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Field and sky, Walpack Valley, Sussex County, within the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.
Girl working at chili fields along with his parents, siblings and members at a small village of Kunri, Sindh Pakistan.
O Parque Ibirapuera é o mais importante parque urbano da cidade de São Paulo, Brasil. Foi inaugurado em 21 de agosto de 1954 para a comemoração do quarto centenário da cidade e só perde em tamanho para o Parque do Carmo e o Parque Anhanguera.
O parque conta com ciclovia e treze quadras iluminadas, além de pistas destinadas a cooper, passeios e descanso, todas integradas à área cultural. Sua área é de 1,584 km², e os seus três lagos artificiais e interligados ocupam 15,7 mil m².
A região alagadiça (Ibirapuera (ypi-ra-ouêra) significa "pau podre ou árvore apodrecida" em lÃngua tupi; "ibirá", árvore, "puera", o que já foi) que havia sido parte de uma aldeia indÃgena na época da colonização, era até então uma área de chácaras e pastagens.
Já na década de 1920, o então prefeito da cidade - José Pires do Rio - idealizou a transformação daquela área em um parque semelhante a existentes na Europa e Estados Unidos, como o Bois de Boulogne em Paris, o Hyde Park em Londres ou o Central Park em Nova Iorque. O obstáculo representado pelo terreno alagadiço frustrou a ideia, até que um modesto funcionário da prefeitura, Manuel Lopes de Oliveira, conhecido como Manequinho Lopes. Apaixonado por plantas, Manequinho iniciou em 1927 o plantio de centenas de eucaliptos australianos buscando drenar o solo e eliminar a umidade excessiva do local.
Finalmente, em 1951, o então governador Lucas Nogueira Garcez institui uma comissão mista - composta por representantes dos poderes públicos e da iniciativa privada - para que o Parque do Ibirapuera se tornasse o marco das comemorações do IV Centenário da cidade.
Coube ao arquiteto Oscar Niemeyer a responsabilidade pelo projeto arquitetônico e a Roberto Burle Marx, o projeto paisagÃstico (embora este nunca tenha sido executado), sendo, no entanto, construÃdo o projeto do engenheiro agrônomo Otávio Augusto Teixeira Mendes.
Três anos depois, no entanto, o aniversário da cidade, em 25 de janeiro de 1954, não pode contar com a inauguração do Parque, que só ficaria concluÃdo sete meses depois. A inauguração em agosto, contou com 640 estandes montados por treze estados e dezenove paÃses, merecendo a construção, pelo Japão, de uma réplica do Palácio Katura, ainda hoje atração do Parque e conhecida como Pavilhão Japonês.
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Ibirapuera Park (Portuguese: Parque Ibirapuera) is a major urban park in São Paulo, Brazil. It has a large area for leisure, jogging and walking, as well as a convention center. Its importance to São Paulo is comparable to that of the Central Park to New York City. The Ibirapuera is one of Latin America largest city parks, together with Chapultepec Park, in Mexico City and Simón BolÃvar Park in Bogota.
Inaugurated in 1954 for the 400th anniversary of the city, with buildings designed by famous architect Oscar Niemeyer and landscape by designer Roberto Burle Marx, Ibirapuera Park covers an area of almost 2 square kilometres (0.77 sq mi). It is the second biggest park in the city. Admission is free.
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El Parque do Ibirapuera es el mayor y más conocido parque de la ciudad de São Paulo, Brasil y es considerado el pulmón verde de la ciudad. Es usado frecuentemente para eventos gubernamentales y privados como asà también para actividades artÃsticas que pueden incluir conciertos.
Algunas de sus partes más representativas incluyen la Oca (usada para exhibiciones artÃsticas), y el lago con fuentes. Ibirapuera viene de la expresión indÃgena "culo peludo".
El parque fue inaugurado el 21 de agosto de 1954 para la conmemoración del cuarto centenario de la ciudad.
El parque se extiende en un área de 1,584 km², sus tres lagos artificiales e interligados ocupan 157.000 m².
Coors Field, located in Denver, Colorado, is the home field of the National League's Colorado Rockies. It is named for the Coors Brewing Company of Golden, Colorado, which purchased the naming rights to the park prior to its completion in 1995. The Rockies played their first two seasons, 1993 and 1994, in Mile High Stadium before moving to Coors Field, two blocks from Union Station in Denver's Lower Downtown (or LoDo) neighborhood. The park includes 63 luxury suites and 4,500 club seats.
Coors Field has a reputation as a home run-friendly park that, arguably, equals Chicago's venerable Wrigley Field, and earned it the nickname "Coors Canaveral" among critics (a reference to Cape Canaveral, from where NASA launches spacecraft). Denver's dry air tends to dry out baseballs, which makes the balls harder and travel farther. Other factors include the relatively low height of the fences and very limited foul territory area. In an attempt to limit the number of home runs, since 2002 balls have been placed in a humidor before games to keep them from drying excessively.
The Rockies knew that Coors Field would give up a lot of home runs because of its high altitude, and moved the fences farther away. This created a ballpark that not only gives up the most home runs in baseball, but also gives up the most doubles and triples as well.
Coors Field was the first new stadium added in a six year period in which Denver's sports venues were upgraded, along with Pepsi Center and INVESCO Field at Mile High. It was also the first baseball-only National League Park since Dodger Stadium was built in 1962.
As with the other new venues, Coors Field was constructed with accessibility in mind. It sits near Interstate 25 and has direct access to the 20th Street and Park Avenue exits. Nearby Union Station also provides light rail access.
Coors Field was originally planned to be somewhat smaller, seating only 43,800. However, after the Rockies drew almost 4.5 million people in their first season—the most in baseball history—plans were altered during construction, and new seats in the left field upper deck were added. The centerfield bleacher section has its own informal name: "the Rockpile."
While most of the seats in Coors Field are dark green, the seats in the 20th row of the upper deck are purple. This marks the city's one mile elevation point.
Unlike most baseball stadiums, where home plate faces east or northeast (so as to prevent sunsets from disturbing the batter), Coors Field faces due north, resulting in the sun shining in the first-baseman's eyes during sunset. (Wikipedia)
I stopped one morning this past autumn to take some photos at a local sunflower field next to Riverview, New Brunswick, Canada.
Noratus cemetery or Noraduz cemetery (Armenian: Õ†Õ¸Ö€Õ¡Õ¿Õ¸Ö‚Õ½Õ« Õ£Õ¥Ö€Õ¥Õ¦Õ´Õ¡Õ¶Õ¡Õ¿Õ¸Ö‚Õ¶) is a medieval cemetery with a large number of early khachkars located in the village of Noratus, Gegharkunik marz near Gavar and Lake Sevan, 90 km north of Yerevan. The cemetery has the largest cluster of khachkars in the republic of Armenia. It is currently the largest surviving cemetery with khachkars following the destruction of the khachkars in Old Julfa, Nakhichevan by the government of Azerbaijan.
The oldest khachkars in the cemetery date back to the late 10th century. During the revival of the khachkar tradition in the 16-17th centuries many khachkars were built under the yoke of the Safavid Empire when oriental influences seeped into Armenian art. Three master carvers from this period carved khachkars in Noraduz, the most notable of whom was Kiram Kazmogh (1551-1610), his contemporaries were Arakel and Meliset.
The cemetery is spread over a seven hectare field containing almost a thousand khachkars each of them depicting unique ornamentation. The majority of the khachkars are covered by moss and lichen. Several tombstones in the cemetery depict carved scenes of weddings and farm life.
(Wikipedia)
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Visiting the famous khachkar field of Noratus wast a must on our to do list when traveling around the Sevan lake; indeed, the place is both magical and spiritual, with history of past centuries that may be almost touched when one strolls through the area...
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While I was on holidays in Paris, we went to see a friend of my mom who has a huge country house near the city with garden really beautiful. The house is surrounded by fields and we loved it... even Souki.
She stared at the fields for a long moment...
Black Drongo
The black drongo (Dicrurus macrocercus) is a small Asian passerine bird of the drongo family Dicruridae. It is a common resident breeder in much of tropical southern Asia from southwest Iran through India and Sri Lanka east to southern China and Indonesia. It is a wholly black bird with a distinctive forked tail and measures 28 cm (11 in) in length. It feeds on insects, and is common in open agricultural areas and light forest throughout its range, perching conspicuously on a bare perch or along power or telephone lines. The species is known for its aggressive behaviour towards much larger birds, such as crows, never hesitating to dive-bomb any bird of prey that invades its territory. This behaviour earns it the informal name of king crow. Smaller birds often nest in the well-guarded vicinity of a nesting black drongo. Previously grouped along with the African fork-tailed drongo (Dicrurus adsimilis), the Asian forms are now treated as a separate species with several distinct populations.
The black drongo has been introduced to some Pacific islands, where it has thrived and become abundant to the point of threatening and causing the extinction of native and endemic bird species there.
The black drongo was once considered a subspecies of the fork-tailed drongo (Dicrurus adsimilis), a close relative that diverged relatively recently. The two are now considered distinct species, with the fork-tailed drongo restricted to Africa and separated from the Asian range of the black drongo.
Seven subspecies have been named but the largely contiguous populations show clinal variation and intergrade with each other. Individuals from northern India (ssp. albirictus) are larger than those from the Sri Lankan population minor while those from the peninsular India (nominate subspecies) are intermediate in size. Race cathoecus is found in Thailand, Hong Kong and China. This race has a much smaller rictal spot and the wings are dark with a greenish gloss. In southern Siam a race thai is resident, but overlaps with wintering cathoecus. Race javanus is found on the islands of Java and Bali. Race harterti found in Formosa has the tail length less than the wing.
This bird is glossy black with a wide fork to the tail. Adults usually have a small white spot at the base of the gape. The iris is dark brown (not crimson as in the similar ashy drongo). The sexes cannot be told apart in the field. Juveniles are brownish and may have some white barring or speckling towards the belly and vent, and can be mistaken for the white-bellied drongo. First-year birds have white tips to the feathers of the belly, while second-years have these white-tipped feathers restricted to the vent.
They are aggressive and fearless birds, and although only 28 cm (11 in) in length, they will attack much larger species that enter their nesting territory, including crows and birds of prey. This behaviour led to their former name of king crow. They fly with strong flaps of the wing and are capable of fast manoeuvres that enable them to capture flying insects. With short legs, they sit upright on thorny bushes, bare perches or electricity wires. They may also perch on grazing animals.
They are capable of producing a wide range of calls but a common call is a two note tee-hee call resembling that of the Shikra (Accipiter badius).
The black drongo is found predominantly in open country and usually perches and hunts close to the ground. They are mostly aerial predators of insects but also glean from the ground or off vegetation. They are found as summer visitors to northeastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan but are residents from the Indus Valley until Bangladesh and into India and Sri Lanka. Some populations show seasonal movements that are poorly understood. The black drongo can be found in savannas, fields, and urban habitats.
Black drongos were introduced just before the Second World War from Taiwan to the island of Rota to help in the control of insects. It is believed that they dispersed over the sea to the island of Guam in the 1950s. By 1967, they were the fourth most commonly seen birds in roadside counts on Guam and are today the most abundant bird there. Predation by and competition from black drongos have been suggested as factors in the decline of endemic bird species such as the Rota bridled white-eye and the Guam flycatcher.
Being common, they have a wide range of local names. The older genus name of Buchanga was derived from the Hindi name of Bhujanga. Other local names include Thampal in Pakistan, Gohalo/Kolaho in Baluchistan, Kalkalachi in Sindhi, Kotwal (=policeman) in Hindi; Finga in Bengali; Phenshu in Assamese; Cheiroi in Manipuri; Kosita/ Kalo koshi in Gujarati; Ghosia in Marathi; Kajalapati in Oriya; Kari kuruvi (=charcoal bird), Erettai valan (=two tail) in Tamil; Passala poli gadu in Telugu; Kaaka tampuratti (=queen of crows) in Malayalam; Kari bhujanga in Kannada and Kalu Kawuda in Sinhalese.[70] A superstition in central India is that cattle would lose their horn if a newly fledged bird alighted on it. It is held in reverence in parts of Punjab in the belief that it brought water to Husayn ibn Ali, revered by Shī‘a Muslims.
Two brick walls - one on left about 20 feet in front of the wall on the right...sun highlighting the edge of the darker wall
Powerlines over farming fields near electric plant.
Tech data:
- Canon 5D Mk II
- Canon EF 70-200 @200mm
- Lee 0.9 GND SE
Baby is technically due tomorrow, so this may be our last jaunt out for a little while!
At the Manassas Battlefield park, about a half-hour outside of town, trying to catch some of the Perseid meteors.
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Here we see a very particular rabbit, carefully selecting only leaves of choice, aided by particularly cute bunny fingers.
Looking through the archives and thought I would work on this and see what it came out like. I think it turned out ok