Posts Tagged ‘photographs’
Sunday, January 29th, 2012
I have 958 photographs (as of todays date) on Flickr and I also have 2,381 views. But on looking at my pages I note that the stats are wildly adrift, on one page alone of pictures of the cellar at Parlington for example I have over 3,000 views! So what’s going on is this something to do with the sad situation of Yahoo… can’t they find the right people anymore to do justice to the sites they operate. It’s not that long since they threw in the towel on MyBlogLog, which was quite good at determining the users on a web site.
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Tags: Flickr, photographs
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Monday, November 29th, 2010
A recent eBay auction for a postcard of Parlington Hall circa 1941 went beyond my budget and I was disappointed to miss the card, however I made some enquiries and did manage to obtain a reasonable digital version; frankly this is all I need to do analysis and set out the conclusions in future articles, the actual card is not required. But we seem to be going in the same direction again with a postcard presently on eBay which is from the post WW2 period. The same image turned up some years ago as part of a five way postcard, but as used in that way was cropped and therefore only revealed aspects of the Hall itself, missing a large Cedar and some details in the gardens which can be seen in the individual preview of the postcard presently taking bids. Preview picture, below.
Tags: eBay Postcards, Parlington Hall, photographs
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Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
When travelling along the old Great North Road (A1) it is always worthwhile checking to see how the light is cast over the former Almshouses. I don’t suppose for one moment that the original inhabitants ever considered how the place looked in the face of the direction of the sunlight; but they must have been very pleased that the old place afforded them shelter in a less hospitable world than the one we live in today! Well the shot above benefits from the opportunity to catch the building almost carless, as well as the light creating sufficient detail across the main elevation without too many long shadows. The yellow car adds to the picture as it is a 1960-70′s Triumph Spitfire, with a bold black stripe over the centre of the car; very sporty!
Tags: A1, Almshouses, Ghostly staircases, Great North Road, photographs, Triumph Spitfire
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Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
The above picture is something and nothing, but I see the image as a representation of the old Hall disappearing into the ether, which is represented by the clouds in the sky! Which seems to have sucked the Hall from the landscape, of course this view was obscured for centuries, my photograph is taken from the location of the old kitchen, looking across where the central section stood after the 1730′s! The picture is sized A3+ [330mm x 483mm].
Beech Tree Roots
Tags: a hole where the Hall was, Hawes, photographs, Triumphal Arch, uprooted tree
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Sunday, June 13th, 2010
I took some of my pictures to Wetherby Craft Fair yesterday, these range in size from postcard to A3+ [330mm x 483mm] and are views of local scenes and some other prominent features that have caught my eye whilst out and about. There was good deal of interest but the throughput of visitors was not as I had hoped, it was a lovely day, for a change, and most people were interested in outdoor activities, and no doubt awaiting the evening England v USA match.
Tags: Aberford, Almshouses, Coldhill, Lotherton Hall, Micklegate, photographs, Photography, Wharf Valley, York
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Friday, March 26th, 2010
Jackdaw Quarry
One of the great features of Yorkshire is the wide variety of quality stone which is to be found across the county, around Aberford on the Parlington Estate and on the north bank of the Cock Beck are numerous worked out old quarries, looking closely at the stone face you can often find the quarrying marks, holes drilled for explosives. Today the number of quarries is much less, but the size of them is far greater, the photograph of Jackdaw Quarry just off the A64 near Tadcaster is one such example. I recently took some pictures around the quarry and this one in particular I liked because of the intense cloud formation. The view is looking roughly south and is across a worked out part of the quarry.
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Tags: Clouds, limestone quarry, photographs, stone
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