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On my first day in India I had a pedicab tour of Old Delhi. The tour included a visit to the spice market and this rooftop view. This is an in-camera panorama.
Italy is home to a lot of historical churches, many of which date back centuries upon centuries. Various styles usually displayed right next to another, where just a few years in construction made huge differences artistically.
This beauty, in pure romanic style, is often overlooked by locals, way too used to it's majesty, puissance,and presence.
this is wudaokou. i spend a lot of time here. i think that when i return to the states, and think of beijing, i will think of this area first. this place is my second home.
best viewed large, by the way. actually, if you feel like waiting, i'd suggest the original, even though it's a bit grainy. you can get a pretty good look onto the street, read street signs, etc. there are actually a lot of people in this photo, which isn't evident from this size.
Listed Building Grade II
List Entry Number : 1270206
Date First Listed : 20 June 1972
This was built 1836-8 as a Trustee Savings Bank, designed by George Webster in Italianate style, and the clock tower was added in 1844. The bank is in limestone, on a plinth, rusticated in the ground floor and ashlar above, and has a slate roof and two storeys. There is one bay on Market Street and three on Union Street. On each front is a band between the floors, a modillioned cornice, and the central part projects under a pediment. The doorway, on Union Street, has unfluted Doric columns, an inscribed frieze, and a cornice, above which is a decorated cast iron balcony. On the roof is a two-stage tower with open arches in the lower stage, and above is a dome with clock faces, a finial and a weathervane.
Lansing Art Museum, Michigan.
Experimenting with abstract. Your comments, esp. critiques, are sincerely welcomed!
FUKUHARA GINZA
Architect : Taro Ashihara Architects (設計：芦原太郎建築事務所).
Tokyo Construction (施工：東急建設).
Completed : 2011 (竣工年：2011年).
Height :
Floor : 11th (高さ：11階).
Location : 7-8-10, Ginza, Chuo Ward, Tokyo, Japan (所在地：日本国東京都中央区銀座7丁目8-10).
The British Museum, located in the Bloomsbury area of London, in the United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture. Its permanent collection numbers some 8 million works, and is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence having been widely sourced during the era of the British Empire, and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present. It is the first national public museum in the world.
The British Museum was established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the Irish physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane. It first opened to the public on 15 January 1759, in Montagu House, on the site of the current building. Its expansion over the following two and a half centuries was largely a result of expanding British colonisation and has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the British Museum (Natural History) – now the Natural History Museum – in 1881.
In 1973, the British Library Act 1972 detached the library department from the British Museum, but it continued to host the now separated British Library in the same Reading Room and building as the museum until 1997. The museum is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and as with all other national museums in the United Kingdom it charges no admission fee, except for loan exhibitions.
Its ownership of some of its most famous objects originating in other countries is disputed and remains the subject of international controversy, most notably in the case of the Parthenon Marbles. [Wikipedia]
Local wedding venue. I was headed to the house and noticed the clouds when I passed this place. Turned the car around and came back. Began searching for someone to ask permission to take a picture. Nary a soul to be found. This is a shot from the backside that I have never been to before. My wife called me when I was standing in the grass taking this to see why I wasn't home yet. It kinda cut short my little daydream. This is a cool old house and must be a great place to get hitched.
This view is of the school taken from within St Philip's churchyard, the school fronted onto St Philip's Place and was separated from the Cathedral by cast iron railings. The churchyard seemed a more pleasant place to dwell back in 1934, it was more like a park it had fewer seats and well tended gardens. To the left the shop blinds of Colmore Row may be seen at the point where Livery Street drops away at the side of Snow Hill Station. Just peeping over the doomed school building are the ornamental railings around the turret of what could be Edward Grey's department store in Upper Bull Street.
The Blue Coat School opened on the 9th August 1724, the building was designed by John Rawsthorne, it was intended for orphans and children of the poor. The school provided clothing, maintenance, a good elementary education and religious instruction according to the principals of the Church of England. Extensions and improvements were carried out in 1794 at a cost of £2,800. The school moved to new buildings, designed by J.L. Ball and H.W. Simister, at Somerset Road Harborne in 1930. This view shows the school at an early stage of demolition Circa 1934.
This and the other pictures in this set were taken by Miss Phyllis Nicklin on her new Leica camera, she was active with her 35mm work up until war broke out when she stopped, she re-started photography in the 1950's using colour slide film. Her colour work was left to the University of Birmingham and it has been scanned and is available for consultation, it is a wonderful collection of Birmingham views taken from around 1953 up until 1969. The pictures were used for a 'Then and Now' project during 2017 with the title "In the Footsteps of Phyllis..." the project involved 71 photographers who took 857 pictures. An exhibition of the work is planned for later in the year, it was co-ordinated by Dave Allen.
The story of the black and white films follows a familiar path. Phyllis Nickin's book and paper collection was left to the School of Geography, it was huge and took an entire room, with it arrived a box of rolled up 35mm films, nobody wanted them and they gathered dust until...yes "dump them" indeed a lot of them are unidentified blurry holiday pictures and are of no use but among them are some gems, Phyllis seemed to use the last few frames around Birmingham before handing the film in to 'Camera House' (Cannon Street) for processing. The real problem I have is that the films have coiled for 83 years, they are like bed springs and the only way of scanning them is the rather brutal method of using low-tack tape and taping them down to the scanner.
Phyllis Nicklin (Collection Geoff Dowling: All rights reserved)
Situé en plein coeur de la ville près du barrio de Santa Cruz, le Real Alcázar de Séville est un des plus anciens Palais dans le monde encore utilisé par la famille royale d'Espagne lors de ses déplacements à Séville. L'édifice a été construit sur des fondations datant de l'époque romaine, par les Omeyyades au 10ème siècle sous le règne d'Adb al-Rahman III. L'entrée se fait par la Puerta del León située sur la Plaza del Triunfo. Ensuite les salles et les patios se succèdent pour aboutir sur les grands jardins du Real Alcazar.
The town where Wild Bill Hickok met his demise on August 2nd, 1876, Deadwood is located in the Black Hills near the western border of South Dakota. It started out as an illegal settlement on the Indian lands granted to the Lakota tribes by treaty in 1868. The settlement was a result of the Black Hills Gold Rush triggered by the discovery of gold south of Deadwood in about 1874. The town survived its illegality becoming kind of a crime center where murder, gambling, prostitution and the opium trade ruled and the town's population quickly reached about 5,000. Today Deadwood is famous as a National Historic Site and caters to the tourist trade and the gamblers via its casinos and the downtown Historic District. It also has Mount Rushmore nearby to the south as an added tourist attraction. Despite the town's size and polish the official population via the census is only 1,270.
Tokyo International Forum
Yurakucho, Tokyo, JAPAN
Taken on a wonderful Tokyo photowalk with my friend Darren.