View allAll Photos Tagged Encircled
Christian House (1889) Queen Anne -- This graceful residence was constructed by Harfield Timberlake Christian, founder of an early San Diego abstract company. It is built in a popular late Victorian design characterized by a variety of chimneys, shingles, a corner tower, and an encircling veranda.
A picturesque moated medieval castle, Nunney Castle in Somerset dates from the 1370s. Its builder was Sir John de la Mare, a local knight who was beginning to enjoy royal favour. Much modernised in the late 16th century, the castle was besieged and damaged by the Parliamentarians in 1645, during the English Civil War.
Though ruined, Nunney's dramatic great tower is very well preserved. Its four round corner towers and connecting walls are tightly encircled by the castle moat.
Happy weekend:)
The Temple of Hercules Victor ('Hercules the Winner') (Italian: Tempio di Ercole Vincitore) or Hercules Olivarius is a Roman temple in Piazza Bocca della Verità, in the area of the Forum Boarium close to the Tiber in Rome, Italy. It is a tholos - a round temple of Greek 'peripteral' design completely encircled by a colonnade.
Kingsbarns Parish Church was built c.1630, and substantially altered between 1810 and 1811 at the hand of Robert Balfour. The church faces south towards The Square, the central focus of the village of Kingsbarns. It is surrounded by a graveyard on all sides, encircled by a substantial coped wall. A sandstone session house with a slate roof is situated next to the entrance to the churchyard to the south of the parish church. The building is entered though a square headed door in the west elevation, and is now equipped with toilet facilities. The graveyard, which is still in use, features a number of interesting seventeenth century monuments and eighteenth century tombstones with mortality symbolism.
The church is built on a T plan with a south tower and west porch. The body of the church is harled with a Scottish slate roof. When visited, the harling was seen to be degrading on all faces of the building, revealing rough courses of squared sandstone and some interesting rough snecking on the north elevation of the main cell. The sandstone tower is capped by a spire with alternating bands of square and fishscale slate.
The eastern face of the church has a large semi-circular arched window with latticed panes below which is a square headed door. The northern transept has a square headed door in its eastern face and a framed memorial to the south of the door.
Central to the southern elevation is the tower, to the east and west of which is a semi-circular arched window (identical to that noted on the east elevation) and a smaller clear glass square headed window. Between these windows to the west of the tower is a large pilastered War Memorial. A gallery is visible though the semi-circular arches.
The west elevation has a single latticed window set in a semi-circular arch above the porch. To the north of this is the transept, which has a single clear glass square headed window towards the bottom of the face. The north face of the north transept has two pairs of clear glass square headed windows.
The tower is built of sandstone with a spire of Scottish slate. It faces south towards the square and is divided into three stages. The east and west faces of the lowest stage of the tower are without features. The upper two stages are mirrored to the north, east and west. The lowest stage of the tower is entered though a door set in a rounded arch which springs from substantial imposts and has a large keystone resting on a ledge which separates this stage of the lower from those above. Above the ledge are four moulded scrolls on the four corners of a projecting course at the bottom of the second stage. There are circular openings in the south, east and west faces. The south opening is glazed, but the others have been blocked. Below the south opening is a rectangular dedicatory plaque, which is now blank.
The lower two stages of the tower probably date from the seventeenth century. The upper stage has rounded openings all four of its faces. Above this is a pair of louvered arches under a simple hoodmold. There is a clock in each face, just below the corbelled parapet. The slated spire sits in the parapet and has bands of square and fishscale slate, tapering towards a simple metal finial.
There is a rectangular sandstone porch on the west elevation of the church which has a battlemented parapet. Entry to the church is though a square headed south door and to the west are two thin rectangular windows with coloured glass.
Hippocampus bargibanti is a tiny, pinkish pygmy seahorse with large orange or red warts and spots, encircling bands on the tail. They live solitary or form small groups in sea fans of similar color at depths of 10-40m. They adapt to the color of the host seafan. They do not grow larger than 20mm. Mabini, South Luzon, Philippines
Had a chance to visit the gorgeous medieval citadel of Dubrovnik, Croatia. Dubrovnik is a city in southern Croatia fronting the Adriatic Sea. It's known for its distinctive Old Town, encircled with massive stone walls completed in the 16th century. Paved with limestone, the pedestrianized Stradun (or Placa) is lined with shops and restaurants. For "Game of Throne" fans, this is also known as King's Landing.
Photo credit: bdopekarreuche
(Please contact for use, commissions, or duets)
Photo taken at Inspire Space Park!
Featuring:
*Andromeda skirt from AiiZAWA! This skirt is incredible! From above its a stunning galaxy and as pictured from the side encircles the wearer a personally protective galaxy. This is a stunning piece. I'm having a hard time taking it off!
Available until January 10 @ Harajuku Event! <3 (Find out more about Aiizawa on their Facebook group!) or visit the Aiizawa Mainstore now to see more incredible designs
Hair by Wings!
... #secondlife #secondlifebeauty #secondlifephotography #secondlifefashion
A Beautiful Weekend Along the Hells Canyon Scenic Byway in Baker County Oregon.
Enjoyed a beautiful weekend along the Hells Canyon Scenic Byway between the towns of Baker City and Halfway, with beautiful blue skies and amazing views of the snow capped Wallowa Mountains along the way including a stop at the Halfway Farmers Market, and lots of wildlife and wildflowers along the way
The Hells Canyon Scenic Byway is a loop that encircles the Wallowa Mountains, intersecting with Interstate 84 at Baker City and La Grande. During the fall the byway is an ideal route for exploring the regions fall foliage and autumn splendor with some great wildlife viewing opportunities along the way.
The byway is a popular destination for group tours and offers visitors a chance to experience small town Americana in small towns like Halfway, as they explore the rugged and spectacular Northeast Oregon landscape along the way.
Hwy 86 between Baker City and the Hells Canyon Dam at the bottom of the canyon is open year round providing visitors access to the deepest river gorge in North America.
To download a map of the Hells Canyon Byway and more information about this beautiful scenic drive visit www.hellscanyonbyway.com
For more information about the Hells Canyon Scenic byways or other Baker County, scenic drives, events and attractions, visit the Baker County tourism website at www.travelbakercounty.com
Point de fuite et reflets de ce brise lames encerclé par la marée montante
Vanishing point and reflections of this breakwater encircled by the rising tide
Canterbury is a cathedral city southeast of London.
Canterbury is surrounded by ancient walls, originally built by the Romans, and they encircle its medieval centre with cobbled streets and timber-framed houses.
Canterbury Cathedral, founded 597 A.D. and pictured in the background, is the headquarters of the Church of England. It incorporates Gothic and Romanesque elements in its stone carvings and stained-glass windows.
Please, no invitations to award/forced comment groups or to those with large/animated comment codes.
A large, long-tailed, thrushlike bird of dense forests. Note its black necklace, streaked white cheek patch, and pale band near the tip of the tail. Very similar to Lesser Necklaced Laughingthrush; note dark eye and ‘contained’ (completely encircled) cheek patch. Shy and difficult to see well. Usually found in small flocks in wet lowland and hill forest, often near streams. Song is a series of loud whistles, not as long or varied as that of Hwamei. Native to East and Southeast Asia; introduced to the Hawaiian island of Kauai. (eBird)
--------------
We visited the most amazing bird hide to see pheasants, but the array of other birds and mammals that came was fabulous. This very shy laughingthrush was one of the first arrivals and kept us entertained. I'd glimpsed this species once before, deep in the undergrowth in India, so I was thrilled to see it so well.
Laughingthrushes are not related in any way to Thrushes. They are instead, one of the "Babbler" groups.
Here's a link to our Thailand bird trip list: ebird.org/tripreport/328567
Kaeng Krachan National Park, Phetchaburi, Thailand. February 2025.
Rockjumper Birding Tours.
The Temple of Hercules Victor ('Hercules the Winner') (Italian: Tempio di Ercole Vincitore) or Hercules Olivarius is a Roman temple in Piazza Bocca della Verità, in the area of the Forum Boarium close to the Tiber in Rome, Italy. It is a tholos - a round temple of Greek 'peripteral' design completely encircled by a colonnade. This layout caused it to be mistaken for a temple of Vesta until it was correctly identified by Napoleon's Prefect of Rome, Camille de Tournon. Despite (or perhaps due to) the Forum Boarium's role as the cattle-market for ancient Rome, the Temple of Hercules is the subject of a folk belief claiming that neither flies nor dogs will enter the holy place.
Dating from the later 2nd century BC, and perhaps erected by L. Mummius Achaicus, conqueror of the Achaeans and destroyer of Corinth, the temple is 14.8 m in diameter and consists of a circular cella within a concentric ring of twenty Corinthian columns 10.66 m tall, resting on a tuff foundation. These elements supported an architrave and roof, which have disappeared. The original wall of the cella, built of travertine and marble blocks, and nineteen of the originally twenty columns remain but the current tile roof was added later. Palladio's published reconstruction suggested a dome, though this was apparently erroneous. The temple is the earliest surviving marble building in Rome.
Its major literary sources are two almost identical passages, one in Servius' commentary on the Aeneid and the other in Macrobius' Saturnalia. Though Servius mentions that aedes duae sunt, "there are two sacred temples", the earliest Roman calendars mention but one festival, on 13 August, to Hercules Victor and Hercules Invictus interchangeably.
By 1132 the temple had been converted to a church, known as Santo Stefano alle Carozze (St. Stephen 'of the carriages'). Additional restorations (and a fresco over the altar) were made in 1475. A plaque in the floor was dedicated by Sixtus IV. In the 17th century the church was rededicated to Santa Maria del Sole ("St. Mary of the Sun").
The temple and the Temple of Vesta in Tivoli were an inspiration for Bramante's Tempietto and other High Renaissance churches of centralized plan
The temple was recognized officially as an ancient monument in 1935 and restored in 1996
/Wikipedia/
Alto Vista Chapel is a small Catholic chapel also known as "Pilgrims Church" that stands on the hills above the north shore of the sea and to the northeast of the town of Noord, on the island of Aruba, 27 km north of the coast of Venezuela. The church, painted on the outside in stark bright yellow, makes it a conspicuous religious monument for people to visit. The present Chapel of Alto Vista was completed in 1952 and stands in the same location as the original chapel, which was built by Domingo Silvestre, the Venezuelan missionary from Santa Ana de Coro, Venezuela, in 1750.
The new chapel was redesigned and built in 1952 by the Dutch engineer J.A. Hille, deputy head of the DOW (Dienst Openbare Werken), at the same location of an old chapel that measured 50×15 feet (15.2×4.6 m) and with the same orientation. The chapel is encircled by semicircular pews. There are also stone pews on the outside in order to accommodate additional worshipers. It has a few crosses enshrined in it; the ancient Spanish one is one of the oldest European pieces of art in the Dutch Caribbean. An altar statue of Virgin Mary installed after the earlier one was vandalized has local devotees. The structure does not have any stained glass paneled windows but presents a very serene atmosphere for offering prayers. At the border of the old chapel marked by stones, a few graves are also seen. White graves with crosses marking the stations of the Cross surround the chapel. Graves of Domingo Antonio Silvestre and Miguel Enrique Albarez are located near the chapel.
"The climb speaks to our character, but the view, I think, to our souls."
~ Lori Lansens
The place is Gavi, a beautiful forest area encircled by tea plantations and picturesque valleys. It lies in the buffer zone of the well known Periyar Tiger Reserve that is situated near the Mullaperiyar Dam. The view after walking up an elephant trail was spectacular. Like Munnar, these forests also fall under the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, a biosphere reserve in the Nilgiri Mountains of the Western Ghats in South India. At an elevation of 1036 m (3399 ft), the weather is pleasant with temperatures rarely crossing 28 degrees. By the time I reached the top, the mist had cleared and the view was worth the steep climb.
Taken at the end of the avenue of standing stones leading up to the world famous Avebury circle & sanctuary to the left and out of picture.
Known as West Kennet Avenue.
Avebury is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The village is about 5.5 miles west of Marlborough and 8 miles northeast of Devizes. Much of the village is encircled by the prehistoric monument complex also known as Avebury.
The castle of Veszprém was built in the X-XI. centuries on one of the seven hills, Castle Hill. A wall encircling the steep slopes of the hillsides as a remainder of the former fortification, where historic buildings rose step by step stand today. The visitor should not look for a classical medieval, thick-walled stone building, but instead this place is surrounded by a whole quarter of ancient atmosphere and spirit as he crosses Heroes' Gate ...
In the meantime, the castle district, which has been given a Baroque look, concentrates most of the city's attractions. In addition, great viewpoints and important program venues await the enquirer.
Turning westward from the already entered Heroes' Gate, you will find the Fire Lookout Tower, one of the city’s symbols, which was originally raised to protect the gate, from the height of which you can glimpse the town and look into its everyday life. Walking down the only narrow cobblestone street of the castle, you will be surrounded by magnificent Baroque buildings on both sides, once built on medieval castle walls.
Last remnants of the old medieval moat which once encircled Fulham Palace. The historic home for the Bishops of London.
Many thanks for your visits, faves and comments. Cheers.
Grey-headed Flying-fox
Scientific Name: Pteropus poliocephalus
The Grey-headed Flying-fox is one of the largest bats in Australia with a wingspan of over 1 m.
Identification: The Grey-headed Flying-fox is mostly dark brown, except for a grey head and orange-red mantle encircling the neck.
Habitat: The Grey-headed Flying-fox urban areas, forests and woodlands, intertidal mangroves.
Distribution: The Grey-headed Flying-fox is found in eastern Australia, including Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.
Feeding and diet: At night the Grey-headed Flying-fox searches for food and may travel 50 km to its feeding areas. It eats fruit from a range of native and introduced species, particularly figs, and for this reason it is sometimes called 'Fruit Bat'. It also feeds on nectar and pollen from native trees, especially gum trees.
Other behaviours and adaptations: The Grey-headed Flying-fox spends much of its time hanging from the branches of trees in forests or mangroves. Groups known as 'camps' can be made up of many thousands of animals.
Life history cycle: The young Grey-headed Flying-foxs are usually born in September to October and are carried by the mother for the first three weeks, clinging to her teat with their special curved milk teeth and gripping her fur with their strong claws. As they grow larger and become too heavy to carry on feeding expeditions, they are left behind in special 'creches' in the maternity camp. After about three months the young are able to fly and by five to six months of age they begin to feed independently.
(SOURCE: australianmuseum.net.au/learn/animals/bats/grey-headed-fl...)
__________________________________________
© Chris Burns 2020
All rights reserved.
This image may not be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any form or by any means, including electronic, mechanical, photocopying and recording without my written consent.
The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer, was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) (GDR). Construction of the Berlin Wall was commenced by the government of the GDR on 13 August 1961. It included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, accompanied by a wide area (later known as the "death strip") that contained anti-vehicle trenches, beds of nails and other defenses. The primary intention for the Wall's construction was to prevent East German citizens from fleeing to the West. Much of the West Berlin side of the wall was painted with murals like the one in the photograph at the Berlin Karlshost.
Wish you a great friday and magnific and happy weekend ahead my friends :))**
View On Black Larger for more details Thanks
Óbidos (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈɔbiduʃ]) is a town (vila) of around 3,100 inhabitants and the seat of the municipality (concelho) of the same name, located in the subregion Oeste and district of Leiria, in Portugal. The municipality has an area of 142.17 km² and a population of 10,875 inhabitants (2001). It is bounded in the northeast and east by Caldas da Rainha, in the south by Bombarral, in the southeast by Lourinhã, in the west by Peniche and in the northwest by the Atlantic Ocean.
The town of Óbidos is located on a hill and is still encircled by a fortified wall. The well-preserved medieval look of its streets, squares, walls and its massive castle have turned the picturesque village into a preferred tourist attraction in Portugal. If visiting, it is compulsory to try the local cherry liquor known as ginjinha.
@Thanks for all visits,comments and faves.They mean a lot to me.Love y all xoxoxo
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein
A glimpse of one of Mount Ruapehu's peaks appearing briefly amongst thick cloud that was constantly encircling the mountain.
© Dominic Scott 2021
Seen and appreciatet at the Sigurtà Garden (Valeggio sul Mincio - Italy)
The history of the Sigurtà Garden Park dates back to 14th May 1407, when, during the Venetian dominion of Valeggio sul Mincio, the patrician Gerolamo Nicolò Contarini bought the whole property which was then used entirely for agricultural purposes.
It was actually a farm or rather, the ancient documents tell us, a "brolo encircled by walls", where brolo was an enclosed wooded knoll: with encircling walls, arable land and forage production for the livestock. There was also another space that formed part of the brolo: a small formal garden adjacent to the main house, created for the leisure time of the noble family. This original garden was effectively the beginning of what would become the Sigurtà Garden Park.
The history of the brolo unfolded as, to give added lustre to his property, the aristocrat Contarini had a ?Domus Magna" added to an already existing building in 1417. The structure was characterised by the principal dwelling house for the Contarini family and smaller buildings for those who worked the land.
For more informations:
"Give every day
the chance to become
the most beutiful day
in your life"
[Mark Twain]
********************************************************************************
“It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera…
they are made with the eye, heart and head.”
[Henry Cartier Bresson]
********************************************************************************
Please don't use any of my images on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit written permission.
© All rights reserved
It's a multi-shot pano taken at a local park. The trail up the hillside leads to the park's Nature Center, while the trail following the fence line encircles a small lake, which is off-frame to the right.
HTM & HFF
It always makes me smile when I watch these little birds encircle and climb up a tree, scouting for and prying out bugs from the surface and crevices of the bark.
That curved beak is perfect for the job :)
This is a very old wisteria which encircles a corner of our house and flowers with beautiful perfume each year.
A walk around the garden
Thank you very much for your views, comments and faves.
The Château de Chambord is encircled by a picturesque moat that lends it an enchanting appearance, and its manicured gardens are lush and symmetrically designed, providing a tranquil and beautiful place to explore.
Blea Tarn sits in a hanging valley high above Little Langdale. In the background Side Pike and Lingmoor Fell provide part of the encircling mountains with the stream here letting water flow down into Little Langdale itself.
The Torre Grossa is the highest in the city with its 54 meters. Work began in the 1300s and ended 11 years later.
San Gimignano is a small walled medieval hill town in the province of Siena, Tuscany, north-central Italy. Known as the Town of Fine Towers, San Gimignano is famous for its medieval architecture, unique in the preservation of about a dozen of its tower houses, which, with its hilltop setting and encircling walls, form "an unforgettable skyline".Within the walls, the well-preserved buildings include notable examples of both Romanesque and Gothic architecture, with outstanding examples of secular buildings as well as churches. The Palazzo Comunale, the Collegiate Church and Church of Sant' Agostino contain frescos, including cycles dating from the 14th and 15th centuries. The "Historic Centre of San Gimignano" is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Source: Wikiipedia
Katla is an Icelandic volcano covered by the Mýrdalsjökull ice cap in the south of the country. It lies to the east of Eyjafjöll, another volcano considered to be related to Katla. It is one of Iceland's most active and destructive volcanoes, responsible for several jökulhlaups (glacial lake outburst flood).
Decided to process this in mono.
It was a frosty morning on this visit.
Avebury is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The village is about 5.5 miles west of Marlborough and 8 miles northeast of Devizes. Much of the village is encircled by the prehistoric monument complex also known as Avebury
Seen and appreciatet at the Sigurtà Garden (Valeggio sul Mincio - Italy)
The history of the Sigurtà Garden Park dates back to 14th May 1407, when, during the Venetian dominion of Valeggio sul Mincio, the patrician Gerolamo Nicolò Contarini bought the whole property which was then used entirely for agricultural purposes.
It was actually a farm or rather, the ancient documents tell us, a "brolo encircled by walls", where brolo was an enclosed wooded knoll: with encircling walls, arable land and forage production for the livestock. There was also another space that formed part of the brolo: a small formal garden adjacent to the main house, created for the leisure time of the noble family. This original garden was effectively the beginning of what would become the Sigurtà Garden Park.
The history of the brolo unfolded as, to give added lustre to his property, the aristocrat Contarini had a ?Domus Magna" added to an already existing building in 1417. The structure was characterised by the principal dwelling house for the Contarini family and smaller buildings for those who worked the land.
For more informations:
"Give every day
the chance to become
the most beutiful day
in your life"
[Mark Twain]
********************************************************************************
“It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera…
they are made with the eye, heart and head.”
[Henry Cartier Bresson]
********************************************************************************
Please don't use any of my images on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit written permission.
© All rights reserved
VOLTERRA :
More than 2,000 years ago — before vampires took over the town — Volterra was a key trading center and one of the most important Etruscan cities. (Tuscany is named after the Etruscan people, who lived here centuries before it was conquered by ancient Rome.) The city was protected by a four-mile-long wall — twice the size of the wall that encircles it today. You can still see its mighty Etruscan gate, built of massive stones of volcanic tuff.
Its Etruscan Museum is filled with precious artifacts from centuries before Christ. You'll see etched mirrors, intricately decorated pot handles, and exquisitely crafted jewelry. The museum's extensive collection of urns — with subjects lounging as if munching grapes with the gods at some heavenly banquet — is a reminder that the Etruscans believed the afterlife could be fun.
Volterra's 800-year-old city hall claims to be the oldest in Tuscany. Civic palaces like these were emblems of an era when city-states were powerful. They were architectural exclamation points declaring that townspeople, rather than popes and emperors, were calling the shots.
Alabaster has long been a big industry in Volterra. Softer and easier to work than marble, this translucent mineral was traditionally sliced thin to provide windows for Italy's medieval churches. At the Alab'Arte shop, across from the Etruscan Museum, you can watch artisans at work.
Extrait de :
www.ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/read/articles/volter...
Voir aussi :
The “Umlaufberg” is almost entirely encircled by the Thaya river which here forms the border
Die Thaya gesehen vom Umlaufberg
Pentax Super A, smc Pentax Shift 1:3.5 28mm
Kodak T-Max 100 film/ID-11 1+1 developer
A white fence encircling the cricket oval, that at first sight looked like a picket fence. On closer inspection, the fence turned out to be tubular aluminium.
The horizontal lines in the background is a corrugated iron walls of a transportable building with an alternate view of the oval, likely for sporting commentators.
The Old Town in Hvar. I really liked it :)
Hvar is a town and port on the island of Hvar. It has a long and distinguished history as center for trade and culture in the Adriatic. A commune, part of the Venetian Empire during the 13th to 18th centuries, it was an important naval base with a strong fortress above, encircling the town walls and protecting the port. Cultural life thrived as prosperity grew, and Hvar is the site of one of the oldest surviving theatres in Europe, opened in 1612. The seven-hundred-year-old walls still survive, as do many of the noble houses and public buildings from 15th – 17th centuries. Today, the town has a variety of hotels, galleries, museums, and exhibitions, including the Arsenal, Loggia, the Croatian Institute, and the Hvar Heritage Museum with its art and archaeological collections.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Stare miasto w Hvarze. bardzo mi się tam podobało :)
Miasto Hvar (greckie Pharos założone w 384 r. p.n.e., położone na dalmatyńskiej wyspie o tej samej nazwie) ma długą i znamienitą historię jako centrum handlu i kultury. W okresie od XIII do XVIII wieku miasto stanowiło część Imperium Weneckiego i było ważną bazą morską. W mieście znajdują się mury z VII w., twierdza Španjola z XVIw., najstarszy teatr miejski w Europie otwarty w 1612 roku, wiele domów i budynków użyteczności publicznej z XV-XVII wieku, muzea, galerie i wystawy. Obecnie Hvar jest popularnym kurortem turystycznym. W centrum miasteczka znajduje się niewielki port jachtowy, otoczony zabytkową zabudową, a także żwirowe i skaliste plaże. Na przedmieściach miasta znaleźć można urokliwe zatoczki. Kurort znany jest z dużej ilości restauracji, barów i dyskotek.
Appleton le Moors. A planned village built by the Normans nearly a thousand years ago. Dwellings are along a single street with long rectangular back gardens of equal length for growing fruit and vegetables and an encircling lane giving access to the fields beyond .
Intense sun blazes down on the harsh yet simple landscape. Wind, sand, and tall rock formations in the distance encircle the area. A perfect painting with an ironic twist; the light and heat take all life from the land, but still the radiates in beauty.
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Adagio%20Breeze/240/140/39....
The early 19th Century Grade II Listed Norris Farm Stable in Avebury in Wiltshire.
Much of the village is encircled by the prehistoric monument complex also known as Avebury. The monument is vast and consists of several smaller sites of varying dates. The earliest of these, the earthworks, dates to between 3400 and 2625 BC. Later additions include a henge and several stone circles. Starting in around the 14th century, locals began dismantling the stone circles for one reason or another: to clear land, to provide material for other building projects, or simply to efface a pagan monument.
Information sources:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avebury_(village)
britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101286353-norris-farm-stable...
A lake in southern Thailand surrounded by the limestone karsts so typical of this landscape. Photographed near Ao Nang, Krabi, Thailand.
Europe, The Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Den Haag, Laakhavens, Haagse Hogeschool, Atrium (uncut)
Shot in the round atrium / central square of the 'Haagse Hogeschool '(University of Higher Professional Education The Hague) in the Laakhavens quarter, a redeveloped industrial quarter in The Hague. The atrium encircles the yellow iconic auditorium.
The building houses some 1,200 teachers and 17.500students. And the atrium is its heart. It has the function of a covered square where the students gather and then find their way to the various education wings and spaces.
The building (1996) was realized in neo-modernist style and designed by Atelier PRO (Hans van Beek, Leon Thier, René Hoek).
This is number 74 of the Den Haag album and 1014 of Minimalism Explicit Graphism