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This was the home of Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman. 31st January 1942 to 19th February 1994.
He was an English film director, stage designer, diarist, artist, gardener and author.
On 22nd December 1986 he was diagnosed as HIV positive. His illness prompted him to move to Prospect Cottage. Here he created his famous garden using the plants that naturally grew at Dungeness.
In 1994 he died of an AIDS related illness in London aged just 52.
There is a poem on the side of the cottage which is the first stanza and the last five lines of the last stanza of John Donne's poem The Rising Sun.
THE SUN RISING.
by John Donne
BUSY old fool, unruly Sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windows, and through curtains, call on us?
Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?
Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide
Late school-boys and sour prentices,
Go tell court-huntsmen that the king will ride,
Call country ants to harvest offices;
Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
In that the world's contracted thus;
Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be
To warm the world, that's done in warming us.
Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere;
This bed thy center is, these walls thy sphere.
Central Maine & Quebec 210 extra, with wind turbine blades, winds through the curves at Prospect. B23-7 2003 and GP38-3 3803 will bring the train down to Searsport and stage it to be unloaded before coming back up light. With rumors floating around that the CMQ is strongly considering painting some of their engines, I'm hoping that the 2003 is one of the last to be repainted, as I've grown rather fond of the BNSF paint on it.
Prospect Cottage, built in 1900, was home to Derek Jarman (1942-94), the radical film director, cinematographer, stage designer, diarist, painter, gardener, author and gay rights activist. He moved here in 1986 when he was seriously ill and knew that time was not on his side.
Among Jarman’s films were Sebastiane, The Tempest, War Requiem and Caravaggio; the actors who worked for him included Laurence Olivier (in his last film appearance), Judi Dench, Sean Bean, Robbie Coltrane, Toya Wilcox and Tilda Swinton.
At Dungeness, Jarman moved into his unassuming wooden cottage (which he desribed as 'a beaut, a gem') and set about creating his shingle garden, largely by collecting and arranging flotsam washed up onto the beach in front of the house. He made sculptures from stones and he introduced salt-tolerant beach plants, all to great effect. Today, the cottage and garden are much as he left them.
Prospect Bridge, crossing the Rogue River at Prospect, Oregon. Built in 1930, rehabilitated in 2012. A lovely spot just 25 miles southwest of Crater Lake National Park.
This was shot from the switchback road we were driving in Prospect Gulch. You can see part of the road on the left.
Now, I have to tell you, that this road got tighter and the ledges got higher. Don is an experienced driver, and I have traveled many miles with him, but I must admit I even got a little nervous on this road. I guess I'm a control freak. We finally started up a part that didn't look like it was going to be passable, so he backed up to small turnaround area with huge drop offs. Now that is fun. NOT! So we walked up the road about 100 feet and it stopped.
So this has great views. Why wouldn't it, the tree line was several thousand of feet below us with nothing in between. Wished we had a little better sky. Tell you one thing, wouldn't enjoy meeting someone on the road.
Bench in front of the psychiatric hospital in Roskilde / Denmark
Nice place and sit when mind fiddling around
Prospect Place, Battersea. Two of five buildings designed by Frank Gehry & Partners (Executive Architects: Adamson Associates), totally over 700 apartments next to the Power Station. Nearing completion, the flats will need a hefty bank balance to purchase!
London Borough of Wandsworth, Battersea, South London, UK - Prospect Place, Electric Avenue
February 2022
One of those Lighthouses in Maine you really need to look for while driving through Maine.
The small village of Prospect Harbor developed a substantial fishing fleet in the nineteenth century. The first lighthouse to mark the east side of the harbor entrance was built in 1850. The light was deactivated between 1859 and 1870, because "the harbor is not used as a harbor of refuge, and the village near which it is situated has only a small coasting trade." Evidently, the use of the harbor increased, as in 1870 the Lighthouse Board announced that the light was reactivated on May 15 "to serve as a guide to the harbor of refuge which it marks."
The original granite lighthouse attached to the keeper's house was replaced in 1891 by the present 38-foot wood lighthouse with a fifth order Fresnel lens, and a new 1 1/2 story farmhouse-style keeper's house. The house and tower were at first attached by a covered passageway, but the passageway was later removed. A stone oil house was added in 1905, and for a time the station had an active fog bell.
The light was automated in 1934, but a keeper (John Workman) remained at the station until 1953. In 1951 the Fresnel lens was replaced.
The light remains an active aid to navigation, while the surrounding grounds and buildings belong to the U.S. Navy; the lighthouse is on the grounds of a Navy installation.
What:
The start of the "blue hour".
When:
20 minutes after sunset. Last Sunday evening.
Where:
Indian Point Trail
Prospect
Nova Scotia, Canada
About:
Well I've finally gotten off my ass and got out to do some shooting lately! :-)
We had some great clouds/skies/sunsets over the last week so I decided to take a little hike along one of my favorite "hidden" locations. The Indian Point Trail runs along the coastline near Prospect which is about a 25 minute drive from my place in Halifax (the city). This is really great spot but hardly anyone knows where it is and I only usually see a few locals here out walking their dogs. It's a great spot for photos though; there is a nice rugged coastline, usually good waves and the sun sets over the ocean. That isn't always easy to find here on the east coast because the sun sets in the west of course. Prospect is on a peninsula and faces west so it's a good spot for sunsets.
So anyway I good a couple decent sunset shots but this isn't one of them:-) This was taken on my way back along the trail about 20 minutes after the sun had set (the start of the blue hour). It was actually getting quite dark but I like the sky looked and the way the late day light clung to the town and rocks below.
By the way, I will post one of the sunset shots next time :-)
Processing:
This is actually a Vertorama; it's like a panorama but the the images are stacked on top of each other instead of side by side. I wanted to capture the two big rocks in front and well as that whole fanned out cloud formation in one image but even with the 10mm I couldn't get it all in one frame. Paul Bruins vertorama technique to the rescue!! LoL
For more info about Verto's please check out Paul's excellent tutorial here.
While you're at it please check out Panorama Paul's amazing photos as well.
Please, no multiple invites or crazy glittery graphics. Thank You
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Nikon D90 : Sigma 10-20mm @ 10mm : 1second @ f/8 ISO 200
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Prospect Cottage was the home of film maker Derek Jarman at the end of his life. Despite being an inexperienced gardener and living in one of the most hostile gardening environments imaginable, he created a masterpiece using tolerant plants and materials found discarded nearby.
The house was built in tarred timber. Raised wooden text on the side of the cottage is the first stanza and the last five lines of the last stanza of John Donne's poem, The Sun Rising.
BUSY old fool, unruly Sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windows, and through curtains, call on us ?
Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run ?
Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide
Late school-boys and sour prentices,
Go tell court-huntsmen that the king will ride,
Call country ants to harvest offices ;
Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
In that the world's contracted thus ;
Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be
To warm the world, that's done in warming us.
Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere ;
This bed thy center is, these walls thy sphere.
View the rear view of the cottage here:
www.flickr.com/photos/24925657@N05/2820247721/
Texture by pareeerica:
Grunge Chocolate: