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“A quiet moment on Church Street, captured in timeless black and white. The sweep of the road draws the eye into the frame, past the textured facades of old houses, a lone passerby, and up into a sky scattered with drifting clouds. A slice of village life where history and everyday rhythms meet.”
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La petite fontaine derrière la chapelle (accès par les côtés de la chapelle) est toujours en service. Elle attire beaucoup de monde, Sainte Isbergue ayant sa réputation : elle pourrait guérir les maladies des yeux et de la peau.
Isbergues | Pas-de-Calais (62) | Nord - Pas-de-Calais - Picardie | France
Used to be a college which has been converted into many dwellings. Thought as I was in the area I's try and capture it in some nice afternoon light using the passing traffic to fill the "empty" space of the road in the foreground rather than catching it with no pedestrians or cars which I had also exposed but thought this worked better.
#449 Explore on Thursday, December 18, 2008
Hospital Santa Creu i Sant Pau
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What is today the Benares Historic House traces itself to 1837, when some original sections and outbuildings were constructed. The main house as it is seen today is from 1857. Originally home to four generations of the Harris and Sayers Family, today it is a museum in the City of Mississauga after the house and almost all of its contents were donated by the great-grandchildren of Captain Harris. Opened in 1995 as a public museum, the house is representative to what it would have looked like during the First World War.
Rolleiflex 2.8F - Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm 1:2.8 - Kodak Gold 200 @ ASA-200
FPP Super Color Negative ECN-2 Kit
Scanner: Epson V700 + Silverfast 9 SE
Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC
Photowalk, 4th of July Weekend, 2019, New York, NY.
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Sedan.
Ample evidence still exists in Sedan and the district of the early building techniques used. The stone buildings show the work of the masons, while the country buildings show the use of mallee root walls, dry stone fences, thatched barns and even the occasional pine and pug hut. The native pine used was Callistris species which are resistant to termites. We will see one such cottage near Sedan. The last remaining mallee root fence in the district has now gone. The dry stone walls are a feature of the eastern side of the Mt Lofty Ranges as the area was scattered with granite boulders and other rocks. Most of these walls were constructed before the 1870s to divide the great pastoral runs. Generally the walls are one metre high, and almost one metre wide at the base tapering to 40 cms at the top. Some walls were built as recently as the Great Depression of the 1930s, especially along road edges of the Sedan Hill road. The mallee root fences were erected as a cheaper version of fencing wire. Sadly all the mallee root fences are now gone.
Sedan lies in the Hundred of Bagot on the Murray Plains and was so-named by a farmer of Tanunda, Johann Pfeiffer when he purchased 306 acres of land in the vicinity in 1870. It is presumed he named his property sedan to commemorate the German victory over France in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. At that time he was not able to foresee that other localities in the district would also end up being named after battles. There had been earlier lessees of the land in the area but the leases were forfeited back to the government in August 1860 when the Hundred of Bagot was proclaimed. The land was subsequently surveyed for closer settlement. The rivers of the district were named by the famed SA geologist Menge who called them the North and South Rhine Rivers after the rivers of his homeland in Germany.
The first white men to traverse the district were overlanders with flocks of sheep or cattle from NSW. One of their routes was to cross the Murray near Blanchtown and drive their flocks up the Marne River valley and into the Adelaide Hills. The first lessee of the district was George Melrose who took out a leasehold in 1845. He established his homestead at Rosebank, east of Mt Pleasant. The run was inherited by his third son George Melrose (1860-1938) who was born at Rosebank in 1860. He managed other family properties near Cowell and Hallett. He was an important pastoralist as he introduced to Australia the first Dorset sheep, the first French Percheron horses (the police greys) and Wensleydale sheep. He purchased Booborowie station where he lived from 1897. Sir John Stanley Murray (1884-1971) was born on 27 March 1884 at Rosebank and acquired the property from one of his uncles Sir George Murray, a benefactor of the University of Adelaide. He lived on the property and his managers were responsible for its development as a leading Aberdeen Angus stud. Through marriage the property went from the Murrays to the McLachlans. The three families have prominent headstones in the Mt Pleasant cemetery.
Land sales started in July 1869 and gentlemen speculators as well as genuine farmers bought the land. The latter group mainly came from the North Rhine district around Keyneton and Eden Valley, but also from other areas of the Barossa Valley. Most were of German descent wanting new agricultural lands for their second and third sons. The town itself was surveyed in 1875 and again in 1883 by C. von Bertouch and very soon the town had a flour miller, a baker, blacksmiths and wheelwrights, a builder –stone mason, hotel keeper, butcher, store keeper, saddler and banker. Today Sedan has few of those services. The map for the self guided walk around Sedan uses the 1883 town survey map. A local Truro contractor Mr. Teasdale-Smith constructed the Cambrai-Sedan railway in 1919. The arrival of the first train was cause for great celebration. The line closed in 1964. One of the more unusual local industries was the production of lime. Between 1890 and 1930 lime kilns out of the town burnt crushed limestone and heated it until it flaked into lime powder. Wool Bay on York Peninsula also had lime kilns like those at Sedan. Electricity reached Sedan in 1956; and reticulated water came in 1968.
As noted above many of the early settlers were of German descent and during World War I all German names were changed by law. Rhine Villa became Cambrai, and the North and South Rhine rivers became the Somme and the Marne. All of these names were from WWI battles. During The Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916, the British suffered 57,470 casualties, including 19,240 dead. It was the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army yet despite terrible casualties it was a strategic success in the short term for the Allies against the Germans, as it halted the German advance. The Battle of the Marne, 1914, was a clearer victory for the Allies against the Germans. The Battle of Cambrai in 1917 allowed the British to open up the German lines but not for long. The battle was a stalemate like so many World War One battles. A second Battle of Cambrai in 1918 was a victory for the allies.
Roof arch detail at St Pancras Station, London, UK.
St Pancras railway station, also known as London St Pancras and since 2007 as St Pancras International, was opened in 1868 by the Midland Railway as the southern terminus of its mainline which connected London with the East Midlands and Yorkshire. When it opened, the arched Barlow train shed was the largest single-span roof in the world.
I know your probably thinking, there go's Andy, banging on about railway stations again....I tend to photograph things I like, and I really, really like St Pancras, taking a walk along the platforms here makes you feel proud to be British, it really is the most wonderful building, some fantastic place.
1/15/F5.6/ISO100/Sigma 10-20mm lens @10mm
Rmit Bubble Building - not finished yet, but destined to be a landmark and to have thousands of photos taken of it.
I had a day off today, so went out with my cameras into the city to be a tourist. I uploaded some photos along the way and will upload more shots from the higher res cameras later
The official visitbrighton.com site recommends visitors check out their top 10 roundup of graffiti art in the city. The image above is described on the site as 'Mural at Black Rock - an ever-changing unofficial gallery on the wooden hoardings beside Brighton Marina which reflects Brighton's lively graffiti scene'.
Black rock was the home of a beautiful Art Deco Lido constructed in 1936 at beach level. It was closed in 1978 and demolished in 1979 and the land, albeit the subject of endless multi-million pound building applications, including an olympic size ice rink, remains empty save for graffiti artists and an annual Sand Sculpture exhibition.
The Regency houses overlooking Black Rock in this image are known as Arundal Crescent. They form part of Sussex Square, Lewes Crescent and Chichester Terrace, the largest piece of Regency Architecture in Brighton's famous Kemp Town. Work began on the houses in 1823 and, after financial difficulties and a change of builders and sponsors, the work was completed in 1855. Sussex Square is said to be larger than Grosvenor Square in London and Lewes Crescent is the largest in Britain with a diameter 200 feet larger than Bath Royal Crescent.
After a period of decline in the late 1800's the area has been largely 'gentrified' again although the massive houses are mainly converted to apartments with the larger ones (apartments) fetching a million +.
2012, Norway; Javelin coffe and tea shop and Kampen Church on Kampen in Oslo.
Photo: Heidi Voss-Nilsen
Part of the Dallas light rail transportation system. This is the entrance to the subway platform, some 120 feet below the street level.
On this occasion, I had the option of taking the stairs or the escalator and the inclinator was undergoing renovation.
I took the escalator down, as evidenced by the third photo in this series, and took it back up, obviously.
Taken on a Resound Camera Club outing at The Mall Cribbs.
The lines and curves attracted me and thought it would work well in black and white against the black night sky
ok, i promised some updates featuring buildings with honest to goodness architectural significance, so: here’s a building with honest to goodness architectural significance. it’s a rare oscar neimeyer designed round spaceship building in the middle of l.a... tmblr.co/ZHkOLwIuriFE
When Tripla rises at the beginning of the next decade, Central Pasila will become the new centre of Helsinki. Tripla will be a three-block complex that includes a shopping centre, a parking garage, public transportation hub, housing, hotels and offices.
cologne - 13.12.2013
Cologne is a harsh terrain of course. Thats why I laugh silently when I saw this little girl with a trolley case running around the area of the Rheinauhafen. I was trying to initiate a conversation about her case and her woolen cap, but she jet showed me her cold shoulder. Anyway, I was happy that I've found a street pic after a while and so I got this picture today. At this point I would like to assure that you know my flickr group flickr street 35 with a lot of very nice streetshots inside. I try to get the group as clean as possible and so I'm proud to have more than 18.000 fabulous and some extraordinary pictures inside. If you have time at the weekend please check out the pool and feel free to enter the group as a member or just post your streetpics.
What is today the Benares Historic House traces itself to 1837, when some original sections and outbuildings were constructed. The main house as it is seen today is from 1857. Originally home to four generations of the Harris and Sayers Family, today it is a museum in the City of Mississauga after the house and almost all of its contents were donated by the great-grandchildren of Captain Harris. Opened in 1995 as a public museum, the house is representative to what it would have looked like during the First World War.
Rolleiflex 2.8F - Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm 1:2.8 - Kodak Gold 200 @ ASA-200
FPP Super Color Negative ECN-2 Kit
Scanner: Epson V700 + Silverfast 9 SE
Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC
La tour Agbar, est un gratte-ciel de Barcelone en Catalogne, datant du début du xxie siècle. Elle a été dessinée par l'architecte français Jean Nouvel en collaboration avec la société b720 Fermin Vazquez Arquitectos. La tour a ouvert ses portes en juin 2005, et a été inaugurée officiellement par la famille royale d'Espagne le 16 septembre 2005.
Le 16 novembre 2013, il est annoncé que le gratte-ciel a été racheté par la chaîne hôtelière Hyatt et qu'il sera transformé en hotel de luxe. La transaction s'élève à 150 millions d'euros1,2.
Il offre 30 000 m2 de bureaux, 3 210 m2 pour les services techniques et 8 351 m2 destinés à des fonctions diverses, avec notamment un auditorium et des parkings, pour une superficie totale de 50 693 m2. La tour Agbar mesure 145 mètres de haut et comporte 38 étages, dont quatre en sous-sol.
Son design mêle différentes conceptions en matière d'architecture : une structure en béton armé, entièrement recouverte d'une façade de verre, créant plus de 4 400 fenêtres.
Cette tour est devenue l'un des bâtiments les plus remarquables de Barcelone, occupant désormais la troisième place en termes de hauteur, derrière l'Hôtel Arts et la Tour Mapfre, qui culminent tous deux à 154 mètres. Elle est située sur l'avenue Diagonale, près de la Place des Glòries Catalanes. Le bâtiment possède, intégrés à sa façade, plus de 4 000 dispositifs de types DEL qui permettent la création d'images sur les parois extérieures. De plus, des capteurs de température, placés à l'extérieur du gratte-ciel, permettent d'agir sur l'ouverture ou la fermeture des fenêtres, et par là même, de réduire la consommation d'énergie du dispositif d'air conditionné. Ce bâtiment abritera le siège du groupe Aigües de Barcelona, la Société des Eaux de Barcelone.
La tour s'éclaire différemment lors des équinoxes, d'ailleurs, son inauguration a eu lieu quelques jours avant l'équinoxe d'automne (21 septembre).
La Torre Agbar est appelée par les Barcelonais par le joli surnom de « suppositoire » (supositori). Un surnom en verdict populaire qui reste assez réducteur pour qualifier ce projet.
L'ambition délibérée fut de créer une icône pour la ville de Barcelone s'inscrit dans un contexte de profusion architecturale en Asie et dans les pays du Golfe a conduit à choisir l'architecte super-star Jean Nouvel. La Torre Agbar répond doublement à l'architecte super-star anglais Norman Foster, qui a fait sa marque de fabrique la production de "bâtiments symboliques" ("New Symbol...), comme l’exceptionnelle tour de communication de Barcelone justement, ou encore la tour londonienne en forme d'ogive conçue en 2004 appelée le Gherkin, le "cornichon" par les Londoniens. Mais ici pour insérer la Torre Agbar dans la ville de Barcelone, les architectes font appel à l’héritage architectural de Barcelone, et plus précisément à l’œuvre de l'architecte GAUDI selon deux références claires, la forme et la couleur.
1-Le profil de la tour est une parabole (x2) appelée chaine, catène ou caténa par les architectes : La simple suspension d'une chaine permet d'obtenir la courbe d'égale tension, en inversant nous déduisons la courbe d'égale compression, tel fut l’extraordinaire apport de Gaudi, à la pensée constructive et à l'esthétique de la ville ainsi qu'à l'architecture en général. Ici, seule l'enveloppe offre cette expression de catène, on peut regretter que la structure ne l'ai pas suivie (si ici le dogme fonctionnaliste s'applique à cette tour « form follows functions », disait Louis Sullivan, on peut regretter que la forme ne suive pas la structure comme le prônait Gaudi et bien d'autres architectes, on peut se demander quelle fut la part d'innovation structurelle ici? Il semble que ce ne fut pas l'ambition du projet.
2-Les couleurs miroitantes modulables sont aussi une belle interprétation contemporaine des revêtements en céramiques multicolore des façades et cheminées de l’œuvre de Gaudi.
Mais au delà des références symboliques relatives à la ville ou à la concurrence entre architectes ou entre les métropoles, on retrouve dans ce projet une constance de l’œuvre de Jean Nouvel : vouloir rendre les bâtiments vivants, cette ambition poétique est atteinte dans le projet de double peau et elle trouve son apogée quand la ville est plongée dans la nuit ; les jalousies de verre oscillent pour faire passer l'air et les couleurs chatoient.
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