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Konica C35
Produced 1971 Konishiroku Co., Japan
Film type 135 (35mm)
Picture size 24mm x 36mm
Weight 13oz (368.6g)
Lens Hexanon 38mm 1:2.8 (4 elements in 3 groups)
Filter size 46mm
Focal range 3.3′ to infinity
Shutter Copal
Shutter speeds 1/30-1/650 automatic
Viewfinder coupled rangefinder
Exposure meter lens mounted CdS with viewfinder needle (shutter + aperture)
EV range 8 to 17 @ ASA 100ASA 25-400
Battery originally 1.3v PX675 mercury
Hotshoe and PC Sync (X sync at 1/25)
Flashmatic system for GN settings with electronic flashSelf-timerFast-action wind lever
Hau‘ula, O‘ahu.
Can you hear me now? I came across this pretty pink toy cell phone with plastic xmas-tree antennae one day. I placed it on this stone cairn - one that someone had built.
From my Flickr set "Pinholes at high-tide".
Le Bambole Mk. II, "The Compact” Pinhole Camera. Kodak Ektar 100.
TELECOM
Ubicado sobre una parcela de 6000 metros cuadrados en el Extremo Norte de Puerto Madero, este edificio es obra de los Estudios de Arquitectura Kohn Pedersen Fox (New York, EE.UU.) y Hampton Rivoira y Asociados (Buenos Aires, ARG.).
El solar ha sido dividido en tres zonas: la primera es un Area de Uso público que es utilizada como plaza, la segunda es un Area que es construible hasta los 15 metros (la altura de los depósitos de ladrillo existentes) y la tercera, donde se erigió la Torre, permite construcciones de hasta 120 metros de altura.
Esta obra, construida en el dique 4, sirve como remate norte del Puerto Madero.
El edificio ha sido concebido como si estuviera compuesto de dos volúmenes principales edificados: el primero es un volumen simple rectangular cuya fachada es de vidrio y metal; el segundo es una pantalla vidriada que ha sido rotada sobre la línea diagonal del inmueble. Esta pantalla dirige la entrada al Puerto hacia el norte y provee un dinámico contrapunto con el otro volumen.
DÁRSENA NORTE
Es un cuadrilátero irregular que se inauguró en 1897, en medio de denuncias polémicas por la ineficacia del sistema adoptado. En un principio tuvo depósitos en sus muelles sur, este y oeste, actualmente sólo queda un depósito sobre el muelle sur, que pertenece a la Empresa Buquebus y en otro extremo se encuentra el Antiguo Edificio del Yacht Club Argentino, del Arquitecto Le Monnier.
❆ Se riuscirai ad aspettare senza stancarti di aspettare!
❆ If you can wait long enough, without getting tired of waiting...
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❆ Osservare tutto questo è un dono, innAMÒRarsene una ricchezza!
❆ observing Nature is a rare gift. for sure, falling in Love with it is a treasure worth even more!
❆ Avoir le don d’observer la Nature est un immense cadeau.
En tomber amoureux représente une richesse encore bien plus grande!
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❆ preoccupiamoci della Natura, il nostro futuro dipende da
essa!
❆ let's take good care of Nature, because our future depends
on it!
❆ préoccupons-nous de la Nature, notre avenir en dépend!
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❆ prendetevi del tempo per Sognare, ogni immagine racconta una lunga storia...
❆ take some time to dream, every image tells a long story...
❆ prenez le temps de Rêver, car chaque image raconte une
longue histoire...
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❆ ho cercato in ogni passo ciò che più desideravo!
❆ at each step I search what I most desire!
❆ À chaque pas que je fais, je cherche ce que je souhaite le plus trouver!
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❆ in vendita - on sale - à vendre - zum
Verkauf
❆ la Natura che si fa Poesia - scattare foto sembrava quasi diminuire tempo all'esigenza, alla necessità e alla passione di ammirare ciò che mi circondava!
esultanza di Bellezza e Serenità, un tripudio di perfezione e pienezza.
non avrei voluto essere altrove
❆ Magica Terra, sei il simbolo della perfezione, sei il mio canto della Vita, sei il mio buongiorno di ogni di, non ho contato i miei passi sul tuo suolo poiché infinite sono le tue bellezze.
Mia terra, amare è assai poco, tu sei beneficiare di tutte le creature, tu sei una madre eccellente.
❆ ci sono giorni che la senti dentro la Natura...
❆ Le Montagne vivono solo dell' amore dell' uomo.
Dove le abitazioni, poi gli Alberi, poi l erba sono esaurite, nasce il regno sterile, selvaggio, minerale.
Tuttavia, nella sua estrema povertà, nella sua nudità, dispensa una ricchezza che non ha prezzo: la felicità che si scopre negli occhi di chi la frequenta.
❆ Testi e Immagini di Troise Carmine - Washi - si prega di non copiare (qualcuno l ha già fatto più volte che squallido) e di non riprodurre salvo esplicita autorizzazione del sottoscritto!
❆ Dietro ogni scatto ci sono sempre fatiche e attese!
Zaino carico e pesante (quasi sempre) e, quando trasporti la
Fotocamera con obiettivo, la Sera avverti un dolore al
collo - Ma le Passioni, è noto, comportano sempre sacrifici!
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❆ il Cielo non racconta mai la stessa storia...
❆ farei qualsiasi cosa per un'Alba...
❆ In Natura non esistono malintesi esistono solo in ciò che l'uomo chiama ragione!
❆ ProteggiAMO tutto questo!
❆ Meravigliosa Natura!
❆ Privilèges de Montagne...
❆ InnAMÒRati della NATURA anche tu!
❆ Il mio tempo in Montagna!
La Vallée d'Aoste à ma guise - La Valle d'Aosta a modo mio - Aosta Valley in my own way
Vivre en Montagne, au quotidien, pour satisfaire la Curiosité de la Photographie de la Nature...
Valle d'Aosta - Vallée d'Aoste
(Une Montagne d'émotions...)
Clickalps Photography - Troise Carmine - Washi
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❆ Fotocamera:
Canon EOS R5
❆ Obiettivi:
Canon RF 100-500mm f/4.5-7.1 L IS USM
Canon RF 100mm F2.8L Macro IS USM
Canon RF 24-70mm f/2.8 L IS USM
Accessori:
Treppiede Manfrotto 190 X Prob
Testa Manfrotto a sfera compact nera con attacco rapido 496RC2 con frizione
Piastra a sgancio rapido 200PL
Telecomando infrarossi Canon RC-6
Telecomando Rollei Schermo LCD e Retroilluminazione
Zaino serie Mountain 50 lt - F Stop Tilopa v3 Aloe (Verde drab) - peso 1,9 Kg
Dimensioni LxAxP - 35,6 x 59,7 x se 30,5 cm
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❆ Estote parati commoveri Naturā - Siate pronti a lasciarvi emozionare dalla Natura
British Telecom BX05FPV at British Car Auctions, Belle Vue, Manchester
Photo taken by and copyright Noel Baxendale
Beautiful Pakistan is having few major construction work in Islamabad.
Long live peaceful Pakistan
First Shot with Tokina 11-16mm F/2.8......... 9 blades gives supeb stars.
I'm lovin it
The BT Tower is a communications tower located in Camden, London, United Kingdom owned by BT Group. It has been previously known as the Post Office Tower, the London Telecom Tower and the British Telecom Tower. The main structure is 177 metres (581 ft) tall, with a further section of aerial rigging bringing the total height to 189 metres (620 ft). It should not be confused with the BT Centre (the global headquarters of BT). Its Post Office code was YTOW.
In 1962, while still under construction, the BT Tower overtook St Paul's Cathedral to become the tallest building in London. Upon completion it overtook the Millbank Tower (which had been constructed faster) to once again become the tallest building in both London and the United Kingdom, titles it held until 1980, when it in turn was overtaken by the NatWest Tower.
20th century
The tower was commissioned by the General Post Office (GPO). Its primary purpose was to support the microwave aerials then used to carry telecommunications traffic from London to the rest of the country, as part of the British Telecom microwave network.
It replaced a much shorter steel lattice tower which had been built on the roof of the neighbouring Museum telephone exchange in the late 1940s to provide a television link between London and Birmingham. The taller structure was required to protect the radio links' "line of sight" against some of the tall buildings in London then in the planning stage. These links were routed via other GPO microwave stations at Harrow Weald, Bagshot, Kelvedon Hatch and Fairseat, and to places like the London Air Traffic Control Centre at West Drayton.
The tower was designed by the architects of the Ministry of Public Building and Works: the chief architects were Eric Bedford and G. R. Yeats. Typical for its time, the building is concrete clad in glass. The narrow cylindrical shape was chosen because of the requirements of the communications aerials: the building will shift no more than 25 centimetres (10 in) in wind speeds of up to 150 km/h (95 mph). Initially the first sixteen floors were for technical equipment and power, above that was a 35 metre section for the microwave aerials, and above that were six floors of suites, kitchens, technical equipment and finally a cantilevered steel lattice tower. To prevent heat build-up the glass cladding was of a special tint. The construction cost was £2.5 million.
Construction began in June 1961, and owing to the building's height and its having a tower crane jib across the top virtually throughout the whole construction period, it gradually became a very prominent landmark that could be seen from almost anywhere in London. In August 1963 there was even a question raised in Parliament about the crane. Doctor Reginald Bennett MP asked the Minister of Public Building and Works how, when the crane on the top of the new Post Office tower had fulfilled its purpose, he proposed to remove it. Mr Geoffrey Rippon replied, "This is a matter for the contractors. The problem does not have to be solved for about a year but there appears to be no danger of the crane having to be left in situ."[3]
The tower was topped out on 15 July 1964 and officially opened by Prime Minister Harold Wilson on 8 October 1965. The Main Contractor was Peter Lind & Co Ltd.[4]
The tower was originally designed to be just 111 metres (364 ft), and its foundations are sunk down through 53 metres of London clay and are formed of a concrete raft 27 metres square, a metre thick, reinforced with six layers of cables on top of which sits a reinforced concrete pyramid.[5]
The tower was officially opened to the public on 16 May 1966 by Tony Benn and Billy Butlin. As well as the communications equipment and office space there were viewing galleries, a souvenir shop, and a rotating restaurant, the "Top of the Tower", on the 34th floor, operated by Butlins. It made one revolution every 22 minutes. An annual race up the stairs of the tower was established and the first race was won by UCL student Alan Green. Tony Benn also designated the tower a mascot of UCL after lobbying by students.
A bomb, responsibility for which was claimed by the Provisional IRA,[6] exploded in the roof of the men's toilets at the Top of the Tower restaurant on 31 October 1971. The restaurant was closed to the public for security reasons in 1980, the year in which the Butlins' lease eventually expired. Public access to the building ceased in 1981. The Tower is sometimes used for corporate events, but the closure of the Tower restaurant to the public means London has no revolving restaurant of the type common in major cities throughout the world; although reports that the restaurant would re-open emerged in 2009.[7]
Until the mid-1990s, the building was officially a secret, and did not appear on official maps. Its existence was finally "confirmed" by Kate Hoey, MP, on 19 February 1993: "Hon. Members have given examples of seemingly trivial information that remains officially secret. An example that has not been mentioned, but which is so trivial that it is worth mentioning, is the absence of the British Telecom tower from Ordnance Survey maps. I hope that I am covered by parliamentary privilege when I reveal that the British Telecom tower does exist and that its address is 60 Cleveland Street, London."[8]
[edit]21st century
The tower is still in use, and is the site of a major UK communications hub. Microwave links have been replaced by subterranean fibre optic links for most mainstream purposes, but the former is still in use at the tower. The second floor of the base of the tower contains the TV Network Switching Centre which carries broadcasting traffic and relays signals between television broadcasters (including the BBC), production companies, advertisers, international satellite services and uplink companies. The outside broadcast control is located about the former revolving restaurant, with the kitchens on floor 35.
A renovation in the early 2000s introduced a 360-degree coloured lighting display at the top of the tower. Seven colours were programmed to vary constantly at night and intended to appear as a rotating globe to reflect BT's "connected world" corporate styling. The coloured lights give the tower a distinctive appearance on the London skyline at night. In October 2009, a 360-degree full-colour LED-based display system was installed at the top of the tower, to replace the previous colour projection system. The new display, referred to by BT as the "Information Band", is wrapped around the 36th and 37th floors of the tower, 167m up. The display comprises some 529,750 LEDs arranged in 177 vertical strips, spaced around the tower. The display is the largest in the world of its type,[9] occupying an area of 280m2 and with a circumference of 59m. On 31 October 2009 the screen began displaying a countdown of the number of days until the start of the London Olympics in 2012.
In October 2009, The Times reported that the rotating restaurant would be reopened in time for the 2012 London Olympics.[7] However, in December 2010, it was further announced that the plans to reopen had now been 'quietly dropped' with no explanation as to the decision.[10]
The BT Tower was given Grade II listed building status in 2003. Several of the defunct antennas located on the building now cannot be removed unless the appropriate listed building consent has been granted, as they are protected by this listing. Permission for the removal of the defunct antennas was approved on safety grounds as they were in a bad state of repair and its fixings were no longer secure. [11] As of December 2011, the last of the antennas has been removed, leaving the core of the tower visible. [12]
In 2011 a power failure caused transmission services from ITV1 (and possibly other networks) to be delayed from the tower, including the live transmission of The X Factor. The cause of this outage is still unknown, but they have revealed it was unlikely to be caused by copper wire thefts. It was reported that the TV Switching Centre on the 2nd floor had all its lights and electrics wiped out by the mystery surge, but most of the other pars of the tower remained unaffected.
Entry to the building is provided by two high-speed lifts which travel at 7 metres per second, reaching the top of the building in under 30 seconds. An Act of Parliament was passed to vary fire regulations, allowing the building to be evacuated by using the lifts - unlike other buildings of the time.[13]
The tower is being used in a study to help monitor air quality in the capital. The aim is to measure pollutant levels above ground level to determine their source - including the long-range transport of fine particles from outside the city.
from wikipedia
Des câbles télécoms vite mis en place, pas assez tendus, mal fixés, parfois même abîmés lors du tirage.
Ici la présence d'engins aggrave la situation.
Une banalité dans le Lot-et-Garonne.
Alors, à qui profite le crime?
Aux élus qui vont pouvoir se gargariser d'avoir un pourcentage important d'usagers raccordés en occultant le coût exorbitant de maintenance généré par la non-qualité de construction?
Il y a-t-il des pots de vin, rétrocommissions, cadeaux , conflits d'intérêts, copinage ... qui expliquent cette gabegie?
Preston Regional Distribution Centre, April 1993.
I found the Fodens a great disappointment to drive... finding them uncomfortable with poor visibility. I much preferred the Leyland Roadtrains and Leyland DAF 95s and the Ford Cargos...
Wray Castle (NT) Claife, Cumbria (Grade II)
NATIONAL TRUST + ENGLISH HERITAGE ALBUM
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Wray Castle is a Grade II Victorian neo-gothic castle, built in 1840 for a retired Liverpudlian surgeon, James Dawson, who built it along with the neighbouring Wray Church using his wife's fortune. After his death in 1875 it passed to his fifteen year old nephew, Edward Preston Rawnsley. In 1877 Edward's cousin, Hardwicke Rawnsley, took up the appointment of vicar of Wray Church. It is at this point that Wray became an essential element of the foundation of the National Trust. To protect the countryside from damaging development, Hardwicke Rawnsley, building on an idea voiced by Lakeland poet John Ruskin, conceived of a notion that a National Trust should be formed to buy and preserve places of natural beauty and historic interest for the nation. The house has other associations with the birth of the Trust it was here that a sixteen year old Beatrix Potter spent a Summer holiday with her family in 1882 and was strongly influenced by the beauty of the parkland of Wray and the Lake District and moved by Hardwicke Rawnsley. She bought a small farm in the Claife area, Hill Top, in 1905 with royalties from her first book The Tale of Peter Rabbit. She went on to aquire considerable tracts of land nearby, which she preserved as tennant farmland and left the land in legacies to the newly formed Trust. Beatrix never owned the castle itself. In 1929 Wray Castle and 64 acres (260,000 m2) of land were given to the National Trust by Sir Noton and Lady Barclay.
The grounds, which include part of the shoreline of Windermere, are open all year round and are renowned for their selection of specimen trees – Wellingtonia, redwood, Ginkgo biloba, weeping lime and varieties of beech. But although the National Trust have owned the Castle since 1929 it was not the intention to open the House to the public, and it has only recently opened its doors. it has been used for a variety of purposes, for short time from 1929 being a youth hostel, from 1931 and for a further 20 years the Castle served as the offices of the Freshwater Biological Association from 1958 to 1998 it became a training college for Merchant Navy radio officers, as RMS Wray Castle. With the introduction of the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System or GMDSS in 1988 all ships had to be fitted by 1999, thus bringing to an end the position of radio officer. In 1995 the last 'Radio Officer' left and the college diversified into ROV and general telecoms training, finally leaving the Castle in 2004. The Trust finally decided to open the Castle which had by now been denuded of its furnishings, for one season only to test demand. High visitor numbers meant that the property, which in its empty state was particularly child-friendly, had clear potential to be developed as a visitor attraction. In 2014 the Trust applied for retrospective planning permission to change the use of the listed building to visitor attraction. Today it is probably unique among the many properties of the National Trust, its interiors are a virtual childs adventure playground with the theme of the Tales of Beatrix Potter and particularly Peter Rabbit
Its 64 acres of land provide fantastic and unspoilt walks and views, falling away to Lake Windermere where between March and October, Windermere Lake Cruises operate a passenger boat service from Ambleside and the Brockhole National Park Visitor Centre to Wray Castle. The grounds, which include part of the shoreline of Windermere, are open all year round and are renowned for their selection of specimen trees – Wellingtonia, redwood, Ginkgo biloba, weeping lime and varieties of beech.
Thankyou for a massive 56,494,056 views
Shot 12.06.2016 in Wray Castle, Claife, Windermere REF 122-003
The 2011 Telecom Christmas Tree in Western Park, Ponsonby
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Seen parked up for the day in Abergele, North Wales is Leyland Roadtrain A100UOK with low datum cab.
It has been a while since I posted something.
Got busy traveling and working 12-hour shifts.
Luckily while I was commuting back from work, I saw this scene on the highway and I immediately stopped on the side of the road to shoot it.
I hope you like it my Friends ♥
Microwave communications tower: all the dishes and horns were removed long ago leaving the tower looking bare.
Started working for British Telecom as an engineer in 1988.
Got promoted and went in to an office role in 2003.
Worked at various office based jobs for the last 14 years and earlier this year got offered a job back outside on my current grade but this time surveying rather than engineering.
Took the opportunity with much joy and one of the best things about it is working over the bridge in Severnside ( The West Country ) a place that I still call home.
Expect more photographs from me being out and about, I have put an OM10 in the glove box of my van.
Shot taken by Steve Boardman my new best work mate and the one in charge of training me up, he was born the year I left school 1984.