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Spent the day at the Maryland Renaissance Fair and a good time was had by all. I took only a hand full of photos...just wasn't in the mood, but needed the break after last week. I saw this cool dragon window!!
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Straight from the camera with no processing except for resizing and cropping. The day I took this, the sky was clear, blue and sunny and only an occasional cloud in the sky. This used to be the Blue Bird Diner in Mattoon, Illinois, original date unknown. It was bought and moved to its current location near Brownsville, Pennsylvania in 2006. It is Moderne style architecture with flat roof and glass blocks. I don’t know the material of construction.
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I am usually not very happy about the outcome of my shots. I always find defects, details cut out that should have been included, I see the wrong kind of light and then some lines are never straight, or if vertical ones are then the horizontal ones will not, and then you have to choose which lines will stay 'wrong'.
But sometimes a minor miracle happens and I like what I did. I mean, it is not like the image could not be better: shoulders against the wall and a prime lens didn't allow me to take a slightly larger portion of the scene; my processing skills being what they are, some areas are definitely too bright. And so on.
But at the same time I love the impact of the image, and I enjoy it as the spectator which I always become after I am done with the picture and try to look at it as if I didn't know the author :)
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Manufacturer: Volkswagenwerk GmbH/AG, Wolfsburg - Germany
Type: Typ 1 Beetle
Engine: 1192cc 4 cil. boxer-engine air-cooled
Power: 30 bhp / 3.400 rpm
Speed: 110 km/h
Production time: 1953 - 1957
Production output: over 1.2 million
Curb weight: 760 kg
Special:
- Typ 1 ("Beetle") was a combination of ideas, which were "composed" by Ferdinand Porsche.
- However, most parts of the car are designed by Béla Barényi and / or Erwin Komenda.
- According to others, the Hungarian Josef Ganz was the designer.
- Fact is that the Volkswagen KdF prototype very similar is to the Tatra V570, developed by Hans Ledwinka, engineer Czech automaker Tatra and the Zündapp Typ 12, designed by Ferdinand Porsche.
- So it remains unclear who is the actual creator of the "Beetle" concept.
- The characteristic four-cylinder air-cooled boxer engine of the Beetle was designed by Franz Reimspiess.
- The Beetle improved time after time (model after model ☺) but one thing they all (1946-1972/79) have in common: the rubber sealing of the engine compartment.
- Called in Holland "Ovaaltje" ("Oval Window"), because of the oval rear window, replacing its original split rear window design.
- In 1955, the bumper was improved and electrical direction-indicators were installed.
- Cars delivered after august 1 1955 had double exhaust-pipes and new rear lights.
- Near the end of '56, side view mirrors became standard on all Beetle models.
Nothing better than a running driving piece of history with just a perfect story told by the aging of the car. Perfect.
Duchess of Wellington is a fine bed and breakfast in a charming 1896 Queen Anne Victorian home in Chatham, Ontario. I took this photo of the stained glass window in the stairwell on August 25, 2018.
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A Schwinn Krate bike parked in front of an early bug at the Jerome Jamboree 1999, Jerome AZ.
Check out the semaphores on that bug--it's an oldie.
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West 6th Street in Erie, Pennsylvania has numerous old buildings in a variety of architectural styles. Many have been converted into apartments for students at Gannon University; there is no campus housing for students beyond the freshmen year, I believe. Many structures are beautifully maintained; others have not fared as well. This Second Empire house seems to be in excellent shape, housing a law office as well as apartments.
I have no date for this building. It is a 3-story brick house with a characteristic Second Empire mansard roof of straight lines. The fish-scale pattern is present, although I don’t know if this is wood or slate shingling. Dormer windows abound, much more decorated than windows on lower levels. Windows throughout are narrow, one over one, with overhangs on 1st and 2nd story windows. The brick been painted blue and decorative trim throughout is a shade of deep red. The entrance porch is small, covered with its own concave mansard roof with fish-scale patterned wood or slate. It is supported by four narrow square columns, two nearly synonymous with the building façade. The door is flanked as well by square columns. A continuous transom is above the door. Both the transom and the oval window in the door contain stylistic tracery.
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Taken and originally posted in 2014.
A shot through the oval window of a door to Bates Hall, the main reading room at the Boston Public Library in Copley Square.
"The Beach Trip - Cannon Beach Oregon" - 22" x 30" Watercolor.
I had a great time painting at @Haystack Gallery yesterday during the Stormy Weather Arts Festival. I didn't nearly get struck by lightning this year, the power didn't go off with a gallery full of people, nor did I decide to tent in what turned out to be 40 degrees and 40mph winds as in years past. Despite all of that we had a great time! Thanks to everyone that stopped by to chit chat! It was fun to see how many people we crammed into the back of the gallery.
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In La Laguna, the historical town of Tenerife island. Details of facade on the wall of an old house. La Laguna is a town nominated as humanity's heritage by UNESCO. It's also my loved place where I've lived much of my live.
Beautifully restored Oval window Volkswagen Beetle.
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This Retro-Cool Hat Shop is in The Frederick Building and is minty keen. I couldn't see inside. And yeah, I tried the door. :)
Isn't that the most retro-cool thing you've ever seen? I think so. Sorry about the shadow. :< zomg, it was so hot outside, it was like 95 degrees in October! *sweats*
It used to be a hotel with storefronts on the bottom, but I guess it's apartments now. Though storefronts still remain.
It was built 1905-1906 by Alger & Stewart. It's in a National Register Historic District.
EDIT: Oh horror, this is gone forever as of 05/2009. :( So much for getting a better pic of it.