W/NW History

[AndersG]

Repost of my own post with a link:

I only have an old style HTTP webb server. Click for the image.
Carlsten fortress, Bohuslän, Sweden, Oct. 2020. First built soon after 1658 but what we see here was probably built in the 18th century.
Crop (about 1100mm on a 35mm camera) from Canon EOS 30D, 200mm f/2.8 L lens at 1/800 sec, f/5 and ISO 100.
I have no idea where the focus where. The fortress is 20 km away and the nearest coast (in the photo) is 3.5 km away.. 🙂

 

[Sanug]

Some industrial history in Duisburg, Germany.












Pentax LX
SMC Pentax-M 4/20 and 2.8/40, orange filtre
Adox HR 50
Adox XT-3, 1+3, 16 Min.
Plustek Opticfilm 7300, Vuescan

 

[Retro-Grouch]

Boise City, OK
A small museum of local history.
To me, this mash-up of objects perhaps says more about the history of the American West than was intended.

 

[Bob Michaels]

In 1959, the “Movimiento 26 de Julio” (M-26-7) guerilla forces led by Fidel Castro succeeded in deposing Cuban dictator Fulgenncio Batista and install their Revolutionary government. My neighbor, Raul Bayarte was one of Fidel’s guerilla fighters.

 

[Bob Michaels]

The date September 11, even without the year 2001, will always be associated with the 2,977 people who died when the two jetliners were crashed into the World Trade Center plus those who died at the crash into the Pentagon and those passengers who forced the hijackers to crash the plane in Shannksville, PA.

 

[Bob Michaels]

A few months after hurricane Katrina in 2005 totally destroyed the seaside graveyard inn Biloxi Mississippi, the first replacement tombstone marked the grave of a Civil war veteran who fought with the Mississippi infantry. The following year, research disclosed that while many Meaut family members were buried in that section, none of them fought in the Civil war. The tombstone has been replaced.

 

[purgum923]

July 3, 1863. During Pickett’s Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg, Confederate forces reached what is known as the High Water Mark of the Confederacy.

 

[Mr_Flibble]

Polish Ambassador speaking at the remembrance ceremony at the monument for the Battle of Capelse Veer on the 80th anniversary of the end of the battle on January 30th 1945. The Polish First Armored Division suffered heavy casualties during the initial attempts to dislodge the well-entrenched Germans from the ferry slip.

 

[Rayt]

Some industrial history i



Pentax LX
SMC Pentax-M 4/20 and 2.8/40, orange filtre
Adox HR 50
Adox XT-3, 1+3, 16 Min.
Plustek Opticfilm 7300, Vuescan

I went to the Ruhr Museam at the Zollverein complex around 5 years ago and thought they cleaned it up too much. It certainly wasn’t worth the train ride from AMS to Hamburg then another train, I spent two day in Essen and that was very nice. Your photos from Duisburg looks more interesting.

 

[Mr_Flibble]

I've taken a couple of day-trips to Landschaftspark Duisburg over the last two years. I find it very inspiring, very photogenic.

 

[Out to Lunch]

Saigon, Presidential Palace, 1970's war room. What were the pink telephones used for?

 

[davidswiss]

From an upper room in the ruins of Hardwick old hall across to Hardwick hall itself and the interior of the old Hall. The original building from about 1570 and the new hall from the 1580's.


Nikon F2S, Nikkor 20mm f3.5, POrtra 160

 

[Mr_Flibble]

Commanding view of Omaha Beach, from Widerstandsnest 59 of the Atlantic Wall.

 

[spijker]

The Landschaftspark Duisburg is a great place. The last time I was there (July 2024), I used the Rollei IR400 infrared 120 film for a different look.