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Balade nocturne sur la Confluence, histoire de faire un peu de pause longue à l'heure bleu.
Realised with my Nikon D7000 and my 10-24 mm Nikkor.
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The Chao Phraya begins at the confluence of the Ping and Nan rivers at Nakhon Sawan ( also called Pak Nam Pho ) in Nakhon Sawan province. It then flows south for 372 kilometres ( 231 miles ) from the central plains to Bangkok and the Gulf of Thailand. In Chainat, the river splits into the main course and the Tha Chin river, which then flows parallel to the main river and exits in the Gulf of Thailand about 35 kilometres ( 22 miles ) west of Bangkok in Samut Sakhon. In the low alluvial plain which begins below the Chainat Dam, many small canals ( khlong ) split off from the main river. The khlong are used for the irrigation of the region's rice paddies.
The lower Chao Phraya has undergone several modifications through man-made efforts during the Ayutthaya period. Several shortcut canals were constructed to bypass large meanders in the river, shortening the trip from the capital city to the sea. The course of the river has since changed to follow many of these canals.
In 1538, Thailand's first River engineering of 3 km ( 2 miles ) long canal was built by the order of King Chairachathirat, and it was called khlong Lat or today known as Khlong Bangkok Noi. It claims to shortcut the route by 13-14 km, for the merchant ship travels from Gulf of Siam to its capital city - Ayutthaya.
In 1542, two kilometres long canal Khlong Lat Bangkok was completed or today called Khlong Bangkok Yai. It said to have shortened the river merchant route by 14 km ( 9 miles ).
In 1608, seven kilometres long Khlong Bang Phrao canal was completed and have shorten Chao Phraya original route by 18 km ( 11 miles ).
In 1636, Khlong Lat Mueang Nonthaburi was completed.
In 1722, two kilometres long Khlong Lat Kret Noi had shortcut the Chao Phraya by 7 km ( 4 miles ). This route was from the island of Koh Kret. It's also one of the Bangkok Metropolitan attractions.
Cities along the Chao Phraya include Nakhon Sawan, Uthai Thani, Chainat, Singburi, Ang Thong, Ayutthaya, Pathum Thani, Nonthaburi, Bangkok and Samut Prakan, listed from north to south. These cities are among the most historically significant and densely populated settlements of Thailand because of their access to the waterway, with Bangkok alone having a population of over 12 million.
The major bridges that cross the Chao Phraya are in the province of Bangkok: the Rama VI rail-road bridge; Phra Pin-klao near the Grand Palace; Rama VIII, a single tower asymmetrical cable-stayed bridge; Rama IX, a semi-symmetric cable-stayed bridge; and Mega Bridge, part of the Industrial Ring Road. In Bangkok, the Chao Phraya is a major transportation artery for a vast network of river buses, cross-river ferries and water taxis, also known as long tails. More than 15 boat lines operate on the rivers and canals of the city, including commuter lines.
The principal tributaries of the Chao Phraya River are the Pa Sak River, the Sakae Krang River, the Nan River ( along with its principal confluent the Yom River ), the Ping River with its principal confluent the Wang River), and the Tha Chin River. Each of these tributaries ( and the Chao Phraya itself ) is further tributed by additional minor tributaries often referred to as khwae. All the tributaries, including the lesser khwae, form an extensive tree-like pattern, with branches flowing through nearly every province in central and northern Thailand. None of the tributaries of the Chao Phraya extend beyond the nation's borders. The Nan and the Yom River flow nearly parallel from Phitsanulok to Chumsaeng in the north of Nakhon Sawan province. The Wang River enters the Ping River near Sam Ngao district in Tak province.
The lowland areas of the Chao Phraya watershed in central Thailand have been designated as the Chao Phraya freshwater swamp forests, a tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests eco region, an area about 400 km ( 249 miles ) north to south and 180 km ( 112 miles ) wide. The original swamp forests have almost entirely been removed as the plain has been converted to rice paddies, other agriculture, and urban areas like the massive Bangkok, and much of the wildlife that once inhabited these plains has disappeared including many fish in the river systems, birds such as vultures, the Oriental Darter, White-eyed River Martin ( Pseudochelidon sirintarae ) and the Sarus Crane[ and animals such as tigers, Asian elephants, Javan Rhinoceroses and the much-hunted Schomburgk's Deer. Today we can only estimate a description of the original habitat and wildlife by comparing with that of neighbouring countries and it is believed that it would have consisted of freshwater swamps inland and salty mangroves on the coast and the river estuaries. The swamp would have been covered in Phragmites marsh grasses and today there is a small area of this remaining in Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park, a relic of the original landscape.
As so much has been cleared or altered the potential for creating large protected areas to preserve original habitat no longer exists. However much wildlife does remain in the rice fields and steps may be taken to preserve these as urban and industrial development on the plains is ongoing and the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand has very little control or planning over this. Particular threats come from the conversion of rice paddies to large-scale production of prawns by pumping in seawater, and the use of pesticides to eliminate the introduced snail Pomacea canaliculata, which damages rice plants.
Another day, another confluence; this time we're near Menan Buttes where Henry's Fork meets The Snake.
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June 14th, 2013 - 44 Quiet Nights, Day 16 - Box Canyon, Idaho to Idaho Falls, an easy day in preparation for a visit to Blackfoot and the International Potato Exhibition therein.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis
St. Louis is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers, on the western bank of the latter. As of 2020, the city proper had a population of around 301,500, while the bi-state metropolitan area, which extends into Illinois, had an estimated population of over 2.8 million, making it the largest metropolitan area in Missouri, the second-largest in Illinois, the seventh-largest in the Great Lakes Megalopolis, and the 20th-largest in the United States.
Before European settlement, the area was a regional center of Native American Mississippian culture. St. Louis was founded on February 14, 1764, by French fur traders Gilbert Antoine de St. Maxent, Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau, who named it for Louis IX of France. In 1764, following France's defeat in the Seven Years' War, the area was ceded to Spain. In 1800, it was retroceded to France, which sold it three years later to the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase; the city was then the point of embarkation for the Corps of Discovery on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. In the 19th century, St. Louis became a major port on the Mississippi River; from 1870 until the 1920 census, it was the fourth-largest city in the country. It separated from St. Louis County in 1877, becoming an independent city and limiting its own political boundaries. St. Louis had a brief run as a world-class city in the early 20th century. In 1904, it hosted the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the Summer Olympics.
A "Gamma" global city with a metropolitan GDP of more than $160 billion in 2017, metropolitan St. Louis has a diverse economy with strengths in the service, manufacturing, trade, transportation, and tourism industries. It is home to nine of the ten Fortune 500 companies based in Missouri. Major companies headquartered or with significant operations in the city include Ameren Corporation, Peabody Energy, Nestlé Purina PetCare, Anheuser-Busch, Wells Fargo Advisors, Stifel Financial, Spire, Inc., MilliporeSigma, FleishmanHillard, Square, Inc., U.S. Bank, Anthem BlueCross and Blue Shield, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Centene Corporation, and Express Scripts.
Major research universities include Saint Louis University and Washington University in St. Louis. The Washington University Medical Center in the Central West End neighborhood hosts an agglomeration of medical and pharmaceutical institutions, including Barnes-Jewish Hospital.
St. Louis has three professional sports teams: the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball, the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League, and the St. Louis BattleHawks of the newly formed XFL. In 2019, the city was awarded a Major League Soccer franchise, St. Louis City SC, which is expected to begin play upon the completion of a 22,500-seat stadium in the city's Downtown West neighborhood in 2023. Among the city's notable sights is the 630-foot (192 m) Gateway Arch in the downtown area. St. Louis is also home to the St. Louis Zoo and the Missouri Botanical Garden, which has the second-largest herbarium in North America.
Source: saintlouisautoshow.com/show-history/
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Aug 22, Tokaj, Hungary.
Tokaj is situated at the confluence of the rivers Bodrog and Tisza, where the two rivers meet and become one. "Confluence" is a very important word when you're just married. :)
Initially we've planned our departure for Thursday, August 20. We've overshot that with the preparations that took forever (don't they always), and we took off on Friday afternoon only, also catching all the Friday rush outwards the city.
According to my initial plan, by Thursday night we should have been at Stara Lubovna in Slovakia already, just a stone throw from Poland. But as things never work out as planned, sometimes you fare worse, and some times you fare better. :)
I've found some wonderful sandals, just perfect for this trip. But the only shop that sells them in Cluj didn't have the right size. I couldn't wait for two more days, we were (of course) last minute shopping on Wednesday afternoon. We asked them to check their database (a miracle, they even had one!), and they've found a pair in Oradea, which was on our route. Therefore on Friday, we drove from Cluj to Oradea, and managed to pick up my sandals one day overdue, and (of course) just minutes before closing time. From there, we've checked the GPS and picked Tokaj as within reasonable driving distance to spend the first night at.
Finding accomodation in Tokaj at a late hour was a whole other story as most everything was closed already. Finally, Cris managed to wake up someone at a camping, and we've managed to get a cabin at least. That was the cheapest night we had (some 13 euros), not counting the 4-star hotel in Berlin, which came for totally free. But that's another story, we'll get there later. :))
So there we were on Saturday morning, and still in Hungary instead of Poland. We really had to hurry on further.
More Tokaj shots on her photostream! ;)
The Bailey Generating Station borders Cowles Bog, marking a confluence of man and nature. Looking west, one sees industry, looking all other directions - nature.
Following a two mile hike, the beach marks both the destination and halfway point- since the hike back is just as far.
The Dhangkar Fort and Monastery are built atop a cliff that overlooks the confluence of the Spiti and Pin rivers
Confluence at Rudraprayag with a small temple on the right where later that evening we participated in a wonderful, friendly, aarti ceremony.
Climb 50, 100 and 150 feet above the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and look down on their waters and the story where two explorers began their journey westward. From the three levels, vantage points give way to communities, history and stories of life along the riverbanks.
What began as a grassroots citizens group looking to commemorate the bicentennial celebration of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, now stands a structure that honors the place where men courageously set out west to discover the nation's prosperous lands centuries ago. Designed by KAI of St. Louis, Missouri, the Village of Hartford procured the tower site and hosted the ground breaking ceremony on November 1, 2002. From 2002 through 2010, fundraising and construction phases took mount, with a planned opening on May 14, 2010 to honor the famed departure. The summer of 2010 will host the inaugural season of the Lewis & Clark Confluence Tower, marking the 206th anniversary of the point of departure at Camp River Dubois.
Tower Facts:
•64 piers/pilings support the Tower, averaging 65' to 85' in depth to bedrock.
•20,599 cubic yards of concrete were used to build the towers, or approximately 3,433 concrete truck loads.
•Approximately 17 miles of reinforcing bars can be found in the foundation and structure.
•On a clear day, visitors can see downtown St. Louis and the Gateway Arch, which is 19 miles south of the Tower.
Lewis & Clark at the Confluence:
In 1803, President Jefferson commissioned Meriwether Lewis, a captain in the U.S. Army, to lead an expedition, entrusting to him responsibility to find "the most direct & practicable water communication across this continent for the purposes of commerce." Lewis assembled the Corps of Discovery and invited his friend, Captain William Clark, with a crew of approximately 30 other men, made up of non-commissioned officers, sergeants, privates, non-military members and Lewis' dog, Seaman.
As part of President Jefferson's mission to explore the recent purchase of the Louisiana Territory by way of an Army mission, the men set out on the 1803 to 1806 expedition, officially called, "Corps of Volunteers for North Western Discovery."
On December 12, 1803, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark established Camp River Dubois, within sight of the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Today, the Lewis & Clark State Historic in Hartford, Illinois sits at the location. As National Trail Site #1, the Interpretive Center is dedicated to telling the story of Lewis & Clark at Camp River Dubois.
Five months at camp were spent preparing and recruiting for the three-year journey westward. On May 14, 1804, the Corps of Discovery set out in their 55-foot-long keelboat loaded with supplies and the expectation of tales that would later become historical legends of bravery and possibility.
The Confluence of Three Rivers:
With the convenience and proximity to natural resources and transportation, the Riverbend area was developed within and around the confluence of three great rivers. A confluence is the place of meeting, or flowing together, of two or more streams. In this case, it is the meeting place of three important waterways.
From the vantage point of the tower, you can see the convergence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers in Hartford, Illinois. Looking north, the Illinois River meets the Mississippi in Grafton, Illinois. The three important waterways led to the development and prosperity of industries, river towns and their people. Each confluence community offers a unique story that has been shaped and defined by the waters of these rivers.
Beneath the I-5 overpass on Richards Blvd sits the newly installed 'Confluence,' a piece that is part of the improvements to the surrounding street and sidewalk.
A view of downtown Columbus, Ohio from the deck of The River Club, a restaurant that sits at the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy Rivers.
Balade nocturne sur la Confluence, histoire de faire un peu de pause longue à l'heure bleu
Realised with my Nikon D7000 and my 10-24mm Nikkor.
Website: www.photographe-lyon.fr
Fav and comments are welcome.
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© 2013 Quentin Lebourgeois - You may NOT take or use my pictures without my permission. Even if the photos are available on a public place, you are not supposed to use / post / modify or copy it in any way. All rights reserved.
Killian, or alternatively Irish: Cillian, was an Irish missionary bishop & the Apostle of Franconia (presently the northern part of Bavaria), where he began his work towards the end of the 7th century; his feast day is July 8
To all who visit and view, and – especially – express support and satisfaction: you are much appreciated!
Turm der katholischen Kirche St. Kilian in Mainz-Kostheim im Stadtkreis Wiesbaden (Hessen), 1766–1769 wurde diese Pfarrkirche als schönste Barockkirche am Untermain erbaut – die älteste Beurkundung Kostheims stammt von Karl dem Großen, am 31. August 790 unterzeichnete er eine Urkunde "zu Copsistaino", und besonders herausragend war hier im Jahre 1184 das letzte prunkvolle Reichsfest, das sogenannte Pfingstfest Kaiser Barbarossas auf der Maaraue, auch der Schwedenkönig Gustav Adolf besuchte Kostheim und ließ auf der damals noch Kostheimer Gemarkung die "Feste Gustavsburg" bauen
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Maaraue & Mechthildshausen, Germany – 03-05FEB2015:
Great crew, and an on-time Frankfurt arrival: that's very good!
Petra drove from her apartment in Schwalbach and picked me up at 1 p.m. Thursday (no arrival nap for me, so we could see something with the sun shining). We headed over the Rhine to Maaraue, the confluence of the Main and Rhine Rivers. We sat conversing by the Main shoreline on a bench until winter winds whipping near-freezing temperatures liked to froze us, then chatted along the riverwalk upstream to an observation tower near the middle bridge of the Mainz “Three Bridges Walk”, a 5-mile 2-hour circuit crossing the Main River once and Rhine River twice. (After the current grueling winter flight schedule ends & our crew arrives again early morning in Frankfurt, I plan to nap – and have daylight remaining to go on this Walk.)
Petra and I continued on our excursion into late afternoon, and she was looking forward to travelling the next day to Berlin to vacation with a friend. It was fun to invite Petra to go eat and to shop at the Domäne Mechthildshausen, an organic farm serving their own ingredients in their own restaurants, plus selling it in their shops.
(At the Domain I bought 2 loaves of bread: triple-rise sourdough, and spelt; on Sunday Joe and I brought these to share, for lunch and for the concert reception.)
Petra dropped me back off at the hotel on her way to stop by Fichteplatz to return the key to the Gerber family children from their parent’s now-vacated apartment.
I learned "a lot". When I got home, Friday night I went to bed and slept a healing 16 hours.
Saturday evening Joe and I went to a lovely Carolina Pro Musica early music concert, the next mid-morning and mid-afternoon to my brother John’s New Life Lutheran Church in New London, where I played flute with the organist. Joe and I ate Sunday lunch with my brother and his family, a super visit – time flying by fast – and we all went to the wonderful Cantamos choral concert, a great reception and fellowship following the standing ovation. Soli Deo Gloria!
Enjoy my 20% best photos from this layover, in a 2-album set:
• Maaraue, Germany – 2015FEB05
• Mechthildshausen, DE – 2015FEB05