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it's all about the view...literally~ I have been practicing with shooting INTO window light. I love to use window light as often as possible, but tend to shy away from placing my subject directly in front of a window. Here, my daughter was using window light to light up her objects of play and I was using it to light her up! ;)
Sunny window somewhat framed by shadows on a building at Ladew Topiary Gardens in Monkton, Maryland.
The medieval stone church in Lammi was built in the 15th century and was dedicated to Saina Catherine of Alexandria. The whole inside of the church was destroyed in a fire in 1918 and after that was totally renovated in 1920
My cat Mee-chan looking at the sunset while a storm is brewing in the background... Actually, I had no idea what she was looking at during the time I was taking shots with one hand while holding the blinds open with the other to let the sunlight in. And it was a manual lens so I had to move my head and the camera back and forth instead of turning the lens focus. The shot is a wee-bit soft... Sometimes I need more than two hands. Taken only a few hours ago. The saturated colors are from using a Polarizer filter.
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Taken of 901 Dayton Street on the "Millionaire’s Row" in the West End Neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio.
The houses on this section of Dayton street are very impressive. Some have been completely restored while others, like the one next to this one, remain to be renovated. Since the area is on the historic registry, my guess is that there are some pretty restrict regulations as to what can be done to them. Several of the houses have interesting basement windows like this one has. Although the streets immediately around Dayton Street are fairly run down, it does appear that several are being restored. The unfortunate thing in my mind is that this area once had many similar homes which have long since been torn down to split what had become a ghetto of sorts and to make way for the construction of Interstate 75. What I heard in my youth is that 75 was routed where it is specifically to break up what some folks at the time saw as a ghetto which they wanted to contain from spreading. In the process, Cincinnati lost much of it's charm and history.
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While looking at minimalistic wallpapers, I found this wallpaper and an idea sparked in my head. Wouldn't it be cool to have desktop information "reflected" in the mirrors of the wallpaper? I thought so, especially since I hadn't previously seen something like this done.
What's In this Desktop:
[Wallpaper:]
- Link. What you see in the screen shot is a slightly modified version I did to accommodate for the task bar.
[Icons:]
[Taskbar:]
The invisible taskbar can be found here.
[Rainmeter:]
- 10-Foot HUD
- Simple Sentence for the weather temps and conditions.
- Lines for the RAM and CPU measures
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Full-Size screen shot of the desktop.
I have this entire suite bundled in a Rainstaller file for easy installation! (Scaled to 1440x900) AND now since the amount of traffic I got to download this file, I have moved a fixed installer to a file hosting site:
If the Rainstaller doesn't work for you:
Then download the zip archive of the skins at the link below. Just copy the skins into the Rainmeter directory in My Documents and restart Rainmeter.
Have any comments, tips, or tweaks you think it could use? Let me know!
This Rose Window, also the East Window, is the symbol of All Saints' Cathedral. Upon entering the church, it immediately strikes the visitor. This window also heads the Cathedral's stationery.
I sometimes think of it as the star of Bethlehem.
It is hard to photograph it with a simple camera, and this is the best among my many attempts.
St Editha, Tamworth, Staffordshire.
Rogers Memorial Window, 1939 - detail.
By Florence Camm (1874-1960).
This window was created to the Glory of God and in loving memory of the Rev EH Rogers, Prebendary of Lichfield Cathedral, and Vicar of this Parish Church of Tamworth from 1922 to 1938.
Florence Camm spent all her life in Smethwick, running the successful Camm stained glass company with her two brothers at a time when women artists and designers were struggling to be taken seriously. Florence was a stained glass designer, painter and decorative metalworker. She exhibited 43 times at the Royal Academy in London and also showed at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and the Royal Scottish Academy.
Florence was the daughter of Thomas William Camm who was born in 1839 in Spon Lane, West Bromwich. He set up the TW Camm stained glass business in Smethwick and Florence and her two brothers, Walter and Robert, continued after he died in 1912. Florence was taught stained glass design by the arts and crafts designer Henry Payne (1868-1940).
Robert died in 1954, Florence in 1960 and Walter in 1967. The firm closed at about the same time. The studio in the High Street in Smethwick was demolished in the 1980s and a shop now stands on the site.
my first Windows 8 Pimp ;-)
Wallpaper: Pencil on GoodFon
Rainmeter: Rainmeter 2.3 Beta (r1203)
Rainmeter MPlayer/GMail/Weather/Clock/Date: Nookie
Rainmeter Upper Taskbar: Switchin
Windows Taskbar Icons: Eclipse 2
Windows Startmenue Icons: Token
Windows Charmbar Icons: Eclipse 2 (Standard Windows Logo)
Start Orb: Start8
Startmenue Background: Start Screen Customizer
Charmbar: Charm Bar Customizer
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When this church suffered bomb damage in 1941, all but one of the stained glass windows were destroyed, this window survived.
Named the Nunc Dimittis window (one of the canticles said or sung at Evening Prayer according to the Book of Common Prayer),
it shows the story of Simeon holding Jesus in the temple after being told that he would not die until he had seen the Lord's messiah. On the right an elderly prophet, Anna who had also been waiting night and day in the temple to see Jesus. On the left are Mary and Joseph who had come to the temple with an offering of two doves to present the baby to God according to Jewish custom.
The window was installed in 1921 in memory of Mr and Mrs J Cross. There were originally two adjacent windows depicting the Magnificat and the Te Deum which did not survive the bomb blast.
The Verney memorial window in the north aisle at Lighthorne is distinguished by a fine representation of St Elizabeth of Hungary in it's left hand light, shown holding flowers and surrounded by birds, beautifully detailed and a late work by Florence Camm, 1946.
East window of the chancel portraying Christ at Emmaus, the work of Christopher Charles Powell of Highgate, London 1938. In the process of looking for a signature from a stepladder I was able to see the architectural panels at the bottom, normally hidden from view by the reredos.
A grand 14th century building with proud west tower and aisled nave.The earliest part is the south door which is a good late Norman piece. It leads to a fairly dark interior, very much scraped. The chancel is more restored, having been largely rebuilt in 1858.
The best features here are the monuments, with good early effigies of Thomas & Alice de Wolvey c1300 at the west end of the north aisle (annoyingly a funeral bier has been stashed next to it which blocks closer inspection). At the opposite end of the north aisle is another tomb with effigies, but badly mutilated ones of early 17th century date (Thomas Ashley and wife, 1603), alas in a tight and heavily cluttered corner and very difficult to see. The damage to these figures occured when the north aisle roof fell in in the 17th century; it seems wood was an expensive commodity back then since the broken old beams were re-used, which necessitated moving the entire north wall inwards by about 2ft!
The church is generally kept locked and alarmed, and this being my third visit without access I tried a couple of numbers with limited success, then the vicar just happened to stroll into the churchyard and kindly agreed to let me inside. It was certainly worth persevering and I'm happy to have got in at last!