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This perspective of the monument there on Little Round Top (in Gettysburg) was in close to the rocks below ...
Taken after sunset as blue hour was taking over and the stars were coming out. A great time to be on the battlefield ... a quiet time.
Normanton church is a Rutland icon. This lovely classical building stands on a narrow peninsula of land jutting out into Rutland Water. It was created by architect Thomas Cundy for the Earl of Ancaster, on the foundations of earlier buildings dating back to the 14th century.
The medieval church here was rebuilt in the 1760s in classical style and again rebuilt by the 4th baronet to create the church we see today.
When Rutland Water was created in the 1970s the church was threatened with being sunk beneath the waves and lost forever. Local groups campaigned to save the building, and a compromise was reached.
The lower part of the building was reinforced to protect against water damage and the upper section was turned into a local museum, with displays on the creation of the Rutland Water reservoir, local history and geography.
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Archaeological excavations of the Polyconchal Basilica at Plaoshnik and Church of St. Clement and St. Panteleimon, Ohrid, Macedonia.
The church was built by St. Clement in 893 on the foundations of an early Christian basilica, and it was dedicated to St. Panteleimon. This was the place of the Ohrid Literary School, a center of Slavonic literary and cultural activity. St. Clement was buried in this monastery, in the tomb that he built himself.
It is the oldest Slav monastery. That is one of the reasons that Ohrid was inscribed in 1979 on the Unesco word heritage list.
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“Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” - Francis of Assisi
If you have built castles in the air; your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
tones: AllEdges and Bärbel's PS/PSE actions
texture: kim klassen
seen at Glücksburg
feel not well .... try to catch up soon ..
Backlighting a pillar in an expansive abandoned development. Klarus XT2CR flashlight resting on my camera bag. f/5, 5secs, ISO800. Post processed from RAW exposure in Adobe Lightroom 6.
Matthew 7:24-25
New International Version
The Wise and Foolish Builders
24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.
a basílica de Santa Maria de Cracòvia (en polonès: Kościół Mariacki) és una església d'estil gòtic, adjacent a la plaça del mercat principal, a l'antiga capital de Polònia.
Començada el 1355 pels veïns de Cracòvia per rivalitzar amb la catedral de Wawel, la construcció feta de maons va durar tot el segle xiv, amb tres naus i dues torres quadrades que van ser acabades en els anys 1400 i 1406. La més alta (80 m), acaba amb un casc gòtic punxegut i va ser adornada per una corona daurada el 1666. Des de la part superior d'aquesta torre, cada hora un trompetista toca l'Hejnał mariacki, una melodia tradicional polonesa, transmesa al migdia per la ràdio a tot el país. Aquesta tradició es fa per commemorar que, al segle xiii, un trompetista fou abatut per un tret a la gola mentre feia sonar l'alarma abans d'una invasió mongola. Per això, se la coneix com la torre Hejnał. La torre més baixa (69 m), a la qual es va afegir un elm renaixentista al segle xvi, serveix de campanar a l'església.
A la façana principal, hi ha un pòrtic barroc pentagonal dissenyat per Francesco Placidi, construït al segle xviii.
L'interior allotja dues peces de renom esculpides per Veit Stoss: el Retaule de Santa Maria, un altar de fusta políptic de 12 metres de longitud i 11 metres d'alçada que fou tallat entre 1477 i 1489, i un gran crucifix de gres.
S'hi pot veure una placa commemorativa en honor de Joan Pau II, que va ser arquebisbe de la ciutat abans de ser papa.
Saint Mary's Basilica (Polish: Kościół Mariacki) is a Brick Gothic church adjacent to the Main Market Square in Kraków, Poland. Built in the 14th century, its foundations date back to the early 13th century and serve as one of the best examples of Polish Gothic architecture. Standing 80 m (262 ft) tall, it is particularly famous for its wooden altarpiece carved by Veit Stoss (Wit Stwosz). Some of its monumental polychrome murals were designed by Poland's leading history painter, Jan Matejko (1898–1891). In 1978 it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site alongside the Historic Centre of Kraków.
On every hour, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, a trumpet signal—called the Hejnał mariacki—is played from the top of the taller of Saint Mary's two towers. The plaintive tune breaks off in mid-stream, to commemorate a famous 13th century trumpeter who was shot in the throat while sounding the alarm before a Mongol attack on the city. The noon-time hejnał is heard across Poland and abroad broadcast live by the Polish national Radio 1 Station.[1] [2]
Saint Mary's Basilica also served as an architectural model for many of the churches that were built by the Polish diaspora abroad, particularly those like Saint Michael's and Saint John Cantius in Chicago, designed in the Polish Cathedral style.
The church is familiar to many English-speaking readers from the 1929 book The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly.
The essential starting point of a well built wall is a solid foundation and without it, there can be cracks, slippage and big problems!
No matter though, how good the foundations are, there can be geological problems underground resulting in subsidence and ultimately cracking results, similar to this.
This is what we experienced in the first house we bought in Worksop, Nottinghamshire,in the U.K. as well as in my parents house previously where cracks developed, large enough to fit your hand into! Expensive and extensive pinning and other processes were needed in order to rectify the situations. The whole area was riddled with underground mine workings that caused minor geological rifts to shift, resulting in damage to buildings on the surface.
Past founders laid the groundwork for today's goals and tomorrow's success. We build upon previous experience, learn from the masters and rise above our ancestors. To achieve greatness is to stand on the backs of those giants and further our momentum skyward.
This little stone tower appears to have been here for many years, but I have no idea who built it or how old it is. Whoever it was, they built it to last!
If someone asked you to construct a small tower like this on the beach - where it would be battered by rising tides and stormy waves - where would you build it? On the nice, soft sand, or on the solid rock? The answer is obvious, of course. If the tower is to stand the test of time and tide, it will have to be built on a solid foundation. Rock, not sand.
When foundations are so obviously important, why then are so many prepared to gamble with their eternal destiny by building their lives on a foundation which they have spent little or no time investigating? Many seem content to go through life, never contemplating what might await them after death. Consequently, they have no spiritual foundation. They make choices and take decisions which not only affect their lives today and for many years to come but, ultimately, those choices will determine where they will spend eternity.
Those who do occasionally think about life after death, often seem content to simply follow everyone else. But, if all around you are building their little stone towers on soft sand, should you follow their example? Or should you look around to find a rocky outcrop on which to build?
Since the Bible claims to be God's word to man; and since Jesus of Nazareth claimed that the Bible spoke about Him; and since He claimed to be the ONLY way to be saved from an eternity in hell; wouldn't it be prudent to take a little time to consider His claims? What have you got to lose? Only your very soul!
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6)
Why not start here... the Gospel of John (the fourth book in the New Testament) is a surprisingly easy read. It's almost like a short novel and moves along at an engaging pace. And it will only take a few of hours to read the whole thing.
Back in the day our area was heavily mined for coal in vast underground tunnel systems. The miners lived in tiny homes they built, side by side. They named the place "Coal Town" Many of their foundations still exist today and are scattered all over this area. They had a nice view of Greenhorn Mountain in the distance. In a previous post, I took a pic of a huge coal pile they excavated by hand from the tunnels, which is just out of view to the right.
Robert Henri was a painter, but this quote surely applies to photography:
"In the efforts to accomplish composition there are many rules and schemes established, some of them good and some of them bad. But one thing I am certain of, and that is that intense comprehension and intense desire to express one whole thing is necessary. Without a positive purpose, means effect only an exercise in means. You can’t know too much about composition. You must have the will to say a very definite thing."
Taken in the last light of sunset, there was a lot of sky color going on when I switched to telephoto (300mm) and reached down into the Grand Canyon for this feature that grabbed my attention.
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Every time we fight I know it's not right, every time that you're upset and I smile. I know I should forget, but I can't.
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“I watched her and I watched the birds' shadows flit across her face, and I...wanted. I wanted more happy memories to hang up on the ceiling, so many happy memories with this girl that they would crowd the ceiling and flap out into the hall and burst out of the house.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
I have another shot from this which I will use some time to edit, so this will be my weeks photo. It is simpel, but I like it. I really want to challenge myself for my last 2 weeks, and I have so many ideas.
Hope you guys like this simpel picture, love you all! <3
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playing around this avo with the ND10 stop and getting into some different city spots, it was quite interesting getting under the harbour bridge
Shot 31sec f8 ISO50, Lee ND10, GND 0.9 Soft
Auckland City, New Zealand, Aotearoa
Have a good weekend
In the 19th century so the story goes, a rich householder who lived within sight of where the bridge is now built the original bridge of stone which stood here. He built the bridge for his two daughters so they could get to the beach on the other side. Alas this stone bridge was eventually washed away in a storm however the stone foundations remained and were reused as the foundations for the new bridge.
L758 traverses past the crumbling remains of JEA’s massive 3.2 mile coal conveyor system. The conveyor was demolished in 2018 along with the iconic cooling towers at the St. John’s River Power Park. At one point in time, it was a bustling facility that required at least two coal trains a day to supply coal to the plant. Now a days the only activity on the SJRPP site is the steady flux of fisherman that perch from the concrete ledges in hopes of landing the big one.
When King Gustav III was assassinated in 1792 his plans for this castle was also put to an end. The foundations are still there.
Hasselblad 500C/M
Carl Zeiss Distagon CF FLE 50/4
Ilford Delta 100
1/2 sec f/22
-kate nash
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EXPLORE #51 <---WOW!
May 31, 2008
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First in a short series of mono images from an afternoon's exploration around Botallck and Wheal Oates in March
Leicaflex SL
50mm Summicron (yellow filter)
Astrum 100 in Rodinal (1:50 @ 68 for 12.5 min)
-- We think these are the remnants of old warehouses. The area is rather strange, because it's next to a big working agricultural plant -- fully operational -- and then acres and acres of these abandoned warehouses, just the walls and foundations, a modern abandoned office building that looks like it was never completed and then a field stretching to dormitories that were once used to house sugar cane cutters. The abandoned structures are now home for owls that come flying over your head in graceful arcs, leaving as you enter. Molly loves the sniffs.
Normally we think of a home's foundations as lying on the ground. If you're building cliff dwellings, though, your supports stick out from a wall.
And, some centuries later, the post holes will remain.
Wisner Technical 5x4 + Nikon Nikkor W 180mm f5.6
Ilford FP4 Film + Kodak Xtol Developer (1:1 12 Min)
UNESCO World Heritage Site (2011) Longobardi in Italia: i luoghi del potere
La basilica di San Salvatore è una delle testimonianze più importanti dell'architettura religiosa alto-medievale conservata in alzato.
Nel progetto del re Desiderio, che nel 753 d.C. fondò il monastero dedicandolo a San Salvatore, e più tardi facendovi collocare le spoglie della martire Santa Giulia, la chiesa-mausoleo doveva porsi come uno dei simboli del potere dinastico della monarchia e dei ducati longobardi.
Gli interventi condotti all'interno dell'edificio hanno messo in luce non solo parte delle sue murature originarie, ma anche resti di una domus romana sottostante (I-IV secolo d.c.),alcune strutture riferibili alla prima età longobarda (568-650) e le fondazioni di una chiesa più antica, ora parzialmente visibili.
The church of San Salvatore is one of the most important surviving examples of Early Medieval religious architecture.
King Desiderius (re Desiderio) founded the monastery, dedicated to San Salvatore, in AD 753 and later had the remains of the martyr Saint Julia (Santa Giulia) brought there. The church-mausoleum was intended as a symbol of the dynastic power of the monarchy and the Lombard dukes.
Recent restoration work inside the building has brought to light part of the original walls, the remains of an underlying Roman domus (1st - 4th centuries AD), several early Lombard constructions (568-650) and the foundations of an earlier church, now only partially visible.