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Columnar basalt at the base of Reynisfjall, at the edge of the black sand beach of Reynisfjara.
Near Vík í Mýrdal in southern Iceland
I've been wanting to visit this spot for years, and finally found a day to do so. I had clear skies, so I put cameras facing in opposite directions. This camera looked out from the columns, and the other camera captured the North Star over these columns. A small moon provided helpful illumination over the landscape; this is a single image with no compositing/stacking involved.
Here's a closer view of the ruins of the James Barbour mansion at the Barboursville Vineyards in Barboursville, Virginia, focusing on the columns at the entrance. Barbour was a 19th Century politician who served as Governor of Virginia, U.S. Senator, and Secretary of War. Information from the Barboursville Vineyards website and Wikipedia.
For the inauguration, 56 columns of light have been projected on the Mall to represent the states and territories. Two are visible from east of the U.S. Capitol building.
Luxor Temple , Egypt.
Light & shadows among the columns.
The temperature hit 50 degrees celsius / 122 fahrenheit so any shade was welcome.
The James Bond Movie The Spy Who Loved Me ( 1977 ) was also filmed here.
September 2010.
Venice, the capital of northern Italy’s Veneto region, is built on more than 100 small islands in a lagoon in the Adriatic Sea. It has no roads, just canals – including the Grand Canal thoroughfare – lined with Renaissance and Gothic palaces. The central square, Piazza San Marco, contains St. Mark’s Basilica, which is tiled with Byzantine mosaics, and the Campanile bell tower offering views of the city’s red roofs.