Journey Through Hallowed Ground: Gettysburg to Charlottesville
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Photo taken June 17, 1953 shows demonstrating East German workers during their march through the Brandenburg Gate from East to West Berlin. Co-sponsored by the National Security Archive in Washington an international symposium in Potsdam Wednesday, November 13, 1996, gave a new look at the 1953 East German uprising declaring that newly declassified documents show that US President Eisenhower approved a proposal to 'encourage' assassinations of Communist leaders to keep the Soviet Union off balance. (APPhoto/fls)
"Київ заволодів частиною мого серця. Через рік Київ, як і раніше, стоїть. І Україна стоїть. І демократія". Президент США Дж. Байден.
Edensor (pronounced ‘Enzer’) is a small but pretty village situated within the grounds of the Chatsworth House estate in the Peak District National Park.
The original village was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, at which time it was located along the River Derwent, where the buildings were visible from Chatsworth House. This view displeased the then Duke of Devonshire, William Cavendish, however, and between 1838 and 1842 the entire village was dismantled. Many of the residents were moved to the nearby Chatsworth villages of Beeley and Pilsley, and the planning and building of a new village, over the brow of a hill and out of sight of Chatsworth House, was managed by the famed architect Sir Joseph Paxton.
Only one of the houses, Park Cottage, was allowed to remain in its original position, reputedly because its elderly tenant at the time did not want to move and the Duke took pity on him.
The village is made up of a charming, slightly eccentric mixture of different house styles, from Tudor to Norman, with Swiss-style cottages and Italian-style villas. Rumour has it that the architect who worked with Paxton to produce the designs for the houses, John Robertson, presented the Duke with a selection of house styles to choose from at a time when he was particularly busy, and the Duke – rather distractedly – chose ‘one of each’.
The original church of St Peter’s dated back to the 12th Century. However, in the mid-19th Century it was rebuilt and expanded for the 7th Duke of Devonshire, and its beautiful spire now dominates the skyline. The churchyard contains a number of graves of the Chatsworth’s Cavendish family, including a memorial to Kathleen Kennedy, sister of the former US president John F Kennedy, who was the wife of William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington. The churchyard also contains the grave of Sir Joseph Paxton, the famous architect of the Crystal Palace in London.
The building with the lit-up top is the Woolworth Tower is located downtown in Manhattan across from City Hall Park on Broadway between Park Place and Barclay Street. Five-and-dime millionaire Frank W. Woolworth commissioned this building named after himself in 1910 a year following the MetLife Tower open its doors as the tallest building in the world. Woolworth wanted his namesake to have that honor, being the tallest building in the world. He worked closely with his architect MIT educated Cass Gilbert to achieve his goal expanding the cost from the originally estimated $5 million to $13.5 million dollars that he financed totally with cash, no loans or help from developers. It was his baby basically his financial input giving him an unusual degree of control over design and construction. When it opened in April 1913, sitting US president Woodrow Wilson pressed a button in the White House that lit up the interior floors and the innovative exterior floodlights, the building was given the moniker “Cathedral of Commerce” by Reverend C. Parkes Cadman which has endured until today. The Woolworth Tower is 792 feet tall, 60 stories tall easily the tallest building in the world at its opening and the second tallest structure after the Eiffel Tower. Cass Gilbert’s granddaughter was giving small groups tours pre COVID 19 pandemic. Next time I’m back east I need to check if she has resumed, would love to tour this classic Art Deco tower which got a new lighting scheme and now is literally getting buried by new taller skyscrapers that surround it. - [ ] #developportdev @gothamtomato @developphotonewsletter @omsystem.cameras #excellent_america #omsystem @bheventspace @bhphoto @adorama @tamracphoto @tiffencompany #usaprimeshot #tamractales @kehcamera #omd #microfourthirds #micro43 @nycurbanism @nycprimeshot @nybucketlist
I didn't know what this building was but a "friend" of mine contacted the historical society and received this information: "This was a church that is preserved by the State of VT, as it was on the site where Chester A Arthur (US President) preached to congregants. This one was built 1840, replacing where William Arthur Preached. It is occasionally used for weddings etc still."
It is up a hill with no visible path or road in. I assumed there was a road into it from the back, but looking at the map after I got home, there didn't appear to be any road in from anywhere. It is very well kept and nicely situated on this hill, but there is not much of anything near it (just a couple of farms).
The shot was taken at 428 Lafayette St near Astor Place in Manhattan.Back in the 1830s,there were a row of nine houses built for some of New York's elite called Lagrange Terrace (named after Revolutionary War hero Marquis du Lafayette's country estate in France) or otherwise known as "Colonnade Row".Only four homes exist today.The land on which the houses were built was owned by John Jacob Astor 2 (not to be confused with John Jacob Astor 4 who died in the sinking of the Titanic) who himself moved into one of the nine famous addresses.Other notables who lived here when it was built were Washington Irving,Cornelius Vanderbilt,and Warren Delano,grandfather of former US president Franklin Delano Roosevelt.Each 27 foot- wide residence had 26 rooms.The façades for each were made entirely of Westchester marble.Tall French doors opened from each home onto the balcony where the columns were connected to wrought iron railings (as you can see).There were low marble porches that extended into the sidewalks.The marble for the work were found at Sing Sing (a maximum security prison in upstate New York ) and were cut for construction by the prisoners there.See the link for how it looked back then daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2010/04/lagrange-terrace-c...
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Last night I experienced this breathtaking sunset from the top of Crag Fell in the Lake District, overlooking Ennerdale Water. This lake is the most westerly of all in the National Park and also one of the wildest due to it's remote location and lack of development. After a rushed climb up from Crag Farm, I made it to the summit just in time for this wonderful display of light across the western end of the lake, looking across towards Murton Fell, Blake Fell and Gavel Fell. This side of the hill definitely lives up to it's name, with precipitous crags dropping steeply down to the shore below. I had to take a few shots and later stitch them together in order to include the whole end of the lake as it is such a wide sweeping vista. It definitely felt airy stood on this edge as the brisk breeze was blowing in that direction, but it managed to cool me down after the quick climb up. It was such a fresh and clear evening, with Criffel in Scotland visible in the distance across the Solway Firth. An interesting fact that I stumbled upon online is that former US President Bill Clinton proposed to his wife Hillary on the shore of Ennerdale Water back in 1973.
From Birminghamweare:-
"A pub at Old Turn Junction of the Birmingham Canal Navigations, The Malt House was built out of the shell of a nail warehouse dating to 1803 called the Kingston Building. During the G8 in 1998, US President Bill Clinton famously drank here."
I loved the look of threatening sky behind the sunny fascia of the building.
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Diseñado por el arquitecto Bruce Price, el castillo fue uno de una serie de hoteles estilo “château” construidos por la compañía Canadian Pacific Railway a finales del siglo XIX y comienzos del siglo XX.
Abierto desde 1893.
Los Aliados de la Segunda Guerra Mundial se reunieron durante la Primera y Segunda Conferencia de Quebec (en 1943 y 1944 respectivamente). Durante estas conferencias, funcionarios como el presidente estadounidense Franklin Delano Roosevelt, el primer ministro británico Winston Churchill y el primer ministro canadiense William Lyon Mackenzie King, discutieron la estrategia para la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
En 1953, este hotel fue utilizado como lugar de rodaje de la escena final de la película "I Confess" de Alfred Hitchcock, con Montgomery Clift y Anne Baxter.
Designed by architect Bruce Price, the castle was one of a series of château-style hotels built by the Canadian Pacific Railway in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Open since 1893.
The Allies of World War II met here during the First and Second Quebec Conferences (in 1943 and 1944 respectively). During these conferences, officials such as US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King discussed strategy for World War II.
In 1953, this hotel was used as a filming location for the final scene of Alfred Hitchcock's film "I Confess," starring Montgomery Clift and Anne Baxter.
This photo was taken on the sunny side (north side) of the mountain on the way to the guest house on the south side of the Snaefellsnes peninsula near the Búðakirkja. When we got there a local fisherman was just slaughtering two salmon. I asked if there was a lot of salmon and trout in the rivers. He answered in the affirmative. But there are almost no places left to fish, he said. It turned out that British billionaire Ratcliffe had bought a lot of land and its rivers there (as in northern Iceland). And ever since then, only Ratcliffe and his friends were allowed to fish there. It has been off limits even to the locals since then, he said angrily, cutting off the head of a fish with a savage movement. I don't know what he had in mind…. They couldn't even buy a permit, he added.
I asked why that land was being sold if they were no longer allowed on it. The sellers are heirs of former residents; they live in the city and no longer have any interest or feeling for a piece of land far from the city. Understandable, he said. But the state should oblige foreign buyers to make the purchased areas accessible to others. The previous US president played the same tricks in Scotland. He makes golf courses out of it. And here too, the surrounding areas with their small roads are off limits.
I find it unfortunate and incomprehensible that most of the extremely rich always think and act this way. They could also do beautiful things for everyone there. But no: go away, it's all mine.
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From the comments below, I was reminded that not everyone will recognize the tough guy on the left, US President and "Rough Rider" Teddy Roosevelt. He's famous for saying "Talk softly, and carry a big stick", and for being the namesake of the teddy bear.
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Trump uses expletive in warning to Iran and Israel:
"They have been fighting so long and so hard they don't know what the F**K they are doing"
US President Donald Trump swore as he expressed his frustration at the conduct of Iran and Israel over a ceasefire between the two nations.
Speaking to reporters, Mr Trump said he was "not happy" with either side in the conflict.
June 24th 2025.
Image taken at the Royal Cornwall show, 2025.
AF1 banking south after a 13R departure. Obama onboard leaving NY after his last attendance to the UN General Assembly as the US President.
On this day I'm thinking about a roadtrip we took heading south and stopping in Plains, Georgia, a small countryside town and home to Jimmy Carter. This former president passed away December 29, 2024 at the age of 100 - he was known and honored for his unwavering commitment to peace, human rights and democracy. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
Today, January 20, 2025 is also Martin Luther King Day in the US - observed on the third Monday of January to honor his legacy and life of service. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
This photo was taken during my last visit to the harbour in Havana.
Many years ago there was never cruise ships in the harbour due to the American embargo on the island country! Now things have changed and the ships are allowed, however I can see future problems if the US president Trump is allowed to keep his reign of stupidity of denying countries of open business and trade with his so called " Tariffs "!
This was taken from across the harbour.
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Earlier this year we went to the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, for the graduation ceremony of our son. He moved on to Stanford University for his PhD. After the ceremony we went to the main building, which is the historical Hotel Del Monte. Rutherford B. Hayes and other US Presidents stayed at this resort hotel before it was converted into a university.
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9th December 2000., Dublin Airport, Ireland
Arriving at Dublin in connection with the visit of US President Bill Clinton
The Bay Bridge, or officially the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, is a set of bridges connecting San Francisco and Oakland with two spans meeting at Yerba Buena Island in the middle. The 10-lane bridge was completed on November 12, 1936 and had a grand opening that was even attended by former US President Herbert Hoover. The western span is dual levels and part of the original design while the eastern span was rebuilt after a section collapsed during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. The new eastern span earned the Guinness World Record for the widest bridge in the world at 258.33 ft (78.74 m) wide and is built to withstand the largest earthquake expected in San Francisco over a 1500-year period.
This early morning shot was taken on the San Francisco side close to the San Francisco Ferry Building with an exposure of about 2 minutes using Sony’s downloadable ($4.99 USD) in-camera Smooth Reflections application that allows for stacking of multiple pictures in-camera to produce a long exposure raw file. I think the application is wonderful as it works with any lens regardless of filter size, and with control over the number of stacked shots can simulate a wide range of ND stops. For longer exposures though it’s still nice to have a ND filter to reduce the number of exposures needed for stacking. I’ve found the sweet spot to be one 6-stop ND filter that allows me to comfortably cover from 1 to 11 stops without ever needing more than 32 shots. And I can still get up to 14 stops if I wanted to stack 256 shots. This greatly reduces the number of ND filters I need to carry and has allowed me to avoid carrying a big 100mm square ND filter kit as I know I have at least 8 stops with any lens, even 15mm or wider that usually require yet more specialized adapters. Sorry for the tangent, but this application has been a godsend for me when trying to travel light and small. It is also much cheaper and less likely to break than a ND filter kit with different glass filters, holder, and varying adapter rings. One caveat is if you wish to use physical graduated ND filters or polarizers you’ll still probably need a filter kit. I have moved to doing graduated ND work in post (Sony does make an app for that although I haven’t tried it) and don’t really have a strong preference for polarizers so your circumstances may be different.
Back to the picture, I spent about 1.5 hours at this location, but this special hue of light only lasted about 5 minutes. I was expecting the city to be quiet at around 6:00am, but there were a surprising number of joggers and also a surprising number of homeless in this area. It’s certainly not as beautiful or well-known as the Golden Gate Bridge, but the Bay Bridge undoubtedly has its own charm.
AF1 banking south after a 13R departure. Obama onboard leaving NY after his last attendance to the UN General Assembly as the US President.
This is the tomb of US president James Monroe. the fifth president of the US, serving from 1817-1825. His tomb is in the Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond Virginia, which is where Anita and I spent the day yesterday. (not in the cemetery... in Richmond!) What a different sort of day from our more usual back road ramblings! :) I thought this tomb was so beautiful and lacy looking especially with the afternoon sun slanting through it. I bought the lens that I was using that same morning and proceeded to carry it around all day. It's performance was very impressive to me! :)
Walking past late at night I found Scotty was asleep and not beaming anyone up. Then I remembered he died back in 2005, and when I checked he was Canadian not Scottish and his parents came from Ireland. Did this mean all those Starship adventures were just made up? In the Newspaper this week was an article that a US president was going to win the greatest Noble Peace prize ever because he was going to defuse the war he was trying to provoke. Makes me wonder about reality! I just went to sleep in my airBNB and wondered if I should have been hawking this as about blackholes. Sorry, that's a too soon as my kids tell me.
Departure of Russia First Secretary Mikhaïl Gorbatchov after the summit with US President Ronald Reagan.
82-8000 taxis in after arriving to Edinburgh with US President Joe Biden on board for his participation at COP 26 in Glasgow
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A photo of the Kieran Timberlake designed American Embassy. Luckily this time around I wasn't detained by policemen with machine guns........ Click here if you want to learn more about my previous visit...... www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/50160287691
This was taken during a London Flickr Group photowalk around the Nine Elms / Battersea area last month. You can see more photos from the day in the discussion thread :
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Click here for more London Architecture : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157635041185106
From Wikipedia : "On 23 February 2010, the U.S. government announced that a team led by the firm of Kieran Timberlake had won the competition to design the new embassy building and surrounding green spaces. The winning design resembles a crystalline cube, with a semi-circular pond on one side (called a "moat" by The Times) and surrounded by extensive public green spaces and the Embassy Gardens housing development.
Ground was broken on 13 November 2013, and the building opened to the public on 13 December 2017. US President Donald Trump had been expected to visit in February 2018 to undertake the official opening of the new embassy, but in January 2018 announced he would not make the trip. Trump publicly criticized the cost of the new embassy and its location, as well as the apparent price received for the sale of the lease of the building in Grosvenor Square, blaming the administration of his predecessor, Barack Obama, for making what he referred to as a "bad deal". However, the decision to move the embassy was made before the Obama administration."
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After offloading US President Donald Trump, "Air Force One" was taxied over to Apron 10 for parking away from everyone else.
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Arrival of former US President Barrack Obama for the 27th APEC Summit
Yellowstone National Park
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Another view of the Madison River in Yellowstone.
The Madison River is a headwater tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 183 miles (295 km) long, in Wyoming and Montana. Its confluence with the Jefferson and Gallatin rivers near Three Forks, Montana forms the Missouri River.
The Madison rises in Teton County in northwestern Wyoming at the confluence of the Firehole and Gibbon rivers, a location known as Madison Junction in Yellowstone National Park. It flows west then north through the mountains of southwestern Montana to join the Jefferson and Gallatin rivers at Three Forks.
The river was named in July 1805 by Meriwether Lewis at Three Forks. The central fork of the three, it was named for U.S. Secretary of State James Madison, who would succeed Thomas Jefferson as President in 1809. The western fork, the largest, was named for President Jefferson and the east fork for Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin.
The seagulls in my neighbourhood are gathering on rooftop facing south. We can understand why. Because the presidential inauguration was happening south of our border in the US.
I am not sure if they are just watching only or actually protesting like the rest of the world!
Happy weekend!
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“A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?”
Ronald Reagan quotes (American 40th US President (1981- 89), 1911-2004)
You should look at this one Ronny :)
"Whistling in the dark" is an idiom that means to try to appear confident or brave in a difficult situation. It can also mean to pretend that a situation is not as bad as it seems.
After this weeks "Trump Zelensky" "dust up" I think we should be whistling all the time.
According to the BBC news; "European leaders are rallying around Ukraine after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy clashed with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
During the Friday meeting, Trump bluntly accused Zelenskyy of "gambling with World War Three", while the Ukrainian president said there should be "no compromises" with Russia".
(There also seems to be some confusion on how his name is spelled Zelensky or Zelenskyy. in late May, when the presidential administration confounded everyone by adopting the previously unfancied “Zelenskyy” as the official English-language spelling of the new president’s name.).
Sidmouth, Devon, UK.
ENG.: So beautifully empty, nice and frosty here at -8 °C in Berlin's Mitte district. On Thursday I was with the subway line U5 on the way to look at the new stations again and to capture the Christmas impressions. So you can also enjoy the wonderful view.
A point of interest par excellence, the Brandenburger Gate in the Berlin Mitte district. The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin is an early-classicistic triumphal gate, which stands on the west flank of square Pariser Platz. It was built as a completion of the central boulevard of Dorotheenstadt, the street Unter den Linden, in the years 1789 to 1793. „Tear down this wall!" is a line from a speech made by US President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on June 12, 1987.
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GER.: So schön leer und frostig hier bei -8 °C in Berlin Mitte. Nur ich, meine Kamera und die Ruhe. Am Donnerstag war ich mit der U-Bahn Linie U5 unterwegs, um mir die neuen Bahnhöfe nochmals anzuschauen und die Weihnachtlichen Impressionen einzufangen. So könnt auch Ihr den wunderbaren Ausblick genießen.
Die Sehenswürdigkeit schlechthin, dass Brandenburger Tor im Berliner Bezirk Mitte. Das Brandenburger Tor in Berlin ist ein frühklassizistisches Triumphtor, das an der Westflanke des quadratischen Pariser Platzes steht. Es wurde als Abschluss der zentralen Prachtstraße der Dorotheenstadt, der Straße Unter den Linden, in den Jahren von 1789 bis 1793 erbaut. „Reißen Sie diese Mauer nieder!“ ist eine Zeile aus einer Rede von US-Präsident Ronald Reagan in West-Berlin am 12. Juni 1987.
Brazilian army snipers and their spotters are presented to the press as part of the special army task force in charge of the security of US President Barack Obama, at an army barracks in Brasilia, on March 18, 2011. President Obama will arrive in Brasilia on Saturday for a two-day visit to Brazil.
US President Barack Obama speaks about immigration reform during a meeting with young immigrants, known as DREAMers, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, February 4, 2015. The group has received Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which provides relief from deportation for immigrants who arrived in the US illegally before they were 16 years old. AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
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ENG.: A point of interest par excellence, the Brandenburger Gate in the Berlin Mitte district. The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin is an early-classicistic triumphal gate, which stands on the west flank of square Pariser Platz. It was built as a completion of the central boulevard of Dorotheenstadt, the street Unter den Linden, in the years 1789 1793.
„Tear down this wall!" is a line from a speech made by US President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on June 12, 1987.
GER.: Die Sehenswürdigkeit schlechthin, dass Brandenburger Tor im Berliner Bezirk Mitte. Das Brandenburger Tor in Berlin ist ein frühklassizistisches Triumphtor, das an der Westflanke des quadratischen Pariser Platzes steht. Es wurde als Abschluss der zentralen Prachtstraße der Dorotheenstadt, der Straße Unter den Linden, in den Jahren von 1789 1793 erbaut.
„Reißen Sie diese Mauer nieder!“ ist eine Zeile aus einer Rede von US-Präsident Ronald Reagan in West-Berlin am 12. Juni 1987.
Another of those many places I'd visited during the week prior where the weather had either hidden the peaks or made them at times partially hidden in clouds. So after spending some time exploring Wind Cave National Park, I headed up to Mount Rushmore and the national memorial to see what better weather might hold. Having read about the history of this location (well, all the Black Hills for that matter), I won't deny there was a hesitation in seeing it, but I had read about changes made especially from a recent superintendent. So as I walked up the Avenue of Flags camera and tripod in hand, I could very much say it is a sight to take in! Here I pulled back on the focal length to capture not just the peaks themselves but also the nearby mountainside. The blue skies and clouds above would be that color contrast that seemed to best compliment the setting for the final image.
Bangor Bay at the mouth of Belfast Lough.
Centre picture is the Swedish Barque training ship Gunilla. www.instagram.com/instagunilla/?fbclid=IwAR1e_60jyHpkQ4nB...
Gunilla was built as a motorsailor in the 30’s and used as a cargo vessel until 1997 when she was rebuilt into a 3-masted barque. She has since been active as a sailing college, where social studies students in the age from 16-18 years spend 60 days each year as a part of their education, learning to sail, cooperate and becoming world situation. She completes a lap around the Northern Atlantic each year, educating students every year.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and former US President, who inspected a huge gathering of ships (landing ship tanks, gunboats, destroyers and 30,000 soldiers) here in Bangor Bay as they readied to storm the shores of Normandy during Operation Overlord (18-19th May 1944) on the run-up to D-Day (6 June 1944).
A phone snap.