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Fun with MF images - ARCHIVED - FOR VIEWING ONLY

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Landscapelover

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Since we have a theme going on here--Pemaquid Point Lighthouse from the rocks, I will add a shot. Oddly enough, I don't have many pictures of the light house. Pentax 645D.



It seems like a great place for a GetDPI meet up, we just have problems getting the time down.
Shashin... The light is just amazing! Pramote
 

Zerimar

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So this is happening :D Landscape photography time as well as working on a film production in Bonneville on the Salt flats for two days :)

 

jlm

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been on most of it, will be fun, hot in the death valley area!
take a lot of time, some amazing spots
 

stngoldberg

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Newport RI
This is an image of the Cogshell house which was built in 1712. This house and dozens more were restored in 1968 by the Doris Duke Foundation. Ms Duke summered in Newport and was a very colorful part of society here for many years. Newport was the base for the Vanderbilts, the Carnegies the Firestones, the Astors-you get the point--http://newyorksocialdiary.com/node/32945
Stanley
 
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stngoldberg

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Newport RI
Parish house of St Mary Church
The parish congregation was founded in 1828. The current church building was constructed in 1848 by Patrick C. Keely. In 1953 Senator John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier were married at St. Mary's. The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
H4D50 28mm lens
Stanley
 

Grayhand

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This has everything going for it--high-contrast specular highlights, low-contrast colorless backlight with haze (it is a color photograph) One plus, it was easy to color balance. I am hoping Ray (Grayhand) will look at it for a week and tell me he likes it. Somehow, I like it too. A pity it has to be so small here as there is a lighthouse on the center island.

From a trip yesterday to Acadia National Park. From Schoodic Peninsular looking toward Mt. Desert Island--Mt. Cadillac is the big bump at the left. Pentax 645D, 300mm f/5.6 lens, stitched pano, but breaking from tradition, on a tripod.
Well, it did actually not take a week this time ;)
This was simple, compared with the previous picture.
This photo press many of my photographic buttons, satisfies many of my various photo fetishes. So this photo, I like!

But the previous photo, Ahh there I learned what true love is!

Ray
 

stngoldberg

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Newport RI
International Tennis Hall of Fame
The hall of fame and museum are located in the Newport Casino, which was commissioned in 1880 by James Gordon Bennett, Jr. as an exclusive resort for the rich and wealthy, and was designed by Charles McKim along with Stanford White, who did the interiors
Stanford White (November 9, 1853 – June 25, 1906) was an American architect and partner in the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White, the frontrunner among Beaux-Arts firms. He designed a long series of houses for the rich and the very rich, and various public, institutional, and religious buildings. His design principles embodied the "American Renaissance".
Stanford White designed dozens of homes here in Newport most of which are still inhabited and in excellent condition
Stanley
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stngoldberg

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Newport RI
This is a postcard I did for the Trinity Church in Newport RI. Trinity Church, on Queen Anne Square in Newport, Rhode Island, is a historic parish church in the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island. Founded in 1698, it is the oldest Episcopal parish in the state. The current Georgian building was designed by architect Richard Munday and constructed in 1725–26.
The Newport, Rhode Island congregation began to gather about 1698. When Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont was investigating charges of the infractions of the Navigation Acts in Rhode Island, he requested that the Board of Trade send a minister from England to Rhode Island. The first church structure was built in 1700.
The present church building was constructed in 1725-26, designed by local builder Richard Munday, who based his designs on those that he had seen that Sir Christopher Wren had used in London churches in the late 17th century. The church's design is very similar to that of Old North Church in Boston. Trinity, however, was built entirely of wood. It is believed to be the only church building with its three-tiered wineglass pulpit remaining in its original position in the center of the aisle, in front of the altar. The building was enlarged in 1764, but otherwise retains its original character with box pews.
In 1731, Dean George Berkeley donated the first organ, whose wooden case, decorated with the Crown of England and the mitres of the archbishops of Canterbury and York, survives in place. The first organist was Charles Theodore Pachelbel, son of the famous German Baroque composer Johann Pachelbel.
The church was used as a garrison church by the British Army in 1776–1778. Local oral tradition reports that George Washington attended services there in 1781. The Chevalier de Ternay, the French admiral who died in December 1780, is buried in the churchyard.
Also interred here is Dr. Sylvester Gardiner, who in 1753 purchased an immense tract of Maine wilderness where he founded what is now the city of Gardiner. Many members of the Vanderbilt family attended the church when summering in Newport.
Historical architect, Norman Isham, restored several parts of the church in the 1920s. The church has been seen in several films, including Amistad, Moonrise Kingdom and Evening. The burial service for former Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell was held at the church in January 2009.
H4D50 with 28mm lens on HTS 12mm shift
Stanley
 
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stngoldberg

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Newport RI
This is an image that I made for Touro Synagogue that was signed by the entire congregation and presented to the former rabbi on the occasion of his retirement.
The Touro Synagogue is a 1763 synagogue and is the oldest synagogue building still standing in the United States, the oldest surviving Jewish synagogue building in North America, and the only surviving synagogue building in the U.S. dating to the colonial era.
In 1790, the synagogue's warden, Moses Seixas, wrote to George Washington, expressing his support for Washington's administration and good wishes for him. Washington sent a letter in response, which read in part:
...the Government of the United States...gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance...May the children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and figtree, and there shall be none to make him afraid. May the father of all mercies scatter light and not darkness in our paths, and make us all in our several vocations useful here, and in his own due time and way everlastingly happy."
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tsjanik

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Beautiful images, Stanley, and the historical info makes the posts even better. Thanks for sharing.
+1. I'm enjoying your images too Stanley. The commentary is very much appreciated as well. You don't work for the tourist board do you ? :D

Tom
 

stngoldberg

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Thank you Lloyd; I consider it a privilege to be able to live in Newport part of each year. You people that monitor this thread should consider visiting Newport with you cameras
Stanley
 

stngoldberg

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+1. I'm enjoying your images too Stanley. The commentary is very much appreciated as well. You don't work for the tourist board do you ? :D

Tom
No I don't work for the tourist board, but this town does thrive on summer tourists. While the tourists are a huge pain for us residents, the tourists dollars enable this community to maintain this amazing infrastructure.
Stanley
 

Lloyd

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Would love to make another visit, Stanley. I've originally from Boston, but live out in the wild West now. Newport was a favorite place to visit when I was young.
 

tsjanik

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No I don't work for the tourist board, but this town does thrive on summer tourists. While the tourists are a huge pain for us residents, the tourists dollars enable this community to maintain this amazing infrastructure.
Stanley
Hi Stanley:

I hope you realize my comment was very much tongue-in-cheek. I admire your appreciation and promotion of the area in which you live. I feel much the same about the Lake Erie shore in NY.

Tom
 
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