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Some Great Reward is the title of the fourth studio album by British synthpop band Depeche Mode. It was partly produced in Berlin and released in 1984.
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One of two Turbines left in this abandoned turbine hall in a partly demolished Powerplant.
Vandaag reed de Party Trein voor de eerste keer uit dit seizoen. De primeur was voor het metalfestival Graspop in Dessel. Hiervoor werden extra treinen naar Mol ingezet.
De belangrijkste trein was de Party Trein die zoals altijd uit M4 rijtuigen en een I10 restauratierijtuig en het SR-3 (I10 Bar-Disco) rijtuig. Het SR-3 rijtuig rijdt voor de eerste keer rond in de nieuwe livrei.
Doordat de IC vanuit Binche (weeral) vertraging had, werd de Party Trein in Lier op soor 5 gezet, in plaats van spoor 4. Het werd dus snel zoeken naar een last minute fotopunt om de trein te fotograferen, aangezien ik had gehoopt deze vanaf spoor 3 te fotograferen.
Hier zien we de trein vertrekken uit Lier richting Herentals en Mol.
EXT 18000 Antwerpen-Centraal - Mol
Lier, 21 juni 2018.
Actually, the title is a complete lie. It's a pot that my wife planted of cactus and succulents, but to my eye it looked like something you see when diving or snorkeling. The San Diego Botanical Garden has an "Undersea Succulent Garden", so my wife has one too, it's just on a smaller scale.
Strobist info: Lit with a YN560-II in a 24 inch softbox camera right at 3 o'clock for the main directional light, a YN560 in an identical softbox camera left at 9 o'clock for fill, and a handheld Strobie 130 in a Honl snoot to direct some light onto the center of the flower. All three strobes, in manual mode were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N radio trigger.
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. In the description for that set, I list resources that I've used to learn how to light with off camera flash, and the equipment that I use. www.flickr.com/photos/9422
If you like pictures of cactus and succulents, you might not hate my Cactus and Succulents set. That set can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157633383093236/
Roker is a tourist resort and affluent area of Sunderland, North East England, bounded on the south by the River Wear and Monkwearmouth, on the east by the North Sea, to the west by Fulwell and on the north by Seaburn. It is administered as part of the City of Sunderland and lies within historic County Durham.
The majority of the houses in Roker are terraced or semi-detached. Further west, to the part bordering Fulwell, are cul-de-sacs with semi-detached bungalows, these being owned mainly by members of Roker's sizeable elderly population. On Roker Terrace (Roker's main street) are exclusive apartments and hotels which overlook the seafront.
In addition to Seaburn seafront, the coast at Roker seafront plays host to Sunderland International Airshow, the biggest free airshow in Europe, which takes place each year, usually over the last weekend in July.
The story of Roker began in 1587, when the Abbs family were granted land on the north side of the River Wear on the condition that they provided six soldiers to defend the mouth of the river. Fast forward to 1840, when Roker Terrace was built upon the cliff tops, along with Monkwearmouth baths and Roker Park soon after. The pier and lower promenade were built six years later. In 1898 Roker Park Stadium was built and Roker became known worldwide for being home to Sunderland A.F.C. The stadium was used for ninety-nine years until 1997. In the early 20th century Roker became a hugely popular resort for locals and tourists alike, and in 1928 it was taken over by the Borough of Sunderland, along with Fulwell and Seaburn.
In 1995 Roker Park Conservation Area was declared
St Andrew's Church (1905–07) is recognised as one of the finest churches of the first half of the twentieth century and the masterpiece of Edward Schroeder Prior.
One well-known landmark of sorts in Roker is the Bungalow Cafe, which is an old-fashioned café in a tiny bungalow on the upper promenade. Also famous is the signpost next to the café, marked: "To Beach" (pointing towards the beach), "To Village" (pointing into Roker), "To Bungalow" (pointing to the cafe), and "To Germany" (pointing out to sea).
A museum is located in the Roker Watch House which was originally opened in 1906 as the headquarters of the Roker Volunteer Life Brigade. It is open every Sunday afternoon and on Bank Holiday Mondays.
Other nearby landmarks are the statue of Bede's cross on the cliff top near Roker Park and St Peter's Church, Monkwearmouth. The cross recognises the work of the Venerable Bede, who worked in the North-East all his life at the twin monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrow. There is bid for the twin monasteries to gain World Heritage Site status.
From 1717 the newly formed River Wear Commission began to improve the harbour entrance at the mouth of the Wear. By 1750 a pair of breakwaters had been built (which survive in truncated form as the 'Old' North and South Piers).
By the beginning of the next century each had a lighthouse at its end. (The lighthouse which stands today in Roker Cliff Park originally stood on the Old South Pier; it was deactivated in 1903 and removed eighty years later.)
With the growth of Sunderland as a port, it was decided to improve the approach to the river by creating an outer harbour, protected by a new pair of new breakwaters curving out into the North Sea from the shore on each side. The new piers were the brainchild of Henry Hay Wake, who at the age of 25 had been appointed Chief Engineer to the River Wear Commission (in succession to Thomas Meik) in 1868. The foundation stone for the New North Pier (Roker Pier) was laid on 14 September 1885. Applauded at the time as a triumph of engineering, the 1,198 ft (365 m) pier is built of granite-faced concrete blocks, which were loaded onto wagons at River Weir Works by a Goliath crane and unloaded and placed at the end of the pier by a Titan crane.
The opposite 'New South Pier' was begun at around the same time but never fully completed due to the start of the First World War; the twin lighthouse planned for its end was never built.
The lighthouse at the pier head was completed in 1903. Its distinctive stripes are of naturally coloured red and white Aberdeen granite. When built it was said to be Britain's most powerful port lighthouse. Equipped with a third-order rotating catadioptric optic (consisting of a single-panel Fresnel lens backed by a prismatic mirror), it displayed a single flash every five seconds. The lighthouse had initially (like its predecessors) been lit by gas from the town mains, but the supply to the end of the pier was found to be intermittent so the gas light was soon replaced by a Chance Brothers incandescent petroleum vapour mantle lamp. This increased the effective intensity of the light from 40,000 to 150,000 candle power, to give it a range of 15 nautical miles (28 km; 17 mi).
A fog siren was also provided, powered by compressed air from a pair of 7-horsepower gas engines located in the basement. It gave a two-second blast every twenty seconds in foggy weather from a sounder on the parapet, which was regulated by clockwork.
The light was semi-automated in 1936 when a new light system was installed by AGA. The main lamp was a 750-watt incandescent light bulb, with a gas mantle lamp (fed from the town supply) provided as a stand-by, activated by an automatic lamp changer; and a small electric motor automatically wound the clockwork which rotated the lens.
Full automation followed in 1972, when the old optic was replaced by two back-to-back arrays of six sealed beam units mounted on an AGA gearless rotating pedestal, to give the light an increased range of 23 nautical miles (43 km; 26 mi); a new fog horn was also provided at the same time. The system was supervised remotely from the Pilot House on the Old North Pier. Subsequent to its removal the 1903 optic was added to the maritime collection of Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery.
In 2007 the lighting system was again replaced with a dual-drive Pelangi PRL400 rotating pedestal and lamp.
Roker Pier Lighthouse still functions today. Both pier and lighthouse have undergone significant refurbishment in recent years. In 2012, as part of the restoration, a new flashing LED lamp array was installed, replacing the small Pelangi unit previously in use. In 2018, following a comprehensive six-year process of refurbishment, the lighthouse was opened to the public for the first time; regular guided tours now take place, with access provided by way of the tunnel which runs the length of the pier.
On the site of Sunderland AFC's former stadium is a small housing estate, its street names all being references to the football club (Clockstand Close, Goalmouth Close, Promotion Close, Midfield Drive etc.). The streets in between Roker Baths Road and Roker Avenue are all named after members of William Ewart Gladstone's cabinet (Gladstone, Hartington, Forster, Bright, Stansfield, and so on).
Lies Baas 2012 While on the way to pick up an Urbex-Flickr-mate our car broke down, so we never made it to DE. But chipper as ever we went to Radio Kootwijk&The Kröller-Möller hunting mansion. We had a lot of fun...and almost frose our fingers off...I am a firm believer in 'everything happens for a reason' so...I counted our blessings&our savingsaccount for the broken car ;-)))
My first attempt at this type of photography, your comments are much appreciated :)
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Glowing like a multi-faceted jewel, the planetary nebula IC 418 lies about 2,000 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Lepus. This photograph was obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2).
A planetary nebula represents the final stage in the evolution of a star similar to our Sun. The star at the center of IC 418 was a red giant a few thousand years ago, but then ejected its outer layers into space to form the nebula, which has now expanded to a diameter of about 0.1 light-year. The stellar remnant at the center is the hot core of the red giant, from which ultraviolet radiation floods out into the surrounding gas, causing it to fluoresce. Over the next several thousand years, the nebula will gradually disperse into space, and then the star will cool and fade away for billions of years as a white dwarf. Our own Sun is expected to undergo a similar fate, but fortunately this will not occur until some 5 billion years from now.
The Hubble image of IC 418 is shown in a false-color representation, based on WFPC2 exposures taken in February and September 1999 through filters that isolate light from various chemical elements. Red shows emission from ionized nitrogen (the coolest gas in the nebula, located furthest from the hot nucleus), green shows emission from hydrogen, and blue traces the emission from ionized oxygen (the hottest gas, closest to the central star). The remarkable textures seen in the nebula were revealed by Hubble, and their origin is still uncertain.
For more information please visit: hubblesite.org/image/990/news_release/2000-28
Credit: NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Acknowledgment: Raghvendra Sahai (JPL) and Arsen R. Hajian (USNO)
.© 2013 Lélia Valduga, all rights reserved. It is forbidden to read by any reproduction.
Fes el-Bali - It is the best preserved medieval town and continuously inhabited still exists. It is the oldest part of Fez, and the most visited by tourists.
Fez (Fes and also called, in Arabic, Fas) is a city in Morocco. It is famous for its old town, or medina, which, with its fabulous palaces and souqs, is considered by many the most beautiful in the world medina.
Fez is the third largest city in Morocco, after Casablanca and Rabat. Lies in a valley at the foot of the Atlas Mountains. Was made one of the most important cities in the world, situated on the caravan routes linking Saharan empires such as Timbuktu with the Atlantic and the Mediterranean.
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Yesterday, today, tomorrow
Fade away like frozen photographs.
Remember, forget
The stakes, the ways you take,
The ways you make the moments pass.
For every regret,
I tell a beautiful lie.
And I would die if you find out.
I tell a beautiful lie every time that I
did not open up my mouth.
All the same, it’s a game,
it’s a play, it’s a war,
it’s a shame that we’re always fighting for.
I don’t mean to cast no blame,
I don’t intend to pretend, I could, never loved you more.
But in the blink of an eye, everything you ever knew can change
And it’s a beautiful lie if you think everything will always stay the same.
Babe.
My babe.
You got a secret – it’s starting to show.
My babe.
Sweet babe.
How long can you keep it?
How far would you go?
You tell a beautiful lie.
You tell a beautiful lie.
And it’s going to, it’s going to drive you crazy.
Babe
My babe.
It’s starting to show.
My babe.
Sweet babe.
How far would you go, go, go to tell a beautiful lie?
Yesterday, today, tomorrow
Fade away like frozen photographs
Remember, forget
Forever.
Lie.
Beautiful lie.
Foto: Jaime_Kaervec
You wouldn't believe she's 90 years old.
portrait by Martin-Jan van Santen, an artist from Holland. Oil on panel. You are welcome to visit his website:
www.martinjanvansanten.com to see acomplete collection of his work. Every painting on this website is for sale, unless indicated otherwise. Check out his new portfolio:
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You think it's fun to lie
Looking in my eyes
All the games you play
Take my heart away
You think it's fun to lie
Playing with my mind
Baby you should stop
Love or give it back
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