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This is what was beyond the Keep Out sign, boards, and half-door in Menlo. Mr. Gilley invited us to explore, and so we did.
Part 2: Tight shot on windows with dimmed interior as suggested by Limegreeney in a comment to "Inner Light" : -) Thanks!
The inner world is pared back here - it's almost straight photography (this is a metaphor folks...:-) - but look closely and you can find window screens and internal reflections blurring some views, not to mention the window pane themselves. Alas, parts of "me" are still imposed upon the "Things themselves". But is that not so for every photograph if only by the fact of selecting what goes in or out of each frame?
The central frame comes closest to removing "me" from the image (for the sake of this metaphor, anyway) - I'll call it "Garden in the Rain". Perhaps I should post it on Flickr to complete the cycle of creation?
Shades of "Being John Malkovitch"... : -)
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New York City apartment porch covered in snow during the winter snow blizzard of 2011, photo taken overnight in midtown Manhattan.
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New York City
01-27-2011
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The Magpie Mine, just South of Sheldon, was one of the most famous lead mines in the Peak District and is the only one with a significant part of its building still standing, having been taken into the care of the Peak District Mines Historical Society in 1962. The mine buildings can be seen from the Bakewell - Chelmorton road.
The mine is at the junction of the Magpie vein, the Bole vein and the Butts vein, and was only one of several mines exploiting these veins - the Red Soil Mine and the Maypitts mine lay within only a few hundred metres of the Magpie. The mine is first recorded in 1795, though the workings are probably much older. It finally ceased operations in 1958, though the working in the 1950s mined little actual lead. The heyday of the mine was in the mid 19th Century.
The proximity of other mines often led to disputes, and the Magpie Mine and the Red Soil mine disputed the working of the Bole Vein on which they both lay. In 1833 this led to the deaths of 3 miners from the Red Soil Mine who were suffocated underground when the Magpie miners lit a fire to try to drive out the men from the opposing mine. Three miners were tried for murder, but acquitted. However, it was said afterwards that the Magpie was cursed and it never really prospered thereafter.
Lead-mining was a speculative business with big profits to be made sometimes and huge losses at others, so the mine changed hands frequently. Though the mine was very profitable in the early 1840s, it closed from 1846 to 1868, and when it was re-opened a large Cornish pumping engine was installed in the engine house which is now the major building on the site. However, water was a problem in this mine as in many others and when the price of lead fell the cost of pumping made the mine unprofitable and led the owners to consider driving a 'sough' or drainage tunnel from the River Wye into the mine workings.
The sough was built between 1873 and 1881 - an epic undertaking since the rock proved to be mostly 'toadstone', a variety of basalt, and very hard. It was the last major sough to be constructed in this area and is now one of the best preserved. The cost was 18000, a very large sum for those days, and far more than the shareholders had budgeted for.
The sough enabled the mineshaft to be deepened to 728 feet, but despite this the mine never became profitable again and closed in 1883. It was worked again at intervals until 1923 and reopened in a limited way in the 1950s but only ever employed a few men and rarely made money.
The buildings still visible are enough to be able to construct a picture of what an 19th century leadmine must have looked like - except for the corrugated iron section which is a relic of the 1950s! Around the buildings there would also have been areas for crushing the ore and washing and dressing it prior to smelting.
The Men's sanatorium at Beelitz-Heilstatten.
This vast hospital complex near Berlin dates back to 1898, and was a German military hospital during World War I. In 1916 Adolf Hitler was infamously treated here, after being wounded in the leg during the Battle of the Somme.
In 1945 the complex was occupied by Soviet forces, and remained a Soviet military hospital until 1995, well after German reunification.
Most of the vast sprawling complex now lies empty and decaying…
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Old Tran Damperi or Cod Liver Oil factory-now not working-only preserved for museistic purposes. Rorbu-traditional seasonal fishing hut-old harbor of A i Lofoten-Sorvagen-Moskenesoya-Nordland-Norway.
I know that's not a "street" shot, but at the rate I'm going, if I want to achieve 100 cats in less than 10 years, I need to broaden my horizon.
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The fog was so heavy that you could barely make out the trailer and the trees through the window. The window itself was full of character at the White Elephant Antique store in Mentone, AL on Lookout Mountain. The fall colors are slightly visible in yellows ang greens before they fade to grayscale in the fog.
This tomb is the only remnant of a Shafi'i madrasa (Madrasa of Muhammad Abu'l Fadl #186, since destroyed) built by an amir of Sultan Qalawun
Patron: Husam al-Din Turanray ibn Abdallah d.1290, Amir and viceroy of Egypt under Sultan Qalawun (al-Malik al-Mansour Sayf al-Din Qala'un (duck) al-Alfi as-Salihili al-Najmi al-Ala'i) c.1222-1290, a Tater or Mongol from the Kipchak region of the lower Volta, Bahri Mamluk sultan of Egypt & Syria (r.1279–1290).
Islamic Monument #590
Ibrahim Rauza-Bijapur. The underground archs where the smallest window is for the king to watch his guards.
New York City apartment porch covered in snow during the winter snow blizzard of 2011, photo taken overnight in midtown Manhattan.
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New York City
01-27-2011
A railing and reflection of railing in window creates an interesting intersection of shapes, forms and colors.
Found this interesting building while exploring Rookwood Cemetery. At first I thought it was a Rotunda where one could sit and reflect on ones loved one. But the doorway facing straight down the path leads to two toilets. One full of bricks and the other with remains of a loo. The main structure had pavers of some sort, but they might be in someone's landscaping. There are a few remaining! Then there is the remains of a sink and tap against the one wall. Mystery to me, could have been a caretakers shed to store tools in maybe.
I took a photo on my iPhone so as the get a geo tag. But for some reason the location is marked smack bang in the middle of Parramatta Rd between Page Ave and Earle Ave. Satellite image shows residential housing. Maybe I should have used my Navman!
Not hard to find, just drive in main gate past the Italian Monument company and follow the road till you see structure on right.
(20"X16", Oil on Canvas)
I loved this view of life in Italy. Taking over an abandoned garage, this guy was moving modern windows and doors that contrast greatly with the items from the past that surround his shop. The Vespa going by was also very nice to see.
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