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9-23-2016
Structure Fire
SouthMeade Dr
Thanksgiving FD, Archer Lodge FD, Wilson's Mills FD, JCEMS, Fire Marshal
Again, a shape that everybody has done at some time or other. Its hard to do something new and refreshing using the same old structures, but its just too much fun to create and share :)
I used this one to test out an updated export template I am working on and am really happy with how it is coming along.
Structure Synth / Sunflow
The new network of small ponds features many, many flow control structures.
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With the arrival of fall the nesting season is over and I am allowed to photograph in the South Bay again. This year I received a request to photograph a construction project that is subdividing Salt Pond A12 into series of smaller managed ponds to serve as avian habitat. The ponds will be kept at different salinities.
This project occurs along the banks of Mt. Eden Slough, the “cradle of San Francisco’s salt industry” according to author John Sandoval. This section of former marsh is where the first small salt operations appeared in the 19th Century and here remain the most interesting of old salt works ruins, some so faint they are at the threshold of perception. The land is now going through yet another transformation as part of the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project and will see considerable change over the next few years. It should be fun to watch.
The set captures the construction project well underway as heavy machinery creates distribution ditches and flow control structures. Many photographs in this set are prosaic images documenting construction. But the session also found some interesting surface textures, particularly in the machine worked layers of clay that line the new ditches. The set also contains a few photographs of Mount Eden Creek Marsh, an area restored to tidal flow in 2008.
I am taking these documentary photographs under a Special Use Permit from the California Department of Fish & Wildlife. Kite flying is prohibited over the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve without a Special Use Permit, as is access to this part of the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge.
Middleham Castle is a ruined castle in Middleham in Wensleydale, in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It was built by Robert Fitzrandolph, 3rd Lord of Middleham and Spennithorne, commencing in 1190. The castle was the childhood home of King Richard III, although he spent very little of his reign there. The castle was built to defend the road from Richmond to Skipton, though some have suggested the original site of the castle was far better to achieve this than the later location. After the death of King Richard III the castle remained in royal hands until it was allowed to go to ruin in the 17th century. Many of the stones from the castle were used in other buildings in the village of Middleham.
Middleham Castle plan
Middleham Castle was built near the site of an earlier motte and bailey castle, called William's Hill,[1] the site of which can still be seen nearby, although there is no evidence of stonework or defensive structures to the former castle site. Historians believe that the defensive walls of the original castle were constructed from timber.[2] In 1270 the new Middleham Castle came into the hands of the Neville family,[3] the most notable member of which was Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, known to history as the "Kingmaker", a leading figure in the Wars of the Roses. Following the death of Richard, Duke of York, at Wakefield in December 1460, his younger son, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, came into Warwick's care, and lived at Middleham with Warwick's own family. His brother King Edward IV was imprisoned at Middleham for a short time, having been captured by Warwick in 1469. Following Warwick's death at Barnet in 1471 and Edward's restoration to the throne, his brother Richard married Anne Neville, Warwick's younger daughter, and made Middleham his main home. Their son Edward (known as Edward of Middleham), was also born at the castle around 1476 and later also died there in 1484.[4]
Modern statue of Richard III, who grew up at Middleham Castle, by Linda Thompson
Richard ascended to the throne as King Richard III, but spent little or no time at Middleham in his two-year reign. After Richard's death at Bosworth in 1485 the castle was seized by Henry VII and remained in royal hands until the reign of James I, when it was sold.[5] During the reign of Elizabeth I, the castle was proposed for full demolition by Lord Huntingdon and eventual conversion into a Manor House. A letter was written by Huntingdon to the Lord Treasurer outlining the plan and its possible use by the Queen when on her royal duties.[6] The castle fell into disuse and disrepair during the 17th century.[3] In 1644, a parliamentary Committee sitting in Yorkshire ordered that it was "untenable and no garrison should be kept there". Later still, some of the castle's walls were blown away and the stones of the castle became a public quarry by which many of the buildings in Middleham were created.[7] It was garrisoned during the Civil War in 1654 and 1655, when it was host to thirty men and capable of housing prisoners. There is no record of action at the site nor was it put under siege.[8]
In 1604, the castle was passed to Sir Henry Linley and then sold to the Wood family in 1662 who held onto the property until 1889.[3] The ruins are now in the care of English Heritage who took them on in 1984[9] and are grade I listed.[10]
Description
Gatehouse of Middleham Castle
The castle is a compact, massive structure, and though ruinous, most of the walls are intact. A simple rectangle in plan, the castle consists of a massive Norman keep surrounded by a later curtain wall, to which were then added extensive, palatial residential ranges.[5] The location of the castle was as a safe refuge on the road from Richmond to Skipton, and in this respect it guarded the road and the area of Coverdale. Pevsner comments that the site of the original castle which had a motte of 40 feet (12 m) was far better placed to defend the road than the latter castle of 1190.[11]
The keep is similar to other large square keeps, but had only two storeys,[12] even so, at 105 feet (32 m) from north to south and 78 feet (24 m) west to east, is one of the largest in England.[13][14] It is divided on both levels by an internal wall, and there are turrets at each corner and midway along each wall. The ground floor has two large, originally vaulted, chambers, and above are two grand halls surrounded by high windows.[15] The entrance is by staircase to the first floor—as was common—and a later chapel outbuilding defends that approach. A repaired spiral staircase leads up to the top of the south-east corner tower,[13] affording views of the surrounding town and countryside, including the original castle motte to the south-west.[16] The south-west tower is sometimes referred to as the Prince's Tower on account of Richard III's son, Edward, having been born in the tower, though there is no documentary evidence of this,[17][18] (in a survey conducted in 1538, it is simply referred to as the "Rounde Towre").[19]
Remaining wall with arrow slits for defence
The 13th-century curtain wall surrounds the keep concentrically, making the castle into a compact and effective defensive structure, though it was built more for comfort than security.[20] In the 15th century the Nevilles constructed an impressive range of halls and outbuildings against these walls, turning the castle into a truly magnificent residence, fit for nobles of their stature. Bridges at first-floor level were built to connect these to the keep, and the ceiling above the great hall was also raised, either to provide a clerestory or space for another chamber.[17]
The entrance to the castle is through a tower in the north-east corner, though this was also a 15th-century modification. Only foundations remain of the original gatehouse, facing east into the now-vanished outer ward. The gatehouse was remodelled in the 14th century with diagonal turrets and flanked by an arch. Spaces in the stonework were provided so that missiles could be launched on would-be attackers.[18] Apart from this east wall, however, the circuit of the walls is fairly complete, though the walls of the residential buildings are gone. Some restoration was done on the castle in modern times, but there is extensive damage to the lower faces of the keep. Windows and doorways have crumbled away, floors have fallen in, and none of the battlements remain. Still, the castle is an impressive ruin, and the sense of its original strength and grandeur remains.[7]
11-1-2016
Structure Fire
105 Josephine Rd, Garner
Polenta Elementary School
Mobile Unit
Cleveland FD, Clayton FD, 50-210 FD, 50-210 EMS, Johnston Co Fire Marshal.
The largest building in the area, the former ore separating bin at the Ibex Mine was built stout (16x16s, I think?)
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The Commanding Officer's Quarters, the only two-story structure on the post, was built about 1856, and was the only habitable building remaining when the Army reoccupied Fort McKavett in 1867. In August 1866, local citizens sought refuge from an Indian attack in the cellar of these quarters. William McDougall, a civilian, lost his life in the raid, and is buried in the post cemetery, located about a mile southwest.
Among the commanding officers residing in these quarters were Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie, who removed the Indians from the Texas High Plains in 1874, Col. William R. Shafter, a hero of the Spanish-American War, Col Galusha Pennypacker, captor of Confederate President Jefferson Davis; and Col. Abner Doubleday, who fired the first shot in defense of Fort Sumpter. After the fort was abandoned, the building served as a private residence and boarding house until it burned in 1947.
Built in 1928-1930, this Art Deco-style building was designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst and White for Marshall Field and Company, and is known as Merchandise Mart, housing multiple retail and wholesale operations on the former site of a train yard, with the massive structure occupying an entire city block. The building consists of a bulky and boxy eighteen-story block, with a tower in the center of the facade facing the Chicago River extending beyond the primary roofline of the building an additional seven stories, making the building 25 stories and 340 feet (103 meters) tall. The building consolidated thirteen wholesale warehouses, and was the largest building in the world by floor area when it opened in 1930, holding the distinction until the completion of the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia in 1943. The building was built with a concrete and steel structure, being built utilizing methods and materials previously reserved for larger infrastructure projects like hydroelectric dams. The building was purchased in the mid-1940s by the Kennedy family of Boston, whom owned it for over half a century, and utilized the proceeds from their ownership of the building to build their wealth and fund their political ambitions. In 1998, the building was sold by the Kennedy family to the Vornado Realty Trust.
The building features multiple octagonal towers, with a large tower in the center of the facade facing the Chicago River that features the tallest portion of the building, and smaller towers at the corners of the building and ends of the rooftop penthouse, which are topped with octagonal copper hipped roofs, and feature setbacks as they rise, increasing in frequency towards the top of the towers. The building’s facade is relatively vertical up to the fifteenth floor, with setbacks of the facade of the main block at the sixteenth and eighteenth floors, and similar setbacks of the corner towers, as well as the nineteenth floor of each tower. The building’s limestone facade is broken up by vertical window bays with one-over-one windows, with copper spandrel panels between windows on the fourth through fourteenth floors and sixteenth and seventeenth floors, as well as decorative pilasters, belt coursing, and sculptures. The base of the building’s facade features tall storefronts that have spandrel panels and are separated by fluted pilasters, and are as wide as two window bays on the upper floors. The window bays at the top of the building feature chamfered corners, with the building being crowned with decorative trim atop the parapets that enclose the large low-slope roof of the building, and trim around the base of the copper hipped roof on the towers. The building’s main entrance, at the base of the largest tower and facing the Chicago River, is recessed at the rear of a portico, and features a tall curtain wall above three revolving doors, with two lower alcoves to either side. The building’s main tower once featured 56 terra cotta busts depicting Native American chiefs, commemorating the site’s early heritage as a trading center, which were removed in a renovation in 1961. Inside, the building features approximately 7 miles of corridors, with a lobby featuring a high ceiling, fluted rectilinear marble columns, a terrazzo floor, decorative murals around the base of the ceiling, marble cladding on the walls with granite base, bronze Art Deco-style elevator doors, large showrooms for furniture and interior design firms, office space, and multiple restaurants. The building’s major common areas generally maintain their original character, with the showrooms having been modernized and adapted to different tenant needs over time.
The building has continued to adapt to new tenants over time, with a modern annex building known as 350 North Orleans, or the Chicago Apparel Center, being built on the block to the west in 1977, designed by the notable firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, which is connected to the original building by an enclosed walkway over the street built in 1988 and designed by Helmut Jahn. The building underwent a major renovation in the 1980s that updated and modernized various building systems, and between 1989 and 1991, saw the restoration and rehabilitation of the facade and major interior common areas under the direction of the firm Beyer Blinder Belle. The building also has its own transit stop of the Chicago Transit Authority L, presently served by the Brown and Purple lines, one of only two commercial properties to have their own stop on the rapid transit system, with the building having housed the main offices of the Chicago Transit Authority from 1947 until 2004. The management of the building in recent decades has implemented many green energy and sustainable practices into the operations of the building, achieving the LEED existing buildings Silver certification in 2007. The building continues to house retail, wholesale, and office space, today still being one of the largest buildings in central Chicago.
9-23-2016
Structure Fire
SouthMeade Dr
Thanksgiving FD, Archer Lodge FD, Wilson's Mills FD, JCEMS, Fire Marshal
Title: Villa la Magia
Other title: Villa la Magia (Quarrata, Italy)
Creator: Buontalenti, Bernardo, 1536-1608
Creator role: Architect
Date: 16th-18th century
Current location: Quarrata, Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy
Description of work: This villa, formerly the fortified residence of the Panciatichi family, was bought by the grand-duke Francesco (de'Medici) in 1581, who commissioned Buontalenti to carry out rebuilding work. The property later passed into the hands of the Attavanti family, then to the Ricasoli and finally to the Amati-Cellesi Counts, the current owners. The villa's late-Renaissance features - a solid square building from which two corner towers protrude - are perfectly preserved. The facades, pierced by a regular series of windows with stone surrounds, recall the linear simplicity found on other designs by Buontalenti. The entrance to the park, which is full of oaks, Himalayan cedars, holm-oaks, plane trees, ginkgo biloba and black walnut trees, is through a gate with a masonrywork exedra adorned with pedimented columns. On the southern side of the villa is a Baroque-style garden, furnished with 17th-century works. Another attractive feature is the lake, added at a later stage both for ornamentation and for water storage purposes. (Quarrata-Villa la Magia, www.cultura.toscana.it/architetture/giardini/pistoia/vill... accessed 03/06/2007)
Description of view: A structure that sits on the property.
Work type: Architecture and Landscape
Style of work: Renaissance: Late Renaissance: Mannerist
Culture: Italian
Materials/Techniques: Trees
Masonry
Source: DeTuerk, James (copyright James DeTuerk)
Resource type: Image
File format: JPEG, TIFF archived offline
Image size: 364H X 547W pixels
Permitted uses: This image is posted publicly for non-profit educational uses, excluding printed publication. Other uses are not permitted. For additional details see: alias.libraries.psu.edu/vius/copyright/publicrightsarch.htm
Collection: Worldwide Building and Landscape Pictures
Filename: WB2007-0118 Villa La Magia.jpg
Record ID: WB2007-0118
Sub collection: garden structures
Copyight holder: Copyright James DeTuerk
Inflatable structure by Hans Walter Muller
for an architecture exhibition at Arc En Rêve / Bordeaux, July 2012
Studio Ad Hoc / HWM
Crews from Concord, Harrisburg and Charlotte (NC) on the scene of a commercial structure fire in Concord engine 5s first due.
Inflatable structure by Hans Walter Muller
for an architecture exhibition at Arc En Rêve / Bordeaux, July 2012
Studio Ad Hoc / HWM
The Twin Tunnels Catchment Structure was the solution to the problem of a very active rockfall area above the Twin Tunnels trail. The link above has some interesting details regarding the function and reasoning behind this structure. This image shows the underside of the catchment, which contains the trail. The catchment itself protects the trail from loose rock on the cliffs above.
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Photo taken along the Twin Tunnels trail near Mosier, OR (USA).
The antenna dish of ESA's deep space tracking station gets painted. It will soon be ready to be lifted up on the support.
Credits: ESA
My family and I were at this new park over on the Northern Side of Fort Wayne, and as we were resting under a pavillion, I looked up and saw this! Something about the water stains in the wood and the geometry of the whole structure really pulled me in. Of course, as a photographer, I ran up to my car and grabbed my camera for the perfect shot!
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Looks like I need to do something about the light leaks in my little Olympus Pen-D. Sometimes the leaks produce a helpful mayhem. Anyway--somebody in the local woods started a lean-to structure. Suitable subject for my ongoing series of triptychs exploring how we cannot capture in one frame how we see as we move through space and time.
Pen-D (half-frame) Tri-X (outdated since 2009)
Defensive architecture in Portland. Just big enough to wait for a bus. Not big enough to relax or sleep on.
Failed cockatiel clutch had an egg with breached shell which led to dessication. As this is a situation not to be intentionally repeated it posed a rare photographic opportunity.
shooting data :
Panasonic DMC-LX1
lens : 28-112 mm ( 16:9 ) : 28 mm
program auto exposure : - 1.33 EV
manual focussing : 3-6 feet zone setting, 6-15 feet zone setting
shooting mode : continuously
ISO : 80
date : Wed. 23 Aug. 2006
place : the upper deck of my junction station, JR Higashi-Kanagawa station south-east area, Yokohama canal, on the road of Route 15
JR --- Japan Railroad or something
higashi --- east
note :
I used my LX1 on 28 mm with 3-6 feet zone setting and 6-15 feet zone setting.
I used 3-6 feet zone setting for the person.
and I used 6-15 feet zone setting for the canal mainly.
and naturally,
LX1's battery was dead in 2 hours usually.
That was the place just near the main road to my Dai-koku Pier.
...
my frivolities
I went shooting with LX1 and W5.
W5 was using for the evening and night.
my W5 has f 2.8 and f 5.6.
and my W5 still had made stains on f 5.6 at that night.
but in the night, it is very hard to get f 5.6 naturally.
so I could use my W5 in my Dai-koku Pier with manual exposure for the evening and with auto exposure for the night.
I had to use my W5 by manual focussing with f 2.8.
but I did the normal mistake naturally again.
at first,
I had been shooting my W5 by manual focussing with f 2.8.
and soon I had been shooting my W5 by manual focussing with f 5.6.
and soon later I had been shooting my W5 with auto exposure entirely.
I found it on my Dai-koku Oo-hashi ( big bridge ) in the night.
I had already been shooting over 200 jpgs until then.
My memory stick pro could accept only around 250 jpgs plainly.
I couldn't do my shooting from the evening again.
It had already all been passing.
All the causes had been hidden in my W5's tiny little pushing buttons.
It comes from my frivolities.
...
Leica M8
my W5 had already come back from SONY for repairing with no cost.
so,
I don't have a need to use my frivolities any more.
the manual exposure setting was not my shooting style naturally.
I had been shooting by manual exposure in my film lording type camera days.
The film lording type camera days could not be coming any more for me probably.
That has two simply reasons,
One is from my monetary reason.
and the other,
Leica had released Leica M8 already.
The most of all someone had been saying like this.
" I only shoot film ! "
The monetary reason person had been using the plastic digital cameras.
With no monetary reason person would be soon using Leica M8 naturally.
I have been simply loved Leica since 1978.
M8 is my too much more more far away dreaming still now.
aibii_blue
Mon. 23 Oct. 04:13 PM 2006
edited : added ISO 80
Mon. 23 Oct. 07:15 PM 2006
This is the St. Michael Catholic Church in St. Michael, MN - listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Building #79001279
In 1856, Catholic German immigrants built a small log cabin church, near the Crow River, about three miles east of this location. At that time, St. Michael’s and other churches in the northern and central areas of Minnesota received the services of the Benedictine priests from St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville.
In 1866, a new church was built in the heart of the present St. Michael’s town, on the northeast corner of the main intersection in town. This white, wooden structure provided space for worshippers of St. Michael for about twenty-five years.
In 1890, at the strong encouragement of the new pastor, Rev. Rudolph Duesterman, the present gothic church was built. At the time, it was the largest church in Wright County and has been the focus of a long history of sacred events. In 2004, to accomodate the growing congregation, a new "domed" church was built just up the road - but this distinctive, imposing structure still dominates the skyline, and is truly one of the most beautiful churches around.(Waymarking.com)
The city of San Francisco sponsors a program to close various streets in the city on Sundays, to encourage people to get out and walk, bike, skateboard, and enjoy the urban scene.
This past Sunday Third Street was partially closed. Walking 1 block to the East revealed some views of the industrialized waterfront.