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We all know that Chimpanzees are our closest living relatives genetically. They look like us, behave like us, raise families like us and even laugh like us! However I had never thought I would get to see them relax like us. We saw this endearing family at the Chimpanzee sanctuary at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy and it was probably one of the most fascinating hours I have ever spent. We saw them playing with each other, picking lice, inspecting each other nether regions and whacking the younger ones when they fell out of line. And when it all became too much, the elders literally just put their feet up. I mean who doesn’t want to do that from time to time hey?
You know what’s my favourite part of this photograph? It’s the soft multi-stroke multi-colour background. I know it is a gigantic leap of faith, but it reminds me of the kind of strokes Van Gogh used for his pictures. They were all distinct, sharp, yet part of a consolidated whole. I can’t pretend that was my idea when I took the photograph, it was very much an accident, but I did darken the image significantly to draw out the colours. Such accidents delight me to no ends, even though they might not be a big deal to anybody else. Does it happen to you too?!
And on a lighter not happy weekend Guys! Time to put your feet up!
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This wonderful small garden is in Bourton-on-the-hill in Gloucestershire, England near Moreton in Marsh. It was recently named Garden of the Year. Its creator is Monique Paice, who generously showed me around in May, 2007, and has a very deft eye for color and plant combinations. It received the prestigious Historic Houses Association/Christie's GARDEN OF THE YEAR award. I liked it so much I went back with my wife in July, 2008.
Sadly, I just discovered that it is now open to the public only for pre-booked group tours.
Here is a link to their excellent website:
www.bourtonhouse.com/index.htm
There is also an excellent DVD and companion book available here:
The chinese Hall of Friendshop is situated in the Chinese garden nestled in a vineyard (Stuttgart, Germany). The garden and its buildings were built in 1993. Chinagarten Stuttgart
Lovely to view Large On Black
Die Halle der Freundschaft steht im "Garten der schönen Melodie" in Stuttgart. Ursprünglich 1993 als Attraktion der IGA im Rosensteingarten gebaut wurde der chinesische Garten mit dem Namen Qingyin an der Birkenwaldstraße / Panoramastraße 1996 neu errichtet
My most interesting photos on black on one site
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Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es: PULLIP.ES - BCN: Parque Guinardo - 26/02/2011
Meeting!! (5 of 5): L y Near Photosession/
Kedada!! (5 de 5): La Sesión de L y Near
(Read in order, this is: SHOT/FOTO 06 of 06) PAG: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06.
FOTOHISTORY: In English / En Español
L: Can you see Near? This is the world we must take care of. We have to save it from any evil, and this means hard work.
Near: I know ^^
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L: Ves Near? Este es el mundo que tenemos que cuidar. Hay que librarlo de cualquier mal y para eso hay que trabajar duro.
Near: Lo sé. ^^
LINKS:
- Las FOTOHISTORIAS de Sheryl en el Foro de Pullips: Pullip .es
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C’est à Samuel de Champlain que nous devons le nom du Bic. Au printemps de 1603, Champlain mouille dans ce qui est aujourd’hui le havre du bic et baptise du nom de « Pic » le massif rocheux qui s’élève devant lui.
"Le bic" is a small village near Rimouski located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River (Québec)
Caméra: Sony Alpha A850
Lentille (lens): Sony 24-105mm F3.5
Exposition (exposure): 0,001 sec (1/1500)
Ouverture (aperture): f/11
Focale: 26 mm
ISO: 200
Format: RAW
Traitement (process): CS4 (Camera Raw)
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Copyright © 2011, Pierre Lavallée.
la maison colorée avec la vieille pompe, Village des Éboulements, Charlevoix, Québec
HDR from 3 different exposures - - EXIF from 0ev exposure - Photomatix - local curves adjustments
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Shot it at Gangasagar fair.Gangasagar Mela(fair) is the largest fair celebrated in West Bengal. This fair is held where the Ganga and the Bay of Bengal form a nexus. Hence the name Gangasagar Mela. The river Ganga which originates in the Gangotri glacier in the snow clad Himalayas, descends down the mountains, reaches the plains at Haridwar, flows through ancient pilgrimage sites such as Benares and Prayag, and drains into the Bay of Bengal. Sagar Island, at the mouth of the river Hooghly in Bengal where the Ganga breaks up into hundreds of streams, and drains into the sea, is honored as a pilgrimage site.
A dip in the ocean, where the Ganga drains into the sea is considered to be of great religious significance particularly on the Makara Sankranti day when the sun makes a transition to Capricorn from Sagittarius and this town becomes home to vast fairs, drawing visitors and recluses from all over the state. There is a common belief among the locals that the girls who take the holy dip get handsome grooms and the boys get beautiful brides. When they are done with the ritual obligations, they head towards the Kapilmuni Temple situated nearby, to worship the deity as a mark of respect.
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New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York metropolitan area, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world.[6] The city is referred to as New York City or the City of New York to distinguish it from the State of New York, of which it is a part. A global power city,[7] New York exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment. The home of the United Nations Headquarters,[8] New York is an important center for international diplomacy[9] and has been described as the cultural capital of the world.[10][11]
On one of the world's largest natural harbors,[12] New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which is a county of New York State.[13] The five boroughs—the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island—were consolidated into a single city in 1898.[14] With a census-estimated 2013 population of 8,405,837[4] distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles (790 km2),[15] New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States.[16] As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York,[17][18] making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world.[19] By 2013 census estimates, the New York Metropolitan Area's population remains by a significant margin the United States' largest Metropolitan Statistical Area, with approximately 19.9 million people,[20] and is also part of the most populous Combined Statistical Area in the United States, containing an estimated 23.4 million people.
I don't usually do people shots, or portraits for that matter. I take and post pictures here in my stream primarily to my own liking. If I think the shot makes me happy, then that's all that matters (not that your wonderful comments and faves don't send me to flickr heaven. Oh, they do. And I always, always appreciate every single one of them. (",) you guys rock!).
Portraits are different. The idea of somebody else's --- the subject's --- opinion weighing in on the shot is too much pressure for me. What may look good in my eyes may not necessarily be so for the subject. I can be a people pleaser at times, so taking shots of others and them actually appreciating it, means so much to me.
And when they display my shots of them as profile pics on facebook, multiply or friendster, my heart dances a lil bit inside.
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by the way, this is Em, a new travel buddy I met on my last trip. She takes pretty pictures too with a camera that has way too many buttons. :D
Most people (anyway, most consumers of media in the west) have seen this place before. A lot. During the week you can practically assume you'll see some kind of filming or photography happening here.
And why not? It's a weird, beautiful, fantastic place. It's easy for film crews and average people to access. As a Los Angeles County Park, it's free to visit (you'll need to buy a permit for major filming though). People come here to hike, picnic, and climb the rocks (as the pair in this picture have done, even though lightning is crashing bumptiously from the sky not far to the east.) The park itself is much more than just this particular set of rocks, but these are the most iconic ones. The park comprises almost 1,000 acres of this freakish, alien, haphazard terrain created by sandstone strata tossed about willy-nilly by the ever fascinating San Andreas Fault.
And so, given that photographing and filming this place is almost a cliche, why do I keep coming back here to shoot? Maybe because the landscape of Vasquez Rocks is ingrained in my being. I came of age yearning to be roaming in landscapes like this when instead I was trapped in classrooms not that far away. When I was able, weekends and after school, I did roam in a landscape much like this, either hiking or riding horseback, dreaming of different ways I could conspire to be someone else. Someone not me. Vasquez Rocks is like that place I came of age in, only moreso. More of everything. Bolder, vaster, bigger, stranger: In a word, it's even more landscapey.
Occasionally, when I close my eyes, I see this place without meaning to--without even desiring to. I drive by here every evening and when I think the light is just right, I stop and shoot. It doesn't matter to me how many times this place has "been done." I'll keep coming back with a camera as long as there is sweet light and as long as I remain happy to be me.
Here's a partial list of where you may have seen Vasquez Rocks before:
Movies:
Star Trek (2009), Alpha Dog (2007), Bone Eater (2007; TV), A.I. Assault / Shockwave (2006), Cars (2006), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Holes (2003), Joe Dirt (2001), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), Planet of the Apes (2001), Bubble Boy (2001), Epoch (2000), Very Bad Things (1998), Free Enterprise (1998), Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997), Guns of El Chupacabra (1997), Jingle All the Way (1996), Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (1995,) The Flintstones (1994), In the Army Now (1994), Army of Darkness (1993), Mom and Dad Save the World (1992), Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991), The Rapture (1991), Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988) Hell Comes to Frogtown (1987), Short Circuit (1986), Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983), Parasite (1982), Hearts of the West (1975), Blazing Saddles (1974), Apache (1954), A Thousand and One Nights (film) (1945), Werewolf of London (1935), Dracula (1931)
Television:
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Saving Grace, From The Earth To The Moon—episode 10: "Galileo Was Right", The Twilight Zone (the original series), Medium, Have Gun—Will Travel, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Rifleman, Maverick, Broken Arrow, Mission: Impossible, 24, Airwolf, Bonanza, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Roswell, Star Trek: The Original Series (notably the episodes "Arena", "The Alternative Factor", "Shore Leave", and "Friday's Child"), Star Trek: The Next Generation ("Who Watches the Watchers"), Star Trek: Voyager ("Initiations"), Star Trek: Enterprise, NCIS ("South By Southwest"), The Outer Limits, Korg: 70,000 BC, Alias, Mr. Show with Bob and David, The Fugitive (TV series), Alien Hunter, Alias Smith and Jones Hunter, Helltown, The Invaders, MacGyver, The Rat Patrol, Space: Above and Beyond, Charmed, Sliders, Friends, Fear Factor, Lassie, Las Vegas, Logan's Run, Zorro, Voyagers!, Daniel Boone, Alien Nation, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin The Big Valley, Buffalo Bill Jr., Cimarron Strip, The Cisco Kid, Stories of the Century, The High Chaparral, Johnny Ringo The Range Rider, The Bionic Woman, Numb3rs, The Middleman, Prey, Street Hawk, Dinosaurs (TV series)
Commercials, Music Videos, Fashion Shoots, Magazine Spreads and other Advertising:
Way too many to list. Seriously. (list of productions snagged from wikipedia)
shedding.
im losing my petals one at a time, and it hurts me to see them go.
oh my gosh this is lame. today went so terribly wrong in so many strange ways.
first off, i went up to the lake to shoot with laina, had this fantastic idea... realized i didnt have enough black paint, shot about ten failed photos, and then my camera died.. again. my camera always dies because im always using it. :(
so then i went home... feeling a little saddened. but then the day seemed a little brighter when i spotted a turtle in my front yard. she was oh so cute. i carried her around with me for a bit while i finished some errands and planned for my 365 to be all about my new friend. so i went outside and got all set up. i set my turtle in the grass while i got ready, and when i turned around she was gone!!! i thought turtles were supposed to be slow?? i looked everywhere, but she had surely disappeared. so this photo is what came next. i was just thinking about how many opportunities i missed today. i also felt like a winter wonderland princess lost and confused in a field of green.
p.s. that is a christmas tree skirt i am wearing. my famiy thought i was losing my mind when they saw me wearing it.
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:: Lumière Matinale, Québec City, Québec, Canada. (Archives)
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Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec. It is the second largest city in the province, after Montreal. Quebec City's Old Town (Vieux-Québec) is the only North American fortified city north of Mexico whose walls still exist, and was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985 as the "Historic District of Old Quebec". It is also one of the oldest cities in North America (founded in 1608). Quebec City is internationally known for its Winter Carnival and the Château Frontenac, a historic hotel which dominates the city skyline. By the way, Quebec is celebrating its 400th anniversary this year.
Cette photo a failli partir à la poubelle... Elle était techniquement réussie mais ne donnait pas l'effet recherché... puis j'ai eu l'idée de détourer l'arbre et d'en faire un noir&blanc !
This photo was about to go to the trashcan... It was technically ok but didn't sugest anything... then i had the idea to remove the sky and to convert it into b&w !
San Miguel de Allende, ciudad del estado mexicano de Guanajuato, se encuentra a una altitud de 1910 m y dista 274 km de la Ciudad de México.
El 7 de julio de 2008 fue inscrita por la Unesco en el Patrimonio cultural de la Humanidad. Anteriormente fue parte del proyecto de "pueblos mágicos", pero debido a esta última distinción de la Unesco, fue cambiada su designación.
La ciudad fue fundada en 1542 por el monje franciscano Fray Juan de San Miguel, quien bautizó el asentamiento como San Miguel el Grande. Era un punto de paso importante del Antiguo Camino Real, parte de la ruta de plata que se conectaba con Zacatecas.
El pueblo se destacó durante la Guerra de Independencia de México. Ignacio Allende, nativo de San Miguel, fue un líder clave en la guerra. Capturado cuando marchaba hacia Estados Unidos en busca de armas, fue juzgado en Chihuahua, sentenciado y fusilado. Su cabeza fue expuesta en uno de los ángulos de la Alhóndiga de Granaditas en Guanajuato junto a las de Miguel Hidalgo, Juan Aldama y Mariano Jiménez. La población de San Miguel el Grande fue elevada a ciudad el 8 de marzo de 1826 y cambió el nombre por "San Miguel de Allende" en honor al héroe nacional.
Durante la década de 1950,
San Miguel de Allende se convirtió en un lugar turístico conocido por su bella arquitectura colonial y sus fuentes termales.
El lugar es famoso por su clima templado, los ojos de agua termal y su arquitectura.
La iglesia de San Francisco de Asís se comenzó a construir en 1778 y tardó más de 20 años en terminarse, se observan diferentes cambios arquitectónicos de acuerdo con el periodo y la moda. La fachada es churrigueresca pura, con una enorme cantidad de figuras labradas de piedra y afiladas columnas. Sin embargo, el campanario, construido en 1799 por el famoso arquitecto, Francisco Eduardo Tresguerras, es de estilo neoclásico, el cual estaba de moda entonces.
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals Reports (Patent Cases) in a large DC law library.
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1BRETHREN, IF any person is overtaken in misconduct or sin of any sort, you who are spiritual [who are responsive to and controlled by the Spirit] should set him right and restore and reinstate him, without any sense of superiority and with all gentleness, keeping an attentive eye on yourself, lest you should be tempted also.
2Bear (endure, carry) one another's burdens and [a]troublesome moral faults, and in this way fulfill and observe perfectly the law of Christ (the Messiah) and complete [b]what is lacking [in your obedience to it].
3For if any person thinks himself to be somebody [too important to condescend to shoulder another's load] when he is nobody [of superiority except in his own estimation], he deceives and deludes and cheats himself.
- Galatians 6:1-3 (Amplified Bible)
View larger on black. Featured on the BlogTO Radar page for April 10, 2009.
At centre is Convocation Hall at the St. George campus of the University of Toronto. It is used for graduation ceremonies, as a lecture hall for some of the largest courses (like Psych 100), and also for concerts and other events. I been in this building at various times for all of these purposes, including for a first-year course, and for convocation.
On the right is Knox College, and on the left is the Sandford Fleming building, home to the Computer Science department and the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering.
The smoke stack is on campus about a block beyond, near Huron Street. I never knew what it was for, but bytepusher below writes: The smokestack is for the University's central steam plant on Russell Street, where steam is generated for heating and transmitted to most of the buildings on campus through a network of underground tunnels. Thanks for the info!
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This is "pseudo-HDR", a blend of 7 layers derived from 3 raw files, exposures of 25, 13 and 4 seconds at f/5. Alignment was done using Hugin/autopano-SIFT/Enfuse, and I hand-blended using layer masks in the GIMP. Not perfect, but we only learn by trying.
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Posta all'estremo lembo settentrionale di Lombardia, che con la sua valle si incunea nel cantone svizzero dei Grigioni, Chiavenna, "Clavenna" per i Romani, fu un importante centro di transito fin dall'epoca di Augusto tra la pianura Padana e il nord Europa. Costituisce il centro della Valchiavenna, composta a sua volta da tre valli minori: il Piano di Chiavenna a sud, dove anticamente continuava il lago di Como (oggi sopravvive il lago di Mezzòla), la val San Giacomo verso il passo dello Spluga e la val Bregaglia verso il passo del Settimo un tempo (oggi percorso da un sentiero turistico) e verso quello del Maloja, accesso all'Engadina. Quest'ultima valle, infatti, è divisa dal confine di stato, che fu stabilito dall'imperatore Ottone I fin dal 960.
Della romanità di Chiavenna fanno fede due carte stradali romane: l'Itinerarium Antonini e la Tabula Peutingeriana, che registrano pure "Summus lacus" (oggi Samòlaco).
Gli imperatori assegnarono la Valchiavenna, come il resto del territorio della diocesi, ai vescovi di Como, e il comune di Chiavenna, attestato nel 1097, è il primo a comparire nel territorio dell'attuale provincia di Sondrio. Nel 1335 al vescovo subentrarono i Visconti di Milano e quindi gli Sforza, quando Ludovico Maria Sforza detto il Moro, per difendersi dai vicini Grigioni costituiti in repubblica delle tre Leghe, fece costruire le mura di cinta attorno al borgo (1488-1497).
Ma a poco servirono, perché, sconfitto Ludovico il Moro dalla Francia, a questa passò la valle fino al 1512, quando i Grigioni riuscirono a conquistarla. La terranno fino al 1797, con l'intervallo di un ventennio seguito al cosiddetto Sacro Macello del 1620, durante il quale in Valtellina furono uccisi 400 protestanti. Si trattò di un'insurrezione sanguinosa motivata ufficialmente dalla reazione dei cattolici contro i protestanti (lo erano in maggioranza i Grigioni), in realtà fomentata per motivi politici dalla Spagna, che aveva il ducato di Milano confinante con la Valtellina, e dai nobili valtellinesi, esautorati dalla nobiltà grigione. Non vi partecipò la Valchiavenna, legata ai traffici commerciali con i dominanti, ma ne subì le conseguenze politiche, con l'allontanamento dei Grigioni fino al Capitolato di Milano del 1639.
Il borgo, che era stato dato alle fiamme durante una incursione degli stessi Grigioni nel 1486, risorse a partire dal XVI secolo, quando nacque il centro storico che si vede tuttora, caratterizzato da una strada principale, detta "Paart de mèz" (vie Quadrio, Dolzino, Pedretti), delimitata da case e palazzi a cui si accede da portali in pietra ollàre con date e iscrizioni religiose e morali. Nelle piazze sopravvivono fontane nella stessa pietra locale: da quella cinquecentesca (ma solo relativamente alla vasca ottagonale) del "Cantón" (piazza Pestalozzi) a quella con tazza circolare e sculture del 1732 in piazza San Pietro, a quella tardo ottocentesca di "piaza Növa" (piazza Crollalanza) ecc.
Più o meno parallela alla "Paart de mèz", verso ovest, era la zona artigianale, già servita dal canale derivato dal fiume Mera. Si snoda lungo le vie della Marmirola, al Maglio vecchio, Cappuccini e Molinanca. Sul lato opposto era la zona agricola, servita dalle vie Macolino, delle Agostiniane e Lena-Perpenti. Quest'ultima diventerà zona abitativa a partire dal 1886, quando vi fu costruita la stazione ferroviaria.
Della dominazione grigione rimangono, sulle pareti esterne e soprattutto interne del Pretorio, abbondanti tracce di affreschi dei commissari che ogni due anni venivano inviati dal governo come rappresentanti e giudici, oltre che affreschi sulle case, come quella in via Dolzino, appartenente a un medico riformato, il quale nel 1591 fece decorare la facciata a monocromo con due scene bibliche e, in alto, i re di Francia Enrico III e IV, che fino ad allora si erano distinti nell'appoggio agli ugonotti.
Oltre il fiume, perpendicolare alla "Paart de mèz", si snoda la contrada di Oltremera (via Bossi), fino a una ottantina di anni fa unica via di accesso alla val San Giacomo.
Allontanati i Grigioni nel 1797 dalle truppe napoleoniche, la Valchiavenna entrò nella Cisalpina fino alla sconfitta di Napoleone e dal congresso di Vienna fu aggregata al regno lombardo-veneto, dominato dagli Austriaci, costituendo con la Valtellina la provincia di Sondrio. Nel frattempo, a partire dal 1804, la repubblica dei Grigioni entrava nella Svizzera come cantone. Nel 1861 la Valchiavenna entrò nel Regno d'Italia.
Durante i quasi tre secoli di dominio grigione Chiavenna con la sua valle aveva goduto di un certo benessere, grazie soprattutto alla sua posizione sulla via più diretta tra Milano e il nord Europa. Ciò non fermò il flusso migratorio di parte della popolazione verso altre terre europee, come Austria, Germania, Boemia e Polonia e - da parte di ceti più popolari - verso città italiane, come Venezia, Roma, Napoli, Palermo ecc.
il resto dell'articolo qui:
oh holy night / michael angelo batio on guitar
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Image: Relief from the massive 16th century bronze doors which are the
main entrance to the majestic Romanesque cathedral at Pisa, Italy. The
original 11th century wooden doors were destroyed by the fire of 1596.
But perhaps you would rather have seen the leaning tower :))
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explore 170....Thank you all for your support.
Part of my major .
This image was very tricky to shoot and difficult to manipulate because I did not have any idea on how to make it work.
There's only very slight motion going on because I wanted to make it look almost like a freeze frame.
The final works are actually not in print format, they're projected onto the center of the frame she enters (in the First Phase) coupled with a soundtrack and sound effects. I have the video but didn't do a recording of it being projected onto the frame. It's probably going to go up for exhibition at my school so maybe I'll a recording then.
So glad it's over! Sleeping, getting back to games and online shopping are currently my top priorities.
I'll still be shooting, but I might be trying a new style. (This whole series was quite new to me, having the make the settings etc, it's also aesthetically quite different from my preferred ghostly themed work or vintage inspired photographs) I'm not sure yet but possibilities are endless. One thing though, I really don't like studio lights, it just doesn't seem to fit what I do so I'll still be using natural lighting :D Might want to try incorporating drawing with photography or maybe take up digital painting and see how things go from there.
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The Stover Myers Mill is a watermill located on the Tohickon Creek in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The mill was built by Jacob Stover around 1800 and operated continuously until 1955. It used a millstone to grind flour and feed for livestock using power from a waterwheel. The mill was equipped with an up-and-down saw and also operated as a lumber mill. The property was purchased by Bucks County in 1967 and is open to the public.
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caught up with the extremely busy mike calibre 16 and went up to north curly . the weather was bad and made it near impossible to keep the camera and filters dry . if it wasnt for the catching up with mike i would of stayed in bed . good to catch up though . ninos the poor bugger was busy working .
not happy with the blue coloring on the left hand side of the sky . it was the actual colors in the sky . so i decided to leave it in . on another not , i replaced the original photo today with a slightly bigger border .
loving this much needed rain . enjoy the rest of the weekend ;)
Elderly Look So Much Better Here
Another land of the lost picture. Love going through old shit.
I'm afriad of getting old. yeah I know it's inevitable but it's scary seeing yourself deteriorate. I work in a hospital and you see death literally everyday. Some young many old but it's stil an experience.
Seriously can you imagine your self . Things you have done so many times over and over in your life seems like grueling chorus. It's bewildering how things can rapidly change. Then comes the realizing that you are going to die. That creeps me out. I rather not think about it until I'm forced to. On the other hand my boyfriend has actually planned how he would like to pass and the arrangements after. Yeah I know a bit freaking weird right.
I wonder what her life was. If she had some major regrets. She looks like she is thinking about something big. Hope it's not rent. Beacuse been there and it's not fun. Damn i hate money.
Hopefully she has lived a fufilled life and is content with her mark in life. beacue sleeping without a peace of mind is one of the true tortures. the infamous question "what if?"
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"Better poor on Aargau than rich anywhere else."
Nothing more than a slogan to entice visitors. There was more money on Aargau than almost anywhere in the galaxy, and it did not make it into the hands of the poor.
The fall of the Empire freed many planets from tyranny, but the civilized worlds suffered the most. Instability leads to fear, fear leads to hoarding, hoarding leads to desperation, and then there is violence, on both sides.
Any hint of unrest in the undercity, and the armed guards of the city elite pulled people from their homes. Anything to quell the rumors, to stabilize the markets. The weakest in the undercity began to disappear, and their value to the planet at large dwindled into nothing.
You were safer on Aargau walking around in Stormtrooper armor than hand-me-downs. The local remnant capitalized on this.
Late night visits to the houses still populated, brute squads culling the lower class for conscripts. Nobody would miss them.
I felt the same about the stormtroopers themselves.
I have become known by the denizens of the undercity as the Shagha, Aargauese for "vengeful spirit". At the very least, they understood what I was doing.
I move quickly and quietly, my years killing for Black Sun finally benefitting someone besides the Princes.
A slain trooper here, a headless guard there, and a legend begins to grow. I pray it gives the people hope. I cannot truly better their lot, but I can protect them until the wind changes, I can keep them in their homes and away from the brutality of war.
There is irony in my bringing brutality to their streets, instead. Only when it is useful.
I know little of morality and even less of good. My methods are not perfect; I am a kind of monster. I have long known this. But there are times in the past where it has been more true, and faced with the current situation, I cannot stand by. This is all I know to do. Perhaps I can yet earn some measure of peace.
- The "Shagha"
Beloeil (literally "beautiful eye") is one of the largest and most beautiful castle in Belgium. It was founded in the 13th century as a medieval fortress, then was progressively transformed into a residential palace in the 17th and 18th century. The central part of the castle was devastated by a fire in 1900, and rebuilt 2 years later.
Since 1394, the castle has belonged to the Princes of Ligne, one of Belgium's highest ranking noble family. The family has its roots in the village of Ligne, eight kilometres north-east of Beloeil.
The castle has a pleasant French-style park expanding on 120 hectares - the greatest part of which runs across the village of Beloeil, outside the property's boundaries. A rectangular artificial lake faces the castle, with classical statues at each end. Take a look at the enormous carps that swim in the moat surrounding the castles.
The 18th-century classical interior reminds of Versailles and is certainly in accordance with the princely status of the proprietors. It contains an impressive collection of art from the 15th to the 19th century, including an impressive library with some 20,000 books.
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Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi
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The Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi or "Fountain of the Four Rivers" is a fountain in Rome, Italy, located in the Piazza Navona. Designed by Gianlorenzo Bernini, it is emblematic of the dynamic and dramatic effects sought by High Baroque artists. It was erected in 1651 in front of the church of Sant'Agnese in Agone, and yards from the Pamphilj Palace belonging to this fountain's patron, Innocent X (1644-1655).
The four gods on the corners of the fountain represent the four major rivers of the world known at the time: the Nile, Danube, Ganges, and Plate. The design of each god figure has symbolic importance.
Design
Bernini's design was selected in competition. The circumstances of his victory are described as follows:
So strong was the sinister influence of the rivals of Bernini on the mind of Innocent that when he planned to set up in Piazza Navona the great obelisk brought to Rome by the Emperor Caracalla, which had been buried for a long time at Capo di Bove for the adornment of a magnificent fountain, the Pope had designs made by the leading architects of Rome without an order for one to Bernini. Prince Niccolò Ludovisi, whose wife was niece to the pope, persuaded Bernini to prepare a model, and arrange for it to be secretly installed in a room in the Palazzo Pamphili that the Pope had to pass. When the meal was finished, seeing such a noble creation, he stopped almost in ecstasy. Being prince of the keenest judgment and the loftiest ideas, after admiring it, said: “This is a trick … It will be necessary to employ Bernini in spite of those who do not wish it, for he who desires not to use Bernini’s designs, must take care not to see them.”
Paraphrase from Filippo Baldinucci, The life of Cavaliere Bernini (1682)
Public fountains in Rome served multiple purposes: first, they were highly needed sources of water for neighbors in the centuries prior to home plumbing. Second, they were monuments to the papal patrons. Earlier Bernini fountains had been the Fountain of the Triton in Piazza Barberini, the fountain of the Moor in the southern end of Piazza Navona erected during the Barberini papacy, and the Neptune and Triton for Villa Montalto, whose statuary now resides at Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Each has animals and plants that further carry forth the identification, and each carries a certain number of allegories and metaphors with it. The Ganges carries a long oar, representing the river's navigability. The Nile's head is draped with a loose piece of cloth, meaning that no one at that time knew exactly where the Nile's source was. The Danube touches the Papal coat of arms, since it is the large river closest to Rome. And the Río de la Plata is sitting on a pile of coins, a symbol of the riches America could offer to Europe (the word plata means silver in Spanish). Also, the Río de la Plata looks scared by a snake, showing rich men's fear that their money could be stolen. Each is a river god, semi-prostrate, in awe of the central tower, epitomized by the slender Egyptian obelisk (built for the Roman Serapeum in AD 81), symbolizing by Papal power surmounted by the Pamphili symbol (dove). In addition, the fountain is a theater in the round, a spectacle of action, that can be strolled around. Water flows and splashes from a jagged and pierced mountainous disorder of travertine marble. A legend, common with tour-guides, is that Bernini positioned the cowering Rio de la Plata River as if the sculpture was fearing the facade of the church of Sant'Agnese by his rival Borromini could crumble against him; in fact, the fountain was completed several years before Borromini began work on the church.
The dynamic fusion of architecture and sculpture made this fountain revolutionary when compared to prior Roman projects, such as the stilted designs Acqua Felice and Paola by Fontana in Piazza San Bernardo (1585-87) or the customary embellished geometric floral-shaped basin below a jet of water such as the Fontanina in Piazza Campitelli (1589) by Giacomo della Porta.
Unveiling
he Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi was unveiled to the populace of Rome on 12 June 1651. According to a report from the time, an event was organised to draw people to the Piazza Navona. Beforehand, wooden scaffolding, overlaid with curtains, had hidden the fountain, though probably not the obelisk, which would have given people an idea that something was being built, but the precise details were unknown. Once unveiled, the full majesty of the fountain would be apparent, which the celebrations were designed to advertise. The festival was paid for by the Pamphili family, to be specific, Innocent X, who had sponsored the erection of the fountain. The most conspicuous item on the Pamphili crest, an olive branch, was brandished by the performers who took part in the event.
The author of the report, Antonio Bernal, takes his readers through the hours leading up to the unveiling. The celebrations were announced by a woman, dressed as the allegorical character of Fame, being paraded around the streets of Rome on a carriage or float. She was sumptuously dressed, with wings attached to her back and a long trumpet in her hand. Bernal notes that "she went gracefully through all the streets and all the districts that are found among the seven hills of Rome, often blowing the round bronze [the trumpet], and urging everyone to make their way to that famous Piazza." A second carriage followed her; this time another woman was dressed as the allegorical figure of Curiosity. According to the report, she continued exhorting the people to go towards the piazza. Bernal describes the clamour and noise of the people as they discussed the upcoming event.
The report is actually less detailed about the process of publicly unveiling the fountain. However, it does give ample descriptions of the responses of the spectators who had gathered in the Piazza. Once there, Bernal notes, the citizens of the city were overwhelmed by the massive fountain, with its huge life-like figures. The report mentions the "enraptured souls" of the population, the fountain, which "gushes out a wealth of silvery treasures" causing "no little wonder" in the onlookers. Bernal then continues to describe the fountain, making continuous reference to the seeming naturalism of the figures and its astonishing effect on those in the piazza.
The making of the fountain was met by opposition by the people of Rome for several reasons. First, Innocent X had the fountain built at public expense during the intense famine of 1646-48. Throughout the construction of the fountain, the city murmurred and talk of riot was in the air. Pasquinade writers protested the construction of the fountain in September 1648 by attaching hand-written invectives on the stone blocks used to make the obelisk. These pasquinades read, "We do not want Obelisks and Fountains, It is bread that we want. Bread, Bread, Bread!" Innocent quickly had the authors arrested, and disguised spies patrol the Pasquino statue and Piazza Navona
The streetvendors of the market also opposed the construction of the fountain, as Innocent X expelled them from the piazza. The Pamphilij pope believed they detracted from the magnificence of the square. The vendors refused to move, and the papal police had to chase them from the piazza. Roman Jews, in particular, lamented the closing of the Navona, since they were allowed to sell used articles of clothing there at the Wednesday market.
Navona Square (Piazza Navona).
Following, a text, in english, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Piazza Navona is a city square in Rome, Italy. It is built on the site of the Stadium of Domitian, built in first century AD, and follows the form of the open space of the stadium.[1] The ancient Romans came there to watch the agones ("games"), and hence it was known as 'Circus Agonalis' (competition arena). It is believed that over time the name changed to 'in agone' to 'navone' and eventually to 'navona'.
Defined as a public space in the last years of 15th century, when the city market was transferred to it from the Campidoglio, the Piazza Navona is a significant example of Baroque Roman architecture and art. It features sculptural and architectural creations: in the center stands the famous Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi or Fountain of the Four Rivers (1651) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini; the church of Sant'Agnese in Agone by Francesco Borromini and Girolamo Rainaldi; and the Pamphilj palace also by Rainaldi and which features the gallery frescoed by Pietro da Cortona.
The Piazza Navona has two additional fountains: at the southern end is the Fontana del Moro with a basin and four Tritons sculpted by Giacomo della Porta (1575) to which, in 1673, Bernini added a statue of a Moor, or African, wrestling with a dolphin, and at the northern end is the Fountain of Neptune (1574) created by Giacomo della Porta. The statue of Neptune in the northern fountain, the work of Antonio Della Bitta, was added in 1878 to make that fountain more symmetrical with La Fontana del Moro in the south.
At the southwest end of the piazza is the ancient 'speaking' statue of Pasquino. Erected in 1501, Romans could leave lampoons or derogatory social commentary attached to the statue.
During its history, the piazza has hosted theatrical events and other ephemeral activities. From 1652 until 1866, when the festival was suppressed, it was flooded on every Saturday and Sunday in August in elaborate celebrations of the Pamphilj family. The pavement level was raised in the 19th century and the market was moved again in 1869 to the nearby Campo de' Fiori. A Christmas market is held in the piazza.
Other monuments on the Piazza Navona are:
Stabilimenti Spagnoli
Palazzo de Cupis
Palazzo Torres Massimo Lancellotti
Church of Nostra Signora del Sacro Cuore
Palazzo Braschi (Museo di Roma)
Sant'Agnese in Agone
Literature and films
The piazza is featured in Dan Brown's 2000 thriller Angels and Demons, in which the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi "The Fountain of the four rivers"(the Danube, the Gange, the Nile and the River Plate) is listed as one of the Altars of Science. During June 2008, Ron Howard directed several scenes of the film adaptation of Angels and Demons on the southern section of the Piazza Navona, featuring Tom Hanks.
The piazza is featured in several scenes of director Mike Nichols' 1970 adaptation of Joseph Heller's novel, Catch-22.
The Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi was used in the 1990 film Coins in the Fountain. The characters threw coins into the fountain as they made wishes. The Trevi Fountain was used in the 1954 version of the film.
A Fontana Dei Quattro Fiumi, é maior das três fontes, localizada no centro da praça. Na fonte dos rios, Bernini projetou quatro estátuas representando os rios dos quatro continentes: o Nilo, o Danúbio, o rio da Prata e o Ganges. As estátuas estão montadas sobre um obelisco egípcio, sendo circundadas por leões e outros animais fantásticos, tendo no cume uma pomba em bronze, símbolo da paz no mundo e da família Pamphili. Para realçar a rivalidade entre Bernini e Borromini, que fez a igreja de Santa Agnese, os romanos criaram uma lenda em torno da fonte dos rios, que fica em frente a esta igreja. Segundo os romanos, as estátuas duvidam da solidez do projeto de Borromini. A que retrata o rio da Prata, tem a mão erguida, a proteger o corpo do desabamento da igreja; a que retrata o Nilo, traz a cabeça coberta por um véu, a recusar a ver a obra de Borromini.
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Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi
Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fonte dos Quatro Rios), foi esculpida por Gian Lorenzo Bernini entre 1648 e 1651, artista do barroco italiano, foi concebida por uma ordem do Papa Inocencio X o Papa da familia Pamphili, cujo tinha sua casa nesta praça.
Esta localizada na Praça de Navona, em Roma. Ela representa os quatro principais continentes do mundo cortados por seus principais rios: Rio Nilo, na África; Rio Ganges, na Ásia, Rio da Prata, na América e o Rio Danúbio, na Europa.
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A escultura da Fonte dos Quatro Rios, encontra-se na Piazza Navona de Roma (Itália) e foi criada e talhada pelo escultor e pintor Gian Lorenzo Bernini em 1651 baixo o papado de Inocencio X, em plena época barroca, durante o período mais prolífico do genial artista e cerca da que em outro tempo fué a Chiesa dei San Giacomo de gli Spagnoli
A fonte compõe-se de uma base formada de uma grande piscina elíptica, coroada em seu centro de uma grande mole de mármol, sobre a qual se eleva um obelisco egípcio de época romana, o obelisco de Domiciano .
As estátuas que compõem a fonte, têm umas dimensões maiores que na realidade e são alegorias dos quatro rios principais da Terra (Nilo, Ganges, Danubio, Rio da Prata), a cada um deles em um dos continentes conhecidos na época. Na fonte a cada um destes rios está representado por um gigante de mármol .
As árvores e as plantas que emergem da água e que se encontram entre as rochas, também estão em uma escala maior que na realidade. Os animais e vegetales, gerados de uma natureza boa e útil, pertencem a espécies grandes e potentes (como o leão, cavalo, cocodrilo, serpente, dragão, etc.). O espectador, girando em torno da fonte, descobre novas formas que dantes estavam escondidas ou cobertas pela massa rocosa. Com esta obra, Bernini quer suscitar admiração em quem olha-a, criando um pequeno universo em movimento a imitação do espaço da realidade natural.
A fonte foi submetida a restauração, um trabalho que se deu por concluído em dezembro de 2008. Constitui um dos palcos finque da novela e o filme Anjos e Demónios, à qual é arrojado um dos cardeais sequestrados, e Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) se lança à água para lhe salvar.
Os animais da fonte
A fonte apresenta figuras de sete animais, além de uma pequena pomba e o emblema dos Pamphili. Para poder observá-las basta com dar uma volta ao redor da fonte. As figuras são: um cavalo, uma serpente de terra (na parte mais alta, cerca do obelisco), uma serpente de mar, um delfín (que funciona também como desagüe), um cocodrilo, um leão e um dragão. Notar também a vegetación esculpida que parece real.
Praça Navona.
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A Praça Navona (em italiano: Piazza Navona) é uma das mais célebres praças de Roma. A sua forma assemelha-se à dos antigos estádios da Roma Antiga, seguindo a planificação do Estádio de Domiciano (também denominado entre os italianos de Campomarzio, em virtude da natureza rude e esforçada dos exercícios - manejo de armas - e desportos atléticos que aí se realizavam). Albergaria até 20 mil espectadores sentados nas bancadas. A origem do nome deve-se ao nome pomposo que lhe foi dado ao tempo do Imperador Domiciano (imperador entre 81-96 d.c.): "Circo Agonístico" (do étimo grego Agonia, que significa precisamente - exercício, luta, combate). Actualmente o nome corresponde à corruptela da forma posterior in agone, depois nagone e finalmente navone, que por mero acaso significa também "grande navio" na língua italiana.
As casas que entretanto e com o passar dos anos foram sendo construídas sobre as bancadas, delimitariam e circunscreveriam até à actualidade o tão afamado Circo Agonístico.
A Navona passou de fato a caracterizar-se como praça nos últimos anos do século XV, quando o mercado da cidade foi transferido do Capitólio para aí. Foi remodelada para um estilo monumental por vontade do Papa Inocêncio X, da família Pamphili e é motivo de orgulho da cidade de Roma durante o período barroco. Sofreu intervenções de Gian Lorenzo Bernini (a famosa Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fonte dos Quatro Rios, 1651) ao centro); de Francesco Borromini e Girolamo Gainaldi (a igreja de Sant'Agnese in Agone); e de Pietro de Cortona, que pintou a galeria no Palácio Pamphilj, sede da embaixada do Brasil na Itália desde 1920.
O mercado tradicional voltou a ser transferido em 1869 para o Campo de' Fiori, embora a praça mantenha também um papel fundamental em servir de palco para espectáculos de teatro e corridas de cavalos. A partir de 1652, em todos os Sábados e Domingos de Agosto, a praça tornava-se num lago para celebrar a própria família Pamphili.
A praça dispõe ainda duas outras fontes esculpidas por Giacomo della Porta - a Fontana di Nettuno (1574), na área norte da praça, e a Fontana del Moro (1576), na área sul.
Na extremidade norte da praça, por debaixo dos edifícios, foram postas a descoberto ruínas antiquíssimas, a uma cota muito abaixo da actual, comprovando a primeva utilização daquele imenso terreiro. Outros monumentos com entrada para a praça:
Stabilimenti Spagnoli
Palazzo de Cupis
Palazzo Torres Massimo Lancellotti
Church of Nostra Signora del Sacro Cuore
Curiosidades
Na Piazza Navona, está localizado o Palazzo Pamphilj, propriedade da República Federativa do Brasil, sede da Embaixada Brasileira e da Missão Diplomática do Brasil para a Itália.
A-ma Temple is the oldest temple of Macao. Built during the period of Chenghua Reign in the middle age of the Ming Dynasty as said, it has a history of over five hundred years.
On the monument in commemoration of the 500th Anniversary of A-Ma temple, it is written: “China is large in area and becomes prosperous during the Three Tang Dynasties. Its civilization is well known everywhere. Vessels and vehicles come to China from all directions. As to the land route, there is a Silk Road connecting Da Shi and Persia. As to the water route, there are boats in deep blue seas leading to Tian Zhu in the south, where people offer treasure and presents at the beginning, Macao was just a fishing port and the people of Quanzhang immigrated here on a large scale and settled down. During the period of Chenghua Reign of the Ming Dynasty. A-Ma temple was constructedâ€.
The catholic missionary Matteu Ricci, who arrived in Macao in 1582, once mentioned A-Ma Temple in Reading Note of Matteu Ricci in China when relating the origin of Macao:
They gave a part of the neighbouring island to the visiting merchants as a stage. There was an idol called A Ma, which we can still see today. The territory around A-Ma bay is called Macao. It is better to call it a protruding rock than to call it a peninsula. However, this piece of land was soon inhabited by Portuguese and also by some other races nearby lands. Soon it developed into a remarkable port and famous marketâ€
The relation of Macao Ricci corresponds to a popular saying Macao: “A-Ma Temple exists before Macao. A-Ma Temple has been the important landmark of Macao since a long time ago.â€
A-Ma Temple and its historic relics are also related in the first chorography about Macao Annals of Macao, finished during Qianglong Reign of the Qing Dynasty: It is said that during the period of Mingli Reign a big ship of a Fujian merchant was pushed by storm in danger. Soon a goddess was seen standing at the side of mountain and then the whole ship was safe. Thus a temple dedicated to the goddess was built in the place and the place was named Cape of Niangma. Niangma in Southern Fujian Dialect means goddess.
To show the miracles of the Goddess, a ship was engraved on the rock of the temple and was inscribed with four Chinese characters Benefits covering rivers and mountains. On the left of the Cape of Niangma, tens of xun in height, there is stone engraved with characters of Haijue in ink whose diameter is more than a zhang. There is a stone called hamashi, blue and round in shape, where come cackles when there is flood tide during September and December.
There are mainly four halls in A-Ma Temple: Hongren Hall, Zhansuo Hall, Zhengjue Hall and Kun lam Hall. Among them Hongren Hall is the oldest.
It is said that A-Ma Temple has a history of over five hundred years and begins with the Hongren Hall. The Hall is also associated with the legends and records about A-Ma Temple and it is the very one mentioned in the Reading Notes of Matteu Ricci in China.
At the gate of the Hongren Hall there are couplets engraved on stone: “Holy virtue flows and Putian receives radiance; divine mountain stands elegantly and mirror-like sea sends benevolent waves.†The four walls of the Hall are made of stone and the altar is placed under the roof. There are some relief engravings on the wall beside the altar, such as water monsters and fairies. The Hall is dedicated to Tin Hau.
There are mainly four halls in A-Ma Temple: Hongren Hall, Zhansuo Hall, Zhengjue Hall and Kun lam Hall. Among them Hongren Hall is the oldest.
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The Tower Hamlets Trayned Bandes were, of course, by their nature, a social as well as military organisation. This is also especially true of the re-created regiment, and is reflected in the civilian roles: craftsmen make useful items and repair equipment, musicians entertain us and the public, preachers watch out for our moral wellbeing, servants and clerks bring order to the lives of officers and goodwives and families lend their support and cater to the inner man!
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I'm uploading my shots out of order because my Day 18 shot is so awesome you'll have to wait even longer to see it.
......I've been at the coast for the last few days, with spotty internet and no phone reception.....getting some work done with my latest muse.
So....a little change from the Inspiration shots you've come to expect....This photo is a little moment in the life with another source of inspiration....my friends.
Anna is my latest partner in art crime and she's fucking hilarious. We've spent the last few days shooting photos and tampon bullets from sunrise to sunset. We decided we needed some guns so we went to a toystore. She got a pistol. I got two.
Pretty much whenever we've had any fights in the last few days, we've resorted to shooting each other in the face. That's the best way to repair a friendship. Ever.
And then we went onto the internet and found pictures of girls who have broken our hearts, and shot them in their pretty little skulls.
Yesterday the weather was gorgeous, which was upsetting when we were trying to shoot nudies under cloud cover....and there were people all around intruding on our shots....They were pretty amused by our little gunfight.
I shot it at Kolkata in the transit camp in the time of Gangasagar fair.
I write a lot about indian children,specially the rural children.still I rigth it again just to remember....
With credible estimates ranging from 60 to 115 million, India has the largest number of working children in the world. Whether they are sweating in the heat of stone quarries, working in the fields sixteen hours a day, picking rags in city streets, or hidden away as domestic servants, these children endure miserable and difficult lives. They earn little and are abused much. They struggle to make enough to eat and perhaps to help feed their families as well. They do not go to school; more than half of them will never learn the barest skills of literacy. Many of them have been working since the age of four or five, and by the time they reach adulthood they may be irrevocably sick or deformed-they will certainly be exhausted, old men and women by the age of forty, likely to be dead by fifty.
Most or all of these children are working under some form of compulsion, whether from their parents, from the expectations attached to their caste, or from simple economic necessity. At least fifteen million of them, however, are workingas virtual slaves.3 These are the bonded child laborers of India. This report is about them.
India has 375 million children, more than any other country in the world. Their condition has improved in the last five decades, with child survival rates up, school dropout rates down, and several policy commitments made by the government at the national and international levels. Resource allocations by the State, however, remain quite inadequate to take care of the survival and healthcare needs of infants and children, their education, development and protection.
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New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York metropolitan area, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world.[6] The city is referred to as New York City or the City of New York to distinguish it from the State of New York, of which it is a part. A global power city,[7] New York exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment. The home of the United Nations Headquarters,[8] New York is an important center for international diplomacy[9] and has been described as the cultural capital of the world.[10][11]
On one of the world's largest natural harbors,[12] New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which is a county of New York State.[13] The five boroughs—the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island—were consolidated into a single city in 1898.[14] With a census-estimated 2013 population of 8,405,837[4] distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles (790 km2),[15] New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States.[16] As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York,[17][18] making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world.[19] By 2013 census estimates, the New York Metropolitan Area's population remains by a significant margin the United States' largest Metropolitan Statistical Area, with approximately 19.9 million people,[20] and is also part of the most populous Combined Statistical Area in the United States, containing an estimated 23.4 million people.
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Turbio fondeadero donde van a recalar,
barcos que en el muelle para siempre han de quedar...
Sombras que se alargan en la noche del dolor;
náufragos del mundo que han perdido el corazón...
Puentes y cordajes donde el viento viene a aullar,
barcos carboneros que jamás han de zarpar...
Torvo cementerio de las naves que al morir,
sueñan sin embargo que hacia el mar han de partir...
Amarrado al recuerdo
yo sigo esperando...
¡Niebla del Riachuelo!...
De ese amor, para siempre,
me vas alejando...
Nunca más volvió,
nunca más la vi,
nunca más su voz nombró mi nombre junto a mí...
esa misma voz que dijo: "¡Adiós!".
Sueña, marinero, con tu viejo bergantín,
bebe tus nostalgias en el sordo cafetín...
Llueve sobre el puerto, mientras tanto mi canción;
llueve lentamente sobre tu desolación...
Anclas que ya nunca, nunca más, han de levar,
bordas de lanchones sin amarras que soltar...
Triste caravana sin destino ni ilusión,
como un barco preso en la "botella del figón"
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Nieblas del Riachuelo - Letra Enrique Cadícamo / Interpretada por Bebo y Cigala
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{Foto de Archivo} otras del 2009 cuando me estrenaba con mi cámara....
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No usar esta imagen en páginas web, blogs u otros soportes sin mi autorización, © Todos los derechos reservados.
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“Y estos derechos... a respetarlos, ¿eh? ¡No vaya a pasar como con los diez mandamientos!” (Mafalda)
"Let's take the train to anywhere
I wanna feel the wind in my hair with you.
Let's tell them all, that soon they'll know
How very wrong they were to think we'd never go,
And if you tell me yours I'll tell you mine
And we will clean the cobwebs out of one another's minds. "
DON'T EVER - Missy Higgins
Taken on the way back from a recent road trip to Rolleston - weather was miserable the whole 4 days prior. As usual with my luck the sun came out the day we drove home. After seeing these Sunflowers on the way up we quickly pulled over when we drove past on the return trip.
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La ameba Nebela se ha echado a dormir, se ha enquistado dentro de su cascarón de pepitas de cuarzo formando una esfera como el mundo; así estará bien arropada y protegida, y quizá de esa forma pueda pasar mejor el invierno de hielo, en la Sierra de la Culebra le espera bajo los aullidos sobrecogedores de los lobos que a veces visitan la charca en la que vive.
Hoy la Naturaleza ha gastado una broma a esta ameba discreta, colocando sobre la cúpula de su casa un tirabuzón. Molinete verde que adorna su cabeza haciéndola presumida en este tiempo de sueño invernal. La espiral de la vida seguirá su ciclo y este filamento que adorna como una joya minúscula, la minúscula casa de joya de Nebela se irá despertando al desperezarse la espiral, cuando sople el viento de primavera.
Cuando ella llegue se convertirá en hilo ondulado...hilo de vida de una cianobacteria que aunque recuerda a Lyngbia contorta probablemente sea Scitonema...y que ha hecho lo mismo que Nebela. Se ha convertido en un ovillo para pasar estos fríos de invierno junto a la compañía de esta ameba. Cuando la primavera empiece a despertar ellas lo harán también transformando su belleza estática en latido.
La ameba Nebela protege su cuerpo dentro de un cascarón fuertemente comprimido en forma de gota y ese cascarón de doble capa, se cubre hoy de pepitas de cuarzo transparentes que ella misma fabrica como gotas de cristal.
La cápsula que encierra el cuerpo de Nebela suele ser ligeramente ocre o amarillenta, comprimida lateralmente y presenta pequeños poros laterales difíciles de observar. El cuello tras el que se encuentra la apertura de su casa - que puede ser lineal, ligeramente o fuertemente curvada - es muy corto, apenas está marcado y su borde está rodeado por un collar de materia orgánica.
El caparazón y casa de esta ameba puede estar compuesto de dos capas una interna constituida por un cemento orgánico y la más externa donde se adhieren partículas minerales, restos de diatomeas o placas de sílice fabricadas por ella misma, como ocurre en la Nebela de hoy. El caso es que para que pueda tener esta capa exterior fabricada con placas, necesita alimentarse de otras amebas que también tengan caparazón. Si no lo tienen y se alimenta solo de amebas desnudas, su cuerpo estará también semidesnudo y únicamente protegido por la capa más interna de cemento traslúcido.
Cuando camina por los fondos Nebela desparrama sus brazos en el agua abriéndose en ella y abrazándola como gruesas raíces móviles que se funden y desaparecen para volver a surgir en mil formas diferentes.
Nebella tubulosa , no es una ameba común, la de hoy vive entre los esfagnos de una turbera situada en las inmediaciones de la pequeña localidad de Boya, situado en pleno corazón de la Sierra de la culebra de Zamora y ha sido fotografiada a 400 aumentos con la técnica de contraste de interferencia.
This wonderful scene is from Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park in Bug Sur. This particular spot might be one of the prettiest locations I've ever been to. It is just gorgeous. And a beautiful waterfall (McWay Falls) spilling out into the ocean just tops it off.
Single exposure with CPL.
I have to say thanks very much to Joshua Cripps for the tips on what beaches to visit during my time here. I would have likely stumbled across some of the places, but his tips proved invaluable.
Thanks also to Jill Clardy for her tips in and around San Francisco.
My own little disclaimer to myself...I'm working off the laptop screen, so I may have to go back and re-look at a number of the shots I post while on travel.
Thanks for looking!
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Comments and constructive criticism always appreciated.
Where are you now
When I need you the most
Why don't you take my hand
I want to be close
Help me when i am down
Lift me up off the ground
Teach me right from wrong
Help me to stay strong
Take my hand and walk with me
Show me what to be
I need you to set me free
Where are you now
Now that im half grown
Why are we far apart
I feel so alone
Where are you now
When nothing is going right
Where are you now
I can't see the light
I need you, to need me
Cant you see me
How could you leave me
My heart is
Half empty
I'm not whole
When your not with me
I want you with me
To guide me, hold me, love me now
Where are you now .....
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Here is my first (serious) Close-up Strobist...This is one of the photos we had the Workshop in the Swansea University.
This is one of the photos we had the Workshop in the Swansea University. A big credit to Marc Holmes, the president of Swansea Photography Society, who initiate the workshop and deal with plenty of set-up. Tom Littlehead and Elsa Morgan who also made a great contribution on the set-up on that day...
It is not perfect but I really want to see how you think about this...... So, anyone has some suggestions, I would be more than appreciate....
If you want to see the setup photo. Feel free to click HERE
Strobist info:
Medium softbox behind object with Full Power
ISO 200 : f/22 : 55 mm : 1/250 sec
Your comments, feedbacks and suggestions would be more than appreciate ;)
P.S. Sorry, I mess up quite a lot on my photostream. I still love to try on a lot of things. So Please bare with me!!!
[fr]: Reflets du Bateau de Pierre, Jardin Botanique, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
[image info]: DRI from average (HDR from 5 exposures) and minimum exposures - Nikon D200 - tripod - Nikon 18-200m@34mm
[Level of Retouching]: 60% (textures, vignetting, DRI, levels, general and local curves, use of blending modes) - total processing time: 60 minutes (took me a while to settle on texture once again)
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Saint-Jeannet a l'apparence de tous ces villages perchés, si nombreux en Provence et dans le comté de Nice, qui répondaient jadis à un souci de protection. Largement ensoleillé et protégé des vents du nord, il offre un panorama grandiose jusqu'à la mer.
Blotti au pied de son célèbre Baou, "rocher" en provençal, le village est resté authentique et plein de charme. Le vieux Saint-Jeannet, qui s'agrippe à une pente abrupte, est parcouru de ruelles tortueuses, souvent en pente - les calades - et de nombreuses impasses et placettes.
(Saint-Jeannet, village perché dans l'arrière-pays de Nice)