dr_zero
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I just have to share something that I found too cool and kinda weird I guess.
I like architecture and taking photos of the different styles that I see when I'm out and about. Doesn't matter where it is a courthouse a library or maybe even a beautiful statue in a old cemetery.
When I got my first AF camera I went out looking for places to take shots near where I was working so I could slip out at lunch and also not get mugged worked in a very very bad neighborhood. There was a cool bell tower down the road I kept seeing it was inside a cemetery turns out but I drive through and it was beautiful with lots of statues and hedges trimmed into shapes it was like a park it was so pretty.
They have some of the old mausoleums like you see in New Orleans and they looked very cool so I took a few pics. Later I moved out further into downtown and found some cool looking buildings down there also it was great.
Well fast forward to 2008 and I went back to downtown Jacksonville to get some of the same shot just digital this time. After getting the shots I was working on the album and got curious and looked up one of the buildings and it lead me to Architect Henry John Klutho a interesting fellow.
Now here is where it gets kinda weird turns out while reading about Henry they had links to his other buildings that he had worked on and they turned out to be all the same buildings I had gone back to take pictures of!
As I went down the list it was the same places I had liked all by the same guy and then the kicker was the mausoleum that I thought looked neat in the beginning well you guessed it Henry designed it also!
The works were different styles from a library to a temple with sphinx but even though the styles may have changed his hand it the work could still be seen and I guess somehow my brain picked up on it.
Well dont mean to ramble but it was just too cool/weird I had to share.
Oh the style he was most associated with was Prairie Style by Frank Lloyd Wright but his Neo-Classic Revival style was my favorite
I like architecture and taking photos of the different styles that I see when I'm out and about. Doesn't matter where it is a courthouse a library or maybe even a beautiful statue in a old cemetery.
When I got my first AF camera I went out looking for places to take shots near where I was working so I could slip out at lunch and also not get mugged worked in a very very bad neighborhood. There was a cool bell tower down the road I kept seeing it was inside a cemetery turns out but I drive through and it was beautiful with lots of statues and hedges trimmed into shapes it was like a park it was so pretty.
They have some of the old mausoleums like you see in New Orleans and they looked very cool so I took a few pics. Later I moved out further into downtown and found some cool looking buildings down there also it was great.
Well fast forward to 2008 and I went back to downtown Jacksonville to get some of the same shot just digital this time. After getting the shots I was working on the album and got curious and looked up one of the buildings and it lead me to Architect Henry John Klutho a interesting fellow.
Now here is where it gets kinda weird turns out while reading about Henry they had links to his other buildings that he had worked on and they turned out to be all the same buildings I had gone back to take pictures of!
As I went down the list it was the same places I had liked all by the same guy and then the kicker was the mausoleum that I thought looked neat in the beginning well you guessed it Henry designed it also!
The works were different styles from a library to a temple with sphinx but even though the styles may have changed his hand it the work could still be seen and I guess somehow my brain picked up on it.
Well dont mean to ramble but it was just too cool/weird I had to share.
Oh the style he was most associated with was Prairie Style by Frank Lloyd Wright but his Neo-Classic Revival style was my favorite
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