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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.
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.
Owned by the National Trust, this courtyard of back to backs is in in the centre of Birmingham and can be visited by booking in advance for a guided tour.
Talcott must have been the pharmacist in town. I have never seen the Mortar and Pestle done like this.
Elk Point, So. Dakota
Built in 1632 the Church was abandoned and left in ruins once the new Stone Church was finished in 1850
Looking up the Norman Style Red Brick Tower
Stanmore, Middlesex. North West London. England UK.
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 :)
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 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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Minimalist red brick building with a single trailer in the parking lot.
A selection that made it to Flickr's "in explore", May 11, 2020.
Nikon Pronea S
Nikon IX-Nikkor Zoom 30-60mm f/4-5.6
Fujifilm Fujicolor Nexia 200-40, expired 11/2003
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Explored! [Wow: now at #25, my best Explore position ever!] Thanks everybody! If you like this photo, make sure you check out the whole set of photos from Siena and my best photos of 2012
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Travel photography from Siena, Italy - April 2012. Part of my month long trip touring southern Europe via railways in the spring of 2012.
For more about the Siena, see my travelogue: europae.tumblr.com/post/21012971907/siena-even-at-this-po...
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.
We all hit a wall eventually, some are more interesting than others. This was a wall of Schatz bakery in Bishop. I'm guessing there's been a lot of settling since the wall went up, hence the rippling with a few bricks falling out and needing to be replaced over the years.
part of west side, Bay Street (at Scollard), Heritage site, peeling white paint to reveal the red brick below. Boarded up and empty, waiting to be incorporated into a new condo development
A vintage phone booth stands next to a single window on a red brick wall. The contrast between the old telephone booth and the sturdy brickwork creates a nostalgic, urban atmosphere.
Wilson, Kansas
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April 30, 2010
And thus ends the month of April. Kind of a boring month, really. It's like the backlash of the high from making front page. Ah well, I kinda like the simplicity of my pictures. That and I know who my true followers are :) You guys are wonderful, truly!
It was super windy today and I couldn't pass up the opportunity to use it. However, I'm not dressed in the best attire for showing off wind...but you can at least see it in my hair :-P
Actually the "spirit" me was a total accident. THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULDN'T DELETE ANY PICTURES ON YOUR CAMERA. I firmly believe that. When I took it I thought "crap I moved too soon" and look what happened...I ended up using it :-P
Yeah I know I got in front of brick again...but this campus is OBSESSED with brick. Every single building is made of it! That and there's no brick back in Ohio so I thought I might as well...
Overall not really happy with the picture. But it's better than yesterday's so I'll take that.
I'm feeling better now that I got some sleep. Yesterday was just crazy. Today I just have my IDS class and a math session at noon before my mom and grandma show up. Then the choir concert is tonight at 7:30 and I think mom's taking me and my friends out to eat after...even though it'll be like 9:00 :-P
TRF: My roommate slept here last night and the night before...this is super rare.