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Fontevraud Abbey
Fontevraud Royal Abbey, situated where the three regions of Poitou, Anjou and Touraine meet, is one of the largest surviving monastic cities from the Middle Ages.
The first permanent structures were built between 1110 and 1119. Then located within what is sometimes referred to as the Angevin Empire, the King of England, Henry II, his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and son, King Richard the Lionheart were buried here at the end of the 12th century. Disestablished as a monastery during the French Revolution, it served as a prison from 1804 to 1963.
A UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is situated in the Loire Valley between Chalonnes-sur-Loire and Sully-sur-Loire within the Loire-Anjou-Touraine French regional natural park (Parc naturel régional Loire-Anjou-Touraine).
The Abbey was listed as a Historic Monument in 1840, and, as part of the Loire Valley, as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000. In a green valley just a few kilometres from the Loire River, near Saumur, Fontevraud is one of the unmissable stops on a visit to the Loire Valley.
In Cardiff Bay and the adjacent Cardiff docks complex, there are many structures that remain from when Cardiff was the world's premier coal exporting port.
One of the most recognisable - and most photographed (well, by me, anyway!) - are the mooring 'dolphins'.
Their purpose was to allow ships waiting to enter the docks to tie up to them to stop the ships toppling over when the tide retreated and the ships rested on the tidal mud flats.
Despite being built about 120 years ago, there are quite a few of these structures still remaining.
In this image, I've applied a slight sepia tone and vignette to represent how a photograph of a 'dolphin' may have looked when taken in the early Edwardian period - although the water gauge board in metres rather undermines my efforts!
HSS!
The combination of ships in this shot made me think of society and class structure. My degree is in Sociology/Economics so I have always been fascinated with that topic. It would appear that the working class ships in the background cluster while prepped to work through another day. The foreground vessel on the other hand appears more sporty and perhaps at the ready to take it's occupant to a different kind of work. Maybe I read too much into my shots, but it is fun to see a story unfold.
On the margin of the National Park Eifel near Kall, a small industrial area accrues. (Countryside Cologne).
Shot this morning Feb 24, 2019
The world-famous Hagia Sophia museum in Istanbul - originally founded as a cathedral - has been turned back into a mosque.
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Electric power companies tend to build large and very heavy, structurally sound buildings because they sometimes contain elements like transformers that deal in very large amounts of energy. It is protection and strength, in case of a malfunction. Photograph taken in Sacramento, California.
A detail of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin, which is, in my belief, a wonderful architecture - unlike the newer building close to the Brandenburg Gate.
Also I love this tiny camera. Always to have with me, extremely fast to shoot with and still under my control.
Olympus XA on Ilford Delta 100, developed in CaffenolCMrs
The stare down.
S / He sitting on parking structure. When s/he flapped wings and hopped on edge towards me in a glare.. I stood my ground, snapped pic, sat down. We met a happy understanding of closeness at that point and shared each others space in peace and harmony.
Nature.. a most wonderful teacher.
Red Tail Hawk
This photo is a good study in 'thermal uplift'. Note the billows [cylinder-like structures] on the right center. Those are heat and condensing moisture packets rising...
Hau‘ula, O‘ahu.
These small circular rock pools, only a few feet across, are built by local beach-goers. Resembling miniature loko (fishponds) of old, these modern-day constructions are built by fishermen to keep their catch alive. They also are used by families as a "kiddie pool" for toddlers.
From my series, "Pinhole Structures".
Le Bambole Mk. XV, "Weekend Pinhole Camera".
Kodak Ektar 100.
La vieille charité is a former almshouse, now a museum and cultural centre, in the old Panier quarter of Marseille, France. (1671 / 1749) Baroque. style with four ranges of arcaded galleries in three storeys surrounding a space with a central chapel surmounted by an ovoid dome (Wikipedia)
Concrete things with holes in them, at the edge of a Lincolnshire field. I don't know what these things are. There are several of them in one location, quite big, probably been there a long time and no obvious purpose. One on its own might have been an artwork I suppose. Get the sun behind one of them and you can make silly effects.