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UP TO eight residential tower blocks once owned by Wirral Council are to be closed.
New owners Wirral Partnership Homes says bringing the towers up to standard, coupled with low occupancy rates, means they are no longer viable.
The blocks earmarked for the axe over the next one to three years are Melrose, Sandbourne, Thornridge (all Moreton), Flambards (Woodchurch) and Thorsway (Rock Ferry).
Five high rise blocks are to be refurbished: Sunningdale (Moreton), Liscard House (Liscard), Brackendale (Woodchurch) and The Towers (Tranmere) with Knowsley Court (Rock Ferry) and Neston Gardens (Birkenhead) being subject to minor remedial work and further review.
Council's cabinet member for housing, Cllr GD, said that times have changed and the desire for high rise living has dwindled.
"Some of these blocks used to have long waiting lists for tenants. Now they can hardly fill them," he said.
"Project 7 is a single-seater sports car based on the F-TYPE, with the kind of racing-inspired form that designers dream about. It has one purpose: to be driven fast and enjoyed.Jaguar sports cars are known for exceptional performance and clean design. Project 7 captures that spirit in its purest form."
At the end of August, yesterday in fact, I was bemoaning the fact I hadn't really been shooting much this year - there's been some impromptu shots, as well as the generic holiday photos, but not anything 'me', I felt.
So, the plan for September is to have a mini project, most likely not every day but with a view to getting back into the swing of things.
Project SWORD was a TV21 feature built around a very fantastic range of toys as opposed to a TV programme. This Annual featured striking images of the vehicles.
Watch the full video here
A lot of my photo's were last minute and just plain crap. Only the ones I felt worthy enough to be on Flickr I uploaded. But here is my year in photo's and I can now say I've complete project 365! :) If something caught your attention, or your just plain curious to see the photo's that suck, click here for my full project.
Starting today (Saturday) and for the next 14 days, a theme series I've named "LE VILLAGE" would be displayed - A photo each day.
Some photos are going to be treated in my style, boosted or tweaked, vivid or natural - i don't know - let the time speak !
Not sure yet what exactly I'm going to shoot, what is going to be uploaded and in which order, but its a nice challenge and even nicer to share it with the flickr friends and community.
The main concept is to display non urban images, mainly village images - fields, maybe animal, agriculture or farming machines, hopefully this journey would be enjoyable. Probably there will not be photos of boats and/or sea.
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9 / 50 : Sneak Peek
Tonight, a good friend of mine gave me one of the most sincere critics ever.
She said that the photos I'm doing for this project 50of50 are not bad, but lack of my strong points.
And most importantly, she said you can feel the hesitation behind the shoot.
Such critics are always good and extremely positive, even if you have to face that you're putting out something that is below your own standards.
I know I started this 50of50 Project to pull me out of a lazy vicious circle and to improve in both lighting techniques and organizing photoshoots with people.
I thought I was going to be "pretty safe" through this project, being that I survived a 365 project last year, but I'm starting to see that this one's way more difficult.
But if there's something I learned for sure is that the more challenge you put on yourself, the greater the results (especially in the long run) are gonna be... And I believe in it.
So here's a realistic view of what any person passing by the bar next to my house could have seen tonight: a man having troubles, but not giving up.
Nine done, JUST 41 to go!
Camera Info: Nikon D700 | 50mm (ƒ/1.4G) @ 50mm | ƒ/1.4 | ISO 400 | 1/45th s — Camera on Tripod
Strobist Info: Nikon SB900 | 1/8th Power | Full CTO on it | Bare | Up high bouncing off the ceiling inside the bar, subject left | On a light stand
Week 31
On our vacation in Scotland we spotted a few deers. This one ran away and hid in the forest. The relation with Mark's tremendous Circles shot is of course the green trees and bushes and your attention is drawn to the center as well.
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Nos.4 of 5
Germany - Lubeck: Marienkirche - St. Mary's Church, built c1250 - c1350; demolished 29 March 1942; rebuilt 1947-1959.
Detail of the -
Built in 1561 through to 1566, the Astronomical Clock is considered to be a real treasure of both art history and sacred history. It was located behind the High Altar in the ambulatory but was completely destroyed in 1942. Only one dial (which had been replaced with an earlier restoration) remains in the St. Annen Museum. The new Astronomical Clock was constructed on the East side of the Northern transept in the "Death dance" chapel. It is the work of Paul Behrens, a clockmaker in Lübeck, who planned it as his lifetime achievement from 1960 - 1967, collected donations for it and constructed the elements of the clock himself. He also maintained the clock until his death. The clockface is a simplified duplicate of the original. With a complicated mechanical system, the clock shows planetary positions, phases of the sun and moon, signs of the zodiac (astronomically, not astrologically), the date on which Easter falls and the Golden Ratio. At 12 o'clock midday the bells ring out and the movement of the figures before Christ consecrating spurs into action. The figures were originally Electors; after post-war reconstruction they are now eight representatives of the different races and peoples of the world.
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Check out Paul Behrens
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To see Original size:
Blunt to my lips
Gun on my hip
Rocks in my socks
Pocket fulla chips
Watchin fo da pigs
Splittin hataz wigs
Packin me some grib
Playa can ya dig?
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Nikon D200 in Nikon CLS Commander Mode, Quantaray 28-90mm f/3.5 - 5.6 lens, SB-700 speedlight triggered by Nikon CLS, Aperture: f/4.8, Shutter: 1/2500, ISO: 100, Exposure Mode: Manual.
This is a photograph leftover from my project 365 that I did. I have hundreds of unused photographs from the project 365 that I haven't even edited yet. When I get bored, I troll through my archive of photographs from my project 365. I shot over 20,000 shutter actuations on my D200 during the course of my project 365. How do I know the approximate amount of shutter actuations I took during the 365? I looked at the embedded shutter actuation information on my 1st photograph of from my 365 and subtracted that number from the shutter actuation number on the last photograph I took for my 365. Adobe Photoshop can read the shutter and display the shutter actuation number embedded in a RAW file. There were plenty of days when I had no client to photograph, so I did a creative self portrait for that day. You can view my entire project 365 at www.eaphotography.us/blog.
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Het plaatsen van de achtergrondwand.
Dankzij een vooraf nauwkeurig gebouwd slip en steunsysteem was deze klus snel geklaard. De achtergrondplaat rust op het basisframe. Op plaatsen waar een spoor door de achtergrond verdwijnt werd een slip voorzien in de basisplaat van de spoorberm.
De achtergrondplaat was hierdoor ook in de bocht van de peninsula simpel op haar plaats te schuiven. Het nauwkeurig aftekenen van het gat voor de spoordoorvoer werd hierdoor een eenvoudige klus. Eenmaal de opening was uitgezaagd kon de achtergrondwand simpelweg op haar plaats geschoven worden en vastgeshroefd aan de verticale steunbalken van de baan.
My son-in-law has a side business shaping boards. This is the first one my daughter shaped and finished.
I usually don't upload camera pix - but college football is definitely a sign of fall. Our local college Old Dominion University (ODU) - has had a football team for 5 years and just joined Conference USA. They have had sold out games for all 5 years. This was their first nationally televised conference game - very exciting - however - we lost - one of the few losses they have had in the past 5 years.
Been airbrushing today and it goes so much better then expected now the trouble are over with this airbrush. I really enjoy doing it.
This is a Soom Beyla. Face-up is partly airbrushed. She is going to be an autumn fairy who plays between the autumn leaves, hence the colours :D
"Project 7 is a single-seater sports car based on the F-TYPE, with the kind of racing-inspired form that designers dream about. It has one purpose: to be driven fast and enjoyed.Jaguar sports cars are known for exceptional performance and clean design. Project 7 captures that spirit in its purest form."
No. 4 - 5:- Exploring Rochester - Rochester Castle
City of Great Expectations - Charles Dickens..
The Keep of the Castle.
The Mural Gallery.
This gallery, which looked down into the state apartments, round right round the building. It is hollowed out of the thickness of the wall and therefore greatly reduces the weight of the upper stories. At this height the walls do not need the massive strength of lower walls as they are out of reach of enemy battering rams.
The gallery had a number of uses and could be partitioned off to make extra rooms for guests, probably servants and less favoured visitors. When the great Hall was in use, guests could gather here to chat and look down on the festivities. This was also a good position for groups of minstrels to provide music for those below. Guidepost.
Rochester Castle.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rochester Castle ( [show location on an interactive map] 51°23′22″N 0°30′05″E / 51.38944°N 0.50139°E / 51.38944; 0.50139) stands on the east bank of the River Medway, in Rochester, Kent. It is one of the best-preserved castles of its kind in the UK. There has been a fortification on this site since Roman times (c AD43), though it is the keep of 1127 and the Norman castle which can be seen today. With the invention of gunpowder other types of defence became more appropriate, and the military centre of the Medway Towns moved to Chatham.
History
The Romans under Aulus Plautius built a fort on the site of the present castle to guard the important river crossing, where they constructed a bridge. There is evidence of an earth rampart later replaced by a stone wall. The timber piles of the Roman bridge were rediscovered during the construction of the present road bridge.This is also a well known spa nowadays but when it was first built it was a massive kitchen.
The Norman period commenced with the victory of William of Normandy at Hastings. He appointed his half brother Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, as Earl of Kent. Rochester's first Norman castle was probably of the motte and bailey type – a wooden tower and with palisades – on Boley Hill. This was the castle that was besieged by William Rufus during the Rebellion of 1088.
As a result of this siege, Bishop Gundulf was persuaded to build a stone castle with a curtain wall. It is not known how much, if any, of the surviving keep is his. Gundulf was a talented architect: he had started the building work on Rochester's Norman Cathedral in 1080, and was also responsible for the White Tower of the Tower of London.
Henry I granted the custody of the castle to the Archbishop of Canterbury, William de Corbeil. Corbeil started to build the great stone keep in 1127, much of which survives today. It is the tallest in England and has dominated the city and river crossing for 800 years.
The siege of 1215
In 1206, King John spent £115 on repairs to the castle and moat. He even preemptively held it during the year of the negotiations leading up to Magna Carta, but its terms forced him to hand it back into the custody of Stephen Langton, archbishop of Canterbury, in May 1215. The rebel barons then sent troops under William d'Aubigny to the castle, to whom its constable Reginald de Cornhill opened the castle's gates. During October, marching from Dover to London, John then found Rochester in his way and on 11 October began besieging it in person.
The rebels were expecting reinforcements from London but on hearing of the size of King John's army they turned back at Dartford. Robert Fitzwalter rode out to stop the king, fighting his way onto the bridge but eventually being beaten back into the castle. He also sacked the cathedral, took anything of value and stabled his horses in it, all as a slight to Langton. Orders were then sent to the men of Canterbury saying, "We order you, just as you love us, and as soon as you see this letter, to make by day and night, all the pickaxes that you can. Every blacksmith in your city should stop all other work in order to make them and you should send them to us at Rochester with all speed". Five siege engines were then erected and work carried out to undermine the curtain wall. By one of these means the king's forces entered and held the bailey in early November, and began attempting the same tactics against the keep, including undermining the south-east tower. The mine-roof was supported by wooden props, which were then set alight using pig-fat, on 25 November 1215 John had sent a writ to the justiciars saying "Send to us with all speed by day and night, fifty of the fattest pigs of the sort least good for eating so that we may bring fire beneath the castle" [2], causing the south-east tower of the keep to collapse. The rebels withdrew behind the keep's cross-wall but still managed to hold out. A few were allowed to leave the castle but on John's orders had their hands and feet lopped off as an example.
Winter was now setting in, and the castle was only taken (on 30 November) by starvation and not by force. John set up a memorial to the pigs and a gallows with the intention of hanging the whole garrison, but one of his captains (Savari de Mauleon) persuaded him not to hang the rebels since hanging those who had surrendered would set a precedent if John ever surrendered - only one man was actually hanged (a young bowman who had previously been in John's service). The remainder of the rebel barons were taken away and imprisoned at various royal-held castles, such as Corfe Castle. Of the siege - against only 100 rebels, and costing over a thousand pounds a day - the Barnwell chronicler wrote "No one alive can remember a siege so fiercely pressed and so manfully resisted" and that, after it, "There were few who would put their trust in castles".
King John died on October 19, 1216, so it fell to Henry III to repair the castle. He spent over a £1000 on rebuilding, with new stables and gateways, and a further ditch to strengthen the defences. A new chapel was built next to the Royal apartments in the bailey. The most notable surviving feature is the new south-east tower, which was rebuilt according to the latest defensive design and is three-quarters round better to deflect missile attack and work against attempts at undermining.
The siege of 1264
In 1264, the dissident barons, led by Simon de Montfort, attacked Rochester. They crossed the Medway under cover of the smoke from a fire-ship, and took the city. Like John before them, they quickly gained control of the castle bailey and then attempted to undermine the keep. This time the siege was not successful, being relieved after only a week by Henry himself. However, the rebels did burn down many of the buildings, including the Royal chambers. Repairs were not carried out until 1367, under Edward III, by which time much of the stone had been removed for other use.
The 15th century Wars of the Roses were not fought in Kent, so the castle was spared. It was briefly taken by Wyatt's men during his futile uprising of 1554. But with the invention of gunpowder and introduction of cannon, this form of castle was no longer so secure. It became expensive to maintain so fell into disrepair.
Later military history
Rochester remained of strategic importance, and the neighbouring Chatham Naval Dockyard grew in importance. In the Napoleonic wars, the dockyard was protected by a circle of Palmerston Forts, including Fort Luton, Fort Borstal, Fort Pitt, Fort Clarence, and Fort Amherst. HMS Victory, Admiral Nelson's flagship was built in Chatham (though now "exiled" in Portsmouth). During the twentieth century wars, Chatham has provided a home for the Royal Engineers, and Rochester built aircraft such as the Sunderland. The Dockyard also built and serviced nuclear submarines.
Today
The castle is now maintained by English Heritage and is open to the public. The wooden flooring in the centre of the keep is gone, but many of the passageways and spiral staircases within the thickness of the walls are still usable. Decorative chevrons ornament the archways and the water well in the cross-wall is clearly visible. Visitors with a head for heights can climb 111 ft (34 m) to the battlements and enjoy a commanding view of the river and surrounding area.
Since Victorian times, Rochester Castle Gardens have been an important leisure area for Rochester. They were a popular promenade, they have hosted a bandstand, and have become a centre point for festivals and summer concerts.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_Castle
'Magnificent ruin!...What a study for an antiquarian!'
The impressive Norman castle at Rochester had a humbling effect upon Dickens, reminding him perhaps of his own mortality. In Household Words he wrote: 'I surveyed the massive ruin from the Bridge, and thought what a brief little practical joke I seemed to be, in comparison with the solidarity, stature, strength and length of life.' In Dickens' time the castle looked very different. Houses and workshops filled much of the moat by the cathedral, the keep and towers were festooned with ivy and the waters of the River Medway lapped the base of the walls. - Guidemap
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