So sorry for being late! Will catch up after I finished my tax declaration.

This design by Shuzo Fujimoto is an early example of an iso-area tessellation, i.e. one which looks the same on both sides, apart from possibly rotations and translations. The way I arranged the molecules on the sheet results in a straight margin on the model and slightly different shapes formed by the molecules: a rotated square on one side and a rounded shape on the other. This does not negate the tessellation being iso-area since that notion applies to the tessellation understood as an infinite pattern covering the complete plane. When a finite number of molecules are folded on a finite sheet, certain anomalies arise near the margins, and can be used for aesthetic effect.

The Crease Pattern for this model can be found in Shuzo Fujimoto’s books:

* Introduction to creative playing with origami, page 158

* Solid origami, page 96

If you know how to fold the standard square twist tessellation, you should be able to find out how to make the iso-area version by trial and error. Start by making a single square twist on one side of the model. For this design, I start from just the grid and don’t precrease the diagonally rotated small squares. In next step, turn over to the other side and make a square twist on the other side using one of the pleats that exit the back side of the molecule you made previously. The twists’ central squares on one side coincide with the X-shaped slits on the other. The only difficult part is finding out which part of which pleat to use once you have more than a few molecules already folded.

Full description and more pictures: origami.kosmulski.org/models/iso-area-square-twists-cfw-66

Split screen version...although this is registered as a 1972 model : I thought the "Splitties" only ran from 1950-1967.

Someone will put me straight...anyway,a very nicely presented example, arriving at Prestatyn Classic Car Show.

After my experience of the picture"One Day Time lapse", which was composed of 1500 photos, I decided to come back in a "Another Milky Way" composed of 5000 photo taken within 48 hours. I said earlier in an interview with a foreign magazine that I always try to show natural things as abnormal, I mean, not because it is irrational, but to show how great it is.

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see the video of the picture HERE

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بعد تجربة صورة "فاصل من الزمن" التي كانت تتكون من 1500 صورة، قررت ان اعود بصورة "درب آخر للتبانة" وهي عبارة عن 5000 صورة تم التقاطها خلال 48 ساعة. قلت سابقاً في لقاء مع احدى المجلات الاجنبية بأني احاول دائماً أن اظهر امور طبيعية تبدو بشكل غير طبيعي، اعقب على ذلك، ليست لانها غير منطقية بل لأظهار مدى عظمتها.

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"Einsiedeln Abbey (German: Kloster Einsiedeln) is a Benedictine monastery in the village of Einsiedeln in the canton of Schwyz, Switzerland. The abbey is dedicated to Our Lady of the Hermits, the title being derived from the circumstances of its foundation, for the first inhabitant of the region was Saint Meinrad, a hermit. It is a territorial abbey and, therefore, not part of a diocese, subject to a bishop. It has been a major resting point on the Way of St. James for centuries.

Meinrad was educated under his kinsmen, Abbots Hatto and Erlebald, at the abbey school at Reichenau, an island on Lake Constance, where he became a monk and was ordained a priest. After some years at Reichenau, and at a dependent priory on Lake Zurich, he embraced an eremitical life and established his hermitage on the slopes of mount Etzel. He died on January 21, 861, at the hands of two robbers who thought that the hermit had some precious treasures, but during the next 80 years the place was never without one or more hermits emulating Meinrad's example. One of them, named Eberhard, previously Provost of Strassburg, in 934 erected a monastery and church there, of which he became first abbot.

The church is alleged to have been miraculously consecrated, so the legend runs, in 948, by Christ himself assisted by the Four Evangelists, St. Peter, and St. Gregory the Great. This event was investigated and confirmed by Pope Leo VIII and subsequently ratified by many of his successors, the last ratification being by Pope Pius VI in 1793, who confirmed the acts of all his predecessors.

In 965 Gregory, the third Abbot of Einsiedeln, was made a prince of the Holy Roman Empire by Emperor Otto I, and his successors continued to enjoy the same dignity up to the cessation of the empire in the beginning of the 19th century. In 1274 the abbey, with its dependencies, was created an independent principality by Rudolf I of Germany, over which the abbot exercised temporal as well as spiritual jurisdiction. It remained independent until 1798, the year of the French invasion. It is still a territorial abbey, meaning that it is located in a territory that is not part of any diocese which the abbot governs "as its proper pastor" (Canon 370, Codex Juris Canonici) with the same authority as a diocesan bishop.

Einsiedeln has been famous for a thousand years, for the learning and piety of its monks, and many saints and scholars have lived within its walls. The study of letters, printing, and music have greatly flourished there, and the abbey has contributed largely to the celebrity of the Benedictine Order. It is true that discipline declined somewhat in the fifteenth century and the rule became relaxed, but Ludovicus II, a monk of St. Gall who was Abbot of Einsiedeln 1526-44, succeeded in restoring a stricter observance.

In the 16th century the religious disturbances caused by the spread of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland were a source of trouble for some time. Zwingli himself was at Einsiedeln for a while, and used the opportunity for protesting against the famous pilgrimages, but the storm passed over and the abbey was left in peace. Abbot Augustine I (1600–29) was the leader of the movement which resulted in the erection of the Swiss Congregation of the Order of St. Benedict in 1602, and he also did much for the establishment of unrelaxed observance in the abbey and for the promotion of a high standard of scholarship and learning amongst his monks.

The pilgrimages which have never ceased since the days of St Meinrad, have tended to make Einsiedeln on a par with the Holy House of Loreto and Santiago de Compostela, serving as a major stopping point on the Way of St. James leading there. Pilgrimages constitute one of the features for which the abbey is chiefly celebrated. The pilgrims number around one million, from all parts of Catholic Europe or even further. The statue of Our Lady from the 15th century, enthroned in the little chapel erected by Eberhard, is the object of their devotion. It is the subject of the earliest preserved print of pilgrimage, by the Master E.S. in 1466. The chapel stands within the great abbey church, in much the same way as the Holy House at Loreto is encased in a marble shrine and is elaborately decorated.

September 14 and October 13 are the chief pilgrimage days, the former being the anniversary of the miraculous consecration of Eberhard's basilica and the latter that of the translation of St Meinrad's relics from Reichenau Island to Einsiedeln in 1039. The millennium of St Meinrad was kept there with great splendour in 1861 as well as that of the Benedictine monastery in 1934. The great church has been many times rebuilt, the last time by Abbot Maurus between the years 1704 and 1719. The last big renovation ended after more than twenty years in 1997. The library contains nearly 250,000 volumes and many priceless manuscripts. The work of the monks is divided chiefly between prayer, work and study. At pilgrimage times the number of confessions heard is very large.

In 2013 the community numbered 60 monks. Attached to the abbey are a seminary and a college for about 360 pupils who are partially taught by the monks, who also provide spiritual direction for six convents of Religious Sisters." - info from Wikipedia.

During the summer of 2018 I went on my first ever cycling tour. On my own I cycled from Strasbourg, France to Geneva, Switzerland passing through the major cities of Switzerland. In total I cycled 1,185 km over the course of 16 days and took more than 8,000 photos.

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DH-PO is heading east through district 2 and will out law at Wells, ME. This job was re-crewed at midnight in Fitchburg, MA and within 12 hours traversed 70 miles. That is an average of 9 miles per hour. A great example of how Mellon and Fink run a railroad. Former D&H C424 along with an EMD, GE & EMD lash up, leads today's train!

Pristine example carrying the RSPCA logo...standing next to "George"...large road going steam tractor. I will put him up next.

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From Wikipedia:

Elsie Stephen Meighen - born January 22, 1872, Perth, Ontario - and Robert Wilson Reford - born in 1867, Montreal - got married on June 12, 1894.

Elsie Reford was a pioneer of Canadian horticulture, creating one of the largest private gardens in Canada on her estate, Estevan Lodge in eastern Québec. Located in Grand-Métis on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, her gardens have been open to the public since 1962 and operate under the name Les Jardins de Métis and Reford Gardens.

Born January 22, 1872 at Perth, Ontario, Elsie Reford was the eldest of three children born to Robert Meighen and Elsie Stephen. Coming from modest backgrounds themselves, Elsie’s parents ensured that their children received a good education. After being educated in Montreal, she was sent to finishing school in Dresden and Paris, returning to Montreal fluent in both German and French, and ready to take her place in society.

She married Robert Wilson Reford on June 12, 1894. She gave birth to two sons, Bruce in 1895 and Eric in 1900. Robert and Elsie Reford were, by many accounts, an ideal couple. In 1902, they built a house on Drummond Street in Montreal. They both loved the outdoors and they spend several weeks a year in a log cabin they built at Lac Caribou, south of Rimouski. In the autumn they hunted for caribou, deer, and ducks. They returned in winter to ski and snowshoe. Elsie Reford also liked to ride. She had learned as a girl and spent many hours riding on the slopes of Mount Royal. And of course, there was salmon-fishing – a sport at which she excelled.

In her day, she was known for her civic, social, and political activism. She was engaged in philanthropic activities, particularly for the Montreal Maternity Hospital and she was also the moving force behind the creation of the Women’s Canadian Club of Montreal, the first women club in Canada. She believed it important that the women become involved in debates over the great issues of the day, « something beyond the local gossip of the hour ». Her acquaintance with Lord Grey, the Governor-General of Canada from 1904 to 1911, led to her involvement in organizing, in 1908, Québec City’s tercentennial celebrations. The event was one of many to which she devoted herself in building bridges with French-Canadian community.

During the First World War, she joined her two sons in England and did volunteer work at the War Office, translating documents from German into English. After the war, she was active in the Victorian Order of Nurses, the Montreal Council of Social Agencies, and the National Association of Conservative Women.

In 1925 at the age of 53 years, Elsie Reford was operated for appendicitis and during her convalescence, her doctor counselled against fishing, fearing that she did not have the strength to return to the river.”Why not take up gardening?” he said, thinking this a more suitable pastime for a convalescent woman of a certain age. That is why she began laying out the gardens and supervising their construction. The gardens would take ten years to build, and would extend over more than twenty acres.

Elsie Reford had to overcome many difficulties in bringing her garden to life. First among them were the allergies that sometimes left her bedridden for days on end. The second obstacle was the property itself. Estevan was first and foremost a fishing lodge. The site was chosen because of its proximity to a salmon river and its dramatic views – not for the quality of the soil.

To counter-act nature’s deficiencies, she created soil for each of the plants she had selected, bringing peat and sand from nearby farms. This exchange was fortuitous to the local farmers, suffering through the Great Depression. Then, as now, the gardens provided much-needed work to an area with high unemployment. Elsie Reford’s genius as a gardener was born of the knowledge she developed of the needs of plants. Over the course of her long life, she became an expert plantsman. By the end of her life, Elsie Reford was able to counsel other gardeners, writing in the journals of the Royal Horticultural Society and the North American Lily Society. Elsie Reford was not a landscape architect and had no training of any kind as a garden designer. While she collected and appreciated art, she claimed no talents as an artist.

Elsie Stephen Reford died at her Drummond Street home on November 8, 1967 in her ninety-sixth year.

In 1995, the Reford Gardens ("Jardins de Métis") in Grand-Métis were designated a National Historic Site of Canada, as being an excellent Canadian example of the English-inspired garden.(Wikipedia)

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LES JARDINS DE MÉTIS

Créés par Elsie Reford de 1926 à 1958, ces jardins témoignent de façon remarquable de l’art paysager à l’anglaise. Disposés dans un cadre naturel, un ensemble de jardins exhibent fleurs vivaces, arbres et arbustes. Le jardin des pommetiers, les rocailles et l’Allée royale évoquent l’œuvre de cette dame passionnée d’horticulture. Agrémenté d’un ruisseau et de sentiers sinueux, ce site jouit d’un microclimat favorable à la croissance d’espèces uniques au Canada. Les pavots bleus et les lis, privilégiés par Mme Reford, y fleurissent toujours et contribuent , avec d’autres plantes exotiques et indigènes, à l’harmonie de ces lieux.

Created by Elsie Reford between 1926 and 1958, these gardens are an inspired example of the English art of the garden. Woven into a natural setting, a series of gardens display perennials, trees and shrubs. A crab-apple orchard, a rock garden, and the Long Walk are also the legacy of this dedicated horticulturist. A microclimate favours the growth of species found nowhere else in Canada, while the stream and winding paths add to the charm. Elsie Reford’s beloved blue poppies and lilies still bloom and contribute, with other exotic and indigenous plants, to the harmony of the site.

Commission des lieux et monuments historiques du Canada

Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.

Gouvernement du Canada – Government of Canada

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Used as example for setting objects on a white background.

[ CPP Project example 10.04 II ]

This is yet another image that's part of my experimental CPP double exposure photo project -- the second from my recent collaboration with LaDonna Chaos.

UPDATE: I should add some info about this photo. The experiment at the point of this composition was conducted by running the same roll of film through 2 cameras. That's essentially the CPP Project -- having 2 images randomly combined to see what we can come up with. The last public showing was subtitled "cultivating accidents in the camera." With this image, you get a panorama shot mixed w/ a regular format, along with misaligned frames, creating the odd lines (that give it an almost collage-like feel that I like). I enhanced the lines a bit real quickly in Photoshop. I'm not sure if it worked. The original had severe exposure problems, so I was just playing around trying to salvage something. :)

Let's see, you can read more about my CPP project here:

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And here is the first L.C. collaborative piece posted @ Flickr:

www.flickr.com/photos/trona/2909861/

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Here is an example for the first weeks lesson assignment. This is a wide angle landscape image from Great Falls National Park in Virginia.

I shot this with a D300 (aps crop sensor) and used a 12-24mm wide angle lens. Notice the sweeping perspective created by using this lens at its widest setting.

In order for these wide angle landscape to work well, you need to get in close to your foreground. For this image I choose the rock as a great foreground and positioned the lens within 2 feet of it. This creates what is known as a near/far composition. This image works well also because of the dramatic clouds at sunset. If the sky would have been clear, this image would not be nearly as strong and I would have need to consider shooting a completely different composition with much less sky in the shot.

Technical details:

Nikon D300

Nikon 12-24mm f4

Singh Ray 3 stop ND grad hard edge

raw capture at ISO 100

2 seconds at f16

Add your comments and questions below!

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The Plaza de España ("Spain Square", in English) is a plaza in the Parque de María Luisa (Maria Luisa Park), in Seville, Spain, built in 1928 for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929. It is a landmark example of the Regionalism Architecture, mixing elements of the Baroque Revival, Renaissance Revival and Moorish Revival (Neo-Mudéjar) styles of Spanish architecture.

In 1929, Seville hosted the Ibero-American Exposition World's Fair, located in the celebrated Maria Luisa Park (Parque de María Luisa). The park gardens were designed by Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier. The entire southern end of the city was redeveloped into an expanse of gardens and grand boulevards. The centre of it is Parque de María Luisa, a "Moorish paradisical style" with a half mile of tiled fountains, pavilions, walls, ponds, benches, and exhedras; lush plantings of palms, orange trees, Mediterranean pines, and stylized flower beds; and with vine hidden bowers. Numerous buildings were constructed in it for the exhibition.

The Plaza de España, designed by Aníbal González, was a principal building built on the Maria Luisa Park's edge to showcase Spain's industry and technology exhibits. González combined a mix of 1920s Art Deco and Spanish Renaissance Revival, Spanish Baroque Revival and Neo-Mudéjar styles. The Plaza de España complex is a huge half-circle with buildings continually running around the edge accessible over the moat by numerous bridges representing the four ancient kingdoms of Spain. In the centre is the Vicente Traver fountain. By the walls of the Plaza are many tiled alcoves, each representing a different province of Spain. Each alcove is flanked by a pair of covered bookshelves, said to be used by visitors in the manner of "Little Free Library". Each bookshelf often contains information about their province, yet you can often find regular books as well for some people have taken to donating their favorite book to these shelves.

Today the Plaza de España mainly consists of Government buildings. The central government departments, with sensitive adaptive redesign, are located within it. The Plaza's tiled Alcoves of the Provinces are backdrops for visitors' portrait photographs, taken in their own home province's alcove. Towards the end of the park, the grandest mansions from the fair have been adapted as museums. The farthest contains the city's archaeology collections. The main exhibits are Roman mosaics and artefacts from nearby Italica.

Citadel Bam, Bam, Iran.

The origins of the citadel of Bam, Arg-e Bam, can be traced back to the Achaemenid period (6th to 4th centuries BC) and even beyond. The heyday of the citadel was from the 7th to 11th centuries, being at the crossroads of important trade routes and known for the production of silk and cotton garments. The citadel, which contains the governor’s quarters and the fortified residential area, forms the central focus of a vast cultural landscape, which is marked by a series of forts and citadels, now in ruins. The existence of life in the oasis was based on the underground irrigation canals, the qanāts, of which Bam has preserved some of the earliest evidence in Iran and which continue to function till the present time. Arg-e Bam is the most representative example of a fortified medieval town built in vernacular technique using mud layers (Chineh), sun-dried mud bricks (khesht), and vaulted and domed structures. Outside the core area of Arg-e Bam, there are other protected historic structures which include Qal’eh Dokhtar (Maiden’s fortress, ca. 7th century), Emamzadeh Zeyd Mausoleum (11-12th century), and Emamzadeh Asiri Mausoleum (12th century and historic qanāt systems and cultivations southeast of the Arg.

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Plaza de España - Seville - Spain.

The Plaza de España ("Spain Square", in English) is a plaza in the Parque de María Luisa (Maria Luisa Park), in Seville, Spain, built in 1928 for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929. It is a landmark example of the Regionalism Architecture, mixing elements of the Renaissance Revival and Moorish Revival (Neo-Mudéjar) styles of Spanish architecture.

The Plaza de España, designed by Aníbal González, was a principal building built on the Maria Luisa Park's edge to showcase Spain's industry and technology exhibits. González combined a mix of 1920s Art Deco and Spanish Renaissance Revival, Spanish Baroque Revival and Neo-Mudéjar styles. The Plaza de España complex is a huge half-circle with buildings continually running around the edge accessible over the moat by numerous bridges representing the four ancient kingdoms of Spain. In the centre is the Vicente Traver fountain. By the walls of the Plaza are many tiled alcoves, each representing a different province of Spain. Each alcove is flanked by a pair of covered bookshelves, said to be used by visitors in the manner of "Little Free Library".

Today the Plaza de España mainly consists of Government buildings. The central government departments, with sensitive adaptive redesign, are located within it. The Plaza's tiled Alcoves of the Provinces are backdrops for visitors portrait photographs, taken in their own home province's alcove. Towards the end of the park, the grandest mansions from the fair have been adapted as museums. The farthest contains the city's archaeology collections. The main exhibits are Roman mosaics and artefacts from nearby Italica.

The Plaza de España has been used as a filming location, including scenes for the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia. The building was used as a location in the Star Wars movie series Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) — in which it featured in exterior shots of the City of Theed on the Planet Naboo. It also featured in the 2012 film The Dictator.

The plaza was used as a set for the video of Simply Red's song Something Got Me Started

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Now, for our leaders / it doesn't take that much / to arrive at real cooperation / just a reduction of your Ego.

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We all love photography judges who give us first place, but when our photos slide past unnoticed, well, the judges are simply Philistines. Can't they recognise our brilliance!

There is a part of me that would prefer not to judge photography competitions because all I can offer is a subjective opinion. And often I am asked to provide a comment or suggestion as to how a photograph could be improved or strengthened. Essentially I am being asked how I would have photographed or presented the image to get a higher score. Should I be doing this?

Recently, I listened to judges discuss one of my prints which had a grainy, black and white finish. One said that he didn't know why I had applied the finish as it wasn't something he would have done – and maybe it would be better without the finish.

This set me thinking: does this judge mean that unless I create photographs the way he does, he won't give me a high score? And if this judge doesn't like grainy black and whites, does that mean he will never score such entries highly?

To be fair to the judge in question, he was trying to be helpful by making a suggestion as to how the image could be improved.

So let me give another example. I am not a big fan of HDR (High Dynamic Range) photographs, but I gave an HDR photograph first place in a competition not so long ago. Personally, subjectively, I didn't like the photograph much, but as an example of its kind, it was superlative.

I think that from time to time, judges have to step aside from their biases and judge the photograph as an example of its kind. Perhaps the judge looking at my photo should have assessed it on the basis that the entrant chose to submit a grainy black and white print: was this a good or bad example of its kind?

So, what's different when I'm critiquing a photograph that I think could be improved? For instance, I find a white sky incredibly distracting, so I suggest that the photographer could have found a different camera angle, crop the image, or somehow darken down the sky to improve it. What's the difference between this advice and suggesting that a photograph would be better if it wasn't a grainy black and white?

Context.

In the first situation, the judge seemed to acknowledge that the underlying technique was good, it was the final finish he didn't like. He didn't say the finish was over done or poorly handled, just that it wasn't necessary. So perhaps he didn't judge what had been presented, rather he judged what hadn't been presented.

In the second situation, the base photograph with the bright sky was not communicating correctly and a different approach was required. (In my opinion, I know.)

The difference is subtle and it's not always possible for a judge to know if an entrant is investigating a genre of photography or just doesn't know any better. That's the problem with judges – and for judges. Often we just don't know.

So while a part of me doesn't like judging, on the other hand it's something I greatly enjoy. I love being exposed to different styles of work and new ideas. It is incredibly inspirational and so are photo competitions. Of course, you probably don't expect me to say anything different. Our inaugural International Landscape Photographer of the Year Award has had around 2000 entries, but if you missed out, we'll be announcing our annual Better Photography Photograph of the Year Award later this month!

So, the problem with judges is what?

Visit www.betterphotography.com to decide which works the best? The photo with or the one without stars?

#yellowandblue may evoke a landscape - for example, the colors of #sunlight and body of #water - yet its glowing fields of color seem to float on canvas, suggesting a luminous void of abstraction. Through this play of color and space #Rothko sought an emotional and spiritual exchange with the viewer. “I’m interested in expressing only basic human emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.” he said. “The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them”.

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Mark Rothko was born in Daugavpils, Latvia (then in the Russian Empire). His father, Jacob (Yakov) Rothkowitz, was a pharmacist and intellectual who initially provided his children with a secular and political, rather than religious, upbringing. According to Rothko, his Marxist father was "violently anti-religious".[1] In an environment where Jews were often blamed for many of the evils that befell Russia, Rothko's early childhood was plagued by fear.

Mass destruction, suffering older people, NICU & pediatric cancer hospital (with children after chemo) sheltering in the basements.

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Parrots are one of the most colorful members of the entire bird kingdom. They can be cute and cuddly, and sometimes, simply awe you with their majesty and elegance. Parrots have many sub-species. Macaws, cockatoos, cockatiels and budgies are some examples. They are often referred to as winged rainbows...

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A repainted and rerooted then restyled Dan Stevens who is the Beast aka the Prince in the live action Disney remake of Beauty and the Beast! This 1:6 scale Disney doll has been redone to capture the Prince as himself in the film.

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N138JM, a Socata TBM 700, accelerating down runway 33 at Toronto Buttonville Municipal Airport in Markham, Ontario.

It was heading to New Castle, Delaware. After clearing customs there, it continued on to its base at Clayton, Delaware.

Serial number 7 was built in 1991. The 31-year-old looked and sounded almost new.

It’s good to go back over pictures you’ve taken. Some times, when looking at them again, you find a greater appeal in them. Here’s an example, taken earlier in May on a walk along a woodland section of path at Rydal Water in Lake District. The subtle smattering of blue bells has a less is more impact.

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Another example of a loan in from First Manchester to Dukinfield that could have just retained its original number (in this case 412), but instead had a seven added, albeit temporarily.

New to Shearings, of course, and acquired by First with their portion of the Timeline business.

Dukinfield, Pennine yard (well, just next door in fact), 28/01/2001.

The Olsen Nauen Bell Foundry (Norwegian: Olsen Nauen Klokkestøperi) is a Norwegian bell foundry located in the municipality of Tønsberg. The foundry was established in 1844 by Ole Olsen, and it is headed today by the sixth generation of the Olsen Nauen family. The company is based at the Nauen farm in Sem and is Norway's only bell foundry.

The Olsen Nauen Bell Foundry produces glockenspiels, church bells, ship's bells, farm bells, and other products from bell metal, which is a specific alloy of copper and tin. The company has supplied bells to most Norwegian churches. Part of its production is exported, some to mission churches and also to other clients. Examples of carillons cast by Olsen Nauen include the ones in Oslo City Hall, Oslo Cathedral, Sem Town Hall in Tønsberg, and Trinity Church in Arendal. The company has also produced a 52-bell travelling carillon, which is the world's largest.

The Nauen farm also has a small museum with a display of old and new bells.

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Hierapolis (Greek: Ἱεράπολις 'holy city') was the ancient city on top of the famous Pamukkale hot springs located in south-western Turkey near Denizli.

Hierapolis is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. As the hot springs of Pamukkale were used as a spa since the 2nd century B.C., people came to soothe their ailings here. Many of them retired and died here. The large necropolis is filled with sarcophagi.

The great baths were constructed with huge stone blocks without the use of cement, and consisted of various closed or open sections linked together. There are deep niches in the inner section of the bath, library, gymnasium and other closed or open locations. The complex, which was constructed in the 2nd century, constitutes a good example of vault-type architecture. The complex is now an archaeological museum.

Thanks to Ghostbones for the texture

Tantallon Castle (Scotland's only example of a Curtain Wall fortification) stands atop the cliffs to the top left of the frame. Bass Rock - with its lighthouse - is the very prominent rock in the Forth Estuary at the top right of the frame.

This photograph was taken just moments after sunrise as the sun hit both the castle and Bass rock simultaneously whilst the foreground rocks were still in shadow.

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We wanted to let you know that this product received a 2020 update. While we figure out mass redelivery, please use the redelivery terminal in store or on your marketplace to claim it if you purchased it previously.

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What has changed in the 2020 update?

* Fixed minor mesh faults.

* Added outer walls - due to popular demand we have added outer / top walls so it is no longer hollow. You can hide them by selecting the texture face and setting it to 100% transparency.

* Separated individual texture faces allowing you for more flexible modification / adaptation to your own booths and builds.

* Added a shorter top version! A popular request.

* Added a new colour - light beige.

* Added two new optional neon frames - one for use on the inside of the booth and one for the outside. Please rez the example objects to see the recommended usage.

FOXCITY. Event Booth - Feature is a 3Li booth which you can resize, flatten, etc, as you wish to suit your needs. It is excellent as an insert for event booths.

It features a clean front with a neon side panels for a fun look.

The poster is also included but is optional

The permissions are copy / modify.

Available in store and on the Marketplace:

marketplace.secondlife.com/p/FOXCITY-Event-Booth-Feature-...

maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/FOXCITY/180/69/22

Enjoy ♥

I'm slowing adding examples and revamping my etsy listings. I do this a little each month but the photo examples are really in need of completely new samples. Those original photos were made several years ago...

Along with The Crowns at Boallack , the Towenroath Shaft Engine House is one of the most photographed enginehouses of the mining areas of Cornwall .

Perched half way down the cliff , it is quite a sight to see .

Wheal Coates tin mine opened in 1802 and worked until 1889. The image of the Towanroath Shaft engine house, famous on postcards, calendars, and on the telly represents for many the serene beauty of the north Cornish coast. In reality this industrial landscape holds a harsh and austere history.

The life of a Cornish miner was tough.

Working deep underground in cramped and stifling conditions meant that miners were thought of as worn out and old by the time they were 40. The air in the mine was thick with powder smoke, dust and fumes from rock blasting that miners often coughed up black phlegm. Many suffered with bronchitis, silicosis, TB and rheumatism. Accidents caused by explosions, falling, rock falls, drowning and entanglement in machinery were a real danger and took many lives.

Woman were employed as Bal maidens, wielding hammers and crushing copper ore into smaller fragments. By the early nineteenth century over 7000 children were working in Cornish mines, initially above ground doing menial tasks, but when they were twelve they joined their fathers underground.

At its peak Cornish mining employed upwards of 30,000 people. In the mid nineteenth century the industry began to decline, and in 1875 over 10,000 miners left Cornwall to find work overseas. The skills and experience of Cornish mining spread across the world. They also took the pasty with them.

There are over 160 places, across six continents, where Cornish mine workers took their skills, technology and traditions; a truly global heritage. Cornwall and west Devon’s mining landscape, shaped during a period of intense industrial activity, is testimony to one of the greatest periods of economic, technological and social development Britain has ever known.

From 1700 to 1914, the metal mining industry played a vital role in transforming our way of life. It provided essential raw materials to feed the Industrial Revolution in Britain, and pioneered technological developments that helped shape the society we live in today. For example, Richard Trevithick’s advances in steam engine technology – originally motivated by the need to pump water out of mines – ultimately enabled the development of steam trains, changing the world forever through the mass movement of people and goods.

World Heritage

On 13 July 2006 select mining landscapes across Cornwall and West Devon were inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, placing Cornish mining heritage on a par with international treasures like Machu Picchu, the Taj Mahal and the Great Wall of China.

Auf der Elbe vor Cuxhaven

Cameron (2014)

Project 365, 2022 Edition: Day 57/365

I love to cook, and luckily I live with someone who enjoys a lot of the same things I do: shrimp, mushrooms, and Brussels sprouts, for example.

Dinner tonight was a recipe from Diabetes Canada: www.diabetes.ca/managing-my-diabetes/recipes/shrimp-pasta

This is a good winter meal because Ontario-grown mushrooms and greenhouse zucchini are available. I added a handful of Brussels sprouts with the veggies--end of the season and I only have a few left. I didn't have a tomato so I substituted a small can of tomato sauce. It tastes and looks better with a fresh tomato. I'm not keen on winter greenhouse tomatoes, insipid things, but one minute of cooking brings out their flavour. I always halve the recipe so it only takes 1 lb of shrimp, which makes enough for two meals for the two of us.

Thank you to everyone who visits, faves, and comments.

An astonishing example of a local find I've never seen before. Not a one owner car like you might expect. The now elderly lady who left it here, became its second owner in 28 years ago when the car was already 8 years old.

Registration number: GVC 735V

✔ Taxed

Tax due: 01 March 2016

✔ MOT

Expires: 30 March 2016

Date of first registration

19 September 1979

Year of manufacture

1979

Cylinder capacity (cc)

1602cc

CO₂Emissions

Not available

Fuel type

PETROL

Vehicle status

Tax not due

Vehicle colour

BLUE

In African cities, dumping waste in open spaces is common, primarily because of a lack of waste treatment facilities. The photo shows an example in the Pissy neighbourhood, where garbage is regularly burned. In the background, recycling of some waste (scrap metal, plastic containers, fabric, etc.) is visible. In recent years, the government and the municipality of Ouagadougou have implemented measures to mitigate urban pollution. These include improving collection services and banning the distribution of plastic bags in shops.

Dans les villes africaines, le déversement de déchets dans les espaces vides est une pratique courante, due essentiellement à l'absence de sites de traitement des déchets. La photo montre un exemple dans le quartier de Pissy, avec la crémation régulière des ordures. Au fond, on aperçoit une activité de recyclage de certains déchets (ferraille, récipients en plastique, tissu...). Le gouvernement et la municipalité de Ouagadougou ont mené, durant ces dernières années, des mesures pour atténuer la pollution urbaine. Il s'agit notamment de l'amélioration des services de collecte et de l'interdiction de la distribution de sachets en plastique dans les commerces.

Wien Hauptbahnhof (central station, since 2014/2015) is one of the impressive examples of modern architecture here. and for a railway loverlike me really a must-see.

entranced. verb. past tense: entranced; past participle:

fill (someone) with wonder and delight, holding their entire attention.

A shot of the entrance gate to Charles Fort just outside Kinsale, in Cork.

"Charles Fort is one of the finest surviving examples of a 17th Century star-shaped fort, and much of the construction begun in 1678 remains. The fort has two enormous bastions overlooking the estuary, and three facing inland. Within its walls were all the barracks and ancillary facilities to support the fort’s garrison. The fort continued in military use until 1922."

So here is an example of collages showing our first 3 weeks (remember I'm doing this in 5 day increments so they are not true weeks)

You can see in week 1 choose your color pallet first, then each day you take a picture of your Blythe doll and on the 5th day you create the college.

Week 2 - choose your color pallet, each day take 2 pictures, 1 of your Blythe and 1 Random picture + 1 extra picture to create your 9 picture collage.

Post only your Blythe doll pictures to group and save the random for your collage to share

Week 3 - choose your color pallet, each day take a picture of your Blythe doll and on the 15th create and post your collage

(Page 1 of 3)

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speke_Hall

Speke Hall is a wood-framed wattle-and-daub Tudor manor house in Speke, Liverpool, England. It is one of the finest surviving examples of its kind.

History

Construction of the current building began in 1530,[1][2] though earlier buildings had been on the site, parts of which are incorporated into today's structure. The Great Hall was the first part of the house to be built, in 1530. The Great (or Oak) Parlour wing was added in 1531. Around this time the North Bay was also added to the house. Between 1540 and 1570 the south wing was altered and extended. The west wing was added between 1546 and 1547. The last significant change to the building was in 1598, when the north range was added by Edward Norris. Since then there have only been minor changes to the Hall and gardens.

The oak frame, typical of the period, rests on a base of red sandstone surrounded by a now dry moat. The main beams of the house are stiffened with smaller timbers and filled with wattle and daub.

The house features a thunderbox toilet, a priest hole and a special observation hole built into a chimney in a bedroom to allow the occupant to see the approach to the house to warn the priest that people were coming. There is also an eavesdrop (a small open hole under the eaves of the house) which allowed a servant to listen in on the conversations of people awaiting admission at the original front door.

In 1612 a porch was added to the Great Parlour. A laundry and dairy were founded in 1860; the laundry was altered in the 1950s.

The house belongs to the National Trust and is open to the public. The house was owned by the Norris family for many generations until the female heiress married into the Beauclerk family. The Watt family purchased the house and estate from the Beauclerks in 1795. The last surviving heir of the Watt family was Miss Adelaide Watt, who inherited the house and returned to it in 1878 at the age of 21 years. She died in 1921, leaving the house and estate in trust for 21 years, during which time it was looked after by the staff under the supervision of Thomas Whatmore, who had been butler to Miss Watt.[3] At the end of this period, in 1942, the house passed into the ownership of the National Trust. The house was administered by Liverpool City Corporation from 1946 until 1986, when the National Trust took over full responsibility.

Previous owners were the Norrises,[4] the Beauclerks[5] and the Watts.[6]

The gardens date from the 1850s. In the courtyard of the main building are two ancient Yew trees, male and female, called 'Adam' and 'Eve'. First recorded in correspondence dating to 1712, they are generally estimated to be at least 500 years old.[7]

Today

The Home Farm building has been renovated and now houses the shop, restaurant and reception. The laundry has been converted into the education room and the dairy now has new interpretation. Walks in the grounds give panoramic views over the Mersey Basin towards the Wirral Peninsula. Furthermore, rooms such as a gun room have been changed over the years and then changed back by the National Trust in order to show more of the History of Speke hall.

Speke Hall was featured in Series 13 of Most Haunted which was broadcast on Living TV on 13 October 2009.