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St. Paul's Cathedral was designed by Sir Christopher Wren and was completed in 1677.
The cathedral is a grade I listed building.
Palais de Chaillot, Georges Guyot 'Chevaux et chien', (Horses and Dog), Paris
The sculptures of Palais de Chaillot are also in Public Art set
The compass on the floor, over which millions of people must have passed since the station opened in 1937.
Nashville, TN.
I became a member of the Nashville Photography Meetup Group a few months ago which meets at a different location each third Saturday of the month. This was my first meetup which I attended. The meetup was at Nashville's Centennial Park to shoot the Parthenon at sunset then those who wanted would move downtown for night shots. I attended mainly to get the shots downtown as I personally think the Parthenon has been shot to death.
There was a sudden break in the cold weather and the day was filled with warm sunshine and temperatures which brought out the people and the more warmer weather clothing as can be seen in this photo. The park was filled with people who just wanted to get out and enjoy the warmth but adding to the crowded conditions was that a basketball game featuring two top 20 teams (Vanderbilt vs. Kentucky) was being played on the Vanderbilt campus across West End Avenue. Finding a parking spot in the park (or anywhere else in the vicinity for that matter) was a major problem. I think I got the last available one. BTW, Vanderbilt lost to Kentucky by 2 on a missed last second shot which would have sent the game into OT.
The meetup group has 594 members but the meetups are usually attended by a few dozen or so. I think around 30 people showed up for this shoot. It was difficult to tell who was in the group and who was not since nearly everyone who goes to the Parthenon has a camera.
The people in the group with whom I had the opportunity to speak were great. Very kind, friendly and helpful. The sunset was not very spectacular though so I left the assemblage of tripods on the East side of the Parthenon to get a night shot from a hill on the West side. I returned to find the group had dispersed. either going home or scattered in the park. I went downtown by myself thinking I might find some of them on the Pedestrian bridge over the Cumberland next to the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Uhm, I didn't see anyone there.
I loved meeting with the group although I do not think I got very many good shots. Oh well, that's how it goes sometimes. I'll edit and sort through those I took.
The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, which is almost always referred to popularly and informally as Westminster Abbey, is a large, mainly Gothic church, in Westminster, London, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English, later British and later still (and currently) monarchs of the Commonwealth Realms. It briefly held the status of a cathedral from 1546–1556, and is a Royal Peculiar.
For more info on the abbey - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Abbey
Nashville, TN. - (Nashville Photography Group Meetup; Centennial Park @ Sunset and Downtown).
View On Black Recommended.
#Temple of #Hephaistos in central Athens, Greece, is the best-preserved ancient #Greektemple in the world, but is far less well-known than its illustrious neighbour, the Parthenon.
It was dedicated to Hephaestus, the god of smiths and metal-workers.
Hephaestus
#Godoffire , #volcanoes , #metalworking , #artisans , #metallurgy , #carpenters , #forges #sculpting , and #blacksmiths
The Bridge of Sighs (Italian: Ponte dei Sospiri) is one of many bridges in Venice. The enclosed bridge is made of white limestone and has windows with stone bars. It passes over the Rio di Palazzo and connects the old prisons to the interrogation rooms in the Doge's Palace. It was designed by Antoni Contino (whose uncle Antonio da Ponte had designed the Rialto Bridge), and built between 1600 and 1603.
The view from the Bridge of Sighs was the last view of Venice that convicts saw before their imprisonment. The bridge name, given by Lord Byron in the 19th century, comes from the suggestion that prisoners would sigh at their final view of beautiful Venice out the window before being taken down to their cells. In reality, the days of inquisitions and summary executions were over by the time the bridge was built, and the cells under the palace roof were occupied mostly by small-time criminals[1].
A local legend says that lovers will be assured eternal love if they kiss on a gondola at sunset under the bridge. This legend played a key part in the 1979 film A Little Romance.