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A striking black and white architectural study of the side elevation of Sheffield City Hall, its classical stone facade dramatically patterned with large, irregular patches of reflected sunlight thrown from the glazed buildings opposite. The bold interplay of light and shadow transforms the ornate stonework — sash windows, decorative corbels and balconies — into an almost abstract composition. Bare winter branches reach into the pale sky at the right of the frame, while a parked van and pavement bollards anchor the scene in everyday urban reality.
I thought I would try something a little warmer. This set is our trip up Iowa 17 and associated counties traveling from Des Moines back home early this fall. It was a rainy day which always make it more difficult to get the shot, but also has some interesting side effects that you won't get on a sunny day. Enjoy these pics from the road.
(Webster City)
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Out on its own, not far from the town of Davin is a beautiful old stone church known as Fairview Methodist. According "Legacy of Stone" by M. Hryniuk and F. Korvemaker, the church was built in 1903 to replace an earlier wood structure and was designed by a Alexander Malcolm Fraser. It fell into disuse by the early 1960s. The location is superb in the golden light of a Saskatchewan sunset, and my photo-op was enhanced by the appearance of a baby deer springing up and running around trying to decide where to go. It was a real Saskatchewan moment.
Davin, Saskatchewan, 4 July 2013
Gotland, the largest island in the Baltic Sea, lies about 60 miles off the southeastern coast of Sweden.
Within 10 minutes of leaving Visby, the only sizable town on the island, an idyllic landscape dotted with rustic cottages and rural farmhouses starts to unfold.
In Gotland, during the eighteenth century tar-coated timbered buildings gave way to whitewashed limestone houses. Floor construction was improved by lifting the joists to give the houses a dry foundation.In 1757, in order to save the forests, the state granted a 20 year tax-exemption to anybody building their house in stone rather than in wood.
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Catt Hall (Old Bot)
Earlier this year we happened to be in Ames on a Sunday morning. It was a nice day and thought it would be fun to walk the campus we spent so much time on in our young adulthood. A lot has changed and yet not so much from the late 70's and early 80's. It was nice to see that the central campus was still a central campus, and the old buildings that give this place character are still standing tall. Most have been renovated, looking good and still functioning in the pursuit of higher learning.
This is a project I've been contemplating for some time, and it so happened the day was perfect. Enjoy the walk
Note: I hope to do this again when there are students about and when I'm able to get into the buildings.
Part of the north transept and tower of St Asaph Cathedral, in the town of St Asaph (Denbighshire, northeastern Wales) -- in Welsh, Llanelwy -- on a partly sunny afternoon in late April.
The building was begun in the 13th century, on the site of a 6th-century (possibly about A.D. 560) church. Extensively rebuilt during the 14th century, it was partially restored in the later 15th century and again during the 19th century.
Please note: When we visited St Asaph in 2010, it was called a town, reflecting its modest size. Based on the historical definition, it was a city, since it was the seat of a cathedral. In March 2012, it was again indeed officially designated as a city. I've kept the term "town" in these captions, because it was the term used at the time of our visit.
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Campanile
Earlier this year we happened to be in Ames on a Sunday morning. It was a nice day and thought it would be fun to walk the campus we spent so much time on in our young adulthood. A lot has changed and yet not so much from the late 70's and early 80's. It was nice to see that the central campus was still a central campus, and the old buildings that give this place character are still standing tall. Most have been renovated, looking good and still functioning in the pursuit of higher learning.
This is a project I've been contemplating for some time, and it so happened the day was perfect. Enjoy the walk
Note: I hope to do this again when there are students about and when I'm able to get into the buildings.
Decided to stop downtown Mason City to take some shots of the historic down town including the Park Inn and City National Bank. Enjoy the main street of Mason City Iowa.
A view leaving Rosthwaite with the destination of Castle Crag, our first Lake District walk. The showers had stopped and sunlight was beginning to highlight the fells. In the distance is High Scawdel and Low Scawdel with a bit of sunlight between them.
It was a wonderful introduction to the Lake District.
My thoughts are with the people of Cumbria as they deal with the rain and flooding. Hoping all are safe.
L-Isla is an old town across the harbour from Valletta, surrounded by fortifications. It is built on a hill jutting into the harbour, with steep stepped streets to the sea. It's also in the top 10 most densely populated towns in the world.
Historical district of Naples. Now a UNESCO World Heritage site. I guess UNESCO recognizes modern grafitti as a cultural treasure. Napoli, Campania, Italy. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier.
Grand staircase of Kunsthistorisches Museum. 1866 AD. Vienna, Austria. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier. Roundel paintings by Klimt, neoclassical sculpture 18th Century AD by Canova.
July 5, 2017 - Ta Prohm was built in 1186 under Jayavarman VII who ruled from 1181 - 1220. It was built in honor of his mother. Built as a Mahayana Buddhist shrine dedicated to Buddha. It was enlarged during the rein of Indravarman II.
"This was the temple chosen by the Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient to be left in its 'natural state', as an example of how most of Angkor looked on its discovery in the 19th century. This was an inspired decision, and involved a significant amount of work to prevent further collapse and enough clearing of vegetation to allow entry. It has been maintained in this condition of apparent neglect. All in all, Ta Prohm has at the romantic appeal of, say a Piranesi ruin: partly overgrown and gently declining" Previous text from the book Ancient Angkor by Michael Freeman and Claude Jacques.
One can find beauty even in a place like this. When I was a young boy, my family would drive south to a place along the Penobscot River in Maine called Fort Knox. This was the best of forts - one that never was used. It eventually became a scenic State park overlooking the beautiful Penobscot River from high ground. This shows one of the many interior corridors used to safely transit the perimeter.
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An advancing thunder storm crosses over Rainbow Mountain / Burton Mountain, towards Rhyolite’s ruins: the Overbury Building and the J.S. Cook Bank Building. The Overbury Building, opened in June 1907, was a three storey stone building that housed the First National Bank of Rhyolite. Rhyolite’s most prominent ruin, in the distance, is the John S. Cook Bank Building; a three storey building of reinforced concrete that housed a bank, brokerage, and post office. It opened in January 1908 at a cost of $90,000 to build (2014 cost $2.3 million).
Rhyolite is a ghost town on the outskirts of Beatty Nevada (120 miles / 190 km northwest of Las Vegas). In 1904, gold was discovered in the nearby Bullfrog Hills- - -a gold rush ensued. In 1905, the Montgomery Shoshone Mine, the richest/largest mine, began production, and the town of Rhyolite started from a nearby mining camp. The new town was named after Rhyolite, a silica-rich igneous, volcanic rock, found nearby. Rhyolite peaked in 1907 with a population of nearly 5,000 (it was one of Nevada's largest towns); Rhyolite was served by three railroads, had electricity, running water, telephones, newspapers, an eight room school, a hospital, an opera house, and a mining stock exchange. Rhyolite’s rapid decline began with the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the 1907 Financial Panic: raising needed industrial capital became difficult, high-grade ore was depleted, mines closed, people moved out. In 1911, the Montgomery mine closed after running out of profitable high-grade ore- - -Rhyolite’s population was close to 700; by 1920, the population was 14, by 1924, the population was 0- - -Rhyolite was abandoned. Currently, the Bureau of Land Management oversees the Rhyolite townsite. The Amargosa Desert receives less then 5 inches / 127 millimeters of precipitation annually.
Processed in Apple Aperture and Nik Software Collection Color Efex: graduated neutral density, detail extractor, brilliance/warmth. A Singh-Ray, three stop soft graduated neutral density filter was used to balance the exposure.
Doric Temple of Poseidon. MArble, Greek, Classical, 420 BC. Sounion, Attica, Greece. Copyright 2024, James A. Glazier
This is the church of St Andrew in the small village of Beelsby on the north eastern edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds. A glorious January day slowly moved towards dusk when I took this image. A strange setting for a church, tucked away from the village and the only access seems to be a long uphill flight of stone steps between two houses on the main street.
Then the first thing you notice when you walk up the steps is that there are no head stones - they have all been removed and some placed around the back of the church. Although there is one 'recent' burial right in the corner of the freshly mowed grass.
One of the many hundreds of village churches in Lincolnshire, and just one of many 'designs' of churches in the area.
A poppy trail outside of the church at Dent.
St Andrew's Church is in the village of Dent, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the Western Dales Mission Community in the deanery of Kendal and archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness. and the diocese of Carlisle. It has a regular Sunday morning eucharist at 11.15am. Its benefice is united with that of St John the Evangelist, Cowgill. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.
St Andrew's originated in the 12th century, was rebuilt in 1417, restored in 1590, and again in 1787. A further restoration was carried out in 1889–90 by the Lancaster architects Paley, Austin and Paley at a cost of £2,700 (equivalent to £320,000 in 2021).
Taken while walking the stone walled lane into Hartsop. The smaller stone building, Weaver Cottage, was our home for our two weeks in the Lake District in 2017.
From an elevated vantage, two Lothian Buses navigate the Foot o’ the Walk, weaving between the sunlit stone buildings that line this historic Edinburgh street. Rooftops and chimney pots stretch diagonally across the frame, capturing the quiet rhythm of a June evening.
The soft, fading light warms the red sandstone façades, highlighting the textures and history of Leith Walk. Every rooftop and storefront seems to hold its own story, a gentle reminder of the city’s blend of past and present.
A subtle cinematic dehaze enhances the textures and shadows, inviting viewers to drift through this elevated perspective and feel the gentle pulse of urban life.
Potarch is a hamlet in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, with a bridge across the River Dee. It is a popular location with tourists and day-trippers, and has a hotel. The Dinnie Stones are kept at the Potarch Hotel.
Parish of Saint Thomas and Saint Edmund
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Warren, Massachusetts - USA
This is the Warren public library building designed by Amos P. Cutting and constructed in 1889. It is a fine example of the Richardson-Romanesque architectural style. The granite and brownstone used in its construction was quarried from the nearby towns of Monson and Longmeadow. Cutting was a prestigious New England architect during this time period and designed over fifty churches as well as other libraries and public buildings.
This is the Peaks Inn, once called the Peak Hotel, one of the many buildings to join in the festivities each Xmas time by decorating the outside of the building.
Telephoto shot of the West Virginia Capitol dome from the University of Charleston campus, across the Kanawha River from the Capitol. I reduced the brightness of the image to bring out better detail in the dome (especially the bright spot) and the sky. Dedicated in 1932, the Capitol is the principal building in the Capitol Complex, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 (74002009). ( Information about the Capitol is provided with other photos of it, in the WV Capitol Complex album).
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Another of the ghost churches of Lincolnshire. This is St Michael in Market Stainton - in disuse for many years. I took a photo of this church a fair few years ago and the roof was covered in tarpaulin and still is, although it looks like a new one has been placed there. This is a Grade II listed building in a village of few houses and parishioners. No doubt a reason for the demise of the church.
Build 1899 by architect Adrian C. Peterson and his son Carl Crispin.
The actual tower is not a water tower but it is built upon a water reservoir. The tower is an observation tower and it was built to provide a point for viewing the city for the citizens.
St. Mark's Episcopal Church is llocated on West 4th Street in Big Timber, Montana. The settlement of Big Timber coincided with the advent of the Northern Pacific Railroad, which steamed into the Yellowstone Valley in 1882, spurring settlement along the line. In 1884, Rev. Alfred Brown, an Episcopal minister from Livingston, held the town’s first Protestant church services in the local schoolhouse. The Rev. J. F. Pritchard of Livingston soon began conducting regular services and the Congregational church hospitably shared its facilities. With the encouragement of Rev. Pritchard in 1892, the Episcopal women’s guild began plans to build St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. The name was changed in 1895 to St. Mark’s and a subscription paper circulated, raising $900. St. Mark’s cornerstone was laid in the fall of 1895. Rev. Pritchard and the Rt. Rev. Dr. Leigh R. Brewer, Missionary Bishop of the Episcopal District of Montana, Idaho and Utah, conducted the first services in February of 1896. St. John’s Episcopal Church in Butte and individuals in Chicago and Waterton, New York, donated many of the interior furnishings for the $2,215 building. By 1899, the diligent fund-raising efforts of the women’s guild had cleared the debt.
The beautiful Gothic Revival style stone building, designed by F. S. Hornbeck and constructed by skilled craftsmen under local builder O. M. Lanphear, reflects the English roots of the Episcopal church. Masterfully cut and fitted native limestone, the characteristic vertical emphasis of the Gothic style and exquisite stained glass make this truly an architectural gem. Historically significant as the town’s oldest standing church, St. Mark’s remains a handsome memorial to the dedicated members of its founding congregation.
St. Mark's Episcopal Church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 21, 1995.
Side streets in the new city (19th Century AD). Ostuni, the "White City." Apulia, Italy. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier.
The redundant church of St Michael in Buslingthorpe, Lincolnshire. A settlement once thrived here but all that remains of the original village are some earthworks in the field opposite this church. Now the only neighbours the church has is a couple of new(ish) houses and a farm.
Buslingthorpe is rarely visited, it's off the beaten track and the only through road comes from nowhere and goes nowhere - you really would only visit this place if the church was open as part of a weekend celebration - and that was the reason that I visited. Another of the rural Lincolnshire churches that are now looked after by the Churches Conservation Trust and this one was open as part of the ChurchesFest16. Almost 100 Lincolnshire churches in the West Lindsey district of the county come together for two weekends in May and open their doors for all to see and enjoy.
Chipping Campden is a small market town in Gloucestershire. It is notable for its elegant terraced High Street, dating from the 14th century to the 17th century. ("Chipping" is from Old English cēping, "a market, a market-place".) A rich wool trading centre in the Middle Ages, today it is a popular Cotswold tourist destination with old inns, hotels, specialist shops and restaurants. The High Street is lined with honey-coloured limestone buildings, built from the mellow locally quarried oolitic limestone known as Cotswold stone, and boasts a wealth of fine vernacular architecture.
Church House, a black-and-white half-timbered building in the old town of Evesham (Worcestershire, in west-central England), on a partly sunny afternoon in mid-May. A small spring border sits in front of it.
It sits beside and over a limestone and half-timbered gateway (which is just to the left of this picture) that leads from the grounds of the former Evesham Abbey into the historic centre.
Towards the right, a small part of a wall and window of All Saints Church can also be seen. This Anglican parish church was originally founded during the 12th century as part of Evesham Abbey, then extensively (according to Wikipedia) restored 1872-1876, during the Victorian period.
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