Comments on: Weather http://universitydiary.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/storm/ Wed, 22 May 2013 22:15:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Anna Notaro http://universitydiary.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/storm/#comment-19312 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:32:08 +0000 http://universitydiary.wordpress.com/?p=5320#comment-19312 This picture makes me think of the Sturm und Drang proto-romantic movement (1760s-1780s) with their obsessive depiction in the visual arts of stormy seas, showing the terror and irrational destruction wrought by nature, and still man builds on such windswept coast functionless buildings- to quote Vince – useless but visually stunning…

]]> By: Vince http://universitydiary.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/storm/#comment-19298 Sun, 24 Jun 2012 06:44:12 +0000 http://universitydiary.wordpress.com/?p=5320#comment-19298 Good shot. Hard to judge the A,S,ISO, WB and an uncooperative subject

What is that thing anyway. Fort George ?. But that’s on a spit isn’t it. Was it a quay that wasn’t finished during the 1890′s when they were on that Highland&Islands Coastal Improvement building boom. You see them on the west coast also. A beautifully made haven out in the middle of absolutely nowhere. Functionless then and now.

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