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Scanned from a slide and taken in 1981 at the Isle of Man TT races.
Remembered for the matching registrations and nice condition
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Two fishermen. Cargados Carajos (also known as the Saint Brandon Rocks). Nikon D4 + AF-S Nikkor 24-120mm f/4 G ED VR
Building with two sets of large bay windows on Main Street in Towanda, Pennsylvania. I like the five decorative bricks near the top of the building.
Two very different looking school buildings in Hanen. Centrum Vux in the foreground with Riksäpplet in the background.
Danbo got two more friends, from China. A small celebration was in order!
Project 52: 4/52. I've put what I learned about colour grading to the test.
Softboxes & lens: www.watchdesigner.de
The Pohjola Insurance building is the former headquarters of the Pohjola Insurance Company at Aleksanterinkatu 44 and Mikonkatu 3 in central Helsinki. Primarily designed by Gesellius, Lindgren & Saarinen and constructed in 1899–1901, it is a prominent example of Finnish national romantic architecture. It was acquired in 1972 by Kansallis-Osake-Pankki, now succeeded by Nordea.
The Pohjola Insurance Company (precursor of OP Financial Group) was founded in 1891 and specialised in fire insurance.
They held a competition for the design of their headquarters, which would also house another Fennomane insurance company, Kullervo, with the specification that the building must be of fire-resistant stone.
Based on the submissions, they commissioned Gesellius, Lindgren & Saarinen to design the exteriors and major interior spaces, but Ines and Ernst A. Törnvall were responsible for the plans. It was the first commercial building by Gesellius, Lindgren & Saarinen.
The building is national romantic in style, with façades of rough-hewn soapstone, red granite and serpentine decorated with sculptures of vegetation, squirrels, and figures from Kalevala, and on the street corner a tower with a pinecone-shaped roof.
When it was built, a reviewer dwelt on its "Finnish-naturalistic" style, but in form the exterior may have been influenced by contemporary American buildings: Henry Hobson Richardson's Cheney Building similarly uses a corner tower, and the use of windows resembles that in Louis Sullivan's Auditorium Building.
Another Finnish architect, Bertel Jung, criticised the romantic elements as embodying "primitive, partially crude and untamed force".
Other reviewers praised it for its comparability to buildings in other countries and to their use of ornament.
Lindgren, the member of the firm who appears to have been most attached to national romanticism, greatly influenced the ornamentation of this building.
The main entrance, designed by Hilda Flodin, a pupil of Rodin, is flanked by the names of the two insurance companies, both from Kalevala, and by devils, monsters or trolls; bears, the symbol of the insurance company, top the pilasters and also appear in the interior decoration.
The door itself is deeply recessed under an arch, and the vestibule continues the allusion to medieval architecture, with vaulting and with carved animals topping pillars.
The rest of the interior also used rustic and folklore motifs, with doorways by Erik O. W. Ehrström, iron wheel chandeliers by G. W. Sohlberg, and a circular main stairway with a cast-iron banister with pine-tree motifs; the newel posts and the benches on the landings were carved wood depicting fern leaves and, again, trolls, and the stained glass featured ferns and owls.
The service hall on the first floor was given red pine panelling and a central pillar styled to resemble a tree trunk.
However, it has a steel core;behind the façades the building is brick with structural steel and from the start had Swedish-made lifts as well as an electrical generator.
The structural engineer was Elia Heikel, who was also working at the time on the Lundqvist Building opposite, which is seen as the first modern commercial building in Finland.
The building originally had flats on the upper three floors.
It was acquired in 1972 by Kansallis-Osake-Pankki, a bank which has subsequently been merged to form Nordea, but until 1987 Pohjola Insurance still had some customer service operations in the building. The customer service hall has since then been used as banqueting space. The tobacconist's Havanna-Aitta has been in the ground-floor commercial space for decades.
Best if viewed large. Rainbow trout. Smallest about 12 inches & biggest maybe 14 inches.Caught my limit and in a hurry. For the tree huggers these are all planted fish. I do practice catch and release of native fish.
BREAKING NEWS My 181st picture to be viewed over 1,000 times (October 2014). First uploaded 12 October 2014.
Firestreak equipped two-tone grey Royal Air Force No.5 Squadron English Electric (BAC) Lightning F.6 XS928/AH basks in the sunshine at the RAF Mildenhall 'Air Fete' 25th May 1986.
After retirement she lives on - preserved out on the field at her birthplace - Warton.
Scanned print
Mid-March brings a lot of change in weather and animal behavior here in Wyoming. While on a drive to Grand Teton National Park, I spotted 3 bull moose near the road. One was rather upset, thrashing around and running into the willows, but these 2 gave me a chance to snap a few photos of them in the late afternoon light. Moose are the largest member of the deer family and can run 35 mph, so I know from experience to keep my distance! They're huge mammals, but amazing to watch, especially in the deep snow!
A pair of fishing stores in the community of Port Rexton, Newfoundland. These traditional stores or stages, used to store fishing equipment are still a common site throughout the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, and many are quite old, being kept up through generations. This red ochre type paint is the predominant colour of these buildings, although I`m not sure why.
The Two Drink Minimum is a smugglers ship whose captain is Joseph Brown. Cpt. Brown is a smuggler who takes odd jobs here and there, but never anything too big. His ship is named after a night club he used to own.
Two Jags and not a John Prescott in sight! (British Humour).
RAF Cosford 238 Squadrons’ SEPECAT Jaguar GR.3A ‘Spotty’, registration XX119, formerly a 54 Sqn aircraft (GD) and 6 Sqn (EB) at RAF Coltishall and Jaguar XK-r stand together.
Two of Arriva Southern Counties / Arriva Kent Thameside's recent transfers into Harlow Garage , stand together in Harlow Bus Station .
1019 BF67WGV - Mercedes Benz City 45 - B17F .
3521 LJ03MYG DAF SB120 - Wrightbus Cadet B34F .
Personally speaking , the 16 year old Wrightbus Cadet / DAF is a totally unsuitable vehicle for the interurban trunk route 510 . Which runs between Stansted Airport and Harlow Bus Station .
And the use of a "Breadvan" on a Harlow Town service in the Morning peak period ........well !!
With no local management , and Maidstone , many many miles away in Kent . Harlow Garage seems a law unto itself .
Wednesday 13th-March-2019 .