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This early arriving Hummer is one of several males that are fighting over control of the nectar feeder just below. They now compete with breath-taking high-speed aerial sky dives to impress the feeding females and get their attention (for breeding). This flight action is both visually and audibly impressive! It's still very early morning, and the sunlight is heavily filtered by the tall forest growth to the east. Although I have the sun at my back, the gorgets will not display full red iridescence until it gets a little brighter. In this shot you can get nary a hint of the vibrant wine-red color to come with later more intense sunlight! This dazzling display is then based more on iridescence than pigment colors... but the sun angle has to be correct. The experienced males know how to precisely position themselves relative to sun angle to awe the ladies.
IMG_5676; Broad-tailed Hummingbird
Europe, Portugal, Almada,Cacilhas, Lisnave Margueira wharf, gantry crane (uncut)
For us a city isn't visually complete without large objects that deleniate the places where it ends or fades away into its periphery. Standing on the banks of the Tejo and looking across it there are two large structures that work like this for the agglomeration of Lisbon (including the 'outra banda'): the big gantry crane of the former Lisnave Margueira wharf in the east and the gargantuan grain elevators of Trafaria in the west.
The Margueira Shipyard of Lisnave (Lisnave Estaleiros Navais SA) is an epic place – big vessels (VLCC's – very large crude carriers – ‘mammoettankers’) were build here from 1961 until 2000 when the wharf closed after a restructuring of the company. It was part of a European Community scheme to adjust the production capacity of the European wharfs after the oil crisis in the 70s and the industrial shift to Asia . All Lisnave activities are in Mitrena (Setubal) since then. And the workforce shrank from 6000 to 3200 people.
The wharf was by the way partly owned by Dutch ship yards (Nederlandsche Dok-en Scheepsbouw Maatschappij, Wilton-Fijenoord-Bronswerk and Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij). For these yards themselves restructuring alas wasn't enough and they eventually went bankrupt.
Estaleiro da Margueira is still used one a very small scale. Some small businesses use some buildings and a part of the TransTejo (the operator of the Tejo ‘caciheiros’ (ferries) fleet is berthed there.
The giant gantry crane portrayed here was constructed in 1971 by Mague Industrias Metalomecanicas SA and could handle loads up to 300 tons.
There are plans for the restructuring/redevelopment of the vast complex: ‘The Water City’ here. It was conceived in 2007 (Richard Rogers, João Santa Rita and Ana Roxo) and approved in 2009. The linked document is from 2015.
Some pics for my Wardrobe post!
I really had a lot of fun putting this looks together. I really find the outfit, the makeup, and the hair to all be super beautiful on their own. Mixing them together makes me feel so sexy!
Full credits and more Wardrobe info at post: digitalregeneration.com/visually-organize-your-second-lif...
Status
Resident, winter visitor from Iceland and passage migrant (birds on passage from Scandinavia/the Baltic breeding areas to west African wintering areas). Highest numbers occur during the early autumn, when there is overlap of the populations.
Identification
As the name suggests, its most distinctive feature is the leg colour - bright red. A common wader of wetlands throughout the country, though mainly coastal estuaries in winter. A generally mouse brown bird with dark streaking. Bill medium length and straight, reddish at the base. Legs relatively long. Can occur in quite large numbers at the larger estuaries.
Voice
An hyterical, piercing "tew…hoo, tew…hoo", always loud - often scaring other birds away. Persisitent "tew.. tew...tew.." at breeding grounds.
Diet
Detect prey visually and feed mostly during the day along the upper shore of estuaries and along muddy river channels. Feed singly or in small groups, and their prey consists mostly of Hydrobia sp., Corophium sp. and nereid worms
Breeding
Nests on the ground in grassy tussock, in wet, marshy areas and occasionally heather. Adults often keep guard standing on fence posts or high rocks. Breeds mainly in midlands (especially Shannon Callows) and northern half of the country, but not commonly anywhere in Ireland.
Wintering
Winters all around the coasts of Ireland, Britain and many European countries. Favours mudflats, large estuaries and inlets. Smaller numbers at inland lakes and large rivers.
If you look at this part of this sky visually with a telescope, all you see is the open star cluster at the center. Taking a picture with a hydrogen-alpha filter and a CCD camera reveals a lot more. There is an emission nebula associated with the star cluster, and there are many dark molecular clouds in the foreground. Those are regions where new stars are forming. I think one bears a resemblance to the Loch Ness monster or some long necked dinosaur.
Taken from my backyard in Long Beach, CA with a Celestron Edge HD 925 at 535 mm focal length with Hyperstar. An Atik 414-EX mono CCD camera was used with an Atik H-alpha filter and Optolong RGB filters. Most of the detail comes from the H-alpha filter with the RGB filters helping to get the star colors correct.
Hα filter - 42 240 s exposures
R filter - 72 45 s exposures
G filter - 61 45 s exposures
B filter - 55 45 s exposures
Preprocessing in Nebulosity with dark, bias, and flat frames; stacking, channel combination, and initial processing in PixInsight; final touches in Photoshop. It took a lot of work in PixInsight to get the right color mapped to all the detail in the nebula, but I think I found a combination that works.
North is at the left and west is at the top in this image.
A visually impaired man going up the stairs of La Grande Arche de la Défense in Paris.
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"The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color." -- Hans Hofmann.
This is one of the most visually direct drawings in the “Living Machine” series. The drawing took first place in the fine arts division of the LPL Art of Planetary Science show 2015. As with other works in this series, this drawing explores themes of mimetic evolution, Lamarckian evolution and self-construction. A large organic spheroid creature (a “Plantimal”) mimics the form of a smaller more machine-like creature which it is carrying. The background is taken largely from a view of low mountains north of Interstate 8 near the Arizona-California border.simpler story more cleanly and directly.
This work was part of a solo show at Tucson's main library May 2019: pima.bibliocommons.com/events/5cc0d96b6d8db6450037c654
This image showcases one of the most visually distinctive locomotives ever to ride the American rails: the Pennsylvania Railroad Class T1. Designed during the peak of the Art Deco movement, its "Sharknose" styling remains an icon of industrial design.
Description
An imposing view of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) Class T1 duplex-drive steam locomotive. Captured in its signature "Brunswick Green" livery, the T1 was the PRR's final bold attempt to maintain steam supremacy against the rising tide of diesel power.
This specific engine, numbered 5534, displays the unmistakable Raymond Loewy-inspired "Sharknose" streamlining. The design wasn't just for show; these locomotives were built for high-speed passenger service, capable of whisking heavy express trains across the "Broad Way of Commerce" at speeds exceeding 100 mph.
The image highlights the unique 4-4-4-4 wheel arrangement, featuring two sets of cylinders driving two pairs of coupled driving wheels, all housed within a single rigid frame. While technically sophisticated, their power often led to "wheel slip," making them a challenge for even the most experienced engineers.
The Designer:
While the sleek external casing is often credited to famed industrial designer Raymond Loewy, it was a collaborative effort to reduce air resistance and give the PRR a "modern" look.
The Build:
A total of 52 T1s were produced between 1942 and 1946 (two prototypes by Baldwin Locomotive Works and 50 production units split between Baldwin and the PRR's own Altoona Works).
The Performance:
On paper, the T1 was a masterpiece, delivering massive horsepower. However, they were maintenance-heavy and arrived just as the railroad industry began a rapid transition to diesel-electric locomotives.
The Legacy:
Sadly, despite their futuristic looks and raw power, none of the original T1s were preserved; all were scrapped by 1956. Today, a non-profit group (The T1 Trust) is currently working to build a brand-new T1, No. 5550, from scratch.
This image is a historical reenactment made using AI and is based on the original advertising at the time.i made it as a tribute to the train and to become better at making these images, Some things in the image may have spelling mistakes or mechanical defects. AI programmes are evolving at quite a speed so i hope you enjoy it for what it is..
This widdle guy is my visually impaired explorer. He likes the kitchen because he can explore with his nose instead of his eyes. Hedeki likes to play in flour bowls and he uses spoons as his walking sticks. The only issue is keeping him OUT of the sugar container....Sugar doesn't eve have smell!!!!
Any who, Hedeki loves his open space in the kitchen and likes the feel of the warm sun light of a good evening sunset. He does this thing where he stares out the window longingly.....can he see?
The Wizard nebula surrounds developing open star cluster NGC 7380 in the northern constellation of Cepheus, discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1787. The surrounding emission nebulosity is known as the Wizard Nebula, which spans an angle of 25′. Visually, the interplay of stars, gas, and dust has created a shape that appears to some like a fictional medieval sorcerer. The NGC 7380 complex is located at a distance of approximately 8500 light-years from Earth. At the center of the cluster lies DH Cephei, a close, binary system consisting of two massive O-type stars. This pair are the primary ionizing source for the surrounding Ha region and are driving out the surrounding gas and dust while triggering star formation. Text from Wikipedia
Taken from Santa Rosa, CA. September 2019
Mount: Paramount MYT Scope: TEC 140 Camera: QSI 683
R: G: B: Ha: O3 = 2.5h: 2.5h: 2.5h: 9h: 10h:
Reprocessed March 2023. HOO Combination for the nebula and RGB for the stars.
The visually spectacular red-crested cardinal is hard to miss. Also called the Brazilian cardinal, this South American species was introduced to Hawaii in the 1930s. Despite the resemblance and common name, the red-crested cardinal (Paroaria coronate) is not taxonomically classified as a cardinal.
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Siempre he creído que en el mundo de la fotografía uno no para de aprender cosas. Sin duda esto pasa en todas las actividades creativas, y en todas se van produciendo procesos de avance y de estancamiento.
Viendo foros y webs uno cada vez ve más fotos técnicamente correctas pero cada vez ve menos fotos que transmitan.
Creo que, en ocasiones, todos nos dejamos llevar por esa búsqueda de la perfección técnica olvidándonos de lo que realmente se trata, de transmitir, de comunicar.
Creo que llegado ese punto sería interesante ser más crítico con nosotros mismos y examinar de forma más profunda nuestras propias imágenes.
Está claro que una buena fotografía tiene muchos posibles ingredientes. En ocasiones con uno solo, por su fuerza o intensidad será suficiente, en otras se irán sumando una serie de factores.
A continuación enumero algunos de ellos, aunque como todo siempre será algo subjetivo y personal.
. Resulta satisfactoria: Más allá de que tenga algún fallo técnico cumple las expectativas del espectador.
. Estimula y provoca. Si no capta el interés del que está viendo la foto puede ser correcta pero nada más.
. Está compuesta por varias capas. Una imagen que funciona a más de un nivel funciona mejor. Como espectadores nos gusta descubrir.
. Encaja en un contexto cultural. La fotografía enlaza con la experiencia visual del individuo.
. Contiene una idea. Una imagen necesita atraer la imaginación del espectador, y no tan solo su atención visual.
. Misterio. Una imagen demasiado obvia a menudo no resulta muy interesante. Si conseguimos que el espectador se haga preguntas sobre ella conseguiremos retener su atención.
Como veis muchas de estas ideas se entrelazan entre sí, aunque con matices. No se trata de obsesionarse con ellas cada vez que tengamos la cámara en nuestras manos, pero sí pueden ayudarnos cuando queremos buscar algo un poquito más allá de la típica foto-postal.
I have always believed that you never cease to learn things in this world of photography. This happens in any creative activity, and there are always moments of great progress and others moments when you stall.
Viewing web forums and websites once sees increasingly technically expert photography that at the same time transmits less and less.
I believe that sometimes we are swept away by the desire to produce technically perfect photographs and forget what this is really about, to transmit and communicate.
I think that at this point it would be interesting to be more self-critical and to examine our own photographs.
It’s clear that a good photograph has many possible ingredients. Sometimes only one intense or powerful ingredient is necessary, other times several factors need to be added.
Below are a list of ingredients, although as always it’s a subjective and personal question.
. It’s a pleasing photograph: Despite technical faults it’s pleasing to the eye.
. It stimulates and provokes. If the photograph doesn’t draw the viewers’ attention, it will never be anything but technically correct.
. It’s composed on several layers. A many layered image always works best. Viewers like to discover things in the image.
. It fits culturally speaking. The photography is tied to the individual’s visual experience.
. It contains a concept or idea. The image should feed the viewers’ imaginations, not just attract their attention visually.
. Mystery An obvious image is not always very interesting. If we get viewers to wonder about the image we have caught their attention.
As you can see many of these ideas are linked. You shouldn’t follow them dogmatically each time you’re taking pictures, but they should help to take pictures that go beyond your topical postcards.
Visually seen and captured at 4:02 AM. Milky Way above the meteor. Mars is to the left of the Saguaro cactus and Saturn and Jupiter to the right of the cactus, all three planets in a straight line.
The meteor last 1-2 seconds and moved very fast. This is a 10 second exposure so the meteor is photographically less bright in appearance than the visual observation.
The naturally diffused, warm light and the unique texture of the corrugated soil, combined to create a visually interesting aerial perspective
These visually striking hoodoos can be found in a remote section of Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. At least that's the case right now. Political bullshit keeps changing the size and borders of this national monument and it's very possible that this particular area may lose its protective status in the near future (if it hasn't already). Fortunately, the area is so remote that I doubt it really matters.
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tNo matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Long exposure attemption
On explore Mar 23, 2010 #362
Location:Mersing
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Two visually impaired students immerse themselves in a game of tactile chess, fingers feeling every piece and square. Their smiles reflect joy, intelligence, and determination beyond sight, proving that play and strategy have no boundaries.
Visually appealing trees, like anemic broccoli. They speak to me, although I can't tell what they're saying.
At one week old, a downy manu-o-Kū hatchling visually explores the world around its nest. The manu-o-Kū is an arboreal nesting pelagic seabird that doesn’t construct a nest; instead using a flat or hollow or fork in the tree to keep the egg from rolling away. The hatchling uses its strong, clawed, semipalmate feet to cling to the swaying tree branch that will be its home until fledging. This one is nesting in a monkeypod tree adjacent to a building in urban Honolulu that provides an opportunity for a cropped telephoto image. Parents alternate fishing and feeding duties leaving the chick unattended for up to several hours. Adults fish up to 120 miles offshore and provision the chick with fresh whole fish or squid rather than devouring then regurgitating a meal. This avian behavior was known to Polynesian voyagers and other seafarers. A landfall that may be out of view over the horizon could be located by following these birds conveying their catch back to their nestling.
I wanted to travel to Morocco by boat in order to experiment visually the continent change from Europa to Africa. Only on land travelling make the passenger really feel the distance and the cultural evolution all along the way. Since I had previously visited Sevilla, Malaga was for me an obvious starting point for a short Morocco trip. Then I would go to gibraltar, Tarifa and take the boat for Tangier, my first Morocco city. The trip lasted 3 weeks until I reach south of Atlas Mountain Range, just before the desert.
The conclusion of my travel is that I could not recognize any Moroccan people anymore since I could realize that from north to south, and depending of the mountain side landscape, geography and people are totally different.
A visually stunning drive along the Shaniko-Fossil Hwy near Antelope, Oregon. As you make your way over the mountainside, going east from Antelope to Clarno, you get your first view of the John Day Fossil Beds. A preview of what is to come.
I'm always looking for interesting things on my daily walks to capture for my Picture-of-the-Day for the 365 Group, and these sidewalk bumps, also known as "warning pavers" that are meant to assist visually impaired people really caught my eye.
These are 2 different pavers that are about a block apart and they're identical in every way, except one seems to be slightly more worn. However, the one on the left clearly looks like raised bumps, whereas the one of the right looks like depressions. It's a trick of the eye due to the angle of the sun and shadows!
See how easily amused I am....
The Blue Lake was created during the Otago gold mining era. It started as a hill and was reduced to a pit from which shafts and then hydraulic elevators brought up gravel for sluicing. In its day it was the deepest mining hole in the Southern Hemisphere. When mining stopped, it flooded full of water. The blue color of the lake is caused by the mineral content of the surrounding, visually striking cliffs.
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It is not a particularly visually interesting image today but I had around an hour until midnight to do something before the pumpkin turned back into a coach... wait, no, it is the other way around. Or is it? How do you know that when all the coaches turn to pumpkins the pumpkins do not also turn into coaches?
No, my real reason for not having anything overly creative is that I am still trying to catch up on lectures whilst trying to wrap my head around the fact that in something like nine weeks I have to have finished all of my assignments and trying to keep that straight in my head and not panicking whilst remembering that whilst everybody else in my class was celebrating for making it through three weeks of university today, I was celebrating making it through one.
I have been very bad at remembering and researching facts recently, so I apologise for that.
Did you know that according to a survey completed by the American Pie Council (I wonder how many Don McLean impressions people do around them) apple pie is America's go-to pie, with 19% of American's saying that it is their favourite? Pumpkin pie comes in second (13%).
A visually dim auroral arc across the northern sky, with the Milky Way at left in the northwestern sky, from Churchill, Manitoba, on February 14, 2018. Polaris is at top, left of centre. This illustrates the classic auroral oval across the north, centred due north at this longitude, below Polaris. ..This is a single exposure with the Sigma 14mm lens at f/1.8.
Sadly not a patch on previous times I've been. Visually less of everything across the board. It's clear reenactors, stall holders, vintage vehicles etc., have given it a miss in advance.
The event organisers [Pike and Shot] say 80% of the groups let them down. Cant blame the groups for the mass exodus. You're the organisers, they have supported this event for over 10 years. The fault is on your doorstep.
I was watching and listening to the fella firing up the Rolls Royce engine. He was furious to put it mildly (as seen in my video). He received a call to start it earlier than scheduled. He had to! He did with reluctance and was subsequently drowning out the singers nearby. When he challenged the staff about it they were not so sympathetic. Awful for him. To his credit he apologised to the small crowd of what happened that he was instructed to start the engine early. So for me, this was a live example of the organisers causing unrest as the event unfolded.
Having been to several 1940s events this year, this was the bottom of the pile. When I spoke with quite a few visitors and stall holders etc., they were expecting so much more, as in the past.
Singer: Miss Trixie Holiday
The other singer, not in this video, was Ricky Hunter. Decided not to include him in my video because he spent way too much time looking at his phone, playlist, drinking water, while singing, rather than entertain the crowd. He was a last minute guest singer anyway. He had not been invited for over 5 years.
Entrance fee was £10! (reduced to £4 very late on into the second day). No concessions. No signposting to the event. No map or itinerary. Limited parking. A bare bones event. Purely the fault of the organisers and Rufford Abbey Estate collectively.
Without Prejudice.
In 2009/2010, Rocky Mountaineer updated their paint scheme on their train sets to the newer "corkscrew" design. It is still debatable whether or not this scheme is more visually appealing than the older design. Eastbound at Matsqui about to cross from the CN to the CP for the journey up the Fraser and Thompson canyons.
This early arriving Hummer is one of several males that are fighting over the nectar feeder just below. They now compete with breath-taking high-speed aerial sky dives to impress the feeding females and get their attention (for breeding). This flight action is both visually and audibly impressive! It's still very early morning, and the sunlight is heavily filtered by the tall forest growth to the east. The gorgets will not display full red iridescence until it gets a little brighter. In this shot you get not even a hint of the vibrant wine-red color to come with later more intense sunlight! This dazzling display is then based more on iridescence than pigment colors.
IMG_5329; Broad-tailed Hummingbird
how visually literate are you??? LOL
These are the bottoms of colour felt pens/ colour markers!
Sometimes I just have some fun in the studio and play with some props...
A bit more info here:
Lee Newman patented a felt-tipped marking pen in 1910.
A marker pen, fineliner, marking pen, felt-tip marker, felt-tip pen, flow marker, texta (in Australia), sketch pen (in India) or koki (in South Africa), feutre (in FRANCE),is a pen which has its own ink-source and a tip made of porous, pressed fibers such as felt.
I wish you all a very good day and thanks for all your kind words, time, comments and likes. Very much appreciated. Magda, (*_*)
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Goliath. visually explores the theme of scale, emphasizing the contrast between the immense size of urban architecture and the relative smallness of individual human experience within these spaces. It is a study in contrasts: solidity and void, opacity and transparency, enormity and minutiae. Goliath. ultimately raises questions about the individual's place in the architectural colossus of the urban landscape.
Sadly not a patch on previous times I've been. Visually less of everything across the board. It's clear reenactors, stall holders, vintage vehicles etc., have given it a miss in advance.
The event organisers [Pike and Shot] say 80% of the groups let them down. Cant blame the groups for the mass exodus. You're the organisers, they have supported this event for over 10 years. The fault is on your doorstep.
I was watching and listening to the fella firing up the Rolls Royce engine. He was furious to put it mildly (as seen in my video). He received a call to start it earlier than scheduled. He had to! He did with reluctance and was subsequently drowning out the singers nearby. When he challenged the staff about it they were not so sympathetic. Awful for him. To his credit he apologised to the small crowd of what happened that he was instructed to start the engine early. So for me, this was a live example of the organisers causing unrest as the event unfolded.
Having been to several 1940s events this year, this was the bottom of the pile. When I spoke with quite a few visitors and stall holders etc., they were expecting so much more, as in the past.
Singer: Miss Trixie Holiday
The other singer, not in this video, was Ricky Hunter. Decided not to include him in my video because he spent way too much time looking at his phone, playlist, drinking water, while singing, rather than entertain the crowd. He was a last minute guest singer anyway. He had not been invited for over 5 years.
Entrance fee was £10! (reduced to £4 very late on into the second day). No concessions. No signposting to the event. No map or itinerary. Limited parking. A bare bones event. Purely the fault of the organisers and Rufford Abbey Estate collectively.
Without Prejudice.
A visually stunning, futuristic mall with huge potential, featuring unique attractions like an indoor tram, and a large ice rink.
An assignment for my Digital Photography class for which we had to visually describe a well known figure of speech through a photograph. This levitation shot depicts "Light as a Feather" featuring my friend Tiffani Tang as my lovely model.
The snow falling was a happy accident. I didn't plan for it to be part of the photo, but I think it worked nicely :)
The Temple of Portunus is a Roman Temple of the Republican era, situated in Rome in Piazza ella Truth, where once stood the Forum Boaro-
The building is of Ionic order, tetrastyle (with four columns in front) and pseudoperiptera plants / Tempio di Portuno, that is, with free-standing columns at the front porch and half in continuation huddled outside of the cell wall. The columns of the portico and those placed to the corners are made of travertine, the other in the Aniene tuff. Probably the ancient tuff parts were plastered to visually recreate the marble effect.
The construction of the present building has been dated by materials found in the foundations a t 80-70,B-C-
In the ninth century the temple was turned into a Christian church, first with the name of Santa Maria Secundicerii, then St. Mary of Egypt as a patron of prostitutes. The church was removed to restore the original appearance of the temple in 1916
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Il tempio di Portuno è un tempio romano di epoca repubblicana, situato a Roma nell'attuale piazza ella Verità, dove anticamente si trovava il Foro Boaro-
L'edificio si presenta di ordine ionico, tetrastilo (con quattro colonne in facciata) e a pianta pseudoperiptera, ossia con colonne libere anteriormente in corrispondenza del pronao e semicolonne in prosecuzione addossate all'esterno del muro della cella. Le colonne del pronao e quelle collocate agli angoli della cella sono in travertino, le altre in tufo dell'Aniene. Probabilmente anticamente le parti in tufo erano intonacate per ricreare visivamente l'effetto del marmo.
La costruzione dell'attuale edificio è stata datata dai materiali rinvenuti nelle fondazioni all'80-70 a.C.,
Nel IX secolo il tempio venne mutato in chiesa cristiana, prima con il nome di Santa Maria Secundicerii, quindi come Santa Maria Egiziaca patrona delle prostitute. La chiesa venne eliminata per ripristinare l'antico aspetto del tempio nel 1916
Visually similar to Yellow-bellied Sapsucker of the East, this woodpecker was long considered a subspecies thereof and split only in 1998. Strawberry Butte.
The Blue Lake was created during the Otago gold mining era. It started as a hill and was reduced to a pit from which shafts and then hydraulic elevators brought up gravel for sluicing. In its day it was the deepest mining hole in the Southern Hemisphere. When mining stopped, it flooded full of water. The blue color of the lake is caused by the mineral content of the surrounding, visually striking cliffs.
A rather visually confusing photo of the inverted pyramid at the Louvre.
I've visited the Louvre many times over the past 30 years but this was my first visit since purchasing my 8mm Samyang fisheye lens. I enjoyed the creative options the new lens gave me and I think it's helped capture the vast scale of the I.M.Pei designed glass pyramid.
Click here for more photos taken at the Louvre over the years : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157624005753007
From Wikipedia : "By 1874, the Louvre Palace had achieved its present form of an almost rectangular structure with the Sully Wing to the east containing the Cour Carrée (Square Court) and the oldest parts of the Louvre; and two wings which wrap the Cour Napoléon, the Richelieu Wing to the north and the Denon Wing, which borders the Seine to the south.
In 1983, French President François Mitterrand proposed, as one of his Grands Projets, the Grand Louvre plan to renovate the building and relocate the Finance Ministry, allowing displays throughout the building. Architect I. M. Pei was awarded the project and proposed a glass pyramid to stand over a new entrance in the main court, the Cour Napoléon. The pyramid and its underground lobby were inaugurated on 15 October 1988 and the Louvre Pyramid was completed in 1989. The second phase of the Grand Louvre plan, La Pyramide Inversée (The Inverted Pyramid), was completed in 1993. As of 2002, attendance had doubled since completion."
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Visually and aurally, it's a shame the two EMD locos weren't leading, but one shouldn't complain even when the Train Gods provide a subawesome foursome.
DXC 5454 DXC 5241 DFB 7241 DC 4012, train 925, Deborah, SIMT 23 Jan 2017
This image is probably one of the most personal, and visually meaningful, images I've ever posted.
A perfect storm of stress, depression, illness and a severe lack of sleep over a period of several weeks culminated in putting my head into one of the scariest places it's ever been in, and appropriately enough whilst on a 3 day holiday sabbatical in the mountains of Snowdonia last week. They were 3 days I hope I never have to experience the like of which again. The sense of isolation, of disjointedness from the world around me, of not even being sure who I was anymore was emotionally and mentally excruciating. The nights were the worst, unable to sleep I experienced the full depth of myself while at the same time feeling so terrifyingly distant from everything in existence. Identity and reality fractured, insanity beckoned…
Strangely enough, as much as it scared me, it was finding my depth that was my saviour, that and the love of a woman who reached down into my personal hell, gently pulled me out and helped me see the light again, inner and outer. If she hadn't been there to listen to my ramblings, my fears, and to comfort me in the darkest moments, I dread to think what the consequences for my mental health would have been.
I've thought long and hard about revealing such a personal experience here on flickr, but ultimately I'm willingly to do so if it helps just one person going through something similar to take a risk and reach out and talk to someone they trust implicitly, and maybe you who read this with a sound mind could extend a hand to someone who you know is going through their own personal hell and be the spar they cling onto in their storm tossed ocean, and slowly but surely carry them back to the safety of the shore. Don't worry, you don't have to come up with answers to their issues, it's enough to lend an ear to their fears. I tried to deal it with by myself but badly crashed and burned. I kept quiet because of pride, fear and the belief that no one could help me. They can. Find that person you trust, and talk, talk like there's no tomorrow, don't leave it until you're hanging on by your fingernails like I did.