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Rattray Head Lighthouse was established in 1895 off the Aberdeenshire coast just 10 miles north of Fraserburgh and engineered by David Alan Stevenson. Rattray Head Lighthouse is a listed building of Architectural and Historical interest.
One of the side doors to the church of St Martin in Blyton in Lincolnshire. I like the two heads either side of the newly hinged door.
St Peters, the village church in Askham, Cumbria. This village is in the Eden Valley, right on the eastern edge of the Lake District National Park.
This is the same church as in the previous image, although this time in the sunshine a couple of hours later.
View of Église Saint-Symphorien, the parish church of 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), from the courtyard of the grounds of the Château d'Azay-le-Rideau, on a mostly clear late afternoon in mid-October 2016.
While there was a church on the site by the 6th century, and parts of the facade date back to the 11th century (Romanesque period) with some possible Carolingian (9th century) decorative elements, it was considerably rebuilt during the 12th century and enlarged in the 16th century. It is located on the grounds of the château, whose surviving building is a small gem of the Renaissance period primarily built between 1518 and 1527. As is characteristic of the area of the Touraine, a historical, pre-Revolutionary province, the building is of pale, silvery-grey to near-white tufa limestone (in French, tuffeau or tufeau).
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. Several mills were established in and near the village. The village is probably best known for the Château d'Azay-le-Rideau, a small gem of the Renaissance period primarily built between 1518 and 1527. The château is surrounded by the Indre, which forms a natural moat, as well as a garden and parkland. Azay-le-Rideau is located within Le Parc naturel régional Loire-Anjou-Touraine (the Loire-Anjou-Touraine Regional Natural Park).
(Information about the church from the Michelin Châteaux of the Loire Green Guide (Watford, Herts., UK: Michelin Travel Partner, 2015 printing), Mérimée (reference number PA00097549), an architectural heritage database of the Ministère de la culture, and Wikipedia, last consulted 18 August 2018.)
[Azay-le-Rideau church from château afternoon 2016 oct 10 f; DSCF0319]
The old head gardener's home on, what was, Worsley New Hall estate built for the first Earl of Ellesmere close to Salford, Manchester.
This grade II listed building dates back to 1834 with additions in the later 19th century to house some of the additional unmarried gardeners needed to run the estate. The building was designed by Edward Blore.
This now stands amid the RHS Bridgewater Gardens estate (the RHS having taken over the site and fully redeveloped it) forming what is described as the Bee and Butterfly Garden.
... photograph the sign and entrance station when exiting the park?
It was "after hours" by the time I arrived at Yosemite and I was trying to see as much as possible before dark, so I didn't stop here until I was leaving the park. Interesting old stone building at the Tioga Road entrance, but I can't find any history or other information about it.
View from the wilderness area of Powis Castle Garden (Montgomeryshire, Powys, Mid Wales) across the lawn and up to terraced garden and the castle itself, on a mostly clear afternoon in early June 1997.
Powis Castle Garden is a National Trust property noted for its varied terraces on the steep slope down from the castle to the lawn, orchard, and rose garden, which were begun in the late 17th century -- with plantings updated during the Edwardian period (in the early 20th century) as well as more recently. The castle itself dates back to the medieval period (although the exact dates of the oldest elements are uncertain, perhaps early 13th century), with later additions and restorations.
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[Powis Castle and Garden early summer 1997 jun 4]
Preparing for our return trip the next morning are a few shots of Pella. The factory shots are one of Pella Corp, an Iowa original.
Jerusalem Mill Village
Gunpowder Falls State Park
Harford County, Maryland
Jerusalem Mill Village, part of Gunpowder Falls SP, is the most intact historic village in Maryland, with mill, cooperage, blacksmith shop, and other buildings. The village is the site of an 18th and 19th century Quaker settlement. The mill opened in 1772 as Lee's Merchant Mill on the north bank of Little Gunpowder Falls (stream name) and was the center of the community; this stone blacksmith shop is opposite the mill. After operating about 190 years, the mill was acquired by the state in 1961 to be part of Gunpowder Falls SP, and is now the park's visitor center and headquarters. Jerusalem Mill Village was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987 (87001400). A short distance downstream, Jericho covered bridge takes Jericho Road across Little Gunpowder Falls; the bridge also is on the National Register of Historic Places (78001444). The village is in Harford County while the covered bridge is in both Harford and Baltimore counties.
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Taken from the hill of the Necropolis. In the view is the Glasgow evangelical church, cathedral house hotel and just visible at the far side is Barony Hall.
Cat perched on a windowsill in the town of Bradford on Avon (or Bradford-on-Avon; west Wiltshire, in southern England), on an overcast morning in mid-May.
The town is characterised by limestone buildings that cluster down near the River Avon (the Bristol Avon) or perch on a steep hill and along an escarpment above it. This picture was taken during a walk down the hill.
[Bradford-on-Avon cat posing 2010 may 14 o; P5141115]
Main door to St. James the Apostle Anglican Church in Guelph, Ontario. All the church doors are painted this vibrant bright red with black hardware..
This is the church of St Andrew in the parish of Bywell in Northumberland in the north east of England.
the old mission hall, built in 1881 on the banks of the river esk ,( border esk ) langholm, dumfries and galloway, scotland. this old building now serves as the langholm community centre, creche, karate tuition, ambulance station, and a host of other events, and functions.
Sir George Washington Browne (Edinburgh) 1896. Flemish gable-fronted commercial building with Francois Ier detailing. Interiors by C R Mackintosh and George Walton (now destroyed) for Mrs Cranston's Tea Room, now Dr Martens shoe shop.
Rippling reflections do a lot of the storytelling here — a neighboring high-rise gets bent and smeared across this tower's curtain wall, turning a static glass box into something closer to a funhouse mirror. Shooting nearly straight up from street level exaggerates the building's climb, stacking window module after window module until the top seems to lean into the clouds.
SoMa and Rincon Hill have filled in fast over the last two decades, and this stretch near the elevated freeway ramps captures that layered growth in one frame. The dark, textured stone building on the left reads as an older, heavier neighbor — all mass and shadow next to the tower's lightness and reflectivity. Between them, a concrete freeway ramp slices horizontally across the composition, a reminder that this is infrastructure country as much as it's a skyline. A single tree on the right, still holding its leaves, softens the hard edges and gives the eye somewhere to rest before it climbs the glass again.
Converting to black and white strips away any distraction from color and lets the geometry and the reflections carry the image — the tower's setback notches near the top add just enough irregularity to keep the eye moving.
🏰✨ O centro histórico de Cáceres é caracterizado pelas suas casas brasonadas, edifícios com fachadas decoradas com brasões de armas da nobreza local ou, como neste caso, de elementos do alto clero. Estes edifícios remontam ao século XVI e representam a riqueza e o poder das elites privilegiadas que habitavam a cidade naquela época.
A inclusão de Cáceres na lista do Património Mundial da UNESCO deve-se à sua excecional preservação de arquitetura medieval e renascentista, com muralhas, torres, palácios e igrejas que formam um conjunto urbano único.
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This was one of the first sightings of The Ball of Light. It was feeling a bit risky, that is a BIG drop.
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Location: St Cybi's Church, Stanley Street, Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, UK.
St Cybi's Anglican Church overlooks Holyhead harbour.
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Wooden entrance door along west front of l'Église Notre-Dame in the town of Beaugency (in the département of Loiret, located in the Centre-Val de Loire region in central France), on a mostly clear late afternoon in mid-October 2016.
Dating from the first half of the 12th century, the medieval church was part of an Augustinian abbey. It was seriously damaged in 1567, during the Wars of Religion. Restoration of the church was undertaken from 1579 to 1642, with wooden vaults added later in the 17th century, in 1684. The Chapelle Sainte-Anne was added 1874-1876; some of the stained glass is by Lucien-Léopold Lobin (1837-1892).
(Information partly from Mérimée (reference number PA00098691), an architectural heritage database of the Ministère de la culture, and the website Structurae, both consulted 7 March 2017.)
Beaugency is a small historic town located along the Loire, further downriver from (and southwest of) the city of Orléans. Among the many French victories during the so-called Hundred Years' War that were credited to the involvement and inspiration of Jeanne d'Arc was the capture of Beaugency in June 1429, following her more famous victory ending the siege of Orléans that May.
[Beaugency church door afternoon 2016 oct 12 o; PA120328]
Market Stainton Hall in the Lincolnshire Wolds on a sunny March afternoon in 2015. There is a public right of way through the grounds, although I thought this view of the hall, including the tree on the right was more appealing.
L'église Saint-Ronan, XVe, protégée au titre des Monuments historiques et sa chapelle du Pénity où se trouve le tombeau de saint Ronan
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War Memorial Hall first opened in June of 1924 and had been built as a memorial for the 109 former Ontario Agricultural College students who had died serving in World War I with the Canadian army. This was the first time that alumni had been asked to contribute to their alma mater and they came up big with $60,000 which, along with the $40,000 contributed by the province of Ontario ensured this shrine would be built. Inside is a plaque listing the names of those who died and a further plaque was added after World War II, listing those former students who died in that war.
This building seats about 800 people and is currently used for formal ceremonies, convocations, concerts and stage performances.
When it was built, the university was not yet a university and consisted of three colleges- OAC (Ontario Agricultural College- 1872), OVC (Ontario Veterinary College- 1922) and MacDonald Institute- 1903. The university as it is today was created in 1964, from the then seven colleges, the three aforementioned as well as the College of Arts, College of Social Sciences, College of Physical Sciences and College of Family and Consumer Studies.
War Memorial Hall staged many concerts over the years and I was fortunate to see blues legends Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee, iconic Canadian folk singers Bruce Cockburn and Murray McLauchlan, American singer John Prine, the Canadian bands The Band, Rush and Max Webster and British new wave band XTC. I also saw noted Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein here a few years ago.
It is a magnificent building and a landmark at the university.
We're Here looks at Memorials today.
The village of Corringham near to Gainsborough in Lincolnshire is home to the church of St Laurence. Tucked away at the end of a small road lines with cottages, this church has a beautiful ceiling if you get chance to go inside and have a look around. The church was one of many in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire that opened their doors for a couple of weekends in early May 2015 as part of the #ChurchesFest15 event.
My images are processed to look good on my laptop, and they do look good on there - and on my phone and tablet - I am aware though that some other screens will show my images as either too dark or indeed too light. This is due to individual screen settings and not my inability to produce a clear image ....
This is St Mary's, a Grade I listed part 11th Century church not too far from where I live. This is the village church of Barnetby in North Lincolnshire. I have taken photos of a few hundred churches so far on my travels but have held off on this one until now.
To put it bluntly, I've held off because I think it's an ugly church and although steeped in history, to me it isn't photogenic at all. The rendering of the tower walls in the 20th Century may have been to shore up the rather low tower but disguise the brick work beneath. It's only that I was at a loose end this particular day that I set out to photograph this church at all.
Owl Court, OKC, Route 66. I've not been able to find much more about this place other than a fairly recent blog post (written within the last few months) I found last night suggesting the restoration had come to a halt. Anyone know for sure?
Houses, with small front gardens, along the rectangular place (square) in the hill town of Najac (in the Rouergue, Aveyron département, in the Midi-Pyrénées region of southwestern France), on a mostly clear morning in early June 2009.
Najac is known for its old stone-and-half-timbered buildings, clustered along a lower ridge below a promontory with a ruined castle / château-fort. Its structure is a variant of a typical bastide, a later medieval fortified settlement designed to be easily defensible. It is classified among the "Plus Beaux Villages de France" (Most Beautiful Villages of France).
[Najac place homes front gardens 2009 jun 4 c; IMG_0570]
New Hampshire State Capitol, Concord. According to the New Hampshire Almanac, Concord was named state capital in 1816 and the capitol building, made of granite quarried on the north edge of Concord, was finished in 1818. It is part of the Concord Civic District Historic District, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 (83004203). Concord is the seat of Merrimack County, as well as state capital; its population in 2010 was about 43,000.
The statue is of Daniel Webster (1782-1852), noted constitutional lawyer and orator who served several terms in each house of the U.S. Congress and was secretary of state under three presidents.
One of my earliest digital photos, I recently re-edited it in Lightroom.
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An old farmhouse left on a park's property. Doesn't look like it's being used for anything but the door looks fairly new.
Various stages of harsh late autumn light hit the angles of this office building in downtown Guelph.
This historic 1930 resort is situated on a 2,600-acre nature preserve in the Appalachian Mountains with elevations from 2,200 to 4,365 feet. It is 7.4 miles from downtown Pembroke in Giles County, (southwestern) Virginia. Dirty Dancing was a 1987 romantic drama film starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey. Much of the movie was filmed at the Mountain Lake Lodge. Print Size 13x19 inches.
Happy Fence Friday
Largest monastic cloister in England - Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwich_Cathedral
cathedral.org.uk/cathedral-highlights/cloister/
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Lower Brockhampton (northeastern Herefordshire, in the Welsh Borders region of England): The half-timbered gatehouse of the medieval manor is reflected in the moat as the sun shines through briefly on a mostly overcast late-September afternoon.
The Tudor-period gatehouse was built 1530-1540. To the right, part of the manor house itself, which has been dated to the late 14th century; to the left, sandstone and brick farm buildings, converted into an exhibit site and small shop. The Brockhampton Estate is now in the care of the National Trust (whose website is the source of the date information above).
(From the "archive" -- 2007)
[Lower Brockhampton Manor gatehouse in sun 2007 sep 23 n]