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There are many river cruises in Singapore, and it is something very popular for tourists. Here is a river cruise boat on the water, a small number of visitors in the boat looking out of the boat. The boat is near the shore, and with large buildings on the shore. This building includes the One Fullerton plaza which is a large waterfront development.
There are many river cruises in Singapore, and it is something very popular for tourists. Here is an empty river cruise boat on the water, just next to a bridge on the water. In the background, just beyond the bridge is an overhead lighting support, meant for the Formula One race that is held in the night, and in behind those are the high rise buildings along with cranes at a construction site. The sky has a large number of white clouds.
Camera : Nikon D90
Lens : Nikkor 18-105mm VR
Location : under the Helix bridge.
Timing : around 6.30 am while light street still turn on
more info : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Helix_Bridge
Foundations of the Eiffel Tower frame a golden evening in Paris, France.
You may care to view my France Collection.
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LMS Stanier Pacific No. 6201 "Princess Elizabeth" at Glasgow Central Station on 12th November 2011.
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A man climbing a tall steel ladder on a barge right in front of the large floating platform in the Marina Bay area in Singapore. Not sure about what is being constructed, but since there are a number of events that take place on the floating platform and the Formula One race was about to happen in a month, it could be because of that. In the background are the windows of a large high rise building.
Pulling back to a wide interior view changes the Conservatory's argument entirely. Where a tight colonnade shot isolates a single vignette, this framing reveals the whole engineered sky above it: a barrel-vaulted glass roof laced with steel ribs, wrought-iron chandeliers hung at intervals like punctuation, all of it painted gold by the room's warm ambient light rather than daylight passing through the glazing.
A weathered stone obelisk holds the center, planted in a ring of red blooms atop patterned marble flooring, the one static, ancient-feeling element in a room otherwise built for constant seasonal turnover. Around it, the current display crowds in: oversized sculptural fruit, topiary spheres, a riot of costumed characters rendered in trimmed foliage, the kind of maximalist planting scheme the Conservatory rotates several times a year to keep locals coming back.
A level, centered vantage down the room's long axis does what architectural photography of atriums typically wants: it lets structure and spectacle share the frame without either one crowding out the other. Visitors scattered through the space, mid-photograph themselves, supply the sense of scale that the columns and vaulting alone couldn't convey, confirming just how large this indoor garden really is.
Aqua Raffles
Temporary Suspended Platform
Jeddah KSA - 2020
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The Angel of the North is a contemporary sculpture, designed by Antony Gormley, located in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England.
Completed in 1998, it is a steel sculpture of an angel, 20 metres (66 ft) tall, with wings measuring 54 metres (177 ft) across. The wings do not stand straight sideways, but are angled 3.5 degrees forward; Gormley did this to create "a sense of embrace". The angel like much of Gormley's other work is based on a cast of his body.
It stands on the hill of Birtley, at Low Eighton in Lamesley, overlooking the A1 and A167 roads into Tyneside, and the East Coast Main Line rail route, south of the site of Team Colliery.
Work began on the project in 1994, and cost £800,000. Most of the project funding was provided by the National Lottery. The Angel was installed on 15 February 1998.
Due to its exposed location, the sculpture was built to withstand winds of over 100 mph (160 km/h). Thus, foundations containing 600 tonnes (590 long tons; 660 short tons) of concrete anchor the sculpture to rock 70 feet (21 m) below. The sculpture was built at Hartlepool Steel Fabrications Ltd using COR-TEN weather-resistant steel. It was made in three parts—with the body weighing 100 tonnes (98 long tons; 110 short tons) and two wings weighing 50 tonnes (49 long tons; 55 short tons) each—then brought to its site by road. The components were transported in convoy—the body on a 48-wheel trailer—from their construction site in Hartlepool, up the A19 road to the installation site 28 miles (45 km) away; the nighttime journey took five hours and attracted large crowds.
The Angel aroused some controversy in British newspapers, at first, including a "Gateshead stop the statue" campaign, while local councillor Martin Callanan was especially strong in his opposition. However, it has since been considered to be a landmark for North East England and has been listed by one organisation as an "Icon of England". It has often been used in film and television to represent Tyneside, as are other local landmarks such as the Tyne Bridge and the Gateshead Millennium Bridge.
The sculpture is also humorously known by some local people as the "Gateshead Flasher", because of its location and appearance
A cloud of vapour languishes beneath the roof of Perth Station after the departure of the Great Britain V steam hauled express train for the south on 24th April 2012.
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Temporary Suspended Platform using special fabricated hanging brackets
King Saud University KSU
Riyadh KSA - 2020
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