The weather's gray and this feels appropriate for the day:

"And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."

The Masque of the Red Death
Edgar Allan Poe

#Literature #Poe #PublicDomain

This photo was taken in Atlanta twenty years ago and I have no idea where.

It's the first instance of a palmetto leaf that I've found in the archive, but I only started noticing them in 2019. They're all over cemeteries but do show up on buildings as well.

This one has a tiny pineapple-like shape at the bottom.

#Atlanta #architecture #photo

I found this building while taking photos of another. It was part of a large collection of structures, but is now the only one left. It's not large or complicated, so why did I choose it?

Those rounded corners! They're often a pain to fit into the regular walls but they show up in a lot of my projects.

#Louisville #Architecture #render

"The forests had put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet. A few amber clouds floated in the sky, without a breath of air to move them. A slanting ray lingered on the woody crests of the precipices that overhung some parts of the river, giving greater depth to the dark-gray and purple of their rocky sides."

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving

#Literature #PublicDomain

This is one end of an alley in Macon, Georgia. It's part of an important scene in the movie "The 5th Wave".

#Movies #Macon #photography

Here's a oldie: The front entrance of Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky. The model was built in 2016 from old photos and a few aerial shots; I used Blender for the modeling and Gimp for the compositing.

This is an early test to reproduce the Teich postcard look.

[ No AI was or will ever be used on any image posted here. ]

#Louisville #WaverlyHills #architecture

For those New Year's diet resolutions:

"...that the blended scents of tea and coffee were so grateful to the nose, or even that the raisins were so plentiful and rare, the almonds so extremely white, the sticks of cinnamon so long and straight, the other spices so delicious, the candied fruits so caked and spotted with molten sugar as to make the coldest lookers-on feel faint..."

Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens

#Literature #Dickens #PublicDomain

This mausoleum is in Evergreen Cemetery in Southgate, Kentucky. I visited in 2018 and 2024.

#Cemetery

This is a render of the Merchants Ice Tower in Louisville, Kentucky. I built the mesh based on a few old photos and several site visits.

It's definitely idealized and it looks like all the original structure around the tower is gone. I've got several versions of the building so we can see how it's changed over the years.

#Louisville #architecture #render