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I love the shape, colour and structure of artichoke. Of course you can eat them, lovely, but these ones are allowed to grow and show their violet flowers inside. But we need patience.
Architectural details outside the Creature Comforts store in Disney's Animal Kingdom.
Disney's Animal Kingdom | Discovery Island | Creature Comforts
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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
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.
Parking Structure. New York City. August 14, 2010. © Copyright 2014 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Parking structure and urban scene near the Highline Park in New York City
When in New York City... visit the Highline Park, as we did on this 2010 summer visit. For those who may not know, the Highline Park is a novel New York location, a park high above the streets that occupies the right of way of an old elevated railway. It is widely regarded as one of the most innovative public spaces in this city, and it really is a remarkable place.
It is also a great place to do photography. There are plenty of people subjects there, and there is all of the other stuff that is worth shooting in New York, plus the elevated perspective provides a lot of views that are different from those seen from street level. We've all seen this urban parking structures, which stack cars up several deep in order to make more efficient use of limited space. But we don't often see them from above, where the metal framing suggests planes that aren't visible from below but which connect in interesting ways with the angled lines and planes of the other nearby buildings.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
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Structure Synth structure. Rendered in SunFlow.
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Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya District, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Province.Thailand Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya District, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Province.
Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya District, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Province., founded in 1350, was the second capital of the Siamese Kingdom. It flourished from the 14th to the 18th centuries, during which time it grew to be one of the world’s largest and most cosmopolitan urban areas and a center of global diplomacy and commerce. Ayutthaya was strategically located on an island surrounded by three rivers connecting the city to the sea. This site was chosen because it was located above the tidal bore of the Gulf of Siam as it existed at that time, thus preventing the attack of the city by the sea-going warships of other nations. The location also helped to protect the city from seasonal flooding.
The city was attacked and razed by the Burmese army in 1767 who burned the city to the ground and forced the inhabitants to abandon the city. The city was never rebuilt in the same location and remains known today as an extensive archaeological site.
At present, it is located in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya District, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Province. The total area of the World Heritage property is 289 ha.
Once an important center of global diplomacy and commerce, Ayutthaya is now an archaeological ruin, characterized by the remains of tall prang (reliquary towers) and Buddhist monasteries of monumental proportions, which give an idea of the city’s past size and the splendor of its architecture.
Well-known from contemporary sources and maps, Ayutthaya was laid out according to a systematic and rigid city planning grid, consisting of roads, canals, and moats around all the principal structures. The scheme took maximum advantage of the city’s position in the midst of three rivers and had a hydraulic system for water management which was technologically extremely advanced and unique in the world.
The city was ideally situated at the head of the Gulf of Siam, equidistant between India and China and well upstream to be protected from Arab and European powers who were expanding their influence in the region even as Ayutthaya was itself consolidating and extending its own power to fill the vacuum left by the fall of Angkor. As a result, Ayutthaya became a center of economics and trade at the regional and global levels and an important connecting point between the East and the West. The Royal Court of Ayutthaya exchanged ambassadors far and wide, including with the French Court at Versailles and the Mughal Court in Delhi, as well as with imperial courts of Japan and China. Foreigners served in the employ of the government and also lived in the city as private individuals. Downstream from the Ayutthaya Royal Palace, there were enclaves of foreign traders and missionaries, each building in their own architectural style. Foreign influences were many in the city and can still be seen in the surviving art and in the architectural ruins.
The Ayutthaya school of art showcases the ingenuity and the creativity of the Ayutthaya civilization as well as its ability to assimilate a multitude of foreign influences. The large palaces and the Buddhist monasteries constructed in the capital, for example at Wat Mahathat and Wat Phra Si Sanphet, are testimony to both the economic vitality and technological prowess of their builders, as well as to the appeal of the intellectual tradition they embodied. All buildings were elegantly decorated with the highest quality of crafts and mural paintings, which consisted of an eclectic mixture of traditional styles surviving from Sukhothai, inherited from Angkor, and borrowed from the 17th and 18th-century art styles of Japan, China, India, Persia, and Europe, creating a rich and unique expression of cosmopolitan culture and laying the foundation for the fusion of styles of art and architecture popular throughout the succeeding Rattanakosin Era and onwards.
Indeed, when the capital of the restored kingdom was moved downstream and a new city built at Bangkok, there was a conscious attempt to recreate the urban template and architectural form of Ayutthaya. Many of the surviving architects and builders from Ayutthaya were brought in to work on building the new capital. This pattern of urban replication is in keeping with the urban planning concept in which cities of the world consciously try to emulate the perfection of the mythical city of Ayodhaya. In Thai, the official name for the new capital at Bangkok retains “Ayutthaya” as part of its formal title.
Criterion (iii): The Historic City of Ayutthaya bears excellent witness to the period of development of a true national Thai art.
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The Grey Crane in Nantes, France.
Ondu 4x5 pinhole Camera
15 sec exposure
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[There are 11 photos in this series on the Cocke-Morris House] This is a creative commons image, which you may freely use by linking to this page. Please respect the photographer and his work.
The Cocke-Morris house was built about 1850 by Dr. Charles Cary Cocke (a son of John Hartwell Cocke). The house is also known as the Bridge Keeper’s House (also as the Gate Keeper’s House), information found on a plaque near the rear of the side of the house. Located near the one-time James River-Kanawha Canal, it is today quite near the James River. The home is in Bremo Bluff, Fluvanna County, Virginia. I believe at one time it had been used as a bed-and-breakfast. It was also once called the Downing House because Cocke’s home was in the style of cottages designed by Andrew Jackson Downing books as Cottage Residences (1842) archive.org/details/cottageresidence00downrich and The Architecture of Country Houses (1851) archive.org/details/architectureofco00down
The white wood structure with pale blue trim is a beautiful example of Gothic Revival (Carpenter Gothic) in domestic architecture. The house is 2 1/2 stories with basement and is sited on a hillside, which increases the functionality of its basement. The steep-pitched shingle roof, the prominent front and side gables, and the use of board-and-batten siding all accentuate the verticality of the structure. A short front gable connects to a longer cross gable, both with bargeboards with an understated decorative fringe. The chimney is internal, 3 stacks in a single group, positioned asymmetrically to the roof alignment (image 8). As if to demarcate the roof from the external walls, a slender wood strip runs across both gables at roofline. The front gable houses a rectangular vent and the side gable a squat window with pointed arch. The front façade is symmetrical with bays to either side of the centrally positioned entrance. The porch has a low-pitched roof supported by slender posts. Enclosing the porch area are railings of thin square posts. Oddly there is no ornamentation or embellishment in this portion of the home. Windows throughout are mixed in terms of panes, although the molding seems uniform, even in the rear section where the windows occur in pairs. The foundation appears to be stone except in the rear which looks like cinder block, an indication that the rear was perhaps an addition. This is one of my very favorite of all houses I’ve seen. Online information on this house is sparse. It’s not in the list of National Register sites for Fluvanna County. Previously I’d posted 4 other images of the home; all eleven photos are in a set at www.flickr.com/photos/universalpops/sets/72157629635750784/
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