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Photo pour le groupe 1 Mois, 1 Thème
Thème de Mars 2019 : Diagonale
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Eglise Saint-Jacques à Neuilly-sur-Seine
Est 1770 and a Greene King Brewery Pub since 1799 the Cricketer stands on Richmond Green, Greater London.
Happy Wall & Window Wednesday
Poznan, Poland
Winter
An abandoned factory makes for a cool spot to gather some moody shots. I liked the patina and redbrick combo and as I walked by it continued to grab my attention. Beaten up, boarded up, forgotten but with so much moody soul and atmosphere left behind. I was too scared to go inside though. Ghosts ya know...everywhere in this country.
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I visited Ripon for just one night in March 2025, I’ve not been there for over 20 years and had been warned that it “had gone downhill in recent years”. I’m not sure I can agree with that statement, I found the town quite vibrant with plenty going on for both locals and tourists. Like many U.K. towns it obviously had some problems but it was still a place I would recommend to visit.
Day 98/365: 2015
The weekly theme is giving the mundane it's beautiful due.
This wall, at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, is part of a Victorian kitchen garden. The holes are from where the fruit trees were supported by nails.
I met Darryl in the neighborhood, and this is exactly how I first saw him. When I introduced myself and asked if I could get a picture, he spoke so softly that I had to ask him three times. I know I'm getting older, but my hearing isn't THAT bad.
(and to my fellow 365ers, those that are left, if anyone wants to still do the weekly topic, I'll put one up in the discussions)
And one more shout out to my fellow 365ers…98 days to go! The countdown has begun!
An old brick structure that the billyllama and i discovered while roaming around rural georgia on our road trip.
A camera, great company, good music, country air, bugles and beef jerky. for me, it doesn't get much better than that!
One of the most characteristic buildings in Wrocław - The Old Town Hall :)
The Old Town Hall of Wrocław stands at the center of the city’s Market Square. It is considered as a fine example of bourgeois Gothic architecture. The Gothic town hall built from the 13th century. Originally, it was a single story building and was expanded over the years. The current form dates from the late 15th century with ornaments on the Eastern and Southern facades. Now it's one of the main landmarks of the city. The Old Town Hall's long history reflects developments that have taken place in the city since its initial construction. The town hall serves the city of Wroclaw and is used for civic and cultural events such as concerts held in its Great Hall. In addition, it houses a museum and a basement restaurant.
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Jeden z najbardziej znanych budynków na wrocławskim rynku, czyli Stary Ratusz :)
Stary Ratusz we Wrocławiu – późnogotycki budynek na wrocławskim Rynku, jeden z najlepiej zachowanych historycznych ratuszy w Polsce, zarazem jeden z głównych zabytków architektonicznych Wrocławia. Ratusz znajduje się w południowo-wschodnim narożu bloku śródrynkowego. Dwukondygnacyjny, podpiwniczony, trójtraktowy budynek na planie wydłużonego prostokąta z wieżą i kilkoma przybudówkami powstał w kilku etapach budowlanych na przestrzeni około 250 lat (od schyłku XIII w. aż po wiek XVI). Współcześnie Ratusz mieści oddział wrocławskiego Muzeum Miejskiego – Muzeum Sztuki Mieszczańskiej, stanowiąc niejako jego główny eksponat.
Beacon Hill in the snowstorm. Shot with iPhone 6s in raw using Lightroom Mobile. Too bad the dog wasn't on this side of the sled...
The big wheel will stay in place until the end of January. The Town Hall here in Düsseldorf was built in 1570.
Albi is a commune in southern France. The episcopal city, around the Cathedral Sainte-Cécile, was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 2010 for its unique architecture.
The Moot Hall was built in the first half of the 16th century, the exact date is unknown. It's believed to be one of the best preserved Tudor buildings in Britain. It is now home to the Aldeburgh museum and is still used for local council meetings.
The building was once used in the witch trials of 1645, when the Witchfinder General, Matthew Hopkins, was called in by the residents to purge Aldeburgh of its bad fortune. He accused seven women of witchcraft and locked them up in the Town Hall. In February 1646, all seven women were hanged.
Architect: Walter Burley Griffin: 1936
Designed by internationally renowned architect Walter Burley Griffin, who previously worked under architect Frank Lloyd Wright, the Hindmarsh Incinerator is one of few such incinerators to remain in original condition in Australia and is therefore of high historic and aesthetic value.
The building’s formal architectural value as an example of early ‘organic’ modernism in South Australia is particularly important given the local conservative architectural context of the period. The bold use of textured, red brick cubic forms, at multiple levels, which abut the strong vertical element which houses the Incinerator stack, illustrates the architectural skill of Griffin. When compared to the contemporary architecture of the time, the Incinerator’s architectural style can be seen as a catalyst for modernism in South Australia. The building’s simplicity makes a strong architectural statement, particularly for an industrial building, a type which was traditionally afforded little architectural consideration.
Griffin was also responsible for the design of Australia’s capital, Canberra.
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From the Victorian Heritage Database:
" . . . . Designed in 1890 by Public Works Department architect, AJ MacDonald, and erected in 1892-3, the three-storey red brick structure combines basic American Romanesque characteristics with Scottish Baronial forms and Art Nouveau and Australian decorative motifs in an asymmetrical picturesque composition. . . . . "
" . . . . The Former South Yarra Post Office is of architectural significance as one of the most important buildings in the evolution of a uniquely Australian style of architecture. While the building reflects the influence of the American Romanesque and Scottish Baronial forms, the use of Australian decorative motifs, such as gum nuts, gum leaves, flowers, birds and marsupials was a new symbolic language for Australian public buildings, and reflected a growing national awareness and the beginning of a distinctive Australian style of architecture in the years preceding Federation. . . . "
NB: powerlines digitally removed.
Inside the Andaz Hotel in East London is this stunning six-storey staircase. The staircase pays delicate homage to New York's Guggenheim Museum and perfectly complements the architecture inside the luxury five-star hotel, which is housed inside a beautiful redbrick Victorian building outside Liverpool Street and which originally opened as the Great Eastern Hotel in 1884 as a purpose-built railway hotel.
Early-afternoon sunlight was streaming into the atrium when I visited. The hotel's staircase -- much like City Hall, Heal's and Newport Street Gallery -- is so beautifully designed by Conran and Partners that it's a delight to photograph from every angle. I spent nearly an hour shooting from top to bottom, but eventually fixated on a view looking upwards from a lower level, which I felt conveyed the drama of the bright light as well as the staircase's strong sense of repeating lines and geometry.
The image is a combination of seven exposures, shot handheld at a high-ish ISO and then manually aligned in Photoshop before being blended using a mixture of luminosity masks, gradient masks and the Pen Tool. I was drawn to the simplicity of the staircase, so when editing the image I removed elements that felt like distractions such as ceiling lights, smoke alarms and minor cracks in the walls, and tried to focus on the clean tonality created by the sunlight and the shadows. The exception was an inscription that winds along the underside of the ascending levels -- "The air seems to be filled with an intense creativity" -- which was so quirky and unique that I felt it had to stay. After this, I opted for a finish that bordered on monochrome, although I used Colour Balance adjustments with the Apply Image function as a layer mask to add a hint of blue and cyan to the midtones and shadows and a small amount of yellow to the highlights.
Inside Nik's Silver Efex Pro, I used the Dynamic Contrast and Soft Contrast sliders to gently enhance the brightness of the light overhead and the shadows along each level's ceiling. I also lowered the midtone and shadow structure, which softened the image and which seemed to add to the minimalist finish I was aiming for. Finally, inside Colour Efex Pro, I used the Pro Contrast filter to create a little more definition between the inside of each bright portion of the staircase and the darker tones along the ceilings.
This is one of the more straightforward scenes from London that I've photographed -- and indeed it was one of the easiest to edit -- but the simplicity and elegance of the architecture hopefully come across in the final image.
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Cleaning out my folders and remembered the fog and mist rolling in on City Hall. From this elevation I could see a camera focusing in on a movie scene for a crime drama.
I like to look out for the first signs of Spring. Here is the coltsfoot blooming near the old building :)
Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara) is a plant in the groundsel tribe in the daisy family Asteraceae, native to Europe and parts of western and central Asia. It is also a common plant in North America and South America where it has been introduced. The flowers, start to bloom in early Spring, before the leaves appear. The leaves of coltsfoot appear after the flowers have set seed and wither and die in the early summer. The plant is often found in waste and disturbed places and along roadsides and paths. In some areas it is considered an invasive species. Coltsfoot leaves have been used in the traditional medicine internally (as tea or syrup) or externally (directly applied) for treatment of disorders of the respiratory tract, skin, locomotor system, viral infections, flu, colds, fever, rheumatism and gout.
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Lubię wypatrywać pierwszych oznak wiosny w mieście. Niedawno znalazłam kwitnący podbiał :)
Podbiał pospolity (Tussilago farfara) – gatunek rośliny z rodziny astrowatych (Asteraceae Dum.). Rodzime obszary jego występowania obejmują Europę, dużą część Azji oraz Algierię i Maroko. W Polsce jest pospolity. Kwiatostany pokazują się, zanim rozwiną się liście. Kwitnie od marca do maja. Liście pojawiają się pod koniec kwitnienia. Preferuje gleby gliniaste, miejsca kamieniste, piarżyska, żwirowiska nadrzeczne, osuwiska, skarpy przydrożne, urwiste brzegi rzek i potoków, hałdy węglowe i pogorzeliska. W uprawach rolnych uznawany za chwast. Jest rośliną leczniczą. W zielarstwie wykorzystuje się liście oraz kwiaty podbiału w stanach zapalnych oraz nieżytach dróg oddechowych, jamy ustnej i krtani. Odwar z podbiału stosuje się też zewnętrznie do okładów na skórę przy stłuczeniach, zaczerwienieniu i siniakach.
Talcott must have been the pharmacist in town. I have never seen the Mortar and Pestle done like this.
Elk Point, So. Dakota
Charlecote Park is a grand 16th century country house, surrounded by its own deer park, on the banks of the River Avon near Wellesbourne, about 4 miles east of Stratford-upon-Avon and 5.5 miles south of Warwick, Warwickshire, England.
The Oberbaum Bridge (German: Oberbaumbrücke) is a double-deck bridge crossing Berlin's River Spree, considered as one of the city's landmarks. It links the districts of Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg, former boroughs that were divided by the Berlin Wall, and has become an important symbol of Berlin’s unity. [Wikipedia]
Vintage cars on the beckground of the old flax factory buildings. I took this photo in my hometown, when we had here small old cars exhibition :)
The wonderful William and Mary-style country house Hanbury Hall in Worcestershire. This is a beautifully maintained and presented National Trust property.
Hanbury Hall was built c1701 by an unidentified architect for a wealthy Chancery barrister, Thomas Vernon, a distant relation of the Vernons of Haddon Hall and the Vernons of Sudbury Hall. This red brick house with stone dressings has a front of eleven bays with three-bay projecting wings. It also has a hipped roof and cupola.
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