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Ya, this was my classroom! There are lots of things i learn from here! Full of memories with my sweet best friends, classmates and teachers. This is my younger sister's classroom as well, I always ask her to enjoy her secondary life with her lovely friends because not easy to find faithful and lovely friends when we grow up!
Men of a Special Section, Special Brigade, Royal Engineers. The four Special Sections were assigned flamethrowers and later designated Z Company.
Several display French headgear; the man seated in the left front wears the chéchia of a Compagnie Schilt, complete with metal "1" of the 1st Engineer Regiment.
Three are armed with the .455 Webley revolver in open-topped holsters. British gas and flame troops were officially armed only with pistols, but most retained their .303 SMLE rifles.
Crucial Section - EM Seven (Koiwa, Tokyo, JP) - 2008/09/14
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I just released a 7inch split with these guys and Thrashington DC, a french band.
Business Section, West Derry, N.H. Made in Germany for L.W. Rand, West Derry, N.H. September 1906(2)
The expandable pocket serves as my 'wallet' - holding cash (notes only, coins live in my pockets now), receipts, and a couple of extra paper cards - coffee cards & my organ donor card.
The card pockets hold my I.D., a plastic coffee card and my ATM card.
The Jiankou section of the Great Wall of China is the sixth section that I’ve visited (seventh trip in total) and it is – by far – my favorite section. “Jiankou” means “arrow nock” and was given that name as locals see that shape in the mountain/valley. There are two approaches to the wall: Hou Jiankou (rear) and Qian Jiankou (front). Of the two, Hou Jiankou is a much easier approach. It only climbs about 100 meters in altitude and is a reasonably easy climb over a kilometer. Qian Jiankou is about a kilometer in approach, but with a 450 meter rise, almost vertical. The wall was built in 1368 A.D. of the Ming Dynasty with large white rocks that are easily visible from a distance.
Photographers and hikers alike are quite drawn to the wall here. It’s not maintained like the other sections, so has a very “wild” feel to it thanks to its disrepair. The current state of the wall gives a sense of romanticism in its reality/purity (as opposed to renovated sections) but it’s also what makes it so dangerous. As you can tell from these photos, a simple walk is impossible. Many of the rocks along the wall are loose and if – like me – you carry a tripod or other photographic equipment, that adds an extra challenge. Because it’s an unrestored (and, for the most part, unmonitored) section of the wall, it’s quite possible to camp overnight atop the wall here, though – with the exception of summer – nights can be quite cold.
The wall here has many popular views or features. Among them are watch towers with names like “The Eagle Flies Facing Upward” (due to its almost vertical rise), the “Beijing Knot” (where three sections of the wall come together), the “Nine-Eye Tower” (a three-layered watchtower with nine holes on each side), Zhengbei Tower (great place to see the sunrise), and the Cloud Stairs (with a 70-80 degree ascent into the clouds).
Reaching the wall from Beijing isn’t too hard. From the Dongzhimen bus terminal (Dongzhimen subway station, exit B), you can take the 916 or 980 (kuai/fast) buses about one hour out of town into the Huairou district of Miyun County. It’s about 70-80 kilometers northeast of Beijing. Once off the bus, you’ll have to take a private taxi (aka…private individuals happy to fleece you to drive you to the wall, which is still 30-40 minutes away). I paid 500 RMB for a drive to the wall and back to the bus stop. That’s about…$80-85. The closest “village” to the Hou Jiankou section is Xizhazi. You could also possibly spend the night here, which is a more legitimate place to stay, if you can find a local who is willing to put you up for the night.
To put the location in a little more perspective, it’s immediately adjacent to the Mutianyu section (which is probably one of the two most popular sections, along with Badaling) to the east and the Moshikou section to the west.
This is definitely the first of what I hope to be a few more trips to this section (maybe even a return this summer). Today’s trip was just my “preview” and I only spent 1-2 hours out on the wall and, given the difficulty of negotiating the wall, I didn’t cover more than 500 meters of the 4,000+ meter section. Next time, I intend to spend the night out here.
Nectanebo's sphinxes don't seem to be the least bit put out by the gafir's smoke! This is the Luxor-Temple end of the Avenue of the Sphinxes which once stretched all the way to the Karnak Temple complex.
Section 41 of Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, April 27, 2020. Another section established after WWII. Sections 38-43 are referred to as the "rolling hills" area as the hilly terrain provides a beautiful landscape. (U.S. Army photo by Elizabeth Fraser / Arlington National Cemetery / released)
A school project, redesign of an architecture&design magazine Kvart.
Number 13 actually was a bad fortune number for magazine, so with great difficulties number 14 came out with a huge delay. Therefor number 14 on the cover page is presented as impossible object. Magazine no longer exists today.
The book cover of a fictional story from inside a PD.
Coming autumn 2022.
(The picture is taken down by the boatyard, between the sea and the beach.)
While reading a DPS article on golden ratio/sections, I wondered whether the grid marks in the viewfinder of my Pentax K-m bore any relation to golden sections.
I took some test shots with vertical and horizontal edges aligned with the grid, then checked the alignment using GIMP's Golden sections grid on the selection tool.
This image is a screen capture of a mockup showing the golden sections grid selection imposed on the viewfinder screen.
It's pretty obvious that the left and right grid marks have a quite close alignment with the intersections of the golden sections grid.
Now to take some of those naturally pleasing to the eye photographs!!