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An experiement shot trying with both hands holding the balloon. FYI I'm entirely in frame (a la this). I find the balloon break pattern is significantly different when held than when it's in the air.
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Strobist: SB600 on camera left and below, gobo'd, on 1/64th power. SB800 on camera right and above, gobo'd on 1/64th. Balloon with green dyed water. Retouching / correction in Aperture.
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EDIT: Explored #6! Thanks all for the wonderful comments.
Fraserburgh passenger railway station a few months before closure.
NBL type 2, D6142 awaits departure with the train to Aberdeen.
(Picture taken by the late Robin Barbour)
At the other end of this train is another NBL type 2, D6145. By co-incidence a few months later from when this photograph was taken, on the 15th October 1965 these 2 locos hauled the very last Royal train from Ballater to Aberdeen.
Agra Fort, is a monument, a UNESCO World Heritage site located in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is about 2.5 km northwest of its more famous sister monument, the Taj Mahal. The fort can be more accurately described as a walled city.
Agra Fort was originally a brick fort, held by the Hindu Sikarwar Rajputs. It was mentioned for the first time in 1080 AD when a Ghaznavide force captured it. Sikandar Lodi (1488–1517) was the first Sultan of Delhi who shifted to Agra and lived in the fort. He governed the country from here and Agra assumed the importance of the second capital. He died in the fort at 1517 and his son, Ibrahim Lodi, held it for nine years until he was defeated and killed at Panipat in 1526. Several palaces, wells and a mosque were built by him in the fort during his period.
Samrat Hem Chandra Vikramaditya who won Agra in 1553 and again 1556 defeating Akbar's army.
After the First Battle of Panipat in 1526, Mughals captured the fort and seized a vast treasure, including the diamond later known as the Koh-i-Noor. The victorious Babur stayed in the fort in the palace of Ibrahim and built a baoli (step well) in it. The emperor Humayun was crowned here in 1530. Humayun was defeated at Bilgram in 1540 by Sher Shah. The fort remained with Suris till 1555, when Humanyun recaptured it. The Hindu king Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, also called 'Hemu', defeated Humanyun's army, led by Iskandar Khan Uzbek, and won Agra. Hemu got a huge booty from this fort and went on to capture Delhi from the Mughals. The Mughals under Akbar defeated King Hemu finally at the Second Battle of Panipat in 1556.
Realizing the importance of its central situation, Akbar made it his capital and arrived in Agra in 1558. His historian, Abdul Fazal, recorded that this was a brick fort known as 'Badalgarh' . It was in a ruined condition and Akbar had it rebuilt with red sandstone from Barauli area in Rajasthan. Architects laid the foundation and it was built with bricks in the inner core with sandstone on external surfaces. Some 4,000 builders worked on it daily for eight years, completing it in 1573.
It was only during the reign of Akbar's grandson, Shah Jahan, that the site took on its current state. Legend has it that Shah Jahan built the beautiful Taj Mahal for his wife, Mumtaz Mahal. Unlike his grandfather, Shah Jahan tended to have buildings made from white marble, often inlaid with gold or semi-precious gems. He destroyed some of the earlier buildings inside the fort to make his own.
At the end of his life, Shah Jahan was deposed and restrained by his son, Aurangzeb, in the fort. It is rumoured that Shah Jahan died in Muasamman Burj, a tower with a marble balcony with a view of the Taj Mahal.
The fort was the site of a battle during the Indian rebellion of 1857, which caused the end of the British East India Company's rule in India, and led to a century of dire.ct rule of India by Britaint also is red in colour.
Musamman Burj also known as the Saman Burj or the Shah-burj, is a beautiful octagonal tower standing close to the Shah Jahan's private hall Diwan-e-Khas in Agra Fort.
Musamman Burj was built by Shah Jahan for his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal. It is said that at first a small marble palace built by Akbar was situated at this site, which was later demolished by Jehangir to erect new buildings. Shah Jahan in his turn chose this site to erect the multi-storied marble tower inlaid with precious stones for Mumtaz Mahal. It was built between 1631-40 and offers exotic views of the famous Taj Mahal.
The Musamman Burj is made of delicate marble lattices with ornamental niches so that the ladies of the court could gaze out unseen. The decoration of the walls is pietra dura. The chamber has a marble dome on top and is surrounded by a verandah with a beautiful carved fountain in the center.
The tower looks out over the River Yamuna and is traditionally considered to have one of the most poignant views of the Taj Mahal. It is here that Shah Jahan along with his favorite daughter Jahanara Begum had spent his last few years as a captive of his son Aurangzeb. He lay here on his death bed while gazing at the Taj Mahal in Agra.
Shot with:
Canon P Rangefinder
Canon 50mm f1.4 LTM
Canon Auto-Up 450
Kodak High Contrast 5363 at ISO 35
Silvermax Developer at 1:29 for 11 minutes at 68F
30 seconds initial agitation & 1 inversion every 30 seconds
TF-4 Fixer for 5 minutes
Scanned with:
Olympus EM5II at 1/160 sec
Minolta MC Macro Rokkor-QF 50mm f3.5 at f8
Minolta Slide Copier
External Flash at 1/16 power with Paper Diffuser 12 inches from Copier
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Just finished yesterday!
I made this camera as a present for couple friends who are just married and they both have passion for film photography.
It just need some adjustement but basically is done and i've just loaded the first roll...let's hope for a develop without light leaks :)
Some details about the stuff i've used:
- Leica 35-135 Imarect/VIDOM rangefinder
- Smena external rangefinder
- Kiev 88 back holder film ( 6x6 )
- Tominon 4.5 105mm lens on COPAL 1 shutter
- An helical focus ring from an old Meyer Gorlitz Domiplan 50mm f 2.8 donor lens
- Oak wood for the body and olive wood for the grip
- 50cm shutter cable release
- an adjustable cold shoe
- Bits and pieces (aluminium plate, seals, nuts&bolts, lineen oil, glue, epoxy resin, ect )
If you are interested to look how it was built I've made an article here
Europe, Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam,Centre, Blaak, Library, Market, People, Blaakse Bos, het Potlood, Witte Huis (uncut)
No almost abstract play with perspective, angle and form today, but a ferris wheel capture that’s aligned with the reason the wheel was there – to enable the public to see the way Rotterdam was reconstructed after WW2 and the permanent transformation of the city that followed.
Only one building in this panorama predates WW2 . It’s the art nouveau ‘Witte huis’ (Willem Moenbroek, 1898) in the BG near one of the red pylons of the Willems-brige. And all the others buildings were constructed in the 80s and after that! Change as permanent urban condition.
The most notable buildings are: from left to right: the functionalist municipal library (Jaap Bakema, Hans Boot, 1983) with its Centre Pompidou like external pipes, the structuralist Blaakse Bos (38 cubic homes) and ‘Het Potlood’ (The Pencil) housing complex, both by Piet Blom (1984) , the neo-modernist underground ‘Blaak’ railway station (Harry Reijnders, 1993) with its characteristic big metal/lexan ‘lid’ (diameter: 35 m, the lid (structural engineer: L. Válkár), isn’t flat but curved – it’s in fact the top section of a virtual mega globe). This station is by he way the second one with the name 'Blaak'. The first one was part of the Luchtspoor the 2,2 km long elevated railway that bisected Rotterdam from 1877 to 1993. Like the station it’s demolished and replaced by the underground ‘Willemsspoortunnel (1993) .The market stalls in the FG are placed on the elongated square (Binnerotte) where the ‘Luchtspoor’ used to be.
In the background is the aforementioned red Willems bridge (Gemeentewerken-C.Veerling, 1983) crossing the river Maas.
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Gracias por compartir. Agradezco a todos su seguimiento atención, favoritas y amables comentarios….
Muchas gracias por vuestra visita .
Thank you very much for your visit and comments.
Molt agraït per la vostra visita, atencions i comentaris.
Très reconnaissant pour votre visite, l'attention et les commentaires.
Sitting around a campfire and too lazy to get a tripod... that was the situation I had created for myself, so I set out to make several pictures like this -- the flames move so the camera can move too was my logic.....
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amazing how much stuff can fit on an external drive which uses a USB port...plug & play.....talking Terabits...
thanks for looking....appreciated.....best bigger....hope you have a Great Sunday
Another cocktail, because why not, its sunny!
Helios 44-2 with 3 stop ND filter at f2, external flash for fill to camera right and the evening sun doing its thing for the main light.
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It's always interesting to look back at moments through photography especially moments during travel. Everything is tinted by a certain distant nostalgia filtered through mood and every other external influencing factor. Were the leaves really that vivid? Were the vistas really that inviting? Did the streets really wind their way into your heart the way they have wound up there in retrospect?
I am in the process of putting the majority of my Paris photography online in one way or another. I am populating my Paris Pinterest board, adding to my Flickr Paris album (linked below), and I will eventually launch a travel photography portfolio site which will be part of my main photography portfolio.
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Interested in viewing all of my Paris posts so far? Here they are:
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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius
Glaubst du, die Welt in der du lebst, habe eine externe Einheit die dein Leben kontrolliert?
Dann wäre Buddha draußen, irgendwo als ein „Teil“ der Schöpfung. Aber Buddha ist alles. Er ist kein Teil. Er ist kein Ding, vielmehr eine alles umfassende „Vision“, ein alles umfassendes Sein. Er ist in dir, du bist Buddha und gleichzeitig die ganze Welt.
Und das Ich fühlt sich hineinversetzt in den Ablauf der geträumten Welt. Durch Angst und Schmerz erscheint der Traum als begrenztes und reales Leben.
Erkennst du nicht, dass die Erscheinungen in deinem Geist nur aus dir selbst entspringen und nur Einbildungen sind, das heißt leer sind, dann täuschst du dich selbst, bleibst in deiner eigenen Illusion gefangen und hältst alle deine Gefühle, die positiven und besonders die Sorgen und Ängste, einfach alle Dämonen für wirklich.
Die Wurzel der allgemeinen Täuschung liegt im Geist (im eigenen und dem universellen Geist).
Erkennst du die wahre Natur des Geistes, dann siehst du, dass er selbst ohne Vorstellungen ist, einfach leer, klar, rein, frei von Kommen und Gehen von Erscheinungen.
Wen erinnere ich an diese Wahrheit? Mich.
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Ich falle immer wieder zurück in das Gefühl von überwältigt sein von den Umständen des Schicksals. Und gerade darum muss ich mich immer wieder daran erinnern, worum es essentiell geht: Im Spiel zu erwachen und das Spiel im erwachten Zustand fortzuführen – oder zu beenden – je nach Umständen.
Wenn du erwachst, legt dir Mara die Welt zu Füßen. Buddha widersteht, weil er Mara als Spiegelung seiner Selbst erkannt hat. Und in der Oper um den Heiligen Gral lässt sich auch Parsifal von den lustvollen aber verschleiernden Blumenmädchen nicht mehr an den illusionären Zustand (Samsara) ketten.
Christus spricht zu Luzifer, der ihm die Weltherrschaft anbietet: „Mein Reich ist nicht von dieser Welt.“
Ich hätte gesagt: „Ne, auf dieser Ebene will ich nicht mehr mitspielen. Ich will mir keine Angst mehr machen lassen, das hieße wieder ins partiell betäubte Ego-Bewusstsein zu gehen, mächtigeren folgen zu müssen. Ich möchte meine Mitte behalten, ohne Vergangenheit, ohne Zukunft, hier und jetzt.“
Doch noch verliere ich diese Mitte immer wieder, sobald große Ängste auftauchen. Dann muss ich mich wieder erinnern. Darum befasse ich mich mit Aussagen meiner Vorbilder: Buddha und Christus.
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Sobald ich mich emotional allzu stark verwickelt nutze ich Aussagen wie beispielsweise dieses von Buddha.
„Das Leben ist ein Traum.“
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Was ist für mich das Wesen eines Bodhisattvas?
Der Bodhisattva auf dem Weg der Vereinigung der Gegensätze.
Er ist auf dem Pfad der Erfüllung. Mehr und mehr erfüllt vom Geist Buddhas verblasst die weltliche Ichgebundenheit. Weltliche Begierden werden erkannt und fallen ab, der Geist wird unbeschwert im Licht der erlösenden Bewusstheit über die Quelle der niederen Begierden.
Der Bodhisattva verurteilt nichts, weder die niederen Instinkte, den Körper noch die mit ihm verbundenen Emotionen von Lust und Leid. Es geht ausschließlich um das Erkennen der durch sie bedingten Egostrukturen und ihrer Auflösung und Wandlung in das ungebundene, von ihnen befreite Bewusstsein.
Dieses freie Bewusstsein beruht auf gesunder Selbstliebe, die der Bodhisattva nur erstrebt, um eine Grundlage zu schaffen, anderen Menschen helfen zu können. Weisheit und Erbarmen bilden sich, da der Liebende den Selbsthass in sich selbst überwunden hat und ihn in vielen psychisch Leidenden noch als aktiv erkennt.
Das Sanskritwort 'Bodhisattva' bedeutet 'Erleuchtungswesen'. Es wird verschieden gedeutet als ein Wesen, das nach Erleuchtung strebt, oder ein Wesen, das auf Erleuchtung fußt.
Der voll erleuchtete Bodhisattva unterscheidet nicht mehr zwischen sich und anderen. Er hat die Subjekt-Objekt-Spaltung durchschaut.
Er gilt dann als Emanation des höchsten schöpferischen Prinzips, als eine Ausstrahlung des höchsten „transzendenten Buddhas“, des ADI-Buddhas oder eines seiner Aspekte wie – um nur einige zu nennen: Amitabha, Avalokiteshvara oder Manjushri.
Vergleichbar sind die „Ausstrahlungen“ mit Engeln, die in der christlichen Darlegung Erscheinungsformen Gottes sind.
Der Bodhisattva ist ein Mensch, und als ein solcher verbindet er das Transzendente, das Himmlische mit dem Irdischen, das Göttliche mit dem Profanen. Der profane Alltag wird aufgrund der erweiterten Bewusstheit als Erscheinung des Heiligen erlebt.
Die Gegensätze von Himmel und Erde, das heißt von Verstand und Gefühl sind vereint.
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Digital art based on own photography and textures
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It is decorated with grotesque sculptures – every one of them different. Santa Maria church, Castro Urdiales.
Houtmankade 23/01/2021 12h15
The Houtmankade at the level of the Nova Zemblastraat in the Spaarndammerbuurt (neighborhood) with in the distance the landmark of this area: Pontsteiger.
Pontsteigergebouw
The Pontsteiger, also known as the Pontsteigergbouw (building) or Miljoenengebouw, is a residential tower in the Dutch city of Amsterdam.
The design by Arons en Gelauff Architecten was chosen as the winning design in 2007 and, despite the credit crisis, was built almost according to the design in 2015. The Pontsteiger building is part of the area development of the Houthavens, and is located on the IJ where the ferry departs from the pont jetty at Tasmanstraat, built in 1957, to the NDSM site and Distelweg. There are houses, retail and catering areas. On the 25th floor is a 1,440 m² penthouse, which came into the possession of catering entrepreneur Won Yip, who sold three-quarters to third parties in 2019, of which 391 m² to Marcel Boekhoorn. Although the building has an extremely angular appearance, the plinth contains spaces with flowing facades.
The construction of the 92-meter-high building started in February 2015, the expected completion date was at the end of 2017. This makes the building the tallest residential building in Amsterdam. It was only finally delivered in 2019. A striking feature of the building is the luxurious finish, including bronze-green tiles between the floors. Other striking facade elements are the external and internal (but visible from the outside) V-shaped support beams.
Height: 92 meters
Floorcount: 26
Type: Residential Tower
Construction Started: 02/2015
Finished: 09/2018
Architect(s): Arons en Gelauff Architecten
In going thru a very Old Western Digital 2GB My book live external hard drive, I came across this one. I already have a pix of the front of this locomotive. Clinchfield SD40 3009 & behind the 3009 is Family Lines 7021(not seen in this image).
Erwin, Tennessee - Canon AE-1, Canon FD 50mm 1.8 Lens, Kodachrome 64, Epson 4990 scan.
To be honest, this is my first attempt - ever - at macro stacking. The only macro equipment I own are macro rings. I used those, a 50mm, a couple of external flashes, a spray bottle and a lot of patience.
Church from the 18th century in Baroque style with a carillon and a spiral spire with an external staircase.
Cusworth Hall is an 18th-century Grade I listed country house in Cusworth, near Doncaster, South Yorkshire in the north of England. Set in the landscaped parklands of Cusworth Park, Cusworth Hall is a good example of a Georgian country house. It is now a country house museum.
The house is constructed of ashlar with slate roofs. The rectangular 6 x 5 bay plan main block is linked to 5 x 2 bay service wings.
The Wrightson family had held the lordship of Cusworth since 1669.
The present house was built in 1740–1745 by George Platt for William Wrightson to replace a previous house and was further altered in 1749–1753 by James Paine. On William's death in 1760 the property passed to his daughter Isabella, who had married John Battie, who took the additional name of Wrightson in 1766. He employed the landscape designer Richard Woods to remodel the park. Woods was one of a group of respected landscape designers working across the country during the 18th century and Cusworth was one of his most important commissions in South Yorkshire, another being at Cannon Hall. Woods created a park of 250 acres with a hanging and a serpentine river consisting of three lakes embellished with decorative features such as the Rock Arch and the Cascade.
The estate afterwards passed to John and Isabella's son, William Wrightson (1752–1827), who was the MP for Aylesbury from 1784 to 1790 and High Sheriff of Yorkshire for 1819–1820. He was succeeded by his son William Battie-Wrightson (1789–1879), who at various times was MP for East Retford, Kingston upon Hull and Northallerton. He died childless and Cusworth Hall passed to his brother Richard Heber Wrightson, who died in 1891.
The property was then inherited by his nephew William Henry Thomas, who took the surname Battie-Wrightson by Royal Licence and died in 1903. He had married Lady Isabella Cecil, eldest daughter of the 3rd Marquess of Exeter. Between 1903 and 1909 Lady Isabella made further alterations to the house. She died in 1917, leaving an only son Robert Cecil Battie-Wrightson (1888–1952). On his death in 1952, the estate descended to his sister, a nurse who had married a Major Oswald Parker but later was variously known as Miss Maureen Pearse-Brown and as Mrs Pearce. She was obliged to sell the contents of Cusworth Hall in October 1952 to meet the death duties levied at Robert Cecil's death. She subsequently sold the hall to Doncaster Council.
Cusworth Estate Cusworth was first mentioned as ‘Cuzeuuorde’ in the domesday survey of 1086 but there has been a settlement here for centuries dating back to the Anglo-Saxon period. Many different families had held the lands and manor but they did not always live at Cusworth.
‘Old Hall’ A large house is first mentioned in 1327. Robert Wrightson bought the lands and manor of Cusworth in 1669 from Sir Christopher Wray. The first surviving map of Cusworth is that of Joseph Dickinson's 1719 plan which shows the hall and gardens covered only 1 acre with the orchards a further 2 acres. What is most significant at this time was the ‘Parke’ of some 25 acres. The ‘Old Hall’ was next to the walled gardens in the centre of Cusworth village. In 1726 the ‘Old Hall’ was expanded including altering the gardens between 1726 and 1735. This expanded the kitchen garden into the size and form we know today with the Bowling Green and Pavilion.
In the period 1740–1745 William Wrightson employed George Platt, a mason architect from Rotherham, to build a new hall – the current Cusworth Hall – high on a scarp slope on the Magnesian Limestone removing the Hall, and the family, from the village of Cusworth. The ‘Old Hall’ was largely demolished in the process, many components from the old building re-used in the new.
Cusworth Hall Cusworth Hall itself and its outbuildings are at the centre of the park enjoying ‘prospect’ over the town of Doncaster. The Grade I-listed eighteenth century hall was designed by George Platt in the Palladian style. Cusworth Hall is handsome, well proportioned, with wings consisting of a stable block and great kitchen. Later additions by James Paine include a chapel and library. It has decorative outbuildings including a Brew House, Stable Block and Lodge. In addition it has a decorative garden called Lady Isabella's Garden on the west side adjacent to the chapel. On its eastern flank the stable block and gardeners' bothy. Attached to the bothy is a decorative iron enclosure known as the Peacock Pen.
Cusworth Park Cusworth Park is an historic designed landscape with a Grade II listing in the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens. It was designed and created by the nationally known landscape architect Richard Woods to ‘improve’ the park in the style made famous by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown now termed ‘The English Landscape Park’. Work started in 1761 laying out the ‘grounds and the serpentine river’.
The land forming the existing park is 60 acres (25 hectares) – 250,000m, and was part of the much larger parkland (250 acres) and estates (20,000 acres) of the Battie-Wrightson family who owned Cusworth Hall.
The walled garden The earliest description of the layout of the park and walled gardens is that shown on Joseph Dickinson's 1719 plan. In 1761 Richard Woods altered areas within the walled gardens. Together ‘woods’ Kitchen Garden and Green House Garden occupy the site of the orchard shown on Dickinson's plan.
The purchase of bricks from Epworth for the construction of the walled gardens is recorded in the New House Accounts.
The garden was a compartmentalised space, however with focus on domestic production in some sections, exotics in another, an orchard, and formal flower gardens in the rest.
The kitchen gardens included pine pits (pineapple house), later to become stove houses and mushroom houses.
The Entrance Terrace (Upper Terrace) Old plans show a narrow walled enclosure or ‘entrance terrace' running east–west. The walls of this enclosure may well have been of stone or stoned faced and still, in part survives. To the south are the main components of the walled garden. Access from the terrace down to the bowling green is via a flight of stone steps.
Bowling Green Described on Richard Woods plans of 1760. This is a roughly square, walled enclosure where the bowling green is surrounded by an earthed banked terraced walk. The enclosure is defined by a brick wall, which was lowered along its western side to give a view over to the Green House Garden.
Summerhouse / Bowling Pavilion Built 1726. The summerhouse is the main architectural feature of the walled garden. It is of two stories with the upper storey accessed from the Bowling Green. There is an impression of more carefully shaped quoins at the corners but it is probable that the walls were originally rendered and lime washed externally. There are windows giving views across the Bowling Green from the upper chamber and across the Flower Garden from the lower chamber.
During restoration in the 1990s the upper chamber was decorated with Trompe-l'Å“il. showing views of imagined walled gardens at Cusworth.
Flower Garden The garden was designed to be viewed principally from the higher position of the bowling green. It was subdivided by cross-paths and furnished with four formal beds. Although one of the smallest compartments, the flower garden was the most highly ornamental and tightly designed. It would have created a formal, colourful architectural space contrasting with the simplicity of the bowling green
Hall Garden The function of the Hall Garden is not clear but appears to have been an extension of the decorative scheme of the flower garden. The Hall Garden has a perimeter walk and is then divided into two plots by a further, central path.
Peach House This whitewash wall indicates the position of the peach house.
Melon Pits Melon pits ran east–west along this area.
Orchard Through the 18th century the orchard was not enclosed and remained open until the late 19th century. It was double its current size extending back up to Cusworth Lane until the northern half was sold off for housing in the 1960s.
Kitchen Garden (No longer existing) The west, south and this east boundary wall(s) of the garden still exist but the plot of land was sold off for housing in the 1960s. There was an access gate between the Hall Garden and the kitchen garden (this can be seen bricked up in the northwest corner). This garden had a perimeter walk and was planted with trees arranged in parallel lines orchestrated around a small building at the northern end of the compartment.
Green House Garden (No longer existing) The kitchen garden represents the greater part of the area occupied by the original orchard shown on Dickinson's 1719 plan. The remaining area was described on Woods’ plan as the Green House Garden and was shown divided into two unequal parts. Both parts of the garden appear to have been planted with trees, probably fruit trees. A building abuts the bowling green in roughly the position as the one shown on the Dickinson plan but there is an additional building, roughly square in plan, to the northwest corner of the enclosure. This was probably the Dovecote for which Wrightson paid £9 15s 0d in 1736.
The west boundary wall still exists and this low (east) wall that runs along the length of the bowling green but the plot of land was sold off for housing in the 1960s.
In 1961 Doncaster Rural District Council purchased Cusworth Hall and the adjoining parkland from the Battie-Wrightson family. The Council undertook an initial restoration of the grounds and also recreated what is now the tearooms within the former stable block. The former reception rooms and spacious galleries now house the Museum of South Yorkshire life, officially opened on 30 September 1967.
Cusworth Hall and Park underwent an extensive £7.5 million renovation between 2002 and 2005, involving essential conservation repairs to the Hall and extensive restoration of the landscape gardens. Within the hall external repairs to the stonework and roof were undertaken to ensure that the exterior was watertight, whilst internal works upgraded internal services and enabled new displays to be installed.
The restoration of the designed landscape have been greatly influenced by a comprehensive analysis of available archive material, among which are the original written memoranda and sketches produced by Richard Woods for his site forman Thomas Coalie. An integrated archaeological programme also formed a key aspect of the restorations, recording in detail landscape features such as the Rock Arch, Cascade, and Bridge. This restoration has not 'recreated' the 18th century scheme, although elements are still incorporated within a 'living' amenity garden that is now thriving as a result of the recent work undertaken in partnership with the Friends of Cusworth Park.
The Hall reopened to the public on 23 May 2007 and the new displays document the history of South Yorkshire and it is a valued resource for local residents, students and school groups alike.
Cusworth Hall Museum and Park is the venue for a varied program of seasonal exhibitions, events and activities linked to the history of the area. including Country Fairs, vintage vehicle rallies, historic re-enactments, wildlife sessions and a range of seasonally themed events. A free, weekly, 5 km parkrun takes place every Saturday at 9 am in the grounds of Cusworth Hall. The first event was held on Saturday 5 October 2019 and was hosted by the staff at Cusworth in collaboration with the local community.
Additionally, Doncaster Museums' Education Service offers a range of learning sessions to schools and educational establishments. Specialist and experienced Education Officers deliver learning workshops to schools across a broad range of topics as well as out-of-school-hours activities for families and local communities.
Grande Moschea del Sultano Qaboos.
Particolare di una delle grandi finestre inserite nei muri di separazione di un cortile interno dai giardini esterni.
Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque.
Detail of one of the large windows inserted in the walls separating an internal courtyard from the external gardens.
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