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I remember way back when reading about the controversy of Pei’s pyramid, but I love the contrast of new and old.
Lovely to see the pyramidal orchids coming into flower. Just a handful at the moment, but the more I looked, there were absolutely masses of buds, so in a while, the bank will be a mass of pink.
The vast funerary complex of king Djoser at Saqqara is the earliest in Egypt to make extensive use of stone masonry. Surrounded by a 10-m high fortification wall lined with bastions like those seen in the foreground, it can only be entered through one gate at the southeast. Behind looms the stepped mastaba (conceived as five "bench" tombs stacked on top of one another) concealing a network of subterranean burial chambers. The tallest monument in the world in its day, it inaugurates the period of rapid innovation that culminated in the enormous 4th-dynasty pyramids of Khufu and Khafre at Giza.
Commissioned by the 3rd Dynasty king Djoser to celebrate his eternal rule as a divinity (reflected by his ruling title Netjerikhet), the many architectural innovations found here are credited to the designer Imhotep, the first architect whose name has been recorded for posterity. Old Kingdom, early 3rd Dynasty, 27th century BCE.
Giant's Causeway, Antrim, Northern Ireland.
The Giant's Causeway, located in County Antrim, on the northeast coast of Northern Ireland, is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption. The tops of the columns form stepping stones that lead from the cliff foot and disappear under the sea. Most of the columns are hexagonal, although there are also some with four, five, seven and eight sides. The tallest are about 12 metres high, and the solidified lava in the cliffs is 28 metres thick in places.
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Les pyramides de chaussures sont de retour, après deux années d'absence, en raison du COVID 19 et de ses mesures sanitaires.
Accessible only by a boat or hazardous swim, Pyramid Rock is a remnant of a lava flow resting on a basement of Woolamai Granite. At low tide there is an extensive area of granite exposed, the largest outcrop of this material outside Cape Woolamai. The basalt is surrounded by an apron of coarse scree and gravel beaches, the dark colour of this material contrasting with the lighter coloured granite. This is one of the few locations on Phillip Island where the lava flows are absent or very thin and represents a high point on the pre-volcanic land surface.
This is the best exposure of the base of the older volcanics on Phillip Island and a major example of the contact between the volcanics and the pre-volcanic land surface. The presence of inter-volcanic gravels indicates the Woolamai Granite was probably never completely covered by lava flows.
I re-processed a picture that I had previously posted and I think I like this version better. Feel free to let me know which version you like better. The Luxor Hotel & Casino HDR. (Combination of 3 photos -2ev and +2ev used CS3)
Pyramidal Orchids vary in colour deep pink to white and a single plant can produce up to 35000 seeds
This is from a breath taking at sunrise at Pyramid lake in early December. This is a 3 bracket shot. I love the reflections on this The orange rays in the clouds remind me the flames and burning embers of a dying camp fire.
Pyramid cam tracing a solargraph today.
Top half as it came out the camera bottom half rearranged in order.
On our last evening in Jasper, the weather cleared so we went to Patricia and Pyramid Lakes for the sunset. There wasn't much colour but there were beautiful reflections.
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
Pyramid Royal Books R290, 1957
Cover Artist: unknown
"The famous story of the inhuman creature who lurks forever in the human imagination."
Organisée en un réseau fédéral, avec un siège à Lyon et à Bruxelles, un bureau à Paris, Handicap International mène ses actions sur le terrain dans une soixantaine de pays.
Izamatul is the second largest pyramid of Izamal. There are 4 pyramids within the town of Izamal that are open to the public only since Dec 2023. Access is free.
Pyramid Izamatul Izamal, Yucatan, Mexico
A person selling colorful blankets with very beautiful and complicated Mexican style patterns. He was showing one of the blanket (by pulling it wide open) to foreign visitors when he saw them walking towards this way.
In the back is the Pyramid of the Moon.
La pyramide de verre a été construite au milieu de la cour Napoléon du Louvre. Elle a été voulue par le président de la République Française François Mitterrand en1983. Elle est a été conçue par l’architecte sino-américain Ieoh Ming Pei, elle a été achevée en 1989.