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abandoned building:
An old abandoned building with a real route 66 architecture feel in eastern NY state. (Route 66 is actually crosses about 9 miles from this spot) I was told that it was a auto garage or dealership many moons ago. Now decaying, collapsed roof and all.
Tech: 3 exp merged to hdr in photoshop. Tonmapped in photomatix. Layer mask of single frame for smooth sky...
(c)2009 Tim Heffernan
Fort Sumter( a short cruise away) and the Start of the Civil War.
This National historic site is the spot where the Civil War began. The Sth Carolina militia, under the command of the first Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard opened fire and bombarded the Fort on 12th April 1861. Had Lincoln “forced” the South into starting the Civil War? Upon secession he had advised Southern states that federal property would be defended and the mails sent through. Sumter was a federal fort. Major Anderson had run out of supplies and Lincoln advised Anderson that he would re-provision the fort with supplies but no troops. Major Anderson advised the Confederate President, Jefferson Davis that he would evacuate the fort on 15th April if new supplies had not arrived by then. The Sth Carolinians got itchy. At 4:30 am on April 12th they bombarded the fort. It continued for 40 hours until Anderson surrendered. The war had begun. Southerners expected it to be over by September.
Boone Hall Plantation.
What is special about Boone Hall? It has a wonderful Virginian Live Oak alley which was planted from 1743 to 1843. The plantation has been continuously producing crops since 1681. It especially focuses on Gullah culture and the slave quarters with presentations by black Americans. Eight slave cabins (1790-1810) depict different aspects of Gullah culture and history. The plantation style homestead was only built in 1936 but the original house was built around 1700. It has beautiful flower gardens and the azaleas should be at their best. In the 1850s the plantation had 85 slaves with many involved in red brick production. Its main crops in early years were indigo and then cotton from the early 1800s. Its structures include the round smokehouse (1750); and the cotton gin factory (1853).
Gullah Culture and Language and Blacks in Charleston.
Gullah language is recognised as a distinct language and the black American population of coastal Sth Carolina and Georgia recognise themselves as Gullah people. But where did this culture originate? American historian Joseph Opala has spent decades researching the connections between Sierra Leone in Africa and Sth Carolina. A majority of the coastal black slaves arriving in Sth Carolina in the 1700s came from Sierra Leone where the area was known as the “Rice Coast” of Africa. The slaves brought with them the knowledge and skills for rice cultivation in Sth Carolina; their rice cooking methods; their West African language; their legends and myths; and their beliefs in spirits and voodoo. The Gullah people are thought to have the best preserved African culture of any black American group. Few have moved around the USA and black families in Charleston are now tracing their family history (and having family reunions with relatives) in Sierra Leone and Gambia, despite a break of 250 years in family contact! Many can trace their family links back to the Mende or Temne tribal groups in Sierra Leone. The Gullah language is a Creole language based on English but with different syntax more akin to African languages and with many African words and a few French words. The word Gullah is believed to be a mispronunciation of the African word Gora or Gola which came from several tribal groups in Sierra Leone. The direct links with Sierra Leone have been supported by the discovery of an African American funeral song which is identical to one sung by villagers in Sierra Leone.
The Gullah women in Charleston are also known for their weaving- the Sweetgrass basket sellers who can be found in several locations around the city. The skill and tradition of basket making came directly from Africa. And although they do not usually use the term voodoo the Gullah people believe in spirits and the power of roots, herbs or potions to ward off evil spirits or to snare a reluctant lover. If a spell is cast upon you can be “rooted” or “fixed” by this witchcraft and unable to resist the spell. This spiritual tradition is still strong and even whites in Charleston paint the ceilings of their piazzas blue to ward off old hags and evil spirits (and the colour is also meant to deter mosquitoes.)
In the city of Charleston about 18,000 of its residents were slaves in 1861. Large households often had 10 to 20 slaves to do gardening, the laundry, the cooking, the cleaning, the food serving, caring for the horses etc. Some households hired out servants to others for short periods and some households sold products produced by the slaves - dresses, other clothing, pastries, shoes, hats, horse shoes etc. Some slaves were musicians and played for their masters or were hired out for social functions to other houses; others were hired out with horse teams for transportation of others etc. So not all slaves worked as domestic servants. But there were also free blacks in Charleston. Often illegitimate children were freed upon their white father’s death and some slaves received small incomes if they had special skills and they could saved enough to buy their freedom. Eventually some free blacks became slave owners themselves by either purchasing slaves or by inheriting slaves from their white fathers. One of the wealthiest free blacks in Charleston in the Antebellum period was Richard DeReef who owned a wharf where he ran a timber business. He also owned a number of rental properties in Charleston. Richard was not a former slave. His African father with his Indian wife had migrated to Sth Carolina in the late 1700s when this was still possible. As his business grew Richard purchased slaves of his own. Despite his wealth Richard DeReef was considered a mixed race or coloured man and was never accepted into Charleston society. After the Civil War when the Radical Republicans from the North were overseeing/controlling Southern governments Richard DeReef was elected as a city councillor in 1868. That was the year that the new federally enforced state constitution allowing blacks to vote came into force. DeReef probably only served for a year or two. By 1870 the Ku Klux Klan was active and blacks disappeared from elected positions. When Northerners left Sth Carolina to its own devises in 1877, with the end of Northern Reconstruction, Sth Carolina stripped blacks of their right to vote by new state laws. Ballots for each of the usual eight categories of office had to be placed in a different ballot box. If any ballot was placed incorrectly all votes by that person were illegal. Later in the 1880s southern states brought in grandfather clauses- you could only vote if your grandfather did. This meant that slaves were not eligible to vote.
My goal here was to create exactly what you see. Motion blur in the day time in a location I have never been. I have always wanted to shoot this building and the plan for this image was in my head for over a week previous.
From a day of shooting in Toronto with Lisa Stokes.
This beautiful old home was personally built in 1893 by John Phillip Donnelly for himself and his wife, the former Annie Stone, who he married on August 27, 1891. It is built in the ornate Queen Anne style, with an octagonal turret and a wrap-around porch.
JP Donnelly, originally from Pittsburgh, laid out the town of Mount Dora and served as its first mayor. He had homesteaded 160 acres, but by marrying the former wife of Mr. William Stone, he doubled his holdings. He was also one of the founders of the local yacht club. Donnelly died in 1930.
You will often see pictures of this building when it was all white. In 1930, it became the Masonic Temple Lodge, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
Old Man Dinkelspiel's House - (Demolished)
Edgar Dinkelspiel died on April 6, 1997 at 82 years old.
851 Ocean Ave Long Branch, NJ 07740
Part of His Story: The Long Branch Historical Museum Association is a nonprofit 501 (C)3 organization founded in 1953 to preserve St. James Chapel in Long Branch, New Jersey, which is also known as the Church of the Presidents because of the seven presidents who worshipped there.
Local residents Edgar and Florence Dinkelspiel, Eugene C.F. McVeigh, J.D. and Bernard Sandler, Haslam Slocum, Rev. Christopher H. Snyder, and then mayor Alex Vineburg formed the organization to operate the church as a museum after saving it from certain demolition.
Presidents Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Benjamin Harrison, and Woodrow Wilson all attended services at the church. Only one of them -- Grant -- was out of office when he worshipped there.
Listed on both the State of New Jersey and National Register of Historic Places, the Church of the Presidents was designed by the New York firm of Potter and Robertson and built in 1879. It was established as a branch of St. James Episcopal Church, which was located in the western reaches of Long Branch, and officially registered as St. James Chapel. However, its growing congregation of chief executives led it to become widely known as the Church of the Presidents.
At the time the church was built, Long Branch was the premiere vacation resort in the country, catering to the wealthy, powerful, and famous of the day. Summer residents George Pullman, George W. Childs, and Anthony Drexel financed construction of the church to provide a house of worship closer to their vacation homes. In 1886, the congregation was estimated to have a collective worth of $120 to $250 million.
By 1940, membership in the church had fallen to about 40, and by the 1950s, attendance had dropped so low that the Episcopal Diocese deconsecrated the church and slated it for demolition. But a few local residents thought better of it.
The late Edgar Dinkelspiel and attorney Bernard Sandler discovered a clause in the original deed to save the church. The clause stipulated that if the building were no longer used as a church, then ownership reverted back to the original benefactors -- Pullman, Childs, and Drexel. Dinkelspiel and Sandler found their heirs and obtained ownership of the church in 1953 as the non-profit Long Branch Historical Museum Association.
The Long Branch Historical Museum
The Church of the Presidents was rededicated as the Long Branch Historical Museum in September 1955. Dinkelspiel and his wife, Florence, maintained and operated the museum. Artifacts on display included the following:
• President Grant's gun cabinet and game table.
• The flag placed over Garfield's casket during services conducted by the Long Branch Masonic Lodge.
• Memorial tablets to the presidents and benefactors George W. Childs and Anthony Drexel.
• The dining room table belonging to Garrett A. Hobart, U.S. Vice President under President McKinley. (Hobart was born in West Long Branch and died in office, predeceasing President McKinley.)
• Two Tiffany windows: One is dedicated to George Talbot, a summer resident, and is cataloged by Tiffany Studios. The other is dedicated to L.B. Brown, the founder of Elberon, which is named for him.
• The church's original pipe organ.
• The church's guest book of attendees.
• A horse-drawn engine from the Atlantic Fire Company.
• A horse-drawn sleigh.
After Dinkelspiel died in 1997, Mrs. Dinkelspiel operated the museum until 1999 when its contents and artifacts were removed because of the deteriorating condition of the church.
Esta es mi primera vez haciendo HDR usando el Bracketing manual y uniendo las imagenes con Photomatix pro
Stratford-upon-Avon is a market town and civil parish in Warwickshire, England, on the River Avon, 101 miles north west of London, 22 miles south east of Birmingham, and 8 miles south west of Warwick. The estimated population per 2011 Census was 27,445.
The town is a popular tourist destination owing to its status as birthplace of English playwright and poet William Shakespeare, and receives an estimated 4.9 million visitors a year The Royal Shakespeare Company resides in Stratford's Royal Shakespeare Theatre.
Listed Building Grade I
List Entry Number : 1208514
Date First Listed : 31 May 1949
Built in 1528, this is the gate tower to St Mary's Priory and its gatehouse. It is in red sandstone on a chamfered plinth, some of the dressings are in calciferous sandstone, and there are string courses, an eaves cornice, clasping buttresses rising to become chimney stacks, and a green slate roof with coped gables. The building consists of a two-storey single-bay gate tower, and a low two-storey two-bay gatehouse. On the front and the rear are rounded archways, and above them on each side is a three-light Tudor window with a hood mould.
The Janion building looks spooky, even without the HDR (I've been wondering what the "end of the road" filter in HDR Efex Pro does). Nope, it's condos in process
Make that "micro-lofts"
Corner towers were common in late 19th Century downtown buildings. The Sullivan Building was constructed in 1857-58, which means that the tower was a later, Queen Anne period, addition (circa 1890).
This is the tomb, situated in Delhi, the capital of India, of the 2nd Mughal emperor Humayun built by his Begum Haji Hamida in 1564-73. It is a World Heritage site declared by UNESCO in 1993. It isd one of the most beautiful architecture built by the great Mughals
An old building that still stands in the Xiaonanmen area - all of this is doomed, bound for redevelopment. Why redevelopment is necessary can easily been seen when looking closer at this structure...
Found in Wangjiazuijiao Road (王家嘴角街).
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