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A little mix of summer cherries and fallen cherry tree leaves
A busy time with the broom at the moment sweeping up the leaves !!! So reminded myself A bit of hard work in the autumn has its rewards in the summer :0)) HSS
This classy display of a mannequin set against a floral backdrop is at Liberty, the upmarket department store in London’s West End known globally for its bold and floral print fabrics; this is typical, yet very striking.
Liberty (known by everyone as Liberty’s) was founded by Arthur Liberty in 1875. He made a point of building strong relations with English designers – a tradition that continues to this day.
In this long-exposure shot from a bridge, the flowing trails of headlights and taillights trace cars merging from Dallas’ eastbound I-635 onto the southbound lanes of US 75, capturing the dynamic pulse of the city’s busy highway interchange.
This is a composite of three separate photos, all taken last weekend in San Francisco while visiting family on Christmas vacation. San Francisco, 2010.
The secret wonderland and earthly presence are crossing.
LENS: ZOOM-Nikkor 35~70mm/F3.3~4.5
using: Art-filter "toy photo"
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A 📷 taken by me + Camera Raw + photshop
THIS PHOTO IT'S NOT AI 📀
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Using a horizontal blur effect applied in post-processing, the water, snow, and earth of Iceland blend into soft brushstrokes, as if painted by Arctic winds.
An artistic interpretation that seeks to transport the viewer to the endless horizons of the land of fire and ice, where reality and dreams merge into a single moment.
A view of railway marshalling yards in the East False Creek Flats near downtown Vancouver.
Besides railroad use the area has educational venues, office space, restaurants, a craft brewery, art galleries, car dealerships, storage lockers, Sky-train tracks and the Rocky Mountaineer Rail-tours terminal (top left corner).
False Creek Flats is the heart of Vancouver as it is here where the transcontinental railway finally found its terminus.
FLATS HISTORY
An area long identified by transportation and commerce, the present day False Creek Flats was a muddy tidal flat on the eastern end of False Creek until the early 20th century.
A rich variation of natural features, combined with various streams cutting down the southern boundary of the area, the flats provided diverse and abundant resources for the First Nations people of the area, including some of the largest salmon and trout runs in Vancouver.
As the industrial activity of Vancouver’s resource economy filled in the downtown peninsula and the shores of False Creek, the City sought to accommodate further economic expansion and additional rail terminals.
In 1913, at the urging of a number of rail companies, the City took a plebiscite to the people of Vancouver requesting support to fill the eastern end of False Creek.
Following a favourable vote, the filing in of the Flats began in 1915 utilizing a variety of materials from nearby districts including land fill from development projects, scrap lumber and bricks from surrounding mills, general industrial waste and fill removed from the Grandview Cut that brought the railway tracks down from Grandview district.
By 1917, the Flats were completely filed in and by 1919 both the Great Northern Railway (GNR) and Canadian Northern Railway (later to merge with others to become the federally owned Canadian National) had established their new western terminals in the False Creek Flats laying the foundation for the area’s industrial future.
The area’s post-fill history is intrinsically tied to that of the railway, ensuring the area to be well served by rail (including the British Columbia Electric Railway, Canadian National Railway, Great Northern Railway and later, SkyTrain and Rockymountaineer Passenger service.
As the importance of passenger and freight rail declined, cars and trucks became the more ubiquitous transportation modes in the city, converting the once rail-dominated composition of the Eastern Core into a mix of railway and roadway-based facilities.
The present landscape features an eclectic mix of residential, commercial and industrial zones; educational and institutional facilities; warehouses and artist spaces.
Despite the area’s newfound diversity, rail and transit remain as the literal and gurative centre of the area.
The False Creek Flats currently has four main rail yards, three of which are primarily used for goods movement for the Port of Vancouver operations on the south shore of Burrard Inlet.
The rail yards include;
CN Main Yard
This yard has traditionally been used as a support yard for container traffic. Rocky Mountaineer Tours also uses Main Yard for arrival and departure from its station.
BNSF Yard
This yard generally supports barge operations at Burrard inlet (top right in the photo).
Glen Yard
This is a smaller yard used primarily for staging grain and container cars. This one is to the top left out of the photo.
VIA Rail and Amtrak use the main station off Main Street for passenger arrival and departures (off to the left of this shot).
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2416 SN61DGZ and LT476 LTZ1486 all seen at Camden Town working on routes C2 and 88, of which are merging tonight.
Yesterday afternoon my wife and kids and I grabbed our gear and headed to the Toledo area to look for interesting and different (at least to us) things to photograph.
It was brutally cold, 27°F and windy, but we're a tough crew, and we boldly shot on. In reality, we did a lot of running back to the car laughing and complaining about how cold it was.
This rail yard is in Oregon Ohio, and I liked how so many tracks merged into one.
ODC - Many
Large View On White
This started out as a typical blue-sky sunny day, picture post card type photo until I decided to play God and created some storm clouds and stormified the overall image a bit (if I can create storms, I ought to be able to create words, shouldn’t I?..). I applied some Orton Effect and also created a black & white copy and merged the two. Not as sophisticated as some of the HDR stuff I’ve seen on Flickr, but, so far at least, I haven’t gotten into HDR, so this will have to do.
Merged with PT GUI. This is the first merging program that could handle a bizarre merge like this one (which I shot to try and fool it... failed). This is about 7 or 8 photos merged.
Southeast Financial Center is a two-acre development in Miami, Florida, United States. It consists of a 764 feet (233 m) tall office skyscraper and its 15-story parking garage. It was previously known as the Southeast Financial Center (1984–1992), the First Union Financial Center (1992–2003), and the Wachovia Financial Center (2003-2011). In 2011, it retook its old name of Southeast Financial Center as Wachovia merged with Wells Fargo and moved to the nearby Wells Fargo Center.
When topped-off in August 1983, it was the tallest building south of New York City and east of the Mississippi River, taking away the same title from the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel, in Atlanta, Georgia. It remained the tallest building in the southeastern U.S. until 1987, when it was surpassed by One Atlantic Center in Atlanta and the tallest in Florida until October 1, 2003, when it was surpassed by the Four Seasons Hotel and Tower, also in Miami. It remains the tallest office tower in Florida and the third tallest building in Miami.
Southeast Financial Center was constructed in three years with more than 500 construction workers. Approximately 6,650 tons of structural steel, 80,000 cubic yards of concrete and 7000 cubic tons of reinforcing steel bars went into its construction. The complex sits on a series of reinforced concrete grade beams tied to 150 concrete caissons as much as ten feet in diameter and to a depth of 80 feet. A steel space-frame canopy with glass skylights covers the outdoor plaza between the tower and low-rise building.
The tower has a composite structure. The exterior columns and beams are concrete encased steel wide flanges surrounded by reinforcing bars. The composite exterior frame was formed using hydraulic steel forms, or "flying forms," jacked into place with a "kangaroo" crane, that was located in the core and manually clamped into place. Wide flange beams topped by a metal deck and concrete form the interior floor framing. The core is A braced steel frame, designed to laterally resist wind loads. The construction of one typical floor was completed every five days.
The low-rise banking hall and parking building is a concrete-framed structure. Each floor consists of nearly an acre of continuously poured concrete. When the concrete had sufficiently hardened, compressed air was used to blow the forms fiberglass forms from under the completed floor. It was then rolled out to the exterior where it was raised by crane into position for the next floor.
The building was recognized as Miami's first and only office building to be certified for the LEED Gold award in January 2010.
The center was developed by a partnership consisting of Gerald D. Hines Interests, Southeast Bank and Corporate Property Investors for $180 million. It was originally built as the headquarters for Southeast Bank, which originally occupied 50 percent of the complex's space. It remained Southeast Bank's headquarters there until it was liquidated in 1991.
The Southeast Financial Center comprises two buildings: the 55-story office tower and the 15-story parking annex. The tower has 53 stories of office space. The first floor is dedicated for retail, the second floor is the lobby and the 55th floor was home to the luxurious Miami City Club. The parking annex has 12 floors of parking space for 1,150 cars. The first floor is dedicated for retail, the second floor is a banking hall and the 15th floor has the Downtown Athletic Club. A landscaped plaza lies between the office tower and the parking annex. An enclosed walkway connects the second story of the tower with the second story of the annex. The courtyard is partially protected from the elements by a steel and glass space frame canopy spanning the plaza and attached to the tower and annex. Southeast Bank's executive offices were located on the 38th floor. Ground was broken on the complex on December 12, 1981 and the official dedication and opening for the complex was held on October 23, 1984.
The Southeast Financial Center was designed by Edward Charles Bassett of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. The Associate Architect was Spillis Candela & Partners. It has 1,145,311 ft² (106,000 m²) of office space. A typical floor has about 22,000 ft² (2,043.87 m²) of office space. Each floor has 9 ft x 9 ft (2.7 m x 2.7 m) floor to ceiling windows. (All of the building's windows are tinted except for the top floor, resulting in strikingly bright and clear views from there.) The total complex has over 2.2 million ft² (204,000 m²). The distinctive setbacks begin at the 43rd floor. Each typical floor plate has 9 corner offices and the top twelve floors have as many as 16. There are 43 elevators in the office tower. An emergency control station provides computerized monitoring for the entire complex, and four generators for backup power.
The Southeast Financial Center can be seen as far away as Ft. Lauderdale and halfway toward Bimini. Night space shuttle launches from Cape Canaveral 200 miles to the north were plainly visible from the higher floors. The roof of the building was featured in the Wesley Snipes motion picture Drop Zone, where an eccentric base jumper named Swoop parachutes down to the street from a suspended window cleaning trolley. The building also appeared in several episodes of the 1980s TV show Miami Vice and at the end of each episode's opening credits.
Zara founder Amancio Ortega purchased the building from J.P. Morgan Asset Management in December 2016. The purchase price was reportedly over $500 million, making it one of the largest real estate transactions in South Florida history.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Financial_Center
www.emporis.com/buildings/122292/wachovia-financial-cente...
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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis
St. Louis is an independent city and inland port in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is situated along the western bank of the Mississippi River, which marks Missouri's border with Illinois. The Missouri River merges with the Mississippi River just north of the city. These two rivers combined form the fourth longest river system in the world. The city had an estimated 2017 population of 308,626 and is the cultural and economic center of the St. Louis metropolitan area (home to nearly 3,000,000 people), which is the largest metropolitan area in Missouri, the second-largest in Illinois (after Chicago), and the 22nd-largest in the United States.
Before European settlement, the area was a regional center of Native American Mississippian culture. The city of St. Louis was founded in 1764 by French fur traders Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau, and named after Louis IX of France. In 1764, following France's defeat in the Seven Years' War, the area was ceded to Spain and retroceded back to France in 1800. In 1803, the United States acquired the territory as part of the Louisiana Purchase. During the 19th century, St. Louis became a major port on the Mississippi River; at the time of the 1870 Census it was the fourth-largest city in the country. It separated from St. Louis County in 1877, becoming an independent city and limiting its own political boundaries. In 1904, it hosted the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the Summer Olympics.
The economy of metropolitan St. Louis relies on service, manufacturing, trade, transportation of goods, and tourism. Its metro area is home to major corporations, including Anheuser-Busch, Express Scripts, Centene, Boeing Defense, Emerson, Energizer, Panera, Enterprise, Peabody Energy, Ameren, Post Holdings, Monsanto, Edward Jones, Go Jet, Purina and Sigma-Aldrich. Nine of the ten Fortune 500 companies based in Missouri are located within the St. Louis metropolitan area. The city has also become known for its growing medical, pharmaceutical, and research presence due to institutions such as Washington University in St. Louis and Barnes-Jewish Hospital. St. Louis has two professional sports teams: the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball and the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League. One of the city's iconic sights is the 630-foot (192 m) tall Gateway Arch in the downtown area.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Museum
City Museum is a museum whose exhibits consist largely of repurposed architectural and industrial objects, housed in the former International Shoe building in the Washington Avenue Loft District of St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Opened in 1997, the museum attracted more than 700,000 visitors in 2010.
The City Museum has been named one of the "great public spaces" by the Project for Public Spaces, and has won other local and international awards as a must-see destination. It has been described as "a wild, singular vision of an oddball artistic mind."
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis
St. Louis is an independent city and inland port in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is situated along the western bank of the Mississippi River, which marks Missouri's border with Illinois. The Missouri River merges with the Mississippi River just north of the city. These two rivers combined form the fourth longest river system in the world. The city had an estimated 2017 population of 308,626 and is the cultural and economic center of the St. Louis metropolitan area (home to nearly 3,000,000 people), which is the largest metropolitan area in Missouri, the second-largest in Illinois (after Chicago), and the 22nd-largest in the United States.
Before European settlement, the area was a regional center of Native American Mississippian culture. The city of St. Louis was founded in 1764 by French fur traders Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau, and named after Louis IX of France. In 1764, following France's defeat in the Seven Years' War, the area was ceded to Spain and retroceded back to France in 1800. In 1803, the United States acquired the territory as part of the Louisiana Purchase. During the 19th century, St. Louis became a major port on the Mississippi River; at the time of the 1870 Census it was the fourth-largest city in the country. It separated from St. Louis County in 1877, becoming an independent city and limiting its own political boundaries. In 1904, it hosted the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the Summer Olympics.
The economy of metropolitan St. Louis relies on service, manufacturing, trade, transportation of goods, and tourism. Its metro area is home to major corporations, including Anheuser-Busch, Express Scripts, Centene, Boeing Defense, Emerson, Energizer, Panera, Enterprise, Peabody Energy, Ameren, Post Holdings, Monsanto, Edward Jones, Go Jet, Purina and Sigma-Aldrich. Nine of the ten Fortune 500 companies based in Missouri are located within the St. Louis metropolitan area. The city has also become known for its growing medical, pharmaceutical, and research presence due to institutions such as Washington University in St. Louis and Barnes-Jewish Hospital. St. Louis has two professional sports teams: the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball and the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League. One of the city's iconic sights is the 630-foot (192 m) tall Gateway Arch in the downtown area.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_Botanical_Garden
The Missouri Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located at 4344 Shaw Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri. It is also known informally as Shaw's Garden for founder and philanthropist Henry Shaw. Its herbarium, with more than 6.6 million specimens, is the second largest in North America, behind that of the New York Botanical Garden. The Index Herbariorum code assigned to the herbarium is MO and it is used when citing housed specimens.