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Our Daily Challenge 20-28 August : Section or Segment
New York Cheesecake with salted caramel and honeycomb
Wikipedia: The Ponte Vecchio ("Old Bridge", Italian pronunciation: [ˈponte ˈvɛkkjo] 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 jewellers, 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 tradition in 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.
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.
It is said that the economic concept of bankruptcy originated here: when a merchant could not pay his debts, the table on which he sold his wares (the "banco") was physically broken ("rotto") by soldiers, and this practice was called "bancorotto" (broken table; possibly it can come from "banca rotta" which means "broken bank"). Not having a table anymore, the merchant was not able to sell anything.
During World War II, the Ponte Vecchio was not destroyed by Germans during their retreat of August 4, 1944, unlike all other bridges in Florence. This was allegedly 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.
Program:Manual
Lens:50mm f/1.4 G
F:1.6
Speed:1/60
ISO:320
Focal Length:50 mm
AF Fine Tune Adj:0
Focus Mode:AF-C
AF Area:Dynamic Area (3D-tracking)
Shooting Mode:Single-Frame, [3], Auto ISO, [9]
VR:Off
EV:-1
Metering Mode:Multi-segment
WB:Auto0
Picture Control:Neutral
Focus Distance:0.84 m
Dof:0.03 m (0.83 - 0.85)
HyperFocal:52.00 m
Possibly 'Orange Gem' from the family Alstroemeriaceae these are fleshy rooted herbaceous perennials forming spreading clumps of erect stems bearing narrowly lance-shaped leaves, with umbels of showy funnel-shaped flowers in summer it has light orange flowers tipped with red-brown, the inner segments with a violet-red flare and edged with yellow.
Seen at Minster-in-Thanet open gardens 2018
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Diese Aufnahme ist ein kleiner Ausschnitt des Anzeigerhochhauses in Hannover - gelöst wurde dieses (urprüngliche) Rätsel von [https://www.flickr.com/photos/kasperle2000] .
This is a segment-photo from the Anzeigerhochhaus in Hannover.
A segmented waterfall that is located close to Echo Point near Katoomba on the Kedumba River descending into the Jamison Valley located within the Blue Mountains National Park in the Blue Mountains region of New South Wales, Australia.
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A long exposure creates an almost segmented appearance as clouds streak on an autumn evening over the beautiful mountains ringing the Vermilion Lakes, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
Base of spiral staircase within Alexandra Road Estate, South Hampstead.
The estate was designed in a brutalist style by architect Neave Brown and was completed in 1978.
Sarah Island Historic Site, Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania
Sarah Island is Tasmania's oldest convict settlement and reputedly one of the severest penal establishments in the history of transportation to Australia. Flogging was frequently used as a punishment and more than 180 escape attempts were made.
Remotely located, the island sits in the southern part of Macquarie Harbour on Tasmania's west coast. Despite its isolation and grim function, Sarah Island was for a time the largest shipbuilding yard in the colonies. Convicts were also put to work in the thriving pining trade.
Towards the end of the 19th century the haunting ruins and natural beauty of Sarah Island became popular with tourists. The island was gazetted as a tourist reserve in 1926 and nearly 50 years later as an historic site. Today it is part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area and Macquarie Harbour Historic Site. Cruise boats depart from Strahan and operate guided tours of the island. Visitors can use a map to navigate among the many ruins to locate the 'new' penitentiary, the commandant's slipway, the bakehouse and tannery.
Beautiful Katie in the swimsuit competition segment in the 2018-19 Washington Redskins Cheerleaders Audition Finals Show at The Fillmore Silver Spring in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Photo by Bruce Adler
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Day 3
Segment 10
random spot to Segment 11 Interlaken Trailhead
Twin Lakes reservoir comprises two lakes. The trail crosses a dam at the far side of the larger lake. There are numerous recreation activities here. Camping possibilities are also abundant. Interlaken Historic Resort is located on the far side.
Phone battery was almost dead but just enough to reserve a room for Friday night at Inn the Clouds hostel in Leadville. Tonight I camped near Mount Massive Trailhead. Camping is allowed almost everywhere on Halfmoon Creek Road. The night before I climbed Elbert a few years ago, I camped along the road so I had a spot in mind that overlooked the creek. Unfortunately, someone turned in there just as I drove up. Oh well, I found another spot.
14.8 trail miles for the day; +1 to hike back to my car.
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Pentax 67ii, SMC 45mm f4, Lee GND 0.6 SE, LIlford Dela 100 Pro developed in Kodak D76 stock, wet-mounted drumscan.
63_365 Grapefruit heart. The purpose of this 365 photo a day for a year isn't just to take a snapshot or a willy nilly shot just for the sake of shooting, It's an exercise to train your eye. Don't just look....see. Always have your camera ready looking for your next shot. With your camera always in hand, you learn all the buttons and what it can do. Try this, try that. Be creative. This is my 3rd time of doing this and I really think it has made me a better photographer. I now have a trained photographers eye and I see things everywhere I look. Even while eating breakfast. Most would have just eaten this little grapefruit heart segment without seeing it. I'm feeling the love of the goodness and all the flavor that this grapefruit is providing me
It makes me sad and sick to my stomach when people start talking about what they'd do if they won the lottery.
The official memorial to commemorate the wall time is in Bernauer Strasse, where the boundary was along the front of the houses standing on East Berlin territory.
On the night of the 11th of November 1989, the first segments were broken out of the wall here, between the Bernauer Strasse and the Eberswalder Strasse. Even the official demolition of the border plant started at the corner Ackerstraße.
Oranges have ten (2x5) segments except when they have eleven - or twelve or - ?
A banana has three segments. Banana plants are monocots. Apple trees are dicots so we might expect and apple to have five segments. An apple core does have five radial seed chambers that usually contain one seed each (but may have two). Orange trees are dicots. One might expect an orange to have five or ten segments? Ten is common, but many do have an extra one or two (often smaller). There is some irregularity.