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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
I have a fascination with day-to-day items, simple or elaborate, big or small, they comprise our commonplace world and often share a good chunk of our lives with us. So, I figure, why not shoot them! They are immediate models and captured from a neat angle, in the right light, or just with a loving eye, they can be surprisingly beautiful.
This particular shot is of a latch on our living room window, taken against a pale blue sky that is still far more wintery than spring-like in its intensity.
Sans tripod, I was trying to balance the camera firmly against the open windowframe of the car door. Saying goodbye to the little harbour, watching the last sunset of the holiday, thinking about shutter speed... I almost didn't notice the dark fluidity of a sea otter playing in the water a few yards offshore.
Camera quickly abandoned, I tiptoed down to the sea edge to watch it tumbling effortlessly through the water with a piece of seaweed for entertainment. So I look at this picture and wish I'd tried an 8 second exposure to see if it came out any better, but there was an OTTER godammit!
Spanish colonial style house with inner patio-oriel windows on brackts-walls painted cream green blue-corner of General Luna and Urdaneta streets. Intramuros-Walled Inner City area-Manila-Philippines.
Kayaks on wooden scaffolding racks-typical red rorbuer now for tourist use-Reine village. Helvetestinden-Stamprevtinden-Moltbaertinden-Breiflogtinden-Olstinden mounts in back. Lofoten-Nordland-Norway.
I'd forgotten about these three shots from early 2011, which arguably make up one of my top-3 photographic experiences. This is strange to say because its such a simple, silly, random, and ordinary happening... but I still smile about it.
I was on a roadtrip with 2 gals that were strangers the night before, ridesharing from Brisbane to Melbourne. This was a quick stop for petrol and food in Newcastle and a short wander about. We'd just ordered a bunch of sushi takeaway and my arms were full holding it and other groceries as we walked back to the car. We passed this little shop and this fella was pulling out his Holga to take a window shot which I realized after we'd just cleared storefront. I sudden stopped, pleaded to Saskia to take everything from my arms, which she did I guess because I said it so emphatically (might have yelled "pleeeease hurry!"). I reached into my deep pocket and pulled out my little Rioch GRDIII and bound back into the window just as he was framing. He saw me and looked up and smiled and started laughing. So did I. We exchange a few "thumbs-up" and points-to-the-flowers and pointing to one another and we snapped the last frame in unison. Huge grins again. I pocketed my camera, waved at him, no words, while the two girls laughed. Saskia asked "did you get it" and I said "heck yes - that was awesome."
And that was that. No idea who the guy was but I hope someday he maybe finds this photo triptych here online. :) It still makes me happy.
Cheers!
Newcastle, NSW 2011
Ricoh GR Digital III
Canonteign Barton - Listed Grade I
On the market, April/May 2014 [Knight Frank, Exeter] (09/02/2019)
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'Canonteign was a Domesday manor and the impressive Canonteign Barton or Old Canonteign was the Tudor manor house. In the Civil War it was garrisoned for the king, and taken by Fairfax in 1645. It was relegated to a farmhouse after Sir Edward Pellew (an illustrious naval commander who became the 1st Baron Exmouth) bought the manors of Christow and Canonteign in 1812 and built himself a new house in the park. Lead, silver, zinc and copper were mined in the parish in the mid 19th century, at Canonteign (where large waste tips remain near the road), at Reed in the north, and in the south at Hyner where barytes and other minerals were also produced. Water from nearby waterfalls was used in washing the ore. Micaceous haematite, a form of iron ore, was worked at Shuttamoor, in the south-west, for some years around 1900. There was also a large quarry at Scatter Rock on Christow Common where basalt was extracted up to 1950. The stone was conveyed to the former Christow Station on the Teign Valley Railway, an extension from Ashton to Exeter in 1903 which closed in 1958. Further reading: Clark, Stafford, A history of the parish of Christow, Devon, 1989'
Book: A Handbook of Devon Parishes, p.43 [Christow], by Helen Harris
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' Christow stands on the W. hillside of the Teign Valley. To the W. it rises well over 800 ft. to moorland where the two reservoirs of Tottiford and Kennick, supplying Torquay with water, lie. These cover nearly 74 acres; and here the scenery of the parish, which is everywhere of great beauty, reaches its loveliest.
Canonteign was the original Domesday manor. It was given to the canons of St Mary du Val in Normandy c.1125 and so acquired its prefix. Canonteign Barton or Old Canonteign was the Tudor manor house. It is a fine example of its period, built of local stone with massive granite quoins, windowframes, mullions, and doorways, and tall granite chimney-stacks. When Sir Edward Pellew bought the two manors of Christow and Canonteign in 1812, he built a new Canonteign House, in a beautiful timbered park SW. of the old house, and the old house was occupied as a farm. Some of its internal features remain, e.g. a fine early 17th-cent. staircase. The house was garrisoned for the King, and was taken by Fairfax in December 1645 (plate 33).
Sir Edward Pellew (1757-1833), first Viscount Exmouth, was a brilliant naval commander. Among his many exploits was the bombardment of Algiers in 1816, upon the refusal of the Dey to abolish Christian slavery, an action which brought him honours from all over Christendom and a viscountcy at home. He is buried at Christow, where a monument to him may be seen.
Christow church (prob. St. Christina) is a 15th-cent. granite building, except the chancel, which was rebuilt in 1862. The W. tower is one of the finest granite towers in Devon. It bears the date 1630, when it was either rebuilt in its old form or substantially repaired. There are some carved 16th-cent. bench-ends, a 15th-cent. chancel screen too garishly coloured, and some 18th—19th-cent. Pellew monuments. The font is Norman.
There were formerly silver, lead, copper, and manganese mines in the parish. An abandoned lead mine may be seen near Old Canonteign. Pale Farm is of some antiquarian interest, and a farm near the church contains late medieval panelling.' - Devon, by W.G. Hoskins [Amazon]
Further reading: Canonteign - [Wikipedia]
Red wooden cottages or rorbuer-once traditional seasonal fishing huts-now for tourist use-Reine village. Rostadtinden-Olstinden-Festhaeltinden mounts background. Moskenesoya-Lofoten-Nordland-Norway.
Walking through the medieval section of Barcelona is one of life's great pleasures. Wandering along you spy small archaeological details such as a carved head, antique windowframe or a medieval cross. Above you balconies of intricate metalwork echo each other along the walls and late in the evenings little old ladies call to each other from these delicate eyries, their laughter ringing in the streets below.
We wandered around the enchanting Victorian house where the Gropp's Gallery is, checking out various artworks and marvelling over old wallpaper and windowframes. We also found a kitty and two puppies.
Hotel Window Photo-shoot
The historic art deco Clay Hotel (room 112) on Washington Avenue in South Beach Miami.
The Clay Hotel
1438 Washington Ave.
Miami Beach, Florida 33139
USA
305-534-2988
November 30th 2010
Long red cottage or rorbu-once traditional seasonal fishing huts-now for tourist use in Reine village. Olstiden-Klokktinden-Lilandstinden-Festhaeltinden mounts in background. Lofoten-Nordland-Norway.
Red rorbuer-once seasonal fishing huts-now for tourist use-closed out of season-main harbor A i Lofoten town-Tinddalstinden-Stottlikollen-Tindstdinden mts.in back. Sorvagen-Moskenesoya-Nordland-Norway
Set to the tune of Stafrænn Hákon - Solution. You can find it on the right hand side of this page: eptin.blogspot.com/
The best music is the music whose name you can't pronounce.
Couldn't decide between the current name and 'Converge Upon'. What do you think?
Window art of some snowy mountains, with frosty windows, and a spider going after a fly. Digital photographic collage.
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Michael Murray
Digital Fine art and commissions.
Healthcare, residential, corporate, and hospitality art.
So. I'm in my house, and I can smell wood burning. For like an hour. During this time, I'm wandering around, looking in heat vents, wondering if the kids have dropped something down there... checked the furnace... all the levels of the house. Nothing. Then I go up to my bedroom and it's stronger. Look around, don't see anything. Back downstairs. But then it's stronger so I go back up, and as I'm walking into the room I can see the windowframe beside my desk *smoking* and um, it's not really supposed to be doing that. So I have a double-sided makeup mirror that my brother and his girlfriend bought me for Christmas, which was on the desk. And was apparently focused right at the right angle to reflect the sun into the wooden (unpainted) molding around the window, hence causing it to catch FIRE. Fire, people! It burned right through the molding and burned and melted part of the plastic window casing, and the insulation underneath. I am so very lucky I was home. Seriously.
Also? We were just last night watching some episodes of Modern Family on DVD (which is really hilarious if you haven't seen it) and one of them, the parents discover a burn mark on the sofa, which they accuse the kids of smoking and causing but turns out to be from a mirrored Christmas ornament shining on the furniture. And they notice it when they walk into the room and the sofa is smoking. When this happened LAST NIGHT on a SITCOM my husband laughed and says "that's exactly the kind of stuff that happens to you all the time!" And it so is. And LOOK!!! Jeebus.
Hotel Window Photo-shoot
The historic art deco Clay Hotel (room 112) on Washington Avenue in South Beach Miami.
The Clay Hotel
1438 Washington Ave.
Miami Beach, Florida 33139
USA
305-534-2988
November 30th 2010
The ‘Fort de la Chartreuse’, which dominates the Amercœur neighborhood of Luik in Belgium, was built between 1817 and 1823 to defend the city.
The fort is built on a strategic height that dominates the valley of the Meuse, which had been occupied by a Carthusian (Ordre des Chartreux) monastery until the French Revolution. The fort was built by the Dutch, who at the time administered southern Belgium.
The fort was abandoned as a fortification by the military in 1891 and was thereafter used as a barracks. From 1914 to 1918 the Germans used it as a prison, and again from 1940 to 1944.
In 1944-1945 it was used by the Americans as a military hospital. The Belgian army left the site in 1988.
Spanish colonial style house-oriel windows over brackets-walls painted cream green blue colors-corner of Urdaneta and General Luna streets in the Intramuros-Walled Inner City area. Manila-Philippines.
Found this old abandoned house on a farm nearby Calgary... I took some pictures with the owners permission... I'd reckon close to 75 pictures... Plus some skunk avoidance... Plus avoiding birds flying out of the building... There were some fabulous textures here (inside and out)... I could only photograph the interior from the doorway as it was too unsafe to go inside...
Had a really busy morning at work, then a late-ish lunch, and then hurried home to go to a Dr's appointment (my 40+ health check). Came away with a pneumonia vaccination; bonus!
Worked from home after that, and failed to take any decent photos - though I kind of like the light in this one, even with our slightly failed double glazing which has gone all hazy. I do love this view of the tree from our living room.