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Late night shooting. I like shooting empty streets. The clock tower in Crouch End was unusually quiet as I was driving home one night. I couldn't resist capturing the moment.
Front of the town clock
The idea of a clock for the British Army and Royal Navy garrison at Halifax is credited to Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, who arranged for a turret clock to be manufactured before his return to England in 1800. It is said that Prince Edward, then commander-in-chief of all military forces in British North America, wished to resolve the tardiness of the local garrison. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Town_Clock
The Belfry of Bruges is a medieval bell tower located on the square Markt (market square). One of the city's most prominent symbols, the belfry formerly housed a treasury and the municipal archives and served as an observation post for spotting fires and other dangers.
After finishing it`s work for the day, this Claas Lexion 780 'Terra trac' Combine Harvester follows it`s tracks back home through this wheat field at Milton Malsor, Northamptonshire. It roat attachments have been removed, and are being taken back on a special trailer which is towed, in this case, by a tractor.
2nd August 2019.
A table cuckoo clock built in the course of 24 hours as a contender for an exhibition.
It will be displayed among three other fan-built clocks in the LEGO House celebrating the 60th birthday of the LEGO brick.
One of the requirements was that the dials point to 1.58 which is the exact time the patent for the LEGO interlocking brick was registered 60 years ago.
Looking along the northern entrance tile work of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral to the steeple of the Lutheran Cathedral of St. Mary the Virgin. This is in the upper old city of Tallinn Estonia.
Built in 1501 at the centre of the old Roman city of Chichester where the two main streets North/South and East/West cross
Living room clock using the Droste mathmap code in Gimp.
Thank you all who have shown interest in this image. So far it has been used on an Alzheimers Support web site, a personal scrapbook page and now will be used for a software logo. I will post a link to the software site once I have it.
This is an old New Haven clock. Not sure when it was made. The case has fell apart.
The brass mechanism needs cleaned, but it still works. I wanted to restore but it may be beyond my skills.
A bit of a cliche to take a shot of the Astronomical Clock in Prague but I couldn't help myself.
The oldest part of the Orloj, the mechanical clock and astronomical dial, dates back to 1410 when it was made by clockmaker Mikuláš of Kadaň and Jan Šindel, the latter a professor of mathematics and astronomy at Charles University. The first recorded mention of the clock was on 9 October 1410. Later, presumably around 1490, the calendar dial was added and clock facade was decorated with gothic sculptures.
Formerly, it was believed that the Orloj was constructed in 1490 by clockmaster Jan Růže (also called Hanuš); this is now known to be a historical mistake. A legend, recounted by Alois Jirásek, has it that the clockmaker Hanuš was blinded on the order of the Prague Councillors so that he could not repeat his work; in turn, he broke down the clock, and no one was able to repair it for the next hundred years.
In 1552 it was repaired by Jan Taborský (ca1500–1572), master clockmaker of Klokotská Hora, who also wrote a report of the clock where he mentioned Hanuš as maker of this clock. This mistake, corrected by Zdeněk Horský, was due to an incorrect interpretation of records from the period. The mistaken assumption of Hanuš authorship is probably connected with his reconstruction of the Old Town Hall in years 1470-1473. The clock stopped working many times in the centuries after 1552, and was repaired many times.
In 1629 or 1659 wooden statues were added, and figures of the Apostles were added after major repair in 1787-1791. During the next major repair in years 1865-1866 the golden figure of a crowing rooster was added.
The Orloj suffered heavy damage on May 7 and especially May 8, 1945, during the Prague Uprising, when Germans set fire from several armoured vehicles and an anti-aircraft gun to the south-west side of the Old Town Square in an effort to silence the provocative broadcasting initiated by the National Committee on May 5. The hall and nearby buildings burned along with the wooden sculptures on the Orloj and the calendar dial face made by Josef Mánes. After significant effort, the machinery was repaired, the wooden Apostles restored by Vojtěch Sucharda, and the Orloj started working again in 1948.
The Orloj was last renovated in autumn 2005, when the statues and the lower ring were restored by Josef Manes. Wooden statues were covered with a net to keep pigeons away.
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3d Fractal (Mandelbulb 3d Mac) with fractal flames as the ignitor bits on the left.
Concrete floor texture added post render
Los Angeles International Airport, California, USA
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