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After the Cathedral and the Guildhall, this is probably the single most-photographed building in the entire city, despite the fact that its unusual gable is a late-19th century invention. Still, it remains an important Grade I listed building and the finest of its type still left in the city.
The area of Cathedral Close, Exeter has been in the centre of Exeter, England, since Roman times when there was a basilica and a bath house in this area. A church was established here by the seventh century when a young Saint Boniface came from Crediton to study. The area was walled after 1283 and seven gates into the yard were created. The gates included one at St Petrocks and the original grand entrance into the yard - Broadgate. This created the cathedral close.
In the centre of the green is a statue of Richard Hooker, a 16th-century Anglican theologian, who was born in Exeter.
Semana Del Close Up (Close Up Week) #7
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A sunny Saturday afternoon at home turned into an overcast one when we drove a few miles east to Wells. Ho hum!
Always a pleasant place to wander around, the area around the cathedral was pretty busy with foreign tourists. I ventured up Vicars Close and managed to take a few shots without too many tourists being in the way.
Former Greater Manchester vehicles travelled far and wide following deregulation in 86. Some were sold on as far as Scotland, others went further south, a few even made it to Hong Kong! For some, home was where the heart was and the former 7070 was purchased by Ribble and plied Greater Manchester's streets once more.
The 1972 built Atlantean is seen at Bolton's Moor Lane bus station in 1987 with Ribble's post NBC attractive livery sitting well on the Park Royal body.
The bus eventually became a Playbus and would later be stored on 'Death Farm' at Westhoughton, only a few miles from where this photo was taken. It has since been acquired by the SELNEC preservation society as a source of spares, the registration now sitting on a Land Rover Discovery.
Hiking in the Berchtesgadener Alps close to Königssee - and who said, the Samyang 12mm isn't capable to render beautiful sun stars?
Artificial intelligence #3 by Marina Bychkova.
She is as beautiful as the sun, a good counterpart to Sophie, who, to me is more lunar.
Ink fills the crevaces of a lithographic engraving detail on a carrera marble stone. To the left small bubbles of hydrogen, leftovers from etching with nitric acid, can be seen.
Shot with a smartphone camera through a loupe magnifier, the photo is just a single frame of a video depicting a unique photosensitive lithography process. The process itself is akin to the 19th century photography with its use of albumen and ammonium dichromate and a darkroom. UV light is used for irradiating the photosensitive material creating a magical setting in the darkroom, all of which can be seen in the video: youtu.be/O9iJQZbuXnI (the frame in the photo can be seen around 3:20).
This technique and many others are described on the lithographer's website: litografia.pl
Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus) - Nova Scotia, Canada
So many of us have been there. We wait for a take off, and they go the other way leaving us with shots of feet and bird bums. But, sometimes they decide to fly right by you and treat the photographer to a real close encounter. I couldn't pull back fast enough to get the bird all the way in frame, but I was excited about the close up.
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This gets the adrenaline going when you have an expensive camera in your hand and shooting on a 20mm so it's actually a lot closer than it looks.