Alaskan Way Viaduct and Seattle's Waterfront
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Those who came before me
Lived through their vocations
From the past until completion
They'll turn away no more
Thank you so much for your visit..!
Great blues nest building. I believe all the nest are completed. Seeing some egg rolling. Swatara creek, Hummelstown, Pennsylvania.
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Hagg Bridge is on the Pocklington Canal near the hamlet of Storwood and is being completely renovated. The renovation is close to completion including new traffic lights
The Pocklington Canal is a broad canal that runs for 9.5 miles through nine locks from the Canal Head near Pocklington in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, to the River Derwent which it joins near East Cottingwith. Most of it lies within a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest
(Still on day 1 of our vacation...stop at Taupo...we spend a few hours in and around Taupo and quickly visited a few places ... will post photos soon).
The lakeside town of Taupo provides a base for visitors who love to fish for trout, ski Mount Ruapehu and explore the local geothermal phenomena. Popular Taupo experiences include Huka Falls, geothermal walks, a prawn farm, lake cruises, New Zealand's first public cable wakeboarding park and guided kayak expeditions to see the rock carvings at Mine Bay.
Taupo is a fantastic region for year-round mountain biking, with the recent completion of the Great Lake Trail. Along with cycling, there's excellent hiking and golf opportunities.
My appreciation and thanks to all of you for your comments awards and faves !!!!
TUGBOATS, SEA IMP X towing SEA IMP III
I noticed the operators and deck hands preparing these two tugs to leave the dock. When they finally pulled away Sea IMP III connected to the back of SEA IM X.
My guess might be, they were saving fuel while traveling to their evening work destination,
Both tugs, if you look close, are connected by a tow line, and about to head down the Fraser River.
Mission Train Bridge
Mission
British Columbia, Canada
The Mission Railway Bridge is a Canadian Pacific Railway bridge spanning the Fraser River between Mission, and Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada.
Replacing an earlier bridge built in 1891, which was the first and only bridge crossing of the Fraser below Siska in the Fraser Canyon until the construction of the New Westminster rail bridge in 1904, it was constructed in 1909 by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). The Mission Railway Bridge is supported by 13 concrete piers and is approximately 533 metres in length. Before completion of the Mission highway bridge, highway traffic to and from Matsqui and Abbotsford with Mission used the bridge as a one-way alternating route, with traffic lights at either end to control direction. Rail traffic often held up car crossings, causing long and often very lengthy waits, which were a part of daily life in the Central Valley until the new bridge was completed.
Beneath the bridge's north abutment is an important river-level gauge monitored during the annual Fraser freshet. The bridge is also the location of the end of the Fraser's tidal bore - downstream from the bridge the river is increasingly influenced by tidal influences from the Georgia Strait.
Swing span
The Mission Railway Bridge has a swing span which has a vertical clearance of 4.9 metres above the water when closed. The swing span is fitted atop a circular concrete pier, the 10th from the north bank of the river. The 10th pier is protected from shipping traffic by two 46 metre wood piers extending upstream and downstream respectively perpendicular to the bridge which are tapered at both ends. The navigation channel past the bridge is 30 metres in width. At night a fixed white light is displayed on piers 9 and 11 as well as at the up-river and down-river ends of the protection pier.
The majority of marine traffic consists of log tows and gravel barges, which are permitted to use the navigation channel beneath the fixed span between piers 5 and 6. The swing span is used for wood chip barges and other vessels which cannot navigate beneath the span between piers 5 and 6.
CPR maintains a bridge tender 24 hours per day at an office on the north bank of the bridge. Vessels requesting passage through the swing span contact the bridge tender on marine VHF radio, whereby the tender walks the bridge to a control booth situated on the swing span.
Happy Clicks,
~Christie (happiest) by the River
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The completion of this corner makes the completion of three full sims in the same amount of months!!! Sim Building? Well I guess not in a pure sense if you don't make everything from scratch. Sim Styler? Landscaper? Designer? Whatever, I am a mad man with it. So three full sims, three months, paid and each sim I got a plot of land on as part of my deal, lmao. Two and a half weeks until I start the next one.
The Devil's Nose: The rails of redemption.
Province of Chimborazo, 1901.- The Harman brothers face the slopes of the mountains that their inhabitants call "Condor Puñuna" (condor nest). Having witnessed, with dismay, how the thorough work of previous months was swept away by the rains, they decide on the train route proposed by the recently deceased engineer, Henry Davis. It is a transcendental decision: it would cost the lives of about two thousand workers (it is not known for sure how many would have died); in turn, it would ensure the success of the railway between Guayaquil and Quito, marking the beginning of its long-awaited completion in 1908.
The shape of the mountain and the death toll during the construction of this section earned it the macabre nickname 'Devil's Nose'.
This section of the route is central to the Ecuadorian railway. It is the section that connects the coast with the mountains. Sooner or later, one way or another, the engineers who built the line eastward from Durán would have to solve the chilling slope of the Andes. For the unthinkable feat, the Harmans brought labor that they considered resistant enough to accomplish. Three thousand Jamaicans and one thousand Puerto Ricans were taken to the site, and without being technically slaves, because they were paid four cents, their defections were punished. They lived free and died free, for hundreds.
Alausí, the starting point to embark on the tourist train that visits the Devil's Nose, is a town that has benefited from the rebirth of its railway route. The restored train station is a hotbed of activity before each departure and arrival; a dozen stalls selling handicrafts; the Train Café of the station ... all have come up again. It has little to do with the situation of 10 years ago, when all that was abandoned.
The train continues on its way outside the Alausí station. The whistle bursts into the fresh morning air. Ahead is one of the most difficult engineering works in the world: the track dug on rocky slopes. We descend 500 meters towards the coastal plain, in just 18km. Chu-chu-chu advances the train and its wagons, the arms of the brequeros rise and fall in cadence. The iron monster and its wagons continue. Towards the right side, far below, the Guasuntos River appears. Walking goes the tyrant of the rails, while we pass a huge curve to reveal the valley of the Chanchán river, traveling its way to the west. And this is where we find Davis's great idea. The only way the train could climb (or slide) up the mountain (or down the mountain) would be by means of a zigzag movement. And so we go, back and forth, a strange feeling that makes us think: "this is going the wrong way", until the train finally reaches the bottom of the valley, the murky river below, and arrives at the station from Sibambe.
From here, within an hour, zigzagging, we will take the road back. But, for now, we go to the cafeteria to try a juice and a humita, witness a typical dance and admire the crafts of the Andean community of Nizag. Also, we enjoy a guided visit to the modest museum, we enjoy the landscape and the weather, which is a few degrees hotter than Alausí.
From this snubbed point, with its river muttering in the distance, I have a disturbing feeling that it is difficult to shake off. If this railroad had not been declared cultural heritage of the country and worthy of the massive investment of the government to re-emerge as it has arisen, the workers who, a century ago, suffered from the worst imaginable circumstances in the construction of this railroad, would have suffered completely in vain. I can't help thinking that the only way to give those deaths a meaning, to redeem them in some way from their spooky destiny, is to ride the railway they built with their hands. Their tormented souls may be comforted by our admiration for such a monumental achievement.
Taken from Fort Point (South End)
Fort Point National Historic Site defended San Francisco Bay from California's Gold Rush to World War II. Its brick masonry matches the Golden Gate Bridge.
From its vantage point overlooking the spectacular Golden Gate, Fort Point protected San Francisco harbor from Confederate & foreign attack during & after the U.S. Civil War. Its beautifully arched casemates display the art of the master brick mason from the Civil War period.
The fort was designed to mount 126 massive cannon. Rushed to completion at the beginning of the Civil War, Fort Point was first garrisoned in February of 1861 by Company I, 3rd U.S. Artillery Regiment. The fort was occupied throughout the Civil War, but the advent of faster, more powerful rifled cannon made brick forts such as Fort Point obsolete. In 1886 the troops were withdrawn, and the last cannon were removed about 1900. The fort was then used for storage and training purposes for many years.
Between 1933 and 1937 the fort was used as a base of operations for the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge. During World War II, Fort Point was occupied by about 100 soldiers who manned searchlights and rapid-fire cannon mounted atop the fort as part of the protection of a submarine net strung across the entrance to the Bay.
GWR King Class 6023 King Edward 11. The Great Western Society at Didcot painstakingly undertook a major restoration of the locomotive which was finally completed after 31 years of hard work. This photo was taken 3 months after its completion.
As I sit eating some of my sandwiches, trying to shelter from the cold 45mph winds that are blowing around the summit Glas Tulaichean, my view is obscured by the low clouds that shrouds what should be a dramatic landscape. But, on the other hand, the clouds do add a certain atmosphere to the aspect.
Glas Tulaichean is my 5th Munro of the season and the 28th in total, bringing me to a Munro completion rate of near enough 10%. The mountain stands at 1051 meters (3448 feet) and is the last one I will do as I have now moved away from Scotland and back to my roots in South Yorkshire as the pull of the Grandchildren was just too strong.
As I cycle further up Glen Lochsie before making the real climb to the summit of Glas Tulaichean, this small burn (or stream) tumbles its way through the heather. But time is ticking and in these winter months daylight hours are limited so let's push on.
Glas Tulaichean is my 5th Munro of the season and the 28th in total, bringing me to a Munro completion rate of near enough 10%. The mountain stands at 1051 meters (3448 feet) and is the last one I will do as I have now moved away from Scotland and back to my roots in South Yorkshire as the pull of the Grandchildren was just too strong.
Completion date-2011 Architectural firm - Zeidler Roberts Partnership ....276 metre (909 feet) 60 story, mixed use hotel/condominium tower consisting of 260 luxury hotel rooms & 109 condominiums, with 4-6 suites on each floor....
This is the Quire at York Minster, England, the second-largest Gothic cathedral of Northern Europe. The present building was begun in about 1230 and completed in 1472.
The Quire was built between 1361 and the 1420s, although much of the original structure was destroyed in a fire started deliberately on the night of 1 February 1829. The blaze had been started by Jonathan Martin, a frequent visitor to the cathedral at the time, who had attended a service that afternoon and then hidden inside until the building was locked for the night. Martin reportedly used a rope taken from the bell tower to climb into the Quire, before setting the area alight and making his escape through a window. The fire wasn't detected until the following morning, but despite the best efforts of firefighters, the blaze completely destroyed the Quire including its medieval panelling, stalls, roof and the Grand Organ. The instrument is believed to have dated in part from 1632.
It is unclear why Martin started the fire – some suggest he disliked the style of worship at the Minster and others have reported that he claimed to dislike the noise the organ made. He is quoted as saying: "I'll have thee down tonight, thou shalt buzz no more." He was arrested shortly after the fire, declared insane at trial and sent to Bedlam Hospital in London where he spent the rest of his life.
As part of the rebuilding work at the Minster after the fire, a new Grand Organ was commissioned in 1829, and parts of this instrument still exist today. A donation of £3,000 paid for most of the cost of the new organ and its "gingerbread gothic" style case which sits above the Quire Screen.
In 2018 a major 3-year, £2m refurbishment began on the organ, the first on this scale since 1903. The instrument was removed in October 2018 – including nearly all of its 5,403 pipes – and taken to Durham for repair and refurbishment by organ specialists Harrison and Harrison. The majority of the 100 display pipes in the main organ casing will be brought back into use for the first time in more than 100 years. The organ has now been returned to the cathedral and work is underway to rebuild it, ready for completion in spring 2021.
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Parts have arrived and the Brickmania crew pitched in to help us place close to 10,000 tiles to give it that cobblestone look.
Almost complete. Wait for some big announcements!
Cody did a large part of the building.
Thank you for those who gave your input on which piano to use!
Daniel Siskind's design on the tanks.
Lando made some nice stickers/decals to make the Fury scene authentic.
All of the lower mountains in the northern streak of Monte Canin have also one or two rock walls, suitable for harder climbs. The western wall of Monte Robon / Velika Bavha is really impressive and hosts a few hard climbs. Many projects are still waiting for completion.
the new school is rapidly getting near completion - HWW!
this week saw installation of the brand new playground
This clock used to be near the old entrance on Orange Avenue. It is relocated to the new entrance. It is not as prominent.
thecoronadonews.com/2025/02/hotel-del-coronado-nears-comp...
For 137 years, the Hotel del Coronado has stood as a monument to Gilded Age opulence, a place where presidents brushed shoulders with Hollywood’s glitterati, its Victorian architecture a timeless symbol of grandeur.
Following a $160 million restoration on track to be completed by June, the hotel’s historic Victorian neighborhood will be revitalized, blending its 1888 heritage with contemporary luxury.
The Victorian neighborhood’s restoration is part of a $550 million project, a transformation extending across its five distinct neighborhoods — bringing the resort’s total accommodations to 938 guest rooms — as well as its culinary offerings, front porch and lobby, ballrooms and more.
. . . . .
“People think they want an 1888 room,” Petrone remarked, “but I tell them, ‘No, you don’t.’”
The original rooms were sparsely furnished, with hard wooden chairs, small beds and minimal conveniences.
The redesigned interiors now feature botanical-inspired artwork, round mirrors, period-appropriate headboards, plush bedding and expanded bathrooms, marrying historical charm with contemporary luxury.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_del_Coronado
The Hotel del Coronado, also known as The Del and Hotel Del, is a historic beachfront hotel in Coronado, California, just across San Diego Bay from San Diego. A rare surviving example of an American architectural genre—the wooden Victorian beach resort—it was designated a California Historical Landmark in 1970[4] and a National Historic Landmark in 1977.[3][5] It is the second-largest wooden structure in the United States (after the Tillamook Air Museum in Tillamook, Oregon).
When the hotel opened in 1888, it was the largest resort hotel in the world.[6] It has hosted presidents, royalty, and celebrities, and been featured in numerous films and books.[7]
San Diego 2025
Happy Bench Monday, HBM,
Martinskirche in Neckartailfingen: Eine romanische, dreischiffige Säulenbasilika. Mauern, Balken und ein erheblicher Teil der Dachziegel („ältestes Dach Süddeutschlands“) stammen noch aus der Bauzeit von 1111.
"Ziegel guter Qualität sind sehr lange haltbar. Vgl. den Befund der Martinskirche in Neckartailfingen aus dem frühen 12. Jahrhundert (Knapp 1999, S. 41–51). Auffallend ist der leicht anguläre Querschnitt der großen Neckartailfinger Firstziegel"
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Vermutetes Weihedatum: 11.11.1111 (Martinstag). Fresken um 1300. Der gotische Kirchturm wurde erst um 1500 gebaut. Seine Firsthöhe beträgt 33 Meter. Schon beim Bau des Turms begann er sich wegen des Untergrunds aus Knollenmergel, zu neigen. Auf halber Höhe richteten die Maurer die Steinreihen anders aus. Deshalb neigt sich der Turm in zwei Richtungen: 1,02 Meter nach Westen und 82 Zentimeter nach Süden. Die südwestliche Ecke hängt 1,31 Meter weit über.
Das Mittelschiff ist schmal und hoch, keine romanische Basilika in Deutschland hat diesen steilen Querschnitt, dies deutet auf burgundische Einflüsse hin (Höhe Chor zur Breite 2,6:1).
Church St. Martin in a small town near Stuttgart: A romanesque basilica. Walls, beams and a considerable part of the roof tiles ("the oldest roof in Southern Germany") are still from the construction period of 1111. Suspected date of completion: 11.11.1111 (Day of St. Martin). Frescoes around 1300. The gothic church tower was built around 1500. Already at the construction of the tower, he began to lean, because of the subsoil of tubers. Halfway up, the masons turned the stone rows differently. Therefore the tower tends in two directions: 1.02 meters to the west and 82 centimeters to the south. The southwest corner hangs over 1.31 meters.
(Quelle: Wikipedia)
Kirche St. Ulrich und Afra / Feuchtwangen / Franconia / Bavaria / Germany
Album of Germany (the south): www.flickr.com/photos/tabliniumcarlson/albums/72157712099...
Album of High-key photos: www.flickr.com/photos/tabliniumcarlson/albums/72157718851...
The Fulton Ferry Fireboat House that is now the home of the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory is located just south of the Brooklyn Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge. The Fireboat House was built in 1926 for Marine Co. No. 7 of the NYC Fire Department where fireboats were actually berthed and long fire hoses were hung and dried using the central tower. The last Fulton Ferry had crossed the East River two years before. When the Fireboat House became obsolete after Marine Company Number 7 disbanded, the old building had a second life as the National Maritime Historical Society’s Fulton Ferry Museum in 1976. The museum eventually vacated the premises in 1982 under pressure from the Brooklyn Borough President’s off to make way for commercial use of the building moving the artifacts across the East River to South Street Seaport. The old fireboat house was in a distressed state and the restoration was handled by Li/Saltzman Architects who focused on maintaining the building historic nature while modernizing it to the 21st Century and removing hazards such as the asbestos shingle that covered the outer surface. Shortly after September 11, 2001, the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory was born in this location with it distinct and fresh ice cream made in small batches. Great ice cream if you happen to be down in this area or DUMBO or Brooklyn Heights, worth the walk down.
This location was actual the site of the first ferry service between New York and Brooklyn started in the mid 17th in 1642 century by Cornelius Dirksen who the proprietor of inn located by Peck’s Slip in Manhattan offering service between Breukelen and New York. So a skiff moved to and fro Peck’s Slip and what was then referred to as the “Brookland” (Brooklyn) Ferry Landing. In August of 1776, the British Troops handed General Washington and the Continental Army a humbling defeat in the Battle of Long Island. On the night of August 29, 1776 under the cover of fog to avoid detection by the British Navy Washington’s Continental Army retreated across the East River via ferry to avoid the advancing British troops. In 1814 Robert Fulton built the first steam ferry to cross the East River on May 11th. The demand for the ferry service continued until the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge, then slowly it stopped. Just as the ferry service on the Hudson was resurrected, so also the ferry service on the East River called the East River Ferry. This location now bears Fulton’s name, the Fulton Ferry Landing, streets in Manhattan and Brooklyn both bear his name as well as the famous Fulton Fish Market that once was in the South Street Seaport area, I remember going there while I was an undergraduate but has since relocated to the Bronx.
Taken with Olympus E-5 using an Olympus Zuiko 12-60MM F2.8-4.0 SWD lens processed in Photomatix, cleaned up in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
A week ago Friday I posted a shot of this house under construction last May, before any siding went on. Here it is getting what I assume are the finishing touches for occupancy this summer.
Explore - #18
The Riverside Drive Viaduct, built in 1900 by the US City of New York, was constructed to connect an important system of drives in Upper Manhattan by creating a high-level boulevard extension of Riverside Drive over the barrier of Manhattanville Valley to the former Boulevard Lafayette in Washington Heights.
F. Stuart Williamson was the chief engineer for the municipal project, which constituted a feat of engineering technology. Despite the viaduct's important utilitarian role as a highway, the structure was also a strong symbol of civic pride, inspired by America’s late 19th-century City Beautiful movement. The viaduct’s original roadway, wide pedestrian walks and overall design were sumptuously ornamented, creating a prime example of public works that married form and function. An issue of the Scientific American magazine in 1900 remarked that the Riverside Drive Viaduct's completion afforded New Yorkers “a continuous drive of ten miles along the picturesque banks of the Hudson and Harlem Rivers.”[1]
The elevated steel highway of the viaduct extends above Twelfth Avenue from 127th Street (now Tiemann Place) to 135th Street and is shouldered by masonry approaches. The viaduct proper was made of open hearth medium steel, comprising twenty-six spans, or bays, whose hypnotic repetition is much appreciated from underneath at street level. The south and north approaches are of rock-faced Mohawk Valley, N.Y., limestone with Maine granite trimmings, the face work being of coursed ashlar. The girders over Manhattan Explore - #40
Street (now 125th Street) were the largest ever built at the time. The broad plaza effect of the south approach was designed to impart deliberate grandeur to the natural terminus of much of Riverside Drive’s traffic as well as to give full advantage to the vista overlooking the Hudson River and New Jersey Palisades to the west.
The viaduct underwent a two-year long reconstruction in 1961 and another in 1987. (source: Wikipedia)
The lights of Melbourne glimmer in the background as Metro Trains ECOM consist 633M-634M-EV120-586M-585M slowly rolls out of the Western Portal of the Metro Tunnel near South Kensington as test train 7641 to Sunshine, marking the completion of their first trip through the tunnel in a 5-car configuration.
The train had previously travelled through the Tunnel as a 7-car consist with EV120 at the rear (flic.kr/p/2qEJwbZ) prior to the Comeng sets being modified to allow operation with EV120 in the centre of the train, including removal of trailer cars 1167T & 1143T (I think making them the first two carriages that have travelled through the Metro Tunnel and since been scrapped). 12/7/25
I just finished participating in November 16th's Macro Mondays challenge, "Keyhole," where I viewed and commented on multiple hundreds of images of orphaned keyholes (there were no keys allowed). This left me feeling a bit unsettled. Locks and keys go together like peanut butter and jelly; love and marraige, a horse and carriage... (you know the song). So, I felt compelled to create an image of a complete lock/key combination so I could go back to being able to sleep at night.
Strobist/technical info:
The lock was staged on a piece of glass with a black fabric background. Two Nikon SB900 speedlights were placed 90-degress CL and CR, 18" away and 24" above subject, pointing down at 45-degree angles. They were each fired in Manual mode through 24" x 24" Neewer soft boxes. The CL strobe was fired @1⁄4 power; CR @ 1⁄8 power. A third speedlight, a Nikon SB700 with Gary Fong 5th Gen Lightsphere attached, was placed CR at camera level and aimed directly at subject for fill. It was placed in Manual mode and fired @ 1⁄8 power.
The SB900's were triggered by three PocketWizard Plus X's; the SB700 was placed in SU-4 mode and triggered by the other strobes.
Lens: AF - S DX VR Zoom - Nikkor 18 - 200mm f / 3.5 - 5.6G IF - ED with a 20mm extension tube attached.
At last I reach the summit of Glas Tulaichean, after just over 2 hours of solid climbing. The low clouds unfortunately obscure any view I would have but do give a mysterious feel around the Trig Point that marks the summit.
Glas Tulaichean is my 5th Munro of the season and the 28th in total, bringing me to a Munro completion rate of near enough 10%. The mountain stands at 1051 meters (3448 feet) and is the last one I will do as I have now moved away from Scotland and back to my roots in South Yorkshire as the pull of the Grandchildren was just too strong.
two new residential buildings in White Rock with interesting architectural design - curved balconies - are almost complete. They look really nice against the blue skies and white clouds.
On August 17th 2016, for the first time since withdrawal from British Railways service in 1969, Standard Class 2 78018 has moved under its own power at Loughborough Central as restoration take a major step towards completion. The Standard 2 was quickly pressed into service in the yard to shunt a single wagon into the carriage sidings at Loughborough.
The 2-6-0 is being restored at Loughborough under the care of the Loughborough Standard Locomotive Group having spent a number or years at Barry scrapyard. Further information on 78018 is available here.
78018 which features in the British Transport Film "Snowdrift at Bleath Gill" is expected to return to service in time to star at the GCRs Autumn Gala from 6th to 9th October. Popular sister loco 78019 has recently begun its own overhaul after many years of service at GCR.
Source: www.gcrailway.co.uk/the-railway/locomotives/78018-2/
Featured on Flickr Explore Front Page - September 27, 2010 - Best Position #8
I feel like I have lost my photo mojo lately, the real world has been keeping me busy and have not been able to get out for some serious shooting. I was finally able to sneak out for a bit on my way home from work last week for a few shots along The River Rouge.
Freighters travel this portion of The Rouge to access Henry Ford's Rouge Complex, where upon completion in 1928 was the largest industrial complex in the world. The massive facility had the ability to turn raw materials such as iron ore into complete vehicles ready for the showroom. Many buildings within the complex were designed by Albert Kahn and have been subjects for Diego Rivera, Charles Sheeler and Michael Kenna, who's work here has been some of the biggest inspirations in my own work.
Recent completion of this estuary allows for neat new open angle on this bridge on the 1% northbound grade. BNSF Job 803 starts its weekday run north to Custer. Bellingham, WA 12/16/2024
Well I've managed to do a 52 week project. Somewhere though it seems that I might have put two images in for one week. I think next year I will have to make sure I shoot my 52 on a certain day so there shouldn't be any mistakes.
Sershul Tekchen Dargyeling སེར་ཤུལ་ ཏེཀ་ ཆེན་ དར་ གྱེ་ གླིང་
Founding (1759) > Monks 1255 •Religious Sect > Geluk སེར་ཤུལ་དགོན། > ser shul dgon > Sershül Gön Sershul Tekchen Dargyeling སེར་ཤུལ་ ཏེཀ་ ཆེན་ དར་ གྱེ་ གླིང་ is an important monastery of the Gelukpa School, located 20 km west of Deongma, on the right side of the road. This is currently the largest monastery in Sershul county, with 1200-1300 monks divided into six colleges, under the guidance of the youthful but charismatic Drukpa Rinpoche. The rain retreat festival held in August is a magnificent spectacle, attracting nomad communities. The hills and grasslands around the monastery are sparse and spacious.
The complex was founded as a branch of Chunkor but soon outgrew the latter. The recently restored buildings at Sershul, which are all near the motor road, include the Tsokchen (assembly hall), the Jamkhang (Maitreya temple), the Gonkhang (protector temple), the Dewachen Lhakhang (Amitabha temple), the Mentsikhang (where Mipham Rinpoche`s tradition is maintained), the college, a Mani Wheel chapel (containing three wheels constructed by the father of the present Drukpa Rinpoche) and a small guesthouse. A new Tsongkhapa Lhakhang, resembling a giant cathedral, has been constructed below the main complex, and was due for completion and consecration on 12 December, 2008. www.footprinttravelguides.com/c/2848/tibet/&Action=pr...
Artist: Edouard Manet
Completion Date: 1882
Place of Creation: Paris, France
Style: Impressionism
Genre: portrait
Technique: aquatint, etching
Dimensions: 15.5 x 10.7 cm
"Spring" somehow manages to be the evocation of youth itself and all its hopes. The subject is 16-year-old actress Jeanne Demarsy, just then seeing her stage career ascend at the same time Manet neared the end of his own career. (He died at age 51 in 1883, soon after the painting went on display.)
Getty Assistant Curator Scott Allan said that the Getty worked hard to acquire "Spring" and was lucky to get her. According to news reports, the Christie's auction price paid was an eyebrow-lifting $65 million — about double the top previous sale price for a Manet.