View allAll Photos Tagged because
So after she spied me her Mother said he's taking your picture honey. And she said do you know why Mommy? No honey why the Mother said (you will love this answer) "BECAUSE I'M CUTE" mommy that's why! Now just imagine about 40 adults Laughing at that remark. What a little Ham for sure
Shoreditch High Street London The Rainbow Sports Bar Gentlemen Exotic Dancer Venue Still Closed because of COVID-19 Coronavirus
Because Epiphany, or the Kings' Day, is the beginning of Mardi Gras season- and I have a lot of unposted shots from Mardi Gras 2016!! Expect a deluge! :)
Our Daily Challenge - June , 2016 - "Climb, Climbing, or Climber"
Daily Dog Challenge 1680. "Exercise"
Stop on by Zachary and Henry's blog: bzdogs.com - The Secret Life of the Suburban Dog
Los Angeles Firefighters arrived quickly to find fire through the roof of a home in the 6400 block of Mary Ellen Avenue in Valley Glen on October 10, 2009. © Photo by Mike Meadows
I'm off to catch a boat: not one like this, unfortunately, with a giggly, barefoot little oarswoman, but a big one, sailing through the night. The prospect is equally lovely, except for the weather, and, perhaps, the waves.
And I don't feel right when you're gone away
Inspired by www.flickr.com/photos/andreea-ionita/5041397186/ Her work is so beautiful.
Another,
Of course fotgot to mention, these were shoot on Karl camera, i forgot mine. :(,
Great model though karl.
Because of a cup of coffee this morning, I realized a series of Black + Orange objects I own. Knowing today would be a day of work at home, I was determined to brighten up my first black coffee sip with a different cup. Instead of a usual country green one I used a black one. Soon after the sip, a chain of reactions happening in-and-outside my body happened. I started to see patterns out of my messy study room, the black-orange pattern.
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle novel from Haruki Murakami I recently started reading, a Giorgio Fedon case I use to keep ND filter lens for my SX-70 Sonar Autofocus, Asford leather pen case with orange inner lining and zipper, an OHTO multi-function pen, a Citizen nighthawk watch.....
This was just the beginning, later I found out more of my stuffs in this pattern.... Lodis wallet, Boblbee Amphib, etc.
More on Scription blog: moleskine.vox.com/library/post/black-orange-day.html
because your meant to be
don't care if you like it
cause your not me
i'm not scared Im not frightened
i'm whats inside
cause I have nothing to hide
because it's in my bathroom mirror :)
and we all know Julie & her bathroom mirrors...
Hope y'all had a great Thanksgiving. I did. And even though no one calls me Turkey nowadays, I still got a few gobble gobbles in for prosperity.
grainy because it was dusk. our hotel. that's our room in the bottom left and I unknowingly caught Max in the window. oh, the red wine and talks in that room. I was actually out there to go to the car to get more wine. :) ICELAND!
The Guest House
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
Rumi
because I now work on a larger table in another room. There's a pair of Tammys, cute vintage fabric, chenille bunnies and other Easter stuff, a Rune panda bear, and lots of other things in addition to the normal clutter.
City of London Bus Route #3205 Bishopsgate Threadneedle Street Bus Stop Closed because of Stupid COVID-19 Coronavirus Footpath Widening for Social Distancing. However, the City is a Ghost town with most workers working from home.
Because of the many dams on this river, it often looks like a long narrow lake. And even if it does look all brown and arid from an airplane, there are some very fertile and productive orchards down along the river. Of course, they are all irrigated.
St Peter and St Paul, Bardwell, Suffolk
I suppose that I've visited Bardwell church about half a dozen times over the years. It never ceases to surprise me how little-known it is, because it is full of interest - medieval wall-paintings, medieval glass, several centuries of lively memorials and a good early 20th Century High Church makeover.
It was almost eight years since I had last been to Bardwell. It hadn't changed much. Coming this way before, I had been struck how remote and rural this spot was for such a huge church. Having visited some two thousand churches around England since I was last here, I expected to be less impressed, and find it less remarkable. But I was wrong, because Bardwell still seems to me something special. St Peter and St Paul is one of the grander Suffolk churches, but, as I say, apparently little known.
This is a church built on the patronage of old money, much like Long Melford, unlike those Johnny-come-latelies who built Lavenham and East Bergholt. It mostly dates from the first few decades of the 15th century, the gift of Sir William of Bardwell. His tower rises up from its hilltop site, and can be seen from a fair distance away. The churchyard is on the southern side of the compact village. Curiously, it is still possible to see what the builder of Bardwell looked like. You enter through his lofty south porch, which seems grander than it is; an illusion caused by the lack of a clerestory. A similar situation exists at nearby Troston. But this is a lofty, aisleless church, and once inside you have a sense of the perpendicular, and windows with perpendicular proportions, if not perpendicular tracery.
Sir William de Bardwell's memorial glass survives. It has been reset in the easternmost window in the north side of the nave, but probably once sat below some grand scheme of devotional imagery in the east window. The image dates from the 1440s; the odd creature with him is a goat. Disappointingly, this was merely his emblem, rather than an unusual pet. Two more figures in the next window westwards are probably Sir Roger Drury and his wife Margery. There is much other late medieval glass, some of it English but also some continental work, including a beautiful pieta.
A good word should be said for the way the restoration brought together the medieval glass and some late Victorian work together at the east end of the nave. Together, they fill the space with brightly coloured light, even on a dull day. How different from the ponderous gloom 19th century restorations can so often produce.
Otherwise, the late Victorian period was perhaps a tad enthusiastic, filling it with some heavy wooden furniture and giving an urban patina to the floor. But it also unearthed a series of wallpaintings, some of which can still be seen. Others were recorded, and then whitewashed over to preserve them. You can still see a descent from the cross, and there are other bits and pieces, mainly faces.
If the chancel is rather dark and doomy by contrast, it is in an atmospheric way. It was almost entirely rebuilt in the 1850s and refurnished in the early 20th Century, but a splendid late-17th century memorial to Thomas and Bridget Reade remains. Their children kneel in different poses, some of them holding skulls to denote that they pre-deceased their parents.
All in all, St Peter and St Paul is a building which is calculated to impress, especially for being so unexpected in this relatively remote, rolling, rural landscape.
In this design, I try to respond to the context which is quite historical in a way because of the adjacent buildings such as the first glass manufacturer gallery one of the earliest art deco buildings in Melbourne. The curvilinear roof forms of the building integrate the rectilinear masses of welcoming spaces with the scale of pedestrian and automotive context which is very important for a welcome centre for a balloon tours and weather station. The connection between differentiated sites and alien programes require conciliatory, complicit, pliant, flexible and often cunning tactics. From Lebbeus Woods analysation of Da Vinci’s study of stream, I see the possibilities of using this idea as element and character of the building as it follows the demand of the concept of drift. The centre of the design is the public space, the courtyard which the building wraps around with its strands of planes which gives and experience of that the user is in the building but it is actually outside. This area becomes the place maker of the whole site I allow a certain setback so it will give the sense of welcoming into the building. The atrium serves a connection between visitors and the host with a sculptural circulation through its staircase and voids to the exhibition and lobby.
Because Rabab is a blessing ~ لأن الـ رباب .. نعمة
موكب الأطفال .. قرية السنابس
محرم الحرام،،
حسينيون .. تعلمنا أن الحسين نعمة ♥
Because I know when I think of healthy and pure, Willie Nelson springs right to mind.
Seriously, here we are at the SXSW closing-day softball-and-barbecue festivities, and when I snag a bottle of water out of the ice barrel, it turns out to be Willie Nelson Spring Water. We've all been marketed within an inch of our lives these last few days, so hardly anyone even looks at the label. I guess I'm brand-conscious: I spot it right away.
I point it out to a few folks, and they're all pretty speechless. "Of all the people in the world I might trust about what to put into my body," one comments, "old Willie comes about last." We all ultimately make the same joke: "You know, I hear that Keith Richards..."
If you're curious - it tastes great. Like fresh, clean water.
The rest of my pictures from the festival will crop up over the next few weeks in the eponymous SXSW 2007 set. If you're interested, there's also a set of last year's photos from SXSW 2006 posted here on Flickr.
Because today is my last day of spring break.
Because I absolutely love this song.
From this day. All SOOC.
Bookends-Simon and Garfunkel
No, this is not the best. No, this shoot was not intended for this. Yes, it compressed the pictures oddly horizontally. But I do not care. It's peace.
Comments off.
I only used this photo so that I could write a sentence with the words icon bokeh in it. I normally wouldn't write a sentence with bokeh in it at all but I have this time and I expect tomorrow I might write one with multiplicity in it because I know what's next although in the end I'll avoid it like I might avoid a theme of the week or something even though I'm doing a theme of the year.
Our dedicated U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service volunteers in the Pacific Region gave an incredible 230,919 hours of their time to conservation in 2016. That is the equivalent of 28,864 eight-hour work days! These incredible folks deserve a huge thank you and during National Volunteer Week (April 23-29) we are aiming to do just that. This is one of a series of blogs about U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service volunteers. Share your story of service or honor an outstanding volunteer by telling us about it with #iServeBecause on Facebook or Twitter.
"The Ariane Tower is an office skyscraper located in the business district of La Défense, in the commune of Puteaux in France.
It was built in 1975 under the name of Tour Générale because Société Générale occupied most of the useful space. It is 152 m high; it was completely renovated in 2008.
The tower has been owned by the Unibail-Rodamco group since it acquired it in 1999. At the end of 2018, "Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield reached an agreement with the Singaporean sovereign fund GIC for the sale of the Ariane tower".
La Défense (French: [la de.fɑ̃s]) is a major business district in France, located 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) west of the city limits of Paris. It is part of the Paris metropolitan area in the Île-de-France region, located in the department of Hauts-de-Seine in the communes of Courbevoie, La Garenne-Colombes, Nanterre, and Puteaux.
La Défense is Europe's largest purpose-built business district, covering 560 hectares (1,400 acres), for 180,000 daily workers, with 72 glass and steel buildings (of which 20 are completed skyscrapers, out of 24 in the Paris region), and 3,500,000 square metres (38,000,000 sq ft) of office space. Around its Grande Arche and esplanade ("le Parvis"), La Défense contains many of the Paris urban area's tallest high-rises. Les Quatre Temps, a large shopping mall in La Défense, has 220 stores, 48 restaurants and a 24-screen movie theatre.
The district is located at the westernmost extremity of the 10-kilometre-long (6.2 mi) Axe historique ("historical axis") of Paris, which starts at the Louvre in Central Paris and continues along the Champs-Élysées, well beyond the Arc de Triomphe along the Avenue de la Grande Armée before culminating at La Défense. The district is centred in an orbital motorway straddling the Hauts-de-Seine department communes of Courbevoie, La Garenne-Colombes, Nanterre and Puteaux. La Défense is primarily a business district and hosts a population of 25,000 permanent residents and 45,000 students. La Défense is also visited by 8,000,000 tourists each year and houses an open-air museum." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
Now on Instagram.
History of the castle
Architecture and use of the castle
Events connected with the castle
Did you know that ... ?
(Pictures, quite old ones, you can see by clicking on the link at the end of the site!)
History of Bratislava castle dating back to the Celts and Romans, because Castle Hill was a strategic location at the crossroads of important trade routes. BC was in its place Celtic settlement, which for centuries was replaced by a Roman frontier fort.
The first written reference dates back to 907, when the subject is mentioned under the name Pressalauspruch. Period of the Principality of Nitra and Great Moravia document remains Slavic fortress with three-aisled basilica. Slovak princely castle of several reconstructions and modifications gradually arose from a medieval mid 11th century castle and county. At the time it became a treasure trove of crown jewels and coronation castle later. It established the priory and the Priory School and Church of the Most Holy Saviour. Documentary evidence shows that in the first quarter of the 13th century stood on the highest point complex terrain Romanesque residential tower with separate walls with defensive towers, from which to this day despite rearrangements preserved so. Crown Tower.
For King Sigismund from 1427 began to radically change the appearance of the castle, rebuilding it today vtlačila (pressing) character block monumental structures. King had demolished almost all of that time the building and gradually grew large two-story Gothic palace representative trapezoid in plan. The earlier buildings remain standing today as southwestern Crown defense tower. In this period were also two entrance gates to the castle area, of which only the eastern was preserved, called Sigismund's Gate. Richly structured double-shell architecture with the goal of stonework demanding solution in the form of a donkey back a vault in crossing it included the construction centers of development in the Danube region, which were the models for a wide range of architectures in the period.
The current layout of the castle with a regular quadrangular ground-plan around a central courtyard is a result of the construction directions during the Renaissance and early Baroque. After the Battle of Mohács in 1526, the castle became coronation seat of the Hungarian kings, by the Turkish troops expelled from the original center of the Hungarian Empire in Buda.
Conversions were oriented not only to improve the fortifications of the castle, but also on its modernization. During pálfyovskej conversion in the first half of the seventeenth century, the palace was redundant the third floor, the two original towers were added two more were rebuilt and redesigned interiors defenses. On the southern fortifications and bastions of the castle built in 1674 has been added Leopold Gate.
Bratislava Castle experienced a golden age in the reign of Maria Theresa. The concept of the construction of major projects by French, Italian and Austrian architects were directed at making the castle as a representative residence of the Habsburg Kingdom equalized leading European royal court.
In the western headquarters of the castle have been built new representation staircases. Extensive changes to the application of luxury and contemporary taste, however, occurred in the wider area of the castle. In the east wing of the old palace was added under a new name Theresianum, which served mainly to accommodate the monarch.
It set up a gallery, library and valuable art collections, especially graphic cabinet viceroy Albert of Saxony-Cieszyn. Cabinet known as the Albertina later moved to Vienna, where it is now. The spacious surface area of land improved - there grew terraces, French garden, orangery, summer and winter riding school and stables, where ustajňovali (military censor) breeds rare horses.
Bratislava Castle after the death of Maria Theresa fell significantly. Her son and successor to the throne was Joseph II. He has set up a training center for Catholic clergy seminar where eminent scholars have studied the then time, among them Anton Bernolák. During the Napoleonic Wars in the early 19th century served as barracks, what happened to it ultimately fatal. Due garrison in 1811 the castle burnt down and more than 140 years remained a dilapidated ruin.
After several attempts to restore the castle returned to his new life as a big renovation, which was decided in 1953. Curators were architects Alfred Piffl and Dušan Martinček. After restoring the castle took shape as it was never called. Theresian reconstruction of the 18th century. In 1961 the Bratislava Castle, declared a national monument.
Did an apparel promotion shoot with Emily Nash and Sandy Schwalen for the Thriftee Girls Shop at Bull Creek District Park.
February 1, 2015