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    Gus Cobos
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    Note: This is a five frame high dynamic range image, taken with a 10.5mm fish eye.


    This is the west hall of the Monastery of St. Bernard de Clairvaux, located in The City of North Miami, Florida.
    The Monastery of St. Bernard de Clairvaux was built in Sacramenia, in the Province of Segovia, Spain, during the period 1133-1144. Cistercian monks occupied the monastery for nearly 700 years. The Cloisters were seized, sold, and converted into a granary and stable due to a social revolution in that area in the mid-1830’s. In 1925 William Randolph Hearst purchased the Cloisters and the Monastery’s out- buildings. The structures were dismantled stone by stone, bound with protective hay, packed in some 11,000 wooden crates, numbered for identification and shipped to the United States.

    Soon after the shipment arrived, Hearst’s financial problems forced most of his collection to be sold at auction. The stones remained in a warehouse in Brooklyn, New York, for 26 years. One year after Hearst’s death in 1952, they were purchased by Messrs. W. Edgemon and R. Moss for use as a tourist attraction. It took 19 months and almost $1.5 million dollars to put the Monastery back together. Some of the unmatched stones still remain in the back lot; others were used in the construction of the present Church’s Parish Hall. :cool:

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    Very interesting Gus. Like the effect.

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    Cool love the perspective !!!!

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    Interesting story Gus. You really did a good job on the photo. Well done. Dave

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    Great perspective and coloring Gus! The HDR work is perfect for this type of scene.

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    Interesting story & great perspective
    Lovely picture
    TFS

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