Friday, September 28, 2012

Roofs and chimneys

SKYLINE, FORTRESS OF LOUISBOURG, CAPE BRETON ISLAND, NOVA SCOTIA, SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Pentax K-5
SMC Pentax-DA 18-135 at 97.5mm
1/4000 sec. f10
ISO 800

The 18th century French fortress at Louisbourg was destroyed by the British in 1760 after the Seven Years War and partly reconstructed beginning in 1961 and using some of the original stone. The project provided jobs for hundreds of unemployed coal miners, and the place is now a Canadian national living-history site.

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