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Gargoyle from Notre Dame in Reims - the black stuff is lead. The original lead roof on the church melted when the church was severely damaged in the First World War, which had this rather strange effect.
At Palais du Tau - the former palace of the archibishop of Reims. It was here the French king stayed before his coronation in the cathedral close by and after the coronation the banquet was held here - the first recorded one in 990 and the last in 1825. The palace gets its name from the Greek letter Tau which shape it resembled, a name first attested in the 12th century.
The first attested building in the place was a late Gallo-Roman villa, later to be replaced by a Carolingian palace. This in turn was rebuilt and now the oldest part of the palace is the chapel (dating to 1207) and the rest of the palace dates to around 1500 (with a later, Baroque face-lift 1671-1710). The palace was damaged by fire in 1914. It now houses the Musée de l'Œuvre which shows a great collection of pieces of art connected with the cathedral - from statues and tapestries to reliquaries and items used at the coronations.
There are differences between the two, but another term for stained glass is leaded glass. We tend to see the images in stained glass, particularly ecclesiastical stained glass, as if they were two-dimensional cartoons without being aware of the lead that holds the composition together.
So, during an intermission in a recent nighttime performance at Portand's First Baptist Church, I took the opportunity to photograph a leaded glass window from the inside, thereby capturing the lead tracery as well as the jewel-like tones of the old glass.
As an aside, it would alarm some Baptists and some Muslims to learn that they share an aversion to representations of the human figure in their art. The First Baptist Church is a magnificent Richardsonian Romanesque structure whose interior decoration consists entirely of botanical motifs and geometric designs. Even Jesus's usual spot on the altar cross is vacant.
My immediate take on this fear of idolatry is that it silences an important source of stories. In other religious traditions, to enter a church is to be surrounded by images that repeat and reinforce the tenets of the faith. Looking at the ceiling of the First Baptist Church, with its abundant flowers and vines, will most likely remind the faithful that it's time to prune the shrubs.
Having said that, I discovered the Biblical characters at First Baptist inhabit the stained glass windows there. In fact, even this small sample of the glass there's a bit of the eagle of St. John the Evangelist. What happens when you see the eagle or, in this case, just a few of its wing feathers? Well, if you paid attention in Sunday School or Art History, you're drawn into a meditation upon "a figure of the sky, and believed by Christian scholars to be able to look straight into the sun. ... This symbolizes that Christians should look on eternity without flinching as they journey towards their goal of union with God."
I'm not endorsing the content of that message here, just admiring the universal human impulse to express complex ideas through symbolic images.
תרגיל ״בלו פלאג״ 2015: התרגיל האווירי הגדול בתולדות החיל בו השתתפו חילות-אוויר מרחבי העולם ותרגלו טיסה משותפת במתארי קיצון
צילום: הגר עמיבר
2015 "Blue Flag" exercise: The biggest aerial exercise in the history of the IAF in which multiple foreign forces took part and practiced coalition flying in extreme scenarios
Photo by: Hagar Amibar
I wasn’t specifically seeking the CSX Tropicana Juice Train on its thrice-weekly way north from Bradenton, but heading south on US 41, I noted that the bridge spanning the Palmetto River had been lowered. Assuming that the train had not already just crossed, I knew I had but 10 minutes to pull off the highway, find a parking spot and then dash to a suitable photting spot. Phew! I made it with just one minute to spare, a lucky day. Leading the double-headed consist was CSX #973, nicely side-lit in the mid-morning sunshine. It is a GE AC4400CW. Out of view behind it is sister locomotive #3360.
While spending the weekend near DC visiting family, I stepped out for a bit with my brother-in-law to explore a little bit of Virginia. After being asked by two drunk hillbillies to leave the area I was first set up in, we ended up a bit down this road taking some star trails and then stopped here before we headed back. Those hillbillies just couldn't seem to understand why I was taking pictures of the stars and it's nights like this one that are exactly why.
According to Wiki - USS Iowa (BB-61) was the lead ship of her class of battleship and the fourth in the United States Navy to be named in honor of the 29th state. Owing to the cancellation of the Montana-class battleships, Iowa is the last lead ship of any class of United States battleships and was the only ship of her class to have served in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II.
During World War II, she carried President Franklin D. Roosevelt across the Atlantic to Mers El Kébir, Algeria, en route to a crucial 1943 meeting in Tehran with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin. She has a bathtub — an amenity installed for Roosevelt, along with an elevator to shuttle him between decks.[1] When transferred to the Pacific Fleet in 1944, Iowa shelled beachheads at Kwajalein and Eniwetok in advance of Allied amphibious landings and screened aircraft carriers operating in the Marshall Islands. She also served as the Third Fleet flagship, flying Adm. William F. Halsey's flag at the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay. During the Korean War, Iowa was involved in raids on the North Korean coast, after which she was decommissioned into the United States Navy reserve fleets, better known as the "mothball fleet." She was reactivated in 1984 as part of the 600-ship Navy plan and operated in both the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets to counter the recently expanded Soviet Navy. In April 1989, an explosion of undetermined origin wrecked her No. 2 gun turret, killing 47 sailors.
Iowa was decommissioned for the last time in 1990, and was initially stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in 1995. She was reinstated from 1999 to 2006 to comply with federal laws that required retention and maintenance of two Iowa-class battleships. In 2011 Iowa was donated to the Los Angeles-based non-profit Pacific Battleship Center and was permanently moved to Berth 87 at the Port of Los Angeles in the summer of 2012, where she was opened to the public to serve as a museum and memorial to battleships.
Eden and Lilith. They've been living with me since their release date, but this is the only (bad) picture that I have taken of them. Don't ask me why. I really don't know.
The eastbound BNSF Cuba Subdivision Lead Line Local climbs the hill at South Glenwood Lane behind Burlington Northern GP39-2 2724, EMDX GP38-2 711 and an unidentified Santa Fe GP30. Kirkwood, Missouri, USA, 14 February 1998.
The image shows details of the fracture surface of lead automatic pencil.
Courtesy of Francisco Rangel
Image Details
Instrument used: Quanta Family
Magnification: 1300x
Horizontal Field Width: 230 μm
Voltage: 30 kV
Spot: 3.0
Working Distance: 14.1
Detector: Mix: SE + BSE
"Exploitation of the deep leads, which was complicated and costly, required capital to fund the shaft sinking and underground tunnelling, the infrastructure of poppet heads, machinery, equipment, steam engine houses, puddling machines, water pumps and sluice apparatus, and the employment of miners and support workers."
aka Shalita
I like her Britney looks, but her fashions aren't a 100% mine.. must find something else for her... her face is super cute and the hair looks nice. Her bag is very cool, her shoes are eeeww for me... well they are ok. I like the big earrings, they look great with her face screening.
Looking forward to redress this beauty soon....
...I think a picture always
leads you gently to someone else
Don't you? like when you ask to leave the room
& go to the moon.
From Bean Spasms, Ted Berrigan