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The ruins of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, Italy, under a dramatic sky.
The sky and the ruins where shot 1.4 EV apart using auto-bracketing. The sky was exposure corrected to extract as much signal as possible from the highlights. Then the pictures were combined, and the result was perspective corrected.
This an handcrafted HDR using a simple threshold mask. The ruins are intentionally slightly under-exposed and the clouds are partially burnt out. This intends to produce a realistic effect that does not scream of HDR.
Image captured in the Roman baths in Bath.
The wonderfully warm texture of the stone has been enhanced with two fantastic textures from JoesSistah
Michaela's first baths (before and affter she lost her cord).
Michaela's first baths (before and affter she lost her cord).
75 years old today. Artificial (coade?) stone building in a mild art deco style. More about the baths and Hackney Wick in general in this ,a href="http://www.londondailyphoto.com/images/beating_the_bounds.pdf">fascinating document.
This is The Baths Hall in Scunthorpe, photographed on Friday evening. I wanted to shoot the outside of the venue with all of its lights on so I had to wait until there was an event taking place. I wanted to keep some colour in the sky so I photographed the building early in the evening before it became too dark.
Canon 5D MKII.
Canon EF L 24-70 @ 62mm.
10sec @ f16 @ ISO100.
Manfrotto 190CXPRO3 plus Geared Head.
The Govanhill Baths, closed in 2001 amidst outcry from the local and wider communities, has lain empty since.
The Govanhill Baths Community Trust, formed from a vibrant and determined grassroots campaign to save the Baths, is raising funds to renovate the Baths as a Health and Wellbeing Centre, run by the community for the community. We have recently been granted planning permission for the renovations.
The Trust's activities extend into many areas, including an exciting and developing programme of the arts. For further information, please visit the website www.govanhillbaths.com or get in touch at info@govanhillbaths.com
Two baths in a basement of an abandoned resort in upstate New York. These resorts were very popular decades ago for families and individuals to visit, if they had the money to go. Often it was for a weekend or a week in the summer where they could get away from the hustle and bustle of NYC. However, as flying became more and more popular and more exotic locations became more and more accessible, the resorts fell into ruin and eventually closed. © 2013-Current.
Although Beirut is thousands of years old, there’s very little to indicate that it’s been around for any more than a couple of centuries. During the reconstruction of the city, Solidere uncovered and preserved a few bits and pieces, including these Roman baths near the Grand Serail.
Sutro Baths in San Francisco
Settings:
Canon 60D
Canon 10-22mm @ 22mm
0.8s Exposure, F/25, ISO-100
3-stops Bracket @ 2stop
RAW processed LR3
TIFF processed with CS5
Michaela's first baths (before and affter she lost her cord).
Michaela's first baths (before and affter she lost her cord).
Opened in 1906 by the Lord Mayor of Manchester who described it as a 'water palace of which every citizen of Manchester is proud', The Victoria Baths on Hathersage Road in Chorlton-on-Medlock were designed as a prestigious baths complex by Manchester's first City Architect, Henry Price back in 1902. No expense was spared in the design and construction of the Baths, Manchester having at that time one of the world's wealthiest municipal coffers. The façade has multi-coloured brickwork and terracotta decoration, the main interior public spaces are clad in glazed tiles from floor to ceiling and most of the many windows have decorative stained glass including the famous Angel of Purity.
These baths are enclosed off the ocean by concrete walls. Obviously the water will be just as cold as the ocean and this brave man gets into the water... slowly.. gingerly.... brrrrr.....
The August 2009 Flickrmeet was to the old Victorian Swimming Baths on Moseley Road.
Even the Dog has it's own changing room!
The Friends of Moseley Roads Baths are trying to preserve and restore this historic building
Other names: Buckhorn Mineral Wells, Buckhorn Mineral Baths, and Buckhorn Wildlife Museum
Maricopa County, AZ
Listed: 05/10/2005
The Buckhorn Baths Motel is significant at the state level under Criterion A, for its role in the development of tourism in twentieth-century Arizona, and under Criterion C, as an example of the Pueblo Revival style as manifested in commercial tourist architecture.
The Buckhorn Baths is the best-preserved historic mineral springs resort in Arizona, thanks in large measure to the fact that it was in operation as recently as 1999 and remained under a single owner throughout its history, without any major changes being made after its development in the 1940s. It also is representative of an important phase in the evolution of tourist lodging in Arizona and elsewhere in the United States, namely, the transformation of the motor court into the motel, which rapidly became the dominant form of lodging along highways across the country.
Finally, the Buckhorn Baths is an excellent and well-preserved example of the Pueblo Revival style, and in particular of how that style was used by the early developers of Arizona's modem tourist industry. By building a spa and motel in a "native" style and with materials that were indigenous to the region, the Sligers created a tourist environment with the romantic qualities and regional character necessary to attract patrons from across the country.
The development of the Buckhorn Baths began in 1936, when Theodore W. "Ted" and Alice Sliger bought a parcel of land east of Mesa and adjacent to U.S. Highways 60, 80, and 89. Although the surrounding land was almost entirely undeveloped desert, well outside the city limits of Mesa, it fronted on one of Arizona's most popular tourist routes, connecting the cities of the Salt River Valley not only with Florence and Tucson to the south but also with central Arizona, the Mogollon Rim, and the White Mountains in eastern Arizona.
In 1939, hoping to develop their own source of water, the Sligers sunk a well. They struck water, but what came up was far too hot to drink-112 degrees out of the ground-and filled with minerals. However, recognizing that a mineral baths would be a good tourist attraction, the Sligers capitalized on their new find by developing the hot springs. They built a bathhouse capable of serving 75 patrons each day, and cottages that allowed patrons to stay overnight. The Sligers continued to operate the gas station and store, as well as a cafe, but soon the mineral baths and motel operation eclipsed their other enterprises. At its peak, the motel could accommodate a hundred overnight guests. It offered patrons a cafe and dining room, a beauty parlor and gift shop, a post office, the museum with its collection of more than four hundred taxidermy specimens and assorted Indian relics (which also served as a lobby and television room), and a desert golf course with eighteen holes. Over the succeeding years, four additional hot water wells were dug and a contract post office was opened in 1956-it remained at the Buckhorn until 1983-but otherwise little changed at the resort.
The Buckhorn Baths is considered significant at the state level because, while there are a good number of Pueblo Revival tourist properties from this period still standing in Arizona, there are none that are as well preserved as this one and associated with a much rarer and less well-preserved component of the state's tourist economy, namely, mineral hot springs. Also, because OMS No. 1024-0018 Buckhorn Baths Motel Maricopa County, Arizona
the Buckhorn Baths is located on a major thoroughfare that passes through the state's largest metropolitan area, it has become something of a landmark for Arizonans - a symbol of a vanished world of leisurely desert tourism that has been overwhelmed by the urbanization (and suburbanization) of Phoenix and the Salt River Valley.
Mývatn nature baths are considered the blue lagoon of the north... we much fewer tourists -> ideal after a long day of hiking ;-)
Buxton Thermal Baths, The Crescent, Buxton, Derbyshire, 1852-53.
By Henry Currey (1820-1900).
Grade ll listed.
Interior reconstructed 1912.
Converted to shops - the Cavendish Arcade - 1985-86.
The Hot (Thermal) Baths were totally rebuilt during 1852/53 and were largely enveloped in an iron and glass structure with a frontal colonnade. The Hot Baths operated in conjunction with the nearby Natural Baths and included douching, massage, friction and exercise. The baths closed on 30 September 1963 following a steady decline in the number of treatments from the mid 1950s and the colonade over the Crescent side entrance (seen here) was removed. The colonnade on the north-east side (not seen in this picture) was restored by High Peak Council in 1975.
In 1985/86 the Hot Baths building, which had deteriorated markedly after its closure, was converted into the Cavendish Arcade shopping centre. The baths heritage was preserved by retaining a small plunge bath within the complex as well as the original tiling. The completed arcade was topped with a 3,000 sq ft barrel-vaulted stained glass roof.
Other names: Buckhorn Mineral Wells, Buckhorn Mineral Baths, and Buckhorn Wildlife Museum
Maricopa County, AZ
Listed: 05/10/2005
The Buckhorn Baths Motel is significant at the state level under Criterion A, for its role in the development of tourism in twentieth-century Arizona, and under Criterion C, as an example of the Pueblo Revival style as manifested in commercial tourist architecture.
The Buckhorn Baths is the best-preserved historic mineral springs resort in Arizona, thanks in large measure to the fact that it was in operation as recently as 1999 and remained under a single owner throughout its history, without any major changes being made after its development in the 1940s. It also is representative of an important phase in the evolution of tourist lodging in Arizona and elsewhere in the United States, namely, the transformation of the motor court into the motel, which rapidly became the dominant form of lodging along highways across the country.
Finally, the Buckhorn Baths is an excellent and well-preserved example of the Pueblo Revival style, and in particular of how that style was used by the early developers of Arizona's modem tourist industry. By building a spa and motel in a "native" style and with materials that were indigenous to the region, the Sligers created a tourist environment with the romantic qualities and regional character necessary to attract patrons from across the country.
The development of the Buckhorn Baths began in 1936, when Theodore W. "Ted" and Alice Sliger bought a parcel of land east of Mesa and adjacent to U.S. Highways 60, 80, and 89. Although the surrounding land was almost entirely undeveloped desert, well outside the city limits of Mesa, it fronted on one of Arizona's most popular tourist routes, connecting the cities of the Salt River Valley not only with Florence and Tucson to the south but also with central Arizona, the Mogollon Rim, and the White Mountains in eastern Arizona.
In 1939, hoping to develop their own source of water, the Sligers sunk a well. They struck water, but what came up was far too hot to drink-112 degrees out of the ground-and filled with minerals. However, recognizing that a mineral baths would be a good tourist attraction, the Sligers capitalized on their new find by developing the hot springs. They built a bathhouse capable of serving 75 patrons each day, and cottages that allowed patrons to stay overnight. The Sligers continued to operate the gas station and store, as well as a cafe, but soon the mineral baths and motel operation eclipsed their other enterprises. At its peak, the motel could accommodate a hundred overnight guests. It offered patrons a cafe and dining room, a beauty parlor and gift shop, a post office, the museum with its collection of more than four hundred taxidermy specimens and assorted Indian relics (which also served as a lobby and television room), and a desert golf course with eighteen holes. Over the succeeding years, four additional hot water wells were dug and a contract post office was opened in 1956-it remained at the Buckhorn until 1983-but otherwise little changed at the resort.
The Buckhorn Baths is considered significant at the state level because, while there are a good number of Pueblo Revival tourist properties from this period still standing in Arizona, there are none that are as well preserved as this one and associated with a much rarer and less well-preserved component of the state's tourist economy, namely, mineral hot springs. Also, because OMS No. 1024-0018 Buckhorn Baths Motel Maricopa County, Arizona
the Buckhorn Baths is located on a major thoroughfare that passes through the state's largest metropolitan area, it has become something of a landmark for Arizonans - a symbol of a vanished world of leisurely desert tourism that has been overwhelmed by the urbanization (and suburbanization) of Phoenix and the Salt River Valley.