View allAll Photos Tagged Real
Zima Real Bus Line LLC
6949 Harrisburg Blvd
Houston TX 77011
713-923-9116
Charter Bus Service
& Tour Bus Rental
Laredo Texas
San Antonio Texas
Houston Texas
Eagle Pass Texas
McAllen Texas
Brownsville Texas
Roma Texas
Edinburg Texas
National & International Bus & Coach Rental
tonight I had the honor of photographing a chuck wagon cook out for a group of wounded veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, what a humbling experience to be with these men and their wives. Every year a man in Midland puts on a "hunt for heroes" and for 5 days these men and women are treated like the royalty they are. Thanks to you young folks I got to meet tonight, and to all veterans, freedom is never free!
Es una de las regiones habitadas más altas del paÃs, pues tiene una altitud de 2 760 m sobre el nivel del mar. Debido principalmente a su notable altura, predomina el clima frÃo. La región se nubla con facilidad y llueve con frecuencia; durante el invierno se acentúa el frÃo y ocasionalmente nieva, ofreciendo un espectáculo de ensueño.
no chocolate for these hollywood dolls! used: teat time collection #3; natalie's french treats #8; grandma's european kitchen #1&7. day 297.
Sally Forster Jones is widely considered an authority on the U.S. real estate luxury market. A top agent with John Aaroe Group and specializing in luxury real estate, Sally Forster Jones has achieved more than $1.5 billion in real estate sales over the past decade and represents exquisite properties including co-brokered the sales transaction for the Spelling Manor -- which is currently the highest known residential real estate brokerage sale in the history of Los Angeles.
Sally Forster Jones Group - John Aaroe Group
150 S. Rodeo Drive, Suite 100
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
(310) 691-7888
Shortly before passing away, George Harrison said (in one of his latest songs): "If you don´t know where you are going, any road will take you there.".
Only one thing can be added to that, the farther you go from Buenos Aires, the better this thing gets.
The Alcázar of Seville, officially called Royal Alcázar of Seville (Spanish: Real Alcázar de Sevilla or Reales Alcázares de Sevilla),[1] is a historic royal palace in Seville, Spain. It was formerly the site of the Islamic-era citadel of the city, begun in the 10th century and then developed into a larger palace complex by the Abbadid dynasty (11th century) and the Almohads (12th to early 13th centuries). After the Castilian conquest of the city in 1248, the site was progressively rebuilt and replaced by new palaces and gardens. Among the most important of these is a richly-decorated Mudéjar-style palace built by Pedro I during the 1360s.[2][3]
The palace is a preeminent example of Mudéjar style in the Iberian Peninsula and also includes sections with Gothic and Renaissance elements. The upper stories of the Alcázar are still occupied by the royal family when they visit Seville and are administered by the Patrimonio Nacional. It was registered in 1987 by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, along with the adjoining Seville Cathedral and the General Archive of the Indies.[4]
Islamic era
In the year 712, Seville was conquered by the Umayyad Caliphate. In the year 913–914, after a revolt against Cordoba's government, the first caliph of Al-Andalus Abd al-Rahman III built a fortified construction in place of a Visigothic Christian basilica.[9] It was a quadrangular, roughly square enclosure about 100 meters long on each side, fortified with walls and rectangular towers, and annexed to the city walls.[10][11] In the 11th century, during the Taifa period, the Abbadid king Al-Mu'tamid expanded the complex southwards and eastwards,[10] with a new southern enclosure measuring approximately 70 by 80 meters.[11] This new palace was called Al Mubarak (Arabic: المبارك).[2] Various additions to the construction such as stables and warehouses were also carried out.[9]
Towards 1150, the Almohad Caliphs began to develop Seville as their capital in Al-Andalus. The Almohad governor extended the fortified complex to the west, nearly doubling its size. At least six new courtyard palaces were constructed in the old enclosures and nine palaces were added in the western extensions.[11] In 1163 the caliph Abu Ya'qub Yusuf made the Alcazar his main residence in the region.[9][11] He further expanded and embellished the palace complex in 1169, adding six new enclosures to the north, south, and west sides of the existing palaces. The works were carried out by architects Ahmad ibn Baso and 'Ali al-Ghumari.[11] With the exception of the walls, nearly all previous buildings were demolished, and a total of approximately twelve palaces were built.[10] Among the new structures was a very large garden courtyard, now known as the Patio del Crucero, which stood in the old Abbadid enclosure. Between 1171 and 1198 an enormous new congregational mosque was built on the north side of the Alcazar (later transformed into the current Cathedral of Seville). A shipyard was also built nearby in 1184 and a textiles market in 1196.[11]
There are few remnants of these Islamic-era constructions today. Archaeological remains of the Al Mubarak Palace are currently preserved under Patio de la Monteria. Several wall painting fragments were found that are now exhibited in the Palacio del Yeso.[9] The courtyard buildings now known as the Palacio del Yeso (or Patio del Yeso), the Palacio de la Contratación, and the Patio del Crucero all preserve remains from the Almohad period
Christian era
Seville was conquered in 1248 by Ferdinand III of Castile. The former Moorish palace-citadel was taken over by the Castilian monarchs and underwent significant reconstruction and modification, such that most of the Islamic-era structure has since disappeared.[12]
A Gothic-style palace was built on the site in 1258 for Alfonso X (Ferdinand's successor).[3] It stood on the site of the present-day Patio del Crucero, incorporating and preserving parts of the Almohad-era courtyard that was found here, including the Islamic-style garden divided into quadrants by two intersecting paths. Over these paths and around the courtyard, Gothic-style vaults and pointed arches were added, along with a hall divided into several naves. Corners towers containing spiral staircases granted access to an upper terrace.[13] Of the Gothic palace today, only the upstairs Sala de las Bóvedas and the Baños de MarÃa de Padilla, with their Gothic cross-ribbed vaults, have been preserved or partially preserved.[13]
In the mid-14th century, Alfonso XI commissioned the construction of a new throne hall known as the Hall of Justice, which commemorated his victory at the Battle of RÃo Salado (1340).[2] It is attached to the Patio del Yeso, an Almohad-era courtyard, and also serves as its antechamber. This new addition was made in a Mudéjar style, with stucco decoration and an overall arrangement of elements directly based on contemporary Islamic Andalusi architecture.[2]
1895 photo of a Mudéjar room in the palace
In the 1360s, much of the complex was rebuilt by Pedro I in an ornate Mudéjar style.[2] The palace includes a monumental façade, a courtyard (the present-day Patio de las Doncellas), and a great domed hall known as the Hall of the Ambassadors (Salon de los Embajadores). A Latin inscription on the palace façade includes the year 1364 while an Arabic inscription in the Hall of Ambassadors gives the year 1366, which indicate the probable dates for the start and completion of construction, respectively.[2] The architecture of Pedro I's palace has strong similarities to the contemporary Nasrid palaces of the Alhambra in Granada, although the complicated chronology of construction and renovations at both sites makes it difficult to determine what roles they might have played in influencing each other's designs.[2] It is likely that Muhammad V, the Nasrid ruler of Granada and Pedro I's ally, sent craftsmen to Seville to help assist in the palace's construction and decoration.[14] Under the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella (d. 1504) and Fernando (d. 1516), the upper floor of the palace was extended and transformed into their main residence.[9]
The palace was the birthplace of Infanta Maria Antonietta of Spain (1729–1785), daughter of Philip V of Spain and Elisabeth Farnese, when the king was in the city to oversee the signing of the Treaty of Seville (1729) which ended the Anglo-Spanish War (1727).[10] Much of the old Gothic Palace of Alfonso X was destroyed during the 1755 Lisbon earthquake.[13]
from wikipedia
Kids from adjacent slum collect discarded plastic water bottles to exchange for cash after a campaign rally, Kemayoran, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Andrew Wyeth
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
U.S. watercolourist and worker in tempera noted primarily for painting in a realistic manner the old buildings, the fields and hills, and the people of his private world.
Wyeth's father, N.C. Wyeth, was a well-known illustrator who had studied under Howard Pyle and who served as his son's only teacher. Andrew Wyeth, born July 12, 1917, Chadds Ford, Pa., U.S, presented his first one-man show in New York City in 1937. The subject matter of Wyeth's pictures comes almost entirely from two localities, the Brandywine Valley around Chadds Ford and the area near his summer home in Cushing, Maine. Wyeth uses a restricted palette mostly of earth colours but capable of hundreds of muted harmonies. His technique is precise and detailed, yet he lifts his paintings above photographic naturalism with an unreal, visionary quality.
His best known painting, "Christina's World" (1948; Museum of Modern Art, New York City), exemplifies his mastery of unusual angles of perspective and his use of light to pinpoint time. Other works include "The Trodden Weed" (1951), said to have appealed to the former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, and "Nicholas" (1955), admired by U.S. Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Wyeth was the first painter to receive the Presidential Freedom Award (1963) conferred by U.S. Pres. John F. Kennedy. In 1977 he became the first American artist since John Singer Sargent to be elected to the French Académie des Beaux-Arts, and in the next year he became an honorary member of the Soviet Academy of the Arts. In 1980 he became the first living American artist to be elected to Britain's Royal Academy. His exhibition at the Whitney Museum in New York City in 1967 established a new attendance record for that institution.
Wyeth's technical resources are remarkable, but more important are his insight into the accretions of living that have left their mark on the people he paints and his ability to convey a sense of generations of living in his paintings of old houses and their interiors.
El Palacio Real de Madrid es la residencia oficial de Su Majestad el Rey de España, que lo emplea en las ceremonias de Estado, aunque no habita en él.
El origen del palacio se remonta al siglo IX en el que el reino musulmán de Toledo construyó una edificación defensiva que después usaron los reyes de Castilla, sobre la que en el Siglo XVI, se construyó el Antiguo Alcázar.
Destruido este por un incendio en la Nochebuena de 1734, Felipe V quiso que el Palacio Nuevo ocupase el mismo lugar. Toda la construcción se hizo abovedada, en piedra y ladrillo, sin madera, para que ningún incendio pudiera destruirlo.
Las obras se realizaron entre 1738 y 1755, estableciendo Carlos III su residencia en él en 1764.
Para su decoración interior, se emplearon ricos materiales: mármoles españoles, estucos, madera de caoba en puertas y ventanas e importantes obras de arte, en especial las pinturas al fresco de los principales artistas del momento como Giaquinto,Tiepolo o Mengs y sus seguidores españoles Bayeu y Maella.
La decoración del Palacio Real de Madrid ha ido cambiando con el paso del tiempo según los diferentes estilos artÃsticos de cada momento. Del reinado de Carlos III se conservan el Salón del Trono, la Cámara del Rey (o de Gasparini) y la Sala de Porcelana, obra de la Real Fábrica del Buen Retiro. Del reinado de Carlos IV destaca el Salón de Espejos y de época Alfonso XII el Comedor de Gala.
Palacio Real, Madrid, 28 April 2008. Also known as the Palacio de Oriente. Built on the site of an old Moorish fortress, it was begun by Philip V in 1737 to a Berniniesque design by Filippo Juvarra and completed in 1764 to a modified design by Giovanni Battista Sacchetti and Francesco Sabatini. It is the largest functioning palace in Europe. The adjacent Neo-classical Jardines de Sabatini (from where this picture is taken) by Fernando Garcia Mercadel were laid out in 1933.
Esta foto no es mìa, pero encajaba perfectamente con este enfoque antiguo que no pude repetir por culpa de unos andamios...
Puertollano (Ciudad Real), 31 de mayo de 2022.- El presidente de Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano GarcÃa-Page, preside el acto institucional celebrado con motivo del DÃa de la Región en Puertollano en el que se han entregado las distinciones con las que el Ejecutivo castellano-manchego premia la trayectoria de destacados vecinos e instituciones de la Comunidad Autónoma. (Fotos: D. Esteban González - A. Pérez Herrera // JCCM)
Model: Ili, Eric, Cristelle, Alexandra, Elodie, Julien, Serge, Clarisse
" //// Real bad things"
Une expo de mes photos à voir du 13 au 23 août 2009 au belvédère de Namur (sur la citadelle)
Plus d'infos ici: www.belvedere-namur.be/
ou encore sur la page facebook de l'évènement www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=112872182201&ref=ts
" //// Real bad things"
An exposition of my artwork (13-23/08/2009) at "the belvedere" on the citadel of Namur
More infos here: www.belvedere-namur.be/ or on the facebook event page: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=112872182201&ref=ts
Shadow would like a bird like this in real life,,,
A thoughtful and emotional coming of age story about a gay black pHd student.
This is inspired by all the creepy things that go bump in the night.
Lighting:
Alienbee b800 to camera left
speedlight behind the trunk pointed towards wall
The Real Thing
American Airlines Theatre
Cast List:
Ewan McGregor
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Cynthia Nixon
Josh Hamilton
Ronan Raferty
Alex Breaux
Madeline Weinstein
Production Credits:
Sam Gold (Direction)
David Zinn (Scenic Design)
Kaye Voyce (Costume Design)
Mark Barton (Lighting Design)
Bray Poor (Sound Design)
Other Credits:
Written by: Tom Stoppard
Photos by Joan Marcus