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Salt Pond SF2 lies just south of the western approach to the Dumbarton Bridge in South San Francisco Bay. It is one of three early initiatives in the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project to improve habitat while providing for public access (others are in Alviso and Eden Landing). Over the past year and a half construction crews have transformed what was once a flat salt evaporation pond into 237 acres of nesting and shallow water foraging habitat for shorebirds plus habitat for threatened snowy plovers. This has required an impressive combination of civil engineering and conservation science. The resulting constructed wetland is quite complex with renewed levees, flow control structures that allow one-way flow of tidal waters, berms, flat board weirs, and the creation of 30 nesting islands.
After waiting for this season’s plover nesting to finish, refuge management opened the project to tidal flow on 18 August 2010. This photo set is my first since the pond was opened (my last visit was to photograph construction of the flow control gates).
I am taking these documentary photographs under a Special Use Permit from the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Kite flying is prohibited over Pond SF2 without a Special Use Permit. The area is (or soon will be) open to public access. You can learn more about our Hidden Ecologies Project at arch.ced.berkeley.edu/hiddenecologies/
Few will be unaware of Broadway, since it's Edwardian rediscovery this picturesque Cotswold town has attracted visitors from all over the world. Broadway has fallen from the high wolds lying at the foot of the escarpment, the main street once climbed the lower slopes of Fish Hill slipping away as the ascent defied further building, Now a bypass takes the heavy traffic past Broadway, returning the upper part of the village to it's Victorian calm.
In common with several other Cotswold settlements Broadway began as a planned medieval town created by Pershore Abbey in the late 12th or early 13th centuries as a source of revenue. This may explain the position of the Norman church dedicated to St Eadburgha, which is a mile or so along the Snowshill road close to an older route over Fish Hill. The town prospered in the 17th and 18th centuries deriving a large portion of it's income from the wool and cloth trades and served as an important stopping place when coach travel blossomed, stimulated by the creation of turnpike roads. A medieval building the Abbot's Grange survives at the eastern end of the town.
As the old church was an inconvenient distance from the 17th century town, a chapel of ease was built near the marketplace in 1608, St Michael, this church was rebuilt in 1839. However, the wonderfully evocative Norman church St Eadburgha's is still used in the summer months. Eadburgha was a Saxon princess who as a child chose a bible over a bag of jewels, she was the daughter of Edward the Elder. A Saxon dedication suggests the presence of an earlier church on the site. St Eadburgha stands on the edge of Broadway perched above a wooded valley surrounded by fields. The elegant exterior gives the impression of a wealthy Perpendicular wool church but a soon as you step into the lofty nave a Norman structure is revealed. A three-bay pointed arcade with round piers betrays the buildings Norman origins, outside two west buttresses and the remains of an east buttress show the whole building to be c1200. The towers seems to have been built into the original nave preserving the piers of a fourth bay while the east responds were topped with battlements.The west and east tower arches are 14th century but the chancel arch retains imposts c1200. A vaulted roof spans the tower-crossing while the upper stages are Perpendicular as are the chancel windows although there is evidence of 13th century lancets. A Jacobean altar rail guards the communion table at the eat end of the chancel. The chancel has a trefoil headed piscina with continuous roll-moulding. A 13th century south transept has a south window of three stepped pointed-trefoiled lights, a piscina suggests the transept was used as an additional chapel. The nave roof sits on a wall plate with fleurons and one carved head. Above the chancel arch is a Royal Coat of Arms of Charles I dated to 1641.A Norman tub font has medieval encaustic tiles around it but inside the north door is the base of a 13th century hexagonal font with slender shafts. The church guide suggests the pulpit, that has Perpendicular panels, was once a travelling pulpit that would have been tied to the back of a horse. There are screens and benches in the choir which were constructed from medieval fragments. On the east wall is a brass to Anton Daston died 1571, this is a palimpsest, engraved on a Flemish brass plate, part of which is now in Westerham, Kent. There are fragments of medieval glass in many of the windows. A recent edition are beautiful oak pews made by Christopher Holmes of Rookery Farm, Broadway. The church has a peal of six bells including a Bagley bell of 1778.
Unfortunately the church has been a victim of several thefts, particularly a carved Flemish panel and the parish chest, these are illustrated on my Flickr site: www.flickr.com/photos/bwthornton/sets/72157633151004936, it would be wonderful if these pieces could be found and restored to their proper place.
Rupin Pass Trek : Rupin Pass is a high altitude pass across the Himalaya mountain range in state of Himachal Pradesh, India. It lies on a traditional shepherd and hiking route which starts from Dhaula in Uttarakhand and ends in Sangla in Himachal Pradesh. The path itself is located across mostly uninhabited areas in the Himalayan ranges at an elevation of 15,250 ft (4,650M) above sea level.
Day 1: Pick up from Dehradun railway station and proceed towards Dhaula
Day 2: Dhaula 5,100 ft to Sewa 6,299 ft
Day 3: Sewa 6,299 ft to Jhaka 8,700 ft.
Day 4: Jhaka 8,700 ft to Saruwas thatch 10,250 ft.
Day 5: Saruwas thatch 10,250 ft to Dhanderas thatch 11,680 ft (lower water fall camp)
Day 6: *Buffer day. Dhanderas thatch 11,680 ft to Upper Waterfall camp 13,300 ft.
Day 7: Upper Waterfall 13,120 ft to Rupin Pass 15,250 ft to Ronti Gad 13,420 ft.
Day 8: Ronti Gad 13,420 ft to Sangla 8,800 ft.
The Ricard Gallery, at 3900 NE 1st Avenue, presented the exhibit, Death of Lies, by Montreal visual artist Carlito Dalceggio for Art Basel 2011.
White Lies
29 Agosto 2014
Bum Bum Festival - Trescore Balneario (BG)
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White Lies are an English post-punk band from Ealing, London. Formerly known as Fear of Flying, the band consists primarily of Harry McVeigh (lead vocals, guitar), Charles Cave (bass guitar and backing vocals), and Jack Lawrence-Brown (drums). The band perform live as a five-piece, complemented by sidemen Tommy Bowen and Rob Lee.
White Lies formed in October 2007, upon writing songs they felt didn't suit their original band. After delaying their first performance for five months to build up media hype ,they earned a recording contract with Fiction Records days after their debut. The release of singles "Unfinished Business" and "Death" led to tours and festival appearances in the United Kingdom and North America, including a headline performance at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend and a place on the 2009 NME Awards Tour. At the beginning of 2009, White Lies featured in multiple "ones to watch" polls for the coming year, including the BBC's Sound of 2009 poll and the BRITs Critics' Choice Award.
White Lies' debut album To Lose My Life... was released in January 2009, debuting at number one on the UK Albums Chart. Their second album Ritual was recorded in 2010, and was released on 17 January 2011. Big TV, their third studio effort, was released on 12 August 2013. White Lies' musical style has been described as dark yet uplifting by the media, drawing comparisons to Joy Division, Editors, The Bravery and Interpol.
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Lier Psychiatric Hospital, formerly known as Lier Asylum, is a large facility in Buskerud, Norway. Opened in 1926, it's six patient blocks were intended to become one of the leading institutions curing and housing mental patients. At it's most, almost 700 patients were held here.
Although many were cured, the hospital is renowned for their experimental use of electroshock, lobotomy, and LSD. In 1992, documents revealed a number of 373 patients having been lobotomized in the period of 1941 to 1959 alone.
In 1986, most of the buildings were closed due to downsizing and the use of newer facilities in Drammen, but there's still some activity left on the premises.
After several years of discussion, money has been granted to remove the old, worn down buildings. I hope I'll be able to go back there at least once more before they are demolished.
The pictures in this set are from building D.
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If you follow the canal through #Lier #belgium as far north as you can you’ll arrive at ‘het spui’, a 16th century sluice house built to control the amount of water going through the town, or, around the town via the then newly dug connection between the big and small rivers Nete. This is the only remaining building from the second town walls, the old route of which is now ‘de vesten’ park which circles the town, so on foot you can join ‘de vesten’ there and continue your walk.
Joyce Mansour, née Joyce Patricia Adès, à Bowden, Angleterre le 25 juillet 1928 et morte à Paris le 27 août 1986, est une poétesse égyptienne d'expression française liée au surréalisme.
Der Deutsche Musiker Gregor Meyle, Mitte, mit Band begeisterte das Publikum im Aussenbereich, aufgenommen am Freitag, 4. Juli 2014, beim Life Festival im SaL in Schaan. FOTO & COPYRIGHT: EDDY RISCH
This guy seemed perfectly content to lie in the sun and occasionally change positions. It was tricky trying to catch him looking my way. He kept his tongue out like this for a long time, reminding me of my cats. And he wasn't right up close to the fence--that's lens compression. For the Monthly Scavenger Hunt group, "Heart of the Lion."
Photo taken in my house in Salt Lake, Kolkata. The background was so varied and light that none of the photos showed the web clearly. This one was somewhat better.
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A family of Francois' Langurs high up in the trees on the Malayan tapir island in the Lied Jungle, the world's largest indoor rainforest and a "total immersion experience" at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo. I love how this rare species sport wild mohawks.
And it is a rare species. According to a wikipedia:
There has been a dramatic decline in the population size by approximately 85% since [1990], making this species that of very high priority to potential extinction. The total number of wild individuals is unknown, but there are believed to be less than 500 left in Vietnam and 1,400-1,650 in China. There are only about 60 langurs in captivity in North American zoos.
And wikipedia further informs us that the baby's name is GinLu and:
she was was born in the Lied Jungle at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo [in September 2009]. After being rejected by her mother, Lied Jungle keepers worked for several weeks to teach the mother to feed and care for her properly. It was important to have a special holding area for mother and infant for safety, ensuring the family was within sight and smell at all times. Mother and infant needed to be strongly bonded before placing the group together. By October 13, 2009, the entire group was reunited into one holding area.
As wikipedia notes, Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo is "nationally renowned for its leadership in animal conservation and research." And from the zoo's website:
The major purpose of the Lied Jungle is not only recreation, but education and conservation awareness. Rainforests play a vital role in the quality of life on earth. They are disappearing at the alarming rate of 50-100 acres a minute. That's an area the size of Massachusetts each year.
What lies just around the corner?
4 years ago, I didn't know, but things turned out so much better than I ever imagined they could be. More changes are on the horizon for us right now, all positive, getting us to where we want to be.