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Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen H. Hicks attends U.S. Marines Evening Parade as the guest of honor at the Oldest Post in the Corps, Washington, D.C., July 30, 2021. (DoD photo by Air Force Staff Sgt. Brittany A. Chase)
The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II is one of the world's oldest shopping malls. Housed within a four-story double arcade in central Milan, the Galleria is named after Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of the Kingdom of Italy, who also laid the first stone on March 7th 1865. It was designed in 1861 and built by architect Giuseppe Mengoni between 1865 and 1877.
For sheer belle époque splendour, this extravagant 19th-century glass-topped, barrel-vaulted tunnel serves as a lively, noisy and most of all colourful shopping mall, swarming with life and inviting you to people-watching from the tables that spill from the Galleria's many bars and restaurants. Therefore, the Galleria is often nicknamed 'il salotto di Milano' (Milan's drawing room), due to its numerous shops and importance as a common Milanese meeting and dining place.
Nice fact: in 2012, the McDonald's restaurant in the Galleria was prevented from renewing its tenancy after 20 years of occupancy. McDonald's sued the landlord - the municipality of Milano - for €24 million in damages, alleging that the loss of the lease will deprive McDonald's of €6 million per year in sales. During its last few hours of operation, the restaurant offered free food and drinks to over 5000 customers as a kind of protest. This tactic partly worked. The McDonald's restaurant was replaced with the gallery's second Prada store. But McDonald's renounced its suit against the municipality after receiving the opportunity to open a new restaurant in building next to the Galleria.
Finally, you may wonder why Carabinieri are checking peoples bags (on the right). That’s not to check if you bought enough stuff at Prada, but this was due to the finishing of the Giro d'Italia 2017 at the Piazza Del Duomo; which is situated next to the Galleria.
Technical stuff
This panorama consists of 27 individual handheld photos, take in three horizontal rows. The photo have approximately a 45% horizontal and 60% vertical overlap to compensate for all the curvatures in the construction of The Galleria; especially its roof.
All photos were made with a Fujifilm X-T2 with a Fujifilm XF10-24mmF4 R OIS mounted. The focal length I used was 15.0 mm (although the EXIF data says different). Using 10.0 mm normally leads to too much distortion, and therefore you have to take lots more photo to compensate for this wide angle effect.
For the initial merge I used PS CC. I find that this panorama algorithm or “pano engine” is the best to work with in my workflow. After stitching I used Photoshop’ warp tool to stretch and address the remaining geometric distortions.
Post-production included colour toning, balancing the overall lighting, highlighting some aspects, enhancing the contrast using a High Pass filter (set at 10,0) and I finally add the copyright watermark. The latter is, alas, there to stay due to the frequent copying of my photos. So, don't bother commenting on that.
The final image is 1,4 GB large and is the size of wall paper. So, I resized it for Flickr to a mere 3000 pixels. Which is a actually not more than a postage stamp compared to the original image.
Starting to scan D&H slides that I have purchased over the years. D&H 4085 Colonie shops May 15, 1979. eBay collection.
D-IMHA - Cessna C.525A CitationJet CJ2+ - 525A0322 - MHS Aviation - Belfast City Airport - Monday - 29-07-2016
Verrès castle (Aosta)-
An inscription carved in Gothic characters states that Ibleto of Challant began works in 1390. In 1536 Renato of Challant renovated the defence structures, adapting them for modern fire arms. On this occasion, a boundary wall with a battery, buttresses and five-sided attack towers, suitable for use with the canon and springalds cast in the Count of Challant’s fiefdom in Valangin, Switzerland. Further protection was given to the entrance with the addition of an inner gate, a drawbridge and loopholes. New cross windows were created in addition to the existing single-light and mullioned Gothic windows, and new gates with Spanish-inspired Moorish arches. The interiors were enhanced with new furnishings. Renato of Challant died leaving no male heirs in 1565, which is when the castle was taken over by the Savoys. In 1661 Duke Charles Emmanuel II ordered the dismantling of weapons and their transfer to the fortress in Bard, a strategic point in which the defence of Val d’Aosta was concentrated.
The Challant regained possession of the castle in 1696 and kept it until the end of the family line at the start of the 19th century. At that time the castle had been abandoned for almost two centuries: the roof, which was already in partial collapse, was demolished completely to avoid paying duty on the structure, and so the upper floors were exposed to the elements. Like the castles of Issogne and Fénis, this castle was rescued by a group of Piedmont intellectuals with a common love for the Middle Ages. ..After going through the outer door which opens in the fortified wall, also accessible on horseback across the drawbridge, you come to the guard’s building opposite the castle entrance. The portal leads onto a hallway with a protective machicolation disguised within the vault. A second door, formerly protected by a portcullis, provides access to the castle courtyard. Surrounding this square space, the body of the building is arranged in a ring on three floors, connected via a monumental stone staircase set on rampant arches. The regular geometrical structure and simplicity of the green and white stone decoration, are consistent with military character of the building and are also evidence of the excellent craftsmanship in Verrès.
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Costruito su un picco roccioso che domina il sottostante borgo, il castello è citato per la prima volta nel 1287 come proprietà dei signori De Verretio. Un’iscrizione scolpita in caratteri gotici attesta che fu Ibleto di Challant nel 1390 a porre mano ai lavori che fecero assumere all’edificio l’aspetto attuale. Nel 1536 Renato di Challant rinnovò l’apparato difensivo del maniero, adattandolo all’uso delle moderne armi da fuoco. In questa occasione venne costruita una cinta muraria munita di cannoniere, di speroni a contrafforte e di torrette poligonali da offesa, idonei all’impiego delle spingarde e dei cannoni fusi nel feudo che il conte di Challant possedeva a Valangin, in Svizzera; l’ingresso fu reso più sicuro mediante la realizzazione dell’antiporta con il ponte levatoio e l’apertura di feritoie. Si provvide inoltre ad aprire nuove finestre a crociera, in aggiunta a quelle a tipo gotico a monofora e a bifora già esistenti, e nuove porte ad arco moresco, di evidente influsso spagnolo; gli interni furono arricchiti con nuovi arredi. Alla morte di Renato di Challant (1565) senza eredi di sesso maschile, il castello venne incamerato dai Savoia. Nel 1661 il duca Carlo Emanuele II ordinò di smantellare gli armamenti e di trasferirli al forte di Bard, punto strategico dove si concentrava la difesa della Valle d’Aosta.
Gli Challant riottennero il possesso della rocca nel 1696 e lo mantennero fino all’estinzione della casata, ai primi del XIX secolo. A quell’epoca il castello era abbandonato da quasi due secoli: il tetto, già in parte crollato, era stato demolito del tutto per evitare il pagamento del canone erariale, così che i piani superiori erano esposti alle intemperie e invasi dalle erbacce. Il salvataggio di questo castello, come per quelli di Issogne e di Fénis, si deve all’interesse di un gruppo di intellettuali piemontesi accomunati dalla passione per il Medioevo.
I took this photograph in the paddock at Aintree during practice at the British Grand Prix meeting in July 1957. It's the 1956 Jaguar D-Type of Duncan Hamilton, chassis XKD 601, with which he finished in third place in the sports car race at this meeting behind the Lister Jaguar of Archie Scott-Brown and the Aston Martin DBR1 of Roy Salvadori. It has the 6-cylinder 3,442cc XK6 engine and was originally a works car, although its first race was in the white and blue colours of Briggs Cunningham at the 1956 Sebring 12 Hour race where it was driven by Mike Hawthorn and Desmond Titterington, but retired with brake problems with about 1½ hours of the race left. At the Nürburgring 1000 Kilometre race that year with the same two drivers the car again failed to finish, this time with a broken drive shaft, but at the Reims 12 Hour race Paul Frère shared the driving with Mike Hawthorn and the car finished in second place to the Jaguar D-Type of Duncan Hamilton and Ivor Bueb. The third car of the Jaguar team was in third place and fourth place went to an Ecurie Ecosse Jaguar D-Type. By 1957 the car had been acquired by Duncan Hamilton who finished in sixth place with Masten Gregory at that year's Le Mans 24 Hour race - the first four cars in that race were D-Type Jaguars with a Ferrari 315 S in fifth place.
Bain News Service,, publisher.
D. McDonald
[between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.28846
Call Number: LC-B2- 4921-14
29-12-2018 Varazze. (SV)
Moskva 5
Obbiettivo: Industar-24 105 millimetri
Formato: 6x6
Esposizione: regola del 16
Messa a fuoco: telemetro.
FOMAPAN 200 - 200 ASA
Svil.: KODAK D-76 1+1 9':00'' 20°
Fix: Tetenal Superfix Plus 1+4 04:30 20°
Scanner EPSON V600 - 2400 dpi
Another long hot day is over for the switch crews at Oneonta, NY July 25, 1978. In today's world of railroading, several of these guys could be written up for various saftey violations, but I can vouch for their work ethic. I worked with D&H crews for about ten years and found them to be among the hardest working people I know.
D.Va, Overwatch Photographer: A.Z.Production Cosplay Photography (instagram.com/azproductioncosp) Cosplayer: Ahri (www.instagram.com/nymphahri/) Event: Volta in Cosplay (www.instagram.com/il.volta/)
This June marks the 70th anniversary of D-Day with a display of the Red Arrows across the Solent, at Portsmouth.
D-ATCB - Airbus A-321-211 - Condor (Avolon Aerospace)
at Duesseldorf International Airport (DUS)
c/n 6632 - built in 2015 for Air Berlin -
also operated by Niki as OE-LCM until 10/2017-
leased to Condor 05/2018
(Photo: G. Dickmann)