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Model: Te Amo (MM#564381)
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Another from my Gorge series with Te Amo. This was taken before the previously posted shot of Te Amo in the stream. I was looking for a somewhat dark mood that day and found this little alcove in the trees that looked promising. This shot came out a little soft thanks to the fantastic autofocus on the Canon 50mm f/1.4 I use most of the time (okay, I'm being sarcastic;->). In this case though, I think the slight front focus works and adds to the mood of the image. I'd be happy to hear what others think about that though;->
[ Available light only, sorry Strobist buddies, I have some strobed ones in this same location though;-> ]
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The Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival is an annual spring celebration of Japanese arts and culture organized by Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia (JASGP), with tremendous support from title sponsor Subaru of America, Inc.
Featuring a variety of events throughout the city, this yearly festival brings a taste of Japan to Philadelphia and highlights the beauty of Japanese sakura—the flowering cherry trees that brighten city streets and parks with their distinctive pink and white blossoms.
I spent the day doing a photography workshop and had these gorgeous girls to work with. I don't know if you can take a bad picture of them!
Seen at the 2024 Pontefract Wheel Fest
Manufacturer - Hyundai
Model Variant - Pony 1.3 L
Primary Colour - Blue
Fuel Type - Petrol
Transmission - Manual 4 Gears
Engine - 1298 cc
Body Style - Hatchback
Year Manufacture - 1988
Vehicle Age - 36 Years 4 Months (As of February 2025)
Registration Place - Liverpool
Registration Date - 06/10/1988
Last V5C Issue Date - 25 April 2023
Model: Victoria Bell
Photographer: Justin Bonaparte​
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Cleopatra's Needle
Cleopatra's Needle is one of a pair of obelisks that were moved from the ruins of the Caesareum of Alexandria, in Egypt, in the 19th century. It was presented to the United Kingdom in 1819 by the ruler of Egypt and Sudan Muhammad Ali, in commemoration of the victories of Lord Nelson at the Battle of the Nile and Sir Ralph Abercromby at the Battle of Alexandria in 1801.
Although the British government welcomed the gesture, it declined to pay to move the obelisk to London.
The obelisk remained in Alexandria until 1877 when Sir William James Erasmus Wilson, a distinguished anatomist and dermatologist, sponsored its transportation to London from Alexandria at a cost of some £10,000 (equivalent to over £1,000,000 in 2020).
it was dug out of the sand in which it had been buried for nearly 2,000 years, and was encased in a great iron cylinder, 92 feet (28 metres) long and 16 feet (4.9 metres) in diameter. It was built at the Thames Iron Works, shipped to Alexandria in separate pieces, and built around the obelisk.
The cylinder, named the Cleopatra, had a vertical stem and stern, a rudder, two bilge keels, a mast for balancing sails, and a deck house. It acted as a floating pontoon which was to be towed to London by the ship Olga.
The effort almost met with disaster on the 14th. October 1877, in a storm in the Bay of Biscay, when Cleopatra began wildly rolling, and became uncontrollable. The Olga sent out a rescue boat with six volunteers, but the boat capsized, and all six crew were lost – they are named on a bronze plaque attached to the foot of the needle's mounting stone.
Captain Booth of the Olga eventually managed to get his ship next to Cleopatra and rescued the six men on board it. Booth reported the Cleopatra "abandoned and sinking", but she stayed afloat, drifting in the Bay, until found four days later by Spanish trawler boats.
Cleopatra was then rescued by the Glasgow steamer Fitzmaurice and taken to Ferrol in Spain for repairs. The Master of the Fitzmaurice lodged a salvage claim of £5,000 which had to be settled before departure from Ferrol, but it was negotiated down and settled for £2,000.
The paddle tug Anglia, under the command of Captain David Glue, was then commissioned to tow the Cleopatra back to the Thames. Upon their arrival in the estuary on the 21st. January 1878, the school children of Gravesend were given the day off.
A wooden model of the obelisk had previously been placed outside the Houses of Parliament, but the location had been rejected, so the London needle was finally erected on the Victoria Embankment on the 12th. September 1878.
On the 4th. September 1917, during the Great War, a bomb from a German air raid landed near the needle. In commemoration of this event, the damage remains unrepaired to this day, and is clearly visible in the form of shrapnel holes and gouges on one of the sphinxes flanking the needle.
Restoration work was carried out in 2005.
Shell Mex House
Shell Mex House, also known as 80 Strand, is a Grade II listed building located at number 80 Strand in London.
The building was opened in 1932 on the site of the Hotel Cecil, and stands behind the original façade of the hotel, between the Adelphi building and the Savoy Hotel. Broadly Art Deco in style, it was designed by Frances Milton Cashmore of the architectural firm of Messrs Joseph.
Standing 58 m (190 ft) tall, with 537,000 sq. ft (49,900 m2) of floor space, Shell Mex House has 12 floors (plus basement and sub-basement) and is immediately recognisable from the River Thames and the South Bank by the clock positioned on the south side of the building.
The clock is flanked by four large, hieratic marble figures at the south corners sculpted by William Charles Holland King.
The clock, which was known for a time as "Big Benzene", has the largest clock face in the UK, at 7.62 metres in diameter, just 0.02 metres more than the clocks on the Liver Building in Liverpool; it was supplied by Gillett & Johnston of Croydon.
The building faces the river and the Strand. It was described by architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner as:
"Thoroughly unsubtle, but it holds
its own in London's river front."
The building was for many years the London headquarters of Shell-Mex & BP, for which it was built. Shell-Mex & BP was a joint venture company created by Shell and British Petroleum in 1932, when they decided to merge their United Kingdom marketing operations.
Upon the UK marketing separation of Shell and BP in 1976, Shell Mex House became the head office of Shell UK, which was Shell's UK operating company. Changes in the way that Shell was run in the 1990's led to the disposal of the property by Shell. Today, simply known as 80 Strand, most of its floors are occupied by companies belonging to Pearson plc.
The entrance to the building, which is set back from the Strand, is through a large gated archway. A green plaque was affixed to the wall just inside the gate in March 2008, proclaiming:
"The Royal Air Force was formed and
had its first headquarters here in the
former Hotel Cecil 1st. April 1918".
Below it is a brass plate stating:
"This plaque was unveiled by the Chief
of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Sir Glenn
Torpy to mark the 90th. anniversary of the
formation of the Royal Air Force".
During World War II, the building became home to the Ministry of Supply, which co-ordinated the supply of equipment to the national armed forces. It was also the home of the Petroleum Board, which handled the distribution of petroleum products during the war. The building was badly damaged by a bomb in 1940.
The building reverted to Shell-Mex & BP on the 1st. July 1948, with a number of floors remaining occupied by the Ministry of Aviation (latterly the Board of Trade, Civil Aviation Division) until the mid-1970's.
During this time, until the department's move to its present location in Farnborough, the building was also the headquarters for the Air Accidents Investigation Branch.
On the 17th. May 2006, The Times reported that the building was for sale, and that the Indian-Kenyan Kandhari family was the front-runner in the battle to buy it from the existing owners, Vincent and Robert Tchenguiz.
The Kandharis were said to have offered £530 million for the building, but they were competing with other interested groups, including Menorah, the Israeli insurer, an Irish company, and several British companies.
An offer believed to be for £520 million was made in December 2006 by Istithmar, the investment agency of the Dubai government, which withdrew its offer before completion. The property was subsequently sold in July 2007 to a fund managed by Westbrook Partners for £988 million.