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Hereford Cathedral
The Chained Library at Hereford Cathedral is a unique and fascinating treasure in Britain’s rich heritage of library history; there were books at Hereford Cathedral long before there was a ‘library’ in the modern sense.
The cathedral’s earliest and most important book is the 8th-century Hereford Gospels; it is one of 229 medieval manuscripts which now occupy two bays of the Chained Library.
The chaining of books was the most widespread and effective security system in European libraries from the Middle Ages to the 18th century, and Hereford Cathedral’s 17th-century Chained Library is the largest to survive with all its chains, rods and locks intact.
A chain is attached at one end to the front cover of each book; the other end is slotted on to a rod running along the bottom of each shelf. The system allows a book to be taken from the shelf and read at the desk, but not to be removed from the bookcase.
The books are shelved with their foredges, rather than their spines, facing the reader (the wrong way round to us); this allows the book to be lifted down and opened without needing to be turned around – thus avoiding tangling the chain.
The specially designed chamber in the New Library Building not only means that the whole library can now be seen in its original arrangement as it was from 1611 to 1841, but also allows the books to be kept in controlled environmental conditions according to modern standards of presentation.
The Széchenyi Chain Bridge is a suspension bridge that spans the River Danube between Buda and Pest, the western and eastern sides of Budapest, the capital of Hungary. Designed by the English engineer William Tierney Clark, it was the first permanent bridge across the Danube in Hungary, and was opened in 1849.
It is anchored on the Pest side of the river to Széchenyi (formerly Roosevelt) Square, adjacent to the Gresham Palace and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and on the Buda side to Adam Clark Square, near the Zero Kilometre Stone and the lower end of the Castle Hill Funicular, leading to Buda Castle.
The bridge has the name of István Széchenyi, a major supporter of its construction, attached to it, but is most commonly known as the Chain Bridge. At the time of its construction, it was regarded as one of the modern world's engineering wonders.[citation needed] It has asserted an enormous significance in the country's economic, social and cultural life, much as the Brooklyn Bridge has in New York and United States of America.
Fence Friday
It's not much of a fence, but it is the divide between my neighbour's private property and the public highway.
Large rusty chain attempting to flow out of the bin area and down the steps to the sunken carpark at the office. The wheel is for the dumpster for recycling cardboard.
This was scene yesterday at Fort Point in San Francisco. All the clarity and focus - from front to back is achieved by focus stacking - Had to take several shots - focusing from front to back and with different exposure of each shot then blending it together.
Chain ferns in the lush laurel forest on La Gomera in the Canary Islands. Each frond is about 4 feet long.
Didn't think I'd find a chain that was worth photographing for the group. ..but found this in my messy drawer... a keychain .. and with a star, too!
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shot with an olympus om-d e-m10 mark ii—720nm infrared converted—and the panasonic 20mm f/1.7 mark ii lens
One glorious chain of love,
of giving and receiving,
unites all creatues.
(Samson Raphael Hirsch)
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Me and my friend Simone (artist and performer) are starting a musical project, an electronic-trip-hop duo whose name will be MONONOKE....
I made this photo imagining it to be the possible cover for a future music album of us.
*too excited*
Watch the video of me making the make-up :)
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I had almost forgotten that I had got this necklace when I went hunting for an interesting chain for Macro Mondays. I remember admiring it in a large department store for several weeks before I had enough money to buy it back in the 1980’s. It’s not real gold or pearls but when you have had to save up to buy something you appreciate it a lot more.
1849 Chain Bridge and the 1905 St. Stephen's Basilica in the back.
This was taken near the Budapest Castle Hill Funicular. The funicular runs till 21:00 hours in winter and is €4 return (Feb 2018). You can also take the stairs and that will take about 15 min or so. The castle grounds are open 24/7. There was nobody around at the time I was there and you can take some nice shots of the bridges and the buildings on Pest.
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link and life is after all a chain (William James)
Came up to this chain wandering at the port. At the background the seaside area of Volos.
© Georgios Miliokas