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Venice is a city in northeast Italy sited on a group of 118 small islands separated by canals and linked by bridges. It is located in the marshy Venetian Lagoon which stretches along the shoreline between the mouths of the Po and the Piave Rivers. Venice is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks.The city in its entirety is listed as World Heritage Site, along with its lagoon. The gondola is a traditional, flat-bottomed Venetian rowing boat, well suited to the conditions of the Venetian lagoon. For centuries gondolas were the chief means of transportation and most common watercraft within Venice. In modern times the iconic boats still have a role in public transport in the city, serving as traghetti -ferries over the Grand Canal. They are also used in special regattas rowing races held amongst gondoliers. The gondola is propelled like punting, except an oar is used instead of a pole. Their primary role today, however, is to carry tourists on rides at fixed rates. There can be six people in a gondola and a ride of 40 minutes during the day according to the official rate costs € 80 euros and evening EUR 100. Additional money if the gondolier sing a song! But you can have a very short, short gondola ride to the traghetto, a public gondola that in a few places to cross the Grand Canal makes. Such a trip costs only 50 cents!
Photo of a young girl in Venice dressed already as a traditional Gondolier in red white. On the background you can see the San Giorgio on Isola do San Giorgio Maggiore. In August 2010, Giorgia Boscolo became Venice's first female gondolier. Perhaps this young girl will become a Gondolier too.
Venetië is een stad in het noordoosten van Italië. Venetië is wereldwijd bekend om het historische centrum met zijn vele wateren en heeft een belangrijke rol gespeeld in de wereldgeschiedenis. Sinds 1987 staan Venetië en zijn lagune op de Werelderfgoedlijst van de UNESCO. De Venetianen vestigden zich in de 6e eeuw na Christus op de eilanden van de lagune bij het tegenwoordige Venetië, opdat barbaren hen niet konden bereiken. De lagune bestond uit kleine eilanden met een netwerk van smalle kanalen, niet diep genoeg voor de grote zeeschepen van de barbaren. Het leven op de lagune werd mogelijk gemaakt door het gebruik van een smalle, lichte boot die mensen en goederen kon vervoeren. Deze Gondel boot werd bestuurd door een enkele roeier die op de achterkant van de boot stond, zodat hij goed zicht had. Venetië bezoeken zonder een tochtje in een gondel te maken kan natuurlijk best, want lopend en met de vaporetti kun je overal komen, maar misschien is het toch beter een bedrag te reserveren om Venetië te bekijken zoals het bekeken moet worden: langzaam voortglijdend door stille grachten tussen hoge huizen, begeleid door het geplons van de riem in het water. Houd er rekening mee dat de gondeliers een soort maffia vormen, waarvan een aantal leden er niet voor terugdeinst toeristen te bedonderen, dus maak tevoren duidelijke afspraken over de tocht en probeer flink af te dingen. Er kunnen zes personen in een gondel en een tochtje van 40 minuten kost overdag volgens het officiële tarief € 80 euro en 's avonds 100 euro; elke 20 minuten langer kost € 40 of € 50 meer. Laat je de gondelier een lied zingen, kost dat veel extra geld! Maar je kunt een heel kort, goedkoop gondeltochtje maken met de traghetto, een openbare gondel die op enkele plaatsen de oversteek over het Canal Grande maakt. Zo'n tochtje kost slechts 50 cent!
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Yes the logo is kinda spoiling the composition but I have no other choice now, a lot my images are getting stolen and appearing on various sites and blogs without my consent.
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This is a multiple exposure. Took one of the moon and another long exposure of Nanga Parbat which also intentionally blurred the clouds. I always believe in good honest photography. Cant understand why people tend to hide their exif info even. You can teach someone to shoot in manual mode etc but you cannot teach creativity.
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Nanga Parbat (main peak) has a height of 8126 meters/26,660 ft. It has three vast faces. The Rakhiot (Ra Kot) face is dominated by the north and south silver crags and silver plateau; the Diamir face is rocky in the beginning. It converts itself into ice fields around Nanga Parbat peak. The Rupal face is the highest precipice in the world. Reinhold Messner, a living legend in mountaineering from Italy, says that "every one who has ever stood at the foot of this face (4500 meters) up above the 'Tap Alpe', studied it or flown over it, could not help but have been amazed by its sheer size; it has become known as the highest rock and ice wall in the world!".
Nanga Parbat has always been associated with tragedies and tribulations until it was climbed in 1953. A lot of mountaineers have perished on Nanga Parbat since 1895. Even in recent years it has claimed a heavy toll of human lives of mountaineers, in search of adventure and thrill. Its victims, have included those in pursuit of new and absolutely un-climbed routes leading to its summit.
The Nanga Parbat peak was discovered in the nineteenth century by Europeans. The Schlagintweit brothers, who hailed from Munich (Germany) came in 1854 to Himalayas and drew a panoramic view which is the first known picture of Nanga Parbat. In 1857 one of them was murdered in Kashgar. The curse of Nanga Parbat had begun.
Source: www.k2news.com/nphistory.htm
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July 2012,
Nikon D800,
Nikkor 24-120@31mm,
f,4, 20s, 800 ISO
Location coordinates via GP-1 Module
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In bad times of our lives, we search for the good things, the things that bring us back to life. That was what I tried to express with this. The flower is supposed to represent all the good things in our life, while the forest is our broken and bad surroundings.
Hold onto the good.
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in basso un arco sulla facciata della facoltà di Giurisprudenza dove era la storica Casa dei Padri Teatini in San Giuseppe,
al centro il campanile della chiesa di San Giuseppe dei Teatini con colonne tortili e con fregi, disegnato da Paolo Amato,
dietro la slanciata cupola della chiesa di san Giuseppe dei Teatini, opera di Giuseppe Mariani,
a destra un'aquila coronata su un angolo del Palazzo Pretorio, noto anche come Palazzo delle Aquile.
Dall'angolo fra Piazza Bellini e via Maqueda.
" Dá uma idéia geral das condições da construção civil em São Paulo antes; durante e no pós guerra. Final dos anos 40 e o centro de São Paulo.Como a cidade acelerou seu crescimento e atraiu a migração europeia. Arquitetos europeus chegados a São Paulo antes da eclosão da Segunda Gerra Mundial. Um arquiteto francês (Jacques Pilon) morando em São Paulo desde os anos 30; onde projetou mais de 60 edifícios. O outro; o alemão Franz Heep chegado logo após a Segunda Guerra. Como ele elevou a qualidade do projeto do Edifício Jaraguá antes iniciado por Pilon. A violência na segunda metade do século XX. 1954: O Hotel Jaraguá e o IV Centenário da Cidade. A Rádio Eldorado: uma revolução qualitativa na divulgação e na edição musical; tanto clássica quanto popular. A Exaustão do Edifício; após 40 anos de intenso uso. 2004 Retrofit: O edifício recuperado e sua reabertura. A permanência da arquitetura enquanto obra de arte. "
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Beach textures at low tide in St.Pabu
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Thanks for visits and faves. Written comments highly appreciated and will be responded a.s.a.p :)
Cheers
Joerg
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O lendário e valoroso Castelo de Montemor-o-Velho domina, do seu alto monte, a extensa e bela planície de arrozais do Baixo Mondego. Aqui se acolheram diferentes povos e culturas, existindo sinais materiais da passagem dos Romanos, como o testemunham alguns dos cilhares de pedra integrados na base da torre de menagem desta fortaleza medieval. Vivendo os tempo conturbados das invasões bárbaras e, posteriormente, do mais calmo reinado visigótico, Montemor-o-Velho seria ocupada no século VIII pelos muçulmanos, que deixaram nesta região uma forte impressão da sua cultura. Reconquistada em 848 para as armas cristãs, através de Ramiro I de Leão e do seu tio, o abade João, este castelo do Baixo Mondego mudaria de mãos por diversas vezes até ao século XI. Numa dessas razias, a fortaleza foi particularmente afectada pela acção militar desencadeada pelo impetuoso exército árabe de Almançor.
O castelo de Montemor-o-Velho está implantado num local que apresenta vestígios de ocupação muito antiga, provavelmente pré-histórica, todavia é certa a ocupação romana, atestada pelas pedras utilizadas na base da Torre de Menagem. As primeiras referências a este castelo, dão conta da sua reconquista aos árabes por volta de 848, mas cairia de novo nas mãos dos muçulmanos em 990, com uma nova reconquista cristã por volta do ano de 1006, para voltar à posse árabe em 1026, e este alternar de conquistas e reconquistas só viria a estabilizar por volta de 1064, quando Fernando Magno reconquista toda a região, empurrando os árabes para lá do Mondego. Este castelo em conjunto com os de Miranda, Penela, Soure e Santa Eulália formava, no período da consolidação da independência do Condado Portucalense, a cintura defensiva da cidade de Coimbra. Palco de muitas lutas, não só com os árabes, mas também devido às disputas entre os príncipes e reis de Portugal, e até nas invasões francesas, foi sendo reparado, ampliado e modificado ao logo dos séculos, mas se alguma coisa marca a história desta fortaleza, é o facto nela ter sido decidida a morte de Inês de Castro.
Ao longo dos anos, a quebra progressiva do interesse militar deste tipo de estruturas, foi ditando o abandono ou a sua utilização com outros fins, neste caso chegou a existir no seu interior, um cemitério, junto à igreja da Alcáçova, que foi retirado em meados do século XX. A partir de 1936 tem vindo a ser conservado, foram reconstruídas muralhas, foi colocada instalação eléctrica e criada uma casa de chá no que resta do chamado, Paço das Infantas. Para além do que este castelo tem para ver, da sua grande estrutura defensiva, no seu interior encontram-se as ruínas do antigo paço senhorial, a Igreja de Santa Maria da Alcáçova, a Capela de Santo António, a Igreja da Madalena e as ruínas da Capela de São João. Mais recentemente em1994 fizeram-se algumas obras de recuperação e consolidação das muralhas. Foram também ajardinadas algumas partes interiores. O castelo foi classificado como Monumento Nacional pelo Decreto de 16-06-1910.
O Castelo de Montemor-o-Velho e a Lenda das Arcas
Já diziam os antigos que no castelo de Montemor-o-Velho estão enterradas duas arcas, uma cheia de ouro e a outra cheia de peste. A sua origem remonta ao tempo dos Mouros quando era alcaide naquela cidade um viúvo austero que tinha uma única filha, a qual guardava longe dos olhares de todos como se fosse o maior tesouro do mundo. Um dia, quando a jovem era já uma mulher, um dos seus fiéis cavaleiros apaixonou-se por ela, mas o alcaide nem queria ouvir falar de tal possibilidade. Quando o cavaleiro insistiu, o alcaide resolveu prendê-lo e condenou-o à morte. Assim que a jovem soube da tragédia em que involuntariamente estava envolvida, ainda tentou interceder mas o pai permaneceu insensível às suas súplicas. A jovem que até então não fazia ideia do grande amor que o cavaleiro lhe dedicava, resolveu visitá-lo em segredo nas masmorras. Este amor devia estar já talhado no livro do destino, pois a jovem logo se apaixonou pelo cavaleiro e ambos fugiram do castelo. Porem, a sua captura foi fácil e logo foram levados a presença do irascível alcaide, este ainda ficou mais furioso quando soube que a sua filha tinha casado com o cavaleiro. Então, por vingança, resolveu dar-lhes uma prenda maldita: duas arcas, uma com ouro e a outra com a peste. Os jovens que prezavam mais a sua vida e o seu amor que todo o ouro do mundo fugiram do louco alcaide, deixando para trás as duas arcas que nunca ninguém ousou abrir e que ainda hoje estão enterradas nas muralhas do velho castelo. Muitos, movidos pela audácia ou pelo desespero de tempos difíceis, aproximaram-se das arcas e em épocas de crise muitos foram os que se juntaram para abrir a arca da fortuna… Mas… logo paravam atónitos e perplexos, petrificados com o medo de abrir a arca da peste pois esta se aberta traria ainda mais desgraça e miséria… E assim, as arcas lá continuam à espera de um dia alguém ter a ousadia de as procurar e a imprudência de as abrir...
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Outtake from day 44.
Today I have been kind of sick. I have not been feeling well at all. headache, dizziness. all that stuff. For once I have ideas, but no energy to do them. Hopefully I will feel better tomorrow :)
And I'm not sure if my uploads are getting worse or if I am settling with the fact that, not every photo in a 365 can be good.
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Picking the second one to post on this comeback tour was harder than the first!! :-))
The above as seen in NYC's Central Park, they have a man made lake where they race toy boats.
Thanks again everyone for all the well wishes and the welcome back!!
Hope everyone has a great Tuesday!
El Faro de Ponta da Piedade, en Lagos, fue construido entre 1912 y 1913, entrando en servicio el 1 de julio de 1913. La lámpara original era de petróleo; en diciembre de 1923 la luz pasa a ser de ocultaciones, con una cadencia de 2,5 segundos cada 69,5 segundos.
En 1953 el faro fue electrificado con grupos electrógenos, y se sustituyó la lámpara de petróleo por una eléctrica, con un alcance original de 15 millas, que aumentó posteriormente a 18 y finalmente a 20, el alcance actual
Fue completamente automatizado en 1983.
El faro tiene como peculiaridad estar flanqueado por dos enormes palmeras, y la zona en que se ubica, a unos 2 kilómetros de Lagos, es muy visitada por sus acantilados y cuevas horadadas por la acción del mar.
Espero sea de vuestro agrado
Mejor ver en grande sobre fondo negro
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Have received a few requests to post together Orvieto's and Siena's cathedral. Here they are. You can see the many similarities between one and the other. But it is still unclear which one influenced the other. What is certain form an architectonic point of view is that Orvieto's is built all in the same style while Siena's started in Florence's style (see lower part) and ended up like Orvieto's (upper part).
... I apologize in advance for bringing you yet another one!
This is #7 in the series {and that doesn't even take into account the ones I posted on Instagram}! If you are interested in seeing the Instagram versions, you can check out my Instagram gallery here: statigr.am/pixelmama I'd love to find out who else is on Instagram!!
As you can see from the SOOC in comments, I slid the heck out of this image. The originals below are the middle & under-exposed images of a 3-bracket set. The over-exposed image was totally blown out. The sky in the under-exposed image of the set is what I was going for in the sky, but the surfers were too dark and not in a good position like the middle exposure image. I started with an image blend, but it was a hand-held bracket shot and it didn't line up at all! Imagine that! *note to self: use tripod for bracketed shots*
To begin my slide, I selected the middle-exposure image and processed using my standard Photoshop edits {levels, H/S, etc.}. I then opened it in RadLab . I really like RadLab with the endless possibilities and tweaking you can do with it.
The final step was a fine-tuning in Nik Viveza. Of all the plug-ins I have, I think I use Viveza the most. The final image looks completely different, doesn't it? Sliding is so much fun!
Hope everyone is having a Marvelous & Happy Sliders Sunday!!
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I know Phacelia (Scorpionweed) already a long time. Many species are cultivated as garden plants and honey plants. I love this wonderful flower which attracts bees and bumblebees.
Now I saw it for the first time planted between the wine rows and like the blue colour between the green lines. I think the wingrowers use it as green manure how I used to do in my own garden many years. This vineyard is in Kleinheppach (Region Stuttgart, Germany).
Much better in Large On Black
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..little by little one walks far..
..this is my last image of my Morocco set, I enjoyed walking with you, thanks for the great company and all the laughs.. see you in a few days for the next adventure :-)
Salad servers and stand in African Padauk. Finished with food safe tung oil and wax. Check out my website at www.davidware.co.uk/wood_carving.html for more examples of my work.
Finally finished my exam and have my freedom back once again. I should be uploading more often from now on. I'm off to visit your streams :)
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Oeschinensee near Kandersteg, Switzerland
Oeschinen Lake is a lake in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, 4 kilometres east of Kandersteg in the Oeschinen valley. At an elevation of 1,578 metres (5,177 ft), it has a surface area of 1.1147 square kilometres (0.4304 sq mi). Its maximum depth is 56 metres (184 ft).
The lake is fed through a series of mountain creeks and drains underground. The water then re-surfaces as the Oeschibach. Part of it is captured for electricity production and as water supply for Kandersteg.
The Brown Wood Owl - Strix leptogrammica - is an owl which located in south Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to western Indonesia and south China.
It is an uncommon resident bird of dense forests and is very nocturnal .
It feeds mainly on small mammals birds and reptiles.
This species belongs to the earless owl genus Strix.
Taken after a walk in towards the remote and beautiful " Fisherfield Forest " Showing the mountains L-R " Beinn A' Chlaidheimh ", " Beinn Dearg Mor " and " Beinn Dearg Bheag " in Wester Ross, Scotland.
( Away up west for a couple of weeks for a spot of fishing and maybe a couple of pictures :)
The Basilica houses 70 chapels, reflecting the origins of the Catholic immigrants and religious orders whose generosity erected them. Its Greek-styled interior is crowned with numerous domes decorated in mosaics, similar to the Basilica of St. Mark in Venice, Italy, but much larger.
Construction of this church, notable for its Neo-Byzantine architecture, began in 1920 under Philadelphia contractor John McShain and opened unfinished in 1959.
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He comprendido que todo lo que vivimos es necesario, aunque sea increíblemente doloroso.
He aprendido a mirar la vida de otra manera.
He comprendido que los sueños pueden cumplirse.
Y especialmente he aprendido que mis sueños son los que me dan la vida...
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I have understood that everything what we live is necessary, though it is incredibly painful.
I have learned to look at the life otherwise.
I have understood that the dreams can be fulfilled.
And specially I have learned that my dreams are those that give me the life...
... and this is just one of them!
Well, that is probably a gross underestimate ... I just wanted to use that title! :-)
I can't even tell you how many shots I took on this day {maybe not quite eight million} ... but I've purged the folder so many times ... then repurged some more ... and then yet again! It's possible I was nearing that number. I'd bet that if the shots I took were added to the shots Irene took, it would've come pretty close!! LOL!! :-)
It's just that the light was spectacular! It was hard for us to leave, to turn our back on the light, the view ... the sea. So we lingered on until well after sunset ... much longer than we should have as it had been a really long day. But I have to say, it was the perfect finale. Thank you for hanging in there with me Irene. It was so much fun shooting with you and I can't wait till we are able to hang out again!!
I'd show you the originals so you can see my 'slide' but as it turns out I purged that folder a bit too aggressively! DOH! I hate when I do that!!
~Happy Sliders Sunday~
Stockholm, June 2012.
My new article at Huffington Post:
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Boats moored in St Katharine Docks getting ready for the Diamond Jubilee Pageant down the Thames.
I watched with trepidation as the two very elderly ladies you can see at the side of the boat in the foreground made their way very precariously from the jetty to the first boat as I felt sure they were going to fall into the water. They then crossed to the second boat, then to the third so I thought phew, they've made it! Oh no, they had a good look round & then proceeded to make their way back! Don't think they had anything to do with the boats, they just decided to go out there for the view! I just couldn't watch their hazardous journey back so I moved on!
Haven't really been out catching too much over the past couple of weeks so I'm uploading a shot I have been meaning to upload for a while from Burnham-On-Sea. This shot gives me faith that despite the weather forecast for rain next weekend when I'm in Cornwall that amazing sunsets can happen. The hours leading up to this shot were covered with lots and lots of rain and very high winds however sadly the majority of rainy days in the UK don't end with this much colour and beauty in the sky.
Anyways enjoy :)
Technical Details:
Sony SLT A33 with Sigma 10-20mm F4-5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/30 seconds
Aperture: F11 (in hindsight should have gone for bigger starburst with F16+)
ISO: 100
Focal Length: 10mm
Filters: Hitech 0.9 ND Grad Hard
Three women were going home and I took my lunch in a road side Dhabba/hotel 1st I take three women pic from behind (will soonly upload the pic) just to get theit attractive Rajastani cloths. When my taxi move out to Ajmer from a road and cross by these women ! I just click from my car and excuse her ! It is rural dress up so charming !!!!!!!!!!!!! ( I never thought about the Age of my theme)
(Capture at unknown national highway from Chitodgarh to Ajmer )