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Is this a tourist item, or what? Wisconsin's Door County is full of tourist items. Personally, I prefer their cherry products to their imported kitsch although the kitsch is amusing in small doses.
This is a beautiful close-up of the original 1928 bronze or copper-patinated architectural grille at the base of the storefront.
The repeating X-motif with central rosettes is typical of late-1920s commercial Beaux-Arts and Classical Revival storefront design—decorative yet functional, likely serving as ventilation grilles beneath the display windows.
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The original shot of an art project made by my younger daughter was taken with my iPhone11. I used Photofox's KaleidoDrop component to create the image.
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España - Asturias - Cangas de OnÃs - Puente medieval sobre el rÃo Sella
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ENGLISH:
The old bridge is one of the best-known symbols of the Region of Asturias. Although this site is thought to have been used in Roman times to cross the Sella River, a factor possibly leading to the establishment of Cangas de OnÃs as the first capital of the Kingdom of Asturias, the current 'Roman Bridge' dates from mediaeval times, probably from the late 13th century. Its stylised and graceful forms and the design of the arches recall the Romanesque style in transition to Gothic. It has three slightly pointed arches; by far the largest is the central cambered arch under which the river flows. The two side arches are of different sizes. A reproduction of the famous Victory Cross hangs from the central arch; this is a piece of precious metalwork dating from the start of the 10th century whose original is conserved in Oviedo Cathedral.
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ESPAÑOL:
Construcción medieval de tiempos del reinado de Alfonso XI de Castilla, con su famoso arco peraltado y otros dos arcos menores que son desiguales. El puente, que se sitúa en la calzada romana que unÃa las localidades de Lucus Asturum (el actual Lugo de Llanera) y Portus Victoriae (la actual Santander), fue construido sobre otro anterior que pudiera tener origen romano.
El puente original constaba de siete arcos y ha sido restaurado y reparado en multitud de ocasiones a lo largo de su existencia. En 1876 fue objeto de una reparación en profundidad que está marcada por una lápida en el punto central del mismo. También se restauró en los años 1940 y 1943. Dejó de prestar servicio carretil porque junto a él se construyó uno nuevo a finales del siglo XIX.
What a combination-metalwork + lizard! This was on the trellis located on the side of the cottage we stayed in at Sister Bay, Wisconsin.
Mark Blumenstein
Metalworks
West Virginia, USA
Mark Blumenstein is a former South Street resident. He worked in the food co op and was part of the South Street migration to West Virginia where he bought a big piece of land and became a farmer, then a welder. Beginning in 1973 he began working with recycled materials, transforming them into kinetic objects. He started by using old farm machinery, stove parts, and bicycles, and now he uses old silver pieces to create tab-top works in addition to his larger metalworks. (Information and image taken from markblumenstein.com)
Philadelphia’s Magic gardens has two of his pieces, a kinetic bike wheel that cycles in the wind and the four-armed painter on the roof. The painter took a day to make, then was strapped to the roof of the Zagar van, driven up to Philadelphia, and installed by Zagar’s friend John Cope and his team. It’s meant to carry on the conversation with William Penn in the sky over Philadelphia.
Example:
Four-Armed Painter
Metal pieces
Location: Chimney of the Community Center
The saying comes from a book that I am reading. The metal piece reminded me of it. I love metalwork.
Walking through the darkly lit metal market in Marrakech, Morocco, a few days ago I took a quick photo of these two metal workers deep in conversation.
The Victoria and Albert Museum, otherwise known as the V&A, was founded in 1852, and today houses a permanent collection of over 2.3 million objects, focusing on decorative arts and design across 145 galleries. It has an unrivalled collection of sculpture, ceramics, furniture, textiles, jewellery and metalwork, but the building itself is also a remarkable example of great architecture. This image was captured on its second level, overlooking the Paul and Jill Ruddock Gallery, with the top of a glass cabinet reflecting the museum's geometric roof and skylight.
My main aim with this image was to convey the elegance of the building and the airy ambience from the light streaming through its roof, as well as the rich character of a gallery devoted to large-scale works that were once part of Renaissance buildings. I liked how the walkway and gallery were faintly visible through the glass, and how there was a glimpse in the distance of the tip of the 17th-century choir screen from the Cathedral of St John at Hertogenbosch.
Seven bracketed exposures were shot while the camera was resting on the glass cabinet, with the exposures then blended in Photoshop using luminosity masks. The midtones and shadows were geared towards the brighter exposures to produce a high-key finish, and darker exposures incorporated to preserve highlight information around the skylight and its reflection. Once the exposures were blended, I used the Pen Tool to isolate portions of the walls and the choir screen in the distance, and then brightened these with the higher exposures by applying radial and reflective gradient masks.
I tried to keep the colour-grading as straightforward as possible in order to convey the modernity and simplicity of the museum's architecture, and to keep the focus on the light itself and the way that the building's design seemed to allow light to cover every corner of its space smoothly and gracefully. Using Hue/Saturation layers, I reduced the yellows, reds and greens along the walls, and pushed towards a colder finish with hints of cyan in the shadows. There are traces of warmth in the highlights, and this was achieved by using the Apply Image function to layer-mask two Colour Balance adjustments, and by using a Gradient Map, both of which helped to create a faint split-toned finish. After this, I used two low-opacity Colour Lookups with the Bleach Bypass and Futuristic Bleak presets and set to Soft Light, which gently enhanced the image's overall contrast and added definition to the shutters across the skylight.
The final adjustments I made were in Colour and Silver Efex Pro, where I added a vignette and lowered the midtones in order to emphasise the image's tonality, and where I reduced the shadow structure in order to play up the location's clean lines and smooth textures. In a building with a collection of objects representing 5,000 years of creativity, there was something riveting, abstract and very straightforward about this vantage point.
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For the Macro Mondays challenge "Circles" (April 9th 2018)
A delicate bracelet of interlocking circles of silver. Made for me by my great friend Laurie Kern, who is a talented metal-smith working in silver. It was an early, experimental piece, using a S-shaped clasp, and has a pair of matching earrings too!
www.theadventuroussilversmith.com/
HMM! ;o)
My 2018 set: 2018 Macro Mondays
All the previous years of the challenge:
My 2017 set: 2017 Macro Mondays
My 2016 set: 2016 Macro Mondays
My 2015 set: 2015 Macro Mondays
My 2014 set: 2014 Macro Mondays
My 2013 set: 2013 Macro Mondays
Visita a un grande centro di artigianato tanzaniano.
Sparse nei giardini opere in metallo con figure di uccelli e altri animali
Visit to a large Tanzanian handicraft center.
Scattered in the gardens are metalwork with figures of birds and other animals.
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I was fooled when I first saw this, thinking it was a real dragonfly.
(Dedicated to my old E-410 ... a great introduction to Olympus cameras).
I came across this Sandhill crane sculpture during my bike ride through Black River the other day. Just had to take a stop.
Gears: Leica R6 and Leitz Leica Summicron-R 35/2.0, on Fujichrome Velvia 50 (RVP50)
Location: Pulau Ketam, Pulau Duyong, Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia
Processing: None, Straight out of camera
Took this shot, in late evening sunlight on Tuesday 13th July 2021 and at low tide, facing Colwyn Bay's, Conwy, North Wales newly built 'Truncated' pier - the day prior to its formal opening.
It's built on the footprint of the original 1900 Victorian Pier at a cost of £1.5m. When built the old pier was initially 316ft long and 40ft wide but was lengthened to 750ft (228m) in 1903.
Since its much earlier closure the old pier fell into disrepair and 1st March 2017 saw it being dismantled after it succumbed to storm Doris and started to collapse. As a child, I'd also go fishing off the pier with my Father and Grandfather to catch our dinner!
Although the much smaller truncated structure only measures 45metres, roughly one fifth in size of the original, it does include 78 decorative panels and other ironwork salvaged and refurbished from the old structure. Layers of paint from the old pier were also analysed and the new structure matches the colour scheme of 1934.
Thought you might enjoy seeing probably the 'World's Newest Pier'!
Happy Fence Friday everyone! Enjoy your weekend. Continue to stay safe and well also.