Alternate Reality @ Five Fathoms Deep
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Bruges is a city that will capture your heart. It is a city of human proportions, but one that can never be truly fathomed. Its history has made it great, a fact that garnered it the title of a Unesco World Heritage City. Retaining the mysteries of the Middle Ages and unashamedly exuberant, Bruges has been an international metropolis for centuries.
Part of one of the largest sculptures installed in the UK, the Seafarer’s Sculpture has been created by artist Michael Dan Archer. It consists of a forest of granite columns running across a large earthwork by the sea in the Port Marine development in Portishead near Bristol.
The 108 granite columns vary in height from 1m to 3m and are arranged in serpentine aisles which the spectator can walk through to the crest of the mound where a stone has been set to sit on and contemplate the sea. From land or sea, the view reveals that the columns form the profile of a wave.
The sculpture was designed to evoke the atmosphere of the sea and to relate to historical and contemporary seafaring. It also indicates Archer’s preoccupation with enigmatic architectural form of ancient cultures.
Flowerpot Island is an island in Georgian Bay, in the Canadian province of Ontario, and is a part of Fathom Five National Marine Park.
A wise man once said, nothing at all.
A-Class 36 Slot Hauler landed on a grassy hilltop.
Our intrepid interloper contemplates the evils that men do.
No Man's Sky Next
Gori Fortress (Georgian: გორის ციხე) is a medieval citadel in Georgia, situated above the city of Gori on a rocky hill.
Standing on the hilltop, the fortress's outlines follow the natural relief, hence the irregular shape. The inner fortifications occupy the entire plateau, from which the walls descend towards the road along the western slope. Originally, the walls reached the river below and the water had to be diverted through a tunnel, but the river has retreated since.
The fortress first appears in records from the 13th century, but archaeological evidence shows that the area had already been fortified in the final centuries BCE. The fortress was of major strategic importance, given its dominant position guarding a regional trade route, and accommodated a large garrison. In the 16th century the Ottomans captured it to overawe Tbilisi. In 1598 the Georgians, led by their king Simon I, besieged it for nine months to no avail; in 1599 they feigned relieving the siege for Lent and then launched a surprise night attack to regain control over the citadel. The fortress continued to change hands between the Georgians and the Persians in the 17th century.
The citadel acquired its present-day form under the Georgian kings Rostom of Kartli in the 1630s and Erekle II in 1774. Following its completion, King Rostom asked the Italian missionary Cristophoro Castelli, who lived in Gori, to draw the fortress. His stunning illustration from approximately 1642 is a valuable historical document. After the Russian annexation of Georgia in 1801, the fortress was garrisoned by a Russian grenadier battalion, but its importance gradually declined and the fortifications went defunct. The city plan of 1824 shows the citadel, the city on the hill slopes and a moat encircling both. The British Encyclopædia Metropolitana reported in 1845:
At the foot of a chain of low sandstone hills stands the Town and Fortress of Gori, (perhaps the Gursenna of Strabo,) the next place in magnitude and importance to Tiflis. The Castle, an oblong, 200 paces in length, placed sixteen fathoms above the level of the Liakhvi, running at the foot of the hill on which it stands, is now abandoned, a Chapel in its South-Eastern angle being the only part in use.
Gori Fortress was significantly damaged by an earthquake in 1920. The best preserved structure is Tskhra-kara ("the Nine-gated"), facing to the west and adjoined by supplementary walls on the south and east.
Information & Credits are on the Blog post.. rissasecondlife.blogspot.com/2018/08/fathoms-below.html
"With my feet upon the ground I lose myself
between the sounds and open wide to suck it in.
I feel it move across my skin.
I'm reaching up and reaching out.
I'm reaching for the random or whatever will bewilder me.
Whatever will bewilder me.
And following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been.
We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been.
Spiral out. Keep going..." Tool: Lateralus
Quite a squall at the forty-foot this morning, most of the swimmers swam off the more sheltered pier... except for this chap who hesitated for a bit before plunging in... and his mate who was already lost somewhere in the tempest.The sun even flickered over the scene for a while. They emerged at some stage quite pale looking , an otherworldly look on their faces! We all had to run for cover then, waves suddenly swilling over the rocks...
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them — Ding-dong, bell
[The Tempest ].
HBW 😊😊😍
The importance of family is a given and yet, here in the USA parents of 545 children separated at the border cannot be found! This is a crime! I am a mother of 5 and a grandmother of 9 and I simply cannot fathom how this is possible in this country? We CAN and MUST fix this and do better from now on!!!
New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/us/migrant-children-separated....
Washington Post
The parents of 545 children separated at the border still haven’t been found. The pandemic isn’t helping.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/10/21/family-separatio...
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Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
My submission for the Viper Photo Club's theme this week of "underwater". Photo taken at the stunningly beautiful Sim 'The Dive Shop' -> secondlife://Ukupanipo/133/102/63
This is a beauty of Canada Shot in Aboriginal Land....
I support the Natives of Canada
Tobermory is a small community located at the northern tip of the Bruce Peninsula in the municipality of Northern Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada. It is 300 km northwest of Toronto. The closest city to Tobermory is Owen Sound, 100 km south of Tobermory and connected by Highway 6.
The community is known as the "fresh water SCUBA diving capital of the world"[citation needed], because of the numerous shipwrecks that lie in the surrounding waters, especially in Fathom Five National Marine Park. Tobermory and the surrounding area are popular vacation destinations. People come for the beaches, the diving, the unspoilt countryside and the relaxed pace of life. The town lies north of the Bruce Peninsula National Park.
The MS Chi-Cheemaun passenger-car ferry connects Tobermory to Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron. Tobermory is also the northern terminus of the Bruce Trail, and has twin harbours, known locally as "Big Tub" and "Little Tub".
The Grotto, Grotto - water carved rocks
Tobermory is typically a few degrees colder than Toronto. Most of the businesses in the town are open from May until the Thanksgiving long weekend in October, and are closed for the other seven months of the year.
Possibly the most #eastcoast photo I've ever taken! Mussel shells and lobster boats in Three Fathom Harbour last night.
More to come soon, I hope. I've been shooting a bit, but haven't had much time to edit.
Hope all of you are well!
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For some uncanny reason I can't fathom, the full moon we saw last night was named "Strawberry Full Moon" in Japan. Anyway, I captured the moon with Mt. Fujii a couple of hours ago. It's quite hard to shoot both sunrise and sunset in summer as day is longer and night is shorter around the summer solstice. Now I'm going to bed. I used my Sigma 35mm F1.4 ART, which I purchased when it hit the market. I'm still in love with this lens and it remains my go-to lens when shooting at night ever since then.
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ストロベリー満月なる言葉を初めて聞いたが、根が割とミーハーなので（正確に言えば天邪鬼なくせに割とミーハー）湖畔まで降りて撮ってきました。やっぱり夜の撮影は明るい単焦点に限りますね。
Nikon D810A + SIGMA 35mm F1.4 ART
Lake Yamanaka, Yamanashi Pref., Japan