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Zur Blauen Stunde sahen wir bei starkem Wind und Schneetreiben auch Rentiere. War das eine wunderbare Begegnung mit diesen friedvollen Tieren.
At blue hour we saw reindeer with strong wind and blowing snow. It was a wonderful encounter with these peaceful animals.
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Rentier (Rangifer tarandus) - reindeer
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Rentier (Rangifer tarandus)
Das Ren (gesprochen [ʀeːn] auch [rɛn], fachsprachliche Mehrzahl Rener) oder Rentier (Rangifer tarandus), vormals Renntier, ist eine Säugetierart aus der Familie der Hirsche (Cervidae). Es lebt zirkumpolar im Sommer in den Tundren und im Winter in der Taiga Nordeurasiens und Nordamerikas sowie auf Grönland und anderen arktischen Inseln. Es ist die einzige Hirschart, die domestiziert wurde.
Die nordamerikanischen Vertreter der Rentiere werden als caribou (auf Deutsch Karibu geschrieben) bezeichnet, ein Wort aus der Sprache der Mi’kmaq-Indianer.
Reindeer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reindeer
The reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), also known as the caribou in North America,[3] is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, sub-Arctic, tundra, boreal, and mountainous regions of northern Europe, Siberia, and North America.[2] This includes both sedentary and migratory populations. Rangifer herd size varies greatly in different geographic regions. The Taimyr herd of migrating Siberian tundra reindeer (R. t. sibiricus) in Russia is the largest wild reindeer herd in the world,[4][5] varying between 400,000 and 1,000,000. What was once the second largest herd is the migratory boreal woodland caribou (R. t. caribou) George River herd in Canada, with former variations between 28,000 and 385,000. As of January 2018, there are fewer than 9,000 animals estimated to be left in the George River herd, as reported by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.[6] The New York Times reported in April 2018 of the disappearance of the only herd of southern mountain caribou in the lower 48 states, with an expert calling it "functionally extinct" after the herd's size dwindled to a mere three animals.
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Norwegen / Norway - Tromsö / Tromsø
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Tromsø ist mit 76.649 Einwohnern (Stand 1. Januar 2019) die achtgrößte Stadt Norwegens und die größte Stadt im Norden des Landes. Die Provinzverwaltung der Fylke Troms og Finnmark hat hier ebenso ihren Sitz wie der Arktische Rat.[2]
Der wichtigste Arbeitgeber ist das Universitätsklinikum in Nord-Norwegen (UNN) mit etwa 4.500 Angestellten. In Tromsø befinden sich eine Universität, die Norwegische Fischereihochschule, das Klima- und Umweltforschungszentrum Framsenteret und die Mack-Brauerei.
Geographie
Tromsø liegt 344 km Luftlinie nördlich des Polarkreises. Dies entspricht der geographischen Breite von Nord-Alaska. Tromsø beheimatet nicht nur die nördlichste Universität, sondern auch die nördlichste Kathedrale der Welt.
Tromsø ist mit einem administrativen Stadtgebiet von 2.558 km² (davon 1.434 km² auf dem Festland und 1.124 km² auf mehreren Inseln vor der Küste) die flächengrößte Stadt Norwegens.
Die Universität, der Flughafen und das Zentrum befinden sich auf der Insel Tromsøya. Zudem machen Schiffe auf der Hurtigruten im Hafen von Tromsø (UN/LOCODE NO TOS) Station.
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Tromsø is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Tromsø.
Tromsø lies in Northern Norway. The 2,521-square-kilometre (973 sq mi) municipality is the 18th largest by area out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Tromsø is the 9th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 71,590 (2014). The municipality's population density is 30.6 inhabitants per square kilometre (79/sq mi) and its population has increased by 15.9% over the last decade.[6][7] It is the largest urban area in Northern Norway and the third largest north of the Arctic Circle anywhere in the world (following Murmansk and Norilsk). Most of Tromsø, including the city centre, is located on the island of Tromsøya, 350 kilometres (217 mi) north of the Arctic Circle. In 2017, the city of Tromsø had a population of about 65,000 people spread out over Tromsøya and parts of Kvaløya and the mainland. Tromsøya is connected to the mainland by the Tromsø Bridge and the Tromsøysund Tunnel, and to the island of Kvaløya by the Sandnessund Bridge.
The municipality is warmer than most other places located on the same latitude, due to the warming effect of the Gulf Stream. Tromsø is even milder than places much farther south of it elsewhere in the world, such as on the Hudson Bay and in Far East Russia, with the warm-water current allowing for both relatively mild winters and tree growth in spite of its very high latitude.
The city centre of Tromsø contains the highest number of old wooden houses in Northern Norway, the oldest house dating from 1789. The city is a cultural centre for its region, with several festivals taking place in the summer. Torbjørn Brundtland and Svein Berge of the electronica duo Röyksopp and Lene Marlin grew up and started their careers in Tromsø. Noted electronic musician Geir Jenssen also hails from Tromsø.
The urban staircase is much more than a simple means of vertical movement in a city. It is a functional and artistic element in its own right, which gives character to the urban space.
L'escalier urbain est bien plus qu'un simple moyen de déplacement vertical dans une ville. Il est un élément fonctionnel et artistique à part entière, qui donne du caractère à l'espace urbain.
The Choir is a fundamental place in the spatial and functional conception of a Cathedral and its origin responds to a tradition linked to the Paleo-Christian basilicas, specifically in the “schola cantorum”. It is usual for the Choir to face the High Altar so that the liturgy can be followed. To this we must add that the cathedral clergy has altar and choir services as fundamental obligations, therefore, the Choir is an essential part, to the point that if there is no Choir there is no Cathedral.
The Choir is accessed through a Renaissance grille from the first half of the 16th century, completed by Francisco de Salamanca. The seats, made of different types of wood and where several authors took part, are from the beginning of the 16th century and have a magnificent sculptural and iconographic program. It should be noted that the 117 seat backs have completely different decorations, made with inlays based on Mudejar lacework. This type of Mudejar adornment in the Choir is only found in the Cathedral of Puebla in Mexico, where the influence of the Cathedral of Seville in New Spain is again evident.
In the center, a large Renaissance lectern, carved in wood, which was used to place the huge liturgical chant books. Dating from the second half of the 16th century, it was made, among others, by Juan Bautista Vázquez “the Old”, who also masterfully carved the Virgin with Child, who presides over the lectern.
Crazy Tuesday theme Creased Paper
Traditional Japanese Fan made from handmade paper printed with the famous Hokusai Wave, particularly for our current mini heatwave, HCT 😄
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A hospital ward, could be anywhere I would think. It is functional too, as long as you know what kind of functions are included or excluded. Is a "sense of beauty" functional? Is a piece of art included in the functions offered by a hospital? A flower perhaps? Small things can make a big difference. Most important is the other thing one cannot see in this picture - the humanity of the hospital staff and the person-to-person contact between nurses, doctors and patients. Whatever the architecture. Fuji X-Pro1 plus Helios 44M-7 wide-open.
This is a 1928 Alan Herschell Carousel at Volo Auto Museum in Volo, Illinois. It is fully restored, hand carved and hand painted. In the center is a functional Wurlitzer pipe organ. It is the most amazing carousel I have ever seen. So many lights and details...and the horses are fabulous!
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A village in remote Barot valley in Mandi district of the state of Himachal Pradesh,India.
Barot is a village developed in the 1920s by the British for the Shanan Hydel project on the Uhl River.It is situated in an extremely remote and picturesque little valley about 25 kms off the Mandi-Jogindernagar highway in Himachal Pradesh.The valley is watered by the Uhl River and is famous for trout breeding.There are forests of Deodar,Oak and Rhododendron and pretty little villages surrounded by terraced fields,.Barot is at a distance of about 40 kms from the town of Jogindernagar but the British had also built a funicular trolley which reduces the distance to 12 kms.However the trolley ,as far as I could gather ,is no londger functional.
Barot is at the moment an off-beat tourist destination and I fervently hope it remains so because the signs of "development" have already started creeping in.
' We should learn from the snail it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.'
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Cruising on a Saturday with my camera, hand held at about 1/10 of a second at 6400 iso. The Shepparton Brewery blues mobile hearse out front of the Shepparton brewery.
Please note the beer tap hood ornament : ) Is it functional?
There was a mist along the seafront which gave an eerie, mysterious atmosphere. As I was composing the image this figure walked into the frame, but I think he gives added interest and scale
The Pier was designed and engineered by Eugenius Birch to attract visitors and survive in the hostile environment of the seashore. Opened in 1866, it was a simple and functional structure built using dozens of cast iron threaded columns screwed into the seabed and strengthened by a lattice of ties and girders that provide the necessary strength to support the promenade deck whilst allowing seas to pass harmlessly through.
Originally the West Pier had an open deck with only six small ornamental houses of oriental design, two toll houses and glass screens at the pier head to protect visitors from the wind and sun. In 1875 a central bandstand was added. In the 1880's weather screens the full length of the pier, steamer landing stages and a large pier head pavilion were constructed.
The final building, completed in 1916, was a graceful concert hall. The result is seaside architecture at its finest, designed to attract and entertain holiday-makers with all the pomp and frippery that is the essence of the English seaside resort. The pier was unique in being largely unaltered since that time, its proportions and style were unrivalled and its concert hall and theatre were two of the best Victorian and Edwardian seaside entertainment buildings.
On 28th March 2003the Pavilion was destroyed in an arson attack, and then on 11th May the Concert Hall, already seriously damaged in a huge storm the previous December, was also deliberately set on fire.
English Heritage was commissioned to report on whether after such damage, the restoration was still viable. It concluded that despite the significant damage, given the wealth of salvaged material from the pier and the considerable photographic and video archive, repair and reconstruction of the pier was still viable. It was therefore bitterly disappointing that at its meeting on 28th January, the Heritage Lottery Fund decided to withdraw its funding of the project.
With the loss of lottery funding the restoration of the West Pier became impossible. Deemed a public hazard, the burnt-out Concert Hall was removed in 2010. The skeletal remains of The Pavilion, however, were left to become a feature of Brighton’s seafront. Its desolate beauty makes it much discussed, wondered about and photographed. The Trust has no intention of removing the remains unless overwhelming safety issues arise. But now beyond repair, they will inevitably degenerate and be reclaimed by nature. However the Trust remains hopeful that, with the success of Brighton i360, in due course a new contemporary West Pier, reflecting the brilliance of the original, will be built.
Less than three months after emerging from the assembly plant in La Grange, Illinois, a Union Pacific a SD40-2 glides through North Yard in Salt Lake City, Utah on June 16, 1979.
UP 3569 was built by EMD in March 1979, and retired from the roster in January 2001.
Happy Thursday Monochrome : )
Found this in the courtyard at Denver Botanic Gardens. Functional or decorative, I don't know!
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It's been a long time since Flickr has "upgraded" a feature.
As usual, the functionality has been diminished.
One Campus Martius Detroit
At 114 feet, the waterfall inside Detroit's One Campus Martius building is the tallest functional indoor waterfall in the United States. The colorful glass kites were designed by the same firm that created the fountains outside the Bellagio in Las Vegas.
A small piece of the mosaic ("Fuctional Vibrations" by Xenobia Bailey) overhead the entrance of the Hudson Yards station of the #7 Flushing Line station, Tenth Avenue and 34th street. Chelsea, NYC -- March 28, 2019
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Carretera de Montaup, Canillo, Vall d'Orient, Andorra, Pyrenees
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Grand-Hornu is an old industrial coal mining complex and company town (cité ouvrière) in Hornu in Belgium. It was built by Henri De Gorge between 1810 and 1830. It is a unique example of functional town-planning. It is one of the four industrial sites which were listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 2012
Despite the ugly functional fountain and the sealing, the square is still a centre of attraction for the residents of the neighbourhood near the Collège Jean Moulin.
Pergignan, Département Pyrénées-Orientales
Occitania, France 20.09.2022
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Trotz des hässlichen Zweckbrunnens und der Versiegelung ist der Platz noch immer ein Anziehungspunkt für die Bewohner des Viertels nahe dem Collège Jean Moulin.
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Okzitanien, Frankreich 20.09.2022
This rough, but functional, place is out around Davenport, Washington. You, know... Davenport... west of Reardan and east of Creston.
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Casamanya uphill route from left (Segudet slope). From right = Coll d'Ordino. Ordino, Vall nord, Andorra, Pyrenees - (c) Lutz Meyer
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