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My family and I just returned from an (all too short) trip to Gatlinburg, Tennesse and the adjacent Great Smoky Mountains National Park in eastern Tennessee/Western North Carolina. www.nps.gov/grsm/index.htm
While in the area we stayed at The Lodge at Buckberry Creek www.buckberrylodge.com/ which proved to be a thoroughly enjoyable and quite rustic place to stay. It also afforded us a nice view of Clingmans Dome - the second highest mountain in all of the entire Appalachian range...(although to be honest, at 6600', it would be considered a "hill" at best if it was located in the western united states).
This photo is a 3-shot bracketed HDR from our patio toward Clingmans dome (center of photo). While I didn't get many photographic opportunities while on the trip, Ill post what I was able to capture over the next few weeks.
20210705_9837_7D2-100 Orange bracket fungi
Shot on my 4km Bottle Lake Forest walk this morning.
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So this is my first attempt at putting together a collage style photo composed of multiple different layers captured at different windlights. Like a stack. I need to work on controlling light better so I can get highlights rather than just different colors. I kinda like it though!
It was a tenet of the arts and crafts movement, said by William Morris, that you should ''Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.' As a result, even the humblest of objects were made original and interesting, including this bracket on a lead downpipe. It has an embossed monkey, and there were at least two other animals featured.
Beat the heat.
On the Ashridge Estate again today. I swear this has appeared since last week when we did this walk. Though more likely I just didn’t notice it.
In fact an oil lamp bracket. The bracket is on the footbridge at Danzey station and dates from GWR days when the station had no gas or electricity and the only lighting was from Tilley lamps.
The train approaching is the 172332 with the 11.56 Stourbridge Junction to Stratford-upon-Avon service.
This was my last pre-lockdown picture.
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150274 rolls into Blackpool North station with 2N97, the 1720 from Manchester Victoria.
The sole surviving signal box in Blackpool, the 1896, Lancashire and Yorkshire-built Blackpool North No.2 stands on the left of the frame.
Designer; Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
About 1851
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
"Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin was the most important promoter and designer of the mid-1800's revival of the Gothic style. In 1846, Pugin was hired to oversee the the furnish of the houses of Parliament, where this bracket clock was originally installed. He used plaster casts of well-known English and French Gothic architectural features as inspiration for the motifs of vines, trefoils, ribbons, and beveled corners. These elements added a dynamic composition to the restrained clock form."
It pleased me as an engineer to see something functional in an art museum. I often think that there is impressive beauty in functional things that are well done. The most obvious of example of this would be classic cars, but other things like clocks can be works of art too.
Spotted these cool looking fungi growing up the trunk of a tree in a wooded area of the lake. They were above my head. I flipped the photos to get a better look. They remind me a bit of stacks of french toast.
Alder Bracket (Mensularia radiata)
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Amusing graffiti on heavy duty metal bracket in Soap Yard.
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