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Fan vaulting at Bath Abbey, England: made from local Bath stone, this is a Victorian restoration (in the 1860s) of the original roof of 1608
Pontia daplidice (Linnaeus, 1758), aka the Bath White, is a small butterfly with a wingspan of 45 to 50 mm. It is a common butterfly in central and southern Europe and Asia Minor, migrating northwards in the summer. This one was found in Athalassa, Cyprus.
While nature macrophotography is one of my favourite genres, I haven’t posted any of my work lately but I will do so in the next few weeks! Stay tuned!!
For those interested in technical details, this is a single shot taken with Nikon D750 and Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8 VR, at a shutter speed of 1/200, f/11 and ISO 100.
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Laches taking a relaxing bath after being shipped back and forth.
But... no water? XD
Laches is perfect this time! So happy!!!
Two Striated Thornbills commandeer the bird bath while a Jenny Wren waits for an entrance. Barragga Bay, NSW Far South Coast.
HD PENTAX-D FA 150-450mm f4.5-5.6
The City of Bath Pétanque (Boules) Club enjoy free sessions to all members in Queens Square, running from 11:00 every Wednesday. This is where I met Liz and her 3 colleagues Elaine, Chris and John, who were kind enough to explain some of the rules and techniques behind this game, which originated (as far as I’m aware) in Provence around 1907. At the end of their game I asked if I could take their portraits as part of my “100 Strangers” challenge and handed Liz brief details of the website. With the harsh midday sun, conditions were not ideal for taking photos but fortunately the many trees in the square provided some shade. In the spirit (rules) of the project, I can only include one of the portraits (Liz) but you can see the other 3 images next to Liz on my Flickr Account. Chatting with Liz, I learned that she was Secretary of the local Photographic Society so plenty to talk about (!) and I’m happy to provide a link.
www.bathphotographicsociety.org.uk/
Thanks to Liz for being part of my project to photograph 100 strangers and thanks to all 4 for being patient with my questions!
Sad Bath
I knew I would soon have to leave. The air itself seemed to whisper it, gently unraveling the thread of our days together. I would leave behind laughter echoing in quiet rooms, glances thick with unsaid things, the sacred refuge of his warmth, always near, always untouchable.
He had been my shelter, my silent witness. A pillar of tenderness cloaked in restraint. I loved him, not wildly, but with a slow, aching intensity. I danced on the edge of seduction, graceful and bare, hoping he might fall. But he remained affectionate, kind, unmoved. A father in spirit, a lover in shadow. Close enough to feel, but never to hold.
We were of each other’s worlds, orbiting with reverence, resisting gravity. Because to possess would be to shatter the sacred. And so, we let go, quietly, without farewell.
That morning, I slipped into a comforting bath, letting the warmth embrace me until it surrendered to cold. Water traced my skin like a soft memory, fading, caressing me like trembling fingertips. I let it carry my thoughts, my longing, my grief. And as the steam dissolved into air, a deep, beautiful sadness settled in, like prayer, like peace...
by Lis Xia
Photography and file processing; LC Nevermind(Luis Campillo)
Artistic direction, MUAH, props, caption and model; Lis Xia
Gear; Nikon D700, Nikkor 50mm 1.8 AI, 1250 ISO
Original RAF file processed with newly-released DXO PureRAW 2, before creation of JPEG in Lightroom 5.4.
Bath Abbey's tower from the South.
One of the largest examples of Perpendicular Gothic architecture in the West Country, Bath Abbey is a Church of England parish church and former Benedictine monastery. Founded in the 7th century, it was reorganised in the 10th century and rebuilt in the 12th and 16th centuries. The restoration of the cathedral was completed just a few years before the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539.
The medieval abbey church served as a sometime cathedral of a bishop. After long contention between ecclesiastics in the cities of Bath and Wells, the seat of the Diocese of Bath and Wells was later consolidated at Wells Cathedral after the Benedictine community was dissolved in 1539 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Prior Holloway surrendered Bath Priory to the crown in January 1539. It was sold to Humphry Colles of Taunton. The church was stripped of lead, iron and glass and left to decay. Colles sold it to Matthew Colthurst of Wardour Castle in 1543. His son Edmund Colthurst gave the roofless remains of the building to the corporation of Bath in 1572. The corporation had difficulty finding private funds for its restoration.
In 1574, Queen Elizabeth I promoted the restoration of the church, to serve as the grand parish church of Bath. She ordered that a national fund should be set up to finance the work, and in 1583 decreed that it should become the parish church of Bath. James Montague, the Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1608 to 1616, paid £1,000 for a new nave roof of timber lath construction; according to the inscription on his tomb, this was prompted after seeking shelter in the roofless nave during a thunderstorm. He is buried in an alabaster tomb in the north aisle.
During the 1820s and 1830s buildings, including houses, shops and taverns which were very close to or actually touching the walls of the abbey were demolished and the interior remodelled by George Phillips Manners who was the Bath City Architect. Manners erected flying buttresses to the exterior of the nave and added pinnacles to the turrets
The abbey is a Grade I listed building, particularly noted for its fan vaulting. It contains war memorials for the local population and monuments to several notable people, in the form of wall and floor plaques and commemorative stained glass. The church has two organs and a peal of ten bells. The west front includes sculptures of angels climbing to heaven on two stone ladders, representing Jacob's Ladder.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
This House Sparrow is enjoying his bath! A lot more common in the US than back in Britain, how does the song go? ..... "You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone".
The Bath Bridge re-opened this weekend after being closed for the past few years for renovations. This is the longest span covered bridge in NH. Located in Bath NH USA.
Historical Remarks:
The current structure is the fifth bridge to stand on this site. The first was constructed in 1794 at a cost of $366.66. That bridge was demolished by a flood and replaced in 1806 at a cost of $1,000. The second and third bridges were also destroyed by floods but immediately replaced in 1820 and again in 1824. The fourth bridge was destroyed by fire in late 1830. Rebuilding efforts began in March 1831 when $1,400 was allotted to cover the construction of two stone abutments and piers along with the purchase of other materials. In March 1832, an additional $1,500 was allotted to complete the construction. It appears that the fifth bridge was completed by early 1832. When it was first built, the bridge had hewn arches. New overlapping arches were added when the bridge was raised over the railroad in 1920. At one time, there was a sign posted at the bridge which prohibited riding horses across the bridge at a trot. It was believed that the impact of trotting horses could cause the structure to fall apart. The Bath Bridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.