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Cloggo, standing before these scenes, would ponder their workings and fill in the details from the past; whereas I marvel at how time and nature have claimed them since they were abandoned. There is no RIGHT way of looking at them, of course, although his is certainly more informative.


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The above are abandoned machinery at the Cocking Limeworks in England while below is one from a set of 117 impressions of a hospital complex in Berlin.
Beelitz-Heilstatten was built in 1898 and used during both world wars.
Polanski filmed parts of his movie The Pianist there.


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All photos by Howzey, in Flickr


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Santa Barbara photographer Toby Keller specialises in long exposures — ie low-light photography — seascapes, skies and the colour blue.

See more at his website or in Flickr




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New way of looking at New York

 
http://www.samrohn.com/interactive-panoramas/


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From a large collection of panoramas, mostly in New York.
It’s another photography fad but very easy on the eye, eh?


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There are 100 Cinemascope images on Turkish movie director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s website.

Best seen as big as your screen will allow (or in a movie theatre, I guess) by clicking here

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The Big Bambooly

That’s what he calls himself on Flickr
and he’s based in Brighton, England.

Night photography and carnival scenes a specialty.

Lots to admire; I just picked out a few.

 

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Variety of Farmacia signs outside shops in Spain

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Gangs of LA (from LIFE)

 
http://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/la-gang-life-dickies-thugs-gu...


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Jon Patrick, introducing photos of gang life in LA, writes:

I quickly learned that if you start runnin’, you’ll be runnin the rest of your life. Better to stand and fightin’ even if you get beat, you can still look yourself in the mirror, and maybe even gain a little respect. Soon enough I’d hear them say in the halls that I was okay — I put up a good fight.

Damn if it wasn’t the roughest school year of my life” but I wouldn’t trade those days, even if I could. The cholo brothers taught me to stand up and not take any crap off of no one. I don’t by any means advocate breakin’ the law, but I do advocate findin’ your voice and letting the world feel the weight of who you are.


The post is from The Selvedge Yard, a blog in which Patrick explores American life, fads, fashions and history.

Some research and thought goes into what he presents and there are plenty of links to more.


The photos were taken by Robert Yager and originally published in LIFE magazine.


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Time to go to The Selvedge Yard:

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How to visit Tsarist Russia

 
http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2009/10/21/color-photography-from-russia...

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Three young women offer berries to visitors to their izba, a traditional wooden house, in a rural area along the Sheksna River, near the town of Kirillov; 1909

— photographed by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii in his project documenting Tsarist Russia.

Some of the photos have now been posted on this Denver Post photo blog

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Alim Khan, Emir of Bukhara, photographed 100 years ago.

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