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A cute elderly couple walk side by side through Riverfront park and along the St. Joseph River as the now empty Amtrak ballast train led by a pair of former Pepsi can's cruises west back to Michigan City.
The Ptolemaic Nilometer at ancient Elephantine takes the form of a staircase with graduated lines carved into its walls indicating the height of floods more precisely than its predecessor. The installation is below the temple of Satet, which was also expanded during the Hellenistic era.
Our civilization owes much to the Egyptians and they in turn owe much to the Nile River that links north and south Egypt. It's drainage basin cover 10% of Africa, it is considered the longest river in the world and it flows north to the Mediterranean.
Over the centuries it has overflowed regularly depositing rich sediments on the adjacent plains that created some of the most productive farmland in the ancient world and allowed agriculture to flourish.
Along its banks grew papyrus reeds that were used as one of the earliest forms of paper and advanced written communication.
The headwaters of the Nile branch and extend far south into the area of Africa adjacent to the earliest known forms of bipedal human development that occurred about 6 million years ago.
The proud young barefoot captain of this boat is following the traditions of his ancestors who sailed the 'great river' Nile for thousands of years.
Another view from the boat.
The kids in my area have started school and the big kids arrived on campus this weekend.
Which got me thinking about some of the photos I snapped of kids going to school in Egypt.
Had to hunt though a number of unprocessed photos and found this one.
Captured in the calm of early morning. Before the others on the boat were about. Apart from the crew I was usually the first one up on one of the decks or leaning out my room window snapping away.
Early morning and early evening, as dark starts to close in, gives you a chance to see some of the more personal activities of the local lives, in a brief eye blink moment that traveling by boat provides.
Captured with Panasonic FZ20 super zoom bridge camera, Feb. 13, 2006.
Edited on the desktop in Photoshop for some general corrections, then into Viveza for more adjustments.
I also used Alien Skin Exposure to tone back some of the over saturation.
All the layers were stacked with opacity settings.
The Nile (Arabic: النيل, transliteration: an-nīl, Ancient Egyptian iteru or Ḥ'pī, Coptic piaro or phiaro) is a major north-flowing river in Africa, generally regarded as the longest river in the world.[1]
The Nile has two major tributaries, the White Nile and Blue Nile, the latter being the source of most of the Nile's water and fertile soil, but the former being the longer of the two. The White Nile rises in the Great Lakes region of central Africa, with the most distant source in southern Rwanda 2°16′55.92″S 29°19′52.32″E / -2.2822, 29.3312, and flows north from there through Tanzania, Lake Victoria, Uganda and southern Sudan, while the Blue Nile starts at Lake Tana in Ethiopia 12°2′8.8″N 37°15′53.11″E / 12.035778, 37.2647528, flowing into Sudan from the southeast. The two rivers meet near the Sudanese capital Khartoum.
The northern section of the river flows almost entirely through desert, from Sudan into Egypt, a country whose civilization has depended on the river since ancient times. Most of the population of Egypt and all of its cities, with the exception of those near the coast, lie along those parts of the Nile valley north of Aswan; and nearly all the cultural and historical sites of Ancient Egypt are found along the banks of the river. The Nile ends in a large delta that empties into the Mediterranean Sea.
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On May 1 Niles Canyon Railroad ran a photo special with 2-4-4-2 Skookum as a fund raiser for the restoration of the SP 1744.
Adding some more to my obscure vertical shot stint here's SP 5472 pulling east out of Niles heading for Sunol with the Train of Lights.
Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
No crop, only rezised.
He ( I think it is a male) wanted me to do a dental inspection, which request I politely declined. I actually stayed in my car.
The Nile Crocodile is responsible for more human deaths than any other predator on the planet. This fact is true for predators such as Lions or Great White Sharks, but does not include animals that kill defensively like venomous spiders or snakes. I think the reason they are responsible for so many deaths is because they are common and widespread in Africa, being found in 26 African countries, mainly sub-Saharan but including the Nile Basin and Madagascar. Its scientific name Crocodylus niloticus translates as "pebble worm of the Nile" referring to the knobbly skin. They are the second largest crocodilian on the planet too after Australia's Salt Water Crocodile. Size is highly variable but most mature between 3 and 4m in length, though claims of over 5m have been made. They are ambush predators sitting and waiting in shallow water for animals to come close. This one was near our camp at Awash in Ethiopia where about twenty animals were in residence. But because we knew they were there we weren't in any danger. I had some much closer photos but I liked this one as it showed the length of the animal, and the open jaw with the formidable array of teeth.
Canon AE1, Kodak 200ASA Gold, take in the late '80s near Aswan. I always liked this' photo. This version has been tweaked in Lightroom to increase warmth and a slight crop.
De nuit, le Nil et son delta sont somptueux. C’est une forme qu’on reconnait immédiatement depuis l’espace. Les lumières suivent le cours du fleuve jusqu’à la mer éclairées par la Lune. Elle illumine aussi la Mer Rouge et le lac Lac Bardawil.
The Nile river and delta at night are sumptuous. The city lights that follow the Nile and its life-giving water illuminate its passage to the Mediterranean Sea. The Moon was shining brightly when I took this picture and reflects off the surrounding waters, especially Bardawil lake. The silhouette of our solar arrays add some attention to the foreground.
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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From the bluffs of the rock-tombs at Beni Hassan, the stark contrast between the irrigated Nile basin and the arid higher ground