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The Loretto Chapel was built in the 1870s. The chapel is mostly famous for its helix-shaped spiral staircase that some people claim to be a miracle. A hotel, spa, restaurant, and a small mall corridor have been built connected to the chapel over the years...
Loretto Chapel - Santa Fe, New Mexico
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The plasterwork here is nearly 100 years old. Its amazing that it has lasted this long considering the house's history.
For a history of the Candler Mansion:
The Great Hall at Hampton Court is spanned by a large and extravagantly decorated hammer-beam roof and its walls are hung with Henry VIII’s most splendid tapestries.
This huge hall (60 ft high, 108 ft long and 40 ft) was used for banquets, receptions, masques and balls, and other functions. In 2005 Prime Minister Tony Blair chaired a meeting of the Heads of State and Government of the European Union.
The hall has been repaired a number of times, including repairs to the magnificent roof having been damaged by death-watch beetle.
The Brussels tapestries on the side walls of the hall date from the early 16th Century and are of the finest sets of their style and kind in existence.
The Hall's intricately carved minstrel's gallery and screens, stained-glass windows, and magnificent tapestries present a scene of singular richness and beauty.
Read more: www.tourist-information-uk.com/the-great-hall-hampton-cou...
Lagrangeville, NY. October 2016.
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One chapter closes, another begins. We all know the drill...
I began my foray into retail photography in 2011. Sometimes we wish time could stand still, that a moment could be preserved for the future and saved from being thrown in the memory hole to be lost forever. Photography has been there for me as a hobby for me through the good times and pushed me to overcome those times that were horrible. Over the years, I've grown as a photographer and most importantly, as a person. I've met or talked to many great people and truly appreciate the support from all of you over the years. Through photography, I was given a sense of purpose in this world that sometimes seems to be lacking one.
Please enjoy these photos from my trip to the Galleria mall in downtown Cleveland back in June 2015. I somehow never got around to posting these photos from one of my all-time favorite photoshoots. These photos to me symbolize the high point of my photography, as I was actually being filmed by a crew from Vice at the time (visible in the background of some of these shots). I was always going on day trips to photograph new locations and posting regularly back then too. It seems like now is as fitting of a time as any to post some of these shots.
One of the hard lessons of life is that nothing lasts forever... I'm now 23 and focusing on going forth with a career. Lately, I've been mostly working six days a week; it doesn't appear that will change anytime in the near future. A large part of me wants to continue to capture and post new photos, but sadly I just don't have the time anymore. I have never made money off of my photography nor do I see any path towards doing so. One day, I still plan to own my own business and hopefully even have time for photography again. I'd love to get permission to explore abandoned places plus take the time and effort to capture some amazing photos that would put anything I have done up to this point to shame. It looks like it is going to be a while before (or even if) that happens though. I will likely still post some things sporatically, but nothing like I used to.
So one chapter closes and another begins. There's plenty to look forward to on the road ahead plus i'll be sure to look back on the past every so often.
So, it is with a heavy heart that I say farewell, at least for now...
Thank you all for being there through this journey; I wish you all the best and hope you all are successful on your own endeavours.
-Nicholas Eckhart
Meadville, PA. October 2015.
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The working end of a lift in a giant warehouse which stored the fertilizer before loading into a railroad car. Entrance to this walkway was an outside protected ladder which is now collapsed.
So Patrick is sad that he couldn't climb up to this viewpoint while Nancy is happy that silly Patrick couldn't climb up to this viewpoint!
This is my ceiling fan that is working hard at keeping us cool.. We are still hot with it on. I got up from my desk , grabbed my camera to go outside and take a picture of the moon. I sat down on my couch to talk to my daughter. Got so comfortable and sleepy that I couldn't move to get outside. So instead of the moon I got the ceiling fan!!! Sorry
The ceiling of the Hypostyle Hall at Dendera Temple is enriched with an incredible amount of figurative detail carved in low relief and painted in subtle shades against a blue background. The subjects include numerous deities and hybrid figures (some familiar, others much less so) and even astrological elements, such as recognisable figures from the zodiac.
Over the centuries the ceiling had become so darkened by dirt and soot to become heavily obscured and hard to read, and this is how I saw it for the first time in the 1990s, when many visitors probably missed it altogether. Now it has been fully cleaned and restored it shines again not only as one of the glories of the temple but one of the most remarkable surviving decorative schemes of ancient Egypt. The contrast with its previous blackened, unrestored condition is dramatic, giving an entirely different impression from our previous visit.
The Temple of Hathor at Dendera is one of Egypt's best preserved and most beautiful ancient shrines. This magnificent edifice dates to the Ptolemaic period, late in Egyptian history, though the site long had been the cult centre for the goddess Hathor for centuries before (the earliest extant remains date to c360BC but a temple is recorded here as far back as c2250BC). Most of the main building dates to the reigns of the last Cleopatras and further decoration and building work within the complex continued in the Roman period up to the reign of Trajan.
The dominant structure in the complex is the Temple of Hathor, an enormous structure with a rectangular facade punctuated by the Hathor-headed columns of the hypostyle hall within. This hall is an architectural wonder, a masterpiece of ancient Egyptian design and decoration, which covers every surface and has been recently cleaned, revealing a superb astrological ceiling in all its original vibrant colours.
Sadly there was much iconoclasm here during the early Christian period and most of the reliefs of the walls and pillars have been defaced. Worse still is the damage to the 24 Hathor-head capitals: not one of the nearly a hundred huge faces of the goddess that once smiled down on this hall has been left unblemished, most with their features cruelly chiselled away.
The main temple building is otherwise structurally intact, and extends into further halls and chapels beyond, again with much relief decoration (much of which is again defaced). In one corner is an entrance to a crypt below, an unusual feature in Egyptian temple architecture consisting of several narrow passages adorned with carved relief decoration in good condition.
There are further sanctuaries and chapels above on the roof of the temple, accessed by a decorated staircase and including the room where the famous Dendera Zodiac was formerly located (today its place in the ceiling taken by a cast of the original, now displayed in Paris). The highest part of the roof complex is no longer accessible to tourists, but I can still recall making the ascent there on our first visit in 1992.
Several other buildings surround the main temple, the most impressive of which is the mammisi or 'birth-house'. This consists of a large rectangluar hall surrounded by a colonnade near the entrance to the site and has some well preserved relief decoration on its exterior. Most of this structure dates to the Roman period, but the ruins of its predecessor built under Nectanebo II (Egypt's last native pharoah) stand nearby.
Dendera temple is one of the most rewarding in Egypt and shouldn't be missed. It is one of the most complete and evocative ancient monuments in the country and its recent restoration has revealed a surprisingly extensive amount of colour surviving within (we were amazed by the dramatic contrast with the soot-blackened ceiling we'd beheld on our previous visit in the 1990s). Despite its relative youth (in Egyptian terms at least!) it is easily one of my favourite sites in Egypt.