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Something a little different this evening. Here we see remains of the Bluestone Branch that Norfolk Southern stopped using back in the mid 1980's. The line begins in Bluestone, Wv and ends around Giatto, Wv. The line that was originally N&W, now sits silent and overgrown, and in some places actually runs through people's back yards.
An early bluestone farm building in the grounds of the Werribee Park Mansion. The wall near the open door and right window has been restored.
Werribee Park Mansion.
Werribee.
Victoria.
Meat House and Cool Store, or Rations Store.
Built in c.1852, this store is the earliest substantially intact building surviving at Werribee Park.
Its high-pitched shingle roof is still visable under the later tin, and its cobbled floor is similar to many 19th centuary british farm buildings.
There is no fireplace, so it was unlikely to have been used as a residence.
By the 1920's it was used as a meat house and cool store.
It was possibly from here that the weekly rations of food were made to the men on the property."
- Werribee Park, published by Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works Parks.
Got very lucky here as the intention was to get a shot of the yellow flowers and the bridge in the background. As I got down low I heard the train departing the station and only had to wait about 30 seconds before it could be included in the shot.
Stonehedge, Salisbury, England.
The intriguing and prehistoric monument of Stonehenge, that earlier awoke my interest eight years ago as one of the most ancient and conclusive architectural remainings in the history of art, revealed us an even more misterious and yet partially unkwown fact. The structure of the circle, is made up of two different stones: Sarsen and Bluestones. Whilst the first is native of the place where the monument is built, the second has only been found a hundred miles from it, in the South of Wales. Why did they bring these heavy stones from a long distance, unless they strongly believed that it has an irreplaceable effect?
Cool color for this moment in time ... this was just after the sun set and blue hour was taking hold in West Virginia.
This is Bluestone Lake in Summers County, (southern) West Virginia (about twenty miles from my house). Bluestone State Park is located here as well. And, Pipestem Resort State Park is just a few miles away. Pipestem has an aerial tramway to one of their lodges located at the bottom of Bluestone Gorge.
Stonehenge a Scheduled Ancient prehistoric monument located 2 miles west of Amesbury in Wiltshire.
One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is the remains of a ring of standing stones set within earthworks. It is in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds.
Archaeologists believe it was constructed from 3,000 BC to 2,000 BC. The surrounding circular earth bank and ditch, which constitute the earliest phase of the monument, have been dated to about 3,100 BC. Radiocarbon dating in 2008 suggested that the first bluestones were raised between 2,400 and 2,200 BC. Another theory suggests the bluestones may have been raised at the site as early as 3,000 BC.
The site and its surroundings were added to the UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites in 1986 in a co-listing with Avebury Henge. It is a national legally protected Scheduled Ancient Monument. Stonehenge is owned by the Crown and managed by English Heritage, while the surrounding land is owned by the National Trust.
Archaeological evidence found by the Stonehenge Riverside Project in 2008 indicates that Stonehenge could have been a burial ground from its earliest beginnings. The dating of cremated remains indicate that deposits contain human bone from as early as 3000 BC, when the ditch and bank were first dug. Such deposits continued at Stonehenge for at least another 500 years.
Model, Samantha Bennett, in old bluestone ruins near Sunbury, Victoria. Nikon D700 with SB800 flash, CLS.
Features the old external bluestone walls leading to another room beyond. The Conversation Quarter has a stage, large screen for events and chairs. Talking in groups is encouraged! The State Library is made up of a number of buildings that over time have been covered over and connected. It's a real warren with tunnels, storage, off-site collection storage in Ballarat and great artwork as well as family history, local history resources. If you are not a member do join as there are a very large number of eResources freely available from home!
The main Presbyterian Church, St George’s in La Trobe Terrace was built in 1861. Behind it is a superb basalt two storey manse. The church closed in 2011 and is now vacant. By 1900 there were six Presbyterian churches in central Geelong
This cooler toned blue hour capture there at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone really seems to pop. This could be interesting as a high contrast B&W maybe. Might have to try it out.
I thought this would like nice up against that orange sky from the Badlands that was also taken on this trip ... so these two images can compliment each other there in the photostream;))