View allAll Photos Tagged align
.... better be !!!! .....
Nineteen Eighty-Four ....?
in my citylife Series ...
Taken Sept 5, 2017
Thanks for your visits, faves, invites and comments ... (c)rebfoto
Photo of oil droplets from the oil & water macro abstract photography assignment captured via Minolta MD Macro Rokkor-X 100mm F/4 lens. Inside the creative halls of the 494 ∞ Labs. Early December 2020.
Exposure Time: 1/8 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/8 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 6078 K * Film Plug-In: Fuji Velvia 50 * Adaptor: 1:1 Extension Tube
While i saw these people sitting outside a shop, I felt that the patterns on the door shutter aligned with the spiritual ash powder on their foreheads.
Follow me @ My Blog | Google+ | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram
WEEK 8 – Batesville Kroger, Set II
Thought this one turned out well: a straight shot down the rear actionway, with the aisle markers moving inward on the left of the frame and the rear wall doing the same on the right. This is typically a difficult scene to capture, given that – instead of dairy (as discussed!) – this area is usually home to some other department, most often a service counter such as meat and seafood. Even then, though, this sort of angle is just a hard one to try and get from any spot in a store: it’s hard to stand in a precise spot with your back against a wall like this and not be noticed in the process!! Thankfully, it looks like everything aligned perfectly in my favor this visit :)
(c) 2019 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
Isla Marta is an example of Nature's equilibrium: It hosts both the predators and the prey.
On top of the island the penguins rest durin the summer and at the same time, at the island's shores, the sea lions have their base settlement.
There was much practice and patience involved in measuring this shot of 140 seconds. This is what I was going for and overall a success. I hope you enjoy it!
Straight out of the cam - No editing
Picked up a head cold a few weeks back and haven't had the chance to get out , down to just the sniffles and an annoying cough now thank goodness.
Some promising numbers for sunrise and sunset today, too good to pass up ragardless of the cough..
Ducked down to Shellharbour harbour (not the Marina) and just wandered around in the dark .. following the light out to Cowries with what is probably the lowest tide I've encountered there for some time.
Finished the day at Kiama - just because (?!) more to come on that over the next week or so. For now here's some frames form Cowries on a ripper of winter dawn.
Pentax K1 w DFA15-30/2.8
ISO3200 f/11 10s 15mm x 30 frames
Raw developed in DxO PhotoLab6 to .tiff files
Stacked aligned in Starry Landscape Stacker to a single .tiff
Colour graded in Nik6 Color Efex, touched up in Topaz AI and finished off back in PhotoLab.
Vila Casale / Piazza Armerina
The Villa Romana del Casale (Sicilian: Villa Rumana dû Casali) is a large and elaborate Roman villa or palace located about 3 km from the town of Piazza Armerina, Sicily. Excavations have revealed Roman mosaics which, according to the Grove Dictionary of Art, are the richest, largest and most varied collection that remains,[1] for which the site was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997. The villa and its artwork date to the early 4th century AD.
The mosaic and opus sectile floors cover some 3,500 m2 and are almost unique in their excellent state of preservation due to the landslide and floods that covered the remains.
Although less well-known, an extraordinary collection of frescoes covered not only the interior rooms, but also the exterior walls.
History
Plan of the villa
The visible remains of the villa were constructed in the first quarter of the 4th century AD on the remains of an older villa rustica and are the pars dominica, or master's residence, of a large latifundium or agricultural estate.
The nearby settlement of Philosophiana was probably the centre of production and commercial activities, as well as a rest stop along the Catania-Agrigento road, as mentioned in the Itinerarium Antonini as a mansio or statio, for travellers looking for a shelter for the night and a change of horses. The latifundium extended to the mouth of the Gela river identifiable by the many brick stamps with inscriptions PHIL SOPH.
During the first two centuries of the Empire, Sicily had gone through an economic depression due to the production system of large estates based on slave labour: urban life had suffered a decline, the countryside was deserted and the rich owners did not reside there, as the lack of suitable villas would seem to indicate. Furthermore, the Roman government neglected the territory, which became a place of exile and a refuge for slaves and brigands. At the beginning of the 4th century rural Sicily entered a new period of prosperity with commercial settlements and agricultural villages that seem to reach the apex of their expansion and activity. New constructions are seen in the localities of Philosophiana, Sciacca, Kaukana (Punta Secca), Naxos and elsewhere. An obvious sign of transformation was the new title assigned to the governor of the island, from corrector to consularis.
Peristyle
The reasons seem to be twofold. Firstly, the renewed importance of the provinces of proconsular Africa and Tripolitania for grain supplies to Italy, when Egyptian production, which had up to then satisfied the needs of Rome, was sent to Constantinople, the new imperial capital from 330. Sicily consequently assumed a central role on the new trade routes from Africa. Secondly, the more affluent classes, of equestrian and senatorial rank, began to abandon urban life by retreating to their possessions in the countryside, due to the growing tax burden and the expenses they had to pay for cities. The owners also looked after their own lands, which were no longer cultivated by slaves, but by colonists. Considerable sums of money were spent on enlarging, beautifying and making the villas more comfortable (e.g. Villa Romana del Tellaro).
the central figure in between two soldiers is believed to be Maxentius.
The owner's identity has long been discussed and many different hypotheses have been formulated. Some features such as the Tetrarchic military insignia and the probable Tetrarchic date of the mosaics have led scholars to suggest an imperial owner such as Maximian. Other scholars believe that the villa was the centre of the great estate of a high-level senatorial aristocrat.
Three successive construction phases have been identified; the first phase involved the quadrangular peristyle and the facing rooms. The private bath complex was then added on a north-west axis. In a third phase the villa took on a public character: the baths were given a new entrance and a large latrine. A grand monumental entrance was built, off-axis to the peristyle but aligned with the new baths' entrance in a formal arrangement with the elliptical (or ovoid) arcade and the grand tri-apsidal hall. This hall was used for entertainment and relaxation for special guests and replaced the two state halls of the peristyle (the “hall of the small hunt” and the “diaeta of Orpheus”). The basilica was expanded and decorated with beautiful and exotic marbles.
The complex remained inhabited for at least 150 years. A village grew around it, named Platia (derived from the word palatium (palace).
Hunters in the Great Hunt mosaic
In the 5th and 6th centuries, the villa was fortified for defensive purposes by thickening the perimeter walls and closing of the arcades of the aqueduct to the baths. The villa was damaged and perhaps destroyed during the short domination of the Vandals between 469 and 478. The outbuildings remained in use, at least in part, during the Byzantine and Arab periods. The settlement was destroyed in 1160–1 during the reign of William I. The site was abandoned in the 12th century after a landslide covered the villa. Survivors moved to the current location of Piazza Armerina.
The villa was almost entirely forgotten, although some of the tallest parts of the remains were always visible above ground. The area was cultivated for crops. Early in the 19th century, pieces of mosaics and some columns were found. The first official archaeological excavations were carried out later in that century.
The first professional excavations were made by Paolo Orsi in 1929, followed by the work of Giuseppe Cultrera in 1935–39. Major excavations took place in the period 1950–60 led by Gino Vinicio Gentili, after which a protective cover was built over the mosaics. In the 1970s Andrea Carandini carried out excavations at the site. Work has continued to the present day by the University of Rome, La Sapienza. In 2004 a large mediaeval settlement of the 10–12th centuries was found. Since then further sumptuous rooms of the villa have also been revealed.
Source WP
Leica M2
Voigtlander 35mm f/1.4 Nokton II MC (yellow filter)
Fomapan 100 in Fomadon LQR (1:10 @ 68 deg. for 5 min)
-- It had been five years or so since we visited this site, an abandoned dormitory for sugar cane cutters. Much had changed since our last visit. As recently as the circa. 1980's, the sugar corporations of South Florida hired migrant workers, largely from from islands, to cut their cane, housing them in big dormitories that looked like chicken coops. A book was written about the practice in the late 1980's by Alec Wilkinson, and the outrage over the working/living conditions forced the corporations to develop the necessary machinery, ending the need for the seasonal labor. We first visit this site in circa 2015, some twenty-five years after the dorms were closed, but the beds and mattresses remained neatly stacked and aligned. Not today; today the mattresses are scattered, cabinets are knocked over, and the washing/drying machine are toppled on their side. Someone or something had been there. The dorms now are just homes for owls and rodents.
Alignement d'un tracé d'avion de grande ligne avec les strates rocheuses de l'aiguille de Borderan et enneigées sur la chaîne des Aravis
These Cubs Of the Year or COY are from a grizzly nicknamed Blondie by local photographers. Naming bears doesn't align with park service ideals and thus they refer to most grizzly by their radio collar number, in this case 793. These cubs would have been born late January or early February and will be with mom until about this time of year 2024. As they continue to grow this summer they will rely on mothers mild for the lion's share of their nutrition but will forage right along side mom taking diligent mental notes on what she is eating before beginning their masters class on how to survive as a grizzly next summer. If they can make it that far. In addition to the typical threats to bears and especially young bears, grizzly bears are likely to be removed from the endangered species list in the next few years. These youngsters will need all the luck they can get to make it into adulthood. Good luck little ones.