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Narrow street in Manchester being built up with taller commercial buildings forming a canyon effect.
I struggle taking landscapes so this was a challenge to get
something I was happy with, especially armed only with my 50mm lens.
Ex Dinorwic quarry Hunslet Dolbadarn at penllyn is 101 years old,this was the old trackbed of the dinorwic quarry padarn railway,now it a tourist line since July 1971,and where i used to drive steam locomotives for 44 years!
"Located in narrow Queen’s Canyon just north of the geological formation known as the Garden of the Gods, Glen Eyrie is the estate of General William Jackson Palmer, the founder of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad (D&RG) and the city of Colorado Springs. What began as a relatively modest clapboard home in 1871 had evolved into the sixty-five room "castle” by 1906, with multiple improvements in between.
Both Frederick J. Sterner and Thomas MacLaren, each a prominent architect in Colorado, had a hand in the evolving design of the nearly 50-acre complex. In addition to the Tudor Revival main house, the district includes a gatekeeper’s house, schoolhouse, large carriage house, two power-generating plants, gardener’s house, dairy, granary, and many surviving historic landscape features, such as bridges and a rose garden. First listed in the National Register in 1975, the historic district was expanded in 2016 to encompass additional buildings commissioned by Palmer to complete his self-sufficient estate." History Colorado
The old part of Chania by the harbor was constructed by the Venetians during their occupation of the city.
Negotiating the ridge between the two summits of Arkle in the mist. Coming off the featureless, flat first top onto the ridge was one of the very few occasions where it was really important that I successfully follow a compass bearing. Thankfully I was spot on, otherwise we'd have been descending ever-steepening slopes in almost any direction.
The ridge itself is extraordinary. Parts are very narrow, as here, while another section is flat-topped but riven by huge, deep cracks with ferns growing in the bottom. One of the more interesting days I've had on the hills when there wasn't any kind of view.
Taken with my first digital camera, a 3MP Canon PowerShot A70.
After nearly ten hours sailing we have arrived. Devonport dead ahead. But first we have to navigate the narrow channel in the Mersey River. For the crew of the bridge, who do this all the time, this is like a walk in the park (let's hope one day we don't have to explain this metaphor to our children).
You can see a solitary fisherman sitting in his dinghy just outside the channel lines, and some more people on shore. Up in the bridge (I'll tag it) the Captain watches as the Spirit of Tasmania I enters the final approach.
Excerpt from www.lecinqueterre.org/eng/arte/montebattista.php:
THE CHURCH OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST
The church of San Giovanni Battista was built between 1244 and 1307, the date inscribed on a rock in the second column on the left looking towards the altar. Remodeled in the Baroque period and more recently between 1963 and 1964, it is a splendid example of Genoese Ligurian Gothic.
The façade is made of alternating vestments of white marble and dark green serpentine, with a slightly splayed pointed portal, flanked by a double pair of marble columns and surmounted by a lunette with an 18th century fresco depicting the Baptism of Christ. The splendid central rose window in white marble is a splendid example of ornate Gothic, attributed to Matteo and Pietro da Campiglio. From the central button, eighteen smooth and twisted columns radiate alternating from which intertwined trefoil arches branch off.
With a basilica plan with three naves, it has a progressive narrowing of the width of the aisles towards the entrance, with the dual effect of creating a perspective illusion and favoring the propagation of sound waves. Inside are preserved the baptismal font from 1360, a canvas of the Madonna del Rosario from the school of Luca Cambiaso, a painting depicting the Crucifixion by an unknown artist, probably a Genoese painter from the 17th century and the high altar from 1734. One of the columns bears an inscription engraved in medieval characters.
The bell tower with Ghibelline battlements rises alongside the apse area, an ancient medieval control tower with a rectangular plan, opened by Gothic mullioned windows with arches decorated with denticles, raised in the 15th century and remodeled in the 18th century after an earthquake.