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My friend, J W Vraets, took a photo of this at Christmas time, in the day, displaying the adorned wreaths and such: The Christmas VW Bus, Vineland, Ontario. This is what it looks like at night currently. Bill described it as "tired" however, I like to think it was making a bit of an effort here (might just be my wishful thinking).
Also, a comp stomp for a comp stomp (somewhat).
Below, in the comments, you will find this narrative that imo suits the image perfectly:
The year? 1971. The outcry? Peace and Love. In my rear seating area I have seen so much of both that I could fill volumes of tomes with the exploits of my former inhabitants, forays as fierce as any Napoleon attack, as calm as the deepest musings of fingernails and our place in the universe. My shell, my being, my reason for existing on this Earth has always been to provide the space, the opportunity, nay, the cosmos for which these concepts to thrive, multiply, evolve, and yes, reproduce, ponder the meaning of life, or just laugh at the thought. The plush accoutrements and heavy springs weren't just meant for off road excursions, as the wonderful lighting wasn't just meant for vision. Sit and wonder till your mind is content, thrust and bounce until the rest of you is, but please, give me a stroke, a moment, a pause in your life to acknowledge my place in your history, that place/time/moment when you were most alive and vivacious and REMEMBER...
- very finely penned by one Mr. Rich Border (and reprinted by permission).
This old barn is leaning in all possible directions. I've been waiting for many years that it should fall apart, but it just stands there. Leaning a little bit more for every year.
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Potlogi Palace
near Bucharest [hard to reach on bad roads, partially ruined and neglected -in 2011]
built by Constantin Brancoveanu
finished in 1698 [and practically rebuilt in the 1950's]
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Brâncovenesc architectural style [incomplete list of buildings]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C3%A2ncovenesc_style
Constantin Brâncoveanu [1654 – 1714] was Prince of Wallachia between 1688 and 1714.
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Wallachia
This on is " sudden dropoff into the abyss", as seen on the sign sudden dropoff. it almost looks like you would fall off to know where.
this was taken just a few minutes away from home.. but have neverr thought of photographing it like this. sometimes you miss the beauty and perspective of the norm. have to look at things differently.
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Looking out from one of the isolation cells.
Visited a very lonely and creepy old reformatory in Tokai, Cape Town. The complex is situated right next to the infamously haunted Tokai Manor House. I don't know too much about the reformatory but any additional info is welcome. It was built in 1892 by Sir Herbert John Baker and from what I could see housed some seriously criminal cases. The isolation cells are particularly disturbing.
thanks you guys for all of the sweet comments. it was a difficult night, but that's how we grow, right?
here's a perfect analogy to show exactly how i felt.
but today is a new day. thanks again.
There are a lots of these stone stairs in Bergen, they look quite nice, but are really a trap. They can be very slippery when it rain (which is almost everyday here in Bergen) and sometimes they just fall apart. So if you ever visit Bergen be aware of your steps when you walk around:)
A German/English dictionary that belonged to my father. Printed in 1965.
Just barely hanging in there...
He was a translator by profession. Plus my mums English wasn't crash hot when they met, so this probably helped;-)
7 Days Of Shooting
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Tatty Thursday
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The next chapter in my portfolio is an extensive collection of sepia monotone photos taken throughout South Africa, the continuation of taking photographs anywhere and everywhere I find the opportunity to do so.
Urbex shot from a visit to Somerset a few months back....very eerie place. Don't know who the dude following us was but he had a nice robe :)
x3 bracketted images run through photomatix but kept down to low effect and natural lighting. Then put into PS with a little play with levels and then curves. Dude added to welcome you and set opacity to around 65%.
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While out on a photowalk (the first in quite a while, in fact), my eyes were immediately drawn to this little house along one of the side-streets in Winfield, Kansas. The light teal color trim and the orange-red rust seemed to compliment each other in a way that just compelled me to photograph it.
This, a farm house sitting near the technology beginning to pepper our landscape - the wind turbine, brings to mind the beauty of the past. I am drawn to this door facing the driveway where the farm family would have met their guests but also come in from the work of the land and livestock. The mystery of the lives that inhabited this and other places like it continue to draw me without pause.
Before Eastern State Penitentiary was conceived of or built, the roll of prisons were to simply house offenders until their punishment was decided and then carried out. Their sentence would come from the physical punishment -public whipping, branding, or hanging. Time spent in prison was certainly unpleasant, but not considered bad enough to constitute punishment or repayment to the public for their crimes.
In 1787 Benjamin Franklin founded the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons to promote prison reform from a system of punishment to a system with a focus on correction rather than punishment. The idea they promoted was based on a religious belief that everyone longed to be good. So, the idea was that criminals would be isolated for a period of time in order to force them to think about what they had done and how they could improve their lives. They were not to see or communicate with anyone for the duration of their sentence. Masks were placed over their head when they had to be moved and no communication of any kind was allowed. Many prisoners were punished for attempting to communicate by banging on pipes,etc. Care was taken by the wardens not to make noise or have contact with the prisoners even when food was delivered.
In 1822 construction of Eastern State Penitentiary, the first ever prison based on the idea of correction, was begun. It was finished in 1829. By 1836 prisons around the world were being reformed and remodeled to copy Eastern State's model which was called the "Pennsylvania System".
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This saw mill was very successful in the early 1900's until there was a depletion of timber in the area. It suffered a fire in 1936 and was rebuilt. But it was finally shut down in 1959. The small town around it slowly faded away to a few empty buildings. It is listed in the tourism brochure as a ghost town.