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The San Francisco Ferry Building on The Embarcadero serves as a terminal for ferries that travel across the San Francisco Bay, food hall and office building. Golden Gate Ferry and San Francisco Bay Ferry routes travel from the terminal. A 245 foot-tall clock tower with four clock dials, each 22 feet in diameter, tops the building.
The present structure was designed by A. Page Brown, a New York architect who had started with McKim, Mead & White and later moved to California, and completed in 1898. Influenced by studies at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he designed the clock tower after the 12th-century Giralda bell tower in Seville, Spain. At its opening, it was the largest project undertaken in the city up to that time. Brown designed the clock tower after the 12th-century Giralda bell tower in Seville, Spain, and the entire length of the building on both frontages is based on an arched arcade.
With decreased use since the 1950s, after bridges were constructed to carry transbay traffic and most streetcar routes were converted to buses, the building was adapted to office use and its public spaces broken up. In 2002, a restoration and renovation were undertaken to redevelop the entire complex. The 660-foot-long Great Nave was restored, together with its height and materials. A marketplace was created on the ground floor, the former baggage handling area. The second and third floors were adapted for office and Port Commission use. During daylight, on every full and half-hour, the clock bell chimes portions of the Westminster Quarters.
Again a shot trying out the Sony DSC-HX60 - Interestingly on auto mode the camera shot multiple times and processed the pictures together in camera, I think this gives a nice view of a shaded fence looking out into a bright sunny field. Then I cropped the image slightly on the PC
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Here is an image that I took whilst I was near the Airport and I really wanted to venture further than this gate.
I became interested in the Aeroplane shape, within the gate itself. An interesting find...shot using my Pentacon Six and Ektar 100.
Going over the Golden Gate Bridge on our double decker/open top ride!
Fuji Superia 400
Partial 360
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An antique gate stands inside the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Newark, NJ, one of the oldest cemeteries in the area with graves dating back to the 16th century. © 2012-Current.
Lang Ranch gate, about 1967. Donated by photographer Herb Noseworthy. CTLnos54.
There are no known U.S. copyright restrictions on this image. The Thousand Oaks Library requests that, when possible, the credit statement should read: "Image courtesy of Conejo Through the Lens, Thousand Oaks Library."
XCross Starting Gate
Canon EOS 500D & Canon EF 70-200mm f/4 L USM
PostProduction with Lightroom 3.3 & Photoshop CS5
©2011, Stefano Minella Photo
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Per the signage, "this gate faces south (direction of good luck in China, as it generally faces the sun), with a screen wall opposite. It played an important role in exorcising evil spirits. The gate has a geomantic omens tower on the east and a now destroyed theatrical tower on the west."
Pingyao is considered one of China's best-preserved ancient walled towns. (From my limited travels around China, I wholeheartedly concur.)
Pingyao's history goes back about 2,700 years. Located about 90 km (55 miles) south of Taiyuan in Shanxi (山西) province, modern-day Pingyao has around 450,000 residents. The ancient town, is enclosed within a stone wall, 10 meters (31 feet) high and slightly more than 6 kilometers (3.6 miles) with 6 gates: north, lower east, upper east, south, upper west, and lower west, that was built in 1370.
Within these walls live 50,000 people. Also to be found are a number of religious institutions including temples - the Confucian temple with the oldest surviving building in Pingyao (Dacheng Hall from 1163 A.D.), the Taoist City God Temple, Taoist Qingxu Guan (temple), and a Catholic church, among others.
Besides the various religious sites, there are museums to the banking industry such as the Rishengchang Museum. (The first draft bank in China was located here in Pingyao), a few art museums, and -- centrally located -- a city tower on Nan Dajie.
Pingyao also has many guesthouses (I chose Harmony Guesthouse on Nan Dajie near the south gate and highly recommend it to anyone who goes to Pingyao), restaurants (western and local Pingyao cuisine), teahouses, bars, massage parlors, and souvenir shops.
By day, the panoramic view of Pingyao is slightly reminiscent of the imperial city scenes at the beginning of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (perhaps with a creative imagination). As evening comes, the red lanterns begin to dominate the landscape. Alleys, doorways, the main roads, and courtyards all find themselves awash in a red glow.
In short, Pingyao has plenty to offer by day or night. These images are just a small reflection, through my eyes, of Pingyao's charms.
Cloud Gate, a public sculpture by Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor, is the centerpiece of the AT&T Plaza in Millennium Park within the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. The sculpture and AT&T Plaza are located on top of Park Grill, between the Chase Promenade and McCormick Tribune Plaza & Ice Rink. Constructed between 2004 and 2006, the sculpture is nicknamed The Bean because of its legume-like shape.