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Reedville is an unincorporated town in Northumberland County in the Northern Neck region of Virginia. It is located at the head of Cockrell's Creek on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay. Print Size 13x19 inches.
“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see”
- Rene Magritte
My tribute to the famous painting by Rene Magritte ( 21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) with the title “The Human Condition” oil on canvas, painted in 1933
The hard part is not to achieve something, is free from the condition in which it - Marguerite Duras
Il difficile non è raggiungere qualcosa, è liberarsi dalla condizione in cui si è - Marguerite Duras
1956 Pontiac Chieftain
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Petoskey, Michigan.
Sunday, September 2, 2012.
The 11 km of walls, most of them in good condition, delimit the perimeter of the city's historic district.
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The Cartagena de Indias Wall was built for the defense of the city, it began at the end of the 16th century after the attack of the legendary Sir Francis Drake. The fortification is the most complete on the South American continent and one of the best and well-preserved walls of the walled cities in the world and has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
Since the founding of Cartagena de Indias in 1533, and throughout the Spanish colonial era, it was one of the most important ports in America. From there came the greatest riches that the Spanish Crown sent to its ports in Spain, for this reason it was necessary to build a wall with all the forts such as El Castillo de San Felipe and Bocachica to prevent them from being invaded by the English or French or saqueros by the pirates, thus the port of Cartagena was gaining importance thanks to its bay protected by the Spanish military, the construction of forts and walls and its proximity to the city of Panama, another important Spanish port.
The city of Cartagena was attacked numerous times by pirates and English, French and Dutch troops. For this reason, King Felipe II entrusted the mission to field marshal Luis de Tejada and the Italian engineer Bautista Antonelli to build 11 km of walls and forts that would serve as a defense to the city.
The construction was carried out in stages. The first of them began in 1586 by Bautista Antonelli, who was an Italian engineer who was at the service of the Spanish crown, later in 1609 Cristóbal Roda would come to intervene in the construction, achieving the fortification of the entire part of the city that faces the open sea.
Francisco de Murga strengthened the entire part of the Getsemaní neighborhood from 1631 to 1633, later Juan Betín repaired the walls destroyed by the sea in 1669. After serious damage by the sea and the attack on the city by Baron de Pointis , Juan de Herrera y Sotomayor restarted the repairs of the walls. At this time, the viceroy of Villalonga ordered Herrera to build underwater caissons in order to form a breakwater in front of the walls destroyed in 1721.
It was necessary to build another breakwater on the way between Punta Icacos (near the current Hotel Caribe) and Tierrabomba by Antonio de Arévalo, who was the most important engineer in the city. In the year 1796 the works in the center of the city would be finished.
The enclosures of the wall also had the function of separating rich people and poor people who could only enter to come to work in the city. The walls are complemented by fortresses on the coast such as the San Sebastian del Pastelillo Fort and the San Fernando de Bocachica Fort.
Visit this wonder especially at sunset where you can watch the sunset and take a pleasant romantic walk along the wall. The people of Cartagena usually visit it in the afternoons and with their partners they watch the sunset and fall in love!
My new toy! 6x9 Voigtländer Bessa, produced aroud 1937. Still working, in very good condition.
It's equipped with quite nice lens: Anastigmat Voigtar 1:4,5 11cm
Lens serial number: 2073428
Compur shutter serial number: 3517118
It is fascinating to hear what some people have been up to, before and during the lockdown.👂👂
An example of this were the actions of Mrs Trebogus, her sister Trixie Trebillcock and Betty Beswetherick, shall we say these three ladies are of mature years but nobodies fool.👵👵👵
At the beginning of March following their instincts the three ladies decided to move in together. They had several articulated lorry loads of beer delivered by Sharps Brewery, plus quite a consignment from Camel Valley Vineyard. 🚛🚛🚛🍺🍺🍺🍷🍷🍷
Mrs Trebogus always kept much food in her freezer, plus she had a large vegetable garden and of course the ladies culinary skills were legendary, they were well prepared. 🍖🍖🍖🍎🍏🍋🍊
The ladies felt they would be good company for each other, sure enough their hunch was proved correct as three weeks later the whole country went into lock down, which the ladies had no problem with as they were the type of people in common with so many others that did as they were told. The ladies were able to follow instruction, had respect and complied, plus these ladies all came from special forces backgrounds which required them working in some hostile environments, Trixie worked as a bouncer at Mothercare for many years, yes these ladies are tough.👹👹👹
As the lockdown progressed many on line fitness videos sprang up, the ladies were very keen to keep themselves in peak condition so they followed along with many of these workouts, however none of the videos were of such intensity in order to keep the ladies bodies in absolute peak condition, it just did not stretch the ladies enough, Mrs Trebogus had an idea.💃💃💃
She owns a Mercedes ML63 AMG, so the three ladies went into the garage, Mrs Trebogus got hold of the front bumper and lifted the Mercedes up and down in order to tone her arm muscles.
The other two ladies also carried out this manoeuvre, as mentioned they are tough.
Trixie suggested to Betty that she got underneath the Mercedes, put her feet under the bumper and lifted it up and down with her legs in order to strengthen the thighs.💪💪💪
Everything was going swimmingly then Mrs Trebogus had a go as she likes to keep her thighs in special peak condition, there was an enormous crack, Mrs Trebogus’s left leg fell off. Nothing to do with the vacuum cleaner incident I must add.
Like you do, Mrs Trebogus dusted herself off and said this is not a problem as my car is an automatic (You still have to be there) but when the time comes and we are allowed out I still have my right leg in order to be able to drive. So she picked up her leg, hopped over and placed it in the big chest freezer she had in the garage.🏡
Trixie said “you should seek medical help”, no responded Mrs Trebogus we know the rules, we have been instructed to stay home, not to go out, we will wait until the lockdown is eased, I can still walk on the one good leg, do cart wheels with a slight shimmy, so I have nothing to complain about. Anyway like so many people, if we were really desperate there is always someone locally that can help out, that is human instinct. 🏃♀️💪
The weeks went by, sure enough, some of the lockdown measures were eased and in May people were allowed to drive for over an hour, but return on the same day. Not wishing to trouble the medical profession, Mrs Trebogus went onto the internet to look for alternative medical assistance, one name caught her eye, Mystic Peg, who specialised in limb reattachment services.👩💻
As Mrs Trebogus herself had worked with some of our special forces, she respected the anonymity of Mystic Peg who would only provide her post code, and a time to meet.👩💼
Like most of us long car journeys need to be planned, first you need a full tank of petrol, how many people keep a full tank of fuel just in case they need to go off at a minutes notice. Mrs Trebogus went and filled her Mercedes with fuel so that they could go off to the secret location.⛽️🚘
The sat nav coordinates were plumbed in and after quite some journey the three ladies reached their destination. Sure enough as our ladies got out of the car a fairy was waiting dressed in a Knights of the round table uniform, yes this was Mystic Peg, she said “come with me”, so Mrs Trebogus, with her leg under her arm, Trixie and Betty followed, they all set off into a park, keeping two meters away from Mystic Peg
Mystic Peg instructed Mrs Trebogus to sit on a special little stool, with a bit of her left hip hanging over the edge of the stool. Mystic Peg asked Mrs Trebogus to align the detached leg against her hip. Mystic Peg closed her eyes, muttered a couple of words and within moments, hey presto Mrs Trebogus’s leg was reattached and working like a new one.
As you can imagine (I can) Mrs Trebogus was so grateful to Mystic Peg for her services and asked what she owed her. Mystic Peg said "it is my pleasure to help good people like you and really it was such a simple job".😇👛👜💷💷💷
Mystic Peg went on to say, “as I have not seen many people for a while could I share a confidence with you Mrs Trebogus. Well don’t tell anyone but during the lockdown we had been made aware of a bloke who drove to this very location who could not see his hand in front of his face.
As none of us were on duty during lockdown he allegedly sat over there on a park bench, he gazed up towards the Magic Castle, bingo his eyesight came back, a miracle and he was able to drive all the way home to London”.🏰🙈😱
Mrs Trebogus responded to the fairy “you just cannot make that up”.😉
Thank you so much for looking at my photographs, the comments and banter you leave are so appreciated.
Have a good weekend
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Model: Chen Chen from Mannequin
Make Up: Emily Leong
Hair: Ash Loi
Styling: Rachel Lim
Wardrobe: Riyan Haffys from CLIIM
"My work encompasses the cultural state of modern society from a personal context. Enslavement has always been prevalent as long as mankind existed. The shift in the state of enslavement however has drastically changed from an authoritarian state to a self-imposed one. The backdrop serves as the classic allegory of a prisoner staring at the light from the window. The irony of this situation acts as a satire on how we all have the choice to walk out of the cages that we entrap ourselves into as the door is always opened for us."
This shoot took a total of 3 weeks from pre-production to post-production. The first 2 weeks were spent on location scouting, gathering of the entire team and planning of logistics, props and wardrobe. The final week involved multiple visits to the site to plan and finally style the set. As this was purely a student project, I did the set styling together with props that were mainly uncovered trash. Objects like the broken typewriter was spraypainted silver to give it a nice sheen. Lighting tests were also conducted a day before the shoot to ensure the actual day will go on smoothly. A mixture of reflectors, color gels and flags were used to ensure I achieved the lighting I required. Unfortunately, I faced a slightly cloudy day which caused my lighting to be detracted a little differently from as I had planned it the day before. A final total of 4 different lights were used to fill in the direct sunlight which spilled through the doorway and the window to give it a slightly fantastical feel to it, together with the set design.
Jake represents the Proletariat, desperately clutching at worldly possessions and societal expectations (the gift box) while simultaneously dangling over the abyss of environmental and economic catastrophe (the floor), suspended all along by the weight of history and bourgeois establishment (the cast iron staircase), ironically a situation of our own creation.
(yes I am joking here mostly)
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"I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning.
I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars. "
(Johnny Weissmuller - Austro-Hungarian-born American swimmer and actor, 1904 – 1984)
After taking a bath in the holy waters of the Ganges in Varanasi (Benaras), this man was applying some oil on his body which was drying under the sun.
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