Feb09
26 creative works found
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Shady Lady
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I took a drive up to Old Redidng in Harrow Weald today to see if there was anything worth shooting, considering the recent heavy snowfall we’d had. Unfortunately, the morning sun had melted most of the snow from the treetops and much of what was left was slushy or walked in. / On returning to the car, I saw this lady out with her man to take a few photos themselves. I couldn’t help but notice her fabulous boots. black lace dress, fur coat, red/orange hair and wonderful make-up. All done up to take photos in the snow. / I asked if she minded if I shot the boots and I took a couple of her too. / /
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Snow Boots
by A90SixI met a girl while out taking photos and she was wearing these fabulous boots. These were sure to keep her toes warm. / /
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Does anyone have any spare change? I need a chocolate, ice-cream & caffeine fix. A coffee choc-ice would hit the spot! Taken at Whipsnade Zoo near Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England. While much of the wildlife are kept in large enclosures, the peacocks, mara and wallabies roam free.
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/ In the UK we have had the heaviest snows across the country for twenty years. It has created some problems with roads becoming impassable, road accidents and people getting stranded. It has also created a lot of fun with schools being closed, people unable to get to work for a couple of days, kids making snowmen and many generally enjoying the scenery. / Today the sun shone brightly, the temperature rose a little and we had a little rain, all of which caused the snows to melt a little revealing the colours beneath. These trees in a field near Muston in the Piddle Valley, Dorset caught my eye with the grass and bushes showing out beneath.
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For affordable canvas prints please click here http://www.redbubble.com/products/configure/8835296 / This view from The London Eye shows the South side of Charing Cross Station. The trains cross the Thames over Hungerford Bridge and go underneath Embbankment Place, a post-modern office and shopping complex designed by Terry Farrell and Partners, built in 1990. / The station was built on the site of the Hungerford Market and opened on Monday, 11 January, 1864. / An ornate, French Renaissance style, frontage was added in 1865 as part of the Charing Cross Hotel that spans the entrance. / The original, single-span, roof collapsed on Tuesday, 5th December, 1905. The name “Charing Cross” refers to the road junction of the Strand, Whitehall and Cockspur Street, just south of Trafalgar Square in Westminster within Central London, England. It is often used a central datum point for distances in the London area and is named after the site of the long demolished Eleanor Cross (now occupied by a statue of King Charles I mounted on a horse) located at the former hamlet of Charing. / King Edward I had twelve crosses erected between 1291-4, marking the route of the funeral procession from Lincoln to London,as a memorial to his wife, Eleanor of Castile.
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/ This view from The London Eye shows the roof of Waterloo Station. The London and South Western Railway (L&SWR) opened the station on Tuesday, 11 July, 1848. / As the station grew it became increasingly ramshackle: a little-used railway line crossed the main concourse on the level and passed through an archway in the station building to connect to the South Eastern Railway’s smaller station, now Waterloo East, whose tracks lie perpendicular to those of Waterloo. Passengers were confused by the layout and by the two adjacent stations called ‘Waterloo’. Extensive reconstruction between 1900 and 1922 gave 21 platforms and a concourse nearly 800 feet (250 m) long. The main pedestrian entrance, the Victory Arch, is a memorial to company staff who were killed during the two world wars. Damage in World War II required considerable repair but entailed no significant changes to the layout. London Waterloo is the busiest railway terminus in London.
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... you decide, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t “Walking”! / A rack of boots outside a shop at Camden Market. The boots are made by NewRock and are only available through selected outlets around the world.
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A shot of a couple, Alexandra and Daniel, who were dining at Gauchos Restaurant, 2 More London Riverside, on Valentine’s night. The view from the window shows Tower Bridge and City Hall.
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/ A look down a “no access” stairwell inside the Tower Bridge, London.
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For affordable canvas prints please click here / City Hall is the headquarters of the Greater London Authority which comprises the Mayor of London and London Assembly. It is located in Southwark, stands on the south bank of the River Thames near Tower Bridge. Designed by Norman Foster, it opened in July 2002. The building has an unusual bulbous shape, intended to reduce its surface area and thus improve energy efficiency. It has been compared variously to Darth Vader’s helmet, a misshapen egg, a human scrotum, a woodlouse or a motorcycle helmet. Former mayor Ken Livingstone referred to it as a “glass testicle”. The new mayor, Boris Johnson, has referred to it more politely as ‘The Onion’. Its designers reportedly saw the building as a giant sphere hanging over the Thames, but opted for a more conventionally rooted building instead. It has no front or back on conventional terms but derives its shape from a modified sphere. City Hall forms part of a larger development called More London, including offices and shops. Next to City Hall is a sunken amphitheatre called The Scoop, which is used in the summer months for open-air performances. The Scoop and surrounding landscape were designed by Townshend Landscape Architects. A 500-metre (1,640 ft) helical walkway ascends the full height of the building. At the top of the ten-story building is an exhibition and meeting space called “London’s Living Room”, with an open viewing deck which is occasionally open to the public. The walkway provides views of the interior of the building, and is intended to symbolise transparency.
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/ The view through the distorted, leaded-glass windows of the southern tower of Tower Bridge looking south towards Southwark and Bermondsey.
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/ Another Staircase in the Tower Bridge. It was difficult to get a good shot in the restricted areas without a tripod or flash, but I had to have a go at this as the lines just drew me in.
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/ London’s Tower Bridge opened the bridge using steam from its opening till the 1970s. Coal was burned in two huge boilers and the steam created drove this huge engine. The engine would cause giant pistons to rise up. The pistons would then be released and hydrolics would open the counter-weighted roadway to allow taller craft up the River Thames.
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/ This image was nominated for the prestigous Pay it Forward group. / The redbubble member who nominated it was Andreisky and this is why he nominated me & this image - ”because he’s doing some sort of magic which I can’t. And he also writes so many interesting things…” According to tradition the abbey was first founded in 616 on the present site, then known as Thorn Ey (Thorn Island); based on a late ‘tradition’ that a fisherman called ‘Aldrich’ on the River Thames saw a vision of Saint Peter near the site. This seems to be quoted to justify the presents of salmon from the Thames fishermen that the Abbey received in later years. The proven origins are that in the 960s or early 970s, Saint Dunstan, assisted by King Edgar, planted a community of Benedictine monks here. A stone Abbey was built around 1045–1050 by King Edward the Confessor as part of his palace there: it was consecrated on December 28, 1065, only a week before the Confessor’s death and subsequent funeral and burial. It was the site of the last coronation prior to the Norman Invasion, that of his successor King Harold. It was later rebuilt by Henry III from 1245, who had selected the site for his burial. The Abbey became the coronation site of Norman kings, but none were buried there until Henry III, intensely devoted to the cult of the Confessor, rebuilt the Abbey in Anglo-French Gothic style as a shrine to honour St Edward the Confessor and as a suitably regal setting for Henry’s own tomb, under the highest Gothic nave in England. The Confessor’s shrine subsequently played a great part in his canonisation. The work continued between 1245-1517 and was largely finished by the architect Henry Yevele in the reign of King Richard II. Henry VII added a Perpendicular style chapel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1503 (known as the Henry VII Chapel). Much of the stone came from Caen, in France (Caen stone), the Isle of Portland (Portland stone) and the Loire Valley region of France (tuffeau limestone). In 1535, the Abbey’s annual income of £2400-2800 during the assessment attendant on the Dissolution of the Monasteries rendered it second in wealth only to Glastonbury Abbey. Henry VIII had assumed direct royal control in 1539 and granted the Abbey cathedral status by charter in 1540, simultaneously issuing letters patent establishing the Diocese of Westminster. By granting the Abbey cathedral status Henry VIII gained an excuse to spare it from the destruction or dissolution which he inflicted on most English abbeys during this period. Westminster was a cathedral only until 1550. The expression “robbing Peter to pay Paul” may arise from this period when money meant for the Abbey, which was dedicated to St Peter, was diverted to the treasury of St Paul’s Cathedral. The Abbey was restored to the Benedictines under the Catholic Queen Mary, but they were again ejected under Queen Elizabeth I in 1559. In 1579, Elizabeth re-established Westminster as a “Royal Peculiar”—a church responsible directly to the sovereign, rather than to a diocesan bishop—and made it the Collegiate Church of St Peter, (that is a church with an attached chapter of canons, headed by a dean). The last Abbot was made the first Dean. It suffered damage during the turbulent 1640s, when it was attacked by Puritan iconoclasts, but was again protected by its close ties to the state during the Commonwealth period. Oliver Cromwell was given an elaborate funeral there in 1658, only to be disinterred in January 1661 and posthumously hanged from a nearby gibbet. The abbey’s two western towers were built between 1722 and 1745 by Nicholas Hawksmoor, constructed from Portland stone to an early example of a Gothic Revival design. Further rebuilding and restoration occurred in the 19th century under Sir George Gilbert Scott. A narthex for the west front was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in the 20th century but was not executed. Until the 19th century, Westminster was the third seat of learning in England, after Oxford and Cambridge. It was here that the first third of the King James Bible Old Testament and the last half of the New Testament were translated. The New English Bible was also put together here in the 20th century. Westminster suffered minor damage during the Blitz on November 15, 1940.
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/ The building has shops along the pedestrian walkway and offices above. The face of the building has a serrated look, allowing more surface area and more windows. If you can imagine the building side looks toothed. Covering this toothed side is a laddered style front, which runs straight from one end of the building to the other, starting about ten feet above the ground and continuing up and over the top of the building. / This shot is taken just inside the laddered front looking up at the windows and laddered roof. / Sorry, hard to describe.
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/ This bronze Nikon Nikkormat camera sits at the side of a fountain in a square just off Shad Thames in Butler’s Wharf near Tower Bridge. How’s that for an address! / I don’t know whether this is made entirely of bronze or just been dipped in bronze. It does seem rather detailed. / There is sits, at the side of the fountain along with some bronze books and bronze ballet-shoes, gathering verdigris.
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/ After seeing the Tower Bridge Exhibition, where they let you in at one end, take you up in a lift (elevator) to cross over the top walkways and then down at the other end using a narrow spiral staircase, I set my camera on the bottom of the handrail and took a shot back up.
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/ “Fallen Fossil” is a work by Stephen Marsden – 1985 – in Tout Quarry, Portland, England. The idea for the carving and sculpture came from a small plant he found nearby and the Jurrasic fossils that are found throughout this area of the coast. Many petrified trees and plants can be found on Portland. / Stephen’s idea was to create something that appeared to neither remove nor add anything to the site and yet do both. He carved the “plant”, some two metres high, in the flat face of the rock. The plant on the floor, as though fallen from the wall and broken, was created by splitting a block into three and carving the pieces in situ. / Portland stone is a limestone from the Tithonian stage of the Jurassic period quarried on the Isle of Portland, Dorset. The quarries consist of beds of white-grey limestone separated by chert beds. It has been used extensively as a building stone throughout the British Isles, notably in major public buildings in London such as St Paul’s Cathedral and Buckingham Palace. It is also exported to many countries – Portland stone is used in the United Nations headquarters building in New York City, for example. / Portland stone has the quality of being strong enough to resist the weather yet soft enough to be carved and sculpted with relative ease for masons. Entire blocks were hollowed out by the romans to use as sarcofigi, examples of which still remain today complete with carved ornate stone lids. / The Portland Sculpture & Quarry Trust works to preserve the knowledge and skills of stone working on Portland through an ongoing programme in Tout Quarry, Independent Quarry and the Drill Hall. The project brings together the arts, cultural heritage, earth sciences and education in the quarry environment. Today this work forms a central part of the ‘Quarry Park’ initiative for Portland under the designation of World Heritage Status for the East Devon and Dorset Coast, the only natural World Heritage site in England. / The Trust was founded in 1983 with the sculpture project in Tout Quarry. At this time the quarry was disused, and in a state of neglect with scrap iron, motor vehicles and discarded domestic appliances. Many pathways were blocked subsequent to a boulder contract that had taken place the year before. The Trust formed working parties with visiting artists and local people, and hired heavy plant to clear the site and pathways for public access.
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/ A trooper of the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment guards a doorway of Horse Guards (a building – formerly the headquarters of the British Army) in Whitelhall, London.
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/ A look along the side of The Gherkin, 30 St Mary Axe, London, to see the buildings that stand behind. / this was a very early morning shot, just after sunrise. The almost triangular slotches of light on the buildings are from the sun reflected off the triangular windows of The Gherkin.
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