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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.
One of the largest reclining Buddha statues I have seen in Thailand is at Wat Lokayasutharam. The remains of the temple are confined to the ground floor and foundations which makes this sight all the more amazing
“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.
view of old town and Kostel Svatého Víta (Saint Vitus Church) from Hrad Český Krumlov (Český Krumlov Castle) and Plášťový Most (Cloak Bridge)
Český Krumlov (German: Krumau or Böhmisch Krumau, also spelt Krummau) is a town in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 13,000 inhabitants. It is known as a tourist centre, which is among the most visited places in the country. The historic centre with the Český Krumlov Castle complex is protected by law as an urban monument reservation, and since 1992, it has been a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site because of its well-preserved Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque architecture.
The Saint Vitus Church in Český Krumlov is a significant sight of the late Gothic from 1407-1439 with later modifications. In 1995, the Church was declared part of the National Cultural Heritage.
The Church of St. Vitus is a Gothic three naval construction from the period of 1407-1439. It was built on the foundations of an older building from the year 1309. The Gothic entrance portal was erected in 1410. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Church continued to be extended and modified.
The Church is formed by three parallel arcades merged with a five-sided elongated presbyterium; there are rectangular multistoried sacristies on both sides with the Chapels of Resurrection and the St. John of Nepomuk Chapel, and the antechamber situated on the northern side. The occidental façade of the church incorporates a tower with quadrangular Roman window openings on the landing level changing to eight-sided openings higher up. The uppermost part of the spire is pseudogothic in style, dating to 1893-1894.
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.
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.
St Andrews Cathedral, in Sydney, Australia.
The cathedral is the seat of the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney and Metropolitan bishop of New South Wales, currently the Most Reverend Glenn Davies, the dean is the Very Reverend Kanishka Raffel.
It has an Evangelical ministry, holding services every day, including a weekly healing service. There is a cathedral choir of men and boys who sing during term time, as well as a company of bell ringers. The notable pipe organ has been restored and is extensively used for recitals and concerts.
Designed primarily by Edmund Blacket on foundations laid by James Hume, the cathedral was built from 1837 to 1868, and was ready for services and consecrated in 1868, making it the oldest cathedral in Australia. The cathedral was extended with the addition of The Chapter House in 1886. It underwent major conservation and restoration work between 1999 and 2000.
Items of interest in the church are the Foundation Plaques, the organ, which was originally built in 1866, the lectern (the eagle is a symbol of St John), the font, a gift received in 1868, the tiles and marble floors, mostly still the original and laid between 1862 to 1868. To find your way around the Cathedral pick up the brochure A tour of St Andrews's Cathedral.
St Andrew's is owned by Anglican Church Property Trust. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 3 September 2004; is listed on the City of Sydney local government heritage register; and is listed on the (now defunct) Register of the National Estate.
The interior has high aesthetic value, even in its altered form, containing much of the original furniture and fittings including the Hill organ. The Cathedral contains a very fine and significant set of stained-glass windows that predominantly date from the time of construction. The Cathedral has historic significance as it has reflected the growth of the Anglican Church and changes in Anglicanism and for its associations with prominent church and civic persons.
Information Sources:
www.sydney.com.au/st-andrews-cathedral-sydney.htm
www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDe...
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.
Happy New Year :)
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.
Excerpt from www.roemisch-germanisches-museum.de/THE-ROMAN-CITY-WALL:
THE ROMAN CITY WALL
The Roman city wall was almost four kilometres long and had at least nine gates and 19 round towers. Remains of this wall can still be seen in various parts of the city. Recent excavations have proved that the city wall was erected at the end of the 1st century AD.
In front of the western entrance to Cologne Cathedral is an arch from the former northern gateway into CCAA. The foundations of the gate and part of the defensive wall can be seen in the underground garage beneath the open area beside the cathedral and in the excavation area under the cathedral. Of significance, further to the north, are a 32-metre-long section of the wall with the so-called 'Lysolph Tower' and a 90-metre-long section of the curtain wall near the Prussian guardhouse next to the Cologne City Museum. The so-called 'Roman Tower', probably the best-known structure in the ancient defences of the city, marks the northwest corner of CCAA.
The city wall continues on the western side of CCAA. A few metres away from the 'Roman Tower' is the 'Helena Tower' in St-Apern-Strasse. Its height of 10 metres gives a good impression of the defensive strength of these ancient towers, although only the lower portion and the foundations are original.
A 160-metre-long section of the city wall with the remains of a round tower can be seen in the open area between Alexianer-Strasse and Mauritiussteinweg. This leads to the southwest corner of the city wall at Griechenpforte.
The city wall then followed the course of a former river, the Duffesbach, down to the Rhine. Another section, 78 metres long and over 6 metres high, is visible on the level of Mühlenbach.
The most important gate facing the Rhine was the Mars Gate (Marspforte), which was demolished in 1545 and is remembered in the street name Obenmarspforten and an inscription on the house located at Marsplatz 3-5. The name of the gate derives from its medieval name 'Markttor' (Market Gate). At Kurt-Hackenberg-Platz an underground visitors-centre will soon be opened, in which a 12-metre-long section with the remains of the harbour gate and a sewer can be seen.
"The restored water abstraction windmill at St Monans in Fife above the foundations of the nine Salt Pans at St Monans. It was used to pump seawater to the salt pans on the shore below.
"Sir John Anstruther and Robert Fall set up Newark Coal and Salt Company and, in 1771, began extracting low-grade coal at nearby Coal Farm. The windmill was used to evaporate sea water in iron pans along the shore. The salt produced was transported along a wooden, horse-drawn waggon-way to Pittenweem harbour for export. The settling tank and channel can still be seen while recent excavations have revealed the remains of the nine pan-houses. Salt production was abandoned by 1823." (Reference: nt6394.vs.netbenefit.co.uk/index.asp?lm=35).
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.
The Block 10 mine, one of the original BHP leases, was floated as the BHP Block 10 Co. Ltd in 1888. A concentration mill was erected at the mine in the 1890s to treat sulphide ore. Underground subsidence seriously affected the mill and, as a result, a new mill was erected on this hill in 1903, about 600 metres from the mine.
An aerial ropeway, the first at Broken Hill, was completed in 1904. This transported broken ore from the mine to a large storage bin above the mill. The mill cost £50 000 and could treat 3500 tons of ore per week.
The mine produced 2.5 million tons of ore and paid £1.5 million in dividends up to 1923 when it and the mill closed and were purchased by BHP. The mine was reworked by Broken Hill South Ltd between 1946 and 1960. Much of the mine site is now covered by overburden dumps from modern open-cut operations.
The concrete foundations on site are the remnants of the Block 10 concentration mill erected in 1903. The mill, designed by Captain John Warren and containing many of his inventions, was the first all electric mill in Broken Hill.
The aerial ropeway delivered broken ore from the mine to a storage bin above the mill. Broken ore was fed to crushing rolls and then passed to cylindrical trommels and hydraulic classifiers for sizing. Subsequent treatment consisted of wet concentration by jigs, Wilfley tables and vanners. These relied on specific gravity to separate the heavier lead and silver minerals from the zinc minerals. The resultant concentrate contained about two-thirds of the lead and one-half of the silver in the original ore, but very little zinc.
Flotation units were added to the mill in 1910 to produce a zinc concentrate from the tailings. Combined gravity-flotation concentration mills were standard at Broken Hill until after 1930 when the first all-flotation plants were installed.
Source: City Of Broken Hill.
Fundamente eines hölzernen Flak-Tumes für ein leichtes Flugabwehrgeschütz.
Im Zweiten Weltkrieg stand auf diesen Fundamenten ein ca. 10 Meter hoher Holzturm, auf dessen oberster Plattform ein Flakgeschütz aufgebaut war. Zusammen mit einem weiteren Turm östlich diente er dem Schutz eines großen Fliegerhorstes im Süden der Flakstellung.und bedeutenden.
In der Nähe befindet sich noch ein Luftschutzstollen und die Fundamente mehrere Baracke für die Flak-Mannschaften.
This scene is taken from Portland, Maine's harbor with South Portland in the far distance. In between, stretching across the entire photo is the Ocean Gateway Pier that gives access to Ocean Liners and other large water craft. Viewed large two lighthouses, both in South Portland, are visible.
On the right and in the middle of the photo: Affectionately referred to as Bug Light because of its small stature, Portland Breakwater Lighthouse in Bug Light Park (Madison Street, South Portland) was built in 1855 of cast iron with a brick lining on a granite block foundation. The lighthouse was first lit in 1875. During World War II in 1942, lighthouse beacons were dimmed for security reasons, and Bug Light wasn't re-lit until 2002 when the Coast Guard added a solar-powered light.
On the left and just barely visible next to the third mast in: Built in 1897, Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse (2 Fort Road, South Portland) sticks up at the mouth of the harbor like a giant spark plug, and it also has several distinctive features including a view of the entire Portland skyline from across the water. Of the 50 caisson-style lighthouses built in America on sturdy, metal foundations, this is the only one you can walk to: It's connected to land via a breakwater on the campus of Southern Maine Community College. [tripsavy.com]
Wisner Technical 5x4 + Nikon Nikkor W 180mm f5.6
Ilford FP4 Film + Kodak Xtol Developer (1:1 12 Min)
"Foundations" We finally found the ruins of this old house after having missed it on our last trip. Nestled between Interstate 40 and Route 66 in Dagget, California, this required a park and walk.
Not sure what this old cement home originally looked like but it had characteristics of spanish architecture making it an attractive subject to shoot. Throw in the moon and a constant stream of slow moving freight trains emerging from nearby Barstow and you've got a really great moment.