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Taken for SSC 07/03/2026 - Multiples and posted very early as tomorrow I am back in St. Georges for another Op !!
A timely shot as so often there is a magpie up there , but in not enough numbers to constitute Multiples .
Forgive me if I do not get to do any comments on the other SSC shots this week as I am not sure how long I will be in - I will endeavor to catch up as soon as I can .
Just to liven things up a bit , another very old track , this week from LZ3 ---
For Macro Mondays ;Tile; theme - these are some sample tiles that didn't make the cut but for some reason I have kept.
The interior designer Caroline tries to assemble a nonrepeating pattern discovered by the David Smith from Yorkshire. The shape is supposed to be a in a nonrepeating pattern a so called “einstein” or “one stone. Usually wallpaper or tiled floor are part of an infinite pattern that repeats periodically. An aperiodic tiling displays no such “translational symmetry,” and mathematicians have long sought a single shape that could tile the plane in such a fashion. This is known as the einstein problem.
Renoma (formerly Powszechny Dom Towarowy Renoma, Wertheim) is a shopping mall in Wrocław, Poland. Inaugurated in 1930, it was once the largest and most luxurious department store in the city. Now beautifully restored.
Design (1927): Herman Dernburg
Sony FE 90mm F2.8 Macro G OSS
Tile is .8125" W, image is 1.99" W.
Interesting that the blue shadow behind the figures isn't visible to the naked eye, at least my naked eye. :-)
Taken in a museum in Paris, France, but I can't tell you which one although I think I could walk right to it if I was still there - Silly me.
Clay roofing tiles made entry into India only around 1865, introduced by Christian missionaries from Germany. This pattern of tiles is known as Mangalore tiles, as the first factory was set up in Mangalore. This tile pattern was originally invented in France and is known as Marseille tiles across the world.
When on Holiday in Norfolk I noticed that the Pied wagtails always headed for the roof of one of my favourite cafe's towards the end of the day, on my next visit I took my camera with me and managed to get some decent images this being the best of them.