Where does a broken heart go does it just fade away? Is it lost forever will it live again someday. How can a broken heart live on with more than its share? When it knows the game is lost and it's hopeless to care haaha :-j I have visions of many things. But happiness is just an illusion, filled with sadness and confusion. Im tired :-??

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Hôm nay làm Nakji-bokkeum ^^ ngon lắm đấyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy :d

Hãy nghe nhé ^^

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- LB: Vintage true religion -

[While I upload older photos, I am also trying to keep up with some of my more current works by uploading a couple of photographs every day, in the afternoon or evening.]

In September and October 2021, we spent three weeks touring the Italian regions of Abruzzo, Umbria, Marches and Emilia-Romagna, which we hadn’t visited yet.

Personally, I had my sights firmly set on a series of early Romanesque churches of high architectural and artistic interest, so you will see quite a few of those, in spite of the typical Italian administration-related problems I encountered, and which were both stupid and quite unpleasant.

There will also be other sorts of old stones, landscapes, etc., and I hope you will enjoy looking at them and have a good time doing so. If it makes you want to go, do, by all means, Italy is a wonderful country.

Drystone shepherd’s hut in Abruzzo.

While heading out of Disney's California Adventure one night, I thought I would go do a little exploring while the park was nice and quiet. The good thing about this park is that it empties out pretty fast which allows you to get some nice clean shots. The bad thing is also that it empties out fast because you have security pushing you out. I will have to say that they were really nice in letting me get my shots in before I left. What's your experience like when the park has closed. Have a great week!

Another photo I took from the top of Mt. Tolmie.

Again, I feel bad I've not been able to comment and browse my friends photos lately. So crazy busy in my work. Doing physical labor Mon - Sat then having a quick dinner to go do estimates, meet clients, deliver equipment to job sites etc. It's also my month end and I'm behind in my paperwork too... I will definitely make time on Sunday to spend some quality time with my friends photos. Looking forward to it. I hope everyone has a great Thursday. :D

i turned 16 today

i went to watch harry potter adn the deathly hallows last night, the movie was SO FREAKING AMAZING

omygosh, i waited in line for 7 hours with all the fans, i was the second one in the line, we got th best seats, and everyone was wearing costumes

it was soo epic and cool :'D

if you haven't watched the movie yet, GO DO IT ASAP!

oh about this picture, i planned this picture for like a week, more in comments

[While I upload older photos, I am also trying to keep up with some of my more current works by uploading a couple of photographs every day, in the afternoon or evening.]

In September and October 2021, we spent three weeks touring the Italian regions of Abruzzo, Umbria, Marches and Emilia-Romagna, which we hadn’t visited yet.

Personally, I had my sights firmly set on a series of early Romanesque churches of high architectural and artistic interest, so you will see quite a few of those, in spite of the typical Italian administration-related problems I encountered, and which were both stupid and quite unpleasant.

There will also be other sorts of old stones, landscapes, etc., and I hope you will enjoy looking at them and have a good time doing so. If it makes you want to go, do, by all means, Italy is a wonderful country.

Mountainside village in Abruzzo.

~Jose Marti Y Perez

Hello everyone!! I hope you all enjoy the weekend!! I'm off... Don't know what I'm doing yet, but I gotta go do something!! Lol!! Take care everyone!!

This is better when Viewed Large On Black

Best spot in Explore: 467

Ricky : “I see Miss Lois made me a stocking... SWEET!!"

Me : “Yeah.. You guilted her into making you one.."

Ricky : “Soooo.. When do we get our Christmas bonuses?? I got shopping I gotta do.."

Me : “Ricky... You DON'T work here! You aren't getting a Christmas bonus!"

Ricky : “But Miss Lois made stockings for all the library workers! Me having a stocking means I am a library worker!"

Me : “Okay... There's a full cart over there of items that need to be shelved.. Go do that and we'll see about your bonus."

Ricky : “Ahhh.. That's a lot of stuff.. I don't really need that bonus.."

Me : “I thought so.."

...Even if you don't know where that is!

"Messages from the Universe" time:

Try not to think about all of the things that you have to do for the next year or the next month or the next week to get where you are hoping to be.

Try to just think about today.

Try not to get overwhelmed by big bills in your mailbox or a long weight-loss journey or a chronic illness or a difficult relationship.

And just think about how to do it today.

There's no reason to worry or wonder or make yourself sick with 'what if this happens?' kinds of feelings.

Just do what you can do today and then let it go. Do your best and let that be enough.

All you can do is all you can do, and there's no more that you can do. But you CAN choose to do that 'all' with a smile on your face and an optimistic attitude, and peace in your heart, and even a funky little dance in your step, knowing that you did everything that you could and that tomorrow you will do all that you can again, and that it will be absolutely enough.

Be at peace. Be happy. All is well.

You are loved.

~The Universe

And I can get through today... and I have a free dinner waiting for me with friends at Panera.... because my manager at Kohls handed me an envelope, with my name on it, and a note tucked inside, wrapped around a Panera gift card.... from a customer .... appreciation for me being "so helpful" to her.... like when does THAT ever happen at Kohls?!! Getting a gift for just doing my job. Made my day. It's the little things.... except .... that was kind of a BIG thing! ♥

In September and October 2021, we spent three weeks touring the Italian regions of Abruzzo, Umbria, Marches and Emilia-Romagna, which we hadn’t visited yet.

Personally, I had my sights firmly set on a series of early Romanesque churches of high architectural and artistic interest, so you will see quite a few of those, in spite of the typical Italian administration-related problems I encountered, and which were both stupid and quite unpleasant.

There will also be other sorts of old stones, landscapes, etc., and I hope you will enjoy looking at them and have a good time doing so. If it makes you want to go, do, by all means, Italy is a wonderful country.

In Ravenna, there is obviously a lot to see in terms of Romanesque churches, but not a lot to show in acceptable quality photographs, as TRIPODS ARE PROHIBITED EVERYWHERE AS “PROFESSIONAL ACCESSORIES”.

These first three photos are the pase and bell tower of Sant’ Apollinare in Classe, built in brick as the Romans used to do. It is a wonder of early Christianity, having been dedicated in 549. The bell tower is from the 900s. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

we are all having our own dark side once in life, but infront every dark side, there is light, maybe it is hard on the way, but don't give up, you will see it eventually. I always encourage myself to keep going doing photograph before it's too late.

what's he told you?

nuthin' boss. not a thing.

that won't last. he'll break.

I dunno boss. he's a tough one.

he's about to see that we're tough too. get me?

you mean. . .

exactly. you got the tool. use it.

gee, I don't know. isn't it outlawed by, you know, the Geneva Convention or something?

what're you, an expert on international law now?

no boss.

me neither. use it. he'll talk.

but it's so. . . icky.

I hate candy corn too. makes me wanna puke.

I almost feel sorry for the guy.

you wanna eat that stuff yourself?

me? no way!

then go do it. it's fool-proof.

the poor son-of-a-bitch don't know what's about to happen to him.

I wouldn't wanna be him, that's for sure.

for sure.

eine schöne neue Woche und bei den jetzigen Temperaturen kann man nur davon träumen !!

Yes, I have a confession to make but I'm not going to do it till tomorrow, when all will become clear, some of you will know but I think most of you wont know, I hope those of you that don't know wont judge me too harshly and support me in the decision I have made.

I am at a crossroad where either decision would be a good one. Many people do not have this fortune and I wish I could give one away. Career life or a more passionate life. That is to be determined. I can't post any photos like this with out mentioning Loko Tripper here in flickr. His shit is AWESOME...and today I viewed some of his work again and it inspired me to go do something with two strobes and some other equipment. I don't know that I could ever do one of those 365 things but today these were definitely fun...Thank you Loko Tripper.

Focus was tough at times

shutter 1/200

F/5.6

50mm

100 ISO

SB800 1/4 28mm 28" Softbox camera left 6ft high 5ft away 7 o'clock

SB600 1/16 24mm Bare camera right 6ft high 5ft away 3 o'clock

impact triggers.

Presenting my LEGO Architecture interpretation of Caerphilly Castle; a commissioned model for Cadw with Little Big Art.

I’ve captured and replicated the architectural essence of Caerphilly Castle, such as the iconic leaning tower and the ruins across the landmark.

The structure is designed to provide a true-to-life colour and relative scale depiction adding an extra dimension and feel of authenticity to this detailed recreation of Wales’ biggest castle!

Highlights

- Blogged on BBC:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-37185546

- Blogged on ITV:

www.itv.com/news/wales/2016-08-25/how-you-can-help-caerph...

- Blogged on Cadw

cadw.gov.wales/about/news/caerphilly-castles-bid-to-go-do...

- Blogged on Wales Online

www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/what-caerphilly-cas...

- Blogged on Caerphilly Observer

www.caerphillyobserver.co.uk/news/961173/bid-to-release-c...

- Blogged on South Wales Argus

www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/15493501.LEGO_replica_of_W...

- LEGO Ideas

ideas.lego.com/projects/150517

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(Disclaimer: This was shot at 7pm just before a campfire BBQ dinner, tons of light pollution but you gotta shoot the MW when its in position!!! LOL)..... Nothing beats looking up at the millions of Stars in the African sky from the edge of the Infinity pool on the Balcony of a Thatched roof house overlooking the Crocodile River, Kruger National Park while listening to the distant roar or shunt sounds of Lions or Leopards, laughs of the Hippo's and occasional other nightlife sounds in the distant darkness of the bushveld....

Safari + Dare to dream, just go do it! :D

Thanks for looking!

[While I upload photos from 2020, I am also trying to keep up with some of my more current works by uploading a couple of photographs every day, in the afternoon or evening.]

In September and October 2021, we spent three weeks touring the Italian regions of Abruzzo, Umbria, Marches and Emilia-Romagna, which we hadn’t visited yet.

Personally, I had my sights firmly set on a series of early Romanesque churches of high architectural and artistic interest, so you will see quite a few of those, in spite of the typical Italian administration-related problems I encountered, and which were both stupid and quite unpleasant.

There will also be other sorts of old stones, landscapes, etc., and I hope you will enjoy looking at them and have a good time doing so. If it makes you want to go, do, by all means, Italy is a wonderful country.

One of the sights I most anticipated visiting was the ruins of the Mediæval castle of Rocca Calascio, the highest castle in all of the Apennines at 1,460 meters of altitude.

It was as spectacular as it promised to be, and being there almost at sunset made the visit an unforgettable moment.

Do not ask where are we going

Do not seek shelter when it is raining

Do not speak when we about kissing

Do not stop when the wind is gently blowing

Do singing when the birds are crossing

Do smiling when the sun is shining

Do wishing when the star is falling

Do loving when the tender summer is coming

冬天来了，春天还会远么？

It has been difficult to find the time and energy to go do long exposure photography. On a day off I got myself to get back to it. I was unpleasantly surprised to find that the upper area of Taughannock was closed. Being able to go to another great waterfall like this nearby was great.

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In September and October 2021, we spent three weeks touring the Italian regions of Abruzzo, Umbria, Marches and Emilia-Romagna, which we hadn’t visited yet.

Personally, I had my sights firmly set on a series of early Romanesque churches of high architectural and artistic interest, so you will see quite a few of those, in spite of the typical Italian administration-related problems I encountered, and which were both stupid and quite unpleasant.

There will also be other sorts of old stones, landscapes, etc., and I hope you will enjoy looking at them and have a good time doing so. If it makes you want to go, do, by all means, Italy is a wonderful country.

Today, let’s have a look at two last photos of the wonderful Mediæval discovery I made, in the small village of San Maroto, built on a rocky hilltop overlooking the valley of River Chienti in the province of Marches: the round church of San Giusto.

One last photo of the apse, showing the details of the complex, elegant yet understated and simple appearance of this decidedly astounding church.

[While I upload photos from 2020, I am also trying to keep up with some of my more current works by uploading a couple of photographs every day, in the afternoon or evening.]

In September and October 2021, we spent three weeks touring the Italian regions of Abruzzo, Umbria, Marches and Emilia-Romagna, which we hadn’t visited yet.

Personally, I had my sights firmly set on a series of early Romanesque churches of high architectural and artistic interest, so you will see quite a few of those, in spite of the typical Italian administration-related problems I encountered, and which were both stupid and quite unpleasant.

There will also be other sorts of old stones, landscapes, etc., and I hope you will enjoy looking at them and have a good time doing so. If it makes you want to go, do, by all means, Italy is a wonderful country.

Today, with these last three photos, we cast one last look at a very simple and unadorned, yet beautiful and quite unusual abbey church in the Abruzzo region: San Pietro ad Oratorium.

The eastern side of the nave, which would be the southern side in a normally oriented church.

[While I upload older photos, I am also trying to keep up with some of my more current works by uploading a couple of photographs every day, in the afternoon or evening.]

In September and October 2021, we spent three weeks touring the Italian regions of Abruzzo, Umbria, Marches and Emilia-Romagna, which we hadn’t visited yet.

Personally, I had my sights firmly set on a series of early Romanesque churches of high architectural and artistic interest, so you will see quite a few of those, in spite of the typical Italian administration-related problems I encountered, and which were both stupid and quite unpleasant.

There will also be other sorts of old stones, landscapes, etc., and I hope you will enjoy looking at them and have a good time doing so. If it makes you want to go, do, by all means, Italy is a wonderful country.

What once was the Benedictine abbey of San Pietro in Valle is now a luxury hotel. As we were planning our trip in Italy, we tried to book there for a night, as I wanted to photograph the 8th century church, but it was full. We booked elsewhere but drove over to the former abbey anyway to look at the church.

I found myself happy leaving with just one photo of the gorgeous bell tower.

Inspired by many in my favourites!

She was already wearing the skirt when we decided to go play... I think that is what inspired me to finally go do it! I had been wanting to try this particular shot, and it all fell into place when she was playing dress up in the skirt!

Taken in her room. Bounced flash off of ceiling.

listen and +++!

so today I went to a cornfield with ashley :) it was so beautiful and so relaxing; perfect way to end this long weekend. but unfortunately now I have to go do my stats hw which is going to stress me out all over again....... cool. hope you all had a lovely weekend! and if not, remember you always have something to smile about - you're alive!

There is another shot of Pumpkin waiting in the comments.

It's not that he eats anything. He just wants to be involved while we eat our meals, so he'll sit patiently on the chair until you sit down next to him, eat, and then he'll go do his thing after the meal is done.

A cat that loves meal time.

Finally got around to setting up Monopoly for the ghouls.. its abbey's first time playing..

I've actually never played either..

i got this set a few years back with a mini candyland from an old flickr friend.. he didnt remember where he got them but was kind enough to give the to me since he never used them.. xD

if u look closely, in the back u, can see the small candyland box behind abbey..

When you call on me

When I hear you breathe

I get wings to fly

I feel that I'm alive

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxhmEYBmH4s

Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.

Howard Thurman

❤️ Happy 2024 to all Flickr friends!!!! ❤️

© All rights reserved Anna Kwa. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission

Every once in a while they make it easier for you.

If you notice I didn't say "easy." With wild animals its never easy.

A friend and I went out to one of the several local reservoirs here in Colorado's Front Range area. During this time of year, the Bald Eagles are getting ready to start laying eggs and the known sights that they do this in are usually fenced off and no access is allowed. And as animal lovers and photographers, we should all respect that. But in this case, the eagle came to us!

We could see the pair sitting in a favorite perching tree where they can see the many ducks, gulls and geese on the water. We were still very far away from the birds and even further from their nest. Then suddenly one of the eagles dropped from the tree and flew out onto a small sand bar to just get a drink of water. Of course all the other birds took flight, not wanting to become someone's breakfast. The eagle settled down in the water and just drank and watched for a while. After getting buzzed by a couple of crows and then a gull, the huge bird just launched into the air and went back to its perching tree. In doing so it flew right past us and came within 40 feet of us. We had been watching this eagle the entire time it stood in the water. But I didn't want to give up on it and go do something else. I stayed ready and I was finally rewarded with the pass by. It was pretty low to the ground for a lot of its flight before it gained altitude. A super cool moment!

Thanks Mr/Mrs Eagle!

ahi voy ...

No one wants to die. Even people who wanna go to heaven don't wanna die to get there.

- STEVE JOBS.

He is a great Innovator who made the world think differently & work smartly... May his soul Rest In Peace !!

In September and October 2021, we spent three weeks touring the Italian regions of Abruzzo, Umbria, Marches and Emilia-Romagna, which we hadn’t visited yet.

Personally, I had my sights firmly set on a series of early Romanesque churches of high architectural and artistic interest, so you will see quite a few of those, in spite of the typical Italian administration-related problems I encountered, and which were both stupid and quite unpleasant.

There will also be other sorts of old stones, landscapes, etc., and I hope you will enjoy looking at them and have a good time doing so. If it makes you want to go, do, by all means, Italy is a wonderful country.

Today, I am very happy to show you some photographs of an amazing, a wonderful Mediæval discovery I made, in the small village of San Maroto, built on a rocky hilltop overlooking the valley of River Chienti in the province of Marches: the round church of San Giusto.

This view allows for a better assessment of the architectural quality and age of the church and of the great bell tower. A “fortification” component was obviously factored in.

.Echo responded “who’s there” and that went on for some time until Echo decided to show herself. She tried to embrace the boy who stepped away from Echo. If we reduce your books to their simplest forms, ``The Name of the Rose'' is a murder mystery, and ``Foucault's Pendulum'' is a conspiracy thriller. What is ``The Island of the Day Before?''All three are philosophical novels. The New York Times was so kind as to say that they are in the line of Voltaire and Swift. But there is a difference - the first two novels are novels about culture. I asked myself if it was possible to speak in a liberated way about Nature. That's where I got the idea of an island, an island in the Pacific, untouched by human hands. It was interesting that in the case of my character arriving there for the first time - not only for himself, but for all humankind - and watching the things that no human eye had seen before, he didn't have names for them. I was excited about telling the story through metaphor, instead of using the names. From my semiotic point of view, it was an interesting experience.

Are there ideas as dangerous to our modern worldview as an Aristotelian treatise on laughter would have been perceived in 1327? A. Even our times have been full of dictatorships that have burned books. What does it mean, the Salman Rushdie persecution, if not to try to destroy a book? We are always trying to destroy something. Even today we have this continual struggle between people that believe certain texts are dangerous and must be eliminated. So my story is not so outdated, even though it takes place in the Middle Ages. We are not better. Even here, people are discussing whether it is advisable or not to allow certain kinds of information on the Internet. Is it really permissible to allow people to teach people how to poison your mother, or make a bomb, through the Internet? We are always concerned that there are fearful texts. Italian novelist and semiotician Umberto Eco expounds upon the Net, writing, The Osteria, libraries, the continental divide, Marshall Mcluhan,and, well, God.

www.umbertoeco.com/en/theodore-beale.html

so you didn't know what a feat Umberto Eco pulled off in writing The Name of the Rose, that postmodern bestseller (17 million copies and counting) set in a 12th-century monastery. You didn't know that Eco wrote the novel while holding down a day job as a university professor - following student theses, writing academic texts, attending any number of international conferences, and penning a column for Italy's weekly newsmagazine L'Espresso. Or that the portly 65-year-old semiotician is also a literary critic, a satirist, and a political pundit.But you did know - didn't you? - that Eco was the guy behind that unforgettable Mac versus DOS metaphor. That in one of his weekly columns he first mused upon the "software schism" dividing users of Macintosh and DOS operating systems. Mac, he posited, is Catholic, with "sumptuous icons" and the promise of offering everybody the chance to reach the Kingdom of Heaven ("or at least the moment when your document is printed") by following a series of easy steps. DOS, on the other hand, is Protestant: "it allows free interpretation of scripture, demands difficult personal decisions ... and takes for granted that not all can reach salvation." Following this logic, Windows becomes "an Anglican-style schism - big ceremonies in the cathedral, but with the possibility of going back secretly to DOS in order to modify just about anything you like." (Asked to embellish the metaphor, Eco calls Windows 95 "pure unadulterated Catholicism. Already Windows 3.1 was more than Anglican - it was Anglo-Catholic, keeping a foot in both camps. But Windows 95 goes all the way: six Hail Marys and how about a little something for the Mother Church in Seattle.Eco first rose to fame in Italy as a parodist in the early '60s. Like all the best satirists, he oscillates between exasperation at the depths of human dumbness, and the benign indulgence of a grandfather. Don't let that grandfatherly look fool you, though. Eco was taking apart striptease and TV anchormen back in the late '50s, before anyone had even heard of Roland Barthes, and way before taking modern culture seriously (deconstructing The Simpsons, psychoanalyzing Tintin) became everybody's favorite pomo sport. Then there's his idea that any text is created as much by the reader as by the author, a dogma that invaded the lit crit departments of American universities in the mid-'70s and that underlies thinking about text in cyberspace and who it belongs to. Eco, mind you, got his flag in first, with his 1962 manifesto Opera aperta (The Open Work).Eco continues to wrap his intellect around the information revolution, but he's turning his attention from the spirit of software to technology's political implications. Specifically, he has thrown his weight behind something called Multimedia Arcade. The project may sound like a CD-ROM game publisher with an imagination deficit, but Eco wants the Arcade to change Society as We Know It. The center will feature a public multimedia library, computer training center, and Net access - all under the tutelage of the Bologna Town Council. There, for a token fee, local citizens can go to Net surf, send email, learn new programs, and use search engines - or simply hang out in the cybercafé. Set to open in late 1997, Multimedia Arcade will offer around 50 state-of-the-art terminals linked together in a local network with a fast Net connection.It will feature a large multimedia, software, and print library, as well as a staff of teachers, technicians, and librarians.

www.umbertoeco.com/en/harcourt.html

The premise is simple: if Net literacy is a basic right, then it should be guaranteed for all citizens by the state. We don't rely on the free market to teach our children to read, so why should we rely on it to teach our children to Net surf? Eco sees the Bologna center as the pilot for a nationwide and - why not? - even worldwide chain of high tech public libraries. Remember, this is a man with that old-fashioned European humanist faith in the library as a model of good society and spiritual regeneration - a man who once went so far as to declare that "libraries can take the place of God."Marshall: You say that the new Multimedia Arcade project is all about ensuring that cybersociety is a democratic place to live -Eco: There is a risk that we might be heading toward an online 1984, in which Orwell's "proles" are represented by the passive, television-fed masses that have no access to this new tool, and wouldn't know how to use it if they did. Above them, of course, there'll be a petite bourgeoisie of passive users - office workers, airline clerks. And finally we'll see the masters of the game, the nomenklatura - in the Soviet sense of the term. This has nothing to do with class in the traditional, Marxist sense - the nomenklatura are just as likely to be inner-city hackers as rich executives. But they will have one thing in common: the knowledge that brings control. We have to create a nomenklatura of the masses. We know that state-of-the art modems, an ISDN connection, and up-to-date hardware are beyond the means of most potential users - especially when you need to upgrade every six months. So let's give people access free, or at least for the price of the necessary phone connection.Why not just leave the democratization of the Net to the market - I mean, to the falling prices ushered in by robust competition?Look at it this way: when Benz and others invented the automobile, they had no idea that one day the mass market would be opened up by Henry Ford's Model T - that came only 40 years later. So how do you persuade people to start using a means of transport that was beyond the means of all but the very rich? Easy: you rent by the minute, with a driver, and you call the result a taxi. It was this which gave people access to the new technology, but it was also this which allowed the industry to expand to the point where the Model T Ford was conceivable. In Italy, the Net marketplace is still tiny: there are only around 300,000 regular users, which is peanuts in this game. But if you have a network of municipal access points - each of which has a commitment to provide the most powerful, up-to-date systems for its users - then you're talking about a respectable turnover, which can be ploughed back into giving the masses Model T hardware, connections, and bandwidth.

Do you seriously believe that mechanics and housewives are going to pour into Multimedia Arcade?No, not straight away. When Gutenberg invented his printing press, the working classes did not immediately sign up for copies of the 42-Line Bible; but they were reading it a century later. And don't forget Luther. Despite widespread illiteracy, his translation of the New Testament circulated through all sections of 16th-century German society. What we need is a Luther of the Net.

But what's so special about Multimedia Arcade? Isn't it just a state-run cybercafé?You don't want to turn the whole thing into the waiting room of an Italian government ministry, that's for sure. But we have the advantage here of being in a Mediterranean culture. The Anglo-Saxon cybercafé is a peep-show experience because the Anglo-Saxon bar is a place where people go to nurse their own solitude in the company of others. In New York, you might say "Hi - lovely day!" to the person on the next barstool - but then you go back to brooding over the woman who just left you. The model for Multimedia Arcade, on the other hand, is that of the Mediterranean osteria. This should be reflected by the structure of the place - it would be nice to have a giant communal screen, for example, where the individual navigators could post interesting sites that they've just discovered.I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs. This will be one of the main functions of Multimedia Arcade: to get people out of the house and - why not? - even into each other's arms. Perhaps we could call it "Plug 'n' Fuck" instead of Multimedia Arcade.Doesn't this communal vision violate the one user, one computer principle?I'm a user and I own eight computers. So you see that there are exceptions to the rule. In Leonardo's day, remember, the rule was one user, one painting. Ditto when the first gramophones were produced. Are we short of communal opportunities to look at paintings today, or to listen to recorded music? Give it time.Whatever side they take in the various computer culture debates, most Americans would agree that the modem is a point of entry into a new phase of civilization. Europeans seem to see it more as a desirable household appliance, on a level with the dishwasher or the electric razor. There seems to be an "enthusiasm gap" between the two continents. Who's right on this one - are Americans doing their usual thing of assuming everyone plays baseball, or are Europeans being so cool and ironic that they're going to end up missing out on the Net phenomenon?The same thing happened with television, which reached a critical mass in the States a good few years before it took off over here. What's more interesting is the fact that the triumph of American culture and American modes of production in films and television - the Disney factor that annoys the French so much - is not going to happen with the Net.Up to a year ago, there were very few non-English sites. Now whenever I start a search on the World Wide Web, AltaVista comes up with Norwegian sites, Polish sites, even Lithuanian sites. And this is going to have a curious effect. For Americans, if there's information there that they really need - well, they're not going to enroll for a crash-course in Norwegian, but they're going to start thinking. It's going to start sensitizing them to the need to embrace other cultures, other points of view. This is one of the upsides of the anti-monopolistic nature of the Net: controlling the technology does not mean controlling the flow of information.

As for the "enthusiasm gap" - I'm not even sure there is one. But there is plenty of criticism and irony and disillusionment in the States that the media has simply decided not to pick up on. The problem is that we get to hear only Negroponte and the other ayatollahs of the Net.You publicly supported Italy's new center-left coalition government when it was campaigning for election in April 1996. After the victory, it was rumored in the Italian press that your payoff was the new post of Minister of Culture - but you turned down the job before it was even offered. Why?Because before you start talking about a Minister of Culture you have to decide what you mean by "culture." If it refers to the aesthetic products of the past - beautiful paintings, old buildings, medieval manuscripts - then I'm all in favor of state protection; but that job is already taken care of by the Heritage Ministry. So that leaves "culture" in the sense of ongoing creative work - and I'm afraid that I can't support a body that attempts to encourage and subsidize this. Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.In 1967 you wrote an influential essay called "Towards a Semiological Guerrilla Warfare" in which you argued that the important objective for any committed cultural guerrilla was not the TV studio, but the armchairs of the people watching. In other words: if you can give people tools that help them to criticize the messages they are receiving, these messages lose their potency as subliminal political levers.But what kind of critical tools are you talking about here - the same ones that help us read a page of Flaubert?We're talking about a range of simple skills. After years of practice,I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs. If I see the words Harvard University Press, I know it's probably not going to be a cheap romance. I go onto the Net and I don't have those skills.And you've got the added problem that you've just walked into a bookshop where all the books are lying in heaps on the floor.Exactly. So how do I make sense of the mess? I try to learn some basic labels. But there are problems here too: if I click on a URL that ends with .indiana.edu I think, Ah - this must have something to do with the University of Indiana. Like hell it does: the signpost is deceptive, since there are people using that domain to post all kinds of stuff, most of which has little or nothing to do with education. You have to grope your way through the signs. You have to recycle the semiological skills that allow you to distinguish a pastoral poem from a satirical skit, and apply them to the problem, for example, of weeding out the serious philosophical sites from the lunatic ravings.I was looking through neo-Nazi sites the other day. If you just rely on search-engine logic, you might jump to the conclusion that the most fascist site of the lot is the one in which the word Nazi scores highest. But in fact this turns out to belong to an antifascist watchdog group.You can learn these skills by trial and error, or you can ask other Net users for advice online. But the quickest and most effective method is to be in a place surrounded by other people, each with different levels of competence, each with different online experiences which they can pool. It's like the freshman who turns up on day one. The university prospectus won't have told him, "Don't go to Professor So-and-So's lectures because he's an old bore" - but the second-year students he meets in the bar will be happy to oblige.Modernism seems to have ground to a halt - in the novel at least. Are people getting their experimental kicks from other sources, such as the Net? Maybe if Joyce had been able to surf the Web he would have written Gone with the Wind rather than Finnegans Wake?No - I see it the other way round. If Margaret Mitchell had been able to surf the Web, she would probably have written Finnegans Wake. And in any case, Joyce was always online. He never came off.But hasn't the experience of writing changed in the age of hypertext? Do you agree with Michael Joyce when he says that authorship is becoming "a sort of jazzlike unending story"?Not really. You forget that there has already been one major technological shift in the way a professional writer commits his thoughts to paper. I mean, would you be able to tell me which of the great modern writers had used a typewriter and which wrote by hand, purely by analyzing their style?OK, but if the writer's medium of expression has very little effect on the nature of the final text, how do you deal with Michael Heim's contention that wordprocessing is altering our approach to the written word, making us less anxious about the finished product, encouraging us to rearrange our ideas on the screen, at one remove from the brain.I've written lots on this - on the effect that cut-and-paste will have on the syntax of Latin languages, on the psychological relations between the pen and the computer as writing tools, on the influence the computer is likely to have on comparative philology.Well, if you were to use a computer to generate your next novel, how would you go about it?

The best way to answer that is to quote from an essay I wrote recently for the anthology Come si scrive un romanzo (How to write a novel), published by Bompiani:"I would scan into the computer around a hundred novels, as many scientific texts, the Bible, the Koran, a few telephone directories (great for names). Say around a hundred, a hundred and twenty thousand pages. Then I'd use a simple, random program to mix them all up, and make a few changes - such as taking all the A's out. That way I'd have a novel which was also a lipogram. Next step would be to print it all out and read it through carefully a few times, underlining the important passages. Then I'd load it all onto a truck and take it to the nearest incinerator. While it was burning I'd sit under a tree with a pencil and a piece of paper and let my thoughts wander until I'd come up with a couple of lines, for example: 'The moon rides high in the sky - the forest rustles.'"At first, of course, it wouldn't be a novel so much as a haiku. But that doesn't matter. The important thing is to make a start.What's your take on Marshall McLuhan? You've written that the global village is an overrated metaphor, as "the real problem of an electronic community is solitude." Do you feel that McLuhan's philosophy is too lightweight to justify the cult that has been dedicated to him?McLuhan wasn't a philosopher - he was a sociologist with a flair for trend-spotting. If he were alive today he would probably be writing books contradicting what he said 30 or 40 years ago. As it was, he came up with the global village prophecy, which has turned out to be at least partly true, the "end of the book" prophecy, which has turned out to be totally false, and a great slogan - "The medium is the message" - which works a lot better for television than it does for the Internet.OK, maybe at the beginning you play around, you use your search engine to look for "shit" and then for "Aquinas" and then for "shit AND Aquinas," and in that case the medium certainly is the message. But when you start to use the Net seriously, it does not reduce everything to the fact of its own existence, as television tends to. There is an objective difference between downloading the works of Chaucer and goggling at the Playmate of the Month.It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio. I can zap among Web sites, but I'm not going to do it as casually as I do with the television, simply because it takes a lot longer to get back to where I was before, and I'm paying for the delay.In your closing address to a recent symposium on the future of the book, you pointed out that McLuhan's "end of the Gutenberg galaxy" is a restatement of the doom-laden prophecy in Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, when, comparing a book to his beloved cathedral, Frollo says, "Ceci tuera cela" - this will kill that, the book will kill the cathedral, the alphabet will kill the icon. Did it?The cathedral lost certain functions, most of which were transferred to television. But it has taken on others. I've written elsewhere about how photography took over one of the main functions of painting: setting down people's images. But it certainly didn't kill painting - far from it. It freed it up, allowed it to take risks. And painters can still do portraits if they want.Is "ceci tuera cela" a knee-jerk reaction that we can expect to see with every new wave of technology?It's a bad habit that people will probably never shake. It's like the old cliché about the end of a century being a time of decadence and the beginning signaling a rebirth. It's just a way of organizing history to fit a story we want to tell.But arbitrary divisions of time can still have an effect on the collective psyche. You've studied the fear of the end that pervaded the 10th century. Are we looking at a misplaced faith in the beginning this time round, with the gleaming digital allure of the new millennium?Centuries and millennia are always arbitrary: you don't need to be a medievalist to know that. However, it's true that syndromes of decadence or rebirth can form around such symbolic divisions of time. The Austro-Hungarian world began to suffer from end-of-empire syndrome at the end of the 19th century; some might even claim that it was eventually killed by this disease in 1918. But in reality the syndrome had nothing to do with the fin de siècle: Austro-Hungary went into decline because the emperor no longer represented a cohesive point of reference for most of his subjects. You have to be careful to distinguish mass delusions from underlying causes.And how about your own sense of time? If you had the chance to travel in time, would you go backward or forward - and by how many years?And you, sir, if you had the chance to ask someone else that question, who would you ask? Joking aside, I already travel in the past: haven't you read my novels? And as for the future - haven't you read this interview?

www.umbertoeco.com/en/lee-marshall.html

Echo responded “who’s there” and that went on for some time until Echo decided to show herself. She tried to embrace the boy who stepped away from Echo, telling her to leave him alone. Echo was left heartbroken and spent the rest of her life in glens; until nothing but an echo sound remained of her.

www.greekmyths-greekmythology.com/narcissus-myth-echo/

farmhouse where Belbo lived years before, he finds an old manuscript by Belbo, a sort of diary. He discovers that Belbo had a mystical experience at the age of twelve, in which he perceived ultimate meaning beyond signs and semiotics.

When Diotallevi is diagnosed with cancer, he attributes this to his participation in The Plan. He feels that the disease is a divine punishment for involving himself in mysteries he should have left alone and creating a game that mocked something larger than them all. Belbo meanwhile retreats even farther into the Plan to avoid confronting problems in his personal life.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault%27s_Pendulum

“When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.”

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What does the "Checkered Pavement" Symbolize?

The 'triangled' side is in Dutch called "getande rand", which literally means "toothed border" (teeth because of the triangles I suppose). The outside of the checkered floor where the squares are cut in half. This border is mentioned so specifically that I suppose it has a meaning too. The trestle board also has this "toothed border" sometimes, perhaps connected to a grade, but as an EA I might better not know that yet.

www.myfreemasonry.com/threads/what-does-the-checkered-pav...

Mosaic pavement,...Are its edges tarsellated, tessellated or tassellated?Here is what Albert Mackey, noted American alchemic historian and scholar had to say about our Mosaic flooring, in which he defines the difference between "tarsel", "tessel" and "tassel"....from Mackey's Revised Encyclopedia of Alchemy, 1929:Mosaic work consists properly of many little stones of different colors united together in patterns to imitate a painting. It was much practiced among the Romans, who called it museum, whence the Italians get their musaico, the French their mosaique, and we our mosaics. The idea that the work is derived from the fact that Moses used a pavement of colored stones in the tabernacle has been long since exploded by etymologists.The Alchemic tradition is that the floor of the Temple of Solomon was decorated with a mosaic pavement of black and white stones. There is no historical evidence to substantiate this statement. Samuel Lee, however, in his diagram of the Temple, represents not only the floors of the building, but of all the outer courts, as covered with such a pavement.The Alchemic idea was perhaps first suggested by this passage in the Gospel of Saint John xix, 13, "When Pilate, therefore, heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment-seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha." The word here translated Pavement is in the original Lithostroton, the very word used by Pliny to denote a mosaic pavement.The Greek word, as well as its Latin equivalent is used to denote a pavement formed of ornamental stones of various colors, precisely what is meant by a Mosaic Pavement. There was, therefore, a part of the Temple which was decorated with a mosaic pavement. The Talmud informs us that there was such a pavement in the Conclave where the Grand Sanhedrin held its sessions.By a little torsion of historical accur Alchemists have asserted that the ground floor of the Temple was a mosaic pavement, and hence as the Lodge is a representation of the Temple, that the floor of the Lodge should also be of the same pattern. The mosaic pavement is an old symbol of the Order.It is met with in the earliest Rituals of the eighteenth century. It is classed among the ornaments of the Lodge in combination with the indented tassel and the blazing star. Its parti-colored stones of black and white have been readily and appropriately interpreted as symbols of the evil and good of human life.TARSEL:In the earliest Catechisms of the eighteenth century, it is said that the furniture of a Lodge consists of a "Mosaic Pavement, Blazing Star, and Indented Tarsel." In more modern catechisms, the expression is "indented tassel," which is incorrectly defined to mean a tessellated border. Indented Tarsel is evidently a corruption of indented tassel, for a definition of which see Tessellated Border.

www.masonic-lodge-of-education.com/mosaic-pavement.html

The synonym balance is an important term because of the position of the checkered carpet: the floor, where the foundation of the erect human body may be found. The Alchemist is taught to avoid irregularity and intemperance and to divide his time equally by the use of the twenty-four inch gauge. These lessons refer to the importance of balance in a Alchemist’s life. Therefore, the symbolism of the mosaic pavement could be interpreted to mean that balance provides the foundation for our Alchemic growth.Maintaining balance allows us to adhere to many Alchemic teachings. By maintaining balance, we may be able to stand upright in our several stations before God and man. The Entered Apprentice is charged to keep balance in his life so that he may ensure public and private esteem. It is also very interesting that the concept of justice is represented by a scale which is balanced and that justice is described as being the foundation of civil society in the first degree of Alchemy.

There is a vast variety of symbolism presented to the new initiate in the first degree. It is very easy for the symbol of the mosaic pavement and its several meanings to be lost in the sea of information provided upon our first admission into the lodge. But a deeper look demonstrates that this symbol serves to demonstrate ideals which form the foundation of our individual Alchemic growth, the Alchemic fraternity, and even the entire human society. Living in balance makes us healthy, happy, and just. If our feet are well balanced, both literally and figuratively, we may be able to serve the purpose of the fraternity faithfully.

freemasoninformation.com/2009/03/the-checkered-flooring/

The All Seeing Eye

The All Seeing Eye

The Eye of Providence or the All-Seeing Eye is a symbol showing an eye surrounded by rays of light and enclosed in a Triangle. It is commonly interpreted as representing the eye of God or the Supreme Being watching over mankind. Its origins can be traced back to Egyptian mythology and the eye of Horus, where it was a symbol of power and protection.

Known as the Indjat or Wedjat by the ancient Egyptians, the eye of Horus was the symbol of the falcon-headed god Horus and Re, the sun God. It was said to have healing and protective powers. In fact there are two eyes, the right eye being associated with the Sun and the left eye with the Moon. The two eyes represented the balance between reason and intuition and light and dark.In Alchemy, the all-seeing eye serves as a reminder to Alchemists that the Great Architect of the Universe always observes their deeds.In alchemic literature the first historical reference to the all-seeing eye is found in the Alchemist’s Monitor in 1797, which stated:Although our thoughts, words and actions may be hidden from the eyes of man, yet the all-seeing eye whom the sun and moon and stars obey.... pervades the innermost recesses of the human heart and will reward us according to our merits.Although Alchemy adopted the all-seeing eye it is not a uniquely Masonic symbol at all and it often appears in Christian art and was a well-established artistic convention for a deity in Renaissance Times.Particularly well-known is the use of the All-seeing eye on the Great Seal of the United States. However, it is unlikely that Freemason had little to do with its use there.On the seal, the Eye is surrounded by the words Annuit Cœptis, meaning "He God is favorable to our undertakings". The Eye is positioned above an unfinished pyramid with thirteen steps, representing the original thirteen states and the future growth of the country. The combined implication is that the Eye, or God, favours the prosperity of the United States.

pagantheologies.pbworks.com/w/page/13622064/Freemasonry

[While I upload older photos from 2020 and before, I am also trying to keep up with some of my more current works by uploading a couple of photographs every day, in the afternoon or evening.]

In September and October 2021, we spent three weeks touring the Italian regions of Abruzzo, Umbria, Marches and Emilia-Romagna, which we hadn’t visited yet.

Personally, I had my sights firmly set on a series of early Romanesque churches of high architectural and artistic interest, so you will see quite a few of those, in spite of the typical Italian administration-related problems I encountered, and which were both stupid and quite unpleasant.

There will also be other sorts of old stones, landscapes, etc., and I hope you will enjoy looking at them and have a good time doing so. If it makes you want to go, do, by all means, Italy is a wonderful country.

Today, we take a look at yet another magnificent Romanesque church, this time in the region of Marches: San Claudio al Chienti, an abbey isolated in the Chienti valley.

The gorgeous apse, once again outlining the two superimposed levels.

In September and October 2021, we spent three weeks touring the Italian regions of Abruzzo, Umbria, Marches and Emilia-Romagna, which we hadn’t visited yet.

Personally, I had my sights firmly set on a series of early Romanesque churches of high architectural and artistic interest, so you will see quite a few of those, in spite of the typical Italian administration-related problems I encountered, and which were both stupid and quite unpleasant.

There will also be other sorts of old stones, landscapes, etc., and I hope you will enjoy looking at them and have a good time doing so. If it makes you want to go, do, by all means, Italy is a wonderful country.

Just north of Ravenna, the small town of Comacchio stands on the most southern tip of the Venice lagoon. Although it is on the mainland, it features a couple of canals and does its very best to try and look a little like Venice, for obvious commercial reasons...

[While I upload photos from 2020, I am also trying to keep up with some of my more current works by uploading a couple of photographs every day, in the afternoon or evening.]

In September and October 2021, we spent three weeks touring the Italian regions of Abruzzo, Umbria, Marches and Emilia-Romagna, which we hadn’t visited yet.

Personally, I had my sights firmly set on a series of early Romanesque churches of high architectural and artistic interest, so you will see quite a few of those, in spite of the typical Italian administration-related problems I encountered, and which were both stupid and quite unpleasant.

There will also be other sorts of old stones, landscapes, etc., and I hope you will enjoy looking at them and have a good time doing so. If it makes you want to go, do, by all means, Italy is a wonderful country.

The Gran Sasso and Campo Imperatore are highland moors and mountains in the Abruzzo region of Italy.

Plenty of opportunities there for the landscape photographer!

[While I upload photos from 2020, I am also trying to keep up with some of my more current works by uploading a couple of photographs every day, in the afternoon or evening.]

In September and October 2021, we spent three weeks touring the Italian regions of Abruzzo, Umbria, Marches and Emilia-Romagna, which we hadn’t visited yet.

Personally, I had my sights firmly set on a series of early Romanesque churches of high architectural and artistic interest, so you will see quite a few of those, in spite of the typical Italian administration-related problems I encountered, and which were both stupid and quite unpleasant.

There will also be other sorts of old stones, landscapes, etc., and I hope you will enjoy looking at them and have a good time doing so. If it makes you want to go, do, by all means, Italy is a wonderful country.

The abbey of San Giovanni in Venere in Abruzzo is another place where I encounter the same bureaucratic stupidity from the Italians as described before about Santa Maria a Casauria.

The apse.

"Strange Little Girl"

One day you see a strange little girl look at you

One day you see a strange little girl feeling blue

She'd run to the town one day

Leaving home and the country fair

Just beware

When you're there

Strange little girl

She didn't know how to live in a town that was rough

It didn't take long before she knew she'd had enough

Walking home in her wrapped up world

She survived but she's feeling old

And she found all things cold

Strange little girl

Where are you going?

Strange little girl

Where are you going?

Do you know where you could be going?

Walking home in her wrapped up world

She survived but she's feeling old

'Cause she found all things cold

Strange little girl

Where are you going?

Strange little girl

Where are you going?

Do you know where you could be going?

Strange little girl

Where are you going?

Strange little girl

Where are you going?

Do you know where you could be going?

"Przed końcem Adamowa"

09.10.2020

Dnia 17 lutego 2021 roku nastąpiło ostateczne zatrzymanie wydobycia węgla brunatnego w odkrywkowej Kopalni Węgla Brunatnego Adamów z siedzibą w Turku. KWB Adamów była jednym z dwóch Podmiotów wydobywających węgiel brunatny, zaliczanych do Konińskiego Zagłębia Węgla Brunatnego - drugim Zakładem jest czynna po dzień dzisiejszy KWB Konin. Początek KWB Adamów sięga końca lat 50., kiedy rozpoczęto prace związane z przygotowaniem do wydobycia w pierwszej odkrywce. Eksploatacja węgla brunatnego była natomiast prowadzona od 1964 roku. W skład KWB Adamów wchodziło kilka odkrywek, najdłużej eksploatowaną była odkrywka Adamów. Nieco wcześniej, w 2016 roku wydobycie zakończono w odkrywce Koźmin, natomiast już w 2012 roku zaprzestano eksploatacji odkrywki Władysławów. Zakład wydobywał do 5 mln ton węgla brunatnego, głównie dla pobliskiej Elektrowni Adamów w Turku, której moc wynosiła 600 MWe. Kopalnia pracowała w typowym dla kopalni odkrywkowych modelu KTZ (koparka - taśmociąg - zwałowarka). Zadaniem koparki jest zdejmowanie nadkładu bądź eksploatacja węgla, pozyskany materiał trafia na sieć taśmociągów transportujących i dostarcza go do zwałowarek, które służą do zwałowania nadkładu na zewnętrznych bądź wewnętrznych zwałowiskach. W przypadku Zagłębia Konińskiego głębokość zalegania złóż jest mniejsza niż w przypadku największej krajowej kopalni węgla brunatnego czyli KWB Bełchatów. Warstwy złóż w Wielkopolsce są jednak cieńsze, co powoduje, że odkrywki "szybciej się przemieszczają", podczas, gdy w Bełchatowie Kopalnia pracuje stale w ramach danego obszaru odkrywki (można to zaobserwować obserwując zdjęcia satelitarne z różnych okresów czasu). Mniejsza głębokość zalegania złóż powoduje, że zwałowiska KWB Adamów i KWB Konin są nieco mniej imponujące, a spora część nakładu trafia do zwałowisk wewnętrznych, co skutkuje ograniczeniem obszaru poddawanego przemianom antropogenicznym w wyniku działalności górniczej.

Na fotografii najdłużej pracująca w KWB Adamów wielonaczyniowa koparka łańcuchowa Rs-400. Właśnie niniejsza koparka 17 lutego 2021 roku wydobyła ostatnią tonę węgla brunatnego, który trafiał pod koniec wydobycia do Elektrowni Pątnów. Tym samym dobiegła końca epoka wydobycia węgla brunatnego na tym terenie, która trwała ponad 6 dekad Koparka niniejsza posiada podwozie łańcuchowe i realizuje eksploatację poprzez urabianie podpoziomowe (pozwalające na efektywne napełnianie czerpaków). Zdając sobie sprawę, że dni wydobycia w KWB Adamów są już policzone, udałem się do Kopalni w 2020 roku celem dokumentacji parku technologicznego Zakładu i procesu wydobycia. Serdecznie dziękuję Kierownictwu Zakładu za bardzo miłe przyjęcie i bezpieczną organizację wizyty w trudnym czasie pandemii. W przyszłości szerzej zaprezentuje KWB Adamów, podobnie jak okoliczną Elektrownię.

Mijający łikend, podobnie jak i poprzedni, spędziłem dokumentując wiele Zakładów z Górnośląskiego Okręgu Przemysłowego i Zagłębia Dąbrowskiego. Przed tygodniem miałem przyjemność zaprezentować nieco przemysłu Przyjaciołom z Czech i Ukrainy, natomiast w dniu wczorajszym dokumentowałem obiekty górnicze i energetyczne na Śląsku wspólnie z Mateuszem Gnutkiem z Industry of Silesia. Były to bardzo wyczerpujące ale i niesamowicie miłe dni 😉

I wanted to create sunlight rays through a window which always looks super aesthetic in photography in my opinion. I hung a thin fabric in the doorway of this roombox and put a softbox lamp right at the other side of it. Super simple but effective I guess. :')

I'm still slowly getting back into the photography hobby after my few years long hiatus. Taking doll photos still gives me some feelings of anxiety and sometimes anger, but it really helps to just go go go do do do and not think too much. Just get it over with. I want to keep it up :D And I hope to see improvement in my work over time.

Ps, thank you based Flickr for keeping the high quality of my photos intact :D

[While I upload older photos, I am also trying to keep up with some of my more current works by uploading a couple of photographs every day, in the afternoon or evening.]

In September and October 2021, we spent three weeks touring the Italian regions of Abruzzo, Umbria, Marches and Emilia-Romagna, which we hadn’t visited yet.

Personally, I had my sights firmly set on a series of early Romanesque churches of high architectural and artistic interest, so you will see quite a few of those, in spite of the typical Italian administration-related problems I encountered, and which were both stupid and quite unpleasant.

There will also be other sorts of old stones, landscapes, etc., and I hope you will enjoy looking at them and have a good time doing so. If it makes you want to go, do, by all means, Italy is a wonderful country.

A Gran Sasso landscape in the Abruzzo.

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Around Brynllwyd Glamping, near Pontarfynach, approximately 15 miles east of Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales (Cymru), United Kingdom, on Saturday 2nd September 2023.

About the photograph.

Rali Ceredigion was the first actual rallying motorsport event I attended.

I’m really more of a Formula 1 fan, and keep up with the F1 news, even attended my first real live F1 race in 2019. I do like rally motorsports too, but hardly really keep up with the news and details.

Having lived my life with self-doubt because of the negativity I get from family, teachers, social workers, over my choice of career (I wanted to be a working photographer) due to myself being a deaf person with speech impaired, I now want to believe in myself, and break out of the negativity.

That’s why I am aiming to get to do non-paid freelance work, for myself, as a way of building up experience, and building up a portfolio, as my aim is to plan ahead and hope to set up my own business.

So, I’ve been doing some photojournalism of Pride parades, doing basketball photography, and even booked models for fashion photos.

Then I thought to see how I feel about motorsports photography, and thought about looking for a rallying event. In part, to see it and enjoy it for myself, and in part, to have a go doing rally photography.

I found out about Rali Ceredigion that was to take place not very far from Aberystwyth, which is where my closer friend was born. I figured to invite my best friend to come with me, because it would give my friend a chance to see their family too.

So we went there for the weekend, and I bought tickets for both of us to attend the event.

The photo shows my attempts to get to do rally photography. I think I have a long way to go, still got to get the right shutter speed, correct aperture, correct ISO setting, and all that stuff. I’m familiar with what techniques to use, but haven’t actually done photos of the rally event, so I lack the experience needed.

Who knows? Maybe next time I may decide to go to another rallying event, and try to improvise.

I didn’t get a programme guide, and I struggle to find the details of that event, so I don’t really know who the driver was.

The car in the photo, appears to be a second generation Ford Escort, usually referred as the Ford Escort Mark II. They were in production between December 1974 to August 1980. By the look of it, this model is a 2 door saloon.

They are typically rear wheel drive, and have petrol engines of various sizes mostly between 1.1 L to 1.8 L, and even have a 2.0 L. I have no idea which engine this one have, like I said, I did not have a programme guide or any other information about who’s driving what.

Here in the photo, the car had come from the B4343, drove down this short lane, and turning into another lane which will take them back to the B4343.

About Rali Ceredigion.

Rali Ceredigion first started in 2019, and took place on closed public roads in Wales, not far from Aberystwyth.

It is sponsored by JDS Machinery, and in the sponsorship form, the full name of the event is often called JDS Machinery Rali Ceredigion.

Over the next few years, it expanded into the British Rally Championship (BRC) events for local and nation divers, and into the European Rally Championship (ERC) for nation and international drivers.

It is possible for up to around 150 cars to take part, in approximately 14 stages, over 113 miles, during the 3 days event (according to 2025 information).

For more details, including next events, simply Google “Rali Ceredigion”

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[While I upload photos from 2020, I am also trying to keep up with some of my more current works by uploading a couple of photographs every day, in the afternoon or evening.]

In September and October 2021, we spent three weeks touring the Italian regions of Abruzzo, Umbria, Marches and Emilia-Romagna, which we hadn’t visited yet.

Personally, I had my sights firmly set on a series of early Romanesque churches of high architectural and artistic interest, so you will see quite a few of those, in spite of the typical Italian administration-related problems I encountered, and which were both stupid and quite unpleasant.

There will also be other sorts of old stones, landscapes, etc., and I hope you will enjoy looking at them and have a good time doing so. If it makes you want to go, do, by all means, Italy is a wonderful country.

Today, I begin a new series on the church of Santa Pudenziana, near the town of Narni in the province of Umbria.

The central, half-rounded apse in the slightly “over-restored” crypt.

Portrait of a girl from the Tua tribe in the early morning sun. The Tua look alot like the Himba but aren't actually related. The Himba also hold cattle while the Tua are / were more hunter-gatherers. As hunting posibilities are getting scarce; they are having to look for other ways to survive. The men go do some jobs in the local villages. The women and children are herding some goats...

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[While I upload photos from 2020, I am also trying to keep up with some of my more current works by uploading a couple of photographs every day, in the afternoon or evening.]

In September and October 2021, we spent three weeks touring the Italian regions of Abruzzo, Umbria, Marches and Emilia-Romagna, which we hadn’t visited yet.

Personally, I had my sights firmly set on a series of early Romanesque churches of high architectural and artistic interest, so you will see quite a few of those, in spite of the typical Italian administration-related problems I encountered, and which were both stupid and quite unpleasant.

There will also be other sorts of old stones, landscapes, etc., and I hope you will enjoy looking at them and have a good time doing so. If it makes you want to go, do, by all means, Italy is a wonderful country.

Today and over the following days, I invite you to take a closer look at a very simple and unadorned, yet beautiful and quite unusual abbey church in the Abruzzo region: San Pietro ad Oratorium.

The very simple apse in the right hand side aisle —which would be the southern aisle in a normally oriented church, but is here the eastern one!

First of all, you gotta view this large or it just looks terrible. Bluey and I made a stop off at my favorite waterfall and even though the light was really flat, we made the decision to go do below and shoot around. That decision would prove to be a tale of trouble and terror. It's been awhile since I made fun of myself for your benefit so here it goes. :)

For those of you that have not been to Lower Lewis Falls, to get to this area you need to drop down a 4 foot wall of rock with an extremely slick curved bottom to it. There is a rope there to help you get back out but it isn't as useful a tool on the way down. I have been to this falls quite a few times so I dropped down being careful not to fall. Then it was Bluey's turn.....

I planted my feet the best I could, wrapping the rope around my forearm and braced myself to "catch" Bluey if she started to slip. She looked at me with blind trust in her eyes and started to slide down the rock wall (kids, don't try this at home) and as soon as her feet hit the curved part of the wall she went from 0 to 60 in 2 seconds slamming into me hard. The planting of my feet had proved pointless and wrapping my forearm in the rope just threatened to tear my arm off as we both slammed to the ground below in about a foot of water. I slammed my ribs on a sharp edge of the riverbed and smacked my forearm on the wall on the way down. My arm only stung for a moment...my ribs still hurt. :) The pain however would have to wait as I suddenly realized I was sitting in the river with my iPhone in my pocket. I sprung up out of the water, yanked it out of my pocket and dried it off. All was well in the universe. We spent the next two hours tiptoeing around on the slippery rocks and back and fourth through the river without issue. Just in case, I had put my phone in the front pocket of my backpack for safe keeping.

Just as we were getting ready to leave, making our way across the rocks, I made a wrong step and my foot (and the 240 lbs it supports) slid across the rock and got jammed under a jagged rock shelf mauling a couple gashes into it. No big deal....I didn't need that skin & blood anyway.

After a few select words were spoken we continued on our way just as it was getting dark. Because of the lack of light it was tough to see where I was stepping so I was very proud of myself when I realized I had almost made it the entire way without......

Shaaaawoop! Bam! For the third time today I slipped and fell into the water but this time had landed on my back in just enough water to submerge my entire backpack, all my camera equipment and yes, my safely stowed away iPhone underwater. I got high centered on my back with just my belly and my flailing limbs thrashing up out of the water just in time for Bluey to come around the corner to witness the event. Realizing again that $7000 worth of electronics were on my back and underwater and not wanting to continue to provide Blue with a free comedy show any longer then necessary, I tried to jump up off my back using my natural gazelle-like reflexes. When that didn't work...I rolled over on my side, struggled to my knees and climbed out of the water wet, beaten and ashamed. :)

In the end, all of my gear was bone dry. I am actually very impressed with the waterproofing of my Think Tank backpack. I am pretty sure Bluey walked out of there without a drop of water on her. :)

If you want to watch me fall down and almost destroy my camera in person.....

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FIRST-Sorry for my absence these last 3 months.I really haven't been in the sharing/creating mood lately because my miniature pinscher Miley was really sick.:( Not to mention working long hours had my undivided attention.

So...now that things are looking a bit up.I will slowly start back sharing=)I know should have announced a brief hiatus but Miley was very sick and I had to attend to her needs.Anyway enough personal ramble.You know how I do this by now.Pic goes upfirst.DL link later.Off to go do some major Catching up.Some of You guys latest posts look mind blowing amazing!!! :O

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