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Gate Keeper of Kraton (Palace) Yogyakarta with announcement of the Kraton closing for public during Grebeg Maulud festival.
@ Yogya, Indonesia
Taken at Busalla, Genoa - Italy
Copyright © 2008 Carlo Natale. All Rights Reserved
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Cloud Gate is a public sculpture by British artist Anish Kapoor in Millennium, Chicago, Illinois, United States. The sculpture was constructed from 2004 to 2006, with a temporary unveiling in the summer of 2004. Nicknamed "The Bean" because of its legume-like shape, Cloud Gate's exterior consists of 168 highly polished stainless steel plates. It is 33 feet by 66 feet by 42 feet (10 m × 20 m × 13 m), and weighs 110 tons
Growing plants and exquisite light projections will greet audiences at the Macquarie Street entrance to the Royal Botanic Gardens at the Palace Garden Gate as part of an inventive installation designed to literally bring to life Elizabeth Macquarie’s passion for all things botanical.
Mrs Macquarie loved landscapes and, as an amateur watercolourist, she carried painting materials on her tours of the colony to sketch and capture the beauty of Australia’s unique scenery.
She also liked to share her passions and is said to have brought iris bulbs with her on tours as gifts for settlers. Today, many NSW communities still boast flourishing iris plants distributed by Elizabeth’s own hand.
With the help of Elizabeth Macarthur, she also pioneered hay-making in the colony and designed farms and gardens. Mrs Macquarie’s Road and the Royal Botanic Gardens itself were developed under her direction.
A frequent place of resort for Elizabeth, the Royal Botanic Gardens owes much of its efficiency to her patronage and is a fitting backdrop for one of the more intimate light showcases of Macquarie Visions.
The India Gate is the national monument of India. Situated in the heart of New Delhi, India Gate was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. Originally known as All India War Memorial, it is a prominent landmark in Delhi and commemorates the 90,000 soldiers of the British Indian Army who lost their lives while fighting for the British Indian Empire, or more correctly the British Raj in World War I and the Third Anglo-Afghan War. It is composed of red sand stone and granite.
One of the giant chinthe guarding the east gate of the Shwedagon Pagoda (a similar pair of giant chinthes guard all four main gates along the cardinal points). These two were swathed in bamboo scaffolding, making them appear as caged beasts!
The Shwedagon Pagoda is the most famous Buddhist shrine in Myanmar, a national monument and the most revered religious complex in the country. It is also Yangon's most famous landmark and sits in a commanding hilltop position in the heart of the city. It is entered by gates on all four sides, each guarded by a pair of huge chinthe, from which a lengthy covered walkway ascends to the hilltop main stupa with it's surrounding complex of shrines.
The temple complex is truly stunning, with gilded finials and tabernacles in every direction, forming an extensive circuit around the base of the great golden stupa at it's heart. We had arrived rather late in the day, but still spent a few hours here after sunset; by night the tourists have mostly gone and been replaced by local devotees. We were the only Europeans there, and were made very welcome.
The central stupa is one of the largest ever built and was constructed originally to house relics of the Buddha, eight hairs to be precise which he had given to two Burmese merchant brothers who brought them back here. Thus according to this legend the site must have been occupied by a Buddhist shrine for over 2000 years, making it the oldest in all of Burma / Myanmar. The present stupa is however largely the result of rebuilding in the 14th century, and has been repaired many times since.
The name 'Shwe-dagon' literally means 'Great Dagon' Pagoda, referencing Yangon's earliest name of Dagon.
I am on vacation this week. My parents, who live in the SF Bay Area are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary this weekend. I flew in this morning and headed to the Golden Gate Bridge. This is my first visit after catching the photo bug, so I viewed the bridge and vistas with a new eye. I spent a few hours on each side and found a lot of the locations for some of the great shots I have seen here on Flickr. I was there between 1pm and 3pm, so the sun was a bit high, but I have some great angles to revisit when the lighitng is right.
Trogir is a medieval city on the Dalmatian coast, and a UNESCO world heritage site. This is one of the city gates.
Under construction photos of the Bill & Melinda Gates Computer Science Complex. I'm a little late in posting these, considering we are moving into it in two weeks.
The gates at which Chicago's famous Phantom Hitchhiker, Resurrection Mary, directs unsuspecting drivers before vanishing silently from the car. You can read more about here here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection_Mary.
Bianca against the gate of Castle Craig... this is my second attempt of Dave Hill style-photography, let me know what you think!
It really looks a lot better viewed on black
This is NOT an HDR!
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In October 2017, the Canada Gate was erected between the (Canadian) Passchendaele Memorial and the village of Passendale.
Nova Scotia artist Nancy Keating created the new monument which pays tribute to the Canadian soldiers who fought in the Battle of Passchendaele in November 1917. The biggest battle ever in Canadian military history.
A ceremonial send-off was held Monday, 2nd October 2017 at a warehouse in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The new monument parallels one installed in 2016r on the Halifax waterfront, called “The Last Steps Memorial Arch,” which marks the departure from Pier 2 of 350,000 soldiers who boarded ships bound for the killing fields of Belgium and France. That monument includes the dark prints of soldiers’ boots on a wooden gangway that points toward Halifax harbour.