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Possible geometries for an impossible daily life
Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2023
Geometrias possíveis para um cotidiano impossível
São Paulo SP, 2023
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another polaroid from yesterday's rain -- which thankfully has stopped today, possible snow tonight, then perhaps a blizzard this weekend. never a dull moment...
(Credit to worcesterbells.org.ukChurch ) bells are the biggest and loudest musical instruments. The bells of Worcester Cathedral are considered to be one of the finest rings of bells in the world.
The Cathedral’s tower contains a ring of 12 bells, three semitone bells and a bourdon bell, with a total weight of 16 tonnes. The 15 ringing bells were cast in 1928 by John Taylor & Co. of Loughborough, from the metal of the previous ring. These were cast in 1869 and the non-swinging bourdon bell was cast in 1868 and was re-tuned in 1928. It is used by the clock to strike the hours. The ring is the fifth heaviest in the world, The bells are hung in the 1869 wooden frame which housed the previous ring. This sits on top of a wooden structure which directs the forces down onto the supporting corner pillars of the tower. It is referred to locally as the ‘wigwam’.
The semitone bells make it possible to ring combinations of bells in different keys. The haunting sound of the Harmonic Minor Ten is unique to Worcester, and can be heard on Good Friday, Armistice Day, Remembrance Sunday and New Year’s Eve.
Diamond West Midlands Streetlite 20174 passes Digbeth whilst carrying a 50 service for Maypole
Vehicle Details
Operator: Diamond West Midlands
Fleet Details: 20174
Registration: BD20 OCL
Vehicle Type: Wright Streetlite WF
Vehicle History
New to Redditch 03/20
Disclaimer
Social distancing observed, wherever possible; there was no use of public transport to photography locations
The Alteration of 1578 must've been a lucky turn of worldly if not religious events for the Butchers' Guild of Amsterdam. That 'Alteration' is the term used to describe the quite sudden transition from Catholicism to Protestantism of the city and its bureaucracy. The Alteration made it possible to turn ecclesiastical properties to public use. in 1583, the Butchers, cramped for space to serve the ever-expanding city, were given the former chapel of St Peter's Almshouse, for their new Great Meat Hall. After two centuries (1779) it had to be renovated, and it lost its purpose around the middle off the nineteenth century.
Except for this marvellously decorated spout gable, the facade today is not very exciting - at least to me. Spout gables ('tuitgevel' in Dutch) were used especially for buildings devoted to merchants and trade. Here this quite wonderful trio of oxen clearly indicates the manner of business of this building's denizens. Of course, their own spouting days are over...
Excerpt from www.insauga.com/niagara-on-the-lake-memorial-clock-tower-...:
The structure, which was unveiled on June 3, 1922, almost wasn’t built in the first place.
It was originally proposed to honour the town’s residents who fought in World War I but never made it home. The idea was so highly regarded that a Toronto architect, Charles M. Wilmott, was enlisted to design it.
A 27-person committee dedicated to its construction was quickly formed and included the future town mayor, J.M. Mussen. The committee calculated it could be built for $8,000, not much these days but a king’s ransom at the time.
However, not everyone was onboard with the plan. The mayor at the time, Jame Maphee, said the town would be better off spending $10,000 to build a hospital. Other residents wanted to build a new high school or a new sports park.
In the end, on June 28, 1920, they settled on the matter in the most democratic manner possible. They put it to a town-wide vote.
In the end, 316 people voted for the clock tower, 237 voted for a new hospital, 72 voted for a much smaller, more traditional memorial while just four people voted for the sports park and three voted for the high school.
When the clock tower was unveiled in 1922, Niagara-on-the-Lake quickly earned the distinction of being the only town or city in Canada with a war memorial in the middle of its main street.
Excerpt from www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=10406:
Description of Historic Place
Located on the main street of Niagara-on-the-Lake, the Niagara District Court House National Historic Site of Canada is a handsome stone building in a classical style. Its classicism is expressed through its symmetry and classical details, such as the central pediment, porch with columns, window surrounds, and stringcourses. The surviving interior spaces reflect the multiple uses for which this building was designed.
Heritage Value
The Niagara District Court House was designated a national historic site of Canada in 1980 because:
-designed by the prominent Toronto architect, William Thomas, in the fashionable Neoclassical style, it is an excellent example of a mid-19th century multipurpose civic structure.
The Niagara District Court House marks a step in the transition to large and more sophisticated civic buildings after 1850. Its greater scale resulted from the inclusion of a wide range of functions. In addition to the courtroom, offices and jail, the Niagara District Court House also included a town hall and market. The structure was designed by William Thomas, an architect of national standing, adept at several classical styles.
Character-Defining Elements
Key elements contributing to the heritage value of this site include:
- its Neoclassical design, as expressed by its mass, symmetry, stone façade, and classical details, such as the corner quoins, pediment, stringcourses, and porch with columns;
- its complex of interior spaces, which support its original multifunctionalism;
- its surviving interior finishes;
- its close relationship with the main street of the town and with its neighbouring buildings.
Hard to believe it's been two years since I shot one of these. It's been such a busy kick working on my film projects. I love the work, but certainly, the rewards are far less immediate than in photography. Instead of hours or days, it takes months, sometimes years, just to see one film project through from inception to completion… Sometimes, within this process, it feels like I’ve sacrificed my creativity to the administrative duties of MAKING the actual work.
This needs to change.
In the coming months, I hope to carve out more time for the work I care about. The creative work. Brainstorming, photography, writing. The stuff that makes me feel like I’m actually alive.
This photo serves as a gentle reminder of the idea that, no matter how powerless we feel, each day we have the power to change our future. The choices we make today will cause a ripple effect through the rest of our lives. Every day, we are choosing from a series of possible futures, whether we realize it or not.
Title taken from a fantastic article written by Derek Sivers. If you haven’t read any of his work yet, I highly recommend.
Hello,
I hope everyone had a great Christmas and has a great New Year. To everyone that wonders where I’ve been: I have had 3 strokes this fall and have been hospitalized 3 times. I haven’t been incapacitated but my coordination has worsened and I can’t walk properly. I don’t know if the symptoms will resolve or even if the strokes are totally finished. When I had the one, I thought it was over but it hit two more times. It’s the result of not eating properly (as you can see my posted food pics) and lots of work/life stress. I am on all my meds now and eating better, so I hope it works out.
If I am not back on again, I’d like to thank everyone who has been a friend/contact here. I’ve had a good 15 years on here. Hopefully, my symptoms will resolve by the time spring travel gets here and I can continue. If not, this will be my farewell but I will leave everything up.
Thanks and God bless.
Bill
Hongrie
(Athene noctua)
The four young are perched on a branch just below the nest and are already flying, but the parents continue to feed them. This parent pauses to observe the surroundings and any possible dangers, then it will come to give the insect to one of the young.
Les quatre petits sont perchés sur une branche juste au-dessous du nid et volent déjà, mais les parents continuent à les nourrir. Ce parent fait une pause pour observer les environs et les dangers éventuels, puis il viendra donner l'insecte à l'un des jeunes.
It's a small, unimportant summit with only a little prominence. A pathless ascent is possible through dwarf pines, from the right. In the distance Velika planina is seen.
Yeah yeah, I haven't died just yet. School and other such things can really hamper progress though. Anyways, with all that winding down, I want to unveil, yes, another new project, a long range bomber. That is landing gear, to scale, no less.
If you are going to Rosslyn Chapel I hope that you have a great visit and if you have a chance do walk in the Roslin Glen. The Castle and the Chapel retain the older name of Rosslyn and the contemporary village has the newer name of Roslin.
If you are on the Western Bank of The North Esk river you can visit The Wallace Cave. There are several Wallace Caves in Scotland. There is only one Wallace Cave in Roslin Glen. There are also caves under Hawthronden Castle.
There is a legend of a Black Hen, don’t say Pullet, that is noted as confusing treasure seekers and grail hunters by digging holes to false terrain the site and to fill in half dug holes for when seekers return to complete their excavations and further still through special skill to carefully indicate the better and best grounds to explore through careful talon and beak soil manipulation. There are further tails of either this Black Hen, or of another such similar still don’t say Pullet, Black Hen, maybe there is just the one, or possibly there are a pair of magical soil shrouders at work? The other hen story relates to a treasure hidden under a stair. The exact stair can be correctly deduced in a manner not fully revealed within the story. Any stair testing and excavating can and will lead to the Black Hen II, this time the truth will not out*, moving the treasure when the excavators are in the right area and also the hen will bamboozle the grail hunters with special Holy Hen Acts that will confuse, strain, enrage and bring chaos to order and the ‘BH II’ wonder guard will clear up after the said chaos and restore all to proper order til the right, maybe even righteous, approach of the mythic legendary treasure grail hunter seekers who are destined to step on the right step at the right time in the right manner possibly with the left foot.
Please only read good humour and faithful following in my words above. I have followed signs to Rosslyn Chapel and parked when there were just a few spaces next to the old barn and byre. I have wandered in the beauty of the landscape and listened to the stories and here share some quickly to say that this is a place of beauty and of mystery, both of folly and of faith with a river bend bringing out rock inscribed from thousands of years ago to natural and extended caves, with castles and chapels, formerly and currently hosting services and battles til a part of the past seems to have been deeply woven here such that we choose to look at it again and again making pilgrimage and enacting rampage all engaged through marvellous mysteries and eldritch histories far beyond our fascination and into our fine fashioned fulgent fabricated fantasies.**
*Black Hen I also assured that the truth would not out, Black Hen II is not a fully fledged sequel as of course it could be one Hen, not a Pullet, successfully stealth working both grounds and stairs.
**Please do not test the Hen, or Hens, not Pullets, as you could be destroying a beautiful and historial protected place that is best left none Hen tested and none destroyed. Age, atmosphere and our antecedents have done more than enough destruction and also they had with them those that fought to give enough preservation and conservation too.
© PHH Sykes 2024
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Welcome to Rosslyn Chapel
Hawthornden Castle
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthornden_Castle
Alexander Nasmyth - Hawthornden Castle, near Edinburgh - Google Art Project
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Hawthornden Foundation Hawthornden Castle
www.hawthornden.org/hawthornden-castle
Hawthornden Foundation
Wallace's Cave, cave and rock carvings SM6825
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ROSLIN GLEN AND HAWTHORNDEN CASTLE GDL00327
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Roslin Glen
Rosslyn Chapel Trust is responsible for the conservation and care of part of the picturesque landscape known as Roslin Glen, which is adjacent to Rosslyn Castle and Rosslyn Chapel.
www.rosslynchapel.com/about/roslin-glen/
Roslin Glen Country Park
www.midlothian.gov.uk/directory_record/171/roslin_glen_co...
Roslin Glen Country Park
www.rosslynchapel.com/about/roslin-glen/
Wallace's Cave, cave and rock carvings
canmore.org.uk/site/51808/wallaces-cave
Archaeology Notes
Roslin Glen And Hawthornden Castle
Date of Inclusion: 31/03/2001
1:20,000Map Scale:
Council: Midlothian
Designation Reference: GDL00327
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ROSLIN GLEN AND HAWTHORNDEN CASTLE
GDL00327
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Gorton House Rock Carving(S) (Post Medieval)(Possible)
This is Bella pacing outside the kitchen, waiting for food. When she's excited, she fluffs her tail to make it look as wide as possible. Happy Caturday!
After an MCS swept over Bouse, intense lightning barraged the area. Visions of blinding staccatos and bright orange landing points still fill my head. Rain was falling—shooting handheld from as far inside the window as possible. A few shots didn't come out shaky.
Possible cover page for a story I'm writing. The guy accidentally touches a diseased plant and it ends up transforming his vision. He attempts telling his wife of the visions he now sees but, something is holding her back in believing him.
Possible geometries for an impossible daily life
Geometrias possíveis para um cotidiano impossível
São Paulo, Brazil, 2023
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.
Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential.
Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Pope John XXIII
Almost the end of the year...
Breathless Veronique from 2013 Convention collection. Edith Head sketch is from movie Rock a Bye Baby (1958)
Moon as seen on 12th July 2014, Southern California.........
I like moon shots with minimum processing possible, no stacking and no much sharpening, that will make the beautiful shiny moon rough and with ugly texture...I really like moon photographs soft with its real details without exaggeration of surface details.
Well I posted about three photos then took them down. I guess my mind has been elsewhere tonight. Worried about our eldest son who is going through a hard time right now in custody battle for his kids. It looks like a loosing battle for him and although as a parent we wish that we could make things all right sometimes its just not possible.
So, I finally decided to post a photo of Lake Ontario here in Kingston, Ontario, Canada for you to see in black and white.
Since this photo taken on April 3rd the ice has disappeared into the deep of the Lake waiting to return next winter.
Have a super evening!
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The house walls form open and closed angles, it is possible?
Original photo by Maggie_Me
Created for the WPC Week 176
Control knobs at the old steam plant. Would you guess that it was a cloudy, rainy morning? It’s possible to make a chiaroscuro with soft, indirect light. It's just ... softer.
Make it possible! ... CLICK HERE grazie mille!!!
I loved this country also for it's craziness, that starts from its language.
It's really funny when you're travelling around Cymru to read signs. They are written in both languages, english and... welsh! Completely different! Really unpronounceable!
But the funniest cames arriving in a little town of 3000 inhabitants ca., that has a record. The longest name in Europe! The second longest in the world !!! (Australia has the worldrecord)...
And has also a meaning!
"The church of Mary in the hollow of the white hazel near the fierce whirlpool and the church of Tyslio by the red cave"
Here you have the train station. Let's imagine only the scene:
"Sorry can I have a ticket to ... Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch?" :D!!!
Undecided if put you the song www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BXKsQ2nbno
or the... "weather-man" (welsh local forecast) :D
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHxO0UdpoxM
Scott don't know if you was able to recognize the very very green shade of grass, but you got it! It's Wales! :)))
I'll dedicate you the next shot :)...
Buongiorno to all !!! and Welcome to Wales! or better
Croeso i ogledd Cymru !!! ;)
*Starlight*
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Reef Village is a new Condo and Time Share project in Belize on Ambergris Caye just north of San Pedro across the Boca Del Rio Bridge
An installation set up by my son when he was in art college, an amazing experience! How long did it last? I've no idea, I trust that the people who used the park enjoyed their encounter with a tree creature and that those whose job it was to look after the park saw fit to leave it as long as possible!!
I decided to give up street photography some time ago (except for actual literal streets!) because I felt a little uncomfortable with taking pics of strangers. Having said that, the whole point of street photography is to capture life on the streets, or in this case, on the beaches, in as candid a way as possible. What's in the public domain is fair game in most countries.
Anyway, this photo was too appropriate for the SoS theme today to let it go. So here it is...my first go at the motion blur effect. It's not perfect but I'm still rather proud of it.
Smile on Saturday - "Two-gether". HSoS!
7 Days With Flickr - Landscapes (Saturdays)
#ThroughHerLens
Shadows fall on a small pisé building overlooking Kanimbla Valley, probably one of the oldest surviving (just) buildings in the valley, where the first land grants date from the 1820s. The weathering has revealed the layers of rammed earth under the mud plaster.
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Some recent research (2021) leads me to believe it may at one time have been an early part-time schoolhouse, possible Genbenang.