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I drew the continuous line contour again a little larger and added watercolor. This is the second activity for week 3 in the "Seeing" class of Sketchbook Skool.
Stillman &Birn Zeta series 6x8 inch spiral bound notebook, Zig sepia pen, and Lucas tube watercolor.
About the Artist: Liza Lou
Liza Lou was born in 1969 in New York City. She grew up in a family of modest means, playing with second-hand toys and dolls. As a child Lou saw Pop Art and realized that she had to be an artist. She was attracted by the idea that while you were making one thing it could mean something else.
Lou attended the San Francisco Art Institute where she fell in love with glass beads, but she dropped out of school when her professors didn’t take her choice of beads as a medium seriously. To support herself, Lou worked as a waitress and sold prom dresses in Hollywood.
Lou eventually beaded an entire life size kitchen, right down to dishes in the sink and a cherry pie cooling on the oven rack. The kitchen brought her recognition and a case of acute tendonitis. Next she beaded a back yard, including the blades of grass, and after that, portraits of American Presidents. “It’s humorous to see men in beads,” she said. “Herbert Hoover is not someone you associate with glitter.”
In 2002 Liza Lou was awarded a MacArthur fellowship, which changed her approach to her art. She moved to South Africa and worked with Zulu beadworkers to create Continuous Mile, a hand-beaded rope that is a mile long.
The Details
•Title: Continuous Mile
•Maker(s): Liza Lou
•Accession Number: 2013.9.1
•Place Made: United States, CA, Los Angeles; South Africa, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
•Dimensions:
oOverall Dimensions:
Height: about 80 cm
Diameter (max): about 140 cm
•Date: 2006-2008
•Technique: needleworking, sewing
•Materials: Glass beads; cotton, thread
Interpretive Text
Continuous Mile took Liza Lou more than a year to make with a team of Zulu women, who work with Lou in Durban, South Africa. The sculpture is a coiled stacked rope, measuring a mile in length, sewn with more than 4.5 million glossy black beads. The sculpture is a work about work, about process, about finding meaning in the everyday, and about managing many hands to create something that could not be made by one person alone. Lou says, “The idea was to employ as many people as possible, using the slowest possible technique in order to engage a community in the process of making an artwork.”
This is a photograph from the 38th Michael Manning Memorial "Dunshaughlin 10KM" Road Race and Fun Run which took place in Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath, Ireland on Saturday 24th June 2017 at 19:30. This race is widely acknowledged within the Irish running community as one of the best races in Ireland and is Ireland's oldest continuously held 10KM race. This year, as in previous years, the race attracted runners from not just all of Leinster but from the four corners of Ireland. The work of the organising committee must be commended on making this event possible. The Dunshaughlin 10KM has earned it's place at the top of the pedestal of Irish running through the sheer hard work of Dunshaughlin AC over the years. Road race events do not survive on their own. There must be dedication, hard work and a development vision amongst the committee and the host club. Well done to all.
The route starts on the town bypass and proceeds eastwards into Dunshaughlin village itself. The race then takes a left turn and follows a northerly direction towards Ratoath. At approximately 5.7K the race turns off this road into a small downhill section. After another 400m the race takes a right turn and turns southerly to head back to Dunshaughlin. At this point the only two significant hills of the race are encountered. From here the race is a straight route right back to the finish in Dunshaughlin village.
The race carries on its own fine long tradition but also that of the many very well known and well attended Meath Athletic Club road races which are hosted in the county over the year.
The weather was reasonably good for running - it was a warm summer evening but breezy in places.
We have an extensive set of photographs from the race tonight taken at the 1 mile mark and then at the 400M and 600M to go mark. The full set is available at:
www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157685443821025
Our Photographs from 2016 Photographs: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157669936408175
Our Photographs from 2015: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157645329098733/
Our Photographs from 2014: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157645329098733/
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I ran in the race - but my photograph doesn't appear here in your Flickr set! What gives?
As mentioned above we take these photographs as a hobby and as a voluntary contribution to the running community in Ireland. Very often we have actually ran in the same race and then switched to photographer mode after we finished the race. Consequently, we feel that we have no obligations to capture a photograph of every participant in the race. However, we do try our very best to capture as many participants as possible. But this is sometimes not possible for a variety of reasons:
►You were hidden behind another participant as you passed our camera
►Weather or lighting conditions meant that we had some photographs with blurry content which we did not upload to our Flickr set
►There were too many people - some races attract thousands of participants and as amateur photographs we cannot hope to capture photographs of everyone
►We simply missed you - sorry about that - we did our best!
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About the Artist: Liza Lou
Liza Lou was born in 1969 in New York City. She grew up in a family of modest means, playing with second-hand toys and dolls. As a child Lou saw Pop Art and realized that she had to be an artist. She was attracted by the idea that while you were making one thing it could mean something else.
Lou attended the San Francisco Art Institute where she fell in love with glass beads, but she dropped out of school when her professors didn’t take her choice of beads as a medium seriously. To support herself, Lou worked as a waitress and sold prom dresses in Hollywood.
Lou eventually beaded an entire life size kitchen, right down to dishes in the sink and a cherry pie cooling on the oven rack. The kitchen brought her recognition and a case of acute tendonitis. Next she beaded a back yard, including the blades of grass, and after that, portraits of American Presidents. “It’s humorous to see men in beads,” she said. “Herbert Hoover is not someone you associate with glitter.”
In 2002 Liza Lou was awarded a MacArthur fellowship, which changed her approach to her art. She moved to South Africa and worked with Zulu beadworkers to create Continuous Mile, a hand-beaded rope that is a mile long.
The Details
•Title: Continuous Mile
•Maker(s): Liza Lou
•Accession Number: 2013.9.1
•Place Made: United States, CA, Los Angeles; South Africa, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
•Dimensions:
oOverall Dimensions:
Height: about 80 cm
Diameter (max): about 140 cm
•Date: 2006-2008
•Technique: needleworking, sewing
•Materials: Glass beads; cotton, thread
Interpretive Text
Continuous Mile took Liza Lou more than a year to make with a team of Zulu women, who work with Lou in Durban, South Africa. The sculpture is a coiled stacked rope, measuring a mile in length, sewn with more than 4.5 million glossy black beads. The sculpture is a work about work, about process, about finding meaning in the everyday, and about managing many hands to create something that could not be made by one person alone. Lou says, “The idea was to employ as many people as possible, using the slowest possible technique in order to engage a community in the process of making an artwork.”
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continuous holga shot done by turning the film advance in small incriments while staying in one spot... no tripod... :)
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best wishes, congratulations, and have a prosperous and good year! february 3 (2011) marked the beginning of the chinese new year - 4708 on the continuous calendar, on the zodiac chart it is the year of the rabbit. chinatown - san francisco, california
March 7th, 2015
K-5 Malala Feeder school by NCHD - National Commission fro Human Development.
Location: Mir Bandai Ali Khan at Tando Ghulam Ali Badin District, Sindh, Pakistan
By: Pervaiz Lodhie
Founder LEDtronics
Founding Director PHDF - Pakistan Human Development Fund
Faciltated by: Shaantech Pakistan Team
Back Ground
National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) was established in July, 2001 as a federal statutory body. It is a fast-track initiative to improve social sector outcomes at the grass-roots. The goal of the Commission is to fill the implementation gaps and improve public sector delivery mechanisms to achieve the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) through:
Universal Primary Education (UPE)
Adult Literacy / Gender Empowerment Program
Reducing Population Growth Rate
Improving Infant & Maternal Mortality
Capacity Building at Grassroots
NCHD has been officially declared as lead agency for the spread of literacy programs in the country by the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The 2006 UNESCO International Reading Association Literacy Prize has been awarded to NCHD for its National Literacy Program.
Visit of Mr. Pervaiz Lodhi – Member PHDF
Mr. Pervaiz lodhie a distinguished member of PHDF visited Malala Feeder School on 7th March 2015 alongwith his team and the Worthy Director operations Sindh Humaira Hashimi Sahiba. The team arrived at Malala feeder school at about 12.00noon. A warm welcome was given to the distinguished guests. The students from Malala wrapped in school uniform give a salute the honourable guests and offered flowers to the guests. Thrown rose petals in a queue to the head Masters room.
Where Mr. Moti lal – Head Master briefed the honourable guests about the back ground and the efforts taken for establishment of such a wonderful building through donations. He elaborated that besides donors the I-care, PHDF, Mir Ghulam Ali Talpur and the chairman usher and zakat the children are continuously supporting the school by making donations from their pocket money, which were a unique contribution and the idea for construction of malala feeder school. They started the school with the number of 25 children only but now after hectic efforts and continuous work hard the number has raised to 455. At the movement 5 Feeder teachers are placed while 3 other teachers are voluntarily putting their time and efforts.
Then the guests visited each class room one by one, where two children from each class presented rose flowers to the guests. The guest asked many questions about the education, the attitude of the teachers and their satisfaction from the school and learning land marks. Checked and found whole the school very neat and clean.
A gathering of parents of children was also arranged in the school, after visiting class rooms the honourable guests moved toward the stage where function started with the recitation of holy Quran. A student of class three Ghulam Rasool recited from Holy Quran.
Naat Maqbool (PBHM) was presented by three female students namely Huma Naz, Mehmoona, Nayab and Iqra
Mr. Pervaiz lodhi – member PHDF said in his address that PHDF put a unique idea of public and private partnership and have proved that by collective efforts Pakistan can meet the desired goals and objectives especially in the field of education. He called a meeting with stake holder and the private sector yesterday and will be meet with the honourable minister and PHDF members in Pakistan to contribute on their part in the uplift of NCHD and the objective of Education and literacy in Pakistan. He thinks that it is only NCHD which has office in every district of the Pakistan and grass root approach. He will try a funding and the support of Pakistanis in America and bring some good news as well. He is himself contacting various philanthropists and groups in this regard also. Insha Allah we will bring a positive change in Pakistan and continue our mission. He appreciated the innovative idea for construction of Malala school building. He also suggested that he will show the movie to the father of Malala who is visiting America in coming month.
At end of this session honourable guest distributed Shaantech Solar Charged LED Lights to top 3 students from each class (1,2,3,4,5)
First attempt with continuous light. Bought Falcon Eyes softboxes with 4 daylight bulbs. I like how this turned out. It still is a colour image and not turned into black and white. I did add a film filter with grain in Alien Skin Exposure 5 (Fuji Reala)
Canon 6D with Canon 100mm f2.8 macro
1 Falcon Eyes daylight bulbs softboc 50x50 cm partly double diffused with DIY scrim
Two silver reflectors
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The focus on this is how I intended it, but it looks a little wonky with me. Uploading it for your thoughts, basically.
Popped down to Stonehenge to see the stones, this was my first time. They are amazing to see. My only moan is the fact that you are not allowed to touch them!!, was gutted about that. Chatted to a few folks here who said the same thing. One chap even suggested that English Heritage had put landmines around here and were planning on installing a machine gun post! I of course, do not believe that (the machine gun post)
Stonehenge
is probably the one of the most important prehistoric monuments in the
whole of the British Isles and it has attracted visitors from earliest times. It stands as a monument to the people who built it.
The stonehenge that we see today is the final stage that was completed about 3500 years ago, but first let us look back appox 5000 years.
The First Stage
The first Stonehenge was a large earthwork or Henge, comprising a ditch, bank, and the Aubrey holes, all possibly built around 3100 BC. The Aubrey holes are round pits in the chalk, about one metre wide and deep, they have steep sides and flat bottoms. They form a circle about 284 feet in diameter. Excavations have revealed cremated human bones in some of the chalk filling, but the holes themselves were probably made, not for the purpose of graves, but as part of a religious ceremony. Shortly after this stage Stonehenge was abandoned and left untouched for over 1000 years!
Second Stage
The second and most dramatic stage of Stonehenge started around 2150 BC. Some 82 bluestones from the Preseli mountains, in south-west Wales were transported to the site. It is thought these stones, some weighing 4 tonnes each were possibly dragged on rollers and sledges to the headwaters on Milford Haven and then loaded onto rafts. They were carried by water along the south coast of Wales and up the rivers Avon and Frome, before being dragged overland again to near Warminster in Wiltshire. The final stage of the journey was mainly by water, down the river Wylye to Salisbury, then the Salisbury Avon to west Amesbury.
This astonishing journey covers nearly 240 miles. Once at the site, these stones were set up in the centre to form an incomplete double circle. ( During the same period the original entrance of the circular earthwork was widened and a pair of Heel Stones were erected. Also the nearer part of the Avenue was built, aligned with the midsummer sunrise.)
Third Stage
The third stage of Stonehenge, about 2000 BC, saw the arrival of the Sarsen stones, which were almost certainly brought from the Marlborough Downs near Avebury, in north Wiltshire, about 25 miles north of Stonehenge. The largest of the Sarsen stones transported to Stonehenge weigh 50 tonnes and transportation by water would have been impossible, the stones could only have been moved using sledges and ropes. Modern calculations show that it would have taken 500 men using leather ropes to pull one stone, with an extra 100 men needed to lay the huge rollers in front of the sledge.
These were arranged in an outer circle with a continuous run of lintels. Inside the circle, five trilithons were placed in a horseshoe arrangement, whose remains we can still see today.
Final Stage
The final stage took place soon after 1500 BC when the bluestones were rearranged in the horseshoe and circle that we see today. The original number of stones in the bluestone circle was probably around 60, these have long since been removed or broken up. Some remain only as stumps below ground level.
All info here is based on info acquired from Stonehenge.co.uk and from the visitor centre at Stonehenge.
117/365 Canon 50D + 17-40mm L + 2 50cm softboxes on either side of me, head height.
I've been shooting a lot of different stuff lately and am learning a lot. One of the things I have learned is that if you have the option of continuous light sources, use it. So much easier to work with than strobes.
Continuous 90 degree weather here. Sometimes isolated afternoon storms popup and cool us off, if we're lucky. Next we'll go into the 100s.
There was great ceremony and due diligence to bring the light of the Aeon to burn amongst the congregation. After the mass we took a little time to create some photographic records. Here in these pictures the eternal beauty of the Queen of Space shines through her chosen Priestess.
PHH Sykes copyright 2019
phhsykes@gmail.com
Liber XV: The Gnostic Mass
Ecclesiæ Gnostiæ Catholicæ Canon Missæ
“O Nuit, continuous one of Heaven, let it be ever thus; that men speak not of thee as One but as None; and let them speak not of thee at all, since thou art continuous!” Liber AL, I:27
by Nelson Ball.
Cobourg, Proper Tales Press, 2o12. 1oo copies.
32 pp/29 printed, photocopy. 5-/2 x 8-1/2, stapled wrappers.
poetry.
4.oo
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I visited Tavares, Florida on January 21, 2014 to photograph the R J Corman Railroad Construction Company's installation of Continuously Welded Rail on the Florida Central Railroad's Right Of Way. Florida Central Railway (FCEN) is a Pinsley Company.
RJ Corman had several Large Machines that they were using to replace the old jointed rail with Continuously Welded Rail. They had machinery for spreading Ballast, placing Wooden Ties, Laying the very long sections of Rail, machines to position the Tie Plates and to insert Spikes thru the Tie Plates into the Ties, in order to secure the Rail to the Ties.
Finally they had Welding Machines to Weld the Long Rail Segments together and Ballast Tampers/Ballast Regulators to secure and align the Ties/Rails within the Ballast. I have included eight photos showing the Welds, Rails, Ballast and some of the Maintenance Of Way Machines.
Since Tavares calls itself America's Seaplane City, I was also able to Photograph some of the Seaplanes within another group of 5 recently posted flickr™ Photos.
Westbound CSX work train passing through Utica Union Staion on track 2 lead by SD40-3 4042 with SD50-2 2479 and cars for laying down continuous welded rail. The engineer gives a friendly wave.
Our tour group was taken to Buckfast Abbey in the morning.
The first Abbey was founded on this site in 1018 and absorbed into the Cistercian order in 1147. It grew throughout the middle ages until it's closure in 1539 by King Henry VIII.
The buildings were converted and allowed to fall into ruin, but in 1882 a group of Benedictine monks, exiled from France, settled at Buckfast and eventually set about rebuilding the Abbey.
It is incredible that a team of no more than 6 monks completed the work in 30 years, and only one - Brother Peter had any experience as a builder.
Today Buckfast Abbey is the only English medieval monastery to have been regranted and used again for it's original purpose.
Going into the abbey church I was told to take my baseball cap off, which I did.
Grade II* Listed Building
Church of St Mary (Buckfast Abbey)
Description
BUCKFASTLEIGH
SX7467 BUCKFAST ROAD, Buckfast
1011-1/5/29 Abbey Church Of St Mary
10/01/51
(Formerly Listed as:
BUCKFAST ROAD, Buckfast
St Mary's Church, Buckfast Abbey)
GV II*
Abbey church. Built 1907-1932, on the foundations of the
medieval Cistercian abbey church (except the east end). FA
Walters. For the Benedictine monks who established a house
here in 1882. Most of the building work was carried out by a
small group of monks working under a master mason. Snecked
local grey limestone with Ham Hill dressings; copper roof.
Style "mixture of English Cistercian and French early Gothic"
(Pevsner). 1965 east end Blessed Sacrament chapel to the
designs of Paul Pearn.
Plan: church with 8-bay lean-to aisles plus galleried western
bay; central crossing tower; transepts with chapels; 3-bay
choir with choir aisles; east end Blessed Sacrament chapel
with undercroft.
EXTERIOR: west end of nave with flanking projecting buttresses
containing stairs to gallery, rising as pinnacles with broach
spire roofs, bases and pinnacles decorated with blind
arcading. Round-headed west doorway with shafts, left and
right shafts with cushion capitals and carved gable.
Doorway has 3 orders of zigzag, billet and chevron moulding on
engaged shafts; 2-leaf door with elaborate ironwork. Above the
doorway a recessed 3-centred blind moulded arch containing 2
round-headed windows with shafts and a roundel window above.
Above the archway blind arcading decorates the gable. West
ends of lean-to aisles have smaller versions of the buttresses
flanking the nave and paired round-headed openings (one blind)
with roundels above.
North side of 9-bay nave has pilasters and a corbelled
parapet. Round-headed triforium windows linked by string
rising as continuous hoodmould. Nave with parapet and
round-headed windows, the hoodmould string interrupted by the
pilasters. Small gabled porch in second bay from the west with
set-back buttresses, parapet and round-headed outer doorway
with shafts and chevron-carved arch. Easternmost 2 bays of
aisle with taller roof and blind arcading above the windows.
North end of north transept with tall paired arches containing
4 tiers of glazed blind and glazed windows, either
round-headed or roundels. East side of transept has one-bay
chapel. The choir continues in the same style with lean-to
choir aisle roofs. 1965 concrete east end chapel on 4 columns
with shallow gabled roof.
Tower with 3 stages above nave roof. Clasping pilasters;
corner pinnacles with 2 tiers of blind arcading and broach
spires, crow-stepped parapet. Lower stage has lancet windows
in round-headed recesses, middle stage has small lancet
windows in moulded arched recesses; 2-light plate-traceried
louvred belfry windows.
INTERIOR: Stone-vaulted, the aisles with transverse vaults.
Arcades with piers with engaged shafts and chamfred and
moulded arches. Nave rib vault with red sandstone infill.
Triforium has a pair of 2-light pointed arches to each bay
with super-ordinate round-headed blind arch. Aisle walls
decorated with blind round-headed recesses containing triple
round-headed arches on shafts with moulded bases and carved
capitals. Stone-vaulted west end gallery on piers with canted
bays to parapet. Tower arches on short paired shafts with
moulded bases and carved capitals. Crossing has corbelled
stone gallery; transepts have simple galleries on moulded
corbels with cast-iron railings.
Choir has similar detail to nave but carved, not moulded
capitals and stone infill to the vaulting of choir and choir
aisles. East end of sanctuary has 2 round-headed arches and 2
round-headed windows above the triforium with a central shaft
rising to a carving of the Coronation of the Virgin.
The furnishings, floors, painted decoration and stained glass
are unexpectedly lavish, particularly the outstanding
metalwork, which is mostly 1928-1932 by Bernhard Witte of
Aachen, inspired by German Romanesque metalwork and described
in some detail in Pevsner. The stained glass is a remarkable
collection, mostly still in the medievalising Victorian
tradition and of the highest quality. In addition the church
contains a C16 ivory crucifix donated by the Clifford family
of Ugbrooke, the leading Roman Catholic family in Devon. 1965
Blessed Sacrament chapel by Paul Pearn conceived as a setting
for ambitious mosaic stained glass designed by Father Charles
Norris, one of the Buckfast Abbey monks.
Historical note: the rebuilding of the abbey church by the
Buckfast monks was well-publicised in the national and local
press and one of the monks with an interest in photography
recorded much of the work: the archive is held by the abbey.
Buckfast Abbey became an important focus for Roman Catholicism
in Devon in the late C19 and C20 with the monks serving
private chapels in the area, including Ugbrooke in Chudleigh
for the Clifford family and Dundridge in Harberton for the
wife of Sir John Harvey.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:
222-226).
Listing NGR: SX7414767411
Seen from the Physic Garden.
3.5" Hunter XCI CG PreCut to fit tracks Polyiso Continuous Insulation installed over 3M 3015 AVB Roosevelt Field Neiman Marcus. Polyiso higher thermal resistance allows for thinner tracks and overall wall thickness. Passes NFPA 285
Xci CG is a high-thermal rigid insulation panel composed of a closed cell polyisocyanurate foam core manufactured on-line to premium performance coated glass facers on both sides. It is designed for use in commercial wall applications to provide continuous insulation within the building envelope.
Samarkand is a city in southeastern Uzbekistan and among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Central Asia. Samarkand is the capital of the Samarkand Region and a district-level city, that includes the urban-type settlements Kimyogarlar, Farhod and Khishrav. With 551,700 inhabitants (2021)] it is the third-largest city in Uzbekistan.
There is evidence of human activity in the area of the city dating from the late Paleolithic Era. Though there is no direct evidence of when Samarkand was founded, several theories propose that it was founded between the 8th and 7th centuries BC. Prospering from its location on the Silk Road between China, Persia and Europe, at times Samarkand was one of the largest cities in Central Asia, and was an important city of the empires of Greater Iran. By the time of the Persian Achaemenid Empire, it was the capital of the Sogdian satrapy. The city was conquered by Alexander the Great in 329 BC, when it was known as Markanda, which was rendered in Greek as Μαράκανδα. The city was ruled by a succession of Iranian and Turkic rulers until it was conquered by the Mongols under Genghis Khan in 1220.
The city is noted as a centre of Islamic scholarly study and the birthplace of the Timurid Renaissance. In the 14th century, Timur made it the capital of his empire and the site of his mausoleum, the Gur-e Amir. The Bibi-Khanym Mosque, rebuilt during the Soviet era, remains one of the city's most notable landmarks. Samarkand's Registan square was the city's ancient centre and is bounded by three monumental religious buildings. The city has carefully preserved the traditions of ancient crafts: embroidery, goldwork, silk weaving, copper engraving, ceramics, wood carving, and wood painting. In 2001, UNESCO added the city to its World Heritage List as Samarkand – Crossroads of Cultures.
Modern Samarkand is divided into two parts: the old city, which includes historical monuments, shops, and old private houses; and the new city, which was developed during the days of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union and includes administrative buildings along with cultural centres and educational institutions. On 15 and 16 September 2022, the city hosted the 2022 SCO summit.
Samarkand has a multicultural and plurilingual history that was significantly modified by the process of national delimitation in Central Asia. Many inhabitants of the city are native or bilingual speakers of the Tajik language, whereas Uzbek is the official language and Russian is also widely used in the public sphere, as per Uzbekistan's language policy.
Children's Fairyland, U.S.A. was the first theme park in the United States created to cater to families with young children. Located in Oakland, California on the shore of Lake Merritt, Fairyland includes 10 acres of play sets, small rides, and animals. The park is also home to the Open Storybook Puppet Theater, the oldest continuously operating puppet theater in the United States.
Shot were all handheld with the Nikon D7000, no vibration reduction, with a Sigma 10-20mm wide angle lens. Autobracketing with three shots +/-2.0ev and HDR processed with Photomatix Pro.
3.5" Hunter XCI CG PreCut to fit tracks Polyiso Continuous Insulation installed over 3M 3015 AVB Roosevelt Field Neiman Marcus. Polyiso higher thermal resistance allows for thinner tracks and overall wall thickness. Passes NFPA 285
Xci CG is a high-thermal rigid insulation panel composed of a closed cell polyisocyanurate foam core manufactured on-line to premium performance coated glass facers on both sides. It is designed for use in commercial wall applications to provide continuous insulation within the building envelope.
3.5" Hunter XCI CG PreCut to fit tracks Polyiso Continuous Insulation installed over 3M 3015 AVB Roosevelt Field Neiman Marcus. Polyiso higher thermal resistance allows for thinner tracks and overall wall thickness. Passes NFPA 285
Xci CG is a high-thermal rigid insulation panel composed of a closed cell polyisocyanurate foam core manufactured on-line to premium performance coated glass facers on both sides. It is designed for use in commercial wall applications to provide continuous insulation within the building envelope.