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created this one to celebrate clocks & all things clockwork...such as oranges.... the original is a life size clockwork working model.....thanks for looking.....better bigger....hope you have a great day
Here she is !!! My beautiful Feeple60 came back from Gab's last week, she did such an amazing job on her faceup !
Thanks for watching, I hope you'll ike her too ! ^^
Detail of clockwork
Eight-Day Duration Bell Striking Turret Clock
Gillett and Co., Croydon, circa 1888
(Royal Museums Greenwich):
www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-79215
Royal Observatory, Greenwich (Museum site):
www.rmg.co.uk/royal-observatory
Royal Observatory, Greenwich (Wikipedia):
17" diameter
stained glass
millefiori
glass beads
giant glass globs
glitter tile
irridescent ovals
Color Fusion tile
Trend vitreo tile
mirror tile
we found and old antique bowler hat in a liquidators shop the other day and well you cant have a bowler hat without doing a "clockwork orange" shot :~)
The white escape wheel slows the red gear; the red gear slows the yellow gear; the yellow gear slows the blue gear still further. The blue gear turns at just the right speed to make the red/white Spring Case complete one full rotation every hour. REALLY ???? This is of course after the assembling program is deciphered.
Taken a little liberty with this one .... it's a satsuma (!!) but hey it's an orange, isn't it!!
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess set in a near future and based upon a subculture of extreme youth violence!!
7 Days of Shooting Week #27 A Book Title Macro Monday ....
Thanks to everyone who views this photo, adds a note, leaves a comment and of course BIG thanks to anyone who chooses to favourite my photo .... thanks to you all.
Chatsworth House, a stately home in Bakewell Derbyshire, UK - decorated for Christmas with a Nutcracker Theme.
I think this was my favourite corridor, very atmospheric. December 2016.
Photos: Stefan Randholm
Assistant: Pedro Rengifo
Video: Pablo Llaryora
Make-up: Miryam Cano
Model: Ana Belén Martín Martinez
Video “making of”: vimeo.com/107988419
Strobist: Elinchrom Quadra in Photek Softlighter above and in front of Ana. An SB900 with grid for the background, and another with a small STU in front and below the model. All fired with PW Flex.
The clock of Palazzo Pretorio on Piazza San Michele in the old town of the city of Lucca, Tuscany, Italy
Some background information:
The Palazzo Pretorio is located on Piazza San Michele at the corner of Via Pozzotorelli in the old town of Lucca. It’s one of the city’s most remarkable buildings from the Renaissance period. It was originally erected in 1390 as a court of justice. In 1494, the building was enlarged and also made the seat and place of residence of the Podestà, Lucca’s chief magistrate. In 1588, further extensions were planned by the architect Vincenzo Civitali. However, most of the work was executed under the direction of his son Nicolao.
The precious clock was attached to the building’s façade in the baroque period. It was restored recently and is still in operation. Since 1989, the Palazzo Pretorio functions as a civic office building and since 2016, it also houses the Lucca Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts.
Lucca is a city and comune in Tuscany, Central Italy. It is located on the Serchio, a fertile plain near the Tyrrhenian Sea. Lucca is the capital of the Province of Lucca. The city and Province of Pisa are situated just 20 km (12.5 miles) south of Lucca. With its almost 90,000 residents Lucca is as big as Pisa, but the city of Lucca is a bit overshadowed by its southern neighbour – unjustly, according to my opinion.
Lucca was first mentioned in a document by the Roman historian Livy in the 3rd century BC. He named it as the place where the Roman consul Sempronius retrenched in the Second Punic War against Hannibal. However, the settlement was already inhabited earlier by the Etruscans and most likely founded by the Ligurians, who called it Luk, meaning "marsh". Today’s city name Lucca originates from this word. Only in 180 BC, Lucca became a Roman colony. In 56 BC, at the Lucca Conference, Julius Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus reaffirmed their political alliance known as the First Triumvirate.
In the 5th century, Lucca was plundered by Odoacer, the first Germanic king of Italy. From the 6th to the 8th century, the town was controlled by the Lombards, who made it the seat of a duke. From the 8th to the 10th century, Lucca was a centre of Jewish life. But only in the 11th century the town became really prosperous by the trade of silk. At that time it was the capital of the feudal margraviate of Tuscany, more or less independent but owing nominal allegiance to the Holy Roman Emperor.
In 1160, the city constituted itself an independent commune. For almost 500 years, Lucca remained an independent republic then. In the early 14th century, Lucca rivalled Florence. In 1325, the Luccan leader Castruccio Castracani defeated Florence's Guelphs in the battle of Altopascio. For this he was nominated duke of Lucca. His biography is Machiavelli's third famous book on political rule.
Political disturbances at the end of the 14th century caused many Luccan dyers and silk weavers to leave the town and flee to Venice, which granted them asylum and financial help. At that time Lucca was first occupied by the troops of Louis of Bavaria, then sold to the rich Genoese, Gherardino Spinola, then seized by John, King of Bohemia, then pawned to the Rossi family of Parma, then ceded by them to Mastino II della Scala of Verona, then sold to the Florentines, then surrendered to the Pisans and finally nominally liberated by the emperor Charles IV and governed by his vicar.
However, Lucca managed – at first as a democracy, and after 1628 as an oligarchy – to maintain its independence alongside of Venice and Genoa, and painted the word "Libertas" on its banner. Over the centuries Lucca had been the second largest Italian city state (after Venice) with a republican constitution to remain independent. But in 1805, it was conquered by Napoleon, who installed his sister Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi as "Princess of Lucca".
From 1815 to 1847, it was a Bourbon-Parma duchy. The only reigning dukes of Lucca were Maria Luisa of Spain, who hold control until 1824, and her son Charles II, Duke of Parma. In that year, Lucca lost independence and was annexed to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. As part of Tuscany, it became part of the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1860 and finally part of the Italian State in 1861.
Today, Lucca is a beautiful city with great historic buildings. As already mentioned, it is a bit overshadowed by the near city of Pisa and its cathedral with the leaning tower, but quite apart from that, Lucca’s city centre is even more striking than the one of Pisa. At least, that’s my opinion. I highly recommend everybody visiting Lucca and not ignoring it in favour of a trip to Pisa.
Another colourful image from my trip last Sunday to the Botanical Gardens in Dublin, Ireland. Natural light only.
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