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A stunning black and white capture of a striking architectural facade, where repeating patterns of windows and geometric brickwork create a mesmerizing visual rhythm. This interplay of symmetry and contrast highlights the elegance of urban design.
Had lovely blue skies and mighty puffy dramatic clouds and great light here yesterday. Lots of wind blowing the tree leaf outer cases and little flowers all around.
Grabbed this shot of some window reflections while moving around campus.
I thought this would fit the frame within a frame theme for 100x.
Which has been a hard theme for me.
Captured with iPhone edited in snapseed.
May 25, 2025 - Scioto Mile Fountain Festival. "Kick off summer with a splash! The Scioto Mile Fountain re-opens for the season at Bicentennial Park this Memorial Day Weekend. Join us for a FREE two-day celebration with music, food trucks, live performances, art, and more surprises. All ages are welcome to splash in the Fountain, and adults can indulge in a drink using the Center City DORA. All ages are welcome throughout the day, but family programming starts at 11 a.m. and adult-centric programming kicks off at 4 p.m." Previous text: downtowncolumbus.com/projects-initiatives/scioto-events/
December 28, 2018 - The Treasury (Al-Khazneh) unveils itself at the end of The Siq. The Treasury Building is carved into the red sandstone mountainside. Petra, Jordan.
August 2, 2021 - Located at 540 W Broad Street Engine House No. 6 was built in 1892. Designed by John Flynn in the Romanesque Revival Style. The station closed in 1966 and it was an electronic store from 1975 - 2014. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. "On Thursday, November 4, 2021, the Columbus Historical Society completed the purchase of a historic fire station once known as Engine House No. 6 at 540 West Broad Street in historic Franklinton from the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority. After extensive renovations, the structure will be used as a museum, research library, archival storage facility and community meeting space as well as being the first permanent home of the Society.
Founded in 1990 by a group of amateur and professional historians, the Columbus Historical Society has occupied numerous temporary homes around the city since its humble beginnings. For the past four years, it has occupied a building at 717 West Town Street in a generous temporary lease agreement with the Mount Carmel Health System. Prior to that, its offices and exhibits were located within the Center of Science and Industry (COSI).
Engine House No. 6 is one of few remaining historic nineteenth-century structures left in Franklinton, which was the earliest settlement in what would become the city of Columbus. Surveyor and land speculator Lucas Sullivant platted and founded Franklinton in 1797, fifteen years before Columbus sprouted as the planned state capital on the east bank of Scioto River.
Franklinton served as the Franklin County seat between 1803 and 1824, and served as a mobilization and training center for the army of General William Henry Harrison during the War of 1812. The future president held an important conference with the region's Indian leaders in 1813 under an elm tree on the grounds of Lucas Sullivant's home. Franklinton was annexed to the city of Columbus in 1870.
Engine House No.6 was completed in 1882 and was used by the Columbus Fire Department until it was decommissioned in 1966. It was the site of the first emergency medical service of the fire department in 1934. Jimmy Rea Electronics occupied the structure from 1975 until CMHA acquired the property from Jimmy Rea in December 2014.
The $700,000 purchase price for the property was raised by the historical society from several sources, including support from the City of Columbus, the State of Ohio, the William H. Davis, Dorothy M. Davis, and William C. Davis Foundation, the Jeffrey Company Contributions Committee, the Columbus Foundation and the Robert W. Stevenson Fund. Significant contributions were also made by individual donors. One contribution was received from the great-granddaughter of a firefighter who lost his life during a fire run out of Engine House No. 6.
The total estimated cost of the project is $2,500,000. The Society has currently raised one-half of that amount and seeks additional support from the community to complete the project.
The Columbus Historical Society has become an important community resource by preserving the multi-cultural history of Columbus and Central Ohio and sharing that history with the community through a variety of exhibits and educational programming. It recently acquired the Harrison house, one block to west at 570 West Broad Street and circa 1823 Sullivant land office on the Gift Street lot behind it. Its board of trustees hopes that the three structures are the beginning of a Columbus historic district that can become a destination." Previous text from the following website: mailchi.mp/f523d40c316e/whats-new-at-chs-5108069
Copyright © Phil Dodd 2018, All Rights Reserved. A shot of a well know building in Birmingham City Centre, it's a crop into the frame to try & give it a new angle.
Thanks for looking and / or commenting,
Best Regards,
Phil.
Ledbury, Herefordshire. The Market House, built in the mid-1600s, is supported by tapered timber posts on stone plinths. Originally a grain store, it's now a council meeting room. It's also, of course, an important visual symbol of this lovely Herefordshire town – as well as a classic example of English 'black and white' architecture.
Another corbel carving from Kilpeck church.
Captured in Autumn 2002 with Olympus 2100, 2 megapixel super-zoom bridge camera.
Edited today on the desktop in Photoshop using Nik's Viveza and some Color Efex Pro.
Then into Alien Skin's Exposure X where I created a couple of BW versions then blended the layers together with blend modes and opacity settings.
Read about Sheela-na-gig here if you care to find out more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheela_na_gig
An overview shot of the church with text about the church can be viewed here if you care to have a look and read: www.flickr.com/photos/firerybroome/28828457063
Another corbel post of fox and hound can be seen here: www.flickr.com/photos/firerybroome/29183397390
Captured in the village of Cerne Abbas in Dorset England, Sept. 2002 with Olympus 2100, 2mp super zoom bridge camera.
Edited this week on the desktop in Photoshop using Nik's Viveza plug in. Then into Alien Skin's Exposure x2 for black and white conversion and editing.
Cerne Abbas is a nice little village in Dorset. It has a very old church in the middle of town with some interesting architectural details and a great row of very old wooden timber framed house with some great details. This, the Pitchmarket door, being one of them.
But probably the village is most famous for being home to the Rude Man. Also known as the Cerne Abbas Giant.
The 180 ft naked figure carved into the chalk hillside.
Captured Feb. 12, 2006 with an Panasonic FZ20 in Egypt at Isis's Philae temple.
Edited today on the desktop in Photoshop, Viveza and Alien Skin Exposure X for black and white editing.
This was lovely temple located on an island which we reached by motoring over in a small taxi boat.
The sort you see all criss crossing the Nile tirelessly moving people and goods all hours of the day and night.
Like Abu Simbel this temple was also moved to save it from sinking when they built the Aswan Dam and the lake.
Here is a little history of the temple from Touropia : www.touropia.com/ancient-egyptian-temples/
"The island of Philae was the center of the cult of the goddess Isis. The first temple on the island was built by native pharaohs of the 30th dynasty. The temple construction continued over a three century period by the Greek Ptolemaic dynasty and the Roman rulers. The Roman Emperor Trajan built the Trajan’s Kiosk in 100 AD which probably served as a river entrance into the larger temple of Isis. In the 1960s the temple and other monuments on the island were transported to the island of Agilika by UNESCO to save it from being submerged by the rising waters of the Nile due to the construction of the Aswan High Dam. The island of Philae is now buried beneath Lake Nasser."
July 10, 2023 - Torre de Belém (Belém Tower) "The Belém Tower, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is one of Lisbon’s most striking monuments and the icon of a country historically moulded by its proximity to the ocean and its maritime discoveries of new worlds.
Discoveries by Portuguese navigators transformed Lisbon into the world’s main trade hub in the 15th and 16th centuries.
To protect the city, King João II conceived a pioneer project to defend Lisbon from enemy ships, a work completed in 1514 and which included the building of the Belém Tower, designed by architect Francisco de Arruda.
The tower’s unique design includes a modern and heavily armed bastion, protruding over the river.
King Manuel I clearly wished the Belém Tower to stand as a lasting symbol of his powerful reign by depicting the royal coat of arms, the armillary sphere and the cross of the Order of Christ." Previous description: www.visitlisboa.com/en/places/torre-de-belem
July 5, 2017 - Angkor Wat was constructed 1120- 1150 under the ruler Suryavarman II. It served as the capital of the Khmer empire and was the state temple. We began our visit at the secondary entrance to the complex on the East side. Most people begin at the main entrance on the West side of what is considered the largest religious monument in the world. Angkor Wat is dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu. Siem Reap, Cambodia.
If you have driven from Johannesburg to Cape Town along the N1, you have driven through Colesberg. Halfway between the two metropolises, just across the Orange River if you are approaching from the Joburg side, on the doorstep of the Karoo, Colesberg is for the traveller in a hurry a place to fill up the car and stretch your legs before you get back on the road again.
Yet it is a place with a history, founded in 1830 on an old London Missionary Society station, on one of the main routes followed by traders, hunters and settlers into the South African interior, and site of a number of Anglo-Boer war battles and skirmishes. After years of just passing through, we stopped over for a night and I took a few photographs.
Taken over a ten-year period, between 2012 and 2022, this series of photographs is from a project on South African country villages and towns. Many of the images are of small Karoo towns, and many of these in turn are of the Dutch Reformed Churches whose steeples are visible for miles around in the vast, semi-desert region that lies, metaphorically and geographically, at South Africa’s centre.
There is something about these Karoo towns, in particular, that has always spoken to me - the stillness of the empty streets in the heat of the day, the white, shuttered cottages, the big skies overhead. And always, at the edge of town, or sprawling out into the arid land, the coloured settlement or African location. In South Africa, as elsewhere, as Faulkner wrote, ‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past.’
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January 23, 2021 - "Knowlton Hall, dedicated in 2004, is a state-of-the-art facility for the School of Architecture. The School’s new home is based on the integration of elements: inside and out, students and faculty, old and new, school and university, art and technology. Each of the three disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, and city and regional planning are mixed. The design reflects the school’s mission of excellence in education, innovation in design and planning, and the stewardship of quality environment.Knowlton Hall marks an important entrance to campus and forms a nucleus of professional schools along with the College of Engineering and Fisher College of Business. The 165,000-square-foot facility houses all classrooms, facilities, and offices for KSA’s three disciplines. Students learn in the six classrooms, four seminar spaces, 350-seat auditorium, outdoor classroom spaces, and 500 studio spaces available to them. The building also featuresgallery space for exhibitions, central review space for critiques of student work, a materials/fabrication lab, an experimental garden space, a 30,000-volume library, two computer laboratories, a digital image library, and a café.Knowlton Hall was designed by Mack Scogin Merril Elam Architects of Atlanta, with Wandel & Schnell of Columbus (now WSA Studio). Landscape Architecture was designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh and Associates, New York and Cambridge." Previous text from the following website: architizer.com/projects/knowlton-school-of-architecture/
May 25, 2025 - LeVeque Tower located at 50 West Broad Street. Designed in the Art Deco style. Architect: C. Howard Crane. At one time it was the fifth tallest building in the world when it was completed in 1927.
November 21, 2021 - Ohio History Center designed in the Brutalist Style by Ireland & Associates opened in 1970. When it opened it was called the Ohio Historical Center.
Technical info:
ND110 - 10 stops.
f/22
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120s (2min) exposure
Software:
Lightroom 2.0
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April 3, 2021 - The Palace Theatre Stage Door is located in W. Lynn Street in downtown Columbus, Ohio.
Kodak Tri-X 120 Professional (expired 2013) Developed in Ilford Ilfotec DD.
Pentax 645N, SMC Pentax FA 45mm F2.8,
B+W KR-12 (85B) Filter.
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Landerwood Place Office Building (1988). Mayfield Heights, Ohio
Architect: Payto Architects, Cleveland, Ohio
Standard, low resolution scan.
Matjiesfontein, just off the N1 highway as you climb up from the coast to the dry Karoo, is a page out of time, a throwback to Empire, a one-street village centred on the Lord Milner Hotel, a perfect stopover for coffee or lunch as you head inland from Cape Town, and a fine place to pause for a night if you are headed down south.
Founded by a shipwrecked Scot, James Douglas Logan, in the nineteenth century, the village was a place where sufferers from tubeculosis came to experience the benefits of the dry Karoo air, where British troops were quartered during the Ango-Boer War, where Rhodes and Kipling and Churchill’s father, Randolph, along with military brass and other bigwigs, stopped over to enjoy the comforts of what is now the Lord Milner Hotel.
The unique charm of the place is captured by the author Olive Schreiner, who wrote in 1890, ‘It is curious, and to me very attractive this mixture of civilisation & the most wild untamed freedom; the barren mountains & wild Karoo & the railway train.”
After years of decline, the hotel and village were purchased lock-stock-and-barrel by the hotelier and entrepreneur David Rawdon in 1968, and meticulously restored - the bank, post-office, church, railway station, petrol station preserved in amber, the one main street that runs through the village an architectural gem.
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Rabobank headquarters Utrecht Netherlands
Technical info:
B+W ND110 and B+W ND106 stich = 16 stops
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301s (5m01sec) exposure
Software:
Lightroom 3.0
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The Vittoriano is on the Capitoline Hill, in the symbolic centre of ancient Rome.
Its design is a neoclassical interpretation of the Roman Forum. It features stairways, Corinthian columns, fountains, an equestrian sculpture of Victor Emmanuel II, and two statues of the goddess Victoria riding on quadrigas. On its summit there would have been a majestic portico characterized by a long colonnade and two imposing propylaea, one dedicated to the "unity of the homeland", and the other to the "freedom of the citizens", concepts metaphorically linked to the figure of Victor Emmanuel II.[3]
The base houses the museum of Italian unification,[4][5] and in 2007 a lift was added to the structure, allowing visitors to access the roof for 360-degree views of Rome.[6] This terrace, which is the highest of the monument, can also be reached via 196 steps that start from the portico.[7]
The structure is 135 m (443 ft) wide, 130 m (427 ft) deep, and 70 m (230 ft) high.[3][8] If the quadrigae and Winged Victorys are included, the height reaches 81 m (266 ft).[4] It has a total area of 17,550 m2 (188,907 sq ft) and possesses, due to the conspicuous development of the interior spaces, a floor area of 717,000 m2 (7,717,724 sq ft).[3][8]
For Window and Wall Wednesday Groups.
Same day and location as the winter leave with raindrop.
Used the usual iPhone and he square shooting high contrast BW app, Contrast.
June 26, 2018 - "The Church of Hallgrimur, also known as Hallgrimskirkja, is a Lutheran church located at Reykjavik, Iceland. It sits high on top of a hill located within the center of the city. It is also considered as one of Reykjavik's most striking landmarks and the country's largest church.
The Church of Hallgrimur was named after a famous Icelandic poet and clergy man, Hallgrimur Petursson, composer of the Passion hymns that is still being sung today. The design for the church was commissioned to state architect Guojon Samuelsson in 1937. The design was intended to resemble the natural landscape of Iceland with its volcanoes, ice caps and basalt columns.
After the design for the church was completed, construction of the structure began sometime in 1945. It took around 38 years to build the church which was finally completed in 1974. Its nave was consecrated in 1986.
The church tower stands 74.5 meters or 244 feet high, making it the tallest building not only in Reykjavik but in the whole of Iceland. It stands in sixth place when it comes to being the tallest human made structure in Iceland. The top five are all communications masts built in Iceland.
The main feature of the church is its imposing tower which is uniquely designed to resemble the basalt column common in the country. Visitors may be able to come up the church tower via an elevator. As the tallest building in Reykjavik, it also acts as an observation tower where people can get the best views of the city and the surrounding mountains.
The church is primarily built out of poured concrete and follows expressionist architecture in terms of style. Its interiors are considered simple and features minimal design in line with the Lutheran tradition. The church also houses a large pipe organ consisting of a 50 foot case and 5,275 pipes" Text from the following website: www.architravel.com/architravel/building/church-of-hallgr...
May 25, 2025 - "The Rotunda is one of the most remarkable spaces in the Statehouse. Stretching 120 feet from the floor to the skylight, the Rotunda is filled with 12 different colors and distributes light to other areas of the building.
The Rotunda skylight is 67 feet lower than the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
The crown jewel in the Rotunda's dome is its 29-foot-wide skylight. The center circle of the skylight is a hand-painted Great Seal of Ohio, a reproduction of the Seal that was in use in 1861 when the Rotunda was completed. The restoration of this skylight was funded by schoolchildren across the state in a penny-collection campaign, spearheaded by Bob Evans Farms.
The seal in the dome, which is 2'8" in diameter, is slightly different than the seal in use today. You'll notice this seal not only has the mountains, a sheaf of wheat and a bundle of arrows, but it also includes a canal boat in the foreground. The canals were an important mode of transportation at the time this seal was designed (circa 1847). The seal has changed multiple times in the course of Ohio's history.
The floor of the Rotunda consists of nearly 5,000 pieces of hand-cut marble from around the world. The salmon stones are from Portugal; the black and green marble is from Vermont; and the white marble is from Italy."
Previous description: www.ohiostatehouse.org/about/capitol-square/statehouse/ro...
December 23, 2018 - Rothschild 1 residential tower designed by Yashar Architects on the left. On the right is REIT 1 both buildings are located on Rothschild Blvd. Tel Aviv, Israel.
Church House, a black-and-white half-timbered building in the old town of Evesham (Worcestershire, in west-central England), on a partly sunny afternoon in mid-May. A small spring border sits in front of it.
It sits beside and over a limestone and half-timbered gateway (which is just to the left of this picture) that leads from the grounds of the former Evesham Abbey into the historic centre.
Towards the right, a small part of a wall and window of All Saints Church can also be seen. This Anglican parish church was originally founded during the 12th century as part of Evesham Abbey, then extensively (according to Wikipedia) restored 1872-1876, during the Victorian period.
[Evesham half-timbered Church House 2010 may 18 o; P5181710]
Inside the Oculus, the architecture makes me feel like I am inside the belly of a giant whale. This is the spine ..