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Fotografía capturada en la "Peña de Arias Montano", en el pequeño município de Alájar, provincia de Huelva, en pleno corazónd de la Sierra de Aracena.

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Photograph taken at the "Peña de Arias Montano", in the small municipality of Alájar, province of Huelva, in the heart of the Sierra de Aracena.


Cámara Nikon D850 con lente Nikkor 24-120 F4/G-VR editada con Photoshop CC 2025

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Imagen de la espadaña-campanario y las dos garitas que la custodian, ubicadas en la Peña de Arias Montano...Este lugar se encuentra en pleno corazón del Parque Natural de la Sierra de Aracena, rodeado de encinas y castaños, dominando los tejados del município de Alájar - Huelva y las cumbres de gran parte de esta sierra.
Lugar telúrico con cierto halo de misterio, con muchas grutas en su entorno - Se encontraron restos de asentamientos humanos de la edad del Bronce - A una de estas cuevas se retiró a meditar Benito Arias Montano, bibliotecário del monasterio de El Escorial en tiempos de Felipe II, a esto se debe el nombre del lugar...pero ya los árabes en el año 1114 ya entraron con sus tropas en el lugar y sintieron esas vibraciones especiales de misterio por lo que consideraron el lugar como sitio de oración de La Laxar árabe.
En esta peña existe también El santuario de Nuestra Señora de los Angeles, levantado en el siglo XVI, que alberga la imagen titular de gran devoción en los pueblos de esta serranía y por la que se celebra una romería cada ocho de septiembre, excepto este pasado por el covid.

Cámara Nikon D850 con lente 24-120 F4/G-VR editada con Camera Raw y Photoshop CC 2019

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Photographed outside Buckingham Palace in London on a glorious summer afternoon back in 2002.

Wall of Old San Juan and a sentry box, La Muralla (City Wall). View from Paseo de la Princesa.

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Wall of Old San Juan and a sentry box, La Muralla (City Wall). View from Paseo de la Princesa.

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Starting this week with an image from the Joshua H. Hargrave Collection! An official looking building with a number of sentry boxes and an abundance of statues and figures on the pediments of the building. The "bridge" leading out is unusual and may be distinctive enough to help us with location or to give some idea of what it is?

Based on input from sharon.corbet, Beachcomber, derangedlemur, Vab2009 and in particular Niall McAuley we have 99.9% confirmation that this was taken in continental Europe. The sentry boxes (un-Irish) and sun shades (very un-Irish) were key give-aways. The consensus is that it is a shot (probably reversed in our catalogue) of the City Palace (Stadtschloss) in Potsdam, Germany. Hargrave captures it here in the late 19th or very early 20th century. It was significantly damaged during WWII - but thankfully later restored (albeit without the adornments we see here)....


Photographers: Joshua H. Hargrave

Collection: Joshua H. Hargrave Photographic Collection

Date: Catalogue date c.1890

NLI Ref: HAR156

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The Grand Ducal Palace.

Sentry outside the Grand Ducal Palace.

And faithfully following French's journey in the Faithful County we have a military camp with serried lines of "bell tents" inside/outside a military base. This was either when the army were on a war footing or when manoeuvres were underway. Is it at the extreme end of the Lawrence range or earlier, perhaps during the Boer War?

Various contributors (including swordscookie and beachcomberaustralia) confirm that this is Crinkill Barracks in Birr. Niall McAuley suggests that it may have been captured from "upon high" nearby. Flickr user Stephen Callaghan captured some similar photos of the barracks very recently, and has since confirmed that this was the main gate, and likely captured from atop the barrack block. Stephen tells us that the camp-area was known as the "Fourteen Acres", and "was used for parades, training and sports"....


Photographer: Robert French

Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection

Date: Catalogue range c.1865-1914. Possibly before c.1908

NLI Ref: L_ROY_09952

You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie

Buckingham Palace circa 1950 with a Grenadier Guardsman performing sentry duty on the pavement. The sentries were withdrawn into the forecourt in October 1959. Police Officers attached to the Palace from Cannon Row Police Station exchange words at the main gate.

Una garita del Fuerte de San José el Alto, Campeche, México

Sentry or guard turret on the San José el Alto Fort in the stars and moonlight, Campeche, Mexico

On the right just out of shot is Marlborough Road and at this time known as Marlborough Gate. The Road was opened to the public in 1856 and in 1925 a pavement was added to the west side after complaints were made about the dangerous approach to the crossing on The Mall at the infamous 61 traffic. The entrance to Marlborough House can be seen on the right with the sentry boxes outside, since 1863 it had been the home of the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII. The building next to the entrance is The Guards Club which dates from 1875, as it overlooked Marlborough House it was built with blind window openings on that side. The lack of natural light forced the club to move to a sunnier aspect after only three years; the building was demolished in 1930 and replaced by two banks. It may have been at this time when the entrance to Marlborough House was pushed back to the St. James’s Palace building line; or it may have something to do with damage caused to one of the banks during the blitz.
The building on the left at the corner of Pall Mall and St. James’s Street is by Norman Shaw, the architect of New Scotland Yard and dates from 1882. The building behind the cameraman was replaced by another Norman Shaw building in1903.

This is the Pall Mall entrance to Marlborough House on the afternoon of Tuesday 22nd June 1897, Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. The children in the carriage are the sons of the Duke of York, that is the future Kings, Edward VIII and George VI . There are two PCs at the entrance.