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This historic church was constructed in 1875. At that time native people were still hunting bison on the prairies. The young nation of Canada was only eight years old; the Canadian Pacific Railway still nine years in the future. And this church would become the heart of a thriving community, Morleyville, and for a time the largest settlement in what would be southern Alberta.
UPDATE: Sadly this oldest church in southern Alberta was totally destroyed by a fire on May 22, 2017.
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This historic house in St. Augustine, Florida, is known for its iconic gated entry. [Flickr Explore #63, June 21, 2021.]
Historic bridge over the river Alzette in the Grund district of the city of Luxembourg, where a craftsmen's quarter developed in the Middle Ages. Robert Schumann, a founding father of the European Union, grew up near here.
I make this image public for getting an impression of the AVIF format (can be opened in the latest IrfanView, Chrome and Firefox): Link to AVIF in Google Drive
The AVIF image compression (in the HEIF container) is a very promising format as it provides good image quality in a very small package and is (in comparison to HEIC) free of any licenses. I hope Flickr as well as Google and Microsoft products will soon have full support for this innovation.
Besides the high compression efficiency the big advantage over JPEG is that a color depth per channel of 10 and even 12 bit is supported.
The uploaded JPEG is about 17MB in size, the AVIF 1.9MB.
This sample is generated using the avifenc.exe command line encoder for windows.
I used this parameters:
avifenc.exe --cicp 2/2/1 -r limited -y 420 -j 6 --min 30 --max 40 --minalpha 30 --maxalpha 40 in.png out.avif
The result is:
- 6 threads used (for my 6 CPU cores)
- to colorspace YUV420 (422 and 444 is not supported by the Windows AV1 extension)
- 12 bit per channel
Museumslok-Altenbeken-09-2021-001
The steam locomotive is on display opposite the local museum in Altenbeken, a town that is and has been dominated by the railway. The main sight of Altenbeken is the large limestone viaduct that used to be a key element of east-west railway lines in Germany.
Mamiya RZ67, Mamiya Sekor 4.5/50, yellow filter, Ilford HP5+ developed in Rodinal 1+25 using a Jobo tank, scanned on an Epson V800, cropped and adjusted in Lightroom.
It's been already a week since my return back and as I have been busy I had no free time to review photos from my recent trip to Greece. So I made a dive into my archives and that photo from Boston's north end caught my attention. A historic alley I would describe it for 2 reasons. First, this alley is part of the famous "Freedom Trail" and second, the wall on the right of the frame is the Old North church, one of Boston's most historic buildings. During the American Revolution, on the steeple of that very church 2 lanterns were carried to warn the American militia that the British chose to advance against Concord by sea.
Thievery Corporation - Marching the Hate Machines (Into the Sun) ft. The Flaming Lips
Historic Eaton Hall. It has a long history associated with one of Canada’s best known families, the Eatons, founders of Eaton’s department stores.Design was started in 1932 and completed in 1939
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Sony DT 16-50mm F2.8 SSM
One of the finest historic houses, the Heck Andrews house (1870), in downtown Raleigh, NC. They were in the process of renovation on the outside at the time I took this picture. I'm still waiting for them to give the interior some attention!
Much thanks to Alice Popkorn for the beautiful texture. Her link: www.flickr.com/photos/alicepopkorn/sets/72157605289948031
Still have not been feeling well, but I am working on a full recovery, which I hope will not be too much longer.
Thank you all for the nice comments and invites! I plan to be back as soon as I am feeling much better.
Austin, Texas, ATX, TX. Historic architecture, residence, home, iPhoneography, Hipstamatic, HipstaPrint.
Sandomierz: historic town in south-eastern Poland.
It was a royal city of the Polish Crown and functioned as a regional administrative centre from the High Middle Ages to the 19th century.
Sandomierz is one of the oldest and historically most significant cities in Poland.
The first known historical mention of the city comes from the early 12th-century, when the chronicler Gallus Anonymus ranked it together with Kraków and Wrocław as one of the main cities of Poland.
Thanks to the Wikipedia;)
San Francisco Square in the Historic Center of Quito.
From left to right, in the San Francisco building, you can see the doors of the Chapel of Cantuña, the Chapel of Villacísla, the main church, the convent and the museum.
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The Church and its chapels (La Iglesia de San Francisco), which were considered sacred places.
Together, Church and Convent encompass three hectares including 13 cloisters (six of them major), three churches, and a large courtyard. In total, about 40,000 square meters of construction. San Francisco follows the classical typology of medieval monasteries. The main Church is the guiding axis and from there the cloister galleries extend: the refectory, the chapterhouse, and winery. These define a quadrangular courtyard, with the four respective pandas, or galleries: that of the chapter room, the refectory, the converts, and the mandatum. In addition to the basic dependencies of a convent, there were areas devoted to health care, education, crafts, a garden, and even a jail (to maintain strict discipline). The kitchen and dispensery operated in the cloister of services.
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Walking from the Old Town’s narrow colonial streets into this open plaza reveals one of the finest sights in all of Ecuador: a sweeping cobblestone plaza backed by the mountainous backdrop of Volcán Pichincha, and the long, whitewashed walls and twin bell towers of Ecuador’s oldest church.
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The Public Square (Plaza de San Francisco) was a purely urban space, demarcated and connected to various public activities (teaching, market, water supply).
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Sad part of our History.
In pre-Hispanic Quito, the current lands of the Church and Convent of San Francisco were occupied by the royal palace of the Inca Huayna Cápac, before the advance of the armies commanded by the Spaniards from the south and the impossibility of defending the city the indigenous general Rumiñahui arranged the total destruction of it. In the city fire the palace was destroyed and buried under a huge amount of rubble and garbage. One of Rumiñahui's soldiers was the great-grandfather of the indigenous Cantuña, who as an eyewitness to the events had full knowledge of what was buried in the place. The construction of the church and convent of San Francisco began around 1537, just three years after the Spanish foundation of the city, with the completion of a provisional temple that was maintained until 1550, when construction of the current building began and which was completed around 1680. Although the building was officially inaugurated in 1705.
Agrigento central railway station.
Platform 4: Historic train Agrigento C.le - Porto Empedocle.
Platform 3: Historic train Palermo C.le - Agrigento C.le.
Sagra del Mandorlo in fiore 2017
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Historic dairy farm, Novato, Marin County, Northern California, USA.
The St. Catharines Market has been an important element of the City's social and economic landscape since the early 1860s. Nestled next to the historic Courthouse and City Hall - at the corner of King and James in the heart of Downtown St. Catharines - expect the best in Niagara cuisine at the St. Catharines Farmers Market .
The entrance screen and gate piers date from ca1870
fantastic weather since we arrived ..
Sefton Park, Aigburth Road Entrance Gates
I am going to take a break today from posting new shots. My family took a lot of photos and some how I ended up with an archive of 100's of old shots.. I have slowly been scanning them and thought I would share a few of my favorites with you. This is my grandfather (James Sr., I am the 3rd) and grandmother (Fannie) "courting". This was shot somewhere around Gainesville Texas in 1913 or 1914.