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Rear of Castle Garth houses & shops as seen from St Nicholas Street, Newcastle upon Tyne in c1865. In the foreground is a woman sitting at a stall selling small wares? holding a small child. One half of a stereo view.
In the foreground is the ruins of the Magnus Cathedral from circa year 1300. The ruins are the largest medieval building in the Faroe Islands. Behind the ruin is the old farmhouse of Kirkjubøargarður from the 11th century, which is the oldest still inhabited wooden house of the world.
I was photographing the Magpie in the foreground for a bit before a Magpie-lark walked by and i switching my attention to it, clearly the Magpie wasn't done being in front of the camera.
I've done some landscape photography lately. I have learnt that it is really important to compose Your landscape shots with some interest in the foreground that would lead the viewers eye into the picture.
Of course, it takes some practice, but I think I'm doing progress. What do You think?
BTW, This shot was taken in Hanko
A beautiful day made for a nice start to our road trip along the Trinity River
156-366/2016: A Leap of Faith
Foreground figures are thrown out of focus, on Newgale.
Tripod-mounted finger-triggered greyscaled telephoto.
Nights draw in at Pelcomb Portraits.
blackcurrant canes in the foreground on the left. plenty of flowers so hopefully a crop of blackcurrants to follow
pots of lilies, geraniums, astilbe, echanacea, daffodils, forget-me-not and others
plenty of lilies showing but those bought and planted earlier this year have still yet to reveal themselves fingers crossed all will be well, time will tell ...
meteorological spring begins 1st march ends 31st may
astonomical spring begins 20th march ends 21st june
www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about/weather/seasons/...
for many years my garden was a shrubbery flic.kr/p/Lhv9ag which i loved. a picket fence covered in an ivy hedge coming down in a storm flic.kr/p/2gnCyih meant that over time changes had to happen flic.kr/p/2mn2x8a i'll be glad when the trellis is covered in honeysuckle and jasmine. that's the plan ...
www.flickr.com/groups/gardening_is_my_hobby/ helpful for ideas. thank you for sharing
In the left foreground is the Ilha Fiscal. "The building, which occupies 1,000 square meters (about 10,700 sf) of the island, was designed in 1881 in neo-Gothic style, by engineer Adolfo del Vecchio and was inaugurated on April 27, 1889. The graceful palace was intended to house the headquarters for monitoring the import and export from the port of Rio de Janeiro. The island became famous for having housed the last ball of the court during the Empire, organized by the Visconde de Ouro Preto."
Source: www.rioguides.com/en/information/rio-s-attractions/museum...
On the right is the Brazilian Navy tanker "Admiral Gastão Motta" (G-23).
"The first vessel to be so named in the Brazilian Armada, it was ordered on December 15, 1987, to replace the NT Marajó (G-27) and the Almirante Gastão Motta (G29) Logistical Support Ship (formerly NM Itatinga , of Lloyd Brasileiro), which had its conversion to naval use canceled, being sold in 1987."
"With a project developed from requirements defined by the Navy, it was built by Ishikawajima do Brasil Shipyard S/A (ISHIBRAS), in Rio de Janeiro, with a high level of nationalization. It had its keel laid on December 11, 1989, being launched and baptized on June 1, 1990 . After completing sea trials, it was . . . incorporated to the Navy on November 26, 1991."
Source: pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/NT_Almirante_Gastão_Motta_(G-23)
In the background is the Santos Dumont airport.
"Originally known as Calabouço Airport, the history of the airport can be traced back to the early 1930s. Until that time,the few aircraft equipped with landing gear used Manguinhos Airport. Seaplanes, which at the time operated the majority of domestic and international flights, used a terminal located at the Calabouço Point, an area known today as Praça Marechal Âncora. Take-off and landings were made using an area of Guanabara Bay then known as estirão do Caju (Caju water stretch). It was as a development of the terminal at Calabouço Point that Calabouço Airport was created"
"A new public terminal building for seaplanes was inaugurated on 29 October 1938. It was a replacement for the original passenger terminal and was used by all airlines except Panair do Brasil and Pan American World Airways, which used their own facilities. Due to the obsolescence of seaplanes, it ceased to be used in 1942. Today, this protected building houses the Historical and Cultural Institute of the Brazilian Air Force (INCAER)."
"In 1934, in order to handle a growing amount of land operations, land was reclaimed from the sea to create the first runway of the airport with a length of 1,300 feet (400 m). In 1936, the runway was extended to 2,300 feet (700 m) and on 30 November it received its first commercial flight, a VASP Junkers Ju 52 aircraft flying from São Paulo–Congonhas. The airport complex was inaugurated on 16 October 1936 and was named Santos Dumont Airport."
"It was also in 1936 that the construction of a new passenger terminal began. It was a project led by the architects MMM Roberto (Marcelo, Milton and Mauricio Roberto Doria-Baptista) inspired in the Paris - Le Bourget Airport terminal. Its pioneering, modernist, architectural features created a Brazilian national landmark. It was only in 1947 that its construction was completed. This building continues to be used to the present day. In the lobby of this terminal, (now the arrivals terminal) two monumental paintings by Cadmo Fausto de Sousa can be seen. Named "Old Aviation" and "Modern Aviation", they feature many old and new means of flying. Both were unveiled in 1951."
"Adjoining the original seaplane terminal, Pan American World Airways and its Brazilian subsidiary Panair do Brasil constructed their own dedicated terminal for seaplanes and aircraft with landing gear. This terminal opened in 1937 featuring an architecture was inspired by the Pan American Seaplane Base and Terminal Building in Miami. It included a passenger terminal, offices and hangars. It remained the headquarters of Panair do Brasil until the airline was forced to cease its operations in 1965. It is now the headquarters of the Third Regional Air Command of the Brazilian Air Force."
"On 21 May 1959 a formal agreement between Varig, Cruzeiro do Sul, and VASP created an air shuttle service (Portuguese: Ponte Aérea), the first of its kind in the world. This service operated between Rio de Janeiro–Santos Dumont Airport and São Paulo–Congonhas and comprised regular hourly departures, common check-in counter, and simplified tickets and formalities. The service was an instant success. Transbrasil joined the partnership in 1968. Starting in 1975 the service was operated exclusively by Varig's Lockheed L-188 Electras. In 1999 this service came to an end because airlines decided to operate their own independent services."
"Over the years, the airport's main runway has been extended several times, first to 2,300 feet (700 m), then to 3,000 feet (910 m), and finally 4,340 feet (1,320 m)."
"With the gradual shift of international operations to Galeão Airport, opened in 1952, Rio de Janeiro–Santos Dumont lost its place as an international hub, but for many years retained its position of a major hub for domestic traffic, particularly until 1960, when the capital of Brazil was moved to Brasília."
"The airport handles only part of Rio's short-to-medium haul domestic air traffic, and part of its general aviation and military operations. The airport is famous for having some of the shortest runways on which some Boeing and Airbus aircraft can land. An idea of these operations is given in the 007–James Bond film Moonraker of 1979, in which a Lockheed L-188 Electra briefly appears taking-off from the airport."
"The new terminal building opened in 2007 and handles all departures."
Abandoned boat sits in a junkyard along Alaska Homer Spit on a sunny summer day. Fireweed in foreground
DDC-Foreground
Shizandra, the loveliest flower in the garden!
I thought doing this in black and white with the flowers in the foreground would make a nice photo for today's challenge. I know I've said it many times, but I really should do more black and white photography!
with ÖBB class 1142 703 in old "bloody orange" livery
in the background ... : ) Vienna Grillgasse, Dec. 2008
On a very frosty morning in Taupo, NZ, we went down to the lake edge to see what we could find. I snapped this textbook landscape composition. Of the two of this tree, which is the best?
On the foreground:
Euphorbia dendroides.
Euphorbia (Euphorbia dendroides) is a very common plant along Ligurian coasts. It appears as a rounded shrub or tree. The branches start from the base of the tree and they are light gray. It has tender and light green lanceolate leaves.
The plant produces a stinging latex. Its origins are tropical, but it is well adapted to the mild climate of Ligurian coasts.
On the background:
the beginning of "Via dell' Amore" and the blue mediterranean sea.
Taken in Riomaggiore, Cinque Terre, Italy.
From Foreground : right corner concrete base of what's left of Sask Pool 6 Grain Elevator, next is the Rail Car ramp to Pool 6, next is the Creosote Storage Tanks from the now closed Northern Wood Preservers, next is what's left of the Iron Ore Dock ship loading facilities, then next is the abandoned Sask Pool 15 (Green Trim), and next is the Canada Malting Facility still functioning , and behind that the tan coloured structure is Viterra Pool A & B Grain elevators still a going concern and the largest in Thunder Bay and last is the abandoned Manitoba M Grain elevator (blue structure to the left top corner).
When you have no foreground subject ... make your own. I know it's silly, but Katie's mom and I rummaged thru Katie's toys and this is what I came up with. Katie lives with Max and Buster, the dachshunds. (Client's toys ;))
Most railfan photographers prefer not to have objects between their camera lens and the main object of the photograph. The simple reason is because it is a distraction. We call anything between the camera and the subject "foreground clutter." Sometimes moving to a slightly different vantage point can eliminate foreground clutter. Sometimes you just take the shot with the clutter because you really want a photo of the subject.
I don't really remember taking this photo. I remember the day but not the photo. But I'm sure I was ticked at all the foreground clutter. Now 35 years later the foreground clutter has actually become interesting. I might even say, bite my tongue, I now like the picture more than if there had been no foreground clutter.
That's BN SD40-2 8110 between assignments in Portland, OR on April 9, 1981.
foreground broad-leaved willowherb, beautiful close relative of fireweed (great willowherb) which also grows here but more on hillsides
Dickson Range, South Chilcotin Mts, British Columbia
my photos arranged by subject - www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/collections
The valley in the foreground (where the bridge is) is a fault line known as Almannagjá. This is where the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates meet. I took this in Þingvellir National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the meeting place of the Icelandic parliament (known as the Alþingi) from 930 CE to 1789.
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ABOUT THE SERIES
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In September 2011, my wife and I went to Iceland for a two week honeymoon. The trip was such an incredible experience. We started in Reykjavík and drove around the outside of the county counterclockwise. Although we made hotel reservations ahead of time, our day to day itinerary wasn't planned in advance so we could see/do whatever we felt like.
Iceland is such a diverse and amazing place. I've never seen such beauty, breathtaking landscapes, and an assortment of scenery anywhere else. One moment you're walking on a glacier and the next you're hiking through a lush landscape to a waterfall. Mid to late September seemed like the perfect time of year to go. There were no crowds at any of the sites, we had our pick of where to stay, and the weather was fantastic.
If you've never been to Iceland, photos (mine or anyone else's) don't really give it justice. It's somewhere you have to see and experience in person.
Unfortunately there is no good scale in this photo, but I can tell you the cacti in the foreground on the right are something like 3.5 - 4.0 m tall (11 - 14 ft), or about twice as tall as a person. That means that, yes, as you might have already guessed, the cactus on the left is really tall, potentially approaching 8 m (~26 ft). The upper range for this species is around 12 m (~40 ft), and I saw a few of these on my trip. They're pretty incredible, considering that every other Opuntia in the world is a puny shrub (although Brasilopuntia, a related genus in South America, can get very tall as well).
I had previously labeled these cacti as Opuntia echios var. echios on this photostream; however, after searching the scientific literature I've discovered this designation was innaccuate. Opuntia echios is the only Opuntia species on Santa Cruz, however, there are two recognized varieties, var. echios in the north and var. gigantea in the south. These varieties were named for their morphological differentiation, however, recent genetic work with both microsatellites and ribosomal genes have determined that these varieties do don't differ genetically, with over 95% of existing genetic variability existing within localities rather than between localities of different varieties. This is interesting, because despite the lack of genetic divergence between the varieties, var. echios are small, shrub like plants with dense covering of spines, while the var. gigantea are arboreal (tree-like) plants with large robust trunks and and multiple branchings containing more sparsely spined pads. Is there a genetic basis to this differention that has evolved within very recent times, such that both populations retain overall similar genomes, or is this morphological variability simply due to regional environmental differences, which has been observed in other cacti? Who knows. There are many intermediate individuals at hybrid zone localities, but this is compatible with both models. TIme will tell...
Helsen, P., P. Verdyck, A. Tye, S. Van Dongen. 2009. Low levels of genetic differentiation between Opuntia echios varieties on Santa Cruz (Galapagos). Plant Systematics and Evolution 279:1–10.
Helsen, P., R. A. Browne, D. A. Anderson, P. Verdyck, S. Van Dongen. 2009. Galápagos' Opuntia (prickly pear) cacti: extensive morphological diversity, low genetic variability. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 96(2): 451–461.
For a discussion on why Opuntia of the Galapagos are so neat, and their relationship with the endemic giant tortoises, see this image: www.flickr.com/photos/31867959@N04/6012346984/in/set-7215...
For a discussion on why I find Opuntia so neat morphologically, developmentally, and functionally: see this image: www.flickr.com/photos/31867959@N04/7457728654/in/set-7215...
Mind Surfing
The art of surfing waves in your daydreams
With a little bit of foreground bokeh for HBW
Forgot to mention my fourth flickr birthday passed this weekend, i meant to do one of those statistic specials but it all passed in a bit of a blur, so here's the short version.
1,732 photos, 2,198,552 views and a lot of friends along the way
Thanks for making it so much fun, i enjoy reading what you have to say about my work, and i especially enjoy being inspired by your great photography.
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iss056e037500 (June 26, 2018) --- NASA astronauts Ricky Arnold (foreground) and Drew Feustel practice on a computer before their upcoming robotic maneuvers to capture the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft upon its arrival at the International Space Station on July 2, 2018.
In the foreground are the snow-covered trees of Irvington. Alameda Ridge, a product of the Missoula Floods, is in the middle distance. The broad sunlit uplands are the foothills at the edge of the Columbia River Plateau on the Washington side of the river.
I can't claim authorship of the title, as it was coined by Sir Winston Churchill in his speech "This was their finest hour" delivered to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom on 18 June 1940.
The local landmark...Hamilton Lumber Yard's smokestack...in the foreground- with vast fields and farms behind and around. It stopped raining and the clouds opened up just for the camera moment! #cy365 day246
The Cades series (foreground) consists of very deep, well drained soils on old stream terraces and alluvial fans in the lower coves in the Southern Blue Ridge (MLRA 130B). They formed in alluvium derived from materials weathered from metasedimentary rocks such as phylite and metasandstone. Slope ranges from 2 to 8 percent.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
TYPE LOCATION: Blount County, Tennessee; Great Smoky Mountains National Park; Cades Cove; 2000 feet west of the the entry gate of the Cades Cove Loop Road, 400 feet north of road in pasture field; USGS Cades Cove topographic quadrangle; latitude 35 degrees, 36 minutes, 26.49 seconds, North; longitude 83 degrees, 47 minutes, 5.53 seconds, West, NAD27.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: Depth to bedrock is greater than 72 inches. Reaction ranges from very strongly acid to strongly acid. Rock fragments range from 0 to 25 percent above the lithologic discontinuity and 35 to greater than 80 percent below the discontinuity. The depth to the lithologic discontinuity ranges from 24 to 48 inches. Average rock fragment content in the particle-size control section is less than 35 percent. They range from channers to flagstones with size increasing with depth.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most of this soil is cleared and used as pasture and hayland. Originally, all areas of this soil were forested.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Southern Blue Ridge (MLRA 130B) in Tennessee and North Carolina. This series is of small extent.
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 2007
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For a detailed description of CADES soil and other pertinent information, visit:
casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/sde/?series=cades#osd
SOIL TAXONOMY
For additional information about soil classification using Keys to Soil Taxonomy, 13th Edition, 2022, visit:
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