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This year was really the first day when Novorossiysk felt the warmth of the Sun.
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В этом году прошёл действительно первый день, когда Новороссийск почувствовал тепло Солнца.
The buildings in this historic mill complex date from 1850 till about 1890. They were used to manufacture wool, cotton, paper bags, and then, finally, chocolate from the early 1900s till World War II. More recently the old mill buildings have been renovated and repurposed as retail, dining and office space. Ballston Spa, New York.
Le port intérieur de Duisbourg (en allemand Innenhafen Duisburg) est un port fluvial situé sur le Rhin. D'une surface de 89 hectares, il était pendant la révolution industrielle allemande un centre important de la Ruhr. À la suite de l'arrêt progressif de l'activité industrielle (notamment sidérurgique et minière), l'activité portuaire a décliné à partir du milieu des années 1960.
En 1989 la reconversion commence avec la construction du Centre international d'expositions d'Emscher Park. L'espace disponible a permis d'autres projets architecturaux et urbanistiques.
Avec quelque 100 projets, l’Exposition internationale IBA Emscher Park — région de la Ruhr — a pour objectif de réaliser des projets modèles d’aménagement pour la reconversion des anciennes régions industrielles, dans le sens d’une « culture de construction » aux niveaux environnementaux, économiques et sociaux.
The inner port of Duisburg (in German Innenhafen Duisburg) is a river port located on the Rhine. Covering an area of 89 hectares, it was an important center of the Ruhr during the German industrial revolution. Following the gradual cessation of industrial activity (particularly steel and mining), port activity declined from the mid-1960s.
In 1989 the reconversion began with the construction of the International Exhibition Center in Emscher Park. The available space allowed for other architectural and urban planning projects.
With some 100 projects, the International Exhibition IBA Emscher Park — Ruhr region — aims to carry out model development projects for the reconversion of former industrial regions, in the sense of a " construction culture " at the levels environmental, economic and social.
The snowy albatross (Diomedea exulans), also known as the wandering albatross, white-winged albatross, or goonie, is a large seabird from the family Diomedeidae; they have a circumpolar range in the Southern Ocean. It is the largest species of albatross and was long considered to be the same species as the Tristan albatross and the Antipodean albatross. Together with the Amsterdam albatross, it forms the wandering albatross species complex, which some began referring to more recently as "snowy"..
The snowy albatross is one of the two largest members of the genus Diomedea (the great albatrosses), being similar in size to the southern royal albatross. It has the greatest known wingspan of any living bird and is also one of the most far-ranging birds. Some individual snowy albatrosses are known to circumnavigate the Southern Ocean three times in one year, covering more than 120,000 km (75,000 mi).
The plumage varies with age, with the juveniles starting chocolate brown. As they age they become whiter. The adults have white bodies with black and white wings. Males have whiter wings than females, with just the tips and trailing edges of the wings black. The snowy albatross is the whitest of the wandering albatross species complex, the other species having a great deal more brown and black on the wings and body, very closely resembling immature wandering albatrosses. The large bill is pink, as are the feet.[9] They also have a salt gland that is situated above the nasal passage and helps desalinate their bodies, due to the high amount of ocean water that they imbibe. They excrete a high saline solution from their nose, which is a probable cause for the pink-yellow stain seen on some animals' necks.
The snowy albatross has the longest wingspan of any living bird, reaching upwards of 3.5 m (11 ft), with a mean span of 3.1 m (10 ft 2 in) in Bird Island, South Georgia. Wingspan measured an average of 3 m (9 ft 10 in) in 123 birds measured off the coast of Malabar, New South Wales. On the Crozet Islands, adults averaged 3.05 m (10 ft 0 in) in wingspan. The longest-winged specimens have been about 3.7 m (12 ft 2 in). Two specimens have been reported having wingspans of 4.22 m (13 ft 10 in) and 5.3 m (17 ft 5 in), but these reports remain unverified.[ As a result of its large wingspan, it is capable of remaining in the air without flapping its wings for several hours at a time (traveling 22m for every meter of drop). The length of the body is about 107 to 135 cm (3 ft 6 in to 4 ft 5 in) with females being slightly smaller than males.
This image was taken on the way from Sydney to Fjordland in New Zealand, in the Tasman Sea.
I am not sure if it is a juvenile Wandering Albatross, so if someone could please confirm or suggest what other species of Albatross it is, I would be extremely grateful, thanks. The image was taken on 24th February 2025, in the Tasman Sea, on the second full day of 2 days at sea from Sydney in Australia to Milford Sound in New Zealand,
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san francisco, california
Marina Bay/Singapore (Marina Sands Bay is the most iconic hotel for the world's largest rooftop Infinity Pool, award-winning dining, and a wide range of shopping and entertainment options. With his complex of buildings is considered the most expensive independent casino in the world . The complex was designed by Moshe Safdie Architects . Safdie also designed an artistic route within the complex, incorporating seven installations by five artists such as Sol Lewitt, Antony Gormley and Zheng Chongbin, whose pieces include environmental effects of light, water and wind, integrating art with architecture.
The core of the complex consists of three independent towers of 55 floors for hotel, topped by a single platform resting on them as an open terrace -of 340 m long and more than a hectare of surface- and ending in one of the sides in the largest cantilevered public platform in the world, flying over the north tower about 67 m.
The Museum of Art and Science is built next to the three blocks and has the shape of a lotus flower. Its roof will be retractable, providing a waterfall through the roof of the rainwater collected when it is closed for the day and with sets of laser lights when it opens at night...)
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I knew very little of the complex lives of trees and their biochemically, biodiverse, communal lives until I read Richard Powers' 'The Overstory'; afterwards, I knew a little more, and have read and heard a little more since, and still, I know very little.
Here, in the early light of winter, the roots of three trees tangle and vie above their earth. Their surroundings swirl and blur in the almost disconcerting bokeh of a 105mm triplet skopar lens. This is one of very few cameras that I have in a pair, yet their results are distinctive from one another, thus far, this one exhibiting a more significant roll-off in focus, a more 'old-fashioned' feel. Perhaps that is simply an accident of relative apertures thus far. Perhaps it is not.
Blenheim Park, Oxon. Voigtlander Bessa-I, Ilford Delta 400, ID-11.
These grown in a parking strip where I park 3 to 4 times a week, am fascinated by the leaves.
Early summer they get blotches, and with warmth and sun new growth. I don't know what the plant is.
I'm heading back to try some more angles =:-]
Brisbane's Queen's Wharf will be home to a huge new casino, entertainment, and hotel complex in 2022. This "before" photo shows that this area isn't currently Brisbane's most attractive location.
Barbara Kasten, geboren 1936 in Chicago, zählt zu den einflussreichsten Fotokünstlerinnen der Gegenwart.
In über 50 Jahren hat sie ein beeindruckendes künstlerisches Werk geschaffen, das Fotografien, Skulpturen, raumgreifende Objekte und komplexen Multimedia-Installationen umfasst.
Barbara Kasten, born in Chicago in 1936, is one of the most influential contemporary photo artists.
Over more than 50 years, she has created an impressive body of work that includes photographs, sculptures, large-scale objects, and complex multimedia installations.
GB Railfreight Class 66 diesel locomotive 66795 "Bescot LDC"
6X01 10.18 Scunthorpe Trent Terminal Complex to Eastleigh East Yard
Portway Lane, Tamworth, Staffordshire
Built in 1929 by oil tycoon Frank Yount and his wife, Patsy, The Mildred Building was named for their only daughter and is one of Beaumont's most outstanding examples of architecture from that era.
A designated historical landmark, the Mildred Complex consists of an apartment building with an adjacent business arcade connected by a fenced courtyard, the only one of its kind in the Beaumont. Working with P.E. Robinson of the Austin Company, the Younts chose the Mediterranean style with 16th and 17th century Spanish influence, seen in the building's crests and wooden beam motif.
The 18-unit apartment building was an architectural marvel for its time due to such modern innovations such as central vacuum, cooling, and recessed radiators. No two apartments are alike in design and many still contain Mildred originals furniture and accent pieces custom designed for each apartment. The famed Rooftop Promenade provides an excellent vantage point to view the city's downtown skyline.
The Mildred Buildings are a Mediterranean Revival style complex of apartment, store and garage buildings on half a city block
A complex composition, lots of separate elements at play but I think that maybe the flow of it all holds it together.
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Ryōan-ji is a Zen temple located in northwest Kyoto, Japan. It belongs to the Myōshin-ji school of the Rinzai branch of Zen Buddhism. The Ryōan-ji garden is considered one of the finest surviving examples of kare-sansui ("dry landscape"), a refined type of Japanese Zen temple garden design generally featuring distinctive larger rock formations arranged amidst a sweep of smooth pebbles (small, carefully selected polished river rocks) raked into linear patterns that facilitate meditation. The temple and its gardens are listed as one of the Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto, and as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The site of the temple was an estate of the Fujiwara clan in the 11th century. The first temple, the Daiju-in, and the still existing large pond were built in that century by Fujiwara Saneyoshi. In 1450, Hosokawa Katsumoto, another powerful warlord, acquired the land where the temple stood. He built his residence there, and founded a Zen temple, Ryōan-ji. During the Ōnin War between the clans, the temple was destroyed. Hosokawa Katsumoto died in 1473, and in 1488 his son, Hosokawa Masamoto, rebuilt the temple.
The temple served as a mausoleum for several emperors. Their tombs are grouped together in what are today known as the "Seven Imperial Tombs" at Ryōan-ji. The burial places of these emperors—Uda, Kazan, Ichijō, Go-Suzaku, Go-Reizei, Go-Sanjō, and Horikawa—would have been comparatively humble in the period after their deaths. These tombs reached their present state as a result of the 19th century restoration of imperial sepulchers (misasagi) which were ordered by Emperor Meiji.
There is controversy over who built the garden and when. Most sources date it to the second half of the 15th century. According to some sources, it was built by Hosokawa Katsumoto, the creator of the first temple of Ryōan-ji, between 1450 and 1473. Other sources say it was built by his son, Hosokawa Masamoto, in or around 1488. Some say that the garden was built by the famous landscape painter and monk, Sōami (died 1525), but this is disputed by other authors. Some sources say the garden was built in the first half of the 16th century, others reckon later, during the Edo period, between 1618 and 1680. There is also controversy over whether the garden was built by monks, or by professional gardeners, called kawaramono, or a combination of the two. One stone in the garden has the name of two kawaramono carved into it, Hirokojirō and Kotarō.
The conclusive history, though, based on documentary sources, is as follows: Hosokawa Katsumoto (1430–1473), deputy to the shōgun, founded in 1450 the Ryōan-ji temple, but the complex was burnt down during the Ōnin War. His son Masamoto rebuilt the temple at the very end of the same century. It is not clear whether any garden was constructed at that time facing the main hall. First descriptions of a garden, clearly describing one in front of the main hall, date from 1680–1682. It is described as a composition of nine big stones laid out to represent Tiger Cubs Crossing the Water. As the garden has fifteen stones at present, it was clearly different from the garden that we see today. A great fire destroyed the buildings in 1779, and rubble of the burnt buildings was dumped in the garden. Garden writer and specialist Akisato Rito (died c. 1830) redid the garden completely on top of the rubble at the end of the eighteenth century and published a picture of his garden in his Celebrated Gardens and Sights of Kyoto (Miyako rinsen meisho zue) of 1799, showing the garden as it looks today. One big stone at the back was buried partly; it has two first names carved in it, probably names of untouchable stone workers, so called kawaramono. There is no evidence of Zen monks having worked on the garden, apart from the raking of the sand.
Plaza de España - Seville - Spain.
The Plaza de España ("Spain Square", in English) is a plaza in the Parque de María Luisa (Maria Luisa Park), in Seville, Spain, built in 1928 for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929. It is a landmark example of the Regionalism Architecture, mixing elements of the Renaissance Revival and Moorish Revival (Neo-Mudéjar) styles of Spanish architecture.
The Plaza de España, designed by Aníbal González, was a principal building built on the Maria Luisa Park's edge to showcase Spain's industry and technology exhibits. González combined a mix of 1920s Art Deco and Spanish Renaissance Revival, Spanish Baroque Revival and Neo-Mudéjar styles. The Plaza de España complex is a huge half-circle with buildings continually running around the edge accessible over the moat by numerous bridges representing the four ancient kingdoms of Spain. In the centre is the Vicente Traver fountain. By the walls of the Plaza are many tiled alcoves, each representing a different province of Spain. Each alcove is flanked by a pair of covered bookshelves, said to be used by visitors in the manner of "Little Free Library".
Today the Plaza de España mainly consists of Government buildings. The central government departments, with sensitive adaptive redesign, are located within it. The Plaza's tiled Alcoves of the Provinces are backdrops for visitors portrait photographs, taken in their own home province's alcove. Towards the end of the park, the grandest mansions from the fair have been adapted as museums. The farthest contains the city's archaeology collections. The main exhibits are Roman mosaics and artefacts from nearby Italica.
The Plaza de España has been used as a filming location, including scenes for the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia. The building was used as a location in the Star Wars movie series Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) — in which it featured in exterior shots of the City of Theed on the Planet Naboo. It also featured in the 2012 film The Dictator.
The plaza was used as a set for the video of Simply Red's song Something Got Me Started
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Taken at Kew Gardens on my Fuji GS645S medium format rangefinder camera and expired Portra 400 VC film.
Hey all! I finally purchased a new 360 and am happy to announce I'm on Christmas break with a year's worth of LIVE! If you want to shoot me a friend request (and include your Flickr/LEGO username so I know who you are), that'd be sick! My LIVE username's:
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(the "l"s are lowercase Ls)
Oh yeah, and I built the Xbox logo too. I knew I was forgetting something.
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Jacket: [COMPLEX] LODT JACKET
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Shoes: Flite.- Rickos // Flamed Pink
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Companion: Kotte - dragon - white
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Red Fort Compound
Chandni Chowk
New Delhi
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Like a tulip rainbow
Tulips (Tulipa) form a genus of spring-blooming perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes (having bulbs as storage organs). The flowers are usually large, showy and brightly coloured, generally red, pink, yellow, or white (usually in warm colours). They often have a different coloured blotch at the base of the tepals (petals and sepals, collectively), internally. Because of a degree of variability within the populations, and a long history of cultivation, classification has been complex and controversial. The tulip is a member of the Liliaceae (lily) family, along with 14 other genera, where it is most closely related to Amana, Erythronium and Gagea in the tribe Lilieae. There are about 75 species, and these are divided among four subgenera. The name "tulip" is thought to be derived from a Persian word for turban, which it may have been thought to resemble. Tulips originally were found in a band stretching from Southern Europe to Central Asia, but since the seventeenth century have become widely naturalised and cultivated (see map). In their natural state they are adapted to steppes and mountainous areas with temperate climates. Flowering in the spring, they become dormant in the summer once the flowers and leaves die back, emerging above ground as a shoot from the underground bulb in early spring. Wikipedia
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OK, I admit that this is not actually a castle -- I just wanted to have a creative title! This actually is just another building on the Princeton University campus in Princeton, New Jersey. This is the last Princeton photo I plan to post. The campus was awesome to visit in Winter. I'm sure it would look spectacular in Fall!
This region of dark molecular clouds lies in the constellation of Chameleon and crosses into Carina.
It houses bright reflection nebula IC2631 (to the right), Ced 110 (the ivory colored nebula) and 111 (left of the middle) as well as the Chameleon infrared object GN11.07.3 (the orange triangle directly left of Ced111)
Half way between Ced110 and 111 you can see 2 reddish blobs which are Herbig Haro objects HH49 and HH50
Towards the upper right you can see the galaxy NGC3620. But if you look careful you can discover some more far away galaxies through the dust.
The Chameleon Cloud (I) is one of the nearest star forming clouds.
Image taken with monochrome Nikon D600 on a APM107/700 with Riccardi reducer and modified Nikon D600 on a TS Quadruplet 480/80, mounted on Fornax 51 and guided with MGEN.
Luminance 46x10min ISO400
RGB 46x10min ISO400
Location: Astrofarm Kiripotib, Namibia