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Detroit, Michigan
December 13, 2014
It's 12/13/14! Walked around Detroit to grab a few shots and try my new 70-200 lense out in the wild.
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An Adobe Photoshop tutorial in which we'll gonna create a burning city landscape among with a survivor. Check out the tutorial.
A dead Palestinian infant is brought to the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, after an Israeli tank shell hit a house early Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. Israeli forces pounded Gaza Strip houses, mosques and tunnels on Monday from the air, land and sea, consolidating their grip in the territory's northern half without quelching the rocket fire that provoked Israel's bruising, 10-day-old offensive. Gaza health officials reported 524 dead and nearly 2,000 wounded since Israel embarked upon its military campaign against Gaza's Islamic Hamas rulers on Dec. 27.(AP Photo/AP Photo/Ashraf Amra)
Canon EOS 20D; 03/06/2009; 1/500 at f/8; ISO 200; white balance: Auto; focal length: 105 mm
Forbidden City
The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty. It is located in the middle of Beijing, China, and now houses the Palace Museum. For almost five centuries, it served as the home of the Emperor and his household, as well as the ceremonial and political centre of Chinese government.
Built from 1406 to 1420, the complex consists of 980 surviving buildings with 8,707 bays of rooms[1] and covers 720,000 square metres (7,800,000 square feet). The palace complex exemplifies traditional Chinese palatial architecture,[2] and has influenced cultural and architectural developments in East Asia and elsewhere. The Forbidden City was declared a World Heritage Site in 1987,[2] and is listed by UNESCO as the largest collection of preserved ancient wooden structures in the world.
Since 1925, the Forbidden City has been under the charge of the Palace Museum, whose extensive collection of artwork and artifacts were built upon the imperial collections of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Part of the museum's former collection is now located in the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Both museums descend from the same institution, but were split after the Chinese Civil War.
The common English name, "the Forbidden City," is a translation of the Chinese name Zijin Cheng (Chinese: 紫禁城; pinyin: Zǐjinchéng; literally "Purple Forbidden City"). Another English name of similar origin is "Forbidden Palace".[3]
The name "Zijin Cheng" is a name with significance on many levels. Zi, or "Purple", refers to the North Star, which in ancient China was called the Ziwei Star, and in traditional Chinese astrology was the abode of the Celestial Emperor. The surrounding celestial region, the Ziwei Enclosure (Chinese: 紫微垣; pinyin: Zǐwēiyuán), was the realm of the Celestial Emperor and his family. The Forbidden City, as the residence of the terrestrial emperor, was its earthly counterpart. Jin, or "Forbidden", referred to the fact that no-one could enter or leave the palace without the emperor's permission. Cheng means a walled city.[4]
Today, the site is most commonly known in Chinese as Gùgōng (故宫), which means the "Former Palace."[5] The museum which is based in these buildings is known as the "Palace Museum" (Chinese: 故宫博物院; pinyin: Gùgōng Bówùyùan).
From the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. One shot from my Samsung S7, cropped and a bit of sky via PS
The Palace in Jaipur. Silver urns for Ganges water transported for the Maharaja's bath water in London.
BAY CITY— The famous Notre Dame Glee Club performed at Our Lady of Czestochowa Parish, St. Stanislaus Church, in Bay City on Monday, Oct. 17. Hundreds filled the church for the concert, which included both sacred and secular music.
Bay City native Adam Kuczynski, graduate of All Saints Central High School is a sophomore at the University of Notre Dame majoring in civil engineering. Kuczynski is one of the bass singers in the group and is the son of Deacon Stanley Kuczynski of Our Lady of Czestochowa Parish.