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best praise and worship music "The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything" (Christian Musical Documentary)
Throughout the vast universe, all celestial bodies move precisely within their own orbits. Under the heavens, mountains, rivers, and lakes all have their boundaries, and all creatures live and reproduce throughout the four seasons in accordance with the laws of life…. This is all so exquisitely designed—is there a Mighty One ruling and arranging all this? Since coming into this world crying we have begun playing different roles in life. We move from birth to old age to illness to death, we go between joy and sorrow…. Where does mankind really come from, and where will we really go? Who is ruling our fates? From ancient times to modern days, great nations have risen up, dynasties have come and gone, and countries and peoples have flourished and perished in the tides of history…. Just like the laws of nature, the laws of humanity's development contain infinite mysteries. Would you like to know the answers to them? The Christian musical documentary The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything will guide you to get to the root of this, to unveil all of these mysteries!
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The David Gareja Monastery complex lies deeply tucked away in the rugged, semi-desert landscape of eastern Georgia, near the border with Azerbaijan. The surroundings are marked by dry hillsides, weathered rock faces, and vast, desolate plains — a landscape that breathes silence. It is precisely this remoteness that made the site a sanctuary for monks seeking to withdraw from worldly life for centuries. In this photo, you see one of the many stone-carved stairways leading to a modest cave cell with a wooden door marked by a cross. These entrances, partially hidden in the sandstone, gave access to hermit dwellings and prayer chambers where monks lived in seclusion — devoted to silence, prayer, and contemplation. The rock structure is rough yet purposeful; the steps shaped by centuries of use and exposure to the elements. Though parts of the complex have fallen into ruin, places like this are still in use. Behind this door, Georgian Orthodox monks may still reside today, faithfully continuing the austere lifestyle of their spiritual predecessors. The atmosphere here is timeless: silence prevails, the stone steps crunch softly beneath your feet, and the boundary between earth and spirit feels thinner with every step. During our visit, we were the only visitors, allowing us to explore the entire site in absolute tranquility. From the monastery, a breathtaking view opens out over the stillness of the endless semi-desert plains — a place of peace, reflection, and quiet mysticism.
Nestled in Georgia’s remote eastern hills, the David Gareja Monastery blends into a silent, semi-desert landscape. This photo shows a weathered stone staircase leading to a secluded cave cell — once a refuge for monks seeking solitude and prayer. Though centuries old, the site remains active, with Georgian Orthodox monks still living in quiet devotion amid these carved sandstone cliffs. The stillness here is as powerful as the view: vast, untouched, and deeply spiritual.
Het David Gareja-kloostercomplex ligt diep verscholen in het ruige, halfwoestijnachtige landschap van Oost-Georgië, vlak bij de grens met Azerbeidzjan. De omgeving bestaat uit droge hellingen, verweerde rotswanden en verlaten vlaktes — een landschap dat stilte ademt. Juist deze afgelegen ligging maakte de plek eeuwenlang tot een toevluchtsoord voor monniken die zich wilden terugtrekken uit het wereldse leven. Op deze foto zie je één van de vele trappen uitgehouwen in de rots, die leidt naar een eenvoudige grotcel met een houten deur voorzien van een kruis. Deze ingangen, deels verborgen in de zandsteen, gaven toegang tot kluizenaarsverblijven en gebedsruimten waar monniken in afzondering leefden — toegewijd aan stilte, gebed en contemplatie. De rotsstructuur is ruw maar functioneel; de treden zijn gevormd door eeuwenlang gebruik en weersinvloeden. Hoewel het complex deels vervallen is, zijn plekken als deze nog steeds in gebruik. Achter deze deur kunnen nog altijd Georgisch-Orthodoxe monniken verblijven, die trouw het sobere leven van hun voorgangers voortzetten. De sfeer is er tijdloos: stilte overheerst, de stenen trappen knarsen zacht onder je voeten, en je voelt hoe de grens tussen het aardse en het spirituele hier vervaagt. Tijdens ons bezoek waren we de enige bezoekers, wat het mogelijk maakte het hele terrein in volledige rust te verkennen. Vanaf het klooster strekt zich een adembenemend uitzicht uit over de stille, eindeloze semi-woestijnvlakten — een plek van verstilling, bezinning en mystiek.
Fishes are a symbol of prosperity, but dead fish means precisely the opposite. It results in environmental disasters. It is alarming that these events have become unusually frequent. Although many reasons contribute to this catastrophe, most of them are Man-made. The most common reasons are reduced oxygen in the water, which may be due to drought, high algae growth due to water vessel's fuel, overpopulation, or a sustained increase in water temperature, which is due to the Greenhouse effect. We must save our environment before it is too late. It is high time that we took action.
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Tonight's full moon breaks behind the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, San Jose, CA. I used The Photographer's Ephemeris to precisely plan this lineup, and when the moon popped up, my tripod was perfectly positioned with no need to make a last second running lateral correction, as is typical for me. The K3II's built in GPS embedded my precise location into the EXIF. This is a single frame, single exposure and there has been no manipulation of the size nor placement of the moon in any way. Here is my sequence of shots as proof: www.mikeoria.com/p241193605/eb54ad679
Lens is the DFA 150-450 plus a 1.4x teleconverter on the K3II. The equivalent focal length is 945mm before cropping.
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In 1768, more precisely on July 23rd, the monastery building complex including the church fell victim to a major fire.
Prince Abbot Martin II Gerbert decides to rebuild immediately. The prince abbot recruited the French architect Pierre Michel d'Ixnard for the new planning.
Ludovico Bossi, choir, and Johann Caspar Gigl, dome rotunda, stucco the church. The dome fresco is painted by Johann Christian Wentzinger. Johann Andreas Silbermann, organ builder from Strasbourg, built the large organ, his main work, between 1772 and 1775.
The church was inaugurated in 1783.
The prince abbot had a crypt built in the new building for the ancestors of the Habsburgs. He had various Habsburg bones transferred from various crypts to St. Blasien.
In 1806, after secularization, the monastery came to the Baden house. The monks have to leave St. Blasien.
In 1809, a Zurich entrepreneur bought the monastery buildings and set up a spinning mill and machine factory in the eastern part.
The domed rotunda is empty and is to be demolished. The Silbermann organ was sold to Karlsruhe as early as 1806 and fell victim to a hail of bombs there in 1944. Today's organ comes from the master organ builder Friedrich Wilhelm Schwarz, who installed it in the church in 1912. The brochure comes from Gebr. Metzger from Überlingen.
Friedrich Weinbrenner, Baden building director and architect, saved the domed rotunda from demolition in 1810. The copper on the roof has already been sold off.
In 1874 a fire broke out in the factory, destroying almost all parts of the building and the domed rotunda.
It remains a burnt ruin. 1911 – 1913 the church was reconstructed by Friedrich Ostendorf.
In 1977, the west wing of the abbey burned down and was renovated in an exemplary manner along with the church by 1983.
masks reveal what they conceal. by donning some masks but not others, people disclose precisely what they would most shield. indeed, a person does not hide behind the mask so much as struggle beneath the weight of it.
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he Nith rises in the Carsphairn hills of East Ayrshire, more precisely between Prickeny Hill and Enoch Hill, 7 km east of Dalmellington.[4] For the majority of its course it flows in a generally southern direction through Dumfries and Galloway, before spilling into the Solway Firth at Ards point
Another peaceful end of the day on the Baltic Coast more precisely Klein Zicker which is located in the south-east of Rügen.The colors that day were amazing that day.
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The Monostor Fortress - the largest modern fortress in Central Europe - was built between 1850 and 1871. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the neoclassical military monument is a fascinating sight with its huge walls of precisely hewn stone, the 3-4 metre thick earthen ramparts covering the defences and its network of underground passages (kazamata) several kilometres long.
Its monumental dimensions are evidenced by the following figures: The fortress covers 25 hectares, the total area including the firing ranges is 70 hectares, the floor area of the buildings is 25 680 m2 and the number of rooms is 640.
After the fortress was built, it served generations of soldiers of the Hungarian Defence Forces. Its tasks included the defence of the central fortress (North - Komárom) and the control of shipping on the Danube. It was never used in combat and served mainly as a training centre and weapons depot. During the First World War it was used as a conscription and training centre. During the Second World War, the 22nd Infantry Regiment had its headquarters at Fort Monostor, and the soldiers of the 1st and 2nd Infantry Regiments were stationed there. After the Second World War.
Between 1945 and 1990, the Red Army's Army Group South set up the largest ammunition depot in Central Europe in the fort. With their withdrawal, the military function of the fortress ended forever.
Today the fort is a popular destination with a military history exhibition, Cold War vehicles, a bread museum, a boat exhibition and numerous events.
Now and then you come across a landscape scene that just feels meant to be a photograph. It's almost as though everything is precisely placed creating flow and interest from foreground through to the background. It all just seems to work together.
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Bicycle chain macro. People tend to think of bicycle chains as quite simple but they are in fact very precisely engineered to give many hundreds of miles of reliable service if well maintained.
~ Here we are, precisely in the middle of the year! Today is 15th June. The summer solstice approaches on 24th June; time to take stock. Some amazing things have already happened this year, and there are some truly amazing things yet to happen, Insh'Allah.
We are looking forward to good days to come: the most important Islamic month, Ramadhan, which starts towards the end of August, to the two Eid celebrations, and the wedding season in the UK, which blooms during the summer months (during the winters in Pakistan, even though I got married in the scorching Lahori May heat!).
Shaukat, a family friend, is holding his mehndi party this weekend in London, plans his nikah for the following weekend, then his walima on 5th July! Phew!
Summer is truly here!
And yes, I had to post this photo, the London Eye... I am a Londoner, and this is the quintessential London shot. There, I did it.
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The advantage of a window seat. It was fascinating to see the mountain landscape and effects of glaciation. The two large dams can be clearly seen.
Unfortunately, I don't know where precisely the lakes are
This is a double test. First, I’m testing the new Pyrocat-HDC developer with Ascorbic Acid (I believe “C” in HDC stands for vitamin C). Second, I’m testing a hand-made 5x7” reducing back for a Wista 8x10 camera to ensure the ground glass is positioned correctly. I’m very pleased with both results. The negative looks great and has good latitude. The focus plane is perfect – the focus is precisely where I aimed.
Film - Fomapan 100 taken as EI100, lens - Meyer Gorlitz Trioplan 210mm F/3.5, easy covers 5x7" wide open in portrait distance.
DBC 66003 glides through Metheringham Station with the Bow - Heck Plasmor PS at 16:43 and 24 seconds precisely, the Camera doesn't lie 20th March 2020.
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The general term ice age or, more precisely, "glacial age" denotes a geological period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in an expansion of continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. There have been at least four major ice ages in the Earth's past. Outside these periods, the Earth seems to have been ice-free even in high latitudes. There is evidence that greenhouse gas levels fell at the start of ice ages and rose during the retreat of the ice sheets, but it is difficult to establish cause and effect (see the notes above on the role of weathering). Greenhouse gas levels may also have been affected by other factors which have been proposed as causes of ice ages, such as the movement of continents and vulcanism. Although the last glacial period ended more than 8,000 years ago, its effects can still be felt today. For example, the moving ice carved out landscape in Canada, Greenland, northern Eurasia and Antarctica. The erratic boulders, till, drumlins, eskers, fjords, kettle lakes, moraines, cirques, horns, etc., are typical features left behind by the glaciers. This is the Marken lighthouse, given its name due to its shape ('paard' means 'horse' in dutch). The original was built in 1700, then reconstructed on top of the early foundations in 1839. It's still in use today.
Photo of hummocks taken at the lighthouse of Marken. A hummock is a boss or rounded knoll of ice rising above the general level of an ice-field, Hummocky ice is caused by slow and unequal pressure in the main body of the packed ice, and by unequal structure and temperature at a later period.
Een ijstijd of glaciatie is een geologisch tijdvak waarin ijskappen voorkomen. In het Engels wordt dit een periode van ice-house genoemd, als tegenhanger van een ijskaploze periode, de greenhouse ("broeikas"). Aangezien er gletsjers liggen op bijvoorbeeld Groenland of Antarctica, leven we tegenwoordig in een ijstijd. Men neemt aan dat dit in de gehele geologische geschiedenis van de Aarde minstens vijfmaal het geval is geweest, waarvan eenmaal zelfs zo sterk dat de ijskappen van de polen vrijwel tot aan de evenaar waren opgerukt. Ook zijn er periodes dat er aanzienlijke opwarming optrad waarbij die ijskappen grotendeels waren weggesmolten. Het klimaat op Aarde wordt beïnvloed door vele factoren, zoals de intensiteit van de zonnestraling, de ligging van de continenten, de continentverplaatsingen, vulkanisme, de zeestromen, de bedekking van het land door vegetatie, het weerkaatsingsvermogen van het aardoppervlak en vele kleine andere factoren. Met behulp van klimaatmodellen wordt door wetenschappers een reconstructie van het klimaat en de klimaatveranderingen in het verleden gemaakt. Alhoewel er een zekere consensus bestaat onder wetenschappers, zijn er nog vele onzekerheden en tegenstrijdigheden in dit onderzoek.
Hierboven een foto van kruiend ijs. Zoetwatermeren kunnen spectaculair bevriezen. Grotere meren zoals het IJsselmeer (IJmeer) hierboven hebben bijna altijd wel golven, en dit werkt directe bevriezing van het wateroppervlak tegen. Eerst vormen zich kleine ijsschotsen, die naar de kust drijven onder invloed van de wind. Deze schotsen vormen zo een ijsveld op het water dat de golven dempt, en uiteindelijk vriezen alle schotsen aan elkaar vast tot een massa. Voordat dit gebeurt schuren de schotsen voortdurend langs elkaar heen en schrapen zo stukjes ijs van elkaar af; elke schots krijgt zo een witte rand. Zulk ijs is dus totaal niet geschikt om op te schaatsen. Wanneer grotere delen van het meer bevriezen beginnen de platen, die soms een paar vierkante kilometer groot zijn, langzaam tegen elkaar te bewegen onder invloed van de wind en stroming. Dit heeft kruiend ijs tot gevolg: de ijsschotsen worden met kracht gebroken en op elkaar gestapeld langs de dijken langs het meer. Dit hoeft niet alleen bij dun ijs te gebeuren; soms kruit het ijs bij een dikte van meer dan 20 cm. De stapels ijs worden dan hoog, en het geluid is oorverdovend. Het Paard van Marken is een vuurtoren van Marken. De vuurtoren is gebouwd in 1839 en staat op de oostelijke punt van het eiland. De toren heeft een hoogte van 16 meter en een lichtbereik van 16,7 km.
Alex Colville (1920–2013) forged a singular path in 20th-century art, remaining apart from formal trends while developing a meticulous technique of point-by-point application. His precisely constructed compositions depict ordinary life in charged juxtapositions of figures, animals, and objects, evoking a suspended, uneasy stillness. Trained at Mount Allison University and later a military artist, Colville’s work is held in private and corporate collections worldwide.Painter, draughtsman, engraver and muralist, Alex Colville always remained aloof from the formal trends that characterized the 20th century. Drawing his inspiration from the world around him, from the most repetitive gestures of everyday life, he placed his unsettling juxtapositions of figures, objects and animals in an ambiguous atmosphere of disquieting tranquillity, as though time were suspended. His compositions are rigorously constructed according to a precise geometry and executed with a technique that consists of minuscule dabs of paint applied meticulously dot by dot.
Born in Toronto, Colville moved as a boy to Amherst, Nova Scotia with his family. After his studies at Mount Allison University, he served in the army from 1942 to 1946, working as a military artist from 1944 to 1946. He then taught at university, but left in 1963 to devote himself completely to painting. In the 1950s, his approach became associated with that of certain American artists, such as Andrew Wyeth, who are considered regionalists. His paintings are characterized by a latent anxiety; an example is Child and Dog, in which the juxtaposition of a blond child and a large black dog with pronounced claws creates a feeling of unease. Nearly a third of Colville’s works involve animals, particularly domestic animals; Hound in Field is a perfect illustration of this affinity.
Na de prachtige tentoonstelling "4 Rijkscollecties & Hans op de Beeck" die ik vorig jaar in Amersfoort bezocht (link hier: www.flickr.com/photos/145400672@N02/albums/72177720316697... creëert beeldend kunstenaar Hans Op de Beeck voor "Nachtreis" die momenteel te zien is in het KMSKA in Antwerpen één groot, belevingsgericht parcours doorheen een fictief, mysterieus oord. Het is een soort raadselachtige, duistere evocatie van een verlaten nachtelijk park, waarin allerlei beelden van personages, stillevens, objecten, dieren, architecturale constructies en natuurelementen samenvloeien tot een bevreemdende wereld.
Meer info: kmska.be/nl/hans-op-de-beeck-nachtreis
'The Settlement (Indoor)' is een fictief paalwoningen dorp op schaal, een cluster van houten huisjes, aanlegsteigers, roeibootjes, vissersnetten en sprokkelhout, uitgevoert in zacht monochroom grijs. Het geheel is geïnstalleerd in een vijver van raadselachtig zwart water.
Het werk wordt gepresenteerd als een feeëriek nachttafelreel, waarbij kunstlicht uit de raampartijen en lichtslingers straalt en deienend reflecteert in het water.
Het dorp herinnert aan de geïmproviseerde huizen op het water zoals die voorkomen in eilandengroepen als de Filipijnen.
Hier versterkt de monochromie het gevoel dat dit een verlaten plek is, een stil nabeeld van wat ooit levendig en kleurrjk moet zijn geweest.
De kunstenaar stelt dat deze setting weliswaar kan doen dromen van een idyllisch bestaan, maar voor de mensen die daadwerkelijk op het water wonen, net dat water en de wisselende weeromstandigheden vaak uiterst uitdagend, problematisch en confronterend kunnen zijn.
Bron: Hans op de Beeck - Nachtreis (boekje beschikbaar op de tentoonstelling)
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Following the amazing exibition "4 Rijkscollecties & Hans op de Beeck" which I visited last year in Amersfoort, (link here: www.flickr.com/photos/145400672@N02/albums/72177720316697... for "Nocturnal Journey", which runs currently at Antwerp's KMSKA, Belgian artist Hans Op de Beeck creates one large, experiential trail through a fictional, mysterious place. It is a kind of enigmatic, dark evocation of a deserted nocturnal park, in which all kinds of images of characters, still lifes, objects, animals, architectural constructions and natural elements merge into a peculiar world.
More info: kmska.be/en/hans-op-de-beeck-nocturnal-journey
"The Settlement (Indoor)" is a scaled-down, fictional stilt-dwelling village, a cluster of wooden houses, jetties, rowboats, fishing nets, and brushwood, executed in soft, monochrome gray. The entire structure is installed in a pond of enigmatic black water.
The work is presented as a magical nightstand reel, with artificial light radiating from the windows and string lights, swaying and reflecting in the water.
The village is reminiscent of the improvised waterside dwellings found in archipelagos like the Philippines.
Here, the monochrome reinforces the sense of a deserted place, a silent afterglow of what must once have been vibrant and colorful.
The artist argues that while this setting may evoke dreams of an idyllic existence, for those who actually live on the water, it is precisely that water and its changing weather conditions that can often be extremely challenging, problematic, and confrontational.
Source: Hans op de Beeck - "Nocturnal Journey" (booklet available at the exhibition)
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It is precisely during times of crisis that we have the most to gain by having a grateful perspective…. gratitude nullifies negativity. Gratitude is a mindset. A disposition. And it’s a choice.
Little Bungie wasn't too impressed by my photography set. After a nice cuddle she sat back on her travel basket, as you can see. Shortly afterwards she went under the hessian fabric and poked her nose out.
As you know, kitten misbehaviour is something I take very seriously, which is precisely why I will be sharing a photograph of bad Bungie peaking out from under the hessian at the weekend...
"To possess the world in the form of images is, precisely, to re-experience the unreality and remoteness of the the real." Susan Sontag, On Photography.
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Dani men on the long trek to market high in a remote corner of West Papua's central highlands, 1600m/5200ft above sea level - Grand Valley of the Balim River, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Shot with a compact semi-automatic Pentax Zoom 35mm point-and-shoot film camera, film developed in a Sulawesi street-corner shophouse, circa 1996.
Adornment
The Dani elder in the foreground is adorned with an upturned boar’s tusk nose piece, a single bird-of-paradise plume, a tightly woven bush-twine head band of cut shell pieces, an ornamental wristband of finely woven pandanus fibres, armbands of pigs’ scrotum above both elbows (thought to ward off ghosts), a walking stick, and the iconic long koteka or penis gourd.
Owning the Gaze
The men come from one of the scattered settlements under the mountain wall at the end of the infinity path that cuts across the valley floor in the backdrop below. They pause for a moment on a high-ridge pass to observe an approaching stranger, the photographer-Other. The photographer's gaze is returned with a seemingly wary look of wonder and resistance as the observer become the observed. Subject owns the gaze for a frozen moment.
The Gardens
The path below passes through elaborate sweet potato gardens and a huge maze of sophisticated irrigation ditches. Sweet potatoes (over 70 varieties) are the staple food and account about 90 per cent of the Dani diet.
The Dani are accomplished gardeners and pig farmers with a Neolithic (late Stone Age) culture and technology that relies on polished stone adzes, axes and fire-hardened digging sticks. These tools are gradually being replaced with iron and steel.
First Contact
The indigenous peoples of West Papua migrated from southeast Asia and the Australian content about 30,000 to 50,000 years ago during the Ice Age when sea levels were lower and distances between islands shorter.
Western "first contact” with West Papua's Grand Valley Dani was established in 1938 during American-led botanical and zoological expeditions to the central highlands, less than sixty years before this photograph was taken.
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Ethnographic efforts at demystifying Dani neolithic cultural practices and ritualized inter-clan warfare in the region are associated with the early ground-breaking Harvard-Peabody Expedition, 1961-63. They include Anthropologist Karl Heider’s accounts in “The Dugum Dani: A Papuan Culture in the Highlands of West New Guinea,” Aldine Publishing (1970); and “Grand Valley Dani: Peaceful Warriors” (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology), Wadsworth Publishing (1996). Also, filmmaker Robert Gardner’s classic social documentary, “Dead Birds” (1965), and writer Peter Matthiessen’s gripping first-hand accounts in “Under the Mountain Wall: A Chronicle of Two Seasons in Stone Age New Guinea,” Viking Press (1962).
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This is my first enlarged print on my Beseler MTX810. The detail and tonality of the 16x20 print from a 8x10 negative is much more impressive than 8x10 contact prints or 16x20 prints from 4x5 negatives. Furthermore the manipulations can be done much more precisely.
...last photos of the outer facade were shot.
About the series (to which the Photo above belongs)
All photos of the series were shot at an abandoned garbage-incineration-plant. The plant is located near the city of Fürth (Germany) and was, according to information from the Internet, a pilot project of a famous German technology group. The stated goal was: via the smoldering of garbage, the city should be supplied with electricity.
But: the whole project became a big catastrophe. First, the costs exploded. In 1990, the cost was estimated at € 16 million, by 1995, the used sum had doubled and ultimately the total cost amounted to € 125 million! In addition, there was more trouble. A protest was formed among the citizens of Fürth, the plant was privatized, the hope for profit did not materialize and numerous incidents occurred right from the start. Already shortly after the commissioning in the year 1997 the operators had to fight with numerous complications (on a website of the city of Fürth are listed: material accumulation, software failure and release of smoldering gas). Already in 1998, after four weeks running time, the incineration plant came to a bitter end. With the occurrence of a material jam an important drum seal was destroyed and a cloud of toxic smoldering gas could escape. 73 people were injured and the plant was shut down forever.
In June 2018, 20 years after the shutdown, the owner announced the demolition of the complex. Some of the facade has already been torn open (at the beginning of July 2018), the view of the steel skeleton on one side is generously exposed.
Sources (in German):
www.fuerthwiki.de/wiki/index.php/M%C3%BCll-Schwelbrennanlage
www.nordbayern.de/region/fuerth/der-tag-an-dem-die-giftwo...
Highly recommended (including old sketches and already demolished parts of the building):
gesichterderstadt.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/die-mull-schwe...
About the post-processing
For editing I've used the Lightromm plug-in "Silver Efex Pro". More precisely: Preset Nr. 28 (in German: "kühle töne"), but partly with adjustments: I didn’t use the artificial grain nor the frame of the preset and sometimes I omitted the blue color filter. The selected sequence of photos should give the viewer the impression of a walk through the complex and it corresponds mostly to the actually gone way.
At precisely 5:54pm on July 11, 1991 the setting sun touches the horizon during the total solar eclipse as experienced in Brasília.
Abarth was the most famous tuner to work with Fiat, but he wasn't the first. Giorgio Ambrosini was already tuning Fiats back in 1926. His Siata engine block is in this Topolino Barchetta, made by Rubbiani. That is precisely what makes this racing car so rare.
Giorgio's son followed in his father's footsteps, developing a very popular engine for two-wheelers. That engine inspired a subcontractor to start producing motorbikes: Ducati.
Engine: 750 cc four cylinder, 35 hp.
Squadra Abarth & Rally Collection
Lier, Belgium.
A family plays in the shadow cast by the world's largest gnomon, which here reflects precisely local noon on 15 Mar 2022.
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are precisely the mood to bring out the best shots, fully represents a moment of weakness I tried at a remote period of my life
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"To possess the world in the form of images is, precisely, to re-experience the unreality and remoteness of the the real." Susan Sontag, On Photography
Mursi mother adorned with an ornamental clay lip-plate, a wild boar's ivory tusk (Warthog canine tooth), facial chalk markings, and decorated goat-skin clothing - from a small semi-nomadic pastoral settlement situated on the upper bank of the Mago River, a tributary that joins the essential Omo River in a remote corner of southwestern Ethiopia.
On the meaning of lip-plates in Mursi culture and society
The Mursi are one of the last groups in Africa where women still wear large wooden or clay plates in their lower lips. Most Mursi women wear lip-plates as an aesthetic symbol of cultural pride and identity, signifying passage to womanhood/adulthood.
The labrets are more frequently worn by unmarried or newly wed women and are generally worn when serving men food or during important ritual events (weddings, men's duelling competitions, communal dances, safari photo-ops).
Debunking popular myths
Contrary to popular opinion among travellers and other passing strangers, ethnographers found little or no connection between the size of a woman’s lip-plate and the size of her bridewealth (cattle, guns).
Anthropologists and ethnographers have debunked another popular myth. They found no evidence that the labret originated as a deliberate attempt to disfigure and make women less attractive to slave traders, yet this myth seems to surface regularly in accounts by both amateur and professional photographers, Safari tourists, and bloggers alike.
The Mursi and Mursiland
Most Mursi live in small settlements dispersed across Mursiland, a remote territory of about thirty by eighty kilometres between the Omo and Mago Rivers in southwestern Ethiopia, a day or two overland to the borders with South Sudan and northern Kenya.
The terrain varies from a volcanic plain dominated by a range of hills and a major watershed to a riverine forest, wooded grasslands and thorny bushland thickets. The climate is harsh and unstable with low rainfall and daily temperatures regularly exceeding 40°C in the shade during the dry season.
The Mursi are semi-nomadic farmers and herders who depend on shifting hoe-cultivation (mostly drought-resistant varieties of sorghum) and cattle herding for their livelihood. They number less than ten thousand today.
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Definitive ethnographic accounts on the meaning of lip-plates in Mursi culture and society include:
* David Turton, "Lip plates and the people who take photographs: uneasy encounters between Mursi and tourists in southern Ethiopia", Anthropology Today, 20:3, 3-8, 2004.
* Shauna Latosky, "Reflections on the lip-plates of Mursi women as a source of stigma and self-esteem", in Ivo Strecker and Jean Lydall (eds.) The perils of face: Essays on cultural contact, respect and self-esteem in southern Ethiopia, Mainzer Beiträge zur Afrika-Forschung, Lit Verlag, Berlin, 2006, pp. 371-386.
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I watched a television documentary recently that was dealing with Meta-physics and the nature of conscious. (Well it was A LOT more in-depth than that), but it went into the history and highlighted how fluid our knowledge in this area is, by documenting the key paradigm shifts. This program was challenging in many ways, (as it was way over my head and some of the in-depth mathematical equations didn’t interest me) but what did, was the way that our knowledge of we think is “real” is totally and utterly not what it seems.
The thing that totally amazed me, was the way that our known laws of physics seem to change the smaller you went. It was as though the ever-decreeing circles distorted the ‘reality’ of the previous.
It kind of solidified my beliefs that what we think of as real and solid is in fact not the case. In fact it is probably more accurate to say that there is an infinite amount that we ‘do not know’. I see it rather logical to say we know such a small minuscule amount about ‘anything’, that its impossible to even perceives our lack of solid ground.
This statement leaves me with mixed feelings. massive insecurities (fear of the unknown) but wonderful optimism, (massive excitement at the mind blowing possibilities) a paradox. It’s almost true to say that everything your imagination can perceive is in fact possible. WOW just imagine that for a second……parallel universes (were mentioned), sprits, aliens, (I know I'm sounding weird and a tad science fiction, but all possible in an infinite world).
I seem to remember the presenter saying that they only knew that quarks existed because of what they ‘couldn’t’ see. He said that the very act of looking for them, (and my spine is tingling at the thought) changed the very physical reality. WOW…. Now I'm probably not making much sense, and I'm struggling to remember precisely what he was saying, but my mind resonated at the unimaginable possibilities that what he was saying offers us.
I personally find this type of conversation vastly inspirational. a world without the confines of so-called laws of psychics, would be truly creative. No boxes to think outside, no rules! But how does it relate to this photograph?
Now it seems to me that when you look at a scene (especially a moment in time like this), that you aren’t really seeing what is there. yes it ‘looks’ like the place I took the image of, and for the purists amongst us, its not to dissimilar from documenting the colour, lighting conditions, sharpness blar de blarr de blarr. But the very act of capturing this image with a camera, that in a couple of years will be considered redundant, begs the question at the importance of those questions. (I have to get the dig in don’t i). It isn’t ‘real’, it isn’t even close to ‘real’, what the hell is real? Our own perception of reality is distorted by our unique experiences. We all see this differently because we do not only see it, we engage emotionally with it. We feel something which changes our perceptions of it.
So to sum this up before I ramble on too long, what does this mean to you? Is it a collection of pixels? A massive chain of zeros and ones, or is it a dull wet cold winters day? Maybe a beach on a parallel universe. May I leave you with a final thought. Imagine if every grain of sand on this beach was a sun and around each and every one there were 20 or so planets……are we alone?
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With their asymmetrical ear openings, Saw-whet Owls (Aegolius acadicus) are among the most attentive of listeners. At a dinner party, for instance, they might hear even the most hushed of rumor-mongering from the corner of the room, and be able to share with you precisely what was said and by whom. In reality, they use this heightened sense of hearing while perched in an opportune branch in the night. With their disc-shaped faces angled downward, they listen for the rustling movement of mice and voles beneath the leaf-litter. So precise is their hearing, that they can accurately strike a prey item without ever seeing it.
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Image I took after the sun set and most of the crowd who came to view and photograph Manhattanhenge had left. This was shot after the sun set precisely on the centerline of every street for what is locally called "Manhattanhenge". Normally, the tall buildings that line the gridded streets of New York City's tallest borough hide the setting Sun.
This effect makes Manhattan a type of modern Stonehenge, although only aligned to 28.9 degrees east of north. Were Manhattan's road grid perfectly aligned to east and west, the effect would occur on the Vernal and Autumnal Equinox, March 20th and September 21st, the only two days that the Sun rises and sets due east and west.
MOMENTS TO REMEMBER
Have you ever noticed that you do not remember days, you remember
moments?
A strange story about immortalizing moments comes from the book
SPIRITUAL LITERACY (Touchstone Books) by authors Frederic and Mary
Ann Brussat. It is about a Brooklyn cigar store manager named Oggie
Rand. Oggie has an unusual habit -- at precisely eight o'clock each
morning, he photographs the front of the store. Always at exactly the
same time and from exactly the same spot. Every morning. Oggie
collects his daily snapshots in photograph albums, each labeled by
date. He calls his project his "life's work."
One day Oggie showed his albums to a friend. He had not told his
friend about his unusual hobby. Flipping the pages of the albums, the
man noticed in amazement that the pictures were all the same.
Oggie watched him skim through the pictures and finally
replied, "You'll never get it if you don't slow down, my friend. The
pictures are all of the same spot, but each one is different from
every other one. The differences are in the detail. In the way
people's clothes change according to season and weather. In the way
the light hits the street. Some days the corner is almost empty.
Other times it is filled with people, bikes, cars and trucks. It's
just one little part of the world, but things take place there, too,
just like everywhere else."
This time Oggie's friend looked more carefully at each picture. No
two were alike. Every picture was unique, just as every moment is
unique. Through a series of photographs, he became conscious of one
of life's great truths -- that each minute that passes is special,
even sacred.
I'm reminded of something writer Henry Miller said, "The moment one
gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes
a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."
And those are the moments we'll remember; the ones for which we
stopped everything else long enough to pay close attention.
The advice for me is this: to pay as close attention to each moment
as I can, as if I were carefully observing a series of snapshots. I
would like to take time to study the moments. If I look closely
enough, I know I'll see that each is unique. Each is sacred. And each
holds a special place in time.
I suspect it will be these moments -- not whole days, weeks, months
or years -- that I will finally remember. And much of the happiness
and joy I will find in life will be because I took care of the
moments.
Прохладный июльский день в городском парке Туапсе. Тихая , успокаивающая классическая музыка. Наверно, именно по этому, всегда тихо и спокойно. Находясь здесь, никогда не хочется торопиться.
Chorsu Bazaar, or more precisely, its part called Obzhorny Ryad. The chefs specialize in national cuisine.
The Aqueduct of Segovia (or more precisely, the aqueduct bridge) is a Roman aqueduct and one of the most significant and best-preserved ancient monuments left on the Iberian Peninsula. It is located in Spain and is the foremost symbol of Segovia, as evidenced by its presence on the city's coat of arms.
The aqueduct transports water from Rio Frio river, situated in the nearby mountains, some 17 km (11 mi) from the city in a region known as La Acebeda. It runs another 15 km (9.3 mi) before arriving in the city.
The water is first gathered in a tank known as El Caserón (or Big House), and is then led through a channel to a second tower known as the Casa de Aguas (or Waterhouse). There it is naturally decanted and sand settles out before the water continues its route. Next the water travels 728 m (796 yd) on a one-percent grade until it is high upon the Postigo, a rocky outcropping on which the old city center, the Segovia Alcázar, was built. Then, at Plaza de Díaz Sanz (Díaz Sanz Plaza), the structure makes an abrupt turn and heads toward Plaza Azoguejo (Azoguejo Plaza). It is there the monument begins to display its full splendor. At its tallest, the aqueduct reaches a height of 28.5 m (93 ft 6 in), including nearly 6 m (19 ft 8 in) of foundation. There are both single and double arches supported by pillars. From the point the aqueduct enters the city until it reaches Plaza de Díaz Sanz, it includes 75 single arches and 44 double arches (or 88 arches when counted individually), followed by four single arches, totalling 167 arches in all. The construction of the aqueduct follows the principles laid out by Vitruvius as he describes in his De Architectura published in the mid-first century.
Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a breeze, a moment's glance,it is little that makes the best happiness ~Friedrich Nietzch
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A few months ago we spent some time in eastern Washington ... Spokane precisely. One of our favorite places to visit while in that area is the Palouse Scenic Byway ... with its rolling hills and fertile farmlands with some nostalgic touches along the way. Yes, grain silos and old barns are the norm out there. It's so nice to get out of the hustle and bustle of the city and into hundreds of miles of simple beauty.
One of the best places to get a birds eye view of the area is from Steptoe Butte State Park near Colfax, WA in Whitman County. It sits at an elevation of 3,612' on a quartzite butte, offering a 360 degree view of the surrounding farmlands. It's a favorite place for sunsets, especially when the clouds come out to play. :-)
On this particular night, it was not as windy as we've seen it before. We were thankful for that because it was quite cool. At one point, as were we anticipating and enjoying the sunset, a few deer entered nearby, as if to enjoy it with us. It was lovely.
When I look outside my windows in south Florida at the flatlands and congested view, I long to be back there enjoying the endless spectacular views. Ahh yes.
Thanks for stopping by to view and sharing your thoughts and comments.
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