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Council House
2007-01-17
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Photoblog: 17 Jan 2007
"The Council House has been the seat of local government in Bristol, England since 1956. It is situated on College Green, opposite the Cathedral and at the foot of Park Street in Bristol city centre. Throughout its history it has been home to Bristol city council. It was designed in the 1930s but built after World War II. The architect was Vincent Harris.It is a grade II* listed building. The concrete frame is clad with very wide, thin bricks, with Portland stone dressings and a leaded hipped roof in a Neo-Georgian style. The steep and high roof with gilded unicorns to the corners of the end blocks.The foundation stone for The Council House was laid in 1938 and the building was opened by the Queen in 1956. The ceremonial entrance overlooks the moat and leads into the reception hall which is lined with local Doulting stone and paved with black and white Italian marble. It also features a blue and gold wall clock, encircled by the signs of the zodiac and equipped with its own wind indicator. The Conference Hall is the largest room in the building. The names of all Majors and Lord Mayors of Bristol since 1216 are cut into the stone walls. The walls of the Lord Mayor’s Reception Room are panelled in English Walnut and there is a colourful frieze displaying the heraldry of the Bristol trade guilds, and, in gold leaf, the names of famous Bristolians." - Wikipedia
Keywords: Bristol, College Green, Council House, England, Georgian architecture, UK, architecture, fountains, vapour trails
NIKON D50 18 mm f/8.0 0.005 sec (1/200) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-11-19 16:09:06
Courage
2007-01-16
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Photoblog: 16 Jan 2007
.On the way back from the station. From raw, temperature reduced in photoshop.In 1919 the daily output of George's Brewery's reached 100,000 bottles. In 1961 George's was bought by Courage. Courage left in 1999, and the buildings have been empty since then. No doubt they'll be turned into luxuary flats as soon as the developers have finished with the rest of Bristol. I read somewhere that there were plans to put a footbridge over the harbour here, but there were problems, ecause after the partial demolition of the brewery there would be a great height difference, so they would need a disabled lift at one end. Of course, if such a bridge ever were built, it would have the mandatory set of railings at each end to make cyclists slow down, thus blocking wheelchairs anyway.
Keywords: Bristol, Castle Park, Courage Brewery, England, Floating Harbour, UK, architecture, industrial, night, stars
NIKON D50 24 mm f/3.8 20 ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-12-16 20:48:17
Gargoyle
2007-01-15
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Photoblog: 15 Jan 2007
A gargoyle on St Mary The Virgin church, with All Souls College behind, Oxford. Took several trying to get the right ballance between angle of view and depth of field. I wanted the DOF to be a bit shallower, but couldn't without either zooming in, or leaning a bit too far over the edge...
Keywords: All Souls College, England, From St Marys, Oxford, Oxford University, Oxfordshire, St Mary's, UK, architecture, gargoyles
NIKON D50 36 mm f/4.5 0.006 sec (1/160) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-12-16 13:07:21
Brent Road
2007-01-14
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Photoblog: 14 Jan 2007
Pink sky, North Bristol, Oct 2006.
Keywords: Ashley Down, Brent Road, Bristol, England, North Bristol, UK, clouds, pink sky, red sky, sunset
NIKON D50 65 mm f/5.6 0.02 sec (1/50) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-10-17 18:19:21
rainbow
2007-01-13
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Photoblog: 13 Jan 2007
At Stalbridge Church, Dorset.
Keywords: Blackmore Vale, Dorset, England, Stalbridge, Stalbridge Church, Stalbridge Churchyard, cemeteries, churchyards, rainbows, silhouettes, storms
NIKON D50 26 mm f/11 0.033 sec (1/30) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-12-18 15:54:07
Stourhead
2007-01-12
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Photoblog: 12 Jan 2007
Stourhead is a 2,650 acre (11 km²) estate in south west Wiltshire at the source of the River Stour. The gardens were designed in the mid-18th century by the banker Henry Hoare II, who owned the estate. The lake was achieved by the construction of a dam accross the Stour. Since 1946 the estate has been owned by the National Trust and has been their second most visited property, behind Wakehurst, several years running. Henry Flitcroft designed many of the garden's neoclassical features, such as the bridge.
Keywords: England, NT, River Stour, Stourhead, Stourhead Gardens, UK, Wiltshire, autumn, bridges, lakes, reflections, trees, water
NIKON D50 60 mm f/5.6 0.04 sec (1/25) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-11-04 17:14:03
Clevedon Pier
2007-01-11
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Photoblog: 11 Jan 2007
The other day I suggested, not seriously, a trip to the beach. I wanted to get Clevedon and Weston piers, the lighthouse at Burnham and the Severn bridges. I wasn't serious because I didn't think anyone else would want to go to a muddy Bristol Channel beach in the dark, especially when everyone had plenty of work to be doing. Turns out everyone thought it was a brilliant idea, so we went to Clevedon.
When we left the house there were only a few clouds streaking accross the sky, and moving fast enough that I expected them to show up skimming across the sky in the long exposures. When we got there though the clouds had completely covered the sky.
This is from the raw, temperature decreased in photoshop, sharpened and I put a few fake stars in ;)
Keywords: Atlantic Ocean, Bristol Channel, Clevedon, Clevedon Pier, England, North Somerset, Somerset, UK, architecture, night, sea, stars, water
NIKON D50 95 mm f/8.0 15 ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-11-30 19:54:04
Bristol
2007-01-10
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Photoblog: 10 Jan 2007
Looking west from Troopers Hill, with the River Avon in the foreground.
Keywords: Bristol, East Bristol, England, North Somerset, River Avon, Troopers Hill, UK, rivers, tower blocks
NIKON D50 48 mm f/11 0.017 sec (1/60) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-12-17 13:37:35
Radcliffe Camera
2007-01-09
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Photoblog: 09 Jan 2007
University of Oxford, taken from the tower of St Mary the Virgin church on a December afternoon.
Keywords: England, Oxford, Oxford University, Oxfordshire, Radcliffe Camera, UK, architecture, circular polariser
NIKON D50 18 mm f/11 0.005 sec (1/200) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-12-16 13:03:16
scrap
2007-01-08
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Photoblog: 08 Jan 2007
Keywords: Blaenavon, Blaenavon and Pontypool Railway, Gwent, Monmouthshire, Torfaen, UK, Wales, World Heritage Sites, derelict, industrial, railways, trains
NIKON D50 28.3 mm f/9.0 0.002 sec (1/640) ISO 400 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-09-16 16:08:12
Millennium Square
2007-01-07
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Photoblog: 07 Jan 2007
The At-Bristol planetarium in Millennium Square, Bristol. Formerly an industrial dockside, now a land of bars, museums and casinos.
Keywords: At-Bristol, Bristol, Canons Marsh, England, Millennium Square, UK, night, plentarium, reflections, water
NIKON D50 35 mm f/8.0 0.04 sec (1/25) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-12-02 16:11:44
Lyme Regis Harbour
2007-01-06
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Photoblog: 06 Jan 2007
Black and white version of something I posted a few months back.
Keywords: Dorset, England, English Channel, Jurassic Coast, Lyme Regis, Lyme Regis Harbour, UK, World Heritage Sites, boats, bw, import, monochrome, redfilter, sea, water
NIKON D50 18 mm f/8.0 0.008 sec (1/125) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-08-10 19:00:29
Fire engine + museum
2007-01-05
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Photoblog: 05 Jan 2007
Didn't get a chance to compose this photo, barely had time to set the camera to an optimum shutter speed before the fire engine came past, leaving nice streaks of light. The building is the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, on Queen's Road in Clifton, Bristol. Taken after the December Bristol flickr meet. Click the museum tag for more of the building.
Keywords: Bristol, Bristol City Museum, Clifton, England, Queen's Road, UK, architecture, night
NIKON D50 18 mm f/11.0 6 ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-12-08 00:03:00
Stapleton Church
2007-01-04
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Photoblog: 04 Jan 2007
Galleries: Bristol > North Bristol
The parish church of Stapleton, now a suburb of North Bristol. Midwinter, so I was in the lab 'till after dark and decided not to take the dark cycleway home, and stopped off at the church. The wind was good, so the little clouds were skimming accross the sky.
Keywords: Bristol, England, Stapleton, Stapleton Church, UK, architecture, churches, clouds, import, night
NIKON D50 18 mm f/8 30 sec (30) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-11-29 17:24:29
Mill Creek Valley, Cincinnati
2007-01-03
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Photoblog: 03 Jan 2007
Playing with channel mixer to imitate red filter on black and white again. These are the extensive switching yards in the Mill Creek Valley west of Downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. This is looking north from the art-deco double-decker Westernhills Viaduct, which crosses the valley between the originally named suburbs of Fairview and Fairmount. On the left is the Mill Creek itself, now constrained by concrete banks, with no habitats for small mammals and birds, and optimised for downstream flooding. The Union Terminal Station to the south of the viaduct now gets two passenger trains each weekday. The valley here is lined with wonderful crumbling derelict factories and warehouses, but it's difficult to get good views of them, as they're often obscured by ugly fences and portable offices. The newer industry is a few miles up the valley.
I took this from the metre wide shoulder of the viaduct, while those ridiculously oversized American cars came past far too close. It's not suprising everybody drives everywhere when it's so dangerous to cross this by bike, and impossible to walk across.
Keywords: Cincinnati, Mill Creek, Ohio, USA, bw, industrial, monochrome, railways, redfilter, shunting yard, sidings, switching yard, trains
NIKON D50 18 mm f/10.0 0.003 sec (1/400) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-06-04 12:10:56
Stourhead
2007-01-02
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Photoblog: 02 Jan 2007
Stourhead is a 2,650 acre (11 km²) estate in south west Wiltshire at the source of the River Stour. The gardens were designed in the mid-18th century by the banker Henry Hoare II, who owned the estate. The lake was achieved by the construction of a dam accross the Stour. Since 1946 the estate has been owned by the National Trust and has been their second most visited property, behind Wakehurst, several years running.
Keywords: England, NT, River Stour, Stourhead, Stourhead Gardens, UK, Wiltshire, autumn, lakes, reflections, rivers, trees, water
NIKON D50 24 mm f/8.0 0.013 sec (1/80) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-11-04 16:44:56
Millennium Square
2007-01-01
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Photoblog: 01 Jan 2007
The new(ish) pedestrian space outside the At-Bristol science museum on Bristol's harbourside. Ten years ago this was a car park, and before that it was a goods yard.
Keywords: At-Bristol, Bristol, England, Millennium Square, UK, payitforward
NIKON D50 18 mm f/3.5 0.1 sec (1/10) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-12-02 16:31:20
Pur Down
2006-12-31
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Photoblog: 31 Dec 2006
I love this view, even after passing it hundreds of times. It's taken from the cycleway. Behind the camera is the barbed wire fence of HP's labs and the university, with the MOD, shopping mall and ring-road beyond. To the right is Lockleaze School and Bristol's northern suburbs. To the left is the motorway and Bristol's north eastern suburbs. Just over the hill behind the transmitter is Tescos, Ikea and then Bristol city centre. But if you compose the photo right you can pretend none if it's there.
Keywords: Bristol, England, North Bristol, Pur Down, Pur Down Transmitter, UK, landscape, payitforward, transmitters, v1
NIKON D50 65 mm f/10.0 0.003 sec (1/320) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-11-09 16:51:15
Eling Harbour
2006-12-30
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Photoblog: 30 Dec 2006
Just off Southampton Water / the Test Estuary. Eling appears to have had a little gentrification of the derelict industry to luxuary appartments variety, though in the background the container quay is still prospering.
Original - HDR - Black and white
Keywords: Eling, Eling Harbour, England, English Channel, Hampshire, Southampton Water, UK, bw, import, monochrome, redfilter, reflections, sea, water
NIKON D50 18 mm f/9 0.01 sec (1/100) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-08-26 18:09:37
bubbles
2006-12-29
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Photoblog: 29 Dec 2006
Keywords: Bristol, England, North Bristol, UK, University of the West of England, bubbles
NIKON D50 34 mm f/10 0.003 sec (1/400) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-11-03 11:59:45
River Usk
2006-12-28
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Photoblog: 28 Dec 2006
Keywords: Brecknockshire, Brecon, Powys, River Usk, UK, Wales, bridges, reflections, rivers, water
NIKON D50 18.3 mm f/9.0 0.003 sec (1/400) ISO 400 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-09-16 18:41:45
Portway
2006-12-27
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Photoblog: 27 Dec 2006
Keywords: A4, Bristol, Clifton Suspension Bridge, England, Portway, River Avon, UK, bridges, light trails, night, rivers
NIKON D50 65.4 mm f/10.0 25 ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-10-29 18:54:50
George
2006-12-26
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Photoblog: 26 Dec 2006
Washington on this horse in Boston Public Gardens.
Keywords: 123, 123bw, 4aces, Boston, C&F, George Washington, Massachusetts, USA, bw, equestrian statues, import, monochrome, redfilter, statues
NIKON D50 55 mm f/9.0 0.006 sec (1/160) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-06-26 17:16:42
Clifton Suspension Bridge
2006-12-25
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Photoblog: 25 Dec 2006
The suspension bridge is an Isambard Kingdom Brunel design constructed in the 1850s-60s. The 1,352 ft (414 m) span crosses the tidal River Avon 245 ft (75 m) below. The limestone gorge forms a spectacular defensive entrance to the city's docks.
Keywords: Avon Gorge, Bristol, Clifton Suspension Bridge, England, IKB, UK, bridges, gorges, night, suspension bridges
NIKON D50 24 mm f/10.0 10 ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-10-29 18:57:13
Dartmoor
2006-12-23
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Photoblog: 23 Dec 2006
Rally-on-Edge and Cosmo Cheese.
Keywords: Cosmo Cheese, Cox Tor, Dartmoor, Devon, England, UK, landscape, national parks, rally, reflections, water
NIKON D50 18 mm f/8 0.003 sec (1/400) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-10-14 12:35:58
Kimmeridge
2006-12-22
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Photoblog: 22 Dec 2006
Keywords: Dorset, England, Jurassic Coast, Kimmeridge, Purbeck, UK, World Heritage Sites, landscape, reflections, sea, water
NIKON D50 18.3 mm f/9.0 0.008 sec (1/125) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-09-10 14:36:32
Pur Down
2006-12-21
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Photoblog: 21 Dec 2006
Keywords: Bristol, England, North Bristol, Pur Down, Pur Down Transmitter, UK, autumn, transmitters, trees
NIKON D50 60 mm f/10.0 0.017 sec (1/60) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-10-26 16:46:49
Children's Hospital
2006-12-20
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Photoblog: 20 Dec 2006
Keywords: Bristol, Bristol Children's Hospital, England, UK, bristolbynight, light trails, night
NIKON D50 20 mm f/8 3 sec (3) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-11-02 20:56:55
Beleaf
2006-12-19
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Photoblog: 19 Dec 2006
Photoblog: 15 Dec 2006
Keywords: Belief, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, University of Cincinnati, cleanup, snow
FinePix A310 5.7 mm 560/100 0.011 sec (1/90) ISO 160 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-02-18 03:28:49
Bristol High Cross
2006-12-18
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Photoblog: 18 Dec 2006
"The High Cross stood for three centuries at the very centre of mediaeval Bristol on the crossroads formed by Corn Street, Wine Street, Broad Street and High Street. Commemorating Edward III's charter of 1373 granting county status to the town, it was brightly painted and decorated with four statues of mediaeval kings.
"In 1733 it was removed at the request of local residents, who found it a 'ruinous and superstitious relick' and public obstruction. For a few years it stood on College Green, but was once more removed when it was found to obstruct ladies and gentlemen walking on the green. It was then taken to the gardens at Stourhead in Wiltshire, where it had remained in safety and splendour without obstructing anyone ever since. A replica of the upper section of the Cross stands in the gardens of Berkeley Square, off Park Street."
(Bristol City Council's 1989 book of Bristol)
Keywords: Bristol, Bristol High Cross, England, NT, Stourhead, Stourhead Church, Stourhead Gardens, UK, Wiltshire, churches, market crosses
NIKON D50 18 mm f/7.1 0.017 sec (1/60) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-11-04 16:26:43
Fungus
2006-12-17
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Photoblog: 17 Dec 2006
At the end of the cycleway to uni. I stopped to take a picture and along came my lecturer and identified it. Can't remember though. I have a mycology book downstairs so I should look it up. Update Feb 07: the book suggests shaggy ink cap, which sounds about right.
Keywords: Bristol, England, North Bristol, Pur Down, UK, University of the West of England, fungi, ink caps
NIKON D50 95 mm f/5.3 0.033 sec (1/30) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-10-20 09:27:40
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