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St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church has the dubious distinction of being situated on a site which was once a brothel and a music hall owned by one of Casanova's mistresses. It was initially a spiritual home for the Irish community in London, having been one of the first Catholic buildings established in Britain after the Protestant Reformation, but today also functions as the centre of the parish's volunteer work with the poor, sick and homeless in Soho, as well as delivering services in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Cantonese. It's also a stunning example of Italianate architecture in London, but somehow its multifaceted history -- and the fact that it's so peaceful despite being only minutes from Leicester Square, Piccadilly Circus and Covent Garden -- made it even more fascinating to photograph.
This was my second visit to the location in the past few years and the second time I've captured the church from the entrance to its arcaded nave. I visited on a clear day when the sun was high to ensure as much as light as possible would be flooding through the windows, lighting up the barrel-vaulted ceiling and amplifying the colour along the church's gilded apse. While the church looks magnificent in any light conditions, my aim was to bring out the location's bright, clean and airy ambience, with warm light illuminating the central aisle and the pews reflecting in the Renaissance-style marble floor.
The image was very straightforward to shoot and edit, comprising a combination of several exposures blended with luminosity masks, allowing me to control the intensity of the sunlight pouring through the windows at the same time as providing the best possible finish in the shadows. I made very few changes to the colour balance but tried to bring out the vibrance of the warm light while emphasising the muted blue-ish tones along the marble floor, as well as isolating and slightly desaturating the foreground to help guide the eye towards the centre of the image.
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Cape Otway Lighthouse.
Cape Otway Lighthouse is unique in that it is the oldest surviving lighthouse on the Australian mainland and it has the distinction of being the second lighthouse to be built on the mainland in 1848.
Known as the ‘Beacon of Hope’ the lighthouse in located 90 metres above sea level and for many thousands of immigrants of the 19th century Cape Otway represented their first land sighting following their departure from Europe, Asia and North America.
Tragically the need for a lighthouse came about as a result of the massive loss of life that occurred on what is known as the shipwreck coast so named due to the ruggedness of the coastline.
A feature at the lighthouse is the 1859 historic telegraph station which tells the story of the early communication systems that were once used.
Coupled with the lighthouse are the remains of a very dark secret installation that was built and was in service during World War 2 which consisted of a radar station which was built in 1942 by the Royal Australian Air Force.
Its role was the detection and interception of the enemy and those who worked in this secret facility were the “Eyes of the Fighter Sector”.
Cape Otway Lighthouse.
Great Ocean Road.
Victoria, Australia.
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Fabulous to see an old corner shop sign in this good condition, which is now a barbers shop.
I wish I could step back in time to see the shop in it's grand splendour. Corner of Herbert road & Eglington road, Plumstead, South East London.
added a bit of my own "fuzzy" intelligence 😛
Do you feel "betrayed" when (if) you found out a photo was an Artificial "photo"... are we getting used to being "lied" too..
I for one think we are blurring the future. Can we trust what we see? Do you accept this "new" way of looking at things?
Things are likely to become yet more complex as use of artificial intelligence by artists becomes more widespread, and as the machines get better at producing creative works, further blurring the distinction between artwork that is made by a human and that made by a computer.
here a quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”
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Through all my years studying and photographing snowflakes, I have never seen one like this. It might be one of the only documented occurrences of a “Skeletal Form Dendrite” snowflake, at least to the intensity of these growth characteristics. If you’re curious about this volumetric crystal, read on!
“Skeletal Form” snowflakes on their own are oddities. If the central ridges down the “spine” of a branch grow exceedingly tall, the top level can switch from vertical growth to horizontal – much the same way plates can grow out of the ends of a column-type crystal. This doesn’t happen often, and when it does, it’s usually shaped like the top of an anvil – a little overhanging from the base, but not very far. When this top-level growth is allowed to continue, it can fuse together to form a new top plate – this is a “skeletal form” snowflake, which is almost always a smaller hexagon-shaped crystal.
While the same feature has been seen on branches before, I have never documented it as prolifically as it is seen here. The broad ends of every branch exhibit this type of growth from raised ridges, so much so that it is hard to determine where certain features begin and others end. The resulting complex texture is mesmerizing.
Of course, we’re not without a beautiful center – the dark snowflake-like shape in the center is solid ice, surrounded by a bubble that offers up faint thin film interference colours. Two adorning crystals snow signs of permanent attachment, easier seen on the larger right hexagon. Notice how the edges closer to the open air have begun to grow further out? There is also an inward ripple of growth thickening the plate emanating from the same direction – clues that this was fixed in place while the snowflake(s) were still forming.
This was nearly a record breaker, with 83 separate frames for focus stacking. I also tried something a bit different, exploring the “Enhance Details” image processing option in Lightroom. I’m not certain it made an appreciable difference in the end results, maybe 5% improvement in overall image quality but nearly twice the amount of processing time and effort to convert the selected RAW files to the appropriately enhanced DNG files. Not something I’ll use for the average snowflake, but for special cases (like this) I might work this into my editing process.
Shot with a Lumix S1R and the Canon MP-E 65mm F/2.8 1x-5x macro lens in mid-February, this snowflake was a surprise to discover. If there’s a reason why I continue to photograph snowflakes during every viable snowfall, this image is it. And there will be more curious crystals to come, I’m sure.
If you’d like to know how to capture images like this, including the entire post-processing workflow, it’s detailed exhaustively in my upcoming book: skycrystals.ca/product/pre-order-macro-photography-the-un... (as soon as I get this image posted, I’m heading to my studio to do one final review of the complete press checks before signing off on the approval to be printed – exciting times!)
Day 23 of 365
We feel the borders, but avoid to acknowledge them. Every day they run invisibly across districts and streets. Stratified into culture they organize the city and categorize people. It's a way we dress our self, what we eat and what kind of literature we appreciate. What kind of taste we have, who we know and to whom we answer. How we speak and look to each other. How we touch and are being touched by others. It's how we exist and who we are.
Once you learn to observe and evaluate the world in terms of these boundaries you can never see it same way again. You will leave the valley of childhood and step into world of class hierarchies and social order. Like everyone else, you will subjugate to an act of distinction and take part in a social struggle, in which people protect their achieved positions, separate themselves from others and try to find new ways to climb higher. It is, in its essence, an everyday symbolic violence: mostly unconscious but always visible acts of social domination, which we are all forced to engage to maintain social hierarchies and order. It is a frightening sight behind what we consider 'normal', but with time you adjust to it and together with borders it becomes invisible again - you feel the borders, but avoid to acknowledge them.
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I love the distinct rosy red color in this abstract. I started to feel the shape as a form of a modern chair shape with an umbrella. I think I need some beach time.
I do like a bit of a sculpture here and there, for me this is one of the best ones I have come across. I have no interest in the reason behind it being commissioned, I have my own interpretation of the meaning behind it, and that is the thing with art, every piece of art, every single exhibit will be perceived by the viewer in a different way.
Just one shadow partly dissolving and steadily scattering through the doorway. Light makes so much of our world and it sculpts our picture. Still we need shadow for depth and distinction to stand out and to see, even if momentarily, where the light has not reached.
Much less visited than Rosslyn Chapel on the opposite Western Bank of The North Esk river you will find The Wallace Cave. There are several Wallace Caves in Scotland. There is only one Wallace Cave in Roslin Glen. There are also caves under Hawthornden Castle. If you are going to Rosslyn Chapel I hope that you have a great visit and if you have a chance do walk in the Roslin Glen. The Castle and the Chapel retain the older name of Rosslyn and the contemporary village has the newer name of Roslin.
In the pictures uploaded to Flickr immediately before these two those two both the Focused and Focusless Fabulous Fungi a Miraculous Magical Mushroom were a joint effort. I managed in Manual Focus to capture an impressionistic rendering and a photographic view of the same rather large mushroom. My lighting expert is not on Flickr so I cannot link them locally and I do not have permission to link them further afield. He is a great companion to share a historically important cave with. Our focus on photography led us to moths and small gnats and large spiders with varying fungi and moss and lichen. The clean air just 8 miles from Edinburgh enables some fantastic growths that increase in quantity and size as you move further away from the city into more vibrant landscapes that support such greater growth. The size and vitality of the Mushroom was so unexpected that I have labelled it fabulous, miraculous and magical as it certainly appeared that way being the only such branching out extended growth from the rock face with roots nestled in a shallow crack.
The cave shows many pick marks from it having being extended and masoned sections where door and fittings have been fitted and broken away. The valley side opposite Rosslyn Chapel and Castle has a path way and viewing platforms cut into the cliff sides. The cave itself is not too large and the Mushroom as focus of attention and camera here looks quite unlikely to be natural and also at the same time possible so. It does appear like something brought in affixed and maybe even tended. There is a bed of rushes in the cave, changed annually and often dressed into the form of a sleeping figure. This Both Focused and Focusless Fabulous Fungi a Miraculous Magical Mushroom that proudly proclaims itself present and potent whilst discreetly declining any casual further investigation beyond speculation such as I have delivered here.
There is a legend of a Black Hen, don’t say Pullet, that is noted as confusing treasure seekers and grail hunters by digging holes to false terrain the site and to fill in half dug holes for when seekers return to complete their excavations and further still through special skill to carefully indicate the better and best grounds to explore through careful talon and beak soil manipulation. There are further tails of either this Black Hen, or of another such similar still don’t say Pullet, Black Hen, maybe there is just the one, or possibly there are a pair of magical soil shrouders at work? The other hen story relates to a treasure hidden under a stair. The exact stair can be correctly deduced in a manner not fully revealed within the story. Any stair testing and excavating can and will lead to the Black Hen II, this time the truth will not out*, moving the treasure when the excavators are in the right area and also the hen will bamboozle the grail hunters with special Holy Hen Acts that will confuse, strain, enrage and bring chaos to order and the ‘BH II’ wonder guard will clear up after the said chaos and restore all to proper order til the right, maybe even righteous, approach of the mythic legendary treasure grail hunter seekers who are destined to step on the right step at the right time in the right manner possibly with the left foot.
Please only read good humour and faithful following in my words above. I have followed signs to Rosslyn Chapel and parked when there were just a few spaces next to the old barn and byre. I have wandered in the beauty of the landscape and listened to the stories and here share some quickly to say that this is a place of beauty and of mystery, both of folly and of faith with a river bend bringing out rock inscribed from thousands of years ago to natural and extended caves, with castles and chapels, formerly and currently hosting services and battles til a part of the past seems to have been deeply woven here such that we choose to look at it again and again making pilgrimage and enacting rampage all engaged through marvellous mysteries and eldritch histories far beyond our fascination and into our fine fashioned fulgent fabricated fantasies.**
*Black Hen I also assured that the truth would not out, Black Hen II is not a fully fledged sequel as of course it could be one Hen, not a Pullet, successfully stealth working both grounds and stairs.
**Please do not test the Hen, or Hens, not Pullets, as you could be destroying a beautiful and historial protected place that is best left none Hen tested and none destroyed. Age, atmosphere and our antecedents have done more than enough destruction and also they had with them those that fought to give enough preservation and conservation too.
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A Cave In Spain Contains the Earliest Known Depictions of Mushrooms by Brian Akers
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Welcome to Rosslyn Chapel
Hawthornden Castle
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthornden_Castle
Alexander Nasmyth - Hawthornden Castle, near Edinburgh - Google Art Project
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Hawthornden Foundation Hawthornden Castle
www.hawthornden.org/hawthornden-castle
Hawthornden Foundation
Wallace's Cave, cave and rock carvings SM6825
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ROSLIN GLEN AND HAWTHORNDEN CASTLE GDL00327
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Roslin Glen
Rosslyn Chapel Trust is responsible for the conservation and care of part of the picturesque landscape known as Roslin Glen, which is adjacent to Rosslyn Castle and Rosslyn Chapel.
www.rosslynchapel.com/about/roslin-glen/
Roslin Glen Country Park
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Roslin Glen Country Park
www.rosslynchapel.com/about/roslin-glen/
Wallace's Cave, cave and rock carvings
canmore.org.uk/site/51808/wallaces-cave
Archaeology Notes
Roslin Glen And Hawthornden Castle
Date of Inclusion: 31/03/2001
1:20,000Map Scale:
Council: Midlothian
Designation Reference: GDL00327
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ROSLIN GLEN AND HAWTHORNDEN CASTLE
GDL00327
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Gorton House Rock Carving(S) (Post Medieval)(Possible)
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Saltburn Pier holds the curious distinction of being both the first pleasure pier to open and the last to survive on the North East coastline. The original structure was commissioned in 1867 and opened to the general public in 1869.
The Saltburn Cliff Lift is a funicular railway in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire, England. It provides access to Saltburn Pier and the seafront from the town. The cliff lift is the oldest operating water-balance cliff funicular in the United Kingdom.
The Lift, constructed between 1883 and 1884, replaced an 1870 vertical cliff hoist. It has a height of 120 feet and a track length of 207 feet, resulting in a 71 per cent incline. A pair of 12-person cars, each fitted with a 240-imperial-gallon water tank, run on parallel tracks; by removing or adding the water to their tanks, movement is achieved, regulated by a brakeman at the top.
The original cars have been replaced with aluminium counterparts and the top station restored, but little of the underlying mechanism has been changed since it was installed. Owned since the Second World War by the unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland and its predecessors, the lift remains in regular use between March and October each year. It is one of Saltburn's most popular tourist attractions.Reportedly, the service was being used by an estimated 150,000 passengers per year by the twenty-first century.
Y'know, even the flashiest of '55 Fords looks a bit, shall we say, pedestrian compared to a pink 1959 Cadillac. But this was a juxtaposition just too delicious to pass up!
This large beauty has the distinction of being one of 3 of the first Zeiss labeled Box Tengor cameras ever released. At over 95 years old, it still performs perfectly. Bet you won't!
Zeiss Ikon Box Tengor 760
Vertical viewfinders
116 6.5x11cm Box Camera
Goerz-Frontar Achromat 130mm
2-element uncoated lens
Fixed-focus, Selectable pull-tab aperture f11, 18, 25
T, 1/25 sec. Instantaneous Rotary shutter
Made in Germany (1927-29)
Without Bulb, Cable release, or Tripod socket
Lever trips shutter in each direction
Sometimes we lose context in our critiques and judge these vintage cameras like they are new models on the shelf. It shouldn’t matter now what the comparisons were between them 50 to 100 years ago, or how they may compare to cameras made today. Now they are all beautiful collector items and an important part of history!