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Lots of men chatting around the bridge here, but the boy in the foreground is fully occupied either delivering those parcels, or he has been sent to collect them. Think that's the River Clanrye flowing under the bridge...
Here's the current and relatively unchanged Street View, thanks to mogey.
The monument noted above by beachcomberaustralia is for Isaac Corry, 1753-1813, M.P. and Irish Chancellor of the Exchequer (who was born and died on the same day, 15th May). See comment below for a riot in Newry provoked by Corry's Window Tax...
Date: Circa 1900?
NLI Ref.: EAS_1432
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About The Milky Way:
The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains the Earth. This name derives from its appearance as a dim "milky" glowing band arching across the night sky, in which the naked eye cannot distinguish individual stars. The term "Milky Way" is a translation of the Classical Latin via lactea, from the Hellenistic Greek γαλαξίας κύκλος (pr. galaxías kýklos, "milky circle").
The Galaxy has this appearance because it is a disk-shaped structure that is being viewed from inside. Earth is located within the Galactic plane of this disk, around two thirds of the way out from the center, on the inner edge of a spiral-shaped concentration of gas and dust called the Orion–Cygnus Arm. The concept of this faint band of light being made up of stars was proven in 1610 when Galileo Galilei used his telescope to resolve it into individual stars. In the 1920s observations by astronomer Edwin Hubble showed that the Milky Way was just one of around 200 billion galaxies in the observable universe.
The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy 100,000–120,000 light-years in diameter containing 200–400 billion stars. It may contain at least as many planets, with 10 billion of those orbiting in the habitable zone of their parent stars.[14] The rotational rate of the Galaxy is once every 15 to 50 million years. The Galaxy as a whole is moving at a velocity of 552 to 630 km per second, depending on the relative frame of reference. It is estimated to be about 13.2 billion years old, nearly as old as the Universe. The Milky Way is part of the Local Group of galaxies, which forms a subcomponent of the Virgo Supercluster.
Interesting facts about Light Pollution:
Light pollution has caused one-fifth of the world's population – mostly in mainland Europe, Britain and the U.S. – to lose their ability to see the Milky Way in the night sky.
"The arc of the Milky Way seen from a truly dark location is part of our planet's natural heritage," said Connie Walker, and astronomer from the U.S. National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, Arizona.
Yet "more than one fifth of the world population, two thirds of the U.S. population and one half of the European Union population have already lost naked eye visibility of the Milky Way."
Star-free night
The phenomenon, caused by the reflection of manmade light by the Earth's atmosphere, impacts astronomical research and can even affect human health, warned Walker, who will present her research on Wednesday at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Pasadena, California.
The effects of light pollution on human health can be as mild as the disruption of the circadian rhythm leading to problems sleeping, but it can also be serious, she said.
One study of 147 Israeli communities, published in 2008 in the journal Chronobiology International, found some evidence for an increased risk of breast cancer for women living in areas with the most light pollution. This is thought to be due to unnatural light at night affecting levels of hormones such as melatonin and estrogen.
Light pollution comes in a variety of forms such as 'over illumination', 'light trespass' and 'sky glow' – the orange glow that hangs over cities and is produced by upwards directed light.
Walker's research has found that cities using light fixtures that direct just 3% of their light upwards can almost double the sky glow experienced by astronomical observatories 100 km away. "Allowing 10% direct uplight increases this figure to 570%," said Walker, who is chair of the U.S. Dark Skies Working Group, part of the Dark Skies Awareness program, a global citizen science effort to raise awareness of light pollution.
I reprocessed this to add a little bluer cast to the image and sharpened the boat and added a slight vignette. I like this photo for the mood it elicits in me and thought it deserved the extra work. I hope you like it. Have a great day!
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This evening I decided that it was nice enough weather to go up Crib Goch. I have done 3/4s of this route before but turned back due to bad weather. Crib Goch is one of the more challenging walks up to Snowdon and requires a fair amount of scrambling.
Shooting directly into the sun is extremely difficult. I used a pair of neutral density grad filters on the sky to try and bring back some of the highlights but as you can see the sun is still blown out.
While on the ridge I met a very nice bloke who offered to show me the North Ridge route down. This is a very fun decent that involves a good scree run half way down.
Anyway back to the shot.... This is one image, no HDR, edited in camera raw and the de-noised in Photoshop. There are no massive edits on this shot at all.
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Taken in my yard in Central Florida.
Canon Rebel XSi and Canon 75-300.
Many thanks to Dave DiCello for the tips as to where to shoot. I was lucky enough to go to a conference at the Sheraton Station Square. It was very close to the Monongahela Incline. I took the Incline three times over five days. Well worth it!
Fun Facts: Pittsburgh is known colloquially as "the City of Bridges" and "the Steel City" for its many bridges and former steel manufacturing base.
Reflections at Keppel Bay
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Reflections at Keppel Bay in Singapore will be a 99 year leasehold luxury waterfront residential complex on approx. 84,0000 m² of land with 750m of shoreline and will be completed by 2013. The complex will have 1129 units.
The complex was designed by Daniel Libeskind, who also created the masterplan for the World Trade Center Memorial.
The six glass towers will afford panorama views of Mount Faber and Sentosa.
Ce couple ont 4 petits comme dans la photo originale , j'ai ajouté le cinquième qui est sur le dos de son "papa" pour le fun :-)
Bonne semaine !
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This shot was taken a few weeks back and have been meaning to upload for a while, have been confused between two versions that I had captured.
Hope to upload the other version soon, would love to have captured the same in landscape mode, will have to re visit when the time is right.
Hope you all had a great weekend.
Thanks for all your comments and feedback.
Two little guys with their father/grandfather at the pond in Herbert Park, Dublin. One has his net for catching pinkeens, but thought the other might have been controlling a model boat?
The Pergola and covered walkway just above the far side of the pond sadly fell victim to the Snowpocalypse of winter 2010/2011 and collapsed under the weight of snow and ice. That aside, if you visit Herbert Park today, this scene is completely unchanged.
Slow Loose Chippings told us that the "pond in Herbert Park was once the mill pond for the nearby Mill at Ballsbridge" and Niall McAuley provided us with a map showing that old mill pond.
P.S. "Going fishing" myself for a few days, but will be back in action at the end of the week...
Photographer: Elinor Wiltshire
Date: Summer 1969
NLI Ref.: WIL 66[3]
The beams from the fallen towers and the Empty Sky memorial now point across the water to the new World Trade Center construction. One WTC (The Freedom Tower) and 4 WTC are brightly lit in the foggy skyline of New York City. It is a sad place, but with it's upward design, it has an overall atmosphere of respect, hope and recovery.
Ignacio and our new friend photographer Qi Lin emerged from the walkway during my exposure. I laughed at the coincidence and the man next to me asked "What, too many people getting in the way?" I just smiled and told him "No, I know these two." But it occurred to me that the visitors are part of the memorial, the more people, the better.
لم أعُد أحفل كثيراً بِ المطر ‘
منذ أيام عديدة ، و أنا مُمطـره ‘
و مازالتْ أحشائي تُسقـَى بـ غيمِ عينيّ ، دونما استسقاء !
و رعد يزمجر بداخلي ، يُزلزلني بدرجة قويه على مقياس الألم ..
و يُحدثُ شقوقاً عميقة في ملامح وجهي !
رغْم غزارة المطر - الدمع - إلا أنني لازلتُ أشكو الظمأ ، اليباس !
فمنذ قررتَ أن تضع نقطة النهاية ، و أنا أرضٌ بُور ..
لا تُسقَى ، و لا تُنبِتْ ، و لا تُثمِر ..
. إلا بيديكَ أنتَ ‘ **
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Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II is a double arcade in the center of Milan. The structure is formed by two glass-vaulted arcades intersecting in an octagon covering the street connecting Piazza del Duomo to Piazza della Scala.
It is named after Vittorio Emanuele II, the first king of the Kingdom of Italy and It was originally designed in 1861 and built by G. Mengoni between 1865 and 1877.
The four-storey arcade includes
elegant shops,restaurants,cafés,bars,hotels and remarkable floor mosaics such as :
The Bull from Turin Coat of Arms and the she-wolf,Lupa,suckling the twins Romulus and Remus.
This photo was taken in the late 19th century, probably by Robert French, chief photographer of William Lawrence Photographic Studios of Dublin. It's especially rich in beautiful ghostly figures, and if I'm reading the chuch clock correctly, this photo was taken at 10:15. G.W.V. Whitcroft's 1990 companion image was taken at 10:30
Compare this view of Lurgan with its companion photo taken by photographer G.W.V. Whitcroft (approximately 100 years later) as part of the Lawrence Photographic Project 1990/1991, where one thousand photographs from the Lawrence Collection in the National Library of Ireland were replicated a hundred years later by a team of volunteer photographers, thereby creating a record of the changing face of the selected locations all over Ireland.
For further information on the Lawrence Photographic Project, read all about it on our NLI Blog.
Niall McAuley has contributed this spectacular bird's eye view from Bing, and thanks to Niall's dating work (see his comments below), we can definitely say this photo was taken after 1865 and before 1896! Niall did some more work on dating and says:
"Not conclusive, but the 1865 directory lists 4 businesses on Middle Row, the 1877 Lennon Wylie link lists two, and the 1880 Lurgan Ancestry link lists none. I think most of Middle Row was vacant/demolished in 1880.
The buildings to the left look in poor shape here, you can see the outline of a demolished house on the gable of the farthest house. I think this photo is in the middle of the Town Commisioners efforts to get rid of Middle Row, maybe1879?"
Date: Circa 1879
NLI Ref.: L_CAB_01816
Camera : Nikon D4
Lenses : Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S
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While walking the dogs this afternoon, I discovered this beautiful and fuzzy lavender beauty growing in someones flower garden just a few houses down from ours.
This is good, because, ironically, the heavy rains of the past couple of weeks destroyed all the flowers that had started to bloom!
So even though the grass is now super green and there are green tree buds and plant shoots everywhere, the flowers have to start from scratch!
I have a good feeling they will catch right up, though!
a nice blue hour shot at the Tidal Basin in Washington DC's National Mall with the Jefferson Memorial gleaming brightly as night takes over in the city...pls. View On Black
After hanging out with Surfma in Half Moon Bay, I drove through downtown to pick up coffee & muffins for the road. it was a very misty, foggy morning. When I saw the white picket fence backed by a lavender/pink house I couldn't resist. And when I saw the three bulbs hanging from the tree, I knew this was the shot!
Happy Fence Friday Everyone!
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Well known lamp in Frankfurt... I already photographed it a few years ago, see here:
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Bled existe desde hace mil años y tiene la única isla de Eslovenia que, protegida por las pintorescas montañas, es la reina en medio de un lago alpino. Allí se encuentra la Iglesia de La Asunción.
En la orilla del lago y en lo alto de una colina hay un pequeño castillo de paredes blancas que vigila las cristalinas aguas del Lago
Bled es una población situada a orillas del lago Bled y en la falda de los Alpes Julianos Se encuentra a pocos kilómetros al sur de la frontera con Austria y a unos 50 kilómetros al noroeste de la capital del país, Liubliana
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My mind, right now. It feels like something is swirling around my head making my vision even more blurred than it already is. There are choices to be made, things to do. This is the time where I should be the most focused on getting the grades I want from school and the truth is that; I have never been more unmotivated to do things I don't want to do. Instead, I'm spending my time thinking about my life as it is, I spend my time photographing. Wondering about nothing and everything.
But despite this, I'm good. I feel good. And I'm happy.
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Arriving at Garvie Bay (Scottish Gaelic: Bàgh Garbhaidh) in the late afternoon I spent a wonderful couple of hours watching the play of light on the Assynt hills, with only some dunlin and oystercatchers for company. This image was made shortly before sunset, as a rainbow appeared near Suilven.
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A flight of fantasy for this fine Sunday! For today, the birds represent a departure of sorts as I embark on a project for work that will occupy more time and crazy long hours for a bit. I'll still find time to look, post (I hope) and comment but very sporadically for at least the next few weeks.
As always I appriciate everyones support and understanding and hopefully things won't be as turbulent as I think.
Happy Slider Sunday - HSS
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The Pannonian Plain is a large plain in Central Europe that remained when the Pliocene Pannonian Sea dried out. It is a geomorphological subsystem of the Alps-Himalaya system.
The river Danube divides the plain roughly in half.
The plain is divided among Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.
The plain is roughly bounded by the Carpathian mountains, the Alps, the Dinaric Alps and the Balkan mountains.
Although rain is not plentiful, it usually falls when necessary and the plain is a major agricultural area; it is sometimes said that these fields of rich loamy loess soil could feed the whole of Europe. For its early settlers, the plain offered few sources of metals or stone. Thus when archaeologists come upon objects of obsidian or chert, copper or gold, they have almost unparalleled opportunities to interpret ancient pathways of trade.
The precursor to the present plain was a shallow sea that reached its greatest extent during the Pliocene, when three to four kilometres of sediments were deposited.
The plain was named after the Pannonians, a northern Illyrian tribe. Various different peoples inhabited the plain during its history. In the first century BC, the eastern parts of the plain belonged to the Dacian state, and in the first century AD its western parts were subsumed into the Roman Empire. The Roman province named Pannonia was established in the area, and the city of Sirmium, today Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia, became one of the four capital cities of the Roman Empire in the 3rd century.
This was taken last week when the sky was good for a few days, managed to capture a few images that I will upload soon.
I feel the colors have slightly desaturated on flickr..
Finally meet up with an old friend and took him along with me to shoot, was great fun and hope he comes more often.
Thank you for your visit, comments good or bad.
Have a wonderful day.