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    Default Ancient Spanish Monastery at North Miami

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    The Monastery of St. Bernard de Clairvaux was built in Sacramenia, in the Province of Segovia, Spain, during the period 1133-1144. 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. About that time, hoof and mouth disease had broken out in Segovia, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, fearing possible contagion, quarantined the shipment upon its arrival, broke open the crates and burned the hay, a possible carrier of the disease. Unfortunately, the workmen failed to replace the stones in the same numbered boxes before moving them to a warehouse. 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.
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    The color rendition due to the HDRI is spectacular Lady Mirenchu...I like it very much...would consider giving it 1.25 degrees of CW rotation...:D aside from this, well done...:cool:

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    Mirenchu,
    What a beautiful image and an incredible story behind the building itself. Thank you for sharing it with us.

    God bless,

    chris

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    Absolutely beautiful! Love your handling of the light in this one. I have to disagree with Gus on CW rotation but would like to this with some distortion correction to bring the columns on each side more vertical. A lovely image!

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    Spectacular HDR... beautiful colors and perspective. Thanks for sharing the story.

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    What a beautiful treatment of this location. Thanks for sharing the rest of the story of this place.

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    Hard to believe they were able to put it together !!! ... love how you captured the mood !!!

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    Excellent iamge and story
    TFS

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