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Kotzebue Alaska as viewed from the hill above town. Stitched from 27 hand held frames shot in portrait orientation. Note the occasional "shivering artifact". Have fun searching for the third dog sled team. |
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this photo was taken in the very center. Stonehenge was built by Sam Hill, a road builder, as a memorial to those who died in World War I. Dedicated in 1918, the memorial wasn?t completed until 1930. Hill passed away soon after he finally saw his masterpiece completed. He was buried at the base of the bluff; but, because he wished to be left alone, there is no easy path to his resting place.
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Stonehenge in Washington- memorial for those who died in World War I contains 1 matching snapshot(s):
Snapshot: wind mills: wind mills in the process of being built
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These family housing units for the Maniilaq Health Center are literally on the edge of town. Beyond is the vast Arctic tundra, which in winter is a formidable, snowy, treeless, windswept wilderness. On this particular day, I saw a moose on one of the snow banks by the building on the left. You can see his escort out of town on gigapan.org. Just look for Moose on the Loose. | |||
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Home in Kotzebue in Winter contains 1 matching snapshot(s):
Snapshot: Maniilaq Health Center: This is the back of the hospital, which is seen in the Kotzebue Alaska July 22 2007 panorama and in the Kotzebue Alaska Dog Sleds Wind Mills November 2007 panorama, both of which are on this gigapan site.
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360 degree panorama taken from the roof of the Ernst M. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans during Siggraph. | |||
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Roof of Convention Center, New Orleans contains 1 matching snapshot(s):
Snapshot: Fibre: Federal Fibre Mills, where military uniforms were made. Look at the iron star-caps on the brickwork.
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Panorama from the Third Avenue Bridge over the Mississippi. 130 photos with Nikon D3 (13 columns by 10 rows), Nikkor 80-210mm zoom at 210mm.
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Upper St. Anthony Locks, Minneapolis, Minnesota contains 1 matching snapshot(s):
Snapshot: Mill Ruins Park: More an area than a park, Mill Ruins Park comprises the Mill City Museum and the foundations of several former water mills.
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It was founded in 1148 under the patronage of Alfant, bishop of Cavaillon, and Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona, Count of Provence, by Cistercian monks who came from Mazan Abbey in the Ardèche. Temporary huts housed the first community of impoverished monks. By 1152 the community already had so many members that Sénanque was able to found Chambons Abbey, in the diocese of Viviers.
The young community found patrons in the seigneurs of Simiane, whose support enabled them to build the abbey church, consecrated in 1178. Other structures at Sénanque followed, laid out according to the rule of Cîteaux Abbey, mother house of the Cistercians. Among its existing structures, famed examples of Romanesque architecture, are the abbey church, cloister, dormitory, chapterhouse and the small calefactory, the one heated space in the austere surroundings, so that the monks could write, for this was their scriptorium. A refectory was added in the 17th century, when some minimal rebuilding of existing walls was undertaken, but the abbey is a remarkably untouched survival, of rare beauty and severity: the capitals of the paired columns in the cloister arcades are reduced to the simplest leaf forms, not to offer sensual distraction. The abbey church is in the form of a tau cross with an apse projecting beyond the abbey's outer walls. Somewhat unusually, its liturgical east end faces north, as the narrow and secluded valley offered no space for the conventional arrangement. In the 13th and 14th centuries, Sénanque reached its apogee, operating four mills, seven granges and possessing large estates in Provence. In 1509, when the first abbot in commendam was named, a sure sign of the decline of vocation, the community at Sénanque had shrunk to about a dozen. During the Wars of Religion the quarters for the lay brothers were destroyed and the abbey was ransacked by Huguenots. At the French Revolution the abbey's lands were nationalized, the one remaining monk was expelled and Sénanque itself was sold to a private individual. The site was repurchased in 1854 for a new community of Cistercian monks of the Immaculate Conception, under a rule less stringent than that of the Trappists. The community was expelled in 1903 and departed to the Order's headquarters, Lérins Abbey on the island of St. Honorat, near Cannes. A small community returned in 1988 as a priory of Lérins. The monks who live at Sénanque grow lavender (visible in front of the abbey, illustration, right) and tend honey bees for their livelihood. It is possible for individuals to arrange to stay at the abbey for spiritual retreat. Two other early Cistercian abbeys in Provence are Silvacane Abbey and Le Thoronet Abbey; with Sénanque, they are sometimes referred to as the "Three Sisters of Provence" ("les trois soeurs provençales"). |
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The granite slab seawall has been the host for many fishermen over the years, including myself, when I was a young boy. The "high walls" also served as a diving platform for me and the other neighborhood kids learning to swim. It survived many hurricanes, including the one I remember most, "Carol" in 1954, that put the wall under water with its storm surge. The land next to the wall was the terminus of a railroad line that carried out the products of the mills that used to operate in the town. The railroad line has now converted into a paved bike path that now goes all the way to Providence. The railyard has been transformed into a park that now serves residents who live in the neighborhood, providing a boardwalk along the wall and several acres of grass. The mills have been converted to condominiums and dock space has been expanded along the waterfront and in the harbor. But one place has survived, Quito's Restaurant and Bar, with the green and white striped awning, where I used to sell the quahogs (hardshell clams) that I dug up in the harbor when it was just Quito's Fish Market. |
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A view of the Northern end of Arizona State University's Tempe campus, facing South, taken from Tempe Butte, AKA "A" Mountain. | |||
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Partial Tempe Downtown contains 1 matching snapshot(s):
Snapshot: IMAX: The IMAX theater at Arizona Mills Mall.
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This image, taken from the top of the Ohringer building in Braddock, shows a sweeping panorama of Braddock, PA, looking East, up the Mon River. | |||
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Braddock, PA 7-13-09 contains 1 matching snapshot(s):
Snapshot: United States Steel: One of the last remaining mills of the original USS empire.
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When you mention Alaska and energy, most people think of oil, and they think of the pipeline that crosses Alaska from Prudoe Bay to Valdez. Folks ask me how much oil costs here, thinking that it costs a lot less than in other states like New York or Virginia. They are surprised when I tell them that although Kotzebue is certainly in Alaska, we pay more for gas than most other folks in America. It seems to costs about twice as much for gasoline here.
Sure, Alaskan oil fields produce crude oil, but Kotzebue, Alaska doesn't have any oil wells. It doesn't have any refineries either. Alaska crude oil is shipped to a refinery elsewhere, and then petroleum products come back north to Kotzebue by barge. Even if Kotzebue has no oil wells, we do have wind. We have lots of wind. Our local power company had the vision to harness wind power with this array of wind mills. Our growing wind farm takes on new importance as the cost of petroleum rises. Right now about 10% of our electricity comes from these windmills. I hear that we plan to add even more windmills in the years to come. |