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Slight dodging and burning on this one to accentuate the shadows cast by the winter sun. Other than that, I made slight adjustments in Camera Raw. I just love how the concrete shows off its texture here.
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Veranda of the Ruined Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque, Hindu Iron Column
Delhi
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The Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque, the first mosque in India, was built by Qutb-ud-din in 1193AD and extended with a veranda by Iltutmish between 1210AD and 1220AD.
The Iron Pillar dedicated to Vishnu was erected by Chandragupta II around 390AD in Bihar.
Taken at Latitude/Longitude:28.524263/77.183996. 0.85 km North Mahrauli Delhi India (Map link)
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Columnas en la Plaza del Vaticano, Roma.
Jose A. Bejarano ©2009
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It looks so tiny, but there are people milling about that give some scale. At the National Arboretum, Washington DC
Agaves are quite a common sight in Sicily, including here, in Selinunte.
Agave americana has several common names: sentry plant, century plant, maguey or American aloe.
Although it is called the century plant, it typically lives only 10 to 30 years.
Near the end of its life, the plant sends up a tall, branched stalk, laden with yellow blossoms, that may reach a total height up to 25–30 ft (8–9 m) tall.
After blooming the plant dies.
The agave is a native of the American Southwest but somehow migrated in the other direction across the Atlantic and found a new home on the dry slopes of the Sicilian hills.
Selinunte (Selinous and Selinus in ancient times) was an ancient Greek city on the south-western coast of Sicily.
It was destroyed during the First Punic War about 250 BC and never rebuilt. The utter destruction of every building, scarcely a single column being left upright, could also have been due to earthquakes.
Selinunte, Sicily. 2018
The Hines College of Architecture was designed by the firm of Johnson & Burgee, the high priests of postmodernism in the late 20th Century. It combines classic elements with more modern architural elements. I like the way the repeating elements recede into the distance.
What I couldn't capture from this perspective is the quirkly ring of columns on the roof just beyond the skylight that looks like a mini-Parthenon atop the building.
The Column of Jerash, a column erected by the Romans in the year A.D. 120, was presented to the City of New York by King Hussein of Jordan for the 1964-65 World's Fair, and is still in Flushing Meadows Park in some random spot east of the Unisphere.
The central vase or trumpet column.. We wound our way up to the to where there is a small circular platform and a hole in the told of the dome then we started to wind our way down again. Headsets automatically sense your location and give information both about the dome and site outside around the city. It was really well done.
The portico of General Lee's mansion in Arlington Virginia, facing across the Potomac toward Washington, DC
the Eastbourne Terrace facade of Paddington Station. This should be getting some TLC from Network Rail before the Crossrail station opens.