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Flew up to Christchurch for a job interview today. On the way back there was a stunning sunset out the window, unfortunately I was on the wrong side of the plane.
The nice view from my cousin's living-room window looking towards the South Pier at Stromness Harbour.
With its classic bull nosed verandah, this medium-sized weatherboard villa sitting amid a pretty cottage garden behind a picket fence may be found in the South Gippsland town of Leongatha.
Neatly painted all in white, this villa is architecturally typical of the houses built in the country by the professional middle classes in the 1860s. It features a wonderful corrugated iron roof and bull nosed verandah with elegant cast iron lacework beautifully picked out in white with blue detailing on the wooden support posts. Like other houses in the area, the villa has been elevated. This feature keeps the house safe from the hard, damp ground during winter, and allows air to circulate beanth the house during hot Australian summers to cool it, making the villa a more pleasant place to be in extreme weather. As logging was a typical industry in the area, it is not unusual to find a house to be made of wooden weatherboards, even if the owners are of a higher social standing than others around them. Like everyone in the district, the owners would have wanted to help their town prosper and develop. What better way of doing it than supporting the local saw mill and carpenters?
Leongatha is a town in the foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia, located 135 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. The town is the civic, commercial, industrial, religious, educational and sporting centre of the region. The Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co. Limited, is a farmers' co-operative which trades in Australia under the Devondale label, and has a dairy processing plant just north of the town producing milk-based products for Australian and overseas markets. First settlement of the area by Europeans occurred in 1845. The Post Office opened as Koorooman on 1 October 1887 and renamed Leongatha in 1891 when a township was established on the arrival of the railway. The Daffodil Festival is held annually in September. Competitions are held and many daffodil varieties are on display. A garden competition is also held and there are many beautiful examples throughout the provincial town. The South Gippsland Railway runs historical diesel locomotives and railcars between the market and dairy towns of Nyora and Leongatha, passing through Korumburra.
I was in two minds about whether this would do for my number 10, but I've gone with it. I like how the two windows and the sign kind of make an H, and the sign has an H on it. Anyway, #10 done.
I love the still life sets that historical homes provide. Except that since Westville is a living history museum, so there is fresh firewood in every building that has a fireplace or wood burning stove.
This is in the Grimes House.
A street performer at the Burnaby Village Museum, which is a 1920s style village. She is acting it up in front of an ice cream parlor/ tea and coffee house. The historical and educational village puts on a festive holiday display this time of year.
Also submitted to Our Daily Challenge group for December 20th topic which is "Into or Out of the Frame". This blue clown is popping into the frame and there are many other types of frames within the photo.
I haven't identified this spider yet. I was thinking that I'd upload it here once I'd managed to identify it, but that's not happening.
At first glance I thought this was a Salticus scenicus, mostly because I'm used to seeing Salticus scenicus spiders (they're very common here), and secondly because it's a similar size and shape.
But the markings are very different. It's not obviously resembling spider photographs or prints in my spider books.
Alan Thornhill (in comments below) has suggested that it might be an Icius sp, which would be a type of spider foreign to the UK. Interesting! Thanks Alan.
I've looked up Icius sp on Google and Flickr, and I can see resemblances.
Photographed in Worcestershire, UK.
These baby cats have a good time in the sun in this typical French windowframe in downtown Cucuron. A very charming village in the Vaucluse, Provence.
Lubny (UA), 9/21
Mein Dank an die örtlichen Jugendlichen für den Vandalismus! Ernstgemeint, hätte ich sonst nie gesehen ...
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"L'enfance est un voyage oublié."
"The childhood is a forgotten journey."
Citation de Jean de La Varende
Shot from recent visits to Severalls, the now un-used and derelict NHS Mental hospital in Colchester, ESSEX.
Nikon D7000
Sigma 10-20mm lens @ 10mm
F8 @ 0.6 second exposure
ISO 100
The Streets of the New Orleans French Quarter are beautiful at with their lines, texture and and design. The galleries and balconies all lit up add a mysterious ambiance to some of the quieter walkways.
House Sparrow / passer domesticus. Private site, Derbyshire. 04/09/15.
One of this years birds still bearing a trace of the yellow gape in the corners of its beak. I just liked the way in which it lowered its body when it noticed me
On site is a very healthy sized flock which is lovely to see after numbers have generally declined nationally. With the trend to renovate and develop old property, suitable nesting sites are harder for them to find.
Not the case here where they breed 'enthusiastically'! This year several of the old Swallow nests were taken over.
These were supposed to be a double exposure collaboration with Jith but hers didn't come out (Smashica issues). So here we have my strange photos a bit underexposed.
The Korumburra Comfort Station for Women was designed and constructed in 1944 by the Public Works Department. Located at 3 Radovick Street Korumburra, the Women’s Comfort Station is on one of Korumburra's main commercial streets.
Aesthetically, the Women’s Comfort Station is very Art Deco in style. Built of smart clinker brick, it is a well resolved interwar public building, which is notable as a locally rare example that features progressive Streamline Moderne influences such as the stepped pylon at the south west corner. The rounded verandah of corrugated iron with wooden supports is a much later edition, introduced when Korumburra became known for its fine Victorian buildings during the 1980s.
The quality of the design and prominent location of the facility illustrates prevailing attitudes to the provision of separate public conveniences for women in the pre-Second World War period.
Korumburra is a medium-sized dairy and farming town in country Victoria, located on the South Gippsland Highway, 120 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. Surrounded by rolling green hills, the town has a population of a little over 4,000 people. Korumburra has built itself on coal mining (after the discovery of a coal seam in 1870), local forestry and dairy farming. Whilst the coal seam has been used up, farming in the area still thrives and a great deal of dairy produce is created from the area. The post office in the area opened on the 1st of September in 1884, and moved to the township on the railway survey line on the 1st of November 1889, the existing office being renamed Glentress. The steam railway connecting it with Melbourne arrived in 1891. Whilst the train line has long since operating commercially, it has found a new life as the popular tourist railway the South Gippsland Railway which operates a heritage railway service between the major country centre of Leongatha and the small market town of Nyora.
This photograph is from the Robert Sanderson collection.
which was kindly donated to Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums. Featuring ‘The old woman who lived in a shoe.’ this is a festive display for children at Callers department store in Newcastle upon Tyne. This is a 35mm slide. It was taken in 1965.
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View in large! Notice outside the Deanery Bookstall in Winchester Cathedrals Inner Close on Election Day.
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Strobist: Single 580exII, camera right, fired via Cybersyncs
During 1916 the British born Australian architect Walter Richmond Butler (1864 – 1949) designed a new Anglican Mission to Seamen to be built on an oddly shaped triangular block of land at 717 Flinders Street on the outskirts of the Melbourne central city grid, to replace smaller premises located in adjoining Siddeley Street, which had been resumed by the Harbour Trust during wharf extensions.
The Missions to Seamen buildings, built on reinforced concrete footings, are in rendered brick with tiled roofs. Walter Butler designed the complex using an eclectic mixture of styles, one of which was the Spanish Mission Revival which had become a prevalent style on the west coast of America, especially in California and New Mexico during the 1890s. The style revived the architectural legacy of Spanish colonialism of the Eighteenth Century and the associated Franciscan missions. The revival of the style is explicit in the Mission’s small, yet charming chapel with its rough-hewn timber trusses, in the bell tower with its pinnacles and turret surmounted by a rustic cross and in the monastic-like courtyard, which today still provides a peaceful retreat from the noisy world just beyond the Missions to Seamen’s doorstep. The chapel also features many gifts donated by members of the Harbour Trust and Ladies’ Harbour Lights Guild, including an appropriately themed pulpit in the shape of a ship's prow and two sanctuary chairs decorated with carved Australian floral motifs. Some of the stained glass windows in the chapel depict stories and scenes associated with the sea intermixed with those Biblical scenes more commonly found in such places of worship.
The adjoining Mission to Seamen’s administration, residential and recreational building shows the influence of English domestic Arts and Crafts architecture, with its projecting gable, pepper pot chimneys and three adjoining oriel windows. The lobby, with its appropriately nautically inspired stained glass windows, features a large mariner's compass inlaid in the terrazzo floor. Built-in timber cupboards, wardrobes, paneling and studded doors throughout the buildings evoke a ship's cabin.
Walter Butler, architect to the Anglican Diocese in Melbourne, had come to Australia with an intimate knowledge and experience of the Arts and Crafts movement and continued to use the style in his residential designs of the 1920s. The main hall has a reinforced concrete vaulted ceiling. Lady Stanley, wife of the Mission's patron, Governor Sir Arthur Lyulph Stanley, laid the foundation stone of the complex in November 1916. The buildings were financed partly by a compensation payment from the Harbour Trust of £8,500.00 and £3,000.00 from local merchants and shipping firms. The Ladies' Harbour Lights Guild raised over £800.00 for the chapel. Most of the complex was completed by late 1917 whilst the Pantheon-like gymnasium with oculus was finished soon afterwards. The substantially intact interiors, including extensive use of wall paneling in Tasmanian hardwood, form an integral part of the overall design.
The Missions to Seamen buildings are architecturally significant as a milestone in the early introduction of the Spanish Mission style to Melbourne. The style was to later find widespread popularity in the suburbs of Melbourne. The choice of Spanish Mission directly refers to the Christian purpose of the complex. The Missions to Seamen buildings are unusual for combining two distinct architectural styles, for they also reflect the imitation of English domestic architecture, the Arts and Crafts movement. Walter Butler was one of the most prominent and progressive architects of the period and the complex is one of his most unusual and distinctive works.
The Missions to Seamen buildings have historical and social significance as tangible evidence of prevailing concerns for the religious, moral, and social welfare of seafarers throughout most of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. The complex has a long association with the Missions to Seamen, an organisation formed to look after the welfare of seafarers, both officers and sailors, men "of all nationalities". It had its origins in Bristol, England when a Seamen's Mission was formed in 1837. The first Australian branch was started in 1856 by the Reverend Kerr Johnston, a Church of England clergyman, and operated from a hulk moored in Hobsons Bay; later the Mission occupied buildings in Williamstown and Port Melbourne. In 1905 the Reverend Alfred Gurney Goldsmith arrived at the behest of the London Seamen's Mission to establish a city mission for sailors working on the river wharves and docks. The building reflects the diverse role played by the Mission with its chapel, hall and stage, billiards room, reading room, dining room, officers' and men’s quarters, chaplain's residence, and gymnasium. It is still in use to this day under the jurisdiction of a small, but passionate group of workers, providing a welcome place of refuge to seamen visiting the Port of Melbourne.
Walter Butler was considered an architect of great talent, and many of his clients were wealthy pastoralists and businessmen. His country-house designs are numerous and include “Blackwood” (1891) near Penshurst, for R. B. Ritchie, “Wangarella” (1894) near Deniliquin, New South Wales, for Thomas Millear, and “Newminster Park” (1901) near Camperdown, for A. S. Chirnside. Equally distinguished large houses were designed for the newly established Melbourne suburbs: “Warrawee” (1906) in Toorak, for A. Rutter Clark; “Thanes” (1907) in Kooyong, for F. Wallach; “Kamillaroi” (1907) for Baron Clive Baillieu, and extensions to “Edzell” (1917) for George Russell, both in St Georges Road, Toorak. These are all fine examples of picturesque gabled houses in the domestic Queen Anne Revival genre. Walter Butler was also involved with domestic designs using a modified classical vocabulary, as in his remodelling of “Billilla” (1905) in Brighton, for W. Weatherley, which incorporates panels of flat-leafed foliage. Walter Butler also regarded himself as a garden architect.
As architect to the diocese of Melbourne from 1895, he designed the extensions to “Bishopscourt” (1902) in East Melbourne. His other church work includes St Albans (1899) in Armadale, the Wangaratta Cathedral (1907), and the colourful porch and tower to Christ Church (c.1910) in Benalla. For the Union Bank of Australia he designed many branch banks and was also associated with several tall city buildings in the heart of Melbourne’s central business district such as Collins House (1910) and the exceptionally fine Queensland Insurance Building (1911). For Dame Nellie Melba Butler designed the Italianate lodge and gatehouse at “Coombe Cottage” (1925) at Coldstream.
Seen through the curio cabinet window in my daughter's living room.
Photo taken for Our Daily Challenge: Through a Single Window
The windowframe has a doorbell button, lower right. The security grille is actually a padlocked gate.
There is not, and never again will be, enough pedestrian traffic in this part of downtown Canton for a walk-up pizza window to be viable, not under any circumstances, not even for an hour.
NEVER AGAIN WILL BE! The gate will never be opened.
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In downtown Canton, Ohio, on July 2nd, 2020, outside the former "Pete's Grill & Pizza" (in business from circa 2008 to 2012) at the northwest corner of Cherry Avenue Northeast (Ohio State Route 43) and 4th Street Northeast.
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I love brown and turquoise.
Sandy, my boss and biggest supporter, took me to my most current favorite location today. There is a little Folk Art Museum in an old house here in town called "The Little Shanty". It was closed when we went by, but I was able to get some shots outside. I can't wait to go back and get more pictures. I am so proud of my little shots. And I am rarely proud.