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Happy to see the Lych Gate restoration now finished at the church, it having been fenced off for some time. The story behind the Lych Gate is quite interesting, apparently it was originally built using recycled C16/C17 timbers including the posts of a four-poster bed and two sections of balustrade. There was a certain amount of decay but C19 timbers held everything together.
Happy to see the Lych Gate restoration now finished at the church, it having been fenced off for some time. The story behind the Lych Gate is quite interesting, apparently it was originally built using recycled C16/C17 timbers including the posts of a four-poster bed and two sections of balustrade. There was a certain amount of decay but C19 timbers held everything together.
I found these stained glass doors in my basement but had no place to use them indoors.They add a nice touch here.
Clayton & Lambert is a 6 generation family operated manufacturing company which has been in business since 1888.
Finale of the series
Happy to see the Lych Gate restoration now finished at the church, it having been fenced off for some time. The story behind the Lych Gate is quite interesting, apparently it was originally built using recycled C16/C17 timbers including the posts of a four-poster bed and two sections of balustrade. There was a certain amount of decay but C19 timbers held everything together.
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Headed off Sunday morning under a backdrop of ominously dark clouds. My goal was an abandoned Victorian house in a nearby town that was slated for demolition. As I rolled up on the location I was disappointed to find only dirt and some stones where the house once stood. Hate missed opportunities like this, particularly with period architecture. There's such a finality to the demolition of historic houses. Once gone, they are never rebuilt. New construction may take their place, but it's never the same.
Dismayed, I drove on a short distance and was shocked to find this old Italianate style house. I had stopped to photograph it in 2014, and was very surprised to find it still standing. On my first visit, the place was vacant but hadn't been empty for all that long. It was still intact anyway, sealed from the weather and still connected to the power grid. But that was then. Now the place is wide open as the doors and most of the windows have been removed. This is not the the result of vandalism. Rather the house has been systematically stripped of its parts; a veritable harvest of architectural salvage. I didn't enter, but from what I could tell, the interior woodwork had also been removed. I also noticed the decorative brackets beneath the eaves had been removed, pulled out like bad teeth. I initially decided not to even bother photographing the place, but the memory of what it once looked like, coupled with the killer clouds, compelled me to pull over and get the photo. So much atmosphere here, and such a bleak location for a house, just a few yards from a noisy highway. Must have been a difficult place in which to live. I always wonder about things like that at places that make me feel uncomfortable even after just a few minutes. How on earth did people adapt to living their lives here?
As I drove off I thought about how the universe had provided me with a backup plan even when my primary mission failed. Always seems to pay off when I head out with the camera. I can never predict the outcome, but something good always seems to happen.
Here's a link that shows the condition of the house in 2014:
Camera: Nikon D7000
Lens/Exposure: 18-270 mm f/3.5-6.3@25 mm / ISO 400 / 0.4 sec at f/4.5 / Aperture priority / Handheld
good instance of one particular nuance from expired film if you check the weird blobbiness throughout the sky
The Guild Park and Gardens is full of Toronto Architectural Salvage. Some buildings came down in the Great fire, others torn down. A lovely stroll with most interesting pieces.
Out on my foggy night walk a few days ago, I passed by the Forks Road Pottery on Ontario Street in Grimsby, Ontario. Located in an old train station, the building is now used for (as its name suggests) pottery manufacturing and sales as well as antiques sales, with a bit of architectural salvage sales thrown in. Outside, beside the building, a few window frames were set up leaning against a wrought iron trellis still bearing the remains of some type of flowering vine. Standing in one particular place it was possible see through the mist-covered window panes, to a lighted Christmas wreath in the main window, and by focusing on the window glass, this highly colourful and textured image was made. An exercise in colour, form and texture. - JW
Date Taken: 2018-01-22
Tech Details:
Taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D7100 fitted with a Tamron 90mm f/2.8 Macro 1:1 (272E) lense, Daylight white balance, ISO100, Aperture priority mode, f/5.0, 1 sec with an EV-1.67 exposure bias. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: set final image size to 9000x6000, use the as-shot exposure, increase contrast and Luminance and also slightly decrease lightness in L-A-B mode, slightly increase vibrance, enable shadows-highlights and significantly recover highlights as well as slightly boost shadows, increase vibrance, sharpen, save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: slightly pull up (brighten) the mid-tones, slightly increase saturation to clean up the colours, use the colour balance tool to shift the balance to the green side and thus help reduce (slightly) the orange cast in the shadows, sharpen, save, scale to 6000x 4000, sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 1800 wide for posting, sharpen slightly, save.
A storefront with reflections of the outside and the interior of an architectural salvage shop.
Shot in digital black & white.
From inside one of my favorite* shops inside the Distillery District in Toronto. Lots of cool vintage home goods bits and pieces as well as architectural salvage finds. If I'd have had more room in my car, I might have been in a lot of trouble.
*Note: favorite shop that didn't involve chocolate, gelato, or caffeinated goodness.
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