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Grand Canyon Watchtower Panorama
The Indian Watchtower almost seems to be lost in the vastness of the Grand Canyon. I am sure that it is lost to anyone who does not open the photo on a decent size monitor. Hopefully, the photo helps to convey some sense of the vastness of the canyon. It is located at the eastern end of the south rim of the Grand Canyon and looks out over the Colorado River and the desert view of the canyon. The watchtower is a re-creation by Mary Colter of an American Indian Watchtower and was constructed in 1932. It stands 70 feet tall. I have been trying, for some time, to do this scene justice. It is difficult to convey the size of the canyon and how the watchtower sits on the rim of the canyon and still view the details of the tower itself. On the original photo, I can zoom on the watchtower and actually see people.
The magnificent Grand Canyon National Park is located in northern Arizona and was formed over millions of years by the Colorado River. The canyon is more than 200 miles long 12 miles wide and a mile deep. The national park is visited by about 5 million people a year.
Nikon D800
Nikon 24-70 f/2.8 at 48 mm
1/400 sec at f/8 ISO 100
Stitch of 5 vertical photos taken from Navajo Point.
March 1, 2016
Yeah so I did some medieval stuff. Turned out ok. Sorry for the inactivity, believe me I'm trying not to slip into a dark age :)
This watchtower is part of a larger Genoese fortress built during the 14th century to protect the town of Sudak from the Ottomans. Today the town (along with the rest of the Crimea) is disputed territory between Ukraine and Russia.
Sadly relocated. A scan of a shot from 1988. Hull's East Park 'Khyber Pass'. I used to play in it late 60's.
Desert View Watchtower is a 70-foot high stone building located on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon within Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona, United States. The four-story structure, completed in 1932, was designed by American architect Mary Colter, an employee of the Fred Harvey Company who also created and designed many other buildings in the Grand Canyon vicinity including Hermit's Rest and the Lookout Studio. The interior contains murals by Fred Kabotie.
The bottom floor of the tower now contains a gift shop while the upper floors serve as an observation deck from which visitors to the national park can view eastern portions of the Grand Canyon. Desert View Watchtower was designated a United States National Historic Landmark on May 28, 1987.
The information above comes from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_View_Watchtower
Grand Canyon National Park
The Watchtower is on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. It was designed by architect Mary Colter and was built in 1932. This is the tower's ground-floor observation room. The ceiling logs are stacked in a pattern that imitates a Native American architectural style.
Altezza 7522 piedi (circa 2300 metri) questo è il punto più alto lungo il South Rim
Elevation 7522 feet (about 2300 meters) this is the highest point along the South Rim
The Watchtower is one of the most interesting sights of the historic centre of the town. Elderly inhabitants of Rožňava even nowadays claim there are only three significant towers in the world: those of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and the Watchtower in Rožňava.
Origins of the tower date back to one of the most tumultuous periods in the history of Rožňava, the mid 17th century (1643). The town`s Renaissance watchtower was built on the site of an earlier Gothic building in the period of the Turkish threat in 1643 – 1654 (Georgius Gerscheuer and Daniel Mosszen). In 1766, the original tower burnt out and after the fire its upper Renaissance part was replaced by a Baroque wooden gallery and a shingle helmet-like roof.
Modified several times, the tower fulfilled an important function, which fact is witnessed by the loopholepreserved in its eastern wall and a Turkish cannonball in the southern facade. Close to the cannonball, there is a Renaissance stone board showing the historical form of the town`s coat-of-arms from the period when the tower was constructed.
In 1997, the building was renovated and open to the public as a look-out tower. The Watchtower is 38 m high. After climbing the 144 steps, the visitors may enjoy a beautiful view of Rožňava nestled like a “penny in a hat” of the surrounding hills. Walking around the tower’s gallery in the height of 28 metres, we can time travel for a while to the late 19th century, when there were guards in the room behind the gallery, the public control of which was ensured by a clever device consisting of a tower bell with a long rope connected to a lever located at the Town Hall gate.
The tower has gradually become a symbol of the town. It is popular among local artists and appears on tens of postcards of Rožňava.
Long exposure using light craft filter and edited on iPad with snapseed
45 second exposure f16 100 iso
This gothic style watchtower was built c1800. It is associated with the Napoleonic defences built along the coastline of Ireland in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Vigilance tower. The activity of the Berber pirates of North Africa made life very difficult on the Spanish coast since the 16th century. Surveillance towers were built along the Mediterranean coast to warn of the presence of pirate ships well in advance to notify the coastal population of the proximity of these ships.
Torre de vigilancia. La actividad de los piratas berberiscos del norte de Africa hacía la vida muy difícil en las costas españolas desde el siglo XVI. A lo largo de la costa mediterránea se construyeron torres de vigilancia para avisar de la presencia de barcos piratas con suficiente antelación para avisar a la población costera de la proximidad de estos barcos.
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Recognized as a National Historic Landmark, the Watchtower was constructed in 1932. Architect Mary Colter’s design takes its influences from the architecture of the Ancestral Puebloan people of the Colorado Plateau. This particular tower was patterned after those found at Hovenweep and the Round Tower of Mesa Verde. Colter indicated that it was not a copy of any that she had seen, but rather modeled from several.
The view from the Watchtower provides a unique perspective of the eastern portion of Grand Canyon. From here, looking to the northeast offers a distant glimpse of the Colorado River's transition from the relatively narrow Marble Canyon to the north into the much wider, broader expanse of Grand Canyon.
The watchtower on the old quay at Whitehaven Harbour. The old quay was the port's first pier of late seventeenth century foundation with historic associations including the John Paul Jones raid in 1778 - the last invasion of England. #flickafridaytower