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Het Amstel Hotel is een luxueus hotel in Amsterdam. Het hotel was in 2007 het enige Nederlandse hotel in de hotelclassificatie van het gezaghebbende World's Best Hotels van Institutional Investor Magazine.
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Amsterdam, Noord Holland
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Just a simple close-up shot of the corners of £20, £5 and £10 notes. I don’t love money but love the designs and colours on banknotes wherever I come across them around the world.
For a place that hasn't been used in a few months. Voluntary return to the office can begin next week.
Have a great Thursday.
This is Abbey Road in the market town of Knaresborough, North Yorkshire where the houses have views over the River Nidd. Abbey Road follows the banks of the River Nidd
Among other things Knaresborough is famous for its Norman Castle, Ursula Southeil (c. 1488–1561), known as Mother Shipton, who was a medieval seer said to have been born in a cave south of the town, John Metcalf, known as "Blind Jack", who lost his sight in childhood and was a violin player, local guide, bridgebuilder, and roadmaker. A public house in the market square bears his name and St Robert, a 12th-century hermit whose cave can be found near the River Nidd further along Abbey Road
Sunset over the Teton range, Wyoming, USA, taken from the cheapest of very VERY expensive accommodation options close to the national park. The smoke in the air was from local fires, not blown in from California,
In an expensive shopping street in Bologna (Italy) with many international brands, a bag shop is rebuilding. The construction site is behind a wall of wooden panels printed with bag symbols. An (American?) tourist walks through in front of the wooden covering.
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Dati Tecnici
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a) Fuji X-H1 + Anello adattatore FRINGER-EF-FXPRO2 + Canon Zoom Lens EF 24/70mm f.2,8 L USM
b) Tempo 1/60s apertura a f.5,6 + 2/3 di stop (a mano libera no flash);
c) Focale nell'ottica 55mm, reale circa 83mm, ISO/ASA 6400
d) Tecnica di impressione del sensore (Tecnica dell'Esposizione a Destra)
e) Lettura Esposimetrica in Media a Prevalenza Centrale con esposimetro della macchina;
f) Messa a fuoco (auto);
g) File Tif/Raw 137Mb convertito;
h) Lux Ambiente indiretta 3250° kelvin (cielo coperto leggermente nuvoloso);
i) Prima Post-Produzione per effettuare un minimo intervento del bilanciamento tonale nelle varie aree del fotogramma con Nikon Capture NX 2
l) Seconda Post-Produzione con Adobe Photoshop CS6 per il bilanciamento della compensazione dell’Esposizione con le zone d’ombra;
m) Post-Produzione di completamento con Nikon Capture NX 2.
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All Love Can Be - James Horner
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…una mente brillante
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...piove a dirotto e
in una via deserta si sente
d'un carro lo scricchiolio,
degli zoccoli lo scalpitio
in mezzo al triste mondo.
Abbandonato, un bambino
piange dietro una bara,
pallido il viso, occhi nel vuoto
chiede conforto alla nebbia
che stretto lo avvolge là…
dove la pupilla incerta
è in cerca d’una madre
del suo bacio, dell’ultimo abbraccio
ma oramai… tutto ha perso.
E’ solo coi suoi stracci addosso
lerci e inzuppati di pioggia
rimane la sua memoria
più santa e la più cara.
…sarai per sempre
il figlio di una donna muta.
Alza gli occhi al triste cielo
una figura intravede,…che
una silenziosa parola eleva,
sarai,….una mente brillante
e il suo ricordo lo conforta.
Gli dirà con placida fermezza;
con la gelosa e veggente tenerezza
avrò per lei sempre parole dolci
era un angelo, era la sua mamma.
………………………..…….. Luigi Mirto
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…a beatiful mind
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... it rains heavily and
you hear a deserted street
the creaking of a cart,
the trampling of the hooves
in the middle of the sad world.
Abandoned, a child
cries behind a coffin,
face pale, eyes blank
asks comfort from the fog
how tightly it wraps it there ...
where his pupil is uncertain
is looking for a mother
of her kiss, the last hug
but now ... everything has lost.
He is alone with his rags on
filthy and drenched in rain
his memory remains
holiest and most expensive.
…you will be forever
the son of a dumb woman.
He rolls his eyes to the sad sky
a figure glimpses,… that
a silent word elevates,
you will be, …a beatiful mind
and the memory of him comforts him.
He will tell him with placid firmness;
with jealous and visionary tenderness
I will always have sweet words for her
she was an angel, she was his mother.
………………………..…….. Luigi Mirto
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Teaching Mathematics Again - James Horner
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King's Cross, London. A lovely old van selling ice cream but the prices are a bit eye watering. It reminded me of these two young ladies in Burnley, Lancashire.
Extremely expensive in 1938, and OMG expensive now, to keep it green and on the road.
1938 Bugatti 3rd Series Type 57C 3 Position Cabriolet, in that 3rd position crouching on the green at Pebble Beach. The 'C' designation comes from the French word for supercharger: Compresseur. The vicious rumor that occupants of the rear seat were consumed by the car has never been confirmed. However, it is hard to see back there.......
Unveiled in 1934, the Type 57 is widely regarded as a masterpiece from the hand of Etorre's son, Jean Bugatti. Designed to replace the Type 49, the new Bugatti was powered by a magnificent 3.3-liter twin-cam straight-eight engine and represented the ultimate in automotive performance and design. Bugatti continually refined the Type 57 throughout its production run resulting in three distinct series of chassis. The final third-series chassis –underpinning the car presented here – featured a number of improvements, as they were constantly tinkering with the engineering.
This car was originally equipped with striking three-position Cabriolet coachwork by Letourneur et Marchand.The company was founded by Jean-Marie Letourneur and Jean-Arthur Marchand in 1905, and by the 1930s was specialising in coachbuilt car bodies for fitting on chassis from luxury automakers such as Duesenberg, Hispano-Suiza, Rolls-Royce and Minerva.
In all, it is believed that only six Type 57s were originally outfitted as a Cabriolet by this prestigious French coachbuilder. Originally finished in green with a lighter, contrasting cove and green leather upholstery, the Cabriolet was delivered to its first owner, S. Jaspart, in November 1938 through Bugatti’s Paris showroom.
It retains it's original colors, and has been restored to an extremely high standard! If you need proof of your wealth and prefer to be conspicuous in your consumption then this is your car!
AS ALWAYS....COMMENTS & INVITATIONS with AWARD BANNERS will be respectfully DELETED!
The Limmatquai is the street that runs along the right bank of the Limmat in Zurich's old town. It leads from Bellevue down to Central. At the Limmatquai lie the Grossmünster, the Wasserkirche, many guild houses and the Zurich Town Hall. Most of the houses on the Limmatquai are classified as worthy of protection, and the townscape of the Limmat region as a whole is protected.
I wanted to get a walk in and decided that with the wind and forecast of cloud, a flat walk along the river Ure and back through the Bolton Estate was the way to go - with a visit to Wensley church graveyard as well
1936 Bugatti Atlantic Type 57SC
Most expensive car in the world, this Bugatti sold in 2010 for an estimated $38 - 40 million dollars to Peter Mullin of the Mullin Auto Museum, Oxnard, CA.
Only three Bugatti Atlantic's (a fourth is disputed) were produced. One was destroyed in a train wreck, the other is in the private collection of Ralph Lauren.
So I think I have finally defeated the flea bags (squirrels) as I never saw a one at the feeders yesterday (there are four all together). And it was amazing how many more birds showed up to feed! I have two squirrel proof feeders and the suet cage and then I scatter some seeds on the ground as lots of the birds like to eat there. Cardinals do both but seem to prefer the ground. The Squirrels would come and gobble all the ground seeds up and then to the top of the pole to eat the suet. What did I do? I bought a big bottle of Cayenne pepper! I rubbed it on the suet and mixed it with the ground seeds. My ground is now red with the stuff but the squirrels... ha! They seem to have taken themselves off back into the woods to eat their natural foods. :) I hope I never see one again and if I do, I will be sure to greet it with lots of the hot stuff! I may sound mean to some, but the bird seed has gone beyond expensive and I buy it for birds not squirrels. And seriously, there is plenty of their natural foods around the area. There were four of the male cardinals yesterday. :)
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I guess if you are going to spend 20 dollars on fuel to get a train picture you might as well get a pretty one. At least I didn't have to fly here I guess.
Unbeknownst to me, an extremely early 925 went through Oamaru at 5:30 pm today, but I managed to catch it in time to snap the train passing through this coastal vista at Shag Point.
With a short holiday-length train, only the lead loco was running, and the blue DC was a bonus. Managed another three pics before the clouds from the south encroached, but this one wins for me.
28 Dec 2018, train 925, DXB 5166, DC 4628, blue DC 4755 Shag Point, SIMT-NZ
Happy Bokeh Wednesday
Soon the garden of Annie Fallinger in Dordrecht is open again for a few days. She is the holder of the national collection of Galanthus in the Netherlands. More then 5 years ago now I lived in Dordrecht and visited her garden a few times. I was surprised there were so many different kind of snowdrops but what really astonished me was the price people were prepared to pay for one snowdrop, allthough there were very special and beautiful ones!
More information: in Dutch:
greenfingersonline.nl/sneeuwklokjes-kijken-in-dordrecht/
De tuin is open op vr. 9, za. 10 en zo. 11 februari en op vr. 16, za. 17 en zo. 18 februari 2024
“Sewing is as addictive as a drug, twice as expensive, with no rehab, legal and gets you hooked in an instant” – anonymous.
Well, I don’t know about sewing, but I know that collecting Sylko cotton spools is! What started for me as a collection of about a dozen brightly coloured spools has quickly escalated into a collection of several hundred in a multitude of colours (both bright and pastel), and is still growing! In spite of my best intentions of not letting it get out of hand, the number of spools that arrive on a nearly daily basis at the moment is really rather ridiculous even for me, and my partner despairs, as I pursue some of the rarer coloured spools! However I cannot help myself. I just adore all the wide and varying shades and their wonderful names!
The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" for the 13th of September is "multicoloured collection", and as you may well know, I am a collector of many things. This meant the hardest part of this theme for me was choosing a collection that was brightly coloured enough for this week! I ended up settling upon pieces from my vintage spool collection, choosing an array of brightly coloured cottons including “coral” “gay kingfisher” “yellow” “oriental poppy” and “radiant blue”. I hope you like my choice for the theme this week, and that it makes you smile!
Belle Vue Mill, commonly known as Dewhurst’s, was built by Thomas Dewhurst in 1828. It opened in 1829 as John Dewhurst & Sons and was one of Skipton’s largest spinning and weaving mills. The mill’s position next to the Leeds Liverpool Canal meant that raw cotton could be shipped in by boats from Liverpool. Finished goods would then be sent back the same way ready for distribution. Coal to power the machine’s steam engines was also delivered by barge. In 1897 Dewhurst’s was bought by the English Sewing Cotton Co. It continued to produce Sylko, one of the mill’s most famous products. It was produced in over 500 colours and sold throughout the world. Sylko cottons are still available at haberdashers today.
In 1802 James Coats set up a weaving business in Paisley. In 1826 he opened a cotton mill at Ferguslie to produce his own thread and, when he retired in 1830, his sons, James & Peter, took up the business under the name of J. & P. Coats. In 1952 J. & P. Coats and the Clark Thread Co. merged to become Coats & Clark's. Today, the business is known as the Coats Group.
The Anchor brand can trace its history back to 1866 when the Clark family adopted the Anchor brand for their embroidery threads manufactured in Paisley, Scotland. Embroidery threads came into being circa 1812 when supplies of silk became unobtainable in the UK due to a blockade by Napoleon. Two weavers, James and Patrick Clark, turned their attention to cotton and managed to produce yarn which was sufficiently fine, smooth and strong to be used instead of silk for weaving. Sewing thread was primarily silk or linen at the time and the Clark brothers developed their cotton yarn into the first cotton sewing thread.
We had a significant ice storm early this morning. I went out to take some photos. I had my Olympus E-M5 Mk3 with my Olympus 40-150mm f2.8 lens. To make a long story short, I slipped and fell down the front steps and snapped the lens clean off the body of my camera.
The camera body suffered significant damage and is probably not repairable for any reasonable cost. However, the lens survived and seems none the worse for wear. And since the lens is worth more than the body, I guess that was the desirable outcome.
Tilt-shift lenses are fabulously expensive, and—I’ve been telling myself—unnecessary, because one can simply correct perspective in post. Yeah, well, but 3-axis rotation does not suffice. I really ought to have corrected lateral perspective and minimized vertical perspective with my feet.
Admiring the work, too lazy to look up the artist.
When things don't go exactly as planned! I had hoped to use a star tracker for this shot, but, as I hadn't tried it before I wanted to use it i realised that i had left a vital part at home. So it was old school for this shot, lots of short exposures stacked in sequator. And I got a parking ticket at 1am in the morning