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A "bisse" in Valais refers to a traditional irrigation canal built to transport water from mountain springs to agricultural areas and villages below in the Valais region of Switzerland. These canals have been used for centuries to supply water to crops, pastures and local inhabitants. Bisses are a remarkable example of hydraulic and cultural engineering, and have played a crucial role in the development of mountain agriculture in the Valais.
Bisses" are generally dug into the ground or built using local materials such as stone and wood. They follow winding paths along the mountainside, skirting the contours of the land to carry water to the areas where it is needed. These canals were carefully designed to adapt to the topography, using gravity to make water flow over long distances.
Over the years, the bisses have become not only functional elements of the Valais landscape, but also important cultural symbols. Some are still used today for agricultural irrigation and to maintain local ecosystems. What's more, many bisses are now maintained and open to the public, offering visitors the chance to discover this ancient tradition and enjoy the scenic trails along the canals.
I was out on a photoshoot this past weekend and stumbled on this old camera. It’s a 1955 Soviet FED2. The cameras are a direct copy of the Leica II. Leica cameras had become incredibly popular in the Soviet Union due in large part to the work of famed Russian photographer Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (1891-1956). It became difficult if not impossible for USSR to import the incredible Leica’s so a decision was made to copy Leica and make their own Soviet version of the camera. Western copyright laws were not recognized by the USSR so work was undertaken to attempt to duplicate the design. The FED, which was named after Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky the founder of the Soviet Secret Police - later known as the KGB, was released in 1934 and models continued to be released until production ceased in 1996. The FED may closely resemble a Leica but the quality could not be more different! Consistency in manufacturing varied widely from one camera to the next. In fact the only thing consistent about the cameras is the lack of consistency. Even the type of screws used can vary from one camera to another as it depended on what was available at the time. This FED2 is largely functional but does have some issues I am in the process of repairing. I hope to have it back to shooting film again in a few weeks.
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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.
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The railing is quite functional but everything points to the old railway inn that used to service the old railway line that is no longer there. So the vanishing point form, the absence of colour and the meaning; the receeding past, seemed to align quite nicely.
It only seems fair after posting Grandma's cow bell that I post this functional keepsake that I got out of Grandpa's garage after he passed away. A contact posted a still life that had a collection of antique items and one was an oil can similar to this one and that got me thinking. The handle is stamped with "PLEWS, MPLS, MINN, MADE IN U.S.A." To the best that I've been able to research, it was made in the 1920's which fits with when my Grandpa would most likely have bought an oil can, maybe for his first automobile. My "studio" is still set up from the clothesline pulley/wood chunk and I'm enjoying focus stacking these various objects. Similar to the other shots, this is a thirteen image focus stack that I shot with the Nikon 55mm f/2.8 NIKKOR Micro. The lighting was provided by three lights, one in the back over the top, the main light to the left and a fill light to the right. The oil can stands about 6 inches tall by 10 inches wide with 4 inches of depth and is sitting on a black throw blanket that I use for black backgrounds. After downloading the files, Lightroom loaded them into Photoshop as layers and then PS aligned and stacked the layers into the final image seen here. I was very pleased with the stacking.
BTW: This object does not sit on the old piano or anywhere in the house. It resides in the garage and functions as designed, just as it has since Grandpa bought it so many years ago.
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Covehead Lighthouse (no longer functional but well maintained) is in Prince Edward Island National Park and located just above the popular Brackley Beach.
Pla d'Engolasters, Escaldes, E-E, Andorra city, the center, Andorra, Pyrenees
Vall del Madriu at background
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17-5239, a Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II of the United States Air Force, on approach to runway 23 at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario.
The supersonic stealth strike fighter had just performed in the Canadian International Air Show over the Lake Ontario shoreline in downtown Toronto.
Major Melanie "Mach" Kluesner was at the controls.
Excerpt from torontobiennial.org/work/augustas-serapinas-at-small-arms...:
Augustas Seripanas’s sculpture originated in Fogo Island, Newfoundland. Created from the material of an abandoned shed on the island, it references the island’s building history as well as the social and functional role of these modest structures. The vernacular architecture found in Fogo is synonymous with life and livelihood lived in tandem with the water, as well as with the houses and sheds built by boatbuilders. Fogo Island is known for its fishing industry, which is deeply marked by the cod moratorium initiated by the Federal Government in 1992 necessitated by decades of industrial overfishing and the subsequent collapse of the regional economy. While cod are making a slow recovery, the fishing ban remains largely in effect. One way the industry recovered was through the community banding together to create fishing cooperatives and diversifying their catch from a single species to crab, shrimp and turbot. The co-ops kept profits within the community and handled the preparation of catch for distribution to outside markets.
The modest wooden sheds, often brightly painted, with peaked roofs, dot the shoreline of the island. They are places to store nets, boats, and equipment, to clean and salt fish, and sometimes, to gather. Augustas’s shed came from Barr’d Islands, where it had gone through different iterations of construction. Locals recalled that this was the third time that a similar structure had been rebuilt with the same materials, each time with a slightly different configuration of nails, wood, flooring, and shingles. The shed has also taken on more contemporary building additions, including vinyl siding, wallpapered panels, and a front door repurposed from another structure. History is held in its walls, too, and visible in its layers of paint and inscriptions.
As a means of speaking to this resourcefulness—the material necessity of making use and reuse of what is at hand—Augustas has continued to transform the shed. With each rebuilding, a new structure is generated from the original materials. The first shed looked something like the original, but walking around it revealed that it was no wider than a closet, purposely narrowed to fit the confines of the gallery entrance. It also functioned as its own shipping container as it migrated to other venues, with the roof fitting into its interior, transforming the entire work into a crate.
In Toronto, the shed will undergo one final transformation. The artist, working together with Sawmill Sid, who runs a local milling service and lumber yard, will take the structure apart piece by piece and remake it into a towering lighthouse. Installed near the waterfront of Lake Ontario, Augustas’s propositional beacon will be visible from the Small Arms Inspection Building. Rather than guiding ships, however, it is a beacon to the transformative potential of even the most humble of materials.
Hiking Serra de la Sauvata. Vall d'Orient mountain view. Canillo, Vall d'Orient, Andorra, Pyrenees
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Sakrisøy, Moskenesøya, Lofoten Islands, Norway
The famous yellow cabin at Sakrisøy in Norway’s Lofoten Islands is the epitome of the Scandinavian approach to architecture and design. Characterised by the tenets of simplicity, minimalism, functionality and integration with nature, this modern reworking of the classic fisherman’s rorbu has been positioned perfectly in line with the imposing Olstinden peak behind. The result is a sublime triangular synergy of architecture and nature – and a delightful composition for photographers.
Functional LEGO WInd Pump. Instructions on Rebrickable: rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-63257/MasterBuilderKTC/functiona...
While wondering the Fields of “Art Omi” in Ghent NY in search of a restroom, I came across this elaborate flushing system, WOW
Coptic art is the Christian art of the Byzantine-Greco-Roman Egypt and of Coptic Christian Churches. Coptic art is best known for its wall-paintings, textiles, illuminated manuscripts, and metalwork, much of which survives in monasteries and churches. The artwork is often functional, as little distinction was drawn between artistry and craftsmanship, and includes tunics and tombstones as well as portraits of saints. The Coptic Museum in Coptic Cairo[1] houses some of the world's most important examples of Coptic art.
One of Modiin's iconic buildings (Yigal Yadin street). Modiin, established in 1993, is one of Israel's youngest cities and a bold urban project at the same time.
One Kleomenous on the Lycabettus hill of is the first building in the portfolio of Omniview by the architect Dimitrios Tsigos. It is a revolutionary new concept of a living space created to showcase his team’s development capabilities, based on cutting edge design and construction techniques and technologies and it carries the strength, beauty and functionality of high quality.
The choice of Travertino marble was in fact very rational is in hamony with the colour characteristic beige stones which are the main building block for all of lycabettus’s retaining walls. From the beginning of the project, the intensity of the building’s visual relatioship with the Acropolis had marbles on moodboard. Marble is a stone in its self, just one that allows more flexibility in its manipulation. Travertino was a perfect match in colour, but also a material that communicates very intensly its non artificial status due to its porous nature. Moreover, it is a very popular material in the sourrounding areas 70’s modernist style condo developments; in fact its also used inour adjuscent building, the one that tie us to the urban tissue.
It's a bench when you want to sit; it's an ugly thing that exercises your facial muscles into expressions of "ew."
North "Sure as Shit" Shore!
The Va-2 may look outdated, but it's a proven, functional design that's had experience in combat all across the Specific since its introduction in 1936.
The architecture of the East Coast Main Line 14 mile Selby Diversion won’t win any beauty contest and can at best be described as functional.
Built to avoid risks to trains from mining subsidence, a new diversionary route, the first purpose-built section of high-speed railway in the UK runs to the west of Selby, construction started in July 1980, paid for by the National Coal Board and opened to British Rail Intercity East Coast Services on the 3rd October 1983.
LNER Azuma is the third generation of High Speed Intercity train to use the diversion, here Class 800 Bi-mode 800106 speeds under Field Lane Hambleton with a service for Edinburgh.
800106 1S19 13:53 St Neots to Edinburgh Waverley Services not running into London due to Kings Cross rebuilding work.
20th June 2020
C-FPCA, a 33-year-old Boeing 767-375ERBDSF, on approach to runway 06R at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario. It was arriving as ACA7254 (Air Canada) from Lima, Peru.
Serial number 24306 first flew on March 28, 1989. It began its career as C-FPCA with Canadian Airlines International Ltd. on April 18, 1989. It joined the Air Canada fleet when CAIL was acquired on January 1, 2001.
After being converted into a freighter by Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. at Lod, Israel; it started operating again on December 9, 2021.
It is the first of eight 767-300ERBDSFs that will eventually be wearing Air Canada Cargo titles.
We have many old bridges and viaducts here and further north. All seemed to have been built with such pride and elegance, and this is but one example.
The bridge carries something quite mundane, pipes which carry water further southwards. The stonework is very good, and the whole design aesthetically pleasing.
The River Lune floods severely very frequently, so this bridge has to be sturdy (on the other side of the bridge is a record of some of the flood heights).
Taken in the Lune Valley with a small compact Canon camera