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Position: The roman catholic church of st. Peter and Paul in Mělník is one of the oldest churches in Bohemia. The gothic church is dominated by a 60 metres high tower of a square ground plan, with the baroque finish, which is the dominant feature of the city and rises above the confluence of the Elbe with the Vltava river.
This industrial tower from the old L.W. Smith Building in Launceston's old wharf district, is something to behold. Standing 30 metres high and made entirely from red bricks it has been standing for nearly 100 years.
I have long been fascinated by Bill Brandt's industrial images from the 1930s and 40s. They are perfect black and whites, and often very dark. Here, despite the overcast sky, the light is still a real presence in those clouds. I've left the powerlines in there so as not to make the image too pretty.
two of the supports for the new bridge that will cross the Fraser River
between Surrey and New Westminster,
replacing the aging Patullo, which has been a workhorse since 1937.
"Fears have built a wall between
Our lives and all that lovin' means
Will have to go unfelt it seems
That leaves only sorrow
You built your tower strong and tall
Can't you see it's got to fall
Some day ...
a lovely song written and sung by Townes Van Zandt - 1971
SOOC - oh, not actually.
Was bored last night, so photoshopped scorpions all over a lighthouse in front of a wild sunset, as you do.
The Folsom Local makes its way out of Roseville with UP 1004 on point. This GP60 still wears its Cotton Belt paint and makes for a familiar scene in Roseville as it passes the Tower Theater.
Looking through part of "Le Mur pour la Paix" by Clara Halter in front of École Militaire, along the Champ de Mars to the Eiffel Tower.
The Skylon Tower located in Niagara Falls, Canada, stands at 520 feet from the street level and 775 feet from the bottom of the falls. The elevator can carry passengers to the top observation deck in 52 seconds. The tower also holds two restaurants - the lower Revolving Dining Room and the upper Summit Suite Buffet. The Revolving Dining Room revolves once every hour. Good thing it is slow moving - dinner and revolving don't always end well...
Here is Hearst Tower, one of the more interesting looking skyscrapers in Manhattan.
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Shops Tower, which controlled the diamond of the C&IM and Wabash Railroads still stands in Springfield, Illinois. The Wabash is now NS' Springfield-Hannibal District which is in the foreground.
Lillie Hitchcock Coit, philanthropist and admirer of the fire fighters at the 1906 earthquake fire, left funds to The City for beautification of San Francisco.
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Those funds were used for the construction of the 210 ft. tall art deco Coit Tower at the top of Telegraph Hill.
A view of the tower bridge from the south bank thames river & the 30 St. Marie Axe in the background
The picture shows tower no. 31 of the Prussian semaphore system located in Entrup near Nieheim in Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany. The Prussian Semaphore System was a telegraphic communications system used between Berlin and the Rhine Province from 1832 to 1849. It could transmit administrative and military messages by optical signal over a distance of nearly 550 kilometres (340 mi). The telegraph line comprised 62 stations each furnished with a signal mast with six cable-operated arms. The stations were equipped with telescopes that operators used to copy coded messages and forward them to the next station. Although electric telegraphy made the system obsolete for military use, simplified semaphores were still used for railway signals. (see Wikipedia)