View allAll Photos Tagged High
Male animal ambassador serval (Leptailurus serval) named "Jabari" is nearly 15 years old and interacts with San Diego Zoo guests at the Animals in Action experience.
Servals have the longest legs and largest ears for their body size of any cat and have earned the nickname "giraffe cat". These amazing athletes can jump up to nine feet in the air to catch prey. Although not considered endangered, servals can be harmed by habitat loss, global climate change, and hunting for their fur.
Conservation Status: Least Concern
High Kingsdown is a post-war inner-suburban housing development that lies less than a kilometre north of Bristol's city centre, and to the east of St Michael's Hill. The estate occupies an area of approximately 3.25 hectares containing (mainly) low-rise houses arranged in a herringbone layout that can only be fully appreciated from an aerial viewpoint. Walled gardens, alleyways (like the one visible in the photograph) and courtyards combine to create a degree of privacy for residents that is unusual for high-density housing of this era. The scheme was constructed between 1971 and 1975, based on an overall development plan produced by Anthony Mackay of Whicheloe, Macfarlane and Towning Hill, with later re-planning by JT Group to increase the level of pedestrianisation even further. Following completion High Kingsdown won several national and international awards for the quality of its design.
The site had previously been developed in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Those predominantly Georgian buildings first suffered bomb damage in the Second World War, were then neglected in the years that followed and finally succumbed to demolition by Bristol City Council after it acquired the site in the late nineteen-fifties. However, the housing renewal here could have turned out quite differently; initial plans covered the site with three slab blocks each of sixteen storeys. Concerned pressure groups protested against those plans with such vigour that they were never pursued, and ultimately the successful outcome we see today was realised.
The period of High Kingsdown's construction fell neatly within the time of my secondary school career, endured enjoyed just a few streets away from here. If I'd been interested in such things back then I could have easily made a detour from my normal route to the bus station and observed the work in progress.
Photograph made Thursday 2nd July 2020.
Sources:
Foyle, A. (2004). Pevsner Architectural Guides - Bristol. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 255-6.
www.highkingsdown.co.uk/history
Kentmere 100
Pentax SP1000
Takumar 55mm f/2.0 lens
Epson V600 scanner
Ilfosol 3, 1+9, 5 minutes, 20º C.
« If you appreciate my work and would like to support me becoming an independent photographer, become a Patreon supporter at www.patreon.com/alexdehaas, or buy me a coffee at www.buymeacoffee.com/alexdehaas :) »
Extremely high tide today with complete flooding of the marsh areas allowing these Canadian geese the opportunity to swim in areas they would not normally access, allowing the cameraman opportunities to get closer also.
Wollte mal High Key Fotografie versuchen. Das Foto ist vor einer Raufasertapete entstanden.
Hier gibt's noch ein paar mehr: www.foto100er.de/models/portrait/
Even in August 1984 this gantry was remarkable in having wooden signal arms.
I never understood how it escaped any sort of modernistion to metal signal arms!
Changes to the traffic system in the High Street - yet another attempt by the Council to ensure that the town continues to flourish.
"Beautiful dawn - lights up the shore for me.
There is nothing else in the world,
I´d rather wake up and see with you.
Beautiful dawn - I´m just chasing time again.
Thought I would die a lonely man, in endless night.
But now I´m high; running wild among all the stars above.
Sometimes it´s hard to believe you remember me."
© Mara Photos | Dachtel, Germany
PENTAX K-1 • FF Mode • 200 ISO • Pentax FA 43mm F1.9 Limited
Vertical Panorama 2 photos stitched together with Microsoft ICE 2.0
Catedral de Santa MarÃa la Real de la Almudena • Madrid • España
BNSF 6995 and company catch a small suckerhole as they slug through Siberia, as they head up the 1.4 percent grade on main track one which is generally used for heavy westbound trains like this one. The train can be seen stretched out in the distance along with another westbound getting closer.
Youtube Link: youtu.be/Gz_bWqVpZ1w
A Noon Fly "Mesembrina meridiana" I love the symmetry of this photo, my OCD can rest easy today. HFDF!
Syston High Street
One perspective...
Flickr: www.flickriver.com/photos/iainmerchant/
Art & Photography: www.theartoflife.gallery
#artist #interiordesign #photography #art #mentalhealth