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This was another shot, where I have to hide myself from bird nest. She was keep coming and checking the spot for any invaders, finally I walked away when she was hovering above and came back after she left and hide behind trees and vegetation. I was merely 20 feet from the nest, thank god that I had zoom with me, otherwise it would be very difficult to keep the whole action in frame. Well, it was worth the effort!
The April challenge at Shock of the New is Geometric Shapes
Come see Spotlight Your Best where the April theme is “Round Things.”
NAUERNA, Amsterdam Westerpoort – In the background at 14 km Tata Steel IJmuiden; a Steel Plant in IJmuiden and Velsen-Noord, Netherlands. Tata Steel IJmuiden was formerly known as Koninklijke Nederlandse Hoogovens en Staalfabrieken (KNHS) until 1996 (informally Hoogovens), and then Koninklijke Hoogovens Steel Factories, IJmuiden, The Netherlands.
The North Sea Canal (Dutch: Noordzeekanaal) is a Dutch Ship Canal, long 25 km, from Amsterdam to the North Sea at IJmuiden, constructed between 1865 and 1876 to enable seafaring Vessels to reach the Port of Amsterdam. This Man-Made Channel terminates at Amsterdam in the closed-off IJ Bay, which in turn connects to the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal.
La pêche au carrelet est très pratiquée sur les côtes de Charente-Maritime et dans les estuaires de la Charente et de la Gironde. Elle est aussi pratiquée sur les côtes escarpées de la Vendée et jusqu'à l'embouchure de la Loire mais dans ces régions cette tradition a tendance à s'estomper.
Le carrelet est un filet carré d'une superficie de quelques mètres carrés tendu sur une armature plane et descendu horizontalement au moyen d’un treuil depuis un ponton qui avance en mer et sur lequel est généralement construit un abri, voire un petit logement. Après quelques minutes d'attente, pour dissipation du trouble causé par la descente, le filet est remonté assez rapidement, emprisonnant en principe les poissons qui se trouvaient entre lui et la surface (un appât « boît » peut être placé en son centre).
C'est une pêche très réglementée en raison de la construction d'un ponton sur le domaine maritime1.
Sur 600 installations de pêche au carrelet détruites par la tempête de décembre 1999, 450 installations charentaises ont pu être reconstruites en respectant certaines directives « tout bois, toit en tôle possible ». Pendant Xynthia (26 février 2010) de nombreuses installations furent à nouveau détruites.
En Vendée et en Loire-Atlantique les installations de pêche au carrelet sont appelées des pêcheries. En Charente-Maritime les autochtones utilisent plutôt le terme de ponton, sous-entendu ponton de pêche au carrelet, pour désigner ces installations, mais avec l'évolution du langage, c'est le nom de carrelet qui est improprement utilisé actuellement pour désigner l'ensemble de l'installation de pêche, ce qui génère une certaine confusion, le carrelet étant uniquement le filet.
Cette pêche peut être également pratiquée en amateur soit avec de petits filets ronds (< 1 m2), appelés balances, simplement remontés à la main, souvent le long des quais des ports, soit avec des filets un peu plus grands, manœuvrés par un treuil rudimentaire accroché le temps de la partie de pêche à la rambarde d'un pont.
Il existe aussi le carrelet portable toujours munis d'un filet avec corde, poulie et bras métallique ou en bois comportant à sa base un support et un cordage pour pêcher depuis un surplomb rocheux que l'on accroche à une pierre. On relève le filet en tirant sur une corde fixée au cadre du filet. L'appât est constitué de moules écrasées et mélangées à du sable que l'on jette au milieu du filet quand celui-ci est descendu.
Le carrelet peut également être utilisé à partir de bateau de pêche.
En Émilie-Romagne (Italie), ce type de pêche à la balance existe aussi, elle s'appelle padelloni ou bilancioni.
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Fishing with carrelet in Charente Maritime
The carrelet is a big square fishing net tightened on an armature and lowered by means of a winch, since a pontoon on which is generally built fisherman’s hut, this peach is very wide-spread in Charente-Maritime.
In Vendée and Loire-Atlantique carrelet fishing facilities are called fisheries. In Charente-Maritime natives rather use the term carrelet, to designate these facilities, but with the evolution of language, the name of carrelet which is currently used improperly to designate all fishing facility, which generates confusion, carrelet being solely the net.
This fishing can also be practiced in amateur or with small round nets (<1 m2), called balances (scales), simply reassembled by hand, often along wharfs or with slightly larger nets, operated by a winch rudimentary hooked time to the part of fishing to the railing of a bridge.
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Nijo Castle's legendary Ninomaru Garden and it's koi pond, which is lined with decorative boulders gathered throughout all corners of Japan, were designed in 1626 on the castle grounds for Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa (Edo) shogunate (1603–1867). If you have read James Clavell's novel "Shogun" or watched the Shogun TV series, you're already familiar with Tokugawa Ieyasu because Clavell based the warlord 'Lord Toranaga' on him.)
Lord Tokugawa unified Japan in 1600, following twenty six years of civil war at the end of the 16th century. In 1601 he directed Japan's daimyos (feudal lords) to construct Nijo Castle as his Kyoto residence in a location very close to the Imperial Palace.
The castle grounds, completed in 1603 (amazingly after only two years!), are spectacular, covering 68 acres (27.5 hectares) which include 86,000 sq ft (8,000 sq m) of buildings including two palaces, ponds, rock gardens, and inner- and outer moats. It is now a World Heritage Site.
Upon completion, Tokugawa moved in and hosted a ceremony wherein Japan's Emperor announced to the gathered feudal lords his appointment of Tokugawa as Shogun. Tokugawa's main residence and his new seat of government was in Edo (now called Toyko), so this huge Nijo Castle was akin to his 'country home' used primarily whenever he visited the emperor in the Imperial Capital.
In 1614 the shogun led his samurai army from Nijo Castle on his victorious Siege of Osaka Castle which ended the line of the Toyotomi family, his last political opposition, and established himself as the absolute polical ruler of Japan. His shogunate lasted two hundred sixty four years. In 1857 the 15th Shogun of his line, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, ended shogunate rule and returned political control to the Emperor as Japan opened to the world.
Sa construction commença vers la fin de l'année 1066 dans le cadre de la conquête normande de l’Angleterre. La tour Blanche (White Tower) qui donna son nom à l'ensemble du château, fut construite sur l'ordre de Guillaume le Conquérant en 1078 et fut considérée comme un symbole de l'oppression infligée à Londres par la classe dirigeante. Le château fut utilisé comme prison dès 1100. Il servait également de grand palais et de résidence royale.
L'utilisation carcérale de la tour atteignit son apogée aux xvie et xviie siècles lorsque de nombreuses personnes tombées en disgrâce, comme Élisabeth Ire avant qu'elle ne devienne reine, y furent enfermées.
Malgré sa réputation tenace de lieu de torture et de mort, popularisée par les propagandistes religieux du xvie siècle et les écrivains du xixe siècle, seules sept personnes furent exécutées dans la tour avant le xxe siècle. Les exécutions étaient généralement réalisées à la Tower Hill au nord de la tour où 112 personnes furent exécutées sur une période de 400 ans.
Lors des deux guerres mondiales, la tour fut à nouveau utilisée comme une prison et fut le lieu de douze exécutions pour espionnage. Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, les dégâts causés par le Blitz furent réparés et la tour fut rouverte au public. Aujourd'hui la tour est classée au patrimoine mondial par l'UNESCO et accueille plusieurs millions de visiteurs par an.
" The time of war is almost over, now the time to rebuild is come. Well, to build for us, since we lost everything, including our old home. We live since a month now in an old fishing village, surrounded by cliffs and mountains. Yesterday, me and the council decided to call our little town Greyhaven. And that same day, our worked finished the construction of a defensive wall. Everyone has a house now. Greyhaven is ready to expend"
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Nyhavn was constructed by King Christian V from 1670 to 1675, dug by Swedish prisoners of war from the Dano-Swedish War 1658–1660.
It is a gateway from the sea to the old inner city at Kongens Nytorv (King's Square), where ships handled cargo and fishermens' catch. It was notorious for beer, sailors, and prostitution. Danish author Hans Christian Andersen lived at Nyhavn for some 18 years.
In the mid-1960s, the Nyhavn Society was founded with the aim of revitalising the area. In 1977, Nyhavn was inaugurated as a veteran ship and museum harbour (scource: wikipedia).
The Forth Bridge was opened in 1890, having been 8 years in the construction. It was started in the knowledge that, given the poor safety standards of the time, men would die in the process. At its peak, approximately 4,600 workers were employed in the bridge's construction.
As of 2009 it was recorded that 73 men lost their lives in accidents. A memorial on shore records their names and occupations.
Two new bridges have since been constructed nearby: The Forth Road Bridge and The Queensferry Crossing.
For me, this original bridge is the most 'handsome' and characterful. We visited on a late autumn evening and stayed for sunset. The gathering dusk gave a sombre and reflective mood.
Photo numérique prise le 12/04/2008.
Digital photo taken on 12/04/2008.
Architecte : Santiago Calatrava.
Un album avec des images (dont des argentiques scannées) prises durant la construction de cette gare, susceptibles de plaire aux liégeois (et à tous, j'espère!)
Architect: Santiago Calatrava.
An album with pictures (including Film scanned) taken during the construction of the station likely to appeal to liégeois (and everyone, I hope!)
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The first Point Arena Lighthouse was constructed in 1870.
In 1906 it was damaged in an earthquake.
It was reconstructed and resumed operation in 1908 and featured a 1st Order Fresnel Lens, seven feet in diameter and weighing 4,700 pounds. The lens is made up of 258 hand-ground glass prisms all focused toward three sets of double bulls eyes. It is these bulls eyes that gave the Point Arena Lighthouse its unique “light signature” of two flashes every six seconds. This incredible optic, that holds an appraised value of over $3.5 million
Constructed in 1898, No 11 Adelaide St W in the downtown Toronto Canada financial district was originally the facade of The John McKay Store at Nos 33-36 King St W. Before the building on King was demolished, the facade was dismantled, moved one block north and reassembled at it's present location. The buildings remains were designated a Heritage Property by The City of Toronto in 2007.
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There is a lot of development going on along the Chao Phraya River, opposite side to central Bangkok.
Constructed by the Railways Department in 1897 – 1898, the intention was that the dam would provide plentiful fresh water for the locomotives that would soon be steaming along the new railway linking Kalgoorlie with Malcolm.
Coolgardie based contractors were engaged to build the dam at a tendered price of 42,000 pounds. But the government engineers had miscalculated the depth of the bedrock that would need to be blasted away in order to construct the concrete wall. The actual work ended up costing 62,000 pounds. The contractor's biggest challenge was getting a vast quantity of powdered cement to Niagara from Coolgardie where it had been railed from Perth. The distance to Niagara was some 220km and they decided that the only way to efficiently transport the cement would be by camel train.
By the time the dam was completed, it had accumulated very little water due to a lack of rainfall. To make matters worse a plentiful supply of good underground water had been located at nearby Kookynie.
In 1900 a journalist writing for the North Coolgardie Herald noted that "the fact that 60,000 pounds of good government money was swallowed up in constructing the white elephant need not distract from your enjoyment of the sight. You may console yourself with the reflection that there may be a time when the reservoir will be put to some use."
Such a time was not to come, however for over a century this oasis in the wilderness has provided a picnic, swimming and camping spot for visitors and locals alike. The dam took its name from the nearby town of Niagara, which was booming at the time of the dam's construction.
Nobbys Head in Newcastle, NSW, was first sighted by a European, Captain James Cook on 10th May 1770. A pier which took 38 years to construct by convict labour joined this island to the mainland. A lighthouse is located on the headland. Today there is a popular walkway up to Nobbys Head. It lies at the entrance of Newcastle Harbour.
I love the clouds in this image!