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Photo of the day: August 2011

A wider view of the southern lake at Jasna...


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fcortese said:
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Great sense of urgency and speed and colour...

Phrasikleia said:
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I love the way the clouds cling to the peaks...

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This building, overlooking Lake Windermere, is called Claife Station. ‘Stations’ were viewpoints, listed in one of the first guidebooks to the Lake District, published in 1778, which offered ‘pictureseque’ views for minimum effort (most visitors wanted to stay in their carriages for as long as possible!). Some of the stations were just points on the map; others, like Claife, were actual buildings. Visitors could be driven up to Claife station, a two-story building, and look at the lake through the bow windows (there’d be refreshments too). In an effort to ‘improve’ on Nature, and imitate the seasons, each pane of glass was a different colour. Light green glass represented spring, yellow was for summer and orange for autumn, while light blue gave the scene the chilly hues of winter. A dark blue window bathed the scene in ‘moonlight’; another had a lilac tinge to suggest a thunderstorm! A pioneering use of ‘effects filters’, long before the invention of photography...

A few trees have been felled recently, to open up the views again... which means the building is now easier to see from the lake.
 
While on the pedestrian walkway crossing the Brooklyn Bridge

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Somehow, when I tired to post the above picture the size came out all wrong and I am having trouble changing it so here it is again-apologizes to all for a double post-

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