A photo (and other inconspicuous subjects)

[SummerMorning]

Carnutum - northernmost Roman outpost in Pannonia, by the Danube (Triumphal arch and model of original).

 

[SummerMorning]

Different pic, same feeling!

Thank you!

My pleasure!

 

[cantdog]

You truly have a gift with a camera, Summer. I'm awed.

odd
cantdog

 

[SummerMorning]

Varazdin Castle - detail. One of the fortifications between the Austrians and the Ottomans.

 

[SummerMorning]

You truly have a gift with a camera, Summer. I'm awed.

odd
cantdog

Although I have a tendency to overdo the frog's eye view occasionally, or so I've been told... then again, it was just my friends getting tired of me searching for that photo op.

 

[Honey123]

Varazdin Castle - detail. One of the fortifications between the Austrians and the Ottomans.

That's the one...the neck ache one!! LOL

 

[SummerMorning]

Neck ache? Just a nice clean diagonal composition!

 

[SummerMorning]

A woman on the river.

 

[Guest]

 

[SummerMorning]

Rhinoguy
Your drawings rock

My photos are the product of attempting to overcome the adversity of limited technology.

 

[Guest]

 

[SummerMorning]

A woman on the river.

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[Guest]

 

[SummerMorning]

huh?

 

[Guest]

 

[SummerMorning]

Hmm - the girl was just me making a case... but - as it is getting late, I'll be signing off and going to the pub slowly. So, here's another pic - ad memoriam - from a village up-valley.

Good night folks!

 

[Honey123]

Hmm - the girl was just me making a case... but - as it is getting late, I'll be signing off and going to the pub slowly. So, here's another pic - ad memoriam - from a village up-valley.

Good night folks!

Case made....Have fun at the pub! Glad that you are back!

The name on that tomb...when I first looked at it...I did a double take!!

Anyway ~ sweet dreams Summer, until tomorrow!

 

[SummerMorning]

Gabrje is the village.

I'll do a few more tomb photos tomorrow. My uncle's war tomb is quite interesting.

 

[Guest]

Naneet, Summ. I'll look for this thread tomw.

Perdita

 

[SummerMorning]

PS - any gals volunteerin' fur some 1 on 1 or 1 on 2 or so photo sessionin' ah welcome to leave a request after da beep. Denk you!




And RhinoGuy, here's one just for you!

 

[Honey123]

PS - any gals volunteerin' fur some 1 on 1 or 1 on 2 or so photo sessionin' ah welcome to leave a request after da beep. Denk you!




And RhinoGuy, here's one just for you!

Me! Me! pick me!!!


P.S. Very erotic photo, Summ...

 

[Guest]

 

[cantdog]

I always wonder about those gates, so ubiquitous in these old fortifications, from Austria to Paris to Quebec. They are obviously modern-ish add-ons. What did they replace? Was the archway merely open or was there some ironbound bivalve portal?

 

[SummerMorning]

Actually, the portal in question is part of a festival and hung in midair. Otherwise, the gates were actually barred steel or iron gates. Not that modern really. However, all the castles that are still "intact" have certainly been "upgraded" throughout their lives, getting refurbished and so on.

Usually you had a portcullis (the drop gate) as well as wooden ironbound bivalve doors - or better yet a drawbridge. Beyond that you usually had a gate tower with another set of doors.

The castle I posted (Spiš) actually had three courtyards, thus three gate towers in the walls and then an additional two gates within the main keep itself. So, 5 gates all told. Difficult to get in!

 

[cantdog]

In the Grand Duchy there was an elaborate set of fortifications in the cliffside near the capital (Luxembourg) that was hard to even get near the gates of. A lot of these engineers were very clever, sometimes, constructing their strongholds.

I was referring to the barred gates in the near background of your diagonal view, I assume in a coutyard. Do you think they made those clean, parallel bars when the courtyard was built?