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The Santa Cruz Surfing Museum is a museum which was established in May 1986 to document the history of surfing. With collections dating back to the earliest years of surfing on mainland United States, the museum houses a historical account of surfing in Santa Cruz, California.
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Located in the Mark Abbott Memorial Lighthouse at Lighthouse Point on West Cliff Drive, the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum opened its doors in June 1986 as the first surfing museum in the world. The lighthouse was built in 1967 as a memorial to surfer Mark Abott, who died while surfing at the nearby Pleasure Point surf break.
Overlooking the Steamer Lane surfing hotspot, this little museum features photographs, surfboards, and videos tracing over 100 years of surfing history in Santa Cruz. After funding cuts in 2009, the Santa Cruz Surfing Club Preservation Society and private donations kept the museum open.
The exhibits at the museum explore over 100 years of surfing in Santa Cruz. Introduced in 1885 by three Hawaiian princes who surfed the mouth of the San Lorenzo River on plank boards, surfing has permeated every facet of the Santa Cruz community. A plaque was dedicated to the princes: David Kawānanakoa, Edward Abnel Keliʻiahonui, and Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole (later a delegate to US Congress) in April 2010.
Throughout its history, surf culture has reflected and responded to popular culture. Photographs chronicle the evolution of surfing culture in Santa Cruz from idyllic summers spent at the beach in the 1930s and 1940s, through the hipster beach party 1950s, the surf rock 1960s, the “soul surfing” 1970s, the neon 1980s, and the rebirth of classic long-board riding in the 1990s.
Examples of surfboards from each era are on display, from the huge hollow paddle boards and redwood planks made and ridden in the 1930s and 1940s to examples of early foam and fiberglass boards, and speedy short boards used to create radical new surf moves beginning in the 1970s.
Santa Cruz Light
The museum contains the current Santa Cruz Light, marking Point Santa Cruz on the west side of Santa Cruz Anchorage.
The original lighthouse was one of a number of California coastal lights allocated funding by Congress in 1850, only 19 days after statehood. Because of disputes over ownership of the land, construction did not proceed until 1868. The original light was a two-story wooden structure, with a lantern housing a fifth-order fresnel lens. Erosion of Point Santa Cruz required the lighthouse to be moved back 300 feet (91 m) in 1879.
Around 1909 the lens was replaced with a fourth-order fresnel, for better visibility against the light of the city. The light was electrified in 1917, replaced by a wooden tower in 1941, and the original building demolished in 1948.
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On a street corner in downtown Cheyenne. A historic red-brick building with a distinctive dome and surrounding shops sits under a partly cloudy sky. Vehicles are parked alongside a paved street with visible crosswalks.
Cheyenne, Wyoming
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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!
Est 1770 and a Greene King Brewery Pub since 1799 the Cricketer stands on Richmond Green, Greater London.
Happy Wall & Window Wednesday
Took a spin to the lighthouse and it was very cold and windy and l was wearing the wrong footwear and had no grip so sadly could not stay long!It is 37 metres tall and has 168 steps inside.
Photo pour le groupe 1 Mois, 1 Thème
Thème de Mars 2019 : Diagonale
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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.
Old waver's houses in my hometown. It's a complex of 6 small one-story houses with a residential attic, built before 1890 on the edge of a working-class neighbourhood. The houses were intended as flats and small weaving workshops. Weavers recruited by factory owners in Bohemia lived there. The buildings are distinguished by the characteristic half-timbered attic walls.
Żyrardów - small town in Central Poland, located in the Mazovia region. It owes its unique atmosphere to the characteristic architecture of an industrial town. The original spatial layout of the community, which grew around a manufacturing plant in the mid-19th century, has been preserved to the present day. The historic center of Żyrardów (mostly buildings from red bricks) is the only industrial architecture complex from the turn of the 20th c. in Europe that has been preserved to modern times in full. The old settlement covers a 76-ha area in the central part of the town. Diversified architectural forms and styles characterize the city, which has resulted from the multi-cultural character of Żyrardów. The flax trade gave the town its origins. A plant manufacturing flax that was one of the largest and modern factories in Europe was established there in 1829.
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Dawne domy tkaczy w Żyrardowie. Jest to zespół 6 niewielkich parterowych domków z mieszkalnym poddaszem, wybudowanych przed 1890r. na skraju dzielnicy robotniczej. Domy przeznaczono na mieszkania i małe warsztaty tkackie. Mieszkali tu tkacze sprowadzani przez fabrykantów, głównie z Czech. Wyróżnia je charakterystyczna drewniana konstrukcja ryglowa ścian poddasza, tzw. mur pruski.
Żyrardów leży w centrum Polski, na Mazowszu. Swój niepowtarzalny klimat zawdzięcza charakterystycznej architekturze miasta zaprojektowanej w połowie XIX stulecia. Zabytkowe centrum Żyrardowa jest jedynym w Europie zachowanym w całości zespołem urbanistyczno-architektonicznym miasta przemysłowego przełomu XIX i XX wieku. Osada fabryczna obejmuje centralną część miasta o powierzchni ok. 76 ha. Charakteryzuje ją różnorodność form architektonicznych i stylów, co wynika ze zróżnicowania narodowościowego mieszkańców Żyrardowa. Początek miastu dała fabryka lniarska, która powstała na terenie dzisiejszego Żyrardowa w 1829 roku. Była to jedna z największych i najnowocześniejszych fabryk ówczesnej Europy.
Chamomile bench at Sissinghurst castle garden National Trust. Sissinghurst castle garden was the home of writer, poet and gardener Vita Sackville- West and Harold Nicolson.
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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This was the site of a log cabin built by James Westervelt. The current imposing structure replaced the log cabin in 1889.
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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.
The Old Grammar School (built in 1851) was the first high school in Peel County. It served the Township of Toronto, parts of Halton County and Etobicoke. The building was used for a school for over 100 years. In 1966 it became Streetsville Town Hall and in 1974, a Police Station.
The building currently hosts Streetsville Kinsmen Senior Citizens' Centre.
Source: Canadian Register of Historic Places
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.
Talcott must have been the pharmacist in town. I have never seen the Mortar and Pestle done like this.
Elk Point, So. Dakota
Wijk bij Duurstede, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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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]
Written by Frank Zappa after Ray Collins suggested the idea to him. The first Zappa/Collins collaboration at Pal Studio. The title comes from one of the catch-phrases Steve Allen would use on his TV show in which birds and ferns would often feature...
"Schmock, schmock! How's your bird?", "Bet your bird", "Hows your fern?", "Ferns for your creel" A Fanny/Granny couplet would appear again in Debra Kadabra on Bongo Fury. On 14th March 1963 FZ appeared on the Steve Allen show performing his Concerto For Two Bicycles he ended the interview with a plug for the record.
Steve Allen: Is there anything you like to say in closing?
FZ: Yes I would. Next week our record is being released called "How's Your Bird?" (audience laughter)
Steve Allen: Really?
FZ:Yes. I brought a dub of it over here, I don't think you heard it yet, and it's uh . . . go and buy it, it's wonderful. (audience laughter)
Steve Allen: Crazy.
FZ: It's got everything but a bicycle in it.
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.
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.
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.