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Hey
the titel of this shot is chosen by me and laura. It was so funny: she said "Hey I like this shot. It is angular - cool!" So I decided, that this should be the capture :)
It is another shot I did with my 35mm. It worked amazing here.
What do you think?
Enjoy this sunny sunday.
PS: I'll take off to Rome tomorrow. Would be great if you visited my blog, while I'm not there, so you don't have to miss me :)
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(--> there are more shots with the 35mm)
Greets, Lisa
Westervelt Avenue, St. George, Staten Island
Horton’s Row, constructed between 1880 and 1882 by Harry L. Horton, is located at the periphery of Fort Hill in northeastern Staten Island at the outskirts of the villages of New Brighton and Tompkinsville. Horton was a prominent resident of Staten Island and had established a successful banking and brokerage firm in Manhattan. He was involved in Staten Island’s water supply and rapid transit companies and was a president of the village of New Brighton. Horton’s Row consisted of twelve identical attached masonry row houses that were built as affordable rental houses for middleclass families. No. 411 Westervelt Avenue is one of the only four intact houses that survive. The houses were under common ownership until 1908 and by 1901 they had been converted to three-family flats. The vernacular style red brick houses have neo-Grec style elements and feature fullwidth front porches, angled bay windows and cornices with dentils, angular or curved brackets and square consoles at the porch roof, above the entrance door transoms and bay windows at the first story, and the third story roof. The row is built on a slope with each building rising higher than its neighbor to create a stepped pattern of architectural elements. Due to the row’s length and its location on the brow of the hill, it was a notable structure in the neighborhood. Horton’s Row represents a rare housing type on Staten Island. Most of the dwellings built in 19th century Staten Island were free-standing single-family frame houses. Other extant examples of attached single-family dwellings dating from this time in the North-Shore villages were constructed for working-class families, making this a rare example of attached masonry row houses in Staten Island.
Horton’s Row is a very early example of attached masonry row houses in Staten Island. Its architect has not been determined. Since the island was not well populated until the 20th century, most of houses predating that time were free-standing single-family frame houses. Lying at the periphery of the prosperous Fort Hill suburb and within easy walking distance of the ferry terminal, then located at the foot of Richmond Turnpike (now Victory Boulevard), Horton’s Row was intended to offer affordable rental housing to middle-class families. Although there are other examples of single-family attached houses built in the 19th century in the North-Shore villages, they were for working-class families. Historic views of Fort Hill reveal that these buildings were an anomaly in its neighborhood and a visual landmark due to their massing and location on the brow of the hill. Horton’s Row represents a rare building type on the island.
All twelve houses had identical front facades and except for No. 417, had identical rear facades, when built. These three story vernacular style houses had neo- Grec style details. The neo-Grec style was popular in the second half of the 19th century and is characterized by stylized, classical details, angular forms and incised detailing.
The red brick houses were built with two bays at the first story and three bays at the second and third stories. They had full-width brick porches with flat roofs supported by single columns on square pedestals and had iron railings with a criss-cross design. All had wood-and-glass double-leaf entrance doors with wood-and-glass arch-headed transoms and a rectangular molded wood surround in the north bay of the first story and a three-window-wide angled bay in the south bay. The second and third stories had three single window openings with one-over-one double-hung wood windows and smooth stone lintels and sills. Neo-Grec style cornices with dentils, angular or curved brackets and square consoles appear around the front porch roof, above the transoms and bay windows at the first story and at the third story roof. The rear facades of the buildings appear one story higher than the front because the land slopes down to the east. All the buildings, except for No. 417, were built with full-width rear yard additions at the subbasement, basement and first story that had six narrow one-over-one windows at the basement and first story. Above the rear yard extensions, there were three single windows at the second story of the rear facades and pitched roofs with three dormers having surrounds with pilasters and segmental-arched lintels and single one-over-one double-hung windows. Since the row is built on a slope, each building, in descending address order, rises higher than its neighbor, creating a stepped pattern of architectural elements. The ensemble is knit together by the ornamental wrought-iron fencing along the edge of the shallow front yards.
- From the 2009 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report
A tri-colored heron waits to see just which way that canoe is going to go before he makes his move.
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Darah-darah, Kumpang, Kumpang Semah, Lahu; Myristicaceae.
Flora Malesiana 14: Twigs subterete to angular or ridged, (2-)2.4-4(-5.5) mm diameter, hairs 0.1 mm or less, early glabrescent, bark chocolate, later on brown or grey, finely cracked, with many lenticels. Leaves chartaceous or coriaceous, elliptic to oblong-lanceolate,
widest at or below the middle, 14-33 by (5.5-)6-13 cm, base (short-)attenuate to
broadly rounded, apex (acute-)acuminate, blade coarsely undulate on drying, margin not revolute; upper surface olivaceous to brown, sometimes glossy, lower surface grey (-purple) to brownish, with scattered appressed minute hairs, glabrescent; midrib above
somewhat sunken (grooved) above. 1.5 mm wide, nerves 10-18 pairs, at (35-)40-50
(-55)° to the midrib, yellowish, distinct and (very) prominent below, venation sometimes distinct at the lower surface; petiole 8-20 by 1.5-3 mm; leaf buds 5-10 by 1.5-4 mm, with dense greyish hairs 0.1 mm.
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Olympiapark, in Munich, is where the 1972 Summer Olympic Games were held. It's full of some pretty stunning architecture, landscaping, and design elements. I can't remember which building this is unfortunately, but I liked its angular look.
Olympiapark, Munich, Germany.
I stepped outside tonight for some fresh air and maybe look around some of the street lights for some bugs. There was nothing at the street lights so I headed back to the door. On the porch, I found my cat sprawled out on her side batting something against the wall. Sure enough.......this is what it was!
It is awesome to see this thing fly! (:-D
An interesting tree "shadowed" by a cloud along the trail to the Velma Lakes in the Desolation Wilderness of the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit. A very windy day. And that's probably the final hike on this trip.
by Agata Pietraszko
In the exhibition of the Sign and Typography Studio of the University of Arts in Poznań, at Galeria Szyperska
Blog post (in German): myfonts.de/typetalks2/
I stepped outside tonight for some fresh air and maybe look around some of the street lights for some bugs. There was nothing at the street lights so I headed back to the door. On the porch, I found my cat sprawled out on her side batting something against the wall. Sure enough.......this is what it was!
It is awesome to see this thing fly! (:-D