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Ahora sí que cambio de tercio, ahora toco un poco de otras cosas que no sean fotos de Cuenca, esta foto es de archivo, la tenía ya procesada, de ahí que tenga la firma antigua, como ya habré comentado alguna vez que otra, este tipos de fotos son las que más me gustan. Puerto De Mazarrón – Mazarrón (Murcia)
Nota: No Es HDR, procesado con objetos inteligentes, y procesado por zonas.
Cámara: D40
Modo De Exposición: Manual
ISO: 200
Velocidad: 1/50
Focal: 18.0 mm
F/ 22.0
Objetivo: 18.0-55.0 mm F/ 3.5 -5.6
Procesado: Light room 2
Camera Raw 4.3
Photoshop Cs 3
Foto Explere #429 - 3 Nov. 2009
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Para todo los Jordi´s...
Für alle Georg´s, Schorchs...
La Diada de Sant Jordi, also known as el dia de la rosa (The Day of the Rose) or el dia del llibre (The Day of the Book) is a Catalan holiday celebrated on April 23 similar to Valentine's Day with some unique twists that show the ancient practice of this day. The main event is the exchange of gifts between sweethearts, loved ones and respected ones--historically, men gave their girlfriends and wives roses, and women gave their boyfriends and husbands a book to celebrate the occasion.
Fuente: Wikipedia
I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face, and a grey dawn breaking.
I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.
I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.
By John Masefield (1878-1967).
(English Poet Laureate, 1930-1967.)
Published in Carve Surf Magazine UK 2011
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Un susseguirsi di cime, interrotte da valichi e passi in rapida discesa verso valli e corsi d’acqua scroscianti impetuosi dalle gole profonde, immerse in un verde ancora inviolato, separa nettamente le valli dei fiumi “La Terra” e il “Piesco”, in celere corse verso il Basento e il Metapontino, dalla piana dell’Agri, e più in là, dal Vallo del Diano. Si configura ad una serra dentata, in un avvicendarsi di picchi e sbalzi, che si stagliano nell’azzurro profondo di un cielo terso, dai riflessi incantevoli e affascinanti.
Al centro della cordigliera, dopo il passo detto “dei tre confini”, disegnato a lunetta s’innalza improvviso, fino a 1836 m., un colosso maestoso, un tempo terribile vulano. E’ il Volturino, un massiccio montuoso dalle due vette di quasi uguale altezza, e intervallate da una ridente conca verde; l’una glabra, aspra e rocciosa, dall’aspetto informe ed arcigno, che più che ammirazione suscita avversione, domina la fertile vallata attraversata dal fiume Agri; l’altra, pulita e verde, rotondeggiante e sottile, disegnata come vista in sogno, o descritta dalla fantasia infantile, degrada per boschi folti di faggi, e poi di querce e cerri verso la piana del fiume “La Terra”, prorompente dalle sue viscere, con polle d’acqua sulfuree e ferruginose, refrigeranti e prodighe di speranza ai cercatori di salute e di bellezze cutanee.
Barcelona. Catalonia.
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Barcelona (English /bɑrsɨˈloʊnə/, Catalan: [bərsəˈɫonə], Spanish: [barθeˈlona]) is the capital of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, after Madrid, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of 101.4 km2 (39 sq mi). The urban area of Barcelona extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of between 4,200,000[1] and 4,500,000[2] within an area of 803 km2 (310 sq mi),[1] being the sixth-most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris, London, the Ruhr, Madrid and Milan. About five million[3][4][5][6][7] people live in the Barcelona metropolitan area. It is also the largest metropolis on the Mediterranean Sea. It is located on the Mediterranean coast between the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Besòs and is bounded to the west by the Serra de Collserola ridge (512 m/1,680 ft).
Macro shot of 3 ladybirds. Their behavior reminded me of an oldie by KC & The Sunshine Band, back in the 80's. PLEASE DON'T GO. Anyone remember? Here's the lyrics...
Babe, I love you so
I want you to know
that I'm going to miss your love
the minute you walk out that door
so please don't go
don't go, don't go away
please don't go
don't go, I'm begging you to stay
If you live, at least in my life time
I had one dream come true
I was blessed to be loved
by someone as wonderful as you
Hey hey hey
I need your love
I'm down on my knees
beggin' please please
please don't go
don't you hear me baby
don't leave me now
oh no no no don't go
The first view of the Pangong far out in the distance.
Pangong Tso (or Pangong Lake; Tso: Ladakhi for lake) is a lake in the Himalayas situated at a height of about 4,250 m (13,900 ft). It is 134 km (83.3 mi) long and extends from India to China. Two thirds of the length of this lake lies in China. The lake is 5 km (3 mi) wide at its broadest point. In winter, the lake surface freezes completely despite being salt water. The army patrol jeeps actually drive on the frozen lake during the winter months !!
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This photo was taken by Jonas Hansson, a very good Swedish friend of mine, on his trip with his father Hans (another great friend) in 2006 (via their vintage Volvo PV hot rod convertible) across the USA on Route 66. Here Hans sits in his converted Volvo PV along Route 66 near Barstow, California. I've known Hans and his wife Margareth since 1970 when I lived in Sweden, and it was great fun to see Hans and Jonas when they visited me in San Diego, CA in 2006 after their fabulous trip down "The Mother Road".
With Jonas' permission, I've been selecting some of my favorite photos of their road trip along the "Mother Road" and doing some post processing... enhancing, cropping, tone mapping, special effects, etc. In this photo I enhanced and cropped the original. They had such a wonderful time - a trip of a lifetime for Hans and Jonas.
As the song by Bobby Troup goes:
If you ever plan to motor west
Travel my way, the highway that's the best.
Get your kicks on Route 66!
Below is a link to Hans and Jonas' blog about their historic trip:
hanssonroute66.blogspot.com/2006/07/information-in-englis...
INFORMATION ON ROUTE 66:
U.S. Route 66 (also known as Route 66, U.S. Highway 66, The Main Street of America, The Mother Road and the Will Rogers Highway) was a highway in the U.S. Highway System. One of the original U.S. highways, US 66 was established on November 11, 1926. It originally ran from Chicago, Illinois, through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, before ending at Los Angeles for a total of 2,448 miles (3,940 km).
Route 66 was a major path of the migrants who went west, especially during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and supported the economies of the communities through which the road passed. People doing business along the route became prosperous due to the growing popularity of the highway, and those same people later fought to keep the highway alive even with the growing threat of being bypassed by the new Interstate Highway System.
US 66 was officially removed from the United States Highway System on June 27,1985 after it was decided the route was no longer relevant and had been replaced by the Interstate Highway System. Portions of the road that passed through Illinois, New Mexico, and Arizona have been designated a National Scenic Byway of the name "Historic Route 66". It has begun to return to maps in this form. Some portions of the road in southern California have been re-designated "State Route 66", and others bear "Historic Route 66" signs and relevant historic information.
Over the years, U.S. Route 66 received many nicknames. Route 66 was advertised as The Main Street of America by the U.S. Highway 66 Association to promote the highway. In the John Steinbeck novel The Grapes of Wrath, the highway is called The Mother Road, the title that The Route most often receives today. Lastly, Route 66 was unofficially named The Will Rogers Highway by the U.S. Highway 66 Association in 1952.
In 1990, Route 66 associations were founded separately in both Arizona and Missouri. Other groups in the other Route 66 states soon followed. The same year, the state of Missouri declared Route 66 in that state a "State Historic Route". The first "Historic Route 66" marker was erected on Kearney Street at Glenstone Avenue in Springfield, Missouri. Other historic markers now line—at times sporadically—the entire 2,400 mile (3,860 km) length of road.
Many preservation groups have tried to save and even tried to landmark the old motels and neon signs along the road in different states. In 2008, The World Monuments Fund added Route 66 to its World Monuments Watch list of 100 Most Endangered Sites. Sites along the route, such as gas stations, motels, cafes, trading posts, and drive-in movie theaters are threatened by development in urban areas, and by abandonment and decay in rural areas.
As the popularity and mythical stature of Route 66 has continued to grow, demands have begun to mount to improve signage, return Route 66 to road atlases and revive its status as a continuous routing. Along these lines Route 66 has been established as a National Scenic Byway in Illinois, Arizona and New Mexico with National Scenic Byway status pending in Oklahoma and Missouri as of 2007. Another move is also afoot that aims to reinstate Route 66 as an official U.S. Route.
Source: Wikipedia
Sant Miquel d'Olèrdola, Barcelona (Spain).
ENGLISH
Vitis vinifera (Common Grape Vine) is a species of Vitis, native to the Mediterranean region, central Europe, and southwestern Asia, from Morocco and Spain north to southern Germany and east to northern Iran.
The wild grape is often classified as V. vinifera subsp. sylvestris (in some classifications considered Vitis sylvestris), with V. vinifera subsp. vinifera restricted to cultivated forms. Domesticated vines have hermaphrodite flowers, but subsp. sylvestris is dioecious (male and female flowers on separate plants) and pollination is required for fruit to develop.
Wild grapes were harvested by foragers and early farmers. For thousands of years, the fruit has been harvested for both medicinal and nutritional value; its history is intimately entwined with the history of wine.
Changes in pip shape (narrower in domesticated forms) and distribution point to domestication occurring about 3500-3000 BC, in southwest Asia or southern Transcaucasia (Armenia and Georgia). Cultivation of the domesticated grape spread to other parts of the Old World in pre-historic or early historic times.
Grapes followed European colonies around the world, coming to North America around the 1600s, and to Africa, South America and Australia. In North America it formed hybrids with species from Vitis genus native to that region; some of these were intentional hybrids created to combat Phylloxera, an insect pest which affected the European grapevine to a much greater extent than North American ones and in fact managed to devastate European wine production in a matter of years. Later North American rootstocks became widely used to graft V. vinifera cultivars so as to withstand the presence of phylloxera.
Use of grapes is known to date back to Neolithic times, following the discovery of 7,000 year-old wine storage jars in present-day northern Iran in 1996. Further evidence shows the Mesopotamians and Ancient Egyptians had vine plantations and wine-making skills. Greek philosophers praised the healing powers of grapes both whole and in the form of wine. Vitis vinifera cultivation and winemaking in China began during the Han Dynasty in the second century with the importation of the species from Ta-Yuan. However, wild vine "mountain grapes" like Vitis thunbergii were being used for wine making before that time.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitis_vinifera
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CASTELLANO
La vid, parra, viña o videira (Vitis vinifera), es una planta leñosa trepadora que cuando se deja crecer libremente puede alcanzar hasta más de 30 m, pero que por la acción humana, podándola anualmente, queda reducida a un pequeño arbusto de 1 m. Su fruto, la uva, es comestible y materia prima para la fabricación de vino y otras bebidas alcohólicas.
Su tronco retorcido y tortuoso, presenta una corteza gruesa y aspera que se desprende en tiras longitudinales. Las ramas jóvenes, denominadas sarmientos, son flexibles y muy engrosadas en los nudos; alternando sobre ellas se disponen las hojas, grandes, palmeadas y muy lobuladas y a la vez están dentadas, se las suele llamar pámpanos. Los zarcillos salen enfrente de las hojas y se enroscan y endurecen en cuanto encuentran soporte.
El cultivo de la vid para la producción del vino es una de las actividades más antiguas de la civilización, probablemente contemporánea al comienzo de ésta. Existe evidencia que los primeros cultivadores de viñas y productores de vino, se encontraban en la región de Egipto y Asia Menor, durante el neolítico. Al mismo tiempo que los primeros asentamientos humanos permanentes empezaron a dominar el arte del cultivo y la cría de ganado, así como el de la producción de cerámica.
El nombre del género era ya utilizado por los romanos; se cree derivado del celta gwid o wid: árbol, arbusto, (el mejor de los árboles). Cultivada desde tiempos remotos se han obtenido de ella innumerables variedades. Cuando a finales del siglo XIX los viñedos europeos fueron arrasados por la filoxera (Viteus vitifolii), devastador pulgón que destruye las raíces, se importaron especies americanas resistentes. De este modo, se logró injertar las razas de Vitis vinifera sobre las raíces americanas.
La importancia económica de la vid, es extraordinaria: la uva es uno de los frutos más apreciados, nutritivos y rico en vitamina C, secas constituyen las pasas o sultanas, muy nutritivas y utilizadas en medicina popular como pectorales; las uvas inmaduras se consideran refrescantes; de los sarmientos mana en primavera el agua de cepa, que se considera diurética; los pámpanos y brotes tiernos son ricos en taninos y antocianos, empleados como astringente conta las diarreas, hemorragias nasales (en forma de polvo), las uvas maduras tienen también propiedades laxantes —lo mismo que el mosto— y son ricas en ácidos orgánicos y azúcares reductores. Pero la importancia mayor de la vid es para obtener, por fermentación del mosto, el vino y todos sus derivados: alcohol, vinagre, etc.
Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitis, es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitis_vinifera
my first picture of my 365!:D
happy new year everyone!! :DD
its officially january 1st, 2011.
hooooly crap. whoaa. that was fast. :\
lets all hope this will be a goood year <3
sorry, this is a really cruddy picture.. i dont really like it :\
my newspaper nails:D
inspired and learned from this.
thank you, jess!
haha i really suck at painting my nails, as you can tell. but it brings me joy:)
ahhh thank you all for your wonderful support <3 i love you all so muchh!
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if you join ill love you forever:D
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France just beat Brazil 1-0 in the quarter finals. Paris took to the streets to celebrate, invading the whole Champs-Elysées. No manipulation, this is straight out of the camera: the red color comes from the "fumigènes" (flares ? not sure of the word in English).
Part of World Cup 2006
Explore December 16 2009
Baby gulls, people walking dogs, the seaside, a windfarm, mist/haze, fish 'n' chips - all in Yellow
This is another one from my trip to Bridlington last weekend.
Someone asked when commenting on a previous photo if I have any SOOC or something like that. It sounded very much like an STD to me. I thought to myself, "I like these guys at flickr but that's getting a wee bit personal for even me." So I did what every red blooded male does when faced with an unsureity of a *£$%£al nature - I googled it.
The legend was then revealed - "straight out of the camera." Phew...................
So, I had a look to see if there was anything that I considered worthy of showing you nice folks. Something that I hadn't dressed up with textures and other PP. There's a smidging of sensor dust in the top right third that I would have cleaned up a bit but apart from that It's straight out the box.
So, here it is, shot straight into the sun using a 75-300mm (almost fully extended) proper minolta glass through f.25 @1/100th.
I hope you like it naked!!!!
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Name: Miseuron
Species: Makuta
Occupation: Captain to the Corrupted Crown
Titles: The Mind Machine, The Machine with No Touch
Alignment: Evil
Personality: He is calculated, cold, intelligent. He relies on his knowledge and his love for secrets to gain the upper hand
Element: Shadow
Side Powers: Unmatched telekinetic prowess, 42 Rahkshi powers
Kanohi: Avsa
Weapons: None
Backstory:
Miseuron is a dear ally to the Corrupted Crown. During the early years of the Corrupted Crowns plans to rule over Aeos, he was involved in mortal combat with Toa Raphael. Toa Raphael, being a very adept Toa of gravity, was able to match Miseuron’s telekinetic ability to a point. The battle left Miseuron in a fatal state. Left forsaken on a concrete bridge, the Corrupted Crown recovered him before he could breathe his last breath. The Corrupted Crown worked with his allies to preserve Miseuron’s vitality, producing for him a suit that could give him constant life support and essential needs for life. Without this suit, Miseuron would surely perish from his wounds. Ironically enough, this protosteel prison had also released a new potential in his telekinetic abilities, increasing them tenfold. His new telekinetic abilities let him repel the strongest of blasts, the heaviest of objects, and the most powerful of foes. Miseuron is not usually one for revenge, but he secretly waits for the day that he can eliminate his rival, Toa Raphael, and leave his body to rot in stone.
Body credit goes to Levi Acosta
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I know, I'm totally crazy, but here's another piece of my wristwatch collection: AVIATOR (АВИАТОР)
This watch was made as tribute to the Russian "Strizhi" pilots (The Swifts), a famous aerobatic performance demonstrator team.
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Movement: SU-3105 (Poljot), handwinding
Functions: hour, minute, sub-second at 9, date at 3
Dial: watch hands and indexes luminescent (Superluminova), Below 12 the "Aviator" logo and the lettering "AVIATOR" in cyrillic letters, at the sub-second the "Strizhi" logo with the lettering "Strizhi" and "Kubinka" (the city near Moscow where they are based), between 4 and 5 a MIG-29 is pictured, above 6 the lettering "MIG-29" in cyrillic letters
Diameter: 45 mm without crown
Back: see through window
Strap: 20 year old Florentine calf leather, handsewed in Germany
Buckle: satined PRE-V buckle, stainless steel L316
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Watch: www.poljot.at
Strap and buckle: www.uhrenbaender.de
Toy soldiers and plane by courtesy of my son Nino. :)
Winter 2005 @ Leslie Spit
I spend alot of time at Leslie Spit seems every winter is getting warmer & warmer the next series of pics are from that winter.
Record Breaking Warm Day - 17 January 2005
Toronto, Ontario: A breath of Spring in the middle of Winter as Toronto's temperature soars to 18°C (64°F), the highest January temperature recorded here since records began in 1840.
Winter's Worst Days - January 22
A vigorous Alberta clipper which swept through southern Ontario on January 22 brought treacherous blizzards, blinding whiteouts and dangerously low wind chills. The highest snowfall totals were recorded near the west end of Lake Ontario where easterly winds blew embedded lake-effect squalls inland. Blowing snow created large drifts and reduced visibility to near zero. The OPP reported more than 800 accidents, mostly in the Toronto and Niagara region, and stretches of Highway 401 were closed with whiteouts and black ice.
A couple of days later, cold arctic air engulfed Ontario with temperatures dipping to below -25°C in the southern reaches of the province. It was the beginning of the coldest time of the winter. In Kitchener-Waterloo temperatures dipped to -31.1°C, one of the coldest days in its history.
VER GRANDE SOBRE FONDO NEGRO I VIEW LARGE ON BLACK
Mañañana, jueves, día 16 de mayo de 2013, a las 20.00 horas, será proyectado en el Salón de Actos del Centro Cívico Juan de Austria, el audiovisual CANCIÓN DE MAR, realizado por un servidor, en versión ampliada del que fuera presentado el jueves, día 19 de abril de 2012, en el marco de la celebración del II Maratón Audiovisual Ciudad de Valladolid , en la cuarta jornada de dicha edición.
Este trabajo ha sido elaborado conjuntamente con una exposición y una publicación, integrantes de un proyecto fotográfico que inicié en el año 2006, hasta darlo por concluido en el año 2010, bajo el título "De boquerones y marengos", que trata de contar a través de imágenes el día a día de las duras jornadas de trabajo de los pescadores del litoral malagueño. Para poder elaborar el proyecto, en el que inicialmente trabajé sobre un total de más de 2.000 instantáneas, me embarqué en un pesquero de arrastre patroneado por un buen amigo, Sebastián, durante los veranos de los años 2006, 2007 y 2010. A él, a su tripulación, y al resto de marineros del litoral de la Axarquía está dedicado esta pequeña muestra del proyecto.
Castello del Boccale, Livorno, Italia, 18/09/2013
Primo scatto fatto al bellissimo Castello del Boccale vicino a Livorno, la giornata prometteva alla grande ma appena prima del tramonto il sole è rimasto intrappolato dietro alle nuvole facendomi pensare che ogni speranza fosse persa. Fortunatamente poco dopo ho potuto sfruttare questo squarcio di luce per portare a casa questo scatto che è solo il primo di una serie di 3 di un bellissimo tramonto.
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Boccale Castle, Livorno, Italy, 18th Sep 2013
First shot taken of the wonderful Boccale Castle, near Livorno. The day was very promising but just before the sunset, the sun hid behind the clouds making me lose hope. Luckily, just after that, I saw this burst of light that made it possible for me to take this shot which is just the first of a series of 3 shots of a wonderful sunset
eXplore!
thanks to all!
Highest position: 278 on Friday, November 28, 2008
Highest position: 281 on Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Best viewed large on black
Horses in the middle of Iceland main road, less than 200 km from Reykjavik. Just had time to stop the car, grab my camera and pull out in the middle of the road to take a couple of shots :-)
Part of Iceland
Sant Romà de Sau, Girona (Spain).
ENGLISH
The reservoir of Sau, constructed between 1949 and 1962, covered the town of Sant Romà de Sau, the rest of which, specially of the bell tower of the romnesque church of 11th century, they are visible when the level of the dammed water is low and at times of drought prolonged the town is in the open and even it is possible to visit.
The origins of Sau go back to year 917, and the parochial church to 11th century. The present population formed in 1962 when finalizing the construction of the dam and the waters had to cover the old town of Sant Romà de Sau. Although he was enough uninhabited (in the nomenclator of 1860 the parish appeared like “uninhabited”), counted with some masias, a Romanesque bridge and a Romanesque church of 11th century of Lombard style.
At the moment of the photos the reservoir is approximately at 10% of its capacity, its historical minimum, mainly because the long run drought that has been undergoing this part of Catalunya for years. The proliferation of nonnative fish introduced by practisers of sport fishing, the low water level and the high insolation of the zone cause a high level of plancton and microscopic seaweed that contaminates the water, reason why in autumn of the 2005 began a draining of this dam in the one of Susqueda to improve the quality of the drinking water, and the collection of fish before they die by lack of oxygen and gets worse still more the quality of the water. Rains of October 2005 temporarily interrupted the draining, that has become to reactivate at beginning of 2008.
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CASTELLANO
El pantano de Sau, construido entre 1949 y 1962, cubrió el pueblo de Sant Romà de Sau, los restos del cual, especialmente del campanario de la iglesia románica del siglo XI, son visibles cuando el nivel del agua embalsada es bajo e incluso en épocas de sequia prolongada el pueblo queda al descubierto y es posible visitarlo.
Los orígenes de Sau se remontan al año 917, y la iglesia parroquial al siglo XI. La población actual se formó cuando en 1962 al finalizar la construcción del embalse y las aguas debían cubrir el antiguo pueblo de Sant Romà de Sau. Aunque estaba bastante despoblado (en el nomenclátor de 1860 la parroquia figuraba como "deshabitada"), contaba con algunas masías, un puente románico y una iglesia de estilo románico lombardo del siglo XI.
En el momento de las fotos el embalse está aproximadamente al 10% de su capacidad, su mínimo histórico, debido principalmente a la larga sequía que sufre esta parte de Catalunya desde hace años. La proliferación de peces no autóctonos introducidos por practicantes de pesca deportiva, el bajo nivel de agua y la alta insolación de la zona provocan un alto nivel de plancton y algas microscópicas que contaminan el agua, por lo que en otoño del 2005 se inició un vaciado de este embalse en el de Susqueda para mejorar la calidad del agua potable, y la recogida de peces antes de que mueran por falta de oxígeno y empeore aún más la calidad del agua. Las lluvias de octubre del 2005 interrumpieron temporalmente el vaciado, que se ha vuelto a reactivar a primeros del 2008.
View Mauna Kea Sunset on Black
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NIKON D810 + 24-70 mm f/2.8 @ 58 mm - 2.5 sec at f/8.0, ISO 31
Manual mode @ 1 EV E.C - Pattern metering - no flash
Subject Distance: unknown
Haley and I drove up past Waimea to Saddle Road and steadily climbed towards the top of Mauna Kea. Unlike Maui's volcano, the drive seemed to take very little time - maybe because I was looking forward to it so much.
We ended up at the visitor's center at around 9200 feet and went for a short hike up to the crest of a small butte to watch the sunset from. We settled in and I ended up down the crest of the hill a bit to get out of other's folks' way while still being able to compose from a variety of angles.
This was taken just after the sun had dropped below the horizon. Soon thereafter, it got bitter cold. I stayed out for another 30-45 minutes to watch the stars rise, and was the last person to leave the hilltop.
Haley and I then finished off our awesome night by gazing at the Orion Nebula, Venus, and the moon through a number of scopes the astronomical society had set up.
19°45'14" N 155°27'32" W, 9452.1 ft
Mauna Kea Visitor's Center, Mauna Kea
Hawaii County, Hawaii, United States
Taken on 01.09.2017, uploaded on 01.21.2017.
©2017 Adam James Steenwyk. Please contact me at ajamess [at] gmail [dot] com if you would like to use this photo. Blog: www.f128.info
Affichage fond noir | View on black
Billom est une ville du Puy de Dôme située à l'est de Clermont-Fd, à environ 20 km.
Billom est connue par son centre historique avec ses maisons à colombage, l'église Saint-Cerneuf et pour avoir vu l'édification du premier collège jésuite de France en 1556.
Billom is a city of Puy de Dome (France) east of Clermont-Ferrand, about 20 km.
Billom is known for its historic center with its half-timbered houses, the church of St. Cerneuf and having seen the construction of the first Jesuit college in France in 1556.
Billom es una ciudad de Puy-de-Dôme (Francia) al este de Clermont-Ferrand, a unos 20 km.
Billom es conocida por su centro histórico con sus casas de entramado de madera, la iglesia de St. Cerneuf y ver la construcción del primer colegio de los jesuitas en Francia en 1556.
Billom é uma cidade de Puy-de-Dôme (França) a leste de Clermont-Ferrand, a cerca de 20 km.
Billom é conhecida por seu centro histórico com suas casas em estilo enxaimel, a igreja de St. Cerneuf e vendo a construção do primeiro colégio jesuíta na França, em 1556.
Billom estas urbo de Puy de Dôme (Francio) oriente de Clermont-Ferrand, ĉirkaŭ 20 km.
Billom estas konata pro ĝia historia centro kun liaj duone timbered domoj, la preĝejo de Sankta Cerneuf kaj vidante la konstruo de la unua jesuita kolegio en Francio en 1556.
Bonne journée à tous. merci pour vos visites et commentaires.
Have a nice day. Thanks for your visits and comments.
Buenos días a todos. gracias por sus visitas y comentarios.
Bonan tagon al cxiuj. dankon pro viaj vizitoj kaj komentoj.
Du 3 Octobre au 14 Décembre, plus de 300 familles ont dormi dans la rue de la Banque pour protester contre l'absence de logements décents. Français ou immigrés en situation régulière, tous travaillent mais vivent dans des conditions déplorables: le plus souvent à l'hôtel, ou dans des appartements minuscules, parfois menacés d'expulsion. Après avoir affronté le froid, la pluie, l'incompréhension, les évacuations(parfois musclées), etc., un accord a finalement été signé avec le Ministère du Logement pour reloger, sous différentes modalités et délais, l'ensemble des familles.
Ici, le 25 Novembre, une grande fête a été organisée pour célébrer la naissance de 4 bébés parmi les familles de la rue de la Banque depuis le début du campement.
Merci de lire les explications en début d'album / Please read the explanations at the beginning of the set
Zoo - Barcelona (Spain).
ENGLISH
The Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) is one of the largest deer species. The Red Deer inhabits most of Europe, the Caucasus Mountains region, Asia Minor and parts of western and central Asia. It also inhabits the Atlas Mountains region between Algeria and Tunisia in northwestern Africa, being the only species of deer to inhabit Africa. Red Deer have been introduced to other areas including New Zealand and Argentina. In many parts of the world the meat (venison) from Red Deer is widely used as a food source.
Although at one time Red Deer were rare in some areas, they were never close to extinction. Reintroduction and conservation efforts, especially in the United Kingdom, have resulted in an increase of Red Deer populations, while other areas, such as North Africa, have continued to show a population decline.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Deer
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CASTELLANO
El ciervo común, ciervo rojo "ciervo colorado" o venado (Cervus elaphus) es una especie de ciervo ampliamente distribuida por el Hemisferio Norte. Se han documentado unas 27 subespecies distintas con un rango de distribución que se extiende desde el Magreb, la Península Ibérica y Gran Bretaña hasta gran parte de América del Norte, que se diferencian entre sí por el tamaño, longitud y color del pelo y forma de las cuernas. Las seis subespecies de uapitíes norteamericanos, antaño clasificados en la especie propia Cervus canadensis, se clasifican actualmente como subespecies de Cervus elaphus.
El ciervo común es un ciervo de gran tamaño (sólo superado por el alce dentro del conjunto de los cérvidos vivos), con un tamaño ordinario de 160 a 250 centímetros de longitud y un peso en los machos de hasta 200 kilos. Esta especie presenta dimorfismo sexual, siendo las hembras más pequeñas y menos corpulentas que los machos. Los individuos de sexo masculino presentan cuernas que renuevan cada año y, en algunas subespecies, una densa melena de pelo oscuro en cuello y hombros. El color del pelo es normalmente pardo en todo el cuerpo salvo en el vientre y los glúteos, blanquecinos, y puede variar en la intensidad de su tonalidad según los individuos. Las crías de pocos meses presentan una coloración rojiza, con manchas y rayas blancas que les ayudan a esconderse de los depredadores.
Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervus_elaphus
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Taken on an early morning walk before breakfast. We spent five nights in the magnificent YHA Hostel that is located in this village. We used it as a base for cycling on the Tissington Trail and the High Peaks Trail, and for walks into Beresford Dale, Biggen Dale, Wolfscote Dale, and Dovedale. If you click on the set to the right, you can run the SLIDESHOW in FullScreen Mode, see the hostel itself, and follow us around the town .
The town itself, though quite small, had much to recommend it. Here are some quotes from the Wikipedia Entry:
"Hartington is a village in the Derbyshire Peak District, England, lying on the River Dove. According to the 2001 census the parish of Hartington Town Quarter, which also includes Pilsbury, had a population of 345. Formerly known for the mining of ironstone, limestone and lead, the village is now known for cheese-making and tourism.
Notable buildings in the village include: the market hall (formerly the site of a market); the 13th century parish church of Saint Giles; and 17th century Hartington Hall. A prominent house in the centre of the village is Bank House, built by the former village mill owner and in the past used as the village bank. A half-mile to the south of the village, on the Dove, is the fishing house of the famous angler Charles Cotton. In the north of the village is Pilsbury Castle,[1] an 11th century motte-and-bailey castle, that survives only as an earthwork.
Near Hartington is the finest neolithic stone circle in the Peak District, Arbor Low. There are numerous ancient tumuli and cairns in the landscape around Hartington, probably dating from the Bronze Age. Hartington Mill, now a private house, stands by the River Dove. This was the local water mill for grinding corn.
The village has a youth hostel at Hartington Hall, which serves two major National Cycle Network routes; the Tissington Trail and the High Peak Trail, which meet at nearby Parsley Hay. These trails pass just under one mile to the east of the village, and offer 30 miles of off-road cycling and walking along old railway trackbeds through the Peak District National Park. Hartington signal box, on the site of the former Hartington railway station, and nearly two miles distant from the village, has been renovated and converted to a Visitor Centre.
A little south of the village, overlooking the Dove, stands Wolfscote Hill (388m at grid reference SK137583), a good viewpoint, now in the care of the National Trust.
Three miles to the south-west lies the small settlement of Hulme End, which marks the northern starting point of the Manifold Way, an 8 mile tarmacked walk- and cycle-route following the route of the former Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway.
Hartington was mentioned in the Domesday book as belonging to Henry de Ferrers and being worth forty shillings.[2] The parish was originally quite large, and part of the hundred of Wirksworth. Hartington had four townships, known as the Town Quarter, Nether Quarter, and Middle Quarter, and Upper Quarter, which are now all separate parishes. These became separate civil parishes in their own right in 1866.[3] They are marked on Ordnance Survey maps.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartington
View NGC7000 - The North American Nebula on Black
View NGC7000 - The North American Nebula Map/EXIF
Nikon D800E + 400mm f/2.8 @ 400 mm - 300.0 sec at f/5.0, ISO 800
Manual mode @ 0 EV E.C - Pattern metering - no flash
Subject Distance: unknown
The North America Nebula is large, covering an area of more than four times the size of the full moon; but its surface brightness is low, so normally it cannot be seen with the unaided eye. Binoculars and telescopes with large fields of view (approximately 3°) will show it as a foggy patch of light under sufficiently dark skies. However, using a UHC filter, which filters out some unwanted wavelengths of light, it can be seen without magnification under dark skies. Its prominent shape and especially its reddish color (from the hydrogen Hα emission line) show up only in photographs of the area.
Cygnus's Wall is a term for the "Mexico and Central America part" of the North America Nebula. The Cygnus Wall exhibits the most concentrated star formations in the nebula.
The North America Nebula and the nearby Pelican Nebula, (IC 5070) are in fact parts of the same interstellar cloud of ionized hydrogen (H II region). Between the Earth and the nebula complex lies a band of interstellar dust that absorbs the light of stars and nebulae behind it, and thereby determines the shape as we see it. The distance of the nebula complex is not precisely known, nor is the star responsible for ionizing the hydrogen so that it emits light. If the star inducing the ionization is Deneb, as some sources say, the nebula complex would be about 1800 light years distance, and its absolute size (6° apparent diameter on the sky) would be 100 light years.
The nebula was discovered by William Herschel on October 24, 1786, from Slough, England.
46°29'40" N 124°3'37" W, 20 ft
Long Beach
Ocean Park, Washington, United States
Taken on 11.24.2013, uploaded on 11.28.2013.
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I was walking along a canal bank in the Louisiana outback and looking for some birds or trees to photograph and this big boy was lying there watching me!!! He is about 10 feet long! I quickly looked about me to see if its twin was lying close! I've seen bigger ones but this is pretty darn big! I don't want to end up on the menu as selection for the day!!! :-)
View On Black +F11
La ultima de la mini serie.....no voy a aburrir mas...
Die Letzte der mini Serie....will nicht langweilen...
Buena semana, amigos mios...
Schöne Woche, meine Freunde...
Happy week, dear friends...
Casa Asia tiene su Sede Social en la ciudad de Barcelona, en el Palau Baró de Quadras, un edificio modernista del arquitecto Puig i Cadafalch. El palacete, catalogado como Monumento Histórico Artístico de Interés Nacional, se encuentra en el número 373 de la Avenida Diagonal, en Barcelona. Se trata de un edificio singular que cuenta con unas instalaciones que permiten albergar las diversas iniciativas que Casa Asia desarrolla en los diferentes ámbitos de trabajo, que se ha convertido en centro de información cultural y de referencia sobre Asia y el Pacífico, que ha dotado a la ciudad de un espacio que fomente el encuentro entre la sociedad española y el mundo asiático.
Casa Asia has its headquarters in Barcelona, in the Palau Baró de Quadras, a Modernist building designed by the architect Puig i Cadafalch. The building, which is classified as an Artistic and Historical Monument of National Interest, is located at number 373 of Avinguda Diagonal in Barcelona. It is a unique building, with facilities well suited for accommodating Casa Asia's wide range of initiatives. Casa Asia has become a reference point and a center for cultural information on Asia and the Pacific and has provided the city with a meeting point between the Spanish society and the Asian world.
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Durant els anys 1984 a 1996 vaig compartir la meva afició fotogràfica amb la canina. Vaig recórrer tota Espanya amb els meus gossos participant en certàmens de bellesa tant a nivell nacional com internacional, i de tot això tinc un gran arxiu analògic de fotos sobretot d'exemplars de gran bellesa i gairebé tots campions d'Espanya i d'altres països. Amb la possibilitat que avui dia oferix l'edició m'he decidit a escanejar algunes fotos analògiques i tractar-les per a poder anar mostrant a poc a poc aquest interessant món dels gossos de raça i exposició.
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Durante los años 1984 a 1996 compartí mi afición fotográfica con la canina. Recorrí toda España con mis perros participando en certámenes de belleza tanto a nivel nacional como internacional, y de todo ello tengo un gran archivo analógico de fotos sobre todo de ejemplares de gran belleza y casi todos campeones de España y de otros países. Con la posibilidad que hoy día ofrece la edición me he decidido a escanear algunas fotos analógicas y tratarlas para poder ir mostrando poco a poco este interesante mundo de los perros de raza y exposición..
Foto original realizada con una Nikon F90X analógica y escaneada en papel con
Epson Perfection 2400 PHOTO.
Sempre m'han agradat els galgos. En Espanya se'ls crida galgos, però internacionalment són més coneguts com lebreles. En la foto el galgo espanyol Jebel el Arak Zaman quan tenia 3 mese d'edat i que després seria un gran Campió d'Espanya guanyant moltes exposicions nacionals i internacionals. Al seu costat el galgo afganès Bari que a pesar del seu gran potencial de cara a la competició, va menjar menjar enverinat mentre jugava pel camp i va morir abans dels dos anys d'edat. Foto de 1985.
Siempre me han gustado los galgos. En España se les llama galgos, pero internacionalmente son más conocidos como lebreles.
En la foto el galgo español Jebel el Arak Zaman cuando tenía 3 mese de edad y que luego sería un gran Campeón de España ganando muchas exposiciones nacionales e internacionales. A su lado el galgo afgano Bari que a pesar de su gran potencial de cara a la competición, comió comida envenenada mientras jugaba por el campo y murió antes de los dos años de edad. Foto de 1985.
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A slightly more abstract one for today :-)
Seen and captured at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai a few weeks ago.
That's actually one of the sidewalls of the Australian pavillon (people are walking within the "tubes"). Taken freehand again ... standing in a queue with half of China :-) ... maybe even tougher to take than standing on the boat - since the queue was pushing from all sides. Crunchy!
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Dad's Cameras Inheritted On Black
Photochange Day #263: Camera
Dad had few beautiful cameras!! We were not allowed to touch!! I still remember the clicks, the rewinding sounds and how we had to stay still for him to focus and him saying "I need your nose" for profile portrait, or "without moving raise your index" for full face individual or family portraits!! When he realized how poor quality prints I had with my automatics/instamatics he gave me his Kodak Retina III C (the lower from the two)!!! The Argus stayed with my brother after dad passed 20 years ago!!!
Last year my brother said you can have the Argus if you like you're crazier than I am about photography and cameras!!!
Today these two cameras, in their original cases, the way dad had them set and all are showcased in place of honor in my wall unit. Pull them out little while ago, and memories rushed into my mind. It took me few hours to decide should I take a shot? should I post? Here they are a little piece of my past with today's photochallenge assignment.
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Your can still comment on my previous if you like!!
Seen in Paris streets during the demonstration of March 19, 2009 against Nicolas Sarkozy's politics (the "Petit Nicolas", little Nicolas, is in fact a famous comic book's character, created by Sempé and Goscinny).
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On March 19, 2009, between 1.2 (police source) and 3 million (organizers) people demonstrated in France to protest against Sarkozy's policies and his handling of the crisis. Clashes with the riot police erupted at the end of the demonstration place de la Nation , where 300 people were arrested and 49 convicted.
Merci de lire les explications en début d'album / Please read the explanations at the beginning of the set
Part of Manifestements Manifestifs de Manifestations (Recommended as a slideshow)
HDRI from 3 exposures, Cross-Filter in Alien Skin Exposure (Plug-In for PS CS3), Unsharp Mask, adding a vignette+texture.
Info:
Exposures: 1 Sec.; 1/4 Sec.; 4 Sec.
Aperture: f/3.5
ISO-Speed: 100
Focal Length: 18mm
This is a part of the most interesting photos from the Halle/ Saale ~ HDR/ DRI pool
EXPLORE #203, Aug 12/09
Here's a view of the Wakefield Steam Train coming into what used to be the old train station in Wakefield, Quebec. They were getting things ready to "turn" the steam engine around to head back the other way. This is a terrific excursion if you are in the Ottawa area..I highly suggest booking ahead..The Club Rivieria car makes your experience even more memorable ;)
"Hop aboard one of Canada’s last remaining authentic steam-powered trains and climb the Gatineau hills as did the pioneers at the turn of the last century.
Built in 1907, the country’s oldest excursion locomotive carries thousands of visitors, railfans, nature lovers and adventurers to the picturesque tourist village of Wakefield."
Steam Engine
Year and place of construction
1907, Sweden
Class
2-8-0
2 pilot wheels
8 driver wheels
No wheels under the cabin
Weight
93 tons and can pull upwards of 700 tons
Tanks capacity
Water: 13 996 liters
Oil: 4200 liters
Power
1000 horsepower equivalence
Speed
Considering the nature of this tourist railway, the train travels at a maximum of 25 km/h. The speed is lowered to 15 km/h in villages. However, the steam engine could reach speeds of up to 120 km/h.
History
"The steam engine 909 was used in Sweden until 1945. With the invention of the electric locomotive, the steam engine was put aside and stored until 1964 where it was used for excursions during four years. With the threat of a the cold war, the government of Sweden decided to keep their steam locomotives in storage in case invaders destroyed Sweden’s capacity to make electricity. These steam locomotives were hidden in shelters to provide transportation for soldiers and equipment.
When the cold war ended in 1990, the Swedish government felt that keeping all these steam locomotives were useless. The government then decided to sell off the 200 steam engines in storage. At the same time, a tourist steam train project was taking shape in Canada’s National Capital region. Since all Canadian steam locomotives in operating condition belonged to museums, our steam engine, a diesel engine and all 9 coaches were found in Sweden.
The equipment sailed from Sweden to Montréal on the cargo ship Federal Man. During the Atlantic crossover, the crew braved four storms. Finally, the engines and coaches arrived just in time for the inaugural trip on June 27th, 1992.
How does steam work?
•The water tank is filled with 14 000 liters of water (3698 gallons).
•A fire is lit in the firebox and heats the water. The 909 is oil fired.
•In the boiler, there are warming plates with tubes totaling 2,445 square feet reaching temperatures of 350 Fº or 177 Cº.
•The water must be pressurized up to 165 pounds per square inch to reach peak horsepower.
•This gives pressure to 2 steam cylinders that power the 8 wheels.
•The steam transmits its energy in the cylinders providing power to move the locomotive."
I thought this title fit as this steam engine is actually 909!!! ;) (if you look closely at the engine you can see 909 on the front)!!
www.steamtrain.ca/intro_en.asp
Cheers ...Have a great day!
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So. Where have I been? I've been putting this off for a while, and have been sort of reluctant to share this. But I feel like it's something I need to say.
After realising and accepting the fact I am addiced to painkillers that they were running my life and and I was way out of control, with the help of my parents, I checked myself to rehab. I learned a lot. I've been sober for over 2 months now. I've never felt better. My head is clearer. I'm thinking more rationally. I feel like I can finally feel again. When I feel happy, it's such a great feeling, because I know it's true happiness, not some side affect of a pain pill. It's hard sometimes because I'm not numb anymore, and the things that hurt emotionally feel like they hurt more and deeper. I'm still trying to learn how to deal with my sad, depressed feelings now, because I can't push them back and ignore them the way I could when I was using. My back pain isn't half as bad as it was while I was taking them. It still hurts. Every single day. And it's still a struggle, every single day. There are still days where I wish I just had one pill to make everything stop hurting and make my feelings go away, but now I know that I'm better without them. I can't believe how many years I've wasted wallowing in my pain, sitting on the couch popping pills, feeling sorry for myself when I could have been working and going to college and making something out of my life. I have a lot of regret. I have a lot of guilt for what I put my family and friends through. I look back and I'm shocked at the way I've acted the past few years. I've been nasty and ugly and mean to the people I love the most. I've said and done some horrible things. I wasn't a nice person to be around. I'm lucky that I got a second chance at life. Because if my parents hadn't shown me some tough love and intervened, those pills would have killed me.
I think everyone deserves a second chance.
New York City.
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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.
Foto batida pouco antes de achar esses pobrezinhos. Resolvi não colocar a versão colorida porque ninguém acreditaria nas cores.
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Taken just before finding these poor things. I decided not to post a colour version because nobody would believe the colours.
Montserrat, Barcelona (Spain).
ENGLISH
The monastery of Santa Maria de Montserrat is a benedictine monastery located in the mountain of Montserrat, in the Catalan region of the Bages, at 720 meters height of 720 on the level of the sea. It is a symbol for Catalonia and it has become a point of pilgrimage for believers and visit forced for the tourists.
The origin of the monastery is uncertain. It is know that in 1011 a monk coming from the monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll to be in charge of the monastery of Santa Cecilia, beign therefore the monastery under the orders of abbot Oliva de Ripoll. Santa Cecilia did not accept this new situation reason why Olive decided to found the monastery of Santa Maria on the place in which was one old hermitage of he himself name. As of the 1082, Santa Maria passed to have own abbot and let depend on the abbot of Ripoll.
This hermitage had become most important of all those that existed in the mountain thanks to the image of the Virgin who in her venerated from the 880. The monastery soon became sanctuary which benefitted to him, since the donations and received alms allowed him to be growing of constant form. At the end of century XII, the abbot runs asked for that he allowed himself to extend the community of monks to 12, required minimum so that abbey was considered. The following century was the one of the beginning of the fight of Montserrat to obtain its independence of the monastery of Ripoll. This independence did not arrive until the 10 from March of 1410 and was granted by Pope Benedicto XIII.
In 1493, Montserrat lost its independence again. King Fernando the Catholic sent to the monastery 14 monks coming from Valladolid and Montserrat passed to depend on the congregation of this Castilian city. During the following centuries the Catalan and Castilian abbots followed one another. That same year of 1493, the minimum friar Bernat Boil, before hermit of Montserrat, accompanied to Cristóbal Columbus in one from its trips to America which caused the expansion of the cult to the virgin of Montserrat in that continent.
19th century was specially tragic for Montserrat: it was set afire twice by the Napoleonic troops, in 1811 and 1812; and in 1835 it underwent the excloistration due to the confiscation of Mendizábal. The monastery was sacked and set afire and many of their treasures were lost.
The excloistration lasted little and in 1844 the life in the monastery recovered. The congregation of Valladolid had disappeared reason why Montserrat became independent again. The whole monastery had to recover since they had not been more than the walls. Since then the monastery of Santa Maria de Montserrat has not let grow and at the present time (2006) it contains one of the best libraries of the country. The present congregation is formed by a hundred of monks. In addition, in the monastery the children reside who compose the Escolanía de Montserrat, considered the school of song of more antiquity in Europe since he was founded on century XIII.
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CASTELLANO
El monasterio de Santa María de Montserrat es un monasterio benedictino situado en la montaña de Montserrat, en la comarca catalana del Bages, a una altura de 720 metros sobre el nivel del mar. Es un símbolo para Cataluña y se ha convertido en un punto de peregrinaje para creyentes y de visita obligada para los turistas.
El origen del monasterio es incierto. Se sabe que sobre el 1011 un monje procedente del monasterio de Santa María de Ripoll llegó a la montaña para encargarse del monasterio de Santa Cecilia, quedando así el cenobio bajo las órdenes del abad Oliva de Ripoll. Santa Cecilia no aceptó esta nueva situación por lo que Oliva decidió fundar el monasterio de Santa María en el lugar en el que se encontraba una antigua ermita del mismo nombre. A partir del 1082, Santa María pasó a tener abad propio y dejó de depender del abad de Ripoll.
Esta ermita se había convertido en la más importante de todas las que existían en la montaña gracias a la imagen de la Virgen que en ella se veneraba desde el 880. El monasterio pronto se convirtió en santuario lo que le benefició, ya que los donativos y las limosnas recibidas le permitieron ir creciendo de forma constante. A finales del siglo XII, el abad regente solicitó que se permitiera ampliar la comunidad de monjes a 12, mínimo requerido para que se considerara abadía . El siguiente siglo fue el del inicio de la lucha de Montserrat para conseguir su independencia del monasterio de Ripoll. Esta independencia no llegó hasta el 10 de marzo de 1410 y fue concedida por el Papa Benedicto XIII.
En 1493, Montserrat perdió de nuevo su independencia. El rey Fernando el Católico envió al monasterio 14 monjes procedentes de Valladolid y Montserrat pasó a depender de la congregación de esta ciudad castellana. Durante los siglos siguientes se sucedieron los abades catalanes y castellanos. Ese mismo año de 1493, el fraile mínimo Bernat Boil, antes ermitaño de Montserrat, acompañó a Cristóbal Colón en uno de sus viajes a América lo que propició la expansión del culto a la virgen de Montserrat en ese continente.
El siglo XIX fue especialmente trágico para Montserrat: fue incendiado dos veces por las tropas napoleónicas, en 1811 y en 1812; y en 1835 sufrió la exclaustración debido a la desamortización de Mendizábal. El monasterio fue saqueado e incendiado y se perdieron muchos de sus tesoros.
La exclaustración duró poco y en 1844 se restableció la vida en el monasterio. La congregación de Valladolid había desaparecido por lo que Montserrat se convirtió de nuevo en independiente. El monasterio entero se tuvo que restaurar ya que no habían quedado más que las paredes. Desde entonces el monasterio de Santa María de Montserrat no ha dejado de crecer y en la actualidad (2006) contiene una de las mejores bibliotecas del país. La congregación actual está formada por un centenar de monjes. Además, en el monasterio residen los niños que componen la Escolanía de Montserrat, considerada la escuela de canto de más antigüedad en Europa ya que fue fundada en el siglo XIII.
Its over. I'm done. It's been a year.
This is probably one of the weirdest feelings ever. Everyone's initial reaction is CONGRATS!! ARE YOU HAPPY!? but..not that much. If you asked me a few weeks ago i would have said YES IM SO GLAD TO BE DONE! but now, especially these last few days knowing its over makes me sad. I feel like i wont be motivated anymore, and wont improve. It's like a friend is leaving. This friend annoyed me, but for good reason. But in some ways i'm very relieved to be finished. 365 can be a burden, and I often neglected it. One of my biggest regrets was wasting so much of my 365 on skipping shots/cheating because I was too lazy. If I were to do it again, I would have tried to push myself harder. But overall, I think it was a great thing for me to do. I learned everything I know about photography, and I basically started taking photography seriously a year ago, and SO much has changed.
-I am the president/creator of the photography club at school
-I am the photographer for my school's newspaper
-I went from my moms old camera that used floppy disks, to a mediocre point and shoot, to a dslr.
-I realized I much prefer using film cameras, and next week I start developing my own film
-I turned 15 and got my permit...I get my license in 1 month
-I met my neighbor Brooke...shes moving in with me this month
-I went to Paris, New York, and a few other places
-I lost many friends, but more importantly I gained so many more friends
-I met so many amazing people here on flickr, there is so much talent out there its unbelieved. The amount these kids (many younger then me) inspire me is unbelievable.
-I changed as a person, I was reborn.
I'm almost done here, and if you read through this whole thing then I love you. I may not be the most popular person here, in fact I am very unpopular on flickr. I dont get 100 comments and favorites, but thats okay because my photographs are for me. There my emotion, and i'd rather be known by few for the real me then known by many, and be the fake Lee.Basically, I just wanted to say that this is not the end of my photography. Thats what the meaning of this photo is, i'm saying that although my 365 is over, my photography life is only just beginning.
HDR image processed from 7 exposures with Photomatix Pro.
Seen and captured at the very beginning of our Scotland trip in Edinburgh ... within the impressive St. Giles Cathedral.
Fortunately people in churches love guys like us, taking pictures ... hehe, the usual story ;-)
Especially this one is worth to check in large ... many details everywhere. Use the new flickr or check in Large and on Black!
Please don't use this image on any media without asking for permission.
© All rights reserved.
GhostWorks Poetry Challenge #3
Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me,Can it be you that I hear? Let me view you, then,
Even to the original air-blue gown!
GhostWorks Texture Competition #52
Texture with thanks to Skeletal Mess
EXPLORE Worthy, Playing with Textures # 30, featuring Pareeerica
Featured texture with thanks, from Pareeerica
Background: Fantasywoman fav.me/d22ca03
Model: Eirian-stock fav.me/d1xkxmn
Horse: SasolaStock fav.me/d1ht8xo
Textures: SkeletalMess www.flickr.com/photos/skeletalmess/6492953991/
by Pablo Neruda
I want you to know
one thing.
You know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch
near the fire
the impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of the log,
everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals,
were little boats
that sail
toward those isles of yours that wait for me.
Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.
If suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.
If you think it long and mad,
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
and you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember
that on that day,
at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
to seek another land.
But
if each day,
each hour,
you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
climbs up to your lips to seek me,
ah my love, ah my own,
in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine.
Mejor pincha aquí para ver en grande sobre negro o pulsa 'L'.
Better click here to view this large on black or press 'L'.
© Derechos de Autor. Esta fotografía no podra usarse sin mi consentimiento escrito.
© All rights reserved, don´t use this image without my permission.
Cadiz: Album/Set
Atardeceres/sunsets: Album/Set
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Canon 450D + ZEISS Distagon T* 2,8/21, @21mm, 2,5 sec, f/9, ISO 100 + FORMATT HD ND 0.9 + LEE GND 0.9 SE, Tripod, Manual Exposure, Date 04/04/2012 21:09:00
Explore: 16 January 2013 in # 74
Como se hizo: Imagen procedente de un sólo archivo RAW, no se ha usado ningún sistema de blending de imagenes.
Comentario: Espero poder ir volviendo a subir alguna imagen, no dispongo de mucho tiempo y se que no puedo pasar por todas galerias, gracias for vuestro soporte.
Hoy hace tres años que comencé mi andadura por flickr, y quisiera volver a empezar a compartir algunos de mis trabajos con vosotros....
Agradezco a todos vuestro apoyo y feedbak y sera bien agradecido en cualquier caso. Un fuerte abrazo para todos, espero que la visita haya merecido la pena para usted. Por favor no otorgue logos o me invite a participar en grupos sin hacer un pequeño comentario. Esto hace realmente la diferencia.
English:
Making off: Edited from a one RAW, Not used methods of blending images.
Comment: Sorry for this time out.
Today it's three years since I started on Flickr. I want to begin some works with yours.
My thanks to @ll of you for your support and feedback because without them I wouldn't have been able to grow as a photographer, it really does mean a lot to me and I hope the visit has been worth while to you. Please don't leave awards or invite me to join any groups without making even a small comment. It really does make a difference.