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• #3378
As well as being a military term, enfilade might also be an architecture term. A suite of rooms formally aligned with each other. This was a common feature in grand European architechture from the Baroque period.
An enfilade of nine state rooms runs the length of the palace.
Thanks wiki
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• #3379
So carparks.
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• #3380
yes, but in Westfield Shopping Centre
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• #3381
The last flat we lived in was done as an enfilade (excluding bathroom). It gave a good pretence of being bigger than it was when standing in the kitchen door and looking through four more rooms in a row.
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• #3382
Balls, I've just bought an arsenal, (an, not The).
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• #3383
Pictures or it didn't happen
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• #3384
Hm, and I was just going to order a Mexican takeaway...
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• #3385
I'm referring to the architectural term, in that the theme is a view that passes through many structural elements/structures- the traditional sense of this would be a long series of doors along one axis perfectly aligned with one another, but I'd like the interpretation to be looser than that.
i.e. a shot taken through many napkin rings would meet the theme, as would a shot down the long wing in the palace of Versailles.
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• #3386
By the winter of 1864 the civil war was almost over. The big battles had all been fought and only skirmishes remained. One of the last of these was the siege of Habney Park, a remote Georgian town of 2000 souls. The few surviving Confederate troops made their stand in the town's cemetery. Outnumbered, outgunned, starving and desperate, their futile resistance was recorded by local pig farmer and amateur photographer, Thucydides Grant.
His most famous image, The Final Enfilade, was taken as Unionist cannon opened fire on the doomed men, ripping apart trees and bodies in a devastating salvo.
"The gunsmoke" wrote Thucydides "drifted among the graves and the eviscerated soldiery as if to obscure whatever difference there remained between the inhabitants of the former and the pitiful remains of the latter".
Grant lived to be 96 and is credited with taking, in 1888, the first selfie.
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• #3387
Abbney park?
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• #3391
This theme is challenging me.
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• #3392
My faux-civil war snap has proved popular with strangers on Flickr though. They love a bit of post-prod over there.
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• #3393
Your bridge shots are one of the reasons it occurred to me
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• #3394
^^^ this - assumed we'd have a classic @mi7rennie bridge pic
i'm also struggling
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• #3395
Me too... interesting theme but pushed for time this week
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• #3396
That's my go to if I can't find any other inspiration!
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• #3397
I was down at the Barbican today, took a lot of rubbish photographs. So far my strongest contender is the inside of a tube train (in the digital photographs thread).
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• #3398
I like that one.
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• #3400
Good to see you and Japan back in the game...
It's not just an At The Drive In song:
http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/62141?rskey=2H3Rxp&result=1#firstMatch