Photographs of Historic Buildings

[kenj8246]

Wow, would never expect such a dark sky from a yellow filter.

Me, as well. Striking!

[hendrik faure]

roman-katholic Basilica St. Cyriacus Duderstadt, built 1240 - 1490,here seen from the city house tower.
some of the other houses are rather new. They were built after a big fire in 1854

[chassis]

roman-katholic Basilica St. Cyriacus Duderstadt, built 1240 - 1490,here seen from the city house tower.
some of the other houses are rather new. They were built after a big fire in 1854

Very nice Hendrik!

[hendrik faure]

thank you chassis,
this is the opposite view, in background the protestant St. Servatius Church, built from 1370.
Inside a well known organ. Duderstadt is a pleasant town and I look forward to have a workshow here

[tgtaylor]

Historic Fort Point - San Francisco.



Situated on the south shore of the Golden Gate, Fort Point is best preserved example of America's "Third System" of civil war era military installations which includes Fort Sumter.. This view was taken from a 3d floor gun casement shows the columned walkways on the "living" side of the fort with the arched artillery casements on the opposite side. Straight ahead is the Pacific with the Golden Gate Strait running along the right. The original lighthouse is positioned at the top.

For a history and detailed description of Fort Point, see http://www.militarymuseum.org/Fort%20Point.html and especially the PDF Fort Point: Sentry at Golden Gate at https://www.nps.gov/fopo/learn/historyculture/index.htm

Toned Kallitype print taken on a rainy and overcast day with a 300mm Nikkor SW on a Toyo 810MII.

Thomas

[DaveF]

One from the weekend.



Great Coxwell Barn, near Faringdon in Oxfordshire, is an amazing survivor. Built shortly after 1300, its internal ground measurements are 144 x 38 feet. It's now owned by the National Trust. According to their information, it is "a tremendously impressive witness to the great age of Gothic carpentry, and of monastic opulence." The influential victorian designer William Morris, who lived nearby, described it as "unapproachable in its dignity, as beautiful as a cathedral, yet with no ostentation of the builder's art."

Linhof Technikardan S45
Nikkor SW 75 f/4.5
Ilford Delta 100
25mm front rise
1 minute and 10 seconds at f/22

Digitized with D800E and 60mm micro, 4 frames stitched in CS6

[chassis]

One from the weekend.



Great Coxwell Barn, near Faringdon in Oxfordshire, is an amazing survivor. Built shortly after 1300, its internal ground measurements are 144 x 38 feet. It's now owned by the National Trust. According to their information, it is "a tremendously impressive witness to the great age of Gothic carpentry, and of monastic opulence." The influential victorian designer William Morris, who lived nearby, described it as "unapproachable in its dignity, as beautiful as a cathedral, yet with no ostentation of the builder's art."

Linhof Technikardan S45
Nikkor SW 75 f/4.5
Ilford Delta 100
25mm front rise
1 minute and 10 seconds at f/22

Digitized with D800E and 60mm micro, 4 frames stitched in CS6

Dave, incredible! Are the main timbers from the 14th century?

[neil poulsen]

Dave, incredible! Are the main timbers from the 14th century?

No kidding. Very nice image!

[evanbaines]

From WikiPedia:

Known also as the Sheldon Church or Old Sheldon Church, the building was originally known as Prince William's Parish Church. The church was built as a chapel of ease in the English Georgian style, using the Roman Tuscan or Doric order, between 1745 and 1753. Prince William's was burned by the British in 1779 during the Revolutionary War. In 1826 it was rebuilt. The following is from an article in the April 1969 Sandlapper Magazine by Charles E. Thomas, “The Picturesque Ruins Of Old Sheldon Church”. “The official South Carolina report on the “Destruction of Churches and Church Property,” after the War Between the States, described Sheldon’s second burning: “All that was combustible was consumed..., its massive walls survive the last as they did the former conflagration,” Bishop Thomas wrote, “Exactly as it happened a hundred years before in 1779, when General Prevost, marching from Savannah into South Carolina burned the Church, so now in February 1865, General Sherman marching from Georgia into South Carolina, burned it a second time.”

An alternative view has more recently come to light, however. In a letter dated February 3, 1866,[4] Miton Leverett wrote that "Sheldon Church not burn't. Just torn up in the inside, but can be repaired." The inside of the church was apparently gutted to reuse materials to rebuild homes burnt by Sherman's army.

Wista 45vx, Nikkor 9SW, f/32, back tilt to keep overhanging branch in focus, up shift as shooting from near ground level, HP5+ in DD-X

[Corran]

Thank you for posting, that is an interesting place! I have never heard of it. I've been meaning to get back down to Savannah, so I'll have to remember that place.