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Not Independence Hall but its look-alike, the Clock Tower of the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation. It was built in 1929 and designed by Robert O. Derrick.
Charles Willson Peale, The Artist in His Museum, 1822, oil on canvas, 263.5 x 202.9 cm (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts)
This historic precedent of Colonial Georgian Architecture sits at the heart of Philadelphia's old city center. Independence Hall also played a crucial role in the founding of the United States, as its storied assembly rooms witnessed the signing of both the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the Constitution in 1787.
On this day on Market Street in Wheeling, 1949, theatergoers had their choice of watching Famed Indian actor Sabu venture into the jungle in "Song of India" or Allan Lane swagger into a dusty abandoned fort as the "Sheriff of Wichita" at the Liberty Theatre, Elizabeth Taylor, Janet Leigh, and Peter Lawford bring to life the classic Louisa May Alcott novel in "Little Women" at the Colonial Theatre, or Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dance away in "The Barkleys of Broadway" at the Rex.
-from the Eddie Martin/William O'Leary Collection of the Ohio County Public Library Archives.
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"Independence Hall is a historic civic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in which both the United States Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution were debated and adopted. The structure forms the centerpiece of the Independence National Historical Park."
Canon 11-24mm f/4L USM "Real World Review"
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Canon 11-24 F4L USM is one of the widest full frame lenses you will ever see on the market. This lens clocks in at $3,000 but if your a full time professional this is a must have lens in your bag.
In this “Real World Review” of the Canon 11-24 F4L USM lens I took it for a spin out at Independence Mall here in Philadelphia. Independence Mall is where the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall are located. This area lends well to testing out camera gear and as many of you know, in my opinion the only way to truly test out gear is to use it in the “Real World”.
To download four sample RAW Files please click the link above (100 meg zip file).
Canon’s widest zoom rectilinear (they have a 14mm 2.8 prime) prior to this lens was the 16-35 F2.8 II. This is a fantastic wide lens but many photographers including myself wanted/needed something wider. That’s why I love my Nikon 14-24 2.8, because it’s wide and fast.
Canon decided to go with an F4 aperture which to be honest is not a deal breaker when you are shooting so wide. If that lens was going to be a 2.8 could you imagine how much larger/heavier it would be as well as more expensive.
Who is this lens for? This is a photojournalists dream lens for shooting in tight spaces but wanting to maximize filling the frame with your subjects. Take shooting at the liberty bell for example. I was able to shoot down low on the ground with the bell out of focus and a edge to edge image of the people there to see it.
One thing you have to be careful about is putting people on the edge of the frame at 11mm. Whatever is on the edge is going to bow out due to how these type of lenses are constructed. This is not a deal breaker, it’s simply something you have to be cognizant of when you’re shooting ultra wide.
You can’t forget about talking about this lens as it pertains to video. For establishing shots, this lens is fantastic with video. Wether you need those ultra wide panning shots or slightly tighter detail shots this lens can do it. It does not have IS or image stabilization which for shooting video does came in handy. Since it doesn’t have that you may want to shoot video on a tripod or another stabilizer.
Keep in mind this lens is not for everyone, it’s meant for the full time pros who can one afford it and two use it to it’s full potential. If I were a Canon shooter I would have ordered this lens day one to round out my Canon Hebrew Trinity.
While in Philadelphia I was able to give focus to the exterior of the Declaration Chamber known as Independence Hall. Read the history below about this amazing place where our country was first adopted.
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Here the continental congress sat from the date it convened May 10, 1775 until the close of the revolution, except when in 1776-7 it sat in Baltimore and in 1777-8 in Lancaster and York, due to the temporary occupation of Philadelphia by the British Army.
Here on June 16, 1775, George Washington accepted his appointment by congress as General of the Continental Army.
Here, On Jly 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was adopted, and on July 9, 1978, the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union between states were adopted and signed.
Here, in November 3, 1781, twenty-four standards, taken at the surrender of Yorktown, were laid a the feet of Congress and his Excellency, the Ambassador of France.
Here on September 17, 1787, the Constitution of the United States of America was adopted and signed.
Charles Willson Peale, The Artist in His Museum, 1822, oil on canvas, 263.5 x 202.9 cm (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts)
While in Philadelphia I was able to give focus to the exterior of the Declaration Chamber known as Independence Hall. Read the history below about this amazing place where our country was first adopted.
Click here for more information about George Washington
Click for more photos of Philadelphia
Click to see your top 10 Most Interesting Photos
Click to see your top 10 Most Viewed Photos.
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Here the continental congress sat from the date it convened May 10, 1775 until the close of the revolution, except when in 1776-7 it sat in Baltimore and in 1777-8 in Lancaster and York, due to the temporary occupation of Philadelphia by the British Army.
Here on June 16, 1775, George Washington accepted his appointment by congress as General of the Continental Army.
Here, On Jly 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was adopted, and on July 9, 1978, the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union between states were adopted and signed.
Here, in November 3, 1781, twenty-four standards, taken at the surrender of Yorktown, were laid a the feet of Congress and his Excellency, the Ambassador of France.
Here on September 17, 1787, the Constitution of the United States of America was adopted and signed.
The Signing of the Constitution by Louis S. Glanzman, hanging in Independence Hall, was commissioned by the Daughters of the American Revolution for the Ammerican Bicentennial in 1976.
Independence Hall, on Chestnut Street between 5th and 6th Streets, was built by Edmund Woolley and Andrew Hamilton, the Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly, in 1753 as the Pennsylvania State House. But it was the events that took place between 1775 and 1787 that earned it the name Independence Hall, and reinforce its iconic status as the Birthplace of the Nation. It is within its walls that the delegates to the Second Continental Congress met, the Declaration of Independence was approved, and the Constitution of the United States was debated, drafted and signed.
Construction on the redbrick Georgian style building, at the time the most ambitious public work in the colonies, began in 1732. The bell tower, consisting of a wooden steeple set atop the three-story brick house, was the original home of the Liberty Bell and today holds the Centennial Bell, created for the United States Centennial Exposition in 1876.
Independence National Historical Park preserves several sites associated with the American Revolution. Administered by the National Park Service, the 45-acre park was authorized in 1948, and established on July 4, 1956.
Independence Hall was designated a World Heritage Site on October 24, 1979.
Independence National Park Historic District National Register #66000675 (1966)
Charles Willson Peale, The Artist in His Museum, 1822, oil on canvas, 263.5 x 202.9 cm (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts)
Charles Willson Peale, The Artist in His Museum, 1822, oil on canvas, 263.5 x 202.9 cm (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts)
Created in 1948, Independence National Historic Park has been nicknamed "America's most historic square mile" due to it housing important areas related to the nation's founding. This is the view of Independence Hall, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979.
It also marks the 2500 photo on my photostream.
Shows the Assembly Room of Independence Hall in Philadelphia before its renovation in 1872. An ornate iron-work fence surrounds the Liberty Bell. Wainscoating, a chandelier, a statue of George Washington and portraits of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence adorn the chamber.
Accession number: P.2011.47.1392
Built in 1927, the Pythian Lodge Building on the SE corner of 16th & Market Streets was demolished to in 1989 to create a plaza park the for West Virginia Northern Community College. Three pediments from the lodge were preserved, set on brick piers, and used to form gateways to the College Square Plaza.
-photograph from the Eddie Martin/William O'Leary Collection of the Ohio County Public Library Archives.
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Where the Declaration of Independence was debated and signed.
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This is a supplemental, the third of what's turned out to be three ... we'll call it part 13c of 50 in an occasional series.
The idea to do a supplemental discussion of American independence came to me early in the process of writing these state things, as independence marks a transition in how states came about that I thought might need some context. It's just a nice coincidence brought on by my glacial writing pace that I get to this one today. Today happens to be Independence Day in the United States, and that little building with the steeple across the lawn in the picture up above is Philadelphia's Independence Hall. In that building 241 years ago, on July 4, 1776, a batch of mostly rich guys in wigs representing each of the 13 colonies I've discussed gathered to sign the Declaration of Independence, the founding document of the United States of America that erased the Colonies and changed them into states. For people from foreign lands who don't know, that anniversary's a big deal for us, and we all get today off work to go eat hot dogs and blow our fingers off with illegal fireworks.
But why, exactly, did all those rich guys in wigs gather in that building at the start of a hot summer in the first place, and how did they accomplish what they set out to do?
The why's a more complicated question than it seems in a lot of the stories we tell about our national origin. I tend to simplify the whole thing myself in discussions with a short answer that tracks back to those consequences I mentioned after the French and Indian War: Americans have a long history of not wanting to pay for anything. This answer tends to bother people who prefer their history to have things like context or depth, as there's a lot more to it than just a tax revolt. Honestly, I think the whole thing was inevitable anyway. The colonists had been away from the homeland for too long, and the cultures on their separate continents were evolving in too many different ways. The increasing tensions just needed a trigger, and the heart of that trigger turned out to be a tax revolt. So I cling to the underlying truth of the statement. The Americans didn't want to pay for anything.
Let's backtrack a little. It's 1763, and young King George III and his Parliament have just spent an enormous amount of money defending the colonies from the French. (They also tossed a ton of cash at Europe they maybe didn't have to spend, something a lot of Americans would bring up, but to George III, that was beside the point.) Meanwhile, the colonists have been paying almost nothing in taxes--the average American in 1763 payed about 1/25th as much in taxes as his cousins back in England. So the British came up with a perfectly fair idea. Why not ask just a little more? Not a lot. It's not like they were going to make the colonies pay off the entire national debt. Just little things, a couple of tiny taxes here and there to help balance the books. You know, for King, and country and all that.
They started with a tax on imported molasses, the main ingredient in the production of rum, among other things. Of course, there'd already been a tax on imported molasses since 1733, but the Americans had gotten really good at smuggling molasses past the authorities, and when smuggling wasn't an option they just bribed the tax guys into overlooking the shipment. The Molasses Act of 1764 would cut that 1733 tax in half--it was actually a tax cut--but would make evasion a lot more difficult to manage. So the colonists would owe less tax ... but they'd actually have to pay it.
Well, this got everybody into a snit, so Parliament repealed the tax in 1766. But they kept trying other taxes. The Stamp Act of 1765 required all the paper sold in the colonies to have a stamp you had to pay the government to get. The Townsend Acts of 1767 instituted taxes on all sorts of things, including glass, lead, paint, paper and tea. Every new tax ticked the Americans off just a little more than the last one, and people started organizing increasingly more effective boycotts of this or that. In turn, every protest and boycott ticked off the guys in Parliament, who responded with increasingly more peevish acts that just made things worse. None of it made any sense to Parliament. It wasn't like they were asking the Americans to surrender their first-born sons. All they wanted was just a couple of cents here and there. Just pennies a day, the price of a cup of tea, and you, too, can have an army of British regulars to keep the Indians on their side of the mountains.
So what was the American problem? The most popular explanation among today's historians and yesterday's Patriots involves the popular slogan on the tips of every colonist's tongue in 1776: "No taxation without representation." The problem, this argument said, wasn't that colonists didn't want to pay their taxes, but that taxes were being imposed on the colonists by a body (Parliament) the colonists did not elect and in which they weren't represented. And to be sure, It's true that while every colony had always had its own elected assembly--the Virginia House of Burgesses, for instance, was 145 years old when the Molasses Act came down--these assemblies had no say in Parliament. There was no place in the system for the will of the colonial people, and any duty imposed on the people without their consent was nothing short of tyranny. (The word "tyranny" is always very popular among hyperbolic anti-tax folks, but in this case, it was particularly funny coming from so many people who owned slaves.)
The thing is, while I'm sure a lot of colonists believed this line of thought with every fiber of their being, I tend to think this was more a rhetorical dodge than anything. It was an argument with just enough truth to make the colonists feel justified in their indignation, but I think the issue ran much deeper than that. Sure, maybe King George could have done something crazy like maybe give the colonists a few seats in Parliament or something, but that wouldn't have fixed the underlying problem. The greater problem was simply that for too long, the various British governments of various kings, queens, and lords protector had left the colonists to pretty much fend for themselves. The guys in London had a tendency to get caught up in European affairs--and, at least once, in a decade-long revolution of their own--and administering a bunch of colonies full of (let's be honest) religious nuts and backwoods dopes took a lot of effort. For more than a century, it had made more sense to let the colonies just take care of themselves. And the colonies had gotten used to that freedom and had taken great advantage of it, spreading themselves out into the woods wherever they wanted to go, waging wars against the Indians and against each other, making money, losing money, building little plantation empires and city-states and personal fiefdoms that acted more and more like there wasn't anybody named George worth worrying about. Most of them were still loyal to the Crown in the 1763, sure, but that was only because the Crown had little to no effect on their lives. The minute some George tried to change that ... well, look out!
The final straw came after Parliament passed the Tea Act of 1773. This one wasn't so much a tax as it was a trade regulation designed to prop up the failing British East India Company by helping it sell down its massive backlog of unsold tea, while at the same time providing a subtle political dig at the whole anti-tax movement. There'd long been this convoluted process involving the sale of tea in the colonies that depended in part on smuggling, and the Tea Act would result in a lot of middle men losing a lot of money. So one night in December of 1773, a bunch of rowdy Boston guys went aboard a ship full of tea parked in Boston harbor and tossed the whole shipment overboard. They were orderly about the whole thing, being careful not to damage any cargo but the tea, and they even left money to pay for a padlock they had to break, but they got their point across. And from that moment, it was on. A lot of people in Great Britain who'd been sympathetic to the colonists' argument decided suddenly they were all a bunch of hooligans, and Parliament passed a quick set of laws designed to isolate and punish Massachusetts. This only unified a bunch of colonials who usually didn't agree on much around a common enemy. Things escalated quickly, and in April of 1775 somebody in the Massachusetts militia fired a shot heard round the world.
I haven't spent a lot of time giving the Revolutionary play-by-play on these pages, but the shorthand version is that just before all those rich guys in wigs signed their Declaration, they told George Washington to turn about 10,000 farmers into soldiers so they could go shoot British people. Washington's men spent the next six years between recurring episodes of starvation and frostbite not getting cornered by a better trained and better equipped force run by idiots. Now, I mean no disrespect to the soldiers of the Mother Country, but even a brief glance at the actions of the British military leadership and its ministers back in London is more than enough to prove this was far from Great Britain's finest hour. One general managed to lose an entire army of 7,000 men in 1777 because he couldn't figure out how to march from Canada into upstate New York. Another in 1778 let an army of barefoot farmers who only lasted more than a week because George Washington was some kind of wizard corner him in New York City. And then there was Cornwallis, who got chased out of the Carolinas by a bunch of hillbillies in 1780 and picked the most indefensible spot in Virginia to set up base in 1781. And this doesn't even take into account the large and powerful navy the British had available that they hardly used. They used the navy for troop transport, like, one time. Most powerful navy in the world, and the British used it as a ferry. So, yeah ... Yorktown.
Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown on October 19, 1781, and representatives of Great Britain and the former colonies signed the Treaty of Paris that ended the war in 1783. The United States of America were finally their own thing, independent and free and ready to take their place in the world. And it was full of people who were no longer colonists, optimistic people who saw a vast continent to their west that was just waiting to be tamed, and that's what they set out to do. The West was waiting for them, just waiting for them to triumphantly carve it all up into new states with names nobody yet knew. There were states out there just waiting to be made, and it was finally time for them all to go do it.
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. -- Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. -- And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
-- John Hancock
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry, Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery, Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott, William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris, Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark, Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross, Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean, Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton, William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn, Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton, Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
Originally opened as a US Custom House in 1859, this building, which served as the state capitol building of the Reorganized Government of Virginia from 1861 to 1863. In 1907, a new federal building was erected in Wheeling and the old Custom House was sold to Joseph Speidel and Associates in 1912. A three-story addition designed by Wheeling architect Frederick F. Faris was made to the south side of the building, and it became known as the Conservative Life Building.
In 1958, the Wheeling Area Historical Society recommended to the West Virginia Centennial Commission in 1958 that the old U. S. Custom House be restored. In the spring of 1963, an ad hoc committee of the Society met with the building’s owner and several members of the state legislature. Gov. Wallace Barron supported the move, and during the 1963 state centennial celebration, he revealed restoration plans. The state purchased the structure in 1964 and leased it to the West Virginia Independence Hall Foundation for $1.00 per annum. In turn, the Foundation pledged to restore the building to its Civil War appearance.
The 20th century additions were razed and architectural details of the original structure were restored. Private grants and government monies funded the restoration.
The National Park Service placed West Virginia Independence Hall on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. In 1979, the West Virginia Division of Culture and History became the facility’s administrator and in 1980, the facility opened as a historic museum. In 1988, the birthplace of West Virginia gained recognition as a National Historic Landmark. Today it is known as West Virginia Independence Hall.
-image from "Souvenir Views of Wheeling" postcard booklet, circa 1915, Postcard Collection of the Ohio County Public Library Archives. Photograph taken by C.C. Kline. Booklet donated by Jeffrey Cox.
[Postcard booklet info: J. B. Merge, Advertising Novelties, Box 543, Wheeling, W. Va. ]
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Canon 11-24mm f/4L USM "Real World Review"
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Canon 11-24 F4L USM is one of the widest full frame lenses you will ever see on the market. This lens clocks in at $3,000 but if your a full time professional this is a must have lens in your bag.
In this “Real World Review” of the Canon 11-24 F4L USM lens I took it for a spin out at Independence Mall here in Philadelphia. Independence Mall is where the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall are located. This area lends well to testing out camera gear and as many of you know, in my opinion the only way to truly test out gear is to use it in the “Real World”.
To download four sample RAW Files please click the link above (100 meg zip file).
Canon’s widest zoom rectilinear (they have a 14mm 2.8 prime) prior to this lens was the 16-35 F2.8 II. This is a fantastic wide lens but many photographers including myself wanted/needed something wider. That’s why I love my Nikon 14-24 2.8, because it’s wide and fast.
Canon decided to go with an F4 aperture which to be honest is not a deal breaker when you are shooting so wide. If that lens was going to be a 2.8 could you imagine how much larger/heavier it would be as well as more expensive.
Who is this lens for? This is a photojournalists dream lens for shooting in tight spaces but wanting to maximize filling the frame with your subjects. Take shooting at the liberty bell for example. I was able to shoot down low on the ground with the bell out of focus and a edge to edge image of the people there to see it.
One thing you have to be careful about is putting people on the edge of the frame at 11mm. Whatever is on the edge is going to bow out due to how these type of lenses are constructed. This is not a deal breaker, it’s simply something you have to be cognizant of when you’re shooting ultra wide.
You can’t forget about talking about this lens as it pertains to video. For establishing shots, this lens is fantastic with video. Wether you need those ultra wide panning shots or slightly tighter detail shots this lens can do it. It does not have IS or image stabilization which for shooting video does came in handy. Since it doesn’t have that you may want to shoot video on a tripod or another stabilizer.
Keep in mind this lens is not for everyone, it’s meant for the full time pros who can one afford it and two use it to it’s full potential. If I were a Canon shooter I would have ordered this lens day one to round out my Canon Hebrew Trinity.
Canon 11-24mm f/4L USM "Real World Review"
froknowsphoto.com/canon-11-24mm-f4l-usm-real-world-review/
The
Canon 11-24 F4L USM is one of the widest full frame lenses you will ever see on the market. This lens clocks in at $3,000 but if your a full time professional this is a must have lens in your bag.
In this “Real World Review” of the Canon 11-24 F4L USM lens I took it for a spin out at Independence Mall here in Philadelphia. Independence Mall is where the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall are located. This area lends well to testing out camera gear and as many of you know, in my opinion the only way to truly test out gear is to use it in the “Real World”.
To download four sample RAW Files please click the link above (100 meg zip file).
Canon’s widest zoom rectilinear (they have a 14mm 2.8 prime) prior to this lens was the 16-35 F2.8 II. This is a fantastic wide lens but many photographers including myself wanted/needed something wider. That’s why I love my Nikon 14-24 2.8, because it’s wide and fast.
Canon decided to go with an F4 aperture which to be honest is not a deal breaker when you are shooting so wide. If that lens was going to be a 2.8 could you imagine how much larger/heavier it would be as well as more expensive.
Who is this lens for? This is a photojournalists dream lens for shooting in tight spaces but wanting to maximize filling the frame with your subjects. Take shooting at the liberty bell for example. I was able to shoot down low on the ground with the bell out of focus and a edge to edge image of the people there to see it.
One thing you have to be careful about is putting people on the edge of the frame at 11mm. Whatever is on the edge is going to bow out due to how these type of lenses are constructed. This is not a deal breaker, it’s simply something you have to be cognizant of when you’re shooting ultra wide.
You can’t forget about talking about this lens as it pertains to video. For establishing shots, this lens is fantastic with video. Wether you need those ultra wide panning shots or slightly tighter detail shots this lens can do it. It does not have IS or image stabilization which for shooting video does came in handy. Since it doesn’t have that you may want to shoot video on a tripod or another stabilizer.
Keep in mind this lens is not for everyone, it’s meant for the full time pros who can one afford it and two use it to it’s full potential. If I were a Canon shooter I would have ordered this lens day one to round out my Canon Hebrew Trinity.
Canon 11-24mm f/4L USM "Real World Review"
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Canon 11-24 F4L USM is one of the widest full frame lenses you will ever see on the market. This lens clocks in at $3,000 but if your a full time professional this is a must have lens in your bag.
In this “Real World Review” of the Canon 11-24 F4L USM lens I took it for a spin out at Independence Mall here in Philadelphia. Independence Mall is where the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall are located. This area lends well to testing out camera gear and as many of you know, in my opinion the only way to truly test out gear is to use it in the “Real World”.
To download four sample RAW Files please click the link above (100 meg zip file).
Canon’s widest zoom rectilinear (they have a 14mm 2.8 prime) prior to this lens was the 16-35 F2.8 II. This is a fantastic wide lens but many photographers including myself wanted/needed something wider. That’s why I love my Nikon 14-24 2.8, because it’s wide and fast.
Canon decided to go with an F4 aperture which to be honest is not a deal breaker when you are shooting so wide. If that lens was going to be a 2.8 could you imagine how much larger/heavier it would be as well as more expensive.
Who is this lens for? This is a photojournalists dream lens for shooting in tight spaces but wanting to maximize filling the frame with your subjects. Take shooting at the liberty bell for example. I was able to shoot down low on the ground with the bell out of focus and a edge to edge image of the people there to see it.
One thing you have to be careful about is putting people on the edge of the frame at 11mm. Whatever is on the edge is going to bow out due to how these type of lenses are constructed. This is not a deal breaker, it’s simply something you have to be cognizant of when you’re shooting ultra wide.
You can’t forget about talking about this lens as it pertains to video. For establishing shots, this lens is fantastic with video. Wether you need those ultra wide panning shots or slightly tighter detail shots this lens can do it. It does not have IS or image stabilization which for shooting video does came in handy. Since it doesn’t have that you may want to shoot video on a tripod or another stabilizer.
Keep in mind this lens is not for everyone, it’s meant for the full time pros who can one afford it and two use it to it’s full potential. If I were a Canon shooter I would have ordered this lens day one to round out my Canon Hebrew Trinity.
Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - August 2012
This is a bench inside the room where the Second Continental Congress debated independence from Great Britain.
This historic precedent of Colonial Georgian Architecture sits at the heart of Philadelphia's old city center. Independence Hall also played a crucial role in the founding of the United States, as its storied assembly rooms witnessed the signing of both the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the Constitution in 1787.
Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the second largest city on the East Coast of the United States, and the fifth-most-populous city in the United States. It is located in the Northeastern United States at the confluence of the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers, and it is the only consolidated city-county in Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 Census, the city had a population of 1,526,006, growing to 1,547,607 in 2012 by Census estimates. Philadelphia is the economic and cultural center of the Delaware Valley, home to over 6 million people and the country's sixth-largest metropolitan area. Within the Delaware Valley, the Philadelphia metropolitan division consists of five counties in Pennsylvania and has a population of 4,008,994. Popular nicknames for Philadelphia are Philly and The City of Brotherly Love, the latter of which comes from the literal meaning of the city's name in Greek.
In 1682, William Penn founded the city to serve as capital of Pennsylvania Colony. By the 1750s, Philadelphia had surpassed Boston to become the largest city and busiest port in British America, and second in the British Empire, behind London. During the American Revolution, Philadelphia played an instrumental role as a meeting place for the Founding Fathers of the United States, who signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the Constitution in 1787. Philadelphia was one of the nation's capitals during the Revolutionary War, and the city served as the temporary U.S. capital while Washington, D.C., was under construction. During the 19th century, Philadelphia became a major industrial center and railroad hub that grew from an influx of European immigrants. It became a prime destination for African Americans during the Great Migration and surpassed two million occupants by 1950.
The city is the center of economic activity in Pennsylvania, and is home to the Philadelphia Stock Exchange and several Fortune 500 companies.
Philadelphia is known for its arts and culture. The cheesesteak and soft pretzel are emblematic of Philadelphia cuisine, which is shaped by the city's ethnic mix. The city has more outdoor sculptures and murals than any other American city, and Philadelphia's Fairmount Park is the largest landscaped urban park in the world.
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