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Paris. The Sacré-Coeur church is in the background. In the foreground is the clock face of the Musée d’Orsay, which looks northwards across the city. The church was completed in 1914 and is on the summit of Montmartre, the highest point in Paris.
Pictures made in 1995 and 1996 whilst I was a student at SVA in New York City in America. These were test images taken in Hoboken across the river from the city in New Jersey.
An old clock tower sits nestled amongst layers of Autumn colours.
Note to self: remember when changing lenses on a D3100 that it remembers the exposure settings used the last time the lens was used :(
Yet another funky appartement building at Aarhus Ø. It is called Kampanilen and is by B.I.G. (Bjarke Ingels Group).
Which ever direction you look in Salzburg, beauty. And as if the architecture isn't enough, you have snow covered mountains in the background! Love that city....
Clock Tower Nestled In Autumn Color. I finally found the perfect angle to photograph this beautiful Cambridge, Vermont landmark.
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This was taken a number of years back in 2016. My son was getting married up in British Columbia, Canada, and my daughters and I were, of course, getting our hair all styled for the wedding! This classy looking clock was hanging in the hair salon and I just had to take a couple pics. Hope you all enjoy!
Hair Salon
Maple Ridge
British Columbia, Canada
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The astronomical clock of Besançon is housed in Besançon Cathedral. Besançon's present astronomical clock, made in 1860 by Auguste-Lucien Vérité fr:Auguste-Lucien Vérité of Beauvais to replace an earlier and unsatisfactory one made by Bernardin in the 1850s, differs from those in Strasbourg, Lyon and Beauvais. The clock is meant to express the theological concept that each second of the day the Resurrection of Christ transforms the existence of man and of the world.
The clock stands 5.8 meters high and 2.5 meters wide, and has 30,000 mechanical parts. It sits in its own room in the clocktower. Verite's coat of arms, those of Cardinal Mathieu, and of the cathedral appear on the front of the clock.
Seventy dials provide 122 indications. These include the seconds, hours, days and years. The clock is a perpetual one that can register up to 10,000 years, including adjustments for leap year cycles. The clock also indicates the times of sunrise and sunset.
Twenty-one automated figures either ring the quarter-hour and the hour, or perform the Resurrection of Christ at noon, and his burial at 3 pm.
The clock also has animated pictures of seven different French harbours and indicates the hours and height of the tides there on dials. One of the harbours is Saint-Pierre, Martinique; another is Cayenne, French Guiana. There is an eighth animated picture, this one of Saint Helena, where the former emperor Napoleon died in exile.
An orrery (planetarium) is part of the clock and it shows the motions and orbits of the planets. The planetary motions are congruent with those of the actual planets so that the planetarium reproduces eclipses as they occur.
The central part of the main body of the clock has 12 dials for parts of the civil calendar, and five for the liturgical calendars The dials showing the civil calendar show the month, date, day, the solar element that gave its name to the day of the week (e.g., the sun for Sunday), the season, the sign of the Zodiac, the length of the day, the length of the night, the seconds, and the times for sunrise and sunset. One dial gives the date of Easter, and this acts as the driver for dials that present the date for five key days of the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar.
Two columns have 10 dials each. The bottom eight dials show the time in different major cities around the world, including New York and San Francisco, though without adjustment for daylight savings time. The two top dials on the left column show the number of solar and lunar eclipses in the current year. The two dials on the right column show the leap years and leap centuries. The hand on the leap century dial moved for the first time in 2000; it will move for the second time in 2400.
A pyramidal arrangement of figures caps the clock. The 12 apostles form the base; two different apostles come out each hour to strike the hour. Also, every hour the three virtues, Faith, Hope, and Charity, move, with Faith showing the chalice to Charity and Hope, which stand to her right and left. Above them the statues of the archangels Michael and Gabriel strike the quarter-hours.
At the top of the clock, at midday, Christ arises from his tomb, and at the 3p.m. he returns to it. When he arises, Mary, his mother and Queen of the world, raises her sceptre; she lowers it when he returns to his tomb.
Through a system of universal joints extending some 100 meters, the clock drives four dials that sit on the four sides of the cathedral's tower, thus providing the time of day to the city. A fifth dial is inside the cathedral. The outside dials also show, respectively, the season, the day of the week, and the month of the year. Cables from the clock activate bells in the tower that sound the quarter hour and the hour.
Eleven different descending weights drive the clock. Three of the weights need to be reset each day.
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Medieval astronomical clock located in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic.
The clock was first installed in 1410, making it the third-oldest astronomical clock in the world and the oldest one still operating.
The Orloj is mounted on the southern wall of Old Town Hall in the Old Town Square. The clock mechanism itself has three main components: the astronomical dial, representing the position of the Sun and Moon in the sky and displaying various astronomical details; statues of various Catholic saints stand on either side of the clock; "The Walk of the Apostles", a clockwork hourly show of figures of the Apostles and other moving sculptures—notably a figure of Death (represented by a skeleton) striking the time; and a calendar dial with medallions representing the months.
The oldest part of the Orloj, the mechanical clock and astronomical dial, dates back to 1410 when it was made by clockmaker Mikuláš of Kadaň and Jan Šindel, then later a professor of mathematics and astronomy at Charles University.
On its 605th anniversary, 9 October 2015, the Orloj appeared on the Google home page as a Google Doodle.
(Wikipedia: Prague astronomical clock [March 2019])
The clock on the corner of Rua de Passos Manuel and Rua da Santa Catarina in Porto honours four people deeply connected to the history and identity of Porto: São João, Infante D. Henrique, Almeida Garrett and Camilo Castelo Branco. None of them need introduction, but it is still fair to point out that they include the Saint cherished and annually celebrated by the people of Porto, the crucial figure for the period of the Discoveries, and two eminent names in Portuguese literature and closely linked to Porto.
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