View allAll Photos Tagged loop
Talking Stick Resort billboard on the eastbound Santan Freeway Loop 202 just before the Price Freeway Loop 101 exit that goes to Casino Arizona's Talking Stick Resort.
Talking Stick Resort is now open at the Pima Freeway Loop 101 & Indian Bend Road at the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community.
The Santan Freeway is in the southeast valley of Phoenix. This billboard is between I-10 and the Price Freeway Loop 101 at Gila River Indian Community next to Chandler, AZ.
Onsite Insite offers the only billboards along a 23-mile stretch of the Santan Freeway.
My first Bears game at Soldier Field was a pre-season showcase against the Denver Broncos. Unfortunately, Da Bears did not win. I did get some pictures of a stormy Chicago evening and the Loop.
It's actually crazy to think that wooden stilts can hold up this much metal and withstand this much centrifugal force.
78 E. Washington (Chicago Cultural Center)
"There’s a funny little spoon on view at the Cultural Center. It’s one of those souvenir items you could purchase at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, and it features a very fine two-sided carving of a woman at the end of its handle. The bowl of the spoon is engraved with the image of the Woman’s Building, the only one of the exposition’s many temporary neo-classical structures to have been designed by a female architect and the one that owed its existence in great part to the lady depicted on the spoon: Bertha Mathilda Honoré Palmer, a Chicago socialite, millionaire, and president of the fair’s Board of Lady Managers.
This footnote of feminist architectural history — which we definitely could complicate with a postcolonial read of an event held in celebration of the so-called discovery of the new world by Christopher Columbus, but which I’m not going to do here because it’ll get us too far off topic — is one of many told through two unrelated solo shows currently up in Chicago, must-sees for anyone who cares about feminism and how it intersects with modernist architecture, urban planning, and design. It helps, too, to have a preference for mischievous over pedantic historical revisionism. At the Cultural Center is Nelly Agassi: No Limestone, No Marble, containing that weird woman-spoon, enormous new sculptures and wall works, plus three series of witty and illuminating collages.
The Israeli-born Agassi, who settled in Chicago in 2011, has an exquisite sense of scale and drama. It’s an apt skillset when dealing with design, craft, and bodies, as she has done for the past two decades, from the room-sized dresses she performed in in the early 2000s in Tel Aviv to her 2019 show at the Graham Foundation, where she installed curtains that flowed, like golden tresses, across an entire gallery. It comes especially in handy in the Chicago Rooms, a trio of galleries on the second floor of the Cultural Center linked by narrow archways that rise nearly to the top of the 32-foot ceilings, with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking Millennium Park. The grandeur has proved challenging to artists in the past, but not Agassi, who appears to have been electrified rather than cowed. She occupies the first room with a dozen and a half enormous white tubes of flexible ductwork, cascading out of the wall and spilling over the floor while emitting eerie rumbling sounds from within. The effect is of a frothy waterfall, a futuristic musical instrument, a monster’s sickly pale intestinal tract, or some beastly combination thereof. I felt a bit cheated to realize that the piping didn’t actually penetrate the building, exposing rather than merely evoking its inner workings and noises, but I guess that’s in keeping with being theatrical as opposed to interventionist.
The three galleries of No Limestone, No Marble — a reference to the hefty materials used to construct the Cultural Center and so many of Chicago’s most important buildings — fit together like segments of a body. At the bottom are those white guts. In the middle is the torso, an installation of enormous rounded and rectangular mirrored plexiglass that playfully rearranges the shapes of the windows that line the walls, reflecting the world outside and the art inside. At the top is the head, or rather dozens of heads large and small: cut-outs of ladies’ hairstyles from vintage fashion magazines, collaged with pictures of Tiffany lamps and other home furnishings of the era, which turn out to make excellent proxies for women’s bodies and fashions. The queen of them all, blown up to billboard size, takes as her dress an image of the Cultural Center’s famed Tiffany dome, the largest in the US and perfectly elegant when worn with a twisty up-do. Much to ponder about the strictures faced by women at the turn of the 19th century as related to the aesthetics of the time? Oh yes, not least the recent discovery, related in an adjacent wall text, that Louis Comfort Tiffany did not design everything personally but actually depended on many talented women known as the “Tiffany girls,” designers and craftspeople forced to resign once married, and forbidden to unionize. Agassi offers her lamp-lady collages in their memory." -- Lori Waxman, 1/16/2023 @ hyperallergic.com.
The Soho Loop turns right off the Birmingham Mainline Canal. I take it regularly on my way to and from the city centre to home in Handsworth. The towpaths are good cycle tracks, improved by the Canal & River Trust. Oscar often runs beside me, safely off the road.
A love spoon made from sycamore, carved with an axe, a knife and a hook knife, finished with fine sandpaper
upper kinnaur terrain with the koh loops, where it takes 30 hair-pin bends to climb 1800m to the top of this typical himlayan cold desert mountain.
see more TRANS-HIMALAYAN LANDSCAPEs here.
Copyright - All Rights Reserved - Black Diamond Images
Raintrees Native and Rainforest Gardens, Diamond Beach, NSW
2019 was the driest year that the Mid North Coast of NSW had experienced in many many years with just 478mm of rain recorded in that year, well down on the 1221.7mm average for the area (Mean rainy days = 102.2 per annum)
2019 will be remembered for its widespread and damaging bushfires along the Australian east coast from Victoria and NSW to SE Queensland most notably during September, October and November of that year.
On February 8th 2020 that crippling drought finally broke when good rains arrived courtesy of La Nina. Most of 2020 had been characterised by regular good rain which kept coming just at the right time.
During 2020 we saw our local forests gradually recover, although arguably, that will take a good many years yet.
We unfortunately did see a massive increase in land clearing in response to those fires. Landholders everywhere engaged contractors to underscrub massive amounts of formerly forested land. Many landholders simply clear felled large areas of forest further endangering animal populations in the area, especially Koalas.
With the regularity of rain in 2020 came regrowth like we've never seen before. Weed species which had been suppressed by the drought became rampant as did native pioneer species. Epicormic growth on Eucalypts was prolific and coppicing from the base of drought impacted trees was prevalent.
By the end of 2020 the forests that had been burned to a cinder in 2019 were again looking unbelievably lush and green with understorey species like Dodonaea triquetra (Hop Bush), completely covering the floor of the forest.
We were indeed fortunate that the spring and summer of 2020 was characterised by regular good rainfall, without flooding rains, which meant there was almost no threat of any bushfires.
With the forests being so lush, had we had a long dry period over spring and summer of 2020, there was no doubt, given the regrowth in our local forests, that any fire event could have potentially been even more devastating than the 2019 fires.
Given the vast amount of regular rain received during January and February of 2021, at the time of writing, in late February 2021, this threat potential now appears to have been pushed out till the spring and summer of 2021/22.
We've received more rain in early 2021 than in the same period of 2020, yet no flooding events have to date occurred.
At Raintrees Native and Rainforest Gardens at Diamond Beach many trees that all but died have shot new coppicing growth from low down on their trunks however we've had to do a lot of pruning of dead wood and that process is ongoing.
We were forced to cut down around 100 Bangalow Palms which had suffered crown collapse during the 2019 drought. Those areas where palms were removed have been replanted with hardy rainforest trees giving many areas of the forest a completely different look.
In view of the prevailing currency of numerous conspiracy theories, about everything from the 'deep state' to Bill Gates, 911, Covid19 and to a supposed stolen US 2020 Election, we've named the new area of rainforest plantings 'The Forest of Conspiracy' and the loop track around that area 'Fake News Loop'.
Many of these often ridiculous conspiracy theories were actively encouraged during the 2020 USA Presidential elections with the aim of securing political capital among vulnerable groups.
At the same time we created a campfire area that we've named 'Cove 19'.
As we move into March 2021 amazingly we are seeing quite a few species that we thought had died in the 2019 drought now shooting coppicing growth and vigorously coming back demonstrating just how tough some of Australia's rainforest plants really are.
The 2019 drought set much of the forest back many years however 2020 and so far in 2021 things are looking very much brighter with a solid recover underway.
Lets just hope that La Nina hangs around for many more months.
With Double Fairlie 'Merddin Emrys' up front working the 10.45 Blaenau Ffestiniog-Porthmadog (11.15) 'Mountain Sprit' service, we look over to Ddaullt Station that we have just passed through as we climb the Ddaullt spiral loop.
In 1956 the British Electricity Authority compulsorily acquired the Ffestiniog Railways line above Moelwyn Tunnel to construct a reservoir and hydroelectric power station near Tanygrisiau.
A new route was surveyed, involving a spiral loop around Dduallt Station in order for the line to gain height and then pass through a new tunnel and along the west side of the reservoir before regaining the original alignment at Tanygrisiau Station.
The Dduallt spiral was completed in 1971 and the new route to Tanygrisiau opened in 1978.
26th March 2023
Tiene cinco looping, los mismos que los aros olimpicos. Me tuve que subir sola, porque ni mi hermana ni Magnolia se atrevieron...... Buahhhh!!!!!
Tobacco Looper, Chrysodeixis argentifera a species of Noctuidae. Como NSW Australia, January 2012.
Chrysodeixis caterpillars have two pairs of abdominal legs; taper towards the head; are green or blue green; arch the middle part of the back and move with a looping motion. When disturbed they move the forward portion of the body about in wide sweeping arcs.
Specifically, Chrysodeixis argentifera caterpillars have two longitudinal white stripes on the back and a row of body hairs with dark coloured bases along each side of the body.
From AGbulletin 2, The Identification of Armyworm, Cutworm, Budworm and Looper Caterpillar Pests, Graham Goodyer, Department of Agriculture, NSW, February 1978.
spontaneous batt
3.8 oz
Amazing shades of oranges and yellows and sparkles and sequins!
This will be for my sister's bridesmaid shawl
Very soft buffalo hide, faux leather fabric lined, pen loop, and fits up to three 3/12 x 5 1/2 journals ... I love it! Thinking of making some as gifts for Christmas...
Another photohop cutout excercise. Replaced playground sand with crushed fruit loops on the sidewalk.
Union Pacific westbound negotiates the Williams Loop in Northern California on UP's Feather River route. Notice the autoracks on the rear of the train passing over the head end. Photo from May 1999.
This is a photograph from the East of Ireland Marathon Series Marathon which was held in Longwood Village, Co. Meath, Ireland on Saturday 2nd August 2014 at 09:00. There were 47 participants in the marathon which completed 8 loops of a 5KM route (and a additional 2KM) with Longwood GAA club acting as Race Headquarters, Start, Finish, and refreshments area. The weather was unseasonably wet for this time of year with rain for the entire duration of the race. However this didn't stop everyone enjoying the day. Thanks to the folks at Longwood GAA (particularly Barry Clarke and Vincent Byrne) who provided excellent hospitality and facilities for all participants. There was a great atmosphere at the race and everyone enjoyed another trip to the countryside for an EOIM. Hot showers and changing rooms were also available.
Despite the weather there were a few PBs and fast inidividual times. The course is a nice fast flat 5KM loop. It is used every year as the Longwood GAA 5KM Road Race. The marathon loop followed the reverse of the race route for safety reasons as the roads were fully opened for the EOIM event. There is a total elevation gain of 20ft and an elevation loss of 23ft. The sources of elevation gain are only very small rises on the road and aren't really noticeable. Part of the route includes a kilometer on a boreen which is nicely sheltered and with good road surface. The road surface is excellent for the entire route. The heavy rain from the previous 12 hours meant there were some puddles along the roads. Whilst Longwood is a rural venue it is easily accessible from all parts of Ireland due to it's close proximity to the N4 and the M4 Motorways.
We have an extensive set of photographs from today's event on the following Flickr Photoset Page: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157646066559286/
Reading on a Smartphone or tablet? Don't forget to scroll down further to read more about this race and see important Internet links to other information about the race! You can also find out how to access and download these photographs.
Tell me more about the East of Ireland Marathon Series
This race event was part of the East of Ireland Marathon Series. The East Of Ireland Marathon Series aims to make marathons affordable and convienient for the runners of Ireland. The series organisers aim to promote marathon running and to make the process as stress free and enjoyable as possible. All courses are measured to full AAI standards and have a minimum of 10 Entrants. The marathons are self sufficent to a degree although there are limited supplies of water available on the day of the race. There will be no extra frills like chip timing and finish gantrys. However all finishing times are accurately and officially recorded and each marathon counts as an official marathon. Overall, this approach to marathon organisation helps to keep the price down and allows these races to be run in as an economically affordable manner as possible. The East of Ireland Marathon series is all inclusive and welcomes runners who are new to marathon running as well as experienced veterans. So if you are thinking of your 1st marathon, your 10th marathon, or your 100th the East of Ireland Marathon Series will provide a very friendly and low-cost environment for to become part of Ireland's marathon running community.
Some useful Internet links
Our photographs from the East of Ireland Marathon in Longwood in January 2014: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157640099311556/
East of Ireland Marathons Facebook Group Page: www.facebook.com/groups/130592073780072/ (you will need a Facebook account to view this)
East of Ireland Marathons Website: www.eastofirelandmarathons.com/
Race Website with Route Description: www.peterm7.com/longwoodEOIM
Garmin GPS Trace of the Marathon Route (main loop) connect.garmin.com/activity/401171615
Can I use these photographs directly from Flickr on my social media account(s)?
Yes - of course you can! Flickr provides several ways to share this and other photographs in this Flickr set. You can share to: email, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Tumblr, LiveJournal, and Wordpress and Blogger blog sites. Your mobile, tablet, or desktop device will also offer you several different options for sharing this photo page on your social media outlets.
We take these photographs as a hobby and as a contribution to the running community in Ireland. Our only "cost" is our request that if you are using these images: (1) on social media sites such as Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, Twitter,LinkedIn, Google+, etc or (2) other websites, blogs, web multimedia, commercial/promotional material that you must provide a link back to our Flickr page to attribute us.
This also extends the use of these images for Facebook profile pictures. In these cases please make a separate wall or blog post with a link to our Flickr page. If you do not know how this should be done for Facebook or other social media please email us and we will be happy to help suggest how to link to us.
I want to download these pictures to my computer or device?
You can download the photographic image here direct to your computer or device. This version is the low resolution web-quality image. How to download will vary slight from device to device and from browser to browser. However - look for a symbol with three dots 'ooo' or the link to 'View/Download' all sizes. When you click on either of these you will be presented with the option to download the image. Remember just doing a right-click and "save target as" will not work on Flickr.
I want get full resolution, print-quality, copies of these photographs?
If you just need these photographs for online usage then they can be used directly once you respect their Creative Commons license and provide a link back to our Flickr set if you use them. For offline usage and printing all of the photographs posted here on this Flickr set are available free, at no cost, at full image resolution.
Please email petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com with the links to the photographs you would like to obtain a full resolution copy of. We also ask race organisers, media, etc to ask for permission before use of our images for flyers, posters, etc. We reserve the right to refuse a request.
In summary please remember when requesting photographs from us - If you are using the photographs online all we ask is for you to provide a link back to our Flickr set or Flickr pages. You will find the link above clearly outlined in the description text which accompanies this photograph. Taking these photographs and preparing them for online posting does take a significant effort and time. We are not posting photographs to Flickr for commercial reasons. If you really like what we do please spread the link around your social media, send us an email, leave a comment beside the photographs, send us a Flickr email, etc. If you are using the photographs in newspapers or magazines we ask that you mention where the original photograph came from.
I would like to contribute something for your photograph(s)?
Many people offer payment for our photographs. As stated above we do not charge for these photographs. We take these photographs as our contribution to the running community in Ireland. If you feel that the photograph(s) you request are good enough that you would consider paying for their purchase from other photographic providers or in other circumstances we would suggest that you can provide a donation to any of the great charities in Ireland who do work for Cancer Care or Cancer Research in Ireland.
We use Creative Commons Licensing for these photographs
We use the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License for all our photographs here in this photograph set. What does this mean in reality?
The explaination is very simple.
Attribution- anyone using our photographs gives us an appropriate credit for it. This ensures that people aren't taking our photographs and passing them off as their own. This usually just mean putting a link to our photographs somewhere on your website, blog, or Facebook where other people can see it.
ShareAlike – anyone can use these photographs, and make changes if they like, or incorporate them into a bigger project, but they must make those changes available back to the community under the same terms.
Creative Commons aims to encourage creative sharing. See some examples of Creative Commons photographs on Flickr: www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
I ran in the race - but my photograph doesn't appear here in your Flickr set! What gives?
As mentioned above we take these photographs as a hobby and as a voluntary contribution to the running community in Ireland. Very often we have actually ran in the same race and then switched to photographer mode after we finished the race. Consequently, we feel that we have no obligations to capture a photograph of every participant in the race. However, we do try our very best to capture as many participants as possible. But this is sometimes not possible for a variety of reasons:
►You were hidden behind another participant as you passed our camera
►Weather or lighting conditions meant that we had some photographs with blurry content which we did not upload to our Flickr set
►There were too many people - some races attract thousands of participants and as amateur photographs we cannot hope to capture photographs of everyone
►We simply missed you - sorry about that - we did our best!
You can email us petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com to enquire if we have a photograph of you which didn't make the final Flickr selection for the race. But we cannot promise that there will be photograph there. As alternatives we advise you to contact the race organisers to enquire if there were (1) other photographs taking photographs at the race event or if (2) there were professional commercial sports photographers taking photographs which might have some photographs of you available for purchase. You might find some links for further information above.
Don't like your photograph here?
That's OK! We understand!
If, for any reason, you are not happy or comfortable with your picture appearing here in this photoset on Flickr then please email us at petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com and we will remove it as soon as possible. We give careful consideration to each photograph before uploading.
I want to tell people about these great photographs!
Great! Thank you! The best link to spread the word around is probably http://www.flickr.com/peterm7/sets
Pentax K20D + Pentacon auto (M42) 29mm f/2.8
Traitement de base via Darktable (netteté, courbe de base boîtier, aberrations chromatiques, corrections objectif, suppression des franges, exposition +0,5 EV)
For your outdoor activities and gym workout, the sports loop apple watch band is the best option. These bands are made up of nylon fabric in multiple color shades. Along with durability, these straps are comfortable and available in attractive textures.