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Crawley College (aka Central Sussex College) has recently installed security fencing, this includes these substantial gates with another set further on - one wonders why? It gives it the the appearance of an Open Prison :(
Aigues-Mortes is a walled Medieval city in the Camargue area of France. It is surrounded by flat sakt marsh, much of which has developed as Europe's largest evaporative salt works, with an area larger than Paris. The walled city contains many cool shaded streets and squares
The Brandenburg Gate (German: Brandenburger Tor) is an 18th-century neoclassical triumphal arch in Berlin, and one of the best-known landmarks of Germany. It is built on the site of a former city gate that marked the start of the road from Berlin to the town of Brandenburg an der Havel.
It is located in the western part of the city centre of Berlin, at the junction of Unter den Linden and Ebertstraße, immediately west of the Pariser Platz. One block to the north stands the Reichstag building. The gate is the monumental entry to Unter den Linden, the renowned boulevard of linden trees, which formerly led directly to the city palace of the Prussian monarchs.
It was commissioned by King Frederick William II of Prussia as a sign of peace and built by Carl Gotthard Langhans from 1788 to 1791. Having suffered considerable damage in World War II, the Brandenburg Gate was fully restored from 2000 to 2002 by the Stiftung Denkmalschutz Berlin (Berlin Monument Conservation Foundation).[1]
During the post-war Partition of Germany, the gate was isolated and inaccessible immediately next to the Berlin Wall, and the area around the gate was featured most prominently in the media coverage of the opening of the wall in 1989.
Throughout its existence, the Brandenburg Gate was often a site for major historical events and is today considered a symbol of the tumultuous history of Europe and Germany, but also of European unity and peace.
Golden Gate Bridge @ Dusk
Going through some old digitals before I archive, my disk is so full of RAWs JPEGS etc... And I'm finding all of these shots that never caught my eye before. Now I realize why so many photographers find diamonds in the rough in the junk pile.
San Francisco's Golden Gate Brigde in the early morning light. The span of the bridge gives the illusion of holding back the fog.
Hells Gate is an abrupt narrowing of British Columbia's Fraser River, located immediately downstream of Boston Bar in the southern Fraser Canyon. The towering rock walls of the Fraser River plunge toward each other forcing the waters through a passage only 35 metres (115 ft) wide.
we made our way to a temple with hundreds (if not, in the thousands) of gates lining the path up the mountain
So I am quickly realizing that I need to get VERYCLOSE to my subject in order to take a successful fisheye photo (taking off the lens cap also helps). I'm so used to my digital camera and deleting images I don't like. It's painful to get a role of film back and only almost like a couple photos. :-( . Oh, and the whole forgetting to take off the lens cap thing? Yeah, about six photos--never to be seen--like my friend with a zebra mask on. It was funny.