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This customer wanted a place to park and a home office. They took a PRO Ranch Garage and added an additional entryway and overhang to make the building a dual use structure.
Another attempt at a Gasometer - this time with a nice streaky sky. Still a long way to go to get this right, but its a good start.
Gasometer near the train line in Wood Green, north London.
Edited ISS061 image of the Richat Structure set in its rocky ridge in the Sahara Desert in Mauritania, looking at an angle. Color/processing variant.
© István Pénzes.
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20th August 2018, Orta San Guilio, Italy
Leica M-P [Typ 240]
Leica Apo-Summicron-M 50mm 1:2/50 ASPH.
Escalier de la bibliothèque universitaire de Strasbourg.
Un grand escalier hélicoïdal y a été installé, suspendu par d'immenses tiges métalliques. C'est l'entreprise Schafner qui a participé à sa construction, considérée comme un chef d'œuvre à lui seul qui a même été primé par les Amis du Vieux Strasbourg. "Le résultat est très fidèle au concours : la lumière est abondante, zénithale, comme les Gloires dans la peinture religieuse de la Renaissance", raconte l'architecte, Nicolas Michelin.
Many old structures are left from the days the flume ran through the canyon diverting Fossil Creek's water to the Irving power plant.
The Flume Trail starts at the old Irving Power Plant location and follows the line of the now-removed flume that carried the water from the dam to the power plants for generating electricity. The trail ends at the old Fossil Creek Dam, a four and a half mile trek one way. The trail ascends steadily about 500 feet from an elevation of 3769 foot at the trailhead over the first mile. For the next three and a half miles, the trail rolls gently several times in approximately 150 foot elevation changes before arriving at the dam.
The trail is approximately 500 feet up the side of the canyon, offering fantastic views of the canyon and creek below. There is no creek acccess between the trailhead and the dam. The trail is very exposed and extremely hot in the warmer months. Hikers should carry at least four quarts of water. The trail is in the Fossil Creek Wilderness. Bikes and mechanized vehicles are prohibited.
Camping is prohibited along Flume Trail, from the Fossil Creek Dam for several miles downstream (west) along the canyon. Flume Trail meets Fossil Springs Trail at the old dam. Continue another half mile through a narrow section of the canyon to find easy camping near the creek in the springs area. Camping is permitted during the fall-winter season 100 feet or more from the creek. A half mile from the dam is a marked side trail leading to the first spring source, where many hikers choose to refill their water bottles.
Fossil Creek is one of two Wild and Scenic rivers in Arizona. A series of springs gush 20,000 gallons a minute year-round at the bottom of a 1,600 foot deep canyon, creating a lush riparian oasis rich with life. Over the years these calcium laden waters have laid down huge deposits of a type of limestone called travertine, creating deep pools for miles along the creek. The Wilderness and surrounding area are on the Tonto and Coconino National Forests, and are managed by the Coconino National Forest.
During the spring-summer season, camping is prohibited anywhere in the Wilderness and surrounding area, and a reserved parking permit is required to park at the Flume trailhead at the Irving parking lot. See Flume Trail and Fossil Creek on the USFS Coconino National Forest website
Photo by Deborah Lee Soltesz, March 11, 2016. Source: USFS Coconino National Forest.
Shell structure around the galaxy revealed. Very slight edge crop. The shells fill the field of view of the 2600 sensor at 780mm. Lots of galaxies nearby.
62 x 5 minute frames
Flourostar 120mm at 780mm
ZWO 2600 MC Pro, EQR-R-Pro mount
Pixinsight / Photoshop
Leyburn, Queensland
May 2025
Updraft base featuring stacked plate structure and RFD notch. A short time later, the storm dropped several brief tornadoes. Southwest Oklahoma - March 18, 2012.
A third alarm fire is occurring at the 2200 block of Susan St in Santa Ana, CA. The working commercial fire was reported at a business pinpointed to Anodyne Inc. at 8:01pm to OCFA Division 6. The incident was also updated to *HAZMAT* and upgraded from 2nd alarm to 3rd alarm upon FD arrival. About 40 vehicles were on scene to assist, including Huntington Beach, Fountain Valley, Costa Mesa, and other near by cities. It is unknown what caused the fire. Developing incident.
From the New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage website (www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDe...):
History:
The railway from Wentworth Falls to Mount Victoria was opened in 1868, passing through what was to become Katoomba. The Great Western Railway was intended to initially reach Bathurst but, beyond that town, its terminus was not stated.
The station opened in 1874 as 'The Crushers'. A sandstone quarry suitable for producing ballast for the construction and maintenance of the line was developed just to the north of the line, and from 1874 The Crushers was a stopping-place for trains with quarrymen, equipment and wagons for transporting ballast. A platform was provided in 1877 close to the level-crossing keeper's cottage (demolished in 1902).
In 1881 a new timber platform and station were built, to the west of the level-crossing. The goods yard between the stations and Bathurst Road (then the Great Western Highway) was developed in 1883-4. This expansion was necessary because of Katoomba's growth in the 1880s and 1890s as a tourist and local commercial centre. The goods yard contains a valuable collection of traditional railway structures, including the 5 ton jib crane (no. T171), the goods shed 54’ x 12’ dating in part from 1881 and an unusual curved timber loading platform. There is also an office for the yard gatekeeper and for a signalman, all dating from the early 1900s.
In 1891, the 1881 station building was moved to the improved goods yard to the south. The Katoomba Times reported on 10 October 1891 that 'the old Katoomba station building is to be the goods shed, and was put into position last Wednesday (7 October 1891)', with the 1884 crane adjacent to the east. Around 1921 the goods yard was altered, the siding was realigned and the goods shed (the former station of 1881) was moved 18 metres to the east, where it still resides. The 1884 five-tonne crane was moved along with the shed to its present position.
The present island platform and building at Katoomba date from 1891 and was constructed for £6,922 (including the subway) by Quiggan and Kermode, builders. They are unusual for two reasons. Firstly, the timber building is curved and, secondly, the building design was only used in the Sydney metropolitan rail system. It is the only such building constructed outside the Central to Parramatta line. It is one of 4 such structures remaining extant from a number of stations containing Type 10 buildings including Newtown, MacDonaldtown, Ashfield, Lewisham (all demolished - possibly other examples) and Summer Hill, Homebush and Croydon (extant). Extensions to the building in the same style were carried out in 1913 for £216. Its dominant feature is the extension of the roof bearers to form awnings on both sides and the position of small ornate brackets under the awning beams, marking a transition from the use of posted verandas to cantilevered awnings. The platform was reached by the use of a pedestrian subway constructed in 1891, which were rare outside Sydney.
The other main platform building is the elevated, timber signal box, which was commissioned in 1903. The signal box contains a cam and tappet 40 lever interlocking machine that was installed in 1945. It is typical of the construction time and is similar to boxes at Mount Victoria, Newnes Junction, Lithgow Yard and Exeter.
The line was duplicated in 1902. A two-room timber building was built on the western end of the platform in 1909 for an inspector and an electrician and this building was extended in 1945 for use as a staff meal room. An 'out-of' shed completed the platform structures.
At the entrance to the Station are the ‘Progress Buildings’ which are shown on a plan as part of a new ‘Booking and Parcels Office Building’ dated 20/12/1938. The buildings are a single storey group of three shops facing south to Bathurst Road with an additional shopfront facing east to the exit from the railway station subway. The eastern most shop, 283-285 Bathurst Road, retains its original brass shopfront, albeit with some modification, and tiled piers between, the shop entries are recessed from the street with splayed shopfront reveals. The tiled and marble threshold records the name "MARX" an early Katoomba businessman who used the premises. The Progress Buildings are still owned by RailCorp and leased for private business.
The railway residence at 8 Abbotsford Rd was sold in 1964.
Why significant?
Katoomba Railway Station and Yard is of state significance as a unique railway site in NSW developed around a former ballast quarry and is significant for demonstrating Katoomba’s growth in the 1880s and 1890s as the first tourist and local commercial centre in the Blue Mountains, before the duplication of the Western line in 1902.
The 1891 station building is significant as one of few surviving timber railway station buildings known as ' Standard Eddy', designed under Commissioner Eddy, and demonstrating the introduction of island platform buildings in NSW. Katoomba station building is the only known example of this station type outside the inner city area and is unique to the other examples for its curved form along the platform. The adjacent signal box with its garden beds and planting is also an important and integral element within the station group and is a rare example of a timber on-platform signal box.
The site of the goods yard is of particular significance as it was part of the original Katoomba station precinct dating from 1878, which was used for locomotive turning and minor servicing and stabling of trains. While fulfilling a minor railway use at present for per way maintenance, it contains two relatively rare items, which are the former 1881 timber station building as its goods shed and the 1891 crane.
The station group comprises a homogenous collection of timber structures adding significance to the townscape and streetscape with direct relationships to both. Situated at the focal point of Katoomba, the station is connected visually and physically to the town's commercial heart by the pedestrian subway and landscaped surrounds. The adjacent Progress Buildings from part of the station group and contribute to the early 20th Century character of the commercial precinct of Katoomba with their largely intact shopfronts.
Canadian soldiers conducted an offensive on the opposing force positions in an urban setting on Ex MAPLE RESOLVE in a 3 CDTC Wainwright on May 17-19 2023.
This simulated battle helps to train our soldiers to fight in close quarter combat.
Des soldats de l’armée canadienne ont mené une offensive sur les positions de la force adverse en milieu urbain sur l'Ex MAPLE RESOLVE au CI 3 Div CA Wainwright, du 17 au 19 mai 2023.
Cette bataille simulée permet d'entraîner nos soldats au combat rapproché.
Photo: Cpl Michael Turner
"Mortonville is an unincorporated area and historic hamlet in Chester County, Pennsylvania on the eastern bank of the West Branch Brandywine Creek. It consists of about a half-dozen structures, two of which are on the National Register of Historic Places: the Mortonville Hotel, and the 12.5-foot-long (3.8 m) "Bridge in East Fallowfield Township" which crosses a mill race a few feet east of a larger bridge. The larger bridge, known as the Mortonville Bridge, was also listed on the NRHP until 2010 when it was delisted following a renovation. The two bridges are in East Fallowfield Township, while most other structures are in Newlin Township.
The hamlet was founded between 1767 and 1772 by Thomas Hayes, who erected a grist mill and sawmill where the Strasburg Road crossed the creek, on the east bank. He sold his land and the mills to John Worth in 1772; John's son Thomas built a house on the north side of the road (across from the mills) in 1796.
Sketchley and Elizabeth Morton, a couple from Springfield Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, bought the former Worth property on April 1, 1840. (Morton, Pennsylvania was named after Sketchley.) The land was soon transferred to their grandson, Crosby P. Morton, who founded Mortonville. In 1849, he turned the Worth house into the Mortonville Hotel (although he was unable to obtain a tavern license for it, a necessity for serving alcohol) and built a wheelwright shop nearby, on the south side of the road. He leased the hotel to Isaac Parsons in 1850; Parsons obtained a tavern license, but vacated in 1851, leaving the hotel up for lease. It was described in his advertisement as serving both stock-drovers along the Strasburg Road and other travellers. Ultimately, it was rented to Hansen Thornbury. In the meantime, Morton erected a general store next to the wheelwright shop, but both the store and the mills were up for rent by the end of 1851, the tenants having vacated. On February 6, 1852, a post office was opened in Mortonville, with Morton as postmaster. He obtained Francis R. Hickman as a tenant for the store and wheelwright shop, but he went bankrupt in 1852, leaving them vacant again. In 1853, Robert Smith took over the hotel from Thornbury, but did not obtain a tavern license. In the middle of the year, Morton abruptly moved to Philadelphia, leaving the storekeeper, John C. Ely, to take over the postoffice. He and his wife Sarah sold all their holdings to Joshua N. Pierce, of Embreeville on March 31, 1854 and never returned to the town that bears their name.
The center of activity in the modern hamlet is a canoe rental business, based in an old house and the adjacent picnic park along the Brandywine. Other structures include the ruins of a grist mill, a new restaurant being built on an old foundation, canoe sheds, and an apparently modern covered bridge. The Mortonville Bridge, which was built in 1826 and rehabilitated in 2009, carries about 6,200 vehicles per day on Strasburg Road. It's unknown when the smaller bridge on the National Register was built, but it likely predates the larger bridge." - info from Wikipedia.
The fall of 2022 I did my 3rd major cycling tour. I began my adventure in Montreal, Canada and finished in Savannah, GA. This tour took me through the oldest parts of Quebec and the 13 original US states. During this adventure I cycled 7,126 km over the course of 2.5 months and took more than 68,000 photos. As with my previous tours, a major focus was to photograph historic architecture.
Now on Instagram.
There are eight of these things set back from the road on US 41 about ten miles north of Dunnellon FL. I think they're some kind of silage storage (grain maybe?) and quite old and also bigger than they look (If that door on structure one were open you could drive a truck into it).
An example of applying textures to Structure Synth -> SunFlow output.
You will have to modify the Structure Synth export templates to use the desired texture, e.g.:
shader {
name "shader05"
type phong
texture "texture.png"
spec { "sRGB nonlinear" 1.0 1.0 1.0 } 50
samples 4
}
(Notice Phong shading requires a light to be present in the scene)
In order to apply the texture you also need to assign UV (texture) coordinates to the polygons making up the standard box. Modify the existing box definition to the following:
object {
shader none
transform col 0.001 0 0 0 0 0.001 0 0 0 0 0.001 0 0 0 0 1
type generic-mesh
name "Box"
points 8
1 1 1
1 0 1
0 0 1
0 1 1
0 1 0
0 0 0
1 0 0
1 1 0
triangles 12
0 3 2
0 2 1
2 3 4
2 4 5
3 0 7
3 7 4
0 1 6
0 6 7
1 2 5
1 5 6
5 4 7
5 7 6
normals none
uvs facevarying
1 1 0 1 0 0
1 1 0 0 1 0
0 0 1 0 1 1
0 0 1 1 0 1
0 0 1 0 1 1
0 0 1 1 0 1
1 0 0 0 0 1
1 0 0 1 1 1
1 0 0 0 0 1
1 0 0 1 1 1
0 0 0 1 1 1
0 0 1 1 1 0
}
For the shader above, the texture image is repeated on each face of the box. If you want finer control over the orientation and position of the textures, you have to modify the UV coords above.
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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In this view of a mature Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia) flower, the true petals have already fallen off, and the the 5 remaining "petals" are actually sepals. The large umbrella-shaped structure is a set of 5 fused styles. The purpose of the styles is to receive the pollen so that the ovary can develop seeds. The pollen is deposited on the upper surface of the styles.
I presume that all of the red Sarracenia flowers I saw in the Green Swamp were Purple Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea). I also saw pitchers for Sweet Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia rubra), but I don't recall seeing any in bloom.
Location: The Green Swamp near Wilmington, North Carolina
The mill post of Lowfield Heath post windmill, built in the1760's it ceased working around 1880. It fell into disrepair and was decaying badly, however in the 1960's the structure was made good and in the 1980's a group was formed with the intention of saving mill. In 1987 the mill was moved from it's site near Gatwick Airport to Charlwood where it was rebuilt and restored to working order. As seen on the Sussex Mills Group tour of West Sussex, 18 April 2009. Photograph by Justin Brice.