Challenge: "Stairs" 3/6-11/23
Mar 10, 2023 20:47:11 #
tapped/out page #17
was a ancient idea/work
Iwasatworkontheclockday
lots of loose ware all there
and had some fun back then
strange how you never get back
to where are you now it's my issue
was a ancient idea/work
Iwasatworkontheclockday
lots of loose ware all there
and had some fun back then
strange how you never get back
to where are you now it's my issue
Mar 10, 2023 21:33:23 #
Kaskazi wrote:
The fire escape is a great image (the one with steps, I mean). As for the other one, I suspect even the bravest of fat cats would have a problem - specially those of the human variety 
How true!
Mar 10, 2023 21:36:01 #
PAToGraphy wrote:
An assortment of stairs from various places....
Great photos! That is really some set of stairs in your last photo!
Mar 10, 2023 22:14:21 #
PAToGraphy wrote:
p.25 Super duper series Tony, of great variety.
Thanks Pat.
Mar 10, 2023 22:18:48 #
LeeK wrote:
P. 25 Another interesting set. My pictures of Pompeii are somehow missing steps! Darn! But you got um.
Just lucky, Lee. Thanks.
Mar 10, 2023 22:29:29 #
Kaskazi
Loc: Ontario, Canada
I have some random leftovers
#7, the Nanjing Confucius Temple was for many years the principal Chinese centre for instruction in Confucian principles, so I tend to think of it as having been like a university. The main national examination centre (e.g. for entry into the civil service) was associated with it. We were there to see the current exhibition of bonsai which you can see on the upper terrace. Also there was an exhibition of a kind I never saw before - small rocks and pebbles arranged in water-filled pots and sucers - apparently it is also a popular hobby.
Re #8, Wikipedia calls it the Five Lords Park, but my guide said Five Poets. It really doesn't matter to me. The story is that long ago, between 750 and 1000 A.D., senior bureaucrats who fell out of favour with the government were exiled to Hainan, an island off the south coast. Why these five are particularly remembered I really don't understand. I saw a brass plaque on a wall inside, and asked my guide what it was about. Oh, he said, it is a poem by one of these men. I had never heard Chinese poetry, so I asked him to read it. I was quite startled when he broke into a deep baritone and sang with great passion. It was a remarkable visit.
The last one is the station from whose engine sheds my great grandfather, a driver, worked. The platform on which I stood to take this shot in 2010 has since been demolished, so I expect the steps and bridge are no more.
#7, the Nanjing Confucius Temple was for many years the principal Chinese centre for instruction in Confucian principles, so I tend to think of it as having been like a university. The main national examination centre (e.g. for entry into the civil service) was associated with it. We were there to see the current exhibition of bonsai which you can see on the upper terrace. Also there was an exhibition of a kind I never saw before - small rocks and pebbles arranged in water-filled pots and sucers - apparently it is also a popular hobby.
Re #8, Wikipedia calls it the Five Lords Park, but my guide said Five Poets. It really doesn't matter to me. The story is that long ago, between 750 and 1000 A.D., senior bureaucrats who fell out of favour with the government were exiled to Hainan, an island off the south coast. Why these five are particularly remembered I really don't understand. I saw a brass plaque on a wall inside, and asked my guide what it was about. Oh, he said, it is a poem by one of these men. I had never heard Chinese poetry, so I asked him to read it. I was quite startled when he broke into a deep baritone and sang with great passion. It was a remarkable visit.
The last one is the station from whose engine sheds my great grandfather, a driver, worked. The platform on which I stood to take this shot in 2010 has since been demolished, so I expect the steps and bridge are no more.
Good old days?
HMS Eskimo - why not have a tree for Christmas?
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Government law offices, Nairobi
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Another take on the spiral - Louvre, Paris
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Linggu Pagoda, Nanjing (1929) commemorates soldiers killed in the 1911 revolution
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Kitchener, Ontario
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Confucius Temple, Nanjing, China, as rebuilt 1984. Original foundation 1032 A.D.
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Entrance, Five Scholars Park, Haikou city, Hainan, China
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Cecil Rhodes memorial, Cape Town
Dean Lane station, Manchester, UK
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Mar 10, 2023 22:31:02 #
Wynd wrote:
Stairs at our local winery. I thought they would be more interesting than they turned out to be, ha!
P. 27 I'd say it's interesting. You don't see those hugh slabs of rock very often or the unusual railing.
Mar 10, 2023 22:34:39 #
PAToGraphy wrote:
An assortment of stairs from various places....
P. 28. Great pictures, each a different feel. The last picture. Talk about a workout!!
Mar 10, 2023 22:37:05 #
lhammer43 wrote:
I found a few more steps or stairs from here and there.
You do have an imagination (1st pic)! But it's right on.
Mar 10, 2023 22:43:39 #
Kaskazi
Loc: Ontario, Canada
PAToGraphy wrote:
The challenge would not just be the cost, but today, trying to locate a talented artisan to do it.
Too true
Mar 10, 2023 22:44:53 #
Kaskazi wrote:
I have some random leftovers br br #7, the Nanjin... (show quote)
P. 30 Nice variety. My favorites are the Louvre and Cape Town.
Mar 10, 2023 22:46:27 #
Mar 10, 2023 22:48:13 #
Kaskazi
Loc: Ontario, Canada
lhammer43 wrote:
I found a few more steps or stairs from here and there.
Interesting to see the effect of that panorama
Mar 10, 2023 23:08:57 #
MacGregor wrote:
Travels
P. 30 These are great. Especially the spiral stairs and the next one.
Mar 10, 2023 23:33:50 #
LeeK wrote:
P. 23 That is some impressive rock!! And the stairs!!!! They're pretty impressive too. Looks like good memories.
Yes, lots of good memories in those images.
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