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The Post Building (formerly Royal Mail West Central District Office) Museum Street, London WC1.
Sony A7 + Canon FD 55mmm f/1.2 Aspherical
At 11:30PM on November 7, 2021 the Los Angeles City Fire Department responded to a reported structure fire in the 8100 block of N Sunland Bl in Sun Valley. Firefighters arrived to a two story, commercial building (site of previous burn) with heavy fire showing. In a mostly defensive operation, 87 firefighters battled flames with at least four ladder pipes and several other heavy streams in operation on the commercial building for over two hours before safely achieving a knockdown.
© Photo by Mike Meadows
LAFD Incident 120721-1589
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That rather quaint freshly painted building leading from the ricketty old pier is the life boat station - the easiest and speediest way to launch a lifeboat in this extreme tidal range....
Hennepin Ave. Bridge, Minneapolis, MN. The latest in a series of bridges that have spanned the Mississippi River at or near this point. The original crossing opened as a toll bridge on January 23, 1855 and is believed to have been the first permanent span across the Mississippi at any point (Wikipedia).
This view is of the Casina Pio IV (or Villa Pia), a patrician villa in the Vatican City which is now home to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of St Thomas Aquinas.
In the summer of 1982 during a tour of the Vatican's museums, an open window in the Gallery of Maps gave me the opportunity to take this shot - I hadn't realised the Vatican had gardens until this point, although it turns out that about half of the city's 121 acres are gardens. Compared with the hot dusty dry streets of Rome we'd been walking through, this was a true little oasis.
The predecessor of the present complex structure was begun in the spring of 1558 by Pope Paul IV in the Vatican Gardens, west of the Belvedere Courtyard. Paul IV commissioned the initial project of the 'Casina del Boschetto', as it was originally called, from an unknown architect; the first mention of the single-storey building can be found on 30 April 1558.
Upon Paul IV's death on 18 August 1559, Pope Pius IV took on the project, which had not yet been completed, and, turning to Pirro Ligorio, improved it. The complex, as it was completed in 1562, comprised an elliptical courtyard, two free-standing portals, and the loggia with its fountain. Rich sculptural stuccos, once supplemented by some 50 ancient Roman sculptures, enliven the exterior. A team of at least six major painters frescoed the interiors.
Pope Pius XI, the founder of the current Pontifical Academy of Sciences, made the Villa the Academy's current headquarters in 1936.
This is a B/W photograph taken inside the prehistoric Cave at Theopetra, Greece (general inner view). It was closed to visitors for several years, but on April 2, 2025 one had the pleasure to walk through its gate again and enter; it has remained open to the members of the public ever since. The archaeological finds include items of the Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic Periods.
A stone Wall or barrier dating from 23,300 (± 800) yrs ago was found at the cave’s entrance; this wall is, therefore, the most ancient man-made structure on Earth, for it was built before Göbekli Tepe (c. 9,500 BC, Turkey), before the Pyramids (c.3,200 BC, Egypt) etc. Human footprints within the Cave were dated by thermoluminescence to ca. 120,000 yrs ago (Middle Palaeolithic Period aka Old Stone Age). Hearths and human burials were also found. Hunters-gatherers’ human settlement in this prehistoric Cave began in the Middle Paleolithic Period and continued without interruption until the end of the Neolithic Period (c. 3000 BC, aka New Stone Age).
The cave’s entrance measures 56 x 10 ft (17 x 3 m); the Cave itself measures 5,382 sq.ft. (500 sq.m). Theopetra is an immense limestone rock formation 3 miles (4.7 km) away from Meteora, Greece. The oblong landmark is 2,625 ft (800 m) long, 902 ft (275 m) wide, 656 ft (200 m) high and visible from afar. Theopetra means “God’s stone” in Greek.
Back in March of this year, I photographed this now dessicated stalk when it was covered with healthy growth and flowers. The flowers are long gone, but I like the look of the structure itself.
It wasn't until I was looking at the image on my computer monitor that I noticed this little green spider near the bottom that had produced the silky webs that had been on the branches, but which came off when I moved and handled the branches in setup.
Strobist info: I lit this with a YN560-II in a 24 inch softbox, camera left and pointing to the subject at a 45 degree angle, as the main light and a YN560 in an identical softbox, camera right at half the power of the main light, for fill. I reduced the power on the fill light because I wanted to see some shadows to provide a sense of depth. Both strobes, in manual mode, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. In the description for that set, I list resources that I've used to learn how to light with off camera flash, and the equipment that I use. www.flickr.com/photos/9422
The flowering plant that this came from can be seen in the comments below.
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[This set contains 8 photos] The J. Sidna Allen house (1911) in Fancy Gap, Virginia is a timber frame one-and-a-half-story Queen Anne on a brick foundation. Diamond-shaped shingles cover the upper portion of the building, and ornamental wood trim abounds. It has a cross-gable slate roof intersected by dormer windows and a hexagonal tower capped by a cone. The roof line is complex as a result of the dormers and tower. The Eastlake brackets and scalloping in the cornices correspond to the brackets and flat drops of the porch (best seen in image #6). The front gable roof and front dormer roof ridges formerly had a pattern of iron cresting them, which I assume will appear on the restored structure. There are two exterior brick chimneys and an interior one, each capped with a stone course, four stone insets and corbelled brickwork at the top.
The porch has a shed roof with shingles, brackets and scalloping; at one corner is a gazebo with a conical slate roof and a banquet of wood decoration. Above the front entrance, and connected to a door in the tower, was a balcony (missing at this time in the restoration process). The porch support columns and turned balusters are also currently missing. A small side porch on one side of the house shows a similar pattern of decoration. The entrance has sidelights and a rectangular transom. The molded trim, simulating piers, occurs as window surrounds as well. Most of the windows are temporarily covered: they originally were stained or leaded, many with intricate patterns. Some were 3-part, showing a classical Palladian influence. Some were decorated with a border of smaller colored panes in Queen Anne-style.
Steps led from the road up the hill to the front porch; at present, they are not there. It's easy to see the beauty of this home, even in its pre-restoration state by the Carroll County Historical Society. Architecturally significant, the J. Sidna Allen House was placed on the National Register of Historic Places July 15, 1974 with ID # 74002112
Allen and his wife, who designed their own home, enjoyed it for about a year before the state of Virgnia confiscated the property. Then occurred the Hillsville Massacre of 1912 involving the Allen family in a melee where the judge and some county officials were killed. Sidna Allen was sentenced to life imprisonment; two members of his family were executed. A superb discussion on the Hillsville Massacre and its cast is found at theroanoker.com/interests/history/hillsville-massacre .
An article about Sidna's brother Floyd and the family and trial is at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Allen
An article on the restoration of the house is at www.thecarrollnews.com/news/4668/undoing-revisionist-history
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The barn at the Oconaluftee Farm Museum in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It is a cantilever barn with overhang for storage space. The trail along the Oconaluftee River is one of my favorite places in the Smokies. For 125 in 2025 #96- Structure.
And a Mafersa D Series train arriving at Carrão Station, Line 3 - Red, São Paulo Subway System, Brazil
This image clearly represent de-evolution of building tradition in Croatia.
First on the left is the old village house that reflects history and tradition, but is completely abandoned for being too small for tourist apartments.
In the middle there is awkward construction that presents times when some urban planning was still present: semi-floor was allowed in the attic. While pretty grotesque it still show some charm.
Building on the right symbolizes total construction anarchy - ugly and soulless concrete structure that does not pay any respect to the environment, building rules and tradition, made by sole improvisation of the owner.
Stacked one by another these constructions show one historical path...
Not the first time around the barn w/ this but we were favored w/ a break in the sunshine. Really nice conditions for a LE, was even warm w/ a soft rain.
The structure of the Hell Gate Bridge, deliberately overengineered by Gustav Lindenthal and Henry Hornbostel to provide a feeling of safety. A 2005 assessment estimated that the bridge could stand for a thousand years.
Structure Synth structure. Rendered in SunFlow.
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Form Finding through an investigation into the structure and rules governing bubble structures-
rhino scripts soon to be developed...
Learn to make six types of Flexible Book Structures in a new e-course taught by paper artist Helen Hiebert starting April 10, 2019. More info and a sign up incentive for All Things Paper Readers here: www.allthingspaper.net/2019/03/make-flexible-book-structu...