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Let's call this one a Grandscape. On the left El Capitain and on the right Half Dome at Yosemite National Park in California. I've been attending a fabulous photo workshop and let's just say I saw some pretty good scapes. More to come.
by Clayton Thompson (Vic)
Project Bread is an exploration of economic inequality and an examination of the disparity between the distribution of wealth and income.
Why is it that some are so blinded by their obsession with the accumulation of wealth that they overlook those less fortunate and in genuine need? Why is it that 1% of the world's population owns 50% of the wealth?
Project Bread is constructed from donated bread crates and depicts the ugly truth of the 'Global Wealth Pyramid".
Bread/ Dough = slang for 'money.
This artwork won the Currumbin RSL Kid's Choice Award this year!
Swell Sculpture Exhibition
It's the year 1944 and the war in France is closely coming to an end. Normandy has been liberated and american, canadian and british troops are on there way to free the rest of the country! Sending bombers and fighters first, the american's are fierce and strong in the attack. Germany obviously want's to keep ground and fight back hard.
Well here are some photo's of Project Aviation, where Stijn, Mats, Jurian and I have been working on.
Also don't forget to check the photo's on Stijn and Mats photostream.
This is a continuation of the current project of an Image a day.
This will take a year to complete. It will be a "Colour Project"....numbered 731 to 1100 and it will begin on September 1st 2022..
I will also include an additional 4 Sets that will last a month each.
First will be Vines and Vineyards in November.2022.
Second is Forests ,,Water, ,Trees and Leaves in February 2023.
Third "Light Eating Objects" in May 2023.
Forth will be another B&W . August 2023.
On top of all that every month will feature a small set of 4 pics with different themes.
As you can see I shall be a busy Bunny!.
Hope you like the stuff!!!!!!!.
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Photo by Curtis Beadle Photography
Three days on the trot in the flat and was going a little stir crazy. Had to get a little creative in the corridor with the fisheye.
Color Me Project is open. Come and enjoy 25% off for our three popular products. We also have a gift for you at this special anniversary round.
I love these dolls, they remind me of Liv! Only the deluxe ones that come with an experiment have articulated bodies.
Today I went with two friends to do an iron way near Centelles. It is called Baumes Corcades and it has the longest Nepali bridge in Europe. This is my friend finishing one of the most difficult parts of this iron way.
I'm currently working on a project that will represent a 1/76 scale Transport Museum - an ideal way for displaying all kinds of transport models.
Using a couple of my GGX / MOD garage extension units, slightly chopped about gives plenty of capacity and allows for an easily removable roof.
A spacious forecourt and adjacent roadway will also be included. Here the shell of the building is complete and filled with a variety of 1/76 scale vehicles from my shelves.
Overall view with the roof in place.
More to come.
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Yorkshire Wildlife Park.
not sure which polar bear this is, but after a brief wander he went back to sleeping off his lunch, so we were quite lucky stood on the bridge watching them that he wandered over before his nap.
September 2020
Heraldic window in honour of the great humanist and neo-Latin poet George Buchanan (died 1582) in:-
Greyfriars Kirk, today Greyfriars Tolbooth & Highland Kirk,
(Scout/Explore no. 349 on 5th November 2006)
George Buchanan (humanist)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Buchanan, BA, MA (February, 1506 - September 28, 1582) was a Scottish historian and humanist scholar.
Contents
* 1 Biography
* 2 Works
* 3 Modern Publications and Influence
* 4 References
[edit] Biography
His father, a younger son of an old family, owned the farm of Moss, in the parish of Killearn, Stirling, but he died young, leaving his widow and children in poverty. George's mother, Agnes Heriot, was of the family of the Heriots of Trabroun, East Lothian, of which George Heriot, founder of Heriot's Hospital, was also a member. Buchanan is said to have attended Killearn school, but not much is known of his early education. In 1520 he was sent by his uncle, James Heriot, to the University of Paris, where, according to him, he devoted himself to the writing of verses "partly by liking, partly by compulsion (that being then the one task prescribed to youth)."
In 1522 his uncle died, and Buchanan was unable to continue longer in Paris; he returned to Scotland. After recovering from a severe illness, he joined the French auxiliaries who had been brought over by John Stewart, Duke of Albany, and took part in an unsuccessful foray into England. In the following year he entered the University of St Andrews, where he graduated B.A. in 1525. He had gone there chiefly for the purpose of attending the celebrated John Mair's lectures on logic; and when that teacher moved to Paris, Buchanan followed him in 1526. In 1527 he graduated B.A., and in 1528 M.A. at Paris. Next year he was appointed regent, or professor, in the College of Sainte-Barbe, and taught there for over three years. In 1529 he was elected "Procurator of the German Nation" in the University of Paris, and was re-elected four times in four successive months. He resigned his regentship in 1531, and in 1532 became tutor to Gilbert Kennedy, 3rd Earl of Cassilis, with whom he returned to Scotland early in 1537.
At this period Buchanan assumed the same attitude toward the Roman Catholic Church that Erasmus maintained. He did not repudiate its doctrines, but considered himself free to criticise its practice. Though he listened with interest to the arguments of the Reformers, he did not join their ranks until 1553. His first production in Scotland, when he was in Lord Cassilis's household in the west country, was the poem Somnium, a satirical attack on the Franciscan friars and monastic life generally. This assault on the monks was not displeasing to James V, who engaged Buchanan as tutor to one of his natural sons, Lord James Stewart (not the son who was afterwards regent), and encouraged him in a more daring effort.
The poems Palinodia and Franciscanus et Fratres, although they remained unpublished for many years, made the author the object of bitter hatred to the Franciscan order, and put his safety in jeopardy. In 1539 there was bitter persecution of the Lutherans, and Buchanan among others was arrested. He managed to effect his escape and with considerable difficulty made his way to London and thence to Paris. In Paris, however, he found his enemy, Cardinal David Beaton, who was there as ambassador, and on the invitation of André de Gouvéa, proceeded to Bordeaux. Gouvéa was then principal of the newly founded College of Guienne at Bordeaux, and by his influence Buchanan was appointed professor of Latin. During his residence here, several of his best works, the translations of Medea and Alcestis, and the two dramas, Jephthes (sive Votum) and Baptistes (sive Calumnia), were completed.
Michel de Montaigne was Buchanan's pupil at Bordeaux and acted in his tragedies. In the essay Of Presumption he classes Buchanan with Aurat, Theodore Beza, Michel de l'Hôpital, Montdore and Turnebus, as one of the foremost Latin poets of his time. Here also Buchanan formed a lasting friendship with Julius Caesar Scaliger; in later life he won the admiration of Joseph Scaliger, who wrote an epigram on Buchanan which contains the couplet, famous in its day: "Imperii fuerat Romani Scotia limes; Romani eloquii Scotia limes erit?"
In 1542 or 1543 he returned to Paris, and in 1544 was appointed regent in the college of Cardinal le Moine. Among his colleagues were the renowned Muretus and Adrianus Turnebus.
In 1547 Buchanan joined the band of French and Portuguese humanists who had been invited by Gouvéa to lecture in the Portuguese University of Coimbra. The French mathematician Elie Vinet, and the Portuguese historian, Jeronimo de Osorio, were among his colleagues; Gouvéa, called by Montaigne le plus grand principal de France, was rector of the university, which had reached the summit of its prosperity under the patronage of King John III. But the rectorship had been coveted by Diogo de Gouvéa, uncle of André and formerly head of Sainte-Barbe. It is probable that before André's death at the end of 1547 Diogo had urged the Inquisition to attack him and his staff; up to 1906, when the records of the trial were first published in full, Buchanan's biographers generally attributed the attack to the influence of Cardinal Beaton, the Franciscans, or the Jesuits, and the whole history of Buchanan's residence in Portugal was extremely obscure.
A commission of inquiry was appointed in October 1549 and reported in June 1550. Buchanan and two Portuguese, Diogo de Teive and Joao da Costa (who had succeeded to the rectorship), were committed for trial. Teive and Costa were found guilty of various offences against public order, and the evidence shows that there was ample reason for a judicial inquiry. Buchanan was accused of Lutheran and Judaistic practices. He defended himself with conspicuous ability, courage and frankness, admitting that some of the charges were true. About June 1551 he was sentenced to abjure his errors, and to be imprisoned in the monastery of São Bento in Lisbon. Here he was compelled to listen to edifying discourses from the monks, whom he found "not unkind but ignorant." In his leisure he began to translate the Psalms into Latin verse. After seven months he was released, on condition that he remained in Lisbon; and on February 28, 1552 this restriction was lifted. Buchanan at once sailed for England, but soon made his way to Paris, where in 1553 he was appointed regent in the College of Boncourt. He remained in that post for two years, and then accepted the office of tutor to the son of the Maréchal de Brissac. It was almost certainly during this last stay in France, where Protestantism was being repressed with great severity by King Francis I, that Buchanan took the side of Calvinism.
In 1560 or 1561 he returned to Scotland, and by April 1562 was installed as tutor to the young Queen Mary I of Scotland, who read Livy with him daily. Buchanan now openly joined the Protestant, or Reformed Church, and in 1566 was appointed by the earl of Murray principal of St Leonard's College, St Andrews. Two years before he had received from the queen the valuable gift of the revenues of Crossraguel Abbey. He was thus in good circumstances, and his fame was steadily increasing. So great, indeed, was his reputation for learning and administrative capacity that, though a layman, he was made Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1567. He had sat in the assemblies from 1563. He was the last lay person to be elected Moderator until Alison Elliot in 2004, the first female Moderator.
Buchanan accompanied the regent Murray into England, and his Detectio (published in 1572) was produced to the commissioners at Westminster. In 1570, after the assassination of Murray, he was appointed one of the preceptors of the young king, and it was through his tuition that James VI acquired his scholarship. While discharging the functions of royal tutor he also held other important offices. He was for a short time director of chancery, and then became Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland, a post which entitled him to a seat in the parliament. He appears to have continued in this office for some years, at least till 1579.
His last years had been occupied with completion and publication of two of his most important works, De Jure Regni apud Scales (1579) and Rerum Scoticarum Historia (1582). He died in Edinburgh in 1582 and is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard (rather ironically, considering that his old foes had been the greyfriars).
[edit] Works
For mastery of the Latin language, Buchanan has seldom been surpassed by any modern writer. His style is not rigidly modelled on that of any classical author, but has a freshness and elasticity of its own. He wrote Latin as if it were his mother tongue. Buchanan also had a rich vein of poetical feeling, and much originality of thought. His translations of the Psalms and of the Greek plays are more than mere versions; his two tragedies, Baptistes and Jephthes, enjoyed a European reputation for academic excellence.
In addition to these works, Buchanan wrote in prose Chamaeleon, a satire in Scots against Maitland of Lethington, first printed in 1711; a Latin translation of Linacre's Grammar (Paris, 1533); Libellus de Prosodia (Edinburgh, 1640); and Vita ab ipso scripta biennio ante mortem (1608), edited by R. Sibbald (1702). His other poems are Fratres Fraterrimi, Elegiae, Silvae, two sets of verses entitled Hendecasyllabon Liber and Iambon Liber; three books of Epigrammata; a book of miscellaneous verse; De Sphaera (in five books), suggested by the poem of Joannes de Sacrobosco, and intended as a defence of the Ptolemaic theory against the new Copernican view.
There are two early editions of Buchanan's works: (a) Georgii Buchanani Scoti, Poetarum sui seculi facile principis, Opera Omnsa, in two vols. fol. edited by Thomas Ruddiman (Edinburgh, Freebairn, folio, 1715): (b) edited by Burman, quarto 1725. The Vernacular Writings.
The first of his important late works was the treatise De Jure Regni apud Scales, published in 1579. In this famous work, composed in the form of a dialogue, and evidently intended to instil sound political principles into the mind of his pupil, Buchanan lays down the doctrine that the source of all political power is the people, that the king is bound by those conditions under which the supreme power was first committed to his hands, and that it is lawful to resist, even to punish, tyrants. The importance of the work is proved by the persistent efforts of the legislature to suppress it during the century following its publication. It was condemned by act of parliament in 1584, and again in 1664; and in 1683 it was burned by the University of Oxford.
The second of his larger works is the history of Scotland, Rerum Scoticarum Historia, completed shortly before his death (1579), and published in 1582. It is of great value for the period personally known to the author, which occupies the greater portion of the book. The earlier part is based, to a considerable extent, on the legendary history of Boece. Buchanan's purpose was to "purge" the national history "of sum Inglis lyis and Scottis vanite" (Letter to Randolph). He said that it would "content few and displease many".
[edit] Modern Publications and Influence
Polygon Books have published the poet Robert Crawford's selection of Buchanan's verse in Apollos of the North: Selected Poems of George Buchanan and Arthur Johnston (ISBN 1904598811) in 2006, the 500th anniversary of Buchanan's birth.
In the lead-up to the anniversary Professor Roger Mason of the University of St Andrews has published A Dialogue on the Law of Kingship among the Scots, a critical edition and translation of George Buchanan's 'De Iure Regni apud Scotos Dialogus (ISBN 1859284086).
The Stirling Smith Museum and Art Gallery is hosting an exhibition and event programme over winter 2006-7 to commemorate the anniversary, including performances of musical settings of Buchanan's psalms, due to be published in 2007.
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Project for monument to the victims of Auschwitz
Umjetnički paviljon - Dušan Džamonja : pedesete i šezdesete (Dušan Džamonja : Fifties / Sixties)
Por mais que o ódio seja forte, por mais que tudo esteja perto da morte. O amor sempre vence. Ele tem a força e o poder. Por mais que a tristeza seja grande, por mais que existam espinhos nos caminhos do amor, o amor sempre vence ele é a força maior.
I managed to find some time to start a project I have been thinking about loads lately :)
Can you guess what I am making?
My TPS365 photo story has come to an end. Like all good Fairy tales there have been good times and not so good times!! Nearly giving up on a few occasions.
This 365 project has given me a visual diary of the year. Many of these pictures would not have been taken if I hadn't taken on this project.
Some days were more difficult than others but I continued to get inspiration by pushing myself to go out of my comfort zone and use a more creative eye.
I tried to look for something new, inspiring me to be more creative with my images. Well some times!!!!! lol
I have learnt more about photoshop and other plugins enjoying building on my own Picketted enhances. (as Marcus would say)
Above all I am inspired by all the other images from the group and on Flickr a world full of inspiration.
Thanks for all your comments and inspiration to keep me motivated.
My wish to you all as Fairy God Mother is keep taking those fab pics and sharing them with me.
I now look forward to next year a little more relaxed with our TPS52 project.
I also want to revisit many images taken this year I didn’t have time to edit to post on flickr.
Happy New Year to you all
P.S You all know what I am going to be doing every day after buying this book in a charity shop today!!!!
Thank you everyone for you comments and favorites. I think it's the cute little subject who made this photo so good.
EXPLORED
With The Deltic Preservation Society's class 55 locomotive 55019 'Royal Highland Fusilier' up front, working the 15.20 Wirksworth-Duffield (15.58) service we pass 58022 on the outskirts of Wirksworth.
The Ivatt Diesel Recreation Society plan to recreate and operate LMS10000, which was the first British mainline diesel electric locomotive, 58022 will donate its frame for 'Project Icon' as it is known.
15th May 2022