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... a massive concrete relief on the back wall dominates the foyer.
The work of artist Helmut Federle (2006 - no title - for Johannes Itten und Andy Hug) gives the cavern-like space of the museum mythical depth.
For visitors it is possible to buy some fine gold platelets and to decorate the relief like a Buddha satue.
Image from my initial test roll with the Flyer 6x6 pinhole camera. I'm still adjusting to the way this "lens" renders images, as compared to the panoramic view of the Clipper 6x18. I winged this exposure (I think it was 30 seconds), and was pleased with the outcome.
Aside from a bit of cropping and dust spotting, this shot is essentially "SOOC." Developed in X-tol 1:1.
It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. ― Aristophanes, The Birds
This is just a half of one one side of Portchester Castle , the Roman Castle was built in a square shape overlooking Portsmouth Harbour .
Portchester Castle’s remarkable history begins in the 3rd century AD when the Romans built a vast fort here. In the 5th century this waterside fortress was transformed into a Saxon settlement, and after the Conquest of 1066 it became a Norman castle. For medieval kings it was an important embarkation point for crossing the Channel.
From 1665 Portchester served as a prisoner-of-war camp – a role that reached its height during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars of 1793–1815, when it housed up to 8,000 prisoners, of many nationalities and backgrounds, at any one time.
Portchester’s commanding location within Portsmouth harbour has made it a major factor in the defence of the Solent for centuries.
Portchester is the best-preserved Roman fort in northern Europe – the only one whose entire defensive circuit survives little altered from when it was built.
After the Norman Conquest the Roman walls became the outer defences of a great castle, its main buildings set within one corner of the Roman fort. Surviving medieval buildings include the magnificent Norman keep and an impressive royal palace built in the 1390s for Richard II.
Medieval kings used Portchester to gather their forces before crossing the Channel – most famously, it was from here that in 1415 Henry V launched the invasion of France that culminated in his triumph at Agincourt.
Portchester’s role as a depot for prisoners of war saw it house 2,500 black and mixed-race prisoners from the Caribbean in 1796–7, as well as a group of French prisoners who set up a theatre in the keep in 1810.
Portchester Castle was begun as a Roman fort, one of the series of coastal forts now known as the Forts of the Saxon Shore. These forts were built over the course of the 3rd century, to meet the threat presented by Saxon pirates who were then raiding the south coast of Roman Britain.
Portchester can probably be identified with Portus Adurni, one of a series of forts along the south and east coasts of Britain recorded in the late Roman military manual, the Notitia Dignitatum.
It seems clear that the fort was founded here because of its commanding position at the head of a huge natural harbour. We have no clear evidence for the date of the original fort, but coins recently found on the site date it to after about 268. Given its evident relationship to the harbour, it may well be that the fort was founded by Marcus Aurelius Carausius, the man appointed by the Emperor Diocletian to command the Roman fleet in the Channel in about AD 285.
Carausius soon fell foul of the tortuous politics of the late Roman empire. When Diocletian’s successor Maximian condemned him to death, Carausius rebelled with the support of the forces under his command, and proclaimed himself emperor in Britain and northern Gaul. Maximian’s deputy, Constantius Chlorus, sent an army against him in AD 293, and in the same year Carausius was assassinated by his deputy, Allectus. Constantius reconquered Britannia for the empire.
The Roman fort here seems to have been fairly constantly occupied up to the end of Roman Britain in the early 5th century. The burial of 27 infants inside the fort suggests that there were substantial numbers of civilians here as well as a military presence. There were timber houses and workshops surrounded by animal pens, cesspits and rubbish heaps within the fort’s walls.
Info from English Heritage's own web page of the Castle which they manage and maintain as well as opening to the public .
Graffiti, or Wall Art, Nottingham. I saw it when I was walking away from the train station. It was a few years ago now, but I've kept the photograph on my phone for all that time.
This wall blows my mind every time. If you're a senior and coming my way, you will be going here...at lease for a few shots! :)
Explore: April 7, 2009
Pink Floyd's "The Wall" made with only 3 different elements.(1x2 plates white & black, 1x1 plate trans red) I feel that I didn't really capture it. It looks a bit obscene if you ask me. Back to building landmarks!
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I am going to hang up my psychologist shingle pretty soon.
Dr. Zoom.
Sony AF 30mm f2.8 Macro lens on Sony SLT.
Defensive wall. There are a number of walls still remaining in Kinghorn, Fife, with broken glass built into the top. These were part of a boundary loop-holed wall, protecting the Kinghorn and Pettycur defensive batteries during WWI.
The glass appears to be bottles from the (long gone) Robert Douglas aerated water company in Kirkcaldy, Fife.