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udine, italy (2023) 

[mycolourfullworld]

Photo: Davide.anzimanni

Villa Pienza, Tuscany, Italy 🇮🇹

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La Tonnara di Scopello, Scopello, Trapani, Sicilia, Italia ~ Simona Modica

[serthra]

Seaside Memories

I haven't done a proper "throw back Thursday" in a while. Decided to open my scanning catalog to have a look at some older stuff. This is going way, way back :)

Fortunately, I occasionally took notes, this one was from a film roll marked Chiessi and Pomonte on the Island of Elba. At least I narrowed it down a bit.

Probably used Kodak film, or maybe Agfa. Not sure.

I really should get back to my scanning project.

AE1 Canon, Isola d'Elba, Tuscany, Italy, September 1994

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『 𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝓅𝓁𝒶𝓎𝒾𝓃𝑔 . . . . 』 ╰┈➤ ୭ৎ 𝒜𝓃𝑔𝑒𝓁 𝐸𝓎𝑒𝓈 - 𝒜𝐵𝐵𝒜 ୭ৎ

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Putting on last year's trans rigs stream from Drawfee before i have to get ready to go out with my mum and her bf today (bc i have the worst feeling in my gut he's gonna make that An Thing for me if given the chance today, aka whenever i eventually need the restroom while we're at Mystic)

[taminoe]

Bagheria, Sicily.

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Flower study in Pollino National Park, Calabria, Italy

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M A T I L D A

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in fair verona, 2023 

[mycolourfullworld]

Did you ever know that the Leaning Tower of Pisa is empty from the inside and not a multi-story residential tower?!

The Leaning Tower of Pisa

It is a cathedral bell tower in the Italian city of Pisa, built in the Field of Miracles.

Let's get acquainted with the Leaning Tower of Pisa from a structural point of view:

Its construction began in 1173 AD and they began to establish the bases and then the walls, and after the building reached the third floor, it was noticed that there was a slope.

Can you imagine that a tower weighing 14,500 tons is built on foundations 3 m deep and installed on sand and silt?!!

After discovering the slope, the engineers built the rest of the floors (external walls) so that the height of the floor in the inclined direction is greater than its height in the other direction.

Which increased the inclination of the tower due to the sinking of the foundations in a greater proportion in the soil, due to the increase in the weight of the floors.

Among the reasons why the tower did not collapse:

The construction continued for 199 years, and the construction halt in it for a long time is one of the reasons that allowed the soil to compact, which reduced the rate of inclination, and thus the tower did not collapse completely.

The clay soil helped and the main reason for the tower's tendency not to collapse and its resilience in front of 4 earthquakes.

The engineers calculated the center of gravity of the tower, and it was concluded from the calculations that the tower collapsed completely upon reaching a slope of 5.44 degrees. The tower was closed in 1990 at a tilt of 5.5 degrees, yet the tower did not collapse.

Attempts made to stop the tilt of the tower and not collapse:

Digging deep holes in the ground at a depth of 40 m, and installing the tower with iron cables through the holes. Liquid nitrogen was pumped, which led to the freezing of water in the soil and its expansion and contraction again, which led to the subsidence of the soil and the subsidence of the foundations, and consequently the slope of the tower at the rate of its inclination throughout these years.

They dug 361 holes and injected the soil with 90 tons of cement, which led to the tower's tilt strongly.

And finally, Soil Extraction was used in 1990:

The soil was removed from the non-slanted side so that the tower tilts in that direction, then iron cables were used to fix the tower bases in the ground and the slope was reduced to 4 bikes, and this was what it was at the beginning.

The engineers could have made it vertical, but they didn't want to lose its fame and tourist value because of its tilt.

And after that was completed, the tower was opened.

And it was confirmed that the tower could endure without any collapse for 300 years.

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Grégory Cinque Terre, Italie Avril 2022

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Lovers by the Arno

Decided it was time to dust off the scanner and try to resume my "scanning project". Grabbed a handful of old pictures to try and remember all the steps, scanning, file naming, folders etc. Not as simple as just pressing a button :)

A quick throw back Thursday with one of my early attempts at street photography. Caught these lovers on a late summer walk downtown Florence along the Arno River.

The top is the picture as taken/printed, played around in photoshop a bit, did some cropping and minor adjustments in camera raw. Might be a candidate for the new denoise features in photoshop, but have to read up on them first :)

Canon AE-1, Florence, Italy, probably September 1994

[bantarleton]

The last of “The Few” turns 105.

Group Captain John “Paddy” Hemingway DFC, AE, is the last verified surviving pilot of the Battle of Britain. He was born in Dublin on 17 July 1919.

He served during the Second World War in the Battle of Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, the Allied invasion of Italy and the Invasion of Normandy. Following the death of Terry Clark in May 2020, Hemingway became the last verified surviving airman of the Battle of Britain. He was shot down four times during the Second World War.

Per Ardua ad Astra - "Through Adversity to the Stars"

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I like listening to the dubs the Japanese one is really good

anyone else kinda tired of regular actors doing animated characters while using their regular voices and calling it "voice acting" :/