Clocks & Clocktowers
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The clocktower at Crouch End, the centre of our village.
Every hour on the hour I hear its chimes and if I'm awake at night I don't need to open my eyes and look at the led clock to know I should be asleep at that hour.
Time for another bit of drama.
This is the clocktower at Roath Park lake, Cardiff.
It's called the Scott Memorial, and was built in 1915.
3 exposures, 1 stop apart, merged and tonemapped.
I'm not usually a fan of overcooked HDR, but it just seemed to work for me.
See LARGE.
Wikipedia: The Tour du Leughenaer is an octagonal tower 30m high in Dunkirk. Erected around 1450, this tower is the oldest monument in the city. It was built by Jacques Desfontaines, surrounded in the 18th century by a port surveillance platform, then made higher in 1814 to install a lighthouse. It has retained a large part of its 19th century inner workings. In 1995 it became the equivalent of a listed building.
La Tour du Leughenaer est une tour octogonale de 30 mètres de haut à Dunkerque. Érigée vers 1450, cette tour est le monument le plus ancien de la ville. Elle a été édifiée par Jacques Desfontaines, entourée au xviiie siècle d'une plate-forme de surveillance du port, puis rehaussée en 1814 pour y installer une lanterne de phare. Elle a conservé une grande partie de ses dispositifs techniques du xixe siècle. La Tour est classée Monument historique en 1995.
Wikipedia: English Heritage has listed the building of 1961 at Grade II for its architectural and historical importance.
Sunset with the clocktower, the landmark of Graz my hometown. The minutes and hour hands of the clock are swapped so that the big hand shows the hours and the small hand the minutes.
Shot with a Lee big Stopper and a Lee 0,9 soft grad ND filter.
Well here is my final picture from my tour of Salford this is the clocktower of Saint Philips Church in Salford
....of the Sultan Abdul Samad colonial building that used to symbolize Kuala Lumpur before the Petronas Twin Towers were built.
Part of our Autumn castle collab, from Innovalug. I will post a link to all builds, once the article is out!
Hope you enjoy them!
Jaap
Another from a wet day walk. Not possible today as the sun is shining in a cloudless sky. Hope you have time for a comment.
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This is actually a clocktower in the middle of a lake - weird ey?
Original photo here
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Roath Park
Early morning at the Helsinki train station in Finland.
-Added to the Cream of the Crop pool as most favorited.
There are many locations where we all shoot in the knowledge that it is a place where hundreds if not thousands of photographers have shot before, it can be very enjoyable seeking a viewpoint that hasn't been used before in that location.
I guess if you want to find out what time it is, no better way than to walk outside on the 17th floor and look up at a giant clockface, right?
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H.G. Wells: Do you still insist that this is all poppycock?
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--"Time after Time" (1979)
The clocktower known as the Horloge des Hermes in L'Argentière-la-Bessée was completed in 1922 to allow local factory workers to accurately tell the time. It makes for a beautiful landmark against a mountainous backdrop of the Écrins National Park.
Designed by Thai artist Chalermchai Khositpipat and unveiled in 2008 in honour of His Majesty the King, Chiang Rai’s elaborate golden clocktower (Hoh Nalika Chalerm Prakiat) is a work of art and tourist attraction in its own right. Chalermchai was the man who built the White Temple in Chiang Rai and that same distinctive architectural style from Wat Rong Khun can be seen again with the clocktower. The structure serves as a traffic roundabout and whilst it is distinctive enough during the day, the clocktower and setting takes on a whole new quality when it is lit up in the evening.