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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius
CITY DOME : conçu par l’architecte de la ville Robert Morham en 1895. Bâtiment classique octogonal de plain-pied, à 8 baies avec grand dôme circulaire, situé dans le coin NE de l’enceinte. Toit en dôme en cuivre avec fleuron boule. Le City Dome a été construit pour abriter un télescope de 22 pouces (56 cms) fabriqué par J. Buckingham qui était trop grand pour être utilisé dans l’observatoire de Playfair. Le télescope y est resté jusqu’en 1926, date à laquelle il a été démantelé pour être exposé au Musée royal d’Écosse. Dans les années 1950, il était dans un état de délabrement grave. La fin du 20ème siècle a vu la réparation externe et interne et la rénovation du dôme ; un plafond suspendu cache l’intérieur du dôme et le bâtiment sera (2002) aménagé en amphithéâtre et auditorium.
CITY DOME : Designed by city architect Robert Morham in 1895. Classic octagonal, single-storey, 8-bay building with large circular dome, located in the NE corner of the compound. Copper domed roof with ball finial. The City Dome was built to house a 22 inch (56 cms) telescope made by J. Buckingham which was too large for use in the Playfair Observatory. The telescope remained there until 1926, when it was dismantled for display in the Royal Museum of Scotland. By the 1950s it was in a serious state of disrepair. The late 20th century saw external and internal repair and renovation of the dome; a suspended ceiling hides the interior of the dome and the building will be (2002) converted into an amphitheater and auditorium.
A white Christmas would be wonderful, of course. But we've only had one (across the board) six times in the last 120 years. So there's no point in getting upset about it.
If there's no snow, then at least some sunshine would be nice. Unfortunately, it's been gray and foggy for days (at least here where I am). So, sunshine is probably out of the question.
Luckily, there's still the sunshine in my heart, which I hope to tap into with this photo and activate when needed.
Happiness, and the feeling of happiness, isn't dependent on chance or external circumstances. It's a conscious decision that strongly depends on how I evaluate a situation, where I direct my attention, and, of course, on my general outlook on life.
With that in mind, on this penultimate Monday flower greeting of the year, I wish you a large dose of sunshine in your heart and thus a sunny and joyful week.
And this is regardless of the weather.
Eine weiße Weihnacht wäre natürlich richtig toll. Doch hatten wir diese (flächendeckend) gerade einmal 6 Mal in den letzten 120 Jahren. Es lohnt sich also nicht, sich darüber zu ärgern.
Wenn schon kein Schnee da ist, dann wäre doch wenigstens Sonnenschein schön. Leider sieht es (zumindest hier bei mir) seit Tagen grau und neblig aus. Das mit der Sonne wird dann wohl auch eher schwierig.
Zum Glück gibt es noch die Sonne im Herzen, die ich mit diesem Foto ansprechen und bei Bedarf aktivieren möchte.
Glück und auch das Glücksgefühl ist nicht von Zufällen und Rahmenbedingungen abhängig. Es ist eine bewusste Entscheidung die stark davon abhängt, wie ich eine Situation bewerte, wo ich meine Aufmerksamkeit hin lenke und natürlich wie meine generelle Einstellung zum Leben aussieht.
In diesem Sinne wünsche ich Euch am vorletzten montäglichen Blumengruß das Jahres eine große Portion Sonne im Herzen und damit eine sonnige und fröhliche Woche.
Und dies unabhängig von meteorologischen Rahmenbedingungen.
From far we feel
Two wheels
The way it goes
Texture comes after
When colors travel around
In the little details
The painter is gone
Come closer and see
These fittings on the external facade of the glassy Optus building turned out to be sprinklers when I zoomed in on them. I had thought they were lights.
Having posted several photos from the inside with reflections in this all glass dome I thought I would actually post a photo of the exterior, albeit partial.
EXPLORE #296 of 28 August 2008
You can click here for a much better view (sharper, better color, and no nadir and zenith pinching) or enjoy what Flickr™ provides. But do click on the external link (to fieldofview.com) and you'll be happy forever--if you derive your happiness from watching carefully made 360 panoramas on the best viewing platform online.
You can stop the dizzily revolving panorama by clicking on the X at top right. Then it will become flat again. Click again in the same place to make it spin crazily again.
Pathway leading to the lower deck. A foggy view of the North San Francisco Bay in the horizon.
external porch - Church Santa Maria delle Grazie - Varallo
La chiesa, situata ai piedi del Sacro Monte di Varallo, con relativo convento francescano, è strettamente legata alla storia del Sacro Monte stesso e al volere di frate Bernardino Caìmi, che la fa edificare tra il 1487 e il 1501. L’edificio, secondo il modello francescano, è a navata unica, con copertura lignea a vista. Vi si trova un eccezionale ciclo di affreschi della “Vita e Passione di Cristo”, sulla parete divisoria tra l’abside e il presbiterio, realizzato fra il 1512 e il 1513 da Gaudenzio Ferrari e composto da 21 riquadri tra i quali spicca al centro, di maggiori dimensioni, la “Crocefissione”. Santa Maria delle Grazie viene affiancata nel 1486 da Santa Maria Immacolata, una seconda chiesa idealmente collegata alla prima da un grande arco.
The church, located at the foot of the Sacro Monte in Varalllo, has, on the wall that divides the presbytery from the apse, a grandiose fresco cycle done between 1512 and 1513 by Gaudenzio Ferrari which shows the life of Christ in 21 pictures. Santa Maria delle Grazie was flanked by Santa Maria Immacolata, a second church ideally connected to the first by a large arch, in 1486. The construction of the church and the conventual complex are tied to the history of the Sacro Monte and greatly desired by Franciscan Monk Bernardino Caimi. In the square, which during the summer turns into a concert venue, one can view the statue dedicated to Gaudenzio Ferrari.
The lighted red chochin lantern and the hung out external noren curtain signal that they are opened for business.
I love taking night shots not because it's easy but because it's hard to do it well, in particular handheld night shots.
The interplay of light and shadows, love the slivers of light that seeps through the thin gaps between the wooden lattices and blinds.
The restaurant’s name “竹茂” can be seen clearly on the red chochin lantern, the green noren (暖簾) and the floor lamp in similar traditional fashion as most of the eateries in the area.
Burnt highlights, blocky featureless shadows, loss of contrast, flare and color noise are the typical problems that plague poorly executed night shots. All these can then be further exacerbated by clumsy post-processing with too much push of shadows and highlight recovery rendering the image lifeless. Pre-shot discipline and proper post-processing can mitigate all these, even with cheap, basic ILC cameras.
Boat anchor kilo class f1.2 lenses are also not necessary especially when the image is at an oblique angle which will require a slightly deeper depth of field.
Meanwhile, smartphone multi-shot modes keep getting better for static night scenes. Before long people will look back at the silliness of boat anchor sized f1.2 lenses!
Shot taken handheld with FE 55mm f1.8 ZA (281g), a lens that has been much maligned unfairly by forum gear nuts pretending to understand photography.
The image posted before this was shot on tripod;
Hmm. Flickr is totally messing up the colors. :s
They are really desaturated here.
C'est étrange hein...
Anybody know how to fix this?
-> Alright so I saturated it on my computer again, so please tell me if it's now extremely oversaturated on your screen! Argh it still doesn't look the same though, and the colors were just so nice :(. Stupid Flickr. :p
Alright alright, I thought I'd share the original via an external link but that does the same! Waah? What is this?
Enough with the whining already, thank you very much Maciek Lesniak for your testimonial!!! Ha and yesterday's shot, maybe we should have a club or so. ;)
this photo was taken in the bank of the Segre river in Lleida (Spain), with the help of an external flash pointing to the background, configured manually to 1/2 and triggered remotely from the camera.
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Foto tomada cerca de la orilla del rio Segre, en Lleida (España), con la ayuda de un flash externo apuntando al fondo, configurado manualmente a 1/2 y disparado de forma remota desde la cámara.
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Internal & External beauty of the legendary M62 locomotive 💚
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Innere und äußere Schönheit der legendären "Wumme" M62 💚
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I've finally bought an external flash, and this is one of my experimental shots, as I wrap my tiny mind around the concept of using something other than ambient light.
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International Pickup Truck
Viewed at the (closed) Santa Fe Restaurant.
Lawton, OK
External wall (painted by Gomez) of the former mental asylum s.maria della pietà, now a museum . The psychiatric hospital was shut down in 1999 after the Italian Mental Health Act of 1978 (the Basaglia Law).
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The set of temples on the island of Philé does not constitute an isolated system. Rather, it is closely linked to other nearby temples (Abaton) and to the series of Nubian temples that, from Philé, dot the shores of Lower Nubia. The pharaohs (almost continuously in each reign) had donated "the fields" (the Dodekaschoenos) to the goddess, which is the same as saying: to her priests.
On the island, there is a clear gradation in the temples. The main temple is that of Isis, which occupies the main axial position, while the other temples (Arensnufis, Imhotep, etc.) are subordinate to that of the goddess, being located transversally to said axis.
The decoration of the walls of the temples that make up the Philae complex was carried out according to a system described by Eleni Vassilika (Ptolemaic Philae), according to which the artists, following the guidelines of the theologians, would have produced a series of decorative cartoons from which the wall decorations would have been erected, maintaining strict regulated standards.