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A backlit translucent segment of a Mandarin orange. Approximately 35mm/1.4" edge to edge.
Strobist: Segment placed on top of a flash diffuser attached to a vertically oriented Canon 430EXII RT flash triggered by a Canon ST-E3-RT remote trigger.
This rainbow appearance marked the end of the first 6 days of June that yielded 3.17" of rain. Though the arrival was late, it was just in time to avoid a serious drought this summer.
The segments are curved, and in each segment, the top part reflects the sky and the bottom reflects the dry vegetation.
My contribution to Macro Mondays' challenge, "Shadow", on 13 Apr 2020. It's the base of a paper spike.
HMM!
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Another from the Tower Place carpark in London. Well worth a visit if you're in the area, especially as the staff don't give you any grief!
I've started to put together a map of spiral staircases in London. If you look at this Google Map you can see the one's I'm aware of. If you've got any that you know of that aren't on the map and you like them added then send me a Flickr mail with the details and I'll add it.
Program:Aperture-priority AE
Lens:AF-S DX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G
F:1.8
Speed:1/30
ISO:400
Focal Length:35.0 mm (35 mm equivalent 52.0 mm)
Focus Mode:AF-S
AF Area:Single Area
Shooting Mode:Single-Frame, [3]
VR:Off
EV:-1
Metering Mode:Multi-segment
WB:Auto
Focus Distance:0.53 m
Dof:0.016 m (0.523 - 0.539)
HyperFocal:33.65 m
another homeless person
The term unsheltered refers to that segment of a homeless community who do not have ordinary lawful access to buildings in which to sleep. Such persons frequently prefer the term houseless to the term homeless. Others may use the term street people, which does not fully encompass all unsheltered in that many such persons do not spend their time on urban street environments. Many shun such locales and prefer to convert unoccupied or abandoned buildings, or to inhabit mountains or, more often, lowland meadows, and creek banks and beaches Many jurisdictions have developed programs to provide short term emergency shelter (often in churches or other institutional real property, during particularly cold spells). These are referred to as warming centers, and are credited by their advocates as lifesaving.
A portion of the homeless population are generally in transit, but there is no generally accepted terminology to describe them; some nomenclature is frequently associated with derogatory connotations, and thus the professional and vernacular lingo to describe these persons is both evolving and not lacking in controversy. Much of the concern stems from the European situation, where homeless persons of Roma, Sinti and other ethnic descent have rejected the term gypsy. Other terms which some use regarding in-transit persons are: transient, vagabond, tramp or drifter. Occasionally, these terms are interchanged with terms not necessarily implying that the person is a traveler, i.e. hobo. The termbum is used for persons lacking a work ethic. The term transient is frequently used in police reports, without any precise definitions across jurisdictions.
It is complex and difficult to define homelessness. Many different definitions have been made and changes to the concept are constantly being brought to attention. The United States Congress has developed a definition that has gone through multiple changes. First applied in 1987, this general definition was provided and is now called the McKinney-Vento Act. As time went on and homelessness was still apparent in the USA, Congress added a definition for the homeless children and youths that will be using the educational programs; this change accrued in 2002. Congress later, in 2009, enacted the Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition Housing Act, also known as The HEARTH Act. This broadened the general definition of homelessness and gave more consideration to help given to those who are considered homeless. Once again, in 2011, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued a final rule to implement changes to the definition of homeless in the HEARTH Act. The implemented rule expands who is eligible for HUD-funded homeless assistance programs.
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Sede de Osakidetza (Basque Health Service), Bilbao, Spain.
Designed (2008): Juan Coll-Barrau and Daniel Gutierrez Zarza.
Elevation 7849m (25750ft), Nuptse or Nubtse (Sherpa: ནུབ་རྩེ། नुबचे, Wylie: Nub rtse) is a mountain in the Khumbu region of the Mahalangur Himal, in the Nepalese Himalayas. It lies two kilometres WSW of Mount Everest. Nubtse is Tibetan for "west peak", as it is the western segment of the Lhotse-Nubtse massif.
The summit of Nuptse is extremely dangerous due to loose snow with a lot of hollows, and there are also weakly attached cornices of snow. This provides a barrier to climbing, yet is not sturdy enough for safe climbing.
Excerpt from historicplaces.ca:
Description of Historic Place
The Masonic Temple Building located at 76-86 Dalhousie Street, is situated on the north side of the street between Market and Queen Streets, in the City of Brantford. This three-storey red-brick and stone building was designed in the Edwardian Commercial and Masonic style. It was constructed between 1909 and 1910.
The property was designated for its historic and architectural significance by the City of Brantford under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act (By-law 127-91).
Heritage Value
The Masonic Temple Building dominates the streetscape along Dalhousie Street. Its red-brick construction is complementary to the light colour of the nearby Federal Building.
The Masonic Temple Building was constructed on the former site of the Van Brocklin foundry, which had later became the Waterous Engine Works Company. The site was redeveloped in 1909, and the Masons began to use the building in 1911 and continued until 1945.
The upper storeys of the Masonic Temple Building demonstrate design features typical of the Masonic teachings of geometry. A series of arcades are located along the second floor of the building. The red-brick ten-bay facade is decorated with segmental arches and includes red-brick and cut-stone accents. The third bay on the left forms a focal point for the facade. It has double-hung windows, and two pilasters topped with a ball element which frames the main arch.
The third floor features brick voussoirs over the flat window heads. Under the window sills are brick sub-sills in relief showing a scallop pattern. At the attic level a cut-stone Masonic emblem and the words 'Temple Building' appear in relief.
Character-Defining Elements
Character defining elements that contribute to the heritage value of the Masonic Temple Building include its:
- ten-bay red-brick building with cut-stone trim
- arcade treatment of windows with brick and stone segmental arches on the second floor
- windows with brick voussoir heads and limestone sills on the third floor
- brick sub-sills in relief with a decorative scallop pattern
- cement render-course located above the third floor windows
- double-hung wood windows on the second floor which have ten small panes grouped together in the upper portion
- six round attic windows framed by stone
- cut-stone Masonic emblem and the words 'Temple Building' carved at the attic level
- dominant location in the Dalhousie streetscape
- proximity to the nearby Federal Building
A small section of one of the high rise buildings in London.
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Program:Manual
Lens:24-70mm f/2.8 G VR
F:8.0
Speed:1/60
ISO:90
Focal Length:70 mm
AF Fine Tune Adj:+16
Focus Mode:AF-C
AF Area:Dynamic Area (3D-tracking)
Shooting Mode:Single-Frame, Auto ISO, [9]
VR:On
Metering Mode:Multi-segment
WB:Auto0
Picture Control:Neutral
Focus Distance:33.50 m
Dof:inf (12.69 m - inf)
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A segment of an old residential/business building built by the Spanish during colonial times in Vigan, Philippines in the Ilocos Norte Province.
Inspired by Cameroonian shields.
Created with small green plants, dried leaves and bark.
Kew Gardens, London
So it was onto the spare D5500 for the next one. 66557 is off into the night having just got the road up the Sutton Park Line at Water Orton heading 4M52 the 16:36 Hartlepool P.D. Ports to Grain Thamesport conveying HS2 tunnel segments, diverted via the Midlands due to engineering work on the East Coast main line.
Japan, Food, Poster Yakimono, I created for a Yakimono promotion, small Japanese brochettes.
One sample out of a selection of 40 different skewers, wild-caught & chargrilled, seasoned Black Tiger Jumbo Prawn on a bamboo skewer.
God created food,
the devil created cooks,
…but the women give as inspiration!
Prawns or Shrimps?
Prawns have lamellar gills, side plates that overlap tile-like from front to back & carry their eggs inside their bodies near their tails.
Shrimp have branching gills, a side plate that overlays segments in front & behind, carrying their eggs outside of their bodies beneath their tails under the carapace.
Biologically speaking, they are different animals,
culinary there is no difference
Often labelled prawns are larger but aren't necessarily true prawns & plenty of shrimp aren't shrimpy in size at all. To make the confusion complete, some "prawns", such as spot prawns are biological shrimp & some "shrimp", notably ridgeback shrimp are technically prawns.
Bottom line, ..as long the crustaceans are really fresh, deliciously well prepared, not overcooked/grilled etc., not chewy &
you are in good company, it does not matter if prawn or shrimp ⦂⚪).
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Italia - Florencia - Ponte Vecchio y Río Arno
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ENGLISH
The Ponte Vecchio ("Old Bridge") is a medieval stone closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge over the Arno River, in Florence, Italy, noted for still having shops built along it, as was once common. Butchers initially occupied the shops; the present tenants are jewelers, art dealers and souvenir sellers. The Ponte Vecchio's two neighbouring bridges are the Ponte Santa Trinita and the Ponte alle Grazie.
The bridge spans the Arno at its narrowest point where it is believed that a bridge was first built in Roman times, when the via Cassia crossed the river at this point. The Roman piers were of stone, the superstructure of wood. The bridge first appears in a document of 996. After being destroyed by a flood in 1117 it was reconstructed in stone but swept away again in 1333 save two of its central piers, as noted by Giovanni Villani in his Nuova Cronica. It was rebuilt in 1345. Giorgio Vasari recorded the traditional view of his day that attributed its design to Taddeo Gaddi — besides Giotto one of the few artistic names of the trecento still recalled two hundred years later. Modern historians present Neri di Fioravanti as a possible candidate. Sheltered in a little loggia at the central opening of the bridge is a weathered dedication stone, which once read Nel trentatrè dopo il mille-trecento, il ponte cadde, per diluvio dell' acque: poi dieci anni, come al Comun piacque, rifatto fu con questo adornamento. The Torre dei Mannelli was built at the southeast corner of the bridge to defend it.
The bridge consists of three segmental arches: the main arch has a span of 30 meters (98 feet) the two side arches each span 27 meters (89 feet). The rise of the arches is between 3.5 and 4.4 meters (11½ to 14½ feet), and the span-to-rise ratio 5:1.
It has always hosted shops and merchants who displayed their goods on tables before their premises, after authorization of the Bargello (a sort of a lord mayor, a magistrate and a police authority). The back shops (retrobotteghe) that may be seen from upriver, were added in the seventeenth century.
During World War II, the Ponte Vecchio was not destroyed by Germans during their retreat on the advance of the liberating British 8th Army on 4 August 1944, unlike all other bridges in Florence. This was allegedly, according to many locals and tour guides, because of an express order by Hitler. Access to Ponte Vecchio was, however, obstructed by the destruction of the buildings at both ends, which have since been rebuilt using a combination of original and modern design.
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ESPAÑOL
El Ponte Vecchio es un puente medieval sobre el río Arno en Florencia (Italia). Es un símbolo de la ciudad y uno de los puentes más famosos del mundo. Atraviesa el río Arno en su punto más estrecho. El puente se sostiene sobre tres arcos; el principal tiene una luz de 30 metros y los otros dos de 27 metros. El alzado de los arcos varía entre 3,5 y 4,4 metros.
Se cree que fue un puente construido inicialmente en madera por los romanos, poco después de la fundación de Florencia sobre el año 150 a. C. Esa pasarela se consolidó y amplió hacia el 123, cuando el emperador Adriano promovió la construcción de la via Cassia Nuova, que atravesaba la ciudad y que correspondía, se puede suponer, a las calles Bardi y San Niccolò. El primer puente romano fue destruido en el s. VI-VII, consecuencia del descuido y las guerras bárbaras, además de probables daños relacionados con las inundaciones.
Es difícil saber cuántos puentes han sido destruidos y cuántos reconstruidos por las frecuentes inundaciones del Arno. Giovanni Villani habló de un puente construido bajo el mandato de Carlomagno, y es quizá en el s. IX o X cuando el puente tuviera la posición actual.
Tras ser dañado en 1222 y 1322, fue destruido por una inundación en 1333. Fue reconstruido enteramente de piedra entre 1335 y 1345. Vasari atribuye su diseño al arquitecto y pintor italiano Taddeo Gaddi.
Al comienzo, los comerciantes alineaban sus tenderetes ("botteghe") a ambos lados del puente. Pero en 1495, la ciudad, que era la dueña y arrendadora de las tiendas a los comerciantes, se vio obligada a vender las parcelas, por razones económicas. A partir de entonces, las tiendas comenzaron a agrandarse y se multiplicaron los voladizos sobre el río, que hoy configuran la imagen del puente.
Para conectar el Palazzo Vecchio (sede del gobierno de Florencia) con el Palazzo Pitti, el Gran Duque Cosimo I de Medici encargó a Giorgio Vasari que construyera el famoso Corredor vasariano sobre el puente, el cual se finalizó en 1565. Este corredor da una vuelta en torno a la Torre de Mannelli ya que los dueños de la misma no permitieron que fuera alterada o destruida para la construcción del corredor.
En 1593 el Gran Duque Fernando I decidió expulsar del puente a los carniceros, prohibiéndoles realizar sus actividades en el lugar. Se dice que no soportaba los olores de ese comercio, mientras él y sus visitantes extranjeros iban desde el Palazzo Vecchio hasta la residencia de la familia Médici, en el Palazzo Pitti, pasando sobre el corredor vasariano. Además, para aumentar el prestigio del lugar, fomentó que el sitio vacante de los carniceros fuera inmediatamente ocupado por orfebres, joyeros y comerciantes de oro, que actualmente siguen ocupando los voladizos y puestos del puente. La asociación de carniceros había monopolizado los negocios sobre el puente desde 1442.
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, a diferencia de todos los demás puentes de Florencia, el Ponte Vecchio no fue destruido por los alemanes durante su retirada el 4 de agosto de 1944. Según la tradición esto se debió a una orden expresa de Hitler. Sin embargo, su acceso quedó obstruido debido a la destrucción de los edificios a ambos lados del puente.
En los tres últimos segmentos abdominales presenta color rojo, de ahí el nombre haemorrhoidalis que significa "flujo de sangre".
Kalos significa hermoso y abarca significados equivalentes al español como bueno o noble.
Pteryx significa alas.
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"Kalos kagathos" (Kalos kai agathos) Kalos=bello, agathos=bueno
Frase según la cual la aristocracia ateniense se refería a sí misma, siendo utilizada para describir un ideal de caballerosa conducta personal , especialmente en un contexto militar.
Para los filósofos griegos la bondad era equivalente a belleza y verdad, es decir si una cosa era bella debía ser buena, y por tanto si una cosa era fea consigo llevaba asociada la maldad.
it was Millie's Birthday a litttle while ago and she requested an owl cake! Here it is - although wish I had taken picture before candles (hence the little holes) and the babies had lost their eyes! The segments on her body are chocolate orange - yum!
Welcome to 2016! This seven-segment display, executed in origami, shows the current year, and is folded from a single sheet of Elephant Hide paper. With a little work, each segment’s on-off state can be toggled, so you can update the number next year without having to refold the whole thing. It’s probably too slow a process to qualify as action origami, though.
Individual segment design is based on Fujimoto’s Hydrangea (level 0) while the idea of using them to simulate a digital 7-segment display is mine. Others have probably also come up with it as it comes as an obvious thing when one starts folding tiled Hydrangeas.
A 64×32 grid was used. Only 26 grid units vertically are needed for the digits — the remaining 6 make up the foot which allows the tessellation to stand vertically for better viewing.