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Today is a green day at Color my World Daily and we have another very warm day in Montreal. Since it is my super busy / laundry folding / running day I have to go and start as soon as possible !! So here we go today: I found another book I could not resist since the cover has a beautiful and bold green color and the pages are very thick and they have this beautiful raw finish… I hope you like it !
I wish you all an amazing day !! See you later my friends !!
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this is my favorite spot - besides riding my Harley it's a place in Mayport FL where I can tune out and find peace- this day in Feb 2014 all the visuals came together- when I got home to edit this photo- it helped me decide to make a better life for myself - life changing!
Since wind was weak, and only a few boats were on the river, reflections were much better than expected. In Inuyama, Aichi, Japan.
Cormorant fishing in Japan has tradition of more than 1000 years. A master fisherman skillfully handle cormorants, which are held on lashes, dive and catch fishes. The man behind the fisherman manages the ship in a proper position.
木曽川鵜飼で、映り込みが綺麗でした。
I thought I would publish this image for World Earth day.
It was taken last week at Dungeness during my first taste of real freedom since October last year.
I took my ever faithful Leica X, and post processed this in Luminar 3 to find this unique monochrome look.
I hope you all enjoy.
Leica X
Met een forse stoompluim in top passert de smalspoortrein van Ochsenhausen naar Warthausen. Het vroege ochtendlicht komt juist over de heuvels en schijnt door de vensters van de twee rijtuigen. De bagagewagen en de twee goederenwagens zijn drie-assers. Dat valt bij dit silhouet in tegenlicht goed te zien.
Meer foto's van deze smalspoorlijn vindt u in het album Öchsle.
Klik op de foto voor een grote afbeelding.
Bekijk mijn fotoalbum in de klassieke versie.
Removed from the iconography of the Noir cement jungle I incorporated common Noir semiotics to an otherwise typical farm scenario using bleak overtones, restrictive framing, deep contrast, and a stark off angle camera shot.
Not being invited to wander this pasture we peer at these dejected cows through the proverbial glass darkly.
camera: Zenit 122
Lens: Industar 50- 2 pancake
Film: Kodak Tri-X 400 - 35mm
Who does not know Olympus, the mountain of the mythical gods of ancient Greece? But few know this Olympus, a wonderful village on the steep mountains of the island of Karpathos. In antiquity in this place there was the Doric city Vrykous. Today a small part of the city and the walls are preserved as well as some ruins from graves and three old Christian churches. The city of Vrykous was kept until the 7th or 8th century. Then the residents sought refuge in more mountainous areas on account of Saracen pirates. The refugees from Vrykous founded Olympos, possibly in those years. Olympos was named after the mountain where it is built. The name of the village is feminine, contrary to the name of the mountain that is masculine. The villagers of Olympos kept the local dialect and the traditional costume because of the isolation of this place from the rest of Karpathos.
Am Montag, 06.09.21, setzte ich die Kamera vorsichtshalber auf das Stativ. Zu groß die Aufregung, zu groß die Angst diese Aufnahme zu versemmeln. Mit minimaler Verspätung zogen die beiden BEM 01er (01 180 und 01 066) den IGE/Eisenbahnromantik Sonderzug, von Koblenz nach Stuttgart, in Boppard an mir vorbei.
Vielen Dank an alle Beteiligten, die diese Fahrt möglich gemacht haben !
Summer has come and gone
And left a feeling here, and we should keep it...
theautumndefense.bandcamp.com/track/there-will-always-be-...
open.spotify.com/track/33MFAWW2YPyIfAU2HGw3pG?si=8b0c892e...
**I will be back a little later today to catch up with you! x
A hazy Wisconsin Winter Sunrise greets the crew of Wisconsin & Southern train T4H which is about to take a high green at South Ackerville while making a fast trackage rights run over the rails of the Canadian National. - February 26th, 2021 ~~ A Jeff Hampton Photograph ©
#Peace and #love
Tied sound on Spotify open.spotify.com/album/5T6OnzQteEJbVz8gTgn7on
#flickr #flickrfeature #worldphotographyday #worldphotographyday2021
BLE 906 comes around the bend about to glide under highway 37 with a mostly empty limestone train from U.S. Steel Minntac back to Proctor. #YBSNature21
JA791A, a Boeing 777-381ER, over Toronto, Ontario. It was operating as ANA9 (All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd.) from New York to Tokyo. As it passed overhead, it was in a thin layer of cirrus cloud at 30,000 feet.
Interesting to see the leading edge of the port wing gleaming. Design trivia: those wings are swept back 31.64 degrees.
Explored Nov 21, 2021.
Bruce Munro: Light At Sensorio in Paso Robles is a visual delight with 58,800 stemmed spheres lit by fiber optics spread over 15 acres.
10 second exposure at blue hour.
Thank you for the views, faves and comments.
With Canadian National's Grand Trunk Railroad heritage unit on the point, CSX K614 rolls under the Bort Road bridge just a few minutes after sunset in North East, Pennsylvania where the sky glows with a mix of blues and pinks that complement the heritage scheme.
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CSX Erie West Sub
North East, PA
CSX K614 (Chicago Clearing, IL to Phil Greenwich, PA)
CN 8952 SD70M-2 Blt. 2010
CN 2541 C44-9W Blt. 1997
Canadian Pacific's business train fires along at track speed through Crow River, just outside of Belgrade, in a perfectly timed pocket of sun on an otherwise overcast spring morning. This would be some of the only sun we'd see the train in, but definitely made it worth it.
Crow River Township, MN.
May 2021
white balance correction and a very slight crop in post. otherwise, sooc.
lomography metropolis shot at iso 200.
littletinperson
film: lomography metropolis
explored. 30 nov 2021.
Eilean Donan Castle went through several phases of development from the earliest fortifications of the 13th century through to its destruction in 1719, and the subsequent reconstruction in the 20th century. The first phase comprised a curtain wall enclosing much of the island with a tower house added in the 14th century. In the 14th or 15th century the outer wall was abandoned and a smaller enclosure built around the tower house. More development within this courtyard took place in the 16th century, as well as the addition of defences on the eastern side. The castle was almost totally destroyed in 1719, after which almost 200 years passed before reconstruction began. Although some archaeological evidence has been recovered from the island, much material was lost during the reconstruction works making it difficult to build a clear picture of the early castle. Very little historical evidence survives.
The castell of Ylen Donen is composed of a strong and fair dungeon upon a rock, with another tower compasd with a fair barmkin wall, with orchards and trees, al within ane yland of the lenth of twa pair of butts almost round. It is sayd of old that castel consisted of seven tours.
The only drawing of the castle prior to its destruction was made in 1714 by Lewis Petit (c. 1665–1720), a military engineer with the Board of Ordnance who came to Scotland in 1714 to survey Fort William and other defences in the area. Among the drawings he produced are a plan and elevation of Eilean Donan, which clearly show that the castle was largely derelict by this time, with only a building at the southeast corner being roofed. In the 13th century, a curtain wall or wall of enceinte was constructed around the island, enclosing most of the area above the high tide line. Scant remains of these walls can be traced on the ground, running around the northern end of the island. The eastern and southern segments of this wall are largely obscured by later development, although the enclosure is assumed to have contained an area of around 3,000 square metres (32,000 square feet). At the northern point of the wall the foundations of a large tower survive, measuring around 12 by 13 metres (39 by 43 ft) and the remains of foundations suggest further towers at the north-east and southwest corners of the enclosure. The enclosure was accessed via a sea-gate in the north-west curtain wall, where a small beach would have allowed boats to be drawn up. Another beach to the southwest may have formed a second access. Archaeological excavations in 2008 and 2009 confirmed the presence of these walls, and also found evidence that metalworking was taking place in the northern part of the castle. A tower house or keep was built against the curtain wall at the high point of the island, probably in the 14th century. The tower measured 16.5 by 12.4 m (54 ft 2 in by 40 ft 8 in), with walls 3 m (9 ft 10 in) thick. The vaulted ground floor was originally divided in two, with a stair in the north wall giving access to the first-floor hall. Above this were probably another two storeys, including a garret. The tower, according to Petit's later drawing, was topped by crowstep gables, and surrounded by a walkway and bartizans (small turrets) at the corners.
At an unknown period, probably in the later 14th century or early 15th century, the outer wall was abandoned in favour of a smaller defensive enclosure, around 25 m (82 ft) square. The entrance to this smaller courtyard was from the east. The reasons for this change are unclear, though it is suggested that the smaller area would have been easier to defend. During the 16th century, two buildings were added to the southern periphery of the enclosure. A small house was constructed within the southeast angle of the wall, with a circular stair-tower on its northern side giving access to the walkway along the eastern curtain wall. Located just inside the gate, this is likely to have served as a house for the castle's constable or keeper, and is the only building shown with a roof on Petit's survey. At the southwest corner of the enclosure, an L-plan block was put up, possibly as late as the early 17th century. The southern part is sited outside the line of the inner curtain wall, with a northern wing, which may have been a slightly later addition, inside the wall.
A mural chamber within the keep
In the later 16th century, the castle was extended eastward to create a bastion or "hornwork", providing a more securely defended entrance. The hornwork comprises a pair of walls enclosing a triangular courtyard, linking the east wall of the castle with an irregular hexagonal (or heptagonal) structure. This structure, 11.5 m (37 ft 9 in) across, contains a well at its lowest level, 5 m (16 ft) across and 10 m (33 ft) deep. This led MacGibbon and Ross to describe the structure as a water tower or cistern. However, the presence of a door on its eastern side is shown in 19th century photographs, indicating that it was built as the main entrance to the castle. The water-filled interior would have been crossed by a removable bridge, presenting an obstacle to attackers. From the bridge, access to the castle would have been up a flight of steps, into the triangular courtyard, and through the gate in the east curtain wall. It is possible that the hexagonal bastion was roofed to serve as an artillery position. Dredging of the reservoir in 1893 recovered two brass guns, referred to as "double hagbuts", and measuring around 1 m (3 ft) long with a bore of around 25 millimetres (1 in). Also recovered was a yett, an iron gate, probably installed in the east door to the bastion, but now on display inside the castle. At some point in the 17th century, this elaborate access was abandoned and a more convenient entrance opened in the south wall of the hornwork. By 1714, Lewis Petit's drawing clearly shows that the castle was largely derelict, with only the house at the southeast corner being roofed. Four years later, it was completely demolished, and, by 1912, very little of the castle was still standing.
The present castle buildings are entirely the result of 20th-century reconstruction by Gilstrap-Macrae, who commissioned Edinburgh architect George Mackie Watson to draw up the plans. Although the rebuilding followed the extant ground plan, the details of the present castle differ from its original appearance. The survey drawings by Lewis Petit were not rediscovered until the restoration was almost complete, and the restorers therefore were forced to rely on less accurate interpretations such as the work of MacGibbon and Ross, who attempted a plan of the remains in the late 19th century. The clerk of works, Farquhar Macrae, is said to have based the reconstruction on a dream in which he saw the restored Eilean Donan.Rather than a genuinely medieval castle, Eilean Donan is described as "a romantic reincarnation in the tradition of early 20th-century castle revivals." John Gifford, analysing the building against the Petit survey, notes a "fussy elaboration of what was probably plain originally, and an omission of decoration where it once existed", and describes the interior as "a rubbly Edwardian stage-set for life in the Middle Ages".
The castle is today entered from the south, via a modern portal complete with a portcullis. Above the door is a Gaelic inscription which in translation reads: "As long as there is a Macrae inside, there will never be a Fraser outside", referring to a bond of kinship between the two clans, and a similar inscription which once adorned the Fraser's home at Beaufort Castle. Above this is carved the coat of arms of John Macrae-Gilstrap. The portal gives access to the courtyard, the level of which has been lowered exposing the bedrock around the tower house. The present buildings at the southeast of the castle reflect the form of the earlier structures, including the circular stair tower, but are larger in extent. To the southwest only the southern portion of the L-shaped block was reconstructed, as a plain three-storey house, while in place of the northern wing is an open platform giving views over the loch. A small tower occupies the north-west angle. The keep itself follows the original dimensions, though the formerly subdivided ground floor is now a single room: the tunnel-vaulted Billeting Hall. Above on the first floor is the Banqueting Hall with an oak ceiling, and decorated with coats of arms and 15th-century style fireplace. The main ceiling beams in the Banqueting Hall are of Douglas Fir and were shipped from British Columbia, Canada as a gift from the Macraes of Canada. Small mural chambers within the walls are accessed from each hall.
A digital inspiration to Man Ray's rayograms, in the year in which we celebrate the centenary of the first "rayography", obtained by chance in 1921.
In this case, the image was created by placing the objects on the scanner table and scanning them with the lid open, in a completely dark room.