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we lose a lot of giant trees in windstorms every winter here on Vancouver Island....making for some interesting challenges when photographing. I used to avoid the busy composition but have begun to embrace the scene in front of me just as it is, fallen trees and all.
This is a store I visited daily as a child. It has gone through many mutations from the place I bought candy as a child to a place that i went to buy inexpensive items for my first home. Great memories and heartbreaking to see that it is no longer inhabited by the same love and kindness that it once knew.
Back in town, I have been keeping my eye on this property while it was mostly cluttered. Recently, Town development is across Nelson Road extending west, well past Airport Road. large equipment has been clearing the lots next door so it was time to grab something. I parked on the street and walked past the construction and across the road. I will keep checking as long as it remains untouched. NFL: Not For Long; it seems mankind wants to turn all the best food growing land into ticky-tacky. More food will be coming from livestock mills and processors.
I knew that I needed to tackle this with my layered RAW process so that I could resolve all the deep detail and retain the sky. I had to resort to two extra layers and I still made a quick sky mask.
A-Basin got a load more snow recently. There was enough snow to reopen Aspen for Memorial Day for final fling festivities. Almost all ski areas are on federal forest land and therefore, federal not Colorado's drug laws apply to marijuana smoking. Marijuana is not very new but potency, smoking clubs and vending machines ARE. They are trying to updated growers' banking rules and, as always, federal laws are heavy lifting... especially in an era without a working congress that just started the 9th Ben Gazzi probe. I kind of wish they'd investigate all the recent embassy death incidents- 1 under Obama and 13 under Boy George's rule. I guess that his multi-trillion dollar wars were more important than ANY increase in funding the VA. Apparently he left the cradle of civilization a disaster and glowing with spent uranium of birth defects. Now, our Colorado housing, especially smoking housing, is at a premium however. Please... don't move here! We are over loaded w/ pot-heads for the dope and hops-heads for the record numbers of brews and micro-breweries.
Well....I think I bit off more than I can chew today LOL. I realized I had a bunch of painted eggs that were partially finished so I hauled them out onto my work table. Then I remembered that I had not yet done anything with all of the copper pieces I made so...I pulled all of that out to photograph while the paint on the eggs dried. I am also working on a tutorial on how to make polymer clay pendants using glass gems and cabochons so that is all of the clutter you see above. Sheesh!
Awaiting a path in a cluttered Caulfield yard are XR559 & BL29 having just arrived on the Long Island steel from Hastings.
Due to the track congestion of peak hour this train will usually wait for up to an hour before getting the go ahead through to Dynon yard.
Monday 27th November 2017.
The view from the platforms at Harrison is very cluttered with electrical equipment for both the Northeast Corridor (Amtrak and NJT) and the PATH line that runs adjacent to it. Here a dual-mode ALP45DP running in diesel mode peeks between the equipment cabinets.
I saw this small, lone meerkat chewing on a carrot whilst at the zoo.
It was quite difficult to take nice photos there that day because it was so busy - there were people everywhere and getting a shot without their bright, colourful clothing cluttering up the background was almost impossible! I liked this though because the animal is on its own against the sandy backdrop of its enclosure.
One of the real pleasures of Flickr is finding out so much more about the areas you thought you knew.
I have been to Wymondham a few times, delivered beer to a hotel (more of that another time) and a friend used to run the Railway Inn near the station, but I hadn't really explored the town.
But having seen a friend's shots, I really thought I should go back and look at it anew. And then there was this building, the Abbey Church with two towers, ruins and all the associated history.
Whatever you think of the works inside, it is as a complete building, something to leave me, at least, in awe at the beauty. Of course, it might not please everyone, but it does me.
Many thanks to Sarah and Richard for taking me here.
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This massive church and its famous twin towers will be familiar to anyone who has ever been within five miles of Wymondham, pronounced Win-d'm; its presence always there above the roof tops, and still there on the horizon when the rooftops can no longer be seen. Closer to, it is like a mighty city on a hill. It is often referred to as Wymondham Abbey, which isn't entirely correct; but there was an Abbey here, and you can see a scattering of remains in the fields between the church and the river, gradually reduced over the centuries as the stone and rubble were taken away for use elsewhere.
We came to Wymondham on a day that was breathtakingly cold; although the temperature was hovering around freezing, there was a biting east wind that made it feel colder still. Hence, the clarity of the light in the photographs above. The top photograph, taken from the south on the far bank of the river, is worth a second glance, because it provides a number of clues as to how this extraordinary and magnificent building came to be the way it is today.
In the beginning, there was a Benedictine Priory, an offshoot of the Abbey of St Albans. It was founded here because, after the Conquest, William I granted the lands of Wymondham to the Duc d'Albini, and the Duke's brother was Abbot of St Albans. Part of the project consisted of building a massive Priory church, much bigger than the one you see today. In style, it was like the Abbey church of Bury St Edmund, or Ely Cathedral. It was a cruciform church about 70 metres long, and had twin west towers - you can see something similar today at Kings Lynn St Margaret. As at St Margaret, there was a third tower above the central crossing, the chancel extending a long way eastwards, and transepts that were as tall as the nave roof. It was completed during the 12th century.
You can see a surviving trace of the south-west tower in the photograph above. The base of its northern wall rises above the roofline at the western end of the clerestory, just beside the current west tower. The central crossing tower, however, was built to the east of the current east tower, the chancel extending eastwards beyond it.
D'Albini intended the church to serve the parish as well as the Priory, but this was not managed without recourse to the advice of Pope Innocent IV, who granted the people use of the nave and the north aisle, the Priory retaining the south aisle, transepts and chancel.
However, when the central crossing tower became unsafe in the late 14th century and had to be taken down, the Priory rebuilt it to the west of the crossing, actually within the nave. This is the east tower that you see today, now a shell. In turn, the parish extended the church further west, demolishing the two west towers and replacing them with the massive structure you see today. It really is huge; although it is not as tall as the church tower at Cromer, its solidity lends it a vastness not sensed there.
When the new east tower was built, the western face of it cut off the nave from the chancel, creating two separate spaces. When the west tower was built, it blocked off the former west window between the old towers. Because of this, Wymondham is the only medieval parish church in Norfolk, and one of the few in England, that has no window at either end.
Wymondham Priory became an Abbey in 1448, and seems to have lived its final century peaceably enough before being closed and asset-stripped by Henry VIII in the 1530s. The church then became solely the charge of the parish; the eastern parts, apart from the tower, were demolished.
Still without parapet or panelling, the west tower was never finished; but it features in the turbulent history of mid 16th century England because William Kett, one of the leaders of Kett's Rebellion, was hung from the top of it by Edward VI's thought police, a reminder of just how closely church and state became allied during the Reformation. It did give me pause for thought - hanging your enemy from a church tower seems such an obvious thing to do when you want to make a point. I wonder just how many more times it happened to less notable victims over the centuries, on church towers up and down the land?
You enter today through the great north porch, which is similar to that nearby at Hethersett, even to the extent of having an almost identical series of bosses. They depict rosary scenes in the life of Christ and the Blessed Virgin.
As I said, we came here on a spectacularly cold day, but I was delighted to discover that the interior of the church was heated, even on a Saturday. The church attracts a considerable number of visitors, as you might expect; but I still thought this was a nice gesture.
Wymondham church is above all else an architectural wonder; but in many ways this is a simple building, easy to explore and satisfying to visit. It has the feel of a small Anglican cathedral in that there is a pleasing mix of ancient Norman architecture and modern Anglican triumphalism; as in a cathedral, there are open spaces, and the old pews have been replaced with modern chairs, which almost always seems to work well. The glorious arcading, triforium and clerestory create a sense of great height; this, coupled with the lack of east or west windows, can make you feel rather boxed in, but I found I quite liked that; it made the place seem more intimate, despite its size.
The modern, triumphant feel to the place is largely owing to the vast reredos by Ninian Comper. This is generally considered to be his finest single work, and forms the parish war memorial. It was built and gilded during the 1920s and 1930s, and you have to say it is magnificent. It consists of three tiers of saints, with a glorious Christ in Majesty topping the tiers under the great tester. It was never completed; the space where the retable should be is now hidden by curtains.
The rood and beam, a bay to the west, is also Comper's work, and it is hard to conceive that work of this kind and to this scale will ever again be installed in an English church. The low sun, slanting through the south windows of the clerestory, picked out the gilding, and clever lighting from underneath helped to put Comper's vision of Heaven into practice. The row of candlesticks on the altar leaves you in no doubt in which wing of the Church of England Wymondham finds itself.
Comper's glory shouldn't distract you from the early 16th century facade above the sedilia. It is terracotta, and probably from the same workshop as the Bedingfield tombs at Oxborough. Here you see what might have happened to English church architecture if theReformation hadn't intervened. Looking west from the sanctuary, the original west window is clearly discernible, now home to the organ.
If Comper's work is a little rich for you, you may prefer the north aisle, which is wide enough to be a church in itself. Cleared of clutter, a few rows of chairs face a gorgeous early 20th century triptych depicting Mary and John at the foot of the cross. The Madonna and child towards the west is also Comper's, but the 1930s towering font cover on the typical East Anglian 15th century font is not; it is by Cecil Upcher. The south aisle is truncated, the eastern bays now curtained off; but here are the few medieval survivals in glass. From slightly later, but the other side of the Reformation divide, is an Elizabethan text on the arcade. It probably marks the point to which the pulpit was moved by the Anglicans in the 16th century.
St Mary and St Thomas of Canterbury is a church that it is easy to admire, and it certainly impressed me. Perhaps, it is not so easy a building to love. Inevitably, there is something rather urban in its grandeur, and even the warmth of the heating couldn't take the edge off the remoteness and anonymity you inevitably find in such a space.
However, the friendliness of the people on duty helped to make up for this. The area beneath the west tower has been converted into a shop, and the nice lady working there was very chatty and helpful. I have to say that I think it would concentrate my mind a bit, knowing that mighty weight was above me. The shop itself is good of its kind, selling books and religious items rather than just souvenirs, and more icons and rosaries than you would normally expect to find in an establishment of the Church of England.
The lady said that she was a Methodist really, and found the services rather formal, but she'd started coming to the Abbey because her daughter went there. "You ought to come, Mum, we're just like real Catholics!", she giggled, as she recalled her daughter's words. As a 'real Catholic' myself, I couldn't help thinking that we would have stripped out Comper's reredos long ago, and Masses would be accompanied by guitars and percussion, possibly with a modicum of clapping and the help of an overhead projector screen; but I kept my counsel.
Simon Knott, January 2006
A different view of the north end of Stourbridge Junction as 68008 leaves with the 09.20 Kidderminster to London Marylebone service on Good Friday.
As with lot of railways around the London area, Greenford is no different in having a very hemmed in feel of track & infrastructure. There are very few natural vantage points of the box or signals and the pole was used on most occasions to gain a bit of height.
Out of sight behind the undergrowth, the line on the far left with the semaphores still in situ runs from South Ruislip through to Old Oak Common and sees little traffic throughout the day. The LT lines are in the centre and on the far right, with the line from West Ealing being the one that the 165 is occupying.
The 1904 built Greenford East signal box can be seen in the middle and has the honour of having the last remaining lower quadrant semaphores in the London area.
GWR's 165119 is seen departing with 2G37 1437 Greenford to West Ealing on 13th March 2023.
The Chicago Heights return is leaving town after it picked up its tank car from ADM cross town.
CN has littered the diamonds with clutter from their massive upgrades to the J last year.
Griffith, IN
Jan 16, 2011
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This is not photoshopped except for getting rid of my desk clutter in the office of course.
A bit busy tonight, so here is an oldie. Nothing like a good panic after the votes are counted :-)
Diomedes bookstore, Montevideo Uruguay. And I actually found a book here, a very yellow 1955 paperback edition of Pablo Neruda poetry.
We had a few hours to kill before turning in the rental car so my wife let me sneak in some plane spotting time. Another reason to keep her. We headed for Clutters Park until it got too cold and windy. We tried to park at the Proud Bird but the parking lot was chained shut so we just parked on a nearby side street that had a number of plane spotters there. Good people! I took these photos near LAX in November 2020.
As I sit at my workstation, I am surrounded power cords, cables, storage devices, cameras, hubs, and a variety of other techno-clutter. This is just a taste of the chaos.
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