Restored, Refurbished, Reused (buildings, signs, homes)
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This house is about a 100 metres from my home. After much work, they finally finished the renovations.
This photo was made under the motorway (A3) bridge over the river Danube near Kiefenholz. The bridge was built between 1977 and 1979, but needs a refurbishment during the next years.
This is a 1937 Aermotor windmill. It is 45 feet tall and for years pumped water for the family. In the 1970’s the house on the property where it sat fell into disrepair and had to be demolished. The windmill remained in place, but it was in poor condition. Recently, the great grandson of its original owner had it dismantled and moved to his property. Then after much research, it was repaired and older parts were restored. The old windmill now looks like new as it towers above the surrounding farmland.
Happy Windmill Wednesday!
The boardwalk over White Lake has been refurbished. The rain gods are not impressed. The lake is nearly dry. Cullinan Park, Sugar Land, Texas. Shot with my Canon 90D. Evaluating its IQ. Keeper, or not?
Excellent use had been made of the lockdown time and the café had been totally refurbished inside and out.
We particularly liked the outdoor seating area where an 8ft high wall of 1,850 pots of beautiful flowers and herbs had been installed with a sophisticated watering system.
I have never seen such a wonderful idea before, especially as the predominant colour was a tasteful shade of purple!
My 50mm lens was good for the close-ups and the centre photo of the main wall was taken by Ray on his phone. I liked the garden touch of green painted bentwood chairs.
The chocolate eclair, not featured here, I have already mentioned!
For the "Arctic Corsair" by the Tug "Lashette"
Arctic Corsair is Hulls last surviving sidewinder Trawler ...She was built at Beverley in 1960.she as spent the last 20 years as a museum ship berthed on the River Hull....Seen here undertow passing through Hulls Tidal Barrier en-route to Alexandra Dock where she will undertake a complete refurbishment before returning to a new berth on the River Hull....See also my three previous Photos.
I took this very early on a Sunday morning, more surprised that this was refitted in 2021 (see image below in the comments).
I have a Polaroid image somewhere I took on this spot around 1976. The petrol station above was a 'Henley's' car showroom, the top car being a series 3 Jaguar E-type for sale.
The McDonalds to the left was still a public house.
London`s stunning Big Ben located in the Houses of Parliament , looking stunning after a few years under refurbishment , it`s one of London`s most photographed landmarks
Without any intention to offend anyone for the state of some houses, this series of ugly images is my desperate, probably futile attempt to save the architectural heritage that is already in such a state that her salvation is gone.
I always take showers, but this tub - which was almost seven feet long and painted (?) a beautiful turquoise-y color on the outside - almost enticed me in. But there was a really nice shower stall, too, so I just took a photo of the tub.
The frozen lake was a good prerequisite to refurbish this platform during winter time. All we need now is summer and the swimmers will come again.
37408 Loch Rannoch departs Crewe on 9-4-96.
I was just getting back into railway photography and I think this is only one of two occasions I managed a photo of it.
Amid London's ever-evolving skyline and the constant refurbishment work inside interiors across the capital, there's something reassuring about a location that, 100 years after it opened, remains almost unchanged. I last photographed the beautiful Cecil Brewer staircase inside Heal's Department Store nearly two years ago, and it had been even longer since I last captured the view looking upwards from the bottom of the spiral. Such a wide variety of compositions and finishes can be achieved by shifting the position of the camera just a few inches one way or another, or by adjusting the focal length of the lens by just a few millimetres, and the staircase's perfect geometric shape and the majestic pendant lights hanging from its ceiling mean it's always a joy to return to.
One detail I hadn't noticed during previous visits -- mostly because it's less noticeable from the top of the spiral -- is how the dozens of hanging lights are constantly swaying back and forth. As hypnotic as this was to watch, it was also challenging for this image, where I was hoping to blend multiple bracketed exposures for the cleanest possible finish. Although I was able to use luminosity masks in Photoshop to brighten the shadows along the staircase, the pendant lights contain traces of midtones as well as highlights, and as a result their constant movement -- even though this was almost imperceptible -- made it difficult for the frames to be perfectly aligned and to achieve a sharp finish. The only way to overcome this was to use a high ISO in order to keep the shutter speed fast, while at the same time holding onto a narrow aperture to ensure that the entire staircase and all of the suspended lights remained in focus.
The final result is a blend of eight exposures, with the darkest exposures for the lights and creating a natural vignette around the edge of the frame, and the brightest exposures restored along the underside of the stairs as they approach the ceiling. I liked how the moody and mysterious tone seemed to come from letting the repeating patterns be the dominant elements of the image, and for this reason I placed emphasis on the darker exposures, where the texture of the balustrade and the subtle mixture of light and shadow along each step in the staircase was best defined.
After editing out a couple of water sprinklers, as well as a small portion of the staircase in the upper-right of the frame which felt like a bit of a distraction, I used a mixture of Curves, Levels, Colour Balance, Hue/Saturation, Selective Colour and Gradient Map adjustments to shift towards a colder finish along the staircase, while using luminosity masks to retain the warmer tones inside the pendant lights. Inside Nik's Silver Efex Pro, which was set to the Luminosity blend mode so that the image would remain in colour, I gently lowered the midtone and shadow structure along the staircase in the foreground, while increasing the Soft Contrast that would help to play up each step's tonality. Finally, I added three low-opacity Colour Lookup presets -- Edgy Amber for the highlights, Foggy Night for the midtones, and Night from Day for the shadows -- and set each adjustment to Soft Light, which helped to emphasise the cold and slightly ethereal finish I'd been aiming for.
While the final result involved a lot of incremental editing to the tone and the light, I tried not to stray too far from the original details of the scene. The location is deservedly one of the most photographed staircases in London, partly because, even after a century, it looks stunning straight out of the camera.
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14th March 2024. The little pool under Bryer Court used to be home to about a hundred Ghost Carp. Unfortunately, the water is so shallow, and the fish got so big, that their fins and backs were often out of the water and they got sunburn. They had to be moved into the big lake and then they were moved with all the other fish in 2004 when the main lake was ‘refurbished’.
The Bryer ‘pond’ used to be full of bulrushes. Moor hens and their young were able to nest there in complete safety because, although the water is only a few inches deep, the foxes couldn’t get at them – they won’t go into water.
The Bryer Court pond was emptied and resurfaced as part of the major repairs to the surface of Beech Gardens, but has since been restored, albeit with less attractive vegetation.
Since 2019, Bryer Court pond looks more like a municipal swimming pool than a lake because the bottom has become an unnatural shade of blue. This is caused by a vegetable dye which is being put in the water. The purpose is to get rid of ‘blanket weed’ which, if left unattacked, can take over the lake. It works by filtering the sunlight and this prevents the weed from photosynthesising which it needs in order to grow.
Sunset over Edinburgh from Carlton hill .
The Dugal Stewart monument and Edinburgh Castle in the distance. Z TO ZOOM.
And STILL after years Waverley bridge wrapped in plastic sheeting is undergoing a multimillion repair and refurbishment.
Would have been cheaper to knock it down and build a new one !!.