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With ‘Specials’ Bullnose bricks to make the column more attractive, and take away the sharp 90° corners.
I recently spent some more time shooting at the Don Valley Brickworks in Toronto. Always a great place to shoot...
Porth Wen, near Amlwch, UK. The vague history of the works can be read on Wikipeadia, here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porth_Wen_Brickworks This is one fabulously romantic site that I have wanted to visit for a long time. It's not easy to get to, but well worth the hike from Cemaes. We picked an amazing day to go, but perhaps a bit more cloud would have helped the photos. If you intend to visit then visit soon as the sea will soon reclaim the crushing house and one of the kilns. The chimneys look very dodgy too!
Porth Wen, near Amlwch, UK. The vague history of the works can be read on Wikipeadia, here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porth_Wen_Brickworks This is one fabulously romantic site that I have wanted to visit for a long time. It's not easy to get to, but well worth the hike from Cemaes. We picked an amazing day to go, but perhaps a bit more cloud would have helped the photos. If you intend to visit then visit soon as the sea will soon reclaim the crushing house and one of the kilns. The chimneys look very dodgy too!
A tiny section of Knole just to show the concentration of building work within it's itself .
Knole feels almost weighed down by its own history – six centuries of it. People are often impressed by all the absolutes of Knole: its enormous size, the number of rooms, its completeness. But those who live, work and visit here love its quiet dignity, its almost melancholy feel – the grandeur has passed but its old, glinting beauty remains.
What we see today is a remarkably preserved and complete early Jacobean remodelling of a medieval archiepiscopal palace. From an even older manor house, it was built and extended by the Archbishops of Canterbury after 1456. It then became a royal possession during the Tudor dynasty when Henry VIII hunted here and Elizabeth I visited.
From 1603, Thomas Sackville made it the aristocratic treasure house for the Sackville family, who were prominent and influential in court circles. Knole's showrooms were designed to impress visitors and to display the Sackville family’s wealth and status.
Over more than 400 years, his descendants rebuilt and then furnished Knole in two further bursts of activity. First, at the end of the 17th century, when the 6th Earl acquired Stuart furniture and textiles from royal palaces, and again at the end of the 18th century, with the 3rd Duke's art collection.
The Sackvilles gradually withdrew into the heart of the house, leaving many rooms unused and treasures covered. This helps to explain the relative lack of modernisation at Knole (central heating was never installed in the showrooms, for example) and the survival of its collections.
Knole has been welcoming visitors to see its splendours and curiosities for centuries. We know that visitors have followed the same route as you do today for at least the last 400 years.
There's a popular myth that Knole is a calendar house - with 365 rooms, 52 staircases, 12 entrances and 7 courtyards. While fascinating, the reality is that it all depends on how you count the rooms and Knole is such a large, rambling estate that it would be impossible to say for certain.
When the National Trust acquired the house in 1946, the majority of the rooms were leased back to the Sackville family, with the Trust retaining the more formal spaces. The 7th Baron Sackville and his family still live at Knole today in private apartments.
Now, visitors can experience so many different parts of Knole, from the grand showrooms to the cosy Gatehouse Tower, the tranquil Orangery to the sweeping parkland. Discover the vast estate and all it has to offer, home to a world-class collection of portraits and furniture, a state-of-the-art conservation studio and a wild deer herd. There really is something for everyone at Knole.
info taken from NT webpage on Knole .
Stewartby Brickworks on a mucky day. This site used to be one of the foremost brick making sites in the country making 5,000,000 a year at its height. I believe that the chimneys are due to be demolished as they are considered unsafe. If this is done a new one will be built as part of a heritage site commemorating the all of Bedfordshire's brick production heritage.
Fort Pulaski National Monument is located on Cockspur Island at the mouth of the Savannah River just east of Savannah, Georgia. Built to protect the city of Savannah, the structure was part of the Third System of forts built to protect the United States after the War of 1812. Today it stands as one of the best-preserved examples of these coastal defenses.
The Third System refers to 19th century military architecture in the United States. Shoreline defense was fragmented and weak when the British burned the nation's capital during the War of 1812. At the time coastal defenses were composed of a haphazard assortment of batteries and outposts. In response to lessons learned in the War of 1812, a new coastal defense system was designed. This new defense system was an attempt to protect critical United States shorelines.
The Third System was established during a relatively peaceful time for the United States. These conditions provided for an unprecedented level of standardization in design and planning. For the first time, a professional board was appointed to oversee design and construction. Close to 200 forts were envisioned to guard the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, however only 30 were built between 1816-1867. Some structures were never completed in part because of events at Fort Pulaski during the Civil War.
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D5000 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11