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Again, two worlds: on the right, the reflection of a lady in the window of a train passing through a station at great speed. On the left, what you perceive from the station from the perspective of the train. What is moving? The train or the train station?
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Visit : www.refordgardens.com/
Photo taken close to REFORD GARDENS. (Sainte-Flavie)
Mrs Elsie Reford loved those beautiful sunsets.
Reference: Elsie's Paradise, The Reford Gardens, Alexander Reford, 2004, ISBN 2-7619-1921-1, That book is a must for Reford Gardens lovers!
''I shall always, all my life, want to come back to those sunsets.'' Elsie Reford, July 20, 1913. (page 25)
" It is just after 8 o'clock and I am sitting in front of my big window with the gorgeous panorama of a glorious afterglow from a perfect sunset. There is every hue of blue on the water of 'the Blue Lagoon' while Pointe-aux-Cenelles is bathed in pink and crimson and the dark hills of the north shore seem no further than two or three miles distant. I don't think in the whole world at this moment there could be anything more beautiful." Elsie Reford, June 2, 1931. (page 81)
''One thing I can do that no one else can is to pass the love that I feel for this place and this woman'' Alexander Reford
From Wikipedia:
Elsie Stephen Meighen - born January 22, 1872, Perth, Ontario - and Robert Wilson Reford - born in 1867, Montreal - got married on June 12, 1894.
Elsie Reford was a pioneer of Canadian horticulture, creating one of the largest private gardens in Canada on her estate, Estevan Lodge in eastern Québec. Located in Grand-Métis on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, her gardens have been open to the public since 1962 and operate under the name Les Jardins de Métis and Reford Gardens.
Born January 22, 1872 at Perth, Ontario, Elsie Reford was the eldest of three children born to Robert Meighen and Elsie Stephen. Coming from modest backgrounds themselves, Elsie’s parents ensured that their children received a good education. After being educated in Montreal, she was sent to finishing school in Dresden and Paris, returning to Montreal fluent in both German and French, and ready to take her place in society.
She married Robert Wilson Reford on June 12, 1894. She gave birth to two sons, Bruce in 1895 and Eric in 1900. Robert and Elsie Reford were, by many accounts, an ideal couple. In 1902, they built a house on Drummond Street in Montreal. They both loved the outdoors and they spend several weeks a year in a log cabin they built at Lac Caribou, south of Rimouski. In the autumn they hunted for caribou, deer, and ducks. They returned in winter to ski and snowshoe. Elsie Reford also liked to ride. She had learned as a girl and spent many hours riding on the slopes of Mount Royal. And of course, there was salmon-fishing – a sport at which she excelled.
In her day, she was known for her civic, social, and political activism. She was engaged in philanthropic activities, particularly for the Montreal Maternity Hospital and she was also the moving force behind the creation of the Women’s Canadian Club of Montreal, the first women club in Canada. She believed it important that the women become involved in debates over the great issues of the day, « something beyond the local gossip of the hour ». Her acquaintance with Lord Grey, the Governor-General of Canada from 1904 to 1911, led to her involvement in organizing, in 1908, Québec City’s tercentennial celebrations. The event was one of many to which she devoted herself in building bridges with French-Canadian community.
During the First World War, she joined her two sons in England and did volunteer work at the War Office, translating documents from German into English. After the war, she was active in the Victorian Order of Nurses, the Montreal Council of Social Agencies, and the National Association of Conservative Women.
In 1925 at the age of 53 years, Elsie Reford was operated for appendicitis and during her convalescence, her doctor counselled against fishing, fearing that she did not have the strength to return to the river.”Why not take up gardening?” he said, thinking this a more suitable pastime for a convalescent woman of a certain age. That is why she began laying out the gardens and supervising their construction. The gardens would take ten years to build, and would extend over more than twenty acres.
Elsie Reford had to overcome many difficulties in bringing her garden to life. First among them were the allergies that sometimes left her bedridden for days on end. The second obstacle was the property itself. Estevan was first and foremost a fishing lodge. The site was chosen because of its proximity to a salmon river and its dramatic views – not for the quality of the soil.
To counter-act nature’s deficiencies, she created soil for each of the plants she had selected, bringing peat and sand from nearby farms. This exchange was fortuitous to the local farmers, suffering through the Great Depression. Then, as now, the gardens provided much-needed work to an area with high unemployment. Elsie Reford’s genius as a gardener was born of the knowledge she developed of the needs of plants. Over the course of her long life, she became an expert plantsman. By the end of her life, Elsie Reford was able to counsel other gardeners, writing in the journals of the Royal Horticultural Society and the North American Lily Society. Elsie Reford was not a landscape architect and had no training of any kind as a garden designer. While she collected and appreciated art, she claimed no talents as an artist.
Elsie Stephen Reford died at her Drummond Street home on November 8, 1967 in her ninety-sixth year.
In 1995, the Reford Gardens ("Jardins de Métis") in Grand-Métis were designated a National Historic Site of Canada, as being an excellent Canadian example of the English-inspired garden.(Wikipedia)
Visit : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsie_Reford
LES JARDINS DE MÉTIS
Créés par Elsie Reford de 1926 à 1958, ces jardins témoignent de façon remarquable de l’art paysager à l’anglaise. Disposés dans un cadre naturel, un ensemble de jardins exhibent fleurs vivaces, arbres et arbustes. Le jardin des pommetiers, les rocailles et l’Allée royale évoquent l’œuvre de cette dame passionnée d’horticulture. Agrémenté d’un ruisseau et de sentiers sinueux, ce site jouit d’un microclimat favorable à la croissance d’espèces uniques au Canada. Les pavots bleus et les lis, privilégiés par Mme Reford, y fleurissent toujours et contribuent , avec d’autres plantes exotiques et indigènes, à l’harmonie de ces lieux.
Created by Elsie Reford between 1926 and 1958, these gardens are an inspired example of the English art of the garden. Woven into a natural setting, a series of gardens display perennials, trees and shrubs. A crab-apple orchard, a rock garden, and the Long Walk are also the legacy of this dedicated horticulturist. A microclimate favours the growth of species found nowhere else in Canada, while the stream and winding paths add to the charm. Elsie Reford’s beloved blue poppies and lilies still bloom and contribute, with other exotic and indigenous plants, to the harmony of the site.
Commission des lieux et monuments historiques du Canada
Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.
Gouvernement du Canada – Government of Canada
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I really enjoy just how much can be invested in a single image. They are like a bookmark, not just of a particular place or a specific time, but for an experience. They can be the keystone that holds together so many memories. The linchpin that secures those thoughts and feelings together. The proverbial file folder in which various troves of data get stored. I can remember this hike because of this photo. And not just because this photo exists now, but because I knew I was going to make this photo, even before it existed. The impending act of photography had me paying attention and readying all that I was feeling, seeing, smelling, hearing, experiencing, etc - ready to invest it into the image that would be the result, so that looking upon that photo later would call back all those experiences. It was the quiet sense of solitude that is unique to upper alpine hiking. The slight nip to the air as the sun set and temperatures dropped. The incessant annoyance of the mosquitos and four dozen minuscule deaths I inflicted upon the hordes that harried me. It was the scale of the landscape and the mountain towering in front of me. The feeling of peace that I always get so far from the bustle of city life. The sense of timelessness, or at least of time on a geological rather than human scale. The sounds of my boots and my breath and so little else other than the wind. The wonder at seeing rocks eroded at a glacial pace... quite literally. And the beauty of the place.
And I guess that is what I am thinking with this image. We make photos to tell stories. Sometimes those stories are for others and sometimes those stories are for ourselves. And the same photo can tell very different stories in those two circumstances. I enjoy both but I much prefer that latter situation.
Hasselblad 500C
Lomography Potsdam 100
(reference images show the artwork alone in its most accurate representation.)
I've been shooting art works for galleries and museums for more than 10 years. When I saw this picture hanging in some friends staircase, I couldn't resist. Uneven light, no color chart and the painting is not even hanging straight ... what a pleasure !
The Reference Library is Queen Margerethe II's book collection. Many of the books date from the 1700s.
Christiansborg Palace was built from 1907 to 1928. The palace contains premises for the royal family, the Parliament and the judiciary system.
Referencing some very different Saturday mornings in the past, it was a multi-coloured Class 66 fest at Toton!
Uniquely liveried 66734 'Platinum Jubilee' waits to take 6G35 to Silkstream Junction, while 'Royal Scotsman' liveried 66743 prepares to take 6G38 to Mill Hill Broadway. In the background, DB red 66197 shunts the yard while GBRf's 66788 'Locomotion 15' passes through with 6M61, the 07.44 loaded coal from Immingham to Ratcliffe Power Station.
Roppongi Grand Tower (六本木グランドタワー).
Sumitomo Realty & Development Roppongi 3 (住友不動産六本木三丁目東地区プロジェクト).
Architect : Nikken Sekkei (設計：日建設計).
Contractor : Taisei Corporation (施工：大成建設、大林組JV).
Complete : September 2016 (竣工：2016年9月予定).
Structured : Steel (構造：鉄骨造、鉄筋コンクリート造、鉄骨鉄筋コンクリート造).
Height : 757ft (高さ：230.76m).
Floor : 40th (階数：40階).
Floor area : 2,1797,00 sq.ft. (延床面積：202,500.74㎡).
Location : 3-12-41 Roppongi, Minato Ward, Tokyo, Japan (所在地：日本国東京都港区六本木3-12-41).
Referenced :
building-pc.cocolog-nifty.com/helicopter/2015/06/40230m20...
www.sumitomo-rd.co.jp/news/files/1310_0009/Roppongi.pdf
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After the IBM building have disassembled, Sumitomo is constructing new buildings. Redeveloping some building and apartment, in Roppongi 3. It's a huge project, it will cost about $10 billion.
六本木一丁目駅を出てすぐ南にあったIBMのビルが解体されて、住友不動産が出掛ける高層マンションとオフィスビルが建てられています。かなり攻めたデザインです。
After referencing another photo, I found this shot completely lost and forgotten, deep in the archives. It has never seen anything remotely resembling the light of day. This exposure was shot in the early spring 2008, about a month after I began using the (then) new D300.
Just too totally sweet to allow to be lost without doing some work on it, and showing it. If still around, this little sweetheart could be a great granddaddy, or great grandmomma by now.
One wonders what other shots are sleeping deep in the old file folders, hoping to get new life...someday.