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Window from Turku Castle, Finland.
Other window photos here: www.flickr.com/search/?w=26272352%40N06&q=window+buil...
it's all about the view...literally~ I have been practicing with shooting INTO window light. I love to use window light as often as possible, but tend to shy away from placing my subject directly in front of a window. Here, my daughter was using window light to light up her objects of play and I was using it to light her up! ;)
The medieval stone church in Lammi was built in the 15th century and was dedicated to Saina Catherine of Alexandria. The whole inside of the church was destroyed in a fire in 1918 and after that was totally renovated in 1920
Kempe's east window at Tong attempts to recreate the lost medieval glass, using as reference the surviving fragments of four of the main figures (now relocated in the west window) and incorporating a few medieval fragments in the tracery lights.
St Bartholomew's church at Tong is not just one of Shropshire's finest parish churches, it is one of the best in the country. So much antiquity in carved stone and woodwork is contained within it's walls it is a veritable treasure house of medieval art. The most outstanding features are the superb collection of tombs with effigies to members of the Vernon family.
The church building itself would normally be ample reward, and impressive 15th century edifice crowned by battlements, pinnacles and an unusual octagonal central tower with a short spire. It's grand appearance is explained by it's former collegiate status, and ruins of the former college buildings can still be seen in the field immediately to the west.
Within it is somewhat cluttered with history, with many of it's original furnishings surviving, from the nave pews to the superb chancel stalls with a set of misericords and various other interesting carvings. The aisle screens survive too, and are adorned with some particularly fine foliage carving and traces of their original colouring. The medieval glass has mostly disappeared except for some significant fragmentary figures reset in the west window, these were used as reference by Kempe's studio when they created a new stained glass for the east window in the 1880s, incorporating reconstructions of the damaged original figures.
The monuments are too numerous to list here, the main group is concentrated at the east end of the nave and crossing with six major tombs with effigies (except one with brasses instead) all crowded together with little space between, mostly of the 15th and early 16th centuries (only one of the major tombs is post Reformation).
The finest feature of all is the beautiful fan-vaulted Vernon chantry chapel, built in 1515 on the south side, situated behind it's builder, Harry Vernon's tomb, which like the chapel ceiling retains many traces if it's medieval paintwork. The most unusual of Tong's medieval monuments is found on the west wall of this intimate space, the upper half of a figure emerging from a canopied niche, believed to be the portrait of Arthur Vernon who died in 1517.
The church is justly celebrated and much visited, and happily is normally open for visitors.
Sunny window somewhat framed by shadows on a building at Ladew Topiary Gardens in Monkton, Maryland.
If you use the Outline It > Sleep On It > Chunk It Out > Leave It > Polish It > Publish It for Creating Compelling Content, a Kanban Wall can be a great way to track content and spot opportunities.
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While looking at minimalistic wallpapers, I found this wallpaper and an idea sparked in my head. Wouldn't it be cool to have desktop information "reflected" in the mirrors of the wallpaper? I thought so, especially since I hadn't previously seen something like this done.
What's In this Desktop:
[Wallpaper:]
- Link. What you see in the screen shot is a slightly modified version I did to accommodate for the task bar.
[Icons:]
[Taskbar:]
The invisible taskbar can be found here.
[Rainmeter:]
- 10-Foot HUD
- Simple Sentence for the weather temps and conditions.
- Lines for the RAM and CPU measures
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Full-Size screen shot of the desktop.
I have this entire suite bundled in a Rainstaller file for easy installation! (Scaled to 1440x900) AND now since the amount of traffic I got to download this file, I have moved a fixed installer to a file hosting site:
If the Rainstaller doesn't work for you:
Then download the zip archive of the skins at the link below. Just copy the skins into the Rainmeter directory in My Documents and restart Rainmeter.
Have any comments, tips, or tweaks you think it could use? Let me know!
My house had awesome windows with tons of natural light. A 1950's brick ranch with basement. Frog loved watching squirrels here.
The east window iin the church of St. Mary the Virgin, Therfield, Hertfordshire. The window is by John Lawson (see the signature) and dated 1961. The main image depicts Jesus' resurrection and the stunned soldiers who had been guarding the tomb.
I was playing with the light settings to try to get this effect of the shutters outlining the shot. View the FlickrSkin: Landscapes and Seasons: by Ace Starry
Window of the old Milford, NJ train station. [it is now a bakery and coffee shop]
“An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a succession of stillnesses. Consider this, said the darkness: any motion at any speed is a succession of stillnesses; any section through an action will show just such a plane of stillness as this dark window in which your seeking face is mirrored. And in each plane of stillness is the moment of clarity that makes you responsible for what you do.”
― Russell Hoban, The Medusa Frequency
When this church suffered bomb damage in 1941, all but one of the stained glass windows were destroyed, this window survived.
Named the Nunc Dimittis window (one of the canticles said or sung at Evening Prayer according to the Book of Common Prayer),
it shows the story of Simeon holding Jesus in the temple after being told that he would not die until he had seen the Lord's messiah. On the right an elderly prophet, Anna who had also been waiting night and day in the temple to see Jesus. On the left are Mary and Joseph who had come to the temple with an offering of two doves to present the baby to God according to Jewish custom.
The window was installed in 1921 in memory of Mr and Mrs J Cross. There were originally two adjacent windows depicting the Magnificat and the Te Deum which did not survive the bomb blast.
East window of the chancel portraying Christ at Emmaus, the work of Christopher Charles Powell of Highgate, London 1938. In the process of looking for a signature from a stepladder I was able to see the architectural panels at the bottom, normally hidden from view by the reredos.
A grand 14th century building with proud west tower and aisled nave.The earliest part is the south door which is a good late Norman piece. It leads to a fairly dark interior, very much scraped. The chancel is more restored, having been largely rebuilt in 1858.
The best features here are the monuments, with good early effigies of Thomas & Alice de Wolvey c1300 at the west end of the north aisle (annoyingly a funeral bier has been stashed next to it which blocks closer inspection). At the opposite end of the north aisle is another tomb with effigies, but badly mutilated ones of early 17th century date (Thomas Ashley and wife, 1603), alas in a tight and heavily cluttered corner and very difficult to see. The damage to these figures occured when the north aisle roof fell in in the 17th century; it seems wood was an expensive commodity back then since the broken old beams were re-used, which necessitated moving the entire north wall inwards by about 2ft!
The church is generally kept locked and alarmed, and this being my third visit without access I tried a couple of numbers with limited success, then the vicar just happened to stroll into the churchyard and kindly agreed to let me inside. It was certainly worth persevering and I'm happy to have got in at last!
The east window of Comper's chapel of the All Saints' Convent, Oxford is full of detail. The theme of the window is the life of St John the Evangelist and there are images of secondary patrons of the institute.
Stained glass window by Kempe in memory of those from this parish who fell in the service of their Country in the Great War - Gwendoline Hanbury dedicates this window AD 1819
Remember ye Evan Robert Hanbury dearly loved only son of Evan and Gwendoline Hanbury www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/ex070Z to whose memory his mother dedicates this window
Remember George Barrett who fell in the Great War,"reported missing" Gallipoli 6th August 1915 .- Church of All Saints, Braunston Rutland