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Imprisoned at home… or self isolating as it’s sometimes called.
However, we’re on the mend, and so grateful for the vaccine. We’re sure that the vaccines really gave us a mild version of the virus.
How good are the scientists that did this for us?!!
So though I can’t get out and about just yet, here’s a blossom photo I took a couple of weeks ago. It’s nearly all blown away now.
Stacksteads
Lancashire
We are imprisoned in the realm of life, floating between Heaven and the hell below, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.
The fisherman's boat is a tiny dot in the vastness of the sea as it heads to port.
Of course since it's Lompoc there are only two answers:
1) Nowhere
2) Vandenberg Air Force Base ( photographers subject to federal imprisonment )
Being 'sent to the Tower' is a phrase used to mean being imprisoned - after the famous prison, the Tower of London, however many did not survive so it was a terrible and frightening prospect to be 'sent to the Tower'. From Kings and Queens to the Kray Twins all sorts of people have been imprisoned there and you can read a fascinating list of people on Wkipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prisoners_of_the_Tower_of_L...
Nowadays people from all over the world go to the Tower voluntarily!
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The St. Nicholas Hotel is a historic hotel building located in downtown Springfield. The original building of the St. Nicholas Hotel was constructed in 1855, and no longer exists. A 6-story annex, seen here to the right of the main building, was built on the hotel in 1910, and the current 11-story main building was constructed in 1924.
The Georgian Revival-style main building was designed by the New York City architectural firm H.L. Stevens and Company. When the current main building opened, it was the second-tallest building in Springfield after the State Capitol.
During sessions of the Illinois General Assembly, the St. Nicholas Hotel became a meeting place for Illinois politicians. The hotel has hosted many notable visitors to Springfield, including U.S. Presidents Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy.
In Illinois political lore, the St. Nicholas is best known as the residence of Paul Powell during his tenure from 1965 to 1970 as Illinois Secretary of State. Within days after his death in 1970, the executor of Powell's will found $750,000 in cash stored in shoeboxes, briefcases, and strongboxes in Powell's suite. Another $50,000 was found in his office. As the money greatly exceeded Powell's salary, which was at the most $30,000 per year, a federal investigation examined Powell's behavior while in office. The investigation determined that Powell had acquired the money via illegal cash bribes and led to the imprisonment of several state contractors.
The hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, and also is a contributing building to the Central Springfield Historic District. Today this historic hotel building is now the St. Nicholas Apartments.
The imprisonment is not irksome anymore. it has become a part of me. My soul is enervated, tired of hitting itself to the rigid walls of this scarce cell. there is no way out, it is understood. No sun, no moon, no dark, no light, no dim, no bright... senses have been immured in a dilemma of nothingness, and hollowness. The wetness of eye, the thirst for water, the aridness of throat, the sluggishness of intellect, the race of breaths, the flow of blood, and the beat of heart, all signs of this journey seem to fade away... It's this sole existence and this ceased universe, where there is no variation either day or night. No sound, no motion: static. A wait: my existence is an eternal wait.
The Bridge of Sighs (Italian: Ponte dei Sospiri, Venetian: Ponte de i Sospiri) is a bridge in Venice, Italy. The enclosed bridge is made of white limestone, has windows with stone bars, passes over the Rio di Palazzo, and connects the New Prison (Prigioni Nuove) to the interrogation rooms in the Doge's Palace. It was designed by Antonio Contino, whose uncle Antonio da Ponte designed the Rialto Bridge, and it was built in 1600. The view from the Bridge of Sighs was the last view of Venice that convicts saw before their imprisonment. The bridge's English name was bequeathed by Lord Byron in the 19th century as a translation from the Italian "Ponte dei sospiri", from the suggestion that prisoners would sigh at their final view of beautiful Venice through the window before being taken down to their cells. In reality, the days of inquisitions and summary executions were over by the time that the bridge was built,[citation needed] and the cells under the palace roof were occupied mostly by small-time criminals. In addition, little could be seen from inside the bridge due to the stone grills covering the windows.
(Wikipedia)
A view from the prison on the island of Château d'If. This is where the fictional character of the Count was imprisoned in the novel by Alexander Dumas : The Count of Monte Cristo.
..Almost forgotten lives stored in an haunting place...Only Death remembers those Imprisoned Souls...
Someone imprisoned behind the dusty glass is calling out to me, I can barely make sense of their whispers. He warns me to be careful. He, like me, came to visit here on Halloween and was somehow captured.
He tells me that his girlfriend, whom he came to visit, is staying in the next room, and he wishes he could see her if possible.
After struggling to open the door of the room for a while, the door finally opened and there stood this beautiful woman in front of me in the most concrete form of captivity.
Yes, you heard right, I define it as "beautiful". I think we all agree that beauty is relative :)
As the woman walks out the door to meet her lover, I watch the rain that has just started from the window and think about when Halloween turned into a Valentine's Day celebration.
Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything For Love
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X_ViIPA-Gc&list=PLBir6L7OzqP...
Boogeyman Asylum
Completely out of focus. Completely lost my balance today. Completely lost "hope" for a moment.
Are we allowed to lose hope.. Even for a tiny moment?
"Cry if you must. Cry a river! But you have to build a bridge and cross over your tears."
Här kommer mitt bidrag till fotosöndags veckoutema - instängd.
För ett kort stund så var vårat köksbord ett fängelset. En av våra söner var instängd som modell, och min fru var ansvarig för blixten. Jag måste verkligen investera i en belysning stativ med bom för min blixt för att hjälpa min stackars frus armar!
Here comes my contribution to fotosöndag's weekly challenge - imprisoned.
For a brief while our kitchen table was turned into a prison with one of my sons being held captive as the model and my wife on flash duty. I really need to invest in a boom arm for my flash stand to save my poor wife's arms!
Strobist info: A single Nissin Di700a flash was placed in a gridded softbox directly above the subject. A piece of paper was placed on the table, just out of view, for some fill light. Triggered by wireless remote.
Penso che noi umani siamo gli unici animali che sanno rinchiudersi in anguste prigioni mentali...
E spesso non sanno chiedere aiuto...
alcune aggiunte:
Francesca: molto spesso lo chiediamo talmente piano che nessuno ci sente.
Gabriele: Forse l'essere umano non chiede più aiuto per orgoglio, vergogna, mancanza di fiducia, diffidenza nel prossimo. Purtroppo viviamo ormai in una società malata e paranoica dove i valori stanno scemando
Claudio: "quella goccia d'acqua penso sia la prigione trasparente in cui molti di noi si chiudono."
Roberto: quando il sole asciuga la goccia e perdiamo la nostra prigione restiamo soli e smarriti.
fotomie2009
Wall imprisons, it does hide
The tree of love, that's found inside
Rising up , it goes higher
Until it's broken by desire
Falling urgently to the floor
To show the beauty of amour
That tempts your heart, to explode
Unleash your passion and unload
All your desires, on the ground
Behind the wall, where love is found
#TwPhCh Sort/hvitt [B&W]
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I say "I'm SORRY" coz I know I've imprisoned you in my room, never letting you have fresh air, or have the direct sunbath.
I say "THANK YOU" coz you've forgiven me for what I did, and always brighten up the room with your lovely colours.
Berlin boasts two zoological gardens, a consequence of decades of political and administrative division of the city. The older one, called Zoo Berlin, founded in 1844, is situated in what is now called the "City West". It is the most species-rich zoo worldwide. The other one, called Tierpark Berlin ("Animal Park"), was established on the long abandoned premises of Friedrichsfelde Manor Park in the eastern borough of Lichtenberg, in 1954. Covering 160 ha, it is the largest landcape zoo in Europe. In front of and behind the manor, the original design of the gardens was carefully restored. That is why you won't see any animals in this part of the enormous premises of the Animal Park. But you'll find plenty of them at a short distance.
Friedrichsfelde Manor house, designed in the early neo-Classical architectural style, is located in the Berlin Animal Park in the Friedrichsfelde district of Berlin. It was built in 1685 as Rosenfelde Manor by the Electorate of Brandenburg's Director General of the Navy, Benjamin Raule. This first five-axes building was probably constructed in the Dutch country house style according to plans by Johann Arnold Nering. In 1698, Benjamin Raule fell from grace and was imprisoned and expropriated. The castle fell to the Prussian Elector and later King Frederick I and was renamed Friedrichsfelde. After the king's death, the property was transferred to his half-brother Margrave Albrecht Friedrich von Brandenburg-Schwedt in 1717. In 1719, court architect Martin Heinrich Böhme enlarged the palace by three axes each to the east and west to its present width and added a three-winged Baroque staircase made of oak.
The castle survived the Second World War relatively undamaged. After the expropriation in the course of the land reform, both the building and the surrounding manor park fell into disrepair. When the decision was made in 1954 to create a separate zoo for East Berlin, the palace served for a few years as the headquarters of the organisers of the garden's conversion; parts of the building were used as stables for the zoo. It was not until the period between 1970 and 1981 that the castle was renovated on the initiative of Tierpark Berlin. The director of the Animal Park at the time, Heinrich Dathe, campaigned massively for the preservation of the manor house and prevented plans to demolish it.
It's hard to find inspiration nowadays! I just want to wish all my visitors health, hope and good luck. Stay at home, take care your family and pray! God bless you!
Powis Castle is a medieval castle, fortress and grand country house near Welshpool, in Powys, Wales. The seat of the Herbert family, earls of Powis, the castle is known for its formal gardens and for its interiors, the former having been described as "the most important", and the latter "the most magnificent", in the country. The castle and gardens are under the care of the National Trust. Powis Castle is a Grade I listed building, while its gardens have their own Grade I listing on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.
The present castle was built in the 13th century. Unusually for a castle on the Marches, it was constructed by a Welsh prince, Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, rather than by a Norman baron. Gruffydd was prince of the ancient Kingdom of Powys and maintained an alliance with the English king Edward I during the struggles of the later 13th century. He was able to secure the position of his son, Owain, although the kingdom itself was abolished by the Parliament of Shrewsbury in 1283. After his father's death, Owain was raised to the peerage as Owen de la Pole, 1st Lord of Powis. Following his own death c. 1293, and the death of his only son, he was succeeded by his daughter, Hawys Gadarn, "the Lady of Powis". Hawys married Sir John Charlton in 1309.
In the late 16th century the castle was purchased by Edward Herbert, a younger son of the earl of Pembroke, beginning a connection between the family and the castle that continues today. The Herberts remained Roman Catholic until the 18th century and, although rising in the peerage to earls, marquesses and Jacobite dukes of Powis, suffered periods of imprisonment and exile. Despite these setbacks, they were able in the late 17th and early 18th centuries to transform Powis from a border fortress into an aristocratic country house, and surround it with one of the very few extant examples of a British Baroque garden.
In 1784 Henrietta Herbert married Edward Clive, eldest son of Clive of India, a match which replenished the much-depleted Herbert family fortune. In the early 20th century, George Herbert, 4th Earl of Powis redeveloped the castle with the assistance of the architect George Frederick Bodley. Herbert’s wife, Violet, undertook work of equal importance in the garden, seeking to turn it into "one of the most beautiful, if not the most beautiful, in England and Wales". On the 4th earl's death in 1952, his wife and his sons having predeceased him, the castle passed into the care of the National Trust.
The insides of a sculpture "Hvězdice", author:
Čestmír Suška
Ostrava, Czechia, 2025
Arkliukas, pinhole 0,2 mm, Fomapan 100, HC-110 (dilution H, 22 min at 20°C, inversions at 0, 1, 2, 5, 9 and 16 min)
Splügen | Swiss Alps | Switzerland
[EXPLORED] 18th Jan 2016 I am really pleased to have this image included in EXPLORE (My 9th EXPLORE to-date). Thanks for all the faves and nice comments. I really appreciate the support and welcome any constructive critique, while I continue to grow and develop my skills as a landscape photographer.
I visited Switzerland with my family recently, staying in a small village on Lake Maggiore near Locarno. For my 40th birthday, we drove into the small village of Splügen, which lies at 1,457 meters above sea-level in the Rhine forest at Hinterrhein and at the junction of routes to the passports Splügenpass and San Bernardino.
Splügen: Background
The Splügen Pass is a high mountain pass which marks the boundary between the Lepontine and Rhaetian Alps, respectively part of the Western and Eastern Alps. The pass road connects the Swiss Hinterrhein valley and Splügen in the canton of Graubünden with the Valle Spluga and Chiavenna in the Italian province of Sondrio, the road continuing to Lake Como. The pass is the water divide between the drainage basins of the Rhine, which flows into the North Sea, and the Po, which flows into the Adriatic. The pass is overlooked by Pizzo Tambò, which towers over the valley with its summit at an elevation of 3,279 metres.
History/Popular Culture
In 1840, author Mary Shelley traveled through the pass on the way to Lake Como with her son. She describes the pass in her travel narrative, Rambles in Germany and Italy, published in 1844:
"A few years ago, there was no path except across this mountain, which being very exposed, and difficult even to danger, the Splugen was only traversed by shepherds and travellers of the country on mules or on foot. But now, a new and most marvellous road has been constructed - the mountain in question is, to the extent of several miles, cleft from the summit to the base, and a sheer precipice of 4000 feet rises on either side. The Rhine, swift and strong, but in width a span, flows in the narrow depth below. The road has been constructed on the face of the precipice, now cut into the side, now perforated through the living rock into galleries: it passes, at intervals, from one side of the ravine to the other, and bridges of a single arch span the chasm. The precipices, indeed approach so near, in parts, that a fallen tree could not reach the river below, but lay wedged in mid-way. It may be imagined how singular and sublime this pass is, in its naked simplicity. After proceeding about a mile, you look back and see the country you had left, through the narrow opening of the gigantic crags, set like a painting in this cloud-reaching frame. It is giddy work to look down over the parapet that protects the road, and mark the arrowy rushing of the imprisoned river. Mid-way in the pass, the precipices approach so near that you might fancy that a strong man could leap across”.
Taking The Shot
It was -7°C when I took this, and I was with my family (including my baby son) so I wasn't going to spend time setting up a tripod and filters. Consequently, this is a hand-held shot (resting my elbow on a ski pole for stability). Shot from immediately outside the family restaurant at the foot of the piste, I applied a graduated filter in Lightroom to correct some of the blown-out highlights in the sky.
When the people of Bruges revolted against their ruler Maximilian of Austria, he got imprisoned in the city for a few months. When he got out he wanted to take revenge on the inhabitants of Bruges. He wrote a decree saying that “until the end of time, the city should be required at its own expense to keep swans on all its lakes and canals”. The reason for the swans was that his adviser Pieter Lanckhals was imprisoned with him and later executed. Lanckhals is Dutch for the word ‘long neck’, which refers to the swans with their long necks.
My mum shot this! Sorry i've been off the radar for a few days - home for Easter. Hope you all had a blessed Easter. Christ is risen!
Polish name: Sanktuarium Matki Bożej Łaskawej
Built in the late-Renaissance style, between 1609-1629, this church is one of the most notable Mannerist buildings in the city. The early-Baroque altar has a miraculous painting of Our Lady of Grace, the Patron Saint of the city of Warsaw. It was donated by King John Casimir to Pope Innocence X and came to Poland in 1651
In the church (the interior is completely modern) you can find also a good preserved wooden crucifix (1383) and a baroque sculpture of Our Lady of Grace (18th century). Interesting are the several statues like-coming out of the front door and a stone sculpture of a lying bear in front of the church (18th century). It has a romantic legend connected to it: in this enchanted rock, a shy prince was imprisoned, waiting for the woman whose love can bring him back to manhood.
(Wikipedia)
Imprisoned, convicted and subsequently hanged; Thurtell at Hertford and Groom at Norwich Castle Gaol. Now converted to a museum, visitors walk across the very bridge where the gallows were erected, little realising it's grim past.
12 by 12 Challenge 02
Find a place where you live where history made its mark. Allow yourself to breathe, feel, contemplate and react with a photograph – Laura El-Tantawy
Laura adds… "The ground that you stand on is the same ground where something profoundly good or evil took place."
Taken at Hatfield House, England.
It is a Jacobean country house set in a large park. This Jacobean house was built in 1611 by Robert Cecil, First Earl of Salisbury and Chief Minister to King James I and has been the home of the Cecil family ever since. The house, currently the home of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury.
An earlier building on the site was the Royal Palace of Hatfield which was the childhood home and favourite residence of Queen Elizabeth I. Built in 1497 by the Bishop of Ely, King Henry VII's minister John Cardinal Morton, it comprised four wings in a square surrounding a central courtyard. The palace was seized by Henry VIII
Henry VIII's children, King Edward VI and the future Queen Elizabeth I, spent their youth at Hatfield Palace. His eldest daughter, who later reigned as Queen Mary I, lived there between 1533 and 1536, when she was sent to wait on the then Princess Elizabeth, as punishment for refusing to recognise Henry's marriage to Anne Boleyn and his religious reforms. In 1548, when she was only 15 years old, Elizabeth was under suspicion of having illegally agreed to marry Thomas Seymour, the House and her servants were seized by Edward VI's agent Robert Tyrwhit, and she was interrogated there. She successfully defended her conduct with wit and defiance. Seymour was executed in 1549 for numerous other crimes against the crown.
After her two months of imprisonment in the Tower of London by her sister Queen Mary, Elizabeth returned to Hatfield. The Queen Elizabeth Oak on the grounds of the estate is said to be the location where Elizabeth was told she was Queen following Mary's death.
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