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I've been pushing myself to try new things and night photography is one of them. Long exposures are always a challenge in the wind and the cold but this one made me happy. Little bit of sweetness and light. :-)
I almost gave up this evening but one last stop before I got to my car. Its a picture of 'home' (aka the place I spend 8 hour a day, 5 days a week). Classic downtown St. John's.
Hope you all have a great week!
Great Carolus Linnaeus in 1758 named Our Beauty: Papilio atalanta. But in 1807 his great one-time entomological student Johan Christian Fabricius (1745-1808) established the name for its genus as 'Vanessa'. That name was at the time just in vogue for women. It had been contrived by Jonathan 'Gulliver' Swift (1667-1745) for his lover Esther (Esse) Vanhomrigh (1688-1723) in his satirical poem Cadenus and Vanessa (1726). 'Vanessa' = the first three letters of her last name and then those of her first nickname. So it is thought that Fabricius derived his nomen for our Butterfly from Swift. Indeed, Vanessa in the poem is a nymph, a favorite designation for Butterflies.
Incidentally, Gulliver, Swift's wonderful creation, during his sojourn among giants in Brobdingnag is called an insect by the uncouth king.
In the photo Vanessa is nectaring on Garlic Chives.
Vanessa epaphus, that's how this pretty Butterfly was known until Jacob Hübner (1761-1826) came along in 1823. Johann Christian Fabricius (1745-1808) had used the name Vanessa - created by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) for a sweetheart of his - for a genus of these Butterflies in 1807. Hübner, though, for reasons of his own, devised the name 'Siproeta'; what it means remains unclear (see my www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/29857193144/in/photoli...).
This 'Epaphus' hails originally from the southern Americas, where it was seen, perhaps in Peru, by Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) and his traveling companion Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland (1773-1858) during their voyage 1799-1804. Their travelogue makes for exciting reading if you like voyages of discovery and amazement!
In the Butterfly Garden of the Amsterdam Zoo, our Page was feeding on Speckled eranthemum, Pseuderanthemum carrutherii (www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/4910422194/in/photolis...).
I had to go out again in the rain, happy I'm not made of iron, for I'd have become as rusty as our Flyer!
A day with the Muses, Claude Monet & Henri Lebasque ...
"O, thou Art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand Stars ... "
I borrow your words, Marlowe,they are proper words in the proper places ...
And you Jonathan Swift , you're right ...
" Vision is the Art of Seeing what is invisible to others ... "
"Beauty is in the heart of the beholder ... " H.G.Wells ღ
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∎ www.projekt-gutenberg | Gullivers Reisen | Der erste Teil | Eine Reise nach Lilliput.
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English
Tom Otterness is a very influential American sculptor known for his funny fairytale sculptures. His sculptures can be seen in museums as well as in the open air in several cities. You can find works of him in Valencia, Dallas, New York, Jerusalem and a number of other cities around the world. That is also the case in The Hague. At the boulevard of Scheveningen there is a section with a number of very large sculptures and a number of small ones. In general, his masterpieces consist of round shapes in combination with tubes. I had already uploaded the angry mother sculpture here last year. The bronze sculpture of this photo is very tall and it involves Gulliver being tied up by the people of Lilliput. In the first part of Jonathan Swift's famous book ‘Gulliver’s travels’, the highly imaginative protagonist Gulliver leaves for his first journey and ends up on the island of Lilliput. Very small people live there. He was tied up and captured by the smart and brave Lilliputians. The sculpture was made very large, because it was a giant to the people of Lilliput. By the way, it is very well thought of by writer Swift that in the second story of Gulliver's travels it is just the opposite in terms of length. In that story Gulliver is much smaller than the inhabitants in that area and the roles are reversed.
Nederlands
Tom Otterness is een zeer invloedrijke beeldhouwer die bekend staat om zijn grappige sprookjesachtige sculpturen. Zijn sculpturen zijn in meerdere steden zowel in musea als in de openlucht te zien . Zo zijn er ondermeer kunstwerken te vinden in Valencia, Dallas, New York, Jeruzalem en nog een aantal steden in de hele wereld. Bij de boulevard van Scheveningen in Den Haag is er een gedeelte ingericht met een aantal hele grote sculpturen en aantal kleine. Over het algemeen bestaan zijn meesterwerken uit ronde vormen in combinatie met buizen. Ik had vorig jaar al een keer het ‘Mama is boos’ kunstwerk geupload hier. Het bronzen sculptuur van deze foto is erg lang en het gaat om Gulliver die is vastgebonden door de mensen van Lilliput. In het eerste deel van het beroemde boek van Jonathan Swift ‘Gulliver’s Travels’, gaat de zeer tot de verbeelding sprekende hoofdpersoon Gulliver op ontdekkingsreis en beland hij na een aantal tegenslagen op het eiland Lilliput. Daar wonen echter hele kleine mensen. Door de slimme en dappere Lilliputters wordt hij vastegebonden en gevangen genomen. Het sculptuur is erg groot gemaakt, omdat hij voor de mensen in Lilliput een reus was. Het is trouwens erg goed bedacht van schrijver Swift dat in het tweede verhaal van ‘Gulliver's travels’ het juist omgekeerd is qua lengte. In dat verhaal is hij veel kleiner dan de inwoners in het nieuwe gebied en zijn de rollen omgedraaid.
"Besides, I now considered myself as bound by the law of hospitality to a people who had treated me with so much expense and magnificence. However, in my thoughts I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals, who durst venture to mount and walk on my body, while one of my hands was at liberty, without trembling at the very sight of so prodigious a creatures as I must appear to them."
- Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels,
'Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken'.
Jonathan Swift
For the 52 in 2017 group. week#23 "Broken"
Shot taken on June 5th 2017.
and for Textural Tuesday group - HTT ;o)
The chance to celebrate the summer with strawberries, served in my favourite way, with fresh cream in a flan case .... sigh!
My 52 in 2017 set: 52 in 2017
My Textural Tuesday set here: Elisa Textural Tuesday
My Food and drink set: Food and Drink
And said, «Vanessa be the name
By which thou shalt be known to fame:
Vanessa, by the gods enroll’d:
Her name on earth shall not be told.»
—Jonathan Swift
Atalanta / Red Admiral / Vanessa Atalanta / Vulcana / Numerata
Personaje destacado de la literatura inglesa e irlandesa, reconocido por su aguda crítica social y su estilo satírico punzante. Su obra más famosa, “Los viajes de Gulliver”
This is for Friday Flickr Group
Money, Money, Money?
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none. -
Richard M. DeVos
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. -
Benjamin Franklin
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. -
Henry David Thoreau
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. -
Jonathan Swift
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. -
Mark Twain
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~ I visited Lilliput ~
Dedicated to all visitors of my show at Realidad Ficticia-Fictitious Reality-17th Exhibition who supported me with comments and mail me.
Thank you very much!
Special thanks to Emillio Camarin
who organized my show, who believed in me and my work.
Thank you Emillio
Why "Lilliput"
We all have our little World which is our leader idea.
I find this micro-world wandering trough the marshes. Sun and few inches tall grasses were as from dream. I expect Lilliputians, but till now they didn't appear.
Please be satisfied imagining them. Yours mia
Info about Lilliput:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulliver's_Travels#Part_I:_A_Voyage...
I'm really taking my time with uploading pictures, but as a result I feel like I have so much to say when I do! I gave myself a little vacation, have been gone the last 5 days or so. I went to Arizona and hiked in the red rocks...it was amazing. I also did a lecture in Palm Springs on my way back home (we drove with our kitties!). The lecture was super fun and I had the best time sharing my story. I love speaking in front of people (well, I guess I'd be nuts if I loved speaking to myself...)...I hope I can do more of it.
I wrote a blog about this picture, including a before/after, but in a nutshell...it was inspired by Jonathan Swift and his creation of Laputa from Gulliver's Travels. The idea was freshly sparked by Castle in the Sky, an anime that I watched recently. My dearest Sonalii Castillo modeled, who is the epitome of strength and beauty tied into one, so I was very excited to see her as this character.
shadenproductions.com/blog/2013/03/07/the-swift-travels-o...
Model: Sonalii Castillo
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El catamaran d'alta velocitat Cecilia Payne de Balearia està actualment asignat a la linia Barcelona-Ciutadella-Alcúdia. Va ser construït l'any 1999 per les drassanes Austal Ships (Australia) i va entrar en servei sota el nom "Jonathan Swift" per a Irish Ferries. Durant el 2018 es transferit a la flota de Balearia. Té una eslora de 86 metres, un GT de 5992 i una velocitat màxima de 36 nusos. Té capacitat per a 800 passatgers i 200 vehicles.
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others
Jonathan Swift
model by Kuoma-stock
texture magic veil and heavenly light
This is Megazoom heaven for all you Megazoom lovers out there and I think it is the most detailed file we have ever uploaded! For those not familiar with Megazoom, just click on the highlighted NLI reference below which will bring you to our catalogue and you can, by using the + and - zoom in and out of the Map to reveal all its secrets. Have a lovely day.
Monday next is a Bank Holiday here in Ireland, so don’t be surprised when you find there is no posting from us that day.
Publisher: Colortext Publications Inc. Chicago.
Collection: NLI Ephemera Collection
Date: 1935
NLI Ref.: EPH E826
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
"NordTrans 1823"eases away from runway 28 at Dublin Airport, bound for Providence Airport, Rhode Island.
Ilustracion para "una modesta proposicion" de Jonathan Swift.
An illustration for "A modest proposition" by Jonathan Swift.
1938; Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. With black and white drawings by Theodore Naish. Dust Jacket edition
Norwegian Air International (Jonathan Swift) 737 MAX 8 Reg: EI-FYC "Nortrans 1823" departing Dublin to Providence.
Norwegian Long Haul Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner LN-LNV 'Jonathan Swift' [c/n 63312] at the gate at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport [AMS/EHAM] preparing to work a flight to New York, 12 January 2019.
When delivered in November 2017, this aircraft carried a British registration (G-CKNY) but was transferred to the Norwegian air registry a few months later.