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This is my dad. Every once in a while I paint his portrait. This is portrait number three. It's a birthday present.
portrait by Martin-Jan van Santen, an artist from Holland. Oil on panel. You are welcome to visit his website:
www.martinjanvansanten.com to see acomplete collection of his work. Every painting on this website is for sale, unless indicated otherwise. Check out his new portfolio:
Shot with a Canon Canonet QL17 G3
Canon 40mm f/1.7 lens
Derev Pan 400 film
Shot at EI 200
Developed in the Ego Lab using XTOL (stock solution, 4:32 min at 76F, agitating first and each minute)
Scanned on a Coolscan 9000ED
L: No filter.
C: KR15 filter.
R: KR15 filter & white-balance adjustment in post.
Pentax K2 + Super-Takumar 35mm f3.5. Film Photography Project RetroChrome 160.
The Three Winged Epidendrum (Epidendrum trialatum) is a small epiphytic orchid. El Toucant Lodge Environs, Costa Rica.
Now that the dust has settled a bit, perhaps it's time to upload some of my small Woolworths backlog. This picture of the Great Yarmouth store was taken three months ago when, as far as any of us knew, all was well with the great household-name retailer.
Seen at the POPS Rally at Chatterley Whitfield Mining Museum was a lineup of Leyland Atlanteans.
Furthest left is the ex-Wallesey FHF451, the first production Atlantean; by it's side is 766 EVT, the first PMT Atlantean and preserved by POPS and the last one was an ex Portsmouth BBK 236B, which was owned at the time by POPS members Steve Mellor from Harrow.
The early 13th century Biblical window in the north choir aisle, amongst the very finest medieval windows to survive. The panels represent subjects from both Old and New Testaments; the original panels from the two lowest rows have not survived and their places have been filled by scenes from other windows of the same date (mostly from a now empty window in the north east transept).
Arguably the most important of England's cathedrals and its Mother Church, few other buildings embody the nation's history as much as this one. It also bears the distinction of being the first major example of Gothic architecture in Britain, where French masons introduced the style during the rebuilding of the choir following a major fire in the 1170s. Throughout the following centuries it became one of Europe's leading centres of pilgrimage, when thousands flocked to venerate the shrine of murdered archbishop St Thomas Becket, but brought to an abrupt end with the English Reformation, when a saint who defied a monarch was viewed with particular enmity. Though all traces of the rich shrine were destroyed, the site of Becket's martyrdom in the north transept remains a place of reverence to this day.
The cathedral is a stunning building which represents both the earliest and latest styles of English Gothic architecture, from the French inspired eastern limb and apse, to the nave, transepts and the three towers, all soaring examples of the Perpendicular style, the central tower (the 'Bell Harry') being an especially fine structure (the north-west tower was rebuilt in the 1830s as a copy of its medieval neighbour on the south side following the demolition of an earlier Norman tower, thus the present symmetry of the west façade is a relatively recent feature, originally its mismatched towers would have given it a more Continental appearance).
The earliest parts of the cathedral however are Norman, represented the easternmost chapels and transepts flanking the choir, survivors of the fire of 1174, each transept being adorned by a richly decorated miniature tower. The crypt below is the finest in the country, extending below most of the east end (with a transitional early Gothic extension to the east under the apse). Superb examples of Romanesque art can be seen in many of the crypt's sculpted capitals, and the unusually well preserved murals in St Gabriel's chapel (sadly photography is forbidden in these areas).
The cathedral contains many notable tombs and monuments of all periods from the 13th to 20th centuries, foremost amongst them being the tombs of Edward the Black Prince (with a superb bronze effigy) and King Henry IV.
It's most celebrated feature is its wonderful collection of stained glass, much of it dating back to the late 12th and early 13th centuries including a sequence of the Ancestors of Christ and the especially beautiful 'Miracle windows' in the ambulatory (relating various miracles associated with Becket's shrine). The glass is justly famous as the very finest in Britain, its deep blues and reds often compared with the famous windows of Chartres.
On the north side many of the former monastic buildings remain, with a fine late medieval cloister and a vast rectangular chapter house. The cathedral library also stands here, but was rebuilt after being destroyed by bombing in World War II; fortunately all the medieval glass in the cathedral had been removed for safe-keeping throughout the war and damage to the building was otherwise superficial.
Canterbury Cathedral put simply invites superlatives, one of the most rewarding churches anywhere and a magnificent testament to England's Christian heritage.
The Three Mile Island nuclear power station, near Harrisburg, PA, where a nuclear accident happened in March 1979. Unit 2 has been innoperative since the accident, Unit 1 is still in operation (as can be seen by the smoke in its cooling towers).
Since my childhood I have been to this place for a lot of times, but not before yesterday I noticed these three men, watching from above.
It's the Museum of Natural History (Naturkundemuseum) in Berlin/Germany, district of Mitte, Invalidenstraße 43, built by August Tiede and opened in 1889. The three men over the entrance are Alexander von Humboldt (centre), maybe the most influential naturalist-explorer of Germany, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (left), biologist, who's scientific collection was handed over to this museum after his death, and Christian Samuel Weiß (right), director of the Mineralogical Museum which later was integrated into Naturkundemuseum.
Beings are numberless; I vow to awaken with them.
Delusions are inexhaustible; I vow to release them.
The Dharma gates are endless; I vow to enter them.
The Way is unsurpassable; I vow to embody it.
Three oak trees on Black Mountain Ranch. I believe these are Valley Oaks. © 2012
November 29, 2011
Camera Canon EOS 50D
Exposure 0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture f/8.0
Focal Length 31 mm
ISO Speed 400
Exposure Bias 0 EV
taken through a prism. A lot of fun.
For supereasymemoirlist -
· Yourself: elated
· Your partner: hilarious
· Your hair: rarely blowdried
· Your Mother: heartful
· Your (step) Father: sunshine
· Your Favorite Item: my pen
· Your dream last night: Anthony Kiedis
· Your Favorite Drink: gin & tonic
· Your Dream Car: electric
· Your Dream Home: a bus
· The Room You Are In: white-on-white
· Your Ex: disappointing
· Your fear: myself
· Where you Want to be in Ten Years?: published
· Who you hung out with last night: Mick & Airdrie & cheap curry
· What You're Not: polished
· Muffins: white choc & raspberry
· One of Your Wish List Items: $10 million
· Time: an abusive lover
· The Last Thing You Did: resigned
· What You Are Wearing: sky blue
· Your favorite weather: cool sunshine
· Your Favorite Book?: The Time Traveller's Wife
· Last thing you ate?: spirulina
· Your Life: everything
· Your mood: hopeful
· Your Best Friends: the meaning
· What are you thinking about right now?: a job interview/coffee/muffins/my best friends/every line of this thing/flickr/thinking of things/how many things am I thinking/arrrrggghhhhhhhhh I'm meltinggggggg......
· Your car: my bike
· What are you doing at the moment: pretending to work
· Your summer: still to come
· Relationship status: married
· What is on your tv?: a fish
· What is the weather like: This is Melbourne - today it's hailed, rained, blown a gale, and now it's gloriously sunny.
· When is the last time you laughed: about three lines up
I'm planning a small, operating engine terminal. This is the first structure of it. Trying to complete the design in 3 weeks. Ideas welcome. I'm loosely imitating the UP Cheynne roundhouse
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