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Trajan's Forum, Rome with Trajan's Column, the Church of the Most Holy Name of Mary and a fortuitous puddle.
this is another landmark in UNLB, took this shot yesterday evening, took some shots of it on my last trip here but tried a different perspective this time. will get some info on this and other landmark and add it later
I loved the sun coming through the windows and lighting up the cathedral and giving a really warm effect. I love the glow coming off the column at the right hand side foreground in the photo - it seems very unreal in one way.....!
The Carlisle Memorial Column is a 19th century monument located at the southern end of the Castle Howard Avenue on the edge of the Howardian Hills. Built to the memory of the 7th Earl of Carlisle after his death in 1864, the column was paid for by public subscription. Four architects submitted designs for the monument, including one by the Yorkshire-based architect Cuthbert Brodrick, but the design by Frederick Pepys Cockerell was chosen.
The monument consists of a central column, over seven feet in diameter and is hollow inside. The central column rests on a square platform with steps leading up on the north side. Around the square base of the column is an inscription to the 7th Earl. At each of the four corners of the platform is a pedestal surmounted with a knight's helmet, and the outer face of each pedestal bears a heraldic shield and sword with, alternately, the arms of the Howard family and the Royal Family, in recognition of the Earl's post of Viceroy of Ireland. The top is crowned by a tripod which supports an urn with flames fashioned from gilded copper. The entire structure is 120 feet high.
Iconic columns grace Groomsmen as they peruse pictures from what I assume to be the bachelor party.........
These are posted here simply so I can get them on my Oculus Go. If it works but I still don't care for them I'll just dele it.
The columns are repurposed Ancient Roman columns, intended to support the roof of the incomplete mosque, commissioned by Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur around the year 1190, but never completed. This is adjacent to the Mausoleum of Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco.
Note the difference between the columns of the Luxor temple vs the Temple of Philae. The columns of the Temple of Philae in Aswan exhibit Greco-Roman features while the lotus flower shaped columns at Luxor Temple are the ancient Egyptian temple style.
Like little babies bundled up all together in a hospital...
...uh, except they're cupcakes in a bakery and they will BE EATEN, HAHAA!
Entrance to Mt. Ida. These columns are the only remains of the plantation home of the Walker Reynolds Family. The mansion was struck by lightning in the 1950s and burned to the ground. These concrete Doric columns survived the fire. The mansion was constructed around 1840 by Walker Reynolds, one of the earliest settlers in Talladega County. His plantation grew to one of the largest in the State and Reynolds became one of the wealthiest men in Alabama.
The Astoria Column has served for over 80 years as a beacon on the Pacific Northwest Coast. It sits in a wooded area 600 feet above sea level on Coxcomb Hill, Astoria, Oregon’s highest point. Majestic views of the countryside surrounding Astoria are the great Pacific Ocean to the west and the mighty Columbia River to the north.
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Looking along one of the main streets of the ancient city of Palmyra at dawn, before the other tourists were awake.
Taken at the Temple of Horus at Edfu in November 2009. We were on a house trip to visit the folks working at Tell Edfu and had some time to visit the temple. I like the way this shot has a secret or private feel to it, like the viewer is "sneaking a peek"!
Some history: This major Ptolemaic cult temple was built between 237 BCE and 57 BCE, into the reign of Cleopatra VII. Of all the temple remains in Egypt, the Temple of Horus at Edfu is the most completely preserved. Despite its later date, it exactly reflects traditional pharaonic architecture and so provides an excellent idea of how all the temples once looked. Edfu is also very large: the second largest in Egypt after Karnak Temple.
A view of the plaster cast of Trajan's Column, the height of the original being so great that the replica is presented in two halves, in Gallery 46a at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Las elegantes columnas corintias del edificio fueron reconstruidas en 1964, debido al gran deterioro que causó que la mitad de la rotonda y la mayoria de las columnas se colapsasen. Aunque parezcan ser de piedra, son realmente huecas de armazon de madera recubierta con arpillera (un tejido de fibra de estupa) y enyesadas, moldeadas y pintadas para simular solidez y añadir protección a esta nueva copia, ya que el edificio original que fue diseñado para ser desmantelado y no soportó los embates del clima.