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Castellabate antico approdo

Italy Castellabate

Certainly the cherry blossoms were rampant here when I took this and it looks the same today eleven years later. Unfortunately I don't do film anymore but I found this oldie taken here in Wonju. We had a lovely walk this evening under the lovely pink and white blossoms.
Olympus XA on Portra 400
April 2014

Kunst hinterm Zaun - happy fence friday

Kotfin , hdr , hand held .

The previous photo was just an introduction to the spectacle I witnessed – and the feeling is as if the Creator of the Universe was speaking to us in this way – look and feel that you are a part of it.

Griffith Park, Los Angeles, Southern California
Nikon F3 with 28mm f/3.5 on Ultramax 400
2008

Valle Crucis Abbey, Llantysilio, Llangollen, Denbighshire, North Wales LL20 8DD.

Valle Crucis Abbey, Coordinates..... 52.98918°N 3.187142°W

Valle Crucis Abbey....What Three Word location what3words.com/masts.thumb.verifying

Valle Crucis Abbey, The picturesque Cistercian abbey of Valle Crucis was founded in 1201 by Madog ap Gruffudd Maelor, the ruler of Powys Fadog and is situated 2km north of the town of Llangollen. The abbey suffered a fire in 1236 and an inscription high above the west window notes that this part of the building was completed by Abbot Adam (1330-44). During the second half of the fifteenth century, Valle Crucis was reputed for its scholarship, patronage of bards and its collection of Welsh literary manuscripts.

By the time of the dissolution of the monasteries in Britain, under the English King Henry VIII, in 1537, the abbey was already in decline. After the dissolution, the entire estate passed into the ownership of Sir William Pickering who had to strip the buildings of their valuable lead and hand it over to the Crown. This damage to the roof and extensive stone robbing caused Valle Crucis to fall into decay.

The Little White Cottage. Built in 1781
Julius Rodenberg (1831 – 1914) wrote in 1856,
Behind these walls lies a friendly small garden with a pond and waterfall below alder shrubs; in a little white house entirely covered by evergreens, Mrs Lloyd lives a quiet and contemplative life. She guides the visitors through the ruins of the abbey. I enjoyed her conversation and learnt a lot from her because she was thoroughly acquainted with the language, the poetry and history of her country. Valle Crucis Abbey (the Abbey of the Valley of the Cross)

Featuring the only surviving monastic fishpond in Wales.

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Seoul, South Korea
Nikon D70 with Nikkor 28-85mm.

Kamienna Wola , hdr , hand held .

As our English cousins term it.
Los Angeles, Southern California

Olympus Trip 35
Portra 400
2010

I had my Yashica FX-3 Super on a tripod for this one with the self-timer set. The lens was an ML 28 f/2.8. I don't know what the film was for sure. I was in the ending years of using Panatomic-X but I also used Tri-X a lot. The sad thing for me is the loss of so many of my negatives that occurred in 1999 in a truck crash-and-burn. I'm just lucky to be alive. Anyhow, here I am about 15 years before all that happened.
Some of you might remember this shot as it had been posted before. I think it must have missed out on being added when I rejoined in 2020.

Yashica FX-3 Super with ML 28/f2.8
Pear Blossom, California
February, 1985

Winter ade … happy fence Friday

Basingwerk Abbey, Holywell, Flintshire, North Wales.

Basingwerk Abbey Coordinates... 53°17′17″N 3°12′29″W

Basingwerk Abbey, What three word location...https://w3w.co/lecturers.lordship.action

Basingwerk Abbey (Welsh: Abaty Dinas Basing) is a Grade I listed ruined abbey near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales. The abbey, which was founded in the 12th century, belonged to the Order of Cistercians. It maintained significant lands in the English county of Derbyshire. The abbey was abandoned and its assets sold following the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536.

The abbey was founded in 1132 by Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester, who had already brought Benedictine monks from Savigny Abbey in southern Normandy. Likely the first location of the abbey was not at the current location at Greenfields but at the nearby Hen Blas. The abbey became part of the Cistercian Order in 1147, when the Savignac Order merged with the Cistercians. It was a daughter house of Combermere Abbey in Cheshire, of which Earl Ranulf was a great benefactor. However, in 1147 the abbot and convent of Savigny transferred it to Buildwas Abbey in Shropshire.

Twenty years later, the monks of Basingwerk challenged their subjection to Buildwas, but Savigny found against them and sent a letter notifying their decision to the abbot of Cîteaux, the head of the Cistercian order.: 54  An Earl of Chester gave the manor of West Kirby to the Abbey.

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Naples roofs and domes

Newport Beach, Southern California
Fuji disposable camera.

I don't know what it is but the disposable cameras never fail to disappoint whether they be Kodak or Fuji. This was a Fuji, which I often bought at the Newport drug store back when we lived in SoCal. This was taken about twenty years ago.

*****Please note; this photo looks normal on my laptop but looks terrible on smart phones. I checked this out on my wife's smart phone (I don't own one and never will) and the sky looks utterly awful. I had added contrast to the original that the disposable gave me and it looked just right on my laptop. This is no surprise as I have noticed huge differences in what photography looks like on smart phones compared to bigger screens. So I ask you to kindly reserve judgment on my photography until such time it can be viewed on a larger screen.

This is an almost daily view from the window.

Of course...I was too.

Nikon D200 with Nikkor 18-70
October 27, 2014