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A beautifully atmospheric place with a fascinating history. Having survived abandonment and use as a test facility for a secret tank weapon, it is now being sympathetically stabilised and restored to a degree where the public may visit, but the atmospheric, mysterious feel is not eroded.
Link to English Heritage page:
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Link to details of secret tank weapon testing:
Lighthouse and Lord Nelson Statue.
In 1925, Welsh architect Clough Williams-Ellis acquired the site which was to become Portmeirion. He had been searching for a suitable site for his proposed ideal village for several years and when he heard that the Aber Iâ estate near Penrhyndeudraeth was for sale, he did not hesitate to make an offer.
He wanted to show how a naturally beautiful location could be developed without spoiling it, and that one could actually enhance the natural background through sympathetic development. The Aber Iâ estate had everything he had hoped for as a site for his architectural experiment: steep cliffs overlooking a wide sandy estuary, woods, streams and a nucleus of old buildings.
But the history of Portmeirion started long before 1925. The construction of Castell Deudraeth was recorded in 1188 by Gerald of Wales, who wrote: "We crossed the Traeth mawr and the Traeth Bychan. These are two arms of the sea, one large and one small. Two stone castles have been built there recently. The one called Castell Deudraeth belongs to the sons of Cynan and is situated in the Eifionydd area, facing the northern Mountains."
Castell Deudraeth was referenced again by the 17th century philologist, geologist, natural historian and keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Edward Lhuyd in 1700. Lhuyd recorded the name as Aber Iâ, stating " The Castle of Aber Iâ yet stood in ruined form overlooking the south western extremity of the peninsula".
In 1861, Richard Richards wrote a description: "Neither man nor woman was there, only a number of foreign water-fowl on a tiny pond, and two monkeys, which by their cries evidently regarded me as an unwelcome intruder. The garden itself was a very fine one, the walls of which were netted all over with fruit trees...Aber Iâ, then, gentle reader, is a beautiful mansion on the shore of Traeth Bach, in Merionethshire."
When Williams-Ellis acquired the land in 1925 he wrote, "a neglected wilderness - long abandoned by those romantics who had realised the unique appeal and possibilities of this favoured promontory but who had been carried away by their grandiose landscaping...into sorrowful bankruptcy." Clough immediately changed the name from Aber Iâ (Glacial Estuary) to Portmeirion; Port because of the coastal location and Meirion as this is Welsh for Merioneth, the county in which it lay.
His first job was to extend and convert the old house on the shore into a grand hotel. The concept of a tightly grouped coastal village had already formed in Clough's mind some years before he found the perfect site and he had quite a well-defined vision for the village from the outset.
Portmeirion was built in two stages: from 1925 to 1939 the site was 'pegged-out' and its most distinctive buildings were erected. From 1954-76 he filled in the details. The second period was typically classical or Palladian in style in contrast to the Arts and Crafts style of his earlier work. Several buildings were salvaged from demolition sites, giving rise to Clough's description of the place as "a home for fallen buildings".
"An architect has strange pleasures," Clough wrote in 1924. "He will lie awake listening to the storm in the night and think how the rain is beating on his roofs, he will see the sun return and will think that it was for just such sunshine that his shadow-throwing mouldings were made."
The first article about Portmeirion appeared in The Architects' Journal (January 6 1926) with photographs of scale models and preliminary designs prepared by Clough to impress potential investors. In this article, John Rothenstein writes: "On the sea-coast of North Wales, quite near his own old home, Plas Brondanw, he has acquired what he believes to be an ideal site, and he is engaged upon plans and models for the laying out of an entire small township. The results of his scheme will be significant and should do much to shake the current notion that although houses must be designed with due care, towns may grow up by chance."
The Hotel Portmeirion officially opened for the Easter Weekend, on 2nd April 1926. The last building, the Tollgate, was built in Clough's 93rd year.
By virtue of their size, placement, and quiet dignity, these youthful laborers dominate the landscape setting—an open field near Pissarro’s house at Éragny. Sympathetic to anarchist ideals, the artist wanted to preserve the values of agrarian society that were being threatened by the rapid industrialization of France. He began this picture in summer 1891 and completed it in mid-January 1892, a month before the opening of a major exhibition of his work organized by his dealer Joseph Durand-Ruel. Many of the fifty paintings were sold from the show, but Pissarro kept this canvas and gave it to his wife.
A simple 1870's timber cottage near the river . Some of the grander homes of the past survive because of their style and sizeable gracious living features but its rare to see the more humble of cottages with their cramped living conditions come down to us in the present with pressures to redevelop the land and make way for more user friendly designed housing . Their attrition rate has been heavy in the past .
Theres an historic charm with these early cottages that with some sympathetic handling and new designed living quarters attached at the rear , not dominating the early cottage form can make for some stylish living in the present .
The above is in need ..
East Brisbane
Norman Park
Brisbane
Excerpt from www.goderich.ca/en/town-hall-and-services/resources/Herit...:
52 Montreal Street, Goderich Public Library, was opened in 1903 as a Carnegie library. A sympathetic addition was added in 2003. The large, round tower, round top windows, and irregular roof are typical of the Romanesque style often used for public buildings of this era. The mezzanine houses the Reuben Sallows Gallery displaying the work of this renowned, local, 19th-century photographer.
Needless to say, this did not end well for the Impala baby.
We, along with many other vehicles had been following this family of cheetahs, a mom and four siblings for a few hours. They had failed in a chase just a few minutes ago. Seemed like the action was over, The four younguns meanderd up a hill, went by a termite mound and all of a sudden took off.
Seems this baby was asleep on the other side of the mound and was discovered by the yound cheetahs. No idea why she/he did not follow her/his mom which of course was a fatal decision.
It was very difficult to watch as they essentially played with it. They would catch it, knock it around a bit, the baby would take off again and the chase would start all over.
Of course it gratefully ended eventually. Circle of life and all that, but that doesn't make it any easier to watch for a sympathetic soul as myself.
He called me from where he stood in a streets' corner once and twice and asked me why wouldn't i take his picture instead of this of a tree there. - At last i decided to take his photo and now i see that he was right, and that he has a sympathetic and somehow interesting face ! Now i deliver the question if it was right to take his portrait - to your decision !
Built in 1865 in Victorian Carpenter Gothic style, the former Holy Trinity Church of England can be found on a rise along Morses Creek Road in the little alpine town of Wandiligong. Built of weatherboard it is a charming example of wooden churches built all over Australia in little country towns. Unusually, it features Elizabethan loopy bargeboard gingerbreading. It is unpretentious and looks like a picturesque country village church, nestled into its surrounds which are full of tall elm trees and surrounded by a pretty white picket fence. The church was last used as a place of worship in the mid 1960s. Originally containing rather ornate stained glass which has subsequently been replaced with plain glass windows, the former Holy Trinity Church of England has since been converted into a residence, named McKenzie. Although an extension with skylights has been put at the rear of the building, the designs are sympathetic with the original 1865 building and are not visible from Morses Creek Road.
Victorian Carpenter Gothic style emerged where timber was the mail building material or where transport and portability were considerations, and most buildings were simplified versions of Victorian Gothic buildings, although some did have very beautifully ornamental wooden gingerbreading and fretwork.
Wandiligong is a town in north-eastern Victoria in the alpine region around 330 kilometres from Melbourne. Established in the 1850s as part of the Victorian Gold Rush, Wandiligong became a hub for many gold miners, including a large Chinese community. At its peak, the town was home to over two thousand inhabitants and boasted shops, churches, a public library, halls and even an hotel. Much has changed since those heady days of the gold rush, and the picturesque town nestled in a valley and built around the Morses Creek, is now a sleepy little town full of picturesque houses which are often let to visitors to the area. The whole town is registered with the National Trust of Australia for its historic landscape and buildings of historic value.
‘Before!’. Just waiting for the ‘After’!! We have a few farms in our village, this one ceased when the owner sadly passed away - the family have now sold the farm house, a small amount of the land & barns shown here. So we now wait with baited breath as to what will happen/develop here. We're hoping for it to remain as an agricultural small holding. I’ve processed this to be sympathetic to its demise. I'm fascinated with the fact that the small tree is as clearly defined on both the light AND the dark area's - that's the beauty of photography..... HAVE A GREAT W/END FOLKS.
366 - I’ve decided to do this to force me to pick up a camera other than when we are away on our travels (they will be posted as normal) - I will be interested to see what transpires, they will be varied I’m sure so we’ll see where inspiration takes me over the course of the year, hopefully at the end of it I will be a better photographer. Feel free to critique as you see fit, but please don’t feel obliged, I anticipate they will not be to all tastes. Have a great year and if you also have embarked on a 365 project then good luck in seeing it through, Alan:-)
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Nelson is a census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, United States. The community is in the Pacific Standard Time zone. The location of Nelson is in El Dorado Canyon, Eldorado Mountains. The town is in the southeast region of the Eldorado Valley. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 37. Nelson is located along Nevada State Route 165, about 8 miles (13 km) southeast of its junction with U.S. Route 95. Route 165 continues east 5 miles (8 km) to a dead end at Nelsons Landing on the Colorado River, 18 miles (29 km) by water north of Cottonwood Cove on Lake Mojave. Nelson is about 25 miles (40 km) from Boulder City by road. The area known as Nelson was originally called Eldorado in 1775, by the Spaniards who made the original discoveries of gold in the area that is now Eldorado Canyon. The town was the site of one of the first major gold strikes in Nevada and one of the biggest mining booms in state history. Gold and silver were discovered here around 1859. The rush to the canyon began in 1861, several mining camps were established in the canyon, and a steamboat landing at the mouth of the canyon on the Colorado River, called Colorado City. In its heyday, the area established a reputation for being rough and lawless. During the American Civil War, deserters from both the Union and Confederate armies would wander there, hoping that such an isolated location would be the last place military authorities would look for them. Among the early mines established was the notorious Techatticup Mine in the middle of the canyon. Disagreements over ownership, management and labor disputes resulted in wanton killings so frequent as to be routine and ordinary. Despite the sinister reputation of the mine, it along with others in the town produced several million dollars in gold, silver, copper and lead. The mines in the canyon were active from about 1858 until 1945. The community called Nelson was named for Charles Nelson, a camp leader who was slain in his home, along with four other people, in 1897 by the renegade Indian, Avote. Between, 1901 and 1905 the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad was built across southern Nevada, through Las Vegas, to Daggett, California where it connected to the AT&SF, and the complete Salt Lake–Los Angeles line was opened on May 1, 1905. This nearby railhead ended the need for steamboats at Eldorado Canyon, the landing and the mill there were abandoned. The town of Nelson was born near the head of the canyon nearest the road to the railroad, the post office of Eldorado was closed on August 31, 1907 and moved to Nelson. The mines and the landing are accessible through the town of Nelson off US 95 about 25 miles southwest of Las Vegas. Much of Nelson, which was not impacted by the 1974 flood, remains today and is located near the top of the wash, away from the flood channels. The sparsely populated community consists mainly of privately owned ranch houses, and a river and mining tour business housed in a former Texaco gas station, north of the road from the Techatticup Mine, that has been used as a filming location for several feature films, including 3000 Miles to Graceland. The fate of Nelson's Landing is a warning to visitors to this region who should watch for conditions leading to flash flooding. They should also be cautious of open mines and ventilation shafts.
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El Dorado Canyon is a canyon in southern Clark County, Nevada famed for its rich silver and gold mines. The canyon was named in 1857 by steamboat entrepreneur Captain George Alonzo Johnson when gold and silver was discovered here. It drains into the Colorado River at the former site of Nelson's Landing. The town of Nelson lies in the upper reach of the canyon. Eldorado Canyon Mine Tours operates mid way in the canyon at the Techatticup Mine one of the oldest and most productive mines in the canyon. Prospecting and mining in the El Dorado Canyon had been going on from at least 1857 if not earlier. But in April 1861, as the American Civil War began, word got out that silver and some gold and copper lodes had been discovered by John Moss and others in what became known as El Dorado Canyon, in New Mexico Territory, now Nevada. The canyon was on the west side of the river sixty five miles above Fort Mohave at what was then considered the limit of navigation of the river. George A. Johnson came up river and made a deal to supply the mines with his steamboats at a lower price than that provided overland across the Mohave Desert from Los Angeles. That fall news of the strikes in the Colorado Mining District, (by 1864 also called the Eldorado Canyon District), brought a flood of miners to the canyon. Several mining camps were founded in the canyon over the years. At the beginning San Juan, or Upper Camp were at the top of the canyon miles from the river near the modern town of Nelson. Midway down the canyon near the Techatticup Mine were Alturas and Louisville. At the mouth of the canyon was the boat landing of Colorado City. During the time of the American Civil War, three new mining camps developed in the middle canyon. In 1862, Lucky Jim Camp was formed along Eldorado Canyon above January Wash, south of the Techatticup Mine. Lucky Jim Camp was the home of miners sympathetic to the Confederate cause. A mile up the canyon was a camp with Union sympathies called Buster Falls. In late 1863, Col. John R. Vineyard, at the time a California State Senator for Los Angeles, completed a ten stamp mill the first in the canyon, on its north side just below Lucky Jim Camp, at what soon became El Dorado City. Vineyard's mill, assembled from mill parts salvaged from abandoned works in the Mother Lode country of California, processed the ore of its mines and cut out the cost of shipping the ore out to San Francisco for such processing, cutting costs in half. George Alonzo Johnson's steamboat company losing this downstream ore trade and making fewer trips up to the Canyon responded by raising its freight rates. From 1865 to 1867 as part of Mohave County, Arizona Territory, El Dorado Canyon had its own post office. In 1867, to secure the riverboat traffic and protect miners in the canyon from Paiute attacks the U.S. Army established Camp El Dorado, an outpost at the mouth of El Dorado Canyon that remained until it was abandoned in 1869. From 1870 the mines again were active to the point where from 1879 to 1907 El Dorado Canyon again had a post office, now in Clark County, Nevada. The mines continued to produce ore until World War II.
This was taken in Gansevoort Square, which is located in Greenwich Village in NYC.
Note: I chose this as my "photo of the da" for Dec 14, 2015.
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This is the continuation of a photo-project that I began in the summer of 2008 (which you can see in this Flickr set), and continued throughout 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 (as shown in this Flickr set, this Flickr set, this Flickr set, this Flickr set, and this Flickr set)
): a random collection of "interesting" people in a broad stretch of the Upper West Side of Manhattan -- between 72nd Street and 104th Street, especially along Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue. These are the people in my neighborhood, aka "peeps in the 'hood."
As I indicated when I first started this project six years ago, I don't like to intrude on people's privacy, so I normally use a zoom telephoto lens in order to photograph them while they're still 50-100 feet away from me; but that means I have to continue focusing my attention on the people and activities half a block away, rather than on what's right in front of me. Sometimes I find an empty bench on a busy street corner, and just sit quietly for an hour, watching people hustling past on the other side of the street; they're almost always so busy listening to their iPod, or talking on their cellphone, or daydreaming about something, that they never look up and see me aiming my camera in their direction.
I've also learned that, in many cases, the opportunities for an interesting picture are very fleeting -- literally a matter of a couple of seconds, before the person(s) in question move on, turn away, or stop doing whatever was interesting. So I've learned to keep my camera switched on, and not worry so much about zooming in for a perfectly-framed picture ... after all, once the digital image is uploaded to my computer, it's pretty trivial to crop out the parts unrelated to the main subject. Indeed, some of my most interesting photos have been so-called "hip shots," where I don't even bother to raise the camera up to my eye; I just keep the zoom lens set to the maximum wide-angle aperture, point in the general direction of the subject, and take several shots. As long as I can keep the shutter speed fairly high (which sometimes requires a fairly high ISO setting), I can usually get some fairly crisp shots -- even if the subject is walking in one direction, and I'm walking in the other direction, while I'm snapping the photos.
With only a few exceptions, I've generally avoided photographing bums, drunks, crazies, and homeless people. There are plenty of them around, and they would certainly create some dramatic pictures; but they generally don't want to be photographed, and I don't want to feel like I'm taking advantage of them. There have been a few opportunities to take some "sympathetic" pictures of such people, which might inspire others to reach out and help them. This is one example, and here is another example.
The other thing I've noticed, while carrying on this project for the past six years, is that while there are lots of interesting people to photograph, there are far, far, far more people who are not so interesting. They're probably fine people, and they might even be more interesting than the ones I've photographed ... unfortunately, there was just nothing memorable about them. They're all part of this big, crowded city; but for better or worse, there are an awful lot that you won't see in these Flickr sets of mine...
Sacré-Cœur, Paris
Paris
The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris, commonly known as Sacré-Cœur Basilica and often simply Sacré-Cœur, is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica, dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in Paris, France. A popular landmark, the basilica is located at the summit of the butte Montmartre, the highest point in the city. Sacré-Cœur is a double monument, political and cultural, both a national penance for the defeat of France in the 1870 Franco-Prussian War and the socialist Paris Commune of 1871 crowning its most rebellious neighborhood, and an embodiment of conservative moral order, publicly dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which was an increasingly popular vision of a loving and sympathetic Christ.
We welcome you to our next Zamonia installment...
The Valley of the Grübelnden Eier
In the valley you will find the Grübelnden Eier which are 12 giant Pondering Eggs that hum, buzz, and ponder.
There are theories on how they came to be here, but no one knows the exact origin.
Some believe that they were laid by a giant primeval bird, and some from another world.
These eggs are of the highest intelligence in all of Zamonia.
They communicate thru telepathy and by emitting sympathetic waves to the local vegetation.
Near the eggs you can find the Tree of the Recognizable Nut.
The nuts from this tree serve as a direct speaker for the eggs, by passing on messages thru the emitted waves.
This makes the area a destination for Druids & the intellectuals of Zamonian.
Will you be one to receive a message from the Pondering Eggs on your visit?
You must visit & see!
This valley desert is nearest the Demon Mountains, so please do tread lightly!
And be sure to bring some water, as the highest temperatures in all of Zamonia can be found here.
Behind the old ship you can find a portal door that leads you off to the Zamonia Catacombs!
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Lower Slaughter is a village in the English county of Gloucestershire, located in the Cotswold district, 4 miles (6.4 km) south west of the town of Stow-on-the-Wold. The village is built on both banks of the River Eye, which also flows through Upper Slaughter. At the west end of the village there is a 19th-century water mill with an undershot waterwheel and a chimney for additional steam power. There is a ford where the river widens in the village and several small stone footbridges join the two sides of the community. While the mill is built of red brick most of the 16th and 17th century homes in the village use Cotswold sandstone and are adorned with mullioned windows and often with other embellishments such as projecting gables. Records exist showing that Lower Slaughter has been inhabited for over 1000 years. The Domesday Book entry has the village name as “Sclostre”. It further notes that in 1066 and 1086 that the manor was in the sheriff's hands. Lower Slaughter Manor, a Grade-II listed 17th-century house, was granted to Sir George Whitmore in 1611 and remained in his family until 1964. The 13th century Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin. Much of the current structure was built in 1866; however, the spire and peal of six bells was recently restored. In May 2013 it was reported in the national news that the Parish Council were fiercely opposed to the presence of an icebox tricycle selling ice creams for seven days a week, six months of the year, citing that the trading times were excessive, increased footfall would prevent the grass from growing and that children could climb on the trike and fall into the nearby river.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Slaughters Country Inn is privately owned and offers a relaxed ambience, a style that is sympathetically balanced between the original features of a 17th Century building and contemporary design. The blend of old and new creates the perfect retreat in a beautiful country location
'How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. " -
George Washington Carver
HBM! One of five photos taken on my morning walk along the Promenade in our Humber Bay Shores neighbourhood.
Yesterday was one of those co-incidence days when things things sort of knit together in an unexplainable way (and yes...I know it's 'inexplicable' but I prefer the sound of 'unexplainable') Morning, I watched this video, not because I don't know the lyrics intimately, but the thumbnail caught my eye. Later, went out to try to capture whatever happened on an untypically stormy day here in El Palo. Must have taken about 200. This one was a happy accident - didn't know what I got until on the computer. It has nothing to do with the song lyrics. Just felt sympathetic to it. Night, and was looking at posts from people I follow and found this (below) by Coates Walker. Started following him recently. A great place to go to see beautiful images and ideas. His image, again, is only connected to the song , for me, by graphic similarity. But I, a committed antitheist, am beginning to think that, there maybe just a possibility that some thing is controlling this. Yep...it's probably just the way you feel on a particular day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_spnONQhA1s
Link to Coates Walker image www.flickr.com/photos/kcw1939/53616671661/in/dateposted/
Bramhall Hall is a beautiful Tudor manor house set in parkland with a lake. Just reopened after and extensive and sympathetic refurbishment to this Grade1 listed structure.
The Alabama Hills are a range of hills and rock formations near the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada in the Owens Valley, west of Lone Pine in Inyo County, California.
The Alabama Hills are a popular filming location for television and movie productions, especially Westerns set in an archetypical rugged, isolated milieu. The first known movies to be filmed there are the lost films Water, Water Everywhere and Cupid, the Cowpuncher, both shot in 1919 and released in early 1920.
Hundreds of movies have been filmed there, including: Gunga Din, The Walking Hills, Yellow Sky, Springfield Rifle, The Violent Men, Bad Day at Black Rock, the Budd Boetticher/Randolph Scott "Ranown" cycle, How the West Was Won, Joe Kidd, Saboteur, and Django Unchained, Tremors, Iron Man, and The Monolith Monsters.
The Alabama Hills were named for the CSS Alabama, a Confederate warship deployed during the American Civil War. When news of the ship's exploits reached prospectors in California sympathetic to the Confederates, they named many mining claims after the ship, and the name came to be applied to the entire range. The Alabama was sunk off the coast of Normandy by the USS Kearsarge in 1864.
My last visit to Bosque del Apache this winter was a banner day. The gate keeper asked me if I wanted a map, and I said no thanks I've been coming here since the mid 70's. Studying my face she offered an opinion of the reserves present state and we had an interesting conversation about how it has changed over the years as well as it's current state and whether that was an improvement over what it was. I was surprised by her interest in my responses and in her sympathetic opinion but it wasn't the first time a park official had voiced an opinion similar to mine this winter. As I was about to drive away she interrupted my farewell by asking me if I was the former director of the reserve. I told her I wasn't but knew of him and admired what he had created during his tenure. I drove away quite flattered. Change is in the wind. The current director has done some things that were needed, but much more to remove the closeness to wildlife her predecessor strove to create. It remains an amazing place to visit and one never knows what they will see on any given day.
Terry
This PMA IA 58 Pucará was an Argentinian ground attack aircraft.
The Argentine Air Force operated it during the Falklands war in 1982 when it flew a number of operational missions against British forces.
It was captured when the war ended and brought to Britain for evaluations, before being transferred to the Duxford Museum in 1983.
Sympathetic conservation work is being caried out to preserve its originality.
Captured at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.
150222 approaches the vintage gates at Godnow bridge with the2P16 1448 Scunthorpe to Doncaster.
The gates remain manually operated by a signaller. Although the original box here was demolished some years ago the replacement building has been quite sympathetically designed incorporating some elements of the original structure - so much nicer than the usually grey portacabin style offering.
20th January 2023.
Barge-mounted floating power station 'Murat Bey' on Gatun Lake, Panama. The lake is between the Caribbean and Pacific locks of the Panama Canal.
These "Powerships", built, owned and operated by a Turkish Company, 'Karpowership' are either barge- or ship-mounted and generate electricity on contract to wherever needed worldwide; Cuba has needed a number of these to supplement its weak power grid. Russia and other sympathetic sources have underwritten the costs involved.
Photo taken on a very murky, humid day during our cruise aboard the 'Celebrity Beyond' cruise ship.
A Colas class 70 approaches with 20 wagons of logs for Kronospan at Chirk. Note the period-sympathetic lamps and that even the modern train indicators blend in quite neatly.
A pair of UP Heritage Units lead UP Train RIMBN 23 past Rhinehart Road on the UP Sedalia Sub. and a pair of Kansas City's Finest. Why are they here?
I arrived here earlier to shoot this train, and a woman was waiting in a driveway nearby, and I approached her to introduce myself so as to keep her from being nervous. She looked uneasy and I asked if she was alright, and she replied with numerous ways she was planning on killing herself that evening, including walking out in front of the next train, and asked me to talk her out of it.
The woman was clearly unbalanced, so after pleading with her for several minutes, I contacted KCPD, who responded quickly along with KCFD and EMS for a suicidal subject. After conversing with the woman she became belligerent and was restrained. They took her vitals, and loaded her up for 96 hour psyche evaluation at a nearby hospital.
I feel fortunate to have been in the right place to aid in getting this woman some help before she took matters into her own, or somebody else's hands. I hope she gets her life to a better place, she had some problems.
The police and firefighters that responded were nothing but sympathetic, courteous, and professional. I really can't say enough great things about them. They handled the situation in a fantastic way, despite the woman's unwillingness to cooperate. You just never know what you're going to see out here.
Locomotives: UP 1983, UP 1989, UP 4814
8-23-16
Kansas City, MO
As I was heading for the exit of a shopping mall, I pulled my car into a parking space when I saw this dog looking smugly contented wearing sunglasses. As you can see, this dog was not alone. What is not shown are the dog's companions who are asking for handouts. People in this position often employ animals to make others more sympathetic to their plight.
Sacré-Cœur, Paris
Paris
The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris, commonly known as Sacré-Cœur Basilica and often simply Sacré-Cœur, is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica, dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in Paris, France. A popular landmark, the basilica is located at the summit of the butte Montmartre, the highest point in the city. Sacré-Cœur is a double monument, political and cultural, both a national penance for the defeat of France in the 1870 Franco-Prussian War and the socialist Paris Commune of 1871 crowning its most rebellious neighborhood, and an embodiment of conservative moral order, publicly dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which was an increasingly popular vision of a loving and sympathetic Christ.
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Lower Slaughter is a village in the English county of Gloucestershire, located in the Cotswold district, 4 miles (6.4 km) south west of the town of Stow-on-the-Wold. The village is built on both banks of the River Eye, which also flows through Upper Slaughter. At the west end of the village there is a 19th-century water mill with an undershot waterwheel and a chimney for additional steam power. There is a ford where the river widens in the village and several small stone footbridges join the two sides of the community. While the mill is built of red brick most of the 16th and 17th century homes in the village use Cotswold sandstone and are adorned with mullioned windows and often with other embellishments such as projecting gables. Records exist showing that Lower Slaughter has been inhabited for over 1000 years. The Domesday Book entry has the village name as “Sclostre”. It further notes that in 1066 and 1086 that the manor was in the sheriff's hands. Lower Slaughter Manor, a Grade-II listed 17th-century house, was granted to Sir George Whitmore in 1611 and remained in his family until 1964. The 13th century Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin. Much of the current structure was built in 1866; however, the spire and peal of six bells was recently restored. In May 2013 it was reported in the national news that the Parish Council were fiercely opposed to the presence of an icebox tricycle selling ice creams for seven days a week, six months of the year, citing that the trading times were excessive, increased footfall would prevent the grass from growing and that children could climb on the trike and fall into the nearby river.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Slaughters Country Inn is privately owned and offers a relaxed ambience, a style that is sympathetically balanced between the original features of a 17th Century building and contemporary design. The blend of old and new creates the perfect retreat in a beautiful country location
Excerpt from stcatharines.ca:
Built in 1905 by the Cataract Power Company, numbers 3, 5, 11, and 15 Power Glen are wood frame workers’ cottages. The one and a half storey Carpenter Gothic homes retain much of their original character including: Greek revival pitched 6/9 roof; modern siding, which simulates the original clapboard finish; pattern of window and door openings (although the sashes have been changed), which reflect the homes’ traditional appearance; Greek revival front verandah with columns, baluster, rail and sweeping cornice (not applicable to number 15 Power Glen, which now contains a partially enclosed veranda); and a vent in the gable.
The addition of roof dormers and a west wing on number 3 Power Glen ring true to the home’s architectural character. Similarly, the addition of a west wing and garage (east side) at number 11 Power Glen, an east and west additions to number 15 Power Glen, are sympathetic to these homes. In addition, there have also been stylistic changes to number 11, including window shutters, a fish scale gable and drip mouldings over the windows and door.
1983 Ford Fiesta XR2.
Anglia Car Auctions, King's Lynn -
"V5 Present
MoT Aug 2022
Chassis number: VS6BXXWPFBDD31253
"The vendor has owned this 'hot hatch' Fiesta since February 1989 and it has had three previous former keepers in its history. It was used as a daily driver up until 2000 after which it went into dry garage storage for 16 years. When it emerged, it was sympathetically restored including a complete engine restoration, paintwork where needed (but not a complete respray), the Pepperpot alloy wheels renovated and the underside treated. The vendor tells us that there are now no signs of rust anywhere. The Ford has had no aftermarket upgrades and the interior has not been changed at all.
"The car was registered in May 1983 and has an MoT valid until August 2022. 86,994 miles are showing on the odometer.
"The well‑organised paperwork folder includes the V5C plus a 1990s one. There's a model brochure, operating guide and supplement, reproduction 1983 tax disc and MoT certificates from 1993, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021. A replacement service book shows a major service undertaken at 86,945 miles in October 2020, and is accompanied by bills stretching from 2020 back to the 1990s, including a 1991 used car invoice. Photos of the car before, during and after its restoration by the Classic Coachwork Company with a list of work done and a final bill total running to several thousands."
Sold for £19,440 including premium.
The Society was never officially present on Ra’un. Forces were dispatched from sympathetic imperial remnants, or as ex-imperial mercenaries. Society leaders saw this campaign as an opportunity to get rid of uncontrollable experimental forces.
Unofficially however, the Society had sent a handful of elite agents. Rumors of a several force sensitive children in the local population, warranted sending in agents to secure and “evacuate” these individuals. The participation in the battle, and the heaps of expendable forces, was just a cover for the real operation. Operation Harvester.
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The AT-ST was inspired by the concept art by Shane Molina (www.artstation.com/artwork/bzywv), and the head of the AT-ST is based on GolPlaysWithLego's AT-ST. Not a super stable build, but I'm happy with the result.
Nelson is a census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, United States. The community is in the Pacific Standard Time zone. The location of Nelson is in El Dorado Canyon, Eldorado Mountains. The town is in the southeast region of the Eldorado Valley. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 37. Nelson is located along Nevada State Route 165, about 8 miles (13 km) southeast of its junction with U.S. Route 95. Route 165 continues east 5 miles (8 km) to a dead end at Nelsons Landing on the Colorado River, 18 miles (29 km) by water north of Cottonwood Cove on Lake Mojave. Nelson is about 25 miles (40 km) from Boulder City by road. The area known as Nelson was originally called Eldorado in 1775, by the Spaniards who made the original discoveries of gold in the area that is now Eldorado Canyon. The town was the site of one of the first major gold strikes in Nevada and one of the biggest mining booms in state history. Gold and silver were discovered here around 1859. The rush to the canyon began in 1861, several mining camps were established in the canyon, and a steamboat landing at the mouth of the canyon on the Colorado River, called Colorado City. In its heyday, the area established a reputation for being rough and lawless. During the American Civil War, deserters from both the Union and Confederate armies would wander there, hoping that such an isolated location would be the last place military authorities would look for them. Among the early mines established was the notorious Techatticup Mine in the middle of the canyon. Disagreements over ownership, management and labor disputes resulted in wanton killings so frequent as to be routine and ordinary. Despite the sinister reputation of the mine, it along with others in the town produced several million dollars in gold, silver, copper and lead. The mines in the canyon were active from about 1858 until 1945. The community called Nelson was named for Charles Nelson, a camp leader who was slain in his home, along with four other people, in 1897 by the renegade Indian, Avote. Between, 1901 and 1905 the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad was built across southern Nevada, through Las Vegas, to Daggett, California where it connected to the AT&SF, and the complete Salt Lake–Los Angeles line was opened on May 1, 1905. This nearby railhead ended the need for steamboats at Eldorado Canyon, the landing and the mill there were abandoned. The town of Nelson was born near the head of the canyon nearest the road to the railroad, the post office of Eldorado was closed on August 31, 1907 and moved to Nelson. The mines and the landing are accessible through the town of Nelson off US 95 about 25 miles southwest of Las Vegas. Much of Nelson, which was not impacted by the 1974 flood, remains today and is located near the top of the wash, away from the flood channels. The sparsely populated community consists mainly of privately owned ranch houses, and a river and mining tour business housed in a former Texaco gas station, north of the road from the Techatticup Mine, that has been used as a filming location for several feature films, including 3000 Miles to Graceland. The fate of Nelson's Landing is a warning to visitors to this region who should watch for conditions leading to flash flooding. They should also be cautious of open mines and ventilation shafts.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson,_Nevada
El Dorado Canyon is a canyon in southern Clark County, Nevada famed for its rich silver and gold mines. The canyon was named in 1857 by steamboat entrepreneur Captain George Alonzo Johnson when gold and silver was discovered here. It drains into the Colorado River at the former site of Nelson's Landing. The town of Nelson lies in the upper reach of the canyon. Eldorado Canyon Mine Tours operates mid way in the canyon at the Techatticup Mine one of the oldest and most productive mines in the canyon. Prospecting and mining in the El Dorado Canyon had been going on from at least 1857 if not earlier. But in April 1861, as the American Civil War began, word got out that silver and some gold and copper lodes had been discovered by John Moss and others in what became known as El Dorado Canyon, in New Mexico Territory, now Nevada. The canyon was on the west side of the river sixty five miles above Fort Mohave at what was then considered the limit of navigation of the river. George A. Johnson came up river and made a deal to supply the mines with his steamboats at a lower price than that provided overland across the Mohave Desert from Los Angeles. That fall news of the strikes in the Colorado Mining District, (by 1864 also called the Eldorado Canyon District), brought a flood of miners to the canyon. Several mining camps were founded in the canyon over the years. At the beginning San Juan, or Upper Camp were at the top of the canyon miles from the river near the modern town of Nelson. Midway down the canyon near the Techatticup Mine were Alturas and Louisville. At the mouth of the canyon was the boat landing of Colorado City. During the time of the American Civil War, three new mining camps developed in the middle canyon. In 1862, Lucky Jim Camp was formed along Eldorado Canyon above January Wash, south of the Techatticup Mine. Lucky Jim Camp was the home of miners sympathetic to the Confederate cause. A mile up the canyon was a camp with Union sympathies called Buster Falls. In late 1863, Col. John R. Vineyard, at the time a California State Senator for Los Angeles, completed a ten stamp mill the first in the canyon, on its north side just below Lucky Jim Camp, at what soon became El Dorado City. Vineyard's mill, assembled from mill parts salvaged from abandoned works in the Mother Lode country of California, processed the ore of its mines and cut out the cost of shipping the ore out to San Francisco for such processing, cutting costs in half. George Alonzo Johnson's steamboat company losing this downstream ore trade and making fewer trips up to the Canyon responded by raising its freight rates. From 1865 to 1867 as part of Mohave County, Arizona Territory, El Dorado Canyon had its own post office. In 1867, to secure the riverboat traffic and protect miners in the canyon from Paiute attacks the U.S. Army established Camp El Dorado, an outpost at the mouth of El Dorado Canyon that remained until it was abandoned in 1869. From 1870 the mines again were active to the point where from 1879 to 1907 El Dorado Canyon again had a post office, now in Clark County, Nevada. The mines continued to produce ore until World War II.
My 1,000th picture on Flickr, and of course it had to be one of me.
I don't claim to be good, but I enjoy taking pictures of the world around me and Flickr is one answer to everybodies "Hey, can I see that picture?" Most of my pictures reflect my love of my family, my friends, the beauty of Creation, and some are just of things that make me smile. Just in case it slips past in "The World Through Tiger's Eyes", the most important thing in my life is God, my faith in His son Jesus, and the price He paid to redeem my unworthy soul. I try to invest my life in people and I usually don't have time to make my pics Photoshop perfect, but I will always make time to answer a question about my Hope for Eternity, to help with a problem, or just to be a sympathetic ear. If I can be a help to you, contact me at twilbanks6255@yahoo.com
The restored 'India of Inchinnan' art deco building. The 'rear' of the building has had a sympathetic modern extension added which has now become the main entrance.
Bloxworth Manor House - (Elizabethan E-Plan)
Grade I listed house built in 1608 and claims to be the first brick property in the county of Dorset.
Built in 1608 by George Savage Savage, part of the possessions of the Cerne Abbey, at the dissolution. Not a large estate, but the family seem to have been mildly prosperous at the beginning of the 17th century and the house was rebuilt.
Due to a poor financial position, George Savage (great-great grandson & MP for Wareham) was forced In 1689 to convey the house to Henry Trenchard – whose family also owned Poxwell Manor – and it remained in the Trenchard family until 1964.
Over the last 100 years the house fell into ruins, was vandalized and then restored.
The house was used as Bathsheba Everdene's house (Upper Weatherbury Farm) in the 1967 film adaptation of Far from the Madding Crowd. It was considerably and sympathetically restored in the 1970s.
The horticulturalist Martin Lane Fox, acquired the house in 1997 and remodelled the garden. The house was on the market in 2014 for £4 million
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Lower Slaughter is a village in the English county of Gloucestershire, located in the Cotswold district, 4 miles (6.4 km) south west of the town of Stow-on-the-Wold. The village is built on both banks of the River Eye, which also flows through Upper Slaughter. At the west end of the village there is a 19th-century water mill with an undershot waterwheel and a chimney for additional steam power. There is a ford where the river widens in the village and several small stone footbridges join the two sides of the community. While the mill is built of red brick most of the 16th and 17th century homes in the village use Cotswold sandstone and are adorned with mullioned windows and often with other embellishments such as projecting gables. Records exist showing that Lower Slaughter has been inhabited for over 1000 years. The Domesday Book entry has the village name as “Sclostre”. It further notes that in 1066 and 1086 that the manor was in the sheriff's hands. Lower Slaughter Manor, a Grade-II listed 17th-century house, was granted to Sir George Whitmore in 1611 and remained in his family until 1964. The 13th century Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin. Much of the current structure was built in 1866; however, the spire and peal of six bells was recently restored. In May 2013 it was reported in the national news that the Parish Council were fiercely opposed to the presence of an icebox tricycle selling ice creams for seven days a week, six months of the year, citing that the trading times were excessive, increased footfall would prevent the grass from growing and that children could climb on the trike and fall into the nearby river.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Slaughters Country Inn is privately owned and offers a relaxed ambience, a style that is sympathetically balanced between the original features of a 17th Century building and contemporary design. The blend of old and new creates the perfect retreat in a beautiful country location
19th century brick cottage with sympathetic addition to the rear providing much needed living space to this diminutive cottage .
Chelmer
Brisbane
According to legend, when Zeus released 2 eagles from opposite ends of the world their paths crossed in the sky above Delphi, establishing the site as the centre of the earth. This shrine of Apollo , set nearly 2000ft up on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, exerts even today a powerful grip on the visitor.
It is an amazing place to visit & you wonder at their achievements so many years ago. Renovations at the site have overall been done sympathetically.
My sister Jan and I spent an evening walking along the Thames Path (Riverside Walk) London and come across these fabulous images.
The City of London wanted to replicate etchings, engravings, drawings and lithographic prints of Southwark Bridge onto tiles for their pedestrian underpass (north side) of Southwark Bridge.
The traditional Victorian panel layouts were printed sympathetically so they looked like traditional 'Delftware' on Victorian tiles.
1975 Alpine-Renault A441C Sports Racing Prototype
Flavien Marcais, La Gaudaine, France
This Alpine-Renault A441C was raced at Le Mans in
1975 under the Equipe Elf Switzerland banner by Marie
Claude Beaumont and Lella Lombardi, but it did not finish
because the fuel pump failed after eight hours. It went on
to complete the World Endurance Championship, finishing
with a class win, followed by 4th overall at Monza. The
Alpine-Renault A441C is constructed around a tubular
chassis, reinforced with aluminum riveted panels, and fitted
with a two-seater fiberglass body. It is powered by a mighty
V6, 4-cam, 2.0-litre Renault engine, mated to a 5-speed
gearbox, giving 300 hp with a top speed of 185 mph. The
car was acquired by Giancarlo Naddeo from the factory
in 1976, and remained in his care until 2009, when Flavien
Marcais purchased it in highly original racing condition.
Since a sympathetic restoration to retain its authenticity,
the car is used sparingly on French circuits for
demonstration purposes only and has been exhibited
at the Le Mans Museu
Pastel on sandpaper.
I usually paint woodlands in pastel I find it more sympathetic for leaves,grasses,bluebells etc. than watercolour.
A smoke show on the WNY&P is always desirable. However, these guys tend to keep that to a minimum, unless you get a sympathetic hogger at the controls. On this fine, early fall evening, the engineer of this day's Emporium Turn smokes up Turtlepoint, PA with a short train of hoppers bound for Olean.
Excerpt from stcatharines.ca:
Built in 1905 by the Cataract Power Company, numbers 3, 5, 11, and 15 Power Glen are wood frame workers’ cottages. The one and a half storey Carpenter Gothic homes retain much of their original character including: Greek revival pitched 6/9 roof; modern siding, which simulates the original clapboard finish; pattern of window and door openings (although the sashes have been changed), which reflect the homes’ traditional appearance; Greek revival front verandah with columns, baluster, rail and sweeping cornice (not applicable to number 15 Power Glen, which now contains a partially enclosed veranda); and a vent in the gable.
The addition of roof dormers and a west wing on number 3 Power Glen ring true to the home’s architectural character. Similarly, the addition of a west wing and garage (east side) at number 11 Power Glen, an east and west additions to number 15 Power Glen, are sympathetic to these homes. In addition, there have also been stylistic changes to number 11, including window shutters, a fish scale gable and drip mouldings over the windows and door.
One of my favourite birds but sadly numbers have declined. Great to see this little superstar bouncing around and posing, chasing it's parents for good.
www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/s/songthrush/
A familiar and popular garden songbird whose numbers are declining seriously, especially on farmland making it a Red List species. Smaller and browner than a mistle thrush with smaller spotting. Its habit of repeating song phrases distinguish it from singing blackbirds. It likes to eat snails which it breaks into by smashing them against a stone with a flick of the head.
Overview
Latin name
Turdus philomelos
Family
Chats and thrushes (Turdidae)
Where to see them
Woods, hedgerows, parks and gardens across the UK - wherever there are bushes and trees.
When to see them
All year round.
What they eat
Worms, snails and fruit.
Population:-
Uk Breeding:- 1,144,000 territories
Breeding
Since the song thrush has two or three broods a year, the breeding season is long and lasts from March to August.
The onset of breeding is determined by the weather, which can bring it forward or delay it by several days.
The nest, built entirely by the female, is low down in any suitable cover, including trees and shrubs, among creepers on walls, on ledges, and on the ground amongst thick vegetation. It is a neat structure of twigs, grass and moss, cemented together and thickly lined with mud, dung and rotten wood, often mixed with leaves. It can take three weeks to complete. Sometimes the same nest is used for successive broods.
Normal clutch size is 3-5, with one egg laid each day. The female starts to incubate once the last egg is laid, and the chicks hatch 13-15 days later. Only the female broods the chicks, but both parents feed them. The chicks are fed primarily on worms, but slugs, caterpillars, and even fruit can feature in the diet, especially when dry weather limits access to worms.
The chicks are ready to fledge at 13-14 days, but if the nest is disturbed, they can leave as early as nine days old. They creep and flutter from the nest, and remain in nearby cover for a few days.
They are more or less flightless at first, but within a week can fly well. They continue to be fed by the parents while they are learning to find and handle food themselves. The young birds will be independent about three weeks after leaving the nest.
Fledged young are often left in the care of the male, while the female prepares for the next nesting effort. Nestlings from later broods can be found until August. There are considerable losses at egg and chick stage, with only a third of nests producing fledged young.
Legal status
Song thrushes and their nests are fully protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, which makes it an offence intentionally to kill, injure or take any wild bird.
It is an offence intentionally to damage or destroy the eggs, young or nest of a song thrush while it is being built or in use.
It is therefore essential to ensure nests are not destroyed if hedge trimming or tree felling has to be carried out in the breeding season.
Territory and behaviour
Song thrushes tend to be solitary. Small feeding and roosting aggregations sometimes form at good sites, and those individuals that migrate form large but loosely co-ordinated flocks.
Song thrushes establish a breeding territory in the late winter or early spring. The territory is essential for pair formation and nesting, but only a part of the food for the young is obtained from within it.
Territory size varies depending on the habitat, from 0.2-6 hectares, or even more. Territory boundaries break down in the late summer when the last brood has fledged. Most song thrushes in the UK remain in the same area all year.
Winter territories are often established in the late autumn or early winter, although this is variable and dependent on weather and food availability. Many males remain in their previous seasons territory, and a few females hold individual winter territories.
Song thrushes are sensitive to hard winter weather. Winter territories are abandoned during periods of severe weather, when many birds move southwards, even as far as north-west France and northern Spain. Considerable numbers of Dutch birds spend the winter in the UK.
Threats
Song thrushes are relatively short-lived birds. They live an average of 3-4 years, but a few can reach quite an advanced age. The oldest known wild individual was 13 years, 9 months old. Mortality is high and its causes many and varied. Only 20 per cent of fledglings and 60 per cent of adults survive to breed the following spring.
Long-term monitoring carried out by the British Trust for Ornithology shows that the population in England declined by more than 50 per cent between 1970 and 1995. This decline was most pronounced on farmland, where the population decreased by about 70 per cent. Because of this decline, the song thrush is red listed as a bird of serious conservation concern. There has been a partial recovery in numbers during the last decade.
The decline in song thrush numbers has probably been caused by the loss and degradation of preferred feeding and nesting habitats.
Loss of hedgerows and wet ditches removed feeding and nesting sites, while increased land drainage and tillage are likely to have reduced the number of earthworms and other crucial invertebrate prey available to song thrushes on farmland.
Grazed permanent pasture (especially cow pastures) and woodland are important habitats with plenty of food for song thrushes. Both of these have been lost or degraded in many lowland areas.
In many areas of intensive farming most song thrushes now breed in, or close to, gardens. RSPB research has compared a declining population on intensive arable farmland with a stable population on mixed farmland.
Two major differences were found. Thrushes on intensive arable farmland made only 2-3 nesting attempts each year, compared to 4-5 attempts for birds in the stable population. Few fledglings on intensive farmland appear to survive their first few weeks after leaving the nest.
These differences are large enough to have caused the population decline on arable farmland and are probably caused by lack of food (earthworms and snails) during spring and summer. Farming measures likely to help song thrushes include sympathetic hedgerow management (with tall, thick hedges), planting new woodlands on farmland, and planting wild bird seed mixtures including leafy cover. Government grants are available for all these measures. Any measures that prevent soil from drying out during summer are also likely to be beneficial.
Some people suggest that increases in the numbers of magpies and sparrowhawks may be causing song thrushes and other songbirds to decline.
Two pieces of evidence suggest that this is not true. First, the proportion of thrush nests which are predated has actually fallen during the last 30 years. Second, changes in the number of breeding thrushes measured across several hundred farms across lowland Britain are not correlated with changes in hawk or magpie numbers on the same farms. So thrushes are just as likely to have declined on farms which have lost hawks or magpies. (Source: British Trust for Ornithology).
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Lower Slaughter is a village in the English county of Gloucestershire, located in the Cotswold district, 4 miles (6.4 km) south west of the town of Stow-on-the-Wold. The village is built on both banks of the River Eye, which also flows through Upper Slaughter. At the west end of the village there is a 19th-century water mill with an undershot waterwheel and a chimney for additional steam power. There is a ford where the river widens in the village and several small stone footbridges join the two sides of the community. While the mill is built of red brick most of the 16th and 17th century homes in the village use Cotswold sandstone and are adorned with mullioned windows and often with other embellishments such as projecting gables. Records exist showing that Lower Slaughter has been inhabited for over 1000 years. The Domesday Book entry has the village name as “Sclostre”. It further notes that in 1066 and 1086 that the manor was in the sheriff's hands. Lower Slaughter Manor, a Grade-II listed 17th-century house, was granted to Sir George Whitmore in 1611 and remained in his family until 1964. The 13th century Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin. Much of the current structure was built in 1866; however, the spire and peal of six bells was recently restored. In May 2013 it was reported in the national news that the Parish Council were fiercely opposed to the presence of an icebox tricycle selling ice creams for seven days a week, six months of the year, citing that the trading times were excessive, increased footfall would prevent the grass from growing and that children could climb on the trike and fall into the nearby river.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Slaughters Country Inn is privately owned and offers a relaxed ambience, a style that is sympathetically balanced between the original features of a 17th Century building and contemporary design. The blend of old and new creates the perfect retreat in a beautiful country location
Trying to be a bit more realistic with these two edits. Not quite SOOC (if you like SOOC, I'd suggest you're looking at the wrong person!), but I wanted to try to keep the elements that I like about these helios shots, rather than getting carried away and manipulating beyond recognition.
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I've always thought I can't do "black and white", mainly as i get distracted by colour and have to add it back in in some way or other. Then, I read somewhere (or maybe saw it on Master of Photography) that to produce images in B&W, you have to shoot in B&W. So, with my helios lens on, I thought why not give it a try and see what happens. So I did.
It really did focus the mind, and lots of images that I loved IRL didn't translate to B&W, because the colours all merged into each other. Which might explain why I haven't been able to get so many b&w translations to work for me in post-processing.
I ended up with a few images that I quite enjoyed - i think they tended to be with stronger shapes and contrasts, as you'd probably have predicted. Kind of silhouette-y.
Here: I wanted a fairly sympathetic edit, so limited it to slight sharpening of the main leaf, and some slight tonal manipulation to bring out the bokeh a little more. Very slight selective toning (purple in shadows, orange in highlights), but the manipulated image was blended back with the original to tone it back more, so any toning is less noticeable, I think.
I really enjoyed playing with this vintage lens and b&w; made for an interesting couple of hours.
I should mention that the posted image has nothing to do with the following bit of text.
Sometimes I miss having housemates. Not roommates, per se, as sharing an actual room with someone is a bit of a challenge. But housemates, sure. In particular I miss my veterinary school housemates, the four of them that shared a house with me in Massachusetts for three out of four years of schooling. We were all in the same graduating class, which made living together a bit easier (everyone had the same general cram/sleep/study schedule). We'd often find ourselves spread about the living room, casually studying notes and writing in syllabi as an episode of "Scrubs" played on the television. Those housemates were there for the bad and the good, and it was difficult to hide anything from them for very long.
I miss that part, at times... the inability to hide things from people. You'd think it would be a bad thing - that loss of privacy. But as I'm an introvert, and a bit of a hermit, sometimes I need a little help in those areas. Recently I was remembering the night a past boyfriend broke up with me. This was, what? Seven, eight years ago? Goodbyes were said at the front door, and my broken heart and I had to navigate a path back through the brightly lit living room, filled with studying housemates, to reach the sanctity of my room.
And I made it through that gauntlet, with its sympathetic, well-meaning set of faces, but after ten minutes in my room a housemate tentatively knocked on my door. They persuaded me to talk, and then when talk ran out, they persuaded me to go get ice cream with them. And though ice cream was the last thing I wanted, and was probably as tasteless as paper at the time (sorrow zaps the flavor of any food), I'll never forget that night that they gently, but persistently, lifted me out from that whirlpool of loss and ache and loneliness.
I thought of them last night, again. The ice cream was chocolate, with some raspberry puree that a friend had given me for my birthday. I'm not sure I tasted it, but it did make me recall the caring and generosity of my former housemates, and that was enough for me.