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The Albert Dock Conservation Area is characterised by the juxtaposition of buildings and water, created by and for their historic working relationship.
Of necessity the docks and their structures are set apart from the city and not integrated into the city street pattern.
Historically, the Albert Dock complex was separated from the city by a high wall, although a six-lane road now isolates it. The dominant pattern of the area is set by the docks themselves, and streets have been inserted around them.
The impressive views and vistas within or from the Albert Dock Conservation Area, such as the view of the "Three Graces" along Salthouse Quay or the view of the Anglican Cathedral between Warehouses A and E have been achieved incidentally, but nonetheless create a strong maritime character.
The removal of quayside warehousing and transit sheds, particularly around Salthouse Dock and Duke's Dock, have completely opened up views of the docks and the Albert Dock buildings.
At five storeys plus basement the warehouses overshadow most of the other surrounding buildings and structures.
However, as they were all designed with a functional relationship, they work together as an ensemble and the unified design is apparent.
The loss of much of the inland warehousing and its dense street pattern, coupled with the widening of the Strand/ Wapping has given the Albert Dock complex increased visibility across the city at large.
This is a hard working environment, and green spaces are generally alien and absent. However, some trees have been introduced (along Salthouse Quay and also to soften the car-parking areas on Gower Street) and these do not in any way detract from the character of the area.
LIVERPOOL CONSERVATION AREA APRIL 2013
What started out being a really dumb mistake ended up with some really cool looking images.
I took a long photowalk this afternoon down to Lake Harriet with my Holga and Kodak Brownie. After finishing off the Holga, I opened it up and took the film out, then realizing that 120 film really doesn't have that much protecting it. So after getting home and developing it, i had a lot of faded light leaked photos. But as I started scanning, I enjoyed them a whole lot.
Taken with Holga 120S, Kodak TMax 100
Docking Church in Norfolk was another which I encountered while house-hunting last weekend. The church is dedicated to St Mary The Virgin. It mostly dates from the 14th and 15th century with Victorian restorations.
www.flickr.com/photos/barryslemmings/sets/72157634462340597/ to see the full set.
While in the village I was told that there is an archaeological project locally to try and find a lost 12th to 14th century priory. One theory is that this failed priory made be under the present parish church but test digs have been held around the village to play 'hunt the thimble' or - in this case - "hunt the priory', so far without success.
In his three-volume guide to Norfolk churches author Adrian S. Pye suggests that the tombstone of John Houton (d. 1428) near the south porch of Docking Church is the oldest surviving tombstone in Norfolk.
English Jesuit martyr Henry Walpole (executed 1595) was baptised here in 1558. He was later canonized as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
SImon_Knott tells me that Docking is the highest town in Norfolk so that makes the top of Docking Church probably the highest building in the county, at least pre-1900.
The canal, which was completed in 1826, leads into Glasson Basin. This covers twelve acres and could accommodate seagoing vessels of 200 tons. The basin now shelters ocean-going yachts and is used for wind surfing. Glasson Dock, as part of the Port of Lancaster, was opened in 1787. Grain and timber were the main imports and coal to Ireland was the main export. The opening of Preston Dock in 1892 brought Glasson's period of greatness to an end and it has settled down to the quiet place it is today, although it still serves coasters from Britain and abroad. There are many delightful walks near the Lune Estuary and those to nearby Cockerham Sands Abbey to the south, and the 4-mile footpath walk along the Lune Estuary to Lancaster should not be missed. Glasson Village includes pubs and shops and is built around the dock.
Implementation of a "Dock" using only Rainmeter
Two skins:
AppDock - Application "Dock" using Rainmeter buttons. Fully functional including the Recycle Bin
InfoBar - System information and clock at the top of the screen. Clickable links to GMail and Weather.com
Everything you should need is included:
-New RecycleManager Plugin (put in ..\Rainmeter\Plugins)
-Recycle Bin images and "empty.exe"
-Button images (and the .psd file to modify)
-Background images (and the .psd file to modify)
-Wallpaper
Available on Deviant Art at: jsmorley.deviantart.com/art/JMDock-122054693
Gothenburg docks on a March day.
We went to Gothenburg for a business trip and in a weeks time we had only one day with some proper free time.
That day I took about 300 photos.
It's also funny to think how they had so springy feeling there and no snow at all, almost 1,5 months before. This week it's been snowing like crazy here in Finland, no springtime anywhere. Gothenburg isn't that much more south afterall.
Somebody once wrote.....Between the deep stonethwaite valley and the shallow depression containing Bleatarn gill rises an indefinite and complex mass of rough undulating ground,a place of craggy and wooded slopes. of heathery tors and mossy swamps and shy little tarns.....a beautiful labyrinth, a joy to the explorer. Nestling here is Dock tarn, a jewel deserving a sweeter name.
Containers at a Dock hmmmm also in Germany (Emmerich).
HDR with 3 images (-2,0,2 ev.) and photomatix. After that I did some filterwork in photoshop and played with the levels.
taken with Fuji 645zi with FP$ developed in Pyrocat, printed in Kentmere Fineprint warm tone, developed in Rollei lith...no toning. I'm going to miss my Kentmere when I run out!
Unlike Victoria Dock, Camperdown Dock is still technically part of the working Port of Dundee. It has however, been rendered inaccessible from the sea due to a defective lock gate.
Languishing alongside its eastern quay, accompanied by a sunken trawler, is the former Aberdeen harbour tug Sea Griffon, which doesn't look as if it will be going anywhere very soon!
Peckett 0-6-0 saddle tank 'Henbury' (W/No.1937 built in 1940) shunting Avonmouth Docks in November 1964.
© Gordon Edgar collection - photographer Paul Strong - all rights reserved. Please do not download, copy, or use this image without my explicit prior permission
With the aftermath of the great war still very much on everyone's minds. And with the looming threat of evil, King Tyrion knows that the Isle needs all the friends it can get. So, he has decided to send aid to his longtime friends and neighbors to reinforce relationships and to offer alliances to others. King Tyrion has also decreed that the harbor dock wall is to be rebuilt and fortified. It has long withstood attack, but it is very old and needs to be rebuilt. The King hopes that all will accept his gesture of friendship.
A simple boat dock at the public access site along the St. Joseph River down streem from the Constantine, MI dam. It was late in the day on an overcast day and I liked the reflections.
Photographed using Kodak Portra 160NC film using a 6x9 roll film back on my Horseman VH-R field camera. I used a 90mm lens. Metering was by averaging using the Sekonic 758DR.