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Bardi (from the entrance of the Castle)
Il castello di Bardi, detto anche castello Landi, è un'imponente fortificazione che sorge su uno "scoglio" di diaspro rosso nell'omonimo paese in provincia di Parma; posto al centro della valle del Ceno, l'edificio sovrasta il punto in cui il torrente Noveglia confluisce proprio nel Ceno.
Fino al XII secolo il castello fu governato da una consorteria di nobili locali, conosciuti come conti di Bardi, finché, nel 1257, fu acquistato, con il vicino castello di Compiano, dal ghibellino Umbertino Landi di Piacenza, che ne fece la capitale dei domini della sua famiglia.
Nel 1551 Carlo V d'Asburgo conferì ai Landi il rango di marchesi e concesse loro il privilegio di battere moneta. Sul finire del XVI secolo, per volere di Federico Landi, il castello diventò una residenza principesca dotata di pinacoteca, archivio di famiglia, biblioteca ed esposizione di armi. Nel 1682, con l'estinzione dei Landi, cominciò la decadenza del castello: il feudo passò ai loro storici rivali, i Farnese, e successivamente ai Borbone Parma.
Castle Bardi overlooks the scenic Emilia-Romagna valley in northern Italy, 60 km from Parma. This castle built in the 900s, on a spur of red jasper, is one of Italy’s medieval treasures.
The spaces dedicated to soldiers' former headquarters are now home to the Museum of Valley Civilization.
The fortress has been property of Princes Landi, from mid 1200 for over four centuries.
At the end of 1500, it was partially transformed into a noble manor.
Just before we left Chobe National Park and headed towards our last accommodation in Botsuana we met this little fellow. He wasn’t as young as he might look without his right handed tusk. But he certainly was still very playful…
I didn’t know that wild elephants do this gesture. I always thought only captivated ones would do that… I certainly was wrong ;)
Anyway it was a very cute good bye from the wildness to us. On the same day we entered civilization again… and were shocked! Have you seen the movie „The Beach“? That how I felt like.
If you want to see the other images of my trip through southern Afrika please see my Flickr album: "Southern Africa 2014".
I thought they'd built as close to Red Rock as they could, but as you can see in the middle left of the photo I was wrong again.
"They called it paradise, I don't know why
You call some place paradise, kiss it goodbye"
Star trails cut short due to frost forming onto my lens but it's a great spot worth to revisit once night's are back.
“Moths lay their eggs where civilizations have been destroyed.”
- Marty Rubin
hmua/Model: Laryssa Fierle
Wings: Aleah Michele
Cool Jazz, warm evening,
Hot meal, Kona bay beach.
Glad to be alive.
Aperture chosen in post.
Happy Sliders Sunday!
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If you interested in my works, welcome to my latest video on Youtube, I will record the latest photo walk in Hong Kong with Film camera Leica CL, I provided English Subtitle, thank you so much!
Monte Alban was founded around 500 BC and became the capital of a large-scale expansionist civilization that dominated much of the Oaxacan highlands and interacted with other Mesoamerican regional states, such as Teotihuacan. The city was largely abandoned by the end of the Late Classic (AD 500–750). Oaxaca, México
For the Smile on Saturday challenge: Kings and Queens.
A marriage of state is a diplomatic marriage or union between two members of different nation-states or internally, between two power blocs, usually in authoritarian societies and is a practice which dates back to ancient times, as far back as early Grecian cultures in western society, and of similar antiquity in other civilizations. A Marriage of State often involved surrendering a female member of a ruling line to gain peace or shore up alliances of state between nation-states headed by small oligarchies or acknowledged royalty. -- Courtesy Wikipedia
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Tripod
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Monte Alban was founded around 500 BC and became the capital of a large-scale expansionist civilization that dominated much of the Oaxacan highlands and interacted with other Mesoamerican regional states, such as Teotihuacan. The city was largely abandoned by the end of the Late Classic (AD 500–750). Oaxaca, México
The Indus River is the lifeblood of Pakistan. The Indus and its tributaries have fueled human civilization on the Indian subcontinent since the Bronze Age.
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Canon EOS 5D Mark II
1/320"
f11
ISO 400
Canon 70-200mm @ 104mm
LEE Big Stopper
Singh-Ray GND 0.9
Tripod Giottos MT9271 + Ball Head MH 1300 + Remote control.
Silver Efex Pro 2
A couple of Rio Grande tunnel motors lead another pair of units from merger partners SP/UP as they approach civilization after a long run across the Utah desert. The Rio Grande always look good in low light conditions.
The last sunrise in the Badlands - there was a lot going on in a few directions so I was busy pointing the camera all over for a while. Good thing I'd picked out some compositions ahead of time.
a dancing seagull caught all my attention,,,,,
she was a beauty,
btw, i am back to civilization and hence got back to internet..
i had a great tour with TTL...many thanks to them.
thank you for looking at it. :)
Twin Peaks, San Francisco.
I've been here before and taken a couple of photos I happen to really like, but this time I came with a different idea in mind.
My dad and I have been growing our arsenal of lenses recently, and Twin Peaks at night is a perfect place to test how these lenses perform in regards to landscapes. An extremely contrasty scene with copious amounts of bright lights, mixed with incredibly sharp architectural elements at every distance, makes for the perfect equipment test field. The lenses I used for this particular shoot were the Nikon 50mm 1.8 AF-D (seen here), the Sigma 35mm 1.4 Art lens, and Samyang 14mm 2.8 ultra wide.
My goal wasn't to create and a perfect shot-for-shot comparison between these lenses - those are boring, and readily available elsewhere for those who care - rather, my goal was to create some interesting pieces of artwork with each of them, with the commonality being the scene and conditions. I plan on uploading an example of a piece of art made using each of the lenses, then a second picture detailing some more technical details and pixel-level analysis. That keeps nicely with my belief that the art you create with a piece of technology is more important than the technology itself, but also feeds my (and potentially your) interest in discussing the nitty-gritty pixel-level detail. I'll also be uploading these pictures significantly larger than usual, to demonstrate more of the low-level detail.
I'll keep a series of posts coming over the next few days, then write an article in summery of my findings that will be available on my site afterwards.
Anyways, on to this picture:
This particular photograph is a two part multi-exposure panorama, taken with the Nikon 50mm 1.8 AF-D lens, and processed in Photoshop.
I've always liked these long-exposure city shots, but I've just never been able to do them particularly well until recently. But hey, if the view from Twin Peaks can't inspire you to take a good shot, you're not trying hard enough! It really is a breathtaking sight, and the way I processed this one, I was simply trying to do the scene justice.