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In my family, we call him "notre ami ". This gull is extraordinary... (so I say "HE", not "IT") A day, he lands in our garden, comes to the house and taps with its beak in the window. He is afraid neither of us nor the cat... Since then, he comes every day and he is more and more rash. He demands to eat and sometimes we give him some brioche. It isn't maybe a good idea but I believe that he is allowed tame by us or then we are be tamed by him!!!
But we think that it isn't about a total stranger... Last year, a baby gull stayed some days in the garden. Fallen of the nest after his first tries of flights, he was incapable to fly away again. We fed him and helped to leave... And one year passed by and what this magnificent bird arrives and taps in the window by which we gave to eat to this baby...
I'm disappointed not to have been able to photograph his wings in its entirety but he is fast and not easy to seize in flight...
Engine Company 31 -87 Lafayette Street
In 1879 Napoleon LeBrun became the official architect of the New York City Fire Department. When son Pierre joined him the firm became N. LeBrun & Son. LeBrun would produce 42 structures for the fire department before stepping down in 1895.But he went out with a splash.
In 1894 N. LeBrun & Son drew plans for a lavish new home for Engine Company 31, which had been situated at No. 116 Leonard Street.But first the architects had to deal with a logistical nightmare.
The site where the new firehouse was to be built was atop a filled-in body of water called Collect Pond.In the 18th century the pond covered 48 acres and, in spots,was up to 60 feet deep.What had been a popular place for picnics in the summer and ice skating in the winter became polluted and odorous when tanneries, slaughterhouses and other nearby business dumped their waste here.Derided at the end of the 18th century as "a very sink and common sewer," it was slowly filled. By 1813,the entire lake was undetectable.At least on the surface.
Below ground the water remained.LeBrun's solution was to drive immense wooden pilings below ground on which the foundation of the firehouse would sit.He knew,as was proved in Venice,that as long as the pilings remained submerged they would remain stable.
For Engine Company 31 he turned to the Loire Valley of France for inspiration.Looking more like chateau than firehouse it was completed in 1896 at a cost of $80,000--more than $2.3 million today.A mountainous slate-shingled roof erupted above two stories of limestone and brick.Bold dormers,more than a story tall, were worthy of Fountainebleau.
While it was admittedly beautiful,some contemporary critics found it a bit much.In The Architectural Record, Montgomery Schuyler strongly questioned what elegance had to do "with so grimly practical business as putting out fires."And the Real Estate Record &Guide called it a "manifestly extravagant absurdity.
Both detractors seemed to be foreshadowing the 20th century architectural principle of "form follows function"which resulted in firehouses being no more interesting than a suburban garage.
Engine Company 31 called 87 Lafayette Street home until the Fire Department abandoned it in late 1972,just ten months after it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.It sat neglected and empty for seven years before Downtown Community Television rented space from the city there.The in 1983,DCTV purchased the building along with the Chinese-American Planning Council for $400,000.
The new owners bought an expensive problem.Over the years the long forgotten Collect Pond had begun drying up.The water level below the street fell which caused the pilings to dry out and begin to rot.LeBrun's elegant chateau began settling unevenly as the pilings eroded. The entire foundation had to be reconstructed at a cost of almost $800,000.
Additional costly restoration has taken place,bringing No.87 Lafayette Street back to its former glory.The New York Landmarks Preservation Commission noted in 1966 "the quality of its detail and in the use of fine materials it is unsurpassed by any building in its category."
Absurdly extravagant or not,I prefer LeBrun's Loire Valley chateau to a suburban garage.
Another image all from the single pass as the Tornado Gr4 passes over a field of Rapeseed in full bloom with wings swept,had I clicked a millisecond earlier I would probably have had him isolated against the yellow but such is life!
Spain, Valencia, the “Dolphinarium” of “L'Oceanogràfic” at CAC, “Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias”, with a total of five pools, is the largest of its kind in Europe.
During my stay on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, I used to swim hours every day for almost one year with a dolphin "Bini" near the beach in 10 to about 15 mtr water depth open sea in the Piscadera Bay.
I still believe, holding this sensitive, highly intelligent & playful dolphins, like others marine mammals in dolphinariums in sterile blue pools, without the at least a modelled natural biosphere of the sea, is like holding a big dog in a tiny one room apartment & never get him out, …on the other hand, the studies done in some dolphinariums are also very important.
However, since dolphins of today's dolphinariums were born in captivity, they never knew & experienced their natural environment, neither living in large dolphin schools witch sizes varies from small groups & up to 800 or more aquatic mammals.
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We followed him east where the dispatcher planned a meet at the next siding. Road construction limited our shots in between, but we got him coming into the siding before heading back to the highway overpass.
The train he was meeting was a J train heading for Washington. A Boeing train. We had no intel on it besides a leader number so we weren't for certain how many (if any) fuselages would end up being on it. We hoped for at least two, and were at near disbelief when he came around the corner with five total fuselages. A friendly crew on this train as well, something that seemed to be a common occurrence up here.
Man, the people in Montana are so nice, aren't they Sam?
BNSF ES44C4 8378 leads a Boeing train westbound on the MRL 3rd Subdivision near Garrison, Montana, May 15, 2024.
The Calling of Saint Matthew is an oil painting by Caravaggio that depicts the moment Jesus Christ calls on the tax collector Matthew to follow him. It was completed in 1599–1600 for the Contarelli Chapel in the church of the French congregation, San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome, where it remains. It hangs alongside two other paintings of Matthew by Caravaggio, The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew (painted around the same time as the Calling) and The Inspiration of Saint Matthew (1602).
More than a decade earlier, Cardinal Matthieu Cointerel (in Italian, Matteo Contarelli) had left funds and specific instructions in his will for the decoration of a chapel based on themes related to his namesake, Saint Matthew. The dome of the chapel was decorated with frescoes by the late Mannerist artist Giuseppe Cesari, Caravaggio's former employer and one of the most popular painters in Rome at the time. But as Cesari became busy with royal and papal patronage, Cardinal Francesco Del Monte, Caravaggio's patron and also the prefect of the Fabbrica of St Peter's (the Vatican office for Church property), intervened to obtain for Caravaggio his first major church commission and his first painting with more than a handful of figures.
Caravaggio's Calling of Saint Matthew hangs opposite The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew. While the Martyrdom was probably the first to be started, the Calling was, by report, the first to be completed.[citation needed] The commission for these two lateral paintings — the Calling and the Martyrdom — is dated July 1599, and final payment was made in July 1600. Between the two, at the altar, is The Inspiration of Saint Matthew (1602).
The painting depicts the story from the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 9:9): "Jesus saw a man named Matthew at his seat in the custom house, and said to him, "Follow me", and Matthew rose and followed Him." Caravaggio depicts Matthew the tax collector sitting at a table with four other men. Jesus Christ and Saint Peter have entered the room, and Jesus is pointing at Matthew. A beam of light illuminates the faces of the men at the table who are looking at Jesus Christ. This is a depiction of a moment of spiritual awakening and conversion, which was something many Baroque artists were interested in painting, especially Caravaggio.
There is some debate over which man in the picture is Saint Matthew, as the surprised gesture of the bearded man at the table can be read in two ways.
Most writers on the Calling assume Saint Matthew to be the bearded man, and see him to be pointing at himself, as if to ask "Me?" in response to Christ's summons. This theory is strengthened when one takes into consideration the other two works in this series, The Inspiration of Saint Matthew, and The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew. The bearded man who models as Saint Matthew appears in all three works, with him unequivocally playing the role of Saint Matthew in both the "Inspiration" and the "Martyrdom".
A more recent interpretation proposes that the bearded man is in fact pointing at the young man at the end of the table, whose head is slumped. In this reading, the bearded man is asking "Him?" in response to Christ's summons, and the painting is depicting the moment immediately before a young Matthew raises his head to see Christ. Other writers describe the painting as deliberately ambiguous.
Some scholars speculate that Jesus is portrayed as the Last Adam or Second Adam as titled in the New Testament. This is displayed in Christ's hand as it reaches out towards Matthew. It is almost a mirrored image of Adam's hand in The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo, the namesake of Caravaggio. Twice in the New Testament, an explicit comparison is made between Jesus and Adam. In Romans 5:12–21, Paul argues that "just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous" (Romans 5:19, NIV). In 1 Corinthians 15:22, Paul argues that "as in Adam all die, so in Christ, all will be made alive," while in verse 45 he calls Jesus the "last/ultimate/final Adam".
We found him darting around a road and at first glance thought it was a sparrow! It eventually caught a bug. This shot was taken on a particularly bright and hot day so adjusted the contrast somewhat.
Richard's Pipit (found across Australia) is a well-camoflaged brown ground-dwelling bird found in open country in a range of habitat types from wet heaths to dry shrublands and open woodland clearings.. It has darker brown streaks above, and pale creamy white stripes on the eyebrows and below the cheeks. The underparts are creamy white, spotted and streaked dark on the breast. The wings and tail are dark brown, with the outermost tail feathers white. The eye is brown and the bill and feet are pale pink-grey. Seen on the ground in open country, this species often wags its tail up and down while foraging.
It resembles the introduced Skylark and is adapted to a similar ecological niche, with both species being well-camoflaged birds that forage on the ground. Richard's Pipit lacks the Skylark's small crest and has more creamy white underparts and eyebrows.
There is some altitudinal migration in winter, and Tasmanian birds move to the mainland.
Richard's Pipit feeds on the ground on insects and their larvae, as well as seeds. It forages in a jerky, darting motion, stopping to perch on low stones or shrubs, wagging its tail up and down.
Richard's Pipits form breeding pairs after an elaborate courtship ritual, with males making swooping dives from a height, accompanied by a sweet trilling song. The nest is a depression in the ground, sometimes sheltered by a grass tussock, stone or piece of wood, and lined with grasses and hairs. The female incubates the eggs and feeds the young.
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97/365 - Just Say Yes - Snow Patrol
Please take my heart... Love that band and that song so much, the lyrics are beautiful, heard it again this morning on the TV, don't know why but it speaks a lot to me.
So I decided to get back on the idea of choosing a music first, and then realize some picture using the inspiration I found. I think it's the most difficult but exciting way to play with lyrics.
So that's what happened today, I decided to use this song and that's the idea I found for today's shot.
This is the Saint Catherine street, just the longest pedestrian street of Europe in the deep center of Bordeaux.
There's always so much people and shops over there, it's amazing.
Spent a great afternoon with my friend Julien, thanks to him for the picture !
One thing you don't know is how much this picture and the concept illustrate perfectly Julien's yesterday !
It's really too funny, the composition and the picture is relatively simple but I'm really proud of this one.
Link to Just Say Yes - Snow Patrol original music video
Canon EOS 7D - Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
Sébastien Huruguen
Well no! 210 002/001 was on trial on the Birmingham Cross City line in October 1982, this working being the 11.50 Four Oaks to Redditch service. The picture is in Heeley Road, Selly Oak, the train is on the bridge over the Bristol Road. The Station Inn is covered in scaffolding and, performing an act that would have H & S inspectors in tears, a worker is balanced on the roof of his van which is badly parked on the corner of the road.
I chiefly remember taking picture this because the bloke who looks like an understudy for the Grim Reaper kept his foot down in JNP 133K* and just leaned on the horn, he was so angry, I flicked him a V as he shot past and he skidded to a halt and got out, purple with rage. At that point a combination of the tanker driver behind him not appreciating his sudden braking and him realising I was 30 years younger and much bigger he got back in, slammed his foot down and stalled it. Bet his missus got an earful at dinnertime!
*His red 1971 Hillman Avenger has had no tax or MOT since April 1987, we can assume, like John Steed, this Avenger will not return.
Copyright Geoff Dowling 12/10/1982: All rights reserved
Steve Jobs launches the new 3G iPhone during his keynote at the 2008 WWDC.
Strobist: Apple logo and background done in Photoshop and maximised on my 24 Dell LCD. SB600 + diffuser on left, snooted SB600 right to generate the hot spot behind Steve on the LCD. All triggered with Nikon CLS
i <3 apple, i really do.
Mallard duckling (Anas platyrhynchos)
The ducklings on the local pond are growing up fast.
Thank you everyone for your kind wishes for Bruce, He is brighter today, after he refused his dinner the other night, which is something he never does, I was really worried about him, he still has sickness and an upset tummy, but last night he had a small amount of chicken and mash potato and he has had roast chicken and pasta for dinner tonight .
Thank you for your comments, take care, stay safe and have a wonderful evening !!
Though not widely known, it was never a secret that after the Tinman had received a heart, the deeds of his murderous, tree-killing past began to weigh heavily on him.
It wasn't long, before he organized a traveling tent revival and spent the remainder of his years chasing inner demons, until finally succumbing to oxidation at the ripe old age of 219.
May he rest in pieces.
Our daughter drew this salmon for her dad before she got married and gave it to him the day before her wedding day. He was thrilled and still uses it to this day. She and her husband got married June 1, 2005 I think. Dang it's tough getting old! It's hard to get it's full effect without showing the whole thing but she's a good artist. She's a school Librarian and before that she was a HS English Teacher.
The BEST Humane Society in the Pacific Northwest [ IMHO] called to say they have room to take Rusty [ finally] after putting him on the waiting list in November. My appointment is friday at noon to take him in.
They are a [almost] no-kill shelter.
They have high adoption rates. Their facility is state of the art...it's GORGEOUS.
BUT....we have grown attached to Rusty. He causes havoc though...chases June & Keiko in our home...therefore, he has to be in his own room at night and only out of his room when we can supervise. Jasmine wants to eat him....seriously. And when we let him outside, our neighbor's ginger cat comes over and gives him a bad time. We just don't know what to do.
UPDATE:
Decision made. We will KEEP Rusty....maybe we'll ultimately find him a new home...if not, that's ok too...we'll make the best of the situation.
“Dimly Frodo saw the river below him rise, and down along its course there came a plumed cavalry of waves.”
Oh well, this is it, the end of book 1 (of 6). To me it feels as if I’ve just started. Maybe it’s because this time I had to build just 13 vignettes, not 43 like last time.
Anyway, it was a blast and I want to thank all of you for your ‘faves’, comments and critique.
There’s an alternative version of this vignette, very similar in design. It came first and I wasn’t satisfied with it, but I don’t want to withhold it from you, so I’ll upload it to my stories tomorrow.
And now, for the most important part: My successor is none other than the incredibly talented Iron Builder and LEGO aficionado Jonas Kramm.
He’ll start posting from next Monday on. I’m pretty sure you’re all following him already, and if not, you should from now on (and not just for the ‘Lord of the Rings’ series).
And to quote a wise wizard: “Maybe we will meet again before all is over, but maybe not. Good-bye.”
Photo taken by Herwart Schneider and kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.
München-Riem
May 1982
YI-AKA
Lockheed L-1329 JetStar II
2329-5233
Iraqi Airways
Here’s something special to mark the 1,500th image uploaded to this page, a fantastic and rare shot of Iraqi’s JetStar YI-AKA at Riem, taken by Herwart Schneider. MANY THANKS TO ALL THE CONTRIBUTORS!
YI-AKA was noted at Riem on 23 April 1982, probably the precise date of this shot.
This JetStar was originally delivered to Iraqi Airways in November 1979 as YI-AKA. From 1991 it flew as 7T-VHP for the Algerian AF, Air Algérie and the Palestine Government (as Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat‘s private aircraft until his death in 2004) before being placed into storage at GVA. Re-registered as OD-KMI, but never flying as such, the plane was restored, registered HB-JGK and flown in 2008 but went quickly back into storage. The fuselage hulk was moved to Kemble by road in July 2018 and was still there in April 2019. (Source: Alastair T. Gardiner on airliners.net, Jean-Luc Altherr on flickr)
Registration details for this airframe:
www.scramble.nl/database/civil/details/l1329_198
This airframe as 7T-VHP with Air Algérie at GVA in January 1994:
www.flickr.com/photos/134062278@N02/42624293804
7T-VHP with Air Algérie/Palestinian government at ZRH in June 2005:
www.flickr.com/photos/134062278@N02/42437614125
This airframe as OD-KMI at GVA in September 2007:
www.flickr.com/photos/134062278@N02/42437661705
This airframe as HB-JGK at BRN in May 2008:
cdn.jetphotos.com/full/2/44439_1217715165.jpg
This airframe performing its sole ever landing at GVA as HB-JGK in May 2008:
www.flickr.com/photos/134062278@N02/36337607705
HB-JGK being scrapped at GVA in 2018:
www.flickr.com/photos/134062278@N02/28238273527
The fuselage Hulk at Kemble in April 2019:
www.flickr.com/photos/leeweston/47645816481
Scan from Kodachrome slide.
And making up names for them as well.
This is Whispering Jack,
He conjured up spells until the
wind got the better of him.
For Whispering Jack:
Through the waking night
my stillness breathes
squally the rain beats down
Peace arrives as I realise
I know where I am going
a pleasant feeling indeed
But, like any feeling
this too shall pass
My stillness breathes
and I'm reminded
to dream in clouds
while surfing the waves
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(Last line inspired by this Jon Kabat-Zinn quote
can't stop the waves).
Thanks for stopping by & reading this too :) Btw I made a cloud visions album, have a happy day everyone :)
Link to cloud visions album
Red Male Cardinal, starving from a winter Freeze below zero, looks eagerly in the Holy Family Garden at food given to him. In his other pictures, he looks right at me, and also has a seed in his precious mouth. He also brought his mate which I have pictures here as well.
Part II
Had to find another save spot for him. He had problems first to fly...
after my check up and rest for him, I let him free out of sight from Max our Siamese cat, who catched the little fellow!!
Now he flew away to new adventures in Germany
💚💛💜
Please don't hate me for killing you I only do it to make him happy. With out him I am sad and win he is happy my heart sings. So pretty please don't hate me. :***
The Megyeri Bridge, previously known as the Northern M0 Danube bridge, is a cable-stayed bridge that spans the River Danube between Buda and Pest, respectively the west and east sides of Budapest, the capital of Hungary. It is an important section of the M0 ringroad around Budapest.
The bridge cost 63 billion forints (approx. US$ 300M) to build and was officially opened on September 30, 2008;[1] however, the National Transport Authority of Hungary has only issued temporary permits because of disagreement among suburban cities surrounding the bridge.
An online naming poll to determine the new name of the recently built bridge caused controversy and received media attention when American comedians Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart won.
On September 14, 2006, András Simonyi—the ambassador of Hungary to the United States—announced on The Colbert Report that Stephen Colbert had won the vote. Unfortunately for Colbert, Ambassador Simonyi declared that under Hungarian law, Colbert would have to be fluent in Hungarian, and would have to be deceased in order to have the bridge named for him. However, after saying the rules could most likely be bent, he invited Colbert to visit Hungary and view the construction in person and gave him a Hungarian passport and a 10,000 HUF Bill, with an approximate value of, as the ambassador put it, 'fifty dollars, fifty good US dollars'. Colbert promptly tried to bribe him with said money.
Calypso Cave is located in a cliff just off Xaghra; overlooking Gozo’s most sought-after sandy beach, Ramla Bay.
This site is thought to be the same cave Homer mentioned in `The Odyssey' where Calypso, the beautiful nymph, kept Odysseus as a `prisoner of love' for seven years.
Calypso had promised him immortality if he stayed with her, but he escaped when he could, and returned to his wife Penelope.
remember God, not the guy in the picture, me. lol
i was listening to this spiritual music as of posting. just went with it.
music:
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After photographing Jarik as a newborn (and his mother as pregnant with him), it was fun to meet this adorable guy again for his one year old photos last year.
His family and dog also joined in on some photos, which I will show later on.
Check out more photos of him in the links below the line!
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