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Europe, Germany, Freie Hansestadt Bremen, Weser, Bremen, Überseeinsel, Hochhaus, Weser Tower (Helmut Jahn) (slightly cut from all sides).
The town of Bremen shares many characteristics with Rotterdam. The massive damage of the WW2, the transformation of old city harbour/industry zone. and it's lively alternative art and theatre culture.
Shown here is the 22 story 'Weser Tower' office highrise (hochhaus) (Helmut Jahn, 2009) on the Übreseeinsel, Úberinsel is an extensive urban redevelopment project that's converting the old harbour and industry zone of Bremen into a lliving, recreational and commercial quarter. There are many similarities with the Rotterdam 'Kop van Zui'd' urban renwal project.
This is number 105 of the Urban restructuring (World) album.
This is the Toccoa River as it flows gently past Pleasant Valley Baptist Church.
Another shot taken on an October bicycle ride on the Gaddistown Road through Pleasant Valley in Union County, Georgia.
Located on Loch Leven in Glencoe close to the Ballachulish Church that also has many MacInneses in its graveyard, this is the burial isle for the Stewarts of Ballachulish & Ardsheal, the MacDonalds of Glencoe, the Camerons of Callart, the Appin Stewarts as well as others from the Glencoe area. It is said that Alasdair MacDonald (MacIain of Glencoe) was buried here after the Glencoe massacre of 1692. The Glencoe Center is not far away which has highlights of this famous massacre.
The island is only accessible by boat. Some of the island is cared for, but many of the burial sites have fallen into disarray. Every year a volunteer group of people of MacInnes and MacDonald come to the island and clean as much of the overgrowth as they can. One of the Clan MacInnes officers has family buried on the island, and participates in this clean up.
Many of the stones and slabs are made of slate and come from the Ballachulish Slate Quarry. Some of these stones are extremely large, considering that they must be hand carried in boats and taken up some difficult terrain.
You will see the name both Munda or Munde. Eilean means island. Eilean Munde was named after St. Fintan Mundus of Argyle, an Irish disciple of St. Columba. St. Columba established the other well-known MacInnes burial site, Kiel Church. St. Mundus came from Iona in the 7th century and established several abbeys, including one on the island which is now in ruins. The church had burned in 1495 but rebuilt. The last service was in July of 1693. St. Mundus died in 962.
Fintan Munnu (Mundus appears to be Latinized) was of the Ui-Neill clan in Ireland and trained as a monk. His birth year is unknown, but he died in 635AD. He studied at Bangor and at Cluain-Innis. As a young monk, he arrived on Iona shortly after Columba died and was sent back to Ireland to found his own monastery as its Abbot. He arrived in Alba in about 600AD and founded several churches. His final parish was on Eilean Nam Munde (Isle of the Teacher) which later became known as Eilean Nam Mairbh (Isle of the Dead). The Irish Gaelic word munnu means “to learn” or “to teach”.
It is rumored that the island is guarded (or haunted?) by the spirit of the last person buried there who cannot enter Paradise until the next is buried.
Last Weekend I took my infrared camera for a walk at Lindo Lake in Lakeside, California. It has the elements that I look for in Infrared photography - water, clouds and vegetation.
I've been taking infrared images for at least 18 years with a total of 3 different cameras. It's much easier to take infrared pictures with digital cameras that have been converted to infrared that it was in the film days. Other infrared images that I've posted on Flickr can be seen in my Infrared album. Over the years I've posted more than 650 infrared images on Flickr.
www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157600507865146
I used Nik Software's Silver Efex Pro 2 to convert the image from infrared to black and white. I have an album with over 200 black and white images in my cleverly titled Black And White Album.
www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/7215764498960693...`
So tired ... Still, there's no turning back.
Location, Kastoria Hellas
Nikon D300s, AF-S Nikkor 70-300mm f 1:4.5-5.6G ED VR@ 70mm
1/250, f/8, Aperture priority, ISO 200
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This shot is many years old, but it will be many more years before we can get shots like this in Big Spring Park. They "improved" the park and it will take some time for the trees to grow.
I drove 120 miles round trip from where I'm working just to make it to a lake where the water is drastically low, and most of the forrest around it has been clear cut.
Needless to say, I think it was worth the trip. I'm probably going to post a lot of photos from this 30 minute shoot. I just couldn't stop myself.
I haven't done it in a while, but here is a larger version of this shot only because I want to see it tomorrow at work, to the guys who I saw this spot as we went wizzing by.
