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More precisely evening light on Hamilton Falls off the High Sierra Trail in an area named Valhalla in Sequoia National Parks. Yes there is more than extremely big trees and Mt Whitney in the park. This was the view from our Day 1 camp site on my recent backpacking trip. Traveling light is a necessity for this old body, so the I-Phone had to suffice. While this may not be Viking heaven, it is home to more waterfalls than can be counted! Amazing trip.
(or is that the time! ??) My friend Malcolm Martin & I passed this heading to the railway station after a long day tramping about Edinburgh taking photos, knackered but happy.
Chapter 7
The Parting Game
I had been watching the two flirting on the dance floor, and was becoming a bit bored by their smitten lovey-dovey actions.
But then the music stopped, and the orchestra took a break, finally!
I followed them out and saw him seat her on one of the private terraces that overlooked the large, hedged in gardens!
I saw my opening as soon as I saw him heading off to fetch drinks, leaving the girl alone.
Time to move in.
Time to try and change the winds of fate to my favor.
I went down another set of stairs and walked over to the bar set up on the front lawns, spying my man as he was waiting in line.
I went up and demurely touched him upon the shoulder.
He turned and looked me the eyes, smiling pleasantly.
“I remember you!” he said as I saw him then look me up and down, as he reminded me that I had bumped into him earlier.
It was a nice feeling having his roving grey eyes look me over.
Though I will admit that blue is my colour, and a tight-fitting satin gown usually begs notice to the gents.
Which is precisely why I had worn it out this evening!
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“Please sir, I really don’t know anyone here, and I could use some help.” I pleaded.
“Certainly miss, if I can” he answered and I saw his eyes go off to the whelp in white taffeta sitting as she straightened that lovely gown of hers while waiting for his return.
“Well,” I stammered, “ It is really quite embarrassing, and I don’t want anyone else to know.”
He looked intrigued.
So, I lowered my voice and quickly spun my tail of inability to get my car to start, and could he come and look at it? I was sure, I told him, that it was only a loosed terminal on the battery. At least that was what my husband was having troubles with.
“I wish he was here with me!” I said this last bit with a trembling lip!
Falling for my lie, he agreed and said he had to tell a friend that he would be right back.
“Please!” I appealed, grasping his arm, and looking pleadingly into his eyes
My acting lessons really paying for themselves at that moment,
“Don’t tell your friend about my car, just tell ‘em you need to help a friend in need, one who you owe a favour?”
He willingly agreed and with a touch to my chin for assurance, went off to talk to the lady in taffeta.
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She was compliant to his request, and he soon came back to me and I led him off to the lot opposite lot of the one where my Italian sports coupe was parked.
We walked up to silver rolls I randomly selected, and I fumbled in my purse.
“Oh no I said, I dropped my bloody keys!”
We both looked around on the ground.
“Here I said, try the doors, I may have dropped them in the lady’s room. I will go and check.”
I gave him a huge enveloping hug for being such a dear, lifting his long thin billfold out of his tux coat pocket in the process.
I left him, as the sap was trying the doors!
So if anything else, I told myself, I had a watch and wallet to show for my efforts this evening!
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Walking back inside I approached a young male servant.
“Look here my lad,” I said, leaning up against him like a co-conspirator, making sure he copped a good feel of my dress, and a look at what it was covering, in the bargain!
“I think someone is tryin to break into a Rolls outside!”
I led him to the door and pointed to where the gent was now trying to pry down a window of the silver Roll Royce.
The servant turned and fetched the butler, a rather stout ex para military-looking bloke!
They both dashed out.
I chuckled as I kept on going inside the house, to head through the ballroom to the private terrace where my victim was vulnerably waiting.
With no ID on him, it would be some time before her new boyfriend was set free!
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.
Lonely Planet: A 2000-year-old temple, now church, the Pantheon is the best preserved of ancient Rome’s great monuments. In its current form it dates to around AD 120 when the emperor Hadrian built over Marcus Agrippa’s original 27 BC temple – note Agrippa's name inscribed on the pediment. The dome, considered the Romans’ greatest architectural achievement, is the largest unreinforced concrete dome ever built. Hadrian's temple was dedicated to the classical gods – hence the name Pantheon, a derivation of the Greek words pan (all) and theos (god) – but in AD 608 it was consecrated as a Christian church. During the Renaissance it was much studied (Brunelleschi used it as inspiration for his Duomo in Florence) and became an important burial chamber. Today you'll find the tomb of the artist Raphael, alongside those of kings Vittorio Emanuele II and Umberto I. However, the real fascination of the Pantheon lies in its massive dimensions and extraordinary dome. A tour de force of ancient engineering, it was the largest dome in the world until the 15th century and is still the largest unreinforced concrete dome in existence. Its harmonious appearance is due to a precisely calibrated symmetry – its diameter is exactly equal to the Pantheon's interior height of 43.3m. Light enters through the oculus, an 8.7m opening in the dome that also served as a symbolic connection between the temple and the gods. Rainwater enters but drains away through 22 almost-invisible holes in the sloping marble floor. Somewhat the worse for wear, the exterior is still imposing, with 16 Corinthian columns (each a single block of stone) supporting a triangular pediment. Rivets and holes in the brickwork indicate where the original marble-veneer panels were removed. Thanks to its consecration as a church in the 7th century, the building was spared the Christian neglect that left other structures to crumble, although it wasn't entirely safe from plundering hands. The gilded-bronze roof tiles were removed and Bernini used bronze from the portico for the baldachin at St Peter's Basilica. Thankfully, the original Roman bronze doors remain.
Clouds are dumb. There are precisely 1 1/2 locations along the BNSF Topeka Sub that are good to shoot afternoon eastbounds in good light, and this spot in Lawrence is one of them. Unfortunately, what I CANNOT control are clouds. Literally moments before the train arrived, the clouds descended, and got us this. It's not bad, but...
Regardless of the clouds, I'm happy for the opportunity to have seen the train here, and to photograph it along the way.
Video of this train can be found here: youtu.be/_cpmaQGFqH0?si=25IF9d5mvTFudhdB
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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.
The Word of the Spirit of God "In Your Faith in God You Should Obey God"
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Almighty God says, "Key to obeying God is appreciating the new light, and being able to accept it and put it into practice. Only this is true obedience. … Not being satisfied with living amid God’s graces, actively thirsting for the truth, and searching for the truth, and pursuing being gained by God—this is what it means to consciously obey God; this is precisely the kind of faith that God wants."
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Venice, Italia, November 2025
Switching from digital to analog introduces a huge number of things you need to understand and apply correctly in order to get the result you are looking for. One of the things I encountered was actually the very thing I was aiming for: colour. Colour behaves very differently on film than it does digitally, and that difference was the whole point of the switch for me, to put it simply. But precisely because it is so different, it’s something I still need to get used to and find my own way of working with.
I don’t think I had colour fully under my creative control in this Venice series. Of course, that's just natural and completely fine for me. I do like the results, because I can see the potential and I’m really looking forward to exploring it further.
But there is still a lot of work ahead before that potential becomes something I can actively shape.
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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. 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. The Dutch IJsselmeer lake is covered with icerocks hummocks, caused by the cold weather of the passed days. At some places even higher than 6 meter!
Photo taken inside a hummock taken at the IJsselmeer (IJmeer) near Amsterdam. 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. Blue ice occurs when snow falls on the ice. The blue color is actually created for the same reason that water is blue, that is, its slight absorption of red light due to an overtone of the infrared OH stretching mode of the water molecule.
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. Dit weekend gingen honderden mensen het IJsselmeer op om het indrukwekkende kruiende ijs te bekijken. Op sommige plekken klommen de mensen zes meter omhoog.
The Golden Gate bridge has been painted, since its construction, in orange, and more precisely in international orange. The choice of this color is due to Irving Morrow, who nevertheless met with strong criticism from officials, who found the idea ridiculous. The other paintings proposed, namely steel gray (close to that of the neighboring Bay Bridge), the aluminum color were not selected, Morrow judging that orange fit perfectly with the various elements of the bay. The United States Navy had even proposed to paint the bridge yellow, with black stripes to facilitate visibility from ships crossing the bay, but Morrow never gave up his original idea, and the bridge was painted orange, which is one of his most characteristic features
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Le pont du Golden Gate est peint, depuis sa construction, en orange, et plus précisément en orange international. Le choix de cette couleur est dû à Irving Morrow, qui rencontra pourtant de vives critiques de la part des officiels, qui trouvaient l'idée ridicule. Les autres peintures proposées, à savoir le gris acier (proche de celui du Bay Bridge voisin), la couleur aluminium ne furent pas retenues, Morrow jugeant que l'orange s'accordait parfaitement avec les divers éléments de la baie. L'United States Navy avait même proposé de peindre le pont en jaune, avec des rayures noires pour faciliter la visibilité depuis des navires traversant la baie, mais Morrow ne renonça jamais à son idée première, et le pont fut peint en orange, ce qui constitue d'ailleurs l'un de ses traits les plus caractéristiques
Today after the Moonrise at night, precisely at 10-29-50 pm, over the Sea at Tiruvanmiyur - Chennai, India.
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ISO Speed - 100
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Got bored of playing on photoshop so took a peek out the window to see that the clouds looked like they were lifting so decided to take the new toys out for a spin. Got to the chosen destination and had precisely 10 mins before the clouds moved back in!
Correggio (Antonio Allegri - Correggio, c. 1489 - Correggio, March 5, 1534) - Coronation of the Virgin (c. 1522) - Fresco detached from the apsidal basin of the Abbey of San Giovanni Evangelista, Parma - 212 x 342 cm. - National Gallery of Parma
L'abate di San Giovanni aveva incaricato Correggio, allora reduce dal primo grande successo in città con la Camera della Badessa nel monastero di San Paolo, di decorare l'intera chiesa di San Giovanni Evangelista appena finita di ricostruire, con un affresco, una cupola e annessi, un coro, un fregio continuo del perimetro interno e una lunetta con San Giovanni e l'aquila. Le pitture della cupola, il fregio e la lunetta sono ancora in loco, mentre nel 1587, quando il coro venne ingrandito, andarono perduti i dipinti parietali e per quanto riguarda il catino absidale venne salvata solo la porzione centrale della calotta, quella dell'Incoronazione appunto. Del cattivo stato dell'affresco staccato testimoniò già il cardinale Federico Borromeo, che si era recato a Parma nel tardo Cinquecento e aveva voluto commissionarne una copia per la propria collezione.
Stendhal, durante il suo viaggio in Italia, ebbe modo di vedere questo affresco e scrisse: “Les fresques sublimes du Corrège m’ont arrété à Parme, d’ailleurs ville assez plate. La Madone bénie par Jésus, à la bibliothèque, m’a touché jusqu’aux larmes. Je paye un garçon de salle pour qu’il me laisse un quart d’heure seul, perché au haut de l’échelle.”
The abbot of San Giovanni had commissioned Correggio, then back from his first great success in the city with the Camera della Badessa in the monastery of San Paolo, to decorate the entire church of San Giovanni Evangelista, which had just been rebuilt, with a fresco, a dome and annexes, a choir, a continuous frieze of the inner perimeter and a lunette with St. John and the eagle. The paintings of the dome, the frieze and the lunette are still in place, while in 1587, when the choir was enlarged, the wall paintings were lost and with regard to the apsidal basin was saved only the central portion of the cap, that of the Coronation precisely. Cardinal Federico Borromeo, who visited Parma in the late sixteenth century and wanted to commission a copy for his own collection, testified to the poor state of the detached fresco.
Stendhal, during his trip to Italy, had the opportunity to see this fresco and wrote:
"The sublime frescoes of Correggio stopped me in Parma, a rather flat city. The Madonna blessed by Jesus, in the library, moved me to tears. I paid a waiter to leave me alone for fifteen minutes, perched on top of the ladder."
Norwegen / Buskerud - Hallingskarvet-Nationalpark
Sunset - On the way back from Prestholtskarvet. You can see Prestholtseter down there.
Sonnenuntergang - Auf dem Weg zurück vom Prestholtskarvet. Dort unten ist die Prestholtseter zu sehen.
Hallingskarvet National Park (Norwegian: Hallingskarvet nasjonalpark) is a national park in central Norway that was established by the government on 22 December 2006. The park is located in the municipalities of Hol (Buskerud county), Ulvik and Aurland (both in Vestland county). More precisely, the park comprises the Hallingskarv plateau and the high mountain areas to the west of it. It includes the Vargebreen glacier as well as the valleys of Såtedalen, Lengjedalen, Ynglesdalen, and parts of Raggsteindalen.
The national park covers 450 square kilometres (170 sq mi) of the Hallingskarvet mountain range and hosts large stocks of wild reindeer, an important factor in the establishment of the park. The highest point in the national park is Folarskardnuten which reaches an elevation of 1,933 metres (6,342 ft) above sea level.
The landscape of Hallingskarvet was shaped by multiple ice ages. The park shows the geological history and the connection between this history and the variation in the species living there. It includes areas of special value and which are home to threatened or vulnerable species such as Draba cacuminum (whitlow-grass) and Botrychium lanceolatum (lance-leaf grapefern).
The Bergen Line runs along the southern boundary of the park. There is no road access to the southern side of the park, so Finse Station, a stop on the railway line, is one of the few ways that people can access this part of the park. The Norwegian County Road 50 runs near the northern boundary of the park.
Protection and use
The main objective of this national park is to preserve a large, unique, and largely untouched area in order to protect the landscape and the biome with its ecosystem, species and populations of, amongst others, the wild reindeer. The protection is designed to safeguard a characteristic element needed to understand the geological history of the Norwegian landscape. It is also designed to protect valuable elements of the cultural heritage.
The park is open to the traditional forms of outdoor activities which require little or no technical means.
Name
The first element is halling (inhabitant of the Hallingdal valley) and the last is the finite form of skarv (mountain or mountainous area without vegetation).
(Wikipedia)
Prestholtseter a farm cafe based on traditions. Prestholtseter is located by Hallingskarvet at 1242 m, by Hallingskarvet National Park. It is a popular destination both summer and winter. The café offers waffles, buns, the local specialties "lefsekling" (thin, sheet bread), "Rummebrød" (thin cakes made with sour cream), cakes, omelets, buns and rolls. In summer you can also get cured meats and tasty sour cream porridge By Prestholtseter you will find great hiking in the summer and cross country tracks in the winter. In summer you can hike on dirt roads or paths, either flat or the Prestholt stairs up to the top of Hallingskarvet Mountain. In summer the road goes all the way to Prestholtseter (toll road). In winter there are ski trails that are groomed daily, from Havsdalen and from Ustaoset. Prestholtseter offers catering for groups from 15 -100 people for dinner or lunch. A nice layer at the base of Hallingskarvet provides a unique and beautiful setting for the event. Prestholtseter was built in 1904 and has been in the family Uthus since. In the beginning it was a pure summer farm, where they sold products that they produced themselves. Opning hours 2017: Winter season: Starts week 7, 2017. The road usually opens around July 1st.
(visitnorway.com)
Der Hallingskarvet-Nationalpark (norwegisch Hallingskarvet nasjonalpark) ist ein südnorwegischer Nationalpark. Er umfasst das Hallingskarvet-Hochplateau und erstreckt sich über das Gebiet der Gemeinden Hol (Provinz Buskerud), Ulvik und Aurland (Provinz Vestland) gehört.
Gegründet wurde der Park am 22. Dezember 2006, um die dortige große, unverwechselbare und nahezu unberührte Bergregion, die Artenvielfalt von Flora und Fauna und die dort heimischen Bergrentiere zu schützen. Der Park grenzt an das Naturschutzgebiet Skaupsjøen/Hardangerjøkulen und das Biotop Finse.
Im Süden des Parkes führen sowohl die Bergenbahn als auch die Reichsstraße 7 vorbei.
Geologie, Landschaft und Geografie
Der Nationalpark umfasst größtenteils das Hallingskarvethochplateau, welches aufgrund der Kaledonischen Orogenese entstand. Das vorherrschende Gesteinsmaterial der Bergkette ist präkambrisches Pluton.
Der höchste Berg ist der Folarskardnuten mit 1.933 m. Im Hallingskarvet befindet sich auch Norwegens höchster See, der Flakavatnet, welcher auf 1.453 m Höhe liegt.
Flora
Die Pflanzenwelt gestaltet sich mit über 300 verschiedenen Arten sehr vielfältig. Die am weitesten verbreiteten Pflanzen sind der Weiße Silberwurz, Knöllchen-Knöterich und Herbst-Löwenzahn. In den höheren Lagen kommen vor allem Dreiblatt-Binsen, Polarsimsen, Moosheide und Gletscher-Hahnenfuß vor.
Fauna
Im Park gibt es an größeren Säugetieren Bergrentiere, Elche, Rehe, Polarfüchse und Schneehasen. Nördlich des Parks leben zudem Vielfraße.
Die größten Greifvögel sind Steinadler, Gerfalke, Turmfalke und Raufußbussard. Der Kolkrabe ist im Hallingskarvet ebenfalls heimisch.
Kulturerbe
Im Nationalpark wurden verschiedene Jagdutensilien gefunden, die auf eine prähistorische/historische Nutzung der Berge als Jagd- und/oder Siedlungsgebiet schließen lassen.
Im 17. bis 19. Jahrhundert lag der Park entlang einer wichtigen Handelsroute. Einfache Übernachtungshütten, sog. lægre, zeugen noch heute davon. Im Jahre 1880 ließ der englische Graf Lord Garvagh eine steinerne Jagdhütte, die Lordehytta, errichten, um in der näheren Umgebung auf Rentierjagd zu gehen.
Verwaltung und Tourismus
Der Norwegische Wanderverein unterhält im Park die Hütten Finsehytta im Süden und Geiterygghytta im Norden. Private Unterkünfte gibt es im Raggsteindalen und bei Haugastøl. Zwischen den Hütten gibt es markierte Wanderwege.
Zwischen Finse und Ustaoset verläuft ein Stück des Skarverennet durch den Park. Im Süden des Parks verläuft zudem der Rallarvegen.
(Wikipedia)
Closed for the Season, wait a minute it's summer, just precisely when is ice cream in season?
Feeling a little less than myself I realized it had been a few weeks since I had shot a Polaroid image. The light this evening and a closed ice cream stand was just what the doctor ordered. Yes I feel much better now.
Film: Polaroid Time Zero exp. 11/06
This batch of expired TZ is close to perfect in color rendition, a truly beautiful film.
Camera: Polaroid Alpha1 SE
Image by: Leslie Lazenby
14 June 2013, Route 12, Fostoria, OH
Dear ChatGPT, where exactly did I take this photo?
"This is a beautiful scene, and I think I can identify it quite precisely. You almost certainly took this photograph at or very near the grounds of Emerald Lake Lodge on the shore of Emerald Lake in Canada's Yoho National Park.
Several clues point to this location:
1. The striking turquoise water is characteristic of Emerald Lake.
2. The conifer forest and limestone mountains are typical of Yoho National Park.
3. The foreground contains a cultivated garden of columbines (Aquilegia) and delphiniums, which closely resembles the landscaped flower beds around Emerald Lake Lodge.
4. The mountain profile across the lake, together with the narrow view down the valley, matches the vistas seen from the lodge area on the southwestern shore.
My best estimate is that you were standing on or just behind the lakeshore near the main lodge buildings, looking roughly northeast across Emerald Lake. Given the flowers in bloom, the photo was probably taken in mid- to late summer (July or early August).
It's a lovely composition. The combination of the lodge gardens, subalpine forest and that extraordinary glacial water colour is quintessential Yoho."
Clever AI. It's 100% correct! I took this photo on the 11th of August 2011. :)
Is it a coincidence that the appearance of this spider precisely matches that of the raft of insect (probably Hemipteran) eggs on a bamboo leaf? The eggs themselves are very common locally across all vegetation, but could the spider genuinely have evolved to take refuge amidst them? And why? True bug eggs are regularly and uniquely parasitised by certain species of parasitoid wasps, so is this an ambush set to suit a fussy palate (or at least a guaranteed feed)?
Pu'er, Yunnan, China
In mid-September 2024, Jupiter, the king of the planets, stood regally within the constellation Taurus. From a precisely chosen vantage point, this image captures the gas giant perfectly aligned above Aiguille du Dru, one of the most iconic spires in the Chamonix Valley. Aiguille means "needle" in French, an apt name for this dramatic peak that calls to mind medieval philosophers debating how many angels can dance on a needle's point. I may not have the answer to that, but this image proves there's certainly space for a king.
As any monarch should be, Jupiter is surrounded by his celestial court. Moving clockwise from the left, you’ll spot the Flaming Star Nebula, the California Nebula, the Pleiades, and the Hyades star clusters. Wisps of dark molecular clouds from our Milky Way weave through the scene, along with several more distant clusters - and even Uranus, hidden among the stars for those who know where to look.
EXIF
Canon EOS-R, astro-modified by EOS 4Astro
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L ll @ 35mm
IDAS NBZ filter with Canon EF-EOS R drop-in adapter
iOptron SkyTracker Pro
Sunwayfoto T2840CK tripod
Planned with PlanIt Pro
Foreground:
Stack of 3x 60s @ ISO3200
Sky:
Panorama of 2 panels each a stack of 7x 90s @ ISO1600, clear filter & 3x 180s @ ISO6400, IDAS NBZ
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Apenas três letras bastam para compor o seu nome. No entanto, é de todos os nomes o mais DOCE, o mais SUAVE, o mais SUBLIME, o mais BELO, o mais LEMBRADO; é o que mais emoção desperta; é o nome que dizemos quando aprendemos a balbuciar e que ainda lembramos quando, coberto de cabelos brancos, já vemos raiar a aurora do Dia Eterno!
Este NOME é - M Ã E !
Por isso, dedico as minhas flores preferidas a todas as mâes do Mundo e incluo-me nesta homenagem, porque faz hoje,precisamente, 37 anos que recebi essa benção - a de ser MÃE.
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Only three letters are enough to make his name. However, all names is the sweetest, the softest, most sublime, the most beautiful, most remember, is what arouses more emotion, is the name we say when we learn to babble and still remember when, covered with white hair, as we break the dawn of Eternal Day!
This name is - MOTHER!
Therefore, I dedicate my favorite flowers to all mothers in the world and I include myself in this tribute. Precisely 37 years ago I received this blessing - to be MOTHER!
Abandoned garage in the Death Valley National Park, California. Located precisely at the Death Valley Junction in front of the Amargosa cafe.
ⓒRebecca Bugge, All Rights Reserved
Do not use without permission.
Today (June 28, 2014) it is precisely a hundred years since the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo - which would lead to the outbreak of the First World War, or the Great War a month later. And the death of millions. Many of whom were buried as unidentified.
This is a shot from the Serre road cemetery no. 1 for Commonwealth soldiers (yes, there is a cemetery no. 2, just a few hundred metres away - and a French cemetery in between them). It is not a big cemetery - actually rather small. It is the final resting place for 2,426 men... Of these 1,728 has a stone with the inscription "A soldier of the Great War - Known unto God".
Taddeo Gaddi (c. 1300 - 1366) Stories of Christ and St. Francis of Assisi (Panels of the cupboard in the sacristy of Santa Croce) (1340 - Tempera on panel
dimensions: 41 x 31 cm - Gemäldegalerie Berlino
La formelle decoravano sicuramente un arredo ligneo nella sacrestia di Santa Croce a Firenze, forse un armadio per reliquie. La prima citazione dell'armadio risale al Cinquecento (Anonimo Magliabechiano e Vasari), e poi in altre fonti successive fino al 1810, quando, con la soppressione napoleonica del convento francescano, le ante furono trasferite nei depositi del Convento di San Marco. Da qui, nel 1814, arrivarono ormai smembrate alla Galleria dell'Accademia, dove erano esposte in ambienti separati. Secondo i documenti dell'epoca, lo smembramento avvenne proprio a San Marco tra il 1812 e il 1813, quando vennero rimosse le "prospere", cioè gli stalli lignei. A quell'epoca risalgono anche le attuali cornici lignee dorate.
Quattro dipinti, immessi sul mercato antiquario, sono oggi in Germania, alla Gemäldegalerie di Berlino (Pentecoste e Resurrezione del fanciullo) e all'Alte Pinakothek di Monaco (Prova del Fuoco, la Morte del cavaliere di Celano).
Le storie sono così composte:
Storie di Cristo
Visitazione
Natività di Cristo
Adorazione dei Magi
Presentazione di Gesù al Tempio
Disputa di Gesù con i dottori del Tempio
Battesimo di Cristo
Trasfigurazione
Ultima cena
Crocifissione di Cristo con la Madonna e san Giovanni evangelista
Resurrezione di Cristo
Apparizione di Cristo risorto alle pie donne
Incredulità di san Tommaso
Pentecoste (nella Gemäldegalerie di Berlino)
The panels surely decorated a wooden piece of furniture in the sacristy of Santa Croce in Florence, perhaps a cupboard for relics. The earliest mention of the cabinet dates back to the 16th century (Anonimo Magliabechiano and Vasari), and then in other later sources until 1810, when, with the Napoleonic suppression of the Franciscan convent, the doors were transferred to the storerooms of the Convent of San Marco. From there, in 1814, they arrived by then dismembered at the Accademia Gallery, where they were displayed in separate rooms. According to documents of the time, the dismemberment took place precisely at St. Mark's between 1812 and 1813, when the "prospere," or wooden stalls, were removed. The present gilded wooden frames also date from that time.
Four paintings, placed on the antiquarian market, are now in Germany, at the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin (Pentecost and Resurrection of the Child) and the Alte Pinakothek in Munich (Trial by Fire, Death of the Knight of Celano).
The stories are composed as follows:
Stories of Christ
Visitation
Nativity of Christ
Adoration of the Magi
Presentation of Jesus in the Temple
Dispute of Jesus with the Doctors of the Temple
Baptism of Christ
Transfiguration
Last Supper
Crucifixion of Christ with Our Lady and St. John the Evangelist
Resurrection of Christ
Appearance of the risen Christ to the pious women
Incredulity of St. Thomas
Pentecost (in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)
From my point of view the little egret (Egretta garzetta) , traps generally small fish or medium sized shrimp, etc.
This implies more precisely the attack, but also need large amount of prey.
If you want to know more of my field observations on the common egret:
robertsnowblog.wordpress.com/2016/02/10/the-lady-of-the-m...
La garcettata común (Egretta garzetta) según mis obsevaciones, atrapa en general peces de pequeño o mediano tamaño, quisquillas, etc.
Esto implica mayor precisión del ataque, pero también necesidad de gran cantidad de presas.
Si quieres conocer más de mis observaciones de campo sobre la garceta:
robertsnowblog.wordpress.com/2016/02/10/the-lady-of-the-m...
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Protea is both the botanical name and the English common name of a genus of South African flowering plants, sometimes also called sugarbushes (Afrikaans: suikerbos) or Fynbos. In local tradition, the Protea flower represents change and hope.
The genus Protea was named in 1735 by Carl Linnaeus after the Greek god Proteus, who could change his form at will because they have such a wide variety of forms. Linnaeus's genus was formed by merging a number of genera previously published by Herman Boerhaave, although precisely which of Boerhaave's genera were included in Linnaeus's Protea varied with each of Linnaeus's publications.
For this picture I needed a lot of patience since the wind was constantly blowing and hence I wasn't able to precisely focus onto the bellflowers. Anyway, I managed to get a reasonably sharp shot which I quite like. Hope you like it too!
© National Geographic Yourshot (Editor's Favourite, July 2018). Story and assignment: “Not Just a Face."
"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
An elderly Dani woman with a sharpened fire-hardened digging stick pauses for a moment from work in an elaborate sweet potato garden near her compound 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.
Mourning and Finger Mutilation
The segments of two fingers on each hand were cut off as a child as a traditional form of sacrificial grieving or mourning for a close relative who had died. Most females above the age of about ten have lost four to six fingers in connection with funerals and efforts at impressing, placating or driving away the ghost of the deceased.
Finger mutilation or the traditional practice of chopping fingers off at the first joint is now officially banned, although it seems likely that this longstanding neolithic cultural practice continues today in a few isolated pockets of the region.
Ethnographic accounts indicate that daily life for a woman in Dani culture is largely limited to a routine of drudgery that appears to have a sullen or depressive effect on most women.
The Gardens
The Grand Valley Dani are accomplished gardeners and pig farmers with a neolithic (late Stone Age) culture and technology. They rely on polished stone adzes and axes, sharpened pig tusks, bamboo knives, and fire-hardened digging sticks - tools that are gradually being replaced with iron and steel.
The gardens involve complex mazes of sophisticated irrigation ditches cut deeply across the fertile grand valley floor. The sweet potato (over 70 varieties) accounts for about 90% of their diet. Digging sticks are used to weed and maintain the gardens. Both men and women spend most of their working lives in the gardens.
First Contact
The indigenous peoples of West Papua migrated from southeast Asia and the Australian continent 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 the Grand Valley Dani was established in 1938 during American-led botanical and zoological explorations the central highlands, less than sixty years before this photograph was taken.
Today, about 50,000 Dani live in small compound clusters or settlements scattered across the fertile and densely-populated "Grand Valley" of the Balim River (about 40 miles long by 10 miles wide) in West Papua's central highlands.
High resolution Noritsu Koki QSS digital film scan, shot with a compact Pentax point-and-shoot film camera. Film developed in a Sulawesi street-corner shophouse, circa 1996.
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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 of 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).
•Filmmaker Robert Gardner’s classic social documentary, “Dead Birds” (1965).
•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).
National Geographic | Social Documentary | Lonely Planet
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Well, ya know, not precisely red but still red .. Spotted right out the window this morning early - grabbed a few shot before he/she bolted!
or, more precisely, what's left of it.
"The remaining ruins of the abbey are now in the care of Historic Environment Scotland. The remaining intact part of the Abbey is used by the Church of Scotland as the local parish church. The church contains stained glass in the main east window by the Edinburgh company of Ballantyne & Son, plus several modern stained glass windows." (Wikipedia)
Norwegen / Buskerud - Hallingskarvet-Nationalpark
Prestholtskarvet (1859 m)
Hallingskarvet National Park (Norwegian: Hallingskarvet nasjonalpark) is a national park in central Norway that was established by the government on 22 December 2006. The park is located in the municipalities of Hol (Buskerud county), Ulvik and Aurland (both in Vestland county). More precisely, the park comprises the Hallingskarv plateau and the high mountain areas to the west of it. It includes the Vargebreen glacier as well as the valleys of Såtedalen, Lengjedalen, Ynglesdalen, and parts of Raggsteindalen.
The national park covers 450 square kilometres (170 sq mi) of the Hallingskarvet mountain range and hosts large stocks of wild reindeer, an important factor in the establishment of the park. The highest point in the national park is Folarskardnuten which reaches an elevation of 1,933 metres (6,342 ft) above sea level.
The landscape of Hallingskarvet was shaped by multiple ice ages. The park shows the geological history and the connection between this history and the variation in the species living there. It includes areas of special value and which are home to threatened or vulnerable species such as Draba cacuminum (whitlow-grass) and Botrychium lanceolatum (lance-leaf grapefern).
The Bergen Line runs along the southern boundary of the park. There is no road access to the southern side of the park, so Finse Station, a stop on the railway line, is one of the few ways that people can access this part of the park. The Norwegian County Road 50 runs near the northern boundary of the park.
Protection and use
The main objective of this national park is to preserve a large, unique, and largely untouched area in order to protect the landscape and the biome with its ecosystem, species and populations of, amongst others, the wild reindeer. The protection is designed to safeguard a characteristic element needed to understand the geological history of the Norwegian landscape. It is also designed to protect valuable elements of the cultural heritage.
The park is open to the traditional forms of outdoor activities which require little or no technical means.
Name
The first element is halling (inhabitant of the Hallingdal valley) and the last is the finite form of skarv (mountain or mountainous area without vegetation).
(Wikipedia)
Der Hallingskarvet-Nationalpark (norwegisch Hallingskarvet nasjonalpark) ist ein südnorwegischer Nationalpark. Er umfasst das Hallingskarvet-Hochplateau und erstreckt sich über das Gebiet der Gemeinden Hol (Provinz Buskerud), Ulvik und Aurland (Provinz Vestland) gehört.
Gegründet wurde der Park am 22. Dezember 2006, um die dortige große, unverwechselbare und nahezu unberührte Bergregion, die Artenvielfalt von Flora und Fauna und die dort heimischen Bergrentiere zu schützen. Der Park grenzt an das Naturschutzgebiet Skaupsjøen/Hardangerjøkulen und das Biotop Finse.
Im Süden des Parkes führen sowohl die Bergenbahn als auch die Reichsstraße 7 vorbei.
Geologie, Landschaft und Geografie
Der Nationalpark umfasst größtenteils das Hallingskarvethochplateau, welches aufgrund der Kaledonischen Orogenese entstand. Das vorherrschende Gesteinsmaterial der Bergkette ist präkambrisches Pluton.
Der höchste Berg ist der Folarskardnuten mit 1.933 m. Im Hallingskarvet befindet sich auch Norwegens höchster See, der Flakavatnet, welcher auf 1.453 m Höhe liegt.
Flora
Die Pflanzenwelt gestaltet sich mit über 300 verschiedenen Arten sehr vielfältig. Die am weitesten verbreiteten Pflanzen sind der Weiße Silberwurz, Knöllchen-Knöterich und Herbst-Löwenzahn. In den höheren Lagen kommen vor allem Dreiblatt-Binsen, Polarsimsen, Moosheide und Gletscher-Hahnenfuß vor.
Fauna
Im Park gibt es an größeren Säugetieren Bergrentiere, Elche, Rehe, Polarfüchse und Schneehasen. Nördlich des Parks leben zudem Vielfraße.
Die größten Greifvögel sind Steinadler, Gerfalke, Turmfalke und Raufußbussard. Der Kolkrabe ist im Hallingskarvet ebenfalls heimisch.
Kulturerbe
Im Nationalpark wurden verschiedene Jagdutensilien gefunden, die auf eine prähistorische/historische Nutzung der Berge als Jagd- und/oder Siedlungsgebiet schließen lassen.
Im 17. bis 19. Jahrhundert lag der Park entlang einer wichtigen Handelsroute. Einfache Übernachtungshütten, sog. lægre, zeugen noch heute davon. Im Jahre 1880 ließ der englische Graf Lord Garvagh eine steinerne Jagdhütte, die Lordehytta, errichten, um in der näheren Umgebung auf Rentierjagd zu gehen.
Verwaltung und Tourismus
Der Norwegische Wanderverein unterhält im Park die Hütten Finsehytta im Süden und Geiterygghytta im Norden. Private Unterkünfte gibt es im Raggsteindalen und bei Haugastøl. Zwischen den Hütten gibt es markierte Wanderwege.
Zwischen Finse und Ustaoset verläuft ein Stück des Skarverennet durch den Park. Im Süden des Parks verläuft zudem der Rallarvegen.
(Wikipedia)
The petrol station here disappeared precisely between July 2015 and September 2016. In July 2015 it was there and operating, by September 2016 nothing was left, just a barren site awaiting redevelopment. Since then nothing has happened and the site is now overgrown with bushes and small trees, so I'm guessing site contamination would be the reason for the delay. It does seem a bit mad that a perfectly good service station could be removed in this way and razed to the ground only for nothing more to happen.
Here in September 2000 it was a busy and thriving site with cars queuing to buy fuel, presumably due to the shortages in that precise point in time.
www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.7499354,-1.2664778,3a,75y,288.8...
Lightning flares over Kihei. One of the final few days of our last vacation, and this. After an hour and a half of watching this, I suddenly realized I should have been shooting the lightening.
This was the last strike of the evening - just barely caught it. Try looking up close!
Semi-related: I made up prints of this from Adorama & just got 'em back yesterday. If you like this, you should see the print in a full 11x17" size. The metallic print took my breath away!
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Please take your time... and enjoy it large on black
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.
Photo of hummocks taken at the IJsselmeer IJmeer near Amsterdam taken at the Oostvaardersdijk. 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. The frozen water of the IJmeer gives a nice scattered glow. The temperature was +2 degrees above zero and the hummocks were melting. Photo taken just before sunset. On the background you can see the skyline of Amsterdam.
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.
Carefully carried across the ocean, precisely hung, then accidentally hit by a water-baloon!! My mosaic effort to restore it!
Photo taken by Andreas Rink, slide kindly provided for scanning by Florian Weiß.
München-Riem
1981-08-12 (12 August 1981)
HB-ABD
Nord 262B-11
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Rhineair
HB-ABD is taxiing to Riem’s runway 25 for take-off. Precisely nine years earlier, on 12 August 1972, this airframe had been noted at the airport as F-BLHS with Rousseau Aviation.
This 1964 built Nord 262B flew with Air Inter from 1964, then Rousseau Aviation, TAT Touraine Air Transport as F-BLHS, Rhineair as HB-ABD, CAL Compagnie Aerienne du Languedoc and Air Littoral as F-GBEI and Trans Service Airlift as 9Q-CCR. (Source: rzjets.net).
Rhineair (the former Air Sea Service) operated scheduled services between Basle and Munich using N262s, but ceased operations in August 1981 (source: airlines-airliners.de). This must have been one of the last flights. The last report I have of HB-ABD at Riem is from 21 August 1981.
Information on Air Sea Service and Rhineair (in German):
www.airlines-airliners.de/airlines/air_sea_service.htm
www.airlines-airliners.de/airlines/rhineair.htm
This airframe as F-BLHS with Air Inter:
www.airlines-airliners.de/airliners/nord262/f_blhs_2.jpg
F-BLHS with Touraine Air Transport (TAT/Rousseau Aviation titles) in ca. 1975:
www.airlines-airliners.de/airliners/nord262/f_blhs.jpg
F-BLHS with Touraine Air Transport at BSL in April 1977:
imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/9/7/1/0108179.jpg
F-BLHS with Touraine Air Transport at ORY in September 1978 (later colours):
www.flickr.com/photos/avi_phot_nrw/48279317887
This airframe as F-GBEI with Compagnie Aerienne du Languedoc (CAL) at CDG in July 1986:
imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/1/5/8/0669851.jpg
F-GBEI with Air Littoral colours/CAL titles in February 1988:
www.flickr.com/photos/steelhead2010/8573481519
Scan from Kodachrome slide.
walet waterfall is located on Mount Salak, Bogor, West Java, Indonesia. Precisely in the area of Ciasihan Village, Pamijahan District.
The things you can not see, I often find more interesting. Something under a kind of tarpaulin, presumably motorized.. Germany 04/08/2018 at 04:28 pm.
About the series (to which the Photo above belongs)
My dear Flickr-Friends, my dear unknown Flickr-User,
First, I would like to mention: “Mettwurst is a strongly flavoured German sausage, made from raw minced pork which is preserved by curing and smoking, often with garlic. The southern German variety is soft and similar to Teewurst.” (Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mettwurst)
Second, I want to amplify: During the last years I had my camera very often with me. An immense amount of photos have been shot, most of them rather unplanned on walks through my hometown. With the series I would like to present a few of my personal favorites (most of them are less than one year old). As the subtitle promises: the Photos show undoubtedly/exclusively trivial things.
Fuck you reality, fuck you so much, I want to be cheated!
About the post-processing
For editing I've used the Lightromm plug-in "Silver Efex Pro 2". More precisely: Preset "Film Noir 3" as a basis (nr. 32), but with some modifications. Apart from other small corrections (eg in contrast or exposure) I removed the artificial grain and the frame of the preset and I added a blue toning for all the photos of the series. And: For almost all photos I used a green or blue color filter.
Texte en français après le texte anglais
Following on from the previous image www.flickr.com/photos/seba_for/54864919067/ , change of locomotive at Chiasso station.
Now the two FS E402s are uncoupled from the VSOE and are waiting for the Swiss locomotives to take them back, or more precisely, to return them to the 3,000 kV catenary. Track 6 cannot be switched between 15kV and 3kV currents, so the pantograph must be lowered from the middle of the platform at the latest.
One of the two FS engineers can be seen getting off the rear locomotive for the return journey to Milan. He has also equipped it with rear signal lights, as he is preparing it to become a trailer vehicle. On most locomotive trains, only the lead engine remains in service if the others are not needed for traction. Except in Switzerland, where when double traction is used, all engines generally remain in service.
We can also see Swiss shunting staff waiting for the imminent arrival of the Swiss locomotives to couple them to the two E402s.
In the background, VSOE staff consult their smartphones while customers stretch their legs on the platform.
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Suite à l'image précédente www.flickr.com/photos/seba_for/54864919067/ , changement de locomotive en gare de Chiasso.
Maintenant les deux E402 de la FS sont découplées du VSOE et attendent que les locos de la Suisse viennent les prendre en charge pour les ramener, plus précisément renvoyer sous la caténaire de 3'000Kv. La voie n°6 n'est pas commutable entre les courants 15Kv et 3Kv, donc l'entrée se fait en pantographe abaissé dès le milieu du quai au plus tard.
On voit descendre un des deux mécaniciens de la FS, de la loco de queue pour le retour sur Milan. Du reste il l'a équipé des feux de signalisation de queue, puisqu'Il la préparer, afin qu'elle devienne un véhicule remorquée. La plupart des trains locs, seul la machine de tête reste en service, si les autres ne sont pas nécessaires à la traction. Sauf en Suisse, où lorsqu'une double traction est mise en service, généralement tous les engins restent aussi en service.
On peut aussi voir le personnel de la manœuvre Suisse qui attend l'arrivée imminente des locos Suisses, afin de les accrocher au deux E402.
Plus arrière-plan le personnel d'accompagnement du VSOE consulte son smartphone, pendant que les clients se dégourdissent les jambes sur le quai.
"what matters precisely is this; the unspoken at the edge of the spoken." -virginia woolf.
happy tuesday, everyone!
March 25, 2015 - explore, #45.
Hello!!!!!
One shot from the past weekend, me and the "Gang" went to a place in Portugal called Pego do Altar more precisely at Santa Susana village, unfortunately our country is suffering from the dry weather and this is just one example of that, in this image in the very recent past it was full of water and now this is the image that you are seeing.... dry, completely dry ... that is one sad memory ... I did some Drone photoage and some film , please stay tuned to my youtube channel ( www.youtube.com/channel/UC7cq5JYZNqzAAukT1hTwfrg? ) or my web site ( www.jorgecanelas.com ) for the Vlog.
All the best, bye for now ...
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Nearing the top of the climb at St.Anton, this was one of several freights seen during the day.
The 1010 and 1110 classes were built in the 1950's and '60's for such workings, although I suspect they have all been retired by now. It is being banked by 1020.40, see the next shot.
I should note that whilst generally in the right area, I'm far from convinced that my marks on the Flickr map are precisely correct. It's a bit hard to tell exactly, partly due to the snow and also because they've built a motorway through the valley since 1988!
When I went to Germany and more precisely in the city of Stuttgart, I took the opportunity to discover this city that I did not know yet. Today I will introduce you to one of the main squares in Stuttgart, its finance ministry. An imposing and beautiful structure truncated in the middle of greenery. This "palace" was perfectly symmetrical, so I tried to transcribe this one as well as the imposing size of this structure.
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The birds are clearly representations of the "manutara" (the sootie tern - Onychoprion fuscatus), the species in which all Bird-Man competition is focused.
That's the cave:
PS. I will explain the Bird-man cult better when I arrive at Orongo village which is at the top of the volcano in the sequence of photographs.
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The legend of the origin of birds on Easter Island has, like all myths, part of the truth. And it is precisely that Motu Nui, together with the nearby islets Motu Iti and Motu Kao Kao, is the place chosen to nest for most of the seabirds that visit the island.
The manutara, the protagonist of our history, also nested until a few years ago on the motu or islets. This bird has been identified with two kinds of tern and specifically with the sootie tern (Onychoprion fuscatus) who came to the island every spring to lay eggs.
The manutara measures about 40 cm, has the upper part of the head black and the neck and chest white. The upper part of the wings and the body is a dark gray color by which it receives its name.
The meaning of Manutara or Manu Tara is “luck bird” in the Rapanui language. A name probably associated with its arrival coinciding with the end of winter and the beginning of a season with a greater abundance of eggs and greater fishing catches. It is possible that these reasons later made him the center of the bird-man ritual.
Unfortunately, the manutara can no longer honor its name because the bird does not visit Rapa Nui anymore due to the changes suffered in recent years in the fragile ecosystem of the island. However, as if the legend wanted to continue, the tern continues to nest in Motu Motiro Hiva, the uninhabited islet of Sala y Gómez, located 415 km northeast of the island and which is currently a protected marine reserve. Perhaps, in the near future, a new Make Make embodied in a marine biologist will introduce the species back into Rapa Nui.
The cave paintings of Ana Kai Tangata:
*Recreation of the paintings of Ana Kai Tangata | Watercolor of Melinka Pictures Hucke for the book Manu Iri:
Along with your incredible walk inside the cave, I also was able to see the rock art practiced by the natives of Rapa Nui. Yes, as you read, the island has spectacular paintings of red, white and black that adorn your wonderful walk with history and culture.
The paintings that I saw there portray the Apizarrado Tern, a bird that flew over the island for a long time and is considered sacred by the natives to this day.
The rest of the figures are related to ships and frigates that according to the researchers could represent the Europeans who landed on the island (when the Europeans first arrived on the island, they were considered gods and messengers from beyond).
The cave crisis:
Although there is no clarity of the cultural origin of this cave or of what the surprising cave paintings that I saw there mean, there is clarity of something: the seepage of seawater has caused these drawings to disappear and are in danger.
Given the above, CONAF and the government of Chile have implemented an emergency plan to maintain and restore this historical treasure. More and more care is taken with those who visit this natural wonder and there are experts working on its conservation so as not to lose this record of the Rapanui culture.
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Manutara the sacred bird that still lives in the memory of Rapa Nui.
Legend of the origin of the manutara:
Father Sebastián Englert, a Capuchin priest of German origin who lived on Easter Island for more than 30 years, studied its traditions and compiled the myths and legends that their inhabitants told him. Among them is the story of how the birds came to Rapa Nui and says:
“Formerly, when the first settlers arrived in Rapa Nui, there were no birds on the island. At that time there lived a witch or spirit called Hitu in the bay of Hanga Nui, near Tongariki. Hitu had a skull that she kept as treasure in the cavity of a rock. One day, when the sea grew, a great wave dragged the skull and carried it to the coast. Hitu threw herself into the water to retrieve it, but she could not reach it. Although she swam and swam, the skull floated among the waves and moved away.
Thus Hitu continued swimming day and night after the skull. When she was about to give up due to exhaustion, she glimpsed on the horizon the rocks of Motu Motiro Hiva (Sala y Gómez islet). When the skull reached the edge of the islet it became the creator god Make Make. Hitu reached the islet shortly after and both were welcomed by the spirit Haua who lived there because he was destined to care for the numerous seabirds that inhabited the small island.
After a few days off, Make Make ordered Haua to bring him some pairs of birds to take them to Te Pito o Te Henua (which means navel of the world, one of the names by which Easter Island is known). When Make Make arrived on the island, he went to Hanga Nui and climbed the Poike hill where he left the birds free to reproduce, and later returned to his islet.
The following year, Make Make returned to Te Pito o Te Henua to see if the birds had multiplied, but discovered that the inhabitants had eaten all the eggs. Then, furious, he picked up the birds and took them to Vaihú, where he again released them to nest there. But the same thing happened in Vaihú, and the natives ate the eggs again. The following year, Make Make, desperate, took the birds to Vai Atare, a place located on the edge of the crater of the Rano Kau volcano. There finally, the villagers left a nest with only one egg, from which the first manutara bird of the island was born.
But Make Make, to better ensure the breeding of the birds, returned again next year and left the birds on the Motu Nui islet in front of the Rano Kau volcano. There the birds multiplied in large numbers due to the difficult access of the small islet.
Later, Make Make, allowed the islanders to be able to collect the eggs of the birds in a certain period of the year, punishing those who collected them in times not allowed. In order not to provoke the wrath of God, the Ariki (king) and the priests decided to declare the eggs as Tapu (or taboo, that is, forbidden) during the closed periods. This taboo allowed the protection and development of seabirds in Rapa Nui”.
The cult of the manutara:
The importance of birds in the Rapanui culture is manifested through the numerous allusions to birds found in prints, paintings, sculptures and legends throughout its history.
This great relevance makes sense on a remote and isolated island like Rapa Nui, in which there were no large mammals or reptiles, and in which birds were the only living beings close to humans, which also provided an interesting source of protein in shape of meat and eggs, at the same time as feathers and bones to make tools and decorative objects.
Seabirds also indicate the location of shoals of fish when they fly over the surface of the sea in search of food, which was extremely useful to a people who based much of their livelihood on fishing.
It is not strange, therefore, that a religious cult arose around birds. There was a belief that the birds had a mystical relationship with the gods, and especially the seabirds that united the earth, the sea and the sky. Each year they came from “the hereafter”, an unknown land carrying messages from ancestors and spirits.
However, it is unknown exactly how the cult of the manutara was born and the bird man competition. A cult that replaced the veneration of the Moai statues with a new belief whose main ritual was carried out in spring coinciding with the migration of seabirds to nest in Motu Nui.
The city of Petra, capital of the Nabataean Arabs, is one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world.
t is not known precisely when Petra was built, but the city began to prosper as the capital of the Nabataean Empire from the 1st century BC, which grew rich through trade in frankincense, myrrh, and spices.
Petra was later annexed to the Roman Empire and continued to thrive until a large earthquake in 363 AD destroyed much of the city in the 4th century AD.
The earthquake combined with changes in trade routes, eventually led to the downfall of the city which was ultimately abandoned.
Petra is also known as the rose-red city, a name it gets from the wonderful colour of the rock from which many of the city’s structures were carved.
The Nabataeans buried their dead in intricate tombs that were cut out of the mountain sides and the city also had temples, a theater, and following the Roman annexation and later the Byzantine influence, a colonnaded street and churches.
In addition to the magnificent remains of the Nabataean city, human settlement and land use for over 10,000 years can be traced in Petra, where great natural, cultural, archaeological and geological features merge.
On December 6, 1985, Petra was designated a World Heritage Site.