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326 creative works found
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Man Made Object #2 / Acrylic/watercolour/ink/pastel/gold leaf on canvas 36” x 24” / Part of a series of ‘aerial’ landscapes / This is a low res. image (the only one that I have of this painting) – the original was bought ‘off the easel’ before I had time to photograph it properly.
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Mt Dandenong tourist area’s and a walk around this stunning man made lake,shows great scenery from every angle. / /
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No Man -Made Object Taken Early Spring 2008 Bayard Cutting Arboretum / Oakdale, LI, NY /
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“Ghost in the Machine” was the title of a book authored by Arthur Koestler. Koestler claims that mankind is moving towards self-destruction. Koestler states that the human brain is built upon primitive brain structures, and that these are the “ghost in the machine”. At times these structures can overpower higher logical functions, and are responsible for hate, anger and other such destructive impulses. The Police titled their 1981 album “Ghost in the Machine”. This is where I first heard of this concept. My t-shirt design interpretation of this attempts to graphically represent that man made machines manifest behaviours or events that cannot be explained. These behaviours or events are not programmed, they are the product of the machine taking its own course. These are reflections of our primitive destructive impluses within the machines that we have created…. as the machines are a reflection of us, they are likely to display self destructive behaviour just as we do….. More zomboy shirts here: /
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I like discovering mini landscapes on the hulls of old worn out boats. I have been working on making a series of abstract images from boats at a local boatyard where old boats in dry dock are brought back to life.
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Equipment used: / Nikon D70s / Sigma 18-200mm f3.5-6.3 DC / B&W 62mm Circular Polarization Location: / Near Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands Map: / Road Map , Terrain , Satellite Copyright: / © Brendan Schoon , All rights reserved. Background Information: / A wind turbine is a rotating machine which converts the kinetic energy in wind into mechanical energy. If the mechanical energy is used directly by machinery, such as a pump or grinding stones, the machine is usually called a windmill. If the mechanical energy is then converted to electricity, the machine is called a wind generator, wind turbine, wind power unit (WPU), wind energy converter (WEC),or aerogenerator. This article discusses electric power generation machinery. Windmill discusses machines used for grain-grinding, water pumping, etc. The article on wind power describes turbine placement, economics and public concerns. The wind energy section of that article describes the distribution of wind energy over time, and how that affects wind-turbine design. See environmental concerns with electricity generation for discussion of environmental problems with wind-energy production. Energy / Mooring Post / Banff National Park, Moraine Lake / Train / Welcome to the Sunflower / Foam / The Golden Road /
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an earhart chappel photograph.earhart photographed.chappel on hair,makeup,costume, and props.lilith the model is co. liliths everlasting never ending treasured disgrace, as the first woman, a woman who felt equal to man (adam) ,who was shunned from god for wanting equality, temping eve in snake like form, to her punishment that she is to have forever be known.a simple woman made from clay to want to be equal….but from that like a goddess she lives today in many a form.
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Downtown Calgary, Alberta, Canada soaring skyscrapers reaching high into the beautiful blue sky and floating cloud cover. I used my trusty Canon 30D with a 24-105 L lens, a polarizer filter.
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Found in the back of a small boat
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My First Visit to Leeds Castle / Looking through the blossom. Easter Flowing Beauty at Leeds Castle Kent UK. On this photography trip, I thought “I’ll go out and only take my 50mm prime (no Zoom capability) with me, this meant that for every single shot, to get the framing right I had to move rather than the lense. It was really interesting. Peoeple were watching me much more than normal, I had to duck down, stan tall, kneel in mud and walk back or walk forward, just to get the framing right. It was a good exercise because what you do get with a prime lense is pure light and quality of glass. It’s obvious in the sharp details in the 170 pictures I took on this shoot. I’ll definitely try it again. However, only taking the 50mm prime did hhave it’s limitations as well. I couldn’t get close enough to some subjects to capture the detail that I’d like to have. However, next time I can alway take along my zoom with me. One good things about Leeds Castle, it cost £16.50 to get in, but that enables you to go back as my times as you like within one year. So I’ll definitely be back to capture some more wonderful scenes from here. The place is a choc-box full of delights for any photographer or artist. It’s magical and amazing. / Camera. Nikon D700 50mm at ISO 200 /
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this collection is what i call digital lithos made by taking photos of my acrylic and oil paintings and seperating them in the computer to simplify their colors….. please visit my online fineart gallery for other products of all kinds, thank you, g. anthony gallo / Arteologist23
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this is the view you see of the old train tressel on the barrier island of Gasparilla off to the distance.In 1905 officials from a mining Company, landed on Gasparilla Island and surveying and construction of the railroad began. . The railroad terminus with its 1,000-foot long pier would be built nearby. The Charlotte Harbor and Northern Railroad was completed in 1907. For the next 50 years phosphate would be shipped out of the state-of-the-art port virtually without disruption. Phosphate laden trains were off loaded directly onto ocean going freighters, and the ships took the valuable commodity to ports all over the world. In 1969 Port Boca Grande ranked as the fourth busiest port in Florida. Now the birds gather on this old tressel. / canon 5D markll / canon 20mm / f/18 C.P. filter /
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Another shot from our field trip to Sydney Harbour. If you look hard you can see some stars in the sky.This shows Centrepoint Tower. and was taken with my Canon 40DSLR which was tripod mounted. white balance-Automatic, Focal length 59mm, Fstop- 8, Iso 200,with a 20 second exposure. The auto timer was also used to ensure maximum stillness. Thanks for visiting
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Title from a certain Chris Isaak song… I haven’t been taking a lot of photos whilst enjoying my stay in San Francisco but this little visit to a certain bridge we all know, made the fact that I hadn’t been out not matter to me at all, I absolutely loved this spot and I can’t wait to come back to this great city and explore it a little bit more… Without a doubt this is already one of my favourite photos out of the many thousands I have taken over the past 18 months or so, thanks for looking :D / Settings Canon 40D, 10-22mm IS. FL: 13mm 0.25 of a second @ f14, ISO 100 ND8 Graduated and Polarising Filters Adobe Lightroom 2 & Adobe Photoshop CS4 Click here for my other images of the USA Click here for my other seascapes Features Winner of the 7 Wonders Challenge in the Challenge Cafe Group on the 10th of August 2009 Featured in the All Water in Motion Group on the 17th of July 2009 Featured in the ! #1 Artists of Redbubble! Group on the 16th of July 2009 Featured in the For Love of Canon Group on the 15th of July 2009 Featured in the Canon DSLR Group on the 19th of July 2009 Featured in the San Francisco Group on the 21st of July 2009 Featured in the Northern California Style Group on the 22nd of July 2009
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Nikon D40 with 18-55mm GII lens / 18mm ~ 1/60’s ~ f / 4 ~ ISO=200 / Hand held / Flash / Processed in Nikon Capture NX 2 software / ________ / ________ / ________
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Nikon D40 with 18-55mm GII lens / 18mm ~ 1/500’s ~ f / 11 ~ ISO=200 / Hand held / RAW / Processed in Nikon Capture NX 2 / ________ METALLIC JUNKTION GROUP / TOWERS OF METAL CHALLENGE / TOP TEN FINISH / 09/16/2009 / ________ REFLECTIONS IN BUILDING WINDOWS GROUP / FEATURED / 09/11/2009 / ________ NIKON D40 (X) GROUP / FEATURED / 09/07/2009 / ________ NIKON D40 (X) GROUP / MASTERPIECE CHALLENGE WINNER / 08/26/2009 / ________ $$ GET ART PROMOTED $$ GROUP / BLOGUS ART CHALLENGE / TOP TEN FINISH / 08/23/2009 / ________ 08/24/2009 / ________ / ________ / ________
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The Philippi Covered Bridge was completed in 1852 to a design by West Virginia’s pioneer covered bridge builder, Lemuel Chenoweth. The bridge is an outstanding example of a modified Burr truss with two spans totaling 308 LF. It is historically significant in its own right as one of the finest examples of the timber bridge builder’s art. In the mind of the public, however, it is identified with the first engagement of the Civil War following the shelling of Fort Sumpter. The covered bridge at Philippi needed just a few bolts to hold its wood beams in place. They were made by the local blacksmith. This article tells of the importance of the blacksmith in providing the tools and equipment needed to build this bridge in 1852. COVERED BRIDGE TURNS 150: / but not without some scary days! In 1851/52, a young blacksmith named Amasa Kittle made bolts and nuts for the new covered bridge spanning Tygart’s River. His products were but a token towards the total project. The six graceful 140’ arches, hewn from yellow poplar, required most of the metal fasteners—they were built in segments. The Burr truss beams were notched, mortised, tenoned, and pinned with wood plugs or wedges. Kittle’s wrought iron was probably manufactured at nearby Valley Furnace where iron production of 4.5 tons per day began in 1848. The iron was hauled by wagon to Fairmont and then barged to Wheeling. Kittle may have used finished iron shipped on the return trip. Originally a toll bridge on the Beverly-Fairmont Turnpike, the Philippi Bridge has since carried the traffic of US250, making it the only covered bridge in America on the US primary highway system. The bridge also holds a special place in history. Union and Confederate troops battled here on June 3rd, 1861. This is the site of the first land battle of the Civil War. Note: West Virginia did not become a state until June 20, 1863. Thus, the bridge was built when the area was still part of Virginia. THE BUILDER: Lemuel Chenoweth of Beverly responded to an 1850 advertisement for bids to build a new bridge at Philippi. Already an accomplished bridge builder, he made an exact scale model of his design. He tied the model to his saddle and rode over the mountains to Richmond, hopeful of winning the contract. Although other engineers scoffed at him and his crude wood model, Chenoweth had the last laugh. To demonstrate the strength of his design, he placed the model between two chairs and then stood on it. The model did not so much as bend under his weight, prompting one official to quickly calculate that the actual bridge would support a man some 600’ tall! Chenoweth won the contract, the final cost of the bridge being $12,181.24. That’s $40 per LF if you are counting. Prior to designing the Philippi Bridge, Chenoweth learned his formal math and engineering skills from Col. Claudius Crozet, a French military engineer who first taught at West Point and then was appointed head of Virginia’s public works projects. Crozet designed and supervised the building of the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, which passed through Beverly, and that is how the two men met. The section of the turnpike that ascends Rich Mountain from Beverly is still renowned by engineers for its constant gradient. This turnpike connected other Virginia turnpikes as well as the port at Norfolk to the Ohio River, all in all an important road through the Appalachians. THE SITE: Chenoweth selected the narrowest crossing site possible that also required the least amount of excavation to bedrock. The riverbed is solid and very shallow here. He would have used 5, and as many as 10, slip scrapers to excavate loose dirt and gravel from the abutment and center pier foundation sites. The scrapers piled the dirt around the foundations to make small cofferdams, keeping water at bay. The scrapers also built a causeway from one shore to the center pier, using as much dirt and rock as they could from the riverbed. A horse could pull a slip scraper for about an hour before needing rest. The work was rugged, meaning that shoes needed frequent attention. Chenoweth would have needed two or three horses per scraper while excavating the site and building the cofferdams and roads. THE TIMBER: All of the structural timber is yellow Poplar. In 1851, Chenoweth found a nearby grove of Poplar with trees as large as 60” in diameter. “Tulip” Poplar is light, clear-grained, very strong for its weight, and insect resistant if kept dry. I could find no reference for a water-powered sawmill but Philippi did have a gristmill at the time. (Note: The town had a Tanner in 1861 and he may have operated in 1850. A tannery is also a clue to a nearby sawmill as Tannic acid is made from tree bark.) Given that Philippi was the county seat with a courthouse, retail center and innumerable houses, there probably was a local water-powered mill with a reciprocating saw. The board siding and deck planks were cut from yellow Poplar. Froes were used to split the approximate 20,000 roof shingles—most likely split from Chestnut Oak or American Chestnut. In this era, shingles were of irregular width but would have averaged 6” wide and 18”-24” long. The shingles overlapped so that only the bottom third or fourth of each shingle was exposed. The very large logs were halved and then quartered with a 2-man saw. This made them easier to drag. Also, quarter-sawn lumber is preferred for strength because the grain runs nearly perpendicular to the plane of the board. THE FOUNDATIONS: The crews used pry bars and picks to remove loose rock from the bedrock seam that is the foundation. They would have been as finicky as dentists in this regard because of the tremendous weight of the stone abutments and center pier. Nearby sandstone was quarried and hauled on sleds to the site. There is an old quarry site up the hill from the bridge on the west side of the river. The large, rectangular rocks were lifted in place and then grouted with cement mortar. As successive lifts in the abutments went up, the slip scrapers would start backfilling with dirt. The compacted backfill would have kept up with the top 2-3 courses of stone. It is here that Chenoweth would have been using 10 or more slip scrapers because the roadway approaches had to be built concurrently with the backfill operation. NAILS: Upon completion of the structural truss framing, one workman said, “There’s not a nail in her!” As mentioned, the structure of the bridge has few metal fasteners. There were, obviously, kegs and kegs of nails in the bridge’s “skin”. I could not learn where the nails were made but am sure that they were headed, cut nails rather than hand-forged. Cut nails were being mass-produced by 1820. By the 1840’s, Wheeling had already earned its nickname of “Nail City” so it is quite possible that the nails came from there. HORSE TEAMS: Trying to determine how many horses were used on the project is just about impossible in this day and age. Consider this: The 1850’s workman worked 10 hours per day, six days per week. Most horses were rented from area farmers who, no doubt, needed their horses during plowing and harvest seasons. On rainy days, or days that the river was up, the horses that normally pulled scrapers would have been used to drag logs to the mill or to the site. Or they might have sledded stones from the quarry to staging areas. And they also teamed to pull freight wagons loaded with boards. The economics of the job dictated using as few as horses as possible. We can assume that 20 horses were there most of the time with perhaps 40 at peak schedule. With this many horses, there had to be a full-time blacksmith/farrier who also did harness work. And he probably hired 2-3 boys as helpers. One of these lads probably peddled away at night sharpening axes and tools on the grinding wheel. TOOLS & EQUIPMENT: Before the bridge went up, Philippi had its local smithy. As this was Chenoweth’s 12th bridge job, one may assume that he already had a lot of tools and just needed to gear up for this, his biggest project. Bridge construction and future prospects of increased traffic and commerce on the turnpike probably caused another smithy or wagon shop to start in business. These shops, plus the others in the Valley, no doubt provided tools, hardware, and equipment for the job as well as made necessary repairs. The year 1850 can be considered a watershed year. That year, the Valley Furnace ironworks imported a steam engine, the first in the county, to run the furnace’s air blower and trip hammer. The B&O was the first railroad to cross the mountains, reaching Grafton, some 20 miles downstream of Philippi, in Jan. 1852. The B&O reached Fairmont in July, about the same time that the bridge was completed. Rail service to Philippi, however, came much later in the century. Thus, we can assume that Philippi was still fairly remote in 1850-52 and that the tools used to build the bridge were made locally. And just think of the hand tools needed to build this bridge. Start with the logging crews who needed axes, saws, cant hooks, wedges, chains and hooks. The wood wrights needed axes, adzes, and other hewing tools to fashion the beams. The carpenters needed sledges, hammers, chisels, gouges, and augers to shape and join the beams. The roofers needed froes and hammers. And the masons needed a wide variety of quarry and masonry tools plus the equipment to lift the rocks into place. Perhaps, only the engineering tools like the transit, level, and measuring chain were manufactured in the eastern cities. RESTORATION: After the 1989 fire, historians soon learned that the bridge had been modified many times. The concrete deck, pedestrian walkway, board & batten siding—all were changes from the original bridge. The restoration team spent months just collecting facts, including the original plans and contract at the Virginia archives in Richmond. Certain modernizations, such as a fire suppression system, were included in the project to prevent a future catastrophe. The actual modernization and restoration work took about a year to complete and cost $2 million. THE RESTORATION BLACKSMITH: Eugene Ratliff, an Oak Hill blacksmith, was hired to reproduce and repair the bolts that Amasa Kittle made some 137 years prior. The arch segment bolts were 15/16” diameter with round heads. While the fire damaged some of these bolts, most had their thread ends ruined when the crew removed them by driving them out with a sledge. Unable to locate wrought iron, Eugene used 1” mild steel to reproduce 109 bolts and reworked 38 originals. By upsetting the 1” rod in the ladle mold of his swage block, he perfectly duplicated the round head and tapered shaft of the original bolts. The top chord and top beam bolts were headed in the same manner but reproductions were made from 7/8” mild steel. The top braces were originally fastened with 1/2” square shank bolts with round thread ends. All of these broke during removal and were reproduced. Eugene noted that the round heads had their purpose. As livestock frequently crossed the bridge, the round heads prevent an animal from being cut should it stray into a beam or arch. To make the round head hold, a cast iron donut washer was used. These washers had a tapered hole to sleeve the tapered bolt shaft. The arch bolts used 3/4” thick donuts and the beam bolts used 1/2” thick donuts. All of these original donut washers were saved and reused. Eugene made 2” x 10” mortise chisels for the wood Wright crew. He also made bar strap braces from 1/2” x 3” and 1/2” x 2” mild steel. And he made the “1991” touchmark with which the crew used to identify all of the replacement wood beams. (1991 was the year that the restoration was completed.) AN INTERESTING OBSERVATION: Mr. Chenoweth either goofed and ran short on wrought iron rod or else he needed extra bolts because several of the large bolts had been “stretched” by drawing them out in their centers. Other bolts were pieced by welding. Was this another case of a contractor who skimped on materials? Or just a smart blacksmith knowing where and how to cut corners? It doesn’t matter. The bridge is so strong that the bolts are incidental to its overall strength. 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Detail of a rust door. / straight from my canon a630. Featured in Live, Love, Dream and in Sets of Two. 708 views, 3 nov.2009 Set of two :
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Old rust door / straight from my canon a630. Featured in Backyard macro and close-ups, The world as we see it or we missed it and in Sets of Two. Set of two :
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Do you see the world of reality in terms of abstracts ? / Does your mind connect to the certainty of synthetic objects ? / If your mind roams the conceptual streets of angles, shadows and forms . . .and your’re a rebel, a free thinker, one who dares to say No to cute kittens, happy puppies or beautiful flowers staring you in the mug month after month ! / Then this is a calendar just for you !
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Bronze artwork outside of a building in La Defense, Paris. Finished edit :09/10/09-00:10gmt Nikon D300 / 18-70mm Nikon Lens / Cropped to 1:1 Ratio Many thanks to the European Everyday Life group for the feature (October 2009).
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