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An early evening view of the village centre of Imqabba (pop. 3,300) and its parish church, completed in 1699. The church's dome was rebuilt in 1949 after air raid damage in WW2, and is again being restored.
The Cotswolds is home to some of the most unspoilt, historic and famous towns and villages in England. Famous for incredible countryside views, rolling hills and the ‘honey-coloured’ Cotswold architecture.
Entrance to the courtyard of the house and tasting cave of an Alsatian vintner -- vigneron -- in the commune of Dambach-la-Ville (in the département of Bas-Rhin, Alsace, in northeastern France), on a partly cloudy afternoon in mid-October 2006.
Dambach-la-Ville, whose name goes back to the Gallo-Roman Tambacum (according to the official commune website, consulted 8 December 2015), is located on foothills of the Vosges Mountains and is on the Alsatian Route des Vins (Wine Route or Road). It is known for the quality of its wines, produced from vineyards in the vicinity and sold by vignerons in the town as well as elsewhere. The most common Alsatian grape varietals are represented here: Riesling, pinot blanc, pinot gris, and Gewürztraminer, all producing white wines of differing character that reflect the complex terroirs of the area. (Some pinot-noir-based reds are also made.)
(From the "archives" -- 2006.)
[Dambach-la-Ville Beck-Hartweg cave entrance 2006 oct 13 o; PA130162]
I have wanted to visit this stunning castle for some time and finally made it.
The Eileen Donan Castle is an iconic building sat on the edge Loch Duich in the Scottish Highlands.
A lone building and sheep on a ridge in the Connemara bog just in from the County Galway coast near Ballyconneely, on a mostly sunny morning in mid-May. In the background, the Twelve Bens (12 Mountains -- Irish Na Beanna Beola).
(A picture in my Connemara coast album / set.)
[Ballyconneely area cottage sheep Bens morning 2011 may 20 cd; IMG_0754]
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The top section of the Mount Academy, a high school in Esopus, NY, hidden in the bright colors of nearby trees...viewed from the Hudson River. It was built in 1907 and was originally the Mount St. Alphonsus Seminary
Exquisite natural stone building with expansive views of Owens Lake and the Sierras...
I try to stop and shoot this little building each time I drive by. At the rate it is deteriorating, it won't be here much longer.
Anıtkabir (literally, "memorial tomb") is the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the leader of the Turkish War of Independence and the founder and first President of the Republic of Turkey.
St Michael's church in the hamlet of East Torrington in Lincolnshire. To the left of the big tree there are earthworks from a Medieval village, now just bumps and mounds in the fields but at one time larger than the present day collection of houses and farms that's here. The horses in the field were an added bonus for the composition of the photo.
They came towards me in the hope that I had something to feed them, when it was obvious that I didn't, they carried on with the grass.
The Cagsawa Ruins (also spelled as Kagsawa or Cagsaua) are the remnants of an 16th-century Franciscan church, the Cagsawa church. It was built in 1587 but was burned down by the marauding Dutch in 1636. However, it was reconstructed again in 1724 by Fr. Francisco Blanco. In February 1, 1814, Mayon Volcano caused its most violent and deadly eruption that engulfed the surrounding houses and killed nearly 2,000 people who took refuge inside the church. Only the belfry of the Cagsawa church remains as a grim and silent testimony of that fateful day. For almost two hundred years, it has withstood the test of time and the elements to become one of the most recognizable landmarks of Albay Province. The ruins are located in Barangay Busay, Cagsawa, in the municipality of Daraga, Albay, Philippines.
The oldest building in Greenfield Village was imported from England's Cotswold Hills to represent the area from which Henry Ford's ancestors immigrated. It is surrounded by a lush country garden.
Old church building, Blt.1925?.
2nd & Xanthus, Tulsa Oklahoma.
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Downtown campus..
Sony SLT-A57.
Vivitar Series 1 18-35 f3.5
Commissioned by James IV. Part of the castle previously used by the Argyle and Sutherland Highlander’s regiment.
This is St Giles in the Derbyshire village of Great Longstone, in the middle of the Peak District. A very nice quaint village with the church high on the hillside looking over the parish.
The old village chapel in the picturesque village of Blencow in Cumbria. The building is now a private house I think - going by the line of washing that was hung outside just off to the right of this image.
Cockington is a village near Torquay, in the Torbay district, in the ceremonial county of Devon, England. Cockington with Chelston had a population of 8,366 in 2021 It has old cottages within its boundaries, and is about two miles from the centre of Torquay.
Cockington Village, ca. 1890 - 1900
The village was probably founded 2,500 years ago during the Iron Age with evidence of two hill forts on either side of Cockington Valley. Little is known about Cockington from that point up until the remains of a small Saxon village were found near the Drum Inn. The evidence from this village shows that it was primarily a fishing and farming village. The first official documentation of the village was in the 10th century. The manor was owned by Alric the Saxon, before William Hostiarus, William de Falaise and Robert FitzMartin, who passed it down to his son Roger, who renounced his name to become Roger de Cockington. The Cockington family owned Cockington Estate from 1048–1348. The Cary family (this particular branch included George Carey (c. 1541–1616)) owned the court from 1375 to 1654. It was then sold to the Mallock family a family of rich silversmiths from Exeter, who owned it from 1654 to 1932 when they sold the estate to the Torquay Corporation.
In 1921 the parish had a population of 279. On 1 October 1928 the parish was abolished and merged with Torquay.
Text curtesy of Wikipedia.
the church of scotland, built in the 1800s. sits on the banks of the river wauchope, (wauchope water) and the river esk, (border esk) just over the church brig, from caroline street. langholm, dumfriesshire, scotland.
This historic church at Walter's Falls, Ontario (near Owen Sound) was founded by John Walter over 160 years ago. John Walter (1804 - 1867) and his wife Elizabeth Payne (1804 - 1882) are buried in the church yard of St. Phillip's Anglican Church. This beautiful stone church, built in 1880, is located beside the Falls Inn, a great place to stay and dine. Settling around the river, John harnessed the water power to develop a sawmill, feedmill and woolen mill which have since been restored.
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Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwich_Cathedral
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I have wanted to visit this stunning castle for some time and finally made it.
The Eileen Donan Castle is an iconic building sat on the edge Loch Duich in the Scottish Highlands.
There was beautiful light yesterday, but I was late and the sunlight was gone by 5.15pm when this was taken. It's a handheld shot of the Birgu waterfront, from L-Isla. The old Royal Navy Bakery is now the National Maritime Museum. The parish church of St Lawrence and the dome of the church of St Dominic can be seen to the right.
Ruins of Fort Crown Point, built by British and provincial troops on Lake Champlain in 1759 to guard against French invasion from Canada. A fire destroyed the fort in 1773, leaving only stone officers and soldiers barracks and earthen fortifications behind. During the Revolutionary War the fort was held first by the Americans and then by the British, who abandoned it in 1780, after which it was left to decay. Today the preserved ruins are part of the Crown Point State Historic Site in Crown Point, New York.
The remains of a window and window seats in the ruined keep of Hopton Castle, just outside the small village of Hopton Castle (South Shropshire, in the Welsh Borders region of western England), on a mostly sunny morning at the beginning of June 2015.
The castle originated as an Anglo-Norman site, located by an earlier settlement -- there had been a late Anglo-Saxon manor there. The keep, all that remains, has Anglo-Norman features of the 11th or 12th century, but it may have been built during the 1260s (1264 being the date of the earliest surviving written record of it) in a deliberately "archaic" style. During the "English" Civil War (which actually involved Wales, Scotland, and Ireland as well as England), it was held by Parliamentarians until it was taken by Royalists during a fierce siege in 1644. The part of the structure that survived the siege subsequently fell into disrepair and ruin. A restoration project begun in 2006 shored up walls, conserved plaster, added railings for safety, and provided explanatory panels; the restored site opened to the public in December 2011.
Hopton Castle is located in a quiet valley off a side road not far from the border between southwestern Shropshire and northwestern Herefordshire.
(Information about the castle from the Hopton Castle Preservation Trust website and Wikipedia, both last consulted 30 July 2019.)
As restored, one can imagine these seats covered with cushions, with people sitting in them, making the most of the light and the view.
[Hopton Castle window seats 2015 jun 3 c; IMG_5375]
Prompt: In the artistic style of artist painter Ann Mortimer, Vintage bakery building, all in flowers with a bicycle outside the shop. sign hanging at the top "Bakery". A stone building in a medieval town with flowers hanging all over it, a bicycle stands at the entrance. Through the window you can see delicious buns, watercolor painting --ar 4:3 --stylize 250 --v 6.1
digital fine art created using Midjourney AI
This image was taken during a very cold night shoot with Dave (@dscreativ). Dave had already come up with the location, composition and light-painting concept for the old ruin before we arranged permission to access the property.
After shooting beneath the Milky Way, the final image was assembled from 10 exposures, combining the light-painted ruin with the night sky above.
Today in Ross will be an entirely monochrome experience. I think each of these photographs lent themselves to this interpretation - the afternoon sun and shadows and of course the old buildings.
Here is "Captain Samuel's Cottage". First built in 1830 it has been "used as a convict barracks, a grindstone shop, butchery, antique shop and private home". At the moment it is "Cupid's Nest" and has been turned into a couple of tourist apartments. But its most interesting occupant was clearly Captain Samuel Horton.
He was a wealthy merchant seaman who retired to Ross. His biggest achievement was establishing the nearby Horton College which ran as a prestigious boarding school until 1894. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horton_College
The Cupid's nest reference makes me think of that classic movie and later TV series, "The Ghost and Mrs Muir". Perhaps the ghost of Captain Samuel Horton also visits the people staying there today.
[Make sure you enlarge this one to take a closer look.]
The Château d'Azay-le-Rideau, in the village / small town of Azay-le-Rideau (the département of Indre-et-Loire, located in the Centre-Val de Loire region in central France), on a mostly clear afternoon in mid-October 2016.
While broadly considered part of the "Loire Valley" or Val de Loire, Azay-le-Rideau actually lies along the River Indre, which is a tributary of the Loire itself. The château, a small gem of the Renaissance period, is surrounded by the Indre, which forms a natural moat, as well as a garden and parkland. The current château was primarily built between 1518 and 1527 while owned by Gilles Berthelot, a royal official and mayor of nearby Tours, on the site of a former, mostly destroyed medieval fortified castle (château-fort) of Ridel (or Rideau) d'Azay, who had held the land in the late 12th century. The fact that the surviving structure was built within a fairly short period helps to account for its unified architectural style, designed for elegance and expression of status rather than for defence. It has been owned by the French State since 1905.
(Information from the website of the Château d'Azay-le-Rideau and Wikipedia, both consulted 29 July 2017, as well as from the Michelin Châteaux of the Loire Green Guide (Watford, Herts., UK: Michelin Travel Partner, 2015 printing).)
When we visited in 2016, it was undergoing extensive renovation, an ongoing project since 2015; therefore, it was partly closed off and covered in scaffolding and drapes. Fortunately, my husband has long been fascinated by European scaffolding, and the situation reduced the number of other visitors, so we enjoyed our visit!
[Azay-le-Rideau: château corner scaffolding restoration 2016 oct 10 f; DSCF0297]