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An interesting garden on the north edge of Leeds.

 

perennial.org.uk/garden/york-gate-garden/

© Photo By Carlos Bravo, All rights reserved.

 

Contact info: www.ArteTerrestre.com

 

More Info: www.millenniumpark.org/artandarchitecture/cloud_gate.html

Not the best light. Forest Fire smoky air.

An evening shadow study.

In February, 2005, two artists, Bulgarian Christo Yavacheff and Frenchman Jeanne-Claude, erected over 7500 'gates' in NYC Central Park. Made of saffron-colored fabric, they lined over 20 miles of paths in Central Park. Millions of visitors viewed the exhibit over sixteen days.

 

My goal was to make art of art using mirrored image, blackened sky, Bad Dog rising (center) and

Saturn, courtesy of NASA.

One light pole and couple on bench cloned out on left side.

Bronze entry gate to Kubota Garden sculpted by Gerard Tsutakawa.

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I had a lovely stroll out at Kedleston in Derbyshire earlier today. I suspect we saw about the last weekend of Autumn colour, with the leaves dropping fast.

 

I didn't expect to be taking landscapes, so only had my 85mm lens.

 

This is a panorama of 15 photographs, and a pretty quick edit. I'll probably spend longer on it at some stage.

 

I focussed on the gate and then switched to manual using the Brenizer method. That way, only the gate is in focus. This was in part enforced by the condition, because I needed a highish iso, and large aperture to prevent motion blur as I took it handheld at 1/125 second.

Obviously not used very often, this gate is on the Ammerdown estate, home to Lord Hylton.

Here is a shot of the famous Brandenburg Gate (German: Brandenburger Tor) which is a former city gate, rebuilt in the late 18th century as a neoclassical triumphal arch, and now one of the most well-known landmarks of Germany.

 

It is located in the western part of the city centre of Berlin, at the junction of Unter den Linden and Ebertstraße, immediately west of the Pariser Platz. One block to the north stands the Reichstag building. The gate is the monumental entry to Unter den Linden, the renowned boulevard of linden trees, which formerly led directly to the city palace of the Prussian monarchs.

 

It was commissioned by King Frederick William II of Prussia as a sign of peace and built by Carl Gotthard Langhans from 1788 to 1791. Having suffered considerable damage in World War II, the Brandenburg Gate was fully restored from 2000 to 2002.

 

During the post-war Partition of Germany, the gate was isolated and inaccessible immediately next to the Berlin Wall, and the area around the gate featured most prominently in the media coverage of the opening of the wall in 1989.

 

Throughout its existence, the Brandenburg Gate was often a site for major historical events and is today considered a symbol of the tumultuous history of Europe and Germany, but also of European unity and peace.

 

I tried a different view of the Gate as all the thousand other tourists did. Because of shooting direct into the sun, I have processed it as HDR of 3 exposures with Photomatix Pro.

 

Nikon D7100, Nikkor 16-85@16mm, f/11, ISO 100, 1/100-1/400-1/1600sec., Lightroom, Photomatix Pro, Topaz filters.

Promos for Gates

 

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models: Gates

photographer: me

camera model: Canon 5D Mark II

lens: Canon EF 24-105mm L

editing done by: me

editing program: Camera Raw 5.6 & Adobe Photoshop CS4

date taken: 1/10/11

 

Strobist info:

1) AB800 shot through beauty dish boomed above group slightly camera right

*natural rim-lighting

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My sister's boyfriend's band needed some last minute shots for their press kit. Voilà!

I promise I'll lay off the superwarmsunflare shots soon...

 

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torii ,torii gate, a huge red torii gate, the approach to the shrine.

the view in front of Kamakura Station in the New Year.

 

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I called it, Gate of Respect!

Because I had to kneel down when taking this photo :))

 

Serious now...

This is Gate of Augustus. The Gate of Augustus, also called the Gate of Mazaeus and Mithridates. The monumental gate, dedicated to the honor of the Emperor Augustus.

Built between 1247 and 1250 during the reign of King Henry III, The Black Gate was the last addition to the medieval Castle defences ...

a brief history of the Black Gate can be seen HERE

 

San Francisco's iconic landmark at sunset

HBM! This woman was patiently waiting for her flight to board.

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California, USA.

 

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Gates C70 - C115

 

(Nikon Coolpix 8700 shot)

 

New Jersey. USA. 2007. … 2 / 8

(Photo of the day. Unpublished.)

  

Images:

 

Fergus McCreadie … Stony Gate ( Live )

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My new novel

B♭ (B Flat)

 

Volume 17😄

The following is still in its draft stage and will be revised further.

Key parts are not disclosed.

The order of the content shown here is mixed.

(Of course, this is not the final version.)

 

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My new novel

B♭ (B Flat)

 

Columbia Point Residences, a redevelopment of an old warehouse district near the piers of Red Hook that look south over New York Harbor, sat with Williamsburg’s commercial and arts quarter to its north, a reclaimed stretch of landfill between them transformed into a quiet new neighborhood of low-rise detached houses.

On the freshly paved streets the laughter of children echoed, and the soft afternoon sun gently lit the roof tiles and white exterior walls. The wind carried a cool, saline scent from the sea, and, far off in the harbor, a ship’s horn punctuated the calm.

Residents were building new lives here, apart from the city’s daily tumult.

At three in the afternoon the light was still mild, gilding the leaves of the street trees. Mariners’ Row—this new residential enclave—presented itself with almost calculated perfection: rows of white houses, straight sidewalks flanking them. The scent of new construction and still-wet paint hung faintly in the air.

Mark Sanchez stood by the large living-room window and imagined a happy future for his family.

His unit, ERO, was the field force within ICE responsible for immigration enforcement and removals—hardened by the harsh realities of carrying out deportations—contrasted with HSI’s international-crime investigations. But here, behind the glass, he was simply a father and a husband.

Rachel had begun preparing dinner in the kitchen. Children’s voices drifted from the distant school-bus stop.

— Calm. Perhaps life is distilled on a Sunday at three in the afternoon, — he murmured inwardly.

The afternoon light slanted more and more; shadows reflected in the window stretched. On the neighborhood street, an old man walked slowly, pushing a cart as he walked his dog. The crossing laughter of children made that scene seem like an emblem of a gentle, innocent world.

Inside the house, the children were absorbed in play, and Rachel greeted them with a smile. The outside air was mild, the breeze only slightly warm; curtains swayed softly.

Mark opened the front door and checked the mailbox. There were notices about the new school and an announcement for a local disaster-preparedness drill.

At three in the afternoon, as the second hand crept forward, silence deepened.

Beside the house’s foundation concrete there was a faint tremor.

In the afternoon hush, the harbor horn and the rustle of leaves in the breeze filled the soundscape—sounds that masked a subtle detonation so that the surrounding residents did not notice. Smoke rose slowly; there was no fierce blaze at the moment of explosion, only fine dust quietly filling the air. The collapse did not happen all at once but proceeded slowly and inevitably. Part of the exterior wall developed quiet fissures; glass trembled and fractured into fine shards. Wooden posts toppled one by one without a sound, the house crumbling inward as if in a muted dance. A small shock set off a chain reaction of charges that dismantled the structure from within—silently yet surely. The exterior split without fanfare; windows became powder; wooden supports began to fall.

But the noise had been suppressed to the greatest extent possible; the neighborhood’s residents scarcely noticed anything had occurred.

In the distance, silhouettes of buildings slumped and settled. Not only Mark’s house but a blue house about three hundred meters across the street, and a white house further in, kicked up clouds of dust.

Three houses vanished in an instant.

The wind halted for a moment; only the leaves of the street trees trembled.

Mariners’ Row’s afternoon regained its former stillness, as if nothing had happened.

Yet everything had changed.

By planting small, distributed charges of C4 at several points in the foundation concrete and detonating them in precisely timed, ordered sequences, the shockwave could be minimized while the skeleton of the structure was collapsed from the inside.

Rafi’s knowledge of architecture had made possible not mere destruction but a “quiet collapse.”

“Use only the force that’s necessary”—that was his credo.

From a rooftop some distance away, Rafi watched the scene unfold; a deep silence flowed through his chest. For him, it was both an outcry and a prayer. The silence dwelling in destruction was the expression of his tangled feelings.

From childhood, Rafi had found refuge only in silence. The clamor of children playing in Gaza’s dusty alleys, the thunder of airstrikes—these had only wounded him more deeply. In a rundown corner of Gaza, the small Rafi leaned against a wall. When the roar of bombardment receded, the brief stillness was a salvation.

His mother’s tears, his father’s anger—the chaos of it all—the boy sought only a place without sound. He fled inward to a world without noise.

Tinkering with the innards of a broken radio with small hands, Rafi first understood the relation between destruction and quiet. A ruined radio, after it lost its sound, simply remained there in material form, silently.

As he grew, his inner life knotted into complexity. He studied architecture at the Islamic University to make shapes and manipulate structures as a way to steady the disorder within him. Even the days bent over blueprints failed to soothe the quiet madness hidden under his skin. When he faced a building plan, his hands trembled; in his head the calculated beauty of structure mixed with the cool cruelty of demolition.

Then he found a method to produce the silence he had once sought: planting bombs.

For him, it was the only way to externalize his pain. The C4 placed silently at a building’s core crystallized the intersection of his desire to destroy and his thirst for silence. Israel’s attacks on Gaza had stoked his rage, but the true explosion had been nurtured in the quiet of his childhood. For Rafi, releasing explosives without sound was a ritual of severing himself from the world’s noise.

Rafi’s heart could find rest only in the stillness of destruction; he was trapped in a darkness no one noticed.

Without sound, unnoticed by anyone, he broke his world and obtained silence.

And no one knew that his cry was hidden within that quiet destruction.

Construction of Columbia Point Residences had begun in 2024. The three collapsed houses had been occupied by staff of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement—ICE—and its Enforcement and Removal Operations, ERO.

They took off their uniforms, sat at these tables with their families. By day they detained migrants and sent them out of the country; by night they held children on their laps and drank beer.

To Rafi, those two faces were one mask. Smile and cruelty breathed under the same skin. It was almost impossible to discern the boundary. He had seen the light in those houses many nights—the silhouettes at dinner through the curtains, laughter. There were no faces of the detained among them.

Each night Rafi never missed the five prayers. His fingertips turned sacred pages of the Qur’an; Arabic verses rang in his heart. “True strength lies in patience; vengeance is entrusted to God”—that phrase steadied him, lending calm. His anger was forbidden to flare; it lived quietly inside.

Recent news repeated the same refrain daily—“a million deported annually,” “military bases converted to detention centers,” “raids even on pending family applications”—numbers passing through the broadcast with a dry sound. But behind those numbers were names: his mother’s name, his sister’s name, the old man next door. Those names did not run on the news; they had no voice.

Rafi thought: this is not policy but selection—sorting who to keep and who to cast aside on sheets of paper. His faith taught mercy and justice, yet the world trampled those teachings. “God is the judge; we are only witnesses”—he repeated in his heart, while refusing to look away.

People in the city sought ways to lighten their lives. Yet tariff hikes made the very air heavy. Bread, nails, gasoline rose in price; sighs filled the shopping streets. Oddly, ICE and ERO garages always housed new vehicles; uniforms looked uncreased and shoes had thick soles. It was the result of budget and protection, the payoff for casting others aside.

Rafi kept calm. To erupt in emotion was to feed the enemy’s desire. So he hid his anger. The fire burning within him was tended like a vow to God—silent and steady.

Stories of neighbors taken in the night, a child crying as someone was seized—each one settled into him and became fuel. But it never flared. It only fed the coals and raised the burn temperature. From the outside, he seemed a gentle man. Inside, however, a balanced plan of destruction was quietly taking shape.

  

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My new novel:

B♭ (B-flat)

There’s still more to come. 😃

(This is not the final draft.)

Set in New York City.

  

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Soundtrack.

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Note: I gave a brief explanation of this novel in the following video:

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iTunes Playlist Link::

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My new novel:

B♭ (B-flat)

Notes

1. "Bombay Blood Type (hh type)"

•Characteristics: A rare blood type that lacks the usual ABO antigens — cannot be classified as A, B, or O.

•Discovery: First identified in 1952 in Mumbai, India (formerly Bombay).

•Prevalence: Roughly 1 in 10,000 people in India; globally, about 1 in 2.5 million.

•Transfusion Compatibility: Only compatible with blood from other Bombay type donors.

2. 2024 Harvard University Valedictorian Speech – The Power of Not Knowing

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3. Shots Fired at Trump Rally

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Title.

Gates C70 - C115

  

( Nikon Coolpix 8700 shot )

  

ニュージャージー州。アメリカ。2007. … 2 / 8

(今日の写真。それは未発表です。)

  

Fergus McCreadie … Stony Gate ( Live )

youtu.be/PH7xBtJTWbM?si=c2aHE7oNLskHCpv9

  

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僕の新しい小説。

 B♭ (ビーフラット)

  

第17弾。 😄

以下は、まだ初稿の段階です。まだ推敲します。

重要な部分は公開していません。

公開している内容の順番はバラバラです。

(もちろん最終稿ではありません。)

 

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僕の新しい小説。

 

 B♭ (ビーフラット)

 

 ニューヨーク港を南に望むレッドフックの埠頭に近い、古い倉庫街を開発したコロンビア・ポイント・レジデンシズは、北側にウィリアムズバークの商業・アート地区を背にし、その間の埋立地を再造成した、低層戸建て中心の静かな新興住宅街だ。

 新しく舗装された道には、子供たちの笑い声がこだまし、午後の柔らかな陽射しが屋根の瓦や白壁の外壁を優しく照らしている。風は海からの冷たい香りを運び、港湾の遠くで聞こえる船の汽笛が静けさにアクセントを加えた。

 住民たちは日常の喧騒から離れ、ここに新たな生活の基盤を築いている。

 午後3時の陽射しは、まだ柔らかく街路樹の葉を黄金色に染めていた。

 マリナーズ・ロウの新興住宅街は、まるで計算されたように完璧な整列を見せている。白壁の戸建てが並び、まっすぐな歩道が両脇に伸びる。新築の香りと、まだ新しいペンキの匂いが微かに漂っていた。

 マーク・サンチェスはリビングの大きな窓から外を眺めながら、家族の幸せな未来を思い描いていた。

 彼が属するEROは、ICEを構成する2部門のうちのひとつ、HSIの国際犯罪捜査に比べ、EROの移民の強制執行や送還を行う現場部隊で培った厳しい現実もあったが、ここではただの父親であり夫だった。

 レイチェルはキッチンで夕食の準備を始めている。子供たちの声が、遠くのスクールバス停から聞こえてきた。

ー 穏やかだ。日曜日の午後3時に、人生は集約されているかもしれない ー

 彼は胸のうちでそうつぶやいた。

 午後の光は徐々に斜めになり、窓ガラスに映る影が伸びていく。住宅街の通りでは犬の散歩をする老人が一人、手押し車を押しながらゆっくり歩いていた。子供たちの笑い声が交差するその風景は、穏やかで無垢な世界の象徴のようだった。

 家の中では子供たちが遊びに夢中になり、レイチェルがにこやかに声をかけている。外の空気は穏やかで、風はわずかに暖かく、揺れるカーテンが優しく靡いていた。

 マークは玄関のドアを開け、郵便受けを確認する。ポストには新しい学校の案内と地域の防災訓練のお知らせが入っていた。

 午後三時、秒針がゆっくりと動く中、静寂が深まっていった。

 家の中心、基礎のコンクリートのすぐ脇が微かに揺れた。

 午後の静けさの中、遠くからは港湾の汽笛と、風に揺れる街路樹の葉擦れの音が響いていた。それらの環境音が、わずかな爆破音をかき消し、周囲の住民が気づくことはなかった。煙はゆっくりと立ち上り、爆発の瞬間に生まれる激しい炎はなく、ただ細かな粉塵が静かに空気を満たした。倒壊は一気ではなく、ゆっくりと、しかし確実に進んだ。外壁の一部が静かに亀裂を生み、ガラスは微細に震えながら割れていく。木製の柱が一本、また一本と音もなく倒れ、家全体が内側から崩れていく様は、まるで静かな舞踏のようだった。爆薬はわずかな衝撃で連鎖反応を起こし、家の構造を静かに、しかし確実に破壊していく。外壁は音もなく割れ、ガラスは粉々になり、木製の柱が倒れ始めた。

 しかし、騒音は極力抑えられ、周囲の住民たちは何が起きたのか気づきにくいほどだ。

 遠くで小さく崩れ落ちる建物のシルエットがあった。マークの家屋だけでなく、通りを挟んで300mほど先の青い家、そして、そこからさらに奥へ進んだ白い家から砂埃が舞い上がった。

 3軒の家が瞬時に消えた。

 風が一瞬止み、街路樹の葉が揺れる音だけが響く。

 マリナーズ・ロウの午後は、再び何事もなかったかのように静けさを取り戻した。

 しかし、すべては変わってしまったのだ。

 基礎のコンクリートに小分けしたC4を複数箇所に埋め込み、微細なタイミングで順序良く起爆させることで、衝撃波を最小限に抑えつつ構造の骨組みを内側から崩していく。

 ラフィの建築学の知識が、単なる破壊ではなく「静かなる崩壊」を可能にしていた。

「必要な力だけを使う」——それが彼の信念だった。

 ラフィは遠くの建物の屋上からその光景を見つめ、胸に深い静寂が流れた。彼にとって、それは叫びでもあり、祈りでもあった。破壊の中に宿る静寂こそが、彼の複雑な感情の表現だったのだ。

 ラフィは幼いころから、静寂の中にしか安らぎを見いだせなかった。

 ガザの埃っぽい路地裏で遊ぶ子供たちの喧騒も、爆撃の轟音も、彼の心を深く傷つけるだけだった。廃れたガザの街角で、幼いラフィは静かに壁にもたれかかっていた。爆撃の轟音が遠ざかる瞬間、その静寂は彼にとって一瞬の救いだった。

 母の涙、父の怒り、そのすべてが混ざり合う騒乱の中で、彼はただ「音のない場所」を求めていた。彼は音のない世界へと逃げ込んだ。

 小さな手で壊れかけたラジオの中身をいじりながら、ラフィは初めて「破壊」と「静けさ」の関係に気づいた。壊れたラジオは、音を失った後に、ただ静かにそこに物質としての形状を保っていた。

 成長するにつれ、彼の内面は複雑に絡み合った。

 イスラム大学の建築学部に進んだのは、形を作り、構造を操ることで、彼の心の乱れを制御しようとしたからだ。大学で建築を学ぶ日々も、彼の心の奥底に潜む静かな狂気を癒すには足りなかった。建物の設計図に向き合うとき、彼の指先は震え、頭の中で計算される構造の美しさと破壊の冷徹さが入り混じった。

 そして彼は、かつて自分が求めた静寂を「作り出す」方法を見つけた。

 爆弾を仕掛けること。

 それは彼にとって、自分の痛みを外に放つ唯一の手段だった。

 建物の中心に静かに仕掛けられたC4は、彼の「破壊への欲求」と「静寂への渇望」が交錯した結晶だった。イスラエルによるガザ攻撃は彼の憎悪を燃え上がらせたが、真の爆発は幼少期の沈黙の中でじわじわと育まれていた。彼にとって、爆薬を音もなく解き放つ行為は、世界の騒音から自分自身を切り離す儀式だったのだ。

 ラフィの心は、破壊の静けさの中にしか安息を見出せず、誰も気づかない闇に囚われていた。

 音もなく、誰にも気づかれずに、彼は自らの世界を破壊し、静寂を手に入れる。

 そしてその静かな破壊の中に、彼の叫びが隠されていることを、誰も知らなかった。

 コロンビア・ポイント・レジデンシズは、2024年に工事の着工が始まった。崩壊した三棟に住んでいたのは、米国移民税関取締局のICEとその強制退去執行部門であるEROの職員たちだった。

 彼らは制服を脱ぎ、この家で家族と食卓を囲む。昼間、移民を拘束し、国外へ送る彼らが、夜には子どもを膝に抱き、ビールを飲む。

 ラフィには、その二つの顔がひとつの仮面にしか見えなかった。微笑みと冷酷が、同じ皮膚の下で息をしている。その境目を見極めることは、ほとんど不可能だった。彼は何度も、職員たちの家に灯る明かりを見た。カーテン越しに見える食卓の影、笑い声。そこには、拘束された者たちの顔はひとつもなかった。

 ラフィは毎夜、沈黙のなかで五回の礼拝を欠かさなかった。彼の指先は厳かにクルアーンのページをめくり、アラビア語の詩句が心に響いた。

「真の強さは忍耐にあり、復讐は神の手に委ねられる」—その言葉が彼を支え、冷静さを与えた。

 怒りは熱く燃え上がることを許されず、静かに内側で息づいていた。

 最近のニュースは、毎日が同じ旋律を繰り返していた。

ー 「年間百万人送還」「軍事基地を収容所に転用」「家族申請中でも摘発」 ー

 数字は乾いた音を立ててニュースの中を流れていく。

 だが、その数字の裏側には名前があった。母の名、妹の名、隣に住んでいた老人の名。それらはニュースには載らず、声にもならなかった。

 ラフィは思った。これは政策ではなく、選別だ。残す者と捨てる者を、書類の上で振り分ける作業だ。

 彼の信仰は慈悲と正義を説く。だが今の世界は、その教えを踏みにじっていた。

「神は審判者、我らはただ証人」 — 彼は心の中で繰り返しながらも、見過ごすことを拒んだ。

 街では誰もが生活を軽くする方法を探していた。だが、関税の引き上げは空気までも重くした。パンも、釘も、ガソリンも値を上げ、ため息が商店街を満たした。

 不思議なことに、ICEやEROの車庫にはいつも新しい車が並んでいた。制服は新品のように皺ひとつなく、靴底は厚かった。それは予算と保護の結果であり、他者を切り捨てた見返りでもあった。

 ラフィは冷静だった。

 感情を爆発させるのは、敵の望むところだ。だから彼は、怒りを表には出さなかった。彼の内に燃える火は、神にささげる誓いのように、静かに、確実に燃え続けていた。

 夜中に連れ去られた隣人の話。拘束の最中に子どもが泣き叫ぶ声。その一つ一つが、彼の胸の奥で沈殿し、火種になった。

 しかし、決して燃え上がることはない。ただ、確実に燃料をくべ、燃焼温度を上げていく。外から見れば、彼は穏やかな男だった。

 だが、内側では均衡の取れた破壊の計画が静かに形を成していた。

  

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僕の新しい小説。

 B♭ (ビーフラット)

 

舞台はニューヨークです。

 

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Soundtrack.

music.apple.com/jp/playlist/b-my-novel-soundtrack/pl.u-47...

  

追記 この小説を多少説明しました。

youtu.be/3w65lqUF-YI?si=yG7qy6TPeCL9xRJV

  

メモ

 

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「Bombay型(ボンベイ型、hh型)」

•特徴:通常のABO血液型を持たない(A、B、Oに分類されない)特殊な型。

•発見地:1952年、インド・ムンバイ(旧ボンベイ)で初めて確認。

•発生頻度:インドでは1万人に1人程度だが、世界的には約250万人に1人とも。

•輸血制限:同じBombay型しか輸血できない。

 

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2024年ハーバード大学首席の卒業式スピーチ『知らないことの力』

youtu.be/SOUH8iVqSOI?si=Ju-Y728irtcWR71K

 

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Shots fired at Trump rally

youtu.be/1ejfAkzjEhk?si=ASqJwEmkY-2rW_hT

  

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A weathered gate I found on a recent Photo walk, looks like the back of a Piano.

homedecormade.com/the-most-beautiful-garden-gates/

  

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A gate on Markusplätzle - I managed to leave out the basketball hoop on the right because I somehow doubt it was there when the Fuggerei was first built ^_^;

The lawns in front of the red fort.

'Valves are essential to control the flow of liquids and gasses in chemical plants.'

 

'This is an example of a gate valve. It was used in the manufacture of sodium carbonate.'

 

'Donated by ICI Chemicals and Polymers Ltd'

The Gate of Dawn (Lithuanian: Aušros vartai), or Sharp Gate (Polish: Ostra Brama, Belarusian: Вострая Брама, Russian: Острая брама) is a city gate in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, and one of its most important religious, historical and cultural monuments. It is a major site of Catholic pilgrimage in Lithuania.

 

Part of UNESCO World Heritage site

Vilnius Historic Centre

garden gate series - England

Marked paths for ramblers in the UK

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, December 2020.

Some pictures from the nearby fields approaching sunset.

Taken on a Pentax M 100mm f4 macro.

A fire was burning in the background providing some lovely smoke for the low sun to shine through.

my stop-by trip, waiting for my connection flight in istanbul, turkey

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