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Construction continues on road repairs and improvements to an access control point at Longare in Italy. Construction on the $950,000 project is expected to continue through May 2010. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District is managing the project. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Mark Nedzbala)
Construction continues on road repairs and improvements to an access control point at Longare in Italy. Construction on the $950,000 project is expected to continue through May 2010. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District is managing the project. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Mark Nedzbala)
Construction continues on road repairs and improvements to an access control point at Longare in Italy. Construction on the $950,000 project is expected to continue through May 2010. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District is managing the project. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Mark Nedzbala)
Reconstructed roadway on Roman stone arched bridge with original foundations and arches. Via Traiana, 2nd Century AD. Canosa di Puglia. Foundations Barletta, Apulia, Italy. Copyright 2016, James A. Ferguson. As part of the restoration, they built a replica of a wooden guard tower of the Roman period. The current structure shows many lavels of ancient and medieval rebuilding, expansion and repair.
Brzezinka, Poland |
Camp fence and guard tower: unlike the Auschwitz I camp which was surrounded by two rows of barbed wire fence, the Birkenau camp had only one line and a ditch full of water inside the camp. The typical fence post was 3,3 m high and fitted with 24 ceramic insulators. There were concrete slabs underneath the fence to prevent prisoners from tunneling. Electricity for the fence was supplied by a high tension line from Siersza Wodna power plant to the main substation in Babice, from which two separate feeders ran to Auschwitz I and Birkenau, where it was connected to the fencing (400 volts at Auschwitz and 760 volts at Birkenau).
In the background, ruins of the men's camp.
June 24, 2017
Nauset Beach
Cape Cod National Seashore
Orleans, Massachusetts,
Cape Cod - USA
Photo by brucetopher
© Bruce Christopher 2017
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The Tennessee Tennessee State Prison was built in 1898 on a plan from another prison in New York. It was designed to scare the prisoner. Abandoned since 1992, the prison opened overcrowded and now is deteriorating rapidly. Visitors are not welcome. During the rain of May 1, 2010.
Interesting unknown tidbit: James Earl Ray was housed here on death row (for his own protection).
July 9, 2021
When Tropical Storm, Elsa blazed by just to the west of us, we found ourselves on the "dry side" of the storm. The dry side is also the windy side, and the outer beaches of Cape Cod got the full brunt. The Bayside, in the lee of the land, was flat calm - at least close to shore where the fetch was still minimal.
Nauset Beach
Orleans, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
Photo by brucetopher
© Bruce Christopher 2021
All Rights Reserved
...always learning - critiques welcome.
Tools: Canon 7D & iPhone 11.
No use without permission.
Please email for usage info.
Construction continues on road repairs and improvements to an access control point at Longare in Italy. Construction on the $950,000 project is expected to continue through May 2010. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District is managing the project. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Mark Nedzbala)
No longer guarded and offered to the Gods of Tinseltown, the inmates may or may not be restless. It depends on the residuals.
"Replica of a historic watch tower at the Manzanar National Historic Site, built in 2005. Eight watchtowers, equipped with searchlights and machine guns pointed inward at the incarcerees, were positioned around the perimeter of the camp" wiki
"In 1942, the United States government ordered more than 110,000 men, women, and children to leave their homes and detained them in remote, military-style camps. Manzanar War Relocation Center was one of ten camps where Japanese American citizens and resident Japanese aliens were incarcerated during World War II." www.nps.gov
This is the second style of guard tower the communist Russians and East Germans built all along their border to watch for people trying to escape from East Germany.
The Tennessee Tennessee State Prison was built in 1898 on a plan from another prison in New York. It was designed to scare the prisoner. Abandoned since 1992, the prison opened overcrowded and now is deteriorating rapidly. Visitors are not welcome. During the rain of May 1, 2010.
Interesting unknown tidbit: James Earl Ray was housed here on death row (for his own protection).
The Tennessee Tennessee State Prison was built in 1898 on a plan from another prison in New York. It was designed to scare the prisoner. Abandoned since 1992, the prison opened overcrowded and now is deteriorating rapidly. Visitors are not welcome. During the rain of May 1, 2010. This was the last picture I took before being thrown out.
Interesting unknown tidbit: James Earl Ray was housed here on death row (for his own protection).
Another shot from Birkenau concentration camp in Poland. These are the rails that transported 1,1 million people to their deaths. Up ahead, past where the rail splits, people were unloaded like cattle from cramped wagons. Many of them were taken straight to the gas chambers for execution, beeing told that they were to be disinfected. In stead, the "showers" pumped in Cyclone-B gas.
Shot at last light, on our way out of the camp, I used the onboard flash on the K10D to bring out the flowers some. And thank God for the in-house image stabilizer too. This was 1/6 sec. on ISO400. I thought selective coloring could do the trick on this, and IMO it worked quite well. My first time using this technique.
" The piece uses the 1969 Stonewall Riots as a starting point t address issues facing gay and transgendered inmates.
The riots began after a plice raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City. Police arrested men dressed as women and transgendered patrons of people marched in the streets, speaking out about unfair treatment under the law. It was the start of the modern gay rights movement.
Today, transgendered female prisoners (male to female) are incarcerated in male prisons, and transgendered male prisoners (female to male) are incarcerated in female prisons. They are often placed in "protective" or "administrative" custody. The resulting confinement, while safer for the inmates, is effectively a form of solitary confinement.
The artist has developed these monologues based on the experiences of real men and women
TowerCam! is a new exhibit at Eastern State Penitentiary showcasing the spectacular view from the top of this guard tower. Because guests cannot enter the tower, they are able to control several high–definition remote–controlled cameras in the center guard tower, allowing them to achieve the perspective of an Eastern State guard on the tower’s catwalk.The views of the Penitentiary and Philadelphia are seen on extra large plasma television screens.
The exhibit has even made a game of it, challenging guests to find specific buildings and landmarks throughout the Penitentiary, using the TowerCam! cameras. Challenges include finding Death Row, the Warden’s quarters, the Hospital, the Greenhouse, and the roof of the TowerCam! exhibit itself.
This is a 3 shot HDR image, done with Photomatix and then run through Photoshop
This is an entry into the CCCIX Bandit's Raid Category and part 4 of my CCCIX storyline:
The Flames Of Fury
The Bear Claw Clan has been unleashed, and they are tearing through the countryside. After overunning a Dragon Knight guardtower, they flowed into the town with like a wall of fury.
The King's orders were clear: destroy everything in your path. Just the kind of orders the Clan loves to hear!
If you missed them, here are the earlier chapter:
Enjoy!
Remains of an old guard tower at the former site of the Tule Lake War Relocation Center, and subsequently known as the Tule Lake Segregation Center- - this photograph taken in May 1974. Japanese-Americans were interned here during World War II. At the time this picture was taken, the old guard post appeared to be repurposed as a shed of some sort. I thought I had previously posted this on Flickr - I guess not. Scanned from a Kodachrome slide.
The location of each of the 34 The location of each of the 34 Dachau barracks is indicated by a raised stone foundation filled with gravel. The poplars line the Camp Road, which divided the barracks into two rows of 17 barracks each. There were seven guard towers around the camp's perimeter.
Oświęcim, Poland |
Camp buildings: Germans adapted for the future camp twenty brick buildings of the former Polish Army barracks. 8 new blocks were added and the work reached completion in the first half of 1942.
The blocks were designed to hold about 700 prisoners each, but in practice they housed up to 1,200.
Camp fence and guard tower: the typical fence post was 3,3 m high and fitted with 24 ceramic insulators. There were concrete slabs underneath the fence to prevent prisoners from tunneling. Electricity for the fence was supplied by a high tension line from Siersza Wodna power plant to the main substation in Babice, from which two separate feeders ran to Auschwitz I and Birkenau, where it was connected to the fencing (400 volts at Auschwitz and 760 volts at Birkenau).
At the end of 1943, guard towers were replaced by new ones, fully walled and fitted with windows. Construction was completed in the spring of 1944.
16 August 2007
In Denmark, just across the border from Germany, is Frøslevlejren, Europe's best-preserved Nazi concentration camp. This is a guard tower at the perimeter of the camp.
The bike route goes right through the middle of this camp.
Alcatraz Island, California, USA
This 1934 Diamond T fire truck was purchased new to support the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary famously known as The Rock. It was left behind in very poor condition when the prison closed in 1963. It was beautifully restored by Nevada prison inmates and returned to Alcatraz in 2003.
This is an infrared shot, which converted the bright red paint job to pure white.
75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz and the end of the Holocaust (when I took this picture in 2020), the most notorious site of the Final Solution sits sprawling in a light March rain. A storage area for restoration materials hides behind a screen fence on the left, while an old building stands behind an electric fence on the right; the sewage treatment plant is off-screen behind it. Water in a drainage ditch reflects the pale sky above it, and points toward a house in the distance (most likely on Pławianka) where laundry hangs on a clothesline. About 18km further away, the Beskid Mountains are visible.
Imagine hanging your laundry on the line and seeing the ruins of a concentration camp in your back yard.
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70 years ago, On the 27th of January 1945, the red army reached Auschwitz and entered into what was left inside. The date 27th of January has since then been a date to remember the holocaust.
Little has changed in the camp since then - you can still feel the bitter cold both from the weather and the purpose built architecture and surroundings which surrounds the place. This was shot inside Auschwitz I - the original camp with the infamous sign at the entrance. This however is the barber wire and guard-towers that you meet if you approach the walls of the camp.
You can see other shots from Poland in my Poland set.
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located 25 mi northwest of las vegas along highway 95. it was designed as the most secure prison within the nevada department of corrections system. o.j. simpson spent time here prior to being transferred to lovelock.
Shot from last the summer in San Diego. I promised Scott some more California photos so I'm slowly working through them on my study breaks.
I didn't notice the 'moon' till I got home, lol.
Nikon D40 - Nikkor 70-200@90mm f/2.8 - 1/3200s - ISO 200 - -2/3EV - Handheld
The Tennessee Tennessee State Prison was built in 1898 on a plan from another prison in New York. It was designed to scare the prisoner. Abandoned since 1992, the prison opened overcrowded and now is deteriorating rapidly. Visitors are not welcome. During the rain of May 1, 2010.
Interesting unknown tidbit: James Earl Ray was housed here on death row (for his own protection).
The Tennessee Tennessee State Prison was built in 1898 on a plan from another prison in New York. It was designed to scare the prisoner. Abandoned since 1992, the prison opened overcrowded and now is deteriorating rapidly. Visitors are not welcome. During the rain of May 1, 2010.
Interesting unknown tidbit: James Earl Ray was housed here on death row (for his own protection).
RALEIGH NC: POLK YOUTH PRISON: Taken in 1998 following the removal and relocation of all prisoners to a new "close-custody" facility 35 miles farther north in Butner NC. Though classified 'merely' as a "close-custody" institution, the new POLK YOUTH PRISON [for offenders between 19 and 21] was designed to house inmates sentenced/assigned to maximum control, intensive control, disciplinary segregation and safekeeping status.
It took time to demolish the old prison and restore the property to a bucolic state suitable for its new owner, the NC Museum of Art, but it has been accomplished. Today, this huge tract of land is owned by the state art museum.
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Summer Palace ◊ 颐和园
Beijing
Over 60 stores extend from North Palace Gate entrance into a street about 300 meters (328.1 yards) in length. Along the Back Lake, the street design imitates the ancient style of shops on the banks of rivers in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, that is, taking the running water of Back Lake as the street and its banks as a market. The area served as an entertainment place where Emperors and concubines could feel as if they were strolling on a commercial street. When the royals went there, eunuchs and maids of honor would playact as peddlers, customers and shop assistants to mimic market activities.
Built during the reign of Qianlong (1711-1799), it was burned down by Anglo-French allied force in 1860. In 1986, it was rebuilt and in 1990 it was opened to the public. Today's market includes stores such as dyers, souvenir shops, drugstores, banks, shoe stores, teashops, and hockshops, with clerks dressed in Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) costumes. www.travelchinaguide.com/attraction/beijing/summer/suzhou...
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The Tennessee Tennessee State Prison was built in 1898 on a plan from another prison in New York. It was designed to scare the prisoner. Abandoned since 1992, the prison opened overcrowded and now is deteriorating rapidly. Visitors are not welcome. During the rain of May 1, 2010.
Interesting unknown tidbit: James Earl Ray was housed here on death row (for his own protection).
Fort Ord had a serious prison, with towers flanking a yard, the works. That thing on top is a spotlight you can swivel from a handle inside the tower, just like in the movies! Yes, I climbed up in one.
Amache Relocation Camp outside of Granada, Colorado. One of two camps managed by Colorado during World War II. The Amache camp was constructed for the Japanese who were forced to locate here after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. President Roosevelt signed the order which authorized the collection of Japanese American citizens from their land and property up and down the west coast and forced them to live in what essentially prisoner of war camps. The second camp was for German POWS and was located in Northern Colorado. This was a dark time for America in not only in the war it was now involved but in the injustice it meted out to the Japanese Americans at the time. The justification for relocation was to be able to keep a close eye on potential spies and saboteurs for the Empire of Japan. In fact, not one resident of these camps were ever convicted of spying for the Emperor.