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Zamalek (also known as the Gezira Island) is one of Cairo’s well known Islands for it’s greenery and beautiful trees. The residential island has some very beautiful streets, old buildings, and villas making the Island one of Cairo’s favorite locations for expatriates.
This shoot was taken on a quiet street near the famous Cairo Tower which is one of Africa’s tallest structures and a must visit for tourists in Cairo as you can see a beautiful view of the entire city. Some of the very old beautiful trees of Zamalek can be seen in the pictures.
My third outfit collaboration with Vichi (Egypt’s finest streetstyle blog) and Cairo’s famous Sixtynine (A store who has a branch also in Zamalek with some great stuff) shot by my favorite fashion photographer Abu Samra.
I was wearing this gorgeous silver top that feels like a sweater from the inside (jersey material kind of). Since it’s a bit long I styled it with this black skirt toning the whole silver mood a bit down since it’s a day time outfit I didn’t want it to be too flashy.
Streetstyle Blog: Vichi
Top and Skirt: Sixty Nine
Photography: Abu Samra
Bag: Chanel
Bracelet: Floramazona
Bracelet: Hermes
Shoes: Balenciaga
Winter scene at Heaven's Gate, overlooking Longleat in Wiltshire.
To get a very rough idea of how old a tree is, measure the circumference about 5 feet (1.5 m) off the ground, and the age is about 25 years per foot (80 yrs per m). On that basis, the big tree in the centre is about 600 years old, seeded around the time of Christopher Columbus landing in the Americas.
Image Taken with Canon A70 * 3,2mpx
White Balance: Custom (Cyan exposed)
1/320
F2.8
ISO50
18;17pm
08/2004
Zamalek (also known as the Gezira Island) is one of Cairo’s well known Islands for it’s greenery and beautiful trees. The residential island has some very beautiful streets, old buildings, and villas making the Island one of Cairo’s favorite locations for expatriates.
This shoot was taken on a quiet street near the famous Cairo Tower which is one of Africa’s tallest structures and a must visit for tourists in Cairo as you can see a beautiful view of the entire city. Some of the very old beautiful trees of Zamalek can be seen in the pictures.
My third outfit collaboration with Vichi (Egypt’s finest streetstyle blog) and Cairo’s famous Sixtynine (A store who has a branch also in Zamalek with some great stuff) shot by my favorite fashion photographer Abu Samra.
I was wearing this gorgeous silver top that feels like a sweater from the inside (jersey material kind of). Since it’s a bit long I styled it with this black skirt toning the whole silver mood a bit down since it’s a day time outfit I didn’t want it to be too flashy.
Streetstyle Blog: Vichi
Top and Skirt: Sixty Nine
Photography: Abu Samra
Bag: Chanel
Bracelet: Floramazona
Bracelet: Hermes
Shoes: Balenciaga
Although it will be several months coming, it will come in 2012.
Best wishes to all for peace and good health in the New year!
A much loved Monterey Cypress tree had to be cut down for health and safety reasons but, rather than waste the iconic tree, Dublin City Council commissioned the UK tree sculptor Tommy Craggs to create a work of art from the remaining tree stump.
Chainsaw sculptor Tommy Craggs recycles fallen trees or trees felled for tree management reasons. Some of his works can be purchased but others are permanent installations carved from stumps. Tommy’s work made the news in 2012 when members of the public reported that a "guerrilla sculptor" had carved three stumps in a forest in the UK. They were, in fact, commissioned sculptures created by Tommy Craggs.
The piece shown in my photographs was inspired by the wildlife found in the nature reserve on the nearby Bull Island and in St. Anne’s Public Park.
Photo was taken in 2006 before the redevelopment of the DGS campus.
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Main Building: built in 1913, demolited in 1959 and rebuilt into gym and Centenary Block (Symons Wing)
Gibbins Wing: built in 1940, demolited in 2009
Hurrell Wing: built in 1950, demolited in 2009
Centenary Hall: built in 1959
Swimming Pool: built in 1965.........
Foundation Tree: 洋蒲桃（wax apple, love apple, java apple; 學名：Syzygium samarangense）around 100 years old, not included in the list of "Old and Valuable Tree"
May be the oldest Wax Aplle Tree in Hong Kong.
Diocesan Girls’ School DGS 拔萃女書院 was founded at Bonham Road as Diocesan Native Female Training School in 1860.
It was renamed Diocesan Female School in 1866, restricted to orphans and destitute Chinese girls in 1869. Later, it became the Diocesan Home and Orphanage and accepted boys as well.
The School first received government financial assistance in 1878. The boys were to continue their education at the newly founded Diocesan Boys' School.
DGS moved to Jordon Road 1 on 1913.
In 1950s, old Edwardian edifice was pulled down, rebuilt into three school blocks.
DGS joined the Direct Subsidy Scheme in 2006.
In 2009, DGS was temporarily relocated to 101 Castle Peak Road, Shum Shui Po, due to redevelopment of the old campus.
Uldale Common, our route home from the lakes, often catches beautiful light This old tree comes into leaf each year despite being almost flat out to the ground .A Meadow Pipit landed on top just as the sun came out.
98 shot pano taken at 200 mm f2.8, combines in CS3. I had to compress the photos significantly so CS3 could merge all the photos without crashing. Resulted in some nasty jpeg artifacting in the large version. Next time i'll have to remember to shoot at a lower quality setting
Still practicing the whole pano thing, I think my focus was a bit off on this attempt
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"Waiting for a Message"
Trees help you see slices of sky between branches,
point to things you could never reach.
Trees help you watch the growing happen,
watch blossoms burst then dry,
see shade twist to the pace of a sun,
birds tear at unwilling seeds.
Trees take the eye to where it is,
where it was,
then over to distant hills,
faraway to other places and times,
long ago.
A tree is a lens,
a viewfinder, a window.
I wait below
for a message
of what is yet to come.
- Rochelle Mass
This is the same tree shown in a previous photograph, the one in Brazos Bend State Park (Texas) that is 220 years old. This photo shows more of the typical lengthy horizontal branches of live oaks. I didn't like it as much as the one I put up previously because of the funny little white shed in the background. But it IS a very cool tree!
A much loved Monterey Cypress tree had to be cut down for health and safety reasons but, rather than waste the iconic tree, Dublin City Council commissioned the UK tree sculptor Tommy Craggs to create a work of art from the remaining tree stump.
Chainsaw sculptor Tommy Craggs recycles fallen trees or trees felled for tree management reasons. Some of his works can be purchased but others are permanent installations carved from stumps. Tommy’s work made the news in 2012 when members of the public reported that a "guerrilla sculptor" had carved three stumps in a forest in the UK. They were, in fact, commissioned sculptures created by Tommy Craggs.
The piece shown in my photographs was inspired by the wildlife found in the nature reserve on the nearby Bull Island and in St. Anne’s Public Park.
Bis 1945 befand sich an dieser Linde ein Halseisen, das entfernt wurde, um nicht mehr an die "vergangene Zeit" zu erinnern.
In alten Zeiten sammelte der Dorfhirt frühmorgens die Schafe der Bauern unter der Linde, bevor er mit der Herde auf die Allmende ( de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allmende ) der Dorfgemeinde zog. Der Name "Schafslinde" hat sich aus dieser Zeit erhalten. Sehr wahrscheinlich ist sie mit dem Baum identisch, der auf dem alten Cospedaer Dorfsiegel abgebildet ist.
Alter: mindestens 300 Jahre
Umfang: 5,35 m
gekappt: bei 2, 50 und 9 m
Standort: In der Mitte des Dorfangers, auf einem größeren Rasenstück, mit der Bezeichnung "an den Linden".
Dorfsiegel: Baum im Gras (1842).
Old Winchester Hill, Hampshire.
As far as trees go this isn't the most attractive one around but, the low winter sunlight was shining on it, and with a background of the countryside and blue sky with scudding clouds, drew me to it.
Have you ever had that eerie feeling that you are being observed without any direct evidence of there being anyone or anything there?
In today's Electronic Age, it is highly likely that you are being observed.
Song: Hole in My Shoe by Traffic, 1967.
Valiantly surviving in a location one might think no tree could survive, with an onslaught of tourists that could kill a rock!
Ascending the Pacific Crest Trail in the Angeles National Forest towards Mt. Baden-Powell. This was our highest point (9407ft) on this hike of the Pacific Crest Trail in California.
It is nice to see that they have found ways to use old trees.
The park was forced to close for two weeks in February 2014 after Storm Darwin caused 19 trees to fall and work was needed to repair damaged pavements, railings and unblock pathways. But there was some good news … Ssome of the oldest and rarest trees knocked in Limerick’s People’s Park by Storm Darwin are being given a new lease of life by being transformed into works of art.
It is nice to see that they have found ways to use old trees.
The park was forced to close for two weeks in February 2014 after Storm Darwin caused 19 trees to fall and work was needed to repair damaged pavements, railings and unblock pathways. But there was some good news … some of the oldest and rarest trees knocked in Limerick’s People’s Park by Storm Darwin are being given a new lease of life by being transformed into works of art.
Sadly one of the rarest trees in the park, an ornamental tree called a ‘Tetradium Danielli” which was about 80 or 90 years old was destroyed in the storm. The tree in question is commonly called a ‘Bee Bee’ tree as it is covered in late July and August with masses of small white flowers which attracts large numbers of bees as a source of late summer honey. Prk management had a chat with Zambian woodcarver Paradazi Havatyitye and as a result he carved three beautiful bees in the remaining stump.