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Natural Bridges National Monument/Utah, United States.
Height: 106 feet, Span: 180 feet, Thickness: 9 feet.
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A journey.
Through musical notes
And long-lasting darkness.
Step after step, dreaming awake.
Searching inside,
Resting on the emotional thickness of music.
Leaning
On the very threshold of oneself.
Aloneness in the crowd,
Silent togetherness.
Umbria Jazz 2015, Arena di Santa Giuliana, Perugia (Italy).
In the summer of 2022, the "Mer de Glace" (the "Sea of Ice" on the back of the Mont Blanc, France) lost 3.5 metres of its thickness. Gray dominates more and more.
Fellow photographer wim van de meerendonk posted 2 photos of the glacier together with a time lapse of 38 years:
The Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow was built as a gratitude to God for help and intercession in the difficult period of the history of Russia - during the Patriotic War of 1812. This is a monument to the Russian people for their courage and heroism..The Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow is the largest cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church, containing up to 10,000 people. In terms of the cathedral was an equal-end cross over 85 meters wide. The height of the lower block is about 37 meters, the height of the drum is 28 meters, the height of the dome with a cross is 35 meters. The total height of the structure is 103 meters, the internal space is 79 meters. Wall thickness - up to 3.2 meters. The outer part was framed by a double row of marble high reliefs made by sculptors Klodt, Loginovsky and Ramazanov. All the entrance doors - only twelve - were made of bronze, and the images of the saints decorating them were cast according to sketches by the famous sculptor Count F. P. Tolstoy. The building was restored as close as possible to the original. In the construction used sketches and drawings of the last century. However, there are differences. A stylobate part with a height of 17 meters was built on the place of the base-hill, where the Church of the Transfiguration, refectory chambers and auxiliary services are located. Here are also the Halls of Church Councils and meetings of the Holy Synod. A ramp is built for entry. Elevators are installed in the columns and in the stylobate part. Marble from the Chelyabinsk region and red granite brought from Finland were used for decoration.
A journey.
Through musical notes
And long-lasting darkness.
Step after step, dreaming awake.
Searching inside,
Resting on the emotional thickness of music.
Leaning
On the very threshold of oneself.
Aloneness in the crowd,
Silent togetherness.
Umbria Jazz 2015, Arena di Santa Giuliana, Perugia (Italy).
Aletsch Glacier, Grosser Aletschgletscher - the largest glacier in the Alps. Aletsch has a length of 23.6 km (2002), covers an area of ​​117.6 km ² and consists of about 27 billion tons of ice. Its thickness is up to 900 meters.
It flows south, giving rise to the Massa river (a tributary of the Rhone). The glacier is covered by the reserve located on the UNESCO World Heritage Site, along with Bietschhorn and Jungfrau peaks.
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Lodowiec Aletsch, Grosser Aletschgletscher, – jest największym lodowcem Alp. Aletsch ma długość 23,6 km (2002 r.), zajmuje powierzchnię 117,6 km² i składa się z ok. 27 mld ton lodu. Jego miąższość dochodzi do 900 metrów.
Spływa na południe, dając początek rzece Massa (dopływ Rodanu). Lodowiec jest objęty rezerwatem znajdującym się na liście światowego dziedzictwa UNESCO, razem ze szczytami Bietschhorn i Jungfrau.
Aletsch Glacier, Grosser Aletschgletscher - the largest glacier in the Alps. Aletsch has a length of 23.6 km (2002), covers an area of ​​117.6 km ² and consists of about 27 billion tons of ice. Its thickness is up to 900 meters.
It flows south, giving rise to the Massa river (a tributary of the Rhone). The glacier is covered by the reserve located on the UNESCO World Heritage Site, along with Bietschhorn and Jungfrau peaks.
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Lodowiec Aletsch, Grosser Aletschgletscher, – jest największym lodowcem Alp. Aletsch ma długość 23,6 km (2002 r.), zajmuje powierzchnię 117,6 km² i składa się z ok. 27 mld ton lodu. Jego miąższość dochodzi do 900 metrów.
Spływa na południe, dając początek rzece Massa (dopływ Rodanu). Lodowiec jest objęty rezerwatem znajdującym się na liście światowego dziedzictwa UNESCO, razem ze szczytami Bietschhorn i Jungfrau.
The Aletsch Glacier or Great Aletsch Glacier is the largest glacier in the Alps. It has a length of about 23 km,] has about a volume of 15.4 km3, and covers about 81.7 km2 in the eastern Bernese Alps in the Swiss canton of Valais. The Aletsch Glacier is composed of four smaller glaciers converging at Konkordiaplatz, where its thickness was measured by the ETH to be still near 1 km. It then continues towards the Rhône valley before giving birth to the Massa. The whole area, including other glaciers is part of the Jungfrau-Aletsch Protected Area, which was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001.
Switzerland, Eggishorn
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Rila Monastery - the monastery was founded in the 14th century on the site of the hermitage Ivan Rila existing since the 10th century in the valley of Rila mountain.
Modern form of the monastery dates from the 19th century, when through the victims of Bulgarian society and with the agreement of the Turkish authorities built a huge monastery complex. The walls of a thickness of 2 m and a height of 24 m giving it the appearance of a fortified stronghold. The inner courtyard is surrounded by three-storey buildings with arches painted in black and white and wooden galleries.
The main church of the Holy Mother of God is a three-nave basilica based on a cruciform plan with a dome at the intersection of the aisles. The pride of the temple are frescoes and great iconostasis.
In 1983 the monastery was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
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Rylski Monastyr – monastyr został założony w XIV na miejscu pustelni Iwana z Riły istniejącej od X wieku w kotlinie górskiego masywu Riła.
Współczesna postać monastyru pochodzi z XIX w., kiedy to dzięki ofiarom społeczeństwa bułgarskiego i przy zgodzie władz tureckich wybudowano ogromny kompleks klasztorny. Mury grubości 2 m i wysokości 24 m nadają mu wygląd warownej twierdzy. Wewnętrzny dziedziniec otaczają trójkondygnacyjne budynki z łukami pomalowanymi na czarno i biało oraz drewnianymi krużgankami.
Główna cerkiew pod wezwaniem Świętej Bogurodzicy to trójnawowa bazylika oparta na planie krzyża z kopułą na skrzyżowaniu naw. Ozdobą świątyni są freski i olbrzymi ikonostas.
W 1983 monastyr został wpisany na listę światowego dziedzictwa UNESCO.
A week or so ago, I wrote about my favourite (endangered) Garry oak meadow. I wasn't very clear. As often happens, I was arguing from more than one place at once. A couple of commenters misunderstood me completely... and I don't blame them. I was pretty muddled. Here's what I was trying to say (and I'll try to be clearer).
Our world has reached a stage where hardly anything is "natural." Think about it. Try to name just one thing. It's nearly impossible, given how much we humans have altered the planet. Even the weather... which would seem the most natural thing of all... is so mucked up because of what we've done to the environment.
Last year, some scientists reported the results of their study of highrise window grime around Toronto. They found significant amounts of chemicals banned in North America for decades... presumably carrried here by atmospheric systems from less developed countries with fewer regulations.
More recently, I listened to a radio doc. in which a young Canadian recounted her experience living in China for a year. She tried to ride a bicycle and couldn't; couldn't breathe. Even walking, she said she sometimes vomited from the sheer thickness of the air pollution.
Tempting, when you hear that, to look around smugly at your own apparently wide-open spaces, and clean air, and pristine wilderness... but, no. It's not pristine. Nothing is any more. Because the whole broader global ecosystem has been altered in presumably irreversable ways.
And here's another anecdote to illustrate the point.
Some years ago, there was a massive fire in Yellowstone Park; it burned for weeks. It stymied all firefighting efforts and, at one point, someone said "Why not let it burn?" That's what would happen in nature, after all. Forest fires were part of the natural order of things... clearing out brush and dead wood and whatnot and making space for rejuvenated habitat.
But that only works within a natural system. And we ain't got one. Not any more. And no... I'm not despairing... just trying (not too successfully I fear) to make my argument that almost NOTHING is natural.
Living in houses? Driving cars? Using computers? Flying in planes? It's all way-out shit when you really stop and think about it.
Which makes rubber masks seem... well... if not natural, then certainly within the range of "normal" in today's world.
But... wait. There IS something natural left.
Love. Long may it reign. And may we some day reach a place where no one is judged or punished or ostracized for who they love. Because that's the most unnatural phenomenon of all.
(Added to the Cream of the Crop pool as most interesting, as judged by Flickr.)
Dislocato ai piedi di un promontorio roccioso, in provincia di Palermo, sorge uno dei borghi più belli d’Italia, Cefalù.
Cefalù (Gafludi in arabo, Cifalù in siciliano)
Il duomo di Cefalù, nome con cui è nota la Basilica Cattedrale della Trasfigurazione, è una basilica minoreche si trova a Cefalù e cattedrale dell'omonima diocesi, iniziato nel 1131.
Secondo la leggenda, sarebbe sorto in seguito al voto al Santissimo Salvatore da Ruggero II, scampato ad una tempesta e approdato sulle spiagge della cittadina. La vera motivazione sembra piuttosto di natura politico-militare, dato il suo carattere di fortezza.
Le vicende costruttive furono complesse e fu definitivamente completato in età sveva. Un ambulacro ricavato nello spessore del muro e la medesima copertura, costituita da tre tetti, di epoca e tecnica costruttiva diversi, testimoniano dei cambiamenti intervenuti nel progetto. Il monumento ha uno stile romanico con tratti bizantini.
Monumento nazionale dal 1941, dal 3 luglio 2015 fa parte del Patrimonio dell'umanità UNESCO nell'ambito dell'Itinerario Arabo-Normanno di Palermo, Cefalù e Monreale.
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Located at the foot of a rocky promontory, in the province of Palermo, stands one of the most beautiful villages in Italy, Cefalù.
Cefalù (Gafludi in Arabic, Cifalù in Sicilian)
The Cathedral of Cefalù, the name with which the Cathedral Basilica of the Transfiguration is known, is a minor basilica located in Cefalù and cathedral of the diocese of the same name, begun in 1131.
According to legend, it would have arisen following the vote to the Most Holy Savior by Roger II, who survived a storm and landed on the town's beaches. The real motivation seems rather of a political-military nature, given its character as a fortress.
The construction events were complex and were finally completed in the Swabian age. An ambulatory created in the thickness of the wall and the same roof, consisting of three roofs, of different eras and different construction techniques, testify to the changes that occurred in the project. The monument has a Romanesque style with Byzantine features.
National monument since 1941, from 3 July 2015 it is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site within the Arab-Norman Route of Palermo, Cefalù and Monreale.
The Nunatak "Traunstein" - Traunsee in the clouds and the Alpenvorland, just before sunrise.
About 15000 years ago, the landscape was more or less like this.
Thickness of the ice was up to 800 meters, most of theese mountains have been covered...
Province Gmunden, Upper Austria
This beautiful castle from the 13th century is located in the lowlands of the "Geul Valley" and is built in the "Mosan Renaissance style.
A typical feature is the keep, which is equipped with a viewing platform at each corner. The walls have a thickness of 2 meters.
The keep dates from the 13th century and has serves as a residential tower for a long time.
The castle is privatly owned and cannot be visited...
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I did not add the blue color to my photo. However I do use the NIK FILTER program for editing 90% of my pictures. This could enhance the blue color in the photo. To understand better, it is usefull to read the WIKIPEDIA article concerning the blue color of ice. This is mainly related to the composition of the ice (thickness and compression).
I also invite you to have a look at my photo (posted on FLICKR -3 september 2022) concerning DIAMOND BEACH. Here you see ice blocks with different colors (white, transparent and blue). The distance between the two locations is about 500 meters. Pictures taken on the same day.
Pedraforca, Gósol, Berguedà , Lleida, España.
Pedraforca es una montaña emblemática de Catalunya que se encuentra en la sierra del CadÃ, dentro del área del Parque natural del CadÃ-Moixeró, haciendo de lÃmite entre las provincias de Barcelona y Lleida (en la comarca del Berguedà ). Tiene una forma muy peculiar debido a sus dos cimas separadas por un gran collado. Su vista más conocida es la que se aprecia desde su vertiente oriental. La cima norte está compuesta por dos picos: el Pollegó Superior (2506 m) junto al Calderer (2505 m). La cima sur la conforma el Pollegó Inferior (2445 m). Las poblaciones más cercanas son Gósol y Saldes.
En 1982, fue declarado paraje natural de interés nacional por el Parlamento de Cataluña. Es una formación montañosa especialmente atractiva por su perfil en forma de U, peculiaridad que le da su nombre.
La principal caracterÃstica del macizo del Pedraforca es su complejidad geológica, de gran interés. En una zona de pocos kilómetros cuadrados, confluyen, de arriba abajo, el manto superior del Pedraforca, el manto inferior y el manto del CadÃ, testigos del levantamiento del Pirineo durante la orogenia alpina. El manto superior consta de una serie formada por materiales del Keuper, el Jurásico, un espesor considerable de sedimentos del Cretácico inferior y algunos metros del Cretácico superior.
Se formó hace unos 25 millones de años. La erosión del viento y el agua le dio su forma actual en la cima, que está compuesta por materiales más sensibles a la erosión. Adicionalmente, los periodos de hielo y deshielo han desmenuzado progresivamente la roca, formando el famoso talud de la cara este (la Tartera).
Pedraforca is an emblematic mountain of Catalonia that is located in the Sierra del CadÃ, within the area of the CadÃ-Moixeró Natural Park, bordering the provinces of Barcelona and Lleida (in the Berguedà region). It has a very peculiar shape due to its two peaks separated by a large col. Its best known view is the one that can be seen from its eastern slope. The northern summit is made up of two peaks: Pollegó Superior (2,506 m) together with Calderer (2,505 m). The southern peak is made up of the Lower Pollegó (2445 m). The closest towns are Gósol and Saldes.
In 1982, it was declared a natural area of national interest by the Parliament of Catalonia. It is a particularly attractive mountain formation due to its U-shaped profile, a peculiarity that gives it its name.
The main characteristic of the Pedraforca massif is its geological complexity, of great interest. In an area of a few square kilometres, the upper mantle of Pedraforca, the lower mantle and the mantle of Cadà converge, from top to bottom, witnesses to the uplift of the Pyrenees during the Alpine orogeny. The upper mantle consists of a series formed by materials from the Keuper, the Jurassic, a considerable thickness of sediments from the Lower Cretaceous and a few meters from the Upper Cretaceous.
It was formed about 25 million years ago. Wind and water erosion gave it its current shape on the top, which is made up of materials more sensitive to erosion. Additionally, periods of ice and thaw have progressively crumbled the rock, forming the famous slope of the east face (La Tartera).
The wall and the territory of the New Jerusalem Monastery..The Resurrection New Jerusalem Monastery is a historically Stavropegic male monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church in the city of Istra, Moscow region. The monastery was founded in 1656 by Patriarch Nikon, according to which the complex of holy places of Palestine was to be recreated near Moscow..In 1690-1677 a stone wall was erected instead of the old wooden one. The total length of the monastery walls, built in compliance with the requirements of the serf architecture of the era, is about one kilometer, height - nine meters, thickness - up to three meters. The upper part of the walls is a combat move, equipped with two rows of loopholes. Seven towers were erected on the wall breaks, the eighth (Elizavetinskaya) is located above the western gate, and the Gate of Entry Jerusalem Church was built above the eastern (Holy) gate.
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Sea ice near Bylot Island, Nunuvut, Canada. May, 2019.
Sea ice is very dynamic.
Here arctic sea ice has been uplifted and deformed by the tides and by the wind causing ice sheets to collide with one another and with the rocky coast line. This process gives rise to large areas of broken and buckled ice.
The extent and thickness of arctic sea ice is declining rapidly. Based on satellite imagery from 1981, arctic sea ice is estimated to be disappearing at a rate of about 13 % per decade.
For more information see:
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climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/arctic-sea-ice/
Photograph taken late at night with the sun at its lowest point on the horizon (in summer months the sun does not set and there is 24 hrs daylight).
Camera: Olympus EM5 MkII
Lens: Olympus 8mm f1.8 Fisheye
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Karaca Cave (Turkish: Karaca Mağarası) is a network of caves located near the town of Torul in Gümüşhane Province, Turkey.
In the area extending between Gümüşhane and Torul, there are extensive formations consisting of various types of extrusive, igneous rock, including andesitic and basaltic lavas, tuffs and agglomerates. The total thickness of these deposits reaches 1,000 m (3,300 ft). These igneous strata are interleaved with sedimentary layers, varying in thickness between 100 and 200 m (330 and 660 ft) and consisting of limestone and certain other types of sedimentary rock. The Karaca Cave formed in one of these layers of highly-fissured, massive limestone sandwiched between volcanics.
Karaca Cave is rich in dripstone formations of many different shapes and colours, including stalactites, stalagmites, and travertines. There are also many cave roses located on certain of the travertines and stalagmites.
Some of the dripstone pools are very large - particularly those in the inner parts of the cave, which range up to 1 m (3.3 ft) in depth.
The travertines vary in colour from white to dark blue, revealing the presence of high levels of iron and magnesium minerals in the cave waters.
The cave system is disposed more or less in a level plane and consists of four interconnected caverns. Two of these caverns are further subdivided by 'walls' composed of dripstone, and it could thus be argued that Karaca comprises not four but six chambers.
The height of the cave entrance is about 1.8 m (5.9 ft) - the height of an average man - but, as one moves deeper into the interior increases steadily, the cave opening out into a funnel shape. The cave is roughly 105 m (344 ft) in length, averages 18 m (59 ft) in height and has a total floor area of 1,500 m2 (16,000 sq ft).
There is no stream in Karaca, water percolating through fissures in the roof of the cave being responsible for the formation of the dripstones. Such water as persists within the cave is in the form of various ponds and pools. The ponds at the entrance of the third and fourth caverns contain a considerable volume of water.
There is no significant air circulation in the cave, with the result that the level of humidity in its atmosphere increases from around 65% at the entrance to up to 75% in the cave's interior. The air inside the cave is cooler than that outside it in summertime and warmer in winter. Because of this, it is considered to have a microclimate of its own.
The Karaca Cave has been open to visitors since 1996.
La montagne Pelée est un volcan actif situé dans le Nord de la Martinique, une île des petites Antilles. La montagne est notamment connue pour son éruption de 1902 qui a entraîné la destruction de la ville de Saint-Pierre située à ses pieds et au cours de laquelle près de 30 000 personnes sont mortes. Cette éruption a servi à caractériser le type éruptif péléen d’où le nom du volcan.
Le 8 mai 1902, au cours d'une éruption, une nuée ardente partie du sommet du volcan détruisit complètement la ville de Saint-Pierre faisant environ 29 000 morts. Il y eut deux survivants avérés, Louis-Auguste Cyparis, un prisonnier sauvé par l'épaisseur des murs de son cachot, et Léon Compère-Léandre, un cordonnier qui vivait à la périphérie de la ville, ainsi qu'une troisième parfois mentionnée, Havivra Da Ifrile Aujourd'hui reconstruite, Saint-Pierre est une petite cité de 5 000 habitants1. Avant l'éruption, la ville était la capitale commerciale de la Martinique et était alors surnommée « le Petit Paris des Antilles » Source: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montagne_Pel%C3%A9e
Pelee Mountain is an active volcano located in northern Martinique, an island in the Lesser Antilles. The mountain is best known for its 1902 eruption that destroyed the town of Saint-Pierre at its feet, during which nearly 30,000 people died. This eruption was used to characterize the eruptive pelean type hence the name of the volcano.
On May 8, 1902, during an eruption, a fiery cloud at the top of the volcano completely destroyed the city of Saint-Pierre, killing about 29,000 people. There were two proven survivors, Louis-Auguste Cyparis, a prisoner saved by the thickness of the walls of his dungeon, and Léon Compère-Léandre, a shoemaker who lived on the outskirts of the city, as well as a third sometimes mentioned, Havivra Da Ifrile. Today rebuilt, Saint-Pierre is a small city of 5,000 inhabitants. Before the eruption, the city was the commercial capital of Martinique and was then nicknamed "the Little Paris of the West Indies" Source: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montagne_Pel%C3%A9e
It was another mild winter day, clouds of varying thickness, hardly any rain, the sun rarely breaking through even for a little. But then just before sunset we got this glorious view of light and shadow in stormy clouds above Erba Park. You can see trees, communal gardens, and some buildings across the Regnitz River in Gaustadt. There's even a Bavarian soccer club banner blowing in the wind (just right of center). [DSC03798_lr_2000]
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"The walls stretch for approximately 4.5 km (2.8 miles), and rise to a height of between 5 and 15 metres (16.4–49 ft), with a thickness of 3 metres (10 feet) at the base of the wall."
La Bola del Mundo o alto de las Guarramillas es una montaña de la sierra de Guadarrama, en el sistema Central de la penÃnsula ibérica. Se ubica en la Comunidad de Madrid, cerca del lÃmite con la provincia de Segovia, en España. Tiene una altitud de 2257 m​ con una prominencia de 103 m, y es la cumbre más occidental del cordal montañoso de Cuerda Larga. Muy cerca de la cumbre, en la cara este, está el Ventisquero de la Condesa, una zona con emanaciones de agua que constituye el nacimiento del rÃo Manzanares, y donde se acumulan grandes espesores de nieve en invierno. En su cima hay unas antenas, cuya función era la emisión de la señal de radio y televisión y su envÃo hacia las dos mesetas. En 2010, el Gobierno de España decidió cerrar el potente repetidor de televisión de Navacerrada debido al apagón analógico y dejándolo exclusivamente para la emisión de radio en FM de RNE 1 Madrid (104,9 MHz) RNE-CLAS (98,8 MHz), RNE Radio 3 (95,8 MHz) y Onda Madrid (106,0 MHz)
Estas tres grandes antenas están cubiertas por un radomo calentado en forma de cohete para protegerlas del hielo, son visibles desde varios kilómetros a la redonda y constituyen la mayor peculiaridad de esta montaña, la cual es de muy fácil acceso desde el puerto de Navacerrada.
The Ball of the World or Alto de las Guarramillas is a mountain in the Sierra de Guadarrama, in the Central System of the Iberian Peninsula. It is located in the Community of Madrid, near the border with the province of Segovia, in Spain. It has an altitude of 2,257 m with a prominence of 103 m, and is the westernmost summit of the Cuerda Larga mountain range. Very close to the summit, on the east face, is the Ventisquero de la Condesa, an area with water emanations that constitutes the source of the Manzanares river, and where great thicknesses of snow accumulate in winter. At its top there are some antennas, whose function was to broadcast the radio and television signal and send it to the two plateaus. In 2010, the Government of Spain decided to close the powerful Navacerrada television repeater due to the analog blackout and leaving it exclusively for the FM radio broadcast of RNE 1 Madrid (104.9 MHz) RNE-CLAS (98.8 MHz), RNE Radio 3 (95.8 MHz) and Onda Madrid (106.0 MHz)
These three large antennas are covered by a rocket-shaped heated radome to protect them from ice, they are visible from several kilometers around and constitute the greatest peculiarity of this mountain, which is very easily accessible from the port of Navacerrada.
The Aletsch Glacier (German: Aletschgletscher) or Great Aletsch Glacier (German: Grosser Aletschgletscher) is the largest glacier in the Alps. It has a length of about 23 km and covers more than 120 square kilometres in the eastern Bernese Alps in the Swiss canton of Valais.
The Aletsch Glacier is composed of three smaller glaciers converging at Concordia, where its thickness was measured by the ETH to be near 1 km. It then continues towards the Rhône valley before giving birth to the Massa.
Warmont Castle is located north of the village along the main road. Huys te Warmont is built on the site of a medieval castle dating from 1250, incorporating traces of medieval architecture.The original timber structures were replaced by buildings that were subsequently damaged by fire in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries and rebuilt each time on the old foundations.A 16th-century drawing makes it possible to reconstruct the medieval original, when the castle consisted of a square ground-plan of four wings and four corner towers set around an interior court, the whole surrounded by a moat. The living-quarters were in the north and east wings. The massive west tower was once assumed to have been the keep, but the thickness of its walls and its dimensions are too small for this purpose. In 1629 the castle was given a new entrance range by Salomon de Bray, featuring pilasters and a broad pediment. The south tower, originally octagonal, was replaced by a square one after 1650. Owing to the various rebuilding projects, Warmond acquired an irregular character in the course of the centuries. In 1780 the castle was extensively rebuilt. Floor levels and the proportions of the rooms were altered, and the walls were stuccoed. Medieval remains were hidden by new walls and plasterwork; de Bray’s additions disappeared.
Kleiner Arbersee, Bavaria
Nature conservation area
High: 918 m (3,012 ft)
The moor felt have separated from the shore and have long been floating on the lake as "floating islands". However, their position has been stable for several years. In places the islands have a thickness of 1.5 to 3.5 meters, so that even 40 to 60-year-old pines grow on them. The largest island has an extension of 4,500 m². (Wikipedia)
The question insurance companies always ask. When this door was made it was the depth of the moat and the thickness of the stonework that mattered.
Part of the gatehouse entrance door of moated Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk. The hall dates in parts back to the late 1400s although this woodwork is likely younger.
15-febraury-2022: from here comes the Sava Dolinka, the longer of the two spring branches, which, with the Sava Bohinjka, give life to the longest river of the former Yugoslavia, the Sava, that, after a 990km journey, meets the Danube in Belgrade (Serbia) becoming one of its main tributaries.
This photo confirms, if needed, that the water has its own color, generally between turquoise and light blue, which becomes darker the greater the thickness of the water and which does not live only according to the reflection of a blue sky.
The real color of the water is evident, of course, only if the bottom is light in color (sandy, limestone...) and devoid of vegetation.
The word "hoodoo" means to bewitch, which is what Bryce Canyon's rock formations surely do.
Actually there is a mixture of Spires and hoodoos in this image.
In common usage, the difference between Hoodoos and spires is that hoodoos have a variable thickness often described as having a “totem pole-shaped body.
A spire, on the other hand, has a smoother profile or uniform thickness that tapers from the ground upward.
The Aletschgletscher the Konkordiaplatz , the Mönch , the Trugberg and the head of the Eiger . A view from Eggishorn No, 100 .
"The Aletsch Glacier (German: Aletschgletscher) or Great Aletsch Glacier (Grosser Aletschgletscher) is the largest glacier in the Alps. It has a length of about 23 km (14 mi) (2014), has about a volume of 15.4 km3 (3.7 cu mi) (2011), and covers about 81.7 km2 (31.5 square miles) (2011) in the eastern Bernese Alps in the Swiss canton of Valais. The Aletsch Glacier is composed of four smaller glaciers converging at Concordia, where its thickness was measured by the ETH to be still near 1 km (3,300 ft).[citation needed] It then continues towards the Rhône valley before giving birth to the Massa.
The whole area, including other glaciers is part of the Jungfrau-Aletsch Protected Area, which was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001.
Der Grosse Aletschgletscher ist der flächenmässig grösste und längste Gletscher der Alpen. Er befindet sich auf der Südabdachung der Berner Alpen im Kanton Wallis, Schweiz. Die Länge des Gletschers beträgt 22,75 km[1], die Fläche einschliesslich der Quellgletscher wird mit 81,7 km² angegeben[2]. Der Aletschgletscher entwässert über die Massa in die Rhone. Die Fläche des gesamten Einzugsgebiets der Massa beträgt 195 km², wovon 1973 etwa zwei Drittel vergletschert waren.[4] Oft werden bei der Flächenangabe der Ober- und Mittelaletschgletscher einbezogen, da diese früher mit dem Grossen Aletschgletscher verbunden waren. Die gesamte vergletscherte Fläche einschliesslich dieser Gletscher betrug 1973 etwa 128 km², für das Jahr 1863 wird eine Fläche von 163 km² angenommen.
Le glacier d'Aletsch est le plus grand glacier des Alpes, situé dans le sud de la Suisse dans le canton du Valais. Il est entouré au nord par le massif de la Jungfrau, au sud par la vallée du Rhône avec laquelle le glacier communique via les gorges de la Massa, à l'est par le lac Märjelen et à l'ouest par l'Aletschhorn."
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The city walls of Cittadella are a rare example of medieval means of defense with a still practicable, perfectly preserved parapet walk.
It is one of the most beautiful means of defense in Europe.
The walls’ circumference is 1461 meters, its height 14 meters, the keeps reach a height of up to 30 meters. The average thickness of the walls is 2,10 meters. The four gates, 450 meters equidistant from each other, lie approximately along the four cardinal points. The surrounding walls are characterised by 4 keeps, 12 towers and 16 turrets.
Constructed around 1300, the stronghold belonged to the counts of Gelder until 1526. The building originally consisted of an irregular four-sided corps de logis with a circular donjon as its south-west corner tower.
The location of this tower on one of the diagonals (as at Flint Castle, built 1277, in Wales) is unusual in the Netherlands; so, too, is its massive size, acquired when it was rebuilt on the old foundations after a fire in 1412. It is c. 25 m high and 16 m in diameter, with walls ranging in thickness from 1.2 m to 4 m.
Square chambers have been contrived in the thickness of the wall. The donjon formerly was not connected to the corps de logis, but it was linked sometime after the rebuilding of 1412. The present corps de logis used to be the barbican, replacing the original corps de logis when the latter was destroyed.
The narrow section that joins it to the donjon must have been built after 1512. Rosendael Castle was altered again around 1615, when two residential wings were built, crowned with Gelderland gables and Renaissance decorations; these are joined to the donjon by means of the narrow section.
A lower ward surrounded by a moat served as an ornamental garden. Rozendaal underwent further alterations in the wake of another fire in 1714.
The Gelderland gables were replaced by a new gable, which united the living-quarters under a single roof, and a splendid park was laid out, with classical temples and pavilions; the donjon was probably lowered by one storey during the same period. Despite its history of rebuilding much of the medieval fabric of Rosendael survives.
The Rosendael Castle now houses a museum, established after the latest restoration of the building and the park, completed in 1990.
Address: Kasteel Rosendael, Rosendael 1, 6891 DA Rozendaal, Netherlands
A journey.
Through musical notes
And long-lasting darkness.
Step after step, dreaming awake.
Searching inside,
Resting on the emotional thickness of music.
Leaning
On the very threshold of oneself.
Aloneness in the crowd,
Silent togetherness.
The Brand New Heavies live at Umbria Jazz 2015.
Arena di Santa Giuliana, Perugia (Italy).
peppercorn is about 5 mm kept on a two riyal saudi coin with diameter of 25mm and thickness of 1.8mm
Anna's Hummingbird (male)
our garden is somewhat of a nectar smorgasbord for hummingbirds. they like to eat, flit around and then perch on the comfy tomato cage at coffee time. anyways, I found a twig of the same thickness with some nice lichen on it, and staged it close by. like just two seconds later, the alpha male, who had been checking me out earlier while I was pulling weeds, lands right between the wickets, wanting to play. He lets me come right up to him... 400mm at 7 feet brought him full frame, and I dialed the aperture in at f/20 for depth of field. It was overcast, but noonish, with a light that was bright and totally to die for. When everybody was all comfortable, I said 123 alakazamm stick out your tongue and pushed the button ;0
02-may-2021: the marshy lake that fills the basin-peat bog in the center of the saddle between mount Cavallo di Pontebba and mount Auernig, near the border with Austria and whose water flows into the Rio/Creek Bombaso (a tributary on the right of the Fella river), is still mostly frozen, thanks to the abundant snow that covers it since early winter.
The water that composes Lake Pramollo, however, has also underground springs, like the one in the photo, which never freeze as the temperature in the subsoil is always above zero.
The residual winter snow, which covers the ground extensively from an altitude of 1250/1300m a.s.l., here, at 1530m a.s.l. (and in an orographically favorable position for accumulation), has a still important thickness, varying between 70 and 120cm, compressed and compacted by months and months of thermal changes, but, most of all, by the pressure of the snow now melted.
Snow, in fact, accumulates layer by layer and melts away (starting from the end of February, when the white mantle was over 220cm thick) layer by layer backwards, so the remaining snow is also the first fallen, the oldest, to the end of November 2020.
Added to this are now the soft 35-40cm that fell over the day to the object and which will be the first to melt with the first sun.
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Finland Lapland : Fishing on the Kemijoki frozen river (50 cm of ice thickness).
The Owachomo Bridge is one of the three impressive natural stone bridges in the Natural Bridges National Monument/Utah, United States.
Height: 106 feet, Span: 180 feet, Thickness: 9 feet.
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The terraces were dug following the natural curves of the landscape. The thickness of the walls stores heat during the day and diffuses it at night. Thanks to this method it has been possible to obtain a different microclimate as one goes down and gets closer to the centre. An average temperature difference of 5°C was observed, whereas the difference is only 0.5°C over comparable height differences at the same location. Due to its sheltered position, each of the terraces represents approximately one thousand metres of altitude under normal growing conditions.
Ce menhir est le seul rescapé d'un groupe de cinq menhirs qui furent abattus par un carrier vers 1887.
Il fait une hauteur de 6,50 m, une largeur de 2,20 m pour une épaisseur de 1,00 m.
This menhir is the only survivor of a group of five menhirs which were destroyed by a quarryman by 1887.
It makes a height of 6,50 m, a width of 2,20 m for a thickness of 1,00 m.
A journey.
Through musical notes
And long-lasting darkness.
Step after step, dreaming awake.
Searching inside,
Resting on the emotional thickness of music.
Leaning
On the very threshold of oneself.
Aloneness in the crowd,
Silent togetherness.
INCOGNITO LIVE AT UMBRIA JAZZ 2015
Arena di Santa Giuliana, Perugia.
The genus Polylepis contains about twenty species that are distributed across the Andes. It is in the rose family, Rosaceae. The genus belongs to the tribe Sanguisorbeae, which mainly comprises herbs and small shrubs. Although the relationship of Polylepis to other genera of Sanguisorbeae is largely unknown, the analysis of Torsten Eriksson et al. (2003) showed evidence of a close relationship between Polylepis and Acaena, which shows tendencies towards having fused stipular sheaths, reddish, flaking-off bark, and axillary, somewhat pendant inflorescences, features otherwise characteristic of Polylepis. There are several characteristics that are important taxonomically to distinguish between species of Polylepis, for example: 1) The amount of leaf congestion, 2) presence or absence of spurs and their size and vestiture, 3) presence or absence and type of trichomes, (4) size, shape, thickness and vestiture of leaflets. The most important taxonomic character, however, is the leaflets.
Studies suggest that repeated fragmentation and reconnection of páramo vegetation, caused by the Pleistocene climatic fluctuations, had a strong influence on the evolution and speed of speciation in the genus Polylepis as well as the páramo biota as a whole.
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"It is a crystal which captures light during the day and which, at night, appears like a signal or a lighthouse"
Architect Giovanni Vaccarini
«C'est un cristal qui capte la lumière la journée et qui, la nuit, apparaît tel un signal ou un phare»
Since the renovation of its head office, SPG has reduced its energy consumption by 60% per heated square meter and by 50% in electricity by installing a thermal envelope made up of 2,900 glass slats of different length, thickness and depth.
"It is a crystal which captures light during the day and which, at night, appears like a signal or a lighthouse".
The heating and ventilation system have also been completely redesigned by the architectural firm Giovanni Vaccarini.
The cooling is done statically from the ceiling. The cold air descends slowly, and the heat emitted at the foot of the facade, by ejectors send the preheated air into the rooms.
The facade is made up of triple glazing with high performance thermal insulation, as well as single glazing provided with ventilation slots placed in front of blinds with micro-perforated slats. These provide protection against direct sunlight as well as comfort. visual. Single glazing also contributes to solar reflection. A silver coating on one side of the glass prevents any overheating phenomenon. The last elements are the solar shading glass slats fixed to the facade by reinforced aluminum forks. They are studded with multiple small dots that enhance solar protection while letting the light diffuse very softly inside the building.
Cirrus clouds with contrails at sunset
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Cirrus is an atmospheric cloud generally characterized by thin, wispy strands, giving the type its name from the Latin word cirrus meaning a ringlet or curling lock of hair.
It forms when water vapor undergoes deposition at altitudes above 5,000 m (16,500 ft) in temperate regions and above 6,100 m (20,000 ft) in tropical regions.
Cirrus cloud ranges in thickness from 100 m (330 ft) to 8,000 m (26,000 ft)
Contrails are a manmade type of cirrus cloud formed when water vapor from the exhaust of a jet engine condenses on particles, which come from either the surrounding air or the exhaust itself, and freezes, leaving behind a visible trail. The exhaust can also trigger the formation of cirrus by providing ice nuclei when there is an insufficient naturally-occurring supply in the atmosphere.
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Rila Monastery - the monastery was founded in the 14th century on the site of the hermitage Ivan Rila existing since the 10th century in the valley of Rila mountain.
Modern form of the monastery dates from the 19th century, when through the victims of Bulgarian society and with the agreement of the Turkish authorities built a huge monastery complex. The walls of a thickness of 2 m and a height of 24 m giving it the appearance of a fortified stronghold. The inner courtyard is surrounded by three-storey buildings with arches painted in black and white and wooden galleries.
The main church of the Holy Mother of God is a three-nave basilica based on a cruciform plan with a dome at the intersection of the aisles. The pride of the temple are frescoes and great iconostasis.
In 1983 the monastery was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
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Rylski Monastyr – monastyr został założony w XIV na miejscu pustelni Iwana z Riły istniejącej od X wieku w kotlinie górskiego masywu Riła.
Współczesna postać monastyru pochodzi z XIX w., kiedy to dzięki ofiarom społeczeństwa bułgarskiego i przy zgodzie władz tureckich wybudowano ogromny kompleks klasztorny. Mury grubości 2 m i wysokości 24 m nadają mu wygląd warownej twierdzy. Wewnętrzny dziedziniec otaczają trójkondygnacyjne budynki z łukami pomalowanymi na czarno i biało oraz drewnianymi krużgankami.
Główna cerkiew pod wezwaniem Świętej Bogurodzicy to trójnawowa bazylika oparta na planie krzyża z kopułą na skrzyżowaniu naw. Ozdobą świątyni są freski i olbrzymi ikonostas.
W 1983 monastyr został wpisany na listę światowego dziedzictwa UNESCO.
The Perito Moreno Glacier slowly makes its way down to the lower ground of Argentino Lake. At its end the Perito Moreno Glacier has an average thickness of 170m (558ft) with 74m (240ft) visible above the water line of the lake. With over 250 km2 (97 sq mi) of ice the glacier spans 30 km (19 mi) in length and a width of 5km at its terminus. Since 1968 rupturing ice has taken the lives of 32 people who were hit by flying ice. One of 48 glaciers that form part of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, the high altitude field has a total area of 12,363 km2 (4,773 sq mi) of ice. Los Glaciares National Park, Santa Cruz , Argentinean Patagonia, Argentina.
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The Great Aletsch Glacier: facts and figures
Length
23 km – making the Great Aletsch Glacier the longest in the Alps.
Surface area
86 km2; Concordia – where the Grosser Aletschfirn, Jungfraufirn, Ewigschneefeldfirn and Grüneggfirn firn fields merge – is large enough to hold a town such as Chur, Bellinzona or Frauenfeld.
Weight
27 billion tonnes, or the weight of 72.5 million jumbo jets.
Maximum ice thickness
More than 900 m at Concordia.
Menashe Kadishman (1932-2015)
'Fallen leaves' (1997, installation 2008)
Installation, approx. 10,000 individual sculptures, sheet steel, thickness: 1.5 to 8 cm, height: 8 to 17 cm, width: 7 to 16 cm
Ground floor of the Jewish Museum in Kreuzberg
Berlin, Germany 07.03.2008
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Menashe Kadishman (1932-2015)
'Gefallenes Laub' (1997, Installation 2008)
Installation, ca. 10.000 Einzelskulpturen, Stahlblech, Dicke: 1,5 bis 8 cm, Höhe: 8 bis 17 cm, Breite: 7 bis 16 cm
Erdgeschoß des Jüdischen Museums in Kreuzberg
Berlin, Deutschland 07.03.2008