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Soon we'll see the annual lighting meanwhile we can remember what it looks like. Signal Hill, St.John's, NL, Canada.
The statue of Christopher Columbus by Gaetano Russo
Die Statue des Christopher Columbus von Gaetano Russo
In the back/ im Hintergrund:
Time Warner Center
New York City, Columbus Circle
architect: Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
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Ducketts Grove was designed in a Castellated Gothic revival style by Thomas A. Cobden for John Davidson Duckett circa 1825. The 18th, 19th and early 20th century home of the Duckett family, was formerly at the centre of a 12,000 acre estate that has dominated the Carlow landscape for over 300 years.The building incorporates numerous towers and turrets of varying shapes – round, square and octagonal. One tall octagonal turret rises from the structure. It is elaborately ornamented with oriels and niches containing statues.
The house itself is situated in the townland of Rainstown, between Carlow and Tullow but the estate itself comprised several large townlands and parts of others.
In September 2005 during Heritage Week, Carlow Country Council acquired Duckett’s Grove and commenced the restoration of two inter-connecting walled gardens.
Even in ruin, the surviving towers and turrets of Duckett’s Grove form a romantic profile making it one of the most photogenic historic buildings in the country.
Pérouges is a medieval walled village about 30km northwest of Lyon. The town has a long history dating back well over 1,000 years that has included being part of the Roman empire, but the town officially became French in 1601. Today the stone buildings and streets are popular with tourists, but unlike the other medieval villages we visited in France Pérouges appeared to still be primarily a residental village with people actively living in the ancient homes.
Photo taken in Pérouges, Rhône-Alpes, France.
You know? People come from all over the world to get this view and here it is right in my own backyard. Lucky me, I guess... ;-)
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Update: MADE EXLPORED ON 8.9.12
I can't decide between the two images which is the better one this one or version 1 so I'll let you decide and I'll delete the one with the less likes. You may hate both which is equally fine as I'm very unsure myself.
Not sure of the building, which I'm sorry about.
Nikon F4. AF Nikkor 14mm F2.8D lens. ADOX Color Implosion 100 35mm C41 film.
Having been round St. Pauls it was now getting dark but as I walked away and off up the street I noticed this view peeking through the buildings, I only had the 50mm lens on me but the composition felt right.
The dome looms over the London streets but was caught briefly between two modern buildings, pinching the old and reminding it that its majesty and size can be dwarfed but only just. The cathedral wins though as it has stood through history endeavouring where other buildings have gone. The religion and prayers keeping the faithful safe under its roof as the world spins by.
Potted history of St Pauls Cathedral:
The current Cathedral, the fourth to occupy this site, was designed by the court architect Sir Christopher Wren and built between 1675 and 1710 after its predecessor was destroyed in the Great Fire of London.
Its architectural and artistic importance reflect the determination of the five monarchs who oversaw its building that Londons leading church should be as beautiful and imposing as their private palaces.
More photos from a downtown Chicago walk-about. I had gotten up early one Saturday morning to take pictures of the city from the lake shore. However, my best shots of the day came a bit later while walking home.
As one looks up into the sky while in the walkway next to the Wrigley Building. The sky bridges are all too often a memory of Minneapolis for me (as a means of avoiding walking outside on those bitter cold days).
Moder architecture in Milton Keynes. A3+ print available on Canson Arches Velin Musem Rag for £100, please go to jonathonbennettphotos.com/prints/ to order.
Rusting Building, Leadfield. Death Valley National Park, California. April 1, 2014. © Copyright 2014 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
A rusting corrugated building, one of the few remaining structures at the ghost town of Leadfield, California
This is one of the few standing structures remaining from the boom town of Leadfield, in the backcountry of Death Valley National Park, in the Grapevine Mountains more or less midway between the Beatty, Nevada area and the main Death Valley. The standard story is that this town was the result of one of the biggest swindles and scams in the mining history of the area, and the story is often told of the main promoter salting the mine with ore brought in from other locations and producing brochures featuring boats on the Amargosa River... which is typically completely dry. In the process of preparing this photograph to share I did a bit of reading, and it seems like the story might not be quite so simple nor so dramatic. Apparently there was a history of prospecting and mining in this area before the town was created in the mid-1920s, and lead and perhaps silver were actually mined from the place. A range of problems led to its downfall—the distance the ore needed to be transported, problems with the sale of shares in the mines—but it may not be true that the mine itself was essentially just a scam.
This building is well-known to those who have visited the place, as it is one of two buildings that still stand. Both are located near the entrance to one of the mine shafts, and it seems likely that this was not a residence but rather some building related to mine operations. Today it is a mere shell, but I find it amazing that it still stands nearly 90 years after the "town" (which apparently consisted largely of tents) was abandoned. Even more amazing is to stand at this spot and look out at the surrounding landscape—a rugged and uncompromising mountainous desert terrain—and imagine what it must have been like to live and work in such a place.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
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