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Skating on lake Mälaren.../Vidsträckt, en långfärdskridskoåkare ut i Mälaren.../Espacioso...patinando en el lago Mälaren...(DSC_8679-13)
Das Palais im Großen Garten, auch bezeichnet als Sommer- oder Gartenpalais, ist ein ab 1679 errichtetes barockes Lustschloss in Dresden. Es befindet sich im Großen Garten, einer weitläufigen Grünanlage am Rande des Stadtzentrums.
Das Palais gilt als erster bedeutender Profanbau in Sachsen, der nach dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg errichtet wurde. Es ist außerdem eines der frühesten Barockbauwerke im deutschsprachigen Raum und zählt zu den kunst- und kulturhistorisch wichtigsten Gebäuden Dresdens. Es gilt als „Auftakt“ zum Dresdner Barock.
The Palais in the Great Garden, also known as the summer or garden palace, is a baroque pleasure palace in Dresden that was built in 1679. It is located in the Großer Garten, a spacious green area on the outskirts of the city center.
The palace is considered the first important secular building in Saxony to be built after the Thirty Years' War. It is also one of the earliest baroque buildings in the German-speaking world and is one of the most important buildings in Dresden in terms of art and cultural history. It is considered the "prelude" to Dresden Baroque.
Poudre Canyon, Colorado. Looking toward the crags, the clouds and sky were exceptional this day!
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When it came to the Moscow Metro, I had a good idea what to expects, but the reality was something else. Spacious, stunning, immacculate and clean hardly covers it. There were very few people, Alla said that was because trains come every 90 seconds. Each station has a unique theme, there are no billboards, I could have spent a day visiting stations and riding the trains; this was railway heaven beyond my wildest dreams.
This shot of Mayakovskaya Metro station. The Moscow metro is a marvel of urban design. Every day, as many as 9 million people use the metro system -- that's more than in New York and London combined. As well as being one of the most efficient and cheapest underground transit systems in the world, the Moscow Metro is also undoubtedly one of the most beautiful. The brainchild of the tsars but finally put into action by Stalin, whose idea to make the city’s metro stations “palaces for the people” has translated into some truly spectacular, subterranean architectural gems. It’s possible to spend an entire day or more travelling the metro and exploring the vast array of ornate stations; each constructed and decorated in its own unique way. There are 215 stations on 14 lines.
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Coming back to the musicians of the younger generation, some say few of them play with their heart. Competitions as a way of starting a career in music is devastating. And then there is the rise of recording business where audience would listen with the sheet music on hand ! And then the undue influence of the so-called critiques -- mostly paid one way or the other-- turning music into a money making machine, promoting populism even in classical music. Few musicians nowadays improvise anymore and rubato is a rarity; too many scales and etudes instead. Furtwangler used to interprete music there and then, so every time is different, making music a multi-facet expressive and organic entity. The tradition is gone. The change of modern human relationship, following the rise of metropolitan city life particularly so with the breaking down of families and family ties. Does one need to know life better before he actually knows about arts, the imitation of life ? Making things worse, noisy factories are full steam ahead... All in all, only 3-5 % of the population are still listening to classical music these days, according to numerous surveys! I, nevertheless, find the following players charming:
Josef Hassid: " Fritz Kreisler... said: 'A fiddler like Heifetz is born every 100 years; one like Hassid every 200 years.’’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhKkjIC2SWk&list=RDPhKkjIC2SW...
Auer's other pupils like Efrem Zimbalist,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXfIQ6yV3T4
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Or, Toscha Seidel
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTvLxByYoDk
Likewise, Manuel Quiroga
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwyEx9Es9gE
Jacques Thibaud and Szigeti are impressive and there is Vasa Prihoda too.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH3SQBO8UiQ
Gluck - Melody
By S. Rachmaninoff
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2O0mVzmftY
By Guiomar Novaes
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By Nelson Freire ( traces of scales exercises are evident )
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Marina Tarasova - Prokofiev Cello Sonata in C Major
A peaceful city square called Altstädter Kirchenplatz (Old Town Church Square). In this view, the church is behind me. It's a fairly cool fall day, but there's still some afternoon sun, and two people are sitting in the sun straight ahead. The Old Town got a new look after a major fire in 1706, and was modeled on the New Town built a few years earlier. Erlangen has a spacious modern look that sets it apart from most Bavarian or Franconian cities with medieval roots. [DSC00070-2_lr_2000]
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Each and every moment of existence, no matter how stressful or how fleeting, contains the potential for spaciousness.
— Anne Bogart
Sit with a cup of tea before sipping. Close your eyes and breathe for a while before reading. Give yourself a little space. Feel your soul arriving in restfulness.
"...for spacious skies..."
That's the first line of a poem written by Katherine Lee Bates in 1893, as she traveled by train to Colorado Springs, and then to the top of Pikes Peak. Her poem became a patriotic song,
"America the Beautiful", that many people have wanted as a replacement for "The Star Spangled Banner" as the National Anthem.
This picture was taken from the Cog Rail train, near the summit of Pikes Peak (a "Fourteener" at 14,115 feet, 4302 m), supposedly the view that inspired Bates' poem.
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Spacious Sky's Happy 4th of July, our Nations official birthday, may you all have a safe and happy holiday!
«Τί γύρευα ὅταν ἔφτασες βαμμένη ἀπ᾿ τὴν ἀνατολὴ τὸν ἥλιου
Μὲ τὴν ἡλικία τῆς θάλασσας στὰ μάτια
Καὶ μὲ τὴν ὑγεία τὸν ἥλιου στὸ κορμὶ - τί γύρευα
Βαθιὰ στὶς θαλασσοσπηλιὲς μὲς στὰ εὐρύχωρα ὄνειρα
Ὅπου ἄφριζε τὰ αἰσθήματά του ὁ ἄνεμος;
Ἄγνωστος καὶ γλαυκὸς χαράζοντας στὰ στήθια μου
τὸ πελαγίσιο του ἔμβλημα.»
Οδυσσέας Ελύτης, "Ἡλικία τῆς γλαυκῆς θύμησης" ("Προσανατολισμοί", 1940)
«What was I looking for when you came painted with the sunrise
The age of the sea within your eyes
And on your body the sun’s vigor – what was I looking for
Deep within sea-caverns amid spacious dreams
Where the emotions foamed of a wind
Anonymous and blue, engraving on my chest its sea emblem.»
Odysseus Elytis, "Age of Blue Memory" (From "The Sovereign Sun: Selected Poems", 1974)
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1979/elytis/biograph...
makes your throat dry and you become kind of gooey inside, it's love. Don't fight it. Take out that Leica M that you're still paying off and start shooting.
Mason Resnick
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brown bear, AWCC, Seward Highway, Girdwood, Alaska
The Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center (AWCC) is a non-profit sanctuary located in Portage Valley, Alaska, dedicated to preserving Alaska’s wildlife through conservation, education, research, and quality animal care. The center takes in orphaned and injured animals year-round and provides them with a forever home. The sanctuary maintains over 200 acres of spacious habitats for resident animals to feel at home displaying their natural wild behavior as education ambassadors for their species.
view of the western part (from the garden) of the Walewscy Palace in Walewice
Classicist building designed by Hilary Szpilowski or Stanislaw Zawadzki, built in 1773-1783 by Anastazy Walewski (chamberlain to King Stanislaw August Poniatowski); located on the Mroga River.
The palace is counted among the most interesting examples of classicist country seats in Poland, built at the end of the 18th century. The front faces east. It consists of a one-story rectangular main body and one-story side pavilions, also built on a rectangular plan, connected with the main body by communication galleries broken at right angles. The premise is based on the Palladian style, very popular in Poland in the second half of the 18th and first 19th centuries. From the front, the palace has a massive, four-column Ionic battered portico topped with a triangular pediment (tympanum) with the coat of arms of Pomian, the later owner Stanislaw Grabiński. From the garden there are two prominent extreme (side) risalits. Inside the palace, large representative halls with decorative brick fireplaces and elaborate furnishings were created, as well as spacious palace rooms. In one of the pavilions original painted wallpaper from the 19th century with mythological motifs has been preserved.
On May 4, 1810, the son of Napoleon Bonaparte and Maria Walewska, Alexander Colonna-Walewski, later French ambassador to Great Britain and foreign minister to Napoleon III, was born there. He also became heir to the estate, which he sold to Maria Walewska's brother, Teodor Łączyński, in 1831.
Much of the palace's charm is added by the perfect composition of the building with an extensive landscape park designed by Walerian Kronenberg. Original late Baroque and classicist sandstone sculptures depicting Mars, Venus, and Diana have been preserved there, as well as two hermits and an armed man in ancient costume.
In the mid-19th century, the palace and its estate passed into the hands of the Grabiński family of the Pomian coat of arms. The Grabinskis modernized and rebuilt the palace at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, established a stud farm for half-breed horses (Anglo-Arabians), developed the breeding of cockerel sheep (the only one in the country), a huge fish farm (on more than 100 hectares of ponds), a factory of potato flour and starch. The last owners of Walewice were papal chamberlain Stanislaw Bohdan Grabiński and his wife Jadwiga, née hr. Potocki, and after his death in 1930 their minor children Stanislaw Wojciech, Maria, Wladyslaw, Róża and Jan Grabiński. The palace still contains some of the furnishings and furniture from the last owners.
During World War II, on the night of September 9-10, 1939, the 17th Regiment of Wielkopolska Uhlans from Gniezno of the Wielkopolska Cavalry Brigade fought battles for the Palace and the village of Walewice during the Battle of the Bzura River.
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Lacock Abbey is a quirky country house, developed over the centuries around a former 13th century nunnery, and the birthplace of modern photography. It is set in spacious wooded grounds, with plenty of space to picnic, and is now recognisable from films varying from Pride and Prejudice to Harry Potter.
It was home to the Fox Talbot family. In the early 19th century, polymath William Henry Fox Talbot invented the photographic negative, a cornerstone in the rise of photography as both an art and a popular hobby.
His achievements are celebrated in the Abbey itself and in a museum of photography, which also hosts a rolling programme of photography exhibitions.
Camping Class Notes!
THE STAIKA IS ALL ABOUT SIMPLE – but simple does not by any means equate to “sparse.” Easy to pitch, immensely stable, remarkably spacious, and quite light, the Staika is an excellent “go to” tent for any use where sturdy strength is the high priority. We originally designed the Staika for paddle tourers, who wanted a highly stable, fully free standing tent for handling tricky pitching conditions. Since then, it has garnered a large, loyal following amongst a wide assortment of other adventurers: mountaineers, polar travelers, and ski tourers find it a supremely stable base camp tent in all conditions; bicycle tourers love its simplicity and completely free standing construction; and even regular backpackers find great comfort in its roominess and relatively light weight as well as in its strength and stability.
“Staika” means “high,” or “pointed” in Sami, the language of the people indigenous to northern Scandinavia.
One can see for many miles from this spot on Beartooth Pass.
I count at least 10 lakes or ponds from here. Long lake the largest in view, in the center.
Here looking south as one climbs Beartooth Pass. The Beartooth Highway climbs to 10,350 feet in Montana and 10,947 in Wyoming—the highest highway elevation in both states. The Absaroka mountain range is in the distance.
"The Beartooth Highway was opened on June 14, 1936. Heralded as one of the most scenic drives in the United States, the Beartooth Highway, a National Scenic Byways All-American Road, features breathtaking views of the Absaroka and Beartooth Mountains, and open high alpine plateaus dotted with countless glacial lakes, forested valleys, waterfalls and wildlife."
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A challenging drive as there are so many jaw dropping views as you drive the frequently winding curving road. Popular for motorcyclists as well.
In the beginning, O God, you made heaven and earth in your Word, in your Son, in your Power, in your Wisdom, in your Truth, speaking in a wondrous way and working in a wondrous way. Who shall comprehend it? Who shall declare it? What is that which shines through me and strikes my heart without injuring it? I both shudder and glow with passion: I shudder, in as much as I am unlike it; I glow with passion in as much as I am like to it.
-Saint Augustine, “Wisdom Itself,” vol. 11, chap. 9, The Confessions of St. Augustine, trans. John K. Ryan (Garden City: Image, 1960), 284.
In Town Hall Square in the old town section of Tallinn, Estonia. Today’s Tallinn Town Hall was built in 1402-1404. Then there were spacious halls for solemn events. In 1483 a 64 meters high tower was added to the building. In 1530 a weathercock in the form of a guardian was erected on its spire. The townspeople nicknamed him Old Toomas. Today this guard is one of the recognizable symbols of Tallinn.
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Fort Morgan, AL: Fort Morgan is a historic masonry pentagonal bastion fort at the mouth of Mobile Bay, Alabama, United States. It was fired upon during the Civil Ware Battle of Mobile Bay. Named for Revolutionary War hero Daniel Morgan, it was built on the site of the earlier Fort Bowyer, an earthen and stockade type fortification involved in the final land battles of the War of 1812.
Sunset over the San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado, with the expansive San Luis Valley in the foreground. One of the outstanding features of the San Luis Valley is it's sheer size, which this image captures fairly well. The valley is 120 miles long and over 50 miles wide and has an average elevation of 7,765 ft. above sea level. The road that cuts through the left foreground of the picture is known as the "T Road" and runs between Highway 17 and the small town of Crestone, CO, which sits at the feet of the Sangre de Cristo Range on the east side of the valley. Just 10 miles south of Crestone, as the crow flies, is the beautiful and spectacular Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve.
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Foreboding clouds move across the landscape as the last of sunlight warms the largest of the ancient Glass House mountains. A sole tree takes in the view grateful for the unperturbed spaciousness all around.
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Valencia is the third largest city in Spain. Valencia is located on the Costa del Azahar on the Mediterranean Sea and is considered the birthplace of paella, one of the most famous dishes in Spanish cuisine. Valencia is also known as the orange city. Valencia is Spain's third economic engine, after Madrid and Barcelona. Valencia was founded in 138 BC. under the name Valentia Edetanorum, by a Roman leader. Valencia has a Mediterranean climate with warm summers and very mild winters. Valencia, like the entire region of Valencia, is officially bilingual; they speak both Spanish and Valencian. Valencian is very closely related to Catalan. Spanish Valencia is more than beach and paella. The highlight that you do not want to miss are the modern buildings of Calatrava. The 'Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències' or 'the City of Arts and Sciences' is a cultural and scientific complex of seven special buildings designed by Calatrava and is located in the drained Turia River of Valencia. It includes Spain's finest aquarium L'Oceanographic, a planetarium, an IMAX theatre, a science museum and a striking event hall. This science park is definitely the number one attraction of Valencia!
Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía is Calatrava's showpiece. The construction of this opera complex started in 1995 and has been open since 2005. It is about 75 meters high with an area of 40,000 m2. There are four halls in the complex. One of the reasons the construction took so long was because Calatrava wanted the inside of La Sala Principal completely covered with dark blue mosaic of Valencian ceramics. It takes a lot of work anyway to mosaic such a large hall, but the acoustics also have to be perfect. Surprisingly, by placing wooden balconies in an undulating movement in the room, excellent acoustics have been achieved.
Valencia is twee na grootste stad van Spanje. Valencia ligt aan de Costa del Azahar aan de Middellandse Zee en geldt als geboorteplaats van de paella, een van de bekendste gerechten uit de Spaanse keuken. Valencia wordt ook wel de sinaasappelstad genoemd. Valencia is de derde economische motor van Spanje, na Madrid en Barcelona. Valencia werd gesticht in 138 v.Chr. onder de naam Valentia Edetanorum, door een Romeinse leider. Valencia heeft een mediterraan klimaat met warme zomers en zeer milde winters. Valencia is, net als de gehele regio Valencia, officieel tweetalig; men spreekt er zowel Spaans als Valenciaans. Het Valenciaans is zeer sterk verwant aan het Catalaans. Het Spaanse Valencia is meer dan strand en paella. Het hoogtepunt die je niet wilt missen zijn de moderne bouwwerken van Calatrava. Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía is het paradepaardje van Calatrava. De bouw van dit operacomplex startte al in 1995 en is sinds 2005 geopend. Het is zo’n 75 meter hoog met een oppervlakte van 40.000 m2. Er zijn vier zalen in het complex. Eén van de redenen dat de bouw zo lang duurde, was omdat Calatrava de binnenkant van La Sala Principal volledig wilde voorzien van donkerblauw mozaïek van Valenciaans keramiek. Nu kost het sowieso veel werk om zo’n grote zaal te mozaïeken, maar de akoestiek heeft natuurlijk ook nog eens perfect zijn. Door in de zaal houten balkons in een golvende beweging te plaatsen, is er verrassend genoeg gezorgd voor een uitstekende akoestiek.
Throw back from the archives--- two years ago we had a great trip through Arizona, including a couple of days at the Grand Canyon. This is one of many wondrous views along the canyon south rim
Following route 550, you will first pass Langjökull on the left, the second largest glacier in Iceland with its majestic forms of packed ice. A little further to the east, the gravel road takes some deep, rolling waves and then ends in a spacious left-hand bend until you come to this point.
Rain, low-hanging, mountain-enveloping cloud fields only showed the bright glow of a mysterious something between my windshield wipers and then, like in a movie ...
the fog bank slides open like a theater curtain. I got out of my car, stared at this scene for minutes and more. I don't know who took this photo, I drove alone, but I can't find any memory of touching the shutter release myself. What focal length, what aperture? Nothing, I just don't know, can't remember a thing!
Too pleading, the gesture of the outflows, like arms from the opposite of the valley, of which the streams of its glacier tongues find their finite bed in the river below.
You feel so infinitely small in this environment.
It is our world, from every creature, woman, man, child or grandchild, which looked down at me this moment and ...
as we all know, there is only This One.
Majestic, yet fragile