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Given the passage of time, Norwich Thorpe station facade has survived surprisingly intact, evern if Railtrack/Network Rail and Greater Anglia only seem interested in putting yet more coffee shops & dire pubs. The buffet then is in what is now the M&S Simply Food store. Note the keep left sign, long gone along with the entrance. Fine selection of cars to admire.
A pleasant beach with shallow water and coral where you can swim. The beach is fringed by Casuarina trees. These trees can survive very dry climate and grow in sandy soils.
It is probably due to its spiky branches which look like the feathers of the cassowary that the name of 'casuarina' has been given to this tree.
Steiff Bear from the 1960, given to me by my Aunt when I was born.
Dress crotcheted / sewn by my mom.
13. Juli 2011
4x5" Camera, Schneider Symmar 150mm F/8, 1sec.
Tungsten lights
This Polacolor 59 sheet film expired in November 2000 (!)
There is still enough developer in the pods.
Film speed went down from 80 to 20 ISO.
Developpment time is now 3' instead of 1'
There is a lighter zone across the mid section of all photos
that was already there when I bought the film in 2002.
Film was stored in a cellar at constant temperature but not refrigerated.
Given the detrimental effects of insufficient nutrition on child well-being, learning ability, academic performance, and future productivity, promoting healthy diets and improved nutrition should be a high priority on school development agendas. To this end, FAO organized a regional workshop to present and discuss school food and nutrition approaches in Europe and Central Asia on 11–13 December in Minsk.
The event is part of an FAO project on strengthening food security and nutrition in selected countries of the Caucasus and Central Asia, funded by the Russian Federation.
Read more: www.fao.org/europe/news/detail-news/en/c/1255023/
Photo: FAO/Sergei Gapon
Given all that has transpired the last few weeks, I took a few hours for myself to ride the quarry trails. I didn't push it hard, but it is a challenge no matter how you do it. It was good to be back out there, even if it did tax these old muscles.
Zambian Minister Given Lubinda, FAO Deputy DG Maria Helena Semedo and Moses Vilakati - Photo@Hyacine KacouAmondji
Given the increase in demand for healthy diets and OFSP, the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) provided the International Potato Center (CIP) with a scaling grant to accelerate the use of OFSP puree in baked and fried products in Kenya, Malawi and Uganda. The project launch for Kenya was held on 31st May, 2019 at ILRI Campus in Nairobi.
Photo: N. Ronoh (CIP-SSA)
I decided to join blocks into groups of four to make it less intimidating, or try to at least! I have 25 20.5" blocks now and a few extra to add to the bottom.
that i haven't died,
and i have not given up my 365
on thursday i managed to fall down a kerb whilst getting in my car, i had my camera slung over my shoulder and as i hit the floor my camera smashed onto the floor, my lens has broken, and my dad is still looking at my camera, which at the moment seems okay, but, i REALLY hate taking photos with my original lens.
So,
Old picture new edit,
i rather like it :')
04/11/2017 Ladies European Tour 2017: Fatima Bint Mubarak Ladies Open, Saadiyat Beach Golf Club. November 1 -4 2017. Eleanor Givens of England during the final round. Credit: Tristan Jones.
Given the codename "HILLMAN" by the Allies, this site comprised 18 concrete bunkers buried to a depth of 4m and linked by a complex network of trenches. Surrounded by minefields and barbed wire, the site was defende by guns, machine guns and armoured gunposts. On June 6th, the 1st Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment was given the difficult mission of capturing Hillman.
Built between 1908 and 1910, this Prairie and Sullivanesque-style house was designed by George Grant Elmslie and Louis Sullivan for Josephine Crane Bradley, and her husband, Harold C. Bradley, a Biotechnology professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. The house is not only one the most significant of the many houses designed during Sullivan’s career, but is one of only a few houses designed under Sullivan of such a substantial size to be located in a suburban setting. It is the most notable large surviving residential commission of Sullivan’s career, given that the most comparable building, the Babson House in Riverside, Illinois (1907-1909), was demolished in 1960 to make way for a residential subdivision. The Bradley House is universally considered to have been very successful in connecting the exterior with the interior, with cantilevered sleeping porches at the ends of the gabled south wing on the second floor, wrapped by casement windows, making the house appear to be floating above the surrounding landscape, while bay windows on the first floor create cozy interior spaces surrounded on three sides by the outdoors. The house’s interior, however, is more controversial - it did not feature an interior layout or design befitting the Bradley family, instead, being far better suited to the needs of the fraternity that has occupied the house for the vast majority of its existence. In addition to being unsatisfactory to the client, the house was also designed at a time when Sullivan’s professional and personal lives were beginning to fall apart, making it difficult for him to get any commissions for work, or maintain interpersonal relationships. Sullivan was also descending into alcoholism, with this downward trend continuing for the rest of his life. Sullivan’s career in 1908 was a far cry from where it had been a decade and a half prior when he was one of several architects selected to design buildings for the 1893 Columbian Exposition (World’s Fair) in Chicago. Due to how turbulent Sullivan’s life was at the time, historical sources state matter-of-factly that most of the house’s design felt to George Elmslie, with Sullivan only giving occasional input. Others claim profusely that Sullivan was the main designer, and that Elmslie’s role was overstated. However, Elmslie did leave Sullivan’s firm before the house was completed, in 1909, to partner with William Gray Purcell and form the firm of Purcell and Elmslie. Elmslie’s new firm would go on to design another house for the Bradley family less than five years after this house was completed. Despite the context surrounding its creation and the controversial debate over who should receive credit for designing it, the house is a notable work of architecture and quite significant, and was done under Louis Sullivan’s leadership.
The house is T-shaped with two wings, the north wing being wider and featuring a double-gable roof, while the smaller south wing featuring a gabled roof. The first floor of the house and the base are clad in red brick, with several hipped roof sections that extend out past the footprint of the second floor, including one-story bay windows on the east and south facades. The house features art glass casement windows, a porch at the entrance on the north side of the building, and a porch on the first floor at the western end of the south wing, which is tucked underneath the second floor of the house. Above the brick base, the house is clad in wood board and batten siding oriented horizontally and wooden shingles, all of which is painted black. Decorative wooden panels with Sullivanesque ornament are present at the cantilevered east and west ends of the south wing, which form spandrels below the windows of the sleeping porches and long beams that terminate at vertical trim pieces, echoing the motifs found on Sullivan’s other work. The cantilevered ends of the south wing are supported by four brick piers, which contrast with the dark wooden cladding around them. The interior of the house features beautiful decorative woodwork, wooden floors, coffered ceilings with wooden beams, decorative bronze sconce and pendant light fixtures, a staircase screened by a row of wooden slats, decorative Sullivanesque wooden railings, built-in furniture, and brick fireplaces with mosaic tile inlay panels.
Shortly after moving into the house, the Bradleys found that it was too big and expensive to maintain, hiring the firm of Purcell and Elmslie to design a smaller house in nearby Shorewood Hills, Wisconsin, which was completed around 1915. They subsequently sold the larger house to the Sigma Phi Fraternity Chapter affiliated with the University of Wisconsin - Madison, who have owned the house ever since. The house suffered a devastating fire in 1972 that destroyed the roof and heavily damaged the second floor, but was rebuilt faithfully and carefully to its original design. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, and was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1976. It is also a contributing structure in the University Heights Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The house today continues to serve as a fraternity house, and has been wonderfully maintained and preserved under their generational stewardship.
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Thirty three metres at 11:38am on Wednesday 17th May 2023 off Wick Road on the Shorepine Bog Trail between Tofino and Ucluelet, British Columbia in Canada.
It is an 800 metre wooden boardwalked sensitive ecological area for plant and wildlife species including dwarfed yellow cedar, twisted southpine trees, skunk cabbage, salal, deer fern and false lily of the valley.
Nikon D850 Single-lens reflex digital camera F Mount with FX CMOS 35.9mm x 23.9mm Image sensor 46.89 Million total pixels Focal length: 150mm Shutter speed: 1/60s (Mechanical shutter) Aperture f/16.0 iso400 Image area Full Frame FX (36 x 24) NEF RAW L 45.4Million pixels (8256 x 5504) 14 Bit uncompressed Hand held withy Tamron VC control enabled AF-C Priority Selection: Release Nikon Back button focusing enabled 3D Tracking watch area: Normal 55 Tracking points Exposure mode: Manual mode Metering mode: Matrix metering White balance on: Auto1, A1.00, M0.25 (4940K) Colour space: Adobe RGB Picture control: (A) Auto (Sharpening A+1.00/Clarity A+1.00)
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Given the increase in demand for healthy diets and OFSP, the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) provided the International Potato Center (CIP) with a scaling grant to accelerate the use of OFSP puree in baked and fried products in Kenya, Malawi and Uganda. The project launch for Kenya was held on 31st May, 2019 at ILRI Campus in Nairobi.
Photo: N. Ronoh (CIP-SSA)
Visitors were given the opportunity to cross the plaza and place a flower in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier during the second Flowers of Remembrance Day at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., May 28, 2023.
This event pays homage to the first official Decoration Day, now known as Memorial Day, which originally took place at the cemetery in 1868 as a way to honor the sacrifices of those who fought and died in the Civil War.
(U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Ethan Scofield)
Given my lack of formal training, outside of a single class in high school, I decided it was time to take a look at my fundamentals. I'm working through what is probably the most definitive text when it comes to photography and light. This is my take on the classic dark field lighting shot, coupled with the beautiful colors of this German Apfelwein.
strobist:
black card taped to a white diffusion screen a few inches from the bottle
580exII out of a 46" softlighter II with diffusion sock 12 inches behind the scrim at 1/1 triggered by pw
Given the large variety (and quality) of hot oil bathed potato sticks flooding most plates, it's not surprising to find a couple vendors at the CFRA. What was interesting was the reduced presence of McCain. Instead, I found this company from that US that was showcasing an incredible selection of seasoned, coated, cut spuds. Not only was I surprised (what was that? over a 100 varieties??) by the various combinations the fried taters came in, but that the were actually very very good.
My vice are sweet potato fries. However I often find oily, burnt, soggy (the bain of my existence) orange sticks. These were perfectly golden crisp, well seasoned and beautiful. I was left wanting more. Please restaurant owners, source these (I think Sysco is distributing them. I forgot the vendor's name) and offer them on your plates.
BTW, anyone who says they don't like fries are lying.
2011 CRFA Show @ the Direct Energy Centre, Toronto.
Kachina Dolls are gifts given in hope of future abundance and health, as well as tools for education. The Kachina dolls of today’s art market are a bridge not only between the spiritual world and mortals but also between Hopis and non-Hopis.
Each year Kachinas come, they walk upon the earth and they dance to bring life and renewal. When the Kachinas return to the spirit world at the end of the planting, they return with prayers of the Hopi that we might all continue on this earth for another round in the circle of life.
There are more than 250 different Kachinas, each with its own separate attributes, representing everything from animals to abstract concepts. The Hopi were the original Kachina doll carvers, using a single piece of cottonwood root. The Navajo began carving in their own creative way, adding leather, feather, beads and turquoise. For over 2000 years the Indians of the southwest have danced beneath the heavens, praying to the great spirits, for rain and a bountiful harvest. These spirits are embodies by Kachinas. Kachinas represent the spirits of created beings like the soaring eagle and the cunning wolf. During religious ceremonies, the Indians dress in the elaborate costumes of Kachinas in a celebration of the harmony of creation.
Given the weather we decided to eat at out hotel, La Guia. This was Jackie's fish stew - baked apples for after. Dennis had a three course fixed choice menu, including a glass of Cava.
YORK, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 04: during the West Riding County FA Development West League match between i2i Albion and i2i County at Haxby Road on November 4th 2022 in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. (Photo by Matthew Appleby)
Quilted coat, apron, tunic and pants! In fabrics from Chloe's Imagination and Annabella collections.
Given our current weather, I thought that it would in context to explore the exquisite arrangements of clusters of minute water droplets (nominally <0.5 mm in diameter) resting on orchid flower petals. The petal surfaces are clearly hydrophobic in that they repel water, forcing the water droplets to take on spherical shapes with the smaller drops generally approaching spherical perfection. What’s more interesting to me is the fact that large clusters of touching droplets remained stable for considerable lengths of time, being “hydrophobic” to one another, with their individual surface tensions prevailing over their affinity to merge into larger drops. Indeed, they were more incline to evaporate rather than joining; their small sizes inhibiting coalescence.
Dear Snuffy has given us enough goodies for each and every girl in my family! No one will go without this Christmas lol! THank you again and AGAIN dear Jodie, your generosity will never be forgotten.
Again, this darling girl here is by another dear dolly friend Erica and was given to me as a swap for Marty. I just love her to bits both Autumn and Erica of course! And last but not least, dear Mimsy ( I am really very lucky) who loves my girls enough to trade with me too. Thank you so much my dear friends <33333
Donated clothes given to this young boy. He was frightened by my white skin, not something he is used to. Mpigi District Uganda
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This belle was given to Montreal in 1998 by the City of Hiroshima, every year since then on August 5 ther is a ceremony commemorating the bomb attack that destroyes a great part of the city and killed thousands of people. It was the beginnig of nuclear warfare...
Cette cloche a été donnée à Montréal en 1998 par la ville de Hiroshima. Depuis, à chaque année le 5 août s'y tient une cérémonie pour comémorer l'attaque nucléaire sur la ville qui la détruisit en grande partie et tua des milliers de gens. C'était le début de l'ère militaire nucléaire...