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There’s a party for every taste in Portugal. Almost every town has a saint day feast or a harvest festival, which can range from a stately procession to a multiday food and entertainment.
Rembrandt Tulips were very popular in the 17th century, when the famous painter Rembrandt loved to paint them. Seems these flamed tulips caused a craze back then.
This year I've noticed a lot of flamed tulips in borders in Flanders, Belgium, even in parks in Bruges. this one is from my own garden: we bought white-and-red ones, but this yellow-and-red one seems to have hidden in the packet ;-)
Popular spot spend time in Oulu. Watching the sea next to city theater and market area. The sea is very calm in that spot as it protected by surrounding islands
The Museum of Art and Popular Customs of Sevilla was created in 1972. The museum is dedicated to the ethnological heritage of Andalusia, both material and human. The objects and utensils on display document the customs, wisdom and ways of life of the traditional culture in the area.
It is set in the Mudejar Pavilion designed by architect Aníbal González for the 1929 Spanish-American Exhibition.
Its most important collections are devoted to ceramics, clothing and craft activities in Andalusia. Other important collections include the Aguiar collection of Costumbrist painting, the Soria collection of Oriental ivory and pottery, the Gestoso ceramics collection and, in particular, the Díaz Velázquez collection of lace and embroidery, one of the most important in Europe, the 6,000 items of which could fill a separate, specialist museum on their own. Sevilla's Council has also deposited its collection of original posters for the city's Spring Fair with the museum. Additions over the last decade include the acquisition of the Loty collection, comprising over 2,000 pieces of antique glassware with details of the city and the Andalusian way of life, from the beginning of the 20th century to 1936, two collections of toys and one of over 7,000 postcards.
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Museo de Artes y Costumbres Populares - Sevilla
El Museo de Artes y Costumbres Populares de la ciudad de Sevilla (Andalucía, España) está localizado en la plaza de América del parque de María Luisa. Al otro lado de la plaza se encuentra el Museo Arqueológico. Fue el pabellón de Arte Antiguo de la Exposición Iberoamericana de 1929.
Fue planteado como pabellón de Industrias, Manufacturas y Artes Decorativas. Finalmente, se le llamó pabellón de Arte Antiguo e Industrias Artísticas. Se trata de un edificio proyectado en 1913 y construido en 1914 por el arquitecto Aníbal González, autor también de los otros edificios levantados en la misma plaza de América. Es de ladrillo visto con motivos decorativos de cerámica. Por su estilo arquitectónico, fue conocido como el pabellón Mudéjar.
En principio constaba de dos plantas sobre una cámara de aireación para evitar la humedad. Se realiza una mejora durante la década de 1960 en la planta principal, que tenía más de doce metros de altura, y se dividió con una planta artificial (corresponde a la planta primera) por el arquitecto Antonio Delgado y Roig. En 1972 se unen las plantas con una gran escalera de caracol que diseña el arquitecto José Galnares Sagastizábal, trabajo que realiza después de que la construcción fuese designada para albergar el museo por el Decreto de Creación del Museo de Artes y Costumbres Populares de Sevilla, con fecha de 23 de marzo de 1972, constituido como una sección del Museo de Bellas Artes.
Sus funciones como museo se desarrollan desde el 4 de marzo de 1973, fecha en que abre sus puertas al público.
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Museum of Arts and Popular Customs of Seville
The Museum of Arts and Popular Customs of Seville (Spanish: Museo de Artes y Costumbres Populares) is a museum in Seville, Andalusia, Spain, located in the María Luisa Park, across the Plaza de América from the Provincial Archeological Museum.
The museum occupies the Mudéjar Pavilion (Pabellón Mudéjar) designed by Aníbal González and built in 1914. It served as an art pavilion, the Pabellón de Arte Antiguo, for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929, when Aníbal González had the opportunity to design several additional permanent buildings for the plaza. The exterior is ceramic over brick, and has three doors with archivolts adorned with glazed tiles (azulejos).[citation needed]
The building originally consisted of two stories over an aeration chamber (necessary because of the humidity). In the 1960s, the main floor, originally over 12 metres (39 ft) high, was divided in two, with an intermediate level added by architect Delgado Roig. In 1972, as part of the preparations for the current museum, the various stories of the building were connected by a grand spiral staircase designed by José Galnares Sagastizábal.
The museum was established by a decree of 23 March 1972, initially as a section of the Museum of Fine Arts of Seville. It opened its doors to the public 4 March 1973.[2] For the next seven years, the museum fell under the responsibility of the Ministry of Education and Science, but the city government occupied more than half of the poorly maintained building. Neither institution took full responsibility. This situation led to a series of temporary closures. In 1976, the electric bill could not be paid, and the museum had to be shut until it could get power again. In 1979, heavy rains damaged the interior.
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The Yonghe Temple Palace of Peace and Harmony, also known as the Yonghe Lamasery, or popularly as the Lama Temple, is a temple and monastery of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism located on 12 Yonghegong Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing, China. The building and artwork of the temple is a combination of Han Chinese and Tibetan styles. This building is one of the largest Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in China proper. The current abbot is Lama Hu Xuefeng. Building work on the Yonghe Temple started in 1694 during the Qing dynasty on the site where originally stood an official residence for court eunuchs of the Ming dynasty. After the Chinese Civil War ended in 1949, the temple was declared a national monument and closed for the following 32 years. It is said to have survived the Cultural Revolution due to the intervention of Premier Zhou Enlai. Reopened to the public in 1981, it is today both a functioning temple and highly popular tourist attraction in the city. 1681
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Redshanks, Dunlin, Black-tailed Godwit, Black-headed Gull and a juv Sandwich Tern rest on the ash lagoons at Musselburgh
A silhouetted dead tree with an eagle, a starling, and two Great Blue herons in its branches.
Iced texture used as a background...
Back by popular demand, not only because of the great photo but also because surfing at twilight has hazards one should know about ::-)
Even though the teeth of sharks are made for eating fish and other species with no vertebrae, they can mistake surfers as prey and "test bite" a silhouette or movement of.a surfer or swimmer for natural prey like seals; especially in murky waters or low visibility at twilight.
Also if they are provoked when humans initiate the interaction, such as by grabbing the animal, trying to touch it, or while spearfishing.
There is also the sensationalism of sharks as dangerous with mouths open wide as they swim rapidly, like in the movie Jaws. Instead they do this to force water through their gills to extract oxygen to breathe & survive, like Great Whites and Whale sharks.
When I was 15 before I had a surfboard, I was 'out the back' with the boardies at the point, with long flippers and a hand board, waiting for a big wave to catch. When going up one wave I looked to shore and saw many people a long way away racing out of the water, so I guessed the shark alarm had gone off.
I wasn't worried until my left leg cramped in the deep water. Not good, either I thought I was going to drown as I let my left long flipper go, and watched it sink deep, so as to better survive; and also to stop my leg from shaking so much. Sharks have an acute sense of hearing for low frequency sounds.
Then suddenly a big body surfer out there passed by and yelled "get on my back son", which I did quickly. As we caught the big wave passing and screamed down it, we saw a big shark swimming rapidly up and down through the water under us.. After that episode, I got into surf boards, like the picture featured above, but have never surfed at twilight.
Finally, I have also suddenly seen big sharks swimming around fast under water, when spear fishing ... and have just backed away slowly not to attract attention; and let go any fish caught as thats what sharks are after, not humans as their teeth are again not made for eating vertebrate backbones. Exciting huh? all the best :-))
This Milky Way photo was taken close to a popular beach with hundreds of visitors and cars by day and yet having an excellent night sky after the onset of astronomical twilight. The foreground was illuminated by the rotating lighthouse beam a few hundred meters away, thus providing a means of light painting of the scene.
Some of the most beautiful stories of ancient times refer to the silvery band of the Milky Way - a celestial river comprised by the light of billions of stars, that has traveled for thousands of years to reach our eyes. This majestic arc of light is more clearly visible on summer nights, when our gaze is towards the center of the Milky Way, which lies at about 25 thousand light years away - the brightest part of the band just above the tree and to left of the “Dark Horse” silhouette.
This band is bisected by obscuring clouds of interstellar dust, thus forming the “Great Galactic Rift”. The interstellar gas and dust gave birth to everything else in the Universe, including us - we are all made of stardust after all.
My deepest thanks and warmest wishes to everyone for 2025 - stay healthy and keep looking up!
Conocida popularmente como La Laguna, es una ciudad municipio que pertenece a la provincia de Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Fue la primera capital de la Isla y se dice que dio forma a las ciudades centroamericanas; por sus calles anchas y rectas, casas de poca altura para que pasen el aire y la luz, y una serie de características más. Nosotros visitamos el Casco Histórico, iniciando la visita frente a la Catedral.
OFICINA DE TURÍSMO, ubicada en la casa Alvarado Bracamonte o de los Capitanes.
C/ OBISPO Rey Redondo, 5
San Cristóbal de la Laguna - Tenerife
Nos facilitaron un plano de la ciudad que nos resultó muy útil para efectuar la visita a la misma, visitamos los exteriores de los siguientes lugares:
-Casa de la Alhóndiga
-Casa del Corregidor
-Ayuntamiento
-Convento de Santa Catalina de Siena
-Fundación Cristino de Vera
-Iglesia y ex convento de San Agustín
-Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Concepción
También visitamos ciertos lugares importantes que nos encontramos de paso en las visitas mencionadas. Todo el Casco Histórico es un monumento, en el que resaltan sus edificios delicadamente pintados en unos colores preciosos que contrastan entre ellos.
Taken at RSPB Titchwell.
This well worn perch is very popular and I have seen a variety of birds take advantage of it over the years.
I think it may have originally been part of a hide - but the rest of it has long gone.
Here it is the turn of a juvenile male Common Kestrel. Shortly after I took this shot he dropped vertically after some critter scurrying about at the base.
Taken in Norfolk.
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This churchyard overlooks the river Thames. And it's a popular place for birds of all kinds. HFF
HD Pentax-DA- 55-300mm f4.5-6.3 ED PLM WR RE
Lots of birds at the local restaurant today! I need to admit that the photo is a series of 5-6 shots (through a dirty kitchen window) and a few birds have been copied in ;)
CUIDADO "praga de urubu, caí ......................................."...enfim, melhor não arriscar né!
La historia reciente de Riaño está marcada por la traumática construcción del embalse que lleva su nombre, para lo cual, destruyó y posteriormente, se anegó, el pueblo original, el antiguo Riaño.
El proceso de construcción del pantano dio lugar a numerosas movilizaciones populares; enfrentamientos con las fuerzas del orden; e incluso suicidios, ante el desalojo de cada una de las casas para su posterior derribo por parte de la maquinaria del Estado. Fue llevada a cabo para la demolición de las casas por parte del gobierno, la ocupación militar de los pueblos de la comarca durante varios meses, realizándose así, el desalojo por la fuerza de los vecinos que se negaban a abandonarlas.
Un último dato digno de mención, que se suma a la gestión llevada a cabo en el proceso de destrucción de los valles de la comarca leonesa, fue el hecho de que el cierre de la presa de Riaño se produjese en la fecha del 31 de diciembre de 1987; cuando era conocida la circunstancia legal, de que a partir del 1 de enero de 1988 entraba en vigor la nueva directiva europea que prohibía la construcción de embalses como el de Riaño por motivos medioambientales; directiva relacionada con la protección de valles y pueblos de alta montaña en los territorios de la Comunidad Europea.
The recent history of Riaño is marked by the traumatic construction of the reservoir that bears its name, for which, destroyed, and subsequently flooded, the original town, the ancient Riaño.
The process of construction of the swamp gave rise to numerous popular mobilizations; Clashes with the forces of order; And even suicides, before the eviction of each one of the houses for its later demolition on the part of the machinery of the State. It was carried out for the demolition of houses by the government, the military occupation of the towns of the region for several months, thus effecting the eviction by force of the neighbors who refused to abandon them.
A final fact worthy of mention, which is added to the management carried out in the process of destruction of the valleys of the Leon region, was the fact that the closure of the dam of Riaño occurred on the date of December 31 Of 1987; When the legal circumstance was known, that from 1 January 1988 a new European directive was in force which prohibited the construction of reservoirs such as Riaño for environmental reasons; Directive relating to the protection of valleys and high mountain villages in the territories of the European Community.
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The popular name for this plant is actually a Christmas Cactus and I had originally planned to post it a few weeks ago. For whatever reason it never happened but rather than keep it for another year...
I did struggle with finding a composition that wasn't too cluttered because once this cactus starts flowering, it is covered in beautiful, but very short lived blooms.
Snapped as a whole, (at least by me!) it can look like a big red compost heap but trying to pick out an individual bloom can also be problematic.
William Albert Stanley Bert Oldfield MBE (9 September 1894, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia – 10 August 1976, Sydney, New South Wales) was an Australian cricket player and businessman. He played for New South Wales and Australia as wicket-keeper. Killara Park is in the suburb of Killara and is named after him. It is located at the corner of Rosebery Rd and Koola Ave. It has a international standard cricket pitch, tennis courts, pre school, tree garden, pet walking areas and children's playground. 36008
Some of the rare flowers left, like this dandelion, are very popular. Several Margined Calligrapher (Toxomerus marginatus), at least one Black-footed Globetail (Sphaerophoria philanthus) and another fly species are nectaring. The right-hand side fly looks smaller than the large Black-footed Globetail. Condie, Saskatchewan, Canada. 29 August 2022.
2025-26: Judge commended out of 2796 entries in Photocrowd 'Pollinators on Flowers (in colour)' in November 2025
2023-24: Judge commended out of 2045 entries in Photocrowd 'Dandelions (in colour)' June 2024.
2022-23: Judge commended of 1000 entries in Photocrowd 'Multiple Species of Wildlife' competition in October 2022.
... the Light and Color
A masterpiece of popular architecture, the Carrasqueira pier is unique in Europe, built on seemingly fragile irregular wooden stakes of the 1950s and 1960s, which serve as mooring for the fishing boats that lay there, sometimes buried in the mud or in the water, according to the tides.
Despite the degradation, the dock continues to fulfill the mission for which it was built: allow access to boats of fishermen, even during the low seas.
Integrated into the nature reserve of the Sado Estuary, the riverside village preserves an impressive network of staking that stretches hundreds of meters along the muddy estuaries of the river Sado.
A tourist attraction point, it is one of the most visited places in the municipality of Alcácer do Sal and one of the most famous spot for landscape photographers in Portugal.
Nikon D810 + Nikkor AF-S 15-35 f/4 ED VR @ 16 mm
ISO 200 - f/7.1 - 30 sec
Filter Used:
PROGREY G-150X holder + PROGREY AURORA GND 0.6 SE + PROGREY AURORA GND 0.6 HE