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Possibly the most expensive gate guardian anywhere is this Royal Saudi Air Force Panavia Tornado IDS 765 displayed outside the main entrance to King Abdul Aziz Air Force Base, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Three days after the start of Operation Desert Storm of the Gulf War, the aircraft ran out of fuel reportably as a result of refusing to refuel from a USAF female tanker crew. The crew then elected to fly to an alternate base at lower altitude thus burning more fuel, ultimately running out a few kilometres short. The aircraft was collected from the desert where it crash landed and put onto a flatbed for about two years until it was decided to make it into a gate guardian.
Photograph taken for British Aerospace and this frame became a sought after poster with 5,000 copies being produced. Bronica time exposure on Fuji negative film.
Best viewed in light box (+ above pic)
Some details from www.ejection-history.org.uk/Country-By-Country/saudi_arab...
Unusual view of Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco, USA. Thanks a lot to martine for America to Europe RR.
Cloud Gate is British artist Anish Kapoor's first public outdoor work installed in the United States. The 110-ton elliptical sculpture is forged of a seamless series of highly polished stainless steel plates, which reflect the city's famous skyline and the clouds above. A 12-foot-high arch provides a "gate" to the concave chamber beneath the sculpture, inviting visitors to touch its mirror-like surface and see their image reflected back from a variety of perspectives.
Inspired by liquid mercury, the sculpture is among the largest of its kind in the world, measuring 66-feet long by 33-feet high. Larger versions of the images can be viewed by clicking on them, or you can..
Pulpit Pulpitt Gate in All Saints' Street is part of Hastings Old Town. All Saints' Street is a mostly residential street with three public houses and a church. Most of the historic buildings are listed.
There used to be a shop here at the bottom of the road which was a hairdressers and general store until it was decided to remove the premises in the early 1930’s in the Old Town redevelopment scheme, and replace it with a replica building know as ‘Pulpit Gate’. This building was built from old ships timbers imported from places such as Newhaven, Rye and Hastings, also other places that built ships too. People are under the impression that this building dates from the 17th century, (well the timbers might!) but was built around 1956/7.
Hastings Old Town is a little enclave of interest snuggled between two hills at the far eastern end of this seaside town – it’s physically, in look and feel, quite separate from the rest of Hastings. A picturesque jumble of weather-boarded cottages, mossy-roofed townhouses and narrow 'twittens' (passageways), it’s home to a thriving artsy community, which feeds plenty of cafés, restaurants and independent shops selling art and antiques, upmarket homewares, flowers, artisan bread and more. Down on the seafront is The Stade, where the tall black net huts of the town’s still-working fishing fleet (the largest beach-launched fleet in Europe) abut the sleek, black-tiled Jerwood Gallery of modern art. For the best views of Old Town, take one of the two old funiculars that scoop you up the hills on either side: West Hill, topped by the ruins of the old castle erected by William I after his victory at the Battle of Hastings; or East Hill, the start of a three-mile stretch of a fascinating coastline that makes up Hastings County Park.
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The very friendly gate-keeper of 'The Birkmyre' Hostel & Club, a beautiful colonial building on Middleton Street in Kolkata
Kyiv, Ukraine
Golden Gate
The Golden Gate is a monument of defensive and sacred architecture of Kyivan Rus and is considered one of the oldest buildings in Eastern Europe. It was erected in the first half of the 11th century and named after the Golden Gate in Constantinople, it served as the main entrance to Kyiv and was the only stone gate in the city’s fortification system. It was a battle tower with a passage crowned by the Annunciation Gateway Church.
Since 1926 the Löwentor ("Lions' gate") has formed the striking main entrance to the Rosenhöhe park located in Darmstadt/Germany. It was originally built for the Artist colony's last exhibition on the Mathildenhöhe, in 1914. The lions and bronze reliefs are by the sculptor Bernhard Hoetger. The pillars were designed by architect Albin Müller, who when rebuilding the gate at this spot used clinker brick as building material.
The setting sun was illuminating this copper-toned gate. I liked how the lanterns stand parallel along the path and make a nice background to the gate's pattern.
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Brass altar rail gates in one of the side chapels of St Patrick's Cathedral, NYC.
My sermon for today's Solemnity can be read here.
A couple of non-HDR shots from my one night layover in San Francisco...I 've been keeping pretty busy lately with flying on nasty airlines back and forth across the Pacific Ocean, taking me to wonderful photo opportunities. It was just me, the rental car, and my navigation traversing San Francisco on a gorgeous, crisp, clear Friday night during a recent one-night layover en route back to Japan... I had to capture the iconic Golden Gate Bridge. Here, the North Tower looms large with the city in the background.
The Gates officially ended on Sunday February 27th, 2005. I must have taken that Monday off because I have photos from the Museum of Modern Art and inside the atrium of the Sony Building for Feb. 28th. It started snowing heavily when I was in the Sony Building and I figured that a lot of the panels for The Gates would still be up so I quickly walked up to Central Park and was able to get a few photos in the snow before losing the light.
The Gates installation in Central Park by Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The Gates consisted of over 7,500 saffron-colored fabric panels throughout the park.
At the time I had uploaded a number of relatively tiny photos (I was still using dial-up!) to my blog, but I was still a few months away from joining Flickr. I'm taking the anniversary as an opportunity/excuse to upload the full size photos here. Most of the photos I took were taken in the northern sections of the park around Harlem Meer. The snowy batch of photos were mostly taken toward the southern end of the park.
A legend among the winged insects told that to reach the flower of ever-flowing nectar, a terrible beast first had to be slain or eluded.
So, this is my vision of the Black Gate. I know that the official Lego set is different and it is an awesome replica of the gate from the movie, but I see the gate as a semicircular one, so if you're standing in front of the gate doors, it looks like the gate itself will consume you.