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The Duke of Lancaster, North Wales
Olympus OM1 // Kodak 250D
Love how this has turned out. To me it is like an oil painting. The colour rendering is beautiful.
At 1:35 AM on the 30th of September 1888, Joseph Levy, Joseph Lawende, & Harry Harris were leaving the Jewish Imperial Club on Duke Street (which was off to the right further up the street) when they noticed a man standing with a woman at the entrance to Church Passage (probably about where the squared cover on the ground is). The woman had her back to the men.
Catherine Eddowes was found horribly mutilated in the south west corner of Mitre Square at 1:45 AM.
Lawende was shown some of Eddowes's clothes & thought they were the same as what the woman he saw was wearing. He doubted whether he would recognise this man again if he saw him.
Harris didn't pay particular attention to the couple, & Levy pointed the couple out & said ""Look there, I don't like going home by myself when I see those characters about."
To the right of Church Passage (where the black building stands), used to be the Duke Street Synagogue which was there at the time. Somewhere down the street (right of the frame), the Jewish Imperial Club where the three men came out of once stood, but I'm not sure where it exactly stood.
Nikon F4. AF Nikkor 14mm F2.8D lens. Lomochrome Purple XR 100-400 35mm C41 film.
The site for the chapel at Duke University was selected by James B. Duke on what is now the West Campus. The architect was Julian Abele, chief designer with the Horace Trumbauer firm, of Philadelphia. Abele was America’s first black architect of renown. Duke Chapel was built on the highest ridge on the property and was completed in 1935.
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A small, springtime butterfly that frequents scrubby grassland and sunny woodland clearings. One of the most rapidly declining butterflies in the UK.
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Special Holidays Photo
My Cousin Duke, the shepherd/malamute husky mix, is now back home with his Mom and Dad.
We had hoped to keep him a bit longer but the heat and humidity are tough on the old boy, and though we got in one last walk this morning, temps are hitting 40C with the humidex today, and only slightly cooler over the weekend.
So we thought a collage of our few days together would be a nice way to send him off, which was what we did earlier this year when he visited for a few days. All of these are from or near the Prescott-Russell Trail in Ottawa, ON.
The photo from this morning sees me showing Duke all I know about tractors. He was not impressed, as my lesson consisted entirely of where you can pee on it.
But still, I think I'm slowly gaining his confidence, and though we don't really play together, and probably never will because Duke is not a touchy-feely kind of dog except with humans that he likes, we can at least share space without the tension of the past, and he certainly doesn't mind me alongside him when we're on our walks.
And that's good enough for me.
Here's the collage from May 19:
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(No Saturday Morning Post for 7-23-16, as we've tried your patience enough this week with all the holiday photos. Thanks for the attention to Duke. We love him.)
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I took in Jordy, an Isul Duke, who was looking for a new home over on the Dolly Market Forum. He's gone back to being a blonde, redressed in some new clothes, and he's starting to feel more at home.
running without even a trace of exhaust standard pacific 71000 duke of gloucester catches the last light at beeston with a return north wales coast express--from a scanned slide 1990's
The altar at the Duke Chapel, located on the west campus at Duke University in North Carolina.
Unfortunately, tripods weren't allowed for interior photos of this chapel, so I had to boost the ISO to 3200, in order to get a shutter speed I could hand hold. Luckily, my D90 can handle that.
Looking towards St. James Passage (where the red building is), which leads into Mitre square. At 1:35 AM on the 30th of September 1888, Joseph Hyam Levy, Joseph Lawende & Harry Harris were leaving a Jewish Imperial Club on this street, & at the corner of Church Passage (which was later renamed St. James Passage), they see a woman talking to a man.
Levy said to Harris "Look there, I don't like going home by myself when I see those characters about," referring to the couple. He couldn't give a description of them other than that the man was about 3 inches taller than the woman.
The woman had her back to Lawende, who described her as wearing a black jacket & black bonnet. He later described the woman as Catherine Eddowes, who was found horribly mutilated 10 minutes later in Mitre Square.
Lawende was able to give a description of the man he saw, of shabby appearance, looking about 30 years of age, about 5 ft 9, of fair complexion, with a small fair moustache, & wearing a red neckerchief and a cap with a peak. He did also say he don't think he could recognise him again.
Had to look onto casebook.org to refresh my memory on some of the details.
Nikon F4. AF Nikkor 50mm F1.4D lens. CineStill 800T 35mm C41 film.
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The Grade I Listed Bishop's Palace, Wells, Somerset.
Construction began around 1210 by Bishop Jocelin of Wells but principally dates from 1230. Bishop Jocelin continued the cathedral building campaign begun by Bishop Reginald Fitz Jocelin, and was responsible for building the Bishop's Palace, as well as the choristers' school, a grammar school, a hospital for travellers and a chapel within the liberty of the cathedral. The chapel and great hall were built between 1275 and 1292 for Bishop Robert Burnell. The windows had stone tracery. Stone bosses where the supporting ribs meet on the ceiling are covered with representations of oak leaves and the Green Man. The building is seen as a fine example of the Early English architectural style.
In the 14th century, Bishop Ralph of Shrewsbury continued the building. He had an uneasy relationship with the citizens of Wells, partly because of his imposition of taxes, and surrounded his palace with crenellated walls, a moat and a drawbridge. The 5 metres (16 ft) high three-storey gatehouse, which dates from 1341, has a bridge over the moat. The entrance was protected by a heavy gate, portcullis and drawbridge, operated by machinery above the entrance, and spouts through which defenders could pour scalding liquids onto any attacker. The drawbridge was still operational in 1831 when it was closed after word was received that the Palace of the Bishop of Bristol was subject to an arson attack during the Bristol riots. These took place after the House of Lords rejected the second Reform Bill. The proposal had aimed to get rid of some of the rotten boroughs and give Britain's fast growing industrial towns such as Bristol, Manchester, Birmingham, Bradford and Leeds greater representation in the House of Commons; however there was no rioting in Wells. The water which filled the moat flowed from the springs in the grounds which had previously chosen its own course as a small stream separating the cathedral and the palace and causing marshy ground around the site. The moat acted as a reservoir, controlled by sluice gates, which powered watermills in the town.
The north wing (now the Bishop's House) was added in the 15th century by Bishop Beckington, with further modifications in the 18th century, and in 1810 by Bishop Beadon. It was restored, divided, and the upper storey added by Benjamin Ferrey between 1846 and 1854. Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1548, Bishop Barlow sold Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset the palace and grounds. These were recovered after the Duke's execution in 1552.
In the 1550s, Bishop Barlow sold the lead from the roofs of the great hall. This resulted in it falling into a ruined state. It can be seen in an engraving of 1733 but was largely demolished around 1830 by Bishop Law. He created a "more picturesque ruin" by removing the south and east walls and laying out and planting the area previously occupied by the great hall. The palace was used as a garrison for troops in both the English Civil War and Monmouth Rebellion after which it was used as a prison for rebels after the Battle of Sedgemoor.
Bishop Kidder was killed during the Great Storm of 1703, when two chimney stacks in the palace fell on him and his wife, while they were asleep in bed. A central porch was added around 1824 and, in the 1840s and 1850s, Benjamin Ferrey restored the palace and added an upper storey. He also restored the chapel using stained glass from ruined French churches.
The palace now belongs to the Church Commissioners and is managed and run by The Palace Trust. The main palace is open to the public, including the medieval vaulted undercroft, chapel and a long gallery, although the Bishops House is still used as a residence and offices. There is a cafe overlooking the Croquet Lawn. The palace is licensed for weddings and used for conferences and meetings. The croquet lawn in front of the palace is used on a regular basis. The palace was used as a location for some of the scenes in the 2007 British comedy Hot Fuzz, and more recently in the 2016 film The Huntsman.
Maybe I should have entitled this one Duchess of Burgundy as this is a female Duke of Burgundy, which for some reason are always far more elusive than males. Males draw attention to themselves by indulging in aerial dogfights with other males, whereas females just potter about. They have fuller, more rounded wings with more orange markings than males.
A really odd thing about Duke of Burgundy is that they are the only European representative of the family Riodinidae. This family has more than 1500 species but the vast majority are in tropical America, with just a few representatives from tropical Africa and southern Asia.
The scientific name is Hamearis lucina. Hamearis means "at the same time as spring" from the springtime appearance of these butterflies. Lucina is the Roman goddess who brings light, or brings out into the light, hence she is also the goddess of childbirth, who safeguarded women in labour.
There are probably fewer Duke of Burgundies in Britain than any other species because other rare butterflies tend to occur in large numbers in their favoured haunts, whereas Dukes are always rare. In 2000 there were thought to be 200 colonies, totalling just 2.66 square kilometres. Just 9 years later 120 colonies had vanished leaving just 80 colonies, and all but five of these were tiny colonies. This information is from Patrick Barkham's excellent Butterfly Isles.
They usually occur in grassy habitats with bushes and an abundance of either Cowslips or Primroses, their larval foodplant.
Most colonies are in southern England but there are a handful of outlying colonies in northern England, including North Yorkshire where I photographed this individual.
Sculpture garden
At Duke Farms, the sculptures in the gardens are mostly 19th-century Italian works brought by Doris Duke’s family. In many 19th-century European and American gardens, these figures were placed as decorative statues, not always tied to a specific mythological name but rather to symbolic personifications. They often represent allegorical figures (Seasons, Muses, Nymphs).
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The names of the Kelpies are Duke and Baron. They are the names of two real-life Clydesdale horses that inspired the sculptures.
Duke: The Kelpie on the left that looks down
Baron: The Kelpie on the right that looks up
The Kelpies are a pair of 30-meter-tall horse head sculptures in The Helix park in Falkirk, Scotland. They are made of steel and are the world's tallest equine sculptures.