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Side view of my Canon 1000D with Canon 18-55mm IS lens attached (you can see the switch to choose whether you have IS on or off on the side of the lens).
For more about my camera, visit my blog: amysodyssey.wordpress.com/ and go to my "Introducing my new camera" post.
The last remaining 1,5 km long stretch of Berlin wall is now an open air gallery featering the work of artists worldwide.
The other side of Greyfriars Bus Station. The car park was closed in 2007 after mineral stalactites dripped chemicals onto cars. These stalactites first appeared in the building in 1977
Anıtsal kapı ve Vespasian anıtı / Monumental gate and Vespasian monument
Tiyatronun yanında bulunan anıtsal kapı, Roma döneminde Side'nin merkezine uzanıyordu. Bugün bile şehrin tarihi kısmına giden trafik bu kapıdan geçiyor. Bu kapının bitişiğinde ve MS 4. yüzyıl surları tarafından desteklenen zarif bir bina muhtemelen İmparator Vespasian'ın onuruna dikilmiştir.
Anıtsal kapının şu anki yüksekliği 13,5 metredir, ancak eski zamanlarda yapı çok daha yüksekti. Kapının üstündeki saçaklık, bir zamanlar büyük olasılıkla dört atın çektiği bir quadriga veya iki tekerlekli bir vagonu temsil eden heykeli destekliyordu.
MS 4. yüzyılda kapının kemeri kısmen duvarla çevrilmiş ve surlarda şehre erişim sağlayan daha küçük bir açıklık bırakılmıştır. Halen bu duvarın bazı parçaları ayaktadır, ancak Side'ye girişi kolaylaştırmak için parçası yıkılmıştır. Buna rağmen, anıtsal kapı, özellikle gelen antrenör partileri için hala yerel iletişimde bir darboğazdır.
Vespasian anıtı, arşitravına yerleştirilen yazıt nedeniyle bugünkü adını almıştır. Bu yazıt, anıtın İmparator Vespasian onuruna dikildiğini bildirmektedir. Yapı 5,4 metre yüksekliğinde ve 6,4 metre genişliğindedir. Merkezi, yarı oval bir niş ve yanlarına yerleştirilmiş aediculalardan (küçük tapınaklar olarak hizmet veren nişler) oluşur. Merkezi nişte bir zamanlar İmparator Vespasian'ın heykeli durdu ve sol ve sağ aediculalar kadın figürlerinin heykelleriyle süslendi. Aediculae'nin önünde iki sütun ve arkada iki yarım sütun vardı. Sütunlar Korinth düzeninde yapılmıştır.
Anıtın sol tarafındaki aedicula çok daha iyi durumda. Tüm nişler üçgen alınlıklarla kaplanmış ve orta alınlık Medusa başı ile süslenmiştir. Vespasian anıtı sadece dekoratif ve dini işlev görmekle kalmadı, aynı zamanda bir çeşme işlevi gördü. Pişmiş toprak borular şehrin ana su kemerinden bu yapıya su getirmiştir.
The monumental gate, situated next to the theater, led in Roman times to the center of Side. Even today, traffic to the historical part of the town passes this gate. An elegant building, adjacent to this gate and supported by the ramparts of the 4th century AD, was probably erected in honor of Emperor Vespasian.
The current height of the monumental gate is 13.5 meters, but in the ancient times the structure was much higher. The entablature above the gate once supported the statue representing, most probably, a quadriga or a two-wheeled wagon drawn by four horses.
In the 4th century AD the arch of the gate was partially walled up, and a smaller opening was left in the ramparts, allowing access to the city. Currently, some fragments of this wall are still standing, but its part was demolished in order to facilitate the entry into Side. Despite that the monumental gate is still a bottleneck of local communication, especially for the incoming coach parties.
The Vespasian monument got its current name because of the inscription placed on its architrave. This inscription informs that the monument was erected in honor of Emperor Vespasian. The structure is 5.4 meters high and 6.4 meters wide. It consists of a central, semi-oval niche and to aediculae (the niches that served as small shrines) placed on its sides. In the central niche once the statue of Emperor Vespasian stood, and the left and right aediculae were decorated with the statues of female figures. The aediculae had two columns at the front and two half-columns at the rear The columns were made in the Corinthian order.
The left-side aedicula of the monument is in much better state of preservation. All niches were topped with triangular pediments and the central pediment was decorated with the head of Medusa.
The Vespasian monument played not only decorative and religious function, but also served as a fountain. Terracotta pipes brought water to this structure from the main aqueduct of the city.
Here is another photo of the 5112 steam engine, if you zoom the photo you can see some details close up.
Boeing B-29 Superfortress “FIFI”, serial number 44-62070 Profile
FiFi, a B-29 bomber, and one of the more notable planes, participated in a special event at the New Century Air Center in Gardner, Kansas. The event was called the Air Power History Tour, where three working World War II airplanes were on display until Sunday. The event took place August 20 through August 24 at the New Century AirCenter in Gardner Kansas. This picture taken Sunday, August 24th.
This particular aircraft was delivered to the U.S. Army Air Corps in Salina, Kansas, on July 31, 1945. It remained state-side for its entire career, assigned to several airbases including Strategic Air Command, Grand Island Field, Nebraska. It was converted to a TB-29 trainer in 1953 and transferred to the U.S. Navy in 1956 and eventually ended up at China Lake, California.
The B-29 was designed as a long-range heavy bomber, and whose nickname “Superfortress” is derived from the B-17 “Flying Fortress” nickname coined by Richard L. Williams, a writer and editor for the Seattle Times, when he was assigned to write a caption on a photo of the Model 299, a prototype of the B-17 that was unveiled at Boeing on July 17, 1935. Boeing presented a prototype as early as 1939, but the production version did not see combat until 1944. B-29s were flown in the Pacific Theater during World War II, where their long range and large bomb load were most needed (although two were delivered for non-combat to Europe late in the war – my dad was there in 1946 and spoke of them). The B-29 is, of course, most known for having dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (a secondary target chosen due to poor visibility over the primary target of Kokura). After its establishment in 1946, the U.S. Strategic Air Command began deployment of B-29s, some as RB-29 reconnaissance aircraft.
Powered by four Wright R-3350-23 Duplex/Cyclone engines, the B-29 was the first bomber to have pressurized crew compartments: forward, aft, and tail gunner positions, with a pressurized connecting tunnel over the bomb bays. It was entirely innovative in its use of an analog computerized remote-controlled sighting system for the guns. Except for the tail gunner, the gunners no longer sat in turrets but rather in sighting stations using a remote periscope sighting system for the turrets which had switches to obtain or relinquish control of the four turrets; the top turret gunner/central fire control officer had switches for changing control as to which gunner was on the target depending on his field of view; the gunners communicated via the interphone system.
The bombardier was generally responsible for the forward dorsal 4-gun turret and the forward ventral 2-gun turret for frontal attacks. Armament in this aircraft includes: twin-mounted General Electric .50 caliber machine guns in remote-controlled forward and rear ventral turrets and a ventral rear aft turret, and quad-mounted .50 cal. in a remote-controlled forward dorsal turret, and a pair in the tail turret. (Armament varied in these aircraft and a 20 mm cannon was added to the tail turret on some aircraft).
The crew generally consisted of ten: pilot, co-pilot, bombardier/togglier, flight engineer, radio operator, navigator, right gunner, left gunner, top gunner or central fire control, tail gunner (11 when radar was used). The top gunner sat in a pedestal seat nicknamed the “Barber’s Seat.” Due to the complexity of this aircraft, the flight engineer (who sat behind the co-pilot, facing aft and looking at an array of controls) had a very active role in flying the aircraft, responsible for the minute-by-minute monitoring and control of the engines. Each crew position was fitted with a 1936 Ford ashtray. The aircraft had a forward and smaller aft bomb bay and could carry a range of ordnance.
I took these photos last night when I went for a walk along the North Side of the River Coquet. Some movement caught my eye up in the sand dunes and I got a real surprise when I saw a deer staring back at me. I've been going over there for years at all different times of day and year, and this is the first time I've ever seen a deer there. Nearby on Helsay Point, they're quite a common sight, but not in the dunes. Spotted the same deer on the way back along and got a couple more. I realise I'm not going to win any wildlife photography competitions with these, but thought they might be interesting to anyone who knows the area.
Masai Mara | Kenya
A somewhat harder to see species compared with the far more common Black-backed Jackal.
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