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These photos are taken from our exclusive track day with the Noble M600 at Goodwood.
Romans International is now the official specialist dealership for Noble Automotive luxury super cars in Surrey, for the London area, the South and International sales. We offer the very best quality examples of Noble sports cars available on the market.
Noble are a low volume sports super car manufacturer who puts emphasis on quality, speed, drivability through tried and tested design, whilst pushing the boundaries of sports car innovation, without loosing the feel of a real road going sports car. Noble has evolved from the pursuit for excellence in motor engineering with cars primarily designed for speed and handling however this is not at the expense of either comfort or practicality, which puts the driver back in the driver's seat for the ultimate driving experience.
All Noble sports cars are hand made and assembled at the UK factory near Leicester. The factory's latest production car, the new Noble M600 is so quick, it has entered the realms of genuine "hyper-car" territory for speed and performance.
The breath taking performance statistics are not just down to the power-plant in the Noble M600, which is a mid-mounted, purpose built 4.4 litre V8 Twin turbo charged engine, which produces an impressive 650BHP and is mated to a Graziano 6 speed manual gearbox and a conventional stick shift selection.
The Church of the Ascension at the "Kaiserin Auguste Victoria Foundation" on the Mount of Olives - together with our Center for Pilgrims and Tourists and the famous "Café Auguste Victoria".
It was built in 1907-1910, and named after Empress Augusta Victoria, the wife of German Kaiser Wilhelm II. Today it is an Arab Hospital.
The Christian community of Jerusalem has always been multi-ethnic, diverse and multi-lingual. Here, you will find Greeks and Armenians, Syrians, Coptic Christians from Egypt, Ethiopians, Maronites with Lebanese background, Orthodox Russians, Palestinians, and Hebrew Christians praying side by side. As a German speaking Protestant Church, we are a vital part of the ecumenical landscape of Christian churches in Jerusalem.
Shortly about me:
It’s my passion to create stories and bring back pictures of events, people and places that are rarely seen. It’s a combination of exploration, exposition and artistry that together create a life of adventure and excitement.
In my work it is imperative for me that information be accurate and the images must be respectful of the subject and viewer. My goal is to combine creativity with practicality to capture the best possible images to document events, tell a story, meet the picture editor's deadlines.
The exhibition “Beautiful Faces of Balata” currently on show at the Church of the Ascension at the “Kaiserin Auguste Victoria Foundation” on the Mount of Olive's can be visited on a virtual tour on my website. Virtual tour of the Exhibition »
The exhibition is a project of Public Culture - Palpics, under the auspices of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the Yafa Cultural Center (YCC) .
If you would like to know more, or even just pick my brains to discuss your project with me, please visit my homepage documentary photography or send me an Email.
The Church of the Ascension at the "Kaiserin Auguste Victoria Foundation" on the Mount of Olives - together with our Center for Pilgrims and Tourists and the famous "Café Auguste Victoria".
It was built in 1907-1910, and named after Empress Augusta Victoria, the wife of German Kaiser Wilhelm II. Today it is an Arab Hospital.
The Christian community of Jerusalem has always been multi-ethnic, diverse and multi-lingual. Here, you will find Greeks and Armenians, Syrians, Coptic Christians from Egypt, Ethiopians, Maronites with Lebanese background, Orthodox Russians, Palestinians, and Hebrew Christians praying side by side. As a German speaking Protestant Church, we are a vital part of the ecumenical landscape of Christian churches in Jerusalem.
Shortly about me:
It’s my passion to create stories and bring back pictures of events, people and places that are rarely seen. It’s a combination of exploration, exposition and artistry that together create a life of adventure and excitement.
In my work it is imperative for me that information be accurate and the images must be respectful of the subject and viewer. My goal is to combine creativity with practicality to capture the best possible images to document events, tell a story, meet the picture editor's deadlines.
The exhibition “Beautiful Faces of Balata” currently on show at the Church of the Ascension at the “Kaiserin Auguste Victoria Foundation” on the Mount of Olive's can be visited on a virtual tour on my website. Virtual tour of the Exhibition »
The exhibition is a project of Public Culture - Palpics, under the auspices of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the Yafa Cultural Center (YCC) .
If you would like to know more, or even just pick my brains to discuss your project with me, please visit my homepage documentary photography or send me an Email.
Benjamin Stein, Die Leinwand (The Canvas)
An Event of the DAAD
Reading
Wed, 29.12.2010, 19:00
Goethe-Institut Jerusalem
in German
Based on the scandal of Benjamin Wilkomirski's falsified Holocaust memoir, this novel deals with the unreliability of memory and the struggle for identity. Two stories are told from both ends of the book. In one of the stories Amnon Zichroni, an Orthodox Jew who grew up in Israel and becomes a psychoanalyst in Zürich, encourages Minsky, a supposed Holocaust survivor, to write down his memories. The other story is about East German journalist Jan Wechsler who tries to expose Minsky's memoirs as false. In the centre of the book a confrontation takes place when the two narrators, Amnon Zichroni and Jan Wechsler, meet one another.
Shortly about me:
It’s my passion to create stories and bring back pictures of events, people and places that are rarely seen. It’s a combination of exploration, exposition and artistry that together create a life of adventure and excitement.
In my work it is imperative for me that information be accurate and the images must be respectful of the subject and viewer. My goal is to combine creativity with practicality to capture the best possible images to document events, tell a story, meet the picture editor's deadlines.
The exhibition “Beautiful Faces of Balata” currently on show at the Church of the Ascension at the “Kaiserin Auguste Victoria Foundation” on the Mount of Olive's can be visited on a virtual tour on my website. Virtual tour of the Exhibition »
The exhibition is a project of Public Culture - Palpics, under the auspices of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the Yafa Cultural Center (YCC) .
If you would like to know more, or even just pick my brains to discuss your project with me, please visit my homepage documentary photography or send me an Email.
Certainly an unusual colour for a Rolls, Olive Green strikes me as a little... odd...
But each to their owner I suppose...
There's not much I can say about the Rolls Royce Silver Shadow that hasn't already been said, a car that was styled and homed to perfection, a vehicle that took 3 months to build, comprised of 3 cow hides, 12 square feet of wood and laden with the finest Wilton carpets. If you owned a brand new one of these back in the 1960's and 70's, then you truly were someone special.
The Silver Shadow however, unlike its predecessors, was the most radical Rolls ever built, primarily due to the fact that unlike previous cars such as the Phantom and Silver Cloud, the car was built on a monocoque, with the body being built with the chassis, rather than in earlier instances where Rolls would provide the chassis, and then it was up to the owner to hire a coachbuilder such as Hoopers or HJ Muliner Park Ward, to build the body.
The Silver Shadow was also the first Rolls to be built with the idea of the owner being sat in the front rather than the back. The Silver Cloud was very much a passenger's car, being ferried from stately banquet to stately banquet by a chauffeur. This Silver Shadow on the other hand was a driver's car, powered by Rolls Royce's magnificent V8 engine it smoothly glided across the countryside with the grace and elegance of a stately home on wheels, and so popular was this chemistry of luxury and practicality, that they sold by the thousand. In total, 25,000 examples were built, and the design was incorporated into many other variations, including the Rolls Royce Corniche (a direct descendant of the Silver Shadow 2-door Coupe built by HJ Muliner Park Ward), the controversial Camargue (which was built on the same chassis as a Shadow), and the Bentley T series (basically a Shadow with Bentley badging and radiator grille).
Eventually, the Shadow ended production in 1980, being replaced by the simpler Silver Spirit and Silver Spur range, but the magnificent design of this classic British pedigree has kept it one of the most popular owner's cars in the world, now available for ownership at less that £10,000 in some instances!
Built in the final year of the Silver Shadow I, I consider Shadows such as this to be the last of the truly great Rolls Royces as following this the cars became much more run-of-the-mill.
For starters, the magnificent chrome bumpers that line this one were replaced on the Silver Shadow II by compound bumpers to address American safety legislation, and the two ditch lights seen under the headlamps were placed below the bumper on a rather vulgar looking chin spoiler. Although done in the best interests of road safety, it certainly made these cars look less than stellar.
But this wonderful little roadside gem though shows what the Silver Shadow was all about, chrome everywhere!
George Meikle Kemp. Architect and designer of the Scott Monument on Princes Street.
Painting by by William Bonnar RSA, from the National Galleries of Scotland. Bonnar is often credited with overseeing the completion of the Scott Monument following the untimely death of his brother-in-law, George Meikle Kemp who had designed the monument and was overseeing its completion when he died in an accident. If true, William would be an odd choice, as one of the few non-architects in the family.
George Meikle Kemp (25 May 1795—6 March 1844) was a self-taught Scottish architect who designed and built the Scott Monument in Edinburgh, Scotland. The poorly educated son of a shepherd, but showing talents in woodworking as a child, he was apprenticed to a joiner and millwright.
Kemp travelled and worked as a millwright for several years and, exercising a childhood fascination for Gothic architecture, took the opportunity to study many of the most important Gothic buildings in Scotland, England and France. As a result, he was said to have had a first-hand knowledge of Gothic architecture which was unrivalled in Scotland.
Settling in Edinburgh, Kemp won a competition to design a monument to the Scottish novelist Sir Walter Scott. He supervised its erection on Princes Street in the city but at the age of 48, before the building was finished, he drowned in the city's Union Canal. On its completion the monument was acclaimed and, despite his lack of formal training and with only the one building known to be for certain to his design, Kemp came to be revered as an architect.
Disablingly shy and socially awkward, while able to memorise exact details of buildings and measure precise distances by eye, Kemp is considered to have been high on the autism spectrum.
George Meikle Kemp was the second of six children of James Kemp, a shepherd, and his wife Jean Mowbray. He was born on 25 May 1795 at Hillriggs Farm above the town of Biggar in Lanarkshire. When Kemp was a child his father moved from farm to farm, wherever he could find work. The family were frequently on poor relief. Kemp was known to have lived at Newlanddale from just after his birth, moving to Ingraston in 1802 and Nine Mile Burn in 1805 before his father settled at Moorfoot, southeast of Penicuik, in 1807 when Kemp was 12.
Kemp's education, at parochial schools, was brief before he became a herdboy at the age of 11. At around this age, while on an errand, he visited the 15th century Rosslyn Chapel. The building awakened in Kemp an almost fanatical appreciation of Gothic architecture.
Kemp's artistic talents had already shown themselves in his childhood when he learned to carve local bog oak into trinkets and quaichs finished with intricate ornament. He also built miniature watermills in the hillside burns. His parents recognised his talents and they realised that he would benefit from proper training.
At the age of 14 Kemp was enrolled as an apprentice joiner with millwright and carpenter Andrew Noble at Moy Hall, Redscarhead, north of Peebles. He stayed there for four years, receiving a wide education. When at Moy Hall he repaired agricultural machinery and saw foundations laid and buildings erected. He taught himself or be a highly-skilled wood modeller. He also read ancient literature, wrote poetry and songs and played the violin.
Kemp developed a life-long habit of walking long distances. On Saturday nights he would walk for four hours from Redscarhead to visit his parents at Moorfoot, walking back late on Sundays. In adulthood he sometimes walked enormous distances so as to find work or study medieval architecture.
Kemp's apprenticeship was completed on 20 June 1813 when he was 18. He started work as a millwright in Galashiels. His job entailed not just the upkeep of mills but also the repair of the various wooden agricultural and industrial machines being invented at this time. His expertise in this work and his willingness to labour as a journeyman was to provide his sometimes meagre income for the next 14 years.
At the same time Kemp began an intense study of Gothic architecture. His job required much local travel and he sketched and studied the monastic churches of the area, such as Melrose, Dryburgh, Jedburgh and Kelso. The abbey at Melrose was of great and lasting significance to Kemp; he returned to it repeatedly, and it became his most important inspiration for the Scott Monument. Kemp's method of looking at the architecture of a building was first to make a general study of it, then to carry out a few detailed sketches of decorative features. He did not draw plans there and then, but did so later, being able quickly to commit to memory the layout of a building and its intricacies.
In 1815 Kemp moved to John Cousin's building and joining workshop in Leith where he worked on the many new buildings in Edinburgh and learned the practicalities of converting architectural drawings into three-dimensional structures. In 1817 Kemp went to Manchester for three years, where he repaired machinery in the mills. He studied all the Gothic architecture he could find in the area, even walking for 24 hours to York in order to view the Minster. Kemp moved to Glasgow in 1820 and worked there for another four years while attending evening classes at Anderson's Institution, probably studying practical subjects like draughtsmanship, geometry and science. While in Glasgow he made a detailed study of Glasgow Cathedral and suggested restorations and additions.
In May 1824 Kemp went to London, but he failed to find permanent work there and disliked the city, so he stayed only a little over a year. From London, Kemp made for France in 1825, where he visited and studied more gothic buildings, including the great cathedrals and churches of Abbeville, Beauvais, Amiens, Paris and—in Belgium—Antwerp. At this time Kemp considered emigrating to Canada, but he instead returned to Scotland in 1827 because of the commercial embarrassments of a near relative.
Kemp returned to Edinburgh in 1827 and never left Scotland again. He married Elizabeth Wilson Bonnar (1808-1889) on 11 September 1832. They had four children: two boys and two girls.
Kemp now had a knowledge of Gothic architecture unrivalled in Scotland, and in England surpassed by only three other men. He had ambitions to become an architect, but he had not received specific training, and much of the architectural establishment was opposed to him. He became a Freemason, but the move failed to improve his prospects. While he had produced detailed, but uncommissioned, designs for the theoretical reconstructions of Glasgow Cathedral, Rosslyn Chapel, Trinity College Kirk and Melrose Abbey, he had never designed a new building.
In order to support himself and his wife and children Kemp became a cabinet-maker, but though he made impressively-crafted furniture he was largely unsuccessful. He was skilled at draughtsmanship, and drawings he made of Melrose Abbey were exhibited in the Scottish Academy Exhibition of 1830 and helped to make his name as an architectural illustrator.He was well-paid when the pictures were sold, but they could not support him adequately in the long term.
Kemp's elder brother, Thomas, helped by securing a job for him with the architect William Burn on the Duke of Buccleuch's estate at Bowhill near Selkirk. Burn engaged Kemp as a competent draughtsman, entrusting him with drawings for the new Bowhill House, and in 1831 commissioning him to make a wooden architectural model of Burn's design for a new palace for Buccleuch at Dalkeith. It took Kemp two years to build the model.
By 1834 Kemp's ideas on the restoration of Glasgow Cathedral and his proposed additions to it had been developed still further. He had produced an ambitious set of drawings of plans and elevations and had even built a large wooden model of the cathedral to illustrate his proposals. A local Glasgow committee took up the ideas, but Kemp's lack of practical experience as an architect went against him and the scheme failed to go ahead.
In 1836 a competition was launched to design a monument to the Scottish author Sir Walter Scott, who had died in 1832, to be erected in Edinburgh. Several architects had already been invited to submit designs, but none was considered adequate. The competition's three best designs would each receive a prize of 50 guineas (equivalent to £5,308 in 2021).
Kemp recognised his opportunity and after working at great speed for five days submitted an entry, using the pseudonym John Morvo, one spelling of the name of the French master mason who had worked on the building of Melrose Abbey and Rosslyn Chapel. Kemp's design was described by his first biographer, Thomas Bonnar, as “a lofty tower or spire of beautiful proportions, with elaborate and carefully drawn details, chiefly taken from Melrose Abbey”.
There were 54 entries in the competition and John Morvo was one of the three winners. It was not known who John Morvo was, but Kemp's identity was eventually discovered and he was awarded one of the prizes. However, many of the competitors were aggrieved that someone unqualified, inexperienced and obscure, and not even an architect, was one of the winners.
Unable to decide amongst the three winners, the competition committee invited further designs. Kemp submitted an improved version of his design under his own name and on 28 March 1838 he was announced as the winner. The organisers praised the "imposing structure ... of beautiful proportions, and in strict conformity with the purity of taste and style of Melrose Abbey, from which the author states it is in all its details derived”.
The site on Princes Street in Edinburgh was agreed. Kemp's approved builder was chosen, and it was decided that the monument was to be built of Binny sandstone. This stone was popular in Edinburgh because it was easily worked and could be transported into the city by the Union Canal, but hindsight has shown it be a poor choice because of its propensity for attracting soot.
Kemp took over as his own clerk of works, which gave him a regular income and the opportunity to supervise closely the building of his design. He was well liked by the craftsmen working for him, because of his humble origins and because he demanded accuracy and precision. In an early instance of his determination that the monument should be built in his own way, he rejected a proposal that wooden piles be driven into the ground to support the structure, insisting the excavation for the foundation should be carried down to the bedrock, 52 feet (16 metres) below the surface of Princes Street. However, Kemp at first lost an argument about the height of the monument; the organising committee blamed insufficient funds for their order to build it lower than originally planned, but Kemp eventually persuaded them to keep the structure's original height and in the end even slightly higher.
The foundation stone was laid on 15 August 1840, the 69th anniversary of Scott's birth, the day being especially declared a public holiday. Tens of thousands of people were present at the ceremony and Kemp was prominent among those being celebrated. As work progressed over the next four years, Kemp's presence on the building site, visible daily to passers-by on Princes Street, probably contributed to his growing public popularity. With the public interest in the Scott Monument, Kemp was now admired by the moneyed and influential classes in Edinburgh, and several potentially lucrative architectural commissions came his way.
In the early months of 1844 the monument was nearing completion. It was reported that as each step of the building was completed “the public eye detected some new beauty, and waited impatiently for the completion”. As the monument became a startlingly dramatic presence on Princes Street, Kemp was being increasingly fêted.
During the evening of Wednesday 6 March 1844, while walking on his way home from a meeting with his builder, Kemp drowned in the Union Canal. His body was found the following Monday.
The circumstances of Kemp's death have not been explained. Suicide was discounted. Other theories such as drunkenness, an attack by robbers or in fog losing his footing on the towpath were considered, but the cause of his drowning has never been resolved.
Kemp's death brought an outpouring of public grief. Huge crowds came to observe the funeral procession. The workmen who had laboured with him in the building of the monument carried his coffin from his home in Morningside to St Cuthbert's churchyard below Edinburgh Castle, where he was buried.
Kemp died intestate, leaving assets of around £203 (equivalent to £21,599 in 2021), some furniture, and the model of Glasgow Cathedral, which proved unsaleable. A memorial concert to support the Kemp family was held and the Freemasons contributed, but Kemp's wife, Elisabeth, was left with little to live on and had to take work as a seamstress.
After Kemp's death, the construction of the monument continued, under the supervision of his brother-in-law, William Bonnar. It was made more elegant when the height was increased to 200 feet 6 inches (61.11 metres). It was completed in the autumn of 1844, with Kemp's 10-year-old son, Thomas, placing the topmost stone. Vast crowds attended the inauguration ceremony in 1846. Since then the Monument has become an icon of Edinburgh and indeed of Scotland.
An early critic was the author Charles Dickens who, in 1847, wrote: "I am sorry to report the Scott Monument a failure. It is like the spire of a Gothic church taken off and stuck in the ground". Similar denigrators were few and the building was, and still is, almost universally admired.
There is a memorial stain glass window in a private home at Redscarhead, 3 miles north of Peebles.
It's got a boot! That makes it practical, and as we all know, practicality is the same as economicality. Therefore, an N/A V8 gets good gas mileage. For Earth Day
Terminator 3, Ilford Delta 3200
This roll of film was shot as a test for the practicality of a nighttime pinhole meetup. I find the results encouraging. None of the exposures were over 6 minutes. This one was taken in a dimly-lit idle practice hall. The exposure was one or two minutes.
celebrations with solar car Stella from the Dutch Solar Team Eindhoven at the ceremonial finish in the herart of Adelaide on day six of the 2013 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, probably still leading in the Cruiser Class, although eVe Sunswift (UNSW) reached the finish earlier in total time count. Apart from time, in Cruiser Class also practicality and total driver-kliometers are counted (Stella usually took two to four people whereas Sunswift mostly one)
bevrijdende vreugde bij de studenten van zonne-auto Stella van Solar Team Eindhoven bij de ceremoniële finish in het centrum van Adelaide tijdens de 2013 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, waarschijnlijk aan de leiding in de Cruiser Class, alhoewel eVe Sunswift (UNSW) de finish eerder haalde, ook in totale tijdstelling. Echter behalve tijd wordt in de Cruiser Class ook de praktische ervaring van het rijden van de auto, en het aantal berijders-kilometers geteld (Stella had gewoonlijk twee tot vier berijders aan boord, terwijl Sunswift meestal met één reed)
As a confirmed bibliophile, I am fascinated by the Little Free Library boxes folks put up outside of their homes. This program where you can take and/or leave a book dates back to 2009 and there are now more than 100,000 of these boxes sprinkled across 108 countries.
There’s usually a pretty diverse array of kids’ titles, bestsellers, and curious older Americana selections. I’ve never taken a book for myself from one of these libraries, but I enjoy rooting around in them looking for gems as well as leaving treasures for others.
I recently noticed two Little Free Library boxes in Geneva, Illinois that stand apart from others I’ve seen in that each is a miniature version of the owner’s home. This is an enchanting symbol to display in that this mini-home is pared down to contain a single object of powerful symbolism: the book.
The sanctity of the real home is dynamic: it can be divided up across multiple family members; it can contain internal contradictions of philosophy or practicality; there are usually multiple task-specific spaces; however, and perhaps most importantly, everyone’s home remains off limits to the public. It is a private space.
To create a miniature version of your home that anyone walking down the street can metaphorically enter is an inspiring act of generosity and sends a message that the owner of the Library values some combination of the dissemination of knowledge, the joy of reading, and the fellowship of community.
An Israeli in Palestine, by Jeff Halper, Reading at the Educational Bookshop, Jerusalem, 25th February 2011
Shortly about me:
It’s my passion to create stories and bring back pictures of events, people and places that are rarely seen. It’s a combination of exploration, exposition and artistry that together create a life of adventure and excitement.
In my work it is imperative for me that information be accurate and the images must be respectful of the subject and viewer. My goal is to combine creativity with practicality to capture the best possible images to document events, tell a story, meet the picture editor's deadlines.
The exhibition “Beautiful Faces of Balata” currently on show at the Church of the Ascension at the “Kaiserin Auguste Victoria Foundation” on the Mount of Olive's can be visited on a virtual tour on my website. Virtual tour of the Exhibition »
The exhibition is a project of Public Culture - Palpics, under the auspices of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the Yafa Cultural Center (YCC) .
If you would like to know more, or even just pick my brains to discuss your project with me, please visit my homepage documentary photography or send me an Email.
You might think that 591 horsepower would be enough for the Audi RS6 Avant, but apparently it was not. For 2024, Audi decided to crank the dial, adding a new Performance model that promises a ludicrous 621 ponies.
The new variant also weighs less, so acceleration should prove sufficiently brutal. And yet, the RS6 Avant's search for more power changes nothing about its impressive practicality, comfortably seating five in an interior replete with rich materials and plenty of trendy technology.
This model sports a 8 speed gearbox, neutral and reverse - designed by @anto_lego_creations - coupled with a new compact paddle shifter I designed to fit in a narrow space between the engine and the dash.
Ultra Compact 8+N+R-speed Sequential Gearbox designed by Anto:
rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-50877/Anto/ultra-compact-8nr-spe...
The car has 2 suspension height options, manually adjusted for a sporty look or off-road. Loaded with gearbox / paddle shifter, V8 engine, steering by HOG and working steering wheel, front and rear lights, opening doors, hood and hatch.
PLEASE NOTE:
1. Only the daytona rim size will fit on the car. Smaller Sian / Bugatti rims will not fit.
4 different colour options:
1. All black interior / exterior
2. Lime exterior, red seat
3. Red exterior, LBG (light grey) seats
4. White exterior, black interior
Partlists avail below:
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RbLweMJqEiLIh91HJlWovwjA8...
The framework is designed rigidly and can be lifted from the roof. This widened version with body kit will be sure to turn heads, not your average 5 door Audi creation!
The Church of the Ascension at the "Kaiserin Auguste Victoria Foundation" on the Mount of Olives - together with our Center for Pilgrims and Tourists and the famous "Café Auguste Victoria".
It was built in 1907-1910, and named after Empress Augusta Victoria, the wife of German Kaiser Wilhelm II. Today it is an Arab Hospital.
The Christian community of Jerusalem has always been multi-ethnic, diverse and multi-lingual. Here, you will find Greeks and Armenians, Syrians, Coptic Christians from Egypt, Ethiopians, Maronites with Lebanese background, Orthodox Russians, Palestinians, and Hebrew Christians praying side by side. As a German speaking Protestant Church, we are a vital part of the ecumenical landscape of Christian churches in Jerusalem.
Shortly about me:
It’s my passion to create stories and bring back pictures of events, people and places that are rarely seen. It’s a combination of exploration, exposition and artistry that together create a life of adventure and excitement.
In my work it is imperative for me that information be accurate and the images must be respectful of the subject and viewer. My goal is to combine creativity with practicality to capture the best possible images to document events, tell a story, meet the picture editor's deadlines.
The exhibition “Beautiful Faces of Balata” currently on show at the Church of the Ascension at the “Kaiserin Auguste Victoria Foundation” on the Mount of Olive's can be visited on a virtual tour on my website. Virtual tour of the Exhibition »
The exhibition is a project of Public Culture - Palpics, under the auspices of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the Yafa Cultural Center (YCC) .
If you would like to know more, or even just pick my brains to discuss your project with me, please visit my homepage documentary photography or send me an Email.
The Church of the Ascension at the "Kaiserin Auguste Victoria Foundation" on the Mount of Olives - together with our Center for Pilgrims and Tourists and the famous "Café Auguste Victoria".
It was built in 1907-1910, and named after Empress Augusta Victoria, the wife of German Kaiser Wilhelm II. Today it is an Arab Hospital.
The Christian community of Jerusalem has always been multi-ethnic, diverse and multi-lingual. Here, you will find Greeks and Armenians, Syrians, Coptic Christians from Egypt, Ethiopians, Maronites with Lebanese background, Orthodox Russians, Palestinians, and Hebrew Christians praying side by side. As a German speaking Protestant Church, we are a vital part of the ecumenical landscape of Christian churches in Jerusalem.
Shortly about me:
It’s my passion to create stories and bring back pictures of events, people and places that are rarely seen. It’s a combination of exploration, exposition and artistry that together create a life of adventure and excitement.
In my work it is imperative for me that information be accurate and the images must be respectful of the subject and viewer. My goal is to combine creativity with practicality to capture the best possible images to document events, tell a story, meet the picture editor's deadlines.
The exhibition “Beautiful Faces of Balata” currently on show at the Church of the Ascension at the “Kaiserin Auguste Victoria Foundation” on the Mount of Olive's can be visited on a virtual tour on my website. Virtual tour of the Exhibition »
The exhibition is a project of Public Culture - Palpics, under the auspices of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the Yafa Cultural Center (YCC) .
If you would like to know more, or even just pick my brains to discuss your project with me, please visit my homepage documentary photography or send me an Email.
Another major European introduction for 1982 was the all-new 700 series from Volvo. Designed to replace the 200 series (itself derived from the 100 series of 1966), the 700 was produced alongside for 12 years. The two models are very close in exterior dimension.
The 700 underwent minor exterior changes to become the 900 series in 1991, notably a smoother front end treatment and revised rear treatment on the sedan. The sedan also received an independent rear suspension, with the estate car retaining a live rear axle. The 900 series was futher revised and named the S90/V90 in 1997 in line with Volvo's new naming convention. The model finally went out of production in 1998. The sedan models were subsequently replaced by the front-wheel-drive Volvo S80.
The engine line up included 4-cylinder, 4-cylinder turbocharged (one of the first major turbocharged passenger car ranges) and carryover vee-six cylinder engines shared with PSA and Renault. The 900 series later replaced the V6 with an inline six developed as part of a modular engine design of inline 4, 5 and 6-cylinder engines.
At launch the car was strongly criticised for its overtly rectilinear styling. The car matched the style that was popular in North America at the time, including a near vertical rear window. Unfortunately for Volvo this was the model year introduction of a key competitor, the Audi 100, which was notably aerodynamic in form.
This styling theme does have its advantages, with large windows and good visibility. It also provides ample space as an estate car. The model was popular with middle-class families with children, dogs etc, and are now considered 'Lifestyle' families.
Volvo's success in this market segment was later eroded by SUV and 'crossover' vehicles which emphasised the adventure part of the lifestyle image without being any more practical as a family car. Volvo went on to launch a vehicle in the crossover segment in place of the 900 wagon, the XC90. This model was very well recieved for its family practicality relative to other vehicles in the luxury crossover segment.
This miniland scale model has been created using Lego Digital Designer for Flickr LUGNuts 43rd build challenge - 'Plus or Mius Ten' - celebraing vehilces produced ten years before or after the birth year of the modeller. In this case 1982.
Located at number 4. Murray Street, Colac's former post office is in a prime location at the gateway into the historical centre of the town.
Built in 1876 by the Public Works Department, it was extended in 1888 to reflect the Victorian Free Classical building that is seen today. It features a classical colonnade entrance, windows with attenuated vertical proportions, aedicules using prominent pillar detailing and a classically inspired clock over the entranceway.
The building has seen many changes over the years, as has its usage. The Colac telephone exchange commenced on the premises in 1904 with twenty-five subscribers.
Times have changed in Twentieth Century Colac, and the post office with a capacious dwelling for the postmaster became too large for the practicalities of the modern day business that Australia Post is, and they relocated to smaller, more modern and more central promises. Now the former Colac post office has found new life as a Chinese restaurant. However, because it is protected by the National Heritage Committee, no exterior advertising is permitted to be attached to the classical facade, which is why there are discreet signs in the upper floor windows and dainty Chinese lanterns hanging from the colonnade's arches. At night the clock, which still keeps good time, is illuminated by a violet coloured neon light that encircles the face.
Located approximately 150 kilometres to the south-west of Melbourne, past Geelong is the small Western District city of Colac. The area was originally settled by Europeans in 1837 by pastoralist Hugh Murray. A small community sprung up on the southern shore of a large lake amid the volcanic plains. The community was proclaimed a town, Lake Colac, in 1848, named after the lake upon which it perches. The post office opened in 1848 as Lake Colac and was renamed Colac in 1854 when the city changed its name. The township grew over the years, its wealth generated by the booming grazing industries of the large estates of the Western District and the dairy industry that accompanied it. Colac has a long high street shopping precinct, several churches, botanic gardens, a Masonic hall and a smattering of large properties within its boundaries, showing the conspicuous wealth of the city. Today Colac is still a commercial centre for the agricultural district that surrounds it with a population of around 10,000 people. Although not strictly a tourist town, Colac has many beautiful surviving historical buildings or interest, tree lined streets. Colac is known as “the Gateway to the Otways” (a reference to the Otway Ranges and surrounding forest area that is located just to the south of the town).
1-12-13 Wyndham Street Races
The Multistrada 1200 is a motorcycle manufactured by Ducati since 2010. The engine is a retuned version of the Testastretta from the 1198 superbike, now called the Testastretta 11° for its 11° valve overlap (reduced from 41°). All models include throttle by wire, selectable engine mapping (full power with sensitive or relaxed throttle response, and reduced power with relaxed throttle response) and traction control adjustable through eight levels, called DTC (Ducati Traction Control).
The bike comes in three equipment levels, the base, the S-Sport and the S-Touring. The S models include ABS (optional on standard model) and electronically adjustable suspension, called DES (Ducati Electronic Suspension). The S Sport model features carbon fiber air intakes, cam belt covers and rear hugger, while the S Touring model comes with heated grips, hard luggage and a center stand.
Over 10,000 units were sold in the first year.
The Multistrada 1200 won the 1205 Division of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in 2010, 2011 and in 2012. In 2012 a Spider Grips Ducati Team Multistrada ridden by Carlin Dunne achieved the first sub 10 minute time for a motorcycle with a 9:52.819, only a bit over a second slower than the 2011 overall record.
Source: Wikipedia
Staff Bikes: Ducati Multistrada - What a year!
That’s it. Time to send my Multistrada 1200S back. And I’ve never been sadder to see a bike go. It fits into my life perfectly and that’s saying something as I’ve owned, run and tested just about every single bike built in the last 17 years.
Even after running two Multistrada 1200s (the first one was written off by a colleague) in the last two years, it never ceases to amaze me how quickly this bike gets you from A-to-B if you’re in a hurry.
And, as road bikes go, there are few finer and even fewer that would transport you 100 miles with such ease and grace, whether flying solo or fully-laden, two-up.
With 150bhp on tap there’s always enough power to wake you up, but the way it delivers it smoothly and progressively with just a little hit of extra power at the top end to make the front wheel lift is special.
But more than that it’s about the package. The comfort, the near perfect riding position, the wind protection (as long as you have an £80 Ducati higher screen), and the feeling you get from the rear tyre as the electronic traction control kicks in…
We’ve done loads of track days (running at the front of the fast group in a shower of sparks and rear wheel slides at some of them), toured Ireland, commuted, ridden through a winter together, had weekends away in the Lakes two-up and away with the boys to places like Weston’s beach race.
It’s been spanked round our test track, run flat out on the dyno, speed tested and still it comes back for more. I fail to think of any bike that I would like more. I just hope one day I can find the money for another one in my garage.
WHAT WE LIKE:
First proper GS rival, but braking and power are in another league.
Tank after tank of comfort.
Handling can be adjusted at the touch of a button, and enough for track days if required. Just.
Engine modes allow you to calm your day, or liven it up.
Styling still looks futuristic two years on.
Practicality, all-round, do-anything quality.
Electronic suspension means no more fiddling with screwdrivers.
WHAT WE DON’T LIKE:
Slight furring around brake pedal, gear lever.
Pannier catches are simply not good enough.
Fuel economy drops rapidly when fitted with full exhaust system.
Headlight can never be adjusted down enough.
Holes in handguards need taping up in winter.
THE FACTS
Ducati Multistrada 1200S, £14,995
Value now: £10,250
Mileage: 9250
Fuel economy: 41mpg
Power (claimed): 150bhp
Dry weight: 199kg
First visit of 2019 for me to this stunning castle today Thursday 28th March 2019.
Dunnottar Castle.
The rock the Castle sits upon was forced to the surface 440 million years ago during the Silurian period. A red rock conglomerate with boulders up to 1m across known as Pudding Stone is incredibly durable.
The ancient Highland rock pebbles and cementing matter is so tough that faults or cracks pass through the pebbles themselves.
I first visited Dunnottar Castle summer 2017, this magnificent castle sits high on a hill, last time I visited I captured my shots from the cliffs overlooking the site, though today I made the journey up the hill and entered the castle walls , wow what a magnificent experience, just perfect with loads of great photo opportunities to capture real Scottish history,after two hours wandering around and capturing as many shots that caught my eye , I made my way home, a magnificent experience indeed.
Dunnottar Castle (Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Fhoithear, "fort on the shelving slope" is a ruined medieval fortress located upon a rocky headland on the north-east coast of Scotland, about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) south of Stonehaven.
The surviving buildings are largely of the 15th and 16th centuries, but the site is believed to have been fortified in the Early Middle Ages. Dunnottar has played a prominent role in the history of Scotland through to the 18th-century Jacobite risings because of its strategic location and defensive strength. Dunnottar is best known as the place where the Honours of Scotland, the Scottish crown jewels, were hidden from Oliver Cromwell's invading army in the 17th century. The property of the Keiths from the 14th century, and the seat of the Earl Marischal, Dunnottar declined after the last Earl forfeited his titles by taking part in the Jacobite rebellion of 1715.
The castle was restored in the 20th century and is now open to the public.
The ruins of the castle are spread over 1.4 hectares (3.5 acres), surrounded by steep cliffs that drop to the North Sea, 50 metres (160 ft) below. A narrow strip of land joins the headland to the mainland, along which a steep path leads up to the gatehouse.
The various buildings within the castle include the 14th-century tower house as well as the 16th-century palace. Dunnottar Castle is a scheduled monument, and twelve structures on the site are listed buildings.
History
Early Middle Ages
A chapel at Dunnottar is said to have been founded by St Ninian in the 5th century, although it is not clear when the site was first fortified, but in any case the legend is late and highly implausible. Possibly the earliest written reference to the site is found in the Annals of Ulster which record two sieges of "Dún Foither" in 681 and 694.
The earlier event has been interpreted as an attack by Brude, the Pictish king of Fortriu, to extend his power over the north-east coast of Scotland. The Scottish Chronicle records that King Domnall II, the first ruler to be called rí Alban (King of Alba), was killed at Dunnottar during an attack by Vikings in 900. King Aethelstan of Wessex led a force into Scotland in 934, and raided as far north as Dunnottar according to the account of Symeon of Durham. W. D. Simpson speculated that a motte might lie under the present caste, but excavations in the 1980s failed to uncover substantive evidence of early medieval fortification.
The discovery of a group of Pictish stones at Dunnicaer, a nearby sea stack, has prompted speculation that "Dún Foither" was actually located on the adjacent headland of Bowduns, 0.5 kilometres (0.31 mi) to the north.
Later Middle Ages
During the reign of King William the Lion (ruled 1165–1214) Dunnottar was a center of local administration for The Mearns. The castle is named in the Roman de Fergus, an early 13th-century Arthurian romance, in which the hero Fergus must travel to Dunnottar to retrieve a magic shield.
In May 1276 a church on the site was consecrated by William Wishart, Bishop of St Andrews. The poet Blind Harry relates that William Wallace captured Dunnottar from the English in 1297, during the Wars of Scottish Independence. He is said to have imprisoned 4,000 defeated English soldiers in the church and burned them alive.
In 1336 Edward III of England ordered William Sinclair, 8th Baron of Roslin, to sail eight ships to the partially ruined Dunnottar for the purpose of rebuilding and fortifying the site as a forward resupply base for his northern campaign. Sinclair took with him 160 soldiers, horses, and a corps of masons and carpenters.
Edward himself visited in July, but the English efforts were undone before the end of the year when the Scottish Regent Sir Andrew Murray led a force that captured and again destroyed the defences of Dunnottar.
In the 14th century Dunnottar was granted to William de Moravia, 5th Earl of Sutherland (d.1370), and in 1346 a licence to crenellate was issued by David II. Around 1359 William Keith, Marischal of Scotland, married Margaret Fraser, niece of Robert the Bruce, and was granted the barony of Dunnottar at this time. Keith then gave the lands of Dunnottar to his daughter Christian and son-in-law William Lindsay of Byres, but in 1392 an excambion (exchange) was agreed whereby Keith regained Dunnottar and Lindsay took lands in Fife.
William Keith completed construction of the tower house at Dunnottar, but was excommunicated for building on the consecrated ground associated with the parish church. Keith had provided a new parish church closer to Stonehaven, but was forced to write to the Pope, Benedict XIII, who issued a bull in 1395 lifting the excommunication.William Keith's descendents were created Earls Marischal in the mid 15th century, and they held Dunottar until the 18th century.
16th century rebuilding
Through the 16th century the Keiths improved and expanded their principal seats: at Dunnottar and also at Keith Marischal in East Lothian. James IV visited Dunnottar in 1504, and in 1531 James V exempted the Earl's men from military service on the grounds that Dunnottar was one of the "principall strenthis of our realme".
Mary, Queen of Scots, visited in 1562 after the Battle of Corrichie, and returned in 1564.
James VI stayed for 10 days in 1580, as part of a progress through Fife and Angus, during which a meeting of the Privy Council was convened at Dunnottar.
During a rebellion of Catholic nobles in 1592, Dunnottar was captured by a Captain Carr on behalf of the Earl of Huntly, but was restored to Lord Marischal just a few weeks later.
In 1581 George Keith succeeded as 5th Earl Marischal, and began a large scale reconstruction that saw the medieval fortress converted into a more comfortable home. The founder of Marischal College in Aberdeen, the 5th Earl valued Dunnottar as much for its dramatic situation as for its security.
A "palace" comprising a series of ranges around a quadrangle was built on the north-eastern cliffs, creating luxurious living quarters with sea views. The 13th-century chapel was restored and incorporated into the quadrangle.
An impressive stone gatehouse was constructed, now known as Benholm's Lodging, featuring numerous gun ports facing the approach. Although impressive, these are likely to have been fashionable embellishments rather than genuine defensive features.
Civil wars
Further information: Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms
In 1639 William Keith, 7th Earl Marischal, came out in support of the Covenanters, a Presbyterian movement who opposed the established Episcopal Church and the changes which Charles I was attempting to impose. With James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, he marched against the Catholic James Gordon, 2nd Viscount Aboyne, Earl of Huntly, and defeated an attempt by the Royalists to seize Stonehaven. However, when Montrose changed sides to the Royalists and marched north, Marischal remained in Dunnottar, even when given command of the area by Parliament, and even when Montrose burned Stonehaven.
Marischal then joined with the Engager faction, who had made a deal with the king, and led a troop of horse to the Battle of Preston (1648) in support of the royalists.
Following the execution of Charles I in 1649, the Engagers gave their allegiance to his son and heir: Charles II was proclaimed king, arriving in Scotland in June 1650. He visited Dunnottar in July 1650, but his presence in Scotland prompted Oliver Cromwell to lead a force into Scotland, defeating the Scots at Dunbar in September 1650.
The Honours of Scotland
Charles II was crowned at Scone Palace on 1 January 1651, at which the Honours of Scotland (the regalia of crown, sword and sceptre) were used. However, with Cromwell's troops in Lothian, the honours could not be returned to Edinburgh. The Earl Marischal, as Marischal of Scotland, had formal responsibility for the honours, and in June the Privy Council duly decided to place them at Dunnottar.
They were brought to the castle by Katherine Drummond, hidden in sacks of wool. Sir George Ogilvie (or Ogilvy) of Barras was appointed lieutenant-governor of the castle, and given responsibility for its defence.
In November 1651 Cromwell's troops called on Ogilvie to surrender, but he refused. During the subsequent blockade of the castle, the removal of the Honours of Scotland was planned by Elizabeth Douglas, wife of Sir George Ogilvie, and Christian Fletcher, wife of James Granger, minister of Kinneff Parish Church. The king's papers were first removed from the castle by Anne Lindsay, a kinswoman of Elizabeth Douglas, who walked through the besieging force with the papers sewn into her clothes.
Two stories exist regarding the removal of the honours themselves. Fletcher stated in 1664 that over the course of three visits to the castle in February and March 1652, she carried away the crown, sceptre, sword and sword-case hidden amongst sacks of goods. Another account, given in the 18th century by a tutor to the Earl Marischal, records that the honours were lowered from the castle onto the beach, where they were collected by Fletcher's servant and carried off in a creel (basket) of seaweed. Having smuggled the honours from the castle, Fletcher and her husband buried them under the floor of the Old Kirk at Kinneff.
Meanwhile, by May 1652 the commander of the blockade, Colonel Thomas Morgan, had taken delivery of the artillery necessary for the reduction of Dunnottar. Ogilvie surrendered on 24 May, on condition that the garrison could go free. Finding the honours gone, the Cromwellians imprisoned Ogilvie and his wife in the castle until the following year, when a false story was put about suggesting that the honours had been taken overseas.
Much of the castle property was removed, including twenty-one brass cannons,[28] and Marischal was required to sell further lands and possessions to pay fines imposed by Cromwell's government.
At the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, the honours were removed from Kinneff Church and returned to the king. Ogilvie quarrelled with Marischal's mother over who would take credit for saving the honours, though he was eventually rewarded with a baronetcy. Fletcher was awarded 2,000 merks by Parliament but the sum was never paid.
Whigs and Jacobites
Religious and political conflicts continued to be played out at Dunnottar through the 17th and early 18th centuries. In 1685, during the rebellion of the Earl of Argyll against the new king James VII, 167 Covenanters were seized and held in a cellar at Dunnottar. The prisoners included 122 men and 45 women associated with the Whigs, an anti-Royalist group within the Covenanter movement, and had refused to take an oath of allegiance to the new king.
The Whigs were imprisoned from 24 May until late July. A group of 25 escaped, although two of these were killed in a fall from the cliffs, and another 15 were recaptured. Five prisoners died in the vault, and 37 of the Whigs were released after taking the oath of allegiance.
The remaining prisoners were transported to Perth Amboy, New Jersey, as part of a colonisation scheme devised by George Scot of Pitlochie. Many, like Scot himself, died on the voyage.
The cellar, located beneath the "King's Bedroom" in the 16th-century castle buildings, has since become known as the "Whigs' Vault".
Both the Jacobites (supporters of the exiled Stuarts) and the Hanoverians (supporters of George I and his descendents) used Dunnottar Castle. In 1689 during Viscount Dundee's campaign in support of the deposed James VII, the castle was garrisoned for William and Mary with Lord Marischal appointed captain.
Seventeen suspected Jacobites from Aberdeen were seized and held in the fortress for around three weeks, including George Liddell, professor of mathematics at Marischal College.
In the Jacobite Rising of 1715 George Keith, 10th Earl Marischal, took an active role with the rebels, leading cavalry at the Battle of Sheriffmuir. After the subsequent abandonment of the rising Lord Marischal fled to the Continent, eventually becoming French ambassador for Frederick the Great of Prussia. Meanwhile, in 1716, his titles and estates including Dunnottar were declared forfeit to the crown.
Later history
The seized estates of the Earl Marischal were purchased in 1720 for £41,172, by the York Buildings Company who dismantled much of the castle.
In 1761 the Earl briefly returned to Scotland and bought back Dunnottar only to sell it five years later to Alexander Keith, an Edinburgh lawyer who served as Knight Marischal of Scotland.
Dunnottar was inherited in 1852 by Sir Patrick Keith-Murray of Ochtertyre, who in turn sold it in July 1873 to Major Alexander Innes of Cowie and Raemoir for about £80,000.
It was purchased by Weetman Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray, in 1925 after which his wife embarked on a programme of repairs.
Since that time the castle has remained in the family, and has been open to the public, attracting 52,500 visitors in 2009.
Dunnottar Castle, and the headland on which is stands, was designated as a scheduled monument in 1970.In 1972 twelve of the structures at Dunnottar were listed.
Three buildings are listed at category A as being of "national importance": the keep; the entrance gateway; and Benholm's Lodging.
The remaining listings are at category B as being of "regional importance".[39] The Hon. Charles Anthony Pearson, the younger son of the 3rd Viscount Cowdray, currently owns and runs Dunnottar Castle which is part of the 210-square-kilometre (52,000-acre) Dunecht Estates.
Portions of the 1990 film Hamlet, starring Mel Gibson and Glenn Close, were shot there.
Description
Dunnottar's strategic location allowed its owners to control the coastal terrace between the North Sea cliffs and the hills of the Mounth, 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) inland, which enabled access to and from the north-east of Scotland.
The site is accessed via a steep, 800-metre (2,600 ft) footpath (with modern staircases) from a car park on the coastal road, or via a 3-kilometre (1.9 mi) cliff-top path from Stonehaven. Dunnottar's several buildings, put up between the 13th and 17th centuries, are arranged across a headland covering around 1.4 hectares (3.5 acres).
The dominant building, viewed from the land approach, is the 14th-century keep or tower house. The other principal buildings are the gatehouse; the chapel; and the 16th-century "palace" which incorporates the "Whigs' Vault".
Defences
The approach to the castle is overlooked by outworks on the "Fiddle Head", a promontory on the western side of the headland. The entrance is through the well-defended main gate, set in a curtain wall which entirely blocks a cleft in the rocky cliffs.
The gate has a portcullis and has been partly blocked up. Alongside the main gate is the 16th-century Benholm's Lodging, a five-storey building cut into the rock, which incorporated a prison with apartments above.
Three tiers of gun ports face outwards from the lower floors of Benholm's Lodging, while inside the main gate, a group of four gun ports face the entrance. The entrance passage then turns sharply to the left, running underground through two tunnels to emerge near the tower house.
Simpson contends that these defences are "without exception the strongest in Scotland", although later writers have doubted the effectiveness of the gun ports. Cruden notes that the alignment of the gun ports in Benholm's Lodging, facing across the approach rather than along, means that they are of limited efficiency.
The practicality of the gun ports facing the entrance has also been questioned, though an inventory of 1612 records that four brass cannons were placed here.
A second access to the castle leads up from a rocky cove, the aperture to a marine cave on the northern side of the Dunnottar cliffs into which a small boat could be brought. From here a steep path leads to the well-fortified postern gate on the cliff top, which in turn offers access to the castle via the Water Gate in the palace.
Artillery defences, taking the form of earthworks, surround the north-west corner of the castle, facing inland, and the south-east, facing seaward. A small sentry box or guard house stands by the eastern battery, overlooking the coast.
Tower house and surrounding buildings
The tower house of Dunnottar, viewed from the west
The late 14th-century tower house has a stone-vaulted basement, and originally had three further storeys and a garret above.
Measuring 12 by 11 metres (39 by 36 ft), the tower house stood 15 metres (49 ft) high to its gable. The principal rooms included a great hall and a private chamber for the lord, with bedrooms upstairs.
Beside the tower house is a storehouse, and a blacksmith's forge with a large chimney. A stable block is ranged along the southern edge of the headland. Nearby is Waterton's Lodging, also known as the Priest's House, built around 1574, possibly for the use of William Keith (died 1580), son of the 4th Earl Marischal.
This small self-contained house includes a hall and kitchen at ground level, with private chambers above, and has a projecting spiral stair on the north side. It is named for Thomas Forbes of Waterton, an attendant of the 7th Earl.
The palace
The palace, to the north-east of the headland, was built in the late 16th century and early to mid-17th century. It comprises three main wings set out around a quadrangle, and for the most part is probably the work of the 5th Earl Marischal who succeeded in 1581.
It provided extensive and comfortable accommodation to replace the rooms in the tower house. In its long, low design it has been compared to contemporary English buildings, in contrast to the Scottish tradition of taller towers still prevalent in the 16th century.
Seven identical lodgings are arranged along the west range, each opening onto the quadrangle and including windows and fireplace. Above the lodgings the west range comprised a 35-metre (115 ft) gallery. Now roofless, the gallery originally had an elaborate oak ceiling, and on display was a Roman tablet taken from the Antonine Wall.
At the north end of the gallery was a drawing room linked to the north range. The gallery could also be accessed from the Silver House to the south, which incorporated a broad stairway with a treasury above.
The basement of the north range incorporates kitchens and stores, with a dining room and great chamber above. At ground floor level is the Water Gate, between the north and west ranges, which gives access to the postern on the northern cliffs.
The east and north ranges are linked via a rectangular stair. The east range has a larder, brewhouse and bakery at ground level, with a suite of apartments for the Countess above. A north-east wing contains the Earl's apartments, and includes the "King's Bedroom" in which Charles II stayed. In this room is a carved stone inscribed with the arms of the 7th Earl and his wife, and the date 1654. Below these rooms is the Whigs' Vault, a cellar measuring 16 by 4.5 metres (52 by 15 ft). This cellar, in which the Covenanters were held in 1685, has a large eastern window, as well as a lower vault accessed via a trap-door in the floor.
Of the chambers in the palace, only the dining room and the Silver House remain roofed, having been restored in the 1920s. The central area contains a circular cistern or fish pond, 16 metres (52 ft) across and 7.6 metres (25 ft) deep, and a bowling green is located to the west.
At the south-east corner of the quadrangle is the chapel, consecrated in 1276 and largely rebuilt in the 16th century. Medieval walling and two 13th-century windows remain, and there is a graveyard to the south.
I love the get-on-and-go practicality of the Van Andel box bike.
Wearing a skirt? Get on and go. The skirt guard is there for you.
Cold and snowy? Get on and go. The long, heavy frame is stable.
Rainy? The fully-enclosed drive train keeps you and the chain clean, and the optional weather canopy keeps the child dry. The drum brakes will work as well when it rains.
Dark? The generator in the front wheel keeps the front and rear lights shining without fail, and can turn them automatically.
Need security? The built-in handcuff lock on the rear wheel is always there.
The sturdy Marathon tires resist flats-- I've had just one in over a year. Finally, there's always room to carry "one more thing" to the bike.
Hundreds of African Refugees from Eritrea and Ethiopia make a pilgrimage to Bethlehem to visit Manger Square and the Church of the Nativity for a Coptic Christmas. Bethlehem, Palestine, 6th January 2012.
Shortly about me:
It’s my passion to create stories and bring back pictures of events, people and places that are rarely seen. It’s a combination of exploration, exposition and artistry that together create a life of adventure and excitement.
In my work it is imperative for me that information be accurate and the images must be respectful of the subject and viewer. My goal is to combine creativity with practicality to capture the best possible images to document events, tell a story, meet the picture editor's deadlines.
If you would like to know more, or even just pick my brains to discuss your project with me, please visit my homepage documentary photography or send me an Email.
The Church of the Ascension at the "Kaiserin Auguste Victoria Foundation" on the Mount of Olives - together with our Center for Pilgrims and Tourists and the famous "Café Auguste Victoria".
It was built in 1907-1910, and named after Empress Augusta Victoria, the wife of German Kaiser Wilhelm II. Today it is an Arab Hospital.
The Christian community of Jerusalem has always been multi-ethnic, diverse and multi-lingual. Here, you will find Greeks and Armenians, Syrians, Coptic Christians from Egypt, Ethiopians, Maronites with Lebanese background, Orthodox Russians, Palestinians, and Hebrew Christians praying side by side. As a German speaking Protestant Church, we are a vital part of the ecumenical landscape of Christian churches in Jerusalem.
Shortly about me:
It’s my passion to create stories and bring back pictures of events, people and places that are rarely seen. It’s a combination of exploration, exposition and artistry that together create a life of adventure and excitement.
In my work it is imperative for me that information be accurate and the images must be respectful of the subject and viewer. My goal is to combine creativity with practicality to capture the best possible images to document events, tell a story, meet the picture editor's deadlines.
The exhibition “Beautiful Faces of Balata” currently on show at the Church of the Ascension at the “Kaiserin Auguste Victoria Foundation” on the Mount of Olive's can be visited on a virtual tour on my website. Virtual tour of the Exhibition »
The exhibition is a project of Public Culture - Palpics, under the auspices of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the Yafa Cultural Center (YCC) .
If you would like to know more, or even just pick my brains to discuss your project with me, please visit my homepage documentary photography or send me an Email.
-->> Press his head .. tiger growls,revs,growls,laughs, revs and goes..
Good Morning,Mr.Wong..
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..seemed like i was used by someone.. ..
..thought a plane blew up before it left the hangar..
No one will read this..those that do fail to understand.
But i'd just run my my mouth off and blow my a hole in my head .. then maybe .. after that they'd try.
Maybe this is a chakra ..but it also is a madness.
Why am i trying to face this sh6t anymore ?? Why do i fight ??
At least i try.. but no matter what i struggle with or how hard i face it.. it's not good enough ever f8cking EVER.
Tigers tigers tigers.. sometimes i don't care about the tigers, i need the chaotix to cease and the pain to roll back sevear.
But there is no one to talk to.. No one to relate. Sorry.. just popping more pills and going to the bar,shooting illegal sh6t, just doesn't do it for me. Good on you for those it works..
.. but with the madness of this third eye .. and the continued clichés; i don't need delusion and of these things as i'm already far to lost in this cycle.
Are the clichés they drown me in really meant with good intent ..or is it just systematic and false ?? I don't know anymore.
..growin' numb again.
F6ckin' awesome. Maybe i'll drive the soldering iron right thru' my eyes instead of just lashing myself on the back like i usually do.
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I've had a difficult time placing words for what just happened., prolly cuz nothing like this had ever happened to me before.
So as i take those steps.. the volcano erupts again as it spews out thoughts that none relates to.
And pain on has no 'meter' ..
.. there is no limit to the amount of damage it can inflict.. mind, body and soul ..i can be relative.
Sometimes it is i guess.
.. as usual i am confused by the individuals who are against ideology of me destroying myself and gaining the peace i need.
What's even more confusing is those that would be against me killing me.. yet they'd soon be ready to inflict that limitless pain themselves.
.. small number of people knew of what was happening. Really no one to turn to for advice.. i had noone to confide in for how to approach this situation.
As it goes here for Snapper .. and has been. Can't complain too much . for the situation is what it is..still i have noone i can entrust with this info without it turning on my head and it turnin' into something that would be used against me.
While i have support in some instance. It is limited.
The times i've needed downright help in crisis.. that help isn't ever there. Well really hasn't been..there are always exceptions. And so-called help by third parties usually turned into something violent or sent me on a track of wasted energy dealing with institutions and wards of some for or another.
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Perhaps i choose not to discuss it with some anyway ..
.. i've been aware that i am too much for anyone to love..appears i am too much for anyone to handle.
Do i deserve to be treated the way i was was/am ??
Sometimes .. i don't know what it's like to want to live.. but i have tried to work out the ends of achieving 'happiness'. That itself becomes rather another compulsive ride. Where "trying" and "thinking positive" and doing things,tolerating things that i hope will lead to better futures and paths..many times fall flat on the dusty ground like cardboard dragons and paper tigers. Disappointment,mania,confusion and anger can also take one into the area of disillusionment. A cornerstone of alot of the stances i take on existence in general.
While i confided my heart into someone new ..i was well aware of the risk..was afraid to epic proportions.
The practicality of this relationship was thrown out the window from day one. But i wasn't about to let that stop me.
"Think positive" .. ok fine.. i did .. i did.. i fought.
I try .. i tried ..i struggled.
Ok ..as usual. But there's always something isn't there to add a bit of an extra edge to the knife. Mistakes had been made by me. I deny none of my faults.
A di had been cast..and i was willing to face it with someone new.. and who i was growing to trust.
'Delusion' ..tho' .. i think it's power is underestimated by even me somedays. Communication too.. as in everyday i do all i can to keep 'Communicatin' with those i care about and work for. I beg ..i pleed.. i convulse to "PLEASE CONTACT ME."
I call,email,message ,Text.. whatever it takes.. but in my drive ..because i care and worry, this becomes compulsion. I am labeled : Obsessed and crazy.
Because i am not clairvoyant (durr).. or not mentally hooked up to the governments' tracking satellite, because i don't know where or what people that expect things out of me are thinking and doing at all times ..
..because there was no plan..
..because there was no 'talk' ..
just a lopsided notion on both sides that it would somehow "come together".
I am as much to share the blame i am sure. But i did try.
I suppose the people that choose not even to think even just a little bit of the plan..would soon build a house on top of a tissue-paper bridge over a river of quicksand.
You have to think .. you have to plan.. and when someone claims to know me..or wants to get to know me.. they have to work with me. The distance traveled by this person was vast.
For them to come see .. was something i was looking forward to all year. This was more important to me than even my San Diego trip..which in some regards feels like a 'Mecca' of sorts every year.
As the anxiety mounted .. from outside factors, those factors always amalgamize into much more monstrous struggles.
More than 5 nervous breakdowns ..3 in one week since mid-August left me so incredibly dark again. The suicidal monster is always there..and i do many things that near severe this 'life line' and allow me that "Forever peace" that is just moments away ..yet an eternity from my grasp.
Death..again is not a bad word to me. and the more those that claim they don't wish to hurt me ..DO ..
..the more rational and clear it becomes. This mind relaxes not. I am so glad for those who can obtain a relative state of contentment. More power to your means. I mean that. Good for you .. to find comfort in whatever it is you do to unwind.
Satisfaction and release. Relaxed conscience and security ..at least on moderate levels.
O well.. i handle it right ?? I destroy myself literally.. that's how. That sets my self up ..
burning myself and drawing my own blood is my real drug.
.. magic pills .. don't cut and something meaningful was meaningless.
In a nervous breakdown ..communication is even more imperative.. for you see i am not coherent.
Simple yes and no answers in text may have to do lest i say something i do not mean and hurt someone.
The person misunderstood me and seemes to refused to get it thru' his head that i was planning for his arrival all this time. Calls from his cell were regulated to less than 2 minutes and just as i'd get to the point, i was cut off. Or there would be a given a 'game show' in the background and the person would barely be able to understand me just short of me getting a bullhorn to scream into the phone with.
Technology is great ..cell phones are great .. let the whole f6cking world in on your phone call !~! Privacy is dead.. why the f7ck you think people calling people in te middle of traffic.. screaming at their kids on the phone in the middle of the mall.
Don't f7ckin' walk into the middle of a crowded restaurant or airport and whip your 'Razor' out and expect a magic seclusion bubble to cover you up and suddenly you call is 'PRIVATE'.
Whatever.
He said he'd call me back ..waiting and waiting. One call ..less than 2 minutes every other week isn't enough time to plan to take your dog to the park. Let alone pick someone up from outside the country,give them a place to stay and take them sight-seeing. Uh ok ..
The Titanic people are still so well known for their planning ahead aren't they.
Makin' it short here.. miscommunication and then no communication .. said person chose to have a 3rd part come down from Denver, pick them up.. a few days later, he discoverd :: Colorado = high altitude.
He developed athema and got very sick. I called him and messaged him. Worried as hell. Frustrated as hell. Hurt and confused.
Another short phone call ..the one discovered he was ill,i was trying to even let the whole miscommunication thing go.. trying to be forgiving and let the fact that :: ' He wouldn't be able to see me on this trip."
Even tho' he diverted his travel plans to colorado specifically to see me. All his friends all over North America got to see him except the one who he claimed mattered the most.
The one who led me on all these months and had my heart in a paper bag all this time.. just doing whatever the f7ck he wanted with it.
The way it goes ,tOkKa .. just how it goes. No reason or explanation .. just how it goes.
He's soon throw me under a passing bus. No rhyme or reason. He'd just do it.
It wasn't ever clear what the hell was going on in the end .. and i'm not sure if he was doing this out of hatred for me or what.
I freek out.. and people get upset me at this. But why do they tell me they will keep touch, call me,write..
.. and then they expect me to help them and bend over backwards,run myself weary, and snap myself in two to help them ..and they kill the communication ?!
I don't get that at all.
YOU WANT MY F*CK ING HELP ?! THEN YOU HAVE TO HELP ME HELP YOU ..
and if you can't stay on the phone longer than a minute .. then don't be a moron.
TELL ME !! I'm schizophrenic but not inept !!
EVERYONE THINKS I AM A MADMAN !! NOONE ..NOONE EVER EVER F8KCING EVER LOOKS AT ME HUMAN !@!
NOW EVEN I DON'T SEE ME AS HUMSAN !!
JESUS ..FUCK ME AGAIN !!
.. .. the was supposed to be here from September 11 ..and stay for three days.
.. again my short chat with him lead to knowledge of his illness. His time in Colorado apparently was extended.
I emailed him telling him i was worried. I called left messages. Someone did pick up once then hung up on me.
This point i am so confused and beyond hurt, Yeh ..'disillusioned'.
Literally ..this person may be alive or dead. And i just don't know.
That's a great portion of the anxiety i am dealt with now. Not the only thing ..but a major part of this tiger stew in my brain.
Times like this i walk a line where i so dream and and want to be normal. Then i see the illogic of what some 'normal' people pass off as communication.
Times like that .. i don't see how being 'normal' and 'healthy-minded' is a good thing. They may as well all be schizophrenic.
.. the tiger stripes i have on my body and the ones i inflict on myself are very much cause for continued struggle and are on my own accord. I understand that ..
Again ..that will be my struggle no matter if i use the gun on me or not.
.. but miscommunication and running me ragged. Thru' nervous breakdowns ..and you smash my heart up.
And you expect me to not be 'frustrated' ??
It's pretty simple to tell me what's up. I speak English. I do know how to drive and dress myself. I am not Quasimodo.
But i am also not a Gypsy mind-reader.
I emphasised the point .. i overemphasized the point til' i was smashing my skull on the wall over and over !!
TALK TO ME.. .. JUST TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT !!
If you can only talk to me for a minute. FINE .. TELL ME THAT ON THE ONSET !!
.. no no ..
it's to hard ain' it.
I'm the babbling idiot .. who talks to tigers. But everyone gets lost,dazed and confused.. misunderstands,misdirects ..and throws talking and comprimise out the window.
I'm the rambling moron..
.. and i look around me ..and see the never-ending state of war and entropy.
Yeh ok,folks.. i may be time-bomb.. but at least i try to understand things and the people around me. Least i try to communicate.
.. still no word from the person that stole my heart.
.. i don't know where that's at now.
..holding pattern.
Wish ..like that bands' name ..my 'Third eye was blind'.
Then again .. i'd be a miscommunicating mass of a 'normality' like the rest of 'em.
..
..my problem .. all of it ..
..sometimes i want to hate all of them back , the same way i am hated..
..sometimes..
.. they see my tiger stripes and they fail to understand because they choose to.
Tigers devour me .. while the world devours itself.
We struggle..
..open the eye (s) ..
..grr. -
.. >v<
Thru' meditation and practicality I am beginning to be more open and accepting that I can be retired and "GO WITH THE FLOW"... of life. I had not painted in a long time and so this was truly a magical exercise for me... I didn't think or plan it ... It just came from the depths of my being and was invigorating, healing and fun. I also like the 2nd title "Waves of Joy" as it does bring me such joy.. I will have to find a REAL
celebrations with solar car Stella from the Dutch Solar Team Eindhoven at the ceremonial finish in the herart of Adelaide on day six of the 2013 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, probably still leading in the Cruiser Class, although eVe Sunswift (UNSW) reached the finish earlier in total time count. Apart from time, in Cruiser Class also practicality and total driver-kliometers are counted (Stella usually took two to four people whereas Sunswift mostly one)
bevrijdende vreugde bij de studenten van zonne-auto Stella van Solar Team Eindhoven bij de ceremoniële finish in het centrum van Adelaide tijdens de 2013 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, waarschijnlijk aan de leiding in de Cruiser Class, alhoewel eVe Sunswift (UNSW) de finish eerder haalde, ook in totale tijdstelling. Echter behalve tijd wordt in de Cruiser Class ook de praktische ervaring van het rijden van de auto, en het aantal berijders-kilometers geteld (Stella had gewoonlijk twee tot vier berijders aan boord, terwijl Sunswift meestal met één reed)
Skoda is now a division under the Volkswagen group, but is has a long history, having been founded in the Czech Republic in 1895 as Laurin & Klement. In 1948 the company was nationalised as Skoda Auto during the Soviet occupation. A joint Venture with the Volkswagen group commenced in 1991.
The Octavia 1U, shown here, was launced in late 1996 as the marques return to larger family cars, though the model did in fact share its underpinnings (the PQ34 platform) with the Golf MkIV - the Skoda was noticeably larger.
At the time it was noted the values espoused by Skoda in their cars matched well with the traditional Volvo virtues of safety, practicality, conservative looks and efficiency.
The Octavia was produced with a range of four-cylinder petrol and diesel engines of 1.4L to 2.0L, producing between 60 PS and 193 PS (44 kW and 142 kW).
The Octavia Type 1U was replaced by the Type 1Z in 2004, again sharing a VW platform, this time the PQ35 underpinning the Golf MkV.
Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos leads the Orthodox Christmas procession inside the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem January 6, 2011.
Shortly about me:
It’s my passion to create stories and bring back pictures of events, people and places that are rarely seen. It’s a combination of exploration, exposition and artistry that together create a life of adventure and excitement.
In my work it is imperative for me that information be accurate and the images must be respectful of the subject and viewer. My goal is to combine creativity with practicality to capture the best possible images to document events, tell a story, meet the picture editor's deadlines.
The exhibition “Beautiful Faces of Balata” currently on show at the Church of the Ascension at the “Kaiserin Auguste Victoria Foundation” on the Mount of Olive's can be visited on a virtual tour on my website. Virtual tour of the Exhibition »
The exhibition is a project of Public Culture - Palpics, under the auspices of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the Yafa Cultural Center (YCC) .
If you would like to know more, or even just pick my brains to discuss your project with me, please visit my homepage documentary photography or send me an Email.
Certainly an unusual colour for a Rolls, Olive Green strikes me as a little... odd...
But each to their owner I suppose...
There's not much I can say about the Rolls Royce Silver Shadow that hasn't already been said, a car that was styled and homed to perfection, a vehicle that took 3 months to build, comprised of 3 cow hides, 12 square feet of wood and laden with the finest Wilton carpets. If you owned a brand new one of these back in the 1960's and 70's, then you truly were someone special.
The Silver Shadow however, unlike its predecessors, was the most radical Rolls ever built, primarily due to the fact that unlike previous cars such as the Phantom and Silver Cloud, the car was built on a monocoque, with the body being built with the chassis, rather than in earlier instances where Rolls would provide the chassis, and then it was up to the owner to hire a coachbuilder such as Hoopers or HJ Muliner Park Ward, to build the body.
The Silver Shadow was also the first Rolls to be built with the idea of the owner being sat in the front rather than the back. The Silver Cloud was very much a passenger's car, being ferried from stately banquet to stately banquet by a chauffeur. This Silver Shadow on the other hand was a driver's car, powered by Rolls Royce's magnificent V8 engine it smoothly glided across the countryside with the grace and elegance of a stately home on wheels, and so popular was this chemistry of luxury and practicality, that they sold by the thousand. In total, 25,000 examples were built, and the design was incorporated into many other variations, including the Rolls Royce Corniche (a direct descendant of the Silver Shadow 2-door Coupe built by HJ Muliner Park Ward), the controversial Camargue (which was built on the same chassis as a Shadow), and the Bentley T series (basically a Shadow with Bentley badging and radiator grille).
Eventually, the Shadow ended production in 1980, being replaced by the simpler Silver Spirit and Silver Spur range, but the magnificent design of this classic British pedigree has kept it one of the most popular owner's cars in the world, now available for ownership at less that £10,000 in some instances!
Built in the final year of the Silver Shadow I, I consider Shadows such as this to be the last of the truly great Rolls Royces as following this the cars became much more run-of-the-mill.
For starters, the magnificent chrome bumpers that line this one were replaced on the Silver Shadow II by compound bumpers to address American safety legislation, and the two ditch lights seen under the headlamps were placed below the bumper on a rather vulgar looking chin spoiler. Although done in the best interests of road safety, it certainly made these cars look less than stellar.
But this wonderful little roadside gem though shows what the Silver Shadow was all about, chrome everywhere!
Just back from my local cinema.
Went for comfort rather than practicality with a micro mini and stockings and suspenders. On saying that we didn't focus to much on the film, so I suppose my outfit was quite practical in the end.
Hmm, it's another one of those strange 3-wheeled things. But even if the practicality of the Reliant Robin was a little untoward, the car did still sell heavily in the UK, especially in the West Midlands where the car was originally built.
This portrait would never have been possible had the iPad never been invented. I have practiced law for 17 years, yet always wanted to create art. Life, unfortunately, got in the way. When I bought my first iPad in July of 2010, I was instantly taken by it's portability and practicality for creating art. Fast forward to October, 2011, when I presented to a group of Mobile Artists from all over the world on creating IPad Art. I know that my life will never be the same, and though I never got to meet you, Mr. Jobs, you have impacted my life for the better like no one else. Thanks for everything you gave us.
iPad Junkie
Created on my iPad, totally freehand, with my finger, a Nomad Brush, and Brushes App
celebrations with the Dutch Solar Team Eindhoven as they are awarded first prize with world's first family solar car Stella for best of the Cruiser Class in the 2013 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge. Apart from time, in Cruiser Class also practicality and total driver-kliometers are counted (Stella usually carried 2 to 4 people). /
bevrijdende vreugde bij de studenten van Solar Team Eindhoven wanneer ze de eerste prijs winnen met 's werelds eerste familie-zonne-auto voor beste deelnemer in de Cruiser klasse tijdens de 2013 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge. Behalve tijd wordt in de Cruiser Class ook de praktische ervaring van het rijden van de auto, en het aantal berijders-kilometers geteld (Stella had gewoonlijk twee tot vier berijders aan boord)
celebrations with solar car Stella from the Dutch Solar Team Eindhoven at the ceremonial finish in the herart of Adelaide on day six of the 2013 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, probably still leading in the Cruiser Class, although eVe Sunswift (UNSW) reached the finish earlier in total time count. Apart from time, in Cruiser Class also practicality and total driver-kliometers are counted (Stella usually took two to four people whereas Sunswift mostly one)
bevrijdende vreugde bij de studenten van zonne-auto Stella van Solar Team Eindhoven bij de ceremoniële finish in het centrum van Adelaide tijdens de 2013 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, waarschijnlijk aan de leiding in de Cruiser Class, alhoewel eVe Sunswift (UNSW) de finish eerder haalde, ook in totale tijdstelling. Echter behalve tijd wordt in de Cruiser Class ook de praktische ervaring van het rijden van de auto, en het aantal berijders-kilometers geteld (Stella had gewoonlijk twee tot vier berijders aan boord, terwijl Sunswift meestal met één reed)
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Hundreds of African Refugees from Eritrea and Ethiopia make a pilgrimage to Bethlehem to visit Manger Square and the Church of the Nativity for a Coptic Christmas. Bethlehem, Palestine, 6th January 2012.
Shortly about me:
It’s my passion to create stories and bring back pictures of events, people and places that are rarely seen. It’s a combination of exploration, exposition and artistry that together create a life of adventure and excitement.
In my work it is imperative for me that information be accurate and the images must be respectful of the subject and viewer. My goal is to combine creativity with practicality to capture the best possible images to document events, tell a story, meet the picture editor's deadlines.
If you would like to know more, or even just pick my brains to discuss your project with me, please visit my homepage documentary photography or send me an Email.
Skoda is now a division under the Volkswagen group, but is has a long history, having been founded in the Czech Republic in 1895 as Laurin & Klement. In 1948 the company was nationalised as Skoda Auto during the Soviet occupation. A joint Venture with the Volkswagen group commenced in 1991.
The Octavia 1U, shown here, was launced in late 1996 as the marques return to larger family cars, though the model did in fact share its underpinnings (the PQ34 platform) with the Golf MkIV - the Skoda was noticeably larger.
At the time it was noted the values espoused by Skoda in their cars matched well with the traditional Volvo virtues of safety, practicality, conservative looks and efficiency.
The Octavia was produced with a range of four-cylinder petrol and diesel engines of 1.4L to 2.0L, producing between 60 PS and 193 PS (44 kW and 142 kW).
The Octavia Type 1U was replaced by the Type 1Z in 2004, again sharing a VW platform, this time the PQ35 underpinning the Golf MkV.
There's not much I can say about the Rolls Royce Silver Shadow that hasn't already been said, a car that was styled and homed to perfection, a vehicle that took 3 months to build, comprised of 3 cow hides, 12 square feet of wood and laden with the finest Wilton carpets. If you owned a brand new one of these back in the 1960's and 70's, then you truly were someone special.
The Silver Shadow however, unlike its predecessors, was the most radical Rolls ever built, primarily due to the fact that unlike previous cars such as the Phantom and Silver Cloud, the car was built on a monocoque, with the body being built with the chassis, rather than in earlier instances where Rolls would provide the chassis, and then it was up to the owner to hire a coachbuilder such as Hoopers or HJ Muliner Park Ward, to build the body.
The Silver Shadow was also the first Rolls to be built with the idea of the owner being sat in the front rather than the back. The Silver Cloud was very much a passenger's car, being ferried from stately banquet to stately banquet by a chauffeur. This Silver Shadow on the other hand was a driver's car, powered by Rolls Royce's magnificent V8 engine it smoothly glided across the countryside with the grace and elegance of a stately home on wheels, and so popular was this chemistry of luxury and practicality, that they sold by the thousand. In total, 25,000 examples were built, and the design was incorporated into many other variations, including the Rolls Royce Corniche (a direct descendant of the Silver Shadow 2-door Coupe built by HJ Muliner Park Ward), the controversial Camargue (which was built on the same chassis as a Shadow), and the Bentley T series (basically a Shadow with Bentley badging and radiator grille).
Eventually, the Shadow ended production in 1980, being replaced by the simpler Silver Spirit and Silver Spur range, but the magnificent design of this classic British pedigree has kept it one of the most popular owner's cars in the world, now available for ownership at less that £10,000 in some instances!
The Church of the Ascension at the "Kaiserin Auguste Victoria Foundation" on the Mount of Olives - together with our Center for Pilgrims and Tourists and the famous "Café Auguste Victoria".
It was built in 1907-1910, and named after Empress Augusta Victoria, the wife of German Kaiser Wilhelm II. Today it is an Arab Hospital.
The Christian community of Jerusalem has always been multi-ethnic, diverse and multi-lingual. Here, you will find Greeks and Armenians, Syrians, Coptic Christians from Egypt, Ethiopians, Maronites with Lebanese background, Orthodox Russians, Palestinians, and Hebrew Christians praying side by side. As a German speaking Protestant Church, we are a vital part of the ecumenical landscape of Christian churches in Jerusalem.
Shortly about me:
It’s my passion to create stories and bring back pictures of events, people and places that are rarely seen. It’s a combination of exploration, exposition and artistry that together create a life of adventure and excitement.
In my work it is imperative for me that information be accurate and the images must be respectful of the subject and viewer. My goal is to combine creativity with practicality to capture the best possible images to document events, tell a story, meet the picture editor's deadlines.
The exhibition “Beautiful Faces of Balata” currently on show at the Church of the Ascension at the “Kaiserin Auguste Victoria Foundation” on the Mount of Olive's can be visited on a virtual tour on my website. Virtual tour of the Exhibition »
The exhibition is a project of Public Culture - Palpics, under the auspices of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the Yafa Cultural Center (YCC) .
If you would like to know more, or even just pick my brains to discuss your project with me, please visit my homepage documentary photography or send me an Email.
The Church of the Ascension at the "Kaiserin Auguste Victoria Foundation" on the Mount of Olives - together with our Center for Pilgrims and Tourists and the famous "Café Auguste Victoria".
It was built in 1907-1910, and named after Empress Augusta Victoria, the wife of German Kaiser Wilhelm II. Today it is an Arab Hospital.
The Christian community of Jerusalem has always been multi-ethnic, diverse and multi-lingual. Here, you will find Greeks and Armenians, Syrians, Coptic Christians from Egypt, Ethiopians, Maronites with Lebanese background, Orthodox Russians, Palestinians, and Hebrew Christians praying side by side. As a German speaking Protestant Church, we are a vital part of the ecumenical landscape of Christian churches in Jerusalem.
Shortly about me:
It’s my passion to create stories and bring back pictures of events, people and places that are rarely seen. It’s a combination of exploration, exposition and artistry that together create a life of adventure and excitement.
In my work it is imperative for me that information be accurate and the images must be respectful of the subject and viewer. My goal is to combine creativity with practicality to capture the best possible images to document events, tell a story, meet the picture editor's deadlines.
The exhibition “Beautiful Faces of Balata” currently on show at the Church of the Ascension at the “Kaiserin Auguste Victoria Foundation” on the Mount of Olive's can be visited on a virtual tour on my website. Virtual tour of the Exhibition »
The exhibition is a project of Public Culture - Palpics, under the auspices of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the Yafa Cultural Center (YCC) .
If you would like to know more, or even just pick my brains to discuss your project with me, please visit my homepage documentary photography or send me an Email.
E36/8
Estimated : CHF 40.000 - 60.000
Sold for CHF 28.750 - € 26.191
The Bonmont Sale
Collectors' Motor Cars - Bonhams
Golf & Country Club de Bonmont
Chéserex
Switzerland - Suisse - Schweiz
September 2019
A brilliant exercise in 'retro' styling that recalled its fabulous '328' sports car of pre-war days, BMW's Z3 was introduced in 1996. The original four-cylinder 1.9-litre Z3 was more of a stylish boulevard cruiser than out-and-out sports car, a successful concept perhaps best exemplified by Mercedes-Benz's old 230/250/280SL family and would prove equally appealing to both men and women drivers. The arrival of the 2.8-litre six-cylinder engine in 1997 transformed the Z3, endowing it with a level of performance that at last matched the promise of its looks. Six-cylinder cars enjoyed a lengthier equipment list than the 'fours', which included an electric hood (roadster), leather upholstery, and 16" alloy wheels.
Commencing in the early 1980s with the limited edition 'homologation special' M3, BMW Motorsport GmbH went on to create its own distinctive 'M-Power' brand of performance-enhanced luxury models. The first M-Power Z3 appeared in January 1998. Built until February 2001 when the model was revised, the first-series Z3M Coupé and Roadster were powered by the 3.2-litre S50 engine producing 316bhp and 236lb/ft of torque - figures that translated into a tyre-smoking 0-60mph time of 5.2 seconds and a top speed of 155mph. The fastest-accelerating BMW ever at the time of its introduction, the Z3M Coupé boasted a generous specification that included electric windows, ABS, PAS, air conditioning, heated seats, driver/passenger air bags, six-speaker stereo system, alarm/immobiliser, heated exterior mirrors, 17" alloy wheels, and a limited-slip differential as standard. Combining outrageous looks and performance with impressive practicality, the Z3M Coupé was not replaced within BMW's line-up after its deletion in 2002 and is surely destined for 'highly collectible' status in the future.
Finished in black with matching interior, this manual transmission Z3M was purchased by the current owner in 2014 when it showed a credible total of only 78,000 kilometres on the odometer. Since its acquisition the car has been used only sparingly, so the odometer currently shows only some 81,700 kilometres. This Z3M is described by the owner as excellent in every respect, the only exception being a small scratch on the left rear side. All documents are present, and the car also comes with a Swiss Carte Grise, MFK document, and a copy of Auto Illustrierte magazine (October 2013 edition) featured it in a comprehensive article.
nrhp # 87000865- Fort Missoula Historic District- Fort Missoula was established by the United States Army in 1877 on land that is now part of the city of Missoula, Montana, to protect settlers in Western Montana from possible threats from the native American Indians, such as the Nez Perce.[2]
Beginning in 1888, the fort was home to the famous Buffalo Soldiers of the 25th Infantry Regiment (3rd Formation). While stationed at Fort Missoula, this unit tested the practicality of soldiers traveling by bicycles by conducting numerous training rides, with one ride all the way to St. Louis, Missouri. The Trans-America Bicycle Trail established in 1976 goes through Missoula, and covers some of the routes pedaled by the 25th Regiment.
During World War II Fort Missoula housed a prison camp for Italian POWs, who called the area Bella Vista.[3]
Fort Missoula was established as a permanent military post in 1877 and built in response to requests of local townspeople and settlers for protection in the event of conflict with western Montana Indian tribes. It was intended as a major outpost for the region; however, area residents also were quite aware of the payroll, contracts, and employment opportunities Fort Missoula would provide. Fort Missoula never had walls; rather, it was an "open fort," a design common for posts located west of the Mississippi. Open forts required troops to take the offensive and actively patrol the areas to which they were assigned.
Construction had barely begun when the Company Commander, Captain Charles Rawn, received orders to halt the advance of a group of non-treaty Nez Perce Indians. The Nez Perce, led by Chiefs Joseph, Looking Glass and others, simply went around the soldiers' hastily-constructed earth and log barricade in Lolo Canyon (later called "Fort Fizzle") and escaped up the Bitterroot Valley.
The 25th Infantry Regiment arrived at Fort Missoula in May 1888. The regiment was one of four created after the Civil War that were made up of black soldiers with white officers. In 1896, Lieutenant James Moss organized the 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps to test the military potential of bicycles.[4] The corps undertook several short journeys – up the Bitterroot Valley by bicycle to deliver dispatches, north to the St. Ignatius area, and through Yellowstone National Park – before making a 1,900-mile (3,100 km) trip from Fort Missoula to St. Louis in 1897. The Army concluded that while the bicycle offered limited military potential, it would never replace the horse. The 25th Infantry returned to Missoula by train. When the Spanish-American War broke out in 1898, the 25th was one of the first units called to fight. The regiment served bravely in Cuba and the Philippines, but was reassigned to other posts after the war's end.
The efforts of Congressman Joseph Dixon of Missoula led to the appropriation of $1 million in 1904 to remodel Fort Missoula. A modern complex of concrete buildings with red tile roofs was constructed between 1908 and 1914, including a new Officer's Row, barracks, and Post Hospital.
The fort was used as a military training center during World War I, but was almost abandoned by 1921. However, it was designated as the Northwest Regional Headquarters for the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933.
Fort Missoula was turned over to the Department of Immigration and Naturalization in 1941 for use as an alien detention center for non-military Italian men (merchant seamen, World's Fair employees, and the crew of an Italian luxury liner seized in the Panama Canal).[5] Fort Missoula housed over 1,200 Italian internees, who referred to the fort as "Camp Bella Vista." The Italians worked on area farms, fought forest fires, and worked in Missoula until they were released in 1944. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, 650 Japanese-American men who were considered high risk were interned at the camp. These men were questioned and quickly transferred to other internment camps.
The camp was used as a prison for military personnel accused of military crimes and other personnel awaiting court-martial following World War II.[6] After the post was decommissioned in 1947, many of the buildings were sold, dismantled, and removed from the site. For a number of years, Fort Missoula was a subinstallation under the accountability of Fort Carson, Colorado. The majority of the land is now in the hands of non-military agencies, including the U.S. Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and Missoula County (including the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula). Fort Missoula was formally decommissioned in April, 2001.[7]
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The Austin-Healey Sprite is a small open sports car that was announced to the press in Monte Carlo by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) on 20 May 1958, just before that year's Monaco Grand Prix. It was intended to be a low-cost model that "a chap could keep in his bike shed", yet be the successor to the sporting versions of the pre-war Austin Seven. The Sprite was designed by the Donald Healey Motor Company, which received a royalty payment from the manufacturers BMC. It first went on sale at a price of £669, using a mildly tuned version of the Austin A-Series engine and as many other components from existing cars as possible to keep costs down.
The Sprite was made at the MG sports car factory at Abingdon and it was inevitable that the success of the design would spawn an MG version known as the Midget, reviving a popular pre-war model name. Enthusiasts often now refer to Sprites and MG Midgets collectively as "Spridgets."
The little Sprite quickly became affectionately known as the Frogeye in the UK and the Bugeye in the US, because its headlights were prominently mounted on top of the bonnet, inboard of the front wings. The car's designers had intended that the headlights could be retracted, with the lenses facing skyward when not in use; a similar arrangement was used many years later on the Porsche 928. But cost cutting by BMC led to the flip-up mechanism being deleted, therefore the headlights were simply fixed in a permanently upright position, giving the car its most distinctive feature. The body was styled by Gerry Coker, with subsequent alterations by Les Ireland following Coker's emigration to the US in 1957. The car's distinctive frontal styling bore a strong resemblance to the defunct American 1951 Crosley Super Sport.
The problem of providing a rigid structure to an open-topped sports car was resolved by Barry Bilbie, Healey's chassis designer, who adapted the idea provided by the Jaguar D-type, with rear suspension forces routed through the bodyshell's floor pan. The Sprite's chassis design was the world's first volume-production sports car to use unitary construction, where the sheet metal body panels (apart from the bonnet) take many of the structural stresses. The two front chassis legs projecting forward from the passenger compartment mean the shell is not a full monocoque however. The front sheet-metal assembly, including the bonnet (hood) and wings, was a one-piece unit, hinged from the back, that swung up to allow access to the engine compartment. The 43 bhp, 948 cc OHV engine (coded 9CC) was derived from the Austin A35 & Morris Minor 1000 models, also BMC products, but upgraded with twin 1⅛" inch SU carburettors. The rack and pinion steering was derived from the Morris Minor 1000 and the front suspension from the Austin A35. The front suspension was a coil spring and wishbone arrangement, with the arm of the Armstrong lever shock absorber serving as the top suspension link. The rear axle was both located and sprung by quarter-elliptic leaf springs, again with lever-arm shock absorbers and top links. There were no exterior door handles; the driver and passenger were required to reach inside to open the door. There was also no boot lid, owing to the need to retain as much structural integrity as possible, and access to the spare wheel and luggage compartment was achieved by tilting the seat-backs forward and reaching under the rear deck, a process likened to potholing by many owners, but which resulted in a large space available to store soft baggage.
Engine:
1958–61: 948cc cc A-Series I4, 43 hp (32 kW) at 5200 rpm and 52 lbf·ft (71 Nm) at 3300 rpm
A car was tested by the British magazine The Motor in 1958. It had a top speed of 82.9 mph (133.4 km/h) and could accelerate from 0-60 mph (97 km/h) in 20.5 seconds. Fuel consumption of 43 miles per imperial gallon (6.6 L/100 km; 36 mpg-US) was recorded. The test car cost £678, including taxes of £223.[5]
The BMC Competition Department entered Austin Healey Sprites in major international races and rallies, their first major success coming when John Sprinzel and Willy Cave won their class on the 1958 Alpine Rally. Private competitors also competed with much success in Sprites. Because of its affordability and practicality, the Austin Healey Sprite was developed into a formidable competition car, assuming many variants by John Sprinzel, Speedwell and WSM. The Sebring Sprite became the most iconic of the racing breed of Austin Healey Sprites. Many owners use their Austin Healey Sprites in competition today, fifty years after its introduction.
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Beautiful from any angle, the new Leon ST combines the sharp, sleek style of the rest of the Leon range with stunning practicality.
trunkspace-test: practicality judging for solar car Stella from the Dutch Solar Team Eindhoven the day after the finish in Adelaide, during the 2013 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, Apart from time, in Cruiser Class also practicality and total driver-kliometers are counted /
koffer-ruimte-test: praktijk-beoordeling voor familie-zonne-auto Stella van Solar Team Eindhoven de dag na de finish in Adelaide tijdens de 2013 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge. Behalve reistijd wordt in de Cruiser Class ook de praktische ervaring van het rijden van de auto, en het aantal berijders-kilometers geteld
An Israeli in Palestine, by Jeff Halper, Reading at the Educational Bookshop, Jerusalem, 25th February 2011
Shortly about me:
It’s my passion to create stories and bring back pictures of events, people and places that are rarely seen. It’s a combination of exploration, exposition and artistry that together create a life of adventure and excitement.
In my work it is imperative for me that information be accurate and the images must be respectful of the subject and viewer. My goal is to combine creativity with practicality to capture the best possible images to document events, tell a story, meet the picture editor's deadlines.
The exhibition “Beautiful Faces of Balata” currently on show at the Church of the Ascension at the “Kaiserin Auguste Victoria Foundation” on the Mount of Olive's can be visited on a virtual tour on my website. Virtual tour of the Exhibition »
The exhibition is a project of Public Culture - Palpics, under the auspices of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the Yafa Cultural Center (YCC) .
If you would like to know more, or even just pick my brains to discuss your project with me, please visit my homepage documentary photography or send me an Email.
The Church of the Ascension at the "Kaiserin Auguste Victoria Foundation" on the Mount of Olives - together with our Center for Pilgrims and Tourists and the famous "Café Auguste Victoria".
It was built in 1907-1910, and named after Empress Augusta Victoria, the wife of German Kaiser Wilhelm II. Today it is an Arab Hospital.
The Christian community of Jerusalem has always been multi-ethnic, diverse and multi-lingual. Here, you will find Greeks and Armenians, Syrians, Coptic Christians from Egypt, Ethiopians, Maronites with Lebanese background, Orthodox Russians, Palestinians, and Hebrew Christians praying side by side. As a German speaking Protestant Church, we are a vital part of the ecumenical landscape of Christian churches in Jerusalem.
Shortly about me:
It’s my passion to create stories and bring back pictures of events, people and places that are rarely seen. It’s a combination of exploration, exposition and artistry that together create a life of adventure and excitement.
In my work it is imperative for me that information be accurate and the images must be respectful of the subject and viewer. My goal is to combine creativity with practicality to capture the best possible images to document events, tell a story, meet the picture editor's deadlines.
The exhibition “Beautiful Faces of Balata” currently on show at the Church of the Ascension at the “Kaiserin Auguste Victoria Foundation” on the Mount of Olive's can be visited on a virtual tour on my website. Virtual tour of the Exhibition »
The exhibition is a project of Public Culture - Palpics, under the auspices of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the Yafa Cultural Center (YCC) .
If you would like to know more, or even just pick my brains to discuss your project with me, please visit my homepage documentary photography or send me an Email.
celebrations with solar car Stella from the Dutch Solar Team Eindhoven at the ceremonial finish in the herart of Adelaide on day six of the 2013 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, probably still leading in the Cruiser Class, although eVe Sunswift (UNSW) reached the finish earlier in total time count. Apart from time, in Cruiser Class also practicality and total driver-kliometers are counted (Stella usually took two to four people whereas Sunswift mostly one)
bevrijdende vreugde bij de studenten van zonne-auto Stella van Solar Team Eindhoven bij de ceremoniële finish in het centrum van Adelaide tijdens de 2013 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, waarschijnlijk aan de leiding in de Cruiser Class, alhoewel eVe Sunswift (UNSW) de finish eerder haalde, ook in totale tijdstelling. Echter behalve tijd wordt in de Cruiser Class ook de praktische ervaring van het rijden van de auto, en het aantal berijders-kilometers geteld (Stella had gewoonlijk twee tot vier berijders aan boord, terwijl Sunswift meestal met één reed)
The Alvar Aalto Museum is sited on a slope leading down towards Lake Jyväsjärvi. Alvar Aalto's design for the museum building was completed in 1973. The building, together with that of the Museum of Central Finland (Alvar Aalto 1961) form a centre of culture in the immediate vicinity of the University of Jyväskylä (Alvar Aalto 1951-1971).
Both the museum buildings are representative of Aalto's 'white period', but they differ in their external appearance and scale from other public buildings of the same period. The decade that separates the design of the buildings can be seen particularly in the elevations; the rectangular shaped façade of the Museum of Central Finland rising up out of the slope is a reflection of the geometric practicality of Functionalism, while the Alvar Aalto Museum is more closed in, but at the same time more free in its form. In the early 1990s, the Museum of Central Finland was extended into Ruusupuisto, the adjoining park, according to the designs of Elissa Aalto.
Above a high, white-painted concrete plinth, the elevations of the Alvar Aalto Museum are clad in light-coloured ceramic tiles named 'Halla', the Finnish word for 'Frost', and made by the famous Finnish porcelain manufacturers, Arabia. The vertical bands of baton-shaped, glazed tiles divide up the rampart-like elevations to form a relief that gives a strong effect of depth when the surface is washed with light. The rampart-like quality is emphasised by the vertical battens on the roof windows of the exhibition galleries, which cause the roof lights to merge into the façade when looked at from a certain angle.
The entrance façade has no windows apart from a few tiny openings close to the doors. The surface of the massive doors is copper and there is a hint of marble on the left-hand side of the doorway. The roofscape is dominated by the east-facing roof lights.
The lower floor houses the foyer and cloakrooms, café, Alvar Aalto Museum Shop, offices, library and space for storage and for the photographer. There is a small flat at the back of the building containing offices, plus a studio formerly used by the local society of artists, which now acts as the museum workshop 'URBS'. From the café there is a view towards a series of open-air pools, with water trickling from one to another along the route of what was once a natural stream. Light draws one from the dimly-lit foyer to the stairway leading up to large exhibition gallery on the upper floor.
The upper-floor exhibition gallery is about 700 m2 in area. The wave-like surface of the high rear wall clad in pine battens is a reminder of the wall of Aalto's pavilion at the New York World's Fair in 1939. Daylight filters into the gallery through the roof lights. Despite its lightness, the space is contained and intimate. The large exhibition hall houses the museum's permanent exhibition - Alvar Aalto, Architect. (more about the exhibition) In the Gallery there are changing exhibitions on architecture and design.
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