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Vintage gasoline pump at a former gas station in Santa Barbara, California.
According to the property owner, the underground gasoline storage tanks were removed in the 1980s, along with the last of the later pumps that once occupied this service island.
The property is vacant as of early 2021, but the station building has potential to become a coffee shop, pub, or other business.
Shadow play or shadow puppetry is an ancient form of storytelling and entertainment using opaque, often articulated figures in front of an illuminated backdrop to create the illusion of moving images. It is popular in various cultures. At present, more than 20 countries are known to have shadow show troupes.
The Turkish tradition of shadow play called Karagöz and Hacivat was widespread throughout the Ottoman Empire and featured characters representing all of the major ethnic and social groups in that culture. It was performed by a single puppet master, who voiced all of the characters, and accompanied by a classical Ottoman music ensemble. Its origins are obscure, deriving perhaps from an older Egyptian tradition, or possibly from an Asian source.
During the 19th century these characters were adapted to the Greek language and culture, Karagöz and Hacivat becoming Karagiozis and Hadjiavatis with each of the characters assuming stereotypically Greek personalities. This tradition thrived throughout Greece after independence as popular entertainment for a largely adult audience, particularly before competition arose from television. The stories did, however, retain the period setting in the late years of the Ottoman Empire. Karagiozis theatre has undergone some revival in recent years, with the intended audience tends largely juvenile.
...taken at the Energy Museum section of SantralIstanbul...
Istanbul, Turkey...
The Goethe House (the yellow house to the right) is one of the 12 buildings/ensembles that the World Heritage consists of. In the late 18th century and early 19th century the town of Weimar witnessed a remarkable cultural flowering, attracting many writers and scholars. The German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was one of them. He settled in Weimar in 1775 and in 1782 he moved in to this house. He became friends with German poet Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805). This relationship and these discussions led to a period now referred to as Weimar Classicism.
Unesco World Heritage: "Classical Weimar", ref 846.
The Chjimes Singapore May 2008
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People come & go [as they please]. The busyness of life [or as we humans would refer to as the daily grind] reveals its true self to us; simply observing the scene from atop Interstate-5 only gives us a glimpse of all that activity pertaining to life.
Photo captured via Minolta AF-Maxxum 16mm Fisheye F/2.8 lens. City of Seattle. Central Puget Lowland section within the Puget Sound Lowlands Region. King County, Washington. Late August 2022.
Exposure Time: 13 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/8 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 3350 K ** Color Grading: Kodak E100VS
Greek sculpture (450 - 330 BC)
Roman and Greek goddess of wisdom and strategic warfare, and sponsor of arts, trade and strategy.
The Louvre
Paris, France
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Although best known for its theme park, Alton Towers is home not only to one of the most fantastical ruined houses in the country, but also one of its very finest gardens.
The gigantic houses stands - or rather, slowly crumbles - as a monument to the megalomania, and indeed wealth, of two successive Earls of Shrewsbury. It was the 15th Earl who began to enlarge the house in around 1810, and started work on the gardens in 1814. His nephew, succeeding in 1827, embarked upon a career of compulsive fantasy building on a scale equalled only by Ludwig II of Bavaria.
At least eight architects were involved at Alton Towers. James Wyatt was one of the first, but he died in 1813, so cannot be held responsible for a great deal. One of the last, Augustus Pugin, appeared in 1837, but most of his work was largely confined to decoration.
The 15th Earl crammed the park and gardens with buildings and follies of one kind or another. The chief builder of these was Robert Abraham, who was responsible for the vaguely oriental conservatory, together with the orangery, rotunda, screw fountain, gothick prospect tower, classical loggia and Chinese pogoda fountain, amongst others.
The Pagoda Fountain is one of the most impressive and memorable features in the Gardens, using gravity to propel water up to 70ft into the air. The architect, Robert Abraham, had originally envisioned a six-story Pagoda, but the plans were scaled back to the three-storey structure that still operates today. It is said to be modelled on the To-Ho Pagoda in Canton.
The temple was built in Tang Dynasty. After six times of fire, sixteen times of enlargement and repair in Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was built to be today’s size in 1882 AD (the eighth year of Guangxu Emperor, Qing Dynasty). It covers an area of 9,8000 square meters. The temple is of nine layers and four courtyards. It consists of Jiuxing Door, Kuixing Pavilion, Yubei Pavilion, Jiaying Door, Yushu House, Main Hall, Bedroom, east and west side doors and four turrets. The Main Hall is the main body of the building, with the largest scale, which is also called Big Hall or Shengdi Hall. It is 24 meters high, with 72 stone stelae, symbolizing the 72 peaks of Southern Sacred Mountain. The wood carving of jumping dragon and flying phoenix under the eaves and the wood carving on the door are very delicate.
Tropical forest,(green), fishing boat (yellow),sea water(blue), a classical scene for south east Asia. Great Color, Great Joy. Simple is everything.
An outtake from a shoot I did for my school's fashion magazine :)
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Even almost five months later I remember how this photo came to be. Turning around at Shea's and starting to head back south along Main Street on its other side I almost made the mistake of feeling the photo outing was over and ... #etbtsy
Continued on my blog: Kodak stroll through Buffalo, New York
Photographed with a 35mm Nikon FE2 camera on Kodak T-Max 100 Black & White Negative Film, developed in replenished D-23 developer.
Keynsham is a small town between Bath and Bristol. Nice little place, but it's fair to say it's nothing out of the ordinary. But shoot an archway in black and white...
Frontage of a classical styled building that I am currently working on. Inspired by the Royal Banqueting House in Whitehall, the model is around half scale for OO. The large proportions of the real building mean that it will be able to be used alongside standard OO models.
A mixture of simplistic 3D card work and photographic texture will hopefully enable the eye to read this as a suitably impressive edifice.
Out of the three subtypes of the C56 family, .22 had both front and middle doors being single leaf ones, opening outwards like on coaches.
This allowed for cramming in a few more seats, making this subtype more ideal for long-distance routes. More than a hundred of these .22 variants were built between 1999 and 2002, some with Rába D10, but most of them with Detroit Diesel engines.
Most of them are still in active service; on this image, Eger's HHG-117 plated pure white C56.22 is balancing between the potholes near Egercsehi, on its way to Bélapátfalva.
Like with most of Agria Volán's fleet, it used to sport a lovely blue-white livery before the Volánbusz-era came along with the "make it pure white or pure yellow, we can't decide either" brand statement.
Performing at the UBC President's Reception for delegates to the 2019 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
With access limited to plane or boat, the tiny but scenic Alaskan town of Gustavus really has little need for more than one gas station —let alone a fully modern one. This is the one and only station in town and these pumps are as operable as the day they were first used decade ago.
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