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Spoke with the director of CT Audubon and there is speculation that this bird is actually a Hybrid x Tricolored Heron Hybrid!
This was the last remaining of the litter. It's speculation that coyotes seen in the vicinity the evening before may have taken the others in the litter. Often the mother will move the kits to another den so I'm hoping this was the case.
excellent but equally good was Department of Speculation by Jenny Offill (which had a bit of humor- this one was pretty dang angsty)
I got this capture a rainy night last summer, at the window of my balcony. It is actually exciting to play with the multiple levels of focus and perspectives that are created inside bright spots of bokeh. Recommended to experiment with. Just remember to aim diagonally with a steep angle towards the glass.
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Here is a less-stormy view of the rock at Point Lobos, California made about 20 minutes after #3. No HDR.
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Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 17-40L @20
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Lee foundation kit filter holder with Lee 77mm adapter ring
No polarizer.
ISO 200
Joby Gorillapod (flexible tripod so I could lay down and not fall off the cliff!)
RAW file processed with Capture One by Phase One
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After shooting for about 30 minutes, the sun began to set so I got back here as the clouds began to evaporate. Fortunately they hung around long enough to add a warm glow to the sky. So I bumped up the ISO to 200 to keep the 1/4-sec exposure and angled the dark part of the filters over the brightest part of the sky. I took about 25 photos in total on this evening including 5 around this time. The trick to getting this water color is to wait until the water calms down, which makes it a deep grenish-blue because the bubbles have risen to the top and evaporated. Then shoot just when the first nice wave curls around the rock. If you do not wait, the water will be churned up and too bright to photograph!
(Here is the rest of the description from #3.)
Point Lobos, at the north end of Big Sur just south of Carmel, California (100 miles - 160km south of San Francisco) could keep a photographer busy for months or even years. It is a peninsula that has been sculptured by large Pacific waves over millions of years and the results are stunning. This is one of the western-most points of rock and is probably 50 feet tall at high tide. Sometimes waves wash over the entire rock and they did during a big set just after this photo was made. This is a wider view with more light striking the cliff face and sea than my previous attempt which is in the 2010 Nature Conservancy calendar for November.
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The biggest hazard is getting low enough to have the tops of the rock rise above the horizon. Then you must literally hang off the cliff to get an open view around the right foreground rock. So the Gorillapod allowed me to lay on the rock and not fall in! Also, I had to wait for a seagull to land on the top of each rock, though I made some with no seagull just in case. In a big print, the seagull really helps.
The map shows exactly where this is. It is an easy <1 mile hike from a small parking lot.
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Google Earth
Simply the best way to scout out locations that there is. You can see sun angles and pre-visualize light under lots of different conditions. Sometimes you can actually pre-compose your shots! This has saved me many thousands of vertical feet of climbing by avoiding spots with blocked views etc.
Satellite imagery (choose 'National' for a local US region or use your fave website)
www.wrh.noaa.gov/satellite/?wfo=mtr
Tide charting and preditions: (chose your area in US, other countries have similar websites)
tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/tide_predictions.shtml?gid=235
Wave Heights (I choose 'North Pacific from Global')
polar.ncep.noaa.gov/waves/main_int.html
Or Here:
www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/shtml/RP1bw.gif
Photos of every inch of the California coastline from a small plane. Excellent for close in detailed views.
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Spotting for Mr Jokertrekker this evening (and vice versa) alerted me to DXB 5022 and straight-chuter DXC 5425 on 926 away relatively early from Dunedin.
After crossing 925 at Bushey, they're seen heading along the coast at the ridiculously early time of 8:35pm. In Oamaru by 9:15? Unheard of.
And yes, while half an hour earlier the skies were clear for 925, those annoying hill-hugging clouds are already accumulating and softening the specular glints.
28 Dec 2017, Shag Point-Katiki, SIMT, NZ
In folklore, often used to predict the coming Winter weather. The longer the orange colored band, the milder the Winter! Whether there is any merit to this is a matter for speculation. However, we who have been brought up on this bit of folklore, subscribe to its veracity! If this critter is correct, we will have a slightly milder Winter.
There is speculation if this is the real 'La Grande Hermine' or a replica of Jacques Cartier's ship from1536-37. I'm also told that it was once a floating restaurant. In 2002, it was witness to arson and now sits as a pile of rusted metal on the floor of a harbour near St. Catherines in Lake Ontario.
Often the subject of intense speculation and heady anticipation in railfan circles, business trains are among the rarest sights on the rails. Despite this, I've still somehow managed to snag pictures of two over the years, both by complete accident.
Driving to Whistler for an unrelated trip in August 2019, my radio picked up CN 3224 south announcing its approach to Mile 25. Never one to pass up a train, I set up at Brunswick Beach (~Mile 20). Imagine my surprise to see the classy dark green and yellow of the CN business train! Hell yea.
The final image of the triptych.
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The Dixie Walesbilt Hotel, known as the Grand Hotel in later years, is one of a small number of skyscrapers built in the 1920s that still stand today and is a prime example of how optimistic people were during the Florida land boom. Built in 1926, it found financing through a stock-sale campaign in the local business community, costing $500,000 after it was completed(which equates to about $6 million today.)
The building architecture, masonry vernacular with hints of Mediterranean-Revival, is also a good example of the time is was built. It was designed by two well-known architects at the time, Fred Bishop who designed the Byrd Theatre in Virginia, and D.J. Phipps, whose designed both the Wyoming County Courthouse and Jail and the Colonial Hotel in Virginia.
The hotel was constructed using the “three-part vertical block” method, which became the dominant pattern in tall buildings during the 1920s. Three-part buildings are composed of a base, shaft and a cap, all noticeably visible.
The hotel opened as the “Walesbilt” in January 1927, shortly after the land boom had started to collapse and two years before the Great Depression began. It’s also best to note that the hotel opened around the same time the Floridan Hotel in Tampa opened, another hotel built during the Florida land boom.
In 1972, the hotel was purchased by Anderson Sun State and renamed the “Groveland Motor Inn”. The firm completely renovated the hotel and used it to host visitors to the area who were interested in Green Swamp, land sectioned off for land development. At the time there was heavy speculation in the land because of it’s close proximity to Walt Disney World and were selling for around $5,000 an acre at the time. That ended after a state cabinet designation of the swamp as an area of critical state concern, placing the land off-limits to any large land developments. The firm filed for foreclosure and the hotel was auctioned off in 1974. Despite RCI Electric purchasing the hotel, it remained empty for many years afterwards.
n 1978, the hotel was signed over to the Agape Players, a nationally known religious music and drama group, who would assume the mortgage and would pay the costs to make improvements to meet city fire and safety standards. The hotel was renamed the “Royal Walesbilt” and after extensive improvements were made, it became the headquarters for the Agape Players; using it as a teaching facility and the base from which the group launched their tours. In addition, they operated a restaurant, an ice cream parlor on the lobby floor and a “Christian hotel” on the upper floors, catering mostly to groups. The Agape Players disbanded in 1985 and put the property up for sale
Victor Khubani, a property investor from New York acquired the property and renamed the hotel “Grand”. The hotel closed briefly in December 1988, due to a variety of code violations and causing the owner to later pay $14,000 in fines. On August 31, 1990 it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, possibly for tax exemption reasons. In October 1991, The State Fire Marshall’s Office gave the owner one year to install a new sprinkler system and in May 1993, the code enforcement board gave Khubani until March to complete the work.
In March 1994, the hotel closed due to multiple code violations and was to remain closed until a new fire sprinkler system was installed. To reopen, the fire escapes and elevator, which did not function, would have to be repaired as well. In 1995, the hotel was auctioned off to a redevelopment firm, which dismantled part of the interior for reconstruction, which was never completed.
Since then, the hotel has deteriorated, becoming an eyesore to many of the residents of Lake Wales and nicknamed “The Green Monster” for the greenish color it has acquired from over the years. In 1995, it was even jokingly mentioned to become a sacrifice to “the bomb”, an economic boom that occurred in parts of Florida where movie production companies would pay cities to blow up buildings for their movies. In 2007, the city foreclosed on the structure for more than $700,000 in unpaid code fines, with hopes in finding someone to restore it.
Development firm, Dixie-Walesbilt LLC announced plans to restore the hotel, signing into an agreement with the city of Lake Wales in February 2010. By the agreement, the city would retain ownership of the building until a defined amount of work had been accomplished. The work must be completed within 16 months and the amount of money invested must succeed at least $1.5 million. The building would then be handed off the Dixie Walesbilt LLC, where they may continue with private funding or other methods to for debt funding.
Ray Brown, President of Dixie Walesbilt LLC, planned to invest $6 million into the renovation, with original plans to put retail stores on the ground floor and using the upper floors for as many as 40 condominiums.
On June 2, 2011, the city of Lake Wales agreed to deed the building off to Ray Brown in a 4-1 vote, after meeting the requirements of the redevelopment agreement. Though Brown submitted a list of costs to the city totaling $1.66 million, Mayor Mike Carter wasn’t satisfied with the results so far, pointing out that Brown failed to repair the windows and repaint the building. Previous owners had put tar on the building and then painted over it, so much of Brown’s investment went to stripping the tar off the exterior walls.
To repaint the building, Brown would also have to resurface the hotel with hydrated lime to replicate the original skin as well as the window frames would need to be constructed of Douglas fir, red cedar and gulf cypress. According to Brown, previous owners who renovated the building rarely removed the building original elements. They carpeted over intricate tile flooring, stuck tar paper above skylights and placed modern drinking fountains in front of the originals. He estimated about 98 percent of the building is still in it’s original form.
Restoration of the building’s exterior began in January 2015 and included surface repair, pressure washing, paint removal, chemical treatment, and a comprehensive resurfacing of the exterior.
While the original plans were for turning the building into condominiums, that has since changed and current plans call for operating the building as a boutique hotel. The hotel will feature geothermal cooling as opposed to traditional air conditioning, a permanent art gallery as well as theme gallery showings throughout the year, and the best WiFi/internet in the city. The project is expected to be completed in 18 to 24 months.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
www.cityoflakewales.com/505/Dixie-Walesbilt-Hotel
www.abandonedfl.com/dixie-walesbilt-hotel/
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Florida Beauties -- According to the Pacific Horticulture Society, most speculation centers on India as the source of the earliest ancestors of today’s hibiscus. Nonetheless, it was in China that hibiscus were first cultivated extensively; many selections were discovered growing around temples and palaces there by European explorers and traders who brought hibiscus back to Europe.
Sarasota is a city in Sarasota County on the southwestern coast of the U.S. state of Florida. The area is renowned for its cultural and environmental amenities, beaches, resorts, and the Sarasota School of Architecture. The city is at the southern end of the Tampa Bay Area, north of Fort Myers and Punta Gorda. Its official limits include Sarasota Bay and several barrier islands between the bay and the Gulf of Mexico. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2019 Sarasota had a population of 58,285. In 1986 it became designated as a certified local government. Sarasota is the principal city of the Sarasota metropolitan area and is the seat of Sarasota County. Long the winter headquarters of the Ringling Brothers Circus, many landmarks in Sarasota are named for the Ringlings.
The Sarasota city limits contain several keys, including Lido Key, St. Armands Key, Otter Key, Casey Key, Coon Key, Bird Key, and portions of Siesta Key. Longboat Key is the largest key separating the bay from the gulf, but it was evenly divided by the new county line of 1921. The portion of the key that parallels the Sarasota city boundary that extends to that new county line along the bayfront of the mainland was removed from the city boundaries at the request of John Ringling in the mid-1920s, who sought to avoid city taxation of his planned developments at the southern tip of the key. Although they never were completed in the quickly faltering economy, those development concessions granted by the city never were reversed and the county has retained regulation of those lands.
The city limits had expanded significantly with the real estate rush of the early twentieth century, reaching almost 70 square miles (180 km2). The wild speculation boom began to crash in 1926 and following that, the city limits began to contract, shrinking to less than a quarter of that area.
The area is known today as Sarasota first appeared on a sheepskin Spanish map from 1763 with the word Zarazote over present-day Sarasota and Bradenton. From 1883 to 1885, The Florida Mortgage And Investment Company Of Edinburgh bought 60,000 acres for development in what is now the City of Sarasota. Many Scottish people began to arrive in Sarasota in December 1885. The municipal government of Sarasota was established when it was incorporated as a town in 1902. John Gillespie was the first Mayor.
Italian architecture and culture are quite strong in the area because of the Ringling Museum. An unusually large number of homes and buildings are designed in the Italian style, especially Venetian as influenced by Ringling's Cà d'Zan. Italian-inspired statues are also common and Michelangelo's David is used as the symbol of Sarasota.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarasota,_Florida
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Toronto Public Library has two magical bronze griffin lion sculptures guarding the front doors of the Lillian H. Smith branch. New York Public Library has its lions, but we like ours better! The two creatures gracing the arched brick entrance at Lillian H. Smith branch were designed and constructed by architect Philip H. Carter and sculptor Ludzer Vandermolen.
The lion is Edgar, after the benefactor of the Osborne Collection of Early Children’s Books, and the eagle is Judith, named for the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and Fantasy.
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Giric mac Dúngail (Modern Gaelic: Griogair mac Dhunghail), known in English simply as Giric, and nicknamed Mac Rath ("Son of Fortune"), was King of the Picts between 878 and 889. Giric is a mysterious character, who is not found within the Irish Annals or any Anglo-Saxon chronicle and what information is available is often contradictory. Nevertheless, he appears to have been regarded in some importance by Scottish writers in the High and Late Middle Ages and so he finds himself on most modern regal lists.
Giric's ancestry and how he came to be king are deeply obscure. There is a tendency to refer to him as the cousin or ‘first cousin once removed’ of Eochaid, who was the grandson of Kenneth MacAlpine, first king of Scotland, however this is nothing more than speculation. Nothing of any certainty is known of his father Dúngail and so it is possible that Giric was not of the MacAlpin line. However, it has been speculated that ‘Dúngail’ may be a misspelling of ‘Domnall’ and that Giric was in fact the son of Kenneth’s brother, Donald I. The fact that Áed succeeded Constantine could indicate that Giric had been denied the kingship and such a possibility could account for the claim in Andrew of Wyntoun's Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland that Giric succeeded to the throne having killed Áed.
To add to the complexity, the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba has Áed’s nephew Eochaid ab Rhun succeeding to the throne at the same time. The relationship between the two kings is uncertain and various theories have been put forward to explain it. The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba, which was written in Latin, used the phrase alumnus ordinatorque to describe Giric’s relationship to Eochaid. Translator T.H. Weeks chose to translate that phrase into English as “teacher and prime minister," yet in the same section offered “foster-son” for alumnus, translating “Eochodius, cum alum(p)no suo, expulsus est nunc de regno” as “Eochaid with his ‘foster-son,’ was then thrown out of the kingdom.” Another theory is that ‘Dúngail’ is actually a misspelling of the early form of the Welsh Dyfnwal, and that Giric was not a Gael but the Briton uncle of Eochaid’s father, and therefore of a different royal line. Such a situation could support the view of Giric being Eochaid’s ‘teacher and prime minister’. Alternatively, if Giric was not of royal blood or indeed different royal blood, it is possible, as several historians have speculated, that he was using Eochaid as a puppet.
Whatever the truth, Giric and Eochaid appear to have ruled either jointly over a unified area or separately over different areas for 11 years. Whilst it is possible that they held the Pictish kingship concurrently as allies, it is also conceivable that they ruled successively as opponents. Another possibility is that, while Giric reigned as King of the Picts, Eochaid reigned as King of Strathclyde.
By the 12th century, Giric had acquired legendary status as liberator of the Scottish church from Pictish oppression and, fantastically, as conqueror of Ireland and most of England. As a result, Giric was known as Gregory the Great. What the truth is and to what extent of Giric carried out any of these activities is however unknown. For example, it seems highly unlikely that Giric conquered Ireland; in fact these conquests appear as Bernicia, which was part of Northumbria, rather than Ireland (Hibernia), in some sources.
The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba records that Giric and Eochaid’s reigns came to an end when they were both expelled from the Pictish Kingdom. Other sources however suggest that Giric was slain at Dundurn. If the accounts of Giric's downfall are to be believed, and if both he and Eochaid were allied together at the time, it is conceivable that both Eochaid and Giric fell together. Alternately, Giric's killing could have contributed to Eochaid's ejection from the kingship. Although it is unknown who was responsible for Giric's reported demise, one candidate is the succeeding Donald II, who would rule briefly between 889 and 900.
Thought I'd change it up a bit and bring a mammal into the picture. These guys are but one of the speculations for the Golden Eagle being on the decline in SoCal. We used to have a fare amount in San Diego's surrounding Mountain range, high desserts and grasslands. But the drought in this area and cunning ability of the coyote has been devastating to the Golden's as they make a living off the same prey as these resourceful animals. Look at the intense concentration he has as he stalks a rabbit.
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There is some speculation as to why these former Go North East Mercedes are arriving at Go North West Manchester before refurb at Thorntons but for whatever reason a third arrived today in the shape of NK08MZV and I believe others are due shortly, repainted or not is the question for those. One thought is that they may arrive as they are to speed up the replacement of the remaining B7’s and will enter service minus the Crusader branding and with the appropriate Go North West vinyl’s, time will tell on that theory.
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
The Hamilton Farmers' Market was founded in 1837 and is located within a large multi-faceted complex in downtown Hamilton, Ontario called Lloyd D. Jackson Square on the corner of James Street & York Boulevard. It is an indoor market known well by locals for its variety of foods and products, produced both locally and from around the world. In 2007 a proposal of $5.1-million for renovation was made.
History
The Hamilton Farmers' Market is a tradition and an institution in the city. The Hamilton Farmers' Market was founded in 1837, at the corner of York & James Streets. Andrew and Mary Miller transferred a small parcel of land to the President and Board of Police of the Town of Hamilton, to be utilized specifically for a market.
The details of the land transfer are murky. The history of the Hamilton Farmers' Market, Michael Quigley's On the Market published by the Head of the Lake Historical Society in 1987 says, "The origins of the markeet lie in a tangled swamp of land speculation deals, political rivalries, sharp practices and legal chicanery among the principals, many of them revered founding fathers of Hamilton."
The market has been in its current location next to the Hamilton Public Library since August 1980.
In 2011, the market was completely renovated.
a blizzard is an event. the day before, there’s great speculation and preparation; but the day of, there’s a lovely slow down—a sense of community, kindness, and play. yesterday we received a winter storm. in this image, i try to capture the event in context. there are many ways to view a snowstorm. this is the night view from the street outside my house.
[5:52, an event in context]
Wee hours of the morning on the Montreal Plateau, party animals (pure speculation on my part) roam the streets for yet another celebration, or maybe just try to recall in which direction is home.
Aux petites heures du matin sur le Plateau de Montréal les fêtards ( que de la speculation de ma part) recherchent encore une autre célébration, ou tout simplement essaient de se souvenir du chemin de retour.
After many weeks of speculation and waiting, the former Oxford Tube Vanhools have began arriving on Western soil, 50210 one of five tucked up in Kilmarnock depot this afternoon. Once fully prepared for service they will replace the remaining Neoplans.
Excédent is my new project that focuses on the spanish real estate crisis. Back in the 2000, a major speculation was trheatening the real estate market in Spain. We knew it would fall sometime. But 2008 crisis arrived and the whole market plumbed. Many constructions were secondary residences, mainly aimed at jubileed people, tourist, foreign and domestics. Meaning that many constructions are far from school, hospitals, or any economicly dynamic area that would provide for jobs. Therefore, many constructions are still abandonned, and won't be used for at least the next ten years.
In this project, I shot these remains, from the raw construction that barely started, to completed housing projects, fully equiped with kitchen, bathroom, where only the people lacks. It's a mix of aesthetics, beauty, sadness and waste.
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The male eland use their horns during rutting season to wrestle and butt heads with rivals, while females use their horns to protect their young from predators. This one at some point lost one of its horns during a battle of force at Kwandwe.
Eland herds are accompanied by a loud clicking sound that has been subject to considerable speculation. It is believed that the weight of the animal causes the two halves of its hooves to splay apart, and the clicking is the result of the hoof snapping together when the animal raises its leg. The sound carries some distance from a herd, and may be a form of communication
After much speculation, one of the twenty five tri-axle Enviro500 double deckers with First Glasgow has arrived on loan at Aberdeen.
It will be trialled to see if these can be used successfully to replace the oldest of the artics.
SimpliCity branded 38219 surrounds itself for comfort with other ex Glasgow cascades at King Street Depot.
A shot from this morning of the Resident Sandills, they seem to be growing so fast now and its only early June, I do feel blessed to follow these birds as they progress, its been three years in the same spot, don't know how many generations this includes, as some seem to appear the same year after year, thats just speculation I'm sure, but there is something special that keeps bringing them back.
West Bend, WI.
Not quite A Pair of Shoes painted in 1886 by Van Gogh.
Van Gogh's painting of a pair of down-at-heel shoes prompts speculation on a variety of psychological questions. They have been seen as symbolizing Van Gogh's difficult passage through life.
A fellow student in Paris reported that Van Gogh bought a pair of used workman's shoes at a flea market, intending to use them in a still life. The story goes he found them still a little too smart, so he wore them on a long and rainy walk. Only then were they fit to be painted.
Van Gogh made a number of still lives with old shoes. To him, as to several of his contemporaries, they may have been symbolic of the hard yet picturesque life of the labourer.
I just think he wanted to paint a pair of well-worn shoes as sunflowers were out of season ;)
This series is the second published part from the set "Landscapes from a farm park south Milan" and they are enclosed in my first personal expo i had in 9th of september 2010 to 19 with my friend Mirko Bozzato, graphic designer and photographer. The farm park of south Milan is a reality which Mirko and I appreciate it's the biggest green area of Milan: a beautiful reality that needs to be protected by building speculation.
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There's a rainbow on your red bicycle
And I see it in your eyes
You wipe your wet nose with your icicle sleeves
And you fold it twice
Your eyes : In the middle of the road
Your eyes : It's the same story
You see they're drowning now
You see they've gone cold
You see they're drowning now
You see they hold enough dew
You fall from a stone and I kiss ripe lips
And I follow you home
You wipe tears away with your icicle sleeves
And you said goodbye
Your eyes : They're closing in the night
Your eyes : It's the same story
You see they're drowning now
You see they've gone cold
You see they're drowning now
You see they hold enough dew
I wonder if you are the same without me
I wonder if you are the same
You said they're all drowning now
You said I'll shout it out
You said I'll change their view
You said I'll shout it out
You said I'll change their view
You said I'll change their view
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[Landscapes from farm park south Milan Series] 05/06
Speculation is rife about how a multi-ton boulder ended up on top of this granite outcrop.
Personally, I think that it is obvious - Gigantic alien beings from another galaxy picked it up like a pebble and placed it there. No other explanation makes sense!
This photo was taken by a Hasselblad 500C medium format film camera with a Carl Zeiss Distagon 1:4 f=50mm lens and Hasselblad/63 1xHz-0 drop in filter using Fuji Pro 400-H film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
Sarasota is a city in Sarasota County on the southwestern coast of the U.S. state of Florida. The area is renowned for its cultural and environmental amenities, beaches, resorts, and the Sarasota School of Architecture. The city is at the southern end of the Tampa Bay Area, north of Fort Myers and Punta Gorda. Its official limits include Sarasota Bay and several barrier islands between the bay and the Gulf of Mexico. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2019 Sarasota had a population of 58,285. In 1986 it became designated as a certified local government. Sarasota is the principal city of the Sarasota metropolitan area and is the seat of Sarasota County. Long the winter headquarters of the Ringling Brothers Circus, many landmarks in Sarasota are named for the Ringlings.
The Sarasota city limits contain several keys, including Lido Key, St. Armands Key, Otter Key, Casey Key, Coon Key, Bird Key, and portions of Siesta Key. Longboat Key is the largest key separating the bay from the gulf, but it was evenly divided by the new county line of 1921. The portion of the key that parallels the Sarasota city boundary that extends to that new county line along the bayfront of the mainland was removed from the city boundaries at the request of John Ringling in the mid-1920s, who sought to avoid city taxation of his planned developments at the southern tip of the key. Although they never were completed in the quickly faltering economy, those development concessions granted by the city never were reversed and the county has retained regulation of those lands.
The city limits had expanded significantly with the real estate rush of the early twentieth century, reaching almost 70 square miles (180 km2). The wild speculation boom began to crash in 1926 and following that, the city limits began to contract, shrinking to less than a quarter of that area.
The area is known today as Sarasota first appeared on a sheepskin Spanish map from 1763 with the word Zarazote over present-day Sarasota and Bradenton. From 1883 to 1885, The Florida Mortgage And Investment Company Of Edinburgh bought 60,000 acres for development in what is now the City of Sarasota. Many Scottish people began to arrive in Sarasota in December 1885. The municipal government of Sarasota was established when it was incorporated as a town in 1902. John Gillespie was the first Mayor.
Italian architecture and culture are quite strong in the area because of the Ringling Museum. An unusually large number of homes and buildings are designed in the Italian style, especially Venetian as influenced by Ringling's Cà d'Zan. Italian-inspired statues are also common and Michelangelo's David is used as the symbol of Sarasota.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarasota,_Florida
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
Someone out there will know exactly when, where and how this happened, so I will avoid speculation, and sit back and await the facts ! It does look like it was the offside that took the main impact, though.
Oldham depot Fleetline 7198 had been withdrawn as far back as June 1984, from what I can see, but it was seven months later when I found it at the back of Charles Street yard - I guess that it was no longer needed for evidence purposes or internal inquiries, and was now awaiting its turn behind a wrecker.
Charles Street depot, 26/1/85
A photo of one of several portraits that are currently displayed at the visiter center, Bandolier National Monument. The National Monument protects over 33,000 acres of ruggedly beautiful canyon and mesa country. Petroglyphs, dwellings carved into the soft rock cliffs, and standing masonry walls pay tribute to the early days of a culture that still survives in the surrounding communities.
My guess is that these photographs would be approximately 100+ years old. This is just speculation as my internet searches all came up empty.
US National Park Service
Los Alamos, New Mexico
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One Thousand Speculations
The world’s largest mirror ball
For the second time Luminato Festival will install Canadian artist Michel de Broin’s One Thousand Speculations, a 7.9 metre in diameter ball made up of 1,000 mirrors — the world’s largest mirror ball. Originally commissioned by Luminato for the 2013 Festival, this time it will not be suspended from a crane over David Pecaut Square but will hang inside the Hearn Generating Station. It is a meeting of superlatives. Turned on, it will transform the space into a futuristic spectacle, letting us dream about what could be. For Michel, the piece renders and recreates the starry sky. We will bring the starry sky inside the Hearn, reminding us that our sense of wonder is endless through inspiration. It will make us see the space of the Hearn in an ever-changing way and highlight detail after detail as the 1,000 rays slowly scan the space in circular motion.
The best works of art put you into a childish state of delight – anyone who sees One Thousand Speculations will feel like a child again. In 2013 this piece was dedicated to the memory of David Pecaut, one of our festival co-founders, and so we present it again in our 10th anniversary year in a completely different environment that will make you see the piece anew as you see everything that it touches anew. Source: luminatofestival.com/2016-Program/Events/One-Thousand-Spe...
Defiance.
La politique radicale la folie du siècle les extravagances le génie les fabrications ridicules les spéculations de la polémique les drogues du monde,
Dehongli symbiosis gan gymeradwyo egwyddorion prosesau canfyddiadol sy'n newid rhyddfannau ymladd cystrawenau sloganau,
controllo cretino distorsione poetico aforisma esagerazioni legacy circostanze misteriose trucchi sublime tempi di giocoleria,
influyentes habladores torturas depresiones consultados dolores sufriendo años leyes surrealistas amonestaciones almas contactos inaceptables revelaciones infinitas,
assumpta epistolas dramatist eradicable suggestiones Hinc semina conscious fortunae vitium mala satirarum pecto debacharetur insolentia,
infortúnios raciocina câmaras inteligentes depreciando a escuridão inmost parágrafos lunáticos brincalhões que governam a filosofia,
無名の否定的な非公式の涙レイヴ・ストーリーの文学的な経験無知の無駄な死死者の終わりの文章長い拒否の命令首都の窓が壊れた.
Steve.D.Hammond.
With the internet awash with rumours that there was to be no flying through the Vouraikos Gorge this week, it was great to have five Greek F-16s through on Monday to dispel the speculation. Here 128 from 330 Mira "Thunder" based at New Anchialos unusually passes through from North to South.
Aircraft: Elliniko Polemiki Aeroporia (Hellenic Air Force) General Dynamics F-16C Fighting Falcon 128.
Location: Vouraikos Gorge, Achaea, Greece.
For a few years now the speculation has been that 'this will be the last year of Class 20 operation on the Yorkshire/Humberside RHTT circuit'. However like ageing rockers the old stagers keep coming back for a final encore.
The class 20's (built between 1957 and 1968) still cling on, the key to survival being their ability to traverse routes with weight restrictions such as the Hull to Scarborough line.
20305 and 20303 restart (with associated magnificent noise), after a brief pause for a crew change at Gilberdyke.
It will almost certainly be a last time for the Gilberdyke semaphores. After many delays it looks like the re-signalling is finally due to take place before the close of the year.
25th October 2018.
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