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A portion of the Minneapolis Skyline is reflected in massive windows and openable doors on the west side of US Bank Stadium facing Medtronic Plaza.
The aboriginal flag and a sacred site sign reflected in the waters of hepburn pool.
Hepburn Pool - strong links to the Swiss Italian community as it was built for Zelman (Bellinzona), had community members involved in its construction and restoration. In 2004 it was named Victoria's Favourite Built Place.
You can find out more about Swiss Italian history at www.ballaratheritage.com.au/articles/swiss-italian.html or in the book 'Bullboar macaroni and mineral water" availabe from www.ballaratheritage.com.au/bookstore/theme.html
Victorian Heritage Register Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The Hepburn Springs Swimming Pool was built in the early 1930s by local labour and financed by Ernest and Victor Zelman, prominent Swiss Italian settlers. It consists of a concrete dam across a natural basin in Spring Creek with associated terracing. The basin was deepened by blasting. The dam has a small weir for flood water and a valve low down in the wall which handles normal environmental flow. The pool is within the Mineral Springs Reserve, which was created by early Swiss and Italian settlers and other interested citizens to protect the mineral springs from ruination due to mining. The pool is one of the early competition pools in the state, and was utilised for State swimming championships in the 1930's. After a period of dilapidation the pool was refurbished by volunteers in 1993 using old photographs to replicate missing features such as seating.
How is it significant?
The Hepburn Springs Swimming Pool is historically and socially significant to the State of Victoria.
Why is it significant?
The Hepburn Springs Swimming Pool is of historical and social importance as a rare, intact, surviving example of a community swimming facility created from a natural feature. Such pools were once commonplace in Victorian country towns but in most cases have either disappeared or fallen into disrepair. It is the best surviving example of its type and complements the Eastern Beach Swimming Complex (VHR929) in Geelong.
The Hepburn Springs Swimming Pool is a socially important link with an era of rising popularity of swimming, partly as a result of the fame of swimmers such as Annette Kellerman, and more importantly in Victoria, (Sir) Frank Beaurepaire who is known to have visited this pool on a number of occasions. Ironically, it was partly Beaurepaire's championing of the Olympic pool standard that ultimately led to the demise of natural swimming pools.
The Hepburn Springs Swimming Pool is of historical and social significance for its long associations with the settlement of the State's premier mineral springs recreational area based around Hepburn Springs. The construction of the pool was undertaken by descendants of the Swiss Italian immigrants who settled this area and it is located in an area directly associated with some of the prominent local guest houses, also owned at the time by members of the Swiss Italian community.
Note the reflected light from the buildings windows giving the Beatles double shadows.
"An iconic statue of the Fab Four, in their hometown. The Beatles Statue arrived on Liverpool's Waterfront in December 2015. Donated by the famous Cavern Club, the placement of the statue coincides with the 50 year anniversary of the band's last gig played in Liverpool, at the Liverpool Empire Theatre. It's the city's most popular selfie spot! The figures are larger than life size and weigh 1.2 tonnes in total."
www.visitliverpool.com/things-to-do/the-beatles-statue-p3...
The Epistle of Simon to the Infidels: Chapter 6
When I left London, I told myself that the Emirates were both a literal desert and something of a cultural one too, and that I would be giving up lazy weekend afternoons in art galleries. That later statement is true up to a point, but I was wrong to think that I was entering a cultural desert.
Last weekend was a long weekend; the Prophet’s Birthday more or less coincided with mine, so Sunday was a holiday. Despite that I spend part of the day at work as there were things that needed to be done. My boss’s wife, who is over from the UK phoned up to say that, as part of a series of talks linked to the forthcoming Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, there would be a lecture that evening by Jeff Koons and Anish Kapoor. It was an open event: all we had to do was turn up, and if there was space we’d get in. So off we went, arriving at the Emirates Palace [that will be a whole separate chapter after I’ve been back with my camera] at about 6:20 for a 6:30 start.
In London one would probably have had to sell one’s Grandmother simply for a chance to enter a lottery for tickets to such an event, but in Abu Dhabi we could stroll in 10 minutes before the start and secure seats about 2/3 of the way back, settle down, and enjoy the show.
Jeff Koons was very much the supporting act. He treated us to a brief history of his work accompanied by what sounded to me like an awful lot of post-rationalisation. Early works were said to be influenced by Nietsche, Kirkegaard, and American door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen. A baseball in an equilibrium tank represented a womb evoking past, present and future. A mess of play doh was supposed to give us a “sense of Freud”... A lot of it was an ‘omage to Duchamps. And so it went on. Much of it was great fun, but I was left with the feeling that that’s just about all it was. I was left feeling that I had nothing whatsoever in common with Koons’ cultural references, and wasn’t that bothered about it.
And then on came Anish Kapoor. He also gave us a brief history of his work, but there the similarities stopped. “I have nothing to say as an artist” he said, “I have no message for the world”. And he then went on to describe his earlier work with colour as a “wish to dream” where process became ritual. He talked about “the sublime”, about mystery, Heaven and Hell without any references to religion but how humans approach spaces and objects they don’t quite understand. He showed us how slights of perspective could create real sense of wonder. He told us that “the landscape is to be listened to”. And then he showed us some of his latest works, which he described as “somewhere between shit and architecture”. It was heady stuff delivered to us by a man of apparent modesty.
Ultimately an uplifting evening that proved to me, if I needed proving, that I should grasp the opportunities for everything that comes my way here.
Reflecting Pool and Washington Monument at twilight. Washington DC, September 2013.
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Monuments reflected in a car window at Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, DC. The 86-acre public cemetery was established by an act of Congress in 1840.
Walking the M2 alley in Piketon, Ohio, I looked down and saw these reflected wires. Wind made the interesting distortion recorded by my camera.
REFLECTING POOL
with clouds and sky, Catskill mountain view
Gear/tech:
nikon d40
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laptop with camcontrol software for bracketing
Hdr merge in photoshop cs5
tonemap photomatix
finish in ps cs5
Sunset reflected on Waterloo Lake at Roundhay Park.
Looking south towards the dam.
Waterloo Lake is in Roundhay Park, Leeds. It was constructed by soldiers who had returned from the Napoleonic wars and thus named after the Battle of Waterloo. They were unemployed, so Thomas Nicholson provided work and income to landscape a former quarry. It took two years to build, has an average depth of 60 feet (18 m) deep and covers 33 acres (0.13 km2). It was originally used for boating, and for a period there were trips around it in a steamboat called the Maid of Athens (which was sunk in the lake at the end of its useful life). In 1900 this was replaced by an electric launch, the Mary Gordon, which operated until 1923 (). A cafe was constructed above the boathouse. The lake is now used for fishing, but not boating. The lower part ends in a dam which was once a waterfall but is now a steep grassy bank.
Roundhay Park on Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundhay_Park
Roundhay Park Map
www.vrleeds.co.uk/roundhay-park-leeds/roundhay-park-map.html
Mary Gordon launch
Columbus is a city known for its architecture. J. Irwin Miller, owner of the Cummins Engine Company, a local concern manufacturing diesel engines, instituted a program in which Cummins would pay the architects' fee on any building if the client selected a firm from a list they compiled. The plan was initiated with public schools. It was so successful that Miller went on to defray the design costs of fire stations, public housing and other community structures. Columbus has come to have an unusual number of notable public buildings and sculpture, designed by such individuals as Eero Saarinen, I.M. Pei, Robert Venturi, Cesar Pelli, Richard Meier and others. Six of its buildings, built between 1942 and 1965, are National Historic Landmarks, and 60 other buildings sustain the Bartholomew County capital seat's reputation as a showcase of modern architecture.
A statue of a nude displayed in front of perpendicular mirrors at The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA. I'm in this picture, see the note.
Taken with a Pentax K-1000 on Tri-X B&W film, negative scanned with an Epson 4490.
On Easter Monday, 28 March 2016 Dublin City Council commemorated the 1916 Rising with a day of history and more at Smithfield Square.
The popular ‘Dublin Remembers’ Learning Bus was there, alongside a large mobile library and a replica vintage ambulance. Dublin City Public Libraries, Dublin Fire Brigade and Dublin UNESCO City of Literature staff were there promoting Dublin City Council’s 1916 centenary programme. They were joined by re-enactors and historians who answered questions on the Rising and Dublin 100 years ago. Lia Mills, author of Fallen, the "Dublin: One City One Book" choice for this year, was there to talk about writing the book which is set in Dublin in 1915-16.