Thinking Aloud: midweek blues

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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

In honour of a great old building

I decided to go with architecture today and creative digital manipulation, so the first
three images are all the same, just different effects.

These are some of the photographs I've taken of the facade of the old Post Office
Building in Johannesburg. It has a very interesting history - built in the late 1800's

and situated in the first market square of the then up and coming city.   It's built in
various architectural styles and has had some structural changes through the years,
including the change from bell tower to clock tower (see images below).

It was declared a national monument in 1978 and continued to be used as the Post
office up until 1996. The idea was to restore the building and continue to put it to
good use. Sadly it remained empty and was subjected to extensive vandalism.
Then about a year ago it burnt down and it's future still remains inconclusive.

the same image - 3 different creative effects .....

a view of the building whilst awaiting restoration - late 2008

and here - detail of the clock tower after the devastating fire of late 2009.

A MidWeek Blues post

and Sepia Scenes post

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Signs from the Gen

a few of the signs from the Old Johannesburg Hospital precinct, taken during our

heritage walk there 10 days ago (see last week's posts for more fascinating

pictures and great detail).

a Wordless Wed post

and

Midweek Blues post

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Blue Beads

Blue ceramic beads hanging on a doorknob - just love the

texture and detail.

a Wordless Wednesday post and

MidWeek blues

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Three views

These are more of the pictures taken whilst I was "lost" on Sunday ... hehe!!!

see two previous posts (above) also.

Coming down one little side street in Brixton, I noticed that the view

of the imposing Sentech tower looked different from each house,

so to speak.... above, through modern concrete walls, and olive trees

this one, through shades of pale pink and turquoise gates

and lastly through a gorgeous fever tree ....

this is a Mdiweek Blues meme post

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Melon Rouge

Autumn and Spring have the most marked changes in terms of lighting,

colours, details (in my mind anyway), so it's a time when I start

pondering all the wonderful places to visit in order to capture

the great detail that nature provides.

In my planning I was thinking to spend a day over in Magaliesburg (about
an hour out of Johannesburg) visiting some of the wonderful places there,
and it reminded me of the review I did on Melon Rouge entitled

"Kick off Your Shoes" last May - link here.
And that ... brought me to post a collection of images from
that outing ..... enjoy!!!

View more "My World Tuesday posts here

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Blue Shutters 2

another glimpse of the gorgeous property and garden previously featured
on my blog ... this time a view of one of the kitchen windows and
the vibrant garden just outside of it.
Here is another Blue Shutter post and more images of the garden here

view more Outdoor Wednesday posts here