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Built in 1877 in the "Second Empire" style, the Chippewa County Courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. This architectural style, with a mansard roof and square-based tower was common in the 1800s.
John Scott, the architect, designed this building, giving it two-foot thick stones walls, and a tower that is fronted by a statue of "Justice".
Seen at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.
The classic location of Plawsworth between Chester le street and Durham witnesses the passing of 60092 and the Jarrow to Lindsey tanks of Friday the 29th of April 2022.
Golden Gate Bridge from the Marin Headlands - Marin County, California
This morning I had planned on uploading something completely different, but when I saw the foggy conditions over the bay, I decided to head out to the same old spots along the Marin Headlands. As I have said before, I will never get sick of this view. It will never get old to me, and it will never be the same view twice. Sure... Some elements stay the same. The bridge will always be where it is. The places to stand and watch the fog roll in or out will stay the same, but the light, and fog will always change.
This morning the fog was a bit unusual. When I arrived up at the first turnout along the headlands, the fog was flowing east to west just underneath the center section of the bridge. The fog started to surround the north tower, which normally starts to clear as the air warms with the rising sun. Within minutes, the south tower started to become engulfed in the misty haze. The odd thing for me to see was the fog building inside the bay rather than rolling in from the Pacific. I know this has happened before, I have just never seen it in person.
So this is not exactly what I had planned for the day, but its a special view to me, and always will be.
Thanks for the views, comments, nice notes, bad notes, criticism, or whatever else you all can come up with....
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Canon 5D MarkII
Lens: EF 70-200 f/4 L
No filters
Exposure: 200
Aperture: f/13.0
Focal Length: 149 mm
ISO Speed: 50
County Hall, Winchester
The County Hall in Winchester is situated at Castle Avenue, directly opposite the Great Hall. Completed in 1895, by James Robinson and Sir Arthur Blomfield. Elizabethan
style. Flint and Bath stone with tiled roofs. The building is Grade II listed.
Shot 60/100 x (square format)
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“This broken country extends back from the river for many miles and has been called always be Indian, French voyager and American trappers alike, the Bad Lands.” -Theodore Roosevelt on the North Dakota badlands.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park is split in two – the Southern Unit is directly accessible by the main highway (I-94), but the Northern Unit has to be accessed by an hour long drive along route 85. Restless and curious about the North Unit, we drove along 85 (passing those sunflower fields you’ve seen on earlier posts) in the mid-afternoon. Though the American recovery act had snarled the roads, we were richly rewarded with a park to ourselves. As the light grew long and the golden rays of sunset hit the Little Missouri, we had peanut butter sandwiches and I snapped this photograph of a tree clinging to the edge of the bad lands.
An old barn in rural Cooper county Missouri, on 87 highway between Interstate 70 and California Mo. I have passed by this old barn many times while traveling to and from Columbia but could never get a shot of it because the farmer keeps the gate locked, or I was in to much of a hurry to stop. When I drove by a few days ago, I was finally able to stop and take some shots of it. Wonder what he'd think if he happened upon this photo on flickr? : ) Hope you all are having a great week! View large for more details!
Pickens County (GA) Sheriff winning first place for best CVPI in PFM contest along with Shorewood(IL) PD (©2010 Hendon Publishing)
scanned copy for a better reference pic of the PSO i have in my photo stream that I have taken.
Out with the Photo Marauders, Enchanted Lens Camera Club… the historic south east side of the Manzano Mountains in Torrance County…
The three Salinas Pueblo ruins inspire awe, wonder and trigger reflection on the regional history and culture... This imposing sandstone and adobe Catholic Church (45 ft. (13.7 m) tall) at the Quarai Pueblo site was completed in 1629 and first abandoned in 1677. The history of this structure and the early Spanish presence and Native American Pueblos and people in this region in New Mexico is fascinating and worth study before you go.
Yeager Rock is alway worth a drive by. And if you hit it on a pretty dead day, you can stand in the middle of the road without the worry of being runover.
This rock was left behind by the Okanogan Lobe of the Cordilleran Glacier, which receeded maybe 20,000ish years ago.
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'And Fallen'
Camera: Mamiya m645j (1980)
Lens: Mamiya-Sekor C 2.8/45mm
Film: Ilford FP4+
Process: Rodinal; 1+50; 15mins
Douglas County, Washington
August 2019
Building Completion Date: 1897
County Seat: Giddings
Present Status: Existing. Active.
Architect: James Riely Gordon
Architectural Style: Romanesque Revival
General Contractor: Sonnefield, Emmins, & Albright, San Antonio
Building Materials/Description: Brick and stone. $32,270
National Register Narrative
The Lee County Courthouse in Giddings, Texas, stands on a public block that, unlike most squares in towns throughout the state, is surrounded by residential rather than commercial buildings. Designed by J. Riely Gordon in 1898 and built by Sonnefield, Emmins and Abright of San Antonio, the three-story red brick courthouse is located on the crest of the high divide that separates the Colorado and Brazos river basins. The building displays a combination of a variety of structural masses and is an imposing site in the predominantly residential area. Similar in design to many of Gordon’s Texas courthouses, the Lee County Courthouse employs the Richardsonian Romanesque style. Cruciform in plan, the structure contains two story quarter-circular entrance galleries set into the front ells (northeast and northwest ells), while the rear ells (southeast and southwest) contain two three-story quarter- circular bays with open arcades on the first :Level and enclosed floors on the second and third levels. A brick parapet with punched brick detail crowns each bay. Each arm of the Greek cross is covered by a hipped roof. From three of the wings large, gabled wall dormers project, while a chimney rises from the rear (south) arm. Two additional dormers are set within the northeast and northwest ells above the two-story quarter-circular galleries. The three-story quarter-circular bays are crowned by cross hipped roofs. Rising from the center of the mass is a tall, square, brick clock tower with tall arcaded openings and a clock. The tower ends abruptly, however, for it lacks the pyramidal roof that Gordon typically employed.
Western Fresno County
The San Joaquin Valley, and particularly the counties of Merced, Madera, Fresno, Tulare, Kern, and Kings, are extremely conservative politically and largely agricultural. All are located in an arid area receiving less than 13 inches of rain a year. For many years, they have grown their crops by sucking up water from the underground aquifer. Needless to say that is not a infinite resource, however they treat it as such. Ground is actually sinking (subsidence) because of this. These agricultural interests have advocated damning up all the rivers to reserve water from the spring snowmelt in the Sierras. In many instances they have succeeded in these efforts. The salmon runs are all gone because of this, and the rivers are dry in parts of the year. Of course the farmers expect the taxpayer to bear the burden of the huge expense of building dams so they can make more money. You see, they're really socialists. lol
These people do not give a damn (pun intended) about the environment. They would dam their mothers' birth canals if it would benefit them financially.
So, anyway--where was I?-- these signs in one form or another can be found on every highway and byway around the Central San Joaquin Valley. I find them amusing because of the way they can be changed to alter the meanings. How about, "Damn, water grows food." Or, "Damn water grows food."
Oh, it's all fun and games, and meanwhile the planet is dying.
phys.org/news/2019-03-western-droughts-permanent-loss-maj...
I have one or two rolls of Ultrafine 100 left. None of the 400 (easily my favorite of the two). Until production starts back up on it, I'm shooting Foma 100 and Foma Retro 320. They're not anything close to equivelents, but they do well enough.
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'Attention Span'
Camera: Mamiya RB67 (1974)
Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 3.8/90mm
Film: Ultrafine Extreme 100
Process: Rodinal; 1+50; 13min
Lincoln County, Washington
October 2019
Built in 1941 in the Art Deco style, the Outagamie County Courthouse faces west and is a four story buff colored limestone clad structure. The building is located on landscaped grounds in the center of the city. The windows are vertical and narrow. The west center section projects from the main building and has four vertical dividers. The exterior stone is buff limestone. The roof line is flat.