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The River Severn in flood again at Ironbridge, Shropshire.
Taken on 8th January 2023, the river levels were still rising with more heavy rain forecast for the 10th January the flood defences to protect the UNESCO site will have to be erected again
Summer skies tend to glow with residue from surrounding areas around the British Columbia Province, including Washington State, USA
Scotch Pond, a historic moorage site during a late sunset
Some of the boats moored in this lineup include:
Miss Port Edward
Mythmaker
Galaxie
Double Dragon and various other commercial fishing vessels
Scotch Pond consists of a pond, originally a slough, dredged in the early 1950s and connected by a channel to the Strait of Georgia. Along with the pond are the remains of wooden boardwalk pilings which run directly along the south edge of the pond and were constructed in 1899 as part of the Scottish Canadian Cannery operation.
Garry Point Park on the Fraser River
Steveston, Richmond
British Columbia
Canada
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Geißklee-Bläuling am Abend. Nur durch die offene Blende konnte ich diese Eyecatcher-Situation herstellen. Alle anderen Fotos mit geschlossener Blende kamen in den Mülleimer.
Butterfly in the evening. Only with the aperture open was I able to create this eye-catching situation. All other photos with a closed aperture went into the bin.
Neotinea ustulata (Frühlings-Brand-Knabenkraut, burnt orchid) Klosterneuburg, Niederösterreich, Austria. A found a new site and was surprise to see so strong specimens next to a walking trail.
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The site is located on the banks of River Jordan at 380 Meters Below Sea Level, just 5 miles North of the Dead Sea, the final destination of the river.
River Jordan gives the pilgrims and tourists alike the feeling of authenticity.
This site is considered a holy place as it is where Jesus Christ was baptized by John the Baptist an event that changed human history and marked the dawn of Christianity.
Also, there is a number of Churches in the area.
Worth visiting. better during cooler months to avoid the Jordan Valley high temperatures.
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The Royal Exhibition Building is a World Heritage Site-listed building in Melbourne, Australia, completed in 1880. It was built to host the Melbourne International Exhibition in 1880–81 and later hosted (in the Western annex) the opening of the first Parliament of Australia in 1901. Throughout the 20th century smaller sections and wings of the building were subject to demolition and fire; however, the main building, known as the Great Hall, survived.
It received restoration throughout the 1990s and in 2004 became the first building in Australia to be awarded UNESCO World Heritage status, being one of the last remaining major 19th-century exhibition buildings in the world. It is the world's most complete surviving site from the International Exhibition movement 1851–1914. It sits adjacent to the Melbourne Museum and is the largest item in Museum Victoria's collection. Today, the building hosts various exhibitions and other events and is closely tied with events at the Melbourne Museum. Architect was Joseph Reed.
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Foro Romano - Roma - Italia / Roman Forum - Rome - Italy
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Foro Romano
El Foro Romano (en latín, Forum Romanum, aunque los romanos se referían a él comúnmente como Forum Magnum o simplemente Forum) era el foro de la ciudad de Roma, es decir, la zona central —semejante a las plazas centrales en las ciudades actuales— donde se encuentran las instituciones de gobierno, de mercado y religiosas. Al igual que hoy en día, era donde tenían lugar el comercio, los negocios, la prostitución, la religión y la administración de justicia. En él se situaba el hogar comunal.
Series de restos de pavimento muestran que sedimentos erosionados desde las colinas circundantes ya estaban elevando el nivel del foro en la primera época de la República. Originalmente había sido un terreno pantanoso, que fue drenado por los Tarquinios mediante la Cloaca Máxima. Su pavimento de travertino definitivo, que aún puede verse, data del reinado de César Augusto.
Actualmente es famoso por sus restos, que muestran elocuentemente el uso de los espacios urbanos durante el Imperio romano. El Foro Romano incluye los siguientes monumentos, edificios y demás ruinas antiguas importantes:
Templo de Cástor y Pólux
Templo de Rómulo
Templo de Saturno
Templo de Vesta
Casa de las Vestales
Templo de Venus y Roma
Templo de César
Basílica Emilia
Basílica Julia
Arco de Septimio Severo
Arco de Tito
Rostra (plural de rostrum), la tribuna desde donde los políticos daban sus discursos a los ciudadanos romanos.
Curia Julia, sede del Senado.
Basílica de Majencio y Constantino
Tabulario
Templo de Antonino y Faustina
Regia
Templo de Vespasiano y Tito
Templo de la Concordia
Templo de Jano
Un camino procesional, la Vía Sacra, cruza el Foro Romano conectándolo con el Coliseo. Al final del Imperio perdió su uso cotidiano quedando como lugar sagrado.
El último monumento construido en el Foro fue la Columna de Focas. Durante la Edad Media, aunque la memoria del Foro Romano persistió, los edificios fueron en su mayor parte enterrados bajo escombros y su localización, la zona entre el monte Capitolino y el Coliseo, fue designada Campo Vaccinio o ‘campo bovino’. El regreso del papa Urbano V desde Aviñón en 1367 despertó un creciente interés por los monumentos antiguos, en parte por su lección moral y en parte como cantera para construir nuevos edificios. Se extrajo gran cantidad de mármol para construcciones papales (en el Vaticano principalmente) y para cocer en hornos creados en el mismo foro para hacer cal. Miguel Ángel expresó en muchas ocasiones su oposición a la destrucción de los restos. Artistas de finales del siglo XV dibujaron las ruinas del Foro, los anticuarios copiaron inscripciones desde el siglo XVI y se comenzó una excavación profesional a finales del siglo XVIII. Un cardenal tomó medidas para drenarlo de nuevo y construyó el barrio Alessadrine sobre él. No obstante, la excavación de Carlo Fea, quien empezó a retirar los escombros del Arco de Septimio Severo en 1803, y los arqueólogos del régimen napoleónico marcaron el comienzo de la limpieza del Foro, que no fue totalmente excavado hasta principios del siglo XX.
En su estado actual, se muestran juntos restos de varios siglos, debido a la práctica romana de construir sobre ruinas más antiguas.
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The Roman Forum
The Roman Forum, also known by its Latin name Forum Romanum (Italian: Foro Romano), is a rectangular forum (plaza) surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the center of the city of Rome. Citizens of the ancient city referred to this space, originally a marketplace, as the Forum Magnum, or simply the Forum.
For centuries the Forum was the center of day-to-day life in Rome: the site of triumphal processions and elections; the venue for public speeches, criminal trials, and gladiatorial matches; and the nucleus of commercial affairs. Here statues and monuments commemorated the city's great men. The teeming heart of ancient Rome, it has been called the most celebrated meeting place in the world, and in all history.Located in the small valley between the Palatine and Capitoline Hills, the Forum today is a sprawling ruin of architectural fragments and intermittent archaeological excavations attracting 4.5 million or more sightseers yearly.
Many of the oldest and most important structures of the ancient city were located on or near the Forum. The Roman Kingdom's earliest shrines and temples were located on the southeastern edge. These included the ancient former royal residence, the Regia (8th century BC), and the Temple of Vesta (7th century BC), as well as the surrounding complex of the Vestal Virgins, all of which were rebuilt after the rise of imperial Rome.
Other archaic shrines to the northwest, such as the Umbilicus Urbis and the Vulcanal (Shrine of Vulcan), developed into the Republic's formal Comitium (assembly area). This is where the Senate—as well as Republican government itself—began. The Senate House, government offices, tribunals, temples, memorials and statues gradually cluttered the area.
Over time the archaic Comitium was replaced by the larger adjacent Forum and the focus of judicial activity moved to the new Basilica Aemilia (179 BC). Some 130 years later, Julius Caesar built the Basilica Julia, along with the new Curia Julia, refocusing both the judicial offices and the Senate itself. This new Forum, in what proved to be its final form, then served as a revitalized city square where the people of Rome could gather for commercial, political, judicial and religious pursuits in ever greater numbers.
Eventually much economic and judicial business would transfer away from the Forum Romanum to the larger and more extravagant structures (Trajan's Forum and the Basilica Ulpia) to the north. The reign of Constantine the Great saw the construction of the last major expansion of the Forum complex—the Basilica of Maxentius (312 AD). This returned the political center to the Forum until the fall of the Western Roman Empire almost two centuries later.
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Wards Public Marina is on the Nicomekl River in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.
It started out as a farm in the late 1800's. The 1894 historic farmhouse can be seen in the previous image. ( The house and it's outbuildings back the marina )
The Ward family included a small private marina after WWII. Years later the dock was extended.
In 1985, the City of Surrey purchased Wards Marina and the surrounding property.
The HISTORIC STEWART FARMHOUSE is now a heritage museum site.
The property was named, Elgin Heritage Park.
Wards Public Marina, is owned by the City of Surrey, and now operates as a civic marina.
The shoreline is an oyster bed. Thousands of oysters line the riverbank.
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Four Spotted Chaser (Libellula quadrimaculata / Vierfleck), sunbathing
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It's about 2 months since I last picked up my camera and a combination of time, energy and motivation seem to be conspiring against me at the moment. With nothing new to process and upload, it's back to the archives and a shot from a beautifully peaceful morning up at Buttermere back in March
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Claiming its nest site.
House Wren claiming a nesting territory in my yard in Chester County, PA. Unfortunately I believe it took the nesting box from a pair of chickadees.
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The site was created in 1974. It has a total storage capacity of 1,001,942 tonnes and consists of four open bulk heads, three silos and two horizontal storages. In 2019-20, the Kwinana Grain Terminal shipped 6.2Mt tonnes of grain which was only 30,000 tonnes shy of the shipping record set in 2016-17.
I went for a walk on the coast path from the Bolberry Down NT car park near the old Portlight Restaurant site (now the posh looking Ocean Reach), to Bolt Tail and Hope Cove and back. The sound of Skylarks singing from the ground, from perches and the sky was very striking and quite wonderful to hear, in these days of decline for these birds.
They seemed to be everywhere as I walked through the gorse stands at the start of the walk, though getting close with the 420mm set up was not easy, through the maze of gorse as they were very nervous and watchful; more so in the more open ground closer to Bolt Tail.
I managed a few shots, but they are large crops. I was intending to go back with the 500mm a couple of days later, but the heavy sea mist that day put paid to that idea.
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Feeding the pigeons is a daily ritual at several places in India. God is believed to be in all life forms. This is one way of serving him, it is believed. The Gateway of India provides a historical background to this feeding site in Mumbai. Come monsoons, the dark clouds, the heritage monument and thousands of pigeons set the stage for some photography drama.
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Kroměříž stands on the site of an earlier ford across the River Morava, at the foot of the Chriby mountain range which dominates the central part of Moravia. The gardens and castle of Kroměříž are an exceptionally complete and well-preserved example of a European Baroque princely residence and its gardens.
In 1998 the gardens and palace were added to the Unesco list of world heritage sites.
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Rejected 20/11/2014
Reason: Unsuitable Travel Imagery
Resubmitted: 05/02/2018
Rejected: : 05/02/2018
File was rejected on February 7, 2018
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Christ Church Greyfriars, City of London. Grounds of church bombed in WW2 turned into public gardens.
Ephesus Archaeological Site, Efes, (Selçuk) Izmir, Turkey
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Alternative shot of a previously uploaded photo taken from the western slope of Shiranesan volcano.
The bamboo grasslands would be a result of Siranesan's volcanic activities as the area is lower than the forest limit of 2,500 m.
The snow-capped mountain range in the distance is Kita Alps that forms the western boundary of the Nagano prefecture, while the shooting site is near its eastern boundary. Direct distance from Shiranesan to Kita Alps is some 70 km.
The peaks in the upper right are the volcanoes of Iizuna, Takatsuma (Togakushi), Kurohime and Myoukou. There are too many volcanoes in this part of Japan.
Wadi Rum, translating either as "Valley of (light, airborne) sand" or the "Roman Valley"—the latter due to the presence of Roman ruins in the area, known also as the Valley of the Moon, is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock in southern Jordan 60 km (37 mi) to the east of Aqaba; it is the largest wadi in Jordan.