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Landscape garden, parkland and woodland in East Sussex. Designed in the 18th century by Capability Brown and Humphry Repton.
47757 'Capability Brown' calling at Frodsham with the morning 1H44 0633 Bangor - Manchester Piccadilly 26/03/03. The set used at the time were ex First Great Western Mk2's.
A few weeks ago I posted a image of the ornamental lake at Scampston Hall in North Yorkshire. Capability Brown planned the extensive parkland including the lake in the eighteenth century. Nothing about this lake is natural but was designed to give the owner a pleasing outlook from his house. To add to the owner’s pleasure this mock classical summerhouse was built at the top of the lake allowing the family to enjoy the vita in some style
Good heavens I managed a fence on a Friday HFF
A shot of the lake is posted at the top of the comments
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It never disappoints to see this large transport Airbus A400M Atlas at RIAT as it performs display manoeuvres that you feel really shouldn't be possible for this size of aircraft. Despite early set backs this aircraft will have a major role for the future of the RAF transport fleet and will also have the capability for medivac and re-fuelling roles also.
Burghley House is a grand 16th-century English country house near Stamford on the Cambrigeshire/Lincolnshire border, built by William Cecil. The estate features magnificent State Rooms, art collections and grounds designed by Capability Brown.
William Cecil (later the 1st Baron Burghley) began building the house as a demonstration of his wealth and power and to establish a dynastic family seat, contruction began in 1555 and the house mostly comple by 1587. He was heavily involved in its design, which was intended to impress the Queen (Elizabeth I) and her court.
While the exterior largely retains its original Elizabethan look, the interiors were extensively remodeled in the Baroque style by the 5th Earl of Exeter in the late 17th century. This included commissioning the famous "Heaven Room" and "Hell Staircase" ceiling paintings by the Italian artist Antonio Verrio.
In the 18th century, the renowned landscape architect Lancelot 'Capability' Brown was employed by the 9th Earl to redesign the gardens and parkland. Brown created the sweeping vistas, the lake, and the Lion Bridge, even altering the house's structure to enhance the views.
The 6th Marquess of Exeter, a gold-medal-winning Olympic athlete immortalized in the film Chariots of Fire, oversaw significant modernization of the house, including the introduction of electricity. In 1961, he established the Burghley House Preservation Trust, a charitable trust that now owns and maintains the house, its contents, and the surrounding estate for the public's enjoyment.
The 'Saxon' tower was the brainchild of Capability Brown and designed by James Wyatt in 1794 in the form of a castle, and built for Barbara, Countess of Coventry in 1798–1799. Broadway Hill was a beacon hill, where beacons were lit on special occasions. Lady Coventry wondered whether a beacon on this hill could be seen from her house in Worcester—about 22 miles (35 km) away—and sponsored the construction of the folly to find out. Indeed, the tower was clearly visible.
From 1822 to 1862, the tower housed the private printing press of Sir Thomas Phillipps.[1] By the mid-1870s, it was being rented by C. J. Stone and Cormell Price. Price was headmaster of the United Services College at Westward Ho! and a friend of artists William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti; in 1876 Morris wrote in a letter to Aglaia Coronio that he was "up at Crom Price's Tower among the winds and the clouds".
Near the tower is a memorial to the crew of an A.W.38 Whitley bomber that crashed there during a training mission in June 1943.
In the late 1950s, an underground Royal Observer Corps bunker was built 50 yards (46 m) away to collect evidence of nuclear explosions. It was decommissioned in 1991 but has been restored and is now one of the few such Cold War monitoring facilities in England still extant and accessible to visitors.
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Artwork by William Walton & Topaz Studio 2
Sheffield Park Garden is an informal landscape garden five miles east of Haywards Heath in East Sussex. It was originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown, and further developed in the early 20th century by its then owner, Arthur Gilstrap Soames. It is now owned by the National Trust.
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Sheffield Park and Garden ist ein informeller Landschaftsgarten fünf Meilen östlich von Haywards Heath in East Sussex, England. Er wurde ursprünglich im 18. Jahrhundert von Capability Brown angelegt und im frühen 20. Jahrhundert von seinem damaligen Besitzer Arthur Gilstrap Soames als Waldgarten weiterentwickelt. Es ist jetzt im Besitz des National Trust.
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Thought we all need a little more “perfect world” and slightly milder temperatures.
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Sheffield Park and Garden is an informal landscape garden five miles east of Haywards Heath in East Sussex, England. It was originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown and further developed as a woodland garden in the early 20th century by its then owner, Arthur Gilstrap Soames. It is now owned by the National Trust.
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The National Trust's Croome in Worcestershire is an 18th century house in grounds designed by ‘Capability’ Brown. At the heart of the park is Croome Court, the former home of the 6th Earl of Coventry.
Dodging the numerous grades and curves of the Lac St-Jean subdivision, CN 369 is passing "Club Arlo" at milepost 36.9, a notorious knuckle -and even sometimes drawbar- taker, especially for southbound like this one, who carefully negotiate the dangerous zone at a speed below 10MPH. At this very moment, both head-end power are in notch 1 or even in dynamic braking and the whole train was pushed by the mid-train DP unit.
CN's first glimpse into distributed power was tested here, between Chambord on the shore of beautiful Lac St-Jean and Garneau Yard, with leased BNSF units. This ultimately lead to a first order of 6 Dash 9-44CW back in 2004, equipped with DP capability and used in captive service on this 160-mile long stretch of track
The Lac St-Jean subdivision track profile was also once used for many years at CN's locomotive engineer training program located in Gimli, Manitoba on Oscar-serie simulator.
Now Gimli and Oscar simulator are only memories but the Lac St-Jean subdivision struggle are still alive was the same; moving heavy trains over a stretch of trackage built 100 or so years ago, without having the conductor sent back to walk the train after an undesired emergency brake application caused by a train separation.
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A Plate here reads:-
The Hammersmith Society
Lancelot Capability Brown
1716-1783
Father of the English Landscape Garden
Lived by the river in Hammersmith 1751-1764
Sculptor: Laury Dizengremel
Sheffield Park and Garden is owned by the National Trust. The original landscaping was done by Capability Brown in the 18th century, but the woodland garden was developed in the early 20th century with trees from many different countries. I love our native trees, but they lack reds in the Autumn, so I always enjoy visiting Sheffield Park, where I can lose myself in wonderful, vibrant colour.
For a High-lead Steam Skidder(seen in the background) -- Built by Meadow River Lumber’s Rainelle shop using older Lidgerwood skidder engines and winches – completed in 1945 – rostered as No. 1; mounted on a 55-foot car frame, the mast (tower, spar) fabrication (standing 96-feet from its base in operating condition) and cable capability (over 3,300 feet) made it one of the largest high-lead skidders ever used in the East. What the whole thing looks like: www.flickr.com/photos/lionel682/50203846421/in/album-7215...
The National Trust's Croome in Worcestershire is an 18th century house in grounds designed by Capability Brown. At the heart of the park, Croome Court, the former home of the 6th Earl of Coventry is a light, open space. Displays created by collaborating, as the Earl once did, with emerging new craftsmen and designers to create a house and garden into a landscape to remember.
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The ruined grounds of Roche Abbey (by Maltby Beck), a ruined Cisterian monastery situated near Maltby, in South Yorkshire. The abbey is at the Northern edge of what was once Sherwood forest, and Robin Hood is said to have taken mass there regularly.
Like most other abbeys, it was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1538, following which the local community despoiled it for timber, stone and lead, as well as the property within. The remains were left to fall to ruin, and the land came into the hands of the Earl of Scarborough, who emplyed the famous landscape gardener Capability Brown who buried much of it under turf in the late 1700s. There it remained for two centuries until excavated in the 1920s, and is now cared for by English Heritage.
Taken on a walk with the NTU Chaplaincy, using a Pentax Optio S.
More of my photos can be found here.
Alien art
Recent years, we have learned a lot of things about animals. We know now how smart they are in defending their self, finding foods and finding sex partners. Without being conscious, it is not possible to do the tasks they do. Level of consciousness may vary form animals to animals, but all sentient animals are aware of their self and the environment they are in.
Consciousness may be gained from informations we get during our development and/ or it may be instinctive. Body of animals and ours have the capacity to create the consciousness. The.most important is the body ( hardware), not the software.
Our body has developed according “ the tree of life “. Consciousness has been a necessity for further development of living organisms. Feelings and emotions, consciousness and atoms are main things in our universe. Aliens in our universe must have them if they exist. High level of senses and some dominating feelings and emotions and also high level of life-experiences may contribute high level of consciousness. Body's state in creation of high level of consciousness may be very relevant too.
Some aliens might have higher capability to create high level of consciousness. Proper dominating feelings and emotions, high level senses and high level of life experiences may also effect the level of their consciousness.
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Broadway Tower is a unique Capability Brown Folly Tower open to visitors wanting to experience great English heritage in an inspiring location. It is one of England’s outstanding viewpoints and at 1024 feet (312m) above sea level, it is the second highest point on the Cotswold escarpment with unrivalled views. You can survey an expanse of a 62 mile radius and as many as 16 Counties. With Graphic displays on three floors, roof viewing platform and Tower Shop.
What is it like to be a bat? Can we ever truly know what is meant by the subjective experience, or the objective? Do we even perceive the same reality..? What a peculiar existence we perpetuate ;)
Croome Court mansion and park were designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown for the 6th Earl of Coventry, and were Brown's first landscape design and first major architectural project. Some of the mansion's rooms were designed by Robert Adam.
The mansion house is owned by Croome Heritage Trust, and is leased to the National Trust which operates it as a tourist attraction. The National Trust owns the surrounding parkland, which is also open to the public.
Thanks for your visit… Any comment you make on my photograph is greatly appreciated and encouraging! But please do not use this image without permission.
From the National Trust website:
The garden is a horticultural work of art formed through centuries of landscape design, with influences of 'Capability' Brown and Humphry Repton. Four lakes form the heart of the garden, with paths circulating through the glades and wooded areas surrounding them. Each owner has left their impression, which can still be seen today in the layout of the lakes, the construction of Pulham Falls, the planting of Palm Walk and the many different tree and shrub species from around the world.
Our historic parkland forms a larger footprint for the Sheffield Park estate. Dating back several centuries, it has had many uses including a deer park and WWII camp, and is now grazed with livestock and home to our natural woodland play trail in Ringwood Toll. The River Ouse runs across the bottom of the parkland and the original meanders are still visible winding across the meadow. This area has been transformed into a wildlife haven and is home to a diverse range of species including kingfishers, birds of prey, butterflies, and dragonflies.
NB. The house itself is privately owned & not accessible to NT members or visitors.
I've described the South Shore as the Duneland Essence on more than one occasion on here, and many many more times than that in real life conversation. While I'm grateful for the unique photo opportunities the Double Track NWI project is bringing, I can't help but feel sad that the centuries-in-the-making interurban feel will effectively die with it. That is what I, and most others that I know, will miss the most. Scenes such as this, an electrified commuter railroad coming within 25' of a house, and but up against multiple backyards with nothing in between the two. This isn't some two-times-yearly used branchline for railcar storage, though I've always felt this location certainly gives that impression. You might notice the basketball hoop in the backyard of the blue house - sure enough, a few minutes before this was taken, the local youth were playing a friendly game that resulted in their ball landing right in the middle of the gauge multiple times.
But, as I mentioned, I have to be grateful that there are still -some- opportunities available to photograph trains in these places, and with so much work going on, what you can frame up are often subjects you could almost never see before the project began. This train was no exception.
The current infrastructure has had the capability to run electrified passenger trains many times a day between mileposts 33.0, where we are here, and 44.0 near Dune Park. Now, this stretch has been completely deenergized - overhead electric, signals, everything is now dark. Instead of doing 79 miles per between Michigan City and Chesterton, all train movements are now warrant-controlled, restricted to 25mph max, and all road crossings between the two mileposts are considered out of service, requiring all trains to stop before proceeding at each. Thankfully, a very small amount of CSS freight trains and the occasional work train on the NICTD side are all that pass through this stretch. This is a bit different though.
NICTD is still offering options for passengers to be bused between stations at Michigan City and Dune Park (out of the work zone, where business is still as usual). As a result, the passenger trains now begin and terminate at Dune Park, where they can be serviced at the base level - mostly just janitorial tasks. But, like everything in life, it's only a matter of time before something more serious requires attention from a shop - in this case, the South Shore's shops in Michigan City.
To take care of this, the passenger guys have been doing occasional ferry moves of EMUs between the two locations through the work zone, and here is one such example. My favorite motor on the South Shore period (freight and passenger considered), NICD 1001, with all its nose light excellence, was the power this morning with five EMUs for Dune Park. The crew has just received their track warrant to pass the dark signal directly behind me, and are treating me and my camera to quite a smoke-filled show getting their train back up to speed... smoking is another nice trait about this unit. The horn ain't bad either!
And thus completes another caption that is entirely too long. I should try writing a book sometime or something, so many words would look a lot less awkward in one...
The rear of Roche Abbey (by Maltby Beck), a ruined Cisterian monastery situated near Maltby, in South Yorkshire. The abbey is at the Northern edge of what was once Sherwood forest, and Robin Hood is said to have taken mass there regularly.
Like most other abbeys, it was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1538, following which the local community despoiled it for timber, stone and lead, as well as the property within. The remains were left to fall to ruin, and the land came into the hands of the Earl of Scarbrough, who emplyed the famous landscape gardener Capability Brown who buried much of it under turf in the late 1700s. There it remained for two centuries until excavated in the 1920s, and is now cared for by English Heritage.
Taken on a walk with the NTU Chaplaincy, using a Pentax Optio S.
More of my photos can be found here.
1 : the capability of a strained body to recover its size and shape after deformation caused especially by compressive stress
2 : an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change (Merriam-Webster)
Resiliencia:
Del ingl. resilience, y este der. del lat. resiliens, -entis, part. pres. act. de resilīre 'saltar hacia atrás, rebotar', 'replegarse'.
1. f. Capacidad de adaptación de un ser vivo frente a un agente perturbador o un estado o situación adversos. (Real Academia Española).
I know it is not a daily use word. But this word, along with empathy, which this should be known by everyone, and holistic, among others, are unknown words for my ignorant president of my country (yes, without capital letters), and he is proud to say it. He says that he cannot rule the country with such "elegant" words. But any man that doesn't know empathy for the people in his country and that does not how how the majority of the Mexican people how they have need to adapt to this adverse times, he doesn't deserve to be in front of our great Country.
Sé que esta no es una palabra de uso común. Pero esta palabra, junto con empatía, la cual debería de ser conocida, y practicada por todos, y holístico, entre otras, son desconocidas por el presidente ignorante de mi país (sí, así con letras minúsculas, porque así se lo ha ganado) y él está orgulloso de mencionarlo. Él dice que no puede gobernar al país con "esas palabras elegantes". Pero aquel hombre que no practica la empatía con sus connacionales y que no conoce cómo la mayoría de los Mexicanos se han tenido que adaptar a las situaciones tan adversas en estos últimos años, no merece estar al frente de un país tan grande como el nuestro.
Pearly Dewdrops-Drops: youtu.be/s-5Xgw6d3h0
View from the Terrace over the South lawn. A Capability Brown landscape. The tent and disturbed ground near the lake are part of an excavation of Gawthorpe Hall which stood on the site until the early 1700's when Edwin Lascelles had Harewood House built.
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from the gardens - spot the deer by zooming in.
This was the work of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown who was commissioned by the 4th Duke of Devonshire to landscape the parkland - and what a good job he did !
see the link for more information about his contribution to Chatsworth
www.capabilitybrown.org/sites/default/files/capability_br...
Berrington Hall is a country house located about 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Leominster, Herefordshire, England. During the 20th century it was the seat of the Cawley family.
It is a neoclassical country house building which was designed by Henry Holland in 1778-81 for Thomas Harley. It has a somewhat austere exterior, but the interiors are subtle and delicate. Berrington Hall is home to the Elmar Digby furniture collection, paintings by, amongst others, Thomas Luny (1759–1837) and the Charles Paget Wade costume collection from Snowshill which can be viewed by appointment. The 'below stairs' areas and servants' quarters which are open to the public include a Victorian laundry and Georgian dairy. Berrington has been in the care of the National Trust since 1957 and is, along with its gardens, open to the public.
Berrington features Capability Brown's last landscape design [1]. A notable feature is the ha-ha wall which was subject of extensive renovation in the late 20th century by local craftsmen. Berrington Pool, a lake and island, is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
If your camera has the capability, I hope you'll consider shooting in the RAW format if you have not already done so.
Scenes like this one are so hard to expose properly because of the colors and the nuances of light and shadow at dusk. I ended up shooting this in RAW format, which then gave me a lot of room when I went to "develop" the image with Photoshop Lightroom.
I was hesitant to use the RAW format initially, but the more I've experimented with it, the more I recommend it to others......
Ickworth House, Horringer, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
The House was built between the years of 1795 and 1829 to the designs of the Italian Architect Mario Asprucci, his most noted work being the Villa Borghese. It was this work that Frederick Hervey, the then 4th Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry had seen.
Asprucci’s plans were then taken up by the brothers Francis & Joseph Sandys, English architects.
The Parkland, of which there is 1,800 acres in total, was designed by Capability Brown and was Italianate in style. This style much loved by the 4th Earl.
Most of the friezes running around the rotunda were based upon John Flaxman’s illustrations of The Iliad and The Odyssey although, within the entrance portico there are some panels designed by Lady Caroline, the Earl’s Granddaughter and are based upon the Roman Olympic Games.
There are many works of art inside the house and very much well worth the visit.
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# Redheads - Creating Capability, celebrating the 300th anniversary of the birth of Berrington Hall's landscape designer, Capability Brown.
A display of manikins throughout the grand house all dressed in paper clothing with different hair designs made from paper too. This chap is part of a group of three and looking at the designs for the garden with Capability,. The costumes reflect the fashions of Capability Brown's era and focus on the people who helped build and shape Berrington Hall. Berrington Hall in Shropshire is part of the National Trust.
The "Grand Bridge" at Blenheim Palace, Oxford. Designed by Sir John Vanbrugh and partially flooded by Capability Brown to create the Queen's Pool and the Great Lake.
Broadway Tower is a folly on Broadway Hill, near the large village of Broadway, in the English county of Worcestershire, at the second-highest point of the Cotswolds (after Cleeve Hill). Broadway Tower's base is 1,024 feet (312 metres) above sea level. The tower itself stands 65 feet (20 metres) high.
The "Saxon" tower was the brainchild of Capability Brown and designed by James Wyatt in 1794 in the form of a castle, and built for Lady Coventry in 1798–99.
As a change from macro shots I took out the wide angle lens! This view of Vanbrugh's Grand Bridge across the 'King Pool' of the lake that 'Capability Brown' created at Blenheim is a view that captures something of the effect of Capability Brown's vision. You come to this view as you climb a hill around a shoulder of land, so the Bridge comes into view within about 3 paces. The effect is stunning, as you can see if you sit there and watch the reactions of people! I like the framing that Brown achieved with his tree plantings too. We had really good light on many days in February which I think is captured in this image.
A very cool visitor in Ramstein AFB, Germany, was this NATO-owned C-17 Globemaster!
I now have 2 out of 3 planes in the fleet, based in Pàpa, Hungary! The sun pierced through the sky at the right time!!
The gateweay to Roche Abbey (by Maltby Beck), a ruined Cisterian monastery situated near Maltby, in South Yorkshire. The abbey is at the Northern edge of what was once Sherwood forest, and Robin Hood is said to have taken mass there regularly.
Like most other abbeys, it was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1538, following which the local community despoiled it for timber, stone and lead, as well as the property within. The remains were left to fall to ruin, and the land came into the hands of the Earl of Scarborouh, who emplyed the famous landscape gardener Capability Brown who buried much of it under turf in the late 1700s. There it remained for two centuries until excavated in the 1920s, and is now cared for by English Heritage.
Taken on a walk with the NTU Chaplaincy, using a Pentax Optio S.
More of my photos can be found here..