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The John Hancock Center, also known by Chicagoans as "Big John", is one of the city's icons. The exterior members of the steel frame represent a tube while the diagonal members provide the structural stiffness and bracing support to keep it steady amid strong winds, as well as some critical structural floors that coincide with the intersections of the diagonals and the corner columns.
Olympus PEN Mini E-PM2 with M. Zuiko 17mm f/1.8
I made this from extra pieces I had when making the zigzag block tutorial for my sampler quilt-along. It was super cute and sold in an instant! Made to fit a 14x14" pillow form.
Interior detail from the foyer area of the Lowry Theatre in Salford Quays, Manchester.
Fuji colour, eh? Who says you can't do bright and punchy with a Fuji camera :D
Thanks for visiting and I hope that you enjoy the work.
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Cluke
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purple version
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desaturated version
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Hmm, got to learn how to use the photo editing programme properly (Gimp and a little Picnic)!
All prints on the front (except the central non-repeated zigzag are from the Red Letter Day collection by Lizzy House. The central zigzag is an Amy Butler print, I don't know anything else about it.
I followed Amanda Jean's Zig Zag quilt tutorial (Crazy Mom Quilts blog).
福建南靖土楼--裕昌楼, 整座楼东倒西歪，其倾斜设计屹立了几百年，即使在地震中也不倒，令现代建筑设计师百思不得其解，其建筑设计之谜至今没有彻底揭开。
Yuchanglou has been nicknamed the "zigzag building", because the vertical wooden post structure is not straight and perpendicular, but zigzags left and right. It was built that way due to an error measuring the building materials. But in spite of this apparent infirmity, this tall tulou withstood 700 hundred years of natural elements and social turmoil. Yuchanglou's outer ring is 36 m in diameter and boasts five stories, with 50 rooms on each floor.
Each of the 25 kitchens on the ground floor at the back half of the circle has a private water well beside its stove. This is the only tulou in all Fujian with such convenient water supply.
There was a one story inner-ring house surrounding the ancestral hall as late as 2003. This part of the building stood nearly 700 years intact until, unfortunately, it was dismantled after 2003
Aguilucho Lagunero Occidental
Circus aeruginosus 50cm.
Una esbelta silueta de largas alas acodadas aparece en el cielo, zigzagueando. De pronto, el Aguilucho Lagunero se deja caer, con las garras abiertas, en la vegetación palustre; hay ruidos de alas en la charca, se escapa una focha y la rapaz prosigue incansable su búsqueda.
Este ave manifiesta una marcada preferencia por los terrenos pantanosos y su aparición, siempre repentina, siembra el pánico entre las aves acuáticas. Sin embargo, los patos no tienen nada que temer de esta rapaz indolente, diestra, pero poco rápida; bien armada, pero muy endeble para apoderarse de las presas voluminosas.
Este aguilucho, de plumaje delicadamente coloreado, anima con su presencia nuestros lagos y charcas, siempre que los carrizales le aseguren un refugio y el hombre no la persiga. En ocasiones no deja de cobrar su diezmo en las polladas de patos.
El Aguilucho Lagunero Occidental es una de las rapaces cuya población ha descendido más en los últimos años en España. Las razones de ello no son propiamente alimenticias, sino más bien debidas a la contaminación.
Identificación: Principalmente castaño oscuro; el macho tiene pecho ocráceo listado, grandes marcas alares gris-azulado y cola gris; la hembra tiene píleo y cuello pálido; el macho en vuelo muestra anchas bandas grises en las alas.
Nidificación: La hembra construye una sólida plataforma de vegetación acuática, revestida con hierbas, siempre en el suelo, entre espesa vegetación de plantas marismeñas; puesta, marzo-junio, 2 a 6 huevos azul muy pálido; incubación, alrededor de 38 días, principalmente por la hembra; los pollos, alimentados por la hembra, dejan el nido a los 35-40 días, volando una o dos semanas más tarde.
Alimentación: Ratas de agua; gallinetas, fochas y otras aves; huevos y pollos; ranas y culebras.
Hábitat: Marismas y zonas palustres.
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Iris brevicaulis. Native to eastern Texas and the South. Usually more blue than red. Growing at the Wildflower Center, Austin.
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I can never get tired of Mt. Hood's Little ZigZag River. I absolutely love the character and size of this water. The absolute peacefulness of the area is also a big draw for me.
Decorative grillwork of National Museum of African American History and Culture contrasts the the Washington Monument obelisk.
"Five Things You Might Not Know About the Washington Monument": www.history.com/news/5-things-you-might-not-know-about-th...
Wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument
Architect: Robert Mills (1781-1855)
This is the Little Zigzag between Rhododendron and Government camp on the flanks of Mount Hood in Oregon.
It rains here.
I had a blast visiting and shooting with my friends Scott and Sammy and Evan this evening.