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Netherlands, Nieuwe Maas, Bolnes, Hal H. (cut from all sides)
An abandoned industrial building (probabbly of a former ship yard) on the river Nieuwe Maas. Shot from a ship on the way to Kinderdijk with Leun
HAL: I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
I decided to fill in all the white spaces ... just to see what HAL would look like in his all-together. And, ta-da ... here he is!
Last time I counted, there were still around 25 blocks left to be pieced. I had hoped to have them done before we leave on summer vacation, but it's just not happening, so looks like HAL will be having a holiday with the Brindleys ... if I can just get his parts cut out by next Tuesday!
HAL Eastbound Freight Train heads for Albany, GA. after interchanging with Chattahoochee Bay Railroad in Hilton, GA.
Opened in 1932, New Regent Street is Christchurch’s only complete heritage streetscape.(Category 1 Heritage listed Buildings).
It is also known as New Zealand’s most beautiful street with Spanish Mission architecture and a distinctive pastel colour scheme.
In 1986, a one-way restriction was imposed for driving on New Regent Street and closed to vehicles in1994 and turned into a pedestrian mall in preparation for the reintroduction of the Christchurch tram.
The tram began operating 04 February 1995 on a oneway loop including New regent Street.
Amongst the history and heritage there is a range of independent stores, services, bars, cafes and restaurants offering goods and services and experiences not found anywhere else in the city.
2011 EARTHQUAKE:
The buildings sustained damage during the 22 February 2011 Christchurch earthquake. The whole central city was cordoned off, and the public did not have access.
Repairs to the street and buildings were carried out by Naylor Love Construction Limited for NZ $3,000,000, with Fulton Ross Team Architects providing the architectural inputs.
New Regent Street was set to be reopened in December 2012, but this was delayed to February 2013, and then March, and it finally did open on Saturday, 20 April 2013.
The Press described the opening as an “anti-climax”, as only five of the shops were open for business.
A further fourteen shops had been tenanted but were not ready, while tenants for seven shops had yet to be found.
Five of the buildings owned by Helen Thacker had not been repaired or earthquake strengthened.
Two of those buildings were classed as earthquake-prone, and after months of negotiations by Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority staff, the owner agreed to have those two buildings earthquake strengthened. This allowed for safety fences to be removed from New Regent Street in December 2013.
The tram began operating again in November 2013 on a limited route from New Regent Street to Worcester Boulevard; the tracks in Armagh Street had to be repaired still.
In November 2014, the pre-earthquake loop reopened. Some New Regent Street retailers claim that half their custom comes from tourist arriving there by tram.
2-HAL unit 2623 forming a local service from Ascot and Aldershot approaching Guildford on 18th July 1970. The University is under construction in the background. The Southern Railway gave the designation 2-HAL to the electric multiple units built during the late 1930s to work long-distance semi-fast services on the newly electrified lines from London to Maidstone and Gillingham (Kent). This type of unit survived long enough in British Rail ownership to be allocated TOPS Class 402. A development of the earlier 2-BIL units, the 2-HAL units (2-car Half Lavatory stock) were so-called because only one car in each unit had a lavatory. In the early 1960s the Eastern Division was fully changed over to EP-braked electric stock, and the 2-HAL units operating from Victoria to Maidstone/Gillingham etc were removed to the Central and Western Divisions, replaced by the 2-HAP (Class 414) units. The Class 401 and 402 units remained in service on the Central and Western Divisions until replaced by new 4-VEP (Class 423) units.
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I absolutely LOVED doing this photo. It took me close to 2 months creating it. I bought a full perm race car drivers suit, and created the texture to be as close as possible to screen accurate from 2001 A Space Odyssey. I also created the chest pack, and back pack from prims. It was a long process but it paid off in the end. None of the work was done in Blender, the textures including shadows and shine were all hand created layer after layer in Photoshop. The fantastic backdrop was created by .blush.
Frans Hals. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
WHO WAS FRANS HALS?
Frans Hals was born in Antwerp between 1582 and 1584, the son of a weaver. In 1585, the family fled the Spanish invasion and ended up in Haarlem. There, Frans was trained by painter Karel van Mander. In 1610, he joined the Haarlem paintersâ guild and became an independent artist with his own apprentices and assistants, including Judith Leyster. Frans Hals was celebrated, admired and sometimes despised for his ârough-and-ready styleâ.His main focus was on portraits and he also created masterful militia pieces. Frans Hals died in 1666 and is buried in the Grote Kerk in Haarlem.
A selection of around fifty key works has been made from Frans Halsâ extensive oeuvre. These include works from the Rijksmuseumâs own collection â The Merry Drinker, Portrait of a Couple â and a number of special loans, for which we are extremely grateful. These include The Laughing Cavalier from the Wallace Collection in London, a work that normally never travels, as well as Catharina Hooft with her Nurse and Malle Babbe (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin), Family Group in a Landscape (Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid) and Fruit and Vegetable Seller (Private Collection Bridgenorth). The exhibition features another first: the group portrait The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Civic Guard from 1616 (Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem), will be seen outside the city of Haarlem for the first time ever.
My friend has this bicolor Orange and Yellow daylilies in a corner of his garden. It brighten up the area with cheerful flowers.
An LED light on the grounds of the NC Museum of Art (part of the next expansion), that I spotted on my walk yesterday. It reminded me of the HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey (if only the LED chip was red).
Cheers,
Wade
Zion National Park is an American national park located in southwestern Utah near the city of Springdale. A prominent feature of the 229-square-mile (590 km2) park is Zion Canyon, which is 15 miles (24 km) long and up to 2,640 ft (800 m) deep. The canyon walls are reddish and tan-colored Navajo Sandstone eroded by the North Fork of the Virgin River. The lowest point in the park is 3,666 ft (1,117 m) at Coalpits Wash and the highest peak is 8,726 ft (2,660 m) at Horse Ranch Mountain. Located at the junction of the Colorado Plateau, Great Basin, and Mojave Desert regions, the park has a unique geography and a variety of life zones that allow for unusual plant and animal diversity. Numerous plant species as well as 289 species of birds, 75 mammals (including 19 species of bat), and 32 reptiles inhabit the park's four life zones: desert, riparian, woodland, and coniferous forest. Zion National Park includes mountains, canyons, buttes, mesas, monoliths, rivers, slot canyons, and natural arches. Human habitation of the area started about 8,000 years ago with small family groups of Native Americans, one of which was the semi-nomadic Basketmaker Anasazi (c. 300). Subsequently, the Virgin Anasazi culture (c. 500) and the Parowan Fremont group developed as the Basketmakers settled in permanent communities. Both groups moved away by 1300 and were replaced by the Parrusits and several other Southern Paiute subtribes. Mormons came into the area in 1858 and settled there in the early 1860s. In 1909, President William Howard Taft named the area Mukuntuweap National Monument in order to protect the canyon. In 1918, the acting director of the newly created National Park Service, Horace Albright, drafted a proposal to enlarge the existing monument and change the park's name to Zion National Monument, Zion being a term used by the Mormons. According to historian Hal Rothman: "The name change played to a prevalent bias of the time. Many believed that Spanish and Indian names would deter visitors who, if they could not pronounce the name of a place, might not bother to visit it. The new name, Zion, had greater appeal to an ethnocentric audience." On November 20, 1919, Congress redesignated the monument as Zion National Park, and the act was signed by President Woodrow Wilson. The Kolob section was proclaimed a separate Zion National Monument in 1937, but was incorporated into the national park in 1956. The geology of the Zion and Kolob canyons area includes nine formations that together represent 150 million years of mostly Mesozoic-aged sedimentation. At various periods in that time warm, shallow seas, streams, ponds and lakes, vast deserts, and dry near-shore environments covered the area. Uplift associated with the creation of the Colorado Plateau lifted the region 10,000 feet (3,000 m) starting 13 million years ago. The park is located in southwestern Utah in Washington, Iron and Kane counties. Geomorphically, it is located on the Markagunt and Kolob plateaus, at the intersection of three North American geographic provinces: the Colorado Plateau, the Great Basin, and the Mojave Desert. The northern part of the park is known as the Kolob Canyons section and is accessible from Interstate 15, exit 40. The 8,726-foot (2,660 m) summit of Horse Ranch Mountain is the highest point in the park; the lowest point is the 3,666-foot (1,117 m) elevation of Coal Pits Wash, creating a relief of about 5,100 feet (1,600 m). Streams in the area take rectangular paths because they follow jointing planes in the rocks. The stream gradient of the Virgin River, whose North Fork flows through Zion Canyon in the park, ranges from 50 to 80 feet per mile (9.5 to 15.2 m/km) (0.9–1.5%)—one of the steepest stream gradients in North America. The road into Zion Canyon is 6 miles (9.7 km) long, ending at the Temple of Sinawava, which is named for the coyote god of the Paiute Indians. The canyon becomes more narrow near the Temple and a hiking trail continues to the mouth of The Narrows, a gorge only 20 feet (6 m) wide and up to 2,000 feet (610 m) tall. The Zion Canyon road is served by a free shuttle bus from early April to late October and by private vehicles the other months of the year. Other roads in Zion are open to private vehicles year-round. The east side of the park is served by Zion-Mount Carmel Highway (SR-9), which passes through the Zion–Mount Carmel Tunnel and ends at Mount Carmel. On the east side of the park, notable park features include Checkerboard Mesa and the East Temple. The Kolob Terrace area, northwest of Zion Canyon, features a slot canyon called The Subway, and a panoramic view of the entire area from Lava Point. The Kolob Canyons section, further to the northwest near Cedar City, features one of the world's longest natural arches, Kolob Arch. Other notable geographic features of the park include the Virgin River Narrows, Emerald Pools, Angels Landing, The Great White Throne, and Court of the Patriarchs. Spring weather is unpredictable, with stormy, wet days being common, mixed with occasional warm, sunny weather. Precipitation is normally heaviest in March. Spring wildflowers bloom from April through June, peaking in May. Fall days are usually clear and mild; nights are often cool. Summer days are hot (95 to 110 °F; 35 to 43 °C), but overnight lows are usually comfortable (65 to 70 °F; 18 to 21 °C). Afternoon thunderstorms are common from mid-July through mid-September. Storms may produce waterfalls as well as flash floods. Autumn tree-color displays begin in September in the high country; in Zion Canyon, autumn colors usually peak in late October. Winter in Zion Canyon is fairly mild. Winter storms bring rain or light snow to Zion Canyon and heavier snow to the higher elevations. Clear days may become quite warm, reaching 60 °F (16 °C); nights are often 20 to 40 °F (−7 to 4 °C). Winter storms can last several days and make roads icy. Zion roads are plowed, except the Kolob Terrace Road which is closed when covered with snow. Winter driving conditions last from November through March. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zion_National_Park