Bethesda Terrace Central park
Bethesda Terrace Central park
Back to Central Park for this post where I share with you some shots of the Bethesda Terrace area, Starting with what is called the lower passage
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Now if I wasnt to lazy to carry a tripod with me intot he city most days, this would be a good spot to use it, but even with 3200 ISO this is a shot I am fairly happy with.
Bethesda Terrace is located at the end of the mall midway in the park around 72nd Street.
An interesting thing I didn't know till preparing this post and looking up info about this area, is that the tiles, on the ceiling in the lower passage shown in the first shot which is my favorite feature of this area. here is the info I found on Wikipedia
The Minton encaustic tiles of the ceiling of the arcade between the flanking stairs, designed by Mould,[12] were removed in the 1980s renovation because the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission deemed the tiles too costly to restore. Instead, the Commission approved the commission of a ceiling mural in its place.[13] Mayor Ed Koch declared in June 1987 that the tiles would be restored. Nevertheless, the tiles sat in storage for more than 20 years until the Conservancy received a private donation for their restoration. The Conservancy embarked on a $7 million restoration effort to return the Minton tiles in 2004. A team of seven conservation technicians cleaned and repaired more than 14,000 original tiles by hand. Only three panels of replica tiles were needed to replace those that had been damaged beyond repair. For those recreations, the Conservancy decided to commission Maw and Company, Minton's successor in Stoke-on-Trent, England. The tiles were reinstalled in 2007
This next shot is turning around from the first shot looking over the lower terrace with the Fountain in front of us
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This next shot is showing the two levels of Bethesda Terrace and was completed in 1864
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And one last shot from the top level of the Terrace looking down at the fountain and lake
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And that’s all folks
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what picturesque photos! wow!
I even don't know what is bnetter - nature or architecture
just amazing..
Thanks so kind of you and this spot does have a vert nickel balance of nature and manmmade I agree :)
Unbelievable I never saw that restoration! Great first shot by the way. Now I must make sure I return to see MY childhood park once again. Your shots brought me great memories.
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Thanks its always nice when I her my photos trigger nice memories for someone, and if you ever think of something you would like me to get shots of for a pot, tilll you can get back here please feel free to let me know
Oh that would be awesome! I’ll keep it mind!
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Cool anytime 👍😎👍
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Placing the tiles back what an interesting piece of history. Restoration for future generations to witness art history for some time to come. Brilliant photography enabling one to see those panels above.
Tiers in gardens display a wonderful era, well preserved brick paving, gently leading down to the lake with what look to be stone walls, very old English/Roman feel to the architecture, something I would enjoy seeing.
Thanks i do love those tiles and I didnt know the history of them till preparing this piece it was so interesting o read and i am glad they restored and look after them as you say for future generations
And yes it does have a very old European feel to this part of the park
Thanks for your visit :)
Quite a ceiling.. Bet most native born New Yorker's don't even know it's there... :-)
Ohh yeah I know that is true when I shared a shot of it a few years ago on Farcebook I got so many asking me where this was, back then I used to travel a lot and they assumed it was in Europe somewhere and many of those that asked lived in NYC lOL
A very nice structure with lovely surrounding... the shots are amazingly captured... I won´t be able to shoot this nice if I don´t have a tripod ´coz my hands are always shaking.
Luckily two things help me, I have fairly steady hands and the camera i use has in body and in lens stabilization which really helps/:)