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The Old Dee Bridge, City of Chester, shot during a cold snap, a couple of weeks ago. There has been a crossing here since Roman times, the present structure dates from 1387, and is still doing the exact same job it was built for Happy New Year everyone, best wishes for 2023 📷
The first recorded mention of Nikozi occurs in a c. 800 chronicle of Juansher, who attributes the founding of the church there and the appointment of a bishop to the 5th-century king Vakhtang Gorgasali: „he built the church of Nikozi at the hearth of a fire(-temple), and installed a bishop where was buried the body of St. Ražden, who had been martyred by the Persians in the war with Vaxt'ang“. This account is reiterated by the historian Prince Vakhushti, writing c. 1745, who adds that a bishop still resided at Nikozi in his day, being "a pastor to the Caucasians, the Dvals, and what is now known as Ossetia, as well as Glola-Ghebi". St. Ražden's martyrium is also mentioned by the anonymous 13th-century Georgian chronicle Histories and Eulogies of the Sovereigns, which relates that one of the sons of "the kings of Ossetians", a disillusioned claimant to the hand of Queen Tamar (1184–1213), died in Nikozi and was buried in its church of St. Ražden.
The Nikozi cathedral and its complex was constructed over a several-century span. The extant church building dates mostly to the 14th–16th century, a bell-tower is a 16th–17th-century structure and an episcopal palace was built in the 9th–11th century. Several other buildings such as a bishop's residence, cells, a refectory, and various accessory structures were constructed in the 19th and 20th centuries.
During the August 2008 Russo-Georgian War, Zemo Nikozi was a scene of heavy fighting between the Georgian and Russian forces and Russian air attacks on 10 August 2008, which damaged the Nikozi complex, especially the recently repaired episcopal palace. Its renovated roof, floor, and balconies were burned down, and the original south floor stones cracked due to fire. Monastic cells, a bishop's dwelling, and the refectory were completely destroyed.
After the war, following an action initiated by the Council of Europe, a project was implemented for emergency stabilization works to the Nikozi complex, including preliminary onsite works, a new roof, consolidation and stabilization of the structure, and archaeological works, setting grounds for further rehabilitation works.
Le QG 501 négocie la courbe appelée "Breslay", à l'est de la gare du Parc, alors qu'il est en route vers le triage Saint-Luc du CPKC avec un bon train. À droite, l’ancien portique, où étaient présents des signaux de type « searchlight » jusqu’à la démolition du triage d’Outremont, témoigne de l’existence d’une troisième voie évidemment retirée au début du siècle.
QG train 501 negotiates the curve called "Breslay", east of EXO Parc station, while enroute to the CPKC Saint-Luc yard with a good train. On the right, the old signal bridge structure, where “searchlight” signals were present until the demolition of the Outremont yard, testifies to the existence of a third track obviously removed at the beginning of the century.
Macro of the central spine of a peace lily leaf. The image is formed from a stack of around 60 frames to build a detailed impression of the structure and texture of the leaf close where it is changing from green to brown.
Another shot from last month on my visit to the banks of the Thames at low tide. It was a dull day but that didn’t matter at night when the lights of a City transform it. My main objective was the view from the Thames Foreshore at low tide which gives such a different viewpoint. This view is from the foreshore on the North Bank just east of the Millennium Bridge looking towards the old power station chimney of what is now the Tate Modern art museum. The Millennium Bridge is London’s newest bridge and is a footbridge. It is also known as the Wobbly Bridge because when it first opened it wobbled alarmingly because of the number of people walking across. It had to be closed for 2 years for adjustments to be made.
There are public access stairs just east of the Millennium Bridge on both the north and south banks. Access is allowed but not digging without a permit. Much of the brick and rubble was dumped there after the Great Fire of London of 1666. There can also be seen the remnants of wooden jetties
The picture was taken on a tripod and with a Sony A68 with a Sigma 10-20 zoom at 13mm. 3 raw images 2EV spacing for HDR. The picture was enhanced with HDR processing using tone Aurora HDR; Topaz clarity was used for more detail. In Photoshop some adjustments were made to hue saturation to bring up saturation overall in the reflections only using a layer mask. Various brightness adjustment layers were used with masks to get various areas just right. The Chimney was a little out of line so I used Transform warp to straighten it out using a selection first to avoid affecting other parts of the image.
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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.
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)
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.
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.
Philae is an island in the reservoir of the Aswan Low Dam, Egypt. Philae was originally located near the expansive First Cataract of the Nile in Upper Egypt and was the site of an Egyptian temple complex. This complex and the surrounding area have been variously flooded since the initial construction of the Aswan Low Dam in 1902. The temple complex was dismantled and moved as part of the UNESCO Nubia Campaign project
Since Philae was said to be one of the burying-places of Osiris, it was held in high reverence both by the Egyptians to the north and the Nubians to the south. The islands of Philae were also the centres of commerce between Meroë and Memphis.
The most conspicuous feature of both islands was their architectural wealth. Monuments of various eras, extending from the Pharaohs to the Caesars, occupy nearly their whole area. The principal structures, however, lay at the south end of the smaller island. The most ancient was a temple for Isis, built in the reign of Nectanebo I during 380-362 BC.
The most conspicuous feature of both islands was their architectural wealth. Monuments of various eras, extending from the Pharaohs to the Caesars, occupy nearly their whole area. The principal structures, however, lay at the south end of the smaller island. The most ancient was a temple for Isis, built during 380-362 BC, which was approached from the river through a double colonnade. For the most part, the other ruins date from the Ptolemaic Kingdom.