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Wie bereits beim Kauf des Tickets angekündigt, erwarten die Besucher*innen an mancher Stelle lauschige Plätzchen, wo es nicht nur erlaubt, sondern sogar erwünscht ist, die Schreibgeräte zu testen.
Ein besonderer Service: Eine Postkarte mit einem klassischen Werbe-Motiv, die man beschriften und gratis an einen lieben Menschen versenden kann :-)
An diesem Konferenztisch aber geht es anders zur Sache...
Montblanc goes future.
Hier wird die Verbindung zwischen dem auf Papier Geschriebenen und gleichzeitig elektronisch Gesicherten geknüpft...
"Nature is a temple whose living colonnades
Breathe forth a mystic speech in fitful sighs;
Man wanders among the symbols in those glades
Where all things watch him with familiar eyes..."
...by Charles Baudelaire
You will need my magical glasses to read these letters and a translator if you don't read french… Good luck!
Lens:
50mm f/1.2 Nikkor
Le splendide decorazioni barocche arricchiscono questo gioiello, opera di Filippo Juvarra (1678-1736): stucchi, fiori, conchiglie, il tutto di un colore bianco che amplifica l’effetto della luce e la maestosità dello scalone.
La scala del Palazzo Reale è soprannominata “Scala delle Forbici” per un particolare che è stato posto da Juvarra in corrispondenza dell’imposta della volta sospesa, dove un paio di forbici tagliano le due trecce laterali incrociate creando una lingua biforcuta.
La leggenda narra che questa lingua sia un’allusione e una provocazione di Juvarra alle malelingue di corte che dicevano che l’architetto non sarebbe riuscito nella realizzazione dell’impresa.
The splendid baroque decorations enrich this jewel, the work of Filippo Juvarra (1678-1736): stucco, flowers, shells, all in a white color that amplifies the effect of the light and the majesty of the staircase.
The staircase of the Royal Palace is nicknamed “Scala delle Scissors” (Scissors Staircase) for a detail that was placed by Juvarra in correspondence with the springer of the suspended vault, where a pair of scissors cut the two crossed lateral braids creating a forked tongue.
Legend has it that this tongue is an allusion and a provocation by Juvarra to the gossips at court who said that the architect would not succeed in realizing the undertaking.
Torino. Piemonte. Italia.
It's raining alot (well it is a bank holiday weekend!) so I thought I would pull some shots out of the archive and have a play :)
No correspondence.
A much sharper version of this image than the one I uploaded to Flickr ten years ago, but the story remains the same.
2Lt A Fielding-Clarke (left) and 2Lt OB Swart of 100 Sqn whose FE2b (serial B439) suffered engine failure on a night bombing mission and was forced to land east of the lines on 09.02.1918. The pair were on the run for two days, but were eventually captured on the 11.02.1918 after a short fight. Swart wrote later that one side of his face "looked like a pudding" after he was beaten by a German soldier during the one-sided stoush.
Further reading can be found on the Great War Forum.
www.greatwarforum.org/topic/182781-2nd-lt-anthony-fieldin...
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I finally wanted to put my new (well used) Sigma 18-35 f/1.8 to test on a starry sky. I knew the moon would only come up early in the morning, so I decided to give it a shot that night. I had never been to that place before, I just figured it might work out for what I had in mind through google maps. It was already dark, when I arrived at the spot and lucky me, my intuition didn't let me down.