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The "downside" of indoor / outdoor Kitties.
Bobby went outside Friday night (two weeks ago) as usual, I have not seen him since. We have had super hot and heavy rainstorm weather, so I hope he is with somebody, only because the other options are all bad.
Still holding out hope of his coming home.
Checked Animal Control / Shelter - very nice lady named Amy - Added Bobby to the missing Kitty list.
One downside of using the 100-400mm lens for these shots is that I can't zoom out far enough to fit the largest airplanes like the 747-8 in the frame. I tried this instead. The chevrons on the engine nacelles are an identifying feature of both versions of the 747-8.
Only downside to this trip were the mosquitoes that found my exposed ankles and feasted for a few minutes until I was annoyed enough to put on some repellent! www.summitpost.org/mount-shuksan/150347
The evening walk around Stratton-on-the-Fosse on our first day staying in the village.
Checking out Downside Abbey after closing time, and just before sunset.
The Abbey Church of St Gregory the Great.
Grade I Listed Building
Abbey Church of St Gregory the Great, Downside Abbey
Description
In the entry for:
STRATTON-ON-THE-FOSSE FOSSE WAY
ST 65 SE (west side)
13/187
Abbey Church of St
Gregory The Great,
Downside Abbey and
School
GV
I
The address shall be amended to read:
ST 65 SE FOSSE WAY
5/187 (west side)
Abbey Church of St
Gregory The Great,
Downside Abbey
- I
and the description shall be amended to read
Abbey church and north cloister. Commenced 1873 and as yet unfinished (west front
and two bays of nave are missing). Main building periods 1872-82, c.1890, 1901-5,
1911-12, c.1923-25, 1938. Architects in date order, A M Dunn and E J Hansom,
Thomas Garner, F.A.Walters, Sir G.G.Scott. Interior fittings and furnishings by
the principal architects and Sir J N Comper. Bath stone ashlar with red plain
tile roofs, the east end chapels roofed very conspicuously in copper sheeting.
Abbey church consists of nave with blind aisles and gallery chapels to south over
north cloisters, by Sir G G Scott 1922-25 incorporating temporary west front, in
simplified early Perpendicular style. Transepts with chapels opened 1882 and base
of tower 1884, by A Dunn and E Hansom in early English style; tower finished 1938
by Scott in Somerset Perpendicular. Choir 1902-05 by Thomas Garner in early
Decorated style; east end, ambulatory and radiating chapels with large projecting
Lady Chapel opened 1888 by Dunn and Hansom in a French C13 style. Of the earliest
work by Dunn and Hansom the 2 bays transepts have a rose window to the north,
south transept with tower on south side; tower with much emphasised doorway and
with gabled canopy with figures; with Scott's addition it rises to about 166 ft,
corner buttresses, pinnacles, 3 tiers of 2-light bell-chamber windows. Eight bay
nave with triforium and clerestorey, pierced parapet, 2-light windows, rich
tracery, west end (unfinished) with triple lancets. Chancel of 7 bays, with tall
transomed clerestory windows, pierced parapets, flying buttresses, massive end
pinnacles, 3-light east window. Chapels at east end with much emphasis on
facetted roofs. Interior rib-vaulted in C13 French style; nave with tall
Perpendicular arcades; triforium in Decorated style; richly fitted and furnished
with much high quality work including altars, carvings, tombs, paintings and
stained glass; canopied tomb of Cardinal Gasquet (d.1929) by Sir G G Scott, effigy
by E Carter Preston. The Lady Chapel was decorated, glazed, paved and screened by
Comper.
'The most splendid demonstration of the renaissance of Roman Catholicism in
England' (Pevsner) it was built for a community of Benedictine monks, founded at
St Gregory's monastery at Douai in Flanders in 1607, house re-established in
England 1795, present estate purchased 1813.
References: Pevsner. Buildings of England, North Somerset and Bristol 1958 and
for full description of church: James, Dom Augustine. The Story of Downside Abbey
Church 1961. Fitzgerald-Lombard, Dom C.A guide to the Church of St Gregory the
Great Downside Abbey, 1981.
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STRATTON-ON-THE-FOSSE CP FOSSE WAY (West side)
ST65SE
13/187 Abbey Church of St. Gregory The
Great, Downside Abbey and School
-
GV I
Abbey Church, and north cloister. Work commenced 1872 and as yet unfinished, viz. west end of Abbey Church. For
community of Benedictine monks, founded at St Gregory's Monastery at Douai in northern France, 1601; house
re-established in England 1795, present estate purchased 1814. Bath and Doulting stones, lias; tile and copper sheeting
roofs. Abbey Church consists of nave with blind aisles and gallery chapels to south over north cloister, by Sir G G
Scott c1923-25 incorporating temporary west front, in simplified French Perpendicular style. Transepts with chapels and
base of tower c1882, by A Dunn and C Hansom in rich Early English style; tower finished 1938 by Scott in Somerset
Perpendicular. Chancel c1901-05 by Thomas Garner in Early Perpendicular style; east end, ambulatory and radiating
chapels with large projecting Lady Chapel c1890 by Dunn and Hansom in French Perpendicular style. Of the earliest work
by Dunn and Hansom the 2 bay transepts have a rose window to the north, south transept with tower on south side; tower
with much emphasised door opening, gabled canopy with figures; with Scott's addition it rises to about 160 m, corner
buttresses, pinnacles, 3 tiers of 2-light bell-chamber windows. Eight bay nave with triforium and clerestory, pierced
parapet, 2-light windows, rich tracery, west end with triple lancets. Chancel of 7 bays, with tall transomed clerestory
windows, pierced parapets, flying buttresses, massive end pinnacles, 3-light east window. Chapels at east end with much
emphasis on facetted roofs. Interior rib-vaulted in C13 French style; nave with tall Perpendicular arcades; triforium
in Decorated style; richly fitted and furnished with much high quality work including carvings, tombs, paintings and
stained glass; tomb and recess by Sir Ninian Compter. (Pevsner, Buildings of England, North Somerset and Bristol, 1958;
Fitzgerald-Lombard Dom C, A Guide to the Church of St Gregory the Great Downside Abbey, 1981).
Listing NGR: ST6550550832
Downside conifer tree in Yosemite National Park in California, USA.
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Allways dificult to get a perfect position for the shot. This Araneus (Gartenkreuzspinne) had it's web between 2 halms of grass around 30 cm over the ground and was sitting there with it's head to the bottom. Sorry, i couldn't lie down on the ground for a perfect position because there are too much fucking dangerous insects in the wild which maybe make me brain-stupid after some years after the bite.
More and more macro photography becomes a dangerous hobby ;)
New electronic music synthesizer track in my audio blog: Indigo 100902
Another very good night with the temperature never falling below 17C. The downside being that, even at 5am, the moths were becoming very active and if we'd been emptying the trap outside we'd have lost a lot of them; as it was, we were chasing moths around the conservatory (or moth house, as we tend to think of it) for 3 hours before they were all safely potted. Breakfast has never been more welcome.
List for 12th July 2013:
Map-winged Swift 2
Opostega salaciella 2
Paraswammerdamia nebulella 1
Bryotropha terrella 2
Blastobasis lacticolella 1
Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix 1
Marbled Orchard Tortrix 2
Chrysoteuchia culmella 7
Crambus pascuella 1
Crambus perlella 4
Agriphila tristella 3
Catoptria pinella 1
Scoparia ambigualis 2
Dipleurina lacustrata 8
Brown China-mark 2
Pempelia palumbella 1
Satin Lutestring 4
Large Emerald 1
Riband Wave 2
Silver-ground Carpet 5
Dark Marbled Carpet 1
Common Marbled Carpet 1
Grey Pine Carpet 2
Green Carpet 1
Green Pug 1
Clouded Border 1
Tawny-barred Angle 1
Brimstone Moth 3
Willow Beauty 2
Common White Wave 1
Light Emerald 1
Barred Red 1
Buff-tip 1
Lesser Swallow Prominent 2
Muslin Footman 10
White Ermine 2
Flame 4
Flame Shoulder 2
Large Yellow Underwing 6
True Lover's Knot 1
Purple Clay 3
Double Square-spot 5
Dotted Clay 5
Green Arches 2
Broom Moth 1
Clay 8
Smoky Wainscot 3
Dark/Grey Dagger 1
Coronet 2
Small Angle Shades 1
Dark Arches 5
Small Dotted Buff 1
Green Silver-lines 1
Burnished Brass 2
Gold Spot 4
Beautiful Golden Y 3
Gold Spangle 2
Dark Spectacle 2
Straw Dot 3
Snout 1
Fanfoot 5
Small Fanfoot 1
Marbled Minor agg. 4
Plus others I haven't yet identified
The downside of having thousands of people party outside is obvious in the streets on the night between 30th April and 1st May.
大勢が外で飲んだりする結果はヘルシンキ市の街並みがゴミだらけになってしまいます。
The only downside to this trip was the copious amount of seaweed washing ashore on the beaches of the resort all day, every day. I don't know if this is a seasonal thing or what but it made beach swimming rather unattractive so we stuck mostly to the resort's pool.
"To the memory of Edward Barnard, of Downside, Esquire. who died September 9th, 1641, aged 56".
He was the son of Edward Barnard and Christian daughter of Hugh Whitcombe of Sherborne
He m.Jane d1658 daughter of John Smythes and Joan Bickombe in Wrington, Somerset
Children
Joan d1649 m William Strode 1666 www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/8914180775/
Above are his Arms : Argent, a bear erased Sable, muzzled Or
benno "benno" hankowetz with a downside whip at a spot close to linz.
strobist : one sb 25 to the rigth one to the left and one left behind him
Downside Resource Centre was a care centre for the elderly and people with long-term health conditions. Sadly it has now been closed by the council and stands empty and derelict so I thought it was about time to get some photos. It is just around the corner from me but it was not that easy ! The whole place is fenced off with one gate that was padlocked but after scouting around the back I found a way in through someone elses property ( sorry folks ).
The skip has been here months but little has been done. Time to get a grip on this place I think ..Bracknell Forest Borough Council !!
Downside Abbey (Roman Catholic Basilica of St. Gregory the Great), Benedictine, Somerset, 15 October 2017. Gothic Revival, built 1873-1938, various architects. Pictured is the north aisle. Completed 1925, architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.
Probably the best lens a person aiming for clinical image quality for dSLR can get today (although getting the Olympus equivalent would most probably triple-outresolve this in a click). Although, getting with the calibrating USB dock is probably the right course of action. I would have to say, thx to my friends, that I had the opportunity to try this very hyped lens on a Canon 7D, Canon 5D and 6D as well as on my Nikon D750.
The lens performance is top notch: fast focus, unreal top of the class sharpness, excellent build quality. The review would stop there with a high recommendation, shouting OMG and embracing this lens as the saviour of photography, but I am sorry to tell you that for now, I do not like this lens.
It has everything going for it, but the list of downsides for me was way too long to justify a purchase. I was probably a victim of the Sigma lottery. It’s just plagued by lens-body compatibility issues (which probably would have been solved with the USB dock and yes you probably would say that my friends and the many copies of stores I have tried have the wrong copy).
On the 7D, it was irregular in its micro-adjustment sometimes in the positive, sometimes in the negatives, never right. On the 5D, I was lucky for its accuracy. On the 6D, the micro-adjustment nightmare began again. I compare it to a nifty-fifty f1.8 on Canon and that lens was more accurate than the Sigma. On the D750, I adjusted it once and it was consistent from there on (nothing fools the D750 AF… it’s just that good).
The lens also lacked soul. There was something about its clinicality that threw me off. The in-focus zone would be degradingly sharp on my human subjects, the out of focus zone wouldn’t fade in fast enough to balance the sharpness out as it felt like the circles were confused between halfway fading or halfway showing. Then the faded veiled somewhat faded colors are a thing need to get used to. If you have used Nikkor lenses, you know how saturated and nicely contrasty they can get, this lens just isn’t it.
To top that off, the weight of the lens was close to uncomfortable. I believe my work with the 35mm focal length is of the street photography and candid. Having to move nimble with the ART35 was definitely more blocking than flowing. The ART35 needs to be used with two hands like my 24-70. It wasn’t long until I ran out of passion in using it.
Of course all those problems and whining could be solved by time and getting used to it. Time nowadays is a luxury I have less and less. If I purchase a piece of equipment, I’d rather have it working and pleasing me at my current state. After all, photography is an instinctive sport. This last problem was the one that made me drop the idea of getting the lens: exposure consistency or the lack thereof. I mostly shoot AUTO-ISO on Program, Shutter and Aperture priority. I go Manual only when absolutely needed. The lens and the camera wouldn’t agree on the proper exposure. If the subject is in the “vignetted” zone (not in the center), the camera would overexpose and under if the subject was in the center. I suppose I trust my “matrix metering” a lot more than I should, but this is how Nikkor lenses are used and work perfectly.
The Sigma ART35 and me never connected yet. It might take time, a lot of it. I’m not saying it’s bad. For many, it will probably be THE BEST LENS they would have purchased in a long time and perhaps the best 1000$ lens investment in their gear. They’d even have enough time to work around the problems and make it shine. I just have the downside of being optically spoiled by way too many more interesting options and I’m looking for something with a better balance of personality and optical performance in which using the Sigma was like dating a lifeless incredibly pretty yet expensive girl. Wouldn’t mind meeting her again on special specific occasions. We all need one like that ;)
The shoes and the bowl
play with my reflection
after all, I am visiting their home!
update: hooray! won 2nd prize in slides - assigned category: reflections (yes this is originally a slide!) Feb' 08 ELCC competion.
The downside of a weekend out of town followed by a non-stop kickoff to a new busy week - finding that it's almost the middle of the week before managing to jump in and catch up. I think I'm finally sorted and back on track though. Next up - visiting the rest of Flickr. Be by soon!
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We had a week walking in the Lake District in August. We haven’t spent a week there in the school summer holidays before but it was a case of needs must regarding available holidays. We stayed B&B in Ambleside as we couldn’t get self-catering at short notice. It was cheaper and breakfast is included, the downside is that we couldn’t get out as soon as we would have liked. Saturday – the day we drove up –was forecast to be good but was going to followed by a couple of rainy days so we drove straight to Dunmail Raise, arriving around 11.30. I told Jayne we were nipping up Seat Sandal but once up there it would have been silly not to go up Dollywagon and Nethermost Pikes, and then of course Helvellyn was only a stride away. We didn’t linger long in the crowds on Helvellyn, we had a knee jarring rapid descent to Steel End. We managed to get to Brysons tearooms in Keswick for afternoon apple pie- you’ve got to keep it civilised!
The weather alternated between very wet and very nice, it was like winter on three days so we stayed low and just did half day eight milers – in waterproofs. We got soaked through. On the other days we walked in shorts and tee shirts and went high. The weather was variable depending where in the Lakes you were which made choosing a walk difficult. We went to Crummock Water and parked near Rannerdale Knotts with the intention of doing a walk we’ve done several times before. Straight up the nose of Rannerdale Knotts, with a view that gets better all the time, along the top to the foot of the slog up Whiteless Pike and Wandope. The weather was good for walking, although we had very light rain initially and it was cool for August. On to Grasmoor and then Coledale Hause, over Sand Hill and Hopegill Head. The ridge walk along Whiteside has to be one of the nicest ways to head off the fells. Ten and a half miles and 4000 feet of ascent, it was a decent day out.
The following day was beautiful so we got out as early as possible and headed up Langdale to Old Dungeon Ghyll. The car park was filling with groups getting ready for a fine day on the fells after so much bad weather. We headed up The Band, picking the climbers traverse under the cliffs of Bow Fell up as I wanted to get to the top via the Great Slab. This is a great way to the top of Bow Fell, far more interesting than the main drag. The itinerary after this was, Esk Pike, Great End – at the end of the Sca Fell Massif, it was tempting to leg it out to Sca Fell Pike but it looked like a football match it was that crowded. Back to Esk Hause up on to Allen Crags, back to Esk Hause again, Angle Tarn and our final top was Rossett Pike with its stunning views over Langdale. Down Rossett Gill to Mickleden. Just over 12 miles and 4250 feet of ascent, another cracking day.
Thursday was our last forecast dry day and the day of the Rydal show. The weather was fantastic but it was going to be bedlam on the roads. We walked out of Ambleside to Rydal and cracked of around the Fairfield Horseshoe. It was that calm that people were sunbathing on the tops by midday. Calmness was one welcome feature of the week but when the rain came it didn’t shift so quick. The following day we did a circuit of Buttermere in the pouring rain, it was just a case of walking the cooked breakfast off really.