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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 😄
Entered into TMI's TAA... focus on the 4B's (beak, bill, beard & butt)
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This 2nd-century AD amphitheatre in Europe’s longest continuously-inhabited city has witnessed many a dramatic, thundery Bulgarian summer and long, frosty autumns. Set among the six hills of the Thracian Plain, the amphitheatre offers rich views year-around whether you find a rewarding angle from Hemus Street or pay to explore the space itself – giving access to extraordinary details such as ancient district names carved into the seating to direct audiences to the appropriate zones. You could even take in a show in the evening, as the amphitheatre has been functional since being rediscovered following a landslide in the 1970s.
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.
"The German Society for Milling Science and Mill Maintenance (DGM) came to the following conclusion after an appraisal of the mill in 1990: “This double mill documents the economic development of the milling industry in an excellent way. In addition, the mill location Laderholz in connection with the forced grinding right and the difficulties caused by it for the construction of other mills in neighboring towns is of great historical and supraregional importance. "
From 1991 the restoration of the watermill as a technical monument took place on behalf of the Wassermühle Laderholz e.V. Volunteer employees restored a fully functional mill with the support of experts. Among other things, the old channel, which was filled with concrete, had to be exposed. The mill pond was dredged with the help of the British Army of the Rhine and received its original shape." (Wikipedia and Google Translate)
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Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Mühlenkunde und Mühlenerhaltung (DGM) kam nach einer Begutachtung der Mühle im Jahr 1990 zu folgendem Schluss: „Diese Doppelmühle dokumentiert in hervorragender Weise die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung des Mühlenwesens. Außerdem ist der Mühlenstandort Laderholz in Verbindung mit dem Zwangsmahlrecht und den dadurch bedingten Schwierigkeiten für den Bau anderer Mühlen in Nachbarorten geschichtlich von erheblicher und überregionaler Bedeutung.“
Ab 1991 erfolgte die Restaurierung der Wassermühle als technisches Denkmal im Auftrag des Vereins Wassermühle Laderholz e.V. Ehrenamtliche Mitarbeiter stellten mit Unterstützung von Fachleuten eine voll funktionsfähige Mühle wieder her. Dazu musste man unter anderem das alte Gerinne freilegen, welches mit Beton verfüllt war. Der Mühlteich wurde mit Hilfe der Britischen Rheinarmee ausgebaggert und erhielt so seine ursprüngliche Gestalt." (Wikipedia)
Die Stadtmühle von Glurns wurde mehrmals beschädigt oder zerstört, aber wegen ihrer großen Bedeutung für die Bevölkerung immer wieder aufgebaut. 2009 wurde sie komplett restauriert und ist heute wieder voll funktionstüchtig.
Ab 1330 war die Stadtmühle Glurns dank des von der Etsch abgezweigten Mühlbaches in Betrieb. Die Bauern konnten das Korn zu dieser Mühle bringen und der Bach diente aber auch den Gerbern in der benachbarten Gerbergasse zur Reinigung der Tierhäute.
2021-10-15
The town mill of Glurns was damaged or destroyed several times, but was rebuilt again and again because of its great importance for the population. It was completely restored in 2009 and is now fully functional again.
From 1330 the town mill of Glurns was in operation thanks to the Mühlbach, which branched off from the Etsch. The farmers were able to bring the grain to this mill and the stream was also used by the tanners in the neighboring Gerbergasse to clean the animal skins.
2021-10-15
The Marsalforn salt pans, known locally as Il-Qolla l-Bajda, are located on the north coast of Gozo Island, Malta, stretching along the rocky coast west of Marsalforn Bay. Carved directly into the limestone, they form an intricate mosaic of geometric tanks that reflects a centuries-old tradition of artisanal sea salt production.
The Marsalforn salt pans in Gozo are part of a tradition of salt exploitation that dates back to antiquity, long before the Middle Ages or modern periods. Their origin is closely linked to the Phoenicians and, later, the Romans, peoples who quickly understood the enormous economic and strategic value of salt in the Mediterranean.
The Phoenicians, great navigators and traders from the coast of present-day Lebanon, arrived in the Maltese islands around the first millennium BC. For them, Malta and Gozo were natural stops on trade routes between East and West. Salt, essential for food preservation and maritime trade, became a priority resource. Taking advantage of the rocky coastline, intense sun, and constant winds, the Phoenicians began digging shallow tanks in the limestone, creating the first organized structures for sea salt production. The simple and functional geometry of these primitive salt pans would lay the foundation for the system that is still recognized in Marsalforn.
With the Roman conquest of the Maltese islands in the 2nd century BC, salt production gained an even more structured dimension. The Romans perfected the Phoenician techniques, expanding the tanks, creating more efficient channels for the circulation of seawater, and integrating the salt pans into an organized economy on an imperial scale.
Over the following centuries, despite the successive dominations that passed through Gozo, the basic structure of these salt pans remained surprisingly faithful to the solutions created by the Phoenicians and Romans. Thus, walking through the salt pans of Marsalforn today is to traverse a space where more than two thousand years of history overlap.
Gozo island - Malta
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.
Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Turm, Bergen auf Rügen, Germany
Der Turm wurde im Jahr 1877 zum Andenken an Rügens bekanntesten Dichter und Historiker Ernst-Moritz-Arndt auf dem Burgwall Rugard erbaut. Rugard ist slawisch für Rügenburg. Rügens Einheimische sagen oft auch Rugardturm oder Arndtturm. Dieser Turm steht auf einer 91 Meter hohen und bewaldeten Hebung und ist selbst nochmal 26,7 Meter hoch.
Der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Turm bietet in dieser Lage drei Aussichtsmöglichkeiten auf unterschiedlichen Höhen und gewährt seinen Besuchern einen wunderbaren Rundumblick über die Insel Rügen mit Sicht zur Hansestadt Stralsund, Insel Vilm, Insel Hiddensee und zum Kap Arkona an Rügens Nordspitze.
Die Grundsteinlegung erfolgte am 26. Dezember 1869 – dem 100 Jubiläumstag des in Groß Schoritz geborenen Ernst Moritz Arndt. Nachdem die finanziellen Mittel zur Neige gingen und den Bau des Denkmals beinahe scheitern ließen, wurde erneut zum Spenden aufgerufen. Der bekannteste Spender war Kaiser Wilhelm I.. Dieser spendete 3.000 Mark und unterstütze somit den Weiterbau des Turms. Nach 8 Jahren Bauzeit wurde 1877 das 26,7 Meter hohe Denkmal vollendet.
Gegen Ende des zweiten Weltkriegs (1944) wurde die noch geziegelte Kuppel entfernt und eine Flakstellung montiert. Schließlich nutzte die sowjetische Rote Armee den Turm in der Zeit von 1945 bis 1953. Zwei Jahre später, 1955, wurde die Turm-Plattform abgerissen und durch eine neue Holzkuppel ersetzt. Das Dach wurde während der DDR-Zeit mit Schieferschindeln erneuert. Aktuell finden Besucher eine markante Kuppel aus Glas über sich.
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Starting from 12pm SLT (noon) today MadPea will be at the Belle Event with a amazing piece of functional decor that will be a perfect addition to any home, club or store!
Whether its the munchies, moments of stress that only a stiff drink will help, or even suddenly arranged bonfires where no one remembers the marshmallows, the MadPea Emergency Boxes have you covered!
The LM to the Belle Event: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Belle/121/112/2986
They fly sooo fast when directly overhead..favored to close in on this one in the short instant available.
just have these dusty pencils with metal framed erasers on it ... (the only color was the blue of the metal parts, there was no desaturation of other colors)
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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It is generally accepted in research today that the monumental building known as the "Great Temple" did not serve religious worship, but was built as a representative royal reception hall. Discussions continue as to whether it could have been part of the royal palace, but the residential quarter right next to it is too small for that, and associated functional buildings (kitchen, stables, etc.) are missing. The previous designation "Great Temple" (origin of the name) is still in use, although now often in quotation marks or with the addition of "so-called". Occasionally, "South Building" (south of the Wadi Musa) may be found as well.
In the last quarter of the 1st century BC, as part of the monumental development of the center of Petra, the Nabataeans cut terraces deep into the bedrock of the Katute hill and laid out flat areas, traversed by channels for the drainage of rainwater. On this slope they constructed in several phases this largest freestanding architectural complex in Petra, a structure of 7560 m2 of floor space on three levels, the highest of which rises 25 m above the Colonnaded Street.
Taken for Saturday Self Challenge 19/03/2022 - Decorative .
First thought for this was the upper window in a big posh house , however , Jan did mention railways and they are always good for some embellishment on the older architecture . Here on this station the pillar supports to the station canopy are functional but on the load spreading supports at the top are quite decorative . I first tried a compressed view on platform two but not happy as I clipped the top a bit too tight plus a gutter got in the way from whichever end I took the shot . Platform one one the other hand presented a clear shot of the whole line of pillars with their elaborate top sections .
Also in shot is a passenger waiting on a seat , not sure about how he looks , but then this is the London platform - not a place to look forward to visiting as far as I am concerned .
A sight and sound to calm things down -----
Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg is a spectacular Model World featuring many Land- and Cityscapes from around the world containing model trains, moving cars, ships and even a fully functional airport with starting and landing planes.
All of this is meticulously handcrafted to the smallest Detail.
Please view the photos in full resolution to see all the little Details and Scenes.
Also make sure to visit this wonderful World, whenever you are in Hamburg.
Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg is a spectacular Model World featuring many Land- and Cityscapes from around the world containing model trains, moving cars, ships and even a fully functional airport with starting and landing planes.
All of this is meticulously handcrafted to the smallest Detail.
Please view the photos in full resolution to see all the little Details and Scenes.
Also make sure to visit this wonderful World, whenever you are in Hamburg.
Mamiya RB67 Pro Sd | Mamiya 90mm | Cinestill 400-D @ Box speed
Digitized with Olympus OM-1 Digital, 60mm macro lens | Valoi Easy 120
Home developed in Cinestill C-41 | Cinestill method for development
Functionally, it's not much of a fence--I don't think it can exclude or confine anything. But it is one of my favorites.
Photographed in Big Blue Creek, in western Colorado.
Sometimes the iPhone is more functional for a panoramic view than my Canon. Here is a picture of El Tunco Beach with sun going down fast... This is a rocky beach. Although the sun part is a bit overxposed, I liked the overall result.
Vista panorámica q a veces se hace uno mejor con el iPhone q con la camera de Canon. La playa es bien rocosa pero la vista es bella al atardecer.
Uma foto panorámica do entardecer na Praia de El Tunco, uma praia cheia de pedras mas de uma grande beleza plástica.
PURE PLAY, inspired by the setting sun. There is hardly any practical functionality in this behaviour of wild geese. The end of the first March day this year.
Took my old E-M1 gen.1 with me, with stills on my mind. The camera has poor video, but the scene was irresistible.
Wild geese make a distinct sound and have a demeanour which is not always the same. I often hear them at night, when they fly in small groups low above my flat 25 m high. Then it's more like navigating, a kind of sound radar. Or encouraging each other. Yesterday evening (5 March, not this recording) I was late coming back from the river shore, and the geese had been conspicuously calm for an hour... when I was at the middle of that big field populated by them, it was almost completely dark already. Camera already packed in my bag. Then something like exploded. The whole flock of around thousand or more wild geese put up a play for me. They suddenly burst into flight from the field on my right hand side and flew right over my head to the other half of the field where they all majestically landed. It was a sound of the thunder, all those huge wings flapping above me and the geese honking and calling. Like ƒƒƒ tutti of a large symphony orchestra. There were many many more birds than could fit in my lens even if I had the camera ready and small µ4/3 sensor somehow probing the dark. –Maybe I should take a sound recorder with me the next time... :)))
The occurrence on March 5th (not the modest one filmed here) brings me to my photographic Murphy's law: My greatest pics and videos are the ones I did not take. That's a rule that's haunting me for years and decades; my whole life actually. Like that one in the caption, just four days after this recorded clip. Please read the paragraph above, it does not pertain to the video clip above. Somehow, the birds always wait just enough —5 or 15 minutes after the sunset— for the light to fade out and then they appear in majestic formations and formidable numbers, to perform their low passes, big turns, amplified rhythmic calls, terrific landings and what not. Exactly that fraction too late when I can NOT film them any more with my modest µ4/3 gear, but can still observe the spectacle. No, they don't do it to spite me; it's just to keep their worthiest artistry beyond our proud-spirited set of captured things. It's rewarding enough to witness them. I am humbled and remain with my reoccurring phenomenon. Birds appearing just before sunrise or just after sunset with the regularity of Newton's physical laws.
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P. S. Contemplating the purchase of the G9 Mark II ever since... Now you know it's not the GAS (gear acquisition syndrome), but the GIS (gees inspired syndrome).
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