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My grandfather Reuben S. Horst took this photo in Celles, Belgium in 1948.
Celles is a village in the municipality of Houyet in the province of Namur, Belgium. It is also the farthest point that the German Army advanced during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II.
I believe the sign reads, translated from French, Here is where the Rundstedt-Offensive, was halted on December 24, 1944
Today this Panther G tank still sits in this same spot. Here is some information I discovered about the tank from doing a little searching on line.
The Celles Panther was part of the German Army Kampfgruppe von Cochenhausen, 2nd Panzer Division. On 21st December Panzer Lehr battle group was pulled out of the fight for Bastogne and regrouped with 2nd Panzer Division and the 116th Panzer Division Windhund for an assault on the town of Dinant to secure the crossing over the river Meuse. It fought its way through the town of St Hubert and the road to Dinant seemed open. Rochefort was taken on 23rd December 1944.
On the 24th December 1944 the advanced column of Panther tanks approached the junction of the N510 road with the N48. The local story is that the German's asked at the cafe if the road to Dinant was open, had vehicles been using it recently. The staff said it was mined and dangerous so the Panzer V commander decided to go through the fields. This Panzer V Ausf. G was the lead tank. It drove over a mine and was put out of action in the field below the Chateau Acteau.
It was left there for some time after the war. The Americans tested anti tank weapons on it. American Army engineers stripped it to try and make it lighter but they could not get it out of the field. It was during this period that the hatches, tracks and road wheels were removed. The Panther had ejectable hatches, so the crew would eject them and leave them on the ground. The cafe owner Marthe Monrique rescued the tank from the field in 1948 and put in pride of place next to the Cafe called "Le Tank" at the crossroads, as a monument.
A little more on the battle around Celles. When Panzer Lehr resumed its advance to Dinant it ran into the combat command A of the US 2nd Armored Division near Buissonville. On Christmas Day the protective winter thick cloud cover disappeared and the full force of the Allies air power was deployed, bringing the Panzer Divisions to a virtual standstill. The majority of 2nd Panzer's tanks, under Major Ernst von Cochenhausen had become surrounded near the town of Celles.
On 26th of December the rest of Panzer Lehr made two attempts to relieve them but they were turned back by allied fighter bombers. Cochenhausen and 600 or so of his men managed to escape on foot, having been forced to abandon all of the Division's tanks and equipment to the advancing Allies.
Peering into a cell at the Essex County Jail, with an in tact sink and bed.
This particular cell was locked, which likely helped to ensure it stay relatively preserved. Many of the other cells in this facility were in worse shape as they have been used by the homeless for the last few decades.
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Il temporale di venerdi pomeriggio con formazione di una super cella
The storm by Friday afternoon with the formation of a super cell
Intermission at the concert. The moment the lights came on, the cell phones came out. It's a sign of the times.
Moundsville, WV
November 3rd, 2014
The Former West Virginia State Penitentiary, a National Historic Places Registered facility, operated by the Moundsville Economic Development Council in Moundsville, West Virginia.
The history of this historic penitentiary:
"The prison at Joliet provided the prototype for the West Virginia Penitentiary. It was an imposing stone structure fashioned in the castellated Gothic architectural style (adorned with turrets and battlements, like a castle). Only the dimensions of West Virginia's facility would differ; it would be approximately one-half the size of Joliet.
No architectural drawings of the West Virginia Penitentiary have been discovered, so an understanding of the plan developed by the Board of Directors must be obtained through their 1867 report, which details the procurement of a title for ten acres of land and a proposal to enclose about seven acres. On the north side would be a street 60 feet in width, and on the west 140 feet for street and yard to the front buildings.
The prison yard would be a parallelogram 682 1/2 feet in length, by 352 1/2 feet in width, enclosed by a stone wall 5 feet in thickness at the bottom, 2 1/2 feet at the top, with foundation 5 feet below the surface, and wall 25 inches thick. At each of the corners of this wall would be large turrets, for the use of the guards, with inside staircases. Guardrooms would be above on a level with the top of the main. The superintendent's house and cell buildings would be so placed that the rear wall of each would form part of the west wall. "
SOURCE: www.wvpentours.com/history.htm
The Ash Street Jail
New Bedford, MA
January 6th, 2016
The oldest continuously working jail in the United States.
The Ash Street Jail and Regional Lock-Up, located in New Bedford, Massachusetts, is a jail for inmates who are awaiting trial from Bristol County, MA.
The Ash Street Jail was built in 1888 on the site of the New Bedford House of Correction and the former New Bedford County Jail that was built in 1829. It is currently overseen by Bristol County Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson, who feels that although he has been heavily criticized for keeping the 180-year-old facility open, that keeping it open is a good idea because jail should be a place that "people don't want to return".
Due to alleged unsafe conditions, including the absence of automatic door locks, the jail has been the subject of lawsuits.
This was shot in 2007 and I reprocessed this as "HDR" just recently. You can find this shot with basic processing in my "E.S.P" set.
Cell phone pic!
HaHa - I guess I've entered the modern world at last - now I just have to figure out how to "text" somebody.
These young ladies were standing on a seawall at the Ponce De Leaon Historical Park in Punta Gorda watching the sunset while taking pictures with their cell phones. I was down on the narrow beach below with my camera on a tripod... I swung it around and took this shot. I guess they didn't notice the photographer taking pictures of the photographers... :D
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Eastern State Penitentiary
Philadelphia, PA
May 26th, 2014
One of the tops views of Cell Block Seven that is often photographed. I lucked out and got there early enough before anyone else was in the shot
Some info from the E.S.P. website:
"Most eighteenth century prisons were simply large holding pens. Groups of adults and children, men and women, and petty thieves and murderers, sorted out their own affairs behind locked doors. Physical punishment and mutilation were common, and abuse of the prisoners by the guards and overseers was assumed.
In 1787, a group of well-known and powerful Philadelphians convened in the home of Benjamin Franklin. The members of The Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons expressed growing concern with the conditions in American and European prisons. Dr. Benjamin Rush spoke on the Society's goal, to see the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania set the international standard in prison design. He proposed a radical idea: to build a true penitentiary, a prison designed to create genuine regret and penitence in the criminal's heart. The concept grew from Enlightenment thinking, but no government had successfully carried out such a program.
It took the Society more than thirty years to convince the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to build the kind of prison it suggested: a revolutionary new building on farmland outside Philadelphia."
For More info: www.easternstate.org/learn/research-library/history
A block of flats in the West Coast Area of Singapore last month. Was the first and so far only time I had to deal with serious moire effects (in the three stairwells). Couldnt remove entirely. Its another tradeoff of the leica m9, it sacrifices the AA filter to improve sharpness at the risk of moire/aliasing artifacts.
edit: moire situation much improved thanks to Nathij below.
Leica M9 + Leica Summicron-m 28mm f/2 ASPH
@ 1/250s, ISO 160, f/8
Recommend you click to view the larger size.
With hundreds of thousands photographers in this city. It’s extremely difficult to stand out. It easy to copy a style but it’s even more challenging to develop your own. You’ll never know how much work and time it takes to just get one stand out photo let alone a portfolio. It’s the hard that makes the journey worth it. You want to have fun but if you’re trying to make it in the big leagues it takes a relentless spirit. I’ll never be a Gordon Parks, but I can’t help but to try. Hopefully my next post from the city will show growth and not be so repetitive. I’m here for the challenge to get out of the minor league.
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