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La cité antique de Rhodes est née en 408 av. J.-C.. Son célèbre plan en damier fut réalisé par Hippodamos de Milet.
Pendant les guerres des diadoques, elle résista à un siège fameux par Démétrios Poliorcète en 305 av. J.-C., qu'elle commémora par l'édification du célèbre Colosse de Rhodes, détruit par un tremblement de terre en 226 av. J.-C.
Après l'expulsion des croisés de Terre sainte (1291), l'Ordre s'installe à Chypre avant de conquérir l'île de Rhodes. La ville devint le siège de l'ordre de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem durant plus de deux siècles, jusqu'en 1522. L'Ordre ceint la ville des impressionnants remparts que l'on peut toujours voir.
L'ensemble de l'enceinte fortifiée fait 800m sur 1000m pour un périmètre de 4km², permit de résister à des sièges importants dont celui du Sultan d'Égypte en 1444 et de Mehmet II en 1480. Conservé et entretenu par les Turcs après le xve siècle et restauré au xxe siècle, cet ensemble forme une des plus grandes places fortes médiévales d'Europe.
Le vieux village de Zermatt, canton du Valais, Suisse. Aussi appelé "Hinterdorf" (village arrière), ce quartier formé de plus de 30 constructions typiques haut-valaisanes est unique. Les granges, greniers et étables ainsi que les vieilles maisons datant du 16e au 18e siècle forment un univers à part entière. Les bâtiments, le long de la Hinterdorfstrasse, se composent de bois de mélèze, l'arbre qui marque le paysage de Zermatt.
Zermatt est une station de montagne réputée pour le ski, l'alpinisme et la randonnée située au sud du canton suisse de Valais. Il s'agit de l'une des stations de ski les plus réputées de Suisse et d'Europe, notamment en raison de l'altitude et de l'étendue de son domaine skiable, le plus haut d'Europe et l'un des plus grands d'Europe, et de sa contiguïté avec plusieurs des plus hauts sommets d'Europe, notamment le Cervin (Matterhorn), le Liskamm, la pointe Dufour, la dent Blanche et le Weisshorn.
La commune est très densément bâtie. Elle compte trois rues principales qui longent les berges de la rivière, et de nombreuses petites rues perpendiculaires. La gare et l'église constituent le centre de la station. Il est possible d'atteindre chaque extrémité de la commune en maximum 30 minutes de marche à pied. La première auberge fut construite en 1839 avec les balbutiements du développement touristique, puis en 1852 le premier hôtel, le Monte-Rosa dirigé par Alexander Seiler. La compagnie de guides de Zermatt est créée en 1858. La première ascension du Cervin en 1865 marque le début du fort développement touristique à Zermatt. En 1891, la voie ferrée est construite entre Viège et Zermatt. C'est en 1944 que pour la première fois, les touristes deviennent plus nombreux pendant la saison hivernale qu'estivale. Un héliport est créé en 1968.
Aujourd’hui, le village a su garder son aspect typique de village valaisan de montagne, par des règles d'urbanisme et de construction très strictes, préservant, entre autres, ses raccards. Elle est d’ailleurs interdite aux autos et les visiteurs qui veulent s’y rendre doivent laisser leur voiture dans la commune voisine Täsch le temps de leur séjour et continuer ensuite — le cas échéant avec valises et équipement de ski — par le train payant jusqu'au centre de Zermatt.
The sensuous forms of the huge leaves of the Sierra Corn Lilly plant. I never tire of the amazing patterns. Hopefully, before I pass on from old age, I can master enough of Topaz etc. to change the background...........hopefully.
Double click on the image to enlarge for details of the patterns
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🎃🐴 Trick or Trot Makers Market 🐴🎃
Calling all creators! Evergarden invites you to be part of our Halloween themed Makers Market during Trick or Trot. Bring your creations and include one festive, spooky, or whimsical Halloween item to share with the community.
This image is a labor of love. Originally begun in 2022 and finally finished this year. It is comprised of images from 2 different telescopes, 2 different cameras, two types of binning, and 9 different exposure lengths. I had no idea how difficult it would be to marry all this data together. Finally, here it is.
Discovered in 1702 by the German astronomer Gottfried Kirch, M5 is one of the oldest globular clusters in the Milky Way galaxy. With an apparent magnitude of 6.7 and a location 25,000 light-years away in the constellation Serpens, M5 appears as a patch of light with a pair of binoculars and is best viewed during May.
A majority of M5’s stars formed more than 12 billion years ago, but there are some unexpected newcomers on the scene, adding some vitality to this aging population.
Stars in globular clusters are believed to form in the same stellar nursery and grow old together. The most massive stars age quickly, exhausting their fuel supply in less than a million years, and end their lives in spectacular supernova explosions. This process should have left the ancient cluster M5 with only old, low-mass stars.
Yet astronomers have spotted many young, blue stars amongst the ancient stars in this cluster. Astronomers think that these laggard youngsters, called blue stragglers, were created either by collisions between stars or other stellar interactions. Such events are easy to imagine in densely populated globular clusters, in which up to a few million stars are tightly packed together. Text from NASA/Goddard
Taken from Santa Rosa CA and Blue Canyon CA, May 2022 and June 2023.
Scopes: Tec 140 and Vixen VC200L (Courtesy of Larry Parker)
Cameras: QSI 683 and ASI 2600M
Mount: Paramount MYT
Processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop
L:R:G:B = 5.5h:1.5h:1.5h:1.5h:
M5 V2 is perhaps slightly better. V2 used a masked stretch, which made the stars smaller but resulted in a clouded overall look. In V3 I decided to go with a more conventional stretch for better clarity.
Yesterday we took Jessie to her first ballet class. Does she have good form or what? :) Proud of my girl.
She loved the class. It's a once a week class for an hour each Saturday. It's a ballet/tap class, so we have to pick her up some little tap shoes too. She immediately took a liking to one of the other little girls in the class and ended up followed her around and partnering up with her.
A mystery arrival in the garden this year, and in two different locations and colour forms. No idea how they managed to get there either. Ordinarily, birds might be considered the normal culprit but, according to what I've read, birds don't particularly care for them. The name stems from the rather unpleasant aroma when the leaves are bruised or crushed.
The new year brought us quite a treat! Orcas Island is in the background. Welcome 2020.
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The Himalayas, or Himalaya, form a mountain range in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.
The Himalayan range has many of the Earth's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest. The Himalayas include over fifty mountains exceeding 7,200 metres (23,600 ft) in elevation, including ten of the fourteen 8000m peaks. By contrast, the highest peak outside Asia – Aconcagua, in the Andes – is 6,961 metres (22,838 ft) tall.
The Himalayan range is bordered on the northwest by the Karakoram and Hindu Kush ranges, on the north by the Tibetan Plateau, and on the south by the Indo-Gangetic Plain. The Himalayas are distinct from the other great ranges of central Asia, although sometimes the term Himalaya is loosely used to include the Karakoram and some of the other ranges. The Himalayas – inhabited by 52.7 million people – are spread across five countries: India, Nepal, Bhutan, China and Pakistan, with the first three countries having sovereignty over most of the range. Some of the world's major rivers, the Indus, the Ganges, and the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra, rise in the Himalayas, and their combined drainage basin is home to roughly 600 million people. The Himalayas have profoundly shaped the cultures of the Indian subcontinent; many Himalayan peaks are sacred in Hinduism and Buddhism.
Lifted by the subduction of the Indian tectonic plate under the Eurasian Plate, the Himalayan mountain range runs, west-northwest to east-southeast, in an arc 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi) long.
Another shot form last month's trip with Steve.
I had the idea that the sun setting behind the Cuillin Hills taken from the Bealach na Bà on the Applecross peninsula would be a good way to end our day out in the west. Unfortunately the bank of cloud over Skye stopped that happening but I still fired off a few shots as the sun slipped out of view.
This is a quarter view of a 1955 Mercury D-528 concept car at The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California. The rounded fenders were actually functional -- a spare tire was beneath one and a gas tank beneath the other.
Mitt bidrag till Fotosöndag 2020-08-23 på temat form. Ännu en "klassisk Magnus". Inget planerat under veckan blev en snabbt genomförd idé på lördagen när den dök upp i huvudet. Skönt att alltid ha en kamera i fickan nu för tiden.
The Himalayas, or Himalaya, form a mountain range in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.
The Himalayan range has many of the Earth's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest. The Himalayas include over fifty mountains exceeding 7,200 metres (23,600 ft) in elevation, including ten of the fourteen 8000m peaks. By contrast, the highest peak outside Asia – Aconcagua, in the Andes – is 6,961 metres (22,838 ft) tall.
The Himalayan range is bordered on the northwest by the Karakoram and Hindu Kush ranges, on the north by the Tibetan Plateau, and on the south by the Indo-Gangetic Plain. The Himalayas are distinct from the other great ranges of central Asia, although sometimes the term Himalaya is loosely used to include the Karakoram and some of the other ranges. The Himalayas – inhabited by 52.7 million people – are spread across five countries: India, Nepal, Bhutan, China and Pakistan, with the first three countries having sovereignty over most of the range. Some of the world's major rivers, the Indus, the Ganges, and the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra, rise in the Himalayas, and their combined drainage basin is home to roughly 600 million people. The Himalayas have profoundly shaped the cultures of the Indian subcontinent; many Himalayan peaks are sacred in Hinduism and Buddhism.
Lifted by the subduction of the Indian tectonic plate under the Eurasian Plate, the Himalayan mountain range runs, west-northwest to east-southeast, in an arc 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi) long.
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I set off form the great ocean road 2 days ago with the main goal of getting a shot of this iconic pier over the next 7 days or so before I duck back to Sydney for a few days.
From about lunch time today I had my eye on the forming clouds just hoping they would hang around until sunset. They didn't, they rarely do. However this set rolled over the horizon and put on a real welcome to SA show.
Uploading late as it took me ages to align the pano, I hadn't though to re-adjust the pivot point on my pano head for the new lens. So I had to manually align then use auto blend cs5, got there in the end.
6 shot vert
20sec ish per shot
f16ish
cic pol
3 stop soft
5 stop solid
Prob needs a slight colour adjustment, (clouds need to swing a bit from that pinkish to more orange) but its late ill do it later.
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The small twenty-one car ferry docking on the island side during a lovely sunrise. Lummi Island, Washington, USA.
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This little mason bee is busy sealing up her egg chambers to protect them from the outside world for many months to come. Maybe we all feel a bit like those eggs at present in our various forms of isolation.
The Erbdrostenhof forms a part of the baroque island
Erbdrostenhof
This masterpiece by the baroque architect Johann Conrad Schlaun built between the years 1753 and 1757 forms, together with the Clemens and Dominican churches, the “baroque island” at the Salzstrasse. Another particularity: Münster’s most beautiful nobility court stands diagonally on a rectangular plot of land.
The exterior of the Erbdrostenhof was faithfully reconstructed after the war, serving as the office of the Westphalian State Conservator today. Of the interior elements, only the staircase and the banqueting hall on the first floor were restored to their erstwhile condition.
The building is accessible to the public only for events in the banqueting hall.
Erbdrostenhof
Salzstraße 38
The Himalayas, or Himalaya, form a mountain range in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.
The Himalayan range has many of the Earth's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest. The Himalayas include over fifty mountains exceeding 7,200 metres (23,600 ft) in elevation, including ten of the fourteen 8000m peaks. By contrast, the highest peak outside Asia – Aconcagua, in the Andes – is 6,961 metres (22,838 ft) tall.
The Himalayan range is bordered on the northwest by the Karakoram and Hindu Kush ranges, on the north by the Tibetan Plateau, and on the south by the Indo-Gangetic Plain. The Himalayas are distinct from the other great ranges of central Asia, although sometimes the term Himalaya is loosely used to include the Karakoram and some of the other ranges. The Himalayas – inhabited by 52.7 million people – are spread across five countries: India, Nepal, Bhutan, China and Pakistan, with the first three countries having sovereignty over most of the range. Some of the world's major rivers, the Indus, the Ganges, and the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra, rise in the Himalayas, and their combined drainage basin is home to roughly 600 million people. The Himalayas have profoundly shaped the cultures of the Indian subcontinent; many Himalayan peaks are sacred in Hinduism and Buddhism.
Lifted by the subduction of the Indian tectonic plate under the Eurasian Plate, the Himalayan mountain range runs, west-northwest to east-southeast, in an arc 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi) long.