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CP's triweekly turn from Sherbrooke to Mégantic is seen here snaking through the town of Cookshire, briefly following the valley of the Eaton River after descending the hill from Birchton and soon to face an upward grade to Gould summit. A pair of good-looking locomotives power the train today - 3015 freshly painted in CP's most recent (at the time) colours, and CMQ 3812 still clad in the attractive paint scheme of the departed short line. Not too long before this was taken, CP undertook a major revision of its train symbols systemwide, and the Montreal-region local assignments were redesignated from F to G prefixes.
Video of the train cresting Birchton hill on the return trip to Sherbrooke: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tzS1m2GKj4
Under the shady roof
Of branching Elm Star-proof,
Follow me,
I will bring you where she sits
Clad in splendor as befits
Her deity.
Such a rural Queen
All Arcadia hath not seen.
John Milton
A snow clad winters day in the Lake District. This is a view from Hope Park looking towards Derwent Isle and CatBell on Derwent Water. Hope you all have an enjoyable Easter Weekend and as always please feel free to leave a comment and if you like my work feel free to share with your family and friends if you so wish.
Zehn Lampen an der Fassade vom Casino in Baden-Baden.
Ten lamps at the cladding of the Casino Baden-Baden.
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Mosaico di tessere di vetro con specchio raffigurante un veliero, realizzato artigianalmente a mano dai maestri vetrai della Vero s.n.c.
La Vero s.n.c. di Girardi Lucio e Bardelle Domenico realizza artigianalmente mosaici in vetro interamente a mano, utilizzando tessere in vetro tagliate su misura, da vetri molto pregiati, opalescenti e carichi di colore.
Il binomio mosaico e specchio nasce dall'esigenza di possedere qualcosa di fatto a mano, dal design unico ed inimitabile come può essere ogni oggetto Italian style che sia anche uno strumento d'utilizzo quotidiano.
Ogni mosaico è realizzabile su misura ed esigenza.
Vero s.n.c. di Girardi Lucio e Bardelle Domenico company
realizes handmade glass mosaics entirely by hand using glass tiles cut to size, from very fine glass, opalescent and loads of color.
The binomial mosaic mirror stems from the need to have something handmade and unique design and unique as each object can Italian style that is also an instrument of daily use.
Each mosaic is made to measure and need.
Non è facile stabilire con precisione l'origine del mosaico: l'uomo ha da sempre manifestato una naturale inclinazione a decorare suppellettili o architetture, utilizzando sia pigmenti sia pietruzze già colorate dalla natura stessa.
Lo stesso termine mosaico è di origine incerta: alcuni lo fanno derivare dal greco µουσαικόν (musaikòn), "opera paziente degna delle Muse"; in latino veniva chiamato opus musivum, cioè "opera delle Muse" oppure "rivestimento applicato alle grotte dedicate alle Muse stesse". Il richiamo alle Muse è dovuto all'usanza degli antichi romani di costruire, nei giardini delle ville, grotte e anfratti dedicati alle Ninfe (ninpheum) o Muse (musaeum), decorandone le pareti con sassi e conchiglie. Quindi musaeum o musivum indica la grotta e opus musaeum o opus musivum indica il tipo di decorazione murale. In seguito si affermò l'uso dell'aggettivo musaicus ad indicare l'opera musiva.
Potrebbe derivare anche dall'arabo muzauwaq, che significa "decorazione". C'è chi, invece, vi ha visto la radice di un vocabolo semita, soprattutto quando la parola viene usata come aggettivo, che potrebbe legarsi al termine "Mosè", quindi "pertinente a Mosè".
Sono state indicate anche altre locuzioni, quali musium che significa esprimere qualcosa con diversi colori, oppure museos nel senso di elegante. Le ipotesi però sono molte e nessuna sembra avere titoli sufficienti per prevalere sulle altre.
Le tessere erano chiamate in greco ἀβακίσκοι (abakìskoi)[1], quadrelli (da ἄβαξ (àbax), tavoletta), mentre in latino abaculi, tesserae, tessellae.
tessere in pasta vitrea: tessere di vetro colorato nel quale sono disperse fasi (parti omogenee di un sistema che risultano delimitate da una superficie di separazione fisicamente definita, come ad esempio olio più acqua) cristalline o gassose per ridurne la trasparenza e modificarne la tonalità di colore. Possono essere semitrasparenti o opache; si producono in 4 o 5 toni di colore; le più intensamente colorate sono costituite da vetro trasparente, perché la colorazione impedisce di vedere la malta di fondo, mentre le gradazioni più chiare sono ottenute con la dispersione di un minerale cristallino bianco che aumenta l'opacità, con minor quantità di colorante.
tessere opache: tessere in pasta vitrea nelle quali l'abbondanza di fasi cristalline rende completamente opaco il vetro.
Mosaic is the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials. It may be a technique of decorative art, an aspect of interior decoration, or of cultural and spiritual significance as in a cathedral. Small pieces, normally roughly cubic, of stone or glass of different colors, known as tesserae, (diminutive tessellae), are used to create a pattern or picture.
Modern mosaics
A modern example of mosaic is the Museum of Natural History station of the New York Subway. Some modern mosaics are the work of modernisme style architects Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, for example the mosaics in the Park Güell in Barcelona. Today, among of the leading figures of the mosaic world are Emma Biggs (UK), Marcelo de Melo (Brazil), Sonia King (USA) and Saimir Strati (Albania).
Venice
In parts of Italy, which were under eastern artistic influences, like Sicily and Venice, mosaic making never went out of fashion in the Middle Ages. The whole interior of the St Mark's Basilica in Venice is clad with elaborate, golden mosaics. The oldest scenes were executed by Greek masters in the late 11th century but the majority of the mosaics are works of local artists from the 12-13th centuries. The decoration of the church was finished only in the 16th century. One hundred and ten scenes of mosaics in the atrium of St Mark's were based directly on the miniatures of the Cotton Genesis, a Byzantine manuscript that was brought to Venice after the sack of Constantinople (1204). The mosaics were executed in the 1220s.
Other important Venetian mosaics can be found in the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta in Torcello from the 12th century, and in the Basilical of Santi Maria e Donato in Murano with a restored apse mosaic from the 12th century and a beautiful mosaic pavement (1140). The apse of the San Cipriano Church in Murano was decorated with an impressive golden mosaic from the early 13th century showing Christ enthroned with Mary, St John and the two patron saints, Cipriano and Cipriana. When the church was demolished in the 19th century, the mosaic was bought by Frederick William IV of Prussia. It was reassembled in the Friedenskirche of Potsdam in the 1840s.
Trieste was also an important center of mosaic art. The mosaics in the apse of the Cathedral of San Giusto were laid by master craftsmen from Veneto in the 12-13th centuries.
Mosaic is an art form which uses small pieces of materials placed together to create a unified whole. The materials commonly used are marble or other stone, glass, pottery, mirror or foil-backed glass, or shells.
The term for each piece of material is Tessera (plural: tesserae). The term for the spaces in between where the grout goes is the Interstices. Andamento is the word used to describe the movement and flow of Tesserae. The 'opus', the Latin for ‘work’, is the way in which the pieces are cut and placed varies and is known.
If you were to build a Rockery this might be your Perfect arrangement.
Walking the "Buck of Cabrach" Aberdeenshire Scotland, with the hill fort of "Tap O Noth" heather clad in the background.
Bagan, located on the banks of the Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) River, is home to the largest and densest concentration of Buddhist temples, pagodas, stupas and ruins in the world with many dating from the 11th and 12th centuries. The shape and construction of each building is highly significant in Buddhism with each component part taking on spiritual meaning.
With regards to tour comparison between this immense archeological site and the other significant archeological gem of Southeast Asia, the Angkor sites, this analogy may be helpful:
Angkor ruins are like a Chinese Lauriat banquet where food is presented in spectacular servings with a suspenseful wait between items which are hidden beneath curtains of forests. On the other hand, Bagan is served in Spanish Tapas style, the ingredients exposed to the customer and shown in small bite-size servings, with the next attraction close and visible at hand, in shorter intervals.
Another analogy between Angkor and Bagan Sites when distinguishing temple structures is through their stupa and spire shapes.
What makes the temples look romantic is the process of graceful aging. For some reason, there are no windbreakers around as shown by the barren, desert-dry mountain range to the west past the river, spinning occasional micro twisters that spawn loose dust particles everywhere from the eroded earth to the structures. This phenomenon had peeled off so much the stucco coating of the temples to reveal the brick structural blocks with its rusty, reddish, and sometimes golden brown-like patina when hit by the sun's rays.
Erosion is a significant threat to this area, not only the wind chipping away the buildings' plastering but also water from the mighty Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) River threatens the riverbanks. The strong river current has already washed away half of the area of Old Bagan. It used to be a rectangular-shaped piece of enclave protected by a perimeter wall. Now what remains is roughly the triangular eastern half part.
Other images of Bagan which make a lasting impression to tourists aside from the spire-fringed skyline; stupas sporting that tumbledown look yet crowned with glitter-studded golden miter-like sikaras; the ubiquitous pair of ferocious stone lions flanking a temple's door; the spiky and lacy eave fascia woodcarvings lining a monastery's ascending tiers of roofs; tall palmyras or toddy palms with willowy trunks, bougainvilleas, exotic cotton trees, and the likes bringing life to the arid landscape and abandoned ruins; squirrels playfully and acrobatically scampering on the walls and pediments of temples; horse drawn carriages lazily carrying drop-jawed tourists; sleepy moving grandfather's bullock carts grinding on a dust-choked trail; not to mention the garbage left around, stray dogs loitering, longyi clad men spitting betel chews in copious amounts everywhere, overgrown weeds and the pestering dust.
Clad in titanium in the centre of the image, Glasgow's 370-seat IMAX cinema. To the right is the BBC Scotland building, and going to the left are the SSE Hydro sports and concert hall, the "Armadillo" (Clyde Auditorium) and the Glasgow Science Centre.
In the foreground is a floating concrete head, please see first comment.
This is the view of Glasgow that people coming to the UN climate conference (COP26) will see in November. It's nice enough, but I'll be staying in the hills, away from it all.
The Clifton Suspension Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Avon Gorge and the River Avon, linking Clifton in Bristol to Leigh Woods in North Somerset. Since opening in 1864, it has been a toll bridge, the income from which provides funds for its maintenance. The bridge is built to a design by William Henry Barlow and John Hawkshaw,[2] based on an earlier design by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. It is a Grade I listed building and forms part of the B3129 road.
The idea of building a bridge across the Avon Gorge originated in 1753. Original plans were for a stone bridge and later iterations were for a wrought iron structure. In 1831, an attempt to build Brunel's design was halted by the Bristol riots, and the revised version of his designs was built after his death and completed in 1864. Although similar in size, the bridge towers are not identical in design, the Clifton tower having side cut-outs, the Leigh tower more pointed arches atop a 110-foot (34 m) red sandstone-clad abutment. Roller-mounted "saddles" at the top of each tower allow movement of the three independent wrought iron chains on each side when loads pass over the bridge. The bridge deck is suspended by 162 vertical wrought-iron rods in 81 matching pairs.
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There's a strange cylindrical office building right next to the number "5" on the front of the UBS building Broadgate Circus. It's always looked a bit out of place, especially after all the redevelopment in the area, so someone has decided to clad it in golden rectangles, and to be fair it looks pretty good!
It's a tricky one to shoot - where you've got room to maneuver you'll find there are two large windows in the way that spoil the look a bit. To get a shot without them you need to go down the side of the building, but it's right next to another so you don't have a lot of room to get it in frame. I took this at 35mm, but wish I'd had something a bit wider.
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Beethoven String Quartet Op. 18 No. 1 2nd mvt.
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Stavropoleos Monastery, Bucharest, Romania
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Detail from a large drum-shaped building on the waterfront in Akureyri on the north coast of Iceland. The geometric basalt columns that are a common feature of Icelandic geology have been sliced and affixed to the exterior, with attention to spacing so that whole columns frame all openings. The effect is quite striking - one could easily picture a whole town built this way - but the earthquake-conscious Californian in me worries a lot about how the stone is attached.
Menningarhúsið Hof
Akureyri
Iceland
Here is another view of Loch Ossian taken on the afternoon of our arrival. It would have been very easy to stop and languish by these icy shores but the call of the snow clad hills was too much.
The snow covered lump that's seen disappearing towards the top right of the image would form much of our hike the following day. Needless to say the conditions were entirely different and we had little or no visibility.
The copper-tinted window cladding on a portion of Parq Casino reflects in the waters of East False Creek.
A False Creek Ferries boat is approaching the old EXPO 86 Enterprise Hall dock on the right BC Place Stadium and Yaletown high-rises provide background.
Encompassing 800,000 square feet (74,322 square metres), the Parq complex contains two hotels, eight restaurants, a casino, a large event space, and a fitness centre with a spa.
The project was designed by Quebec-based ACDF Architecture, and Architecture 49. ACDF collaborated with IBI Group for the build..
The main, street-facing facades are wrapped in reflective, copper-tinted glass.
From yesterday's shot, this is the building in all it's brutalist cladded glory. Originally completed in 1975, this office block was converted recently into some of the worst flats in the country under the universally disliked (except in govt and slum landlord circles) Permitted Development Rights (PDR) scheme which allows developers to bypass community consultation, bypass planning standards, and allow them to build homes without contributing to local needs .
St. Nicholas ["Geartoglu"] church - Targoviste
Biserica "Sf. Nicolae"- Geartoglu
Category: Churches - Orthodox
Period: sec. XIV - XV, refaceri 1638, 1712, 1787, sec. XIX, restaurare 2004
Importance: A
LMI code: DB-II-m-A-17311
Address: Str. Stelea 17
Location: municipiul TÂRGOVIŞTE
District: Dambovita
Region: Muntenia
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While taking in views at the Morant’s Curve overlook along the Bow Valley Parkway. The view is looking to the southwest to Mount Temple another other peaks and ridges of the Bow Range. This is in Banff National Park.
i decided to revisit a sketch I did on the return road trip from Perth, with a different approach to painting, and a few more years of 'brush miles'.
In 2018 I didn't quite know how to handle watercolour. I remember I just 'had a go' and how I annoyed I was that the black pen was not waterproof. However, I think that simple skecht depicts the dilapitated state of the shed better than the 2026 sketch. On other hand, I think I have become a bit more confident in handling watercolour.
Maybe it is not a good idea to paint the same subject twice :)
One reason why the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is one of the most photographed buildings in the world is undoubtedly the facade, which is made from exactly 42,875 titanium panels. This is a re-edited version from a trip in 2019 with some more drama.
Two young women taking turns snapping shots of eachother at Heian Jingu, a beautiful shrine in Kyoto.
The vast majority of people we saw in Japan wore modern "western" clothing, but we saw women in kimono walking down the street or on the train more often than I expected. Typically they were carrying cell phones, shopping bags and umbrellas and just generally going about normal daily life.
The Red Pyramid, also called the North Pyramid, is the largest of the pyramids located at the Dahshur necropolis in Cairo, Egypt. It is the third largest Egyptian pyramid, after those of Khufu and Khafre at Giza. It is believed to be Egypt's first successful attempt at constructing a "true" smooth-sided pyramid.
The pyramid is named for the rusty reddish hue of its limestone, but it was not originally red – it was clad in white Tura limestone. During the Middle Ages, much of the cladding was taken for buildings in Cairo, exposing the red limestone. Only a few white blocks remain, at the pyramid's base.
Local residents refer to the Red Pyramid as el-heram el-watwaat, meaning the Bat Pyramid.