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Perhaps not the inspiration for the famous hit by The Village People, Hartington Hall is an old manor house in the Peak District run as a YMCA hostel.
It's location is perfect for walkers and ramblers wishing to explore the Peak District and the little village of Hartington possesses two good pubs, both serving local real ales and fine nosh.
Nikon D5100 and Nikkor 10-24mm AF-S F3.5-4.5 lens
D17651. Does anyone recognise this attractive group of buildings?
They're in Miniland at Legoland, Windsor and the bridge in the foreground has a Scot Rail liveried Class 156 running under it. I am therefore assuming that these buildings are also somewhere in Scotland.
Saturday, 23rd September, 2017. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
Perhaps this family is celebrating the 4th of July with tasty treats and pitchers of milk. My favorites are the little boy with the gun and the woman seated behind him. He looks like the rambunctious trouble maker kid of the bunch and she has a great secretive smile.
Day 4-5 Trinidad. Not the country, another perhaps more famous UNESCO Heritage site. The town is quite beautiful and the scene lively and full of foreign tourists. We got to stay in a "home stay" here and it was quite an experience. The room was hot and Mark got electrocuted when he touched the shower since hot water is generated by electric heaters. Day 4-5 Trinidad. Not the country, another perhaps more famous UNESCO Heritage site. The town is quite beautiful and the scene lively and full of foreign tourists.
Perhaps a demonstration sport through the Nationalsozialistischer Reichsbund für Leibesübungen at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin?
Perhaps one of the most fearsome weapons used in Germany's offensive against the UK in those dark days of World War II, the iconic drone of the V-1 flying bomb (Vergeltungswaffe 1) struck fear into the hearts of the British people nearly every day as eyes would turn upward and await the moment its engine would stop and this early pulsejet-powered cruise missile would tumble to earth with its deadly cargo of high explosive in tow.
The V-1 was both the world's first Cruise Missile, but also the world's first pulsejet-powered production aircraft. Developed at Peenemünde Army Research Center by the Nazi German Luftwaffe during the Second World War, the V-1 was built as a way to save the number of heavy bombers lost during air raids on British cities by instead sending unmanned jet-powered flying bombs instead. The V-1 was essentially a giant artillery shell with wings, containing an 1,800lb Amatol-39 warhead. The aircraft was powered by Argus As 109-014 Pulsejet, giving the V-1 a cruising speed of 400mph and a flight range of between 150 and 200 miles.
Original plans were to use these aircraft as conventional fighter jets, with some early examples being manned, but with development of the more advanced Me-262 jet fighter nearing completion, this idea was altered to instead make it into an unmanned aerial vehicle. Another proposal was to make these aircraft into airborne refuelling tanks, similar to modern day aerial tankers, intended specifically to refuel Me-262s. Eventually, the V-1 project was designed specifically for use as a cruise missile against the United Kingdom.
The first raids against Britain began in 1944, being launched from facilities along the French (Pas-de-Calais) and Dutch coasts. The first V-1 was launched at London on 13th June, 1944, one week after (and prompted by) the successful Allied landings in Europe. To combat this new threat, a variety of countermeasures were created to stop the V-1. Heavier implementation of Anti-Aircraft defences on the South-east coast would attempt to barrage approaching V-1's or at least knock them off course, added to by Barrage Balloons and fighter support. Intercepting Spitfires and Hurricanes would also attempt to knock-over V-1's by tapping them on the wing with their own, causing them to fall from the sky. Another, more audacious and subtle strategy, was the use of misinformation. German spies in the UK were paid to work with the British and give bogus information to the German High-Command about the position of strategically important targets in South-east England. The result was the Luftwaffe not giving their V-1's enough fuel to reach London or other important military positions such as airfields, factories or storage depots, instead crashing down in rural Kent or Essex. Sadly I can't say this strategy was harmless as many V-1's did find themselves inadvertently crashing into villages and towns to the east of London.
At its peak, more than one hundred V-1s a day were fired at south-east England, 9,521 in total, decreasing in number as sites were overrun until October 1944, when the last V-1 site in range of Britain was overrun by Allied forces. After this, the V-1s were directed at the port of Antwerp and other targets in Belgium, with 2,448 V-1s being launched. The attacks stopped when the last launch site was overrun on 29th March, 1945.
Perhaps the most attractive canal in Britain. For much of the way it follows the contour, clinging to the hillside in the Brecon Beacons.
Perhaps I should start referring to them as Heritage Iris [a trend these days as people realize that sturdy, proven older varieties are valuable and worth preserving].
I was pleased with this shot because I achieved a little bit of bokeh in the two side flowers - something my camera does not do when on automatic settings. I had switched to manual settings to experiment a bit.
This manuscript was created in the seventeenth century, perhaps in Constantinople, based on the style of its illumination. The gospel cycle that precedes the text contains slightly more miniatures than is traditional; especially notable are the two—representing the feeding of the five thousand and the cleansing of the temple—which come out of sequence at the end of the cycle. The miniatures in this manuscript, like many at this time, reflect the mingling of traditional Cilician and Western influences. Though the manuscript does not include a colophon, the signature of the painter, Hohannes, is visible on the bottom of the canon tables on fols. 29v-30r. This manuscript appears to have been well traveled: at some point, very small inscriptions in Greek were added to most of the miniatures; in 1883, it belonged to Georg Alexief of Moscow, according to a note in Russian on fol. 1r.
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Perhaps the most important church in the city since the 5th century as it is dedicated towards the patron saint of the city, it stands here since the 5th-6th century. Mosaics and marble columns from this time are to be found in the interior, while a special crypt which was originally the old Roman bath is to be found below the church. This is the place where Demetrios was martyred. Due to this church, Thessaloniki was a very important pelgrimage destination during medieval times and continues to be today.
perhaps Typhon - Cambridge University Press
Hopman, Marianne (2013). A feminine composite. In Scylla: Myth, Metaphor, Paradox (pp. 91-112). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139208581.010
Perhaps one of the best definitions of Southern patriotism: Confederate flag cowboy boots sitting in the bed of a pick up truck flying the American flag.
Perhaps one of the most memorable encounters of my 35 years / 6000 dives in the oceans around the world. We spent two hour-long dives surrounded by up to 6 mantas that never left us. No dive group, dive boat, or flailing divers around. Only a couple "like minded" divers in the water for portions of the dive. No one stirring up the bottom, chasing mantas, or blowing bubbles. This dive made up our minds about returning to Kona next year for a repeat!
Perhaps not the most attractive side of the Glasgow School of Art but I just love the way it towers above you as you climb the hill towards Renfrew Street.
Classic Charles Rennie Mackintosh design and architecture. Another couple of shots to post in the next few minutes.
Sadly, not as much time for photography in Glasgow today as I had hoped and the weather was terrible - got soaked in a torrential downpour of sleet and hailstones.
I also appear to be going through an HDR phase again. I'll get over it soon I'm sure! ;-)
Perhaps one may find interesting textures on an "ugly" pipe elbow with moisture-damaged asbestos insulation. Proper maintenance of mechanical systems might have prevented such deteriorated and unsafe conditions.
I keep thinking maybe I would like her in another scalp. But then I think maybe she and I still wont bond and Ill have messed up the perfect fit of her scalp on her head.
Perhaps we are at an impasse?
marifer playing ...
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there is some sharpening, perhaps added by flickr (or maybe not), that i don't quite appreciate ...
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Perhaps THE most magnificent building of its time (1868) it was built by W.J McLeod around 1868 (a bell cast for the house , and its custom crockery/silverware bear this date. His son, Norman, was an officer in the British East India regiment, serving in both WWI and WWII. Norman became an alcoholic later in life and was delusionary. He converted to Hindusim, and redecorated his house with concrete facades depicting many Indian motifs, including an eerie mandir under the house itself. Norman became convinced that the daughter of his yardboy, Sita, was the reincarnation of his dead mother. He died in 1965, leaving the house to the yardboy’s family, who have done away with the gardens , but have preserved the immense treasure of furniture and priceless artifacts within. Part of the house as collapsed and other portions may soon follow if not preserved.
I saw this sight as we were leaving Moraine Lake, it looked very James Bond! The scale and natural layers within the shot really appealed to me.
Perhaps not so obvious from its expression, but this juvenile reddish egret wsa quite unperturbed by my presence. Settling pond of a Bayport water treatment plant, Pasadena, Texas.
“Perhaps it will seem to you that the sunshine is brighter and that everything has a new charm. At least, I believe this is always the result of a deep love, and it is a beautiful thing. And I believe people who think love prevents one from thinking clearly are wrong; for then one thinks very clearly and is more active than before. And love is something eternal--the aspect may change, but not the essence."
= Vincent van Gogh (Dutch Painter and Artist ) =