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This is the road from Glasshouses to Dacre Banks, near Glasshouses Bridge in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire, England
Records about Glasshouses stretch as far back as 1386 and the name of the village is believed to have derived from the Old English Glas Hus, which translates as the place where glass was made. Whilst there is no firm evidence of this, it was believed that glass for Fountains Abbey was made here
The second shot on sunset as the colour changed dramatically!
The rocks you are looking at here are incomprehensibly ancient. According to the Geological Society of Australia, Narooma Chert (the dark material in the Glasshouse Rocks, which is hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock) was deposited on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean over a period of 50 million years from around 490 million years ago!!!!!
Gewächshaus
Der Botanische Garten dient der Biologischen Fakultät der 1962 gegründeten Ruhr-Universität zu Studien- und Forschungszwecken. Einer der wissenschaftlichen Schwerpunkte ist die Erforschung der Evolution der Blütenpflanzen aus den Nadelbäumen.
The botanical garden is used by the biological faculty of the Ruhr University, which was founded in 1962, for study and research purposes. One of the scientific focal points is research into the evolution of flowering plants from conifers
The National Botanic Garden of Wales is a Botanical Garden located in Carmarthenshire, Wales. The garden is both a visitor attraction and a centre for botanical research and conservation, and features the world's largest single-span glasshouse, measuring 110 m long by 60 m wide
The view from Maleny looking across to the Glasshouse Mountains late in the afternoon as the sun goes down....with a little help from the dehaze tool in Photoshop.
Today we revisited the 10-sided Woolbeding 'kinetic' Glasshouse, set in the Silk Route Garden and were able to see it, on a hot day, open in 4 minutes.
More info here:
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/sussex/woolbeding-gardens/...
Looking towards the Glasshouse Mountains from the Maleny Botanic Gardens and Birdworld, Maleny, Queensland. Happy Bench Monday.
Just north of Brisbane lie the dramatic Glasshouse Mountains - 13 ancient volcanic cores of a chain of volcanoes which were active some 26 million years ago.
In the image, from left - Mts Ngungun, Tibrogargan, Tibberoowuccum, Coonowrin, and Beerwah.
Whilst the traditional names for the hills themselves are very old, the term 'Glasshouse Mountains' was given more recently by explorer Lieutenant James Cook on 17 May 1770.
The peaks reminded him of the glass furnaces in his home county of Yorkshire.
We made another visit to Woolbeding Gardens, unaware of the installation of The Glasshouse, opened a month ago together with a Silk Route Garden.
We had some fun and enjoyed all the wondrous flowers - and a cream tea on what I learnt was National Cream Tea Day yesterday!!
This was from a few weeks ago on the Sunshine Coast. There were no clouds in the sky so it was pretty boring, so added this sky through Luminar AI.
I process my photos with Lightroom as well as Skylum's Luminar and find it easy to use with great results. Here is a link if anyone is interested in trying it out and with a $US10 discount: skylum.grsm.io/janetteasche8660
Known as the Gateshead Glasshouse International Centre for Music and called the "Glasshouse" or the Glass Bubble Building by the Geordies.
Some information:-
The construction of this architectural staple of the Quayside marked a time of resurgence and change for the arts in Newcastle and Gateshead and the site of this giant glass, multi-domed building was once home to a rope and wire factory.
Now this elegantly construction of Foster and Partners-designed building has 630 panes of glass and was constructed in 1997 to revitalise Gateshead, by building a state-of-the-art concert venue in the unused industrial area.
And also, the building itself is made of specially constructed concrete that has extra air bubbles designed to improve both acoustics and sound proofing.
It's a great pity for me, it was not a really good day, with the weather when I composed and framed this capture, from over the River Tyne and was the only way for me to be able to fit and get into all in full frame! Because it is an enormous gigantic building that stands truly well out and is an eye-catching one too!
Many thanks for your very kind comments and compliments from you here, my good flickr friends !!!
Palm House at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, South Australia. An exquisite restored Victorian glasshouse imported from Bremen in Germany in 1875 and thought to be the only one of its kind in the world. It was opened in 1877 and has been a focus in the gardens since that time. The hanging glass walls are similar to those used in modern city buildings today and were very advanced for the time. This technical sophistication and Adelaide's dry climate probably account for the Palm House's survival with a remarkably high degree of originality. Restoration was begun in 1986 to restore it to its former glory and it now houses a display of Madagascan arid flora.
Incidentally, the tree in the foreground is my favourite in the gardens so I just had to include it in the frame.
Roof of one of the glasshouses in the iconic Wintergardens in Auckland. There are two barrel-vaulted Victorian style glass houses in the complex. Fascinating structures and lines. I rediscovered this image when installing the Peakto application. It trawled through my hard drives for long forgotten images. Exciting.
WE couldn't go inside, and it wasn't as full as usual, but it was nice to see this through the damaged window!
I quite often mention it so here is a sample that really doesn't do it justice. So lucky it is just down the road.
The glasshouse at RHS Wisley during the Glow event ( which will last just into the new year ) . The glasshouse is brightly lit inside and you can walk through the plants inside bathed in light . There is a shot by David on flickr with the light reflecting on the water that surrounds the glasshouse . Unfortunately on my visit there was enough breeze to disturb the surface of the water and any reflections were not to be had in any detail .
A little light music to trip to
too tempting not to ask for a non-selfie selfie inside The Glasshouse
thank you for visiting my photostream💕
Or, the photographer behind the waterfall shouldn't criticise the one in front of it. A scene in the glasshouse of RHS Wisley Gardens in Surrey.
I went with a mate to Wisley to capture the autumn colours but these reflections of the glasshouse really caught my attention.
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...at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh
on a visit to Clare in 2017
posting for: Sliders Sunday
gratitude for all visits to my photostream
Het GlazenHuis te Lommel profileert zich als Vlaams Centrum voor Hedendaagse Glaskunst. Toch engageert het GlazenHuis zich veel verder dan deze ondertitel laat vermoeden. Het is een dynamisch centrum dat glas wil promoten in al zijn facetten en zich toespitst op alle verschijnings- en gebruiksvormen: Glas in het dagdagelijkse gebruik, glas in design, glas doorheen de geschiedenis, glas in de toekomst, glas binnen de hedendaagse kunst. Vooral dit laatste ‘glas als artistiek medium’ een plaats geven binnen de hedendaagse kunst is één van onze voornaamste doelstellingen.
Het GlazenHuis laat zien dat glas kan zijn wat het wil zijn: object of schilderij, brons of edelsteen, kunst of design, uniek of alledaags, kleurrijk of onzichtbaar.
ARCHITECTUUR
Een glazen kegel met een hoogte van 30 meter torent op bijna doorzichtige wijze uit boven het stadscentrum van Lommel. ’s Avonds is de verlichte kegel een lichtbaken in de avondlucht. Een 6 meter hoge glazen doos en een ondergrondse verdieping herbergen rond de kegel expositieruimtes op drie niveaus. De expositieruimte op de benedenverdieping en op het gelijkvloers staan in direct contact met het glasatelier.
Met het GlazenHuis concipieerde architect Philippe Samyn een stevig statement: een gebouw met een extraverte persoonlijkheid, een gebouw waarin ruimtelijke beleving, de kunst en haar productie in symbiose met elkaar leven en een onlosmakelijk geheel vormen.