Me in Camogli
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15 June, 2010
Meet Me Halfway
09 June, 2010
29 May, 2010
Life is something like a Trumpet
“Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out.”
William Christopher
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taken in Medieval Ricetto di Candelo Piedmont Italy
Flower Wall
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taken in Medieval Ricetto di Candelo Piedmont Italy
28 May, 2010
25 May, 2010
21 May, 2010
Obscure Rites
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The Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore is a church in Bergamo, Northern Italy.
The church was founded in 1137 on the site of another church from the 8th century dedicated to St Mary, which had been in turn erected over a Roman temple of the Clemence. The high altar was consecrated in 1185 and in 1187 the presbytery and the transept wings were completed. Due to financial troubles, the works dragged for the whole 13th–14th centuries. The bell tower was built from 1436 (being completed around the end of the century), while in 1481–1491 a new sacristy added after the old one had been destroyed by Bartolomeo Colleoni to erect his personal mausoleum, the Colleoni Chapel.
In 1521, Pietro Isabello finished the south-western portal, also known as Porta della Fontana. The edifice was restored and modified in the 17th century.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_Maggiore,_Bergamo
La Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore su Wikipedia
Dona il Tuo 5x1000 a CESVI
Come Destinare il 5x1000 a CESVI
20 May, 2010
Flying Russian Dancers
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The Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore is a church in Bergamo, Northern Italy.
The church was founded in 1137 on the site of another church from the 8th century dedicated to St Mary, which had been in turn erected over a Roman temple of the Clemence. The high altar was consecrated in 1185 and in 1187 the presbytery and the transept wings were completed. Due to financial troubles, the works dragged for the whole 13th–14th centuries. The bell tower was built from 1436 (being completed around the end of the century), while in 1481–1491 a new sacristy added after the old one had been destroyed by Bartolomeo Colleoni to erect his personal mausoleum, the Colleoni Chapel.
In 1521, Pietro Isabello finished the south-western portal, also known as Porta della Fontana. The edifice was restored and modified in the 17th century.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_Maggiore,_Bergamo
La Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore su Wikipedia
Dona il Tuo 5x1000 a CESVI
Come Destinare il 5x1000 a CESVI
19 May, 2010
Nora Chipaumire
A great show of Nora Chipaumire for Cesvi - Premio Takunda
http://www.cesvi.eu
http://www.norachipaumire.com/
18 May, 2010
Imaginary Justice
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Dona il Tuo 5x1000 a CESVI
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12 May, 2010
11 May, 2010
09 May, 2010
Meme City
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New York - USA
taken from the High LIne
The High Line is a 1.45-mile (2.33 km) New York City park built on a section of the former elevated freight railroad of the West Side Line, along the lower west side of Manhattan. The High Line park will eventually run from the West Side Yard, near the Javits Convention Center, through the neighborhood of Chelsea to Gansevoort Street (one block below West 12th Street) in the Meat Packing District of the West Village. The High Line was built in the early 1930s by the New York Central Railroad to eliminate the fatal accidents that occurred along the street-level right-of-way and to offer direct warehouse-to-freight car service that reduced pilferage for the Bell Laboratories Building (now the Westbeth Artists Community) and the Nabisco plant (now Chelsea Market), which were served from protected sidings within the structures (illustration, right).[1] It was in active use until 1980.
In the 1990s, it became known to a few urban explorers and local residents for the tough, drought-tolerant wild grasses, shrubs, and trees that had sprung up in the gravel along the abandoned railway.
In 1999, the non-profit Friends of the High Line[2] was formed. Broadened community support of public redevelopment for the High Line for pedestrian use grew, and City funding was allocated in 2004. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and city Council Speakers Gifford Miller and Christine C. Quinn were important supporters. The southernmost section, from Gansevoort Street to 20th Street, opened as a city park on June 8, 2009.[3] The middle section is still being refurbished, while the northernmost section's future remains uncertain, depending on a development project currently underway at the Hudson Yards.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Line_%28New_York_City%29
08 May, 2010
Times Square's Relax
I bei tempi che uno si poteva ancora rilassare a Times Square
Times Square - New York - USA
07 May, 2010
06 May, 2010
05 May, 2010
04 May, 2010
Trallalero Tralla-là
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dancing near the Potomac in Washington DC
02 May, 2010
Afternoon At The Museum
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Washington, USA
Be in the right place at the right time makes the difference...
Dream On
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New York, USA
Keep on dreaming, the American Dream will continue ... after the commercials
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01 May, 2010
CrabMan
taken by Sherri ( Thanks a lot)
Happy Max with his crabcake in Annapolis - Maryland - USA
A crab cake is an American dish composed of crab meat and various other ingredients, such as bread crumbs, milk, mayonnaise, eggs, pink radishes(optional) yellow onions, and seasonings. The pink radishes give it a sweeter, more tangy flavor. Occasionally other ingredients such as red or green peppers are added, at which point the cake is then sautéed, baked, or grilled and then served. Crab cakes are traditionally associated with the area surrounding the Chesapeake Bay, in particular the state of Maryland and the city of Baltimore.
The two most common styles of Maryland crab cakes are known as Boardwalk and Restaurant. Boardwalk crabcakes are typically deep fried and breaded, and are often filled with stuffing of various sorts and served on a hamburger bun. Restaurant crab cakes, which are sometimes called gourmet crab cakes, are often prepared with no filler, and are composed of all-lump crab meat served on a platter or open-faced sandwich. Many restaurants that offer Maryland crab cakes will offer to have the cakes fried or broiled.
Meat from any species of crab may be used, although the meat of the blue crab, whose native habitat includes the Chesapeake Bay, is traditional and the considered best tasting. In the Pacific Northwest and Northern California, the endemic Dungeness Crab is a popular ingredient for crab cakes, and the cakes are prepared at many well-established restaurants throughout the region.
Crab cakes are popular along the coast of the Mid-Atlantic States, the Gulf Coast, the Pacific Northwest, and the Northern California coast, where the crabbing industry thrives. Crab cakes vary in size from no bigger than a small cookie to as large as a hamburger. They are sometimes served with a sauce, such as a remoulade, tartar sauce, mustard, or ketchup.
Maryland Crab Cakes are the official food of The Preakness Stakes the second jewel of the United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, a horse race that is run on the third Saturday of May each year.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_cake
30 April, 2010
Furry Love (Airborne Edition)
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New York, USA
26 April, 2010
Next Stop: New York 2010
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New York, USA
25 April, 2010
19 April, 2010
Show Some Spine!
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Washington DC, USA
www.earthday.org/earthday2010
The firmware of our "old" 350D was updated using CHDK and now we have:
1) Spot metering
2) 3200 Iso (WOW)
and a lot of other nice features
If you have a 350D Canon you can do it too!
chdk.wikia.com/wiki/350D
Break a leg!
18 April, 2010
Warm Up
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Washington DC, USA
www.earthday.org/earthday2010
Getting Along ?
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Washington DC, USA
www.earthday.org/earthday2010
26 March, 2010
Rainha Do Fado
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Lisbon - Portugal
Amália da Piedade Rodrigues, GCSE, GCIH, (July 23, 1920 – October 6, 1999), also known as Amália Rodrigues (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐˈmaliɐ ʁuˈdɾiɡɨʃ]) was a Portuguese singer and also actress. Despite official documents which give her date of birth as July 23, Rodrigues always said her birthday was July 1, 1920 [1]. She was born in Lisbon, in the rua Martim Vaz (Martim Vaz Street), neighborhood of Pena. Her father was a trumpet player and cobbler from Fundão who returned there when Amália was just over a year old, leaving her to live in Lisbon with her maternal grandmother in a deeply Catholic environment until she was 14, when her parents returned to the capital and she moved back in with them.
She was known as the "Rainha do Fado" ("Queen of Fado") and was most influential in popularizing the fado worldwide. In fact, she was one of the most important figures in the genre’s development, and enjoyed a 40-year recording and stage career. Rodrigues' performances and choice of repertoire pushed fado’s boundaries and helped redefine it and reconfigure it for her and subsequent generations. In effect, Rodrigues wrote the rulebook on what fado could be and on how a female fadista — or fado singer — should perform it, to the extent that she remains an unsurpassable model and an unending source of repertoire for all those who came afterwards. Rodrigues enjoyed an extensive international career between the 1950s and the 1970s, although in an era where such efforts were not as easily quantified as today. Other well-known international fado artists such as Madredeus, Dulce Pontes and Mariza have come close, however.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%A1lia_Rodrigues
25 March, 2010
Ruins of the Carmo Convent
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Ruins of the Carmo Convent
( Convento da Ordem do Carmo ) - Lisbon - Portugal
Qtpfsgui 1.9.3 tonemapping parameters:
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Color Saturation: 1
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24 March, 2010
Beauty and The Beast
© Angela M. Lobefaro
a snapshot from a professional shooting in Bairro Alto
Lisbon - Portugal
On The Lisbon Waterfront
© Angela M. Lobefaro
Il porto di Lisbona con il ponte Alcantara visti dal Castel San George
Lisbon - Portugal
23 March, 2010
Six Degrees Of Separation
© Angela M. Lobefaro
Six degrees of separation (also referred to as the "Human Web") refers to the idea that, if a person is one step away from each person they know and two steps away from each person who is known by one of the people they know, then everyone is at most six steps away from any other person on Earth. It was popularized by a play written by John Guare.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation
Oriente Station - Lisbon
www.golisbon.com/sight-seeing/oriente-station.html
High Culture or Culture from Above ?
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Oriente Station - Lisbon
www.golisbon.com/sight-seeing/oriente-station.html
22 March, 2010
16 March, 2010
14 March, 2010
Looking at old Things in New Ways
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RIcetto di Candelo
Ricetto (RECEPTUM)
Between the most meaningful and beautiful European Fortified Receptum.
Fortified construction built as village, building plan dated 1160 a.d.
built from the people of Candelo from 1300 till beginning of 1400 a.d.
Used as "Receptum" fortified village to hide, in was times, and as a food storage location in peace times.
These walls were constructed with stones from the local streams.
In this mediaeval village many movies have been filmed.
Candelo, Biella, Piedmont, Italy
5 km from where I live
www.piemonte-emozioni.it/comuni/eng/candelo.shtml
Nel cuore della Biella medievale
Qui sono state girate per esempio le puntatate della "Freccia Nera" 1 e 2, e molti altri films.
I Ricetti, originali, in Italia sono molto rari, piu' info le forniro' in seguito con le altre foto...
comunque qui c'e' un link: www.atl.biella.it/arte/ricetto/ricetto.html
11 March, 2010
Flickr Stats & Couchdb
Flickrstats monthly search terms count
Flickrstats montly search terms distribution
Flickrstats monthly fields
Recently Flickr published the historical referrer data, and I fell in love with Couchdb, so making a long story short I've downloaded all the csv files from 2007 to 2010 and I put them into a database.
Now I'm wondering about which queries code first . Can you help me ?
I've made great findings digging into what people search when stumble on my stream.
Thanks
Angela & Max
03 March, 2010
Wave Couch
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Playing on the beach in Ko Chang - Thailand
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