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Still one of my favourites. Handheld shot with my Olympus OM-1, with standard lens, on Kodachrome (yes, it's a bit old) with available light on the front verandah.
1926 Phone box with post box and stamp machines , one of only 50 built with this combination.
This box was located in Bristol city centre , and the Heritage East Somerset Railway bought it from the GPO for £10. The post box is still in operation at Cranmore Station.
Cranmore Railway Station opened in 1858 , but the building in the background was built in 1991 with recycled materials.
Photo taken at the Rolls Royce Museum Dornbirn, Austria. There are many beautiful Rolls-Royce models displayed.
The Reygersdahl a Dutch East India Company merchant ship sank on October 26th, 1747 on a reef while attempting to remain anchored in heavy seas off the west coast of South Africa. It carried Spanish colonial coins to trade in the Spice Islands of the East Indies. The coins were salvaged in 1979 recovering thousands of coins, most of them of the 8 reales "pillar dollar" variety produced in the Spanish colonial mint in Mexico City.
Impulse purchase because of its shipwreck origin more than 35 years ago, now toned nicely with good colors from being stored (and nearly forgotten) in a box.
An upward perspective from Jackson Blvd of the Sears Tower...ahem...now some people call it the Willis Tower.
This is a picture featuring probably the best woodworking tool I own, a Lie-Nielsen jack plane. I don't think I'm worthy of it, but I'm trying to be. I was shaving some paper thin slices off this walnut board and thought it might make a good shot. The image also features a lignum vitae mallet I turned a long time ago, and the bench I made in (you guessed it) 1994.
Was the Sydney Olympic Games cauldron transformed into a fountain to hide its real purpose in plain sight? The truth is revealed when the water runs dry.
The Gate of Europe towers (Spanish: Puerta de Europa), also known as KIO Towers (Torres KIO), are twin office buildings near the Plaza de Castilla in Madrid, Spain. The towers have a height of 114 m (374 ft) and have 26 floors. They were constructed from 1989 to 1996. The Puerta de Europa is the second tallest twin towers in Spain after the Torres de Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Gate of Europe in 2014
The Gate of Europe towers were designed by the American architects Philip Johnson and John Burgee, built by Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas[1] and commissioned by the Kuwait Investment Office (hence their initial name "Torres KIO" or "KIO Towers"). Leslie E. Robertson Associates, RLLP New York (LERA) provided structural engineering services. Each building is 115 m tall with an inclination of 15°, making them the first inclined skyscrapers in the world. They are located near the ChamartÃn railway station, on the sides of the Plaza de Castilla bus station, north from the Paseo de la Castellana and near the Cuatro Torres Business Area (CTBA).
After the receivership of Grupo Torras, KIO had to sell the buildings, which are now owned by Bankia and Realia.
The west tower has a rooftop helicopter pad outlined in blue; the east tower has a red one.
In popular culture
The towers played a key role in the 1995 movie The Day of the Beast, the climax of which took place on one of the then nearly-completed towers. The towers were also shot in the song sequence "oru koodai sunlight" in the popular Tamil film Sivaji.
They are also seen in an episode of Mickey and the Roadster Racers. The racers must collect a flag from the top of the towers in 'Running of the Roadsters' (episode 5b).