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Stems have four main functions which are:
* Support for and the elevation of leaves, flowers and fruits. The stems keep the leaves in the light and provide a place for the plant to keep its flowers and fruits.
* Transport of fluids between the roots and the shoots and blooms .
* Storage of nutrients.
* The production of new living tissue. The normal life span of plant cells is one to three years. Stems have cells called meristems that annually generate new living tissue.
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Clyde Puffer VIC72 moored up at Inveraray on 16th September 2017.
Built in Hull for the Navy in 1944, she worked for the Admiralty from 1947 until 1968 when she was sold into private hands, named Eldesa and based at Troon on the Clyde. She was converted to diesel power in 1967.
In 1972 she was registered on Mull and used mostly to transport timber to Corpach. In 1984, she was renamed Eileen Easdeal and worked around Oban and Easdale Island.
She was eventually named Vital Spark in memory of the fictional Clyde Puffer created by Scottish writer Neil Munro in 1905.
The Forest Glade Gardens are well established European inspired landscaped gardens of six hectares that are to be found on the Mount Macedon Road in the hill station town of Mount Macedon.
The Forest Glade Gardens are just shy of one hundred years old. The gardens were originally two adjoining properties that comprised orchards and lush grazing paddocks. In 1941 local family the Newtons purchased and extended the property and set about creating one of Mount Macedon's most stunning gardens.
In 1971 the Forest Glade Gardens were acquired by Melbourne property developer Mr. Cyril Stokes who together with his partner Trevor Neil Bell, developed the gardens even further. Cyril was a great collector of European antiques, and his love of European antiquity is reflected in the gardens, particularly in the many classical marble and bronze statues dotted about the grounds.
Unfortunately the Forest Glade Gardens were partly destroyed by the tragic Ash Wednesday bushfires of 1983. However, after many years of hard labour put in by Cyril and Trevor, The Forest Glade Gardens were reborn from the ashes. The gardens are built on a sloping block and consist of a range of terraces all of which offer wonderful vistas. A garden designed to give pleasure all year round, the Forest Glad Gardens contain several heritage listed trees and are made up of smaller themed gardens including; the Italian Garden, the Japanese Garden, the Daffodil Meadow, the Peony Walk, Hydrangea Hill, the Topiary Gardens, the Bluebell Meadow, the Fern Gully and the Laburnum Arch.
In 2011 the property was gifted to a registered charity - The Stokes Collection Limited - with the intention of keeping the Forest Glade Gardens maintained and open to the public.
The Mount Macedon township is located east of the Mount Macedon summit, which is approximately 60 km north-west of Melbourne.
The name of Mount Macedon is apparently derived from Philip II, who ruled Macedon between 359 and 336BC. The mountain was named by Thomas Mitchell, the New South Wales Surveyor General.
Settled in the 1850s by gold miners and timber cutters, the railway arrived at the Mount Macedon township in 1861, providing a vital connection to Melbourne, and sealing the town's future as a 'hill station' resort for wealthy Melburnians escaping the summer heat in the 1870s. With the land deforested, large blocks were sold and beautiful and extensive gardens were planted around the newly built homes. The rich soil and good rainfall also made the area suitable for large orchards and plant nurseries who could send fruit and flowers back to Melbourne. Newspaper owner, David Syme, built a house, "Rosenheim" in 1869. It was acquired in 1886 for Victorian Governors to use as a country retreat, making Mount Macedon an attractive destination for the well heeled of Melbourne society. A primary school was built in Mount Macedon in 1874, and as the decades progressed, hotels, guest houses, shops, a Presbyterian Church and Church of England were built. In 1983, Mount Macedon was devastated by the Ash Wednesday Bush Fires. A large portion of the town was raised, and a number of lives were lost. However, like a phoenix from the ashes, Mount Macedon has risen and rebuilt. Today it is still a popular holiday destination, particularly during spring time when the well established gardens flourish with flowers and in autumn when the exotic trees explode in a riot of reds and yellows.
Sigma 50-150mm f2.8
Main light: One Speedlight through umbrella (top right)
Rim Light: One speedlight through cone (for the Background)
A small town situated on Loch Fyne with architecture by William and John Adam and Robert Mylne and mainly built between 1770 and 1800. It also contains Inveraray Castle, home to the Duke of Argyll, Chief of Clan Campbell. This view is from the dock with the Clyde Puffer, Vital Spark in the foreground. Image has been compressed.
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Fotografies de la zona de combats de la Batalla del Ebre (1938).
Els darrers i dramatics combats de la batalla es produiren en una posició vital per protegir la retirada del exèrcit republicà: Los Raimats, al nord de La Fatarella. Intuint la cabdal importancia d'aquesta posició, els republicans la fortificaren a consciencia, amb moltes trinxeres conectant vuit bunquers de formigó, la majoria per ametralladores però com a mínim un per un canó antitanc. L'assalt final començà el 14 de novembre: les tropes feixistes ocuparen La Fatarella i continuaren cap a Raimats amb molts tancs. El comandant alemany Gustav Trippe va morir allà. Els defensors de la XV Brigada perderen algunes posicións (Cota 554), però aguantaren, mentre la resta del exercit creuava l'Ebre per Flix i Riba-roja.
El 15 de novembre s'incrementà l'atac, amb molta artilleria i aviació. Els tancs T26 dispararen directament contra les troneres dels bunquers per matar els defensors. Això va permetre que la infanteria assaltés les darreres defenses de la Cota 562, morint casi tots els defensors. Riba-roja i Flix varen caure el dia 16, però l'exercit del Ebre no havia estat aniquilat.
Aquest bunquer, rebentat després de la guerra per aprofitar el ferro (com en la majoria de bunquers d'aquell moment), forma part de la primera linea de Los Raimats, que va caure el mateix dia 14.
La batalla de l'Ebre (25 juliol - 16 novembre de 1938) fou la més important i mortifera de la guerra civil espanyola. Hi ha que també la consideren també la més decisiva, però crec que per desgracia la guerra ja estava decidida de molt abans, com a minim des del trencament del front d'Aragó el 9 de març del mateix any.
Tot i que l'exèrcit republicà creuà l'Ebre el 25 de juliol del 1938 per molts punts entre Mequinensa i Amposta, la major part dels combats de la batalla es donaren a la Terra Alta, a la zona entre Vilalba dels Arcs, La Fatarella, Camposines i Gandesa, a més de la Serra de Pandols.
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This is part of the Ebro battlefield (1938), in Southern Catalonia.
The last and dramatic combats of the battle took place in a vital position to protect the retreat of the Republican Army: "Los Raimats", north of La Fatarella. Sensing the paramount importance of this position, the Republicans conscientiously fortified it, with many trenches connecting eight concrete bunkers, most armed with machine guns but at least one with an anti-tank gun. The final assault began on November 14: the fascist troops occupied La Fatarella and continued towards Raimats with many tanks. German Commander Gustav Trippe died in the first assault. The defenders of the XV Brigade lost some positions (hill 554, were this bunker stands), but held on, while the rest of the Republican Army crossed the Ebro by Flix and Riba-roja.
On 15th November the attack increased, with much artillery and aviation bombing. T26 tanks fired directly at the bunkers' embrasures, killing the defenders. This allowed the infantry to assault the last defenses of Hill 562, killing almost all the defenders. Riba-roja and Flix fell on the 16th, but the Ebro army had not been annihilated.
This bunker, blown up after the war to take advantage of the iron (as in most bunkers at the time), is part of the first line of Los Raimats, which fell on the 14th.
The Battle of the Ebro (July 25 - November 16, 1938) was the most important and deadlier of the Spanish Civil War. There are those who also consider it the most decisive, but I think that unfortunately the war was already decided long before, at least since the breaking of the front of Aragon on March 9 of the same year.
The battle began with the greatest offensive made by the Republican forces, when they crossed the river Ebro between Mequinensa and Amposta (especially between Riba-roja and Miravet), and advanced to the line La Pobla de Massaluca -Vilalba dels Arcs -Gandesa - Serra de Pandols . But in just 48 hours, the dazzling advance was stopped short. Then Franco decided to crush the republican forces hill by hill (with massive artillery and bomber barrages), in a battle of attrition identical to the First World War for which the Republicans had no resources or alternative, especially with the river behind them. The main assaults, which lasted from August 10 to October 29, were concentrated in a very small and devastated area: the triangle Vertex Gaeta - Corbera - Camposines.
Finally, a final offensive on October 30 occupied the ridge of the Serra de Cavalls, making the entire Republican bridgehead unsustainable, which managed, however, to withdraw in an orderly manner until November 16. But the damage was already done, and there were no forces left for a proper defense of Catalonia, which fell three months later. Then, fascist darkness.
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As the Not Vital sculptures come to the end of their exhibition here at YSP, another capture of this large mirrored stainless steel one, a grey winter's day in Yorkshire, UK....so had a play around to create sthg a little more abstract,...Jan 2017
I'm working w/ the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA) over the next year to help document and share their amazing stories of cutting-edge cancer research and treatment. I'm going to be photographing events, building a photo archives, creating patient and; doctor stories and other creative storytelling projects that arise. This weekend I attended the Swim Across America and The Pink Boat Regatta. I'll be back down next month to photograph the #PurpleStride marathon and a bunch of other cool community initiatives.
(If you'd like to use any of these photos for ANYTHING pls contact Kris Krüg first kk@kriskrug.com 778. 898. 3076)
Seattle Cancer Care Alliance brings together the leading research teams and cancer specialists of Fred Hutch, Seattle Children's, and UW Medicine. #SeattleCCA
Swim Across America fills a void by providing vital seed funding to world-renowned hospitals that are investigating and conducting new clinical trials that lead to treatments and cures to defeat cancer. We host benefit swims as an opportunity to raise much needed money for our hospital partners conducting lifesaving research and clinical trials.
The Inveraray Maritime Heritage Museum, located on Scotland's Loch Fyne, is based on the iron sailing ship Arctic Penguin, moored at the pier, along with the Clyde puffer VIC 72 Eilean Eisdeal, (renamed Vital Spark).
Vital Spark is a fictional Clyde puffer, a type of small steamboat which provided a vital supply link around the west coast and Hebrides islands of Scotland. These stumpy little cargo ships have achieved almost mythical status thanks largely to the short stories of Neil Munro who wrote about the Vital Spark and her captain Para Handy.
Puffers seem to have been regarded fondly even before Munro began publishing his short stories in the Glasgow Evening News in 1905. This may not be surprising, for these small steamboats were then providing a vital supply link around the west coast and Hebrides islands of Scotland. The charming rascality of the stories went well beyond the reality of a commercial shipping business, but they brought widespread fame. They appeared in the newspaper over 20 years, were collected in book form by 1931, inspired the 1953 film The Maggie, and came out as three popular television series, dating from 1959 to 1995.
This handheld hdr comprises 7 exposures -3 to +3. Shot using a Nikon D700 & 24-70 f2.8 at 28mm. ISO 1100, f18, 1/160 - 1/8000 sec.
Basilica di San Vitale - UNESCO patrimonio mondiale dell'umanità (1996)
La costruzione fu iniziata dal vescovo Ecclesio nel 525, vivente ancora Teodorico, e completata nel 547 dal successore di Ecclesio, l'arcivescovo Massimiano, quando Ravenna era già stata riconquistata dall'imperatore Giustiniano I. L'edificio, capolavoro dell'architettura ravennate, combina elementi architettonici romani (la cupola, la forma dei portali, le torri) con elementi bizantini (l'abside poligonale, i capitelli, la costruzione in mattoni)
Basilica of San Vitale - UNESCO World Heritage Site (1996)
The church was begun by Bishop Ecclesius in 526, when Ravenna was under the rule of the Ostrogoths and completed by the 27th Bishop of Ravenna, Maximian, in 547 preceding the Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna. The architect of the church is unknown.
The construction of the church was sponsored by a Greek banker, Julius Argentarius, of whom very little is known, except that he also sponsored the construction of the Basilica of Sant' Apollinare in Classe at around the same time. (A donor portrait of the banker may appear among the courtiers on the Justinian mosaic.) The final cost amounted to 26,000 solidi (gold pieces).
The central vault used a western technique of hollow tubes inserted into each other, rather than bricks. The ambulatory and gallery were vaulted only later in the Middle Ages.
The Baroque fresco on the dome was made between 1778 and 1782 by S. Barozzi, U. Gandolfi and E. Guarana.
(wikipedia)
The oxymoronic absurdity of freezing vital nature in three dimensional symmetry (sculpture) was in the past an act of skill often considered related to the divine. (Conversely, symmetry has sometimes been seen as representative of the demonic.) The camera and alchemic fast film changed everything (and now have the nostalgic niche appeal of analogue). We can present a two dimensional simulacrum of the instantaneous and through digital software produce a three dimensional version derived from human understanding of the interaction of the rules of physics and mathematics. There are so many differing variations of the concept of symmetry, which I treat as forever notional.
We can talk shame. But for that I have to go back a very long way, even through inherited shame. I think I discovered lately the roots of Duchamp’s shame, though I support him in it.
He scarpered during World War one, when all his compatriots were going off to die. He somehow had himself disqualified from the military, played wimp, effete, weakling (remembering he lived to the age of 81), before escaping to New York in pursuit of art, or 'meaning'. But I hold him to be correct there, we must all avoid war.
It’s why I love Brecht’s ‘Schweyk in the Second World War’, and Falstaff feigning death (to live) on the battlefield. I love us in survival mode, the 16.1 million Jews left in the world, you, me, our diseased brethren, with HIV or whatever, all those surviving (through wiles) against the odds.
I even grudgingly admire quicksilver turncoats like Jacques Louis David.
Falstaff: I like not such grinning honour as Sir Walter hath. Give me life, which if I can save, so: if not, honour comes unlooked for, and there’s an end.
(Henry IV. Part 1, Act V / Sc. IV. .Shakespeare)
and
Falstaff: Counterfeit? I lie, I am no counterfeit: to die is to be counterfeit, for he is but the counterfeit of a man, who hath not the life of a man: but to counterfeit dying, when a man liveth, is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfect image of life indeed.
think they'll spot us here?
nah. this is a perfect lookout.
good. when they enter the valley, fire the rockets.
they'll never know what hit 'em.
this place will be better off without them too.
can you imagine, preferring creamy peanut butter to crunchy?
it's disgusting. our supreme leader is right: they're the scum of the earth.
basically sub-human.
well, we won't have to worry about them anymore.
pass me a cracker, would you?
you want peanut butter on that?
sure.
crunchy, right?
are you kidding? extra crunchy! I'm not taking any chances.
ha ha. good idea.
Apologies in advance for the watermarks. I do really believe that on the open market, this may be the most valuable photograph I own, though I only paid in the low three-figures for it (on Ebay). I was very surprised that it didn't go higher. I love the rifle pointed at the little girl's head (an illusion, but still); I love the cat that moved, I love the one-eyed wispy bearded guy with the stogie. I imagine that these folks were playing a role on the day this photograph was made, and that they were well-aware of that role, but I also would guess that it was a role they were comfortable playing, having had lots of practice. The only thing that is missing is the patriarch of the clan. I've seen people like this. I've had an old man with a knife as big as that one come up to me and say, "You see this knife? You see how sharp this knife is? You could kill a man with a knife like that." ( On that occasion, having watched enough hog-butchering for one day, I got in my car and left.)
A small but vital landmark
Lava Cactus is considered to be the tallest species in the world, and can live 150 years in the Galapagos Island. This species has developed special adaptations that allow it to survive in some of the most inhospitable volcanic places in the archipelago, like in Santiago Island, subsisting in arid ground with long periods of drought, surviving on the water that it collects, which is a skill acquired from an evolutionary process over hundreds of thousands of years. This plant is very important: it’s a landmark. It contributes to the natural balance of the environment, allowing many animals to survive in extreme conditions, in fact the lava cactus is a permanent source of water in the dry season. Animals drink water from its base and globular stalks.
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TOTES LES MEUES FOTOS / TODAS MIS FOTOS
Quan li vaig preguntar al meu amic Xavier d'on era aquesta dona tan maca i que cantava tan bé, em va dir gairebé sense fer-me cas, "d'on desemboca el Guadalquivir, això si, de la part de Cadis". Sempre fa igual, parlar amb ell és gairebé com resoldre un jeroglífic. Laura Vital va néixer no fa molts anys a Sanlúcar de Barrameda i amb el pas dels anys - molts - s'ha convertit en una de les grans figures del flamenc jove. La vam poder escoltar quan posava per als pintors que es concentren en el claustre renaixentista del museu del Carme. Aquesta psicòloga és a més, la primogènita professora de l'especialitat de Cant Flamenc al Conservatori Professional de Música Cristóbal de Morals de Sevilla. Ens va seduir a tots els que estàvem per allí aquell dia. Em va estranyar molt que Xavier es quedés tan impressionat, creia que només li interessava Wagner, però quan li vaig preguntar només va poder dir-me: ... l'hòstia.
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Cuando le pregunté a mi amigo Xavier de donde era esta mujer tan guapa y que cantaba tan bien, me dijo sin apenas hacerme caso, “de donde desemboca el Guadalquivir, eso si, de la parte de Cádiz”. Siempre hace igual, hablar con él es casi como resolver un jeroglífico. Laura Vital nació no hace muchos años en Sanlúcar de Barrameda y con el paso de los años - pocos - se ha convertido en una de las grandes figuras del flamenco joven. La pudimos oír cuando posaba para los pintores que se concentran en el claustro renacentista del museo del Carmen. Esta psicóloga es además, la primogénita profesora de la especialidad de Cante Flamenco en el Conservatorio Profesional de Música Cristóbal de Morales de Sevilla. Nos sedujo a todos los que estábamos por allí aquel día. Me extrañó mucho que Xavier se quedara tan impresionado, creía que solo le interesaba Wagner, pero cuando le pregunté solo acertó a decirme: …la hostia.
Bees are keystone species, meaning they play a vital role in preserving biodiversity and ecosystem health. Without bees, many ecosystems would be altered or cease to exist.
I last shot this scene in October 2013
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It's fast becoming a favourite haunt of ours even though it's 100 of miles from where we live. We were back here in 2016 to celebrate a friend's birthday so, as you can imagine, I was keen to shoot the boats again. This time the weather was kinder even though there was snow on the far mountaintops.
The Inveraray Maritime Heritage Museum, located on Scotland's Loch Fyne, is based on the iron sailing ship Arctic Penguin, moored at the pier, along with the Clyde puffer VIC 72 Eilean Eisdeal, (renamed Vital Spark).
Vital Spark is a fictional Clyde puffer, a type of small steamboat which provided a vital supply link around the west coast and Hebrides islands of Scotland. These stumpy little cargo ships have achieved almost mythical status thanks largely to the short stories of Neil Munro who wrote about the Vital Spark and her captain Para Handy.
Puffers seem to have been regarded fondly even before Munro began publishing his short stories in the Glasgow Evening News in 1905. This may not be surprising, for these small steamboats were then providing a vital supply link around the west coast and Hebrides islands of Scotland. The charming rascality of the stories went well beyond the reality of a commercial shipping business, but they brought widespread fame. They appeared in the newspaper over 20 years, were collected in book form by 1931, inspired the 1953 film The Maggie, and came out as three popular television series, dating from 1959 to 1995.
Tripod mounted, 6 exposure hdr -3 to +2 in 1ev steps. Pp in acr, photomatics, and photoshop with a helping of topaz clarity and a smidgen of denoise. Fuji X-E2 with 18-55 f2.8-4, @ f11, exposure 1/17 to 1/550 sec , ISO 200.