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First batch with Hexanon UC 28mm f/1.8 on my Fuji X-Pro1. Lots of potential but needs practice. However, we had a great walkabout today! Thanks D!
Arched window in central tower. Sparrenburg Castle, begun in the 13th Century AD by the Counts of Ravensberg. Current buildings mid 16th Century AD, heavily restored in the 19th Century AD and 20th Century AD. Bielefeld, North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier. Bielefeld was thoroughly flattened during WWII. Pleasant town center, but very few historical buildings.
I will upload some photographs of the interior sometime next week.
Situated on the banks of the River Corrib in Galway city, Galway Cathedral is the most recently built of Europe's great stone cathedrals.
More accurately, it is part of the Pleasant Valley Wine Company. In 1860 it became the first bonded winery in the U.S.. It is located just south of Hammondsport, in Urbana.
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Finishing up the trip back. Seamed to have lost some of the original descriptions so this will have to do as we conclude the ride back from our adventure with our grandson. Enjoy the landscapes and scenes on the Iowa byways.
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Worcester Cathedral. England. UK. Europe.
A walk around Worcester Cathedral. Not my cup of tea, but the wife loved it.
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The doorway of an unrenovated 17th century farmhouse on Quebec's Isle d'Orleans (Island of Orleans), in the St-Lawrence Seaway, just east of Quebec City. The building is current used for storage, as it would cost approximately $400,000 (Cdn $) to restore it.
Some years ago, The Glendale Historical Society created a brochure highlighting the stone structures located in and around the Tujunga/Sunland area. The brochure, "From Stone Castles to Cottages," identifies numerous examples of stone architecture in the region.
Click on the "All Sizes" link above the image to see a larger version. All Illustrations are by Mimi McIntosh and the text was written by Joni L. Atkinson.
As the brochure's subject recalls Robinson Jeffers's own creation of Tor House and Hawk Tower in Carmel, CA, the Glendale Public Library is pleased to update and expand "From Stone Castles to Cottages" as a part of The Big Read: Robinson Jeffers and the Ecologies of Poetry.
Drawing on both its own collection and the holdings in neighboring institutions, the Library has made both the original brochure and accompanying materials available through the GPL website, Flickr, and Google maps.
Weatherwolde Castle in Tujunga is #841 on the Los Angeles Department of City Planning's Historic Cultural Monuments list. According to a Los Angeles Times article by Cecelia Rasmussen, Weatherwolde Castle, built in 1928 by George J. Fosdyke, was very nearly was torn down in 2005. In 2006, the castle was finally designated a Historic Cultural Monument by the Office of Historic Resources.
More information on Big Read 2009: Robinson Jeffers and the Ecologies of Poetry is available on Occidental College's Big Read home page and on the Glendale Public Library's website.
Additionally, an interactive map of this Stone Castles and Cottages of the Verdugo Hills exhibit is available here.
Photo courtesy the City of Los Angeles.
Limestone painted bas reliefs of baby (?) vulture, from the mortuary temple of pharaoh Menuhotep II. Old Kingdom, 2010 BC. Egyptian. Deir el-Bahri, Egypt. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier
Back in the 1980's, the sign on the front of the building indicated it housed "Seligman's World Famous Pool Hall"
Day Glyph of 7 Acatl (Reed). Temple of the Sun. Earlier (15th Century AD) rebuilding with date glyphs. Volcanic Stone, Mexica, 15th Century AD. Zona Arqueologica de Tlatelolco, Plaza de las Tres Culturas, Tlateloco, Mexico. Copyright 2015, James A. Glazier. Tlateloco was founded by a sister tribe to the Aztecs at Tenochtitlan and was a major trading center during the Aztec empire, as well as an early competitor of Tenochtitlan. Like all Aztec Temples, these would originally have been covered with stucco and painted.
I will upload some photographs of the interior sometime next week.
Situated on the banks of the River Corrib in Galway city, Galway Cathedral is the most recently built of Europe's great stone cathedrals.
shot this past summer ...
I'm catching up on processing/posting.
photo date/id to order a print: 20120618_9954panoC_ftmBb
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This delightful small town in the Cotswolds is one of my favourites. The houses and shops on the main street are mainly 17th and 18th century and built from the lovely butter-coloured Cotswold limestone.
Day Glyph of 1 Mazatl (Deer). Temple of the Sun. Earlier (15th Century AD) rebuilding with date glyphs. Volcanic Stone, Mexica, 15th Century AD. Zona Arqueologica de Tlatelolco, Plaza de las Tres Culturas, Tlateloco, Mexico. Copyright 2015, James A. Glazier. Tlateloco was founded by a sister tribe to the Aztecs at Tenochtitlan and was a major trading center during the Aztec empire, as well as an early competitor of Tenochtitlan. Like all Aztec Temples, these would originally have been covered with stucco and painted.
Some years ago, The Glendale Historical Society created a brochure highlighting the stone structures located in and around the Tujunga/Sunland area. The brochure, "From Stone Castles to Cottages," identifies numerous examples of stone architecture in the region.
Click on the "All Sizes" link above the image to see a larger version. All Illustrations are by Mimi McIntosh and the text was written by Joni L. Atkinson.
As the brochure's subject recalls Robinson Jeffers's own creation of Tor House and Hawk Tower in Carmel, CA, the Glendale Public Library is pleased to update and expand "From Stone Castles to Cottages" as a part of The Big Read: Robinson Jeffers and the Ecologies of Poetry.
Drawing on both its own collection and the holdings in neighboring institutions, the Library has made both the original brochure and accompanying materials available through the GPL website, Flickr, and Google maps.
A village in the middle of nowhere in England... Castle Combe is a very picturesque village about 5 miles from Chippenham in Wiltshire. It is much loved by film-makers because not only does it contain many quaint old English stone buildings, it has no modern buildings. Also (presumably by byelaw) there are no aerials or satellite dishes to be seen, nor are there any telegraph poles.
Some of the numerous films that have used Castle Combe as a location include: Dr Dolittle (1967), Stardust (2007), Wolfman (2010), Warhorse (2011) as well as episodes of TV programmes such as Poirot.
The village's population of about 350 is vastly outnumbered by the many visitors it attracts. The history of the village dates back to at least the C14th with several existing buildings dating from this time, including the market cross. Most buildings in the village date from the C15th to C18th, and a large percentage of them are EH listed. One of the later buildings is the magnificent Manor House on the edge of the village, set in 365 acres of parkland, which is now a 4* hotel.
A final look at the massive standing Buddha, the only surviving statue from the original Khmer era in the Angkor Wat temple in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Most of the original statues from the Khmer era were vandalized by invading armies, notably the Vietnamese and Thai, so they either stand here in the Angkor Wat temple in their broken state. Many are also replicas. Repair work of many of the broken statues is of course ongoing simultaneiously- where all broken bits can still be found, that is. In later years, many of the valuable statues were plundered by locals for the antiques market, becoming obscenely rich with illegal sale of antiques, and ruining their own heritage in the process. Detailed notes about the Angkor Wat temple appear throughout this album. (see previous and subsequent pictures).(Siem Reap, Cambodia, Oct. 2008)
allenspark, colorado
late 1975
chapel on the rock
(saint catherine of siena chapel)
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part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
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Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com
Postcard with a photo of the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater which is located in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia in the United States. This building was completed in 1920 and is used for special occasions. Sent to a Postcrossing member in Italy.
An old and mostly abandoned dry-stacked stone trulli house with stone butresses added later to keep it from collapasing. Probably 18th Century AD. Copyright 2016, James A. Ferguson.
Gothic portal with enthroned idol of Mary and Christ with angels and bishop. Moses with ten commandments? Gothic (1469 AD-1495 AD) rebuilding on top of Romaneqsque foundations (1229 AD by Frederick II of Swabia) of the Duomo. Old town (Centro Storico). Ostuni, the "White City." Apulia, Italy. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier.
Parade on Main Street, Deseronto, Ontario on June 17th, 1929, part of the United Empire Loyalist Celebration marking the 145th anniversary of the arrival of the Loyalists in Ontario. The picture shows two cars and three horses outside the Post Office. The first car, with a man in native clothing sitting on the hood, was being driven by Milton Hunt.
Part of a collection of materials found during the move of the Deseronto Archives.
Winifred is a beautiful, charming little town in a dry wasteland of prairie, a true "middle of nowhere" place. It's buildings are picturesque and the people seem friendly.
"Winifred is a small town along Dog Creek north of Lewiston. It began as a railway station. Some say it was named for Winifred Sewall, the daughter of E. D. Sewall, but most authorities insist it was named for Winifred Rockfeller, the daughter of Percy Rockefeller. (from Cheney's Names on the Face of Montana, Mountain Press Publishing Company)
Platted into 17 townships of 712 square miles along the Missouri River to the north, a thousand families showed up to work the 160-acre homesteads. However, after a few years they gave up and now the northern half of this area consists of about 25 ranches. Discovery of natural gas provides for the future of the area.
Winifred is in central Montana with the Missouri and Judith River Breaks in its backyard, so the topography in the area varies from rolling prairie to timbered canyons to very rugged breaks. Deer, antelope, elk and bighorn sheep are some species of wildlife to view or hunt here. Many can be seen traveling 20 minutes west to the scenic Judith River, 30 minutes north to the Wild & Scenic Missouri, or just taking a trip to the east on the Back Country By-Way that closely follows the Nez Perce Trail." -centralmontana.com
"Winifred was founded in 1913 as the terminus of a newly-built branch line of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad ("the Milwaukee Road"). It is popularly believed to have been named after one of the railroad owner's two daughters (the other being Christina, another small town about 15 miles away)." -wikipedia.com
A village in the middle of nowhere in England... Castle Combe is a very picturesque village about 5 miles from Chippenham in Wiltshire. It is much loved by film-makers because not only does it contain many quaint old English stone buildings, it has no modern buildings. Also (presumably by byelaw) there are no aerials or satellite dishes to be seen, nor are there any telegraph poles.
Some of the numerous films that have used Castle Combe as a location include: Dr Dolittle (1967), Stardust (2007), Wolfman (2010), Warhorse (2011) as well as episodes of TV programmes such as Poirot.
The village's population of about 350 is vastly outnumbered by the many visitors it attracts. The history of the village dates back to at least the C14th with several existing buildings dating from this time, including the market cross. Most buildings in the village date from the C15th to C18th, and a large percentage of them are EH listed. One of the later buildings is the magnificent Manor House on the edge of the village, set in 365 acres of parkland, which is now a 4* hotel.
Day Glyph of 8 Ocelotl (Jaguar, Ocelot). Temple of the Sun. Earlier (15th Century AD) rebuilding with date glyphs. Volcanic Stone, Mexica, 15th Century AD. Zona Arqueologica de Tlatelolco, Plaza de las Tres Culturas, Tlateloco, Tlateloco was founded by a sister tribe to the Aztecs at Tenochtitlan and was a major trading center during the Aztec empire, as well as an early competitor of Tenochtitlan. Like all Aztec Temples, these would originally have been covered with stucco and painted. Copyright 2015, James A. Ferguson.
This poster was a bit out of focus, so I posterized it. Seems to have worked, IMO. :)
Frontenac County Schools Museum, in Barriefield; Kingston, Ontario.
A California Craftsman style house built around 1915 in Tujunga, featuring stone accents.
More information on Big Read 2009: Robinson Jeffers and the Ecologies of Poetry is available on Occidental College's Big Read home page and on the Glendale Public Library's website.
Additionally, an interactive map of this Stone Castles and Cottages of the Verdugo Hills exhibit is available here.
Idol of Mary enthroned between Jehova and Christ. Wiener Neustädter Altar, ordered in 1447 by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III for the Cistercian Viktring Abbey. Gothic gilded wood polychrome relief altar of the life of the Virgin Mary. St. Stephen's Dom (Cathedral) Catholic temple (church). Gothic. Begin in 1304 AD, vaulting completed in 1474 AD. North tower begun in 1450 AD and finished in 1511 AD. Austria, Vienna. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier.
April 22, 2022 - Groot Vleeshuis (Great Butcher's Hall)
"The Groot Vleeshuis (Great Butcher's Hall) is a former covered market and guildhall. Back in the late Middle Ages, there was another Groot Vleeshuis in Ghent, on the Vismarkt (now Groentenmarkt). The first mention of it in the city documents appears in 1332-1333.
The old butcher's house, made of wood, was much smaller than the current building. Around 1407 it grew increasingly dilapidated and the butchers left it for a new, larger one. Between 1446 and 1448, a chapel with a meeting room was built in the southwestern corner. Also, to ensure a steady supply of fish, four canals had been made underneath the building to enable flat fishing boats to reach the Vismarkt directly from the Lys River. The vaults of these passages are still seen on the side of the river.
In 1543, 16 tripe houses (shops) were added, in which viscera, intestinal fat and other remains of slaughtered animals, in addition to poultry, were sold – previously not allowed inside the Hall. By the end of the 19th century, the Groot Vleeshuis became vacant following the construction of a new meat house next to the Vismijn on Sint-Veerleplein.
In the run-up to the 1913 World's Fair, a decision was taken to restore the Groot Vleeshuis along with the tripe houses to their pre-1744 condition. The renewed Hall, designed by architect Van Hamme, received additional uses as a market for fruit and vegetables, the Post and Telegraph office, a parking garage and a partial fish trade.
The unique building, protected as a monument since 1943, underwent overhaul in the late 1990s. Today it houses a promotion center for East Flemish regional products. Here you will find many Belgian specialties, like chocolates, beer and other tasty delights, not to mention a variety of local souvenirs." Previous text from the following website: www.gpsmycity.com/tours/ghents-historical-buildings-4832....
"'PINCH GUT' SYDNEY HARBOR 8-10-'08"
View of Fort Denison, Sydney, Australia.
One of a series of photographs from an album of the Kilties' world tour.
Ceiling Fresco, Apollo presenting to Minerva the greatest poets of the world," by Antonio, Giuseppe and Giovanni Cammarano. Teatro San Carlo. Napoli, 1817 AD. By Antonio Nicolini. Interior 1842 AD. Campania, Italy. Copyright 2016, James A. Ferguson.