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Malmsbury, Victoria (ABC1 Weather) This is the old Malmsbury blacksmith's workshop I have subsequently discovered.
Combining the blue hour and white rock making some blue stones there in the highlands of West Virginia.
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We met Dr Brian John over the weekend, and were impressed by his arguments - was this the origin of Stonehenge's Blue Stones?
Given the right lighting / tones there in the early morning light about 45 minutes before sunrise, and the rocks are a pretty blue.
Vertical version of Bluestone Bay when the dawn glowed red.
Nikkon D700, Nikkor 167-35mm,
60 s @ f 16, ISO 100,
Singh ray 3 stop soft, Lee 0.3 hard GND,
Singh Ray Mor-Slo 5 stop ND
An excellent evening's trainspotting chasing 925.
Train 925, 3 Nov 2020, 7051-5114, Waianakarua SIMT-NZ
On the New River near Hinton, WV. The dam's construction began in 1941, and was put into operation in 1949. The dam created a reservoir known as Bluestone Lake.
My mother-in-law grew up in the surrounding hills, and her family farmed river bottom that was later flooded during the creation of the reservoir.
The dam has been undergoing major repairs and improvements.
Bluestone Bay | Freycinet Peninsula | Tasmania
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Quarried from basaltic lava, bluestone is a conspicuous feature of Melbourne's built environment. Bluestone blocks were routinely used during the 19th century to pave alleyways and lanes, providing access at the back of adjoining properties to remove night soil. This image is an example from South Melbourne, an older Melbourne suburb. Similar lanes survive in many parts of Melbourne's CBD; many have been painted with murals that now attract thousands of tourists.
Brush Creek Falls
Brush Creek Falls State Park
Bluestone River Tributary
Near Princeton, WV
10/19/11
I first saw this beautiful and heavily visited waterfall 20+ years ago when my Aunt and Uncle, who live nearby, took me to see it. Since that time I've shot here 100's of times, but I've never been too happy with the resulting images. I decided that the next time I shot here that I would stop shooting from the same vantage points. During several visits over the recent Autumn season I waded into the middle of the stream or crossed the stream and climbed up the far bank for unique perspectives. I now have numerous images that I'm happy with and this is one of them. Thanks for looking and as always, I appreciate your comments.
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Blue tones on the blue stones that cover this area of the Chesapeake Bay.
A cloudy morning that hid most of the sunrise.
Bluestone Bay is a superb inlet on the eastern side of the Freycinet Peninsula, a few kilometres north of Cape Tourville.
The bay is completely out of character with most of Freycinet as it's shore is covered with pale blue and pink boulders.
Access is via a very eroded 4WD track which starts a kilometre short of the Cape Tourville lighthouse.
Despite the cloud cover the light was quite good and leant itself ideally for a long 30 second exposure which smoothed the water and added some movement to the sky.
I can't quite call this a blue hour shot as it was taken close to midnight, and all around me was very dark to the naked eye. The light comes from a 2/3 moon over my right shoulder combined with an exposure time of around three and a half minutes. Bluestone Bay is a kilometre or two further west from the main township of Port Fairy on Victoria's south coast.
Original slide taken in around 2010 with the 3D World stereo medium format film camera (80mm lenses) using Fuji Provia 100F colour slide film.
Exposure at f2.8 for three and a half minutes.
Scanned with a Canon R10, RF 24-240 lens and Nisi close up attachment.
And, yes, my feet got wet from some surprisingly large waves breaking on the rocks! Thankfully the sturdy Manfrotto tripod stayed rock steady.
Lowered the composition here some to focus more on the rocks along the ledge of the highlands in the Dolly Sods area of West Virginia
Pathway to Port Fairy lighthouse. Built 1859 - from basalt rock. Known in Victoria as "bluestone" it is a very hard and difficult to work rock.
Used in many old buildings around the state.
A swirling cloudscape caught my eye. Built in 1869 this is one of the older buildings in our city. The dark stone is volcanic breccia consisting of fragments of rock lava in a matrix of ash that was ejected from a volcanic vent near our Port Chalmers about 13 million years ago. It is called bluestone.
Some gorgeous late evening light on the rolling contours of the Lincolnshire Wolds. Looking out from the Bluestone Heath Road, in the approx. direction of Belchford.
Overnewton was the residence of William Taylor (1818 – 1903). He was born in Glasgow, Scotland and arrived in Australia in 1840. Soon after his arrival he purchased a sheep station (a large farm) on the Moorabool River some twenty miles from Geelong and subsequently acquired extensive properties totalling 2,048,000 acres in Victoria and New South Wales. William Taylor married Helen Wilson Fisken in 1849 and established the Overnewton property the same year in Keilor, then a district outside of Melbourne.
Overnewton originally covered 13,000 acres of land and a single storey, six roomed homestead was built in the typical style of the period; a colonial cottage with large shuttered windows and wide verandahs. The homestead was positioned on a gentle slope overlooking Keilor and afforded extensive views of the surrounding countryside.
It was not until William Taylor returned from a trip to Scotland in 1859 that the grandeur of his dreams became apparent. He set about turning the functional colonial homestead into a miniature Scottish Baronial Castle. The stately two storeyed wing was added, along with the blue stone dairy and butchery and the private billiard room.
Overnewton is built in the Victorian Tudor style, inspired by 16th century English and Scottish architecture. The Scottish Baronial style is characterised by its rough textured masonry, steeped pitched roofs and overhanging battlement corner turrets. The candle snuffer roofs show the influence of the French architecture. The bluestone walls were quarried on the estate and rendered with a yellow gravel and stucco finish. Above the large windows of the master bedroom is the Taylor family crest - a mailed arm and fist enclosing a dagger and the motto "Semper Fidelis" (always faithful) and above several other windows are the carved initals of HT, T 1859 and WT.
After the completion of this wing the homestead consisted of over thirty-five rooms including seven bedrooms (the master room included a small circular room and a dressing room) schoolroom, library, drawing room, two kitchens, five servants rooms and the billiard room. There are still many original features such as tiles in the bathrooms, claw foot bath and the old IXL wood stove in the kitchen. Several out buildings on the estate include the bluestone butchery and dairy, lamp room, bootroom, coachhouse, stables, woolshed, shearing sheds and machine shed.