the pilgrimage to visit this fascinating and spiritual site.
Why do so many people want to get to Machu Picchu by 6am in the morning? Climbing Huayna Picchu.
A few years ago you could wake up in Aguas Calientes, have breakfast and stroll down to where the buses depart, buy your ticket, have another coffee and easily get on the first bus at 6:30am arriving at Machu Picchu for just before 7am. You'd be one of the first people there. The next bus wouldn't arrive for another 20 minutes. Although officially sun rise at Machu Picchu is at about 5:30am the sun doesn't actually start to break out from behind the mountains until about 7:20am (give or take 10 minutes due to variations throughout the year). So arriving at Machu Picchu for about 7am in the morning is ideal as it takes about 10 minutes to walk up to the Watchman's Hut which offers the best views over Machu Picchu.
As from May 2007 the government has put a limit of 400 on the number of people who can climb Huayna Picchu, the mountain that you see rising up behind Machu Picchu. This means that during the peak season if you really want to be among the lucky (or mad!) 400 you really have to make the effort to get up early. As soon as you enter Machu Picchu its recommended that you make your way over to the base of Huayna Picchu where you'll find a small hut handing out the tickets to climb. The tickets are free. The first 200 people can climb Huayna Picchu straight away, however they all have to be back down by 10am when the 2nd group of 200 can make the climb. It takes about an hour to reach the top climbing slowly - not recommended for sufferers of vertigo. The narrow trail can be quite dangerous at times after wet weather. Unfortunately if you are arriving by the Inca Trail or by train the same day then it is becoming increasingly difficult (in fact almost impossible in the peak months) to climb Huayna Picchu the same day. You'll just have to spend the night in Aguas Calientes and return early the following morning.
Korsika - Cap Corse
Plage de Giottani
Cap Corse (Corsican: Capicorsu; Italian: Capo Corso), a geographical area of Corsica, is a 40 kilometres (25 mi) long peninsula located at the northern tip of the island. At the base of it is the second largest city in Corsica, Bastia. Cap Corse is also a Communauté de communes comprising 18 communes.
Numerous historians have termed Cap Corse "the Sacred Promontory" and have gone so far as to suppose the name came from a high concentration of early Christian settlements. This is a folk-etymology.
The term comes from the geographer Ptolemy, who called his first and northernmost location on Corsica the hieron achron in ancient Greek, transliterated by the Romans to sacrum promontorium. This is not the only point of land to be so-called; there were many others in the classical world, none of them Christian. The meaning is somewhat ambiguous, whether it was called that because of a temple placed there or whether as the end of the land it was sacred to the god of the sea. If the date of the Geography is taken arbitrarily to be 100 AD, and Ptolemy was working from earlier sources, a Christian association is highly unlikely. There is no evidence that Corsica was converted earlier than the 6th century AD, no evidence of any Christian communities in the area in Ptolemy's time, and the concentration of later Christian edifices is no greater than they are in any populated region of Corsica.
Ptolemy's interpretation of promontory also is not clear. It has been taken to mean the entire Cap Corse, the Pointe du Cap Corse, or some one of the small promontories on it. Sometimes it is associated with Macinaggio, but the problem remains unsolved.
There is some geographic justification for associating Ptolemy's entire tribe, the Vanacini, which are described as "more to the north", with Cap Corse, as it is a distinct geophysical environment. The Vanacini appear in a bronze tablet found in northern Corsica repeating a letter from the emperor Vespasian to "the magistrates and senators of the Vanacini" written about 72 AD, in Ptolemy's time. The Vanacini had bought some land from Colonia Mariana, a Roman colony in the vicinity of Bastia, and complained about the borders fixed by the procurator from whom they had bought it. The emperor on receiving the complaint appointed another procurator to arbitrate and wrote informing the complainants. The inscription is documentary evidence of the historicity of the Vanacini.
(Wikipedia)
Le Cap Corse est une péninsule d'environ 400 km2 de superficie, au nord-est de l'île de Corse. Élancée au nord vers la Ligurie, elle se rencontre à 33 km de la Capraia, à 83 km de Piombino, à 96 km de Livourne, à 160 km de Gênes et à moins de 175 km de la côte française. La pointe Nord du Cap (42° 50’ 2.34‘’ N) est située en deçà d’une ligne Est-Ouest qui passe par Toulon (43° 7’ 19.92’’ N) et même légèrement plus au Sud que l’île de Porquerolles (43° 0’ 2‘’ N), ce qui place le nord de la Corse à la même latitude que la partie la plus au sud de la France continentale (Pyrénées-Orientales, sud de Perpignan).
Dans l'Antiquité, le pays est dénommé Sacrum promuntorium. Il devient, au Moyen Âge, un territoire de seigneuries (San Colombano, Avogari, etc.). Il est partagé en cantons durant la Révolution.
« Le pays appelé le Cap-Corse a un circuit de quarante-huit à cinquante milles. Il est partagé en deux dans le sens de sa longueur par une montagne qui se prolonge du nord au midi. Les gens du pays l'appellent la Serra. C'est comme une chaîne dont la cime partage les eaux, qui vont se jeter dans la mer, les unes à l'est, les autres à l'ouest. »
— Agostino Giustiniani in Dialogo, traduction de Lucien Auguste Letteron in Histoire de la Corse - Description de la Corse – Tome I p. 7 - 1888.
Il est formé par une arête relativement élevée qui envoie en avant, à l'est et à l'ouest, des éperons et des contreforts qui délimitent des vallées parallèles où se sont installés les villages et les cultures.
« Dans le Cap-Corse, l'air est partout sain, l'eau bonne ; le vin est abondant, excellent et généralement blanc. Les vins de la côte extérieure sont plus renommés comme vins moûts ; ceux de la côte intérieure, lorsqu'ils sont clairs. La quantité de vin que l'on récolte dans le Cap-Corse est considérable ; on y récolte encore un peu d'huile, des figues et quelques autres fruits. Le sol est rebelle aux autres cultures, surtout à celle du blé. Les habitants sont bien habillés et plus polis que les autres Corses, grâce à leurs relations commerciales et au voisinage du continent. Il y a chez eux beaucoup de simplicité et de bonne foi. Leur unique commerce est celui des vins qu'ils vont vendre en terre ferme »
— Mgr Agostino Giustiniani in Dialogo, traduction de Lucien Auguste Letteron in Histoire de la Corse - Description de la Corse, Bulletin de la Société des sciences historiques & naturelles de la Corse – Tome I p. 8
Le Cap Corse est une péninsule schisteuse qui s'étend au nord d'une ligne Bastia - Saint-Florent, sur près de 40 km de long dans le sens nord-sud, et 10 à 15 km de large. La région est composée de schistes lustrés, dans lesquels dominent les schistes et quartzites amphiboliques ou pyroxéniques, avec, par places, des calcschistes micacés et des cipolins durs.
Quelques exceptions importantes apparaissent dans ce relief. Au nord du Cap, les schistes sont pénétrés par une masse de gabbros et de péridotites, d'où provient la pierre verte bien connue sous le nom de serpentine. Cette pierre d'une grande dureté forme les bosses du paysage, telles que les sommets comme l'Alticcione 1 139 mètres, les promontoires comme le Corno di Becco ou la pointe d'Agnello. De part et d'autre de cette nappe de roches vertes se trouvent deux accidents géologiques curieux. À l'ouest, presque tout le territoire de la commune d'Ersa est constitué par une couche de gneiss amphibolique, granitisé, sur lequel on retrouve les schistes lustrés ; tandis qu'à l'est, au nord et au sud de Macinaggio, le long de la côte, à Tamarone, comme à Finocchiarola, s'étalent les grès siliceux et à poudingues de l'époque Éocène, avec un lambeau triasique de cargneules et de calcaires.
La géologie très particulière du Cap Corse a donné lieu à une rareté géologique : l'amiante amphibiolique, une roche fibreuse susceptible d'être filée et tissée. Avec la première révolution industrielle, celle de la machine à vapeur, la demande d'amiante (matériau isolant et incombustible) est montée en flèche. L'amiante a été exploité industriellement à Canari dans une impressionnante carrière en gradins à ciel ouvert, de 1935 à 1965. Le site était à la fois une mine et une usine produisant un produit fini et mis en sacs. Fermée depuis 1966, la friche industrielle est diversement considérée : verrue industrielle au passé sinistre (le mésothéliome ou cancer de l'amiante sévissait parmi les ouvriers) pour les uns, c'est un lieu de visite (illégale) apprécié par d'autres, avec la mode de l'exploration urbaine.
L'orographie de la région s'explique ainsi : les schistes luisants et tendres donnent un relief doux, des versants lentement inclinés, des mamelons et des chaînes continus, telle que la crête de séparation entre Rogliano et Luri. Les bancs de cipolins dessinent des ruptures de pente et des plateaux abrupts, comme le Piano de Santarello. Les schistes amphiboliques en revanche ont des crêtes aiguës et dentelées, mais ce sont surtout les gabbros et les péridotites qui forment les plus fortes saillies, les dômes, les massifs compacts isolés au milieu des roches plus tendres.
Coucher sur le Monte Stello.
Une chaîne montagneuse, la Serra, s'étend tout le long du cap, depuis la Serra di Pignu (altitude 960 m) au sud, jusqu'au Monte di u Castellu (altitude 540 m) au nord. La Cima di e Follicie, haute de 1 324 mètres, en est le point culminant ; mais le Cap compte plus de dix autres sommets dépassant les 1 000 mètres d'altitude, dont le Monte Stello. Cette chaîne surgit des flots souvent tumultueux du Capo Bianco et de la Punta di Corno di Becco, par une levée de 333 m à la Punta de Pietra Campana et 359 m au Monte Maggiore. Elle se dirige en direction du sud-est vers la pointe de Torricella (562 m), traverser toute la péninsule et finir à la cime du Zuccarello 955 m et le défilé du Lancone.
La Serra est la ligne de partage des eaux. À l'est, la côte intérieure est baignée par la mer Tyrrhénienne et le littoral offre des paysages au relief collinaire contrastant avec les paysages aigus et abrupts de la côte extérieure baignée par la mer Méditerranée. Au nord, la côte est baignée par la mer Ligure.
Le littoral capcorsin, déchiqueté et accidenté, comprend peu de plages que l'on trouve uniquement au fond de ses anses. Le relief descend le plus souvent de façon abrupte dans la mer, et la route D80, qui fait le tour du Cap sur 110 km, de Bastia à Saint-Florent, offre un panorama de corniche. Un tiers des tours génoises, destinées à protéger la Corse d'attaques navales des Barbaresques, a été construit autour du cap.
(Wikipedia)
Cap Corse (korsisch Capicorsu, italienisch Capo Corso) ist eine Halbinsel im Norden Korsikas. Sie befindet sich im Département Haute-Corse.
Die Halbinsel hat eine Länge von ca. 40 km und eine Breite von ca. 10 km. An ihrem südöstlichen Ende befindet sich die Stadt Bastia. Die höchsten Erhebungen sind Monte Alticcione (1138 m), Monte Stello (1306 m) und Cima di e Follicie (1324 m) (mit der Höhle Grotta a l'Albucciu). Nördlich des Cap Corse liegt die kleine zur Gemeinde Ersa gehörende Insel Giraglia.
Das Cap Corse ist verhältnismäßig wenig touristisch erschlossen. Es ist eine bekannte Weinregion, das Cap gibt dem Wein Muscat du Cap Corse seinen Namen.
Die korsische Schutzpatronin Julia von Korsika lebte zeitweilig in der Gegend.
(Wikipedia)
Derry City Cemetery, Northern Ireland
There is a very mysterious grave in the Derry City Cemetery that has no headstone nor surround. It is on the cemetery records yet there are curiously no names or details of the deceased. Even stranger is that this unknown grave is only discoverable by looking for this ancient, dead & twisted limbed tree because it grows straight out of the unknown grave plot! This mystery is currently unsolved & whoever lies here is sadly unknown… “John Doe”
"John Doe" - A fictitious name used to identify an unknown man or body.
*Major Update*
Today I am saddened to bring you all the news that this tree has now gone forever :( Last night on 22 August 2017 a terrible storm had tumbled it over & broke it to pieces. I will sadly miss this old mysterious twisted tree, its now taken its secrets with it :(
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What made this person so happy? There are clues: she's probably a girl, and her name probably starts with P, because you always write your initial first, right? Maybe J just told her he loves her. Maybe he asked her to marry him! Maybe he bought her tickets to see her favorite band. The mystery is delicious, and probably better left unsolved. HFF!
This was the railway arch on Pinchin Street where an unidentified female torso was found inside (before it was bricked up, I'm not sure when that happened), by PC William Pennett on 10 September 1889.
She was sadly never identified, & isn't considered to have been a victim of Jack the Ripper, although is listed as one of the 11 unsolved Whitechapel Murders in the official police file.
Taken in 2016 while on a private Ripper tour with historian/guide Richard Jones. This street is also still really creepy at night.
Nikon F4. ADOX Color Implosion 100 35mm C41 film.
"Now let it all in
Cover up the arm that holds the weight
Raging on too long and all will stay
Unsolved
I let it throw me off my feet
I let it put me on my knees
What do I know
I ought to grow
But do I ever?
Can’t sit around hiding all my scars
Let them all show
Let them all know about go in and embrace the inevitable
Now let it all in"
E.V.E {Team} Noctiluca Stars
E.V.E Noctiluca Flower
Letea forest is a natural reservation, covering an area of approximately 2,825 ha (6,980 acres). It is the oldest protected area in Romania. It was established in 1930, and not by accident: it is the northernmost subtropical forest in the world, and only of its kind in Europe, home of about 3,500 species of plants and animals.
It has a rich flora and fauna, described incompletly, but it is sure that rare and endangered species including endemic species (found only here) find their home here, such as Centaurea pontica. Visiting the forest is a unique experience as in a continental climate you will find a subtropical deciduous forest, interwoven with lianas. We can admire 4-700 years old oaks, poplars, elms, alders or lindens, but going in forest we can see sand dunes too. The sand dunes are home to many rare and endangered flora species as well.
The fauna of Letea forest is also rich, about 70% of the Danube Delta fauna can be found here: is the nesting site of over 150 species of birds such as the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla), short-toed snake eagle (Circaetus gallicus), tawny eagle (Aquila rapax), black kite (Milvus migrans), herpetological rarities such as the steppe racer (Eremias arguta), or meadow viper (Vipera renardi).
The forest is famous for its “wild horses” that are actually released by locals and become broncos (semi-feral horses). Approximately 2,000 broncos are found in the forest, unfortunately causing serious damage to the local biosphere. The capture and transportation of these horses is an unsolved problem.You can find a detailed descriptions of the species from Danube Delta here.
Access: we arrive to Letea from Tulcea by navigating on the Sulina branch, then the Magearu canal. Transport through the forest can be done with dray. Locals make available tractors for transportation, but keep in mind that tractors disturb the flora and fauna of the forest. Even outside the forest, we are passing by many canals and we can see nesting birds!
On the wall outside, there was a statue of Bom-Bane, built by her brother-in-law, John Jostins, who worked on R2-D2 in The Empire Strikes Back. On the night of 1 December 2012, thieves stole the statue. Jane Bom-Bane told the Argus, "I feel like my alter ego has been snatched. It has no use or value to anyone else, but it is a part of us." With the theft unsolved, puppeteer Isobel Smith organised a collection from café regulars to raise money for a new statue. The second one, built by the artist Paul Harrison, was unveiled on 11 January 2015. Vandals attacked the replacement on 22 July 2017, stealing the statue's head and tray. The original statue was recovered, restored with a new tray, and replaced on the wall on 9 May 2021 (wikiwand.com)
The spiral arms of the galaxy NGC 7038 wind languidly across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. NGC 7038 lies around 220 million light-years from Earth in the southern constellation Indus. This image portrays an especially rich and detailed view of a spiral galaxy, and exposes a huge number of distant stars and galaxies around it. That’s because it’s made from a combined 15 hours worth of Hubble time focused on NGC 7038 and collecting light. So much data indicates that this is a valuable target, and indeed, NGC 7038 has been particularly helpful to astronomers measuring distances at vast cosmic scales.
The distances to astronomical objects are determined using an interconnected chain of measurement techniques called the Cosmic Distance Ladder. Each rung in the ladder is calibrated by earlier steps, based on measurements of objects closer to us. This makes the accuracy of distances at the largest scales dependent on how accurately distances to nearby objects can be determined. Hubble inspected NGC 7038 with its Wide Field Camera 3 to calibrate two of the most common distance measurement techniques: type 1A supernovae and Cepheid variables.
One of Hubble's original science goals was to accurately establish distances to night-sky objects, and over its three decades of operation Hubble’s increasingly precise distance measurements have contributed to one of the most intriguing unsolved problems in astronomy. Distance measurements are used to derive a quantity known as the Hubble constant, which captures how fast the Universe is expanding. As astronomer’s measurements of the Hubble constant have become more precise, their value has become increasingly inconsistent with the value of the Hubble Constant derived from observations of the Big Bang’s afterglow. Astronomers have been unable to explain the mismatch between the two values of the Hubble constant, which suggests that a new discovery in cosmology is waiting to be made.
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Jones; CC BY 4.0
I spent hours trying to solve a maths problem, then found some required information was missing. This picture shows the similar thing. Some parts are missing to complete the expected geometrical shape.
I borrowed ovit's kiev because of my bronica's unsolved focusing problems. focusing is one fine thing.
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"Machu Picchu is a trip to the serenity of the soul, to the eternal fusion with the cosmos; where we feel our fragility. It is one of the greatest marvels of South America. A resting place of butterflies in the epicentre of the great circle of life. One more miracle." - Pablo Neruda, The Heights of Machu Picchu.
Located 120 km northwest of Cusco, the Inca city of Machu Picchu lay hidden from the world in dense jungle covered mountains until 1911. This 'Lost City' is one of the world's archaeological jewels and is one of South America's major travel destinations.
The well preserved ruins of Machu Picchu seem to almost cling to the steep hillside, surrounded by towering green mountains overlooking the Vilcanota River Valley. Even after having seen the classic photos of Machu Picchu in guide books, web sites and postcards you still cannot fail but to be impressed by the awe-inspiring location of the ruins.
When you read about its discovery and the unsolved mystery of its purpose and how it came to become 'lost to the world' you will realize why so many people make the pilgrimage to visit this fascinating and spiritual site.
Why do so many people want to get to Machu Picchu by 6am in the morning? Climbing Huayna Picchu.
A few years ago you could wake up in Aguas Calientes, have breakfast and stroll down to where the buses depart, buy your ticket, have another coffee and easily get on the first bus at 6:30am arriving at Machu Picchu for just before 7am. You'd be one of the first people there. The next bus wouldn't arrive for another 20 minutes. Although officially sun rise at Machu Picchu is at about 5:30am the sun doesn't actually start to break out from behind the mountains until about 7:20am (give or take 10 minutes due to variations throughout the year). So arriving at Machu Picchu for about 7am in the morning is ideal as it takes about 10 minutes to walk up to the Watchman's Hut which offers the best views over Machu Picchu.
As from May 2007 the government has put a limit of 400 on the number of people who can climb Huayna Picchu, the mountain that you see rising up behind Machu Picchu. This means that during the peak season if you really want to be among the lucky (or mad!) 400 you really have to make the effort to get up early. As soon as you enter Machu Picchu its recommended that you make your way over to the base of Huayna Picchu where you'll find a small hut handing out the tickets to climb. The tickets are free. The first 200 people can climb Huayna Picchu straight away, however they all have to be back down by 10am when the 2nd group of 200 can make the climb. It takes about an hour to reach the top climbing slowly - not recommended for sufferers of vertigo. The narrow trail can be quite dangerous at times after wet weather. Unfortunately if you are arriving by the Inca Trail or by train the same day then it is becoming increasingly difficult (in fact almost impossible in the peak months) to climb Huayna Picchu the same day. You'll just have to spend the night in Aguas Calientes and return early the following morning.
Explored: Highest Position: 226
If we could only unravel this man's secret to come out of this hole on the ground with his shoes on his head first, we wouldn't have to cut collages all day to earn a living!
Collage made for the latest theme "A Secret" on kollagekit.blogspot.com/
For this week, I thought of this idea with a regular rubik's cube, when I saw this one besides and thought, those strange shapes and light reflections could look great!
I used my 50mm f1.4 focusing only on the upper left corner in the nearest face of the cube, getting nice blurry lines elsewhere.
From one of my favorite authors - Alexander McCall Smith and his fabulous lady detectives! No crime goes unsolved - at least in Botswana! HMM.
It has been a year since the earthquake and tsunami happened in Japan.
The tragic event is like distant memories yet very close.
So many questions unanswered. Such as radioactive pollution, the economic and psychological recovery for the people, the safety of nuclear power etc. Like the debris of the earthquake coming to North America after a year, the consequences of the tsunami as a partly human-made disaster are far-reaching.
I took the three mushrooms shot on the day I heard the tsunami news in 2011. I made this also in memory of the people who died and survived this catastrophe on the first anniversary.
The shot was taken with my Fuji X10 in its super-macro mode.
Wish everyone has a good Sunday!
This week I wanted to create something surrealistic. When I described the idea to my friends it just sounded weird. But I wanted Rubik’s cube to symbolize the amount of order and control a person has in his/her life. The perfectly solved cube represents a secure and well-ordered life. In this photo, that way of living is the norm. In the end of the line one person hasn’t got everything figured out yet. In fact, there’s pretty much chaos in her head. But that doesn’t have to be a bad thing. That just means that anything could happen.
“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
Model: Jenny Forsberg
Just some trivia: At 17, I figured out how to solve Rubik’s cube. That was before solutions were easily found on Google. But I soon realized that knowing how to solve the cube wasn’t cool at all, and wasn’t to any help when I wanted boys to like me ;)
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It has been more than 130 days since the beginning of the protest in Hong Kong. The pro-demoracy movement is not coming to the end yet since the government is not answering to the demands of people. This is like a difficult and unsolved chess game.
It is now the turn for the Hong Kong government to make a move.
Chess player is trying to decide on the move in a game.
Fuji X-T1
Fuji XF 35mm F2
In-camera B&W with yellow filter
Now it's not just the love that is in the air..
HBW!
A big credit to Ines for her inspiring photo and idea!
Explored! May 26, 2009 #32
Thank you very much friends!
. . . A Day at the Flower Shop . . .
Surrounded by blooms, her mind wanders beyond bouquets.
Forget just the butterflies, she muses. Love, like nurturing these flowers, demands a gardener's touch. A shared vision, a kind heart to weather storms, and the courage to prune mistakes for growth. Passion ignites, but these qualities build a love that blooms eternally.
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Relationships, huh? Most people think all it takes is passion to stay together. Love conquers all, right?
Wrong. Turns out, lasting relationships need more than just fireworks. People who rock at relationships, the ones with tons of experience, know it's all about 'management and choosing the right person.'
Think of it like running a business. To succeed, you need four key ingredients:
1. Vision:
High-quality people have a natural vision for their relationships. They're smart enough to know 'vision isn't the same as a plan.' A vision is the big picture, the "why" behind everything. Plans are just the steps to get there. Don't confuse the two!
Low-quality folks? They think every plan is the vision itself. They 'believe the plan is the vision,' they believe vision 'needs' plans, they hammer out every detail while forgetting the bigger dream.
Now you can tell the difference between people who have a lot of plans but no vision, and people who have vision without any need of a plan.
2. Heart:
High-quality people are 'naturally equipped' with the good stuff:
☑ Appreciation
They see the good in their partner and the relationship.
☑ Gratitude
They express thanks regularly, showing they value what they have.
☑ Gratefulness
They truly cherish the good things, not taking them for granted.
Low-quality folks? They're the opposite. They can't really appreciate, 'unable' to be grateful, even when they say thank you, it lacks true feelings and meanings. They miss the good, forget to feel thanks, and take everything for granted.
Now you can tell the difference between people who say thank you without the ability to be thankful and people who are always thankful without saying thank you.
3. Courage to admit wrongdoing:
High-quality people? They are brave enough to admit their mistakes. They fess up when they mess up. It's no big deal. They're more interested in learning and growing than clinging to being right.
Low-quality folks? They fear admitting their wrongdoing, hide their mistakes, and make excuses instead of owning them. They stubbornly look for misleading reasons to change from wrong to right, thinking that admitting a mistake is a sign of weakness, so they just let things fester.
Now you can tell the difference between people who lack the courage to face their wrongdoing and people who see wrongdoing as not a big thing to admit.
4. Willingness to correct mistakes:
High-quality people see mistakes as opportunities to improve, not personal attacks. They fix things because they want the relationship to thrive, not to prove anything.
Low-quality folks? They may see admitting mistakes as a reflection of their shortcomings, they avoid fixing things because they think it makes them look bad and violates their self-esteem. They'd rather protect their self-esteem by denying fixing, leaving problems unsolved, than risk admitting they weren't perfect.
Now you can tell the difference between people who give you overflowing attention by making tons of excuses to mislead their wrongs to right until you totally believe it's not their wrong and people who just fix it without any need for a word.
" Remember, relationships are a journey, not a destination. Choose your partner wisely, nurture the good stuff, and don't be afraid to course-correct when needed. That's the recipe for a truly fulfilling love story! 💕 "
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Chapter: Crafting Your Ideal Lifestyle
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" Love yourself first and fulfill your own needs before allowing others to fill you. Be careful not to be blinded by how they make you feel - focus on their true qualities.
A person who lacks even one of these four qualities, no matter how good they may make you feel, will ultimately end up being a waste in your life. "
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An unsolved Rubik's cube + water droplets + a transparent jar cover = Day 93: Colorful
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There is something so mysterious about how nature has taken over the temples of Ta Phrom. How the tree roots and trunk bind together the structure and become a part of it. No matter how many times you see it, every time you look at it and gawk in wonder.
See Magical Ta Phrom.
Siem Reap, Cambodia
2008
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwjp8-9iPAQ
It started out as one love one passion
Now it's bursting out into a chain reaction
My sinful deeds I will never confess!
This dead man will make out to be a useless witness
This is just what we wanted which is why it feels so right
Cut slice dig as deep as you can
Look into her eyes and know his blood is on your hands
My new lead is the reaper, and my anger is my scythe
Together we will make this life
Together we will hide!
Hide and seek a sick game of destiny
And this round you will never win (You know you'll never find him!)
Here we go, count to ten let's start this show
Where you've gone she will never know!
Cut-throat executioner, I aspire to survive
It's a case of an unsolved murder
Baby now you're all mine
No services, coffin, no hearse
I'll find a place to hide his corpse!
Under the world
Bury my secrets, evidence will burn
The deed is done I've lost my mind
Last sense of my conscience starts to fade and die
Under the world
Are the sins committed for this girl
This man who died, it's justified
He's out of sight now you're all mine
Now you're all mine...
Sam and Konoto head for Nosmo King's shop. The detectives had cleared the scene, gathering what evidence they needed, but Sam was looking for something very specific after learning about a second mystery that remained unsolved.
"Aha!" he exclaimed, looking at the one costume remaining in the window. It was like he found the most important clue to solve that mystery.
"What did you find?" Konoto asked inquisitively. By now, she had grown accustomed to Sam Shoegum's method of searching out clues.
"Do you see this?" he asked, holding his magnifying glass in just the right position for her to observe something on the one costume. "Nosmo was leaving us a clue all the time, and this is it!" Sam was excited as he further explained to Konoto just what he found and how this will help point him to the right place to wrap up the one mystery as well as finding the missing Oriental Gem.
"Wow!" Konoto exclaimed. "When can we go in and get that gem?"
"Hold on, " Sam said cautiously. "We have to build our case so this thief will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."
From the Loretto Chapel Website:
When the Loretto Chapel was completed in 1878, there was no way to access the choir loft twenty-two feet above. Carpenters were called in to address the problem, but they all concluded access to the loft would have to be via ladder as a staircase would interfere with the interior space of the small Chapel.
Legend says that to find a solution to the seating problem, the Sisters of the Chapel made a novena to St. Joseph, the patron saint of carpenters. On the ninth and final day of prayer, a man appeared at the Chapel with a donkey and a toolbox looking for work. Months later, the elegant circular staircase was completed, and the carpenter disappeared without pay or thanks. After searching for the man (an ad even ran in the local newspaper) and finding no trace of him, some concluded that he was St. Joseph himself, having come in answer to the sisters' prayers.
The stairway's carpenter, whoever he was, built a magnificent structure. The design was innovative for the time and some of the design considerations still perplex experts today.
The staircase has two 360 degree turns and no visible means of support. Also, it is said that the staircase was built without nails—only wooden pegs. Questions also surround the number of stair risers relative to the height of the choir loft and about the types of wood and other materials used in the stairway's construction.
Over the years many have flocked to the Loretto Chapel to see the Miraculous Staircase. The staircase has been the subject of many articles, TV specials, and movies including "Unsolved Mysteries" and the television movie titled "The Staircase."
found in a pond at Buscot (National Trust
Buscot Park is a country house at Buscot near the town of Faringdon in Oxfordshire. It was built in an austere neoclassical style between 1780 and 1783 for Edward Loveden Townsend. It remained in the Loveden Townsend family until sold in 1859 to Robert Tertius Campbell, an Australian. Campbell's daughter Florence would later be famous as Mrs Charles Bravo, the central character in a Victorian murder case that remains unsolved to this day.[1] On Campbell's death, in 1887, the house and its estate were sold to Alexander Henderson a financier, later to be ennobled as Baron Faringdon.
Following the death of the 1st Baron in 1934, the house was considerably altered and restored to its 18th-century form, by the architect Geddes Hyslop, for his grandson and successor, Gavin Henderson, 2nd Baron Faringdon, during this era, the art collection founded by the 1st Baron was considerably enlarged, although many of the 1st Baron's 19th-century works of art were sold immediately following his death.
The house and estate was bequeathed to the National Trust in 1956. The contents (which include works of art by Rembrandt and Burne-Jones) are owned by the Faringdon Collection Trust. The house is occupied and managed by the present Lord Faringdon. The mansion and its extensive formal and informal gardens and grounds are open to the public each summer.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Toscan_du_Plantier
Okay so my unsolved murder was on Sophie Toscan Du Plantier she was a French Movie producer , she was killed/beaten to death infront of her house on Dec 23rd , the original murder was in winter but I did mine in more in May, considering there's no snow :P
Hope you like the pic ;D <3
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Rilke again:
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet ~
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And last but not least:
Imagionation is the mother of all possibilities.
(I'm not absolutely sure, but I suppose C. G. Jung said or wrote this once.)
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“Be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart, and learn to love the questions themselves.”
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Italia, Toscana, Toiano (PI), estate 2012
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC06yOf9M6M
Toiano, il borgo fantasma in provincia di Pisa (www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC06yOf9M6M)
Toiano è un piccolo borgo abbandonato nel cuore della Toscana: è l'unico centro in tutta la regione non colpito dal turismo di massa. Questo perché non sono presenti negozi, alberghi, ristoranti, niente. Proprio questo suo essere "deserto" e "abbandonato" porta con sé un fascino indescrivibile. Tutto il paese sembra essersi fermato, il tempo scorre ma senza nessuna mobilità. Il piccolo borgo è situato in una zona invidiabile dal punto di vista paesaggistico, situato tra le morbide colline pisane e le balze della zona intorno a Volterra. Nel borgo si avverte un senso di bellezza violata non solo dal tempo e dall'incuria ma anche dagli "sciacalli" che dalla chiesa, ad esempio, si sono portati via affreschi, acquasantiera, confessionali e altro anche di notevole valore. La gente viene quassù e si porta via tutto ciò che trova di antico e di bello, rimane solo la bellezza incontrastata e il fascino di un luogo senza tempo immerso nella campagna Toscana circondato dai monti.
Il delitto della bella Elvira (www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC06yOf9M6M)
Ma c'è qualcosa di più misterioso nell'anima del borgo: La morte di Elvira, una bella giovane originaria proprio di Toiano che il 5 giugno 1947, giorno del Corpus Domini, venne brutalmente uccisa in un boschetto dal nome Botro della Lupa mentre si recava ad attingere acqua alla fonte. Fu incolpato il fidanzato. Ingiustamente, però: dopo 24 mesi di detenzione venne assolto e il mistero è rimasto irrisolto. Il volto sorridente della bella contadina oggi è visibile sul ceppo di marmo, che la ricorda lungo la strada tra Palaia e Toiano. Se chiedete in giro, tra le persone anziane dei paesi vicini, ancora oggi molti si prestano ben volentieri a parlare della "bella Elvira".
Toiano, the ghost town in the province of Pisa
Toiano is a small abandoned village in the heart of Tuscany and it is the only center in the region not affected by tourism. This is because there are no shops, hotels, restaurants, nothing. Just that his "wilderness" and "abandoned" brings with it an indescribable charm. The whole country seems to stand still, time runs but with no mobility. The small village is situated in a enviable from the point of view, situated between the soft Pisan hills and cliffs of the area around Volterra . In the village there is a sense of beauty violated not only by time and neglect but also by "jackals" who from the church, for example, are taken away frescoes, water, religious and other things of great value. People come up here and it takes away everything that is old and beautiful, it remains the only undisputed beauty and charm of a place without time immersed in the Tuscan countryside surrounded by mountains.
The murder of the beautiful Elvira
But there is something more mysterious nell'anima the village: The death of Elvira, a beautiful young original Toiano just that on 5 June 1947, the day of Corpus Christi, was brutally murdered in a grove by the name of “Botro della lupa” (like ravine of the wolf) while went to draw water at the source. Her boyfriend was accused. Unfairly, however: after 24 months of detention he was fulfilled and the mystery remained unsolved. The smiling face of the beautiful peasant is now visible on a strain of marble, which recalls her along the long road between Palaia and Toiano. If you ask around among the elderly in neighboring countries, yet today many are very happy to talk about the "beautiful Elvira."
This image was taken in the cemetery at Gatton, Queensland, Australia. The large monument marks the graves of Michael, Norah (Honara) and Ellen (Theresa) Murphy, who were brutally murdered in mysterious circumstances. The unsolved triple murder is one of the most intriguing chapters in Gatton's history and is known as 'The Gatton Murders', 'The Gatton Tragedy', 'The Gatton Mystery' or 'The Murphy Murders'.
Late on a bright moonlit night on Boxing Day, Monday 26th of December 1898 or early in the morning of Tuesday 27th, tragedy struck this small country town, in the form of a triple murder, the worst crime perpetrated in any of the colonies to that time. Although thoroughly investigated by the Queensland Police, who were assisted by Aboriginal trackers brought in from Fraser Island, the investigators remained baffled and the crime remained unsolved and remains a mystery to this day.
source: www.gattonmurders.com
I was excited about the 2018 New Mexico Geological Society Fall Field Conference because I have always been curious about the Organ Mountains. Maybe you are or would be too.
When I stood on the dunes at White Sands when I was 9 and looked west at the mountains there, I noticed a dramatic change in them as I slowly scanned southward. The mountains to the north had relatively smooth crests and a slowly undulating topography.
The mountains to the south, however, were very different - they were very jagged and rough in profile.
Why was this?
Fast forward 30 years and I was standing on the same dunes photographing them at sunset and I noticed this abrupt change again and it reminded me of the same question I had 30 years earlier. Now however, I could find the answer and the Fall Field Conference would stop at the mountains and discuss and examine them in detail.
First however, a little cultural history. Cueva is Spanish for cave and, indeed, there is a cave in the rocks in the foreground. A cave is not really a cave unless there is a hermit or ascetic that lives there.
The hermit was Giovanni Maria de Agostini who traveled throughout South and North America on foot. In 1867, he walked to Las Vegas (The Meadows) New Mexico and lived atop a spectacular mountain above the town. This Mountain is now named: Hermits Peak after him.
After a couple of years, he walked south to Las Cruces and took up residence in a cave in the nearby Organ Mountains. In 1869 he was murdered in his cave and his murder has remained unsolved.
The jagged peaks of the Organ Mountains in the background, also look different than the red, smooth, massive rocks in the foreground. While we are looking, what are those smooth, multilayered rocks just above the black tree on the left side of the photograph? Stay tuned...
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Jungfrau Park is an amusement park located near Interlaken, Switzerland. It opened as the Mystery Park in 2003, and closed in November 2006 due to financial difficulties and low turnout. The park was designed by Erich von Däniken, and consisted of seven pavilions, each of which explored one of several great "mysteries" of the world. Von Däniken opened the theme park to present his interpretations of unsolved mysteries involving extraterrestrial life that he believes took place around the world.
"HAVE PATIENCE WITH EVERYTHING THAT REMAINS UNSOLVED IN YOUR HEART... LIVE IN THE QUESTION."
Rainer Maria Rilke, "Letters To a Young Poet"
Ladakh (Himalaya), giugno 2009. Meraviglioso, aggirarmi silenziosamente tra i cortili interni e le scale buie e le suggestive sale dei gompa (monasteri), seguendo a volte un canto di preghiera distante. Ho scoperto spesso monaci, a volte giovanissimi come quello qui ritratto, assorti in istanti di introspezione assolutamente privata.
Ladakh (Himalaya), June 2009. Wonderful, to stroll silently through the inner courtyards, dark stairs and charming halls of the gompas (monasteries), sometimes following a distant chant. I've often found monks, sometimes very young ones like the one portrayed here, absorbed in moments of private introspection.
Music/Commento musicale davvero in tema: Bruno Coulais, Le Lac - Himalaya
E' la colonna sonora del film: "Himalaya - L'infanzia di un capo", di Eric Valli.
It's the soundtrack of the film "Himalaya - The Rearing Of A Chief", by Eric Valli.
Per chi non conoscesse questa straordinaria colonna sonora di un film altrettanto straordinario, ecco qualche informazione: it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalaya_-_L'infanzia_di_un_capo
Information about the film: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalaya_(film)
Explore #08, June 21th 2013 (highest ranking)