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Arles
Arles is located in France
Arles is located in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Coordinates: 43°40′36″N 4°37′40″ECoordinates: 43°40′36″N 4°37′40″E
Country France
Region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Department Bouches-du-Rhône
Arrondissement Arles
Canton Arles
Intercommunality CA Arles-Crau-Camargue-Montagnette
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020) Hervé Schiavetti (PCF)
Area1 758.93 km2 (293.02 sq mi)
Population (2012)2 52,439
• Density 69/km2 (180/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code 13004 /13200
Elevation 0–57 m (0–187 ft)
(avg. 10 m or 33 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.
Arles (French pronunciation: [aʁl]; Provençal [ˈaʀle] in both classical and Mistralian norms; Arelate in Classical Latin) is a city and commune in the south of France, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, of which it is a subprefecture, in the former province of Provence.
A large part of the Camargue is located on the territory of the commune, making it the largest commune in Metropolitan France in terms of territory (though Maripasoula, French Guiana, is much larger). The city has a long history, and was of considerable importance in the Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis. The Roman and Romanesque Monuments of Arles were listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1981. The Dutch post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh lived in Arles from 1888 to 1889 and produced over 300 paintings and drawings during his time there. An international photography festival has been held in the city since 1970.
Geography
The river Rhône forks into two branches just upstream of Arles, forming the Camargue delta. Because the Camargue is for a large part administratively part of Arles, the commune as a whole is the largest commune in Metropolitan France in terms of territory, although its population is only slightly more than 50,000. Its area is 758.93 km2 (293.02 sq mi), which is more than seven times the area of Paris.
Climate
Arles has a Mediterranean climate with a mean annual temperature of 14.6 °C (1948 - 1999). The summers are warm and moderately dry, with seasonal averages between 22 °C and 24 °C, and mild winters with a mean temperature of about 7 °C. The city is constantly, but especially in the winter months, subject to the influence of the mistral, a cold wind which can cause sudden and severe frosts. Rainfall (636 mm per year) is fairly evenly distributed from September to May, with the summer drought being less marked than in other Mediterranean areas.[1]
History
Arles Amphitheatre, a Roman arena.
Passageway in Roman arena
Church of St. Trophime and its cloister.
Ancient era
The Ligurians were in this area from about 800 BC. Later, Celtic influences have been discovered. The city became an important Phoenician trading port, before being taken by the Romans.
The Romans took the town in 123 BC and expanded it into an important city, with a canal link to the Mediterranean Sea being constructed in 104 BC. However, it struggled to escape the shadow of Massalia (Marseilles) further along the coast.
Its chance came when it sided with Julius Caesar against Pompey, providing military support. Massalia backed Pompey; when Caesar emerged victorious, Massalia was stripped of its possessions, which were transferred to Arelate as a reward. The town was formally established as a colony for veterans of the Roman legion Legio VI Ferrata, which had its base there. Its full title as a colony was Colonia Iulia Paterna Arelatensium Sextanorum, "the ancestral Julian colony of Arles of the soldiers of the Sixth."
Arelate was a city of considerable importance in the province of Gallia Narbonensis. It covered an area of some 40 hectares (99 acres) and possessed a number of monuments, including an amphitheatre, triumphal arch, Roman circus, theatre, and a full circuit of walls. Ancient Arles was closer to the sea than it is now and served as a major port. It also had (and still has) the southernmost bridge on the Rhône. Very unusually, the Roman bridge was not fixed but consisted of a pontoon-style bridge of boats, with towers and drawbridges at each end. The boats were secured in place by anchors and were tethered to twin towers built just upstream of the bridge. This unusual design was a way of coping with the river's frequent violent floods, which would have made short work of a conventional bridge. Nothing remains of the Roman bridge, which has been replaced by a more modern bridge near the same spot.
The city reached a peak of influence during the 4th and 5th centuries, when Roman Emperors frequently used it as their headquarters during military campaigns. In 395, it became the seat of the Praetorian Prefecture of the Gauls, governing the western part of the Western Empire: Gaul proper plus Hispania (Spain) and Armorica (Brittany). At that time, the city was perhaps home to 75,000–100,000 people.[2][3][4][5]
It became a favorite city of Emperor Constantine I, who built baths there, substantial remains of which are still standing. His son, Constantine II, was born in Arles. Usurper Constantine III declared himself emperor in the West (407–411) and made Arles his capital in 408.
Arles became renowned as a cultural and religious centre during the late Roman Empire. It was the birthplace of the sceptical philosopher Favorinus. It was also a key location for Roman Christianity and an important base for the Christianization of Gaul. The city's bishopric was held by a series of outstanding clerics, beginning with Saint Trophimus around 225 and continuing with Saint Honoratus, then Saint Hilarius in the first half of the 5th century. The political tension between the Catholic bishops of Arles and the Visigothic kings is epitomized in the career of the Frankish St. Caesarius, bishop of Arles 503–542, who was suspected by the Arian Visigoth Alaric II of conspiring with the Burgundians to turn over the Arelate to Burgundy, and was exiled for a year to Bordeaux in Aquitaine. Political tensions were evident again in 512, when Arles held out against Theodoric the Great and Caesarius was imprisoned and sent to Ravenna to explain his actions before the Ostrogothic king.[6]
The friction between the Arian Christianity of the Visigoths and the Catholicism of the bishops sent out from Rome established deep roots for religious heterodoxy, even heresy, in Occitan culture. At Treves in 385, Priscillian achieved the distinction of becoming the first Christian executed for heresy (Manichaean in his case, see also Cathars, Camisards). Despite this tension and the city's decline in the face of barbarian invasions, Arles remained a great religious centre and host of church councils (see Council of Arles), the rival of Vienne, for hundreds of years.
Roman aqueduct and mill
Aqueduct of Arles at Barbegal
The Barbegal aqueduct and mill is a Roman watermill complex located on the territory of the commune of Fontvieille, a few kilometres from Arles. The complex has been referred to as "the greatest known concentration of mechanical power in the ancient world".[7] The remains of the mill streams and buildings which housed the overshot water wheels are still visible at the site, and it is by far the best-preserved of ancient mills. There are two aqueducts which join just north of the mill complex, and a sluice which enabled the operators to control the water supply to the complex. The mill consisted of 16 waterwheels in two separate rows built into a steep hillside. There are substantial masonry remains of the water channels and foundations of the individual mills, together with a staircase rising up the hill upon which the mills are built. The mills apparently operated from the end of the 1st century until about the end of the 3rd century.[8] The capacity of the mills has been estimated at 4.5 tons of flour per day, sufficient to supply enough bread for 6,000 of the 30-40,000 inhabitants of Arelate at that time.[9] A similar mill complex existed also on the Janiculum in Rome. Examination of the mill leat still just visible on one side of the hill shows a substantial accretion of lime in the channel, tending to confirm its long working life.
It is thought that the wheels were overshot water wheels with the outflow from the top driving the next one down and so on, to the base of the hill. Vertical water mills were well known to the Romans, being described by Vitruvius in his De Architectura of 25 BC, and mentioned by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia of 77 AD. There are also later references to floating water mills from Byzantium and to sawmills on the river Moselle by the poet Ausonius. The use of multiple stacked sequences of reverse overshot water-wheels was widespread in Roman mines.
Middle Ages
Place de la République.
Cafe Terrace at Night by Vincent van Gogh (September 1888), depicts the warmth of a café in Arles
In 735, after raiding the Lower Rhône, Andalusian Saracens led by Yusuf ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri moved into the stronghold summoned by Count Maurontus, who feared Charles Martel's expansionist ambitions, though this may have been an excuse to further Moorish expansion beyond Iberia. The next year, Charles campaigned south to Septimania and Provence, attacking and capturing Arles after destroying Avignon. In 739. Charles definitely drove Maurontus to exile, and brought Provence to heel. In 855, it was made the capital of a Frankish Kingdom of Arles, which included Burgundy and part of Provence, but was frequently terrorised by Saracen and Viking raiders. In 888, Rudolph, Count of Auxerre (now in north-western Burgundy), founded the kingdom of Transjuran Burgundy (literally, beyond the Jura mountains), which included western Switzerland as far as the river Reuss, Valais, Geneva, Chablais and Bugey.
In 933, Hugh of Arles ("Hugues de Provence") gave his kingdom up to Rudolph II, who merged the two kingdoms into a new Kingdom of Arles. In 1032, King Rudolph III died, and the kingdom was inherited by Emperor Conrad II the Salic. Though his successors counted themselves kings of Arles, few went to be crowned in the cathedral. Most of the kingdom's territory was progressively incorporated into France. During these troubled times, the amphitheatre was converted into a fortress, with watchtowers built at each of the four quadrants and a minuscule walled town being constructed within. The population was by now only a fraction of what it had been in Roman times, with much of old Arles lying in ruins.
The town regained political and economic prominence in the 12th century, with the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa traveling there in 1178 for his coronation. In the 12th century, it became a free city governed by an elected podestat (chief magistrate; literally "power"), who appointed the consuls and other magistrates. It retained this status until the French Revolution of 1789.
Arles joined the countship of Provence in 1239, but, once more, its prominence was eclipsed by Marseilles. In 1378, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV ceded the remnants of the Kingdom of Arles to the Dauphin of France (later King Charles VI of France) and the kingdom ceased to exist even on paper.
Modern era
Arles remained economically important for many years as a major port on the Rhône. In the 19th century, the arrival of the railway diminished river trade, leading to the town becoming something of a backwater.
This made it an attractive destination for the painter Vincent van Gogh, who arrived there on 21 February 1888. He was fascinated by the Provençal landscapes, producing over 300 paintings and drawings during his time in Arles. Many of his most famous paintings were completed there, including The Night Cafe, the Yellow Room, Starry Night Over the Rhone, and L'Arlésienne. Paul Gauguin visited van Gogh in Arles. However, van Gogh's mental health deteriorated and he became alarmingly eccentric, culminating in the well-known ear-severing incident in December 1888 which resulted in two stays in the Old Hospital of Arles. The concerned Arlesians circulated a petition the following February demanding that van Gogh be confined. In May 1889, he took the hint and left Arles for the Saint-Paul asylum at nearby Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
Jewish history
Main article: History of the Jews in Arles
Arles had an important and evident Jewish community between the Roman era and until the end of the 15th century. A local legend describes the first Jews in Arles as exiles from Judaea after Jerusalem fell to the Romans. Nevertheless, the first documented evident of Jews in Arles is not before fifth century, when a distinguished community had already existed in town. Arles was an important Jewish crossroads, as a port city and close to Spain and the rest of Europe alike. It served a major role in the work of the Hachmei Provence group of famous Jewish scholars, translators and philosophers, who were most important to Judaism throughout the Middle Ages. At the eighth century, the jurisdiction of the Jews of Arles were passed to the local Archbishop, making the Jewish taxes to the clergy somewhat of a shield for the community from mob attacks, most frequent during the Crusades. The community lived relatively peacefully until the last decade of the 15th century, when they were expelled out of the city never to return. Several Jews did live in the city in the centuries after, though no community was found ever after. Nowadays, Jewish archaeological findings and texts from Arles can be found in the local museum.[10]
Arles has important Roman remnants, most of which have been listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites since 1981 within the Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments group. They include:
The Gallo-Roman theatre
The arena or amphitheatre
The Alyscamps (Roman necropolis)
The Thermae of Constantine
The cryptoporticus
Arles Obelisk
Barbegal aqueduct and mill
The Church of St. Trophime (Saint Trophimus), formerly a cathedral, is a major work of Romanesque architecture, and the representation of the Last Judgment on its portal is considered one of the finest examples of Romanesque sculpture, as are the columns in the adjacent cloister.
The town also has a museum of ancient history, the Musée de l'Arles et de la Provence antiques, with one of the best collections of Roman sarcophagi to be found anywhere outside Rome itself. Other museums include the Musée Réattu and the Museon Arlaten.
The courtyard of the Old Arles hospital, now named "Espace Van Gogh," is a center for Vincent van Gogh's works, several of which are masterpieces.[11] The garden, framed on all four sides by buildings of the complex, is approached through arcades on the first floor. A circulation gallery is located on the first and second floors.[12]
Archaeology
Main article: Arles portrait bust
In September–October 2007, divers led by Luc Long from the French Department of Subaquatic Archaeological Research, headed by Michel L'Hour, discovered a life-sized marble bust of an apparently important Roman person in the Rhône near Arles, together with smaller statues of Marsyas in Hellenistic style and of the god Neptune from the third century AD. The larger bust was tentatively dated to 46 BC. Since the bust displayed several characteristics of an ageing person with wrinkles, deep naso-labial creases and hollows in his face, and since the archaeologists believed that Julius Caesar had founded the colony Colonia Iulia Paterna Arelate Sextanorum in 46 BC, the scientists came to the preliminary conclusion that the bust depicted a life-portrait of the Roman dictator: France's Minister of Culture Christine Albanel reported on May 13, 2008, that the bust would be the oldest representation of Caesar known today.[13] The story was picked up by all larger media outlets.[14][15] The realism of the portrait was said to place it in the tradition of late Republican portrait and genre sculptures. The archaeologists further claimed that a bust of Julius Caesar might have been thrown away or discreetly disposed of, because Caesar's portraits could have been viewed as politically dangerous possessions after the dictator's assassination.
Historians and archaeologists not affiliated with the French administration, among them Paul Zanker, the renowned archaeologist and expert on Caesar and Augustus, were quick to question whether the bust is a portrait of Caesar.[16][17][18] Many noted the lack of resemblances to Caesar's likenesses issued on coins during the last years of the dictator's life, and to the Tusculum bust of Caesar,[19] which depicts Julius Caesar in his lifetime, either as a so-called zeitgesicht or as a direct portrait. After a further stylistic assessment, Zanker dated the Arles-bust to the Augustan period. Elkins argued for the third century AD as the terminus post quem for the deposition of the statues, refuting the claim that the bust was thrown away due to feared repercussions from Caesar's assassination in 44 BC.[20] The main argument by the French archaeologists that Caesar had founded the colony in 46 BC proved to be incorrect, as the colony was founded by Caesar's former quaestor Tiberius Claudius Nero on the dictator's orders in his absence.[21] Mary Beard has accused the persons involved in the find of having willfully invented their claims for publicity reasons. The French ministry of culture has not yet responded to the criticism and negative reviews.
Sport
AC Arles-Avignon is a professional French football team. They currently play in Championnat de France Amateur, the fourth division in French football. They play at the Parc des Sports, which has a capacity of just over 17,000.
Culture
A well known photography festival, Rencontres d'Arles, takes place in Arles every year, and the French national school of photography is located there.
The major French publishing house Actes Sud is also situated in Arles.
Bull fights are conducted in the amphitheatre, including Provençal-style bullfights (courses camarguaises) in which the bull is not killed, but rather a team of athletic men attempt to remove a tassle from the bull's horn without getting injured. Every Easter and on the first weekend of September, during the feria, Arles also holds Spanish-style corridas (in which the bulls are killed) with an encierro (bull-running in the streets) preceding each fight.
The film Ronin was partially filmed in Arles.
European Capital of Culture
Arles played a major role in Marseille-Provence 2013, the year-long series of cultural events held in the region after it was designated the European Capital of Culture for 2013. The city hosted a segment of the opening ceremony with a pyrotechnical performance by Groupe F on the banks of the Rhône. It also unveiled the new wing of the Musée Départemental Arles Antique as part of Marseille-Provence 2013.
Economy
Arles's open-air street market is a major market in the region. It occurs on Saturday and Wednesday mornings.
Transport
The Gare d'Arles railway station offers connections to Avignon, Nîmes, Marseille, Paris, Bordeaux and several regional destinations.
Notable people
Vincent van Gogh, lived here from February 1888 until May 1889.
The Provençal poet Frédéric Mistral (1830–1914) was born near Arles
Jeanne Calment (1875–1997), the oldest human being whose age is documented, was born, lived and died, at the age of 122 years and 164 days, in Arles
Anne-Marie David, singer (Eurovision winner in 1973)
Christian Lacroix, fashion designer
Lucien Clergue, photographer
Djibril Cissé, footballer
Antoine de Seguiran, 18th-century encyclopédiste
Genesius of Arles, a notary martyred under Maximianus in 303 or 308
Blessed Jean Marie du Lau, last Archbishop of Arles, killed by the revolutionary mob in Paris on September 2, 1792
Juan Bautista (real name Jean-Baptiste Jalabert), matador
Maja Hoffmann, art patron
Mehdi Savalli, matador
The medieval writer Antoine de la Sale was probably born in Arles around 1386
Home of the Gipsy Kings, a music group from Arles
Gael Givet, footballer
Lloyd Palun, footballer
Fanny Valette, actress
Luc Hoffmann, ornithologist, conservationist and philanthropist.
Saint Caesarius of Arles, bishop who lived from the late 5th to the mid 6th century, known for prophecy and writings that would later be used by theologians such as St. Thomas Aquinas
Samuel ibn Tibbon, famous Jewish translator and scholar during the Middle Ages.
Kalonymus ben Kalonymus, famous Jewish scholar and philosopher, Arles born, active during the Middle Ages.
Twin towns — sister cities
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in France
Arles is twinned with:
Pskov, Russia
Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
Fulda, Germany
York, Pennsylvania, United States
Cubelles, Spain
Vercelli, Italy
Sagné, Mauritania
Kalymnos, Greece
Wisbech, United Kingdom
Zhouzhuang, Kunshan, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China
Verviers, Belgium
See also
Archbishopric of Arles
Montmajour Abbey
Trinquetaille
Langlois Bridge
Saint-Martin-de-Crau
Communes of the Bouches-du-Rhône department
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Archdiocese of Aix". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton.
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The table contains the temperatures and precipitation of the city of Arles for the period 1948-1999, extracted from the site Sophy.u-3mrs.fr.
www.academia.edu/1166147/_The_Fall_and_Decline_of_the_Rom...
Rick Steves' Provence & the French Riviera, p. 78, at Google Books
Nelson's Dictionary of Christianity: The Authoritative Resource on the Christian World, p. 1173, at Google Books
Provence, p. 81, at Google Books
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Greene, Kevin (2000). "Technological Innovation and Economic Progress in the Ancient World: M.I. Finley Re-Considered". The Economic History Review. New Series. 53 (1): 29–59 [p. 39]. doi:10.1111/1468-0289.00151.
"Ville d'Histoire et de Patrimoine". Patrimoine.ville-arles.fr. Retrieved 2013-03-25.
"La meunerie de Barbegal". Etab.ac-caen.fr. Retrieved 2013-03-25.
jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1784-arles
Fisher, R, ed (2011). Fodor's France 2011. Toronto and New York: Fodor's Travel, division of Random House. p. 563 ISBN 978-1-4000-0473-7.
"Espace Van Gogh". Visiter, Places of Interest. Arles Office de Tourisme. Retrieved 2011-04-29.
Original communiqué (May 13, 2008); second communiqué (May 20, 2008); report (May 20, 2008)
E.g."Divers find marble bust of Caesar that may date to 46 B.C.". Archived from the original on 2008-06-05. Retrieved 2008-05-14. , CNN-Online et al.
Video (QuickTime) Archived May 28, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. on the archaeological find (France 3)
Paul Zanker, "Der Echte war energischer, distanzierter, ironischer" Archived May 29, 2008, at the Wayback Machine., Sueddeutsche Zeitung, May 25, 2008, on-line
Mary Beard, "The face of Julius Caesar? Come off it!", TLS, May 14, 2008, on-line
Nathan T. Elkins, 'Oldest Bust' of Julius Caesar found in France?, May 14, 2008, on-line
Cp. this image at the AERIA library
A different approach was presented by Mary Beard, in that members of a military Caesarian colony would not have discarded portraits of Caesar, whom they worshipped as god, although statues were in fact destroyed by the Anti-Caesarians in the city of Rome after Caesar's assassination (Appian, BC III.1.9).
Konrat Ziegler & Walther Sontheimer (eds.), "Arelate", in Der Kleine Pauly: Lexikon der Antike, Vol. 1, col. 525, Munich 1979; in 46 BC, Caesar himself was campaigning in Africa, before later returning to Rome.
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Sometime back around 1987, while browsing through the magazine section, the front cover of a magazine called; “Scale Ship Modeler” caught my eye. Pictured on the cover was a man standing beside the biggest aircraft carrier model that I had ever seen (except maybe something I might have seen in the Museum of Science and Industry). Scale models, especially military models and military dioramas were very popular around the 80s. I always had an interest in miniature modeling and had even tried my hand at a few models over the years. In large bold letters the caption on the magazine read; “Giant R/C USS Nimitz” and the sub caption went on to announce; “One of the largest and finest radio controlled scale model ships ever built by a single individual is the work of Rick Quinlan, a modeler with skills that are equal to his ambitions”.
I proceeded to delve into the article about this amazing modeling feat. The more I read and the more pictures I saw of this fantastic model, the more piqued my curiosity became. Unbelievable – a model......a actual, working, radio controlled model, scaled to one seventy-second of an inch to every foot of the monstrous USS Nimitz aircraft carrier! This was mind-blowing! This had to be the work of a master modeler and also someone with a lot of time on their hands! The model was exact in every detail – every nuance of the mighty USS Nimitz. In addition to being an exquisite model, here was one that almost every moving feature was controlled to move, turn, revolve, raise and lower by radio frequency. Amazing!
I had just settled in the Chicago area. When I noticed that the modeler lived in Decatur, Illinois, only about two hour drive from Chicago, I was determined to see this modeling masterpiece in person. To make a long story short, I managed to contact Rick Quinlan and he very cordially invited me to come down. In fact, he indicated that he would probably be taking his ship out to a local pond that very weekend. Rick graciously welcomed me to accompany him. So I grabbed my recently purchased 35mm camera, a completely manual Nikon FE-2 and off I went. Why, I am not sure, but I loaded my camera with Ektachrome slide film – 64 ASA. Wish I would have known then what I know now (which, come to think of it, isn’t much!) Anyway, it was a real thrill to have seen this fabulous radio controlled model Nimitz and even a greater thrill to have been involved in the “launching” of this beauty. Oh yeah, I was snapping off pictures but, unfortunately, not that good of photos, I must confess.
More about the model. As a couple of my pictures show, Rick reinforced the interior of the ship’s hull with plenty of wooden structure. Weight was not a problem, Rick stated, because the finished model needed 285 lbs. to put it down in the water line. The total displacement turned out to be 585 lbs. and it required four good crew members to launch the monster. She only weighs 200 lbs empty and is powered by two automotive 12 volt heater fan motors that drive 3-1 gearboxes turning all 4 drive shafts. The ship is built in three water tight sections bolted together at the joining bulkheads with five 5/16” and two ¼” bolts. To keep the 72nd Nimitz watertight all joints are sealed with silicone sealer each time the ship is assembled. Rick used one 12v full size marine type battery for power to the two heater motors. The whole ship is controlled a Futaba 7 channel radio controller.
How many hours did Rick put into constructing the Nimitz – probably almost as much time as had the Newport News Ship Building and Dry Dock company in construction of the original USS Nimitz – over 3,000 hours!
While looking through my outdated slides a few week ago, I came across my slides of Rick’s model and wished that I had these pictures available in digital format – (I also wished that I had taken better pictures but I knew there was not much I could do about that.) I found a local business that advertised that among their many photo services, they offered high-res scans of 35mm slide film and would convert transparencies into digital images and burn them on a CD ROM. I gathered up these weary old pictures along with some very special slides that I had taken of my younger brother several years ago. Regrettably, after my brother died of kidney cancer at the young age of 42, I was left with only one photo of him. My sister-in-law and Steve’s family took all the pictures I had and used them at my brother’s funeral. Here were some very precious pictures that were just laying in a slide container. This was the opportunity to have some visual memories of my dear brother, Steve. Considering the quality of many of these slides, I think the photo business did a fine job of converting these transparencies to digital. I did a little “fine tuning” using Photoshop.
Unfortunately, over time I lost touch with Rick so I never knew what happened to or where Rick’s master piece R/C model, Nimitz ended up. To my thinking it should have been placed in a maritime museum but in searching the internet, I have not found any evidence of this. What I did find, however, was a rather “suspicious” 1/72 scale model of the aircraft carrier, USS Enterprise, CVN-65, one of the sister ships of the Nimitz. Reportedly the modeler of this ship is a man by the name of Gabriel Suranyl. There are many excellent photos of this model and even a QuickTime video available at Mr. Suranyl’s web site. No where does it mention that this model ship (if, in fact it is not Rick’s ship) is radio controlled but if anyone wants to view some much better pictures of the ship (identical to the ship built by Rick Quinlan), here is the web link.
www.carrierbuilders.net/gallery/20070318_USS_Enterprise_1...
Also as a point of interest, here is a link to the only site that makes reference to the scale model Nimitz built by Richard Quinlan of Decatur, Illinois. - www.finescale.com/fsm/default.aspx?id=6&c=i
Hope some people with an interest of scale modeling find a little pleasure in viewing my photos, albeit not the best quality. I am pleased to be able to share these with the community.
The Victorian B&B on Staten Island, NY, where I stayed for around 10 days.
The problems with this panorama are endless; large exposure gap, stitching errors, color casts, strange blue stains (probably caused by color space and/or exposure limitations).
When I took this panorama I had to do it thrice. One time from a point of view on the grass (which then I didn't like) and two times in the position you see above. When I first began taking the shots I've realized there are some shots that came out with no details either in highlights, or in shadows - I had to change the settings and do some testing several times to get going and yet, there were problematic slides to the stitching process (specially those with no sky details). The sun behind the house's roof was another problem and caused some flare. I have to say I consider myself a HERO to stitch this one!
Ironically, the hardest point in the panorama (the nadir, usually) was the easiest to deal with in this panorama!
To have a QTVR look, check out the link below and download the file (~15MB) and open it in QuickTime:
Big news! No, I didn't win the lottery. Yet. But the lightning photo has passed 10,000 views on flickr. And the photo on the right monitor will be used on the PBS show Skyweek, to air the week of March 17-24.
Wait! There's more! I want to do more video and my seven year old Mac Pro won't run Final Cut Pro, and even Quicktime stutters at 60 fps, so I'm getting a new one! Mac Pro, that is. I'm keeping the old 30-inch monitor, though. Even though Tiara decided to draw a picture on it for me using a sharp No. 2 pencil, leaving just a teeeeeeny scratch that makes me smile whenever I notice it.
So next week I will be putting the new system together and trying to get all the software running again. Gee, I hope it ends up better than the old one.
Extra points for anyone who can guess where the picture behind me was taken.
Ha! This is clearly not my photo, but it does give me an excuse to share some cool stuff.
Skywalker Sound has put together a very cool compilation video of the solid rocket booster perspective from launch to splash down. Make sure to watch full screen.
I will be going to the Kennedy Space Center to crawl throughout the Shuttle Endeavour as she is powered up for the very last time. That should be an amazing experience. I last got some cool night photos of Endeavour for STS-118.
This time, we will be taking 3D video and 360° Quicktime VR (I need to work on the rig for that). The final output, post processing, should look like this VR view of Discovery.
Then I’ll see the SpaceX Falcon9 launch to the ISS.... From one generation to the next.
Last night, 60 Minutes ran a profile on SpaceX.
Time lapse sequence made from 132 shots taken with a Canon 5D over 22min at 10 second intervals (1/dec/2007). Created with QuickTime Pro. El Morro - Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. Here's another view of El Morro and the lighthouse: El Morro Twilight Panorama on Flickriver
Taken during the EM 2008 Fire Training. The Casino was filled up with actors, the fire department lite some smoke candles and first for a long time, I had no problems taken photos inside :)
Quicktime version can be found under www.panotopia.org/?p=340
Back by (popular) demand..
All the fun of the WelshFlickrCymru social meet in Swansea. Sometimes talking about cameras, sometimes just shooting the breeze and having a laugh.
For those that really must know, 9 and a half Gigabytes of Medium resolution JPEG stills, about 4324 shots.. But not all made this cut..
I really struggled to cut this one down to the Flickr requirement of 1m30secs.. There'll be a longer cut up on YouTube later hopefully..
Enjoy.
P.S. This one goes out with a special mention to Helen, (livin the dream*) who was our designated driver.. She must be mad.... but its much appreciated! Thanks Helen!
If you have a slow assed connection like me, let it buffer a bit before playing..
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I used almost 750 pictures in this video camera used cannon 7D This is not the best quality that i could get in youtube.. watching it with HD 720 will help you to watch better quality. used quicktime player by creating image sequence. everything done by me it took me 1 week to do that :) !! thanks for watching ! and to watch in HD here is the link www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgd6Wf-X8qg&hd=1 to go to my website www.mohdahli.com
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Mostly a(nother) test of the built-in interval function. It was set up on the way out, and I forgot the white balance, etc.
large video 33MB quicktime : if you've a cable or DSL connection, select this and it should load as you watch it.
small video 8MB quicktime : if you've a slower connection, this one might be helpful.
also available in WMV for the QT less.
this video was shot and edited in 3 hours as an experiment in how fast i could turn around a substantial edited project shot on my kyocera sl400r.
that, and this song was begging for it.
music by the great lake swimmers .. order the album
please check out this video, i really think that you will enjoy it.
Time Lapse made using QuickTime Pro. Viewing in HD should help.
Edited together using Windows Movie Maker.
And again... if you notice the song picks up where my previous time lapse video left off, which was the "Missy and The Shack" :)
A little experiment I did in the summer of 2011. This time-lapse is constructed from 478 photos first processed and synchronized in Lightroom, then exported as JPGs and converted to a quicktime movie using quicktime professional.
Music by Chuck Lange The Natural Guitar, "The Brook"
Teleport to all 7 areas to experience the mysteries of the Amplituhedron. The Amplituhedron can best be seen at the viewing platform. Fun gifts for visitors at each teleport location. Play media-which requires quicktime.
60 minutes in 30 seconds: Sweeping the floor, some phone calls, dinner, drinking beer, "computing", music and watering the plants - not necessarily in that order, while the sun sets - all set to a mashup of Eminem and Benny Hill.
I used a Flip Video Camera for this one, filmed a full hour (~75 minutes with the unchanging scene?), exported almost 5,000 still frames via QuickTime Pro (a sampling of the original full-motion frameset) and made a movie out of 1,000 of those at 30fps.
In association with Richmond Park Stag Beetle Project.
These images were only possible with the help of a qualified handler - this should not be attempted otherwise. The Stag Beetle is an endangered species.
Quicktime movies of the Stag Beetles are available below (please us apple quicktime to view)...
www.lulsgate.com/jolt/images/live_male_sm.mov
www.lulsgate.com/jolt/images/lavae_sm.mov
The others I did a couple of weeks back of the dead samples.
www.lulsgate.com/jolt/images/female_beetle_sm.mov
www.lulsgate.com/jolt/images/jaws_sm.mov
Photographed by Flickr members imcgraw and benjaminwetherall
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Seattle, Washington
Best viewed in LARGE or original size.
Interactive views;
High Res Flash Version on 360 Cities;
www.360cities.net/image/pike-place-market-seattle-washing...
Click on square in upper left of pano for Full Screen.
Click and drag to navigate
Shockwave version;
www.fieldofview.com/flickr?page=photos/akameus/1311208987
( Requires Shockwave )
View as Quicktime VR Panorama here;
geoimages.berkeley.edu/worldwidepanorama/wwp1207/html/Ran...
In short: Video -> QuickTime image sequence export -> node.js processing images -> QuickTime image sequence import -> export h.264 / .mov.
Also on YouTube. Compare with original version.
Thanks to The Reverend for writing the implementation in JS - it didn't take much to port to work under node with LearnBoost's canvas module.
revdancatt.com/2012/03/31/the-pxl-effect-with-javascript-...
The process is a bit fiddly, but I plan to get the code on The GitHubs once I clean it up.
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A panoramic in southern french Alps this winter. I love this place, so quiet !
Best in large !!!
Made by stitching 17 RAW's, with a 18mm. This is part of a full 360° Quicktime VR available here on my web site :
perso.orange.fr/guillaume.bertocchi/envrac/VRtinee.mov
to see other pics and QTVR :
This is a compilation of a few clips that I shot on way to and from work the last few days to test the low light performance of the Panasonic GH2. I must say that I'm very impressed so far with the little gem. I'm a heavy user of the Lensbaby TT since it gives me the amazing ability to shoot and tilt just about any F-mount lens in the camerabag, being a Nikon user. My latest gear aquisition was the Carl Zeiss Planar T* 1,4/50 ZF for Nikon, it's an awesome lens for the GH2 when it comes to video work, but also for stills because it's actually quite easy to focus manually with the EVF.
There is noise/grain in some of the footage but remember it was shot in darkness, pretty much wide open and at the higher ISO range, noise is most visible in the 1:1 crop mode scenes (EX-tele). Most the clips are ungraded except for the "vintage scratched film" look added to one of the clips. In the first scenes I used a slow shutter speed (1/5 and 1/13) and did a speed up in post for a quick and rather jerky timelapse. Be aware that the original 1080p file available for download is XDCAM EX codec, so you'll need QuickTime and FCP on Mac OS X for the playback or re-wrap the files to MXF and then use Sony XDCAM viewer for Windows.
Location: Gothenburg City, Sweden.
Watch this video on Vimeo. Video created by Martin Wallgren.