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Broken dreams are like broken shells, we all see them, we step on them but we don't do anything to fix them. -unknown author
Shot at Baler, Aurora.
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“Broken people don't hide from their monsters. Broken people let themselves be eaten.”
― Francesca Zappia
for 7DoS: I'm happy that someone had put this yellow cover behind this broken window pane, as I think it helps give some contrast to this shot.
Taken for Macro Mondays "Broken" theme. After watching a Mistle Thrush in the garden battering the cr*p out of a snail to feed two fledgelings I thought "Aha, that's broken!" (I'm quick like that! ;-)) So went out after they'd gone & picked up the remnants of the shell. The shell is about 3/4" across.
Broken Hill at Torrey Pines State Reserve has long been on my list to photograph. I finally made it. The sunset wasn't that great, but I am still happy with the pictures. This was actually taken with my iPhone vs. the other one that was taken with my DSLR.
A delight to see your charm and your light
Is it a reality or the thread of a dream?
Open my eyes and open my heart
Welcome to stay and communicate !
But then, hit by a lightning or a flash
A visit by a green spirit at a sight
who has driven my dream away ?
Now, all have faded away and were in the past !!
Close my eyes and close my heart
I no longer see your light and charm
Wake up ! Wake up ! The thread is broken !
For all is nothing but just a broken dream... !!!
by Rosa Kawashima.... 27/8/16
Just a thought when I am in the mood......:::))
Hi everyone, enjoy a beautiful weekend.....::))
Broken Windows in the Hospital Ward of the abandoned WWII Army Air Corps base in Wendover, Tooele County, Utah. This is the base where the Atomic Bomb used in WWll was assembled and the crew of the Enola Gay practiced dropping the bomb before going to Tinian.
To see more images of this abandoned WWll base check out the album here: www.flickr.com/photos/19779889@N00/albums/72157601973705978
I took this photo in Berlin, Germany in 2012 when it was located at the Neue Nationalgalerie.
Broken Obelisk is a sculpture designed by Barnett Newman between 1963 and 1967. Fabricated from three tons of Cor-Ten steel, which acquires a rust-colored patina. Four multiples of the sculpture exist. With the permission of the Barnett Newman Foundation, a fourth multiple was commissioned in 2003 and completed in 2005–06 by Lippincott, Merrifield, and Roberts. This last of the four multiples was installed in front of the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin in 2007–08 and later acquired by Storm King Art Center.
Art critic Robert Hughes, writing on Broken Obelisk in 1971, said: Newman's pursuit of the sublime lay less in nature than in culture. This enabled him to pick ancient, man-made forms and return them to pristine significance without a trace of piracy. One index of that ability was his sculpture. Broken Obelisk, perhaps the best American sculpture of its time, is Newman's meditation on ancient Egypt: a steel pyramid, from whose apex an inverted obelisk rises like a beam of light. Here, Newman bypassed the Western associations of pyramids and broken columns with death, and produced a life-affirming image of transcendence. That unruffled self-sufficiency, beyond style, gave Newman's work its mysterious didactic value. It is not 'expressive'; the silence at the core bespeaks a man for whom art was a philosophical activity, a way of knowledge. [Wikipedia edited]
The Royal Cement Plant has an interesting history. Originally built in Iowa in 1954, it was purchased and moved to its current location in 1985 for $500,000 by a one Aldo DiNardo. It cost another $500,000 just to transport it. DiNardo then spent the next ten years rebuilding and trying to bring the plant up to EPA standards, which he claimed wasn't necessary since the plant had originally been built before the current EPA rules.
DiNardo was fined by the EPA and currently owes $70,000 in back emissions fees and late charges and $94,000 in penalties. Yet, after sinking over 12 million into the plant and never making any real money, DiNardo claimed that he wanted to reopen the plant, insisting he could make it profit.
On July 1, 1999 a fatal accident occurred at the plant, caused mostly by aging equipment. An electrician was electrocuted when he contacted an energized 4160 volt cable inside the crusher and finish grinding transformer. The flicker switches in the interrupter switches for the transformer were defective in that they did not open when the switch was tripped due to an accumulation of dust and dirt. With the switches stuck in the closed position, power was inadvertently supplied to the 4160 volt transformer. The Royal Cement Company was ordered to pay just $5,000 in fines.
In 2003 the BLM discovered that the plant was essentially occupying on public lands illegally, as DiNardo failed to pay fees of $1,300 to maintain his mining claims to the area in 2002. The voiding of the claims was never appealed, and DiNardo's plan of operations were revoked.
More details of the plant's history can be read here: lasvegassun.com/news/2004/jul/26/polluting-cement-plant-h...
What a surprising things we can find on the beach...That's my finding form today morning... A few meters away somebody dumped random things like : ski google, old bag with a doll inside, basket with old notes from college, domino, tent , turntable and few more... My first impression was Time Traveller was here ... ;) :) Photo taken with Rubinar 4,5/300mm
Macro Mondays, June 26, broken
Brieföffnergriff aus Marmor
paper knife, handle made of marble
length 2,4"
Things have to be broken, isn't it? Scan your archives, make your choice, and tweet it to @Flickr, adding #TwitterTuesday #Broken. We'll showcase the best ones on the Flickr Blog tomorrow.
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