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Simplify. As part of our effort to simplify our lives my wife and I are getting rid of as much 'stuff' as we can. It's amazing what one accumulates over a 30 year span. My personal contribution to the divestiture was giving away over 30 boxes of books (from this room and other places in the house) that I decided I was highly unlikely to ever read again. It's a start. And what a wonderful feeling of lightness came over me. Enlightening, you might say, or un-encumbering! Now there's a weight off my floor boards, LOL!!
Train shed by William Henry Barlow 1868
(Photo: © Zippo Zimmermann, www.designladen.com)
St Pancras railway station
The station was designed by William Henry Barlow. The approaching line to the station crossed the Regent's Canal at height allowing the line reasonable gradients; this resulted in the level of the line at St Pancras being 12 to 17 ft (3.7 to 5.2 m) above the ground level. Initial plans were for a two or three span roof with the void between station and ground level filled with spoil from tunnelling to join the Midland Main Line to the St. Pancras branch (Widened Lines). Instead, due to the value of the land in such a location the lower area was used for freight, in particular beer from Burton (see Brewers of Burton); as a result the undercroft was built with columns and girders, maximising space, set out to the same plans as used as those used for beer warehouses, and with a basic unit of length of that of a beer barrel.
The clock tower of St Pancras
The contract for the construction of the station substructure and connecting lines was given to Messrs. Waring, with Barlow's assistant Campion as supervisor.[36] The lower floor for beer warehousing contained interior columns 15 ft (4.57 m) wide, and 48 ft (14.63 m) deep carrying girders supporting the main station and track. The connection to the Widened Lines (St. Pancras branch) ran below the station's bottom level, in an east-to-west direction.
To avoid the foundations of the roof interfering with the space beneath, and to simplify the design, and minimise cost, it was decided to construct a single span roof, with cross ties for the arch at the station level. The arch was sprung directly from the station level, with no piers. Additional advice on the design of the roof was given to Barlow by Rowland Mason Ordish. The arches' ribs had a web depth of 6 ft (1.8 m), mostly open ironwork. The span width, from wall to wall was 245 ft 6 in (74.83 m), with a rib every 29 ft 4 in (8.94 m) The arch was a slightly pointed design, with a reduced Radius of curvature at the springing points. The Butterley Company was contracted to construct the arches. The total cost of the 24 rib roof and glazing was over £53,000, of which over half was for the main ribs. The cost of the gable end was a further £8,500.
The single-span overall roof was the largest such structure in the world at the time of its completion.
The materials used were wrought iron framework of lattice design, with glass covering the middle half and timber (inside)/slate (outside) covering the outer quarters. The two end screens were glazed in a vertical rectangular grid pattern with decorative timber cladding around the edge and wrought iron finials around the outer edge. It was 689 feet (210.01 m) long, 240 feet (73.15 m) wide, and 100 feet (30.48 m) high at the apex above the tracks.
Kelham Hall and its tower, completed earlier in 1863.
Construction of a hotel fronting the station, the Midland Grand Hotel, began in 1868; the hotel opened in 1873. The design of the hotel and station buildings was by George Gilbert Scott, winner of a competition in 1865. The building is primarily brick, but polychromatic, in a style derived from the Italian gothic, and with numerous other architectural influences.[33][note 2] Gilbert Scott reused many of the design details from his earlier work at Kelham Hall designed in 1857 and completed in 1863, but on a much grander scale for St Pancras.
This was a period of expansion for the Midland Railway, as the major routes to Manchester, Nottingham, Sheffield and Carlisle opened.
One of my attempts at the "Crazy Tuesday" theme "Doors Knockers Handles".
Shot on a Schneider Kreuznach "Apo-Componon 60 mm F 4 Makro Iris" (enlarging) lens on a Canon EOS R5.
Wedding details simplified. Read our review of the 100mm Macro. irvingphotographydenver.com/whats-photography-bag-canon-1...
simplify your things
simplify your finances
simplify your time
simplify your health
simplify your relationships
simplify yourself
as i learned from experience it’s easier said than done… but “working” on it from time to time improves the quality of life.
3 raw image HDR processed as follows: Photomatix 4.0.1, Topaz Denoise5, Viveza2, 3 Flypaper Textures, Topaz Simplify, Nik Silver Efex Pro, and Viveza2 again (whew!) Got it good and ugly!
This is one of the smaller falls a little upstream from Bond Falls in Michigan. Created using Topaz Simplify
Crabapple blossoms processed with the following:
Photoshop CS6 Oil Paint filter
Filter Forge Polygon filter
Topaz Simplify
Some color and brightness adjustments.
I filled a glass baking dish with water and placed the daisy just barley under the water. I left the stem long enough to touch the bottom to keep it from moving around. After frozen I placed it in my window for back light to photograph it. Adjustments in LR and Topaz Simplify.
simplified and folded by me in single layer silver rectangle
I thought origami might present some interesting possibilities for this week's Macro Mondays theme, but it took a while to find something new to fold that satisfied me. I folded a few variations but didn't get around to a shoot until this morning. I narrowed down my selection to a set of four: two in blue, two in yellow. I think they work well together.
The original model uses a sheet of A4 paper folded in on itself lengthwise with edges that form a flange. The center portion is divided into diagonals that form the resulting spiral. I tried this with A4 and A5 papers and wasn't happy with either. I had a few small scrap sheets I use for practising dollar bill origami so I left out the lengthwise folds and simplified the side flange.
Later I found an online tutorial from yourgenome.org by Dr Alan Bateman based on Thoki Yenn's model but incorporating a printed template. I folded my diagonals as mountains instead of valleys, so according to this model,
my DNA is backwards --
---- AND?
Overwhelmed by life? It helps me to remember that monkeys also exist, and they’re just chillin' in trees. If that doesn't work, take a nap.
Image imagined in MidJourney AI and finished with Topaz Studio and Lightroom Classic.
Dreamscope filter initially, then watercolor treatments through Photoshop and Topaz Simplify blended together. Sandstone texture added last.
AX514, part of the Dublin Bus Sightseeing fleet is seen in a new simplified livery which is at the discretion of the eye of the beholder, AX513 and AX515 also carry this livery.
I know it's a little fuzzy...but...if I can get her interested in photography, it leaves lisa as the last stone!
Optare Versa
Marnham Crossroads
A project I have been involved with for some time at Marshalls that I have been able to provide little comment on (until now) is the merging of Nottsbus Connect service 339 and our once-a-day return 37A journey into a revised and simplified 37 and 38 timetable. Supported with Bus Service Improvement Plan (BSIP) funding from Nottinghamshire County Council, the changes will mean that passengers travelling from the villages of Cromwell, Carlton-on-Trent, Grassthorpe and Normanton-on-Trent will no longer have to change buses at North Muskham to travel through to Newark, and now also have a link to Retford for the first time in many years. While a minority will sadly see a slightly reduced service (an unfortunate sign of the times), new travel opportunities and simpler journeys will hopefully now be the order of the day for the majority who rely on these services.
2nd December 2024 was the first day of the new 37 and 38 timetable, and convenient timing on my empty run to Rampton Hospital to commence a school duty gave me an opportunity to photograph our first ever 38 working at Marnham Crossroads, in the hands of Versa OP89 and driver Steve.
"Simplify, simplify."
~ Henry David Thoreau
I know that the world is not in black and white... but this rose turned out with such beauty. The petals look so so transparent, soft, and delicate.
Home Federal Savings/Pacific Mercantile Bank Building
The Perpetual Savings and Loan building is a striking tower of stacked white arches with trailing greenery, sited prominently along Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills. It was designed by seminal architect Edward Durell Stone in the New Formalist style he popularized in the early 1960s, and represents an important step in his re-visioning of historical Classical, Moorish, and Indo-Islamic styles through a Modern lens.
Completed in 1962, the eight-story Perpetual Savings building is a simple glass-skinned high-rise completely sheathed in a pierced concrete screen of repeating parabolic arches. It has been described as Venetian Modern, and indeed it stands like a simplified palazzo, complete with front plaza containing four flagpoles and a dramatic circular fountain. Some people see another Italian influence: the Mussolini-commissioned Palazzo della Civilta Italiana in Rome, known as the "Square Colosseum" for its Fascist replication of the ancient arena's arches on a square tower.
[...] The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak [...]
-- Quote by Hans Hoffman
Rome, Italy (April, 2008)
Remixed to lighten image, increase contrast, simplify shapes and lines, blend colors, introduce painterly effects
"To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating;
to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter. . .to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life."
~ John Burroughs
Grand Turk Island - May 2010...Wanna jump in.....View On Black
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