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First conceptional approach with the topic structure close-ups.
Shot with Nikon D5100.
ISO 400
38 mm
f/4.5
1/80 sec
Editing in PS Lightroom 5.
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About 16:45, a structure fire was reported at 3629 Palmdale Blvd cross of Landon Avenue, LAC131's, with smoke showing 5 miles out. LAC Engine 131 arrived on scene to find a single story, single family dwelling well involved, with a majority of the fire to the rear of the structure. In addition to Engine 131, Engines 93, 37, 92, Quint 24, Squad 131, Patrol 92 and Battalion 17 got knockdown about 12 mintues later. No injuries and cause is unknown.
A tiered retaining wall winds between Rocky Top Drive and the Tijeras Canyon Arroyo in southeast Albuquerque.
NORTH HOLLYWOOD - A fire early Saturday morning displaced 21 residents and led to one firefighter injury, when flames from a pallet yard viciously spread to a nearby Rescue Mission.
The Los Angeles Fire Department was summoned at 12:25 AM on May 3, 2014, to 13412 Saticoy Street in North Hollywood, where firefighters arrived quickly to find heavy fire showing from a 300' x 300' pallet yard. In the middle of the Okote Pallet yard was a metal corrugated building well involved in flames. The nearby San Fernando Valley Rescue Mission, a 75' x 100' structure, was engulfed in flames within a few minutes after firefighters arrived. The Rescue Mission's residents were immediately evacuated to a nearby church for safety.
A total of 137 firefighters had the flames under control in less than 90 minutes.
© Photo by Jeffrey Geller
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This photo was taken about 12 noon - the sun is low in the sky!
Can anyone explain the use of this strange structure at the back of the Observatories at St Andrews University?
A view of the Union Switch & Signal Model S-8 electro-mechanical interlocking machine, showing both the mechanical levers (large levers extending to the floor) and electrical levers mounted above the frame.
Sand, silt, clay and organic matter bind together to provide stucture to the soil. The individual units of structure are called peds.
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Rotunda – Adelaide Zoo
One of the largest structures of its kind in South Australia, the Rotunda was constructed in 1884 and presented as a gift by Sir Thomas Elder, the President of the South Australian Zoological and Acclimatisation Society at that time.
At its opening in 1883 the Zoological Garden’s list of 37 native and exotic mammals included an elephant, a camel, five Rusa Deer and three Axis Deer, also presented to the Zoo by the President.
Among the native species in the original collection was a single Yellow-footed rock Wallaby which, even at that early time, had become rare in its native South Australian habitat.
A wealthy businessman and parliamentarian, Sir Thomas Elder was best known as a pioneer pastoralist with interests in wool growing, horse and cattle breeding.
However it was his generous financial support of worthy causes, including exploratory expeditions, and educational and philanthropic institutions, that contributed so significantly to the development of the colony of South Australia.
The Rotunda is adorned with ornamental cast iron “lace” fabricated by local firm “Fulton’s Foundry”, which was first established in Goodwood and produced cast iron fencing, balustrades and verandah fretwork. A larger factory covering five acres and employing 350 staff was later established in Kilkenny and the foundry eventually became one of the largest industrial companies in South Australia.
Described in 1884 as “the most important addition to the attractions of the Gardens”, the Rotunda is centrally situated in the Zoo grounds and remains a significant and historical feature of the Zoo. An essential public amenity, it has been enjoyed by generations of visitors as a sheltered place to rest, a location for picnics, concerts and events, and is popular as a wedding venue.
Thomas Elder was born in Scotland and migrated to South Australia in 1854 where he made his fortune in copper mining.
He lived a quiet life and never married and was President of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society from 1883 until he resigned in 1887 due to ill health.
This Covered Bridge was not used anymore, the construction of all of them was like this though...The use of the wooden arches, and the diaphram action of the walls and roof has these structures proving their design by the time test! Most of them you would be driving across, to proceed down the road in this county.
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McMillan Sand Filtration Site is a twenty-five acre green space and decommissioned water treatment plant in northwest Washington, D.C. connected to the McMillan Reservoir. It is bound on the north by Michigan Avenue, on the east by North Capitol Street, on the south by Channing Street and on the west by First Street. Two paved courts lined by regulator houses, tower-like sand bins, sand washers and the gated entrances to the underground filter cells provided a promenade for citizens taking the air in the park.
Below grade, there are twenty catacomb-like cells, each an acre in extent, where sand was used to filter water from the Potomac River by way of the Washington Aqueduct. The purification system was a slow sand filter design that became obsolete by the late 20th century. In 1985, a new rapid sand filter plant replaced it across First Street beside the reservoir. The treatment system is operated by the Army Corps of Engineers.
Public access to the site has been restricted since World War II, when the Army erected a fence to guard against sabotage of the city's water supply. Specially arranged biannual tours are supported by scores of visitors curious about the odd-looking structures.
In 1991, the D.C. Historic Preservation Review Board designated McMillan Park a Historic Landmark and nominated the site for the National Register of Historic Places. It included the site on their "List of Most Endangered Properties in 2000"[1] and again in 2005.[2]
At 2:03AM on 1 January, 2018, the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a reported structure fire in the 12100 block of W Ohio Av in the Sawtelle community. 58 firefighters took only 26 mins to extinguish an outside fire that extended into a business.
© Photo by John Conkle
LAFD Incident: 010118-0203
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Beware! You might feel dizziness and stiffness on your neck while looking at this picture because the sun and the flare is just ridiculously bright
Sand, silt, clay and organic matter bind together to provide stucture to the soil. The individual units of structure are called peds.
Structure Synth / Sunflow
The clock images are experiments for a Timestretch.com logo for my blog. I posted an article on Structure Synth to kick things off.
www.timestretch.com/article/structure_synth_tutorial
Stinging Eyes sent me a message about my previous clock image, and mentioned some banding he'd observed. I'd noticed this too, and decided to find a good solution. The image above was rendered using the hdr export format, which exports each pixel in 32 bits per channel. The image files it outputs are huge, but by using Photoshop to dither and convert them back down to standard 8 bits per channel, some banding in the grayscale ramps can be reduced. I can still see some banding in the image above, but I assure you, the PNG file exported directly form Photoshop shows a big improvement!
The monumental gateway, The Propylaeum, controlled entrance into the Acropolis. Though not built as a fortified structure, it was important that people not ritually clean, runaway slaves and other miscreats be denied access to the sanctuary where they could claim protection of the gods. The state treasury was also kept on the Acropolis, making its security important. Propylaea, Propylea or Propylaia (Greek: Προπυλαια) became the term given to all monumental gateways. The word propylaea is the union of the prefix pro (before or in front of) plus the plural of the Greek pylon or pylaion (gate), meaning literally that which is before the gates, but the word has come to mean simply gate building.
Built under the general direction of the Athenian leader Pericles, Phidias was given the responsibility for planning the rebuilding the Acropolis as a whole at the conclusion of the Persian Wars. Designed by the architect Mnesicles, construction began in 437 BCE and was terminated in 431, when as a result of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta, the building was left unfinished. The Propylaeum survived intact through the Greek, Roman and Byzantine periods. During the period of Latin Empire, it served as the palace of the de la Roche family, who held the title Duke of Athens from 1204 to 1311. It was severely damaged by an explosion of a powder magazine in 1656. A tower of French or Ottoman date, erected on the south wing, was pulled down in 1874.
The Propylaeum was constructed of white Pentelic marble, gray Eleusinian marble or limestone (for accents), and structural iron. The structure consists of a central building with two adjoining wings on the west (outer) side, one to the north and one to the south.
The core is the central building, which presents a standard six-columned Doric façade both on the West to those entering the Acropolis and on the east to those departing. The columns echo the proportions (not the size) of the columns of the Parthenon. The central building contains the gate wall, about two-thirds of the way through it. There are five gates in the wall, one for the central passageway, which was not paved and lay along the natural level of the ground, and two on either side at the level of the building. The central passageway was the culmination of the Sacred Way, which led to the Acropolis from Eleusis.
The gate wall and the eastern (inner) portion of the building sit at a level five steps above the western portion, and the roof of the central building rose on the same line. The ceiling in the eastern part of the central building was famous in antiquity, having been called by Pausanias (about 600 years after the building was finished) "…down to the present day unrivalled." It consisted of marble blocks carved in the shape of ceiling coffers and painted blue with gold stars.
The wings to the right and left of the central building stood on the same platform as the central building but were much smaller, not only in plan but in scale. Like the central building, the wings use Doric colonnades and Doric entablatures. However, the central building also has an Ionic colonnade on either side of the central passageway between the western (outer) Doric colonnade and the gate wall. This is therefore the first building known to us with Doric and Ionic colonnades visible at the same time. It is also the first monumental building in the classical period to be more complex than a simple rectangle or cylinder.
The wing on the north (to the left as one enters the Acropolis) was famous in antiquity as the location of paintings of important Greek battles. Pausanias reports their presence, but few scholars believe the room was planned to hold them. Recent scholarship, has taken the northern wing to have been a room for ritual dining. The evidence for that is the off-center doorway and the position near the entrance to the Acropolis. The wing on the south, though much smaller, was designed to appear to be symmetrical. It seems only to have functioned as an access route to the Temple of Athena Nike
The second tallest structure in the world, and the tallest in the Americas: the broadcast tower for KVLY-TV serving Fargo and Grand Forks, North Dakota. It is 2,063 ft (628.8 m) high.
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