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While it can't compare to the CNJ/B&O flagship passenger train of yesteryear, this 20 August 1982 view of clean NJ Transit F40PH-2 No. 4122 with new Comet II coaches, cruising along the CNJ mainline in Cranford with Raritan Valley service train 5419, is a reminder of the long history of rail passenger service to the communities along this corridor.
Processed to emulate the original 2 color technicolor subtractive process of early, color motion pictures. Eagle County, CO.
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Emulated to look like Portra 400.
Location: Santa Monica Beach, California
Camera: Leica M262 + Voigtlander Ultron 28mm f/2
Richard Gere, the cat, sniffs the soil searching for truffes like Costantino does.
He imitates Costantino that is a Lagotto Romagnolo dog, the only breed of dog that is officially recognized as specialized in truffle hunting.
Image of "anglepoise" Apple iMac (the design of which was reputedly inspired by a sunflow) with default desktop (now emulated by Vista) against coloured stained glass windows in Fabrica Art Gallery - a former church - in Brighton, East Sussex. Weak colours outside of the window and computer screen have been selectively desaturated to enhance the image.
Emulate a flower-they don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just turn toward the light, begin to feel open to their environment and then that opening of the bloom heart makes them beautiful.
Test contact sheet made using Insta2 Lightroom presets from reallyniceimages.com/
The best way to emulate Instagram filters in Lightroom.
Was trying to emulate the iconic RCA building girder shot.
Taken from the viewing platform on Telstra Tower - not photoshopped. I just leant over the railing and held the girder in front of the lens. It was very windy. The girder was wobbling like jelly. It seems I mis-calculated the hyperfocal distance. The buildings are too OOF.
The picture I was paraphrasing was this one: www.petapixel.com/2012/08/23/men-at-lunch-a-documentary-a... by Charles C Ebbets.
Still Experimenting...
I had this idea some time ago. I wanted to make a scene like in "minority report". I am a very nostalgic person, and i love the irony behind using a high-tech-machine to emulate an old, crappy game.
Strobist info:
Yongnuo 460exII trough 60x60 softbox from quenox, right in front of me.
* Taken in Caiobá/Paraná/Brazil, 04/01/2007, around midnight. Not much post-processing on this. A bit more sharpness on the sand and sea and a Fuji Velvia Emulator.
The glow around the white boat on the background was provided by the light poles on the street.
I only regret that I didn't shoot this with a smaller aperture. But since my camera has a 15s of exposure limit, and ISO above 100 is ultra crappy due to the high amount of noise, I did what I could to get all the good tones and colours!
Emulates forward
A seal design , a cute & sweet memory of childhood
In the childhood, when we lined up in the school, we always swing up hands to do this pose “emulates forward ”.
After we growing up, we without any opportunity to do this action again.
This is a seal design, with " emulates forward " pose shapes ,lets people simply to seal the right direction.
Awakes our have gone through the memories of childhood, and also bring you a little bit inspire in every time that you need to seal, forward looking !
小時候，我們在學校裡排隊總會擺起「向前看齊」的姿勢，長大後，我們就再也沒有機會做這個動作了。
這是一個印章，用「向前看齊」的造型讓人簡單地分辨蓋章方向，勾起我們曾經歷過的兒時回憶，也在每個需要蓋章的時刻，帶給你一點小小的鼓勵，向前看齊！
atelier ying, nyc.
Like many growing up for generations, I admire and emulate Bruce Lee. I didn't practice his flying kicks in my bedroom (as those of the generation before me had done, literally) but I've been influenced by his focus, perseverance and that he was a writer-innovator, not just a sports figure. I really love that he kept neat notebooks and created a system that uses everything that is useful, disregarding boundaries. That is also my philosophy, if this isn't clear by now to those of you who follow my work.
My homage is simple in intention. The camera however, is one of my more complex configurations although the type of camera I chose is simplicity itself. This style of contrasting elements suits Lee's work particularly well.
The intention is to make a gift of a stylized Hong Kong / San Francisco mythic asian city containing a set of 15 little pinhole cameras. Lee had dual citizenship and lived in those two cities.
Also, to bring further tranquility to Lee's romantic, spiritual, peaceful side I propose a Gongfu tea set in the style of the gigantic, grand tea tables from the Fujian province, which cost thousands of dollars, carved out of entire tree trunks. Mine is not as grand in size but the design has a few unique innovations:
1. a camera that functions as a working tea set
2. a camera with a courtyard inside it (although my recent homage to Mozart has both a courtyard and a colonnade inside, however, this detachable mini-courtyard camera is more portable).
3. a camera that stylizes an enclosed city (in the manner of the Longtangs of Shanghai).
4. a camera that is composed of 15 cameras connected by a city street system (alleyways)
5. a camera that splits apart into two twin halves for portability, for exercising (Lee would have attempted to use it as a weapon and it would not have worked well in this) and to illustrate the lush inner detailing of an extensive Asian alley. The sliding pinhole shutters are also replica neon signs of shops in HK.
6. Instead of EVF's and interior eyepieces, this camera has corridor views of alley life and architecture. It also has the view of flowing water as tea is served and runs along the alley paths like rain water in typhoon season (another first in camera design, a working water feature that replicates both flowing water and a natural disaster.
Bruce Lee can use this camera to shoot fight sequences (stationary positions only) to illustrate his notebooks and books. In an alternate world, Bruce Lee lives on to a peaceful retirement spent writing, teaching, and increasing his longevity by daily drinking healthy expensive teas with his friends and reminiscing of old Hong Kong.
This design is dedicated to my twin dragons, who both turned 6 months this day.
PS: I had to get this in on time for World Pinhole Camera Day, and consequently haven't been able to spend much time ruminating on Bruce Lee, which is regrettable. He was really great.
Design drawing and all related contents is copyright 2013 by David Lo
pro94 – Emulating the work of photographer William Eggleston
WIT: I don’t dislike Eggleston’s work, but I disliked emulating it. I feel that the photos I took aren’t photos I would want everyone to see. I enjoy photographing ordinary things, but only when the challenge presents itself to show them in an interesting light or make them look beautiful (to me). Eggleston’s approach is different. Eggleston’s aim seems to be to give recognition to everyday things and happenings simply by pointing them out through his lens. He doesn’t care to make them look beautiful or special. If I had to pin down Eggleston’s style, I would call it snapshot photojournalism. And I don’t mean that in a bad way. I respect his work. I can imagine how unprecedented, surprising, and rebellious his photos must have appeared to early art critics. What I can’t get a grip on is, what does Eggleston’s work mean in today’s world, in a world where everyone has a camera and all subjects are covered every day on flickr?
50mm, f/4, 1/800, ISO 100, uncropped
We're Here visiting Balls and I'm emulating fellow Hereios ~cynthiak~ who was exercising (see her original below).
Let the record show that she is lifting a heavier kettlebell.
"Emulating Space"/"Body follows space"
photography: Katerina Malisova
model: Vilelmini Kalabratsidou
dance instructor: Christina Corbu
2011 (C) Katerina Malisova
You may not copy, distribute or use this photograph without my written permission
Beaumaris Castle in Beaumaris, Anglesey, Wales, was built as part of Edward I's campaign to conquer north Wales after 1282. Plans were probably first made to construct the castle in 1284, but this was delayed due to lack of funds and work only began in 1295 following the Madog ap Llywelyn uprising. A substantial workforce was employed in the initial years under the direction of James of St George. Edward's invasion of Scotland soon diverted funding from the project, however, and work stopped, only recommencing after an invasion scare in 1306. When work finally ceased around 1330 a total of £15,000 had been spent, a huge sum for the period, but the castle remained incomplete.
Beaumaris Castle was taken by Welsh forces in 1403 during the rebellion of Owain Glyndŵr, but recaptured by royal forces in 1405.
In March 1592, the Welsh Roman Catholic priest and martyr William Davies was imprisoned in the castle, and was eventually hanged, drawn and quartered there on 27 July 1593.
Following the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642, the castle was held by forces loyal to Charles I, holding out until 1646 when it surrendered to the Parliamentary armies. Despite forming part of a local royalist rebellion in 1648, the castle escaped slighting and was garrisoned by Parliament, but fell into ruin around 1660, eventually forming part of a stately home and park in the 19th century. In the 21st century, the ruined castle is still a tourist attraction.
Historian Arnold Taylor described Beaumaris Castle as Britain's "most perfect example of symmetrical concentric planning". The fortification is built of local stone, with a moated outer ward guarded by twelve towers and two gatehouses, overlooked by an inner ward with two large, D-shaped gatehouses and six massive towers. The inner ward was designed to contain ranges of domestic buildings and accommodation able to support two major households. The south gate could be reached by ship, allowing the castle to be directly supplied by sea. UNESCO considers Beaumaris to be one of "the finest examples of late 13th century and early 14th century military architecture in Europe", and it is classed as a World Heritage Site.
The kings of England and the Welsh princes had vied for control of North Wales since the 1070s and the conflict had been renewed during the 13th century, leading to Edward I intervening in North Wales for the second time during his reign in 1282. Edward invaded with a huge army, pushing north from Carmarthen and westwards from Montgomery and Chester. Edward decided to permanently colonise North Wales and provisions for its governance were set out in the Statute of Rhuddlan, enacted on 3 March 1284. Wales was divided into counties and shires, emulating how England was governed, with three new shires created in the north-west, Caernarfon, Merioneth and Anglesey.[6] New towns with protective castles were established at Caernarfon and Harlech, the administrative centres of the first two shires, with another castle and walled town built in nearby Conwy, and plans were probably made to establish a similar castle and settlement near the town of Llanfaes on Anglesey. Llanfaes was the wealthiest borough in Wales and largest in terms of population, an important trading port and on the preferred route from North Wales to Ireland. The huge cost of building the other castles, however, meant that the Llanfaes project had to be postponed.
In 1294 Madog ap Llywelyn rebelled against English rule.[The revolt was bloody and amongst the casualties was Roger de Pulesdon, the sheriff of Anglesey. Edward suppressed the rebellion over the winter and once Anglesey was reoccupied in April 1295 he immediately began to progress the delayed plans to fortify the area. The chosen site was called Beaumaris, meaning "fair marsh", whose name derives from the Norman-French Beau Mareys, and in Latin the castle was termed de Bello Marisco. This was about 1 mile (1.6 km) from Llanfaes and the decision was therefore taken to move the Welsh population of Llanfaes some 12 miles (19 km) south-west, where a settlement by the name of Newborough was created for them. The deportation of the local Welsh opened the way for the construction of a prosperous English town, protected by a substantial castle.
The castle was positioned in one corner of the town, following a similar town plan to that in the town of Conwy, although in Beaumaris no town walls were constructed at first, despite some foundations being laid.[10] Work began in the summer of 1295, overseen by Master James of St George. James had been appointed the "master of the king's works in Wales", reflecting the responsibility he had in their construction and design. From 1295 onwards, Beaumaris became his primary responsibility and more frequently he was given the title "magister operacionum de Bello Marisco". The work was recorded in considerable detail on the pipe rolls, the continuous records of medieval royal expenditure, and, as a result, the early stages of construction at Beaumaris are relatively well understood for the period.
A huge amount of work was undertaken in the first summer, with an average of 1,800 workmen, 450 stonemasons and 375 quarriers on the site. This consumed around £270 a week in wages and the project rapidly fell into arrears, forcing officials to issue leather tokens instead of paying the workforce with normal coinage. The centre of the castle was filled with temporary huts to house the workforce over the winter. The following spring, James explained to his employers some of the difficulties and the high costs involved:
In case you should wonder where so much money could go in a week, we would have you know that we have needed – and shall continue to need 400 masons, both cutters and layers, together with 2,000 less skilled workmen, 100 carts, 60 wagons and 30 boats bringing stone and sea coal; 200 quarrymen; 30 smiths; and carpenters for putting in the joists and floor boards and other necessary jobs. All this takes no account of the garrison ... nor of purchases of material. Of which there will have to be a great quantity ... The men's pay has been and still is very much in arrears, and we are having the greatest difficulty in keeping them because they have simply nothing to live on.
The construction slowed during 1296, although debts continued to build up, and work dropped off further the following year, stopping entirely by 1300, by when around £11,000 had been spent. The halt was primarily the result of Edward's new wars in Scotland, which had begun to consume his attention and financial resources, but it left the castle only partially complete: the inner walls and towers were only a fraction of their proper height and the north and north-west sides lacked outer defences altogether. In 1306 Edward became concerned about a possible Scottish invasion of North Wales, but the unfinished castle had already fallen into a poor state of repair. Work recommenced on completing the outer defences, first under James' direction and then, after his death in 1309, Master Nicolas de Derneford. This work finally halted in 1330 with the castle still not built to its intended height; by the end of the project, £15,000 had been spent, a colossal sum for the period. A royal survey in 1343 suggested that at least a further £684 would be needed to complete the castle, but this was never invested.
In 1400 a revolt broke out in North Wales against English rule, led by Owain Glyndŵr. Beaumaris Castle was placed under siege and captured by the rebels in 1403, being retaken by royal forces in 1405. The castle was ill-maintained and fell into disrepair and by 1534, when Roland de Velville was the castle constable, rain was leaking into most of the rooms. In 1539 a report complained that it was protected by an arsenal of only eight or ten small guns and forty bows, which the castle's new constable, Richard Bulkeley, considered to be completely inadequate for protecting the fortress against a potential Scottish attack. Matters worsened and by 1609 the castle was classed as "utterlie decayed".
The English Civil War broke out in 1642 between the Royalist supporters of Charles I and the supporters of Parliament. Beaumaris Castle was a strategic location in the war, as it controlled part of the route between the king's bases in Ireland and his operations in England. Thomas Bulkeley, whose family had been involved in the management of the castle for several centuries, held Beaumaris for the king and may have spent around £3,000 improving its defences. By 1646, however, Parliament had defeated the royal armies and the castle was surrendered by Colonel Richard Bulkeley in June. Anglesey revolted against Parliament again in 1648, and Beaumaris was briefly reoccupied by royalist forces, surrendering for a second time in October that year.
After the war many castles were slighted, damaged to put them beyond military use, but Parliament was concerned about the threat of a royalist invasion from Scotland and Beaumaris was spared. Colonel John Jones became the castle governor and a garrison was installed inside, at a cost of £1,703 a year. When Charles II returned to the throne in 1660 and restored the Bulkeley family as castle constables, Beaumaris appears to have been stripped of its valuable lead and remaining resources, including the roofs.
Lord Thomas Bulkeley bought the castle from the Crown in 1807 for £735, incorporating it into the park that surrounded his local residence, Baron Hill. By then the castles of North Wales had become attractive locations for visiting painters and travellers, who considered the ivy-clad ruins romantic. Although not as popular as other sites in the region, Beaumaris formed part of this trend and was visited by the future Queen Victoria in 1832 for an Eisteddfod festival and it was painted by J. M. W. Turner in 1835. Some of the castle's stones may have been reused in 1829 to build the nearby Beaumaris Gaol.
In 1925 Richard Williams-Bulkeley retained the freehold and placed the castle into the care of the Commissioners of Works, who then carried out a large scale restoration programme, stripping back the vegetation, digging out the moat and repairing the stonework. In 1950 the castle, considered by the authorities to be "one of the outstanding Edwardian medieval castles of Wales", was designated as a Grade I listed building – the highest grade of listing, protecting buildings of "exceptional, usually national, interest".
Beaumaris was declared part of the Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd World Heritage Site in 1986, UNESCO considering it one of "the finest examples of late 13th century and early 14th century military architecture in Europe". In the 21st century Beaumaris Castle is managed by Cadw, the Welsh Assembly Government's agency for historic monuments, as a tourist attraction, with 75,000 visitors during the 2007–08 financial year. The castle requires ongoing maintenance and repairs cost £58,000 over the 2002–03 financial year.
Beaumaris Castle was never fully built, but had it been completed it would probably have closely resembled Harlech Castle. Both castles are concentric in plan, with walls within walls, although Beaumaris is the more regular in design. Historian Arnold Taylor described Beaumaris as Britain's "most perfect example of symmetrical concentric planning" and for many years the castle was regarded as the pinnacle of military engineering during Edward I's reign. This evolutionary interpretation is now disputed by historians: Beaumaris was as much a royal palace and symbol of English power as it was a straightforward defensive fortification. Nonetheless, the castle is praised by UNESCO as a "unique artistic achievement" for the way in which it combines "characteristic 13th century double-wall structures with a central plan" and for the beauty of its "proportions and masonry".
Beaumaris Castle was built at around sea-level on top of the till and other sediments that form the local coastline, and was constructed from local Anglesey stone from within 10 miles (16 km) of the site, with some stones brought along the coast by ship, for example from the limestone quarries at Penmon. The stone was a mixture of limestone, sandstone and green schists, which was used fairly randomly within the walls and towers; the use of schists ceased after the pause in the building work in 1298 and as a result is limited to the lower levels of the walls.
The castle design formed an inner and an outer ward, surrounded in turn by a moat, now partially filled. The main entrance to the castle was the Gate next the Sea, next to the castle's tidal dock that allowed it to be supplied directly by sea. The dock was protected by a wall later named the Gunners Walk and a firing platform that may have housed a trebuchet siege engine during the medieval period. The Gate next the Sea led into an outer barbican, protected by a drawbridge, arrow slits and murder-holes, leading on into the outer ward.
The outer ward consisted of an eight-sided curtain wall with twelve turrets enclosing an area approximately 60 feet (18 m) across; one gateway led out to the Gate next the Sea, the other, the Llanfaes Gate, led out to the north side of the castle. The defences were originally equipped with around 300 firing positions for archers, including 164 arrow slits, although 64 of the slits close to the ground level have since been blocked in to prevent them being exploited by attackers, either in the early 15th century or during the Civil War.
The walls of the inner ward were more substantial than those of the outer ward, 36-foot (11 m) high and 15.5-foot (4.7 m) thick, with huge towers and two large gatehouses, enclosing a 0.75-acre (0.30 ha) area. The inner ward was intended to hold the accommodation and other domestic buildings of the castle, with ranges of buildings stretching along the west and east sides of the ward; some of the remains of the fireplaces for these buildings can still be seen in the stonework. It is uncertain if these ranges were actually ever built or if they were constructed but later demolished after the Civil War. If finished, the castle would have been able to host two substantial households and their followers, for example the king and queen, or the king, queen and a prince and his own wife.
The D-shaped north gatehouse in the inner ward was intended to be two storeys high, with two sets of five, large windows, of which only one floor was actually completed. It would have included a large hall on the first floor, around 70 feet (21 m) by 25 feet (7.6 m) across, divided into two with separate fireplaces for heating. The south gatehouse was designed to be a replica of that on the north side, but building work progressed even less far before finishing in 1330. Some of the stonework may since have been removed from the gatehouse, reducing its height even further.
The walls of the inner ward contain extensive first floor passageways, similar to those at Caernarfon Castle. These were intended to allow members of the castle to move between the towers, accessing the guardrooms, sleeping chambers and the castle latrines. The latrines were designed to be drained by a special system using the water from the moat, but the system does not appear to have worked well in practice. The six towers were intended to be three storeys high and contained fireplaces. The castle chapel was built into one of the towers and would have been used by the king and his family, rather than the wider garrison.
Beaumaris is a town and community on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales, of which it is the former county town of Anglesey. It is located at the eastern entrance to the Menai Strait, the tidal waterway separating Anglesey from the coast of North Wales. At the 2011 census, its population was 1,938. The community includes Llanfaes.
Beaumaris was originally a Viking settlement known as Porth y Wygyr ("Port of the Vikings"), but the town itself began its development in 1295 when Edward I of England, having conquered Wales, commissioned the building of Beaumaris Castle as part of a chain of fortifications around the North Wales coast (others include Conwy, Caernarfon and Harlech).
The castle was built on a marsh and that is where it found its name; the Norman-French builders called it beaux marais, which translates as "fair marsh".
The ancient village of Llanfaes, a mile to the north of Beaumaris, had been occupied by Anglo-Saxons in 818 but had been regained by Merfyn Frych, King of Gwynedd, and remained a vital strategic settlement. To counter further Welsh uprisings, and to ensure control of the Menai Strait, Edward I chose the flat coastal plain as the place to build Beaumaris Castle. The castle was designed by the Savoyard mason Master James of Saint George and is considered the most perfect example of a concentric castle. The 'troublesome' residents of Llanfaes were removed en bloc to Rhosyr in the west of Anglesey, a new settlement King Edward entitled "Newborough".
Beaumaris was awarded a royal charter by Edward I, which was drawn up on similar terms to the charters of his other castle towns in North Wales and intended to invest only the English and Norman-French residents with civic rights. Native Welsh residents of Beaumaris were largely disqualified from holding any civic office, carrying any weapon, and holding assemblies; and were not allowed to buy houses or land within the borough. The charter also specifically prohibited Jews (who had been largely expelled from most English towns) from living in Beaumaris.
From 1562 until the Reform Act 1832, Beaumaris was a Rotten Borough with the member of parliament elected by the Corporation of the town which was in the control of the Bulkeley family.
Beaumaris was the port of registration for all vessels in North West Wales, covering every harbour on Anglesey and all the ports from Conwy to Pwllheli. Shipbuilding was a major industry in Beaumaris. This was centred on Gallows Point – a nearby spit of land extending into the Menai Strait about a mile west of the town. Gallows Point had originally been called "Osmund's Eyre" but was renamed when the town gallows was erected there – along with a "Dead House" for the corpses of criminals dispatched in public executions. Later, hangings were carried out at the town gaol and the bodies buried in a lime-pit within the curtilage of the gaol. One of the last prisoners to hang at Beaumaris issued a curse before he died – decreeing that if he was innocent the four faces of the church clock would never show the same time.
According to historian Hywel Teifi Edwards, when the "Provincial Eisteddfod" was held at Beaumaris in 1832, a young Princess Victoria and her mother were in attendance.
Beaumaris has never had a railway station built to the town, although the nearby village of Pentraeth had a station on the former Red Wharf Bay branch line which ran off the Anglesey Central Railway. It was roughly six miles west of the town by road. This station closed in 1930.
Notable buildings in the town include the castle, a courthouse built in 1614, the 14th-century St Mary's and St Nicholas's Church, Beaumaris Gaol, the 14th-century Tudor Rose (one of the oldest original timber-framed buildings in Britain) and the Bulls Head Inn, built in 1472, which General Thomas Mytton made his headquarters during the "Siege of Beaumaris" during the second English Civil War in 1648.
A native of Anglesey, David Hughes, founded Beaumaris Grammar School in 1603. It became a non-selective school in 1952 when Anglesey County Council became the first authority in Britain to adopt comprehensive secondary education. The school was eventually moved to Menai Bridge and only the ancient hall of the original school building now remains. Beaumaris Town Hall was completed in 1785.
Beaumaris Pier, opened in 1846, was designed by Frederick Foster and is a masonry jetty on wooden and concrete pilings. The pier was rebuilt and extended to 570 feet (170 m) after storm damage in 1872, and a large pavilion containing a cafe was built at the end. It was once the landing stage for steamships of the Liverpool and North Wales Shipping Company, including the Snowdon, La Marguerite, St. Elvies and St. Trillo, although the larger vessels in its fleet – the St. Seriol and St. Tudno – were too large for the pier and landed their passengers at Menai Bridge. In the 1960s, through lack of maintenance, the pier became unsafe and was threatened with demolition, but local yachtswoman and lifeboat secretary Miss Mary Burton made a large private donation to ensure the pier was saved for the town. A further reconstruction was carried out between 2010 and 2012.
The Saunders Roe company set up a factory at Fryars (the site of the old Franciscan friary to the east) when it was feared that the company's main base on the Isle of Wight would be a target for World War II Luftwaffe bombers. The factory converted American-built PBY Catalina flying boats. After the war, the company focused on their ship building produced at the site with fast patrol boats, minesweepers and an experimental Austin Float Plane. They also produced buses for London Transport (RT Double deckers) and single deck buses for Cuba.
The first recorded rescue of people in difficulty at sea was in 1830 when 375 people were rescued from a foundered emigrant ship. A lifeboat station was established in 1891 and closed four years later when a neighbouring station was provided with a more powerful lifeboat. The station was reopened in 1914 and is operated by the RNLI.
Beaumaris is served by one primary school. Its 300-year-old grammar school moved to nearby Menai Bridge in 1963 and became the comprehensive Ysgol David Hughes.
According to the United Kingdom Census 2021, 36.8 per cent of all usual residents aged 3+ in Beaumaris can speak Welsh. 56.3 per cent of the population noted that they could speak, read, write or understand Welsh.
The 2011 census noted 39.5 per cent of all usual residents aged 3 years and older in the town could speak Welsh. The 2011 census also noted that 58.7 per cent of all usual residents aged 3+ who were born in Wales could speak Welsh. In 2001, 39.7 per cent of all usual residents aged 3+ in Beaumaris could speak Welsh. In 1981, 39.9 per cent of the population could speak Welsh; 10 people were monoglot Welsh speakers.
The Beaumaris Food Festival is an annual food festival that has been held since 2013 in the town and castle grounds.
Notable residents
Memorial to Hugh Davies in St Mary's Church, Beaumaris
Sir Richard Bulkeley (1533–1621), politician and courtier of Elizabeth I, ex officio mayor (1561–1562) and mayor (1562–1563).
Catherine Davies (1773 – after 1841), governess to the children of the King and Queen of Naples and autobiographer.
Hugh Davies (1739–1821) botanist and Anglican clergyman, became rector of Llandegfan with Beaumaris in 1778.
Charles Allen Duval (1810–1872), portrait painter, photographer, illustrator and writer.
Wayne Hennessey (born 1987), Welsh international footballer, approaching 300 club caps and 106 for Wales.[34]
Hendrik Lek (1903–1985) painter and antique dealer, born in Antwerp, Belgium; lived in retirement in Anglesey.
Richard Llwyd (1752–1835), author, poet and genealogist.
Reginald Wynn Owen (1876–1950) architect, worked for the London and North Western Railway.
Neil Sloane (born 1939), mathematician noted for compiling integer sequences.
Namesakes
Beaumaris, the suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and the small seaside town of Beaumaris in Tasmania, were both named after the town.
Beaumaris, the neighbourhood in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, was named after the castle, as was the village of Beaumaris in Muskoka, Ontario.
In popular culture
In 2018, Netflix used Beaumaris as the fictional seaside town (and in particular the pier) for the series Free Rein.
Beaumaris also featured in the 2021 series of Craig and Bruno's Great British Roadtrips. The series followed Strictly Come Dancing stars Craig Revel Horwood and Bruno Tonioli as they visit various North Wales destinations.
The Isle of Anglesey is a county off the north-west coast of Wales. It is named after the island of Anglesey, which makes up 94% of its area, but also includes Holy Island (Ynys Gybi) and some islets and skerries. The county borders Gwynedd across the Menai Strait to the southeast, and is otherwise surrounded by the Irish Sea. Holyhead is the largest town, and the administrative centre is Llangefni. The county is part of the preserved county of Gwynedd.
The Isle of Anglesey is sparsely populated, with an area of 276 square miles (710 km2) and a population of 68,900. After Holyhead (12,103), the largest settlements are Llangefni (5,500) and Amlwch (3,967). The economy of the county is mostly based on agriculture, energy, and tourism, the latter especially on the coast. Holyhead is also a major ferry port for Dublin, Ireland. The county has the second-highest percentage of Welsh speakers in Wales, at 57.2%, and is considered a heartland of the language.
The island of Anglesey, at 676 square kilometres (261 sq mi), is the largest in Wales and the Irish Sea, and the seventh largest in Britain. The northern and eastern coasts of the island are rugged, and the southern and western coasts are generally gentler; the interior is gently undulating. In the north of the island is Llyn Alaw, a reservoir with an area of 1.4 square miles (4 km2). Holy Island has a similar landscape, with a rugged north and west coast and beaches to the east and south. The county is surrounded by smaller islands; several, including South Stack and Puffin Island, are home to seabird colonies. Large parts of the county's coastline have been designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
The county has many prehistoric monuments, such as Bryn Celli Ddu burial chamber. In the Middle Ages the area was part of the Kingdom of Gwynedd and native Principality of Wales, and the ruling House of Aberffraw maintained courts (Welsh: llysoedd) at Aberffraw and Rhosyr. After Edward I's conquest of Gwynedd he built the castle at Beaumaris, which forms part of the Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd World Heritage Site. The Menai Strait to the mainland is spanned by the Menai Suspension Bridge, designed by Thomas Telford in 1826, and the Britannia Bridge, originally designed by Robert Stephenson in 1850.
The history of the settlement of the local people of Anglesey starts in the Mesolithic period. Anglesey and the UK were uninhabitable until after the previous ice age. It was not until 12,000 years ago that the island of Great Britain became hospitable. The oldest excavated sites on Anglesey include Trwyn Du (Welsh: Black nose) at Aberffraw. The Mesolithic site located at Aberffraw Bay (Porth Terfyn) was buried underneath a Bronze Age 'kerb cairn' which was constructed c. 2,000 BC. The bowl barrow (kerb cairn) covered a material deposited from the early Mesolithic period; the archeological find dates to 7,000 BC. After millennia of hunter-gather civilisation in the British Isles, the first villages were constructed from 4000 BC. Neolithic settlements were built in the form of long houses, on Anglesey is one of the first villages in Wales, it was built at Llanfaethlu. Also an example permanent settlement on Anglesey is of a Bronze Age built burial mound, Bryn Celli Ddu (English: Dark Grove Hill). The mound started as a henge enclosure around 3000 BC and was adapted several times over a millennium.
There are numerous megalithic monuments and menhirs in the county, testifying to the presence of humans in prehistory. Plas Newydd is near one of 28 cromlechs that remain on uplands overlooking the sea. The Welsh Triads claim that the island of Anglesey was once part of the mainland.
After the Neolithic age, the Bronze Age began (c. 2200 BC – 800 BC). Some sites were continually used for thousands of years from original henge enclosures, then during the Iron Age, and also some of these sites were later adapted by Celts into hillforts and finally were in use during the Roman period (c. 100 AD) as roundhouses. Castell Bryn Gwyn (English: White hill castle, also called Bryn Beddau, or the "hill of graves") near Llanidan, Anglesey is an example of a Neolithic site that became a hillfort that was used until the Roman period by the Ordovices, the local tribe who were defeated in battle by a Roman legion (c. 78 AD). Bronze Age monuments were also built throughout the British Isles. During this period, the Mynydd Bach cairn in South-west Anglesey was being used. It is a Beaker period prehistoric funerary monument.
During the Iron Age the Celts built dwellings huts, also known as roundhouses. These were established near the previous settlements. Some huts with walled enclosures were discovered on the banks of the river (Welsh: afon) Gwna near. An example of a well-preserved hut circle is over the Cymyran Strait on Holy Island. The Holyhead Mountain Hut Circles (Welsh: Tŷ Mawr / Cytiau'r Gwyddelod, Big house / "Irishmen's Huts") were inhabited by ancient Celts and were first occupied before the Iron Age, c. 1000 BC. The Anglesey Iron Age began after 500 BC. Archeological research discovered limpet shells which were found from 200 BC on a wall at Tŷ Mawr and Roman-era pottery from the 3rd to 4th centuries AD. Some of these huts were still being used for agricultural purposes as late as the 6th century. The first excavation of Ty Mawr was conducted by William Owen Stanley of Penrhos, Anglesey (son of Baron Stanley of Alderley).
Historically, Anglesey has long been associated with the druids. The Roman conquest of Anglesey began in 60 CE when the Roman general Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, determined to break the power of the druids, attacked the island using his amphibious Batavian contingent as a surprise vanguard assault and then destroyed the shrine and the nemeta (sacred groves). News of Boudica's revolt reached him just after his victory, causing him to withdraw his army before consolidating his conquest. The island was finally brought into the Roman Empire by Gnaeus Julius Agricola, the Roman governor of Britain, in AD 78. During the Roman occupation, the area was notable for the mining of copper. The foundations of Caer Gybi, a fort in Holyhead, are Roman, and the present road from Holyhead to Llanfairpwllgwyngyll was originally a Roman road. The island was grouped by Ptolemy with Ireland ("Hibernia") rather than with Britain ("Albion").
After the Roman departure from Britain in the early 5th century, pirates from Ireland (Picts) colonised Anglesey and the nearby Llŷn Peninsula. In response to this, Cunedda ap Edern, a Gododdin warlord from Scotland, came to the area and began to drive the Irish out. This was continued by his son Einion Yrth ap Cunedda and grandson Cadwallon Lawhir ap Einion; the last Irish invaders were finally defeated in battle in 470.
During the 9th century, King Rhodri Mawr unified Wales and separated the country into at least 3 provinces between his sons. He gave Gwynedd to his son, Anarawd ap Rhodri, who founded the medieval Welsh dynasty, The House of Aberffraw on Anglesey, also his other son Cadell founded House of Dinefwr in Deheubarth, and another son, Merfyn ruled Powys (where the House of Mathrafal emerged). The island had a good defensive position, and so Aberffraw became the site of the royal court (Welsh: Llys) of the Kingdom of Gwynedd. Apart from devastating Danish raids in 853 and 968 in Aberffraw, it remained the capital until the 13th, after Rhodri Mawr had moved his family seat from Caernarfon and built a royal palace at Aberffraw in 873. This is when improvements to the English navy made the location indefensible. Anglesey was also briefly the most southerly possession of the Norwegian Empire.[citation needed]
After the Irish, the island was invaded by Vikings — some raids were noted in famous sagas (see Menai Strait History) such as the Jómsvíkinga— and by Saxons, and Normans, before falling to Edward I of England in the 13th century. The connection with the Vikings can be seen in the name of the island. In ancient times it was called "Maenige" and received the name "Ongulsey" or Angelsoen, from where the current name originates.
Anglesey (with Holy Island) is one of the 13 historic counties of Wales. In medieval times, before the conquest of Wales in 1283, Môn often had periods of temporary independence, when frequently bequeathed to the heirs of kings as a sub-kingdom of Gwynedd, an example of this was Llywelyn ap Iorwerth (Llywelyn I, the Great c. 1200s) who was styled the Prince of Aberffraw. After the Norman invasion of Wales was one of the last times this occurred a few years after 1171, after the death of Owain Gwynedd, when the island was inherited by Rhodri ab Owain Gwynedd, and between 1246 and about 1255 when it was granted to Owain Goch as his share of the kingdom. After the conquest of Wales by Edward I, Anglesey became a county under the terms of the Statute of Rhuddlan of 1284. Hitherto it had been divided into the cantrefi of Aberffraw, Rhosyr and Cemaes.
During 1294 as a rebellion of the former house of Aberffraw, Prince Madog ap Llywelyn had attacked King Edward I's castles in North Wales. As a direct response, Beaumaris Castle was constructed to control Edward's interests in Anglesey, however, by the 1320s the build was abandoned and never complete. The castle was besieged by Owain Glyndŵr in the early 15th century. It was ruinous by 1609, however, the 6th Viscount Bulkeley had purchased the castle from Crown the in 1807 and it has been open to the public under the guardianship of the Crown ever since 1925.
The Shire Hall in Llangefni was completed in 1899. During the First World War, the Presbyterian minister and celebrity preacher John Williams toured the island as part of an effort to recruit young men as volunteers. The island's location made it ideal for monitoring German U-Boats in the Irish Sea, with half a dozen airships based at Mona. German POWs were kept on the island. By the end of the war, some 1,000 of the island's men had died on active service.
In 1936 the NSPCC opened its first branch on Anglesey.
During the Second World War, Anglesey received Italian POWs. The island was designated a reception zone, and was home to evacuee children from Liverpool and Manchester.
In 1971, a 100,000 ton per annum aluminum smelter was opened by Rio Tinto Zinc Corporation and British Insulated Callender's Cables with Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation as a 30 per cent partner.
In 1974, Anglesey became a district of the new county of Gwynedd. The Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 abolished the 1974 county and the five districts on 1 April 1996, and Anglesey became a separate unitary authority. In 2011, the Welsh Government appointed a panel of commissioners to administer the council, which meant the elected members were not in control. The commissioners remained until an election was held in May 2013, restoring an elected Council. Before the period of direct administration, there had been a majority of independent councillors. Though members did not generally divide along party lines, these were organised into five non-partisan groups on the council, containing a mix of party and independent candidates. The position has been similar since the election, although the Labour Party has formed a governing coalition with the independents.
Brand new council offices were built at Llangefni in the 1990s for the new Isle of Anglesey County Council.
Anglesey is a low-lying island with low hills spaced evenly over the north. The highest six are Holyhead Mountain, 220 metres (720 ft); Mynydd Bodafon, 178 metres (584 ft); Mynydd Llaneilian, 177 metres (581 ft); Mynydd y Garn, 170 metres (560 ft); Bwrdd Arthur, 164 metres (538 ft); and Mynydd Llwydiarth, 158 metres (518 ft). To the south and south-east, the island is divided from the Welsh mainland by the Menai Strait, which at its narrowest point is about 250 metres (270 yd) wide. In all other directions the island is surrounded by the Irish Sea. At 676 km2 (261 sq mi), it is the 52nd largest island of Europe and just five km2 (1.9 sq mi) smaller than the main island of Singapore.
There are a few natural lakes, mostly in the west, such as Llyn Llywenan, the largest on the island, Llyn Coron, and Cors Cerrig y Daran, but rivers are few and small. There are two large water supply reservoirs operated by Welsh Water. These are Llyn Alaw to the north of the island and Llyn Cefni in the centre of the island, which is fed by the headwaters of the Afon Cefni.
The climate is humid (though less so than neighbouring mountainous Gwynedd) and generally equable thanks to the Gulf Stream. The land is of variable quality and has probably lost some fertility. Anglesey has the northernmost olive grove in Europe and presumably in the world.
The coast of the Isle of Anglesey is more populous than the interior. The largest community is Holyhead, which is located on Holy Island and had a population of 12,103 at the 2021 United Kingdom census. It is followed by Amlwch (3,697), Llanfair-Mathafarn-Eithaf (3,085), and Menai Bridge (3,046), all located on the coast of the island of Anglesey. The largest community in the interior of Anglesey is Llangefni (5,500), the county town; the next-largest is Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog (1,711).
Beaumaris (Welsh: Biwmares) in the east features Beaumaris Castle, built by Edward I during his Bastide campaign in North Wales. Beaumaris is a yachting centre, with boats moored in the bay or off Gallows Point. The village of Newborough (Welsh: Niwbwrch), in the south, created when townsfolk of Llanfaes were relocated for the building of Beaumaris Castle, includes the site of Llys Rhosyr, another court of medieval Welsh princes featuring one of the United Kingdom's oldest courtrooms. The centrally localted Llangefni is the island's administrative centre. The town of Menai Bridge (Welsh: Porthaethwy) in the south-east, expanded to accommodate workers and construction when the first bridge to the mainland was being built. Hitherto Porthaethwy had been one of the main ferry ports for the mainland. A short distance from the town lies Bryn Celli Ddu, a Stone Age burial mound.
Nearby is the village with the longest name in Europe, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, and Plas Newydd, ancestral home of the Marquesses of Anglesey. The town of Amlwch lies in the north-east of the island and was once largely industrialised, having grown in the 18th century to support a major copper-mining industry at Parys Mountain.
Other settlements include Cemaes, Pentraeth, Gaerwen, Dwyran, Bodedern, Malltraeth and Rhosneigr. The Anglesey Sea Zoo is a local attraction offering looks at local marine wildlife from common lobsters to congers. All fish and crustaceans on display are caught round the island and placed in habitat reconstructions. The zoo also breeds lobsters commercially for food and oysters for pearls, both from local stocks. Sea salt (Halen Môn, from local sea water) is produced in a facility nearby, having formerly been made at the Sea Zoo site.
Landmarks
Anglesey Motor Racing Circuit
Anglesey Sea Zoo near Dwyran
Bays and beaches – Benllech, Cemlyn, Red Wharf, and Rhosneigr
Beaumaris Castle and Gaol
Cribinau – tidal island with 13th-century church
Elin's Tower (Twr Elin) – RSPB reserve and the lighthouse at South Stack (Ynys Lawd) near Holyhead
King Arthur's seat – near Beaumaris
Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, one of the longest place names in the world
Malltraeth – centre for bird life and home of wildlife artist Charles Tunnicliffe
Moelfre – fishing village
Parys Mountain – copper mine dating to the early Bronze Age
Penmon – priory and dovecote
Skerries Lighthouse – at the end of a low piece of submerged land, north-east of Holyhead
Stone Science Museum – privately run fossil museum near Pentraeth
Swtan longhouse and museum – owned by the National Trust and managed by the local community
Working windmill – Llanddeusant
Ynys Llanddwyn (Llanddwyn Island) – tidal island
St Cybi's Church Historic church in Holyhead
Born in Anglesey
Tony Adams – actor (Anglesey, 1940)
Stu Allan – radio and club DJ
John C. Clarke – U.S. state politician (Anglesey, 1831)
Grace Coddington – creative director for US Vogue (Anglesey, 1941)
Charles Allen Duval – artist and writer (Beaumaris, 1810)
Dawn French – actress, writer, comedian (Holyhead, 1957)
Huw Garmon – actor (Anglesey, 1966)
Hugh Griffith – Oscar-winning actor (Marianglas, 1912)
Elen Gwdman – poet (fl. 1609)
Meinir Gwilym – singer and songwriter (Llangristiolus, 1983)
Owain Gwynedd – royal prince (Anglesey, c. 1100)
Hywel Gwynfryn – radio and TV personality (Llangefni, 1942)
Aled Jones – singer and television presenter (Llandegfan, 1970)
John Jones – amateur astronomer (Bryngwyn Bach, Dwyran 1818 – Bangor 1898); a.k.a. Ioan Bryngwyn Bach and Y Seryddwr
William Jones – mathematician (Llanfihangel Tre'r Beirdd, 1675)
Julian Lewis Jones – actor, known for his portrayal of Karl Morris on the Sky 1 comedy Stella (Anglesey, 1968)
John Morris-Jones – grammarian and poet (Llandrygarn, 1864)
Edward Owen – 18th-century artist, notable for letters documenting life in London's art scene
Goronwy Owen – 18th-century poet (Llanfair-Mathafarn-Eithaf, 1723)
Osian Roberts – association football player and manager (Bodffordd)
Tecwyn Roberts – NASA aerospace engineer and Director of Networks at Goddard Space Flight Center (Llanddaniel Fab, 1925)
Hugh Owen Thomas – pioneering orthopaedic surgeon (Anglesey, 1836)
Ifor Owen Thomas – operatic tenor, photographer and artist (Red Wharf Bay, 1892)
Sefnyn – medieval court poet
Owen Tudor – grandfather of Henry Tudor, married the widow of Henry V, which gave the Tudor family a claim on the English throne (Anglesey, c. 1400).
Kyffin Williams – landscape painter (Llangefni, 1918)
William Williams – recipient of the Victoria Cross (Amlwch, 1890)
Andy Whitfield – actor (Amlwch, 1971)
Gareth Williams – employee of Britain's GCHQ signals intelligence agency (Anglesey, 1978)
The Eden Project is a visitor attraction in Cornwall, England, UK. The project is located in a reclaimed china clay pit, located 2 km (1.2 mi) from the town of St Blazey and 5 km (3 mi) from the larger town of St Austell.
The complex is dominated by two huge enclosures consisting of adjoining domes that house thousands of plant species, and each enclosure emulates a natural biome. The biomes consist of hundreds of hexagonal and pentagonal ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) inflated cells supported by geodesic tubular steel domes. The larger of the two biomes simulates a rainforest environment (and is the largest indoor rainforest in the world) and the second, a Mediterranean environment. The attraction also has an outside botanical garden which is home to many plants and wildlife native to Cornwall and the UK in general; it also has many plants that provide an important and interesting backstory, for example, those with a prehistoric heritage.
There are plans to build an Eden Project North in the seaside town of Morecambe, Lancashire, with a focus on the marine environment.
The clay pit in which the project is sited was in use for over 160 years. In 1981, the pit was used by the BBC as the planet surface of Magrathea in the TV series the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. By the mid-1990s the pit was all but exhausted.
The initial idea for the project dates back to 1996, with construction beginning in 1998. The work was hampered by torrential rain in the first few months of the project, and parts of the pit flooded as it sits 15 m (49 ft) below the water table.
The first part of the Eden Project, the visitor centre, opened to the public in May 2000. The first plants began arriving in September of that year,[8] and the full site opened on 17 March 2001.
To counter criticism from environmental groups, the Eden Project committed to investigate a rail link to the site. The rail link was never built, and car parking on the site is still funded from revenue generated from general admission ticket sales.
The Eden Project was used as a filming location for the 2002 James Bond film Die Another Day. On 2 July 2005 The Eden Project hosted the "Africa Calling" concert of the Live 8 concert series. It has also provided some plants for the British Museum's Africa garden.
In 2005, the Project launched "A Time of Gifts" for the winter months, November to February. This features an ice rink covering the lake, with a small café-bar attached, as well as a Christmas market. Cornish choirs regularly perform in the biomes.
In 2007, the Eden Project campaigned unsuccessfully for £50 million in Big Lottery Fund money for a proposed desert biome.[10][11] It received just 12.07% of the votes, the lowest for the four projects being considered. As part of the campaign, the Eden Project invited people all over Cornwall to try to break the world record for the biggest ever pub quiz as part of its campaign to bring £50 million of lottery funds to Cornwall.
In December 2009, much of the project, including both greenhouses, became available to navigate through Google Street View.
The Eden Trust revealed a trading loss of £1.3 million for 2012–13, on a turnover of £25.4 million. The Eden Project had posted a surplus of £136,000 for the previous year. In 2014 Eden accounts showed a surplus of £2 million.
The World Pasty Championships, an international competition to find the best Cornish pasties and other pasty-type savoury snacks, have been held at the Eden Project since 2012.
The Eden Project is said to have contributed over £1 billion to the Cornish economy. In 2016, Eden became home to Europe's second-largest redwood forest (after the Giants Grove at Birr Castle, Birr Castle, Ireland) when forty saplings of coast redwoods, Sequoia sempervirens, which could live for 4,000 years and reach 115 metres in height, were planted there.
The Eden Project received 1,010,095 visitors in 2019.
In December 2020 the project was closed after heavy rain caused several landslips at the site. Managers at the site are assessing the damage and will announce when the project will reopen on the company's website. Reopening became irrelevant as Covid lockdown measures in the UK indefinitely closed the venue from early 2021, though it had reopened by May 2021 after remedial works had taken place. The site was used for an event during the 2021 G7 Summit, hosted by the United Kingdom.
The project was conceived by Tim Smit and Jonathan Ball, and designed by Grimshaw Architects and structural engineering firm Anthony Hunt Associates (now part of Sinclair Knight Merz). Davis Langdon carried out the project management, Sir Robert McAlpine and Alfred McAlpine did the construction, MERO jointly designed and built the biome steel structures, the ETFE pillows that build the façade were realized by Vector Foiltec, and Arup was the services engineer, economic consultant, environmental engineer and transportation engineer. Land Use Consultants led the masterplan and landscape design. The project took 2½ years to construct and opened to the public on 17 March 2001.
Once into the attraction, there is a meandering path with views of the two biomes, planted landscapes, including vegetable gardens, and sculptures that include a giant bee and previously The WEEE Man (removed in 2016), a towering figure made from old electrical appliances and was meant to represent the average electrical waste used by one person in a lifetime.
At the bottom of the pit are two covered biomes:
The Tropical Biome, covers 1.56 ha (3.9 acres) and measures 55 m (180 ft) high, 100 m (328 ft) wide, and 200 m (656 ft) long. It is used for tropical plants, such as fruiting banana plants, coffee, rubber and giant bamboo, and is kept at a tropical temperature and moisture level.
The Mediterranean Biome covers 0.654 ha (1.6 acres) and measures 35 m (115 ft) high, 65 m (213 ft) wide, and 135 m (443 ft) long. It houses familiar warm temperate and arid plants such as olives and grape vines and various sculptures.
The Outdoor Gardens represent the temperate regions of the world with plants such as tea, lavender, hops, hemp, and sunflowers, as well as local plant species.
The covered biomes are constructed from a tubular steel (hex-tri-hex) with mostly hexagonal external cladding panels made from the thermoplastic ETFE. Glass was avoided due to its weight and potential dangers. The cladding panels themselves are created from several layers of thin UV-transparent ETFE film, which are sealed around their perimeter and inflated to create a large cushion. The resulting cushion acts as a thermal blanket to the structure. The ETFE material is resistant to most stains, which simply wash off in the rain. If required, cleaning can be performed by abseilers. Although the ETFE is susceptible to punctures, these can be easily fixed with ETFE tape. The structure is completely self-supporting, with no internal supports, and takes the form of a geodesic structure. The panels vary in size up to 9 m (29.5 ft) across, with the largest at the top of the structure.
The ETFE technology was supplied and installed by the firm Vector Foiltec, which is also responsible for ongoing maintenance of the cladding. The steel spaceframe and cladding package (with Vector Foiltec as ETFE subcontractor) was designed, supplied and installed by MERO (UK) PLC, who also jointly developed the overall scheme geometry with the architect, Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners.
The entire build project was managed by McAlpine Joint Venture.
The Core is the latest addition to the site and opened in September 2005. It provides the Eden Project with an education facility, incorporating classrooms and exhibition spaces designed to help communicate Eden's central message about the relationship between people and plants. Accordingly, the building has taken its inspiration from plants, most noticeable in the form of the soaring timber roof, which gives the building its distinctive shape.
Grimshaw developed the geometry of the copper-clad roof in collaboration with a sculptor, Peter Randall-Page, and Mike Purvis of structural engineers SKM Anthony Hunts. It is derived from phyllotaxis, which is the mathematical basis for nearly all plant growth; the "opposing spirals" found in many plants such as the seeds in a sunflower's head, pine cones and pineapples. The copper was obtained from traceable sources, and the Eden Project is working with Rio Tinto Group to explore the possibility of encouraging further traceable supply routes for metals, which would enable users to avoid metals mined unethically. The services and acoustic, mechanical, and electrical engineering design was carried out by Buro Happold.
The Core is also home to art exhibitions throughout the year. A permanent installation entitled Seed, by Peter Randall-Page, occupies the anteroom. Seed is a large, 70 tonne egg-shaped stone installation standing some 13 feet (4.0 m) tall and displaying a complex pattern of protrusions that are based upon the geometric and mathematical principles that underlie plant growth.
Environmental aspects
The biomes provide diverse growing conditions, and many plants are on display.
The Eden Project includes environmental education focusing on the interdependence of plants and people; plants are labelled with their medicinal uses. The massive amounts of water required to create the humid conditions of the Tropical Biome, and to serve the toilet facilities, are all sanitised rain water that would otherwise collect at the bottom of the quarry. The only mains water used is for hand washing and for cooking. The complex also uses Green Tariff Electricity – the energy comes from one of the many wind turbines in Cornwall, which were among the first in Europe.
In December 2010 the Eden Project received permission to build a geothermal electricity plant which will generate approx 4MWe, enough to supply Eden and about 5000 households. The project will involve geothermal heating as well as geothermal electricity. Cornwall Council and the European Union came up with the greater part of £16.8m required to start the project. First a well will be sunk nearly 3 miles (4.5 km) into the granite crust underneath Eden.
Eden co-founder, Sir Tim Smit said, "Since we began, Eden has had a dream that the world should be powered by renewable energy. The sun can provide massive solar power and the wind has been harnessed by humankind for thousands of years, but because both are intermittent and battery technology cannot yet store all we need there is a gap. We believe the answer lies beneath our feet in the heat underground that can be accessed by drilling technology that pumps water towards the centre of the Earth and brings it back up superheated to provide us with heat and electricity".
Drilling began in May 2021, and it was expected the project would be completed by 2023
Other projects
Eden Project Morecambe
In 2018, the Eden Project revealed its design for a new version of the project, located on the seafront in Morecambe, Lancashire. There will be biomes shaped like mussels and a focus on the marine environment. There will also be reimagined lidos, gardens, performance spaces, immersive experiences, and observatories.
Grimshaw are the architects for the project, which is expected to cost £80 million. The project is a partnership with the Lancashire Enterprise Partnership, Lancaster University, Lancashire County Council, and Lancaster City Council. In December 2018, the four local partners agreed to provide £1 million to develop the idea, which allowed the development of an outline planning application for the project. It is expected that there will be 500 jobs created and 8,000 visitors a day to the site.
Having been granted planning permission in January 2022 and with £50 million of levelling-up funding granted in January 2023, it is due to open in 2026 and predicted to benefit the North West economy by £200 million per year.
Eden Project Dundee
In May 2020, the Eden Project revealed plans to establish their first attraction in Scotland, and named Dundee as the proposed site of the location. The city's Camperdown Park was widely touted to be the proposed location of the new attraction however in May 2021, it was announced that the Eden Project had chosen the site of the former gasworks in Dundee as the location. It was planned that the new development would result in 200 new jobs and "contribute £27m a year to the regional economy". The project is in partnership with Dundee City Council, the University of Dundee and the Northwood Charitable Trust.
In 2021, Eden Project announced that they would establish fourteen hectares of new wildflower habitat in areas across Dundee, including Morgan Academy and Caird Park.
In July 2023, new images were released depicting what the Dundee attraction would look which accompanied the planning permission documents for the new attraction which would be submitted by autumn 2023.
South Downs
In 2020, Eastbourne Borough Council and the Eden Project announced a joint project to explore the viability of a new Eden site in the South Downs National Park.
Qingdao, China
In 2015, the Eden Project announced that it had reached an agreement to construct an Eden site in Qingdao, China. While the site had originally been slated to open by 2020, construction fell behind schedule due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the opening date was delayed to 2023. The new site is expected to focus on "water" and its central role in civilization and nature.
Eden Project New Zealand
A planned Eden Project for the New Zealand city of Christchurch, to be called Eden Project New Zealand/Eden Project Aotearoa, is expected to be inaugurated in 2025. It is to be centred close to the Avon River, on a site largely razed as a result of the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake.
Eden Sessions
Since 2002, the Project has hosted a series of musical performances, called the Eden Sessions, usually held during the summer.
The 2024 sessions will be headlined by Fatboy Slim, Suede, Manic Street Preachers, The National, JLS, Crowded House, Rick Astley, Tom Grennan and Paolo Nutini.
In the media
The Eden Project has appeared in various television shows and films such as the James Bond film Die Another Day, The Bad Education Movie, in the Netflix series The Last Bus, and in the CBeebies show Andy's Aquatic Adventure.
A weekly radio show called The Eden Radio Project is held every Thursday afternoon on Radio St Austell Bay.
On 18 November 2019, on the Trees A Crowd podcast, David Oakes would interview the Eden Project's Head of Interpretation, Dr Jo Elworthy, about the site.
Lillian Bassman (1917–2012), American fashion photographer and darkroom innovator, reshaped mid‑century visual style through her dreamy high‑contrast black‑and‑white images. Emerging from Harper’s Bazaar in the 1940s, she brought poetic abstraction to fashion photography—soft silhouettes, blurred motion, bleached tones—transforming commercial editorial into fine art. After discarding decades of work in the 1970s, a serendipitous rediscovery of her negatives in the 1990s sparked a late‑career revival, during which she embraced digital editing to continue her ethereal aesthetic into her nineties
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I was trying to emulate some flickr friends with a sunflare upload..
So I cranked up the ISO, wound down the f stop and put out some bird seed to see what I could capture.. I have never shot at this high ISO before.. and probably will never will again.. I was kinda hoping that I would catch some colour in the birds but not so...
Never having tried this on bird life before.. it sort of worked.. hard to capture the light AND the action in the same shot..
I could have taken several shots and blended.. .. .. but didn't this is basically SOOC
ISO 25600, 24-105mm lens @ 105mm, f/22, 1/8000sec hand held, raw
interestingly enough the file size went up to 39MB, where as it is normally at about 25MB shooting in raw, this is telling me that, even in RAW there is some compression going on in the camera.. .. which implies... some data is discarded.. shucks.. I hope they know what they are doing doing..
oh.. ps.. the birds are a sulphur crested cockatoo and a lorikeet
This small fishing vessel is seen coming up the River Rother to Rye Harbour.
Carrying the marks BH.18 which is a Blyth number, it seems a long way from home, but the web says it became RX.21 at Rye four months later, so maybe it was already based there?
Rye Harbour, East Sussex
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State Farm inspired by Rihanna "Umbrella" music video (see in Vevo via YouTube) with this www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckuHMNchIrI - a super impressive accomplishment similar to the talents of producer John Hardin, director of photography Pierre Rouger, editor Nabil Mench - strokes of genius in the ad campaign on YouTube - it's also got a theme similar to the AXE ad with K Sutherland voiceover www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/spot-girl-who-go... these are the words from State Farm about the ad (which is a webisode teaser)... "On a night of heavy rain, "Jaws" meets "Four Eyes". Don't miss one of the best funny and romantic online drama story. Janine Chang casts a role of a free-spirited, outgoing and independent coffee shop owner. Peter Ho casts a role of a shy and good-natured meteorologist. Director Zer Cheng's new micro-film, presented by State Farm. Go to www.ofloveandrain.com to watch the 4 webisodes full story." 大雨的晚上，鋼牙妹遇上四眼雞。這是一部浪漫有趣的愛情網路劇，您絕不能錯過! 張鈞甯飾演開朗且獨立的咖啡店老闆，何潤東飾演憨厚木訥的氣象分析師。由State Farm 提供，導演程孝澤最新力作。趕快到www.ofloveandrian.com收看共四集的完整劇情。 As you know viewers have flocked to see The Loft US version. Rihanna has also appeared on shows like Glee, Cold Case... and State Farm Future Book
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The agency got Kiefer Sutherland on board to tell the tale of Susan Glenn, his (fictional) girl who got away, in a stylish, surreal spot that plays like a memory--with poetic narration and quietly fantastical dream sequences that lend the sometimes meatheady brand an air of sophistication. COPYWRITING: Peter Rosch wrote the script; hardly a word was changed from his draft. "I remember her. Not a girl but the girl," Sutherland says in voiceover, as the camera moves down a high-school hallway to find Susan standing with a friend. "The brains behind the all-time top-10 comic-book vixens only wish they could conjure a siren the likes of Susan Glenn." The ad proceeds with supernatural visions--a lecture hall shaking and crumbling; Susan floating through the air, pyrotechnics erupting behind her. "Beneath my feet my own private earthquake registered an 8 when Susan Glenn was near," Sutherland says. "In her presence, all that was beautiful before she arrived turned grotesque. And in her shadow, others became goblin-esque. ... In my mind, I was a peasant before a queen." At the end, we finally see the actor, looking at himself in the mirror. "If I could do it again, I'd do it differently," he concludes. An Axe bottle appears with the tagline, "Fear no Susan Glenn." The narration, like the visuals, is meant to leave you a little dazed--and not be "too rhymey or gushy poetry," said Weiss. The name Susan Glenn, he added, has "a timeless quality--unique enough but generic enough that it becomes ownable and memorable." ART DIRECTION/FILMING: Ringan Ledwidge, who directed The Guardian's celebrated "Three Little Pigs" spot, shot this one over three days in Los Angeles. Set in the '80s, when Sutherland would have been in high school, it has that washed-out, vintage look. "The reference we talked about was an old Polaroid--before Instagram," said Weiss. The transitions are ethereal--borderless and blurry. Most of the visuals were captured in camera. "We didn't want the effects to take you out of the memory," Weiss said. TALENT: Sutherland has "an incredible voice and a presence that matches that," said Weiss. The actress who plays Susan auditioned for a different part but became the star. "We wanted a beautiful girl, but with a girl-next-door quality," Weiss said. "It's what makes Susan Glenns Susan Glenns. They're not unapproachable. It's you that gets in the way." SOUND: The sound design is dreamlike, too. Sounds come and go unreliably. "The girls' laughter in the hallway, early on in the film, was a moment we all loved, but it was fairly muted," said Weiss. The music is a plaintive piano. "Against Kiefer's voice, which is music in its own right, it needed to make you feel a bit of regret but not break the romance of it, either," said Weiss. MEDIA: The spot began running in cinemas on July 13 and will break on television July 30. A social/digital element will launch soon. Weiss acknowledged the spot is more highbrow than usual for Axe. "This particular idea required this look and feel," he said. "But it's a wonderful brand in that it can go in many different directions." THE SPOT: She's not A girl, she's THE girl. Fear No Susan Glenn. fearnosusanglenn.com/ CREDITS: CLIENT: Unilever Brand: Axe AGENCY: BBH New York Chief Creative Officer: John Patroulis Executive Creative Director: Ari Weiss Associate Creative Director: Nate Able Copywriter: Peter Rosch Art Director: Nate Able Head of Broadcast: Lisa Setten Agency Producer: Calleen Colburn Business Affairs Manager: Laurie Litonjua Business Director: Armando Turco Account Director: Mandy Dempsey Strategy Director: John Graham Strategy Director: Griffin Farley Strategist: Eric Fernandez PRODUCTION COMPANY: Rattling Stick Director: Ringan Ledwidge Production Company Partner/EP: Jennifer Barrons DP: Matthew Libatique Line Producer: Pat Frazier VFX Company: The Mill NY Producer: Charlotte Arnold VFX Supervisor: Iwan Zwarts Colorist: Fergus McCall Lead Flame: Iwan Zwarts Flame Assist: Albert Cook CG product : Isaiah Palmer Editorial: Work (NY) Editor: Rich Orrick Assistant Editor: Healy Snow Editorial EP: Jane Dilworth/Erica Thompson Music Composer: Phil Kay Music Company: Woodwork Music Sound Designer: Brian Emrich Mix Company: LIME Mixer: Rohan Young Topics: Axe, Bartle Bogle Hegarty, Bbh, Celebrity Endorsements, Kiefer Sutherland, The Spot, Packaged Goods, Creative, Agency comments random from YT Idk if its a good thing that I can say I don't have a Susan Glenn cause I gave her my all or is it bad that I gave her my all & still lost her Tadeo Lopez 13 hours ago i feel a weird pain watching this, but i can't stop because it reminds me of my susan glenn jimtherealkid 2 days ago Awesome!!!! :D monkeytheboy88 in reply to babbahassa (Show the comment) 2 days ago Did you meet her to were your date was or you drove her there? BFH2591 in reply to babbahassa (Show the comment) 3 days ago I saw this commercial and it changed my groxt life. Theres this girl in my math class who i thought i would never have a chance with and because i saw this commercial i refused to have any more susan glenn's in my life. So i went up to her and talked to her and now i have a date in a few minutes. Wish me luck chaps babbahassa 4 days ago 4 God that makes me feel so sad at the end!! She's looking him dead in the eye, she wants him badly but he doesn't get the message.. It pisses me off, I've done similar things but because of social anxiety I just walk away.. Gentlemen we need to get our shit together! Silenced140 6 days ago 2 it's a shame one of the greatest commercials ever was used on such a mediocre product. thedudeperson 1 week ago 2 >tfw day planner sting with wolfe blitzed crave cray info new york biggest concert Facebook crave us craves yum yum brands. no Susan Glenn AntwanFuzznips 1 week ago Jessica Cook aka Susan Glenn is hot. @jessicamcook on twitter/instagram KNJdogg 1 week ago Barry Manilow was born on June 17, 1943. He has more in common with Bob Dylan than you might think: Like Robert Allen Zimmerman, Manilow changed his name. He was born Barry Alan Pincus. Both were born Jewish (Manilow's mother and paternal grandfather were Jewish), and have released Christmas albums. Dylan and Manilow each collaborated with Bette Midler. Manilow worked with the Divine Miss M from 1971 to 1975, while Dylan sang with her three times - A duet on "Buckets Of Rain" in 1975, plus the group projects "We Are The World" and the 1986 tribute to Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Both worked with Clive Davis - Dylan at Columbia, Manilow at Arista. Video: Bette Midler with Barry Manilow - I Shall Be Released Each walked out on a television program. Dylan would not allow himself to be censored by the Ed Sullivan Show, while Manilow backed out of an interview on The View because of Elizabeth Hasselback's conservative political views. Both appeared in television commercials. Dylan and his songs have appeared in numerous ads, most notably Victoria's Secret and Cadillac, while Manilow wrote and occasionally sang jingles, including State Farm Insurance ("Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there...") and Band-Aid ("I am stuck on Band-Aid, 'cause Band-Aids stick on me!"). Bob Dylan has been known to take drugs while, in an April 1979 Ladies Home Journal interview, Manilow admitted to experimenting with marijuana, saying he lost the taste for it quickly. Elizabeth Taylor was friends with each performer. Dylan was close to Taylor (and wrote a song for her), while Manilow was the Master of Ceremonies for Taylor's 60th birthday bash at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. Both artists have won Grammy awards and have been inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame. Dylan and Manilow have appeared in public wearing disguises. In 2002, Dylan wore a wig and fake beard when he returned to the Newport Folk Festival, while the following year Manilow wore dark glasses and a blonde wig in the streets of Beverly Hills, California, after reportedly receiving a facelift. in 1988, Manilow met Dylan. According to an interview with Manilow in the Star Tribune: Manilow's Minnesota fans will vividly recall his three-day stand in 1991 to open the newly remodeled State Theatre. The first night was Halloween, when the snowstorm of the century -- OK, 31 inches -- began. "I remember walking to the rehearsal," he said. "The snow -- holy mackerel!" Twin Cities audiences have been consistently supportive, he said. "Minneapolis and St. Paul have been great to me. I'm this Jew boy from Brooklyn, and I don't know why these people from the Midwest connect with what I do. They've always been on my side." Maybe it's payback because a "Jew boy" from Hibbing, Minn. -- Bob Dylan -- had to go to New York to get discovered. Manilow encountered the Minnesota icon once, in the late 1980s. "It was an odd meeting," he recalled. It took place at a Seder, a ceremonial Passover dinner, at the home of songwriting legend Burt Bacharach. "He [Dylan] came over to me and said, 'Keep doing what you're doing, man. You're inspiring all of us.' Isn't that nice?" A couple of months later, Dylan began what is often called his "Never Ending Tour," which resumes tonight. You can watch Manilow accompany Midler on a cover of Dylan's "I Shall Be Released" by clicking on the embedded clip on the left. Keep up with Bob Dylan Examiner news. 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Passing Through
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Passing Through by Kristian Ulrich Larsen www.idkul.com and Olafur Haraldsson olihar.com . How to watch? Full-Screen. Max volume. Enjoy. Think. . Shooting location: Iceland . Music: Division - Moby www.mobygratis.com/ . Narration: Frank Stubbs . Sound edit...
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October 29
Voice of one of the nicest people here. He didn't have to, but I appreciate it. Anyway, this ad is intriguing.
AXE Susan Glenn Commercial
She's not A girl, she's THE girl. Fear No Susan Glenn. fearnosusanglenn.com
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Sam Botta
October 28
7.7 West Coast Canada, Earthquake swarm: Island off West Coast, 3.9 near Salton Sea (Riverside, CA area near L.A., SD) and just in 3.9 in Los Angeles. Oh, and within the past 24 hours, there have been at least 100 other earthquakes near U S West Coast
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Chris Green With Perfect Storm 3 about to hit the East Coast, wonder what all this means?
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October 26
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
~Og Mandino
So many beautiful friends that shine as stars... — with Ray Cronise and 18 others.
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Lea Ann Pyne Awe thanx ;0) Ditto
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Jenny Craig SO grateful for you Catherine Garceau!!
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October 25
This is an amazing piece of music. If you were affected by "Reflections of Earth" (fireworks each night at EPCOT) then you'll know why.
Pearl Harbor OST - Tennessee, 1923 Isolated Score (Theme by Hans Zimmer)
This is the rare version of "Tennessee" used in the final edit of Pearl Harbor movie when Rafe and Danny were younger and playing pilots. For this theme, I'v...
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more digital experimentation - got this idea stuck in my head and couldn't rest till it crawled out.
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I'd like to dedicate this photograph to Mary, my dear daughter-in-love and son's partner. Mary loves Seoraksan as much as I do, if not more,
I have tried to emulate the style and technique of Ansel Adams in processing this photo using the zone system he developed. Nik Software's Siver Efex Pro 2 can help you visualize on screen each zone and make adjustments accordingly.
I'd also like to recommend the book, Digital Landscape Photography in the Footsteps of Ansel Adams and the Great Masters by Michael Frye.
Première neige sur Montréal.
Quelques rares sapins dans le boisé Saint-Sulpice à Montréal.
Émulation du film Kodak Panatomic X avec l'application Silver Efex Pro 2 de Nik Collection.
First Snow.
Boisé de Saint-Sulpice, Montréal, Canada.
Kodak Panatomic X Film Emulator with Silver Efex Pro 2 from Nik Collection.
Dunedin.
The Edinburgh of the South was surveyed and laid out with its distinctive Octagon Park and surrounding streets by Charles Kettle who wanted to emulate the “Romantic” design of Edinburgh. He succeeded. He selected a fine site of rising ground just at the top of Otago Harbour. Here were built the early important buildings- the First Church of Otago - the major Presbyterian Church of NZ built in weatherboard in 1848, then replaced with a stone church in 1850, and the impressive Gothic masterpiece of today was erected in 1873 with the 177 feet high tower and spire. The architect who is credited with designing the First Church and so many of Dunedin’s fine stone buildigns was Robert Lawson ( 1833-1902) a Scot who emigrated to Australia in 1854 and then on to Dunedin in 1862. Robert Lawson also designed Larnach Castle (the only castle in NZ, 1871), the Knox Presbyterian Church (1876), the Dunedin Wesleyan Methodist Church – now the Fortune Theatre (1869), the Otago Boys High School (1885), the ANZ Bank 319 Princes St.(1874), the Hanover Street Baptist Church (1865 now demolished and replaced 1912) and the Municipal Chambers (1880). Many of Lawson’s buildings are built of white Oamaru limestone.
Other significant and heritage listed city buildings include: The Octagon is the centre, Moray Place surrounds it.
Around The Octagon:- Dunedin Athenaeum and Mechanics' Institute 1870, 22 The Octagon; Regent Theatre 1904, 17 The Octagon; St Paul’s Anglican Cathedral 1914, 36 Moray Place; Municipal Chambers 1880, 38 The Octagon;
Moray Place :- First Church of Otago 1873, 410 Moray Place; former Dunedin Synagogue dating from 1864 is NZ’s oldest synagogue – extended 1872 and sold 1881 to the Masonic Lodge but now a residence, 29 Moray Place; Moray Terrace building about 1910, 63 Moray Place; Moray Place Congregational Church (former) 1865, 81 Moray Place; former Dunedin Public Library built around 1905, 110 Moray Place; Dunedin Town Hall 1929 in neo-classical style;
Princes Street:- Cargill’s Monument 1864; ; Wains Hotel 1878, 310 Princes St – with carved figures of Neptune and other gods above the doors; Bank of NZ 1879, 205 Princes St; Dunedin Chief Post Office 1937, 283 Princes St; the National Bank of NZ 1911, 193 Princes St;
Queens Gardens:- NZ Insurance Building 1897, 49 Queens Gardens; Union Bank 1874, 319 Queens Gardens;
Dowling Street:- Imperial Building Dunedin’s answer to the Flatiron building of NY – about 1910, corner Cowling and Lower High St; ; Garrison Hall 1872 (former) 8 Dowling St;
Stuart Street:- Dunedin Law Courts 1902, 1 Stuart St; Wesleyan Church now Fortune Theatre 1869, 231 Stuart St;
Other locations:- All Saints Anglican Church 1865, 786 Cumberland St; the Otago Museum 1877, 419 King St; St Joseph’s Catholic Cathedral 1878-86 and St Dominic’s Priory 1877, 288 Rattray St; Dunedin Police Station 1898 (former), 21 Dunbar St; the Otago Girls High School 1910, 41 Tennyson St; Dunedin Prison 1898 (former), 2 Castle St; the Southern Cross Hotel 118 High St (former) 1883; the Guardian Royal Exchange Assurance Building, 7 Liverpool St 1882; the Otago Boys High School 1885, 18 Arthur St; and many fine mansions line High Street numbered 400 onwards. It is a bit of a climb but gives you good views across Otago Harbour towards St Kilda too. Buses go along the street so take a bus out and walk back down the hill!
Central Otago Railway and the Taieri Gorge train.
The impressive Dunedin railway station, the most photographer building in NZ, was completed in 1906. It was designed by a government architect with tower, gables and dormer windows in an Edwardian Flemish extravaganza style reflecting the importance of rail travel at that time. Inside the pretty flour tiles are by Royal Doulton. The line from Christchurch reached Dunedin in 1878. But one of the first railway lines in NZ originated here on a narrow gauge line to Port Chalmers in 1873. The steam engine that opened the line is housed in the Otago Settlers Museum in Dunedin. But even before the railway came from Christchurch the Otago Central Railway was formed in 1877 with the first 27 km section opening in 1889. That line which we travel on today through Taieri Gorge was extended to Middlemarch in 1891. The line was extended every few years opening up land for sheep farmers until it reached Alexandra in 1906. The following year it was extended to Clyde and finally to Cromwell it’s most westerly point in 1921. Fat lambs and sheep were then railed to meat processing works at Pareora and later Mosgiel in Dunedin. This all came to a decline (but not a cessation) in the 1970s when Britain entered the European Common Market and road transport become cheaper. The western part of the rail line was closed by a new dam in 1980 and finally along its entire length in 1990. The Taieri Gorge section of the line climbs quickly to 437 metres (1,434 feet) with curves, a 200 metre tunnel and a long viaduct. The viaduct is the longest and tallest wrought iron structure in NZ. The line between Dunedin and Middlemarch has 10 tunnels, 16 major bridges and 4 major viaducts. Dunedin not only had trains but also cable trams like San Francisco. Its cable car operated from 1881 to 1957 being one of the first and last in the world to operate.
Mission:
Emulate the work of William Eggleston (American, 1939-).
Like Pete Turner, William Eggleston is another 20th century photographer that helped to bring legitimacy to color photography. While Eggleston did begin photographing in black and white, he began using color in the 1960's. In the 1970's, Eggleston discovered dye-transfer printing, about which he stated "every photograph I subsequently printed with the process seemed fantastic and each one seemed better than the previous one" [source]. One of his most famous works, The Red Ceiling was printed using this method. His photos printed with the dye-transfer have a very heavy saturated quality to them.
However, more important than color is Eggleston's subjects, which are characteristically mundane. John Szarkowski wrote about Eggleston's work: "[it] is consistently local and private, even insular, in its nominal concerns[...]. [Eggleston's work] might [be] in a diary, where the important meanings would be not public and general but private and esoteric. It is not clear whether the bucolic modesty of the work's subject matter should be taken at face value or whether this should be understood as a posture, an assumed ingenuousness designed to camouflage the artist's Faustian ambition" (William Eggleston's Guide, introduction).
While his saturated colors do add an additional element to his work, Eggleston's most significant trait is his ability to give significance to this mundane world. According to Eudora Welty: "The extraordinary, compelling, honest, beautiful and unsparing photographs all have to do with the quality of our lives in the ongoing world: they succeed in showing us the grain of the present, like the cross-section of a tree.... They focus on the mundane world. But no subject is fuller of implications than the mundane world!" [source]. Eggleston's work deals with subtlety -- peel back the ordinary image that you see when you view Eggleston's work and see the story that lies beneath it.
Your assignment is to create a photograph in the William Eggleston style. Successful submissions should look like an Eggleston image visually (color and saturated) and also have a level of subtlety.
dWIT (detailed "what it took")
I had not heard of Eggleston before, so this was an opportunity to learn about his vision and work.
This was a challenging assignment! None of his work especially excited me, and I was trying to see what the critics were seeing that they thought made him exceptional. After sifting through several photographs the part of his work that kept calling me was irregular lines and perspectives that draw the viewer's eye through the frame. In many of the photos there are three or more competing "lines", and rarely are they symmetrical. In addition, he often has elements that vanish out of frame, which conveys a particular feeling of "unfinished" or "interrupted." That, plus the color, was intriguing.
His photos that I kept coming back to for inspiration were the freezer, the kitchen sink, the Frontier sign in Las Vegas, and the woman sitting on the curb with papers.
My submission truly was just something I stumbled upon while showering, and thinking about the assignment (more accurately, lamenting the fact that I had nothing to submit for the assignment!). The colors of the various bottles, the lines of the shadows, tile, and window frame, plus the "private" nature of the subject, gave me an "a ha!", and I had to try and capture the image.
Post-processing included a minor crop, adjusting the reds and blues (to try and get an old film feel), and boosting the saturation a bit.
At first I really didn't resonate with his work, and had a hard time appreciating what he was trying to say. But, as I studied more, and tried to "see" what he was conveying, I actually came to appreciate his work much more. Still not a huge fan, but can try to get in his space to see his pov. This project helped me look more simply at the scenes that are everywhere, and can be their own little story.
In 1965 Charlotte Perriand & LeCobusier
collaboratively designed a Lamp , they called Lamps Cabanon.
Years later NEMO Lighting decided to reintroduce this
MCM Classic.
Enter- a Furniture Designer from Chicago- whose fascination with Chicago's Tri-lobed-
Lake Point Tower
HighRise Building, led home to envision a "taller" version of the 1965 classic, in a fashion to emulate Lake Point Towers Building.....just as soon as I can figure out-
how-to-make-it!
Emulative of a magazine from the 1980's advertising a simple prism:
More at blakew.smugmug.com/art/PRISM
This week we had the choice of Tim Burton or Alex Stoddard. Two completely different artists, both amazing, and both equally tough to emulate. I chose Alex...
I've been a fan of his work pretty much since the start of his 365 project. His imagination seems endless and his execution of his ideas is nothing short of jaw dropping.
This one really pushed me. I had my brain flooded with ideas from day one and tried several times throughout the week to accomplish something. The visions were there but everything I shot came out half-assed and I was beginning to worry a bit.
With a fresh blanket of snowfall this morning came a new idea and a propelled sense of determination to make it happen. A quick trip to the store lent me my prop of choice. My destination was already known. The only thing missing was to execute the setup and hopefully nail the shot.
The snow was blazing and thankfully the temperatures were only borderline freezing. I set up my gear, affixed my prop and built up the balls to strip down as much as I could bear and get into the state of mind I was hoping for.
The whole ordeal became quite the meditative experience as I found myself barefoot dangling in the air, snow blasting all around me, completely lost in the moment.
I chose to work with the environment I was given instead of trying to push it into a darker mood, so I opted for a slower exposure to really brighten things up with hopes of allowing the red to really pop and hold the viewers eye.
This was a very rewarding experience and I hope I'm able to carry on with this state of mind as the following weeks themes come about :)
Canon 7D
Sigma 30mm 1.4
ISO 200
f/8 @ 1/13 sec.
natural lighting
LR4/CS5