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The scissor arches, which often visitors believe to be later, modern additions were constructed from 1338-48 as an engineering solution to a very real problem.
By 1313 a high tower topped by a lead covered wooden spire had been constructed but as the foundations were not stable large cracks began to appear in the tower structure.
In fear of a total collapse, several attempts at internal strengthening and buttressing were made, until the famous ‘scissor arches’ were put in place by master mason William Joy as a final solution.
Although my photo doesn't show them there were lots of visitors and friendly officials in the the Cathedral. The organ was being played
Hamburg
The Speicherstadt, literally: 'City of Warehouses', meaning warehouse district) in Hamburg, Germany is the largest warehouse district in the world where the buildings stand on timber-pile foundations, oak logs, in this particular case. It is located in the port of Hamburg—within the HafenCity quarter—and was built from 1883 to 1927.
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“Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” - Francis of Assisi
The foundations were laid in the week before 1st October 1831 and the whole station was completed and exhibited its light for the first time on 1st September 1832.
It is sometimes said that the Lighthouse was built due to the loss of a ship called “The Frolic” which was wrecked on the Nash Sands in March 1831 with the loss of about 78 lives including at least one high-ranking military gentleman. This incident may well have been the reason that construction took place so soon and was completed so quickly though Trinity House had purchased the land and designed the towers and the rest of the station sometime prior to this tragic loss.
Backlighting a pillar in an expansive abandoned development. Klarus XT2CR flashlight resting on my camera bag. f/5, 5secs, ISO800. Post processed from RAW exposure in Adobe Lightroom 6.
Matthew 7:24-25
New International Version
The Wise and Foolish Builders
24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.
The foundations of a smelting tower are basically all that remains of Eureka Bar, at the confluence of the Imnaha and Snake Rivers.
Fortunately, the rivers remain. This was nearly not the case. In the 50s, yet another dam was proposed that would have flooded much of the area. For some reason or another, it never happened. This leaves the hike along the Imnaha River available to all who can make it.
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'News of the Founding No. 2'
Camera: Chamonix 45F-2
Lens: Steinheil München Anastigmat Actinar 4.5; 135mm
Film: Ilford HP5+
Exposure: f/25 1/100sec
Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 9min
Oregon
July 2022
The essential starting point of a well built wall is a solid foundation and without it, there can be cracks, slippage and big problems!
No matter though, how good the foundations are, there can be geological problems underground resulting in subsidence and ultimately cracking results, similar to this.
This is what we experienced in the first house we bought in Worksop, Nottinghamshire,in the U.K. as well as in my parents house previously where cracks developed, large enough to fit your hand into! Expensive and extensive pinning and other processes were needed in order to rectify the situations. The whole area was riddled with underground mine workings that caused minor geological rifts to shift, resulting in damage to buildings on the surface.
This little stone tower appears to have been here for many years, but I have no idea who built it or how old it is. Whoever it was, they built it to last!
If someone asked you to construct a small tower like this on the beach - where it would be battered by rising tides and stormy waves - where would you build it? On the nice, soft sand, or on the solid rock? The answer is obvious, of course. If the tower is to stand the test of time and tide, it will have to be built on a solid foundation. Rock, not sand.
When foundations are so obviously important, why then are so many prepared to gamble with their eternal destiny by building their lives on a foundation which they have spent little or no time investigating? Many seem content to go through life, never contemplating what might await them after death. Consequently, they have no spiritual foundation. They make choices and take decisions which not only affect their lives today and for many years to come but, ultimately, those choices will determine where they will spend eternity.
Those who do occasionally think about life after death, often seem content to simply follow everyone else. But, if all around you are building their little stone towers on soft sand, should you follow their example? Or should you look around to find a rocky outcrop on which to build?
Since the Bible claims to be God's word to man; and since Jesus of Nazareth claimed that the Bible spoke about Him; and since He claimed to be the ONLY way to be saved from an eternity in hell; wouldn't it be prudent to take a little time to consider His claims? What have you got to lose? Only your very soul!
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6)
Why not start here... the Gospel of John (the fourth book in the New Testament) is a surprisingly easy read. It's almost like a short novel and moves along at an engaging pace. And it will only take a few of hours to read the whole thing.
The Speicherstadt in Hamburg, Germany, is the largest warehouse district in the world where the buildings stand on timber-pile foundations, oak logs, in this particular case. It is located in the port of Hamburg -within the HafenCity quarter- and was built from 1883 to 1927.
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Robert Henri was a painter, but this quote surely applies to photography:
"In the efforts to accomplish composition there are many rules and schemes established, some of them good and some of them bad. But one thing I am certain of, and that is that intense comprehension and intense desire to express one whole thing is necessary. Without a positive purpose, means effect only an exercise in means. You can’t know too much about composition. You must have the will to say a very definite thing."
Taken in the last light of sunset, there was a lot of sky color going on when I switched to telephoto (300mm) and reached down into the Grand Canyon for this feature that grabbed my attention.
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Back in the day our area was heavily mined for coal in vast underground tunnel systems. The miners lived in tiny homes they built, side by side. They named the place "Coal Town" Many of their foundations still exist today and are scattered all over this area. They had a nice view of Greenhorn Mountain in the distance. In a previous post, I took a pic of a huge coal pile they excavated by hand from the tunnels, which is just out of view to the right.
The "Temple of Janus" is a cultic structure of Romano-Celtic design located in Autun, Saône-et-Loire, France, to the North-West of the ancient city of Augustodunum.
The temple lies in the centre of a vast sanctuary, whose extent and complexity was revealed by excavations conducted from 2013 to 2016, on a site whose history goes back to Neolithic times, and which experienced an important phase of monumental constructions in the 1st Century AD. The temple was abandoned at the onset of the Early Middle Ages, and its structures were later reused in the fashioning of a Medieval defensive work. The temple has retained two sides of its square cella, at a height of over 20 metres, as well as vestiges of its ambulatory and side structure foundations. The temple's supposed dedication to the Roman god Janus is not based on any archaeological or historic fact, and the deity that was venerated in the temple is unknown.
The Temple of Janus was included on the first list of protected historical French monuments, established in 1840. (Wikipedia)
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Lichtenstein Castle is a historicist castle built in the 19th century. It is located at the edge of the Swabian Alps, 817 metres above sea level.
Inspired by Wilhelm Hauff’s novel “Lichtenstein” Count Wilhelm of Württemberg had it built in 1840-42. The site around the neo-Gothic castle is composed of other buildings from the 19th century, a chapel, an ample garden and the romantic courtyard. In the bedchambers of the count the opulent grandeur of late romanticism’s domestic culture appears at its best.
Built to pay homage to medieval times, Lichtenstein Castle is also known as “Württemberg´s fairytale castle” as it adheres to romanticism in style and furnishing.
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Restoration of the outer wall, the tower and the roof started in 1980. Over the years until 1998 the second floor alongside various valuable art-historical objects were restored. With the aid of foundations and non-profit associations (“Wüstenrotstiftung” and “Fördergemeinschaft zur Erhaltung des Schlosses Lichtenstein e.V.”) the third and fourth floor of Lichtenstein Castle were restored in 1998-2002.
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Das heutige Schloss Lichtenstein entstand nach dem gleichnamigen Roman von Wilhelm Hauff (1826). In nur zwei Jahren (1840/41) liess Herzog Wilhelm von Urach, Graf von Württemberg, mit Hilfe des Architekten Heideloff eine Ritterburg im Stil der Romantik erbauen. Bei einem Rundgang können württembergische Wappen, altdeutsches Mobilar und Gemälde vom "Meister aus Lichtenstein" besichtigt werden.
Seit 1999 sind, nach umfangreichen Restaurierungsarbeiten, auch die Privatgemächer von Herzog Wilhelm im 2. und 3. Obergeschoss wieder für die Öffentlichkeit im Rahmen von Sonderführungen zugänglich. Noch heute befindet sich das Schloss im Privatbesitz der herzoglichen Familie von Urach.
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“I watched her and I watched the birds' shadows flit across her face, and I...wanted. I wanted more happy memories to hang up on the ceiling, so many happy memories with this girl that they would crowd the ceiling and flap out into the hall and burst out of the house.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
I have another shot from this which I will use some time to edit, so this will be my weeks photo. It is simpel, but I like it. I really want to challenge myself for my last 2 weeks, and I have so many ideas.
Hope you guys like this simpel picture, love you all! <3
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playing around this avo with the ND10 stop and getting into some different city spots, it was quite interesting getting under the harbour bridge
Shot 31sec f8 ISO50, Lee ND10, GND 0.9 Soft
Auckland City, New Zealand, Aotearoa
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In the 19th century so the story goes, a rich householder who lived within sight of where the bridge is now built the original bridge of stone which stood here. He built the bridge for his two daughters so they could get to the beach on the other side. Alas this stone bridge was eventually washed away in a storm however the stone foundations remained and were reused as the foundations for the new bridge.
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First in a short series of mono images from an afternoon's exploration around Botallck and Wheal Oates in March
When King Gustav III was assassinated in 1792 his plans for this castle was also put to an end. The foundations are still there.
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Ilford Delta 100
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Astrum 100 in Rodinal (1:50 @ 68 for 12.5 min)
-- We think these are the remnants of old warehouses. The area is rather strange, because it's next to a big working agricultural plant -- fully operational -- and then acres and acres of these abandoned warehouses, just the walls and foundations, a modern abandoned office building that looks like it was never completed and then a field stretching to dormitories that were once used to house sugar cane cutters. The abandoned structures are now home for owls that come flying over your head in graceful arcs, leaving as you enter. Molly loves the sniffs.