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In mid May, we drove thirteen hours from Georgia up the Shenandoah Valley and across the Pennsylvania Turnpike to Wayne, PA, arriving at the gates of this great American Garden just before 6:00 PM to take advantage of the 8:00 Friday closing time.
(Here is the set of shots from the May visit: www.flickr.com/photos/ugardener/sets/72157629915442950/ )
In Mid-June, we returned on a Friday afternoon exactly four weeks later. These shots were taken quickly over the two hours just before the garden closed that afternoon. If you have time, you can run the SLIDESHOW of the new set in FullScreen Mode to follow us around the garden:
www.flickr.com/photos/ugardener/sets/72157630295266784/
Here is a link to the garden's beautiful website, and a quote from it about its history:
"The Chanticleer estate dates from the early 20th-century, when land along the Main Line of the Pennsylvania Railroad was developed for summer homes to escape the heat of Philadelphia. Adolph Rosengarten, Sr., and his wife Christine chose the Wayne-St. Davids area to build their country retreat. The family's pharmaceutical firm would become part of Merck & Company in the 1920s.
The Rosengartens hired architect and former classmate Charles L. Borie to design the house, which was completed in 1913. Landscape architect Thomas Sears designed the terraces as extensions of the house. A 1924 addition converted the summer home into a year-round residence and the family moved here permanently.
Mr. Rosengarten's humor is evident in naming his home after the estate "Chanticlere" in Thackeray's 1855 novel The Newcomes. The fictional Chanticlere was "mortgaged up to the very castle windows" but "still the show of the county." Playing on the word, which is synonymous with "rooster," the Rosengartens used rooster motifs throughout the estate.
Adolph and Christine gave their two children homes as wedding presents. They purchased a neighboring property for son Adolph, Jr. and his bride Janet Newlin in 1933. It is now the site of the Ruin. Daughter Emily's house, located at today's visitor entrance, was built for her in 1935. It is presently used for offices and classrooms.
Adolph, Jr., bought his sister's portion of the estate following her death in the 1980s. He didn't move into the main house, but used it for entertaining and kept it as it was when the family lived there. The house is open for tours by reservation. Adolph, Jr., left the entire property for the enjoyment and education of the public following his death in 1990. A seven-member Board of Directors, five of whom are Rosengarten relatives, oversees The Chanticleer Foundation. The garden opened to the public in 1993. There are 17 full-time staff, of whom two manage facilities and 12 are gardeners and groundskeepers."
Here is an EXTENSIVE Plant List that shows the kind of horticultural craftsmanship and attention to detail that makes this garden and the staff who run it so special:
www.chanticleergarden.org/pdffiles/Chanticleer.pdf
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A close up of a competitor in Falmouth Classics. This boat is immaculate and obviously is lovingly cared for by its "family". Falmouth Classics at the beginning of Falmouth Week is the chance for owners of these precious vessels to deservedly show off their pride and joy.
The Middle and Upper Schools celebrated Spirit Week 2014 with special themed dress-up days: America Monday, Tacky Tourist Tuesday, Westminster Wednesday, Dress-Alike Thursday and Flashback Friday.
This week Athena has figured out how to crawl like a real baby instead of doing the army crawl.
24 August 2014
I was looking for a photo for this week's EPZ Challenge (X,Y or Z). The guy on the left had just asked me about a statue (luckily Lux school kids speak good English!) and I said I would take a photo of his mates for my project and he photo-bombed me brilliantly!
hard theme this week,
but here's my take on it! :)
i've been going through a weird shoe phase
the past few weeks (hence all the shoe pictures),
so that's what inspired this one.
Although I actually made this photo during week 1, I am including it for my submission for week two because I thought it was a good example of an interesting photo made with a long shutter speed. In this case, the shutter speed was 15 seconds. I was drawn to the way the light bright shone on the girl’s face and captured her facial expressions even as her positioning changed.
The artist whose work struck me this week was Michael Wesely’s collection of flowers, Stileben. In this collection, the flowers are displayed in a vase on a clean, monochrome surface with a plain wall in the background. The extended length of the exposure (i.e., several days) allowed the artist to capture the lifecycle of the flowers, as they can be observed in both their freshly-cut and wilted stages. I will admit that prior to this class, when I thought of “long exposures,” I thought of photos made over the course of multiple seconds or even minutes – I never considered you could make a photo over several days, weeks or years! The Stileban collection stood out to me because it demonstrated how even a “still” image could capture time or, in this case, the lifecycle of a plant.
This week's theme was "light".
I was able to get out and take a photo. <3 Brian and I were taking back a movie and I asked him to pull over on the side of the road so I could snap a photo of the headlights and streetlights. It was so cold and windy; I think that the cold front has finally reached us.
This photo made me think of a song by The Postal Service called "Sleeping In". I haven't listened to them since I was in high school; it brought back so many memories. I especially recalled sitting in the cold underneath the bridge by the river with close friends listening to traffic pass over us.
It amazes me what can trigger your memories.
So, this isn't anything fancy or extremely creative...it was cold and I couldn't stand the thought of asking Brian to stand out in the cold with me longer than I already had. <3
For week 4, I took a headshot of my brother! I used my 135mm FD mount lens, and it proved to be wonderful once again. My brother was a good sport for putting up with me!
The ramp and stage for the Telenor Bridal Couture week is again set in Lahore, the main vision of this 3 day bridal dresses event is to introduce bridal wear trends, it gives the powerful platform to Pakistani fashion designers to show their skills, it was scheduled for 3 days, 11th, 12th and...
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Graduation Ceremonies for Trooper Youth Week Class #112 in Sea Girt, N.J. on Friday, July 23, 2021. (New Jersey State Police / Tim Larsen)
Visited the excellent Horniman Museum to see their aquarium this week. The most photogenic subject was this Common Toad in the UK section.
Week 32/52 ~EP Project 52 ~ "Proverbs"
Wow......so here I am......Sunday morning and I have my photo for this week. What???? Tell me it isn't so!!! LOL
Yesterday afternoon(yes I know...this image was taken Saturday in the late afternoon...still counts I hope) a storm came by here and with it lots of lightning. Of course I ran and got my camera, set it up and waited. I love watching lightning, it just amazes me and to capture it is always a challenge. This was actually the ONLY one I was able to catch. The storm was stronger to the west of us which my view is covered by a bunch of trees and by the time that I moved to the front of the house they were few and far between. But, I got me ONE!! Yay!!!
Hope everyone has a wonderful week!!
Hugs to all
Irela
xoxoxo
Canon 50D: Lens Tamron 24-70; ISO320; f4; 28mm; 1/80
On tripod; shutter release cable; camera set on rapid fire.
Processed in LR; Lettering in PSE
Creative Industries Week (CIW) was established in 2015 as a part of BC Creates, an industry-led campaign to celebrate and raise awareness of British Columbia's creative industries.
Shooting a 3 week old baby boy for a newborn photoshoot - he was gorgous, but teeny tiny! Still only 6lbs!
Strobist: 580exII in a Cheetah Qbox 16 gridded and held almost directly over the baby. Shot on a dining room table!
Shot on a 7D with a 28-75mm Tamron f/2.8
'maybe if i put my toy here and look cute you'll stop watching tv and play with me'.. damn that cute face ;)
For 15 Week Summer Postcard Challenge
Week 14 - Change
In spite of the enduring sunshine and lovely warmth, it's now autumn with all its attendant changes taking place in nature.
One of the most prominent indicators in the woods is the Arum Maculatum - otherwise known in its autumnal berry state as Cuckoo Pint, or Lords and Ladies and probably a host of other local names depending where you live.
Although the berries are very toxic, I'm told the root is rather delicious when cooked!
hi guys :)
i'm so sorry that i didn't upload for so long. i think i never had a 52-weeks pictures right after the other.. hm. i don't like that at all :/ but i really had no time to take pictures this week.
on monday i was too tired to take pictures because i didn't sleep a lot at the weekend.
yesterday i had to look after a little girl right after school and today i should actually learn english because tomorrow we'll write a test and i'm not prepared at all. so, big sorry that i'm in a hurry.
i don't like this a lot but it took me about 20 minutes to take it and building this white wall took me half of it. haha
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This is the second week of photos. Very small difference. We had an ultrasound earlier this week and the baby was very active and moving around while we watched.
this is exactly one week after I began. i'm actually not done yet, if you notice, i still have the entire crown of my head to do. my arms are killing me! thats what happpens when you go about it on your own, eh? i've currently got twenty-two.. i wonder how many i'll have once my head is finished? oO how fun to imagine :) OH- if you notice, i left the ends un-dreaded, so my curls peek out-- for my shot of uniqueness eh? ;)