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Wikipedia: Tashkent (/ˌtæʃˈkɛnt/; Uzbek: Toshkent, Тошкент [tɒʃˈkent]; Russian: Ташкент, [tɐʂˈkʲent]; literally "Stone City") is the capital of Uzbekistan and of the Tashkent Province. The officially registered population of the city in 2008 was about 2.2 million.
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Taken in Odaiba, Tokyo.
We've had some nice weather these past few days in Tokyo. This was the scene on Saturday evening overlooking Tokyo Bay. Thanks for viewing.
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Malcesine is a small town on the eastern shore of Lake Garda in northern Italy. Malcesine is located between the mount Baldo and lake Garda. It's a picturesque tourist resort with cobbled lanes and a castle, crammed between the blue lake waters and the massive mountain ridge behind, Monte Baldo. In the summer months Malcesine is a hive of innocent hedonism, packed with pottering holidaymakers gorging on ice cream and sunseekers draped along the lake shore. It's not all laziness, however, as the town's ferry connections to other lakeside resorts make it a good base for sightseeing and the cable-car running up to Monte Baldo is a magnet for cyclists, walkers and paragliders. Lake Garda is the largest lake in Italy, and Malcesine lies towards the narrow and mountainous northern end, often compared to a fjord. The town is situated at the edge of the Veneto region, in the province of Verona. Malcesine is a good exercise in Italian pronunciation: the name is pronounced approximately MalCHESinay.
The historic centre of the town Malcesine is a surprisingly intricate with a labyrinth of small shopping streets. In the antique town center, full of shops and typical local bars and cafes, you can visit almost intact antique monuments. There is a market every Saturday morning in the market square, but markets aside there is a great range of interesting shops. It seems the salesman of the antique shop is having a bad day.
Malcesine is een klein dorpje aan de oostelijke oevers van het Gardameer. Malcesine is één van de meest schilderachtige plaatsen aan het Gardameer. Het heeft niet voor niets de bijnaam Parel van het Gardameer. Romantische doorkijkjes en prachtige oude panden wisselen elkaar af. In de nauwe kronkelige straatjes van de oude binnenstad is zo veel te zien dat men ogen te kort komt. Het dorp ligt als het ware ingeklemd tussen het blauwe water van het meer aan de ene kant en de massieve rotswanden van de Monte Baldo aan de andere kant. Malcesine is door haar ligging en milde klimaat een geliefde bestemming voor toeristen. Er zijn eigenlijk vier belangrijke activiteiten, die je als bezoeker van Malcesine gedaan moet hebben: slenteren door de smalle straatjes in het centrum, een veerboot nemen naar een andere plaats aan het meer, met de kabelbaan de Monte Baldo op en een heerlijk Italiaans ijsje eten. Het is aangenaam wandelen door de middeleeuwse steegjes in het centrum met kleine pleintjes, terrassen, restaurants en winkels met een groot aanbod van onder andere lederwaren en lokale lekkernijen. Malcesine heeft ook een kleine haven en een korte boulevard, omgeven door gezellige terrassen.
Le Mont Blanc a été mesuré à 4810,02 m le 14/09/13 dernier (CF www.lexpress.fr/actualite/sciences/le-mont-blanc-perd-42-... ) . Il a perdu 42 cm par rapport à la mesure précédente faite en 2011
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The Mont Blanc was measured 4810,02 m high last 14th september 2013.
It lost 42 cm since last measure in 2011.
Si vous arrivez à garder la tête pendant que tous les autres le perdent ... vous avez sûrement un objectif grand angle :)
May 2012 in New York .... Mai 2012 à New York ...
Vous étiez plusieurs à dire hier que vous aimez les reflets en couleurs, j'ai donc décidé de poster en couleurs ici ... mais en même temps j'ai fait cette photo aussi en noir et blanc ici ... 500px.com/photo/33040353
Several of you yesterday commented that you like the reflections in colour, so here's the colour version and the black and white version is here: 500px.com/photo/33040353
Been on a search for a beach fence like this.
I'm sure they are here ... somewhere ... on the West Coast.
Finding one is a challenge I gladly accept!
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Happy Fence Friday & TGIF!
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p.s. of course if any of you know where one is, please do share!
Das einsame Häuschen in herbstlichen Weinbergen, Weinstadt Deutschland
The lonely house in autumnal vineyards, Weinstadt Germany
The City of Dublin Junction railway cuts through from across the river towards Connolly station.
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Interieur bagageafdeling van Mat'64 919 van Connexxion dit is het laatste stel wat nog in dienst is met zo'n afdeling.
A volte sentiamo bisogno di un faro che ci illumini e ci indichi la riva di approdo, soprattutto quando ci sentiamo in balia delle onde della vita.... e ci è difficile scorgere un porto sicuro; mi piace pensare che ci sia sempre qualcosa o qualcuno capace di illuminare il mio cammino..
I love B&W! It translates what I want to say in such a brilliant manner!
Better seen in "L", with the black framing.
Your honest comments and critiques are very much welcomed. Favs too! ;) Please refrain from posting awards and groups' "comment codes". They're really not my thing.
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Walk in the Schlossgarten park Stuttgart, Germany
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Join me for a landscape and post-processing workshop in Iceland, Sept 2014.
The night sky above a mountain in Snæfellsnes, Iceland. We had started driving more and more into the middle of nowhere when we came across this awesome looking mountain. We jumped out of the car, turned off the lights and the amount of 'astro-stuff' you could see was phenomenal!
This clearness in the sky didn't last for long and the stars were soon hard to photography due to light pollution. The upside is that this light pollution was caused by the aurora borealis. BONUS.
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The Pannonian Plain is a large plain in Central Europe that remained when the Pliocene Pannonian Sea dried out. It is a geomorphological subsystem of the Alps-Himalaya system.
The river Danube divides the plain roughly in half.
The plain is divided among Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.
The plain is roughly bounded by the Carpathian mountains, the Alps, the Dinaric Alps and the Balkan mountains.
Although rain is not plentiful, it usually falls when necessary and the plain is a major agricultural area; it is sometimes said that these fields of rich loamy loess soil could feed the whole of Europe. For its early settlers, the plain offered few sources of metals or stone. Thus when archaeologists come upon objects of obsidian or chert, copper or gold, they have almost unparalleled opportunities to interpret ancient pathways of trade.
The precursor to the present plain was a shallow sea that reached its greatest extent during the Pliocene, when three to four kilometres of sediments were deposited.
The plain was named after the Pannonians, a northern Illyrian tribe. Various different peoples inhabited the plain during its history. In the first century BC, the eastern parts of the plain belonged to the Dacian state, and in the first century AD its western parts were subsumed into the Roman Empire. The Roman province named Pannonia was established in the area, and the city of Sirmium, today Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia, became one of the four capital cities of the Roman Empire in the 3rd century.
I've been in this beautiful library several times before. It was always so crowded, that I even didn't think about taking the camera out. Guess I was lucky this time...
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Adjoining the cathedral of Siena is the Piccolomini Library, housing precious illuminated choir books and frescoes based on designs by Raphael.
The visual impact of these very colourful frescoes is stunning. The frescoes tell the story of the life of Siena's favourite son, cardinal Enea Silvio Piccolomini, who eventually became Pope Pius II.
In the middle of the library is the famous statue Three Graces, a Roman copy of a Greek original.
Standing on a rocky promontory jutting out into Loch Assynt in Sutherland, north west Highland, Scotland, Ardvreck Castle is a ruined castle dating from the 16th century.
The ruins can be reached by driving along the A837 which follows the north shore of Loch Assynt from the village of Inchnadamph. Care should be taken when walking around the site as falling masonry is a possible danger.
The castle is said to be haunted by two ghosts, one a tall man dressed in grey who is supposed to be related to the betrayal of Montrose and may even be Montrose himself. The second ghost is that of a young girl. The story tells that the MacLeods procured the help of Clootie (a Scottish name for the Devil, deriving from 'cloot', meaning one division of a cleft hoof) to build the castle and in return the daughter of one of the MacLeod chieftains was betrothed to him as payment. In despair of her situation, the girl threw herself from one of the towers and was killed.
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Etéreos como un suspiro o en palabras de Kundera, la insoportable levedad del ser........
.......y es que en estos aquenios reside toda la fuerza reproductiva del diente de león, el tan medicinal Taraxacum officinale.
The light from a thousand stars, some of it travelling for more than 10,000 years, finally ends its journey in my camera.
This photo was taken from my favourite star location, Porteau Cove Provincial Park, on a brightly moonlit night, and is a rework of a series of images I shot in January.
This is made up from 191 stacked photographs, taken at 16mm, f/3.5, ISO 2500, and with a little creativity applied in Photoshop.
Check out more of my star photographs here, and my most interesting photographs here!
This photo has reached #25 in Flickr Explore -- thanks to everyone for their comments and favourites!
Loch Eck is a loch located on the Cowal peninsula, north of Dunoon, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is seven miles long. Apart from Loch Lomond, it is the only naturally occurring habitat of the powan.
The loch is also an impounding reservoir with a concrete dam measuring 0.870 metres high. The dam was completed in 1973.
Spotted this perfect reflection pond on the way to one of the most visited castles in the Czech Republic, Hluboka Castle. It was evening sunset time...the reflection, the sunset, the lily pad provided a great combination for a scene you cannot miss.
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We see : Prague Castle , St. Vitus Cathedral
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Prague Castle : This, the biggest ancient castle in the world, according to Guinness World Records, rises like a dream above the city offering beautiful views of the areas below.
St. Vitus Cathedral : Also on site is the St. Vitus Cathedral with its lookout tower.
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Billowing Bromo Volcano
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Panoramic view of the new south-east crater and valle del bove on Mt. Etna, Sicily
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Taken with my new Zeiss Distagon 21mm f/2.8 ZE Lens. I love it ! It is crisp and sharp from corner to corner.
No trucaré un cielo en mi vida, respeto el recuerdo de cada momento vivido......la memoria fiel que supone la fotografía.
Na foto acima, vemos o rio Tibre em Roma, com a ponte que conduz ao castelo de Sant´Angelo. Ao longo dessa ponte monumental, construída para resistir aos séculos, encontram-se imagens de anjos, os fiéis que transpõem lentamente a ponte, rezando diante dessas imagens certas orações prescritas pela Igreja, ganham indulgência plenária, desde que depois visitem o castelo. Os antigos imperadores romanos pagãos tinham o hábito de construir para si monumentos nos quais se faziam sepultar. E este, inserido na cidade de Roma, que serviu de base para o futuro castelo de Sant'Angelo, foi mandado construir pelo Imperador Adriano (78 – 138), a partir do ano de 135. Na época dos romanos, chamava-se Mole Adriana (Mole significa algo com grande massa). Apresenta um diâmetro colossal e é uma afirmação do poder romano. Na Idade Média, devido às contínuas guerras, este monumento passou a ter diversas finalidades.
Quem olha de fora o palácio do Vaticano percebe que, em determinada altura, parte um corredor construído sobre arcadas, que atravessa o Tibre e atinge o castelo. Qual a finalidade desse corredor? Quando havia perigo iminente de um Papa ser aprisionado, ele utilizava-o para atingir o castelo. Era a suprema defesa do Pontífice. Não era simpático um Papa morar numa fortaleza, mas era muito cômodo ele ter uma à sua disposição para escapar de seus inimigos.
Com o seu contorno inconfundível cilíndrico e posição particularmente cênica ao longo da costa do Rio Tibre, o Castelo Sant'Angelo é um dos mais famosos marcos da cidade de Roma. A sua aparência atual é o resultado de uma longa série de transformações que, na realidade, não deixaram vestígios da gloriosa Roma "Hadrianeum", o mausoléu que o imperador Adriano construiu para si e os seus sucessores. No centro, na cúpula da torre central, houve provavelmente uma estátua de bronze do imperador sob o disfarce do Sol, a comandar uma quadriga. Mas, nos tempos medievais, o mausoléu mudou a sua função de túmulo imperial. Torres e muralhas foram erguidas durante o reinado do imperador Aureliano e um bastião defensivo foi aqui construído durante as invasões bárbaras.
Na Idade Média, o Castelo Sant'Angelo tinha-se transformado numa fortaleza praticamente inexpugnável numa posição particularmente estratégica que defendeu a entrada norte da cidade. O Vaticano encomendou a construção de um corredor coberto e fortificado que ligava ao Palácio do Vaticano, com a finalidade de ser usado em caso de perigo, como uma rota de fuga extrema. O Castelo Sant'Angelo também serviu para guardar a riqueza dos papas: a sala do tesouro no centro do forte foi uma espécie de seguro para Roma durante o Renascimento. O castelo também foi usado para armazenar enormes reservas de alimentos, que eram para ser utilizados em caso de um ataque ou cerco prolongado. Havia conjuntos de odres nas paredes, caixas d'água enormes, celeiros e até um moinho.
No entanto, no passado, Sant'Angelo foi tristemente usado para funções de natureza muito mais graves, os seus pátios foram palco de execuções por decapitação e os chefes dos condenados foram então tristemente pendurados um por dia ao longo da ponte como uma terrível advertência. Nas pequenas, celas húmidas e escuras, os prisioneiros morreram de fome e sede ou devido a terríveis torturas. Foi aqui que Benvenuto Cellini, Cagliostro e Giordano Bruno foram presos antes de serem queimados na fogueira na praça Campo dei Fiori. Mais tarde, após o estabelecimento do Estado italiano, a estrutura foi transformada num quartel militar.
Hoje é visitado por turistas de todo o mundo e é o lar do Museu Nacional de Castelo Sant'Angelo. Um marco muito querido da cidade é a estátua do Arcanjo São Miguel, erguida no enorme terraço, da qual o castelo tem o seu nome. Foi criado em memória de uma antiga lenda que fala da terrível praga que atingiu Roma em 590 a.C. e que terminou graças à aparição de um anjo por cima do castelo concedendo este, a graça à cidade quando embainhou a sua espada. Terá sido uma lenda?
A lendo do Castelo de Sant'Angelo …Ou não será lenda?
No início da Idade Média disseminou-se uma epidemia muito grave em Roma. O Papa São Gregório Magno (590 – 604) ordenou missas e procissões na cidade em louvor a São Miguel Arcanjo, para afugentar a peste. Pouco depois, no ano de 590 o Arcanjo São Miguel apareceu ao Papa anunciando o fim da epidemia. E viu-se também o Arcanjo em cima da Mole Adriana, transformando assim a suprema glória de um Papa. É por isso que foi colocada no alto do edifício a imagem de São Miguel. Na história da Igreja são mencionadas duas aparições de S. Miguel: Uma ao Papa Gelásio I no monte Gargano embora a mais conhecida seja esta, de que foi dignado o Papa S. Gregório, o Grande. S. Miguel apareceu ao Papa no Castelo de Sant'Angelo e em sinal do fim da epidemia, meteu a espada na bainha. Realmente a epidemia sessou imediatamente de fazer vítimas.
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It is located rue Mouffetard, the street led Lacépède and Cardinal Lemoine and is a focal point of the district as it is the center of the four administrative districts that are Saint-Victor, Jardin des Plantes, Val-de -Grace and Sorbonne.
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An unplanned and different take on the Flickr-popular 'The Potholes' in La Jolla, California. Truly one of the joys of photography for me is coming away with an image that was completely unexpected from what was pre-visualized. With my tripod set up for landscapes, a surfer popped into the scene and immediately became my mid ground and main subjects.
While in La Jolla and hanging out on this shelf, I also had the unexpected pleasure of meeting the very talented Wil Shieh (Lightvision). If you have the chance, check out his excellent work on his photostream. www.flickr.com/photos/stinky_tofu/
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Valley of Fire , Nevada
Sometimes nature is full of magic and Valley of Fire state park is no exception with all these wonderful colors.
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* HAPPY EASTER * FROHE OSTERN * JOYEUSES PÂQUES * FELICES PASCUAS *
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