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(Anemone acutiloba) There are a few varieties of the hepatica in bloom at this time of the year. Only a few I saw were this deep purple color and they stood out so prominently. They are a delicate bloom about 2cm wide. I tried hard not to step on any along the trail.
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Sony A99 + Carl Zeiss16-35mm + ND8 + reverse GND8 filter
Costa Vicentina (Portugal - AndalucÃa)
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Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Calidris acuminata
November 30th, 2018
Scoresby, Victoria, Australia
Canon EOS 1D X Mark II
Canon EF 600mm f4L IS II USM lens
Canon EF 1.4x III Extender
Commonly referred to as 'Sharpies', these migratory waders breed in Siberia & spend their Winter's in Australia & New Zealand. Sharpies are usually found near water, in grasslands & mudflats.
A pun to start the week for the Ilford Advocate testing, FP4+, Ilfotec HC, Ilford rapid fixer, Ilford boxes all ticked.
The sun setting over Bodmin Moor, at Sharp Tor near Henwood.
I took this a couple of weeks ago and was hoping I could take a trip to Twelve Mens Moor, a short walk from here, tonight but unfortunately its a bit grey and gloomy.
I welcome any constructive comments that can help me improve.
Turton Tower, Bolton, consists of a medieval stone pele tower, constructed around 1420, which has evolved over the centuries into an impressive manor house by the addition of subsequent timber-framed and stone built additions.
The tower is claimed to be haunted by a woman in black who is seen climbing a spiral staircase, floating in silence across the room and disappearing down what was a former garderobe (or lavatory) shaft.
Many of these wealthy families of Northern England remained Catholic even when Protestantism ruled and ghost stories were often used to explain the activities of priests in the times when their comings and goings might have aroused suspicion - maybe this 'black lady' was really a priest in his black robes, disappearing into what may have been a priest hole or hiding place?
Another room contains an old wooden crib that rocks of its own accord.
The sound of marching feet has been reported, perhaps explained by the fact that Cromwell's troops were once entertained at Turton during the Civil War.
Loud banging is heard throughout the house, a phenomenon which may be connected with Turton's most famous ghostly tale - that of the Timberbottom skulls. The skulls are those of a male and a female and they were found in Bradshaw Brook in 1750, near Timberbottom Farm. They were kept at the farm, on the mantlepiece, from which any attempt to move them provoked violent poltergeist activity, in the shape of moving furniture, loud banging noises and bloodcurdling screams. Even an attempted burial in Bradshaw churchyard could not silence the skulls and it was only on the demolition of Timberbottom Farm that they accepted a new home at nearby Bradshaw Hall. This was also demolished in the 1950's and the skulls were moved to Turton Tower. One of the skulls is more or less whole but appears to have been slashed by a sharp instrument. The other is just a fragment of skullcap and has been set on a silver stand. Their age and origin remains unknown and many tales have been woven around them but it would seem that they may be very ancient. They are kept standing on the Bradshaw Hall Bible, just in case...
Backyard visitor in NE St. John's, Newfoundland. According to Birds of North America, the Ruby red eye suggests that this adult is at least 3 years old.
Taking picture of bees is a challenge I like. You need to be able to focus accurately and quickly before they are off to the next flower. The depth of field needs to be enough to see more than a narrow band and the detail needs to stand out. This picture was taken with my 105 2.8 lens and a tc1.4 III tele-converter. The combination works very well with fast, accurate AF.
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The "Sharps Island Lighthouse" originally stood on an island of over 4,000 acres. The first light, built in 1838, was moveable. In 1866 a screwpile lighthouse was built but was destroyed by ice in 1881. The present 54 foot high iron tower on a concrete-filled caisson was built in 1882 and was painted purple. It is now a more traditional brown, and while it has begun to tilt, it has survived Sharps Island which has completely disappeared.
I drew from a greeting card published by Heritage Art Publishers, Inc. Easton, Maryland. The original watercolour painting is by Ann Clotworthy Charlton, a resident of St. Michaels, Maryland.
Try to work on my watercolour. Copy from the greeting card but cannot get the blue in the sky and sea correct.
The Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, originally Cincinnati Union Terminal, is a mixed-use complex in the Queensgate neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Once a major passenger train station, it went into sharp decline during the postwar decline of railroad travel. Most of the building was converted to other uses, and now houses museums, theaters, and a library, as well as special travelling exhibitions. Since 1991, it has been used as a train station once again.
Built in 1933, it is a monumental example of Art Deco architecture, for which it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1977.
Cincinnati was a major center of railroad traffic in the late 19th and early 20th century, especially as an interchange point between railroads serving the Northeastern and Midwestern states with railroads serving the South. However, intercity passenger traffic was split among no fewer than five stations in Downtown Cincinnati, requiring the many travelers who changed between railroads to navigate local transit themselves. The Louisville and Nashville Railroad, which operated through sleepers with other railroads, was forced to split its operations between two stations. Proposals to construct a union station began as early as the 1890s, and a committee of railroad executives formed in 1912 to begin formal studies on the subject, but a final agreement between all seven railroads that served Cincinnati and the city itself would not come until 1928, after intense lobbying and negotiations, led by Philip Carey Company president George Crabbs. The seven railroads: the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad; the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway; the Louisville and Nashville Railroad; the Norfolk and Western Railway; the Pennsylvania Railroad; and the Southern Railway selected a site for their new station in the West End, near the Mill Creek.
The principal architects of the massive building were Alfred T. Fellheimer and Steward Wagner, with architects Paul Philippe Cret and Roland Wank brought in as design consultants; Cret is often credited as the building's architect, as he was responsible for the building's signature Art Deco style. The Rotunda features the largest semi-dome in the western hemisphere, measuring 180 feet (55 m) wide and 106 feet (32 m) high.
The Union Terminal Company was created to build the terminal, railroad lines in and out, and other related transportation improvements. Construction in 1928 with the regrading of the east flood plain of the Mill Creek to a point nearly level with the surrounding city, a massive effort that required 5.5 million cubic yards of landfill. Other improvements included the construction of grade separated viaducts over the Mill Creek and the railroad approaches to Union Terminal. The new viaducts the Union Terminal Company created to cross the Mill Creek valley ranged from the well built, like the Western Hills Viaduct, to the more hastily constructed and shabby, like the Waldvogel Viaduct. Construction on the terminal building itself began in 1931, with Cincinnati mayor Russell Wilson laying the mortar for the cornerstone. Construction was finished ahead of schedule, although the terminal welcomed its first trains even earlier on March 19, 1933 when it was forced into emergency operation due to flooding of the Ohio River. The official opening of the station was on March 31, 1933. The total cost of the project was $41.5 million.
During its heyday as a passenger rail facility, Cincinnati Union Terminal had a capacity of 216 trains per day, 108 in and 108 out. Three concentric lanes of traffic were included in the design of the building, underneath the main rotunda of the building: one for taxis, one for buses, and one (although never used) for streetcars. However, the time period in which the terminal was built was one of decline for train travel. By 1939, local newspapers were already describing the station as a white elephant. While it had a brief revival in the 1940s, because of World War II, it declined in use through the 1950s into the 1960s.
After the creation of Amtrak in 1971, train service at Cincinnati Union Terminal was reduced to just two trains a day, the George Washington and the James Whitcomb Riley. Amtrak abandoned Cincinnati Union Terminal the next year, opening a smaller station elsewhere in the city on October 29, 1972.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Museum_Center_at_Union_T...