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Albarracín is a Spanish town, in the province of Teruel, part of the autonomous community of Aragon, a picturesque town surrounded by stony hills.
The town was declared a Monumento Nacional in 1961, and was voted "one of Spain's most beautiful villages" but who in the name of Christendom would want to live there?
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The family pool. This looks so ordinary, hard to believe, it was the home of the King of Rock n' Roll.
Graceland was an ambition realized for me. I checked so many 'must go' places off my list in this one trip. The mansion is only a small part of the Graceland experience, across the road is Graceland the exhibition, which is huge and has 4 full buildings of just Elvis's cars and motorcycles, then there's his army days exhibit and a back stage lot from a film about him plus restaurants and a whole host of other things to see. When visiting you need to allow at least 6 hours and be prepared to get tired legs. I have quite a few images to post of Graceland, but for now here is a starter, the exterior front and the living room. (see previous upload).
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Graceland is a mansion on a 13.8-acre estate in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, once owned by the singer and actor Elvis Presley. His daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, has been the owner of Graceland since the passing of her father. It is located at 3764 Elvis Presley Boulevard in the vast Whitehaven community, about 9 miles from Downtown and less than 4 miles north of the Mississippi border.
It was opened to the public as a museum on June 7, 1982. The site was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on November 7, 1991 in fact becoming the first site related to rock and roll to be entered therein, and declared a National Historic Landmark on March 27, 2006, also a first for a rock singer. Graceland is the second most-visited house in the U.S. after the White House, with over 650,000 visitors a year
The Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) is an art museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Its collection contains nearly 25,000 works of art. It is one of the largest museums in the United States. Beginning around 1872, multiple organizations were founded in order to bring an art gallery to Milwaukee, as the city was still a growing port town with little or no facilities to hold major art exhibitions. Over the span of at least nine years, all attempts to build a major art gallery had failed. Shortly after that year, Alexander Mitchell donated all of her collection into constructing Milwaukee's first permanent art gallery in the city's history. In 1888, the Milwaukee Art Association was created by a group of German panorama artists and local businessmen. The same year, British-born businessman Frederick Layton built, endowed, and provided artwork for the Layton Art Gallery, now demolished. In 1911, the Milwaukee Art Institute, another building constructed to hold other exhibitions and collections, was completed. The institute was built right next to the Layton Art Gallery. The Milwaukee Art Museum was founded in 1888 and is purported to be Milwaukee's first art gallery, though that claim is disputed by the Layton Art Gallery, which opened the same year. The Milwaukee Art Center (now the Milwaukee Art Museum) was formed when the Milwaukee Art Institute and Layton Art Gallery merged their collections in 1957 and moved into the newly built Eero Saarinen-designed Milwaukee County War Memorial. In the latter half of the 20th century, the museum came to include the War Memorial Center in 1957 as well as the brutalist Kahler Building (1975) designed by David Kahler and the Quadracci Pavilion (2001) created by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. The Quadracci Pavilion contains a movable, wing-like brise soleil that opens up for a wingspan of 217 feet (66 m) during the day, folding over the tall, arched structure at night or during inclement weather. The pavilion received the 2004 Outstanding Structure Award from the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering. This iconic building, often referred to as "the Calatrava", is used in the museum logo. In November 2015, the museum opened a $34 million expansion funded jointly by a museum capital campaign and by Milwaukee County. The new building, the Shields Building, designed by Milwaukee architect James Shields of HGA, provides an additional 30,000 square feet for art, including a section devoted to light-based media, photography, and video installation. The building includes a new atrium and lakefront-facing entry point for visitors and was designed with cantilevered elements and concrete columns to complement, respectively, the existing Calatrava and Kahler structures on the site. The final design emerged after a lengthy process that included the main architect's departure because of design disputes and his return to the project. The museum houses nearly 25,000 works of art housed on four floors, with works from antiquity to the present. Included in the collection are 15th- to 20th-century European and 17th- to 20th-century American paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, decorative arts, photographs, and folk and self-taught art. Among the best in the collection are the museum's holding of American decorative arts, German Expressionism, folk and Haitian art, and American art after 1960. The museum holds one of the largest collections of works by Wisconsin native Georgia O'Keeffe. Other artists represented include Gustave Caillebotte, Nardo di Cione, Francisco de Zurbarán, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Winslow Homer, Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Gabriele Munter, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Frank Lloyd Wright, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Wassily Kandinsky, Mark Rothko, Robert Gober, and Andy Warhol. It also has paintings by European painters Francesco Botticini, Jan Swart van Groningen, Ferdinand Bol, Jan van Goyen, Hendrick Van Vliet, Franz von Lenbach (Bavarian Girl), Ferdinand Waldmüller (Interruption), Carl Spitzweg, Bouguereau, Gerome (2 Majesties), Gustave Caillebotte, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Kowalski (Winter in Russia), Jules Bastien-Lepage (The Wood Gatherer), and Max Pechstein.
Blue Spring State Park in Orange City Florida is a 2,600 acre park which includes the largest natural spring to empty into the St. Johns River. It is known for its few hundred wintering manatees from mid-November to mid-March and a popular tourist destination for canoeing, kayaking, SCUBA diving and wildlife watching. Print Size 13x19 inches.
It is a long time since I last visited Bray Harbour.
Bray Harbour is situated on the east coast of Ireland about ten miles south of Dublin Bay and a mile and a half north of Bray Head. It is a busy urban centre fronted by a drying small boat harbour where vessels may come alongside at high water, take to the hard against the wall, or anchor off outside.
Bray Municipal District has approved a plan and to provide funding for the rejuvenation of the local Harbour on foot of a proposal made by The Bray Harbour Joint Development Committee.
The proposal involves providing protection of the harbour from East/Northeast by restoring the south harbour wall to approximately where it was before the collapse of the pier end and Lighthouse in 1957 as well as deepening the river to provide a deep water channel navigable at all stages of the tide.
Sampuran Ephratah Waterfalls located at the Sosor Dolok Village.
Aproximately 26 meters high and 10 meters wide.
HDR : Manual HDR using Photoshop CS2 + Tone maping with 3 Layer + Simply brushing in some areas + Colors adjust...., and Finish.
Shot during recent outing with Dr Jamal , Wan Badang, Dr Ali from Malaysia,
Johnny Siahaan and Dr.Anwar from Medan - North Sumatra.
" Son of Snake Charmer "
The Pushkar Fair (Pushkar Camel Fair) or locally Pushkar ka Mela, is the annual five-day camel and livestock fair, held in the town of Pushkar in the state of Rajasthan, India. It is one of the world's largest camel fairs, and apart from buying and selling of livestock it has become an important tourist attraction and its highlights have become competitions such as the "matka phod", "longest moustache", and "bridal competition" are the main draws for this fair which attracts thousands of tourists. In recent years the fair has also included an exhibition cricket match between the local Pushkar club and a team of random foreign tourists. The Imperial Gazetteer of India, mentions an attendance of 100,000 pilgrims in early 1900s
Location: Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany.
The Watzmann massif is the third highest mountain in Germany, and the highest located entirely on German territory. The building on the right was formerly known as the Villa Graßl, and is today the Café-Bistro Grassl, a rather splendid watering hole.
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Chandni Chowk, Old Delhi, India
Chandni Chowk (Hindi: चांदनी चौक, Urdu: چاندنی چوک), originally meaning "moonlit square" or "moonlit market", is one of the oldest and busiest markets in Old Delhi, now in central north Delhi, India. Built in the 17th century by the Mughal emperor of India Shah Jahan, and designed by his daughter Jahan Ara, the market was once divided by canals (now closed) to reflect moonlight, and it remains one of India's largest wholesale markets.
This stunning panoramic photograph captures the iconic skyline of Manhattan, New York City, showcasing a harmonious blend of modern architecture and historical structures. The composition is expertly framed, with the Brooklyn Bridge gracefully arching across the foreground, leading the viewer's eye towards the towering skyscrapers that define the city. The dynamic sky, painted with soft clouds and vibrant hues, adds depth and drama to the scene, enhancing the overall storytelling of urban life. The image encapsulates the essence of New York, a city that never sleeps, inviting viewers to immerse themselves in its bustling energy.
Located in Central Park's South end Gapstow was designed by Howard & Caudwell in 1896, is built of unadorned Manhattan schist. It spans 44 feet of water at its base with a 12-foot high arch, and it has imposing 76-foot long sidewalls extending the full length of the bridge.
My two visits to Cobh in July were somewhat constrained because it rained most of the time.
Cobh,known from 1850 until the late 1920s as Queenstown, is a tourist seaport town on the south coast of County Cork, Ireland. Cobh is on the south side of Great Island in Cork Harbour and is home to Ireland's only dedicated cruise terminal. Tourism in the area draws on the maritime and emigration legacy of the town - including its association with the RMS Titanic.
Facing the town are Spike Island and Haulbowline Island, and on a high point in the town stands St Colman's Cathedral, one of the tallest buildings in Ireland and seat of the diocese of Cloyne.
Prehistoric camel jaw. The American Museum of Natural History's Hall of Vertebrate Origins traces the evolution of vertebrates, or animals with backbones, back more than 500 million years.
The running water is from Basang Cold Spring located in Nabas,Aklan Philippines 30 min from Boracay Island. The water temperature is roughly 15 C ,its ice cold. Adjacent to the spring is the Magnificent Basang cave waiting to be explored
Located in River North - between Clark and LaSalle - this 7-story building was designed by George Nimmons for Reid, Murdoch & Co. and construction was completed in 1914.
On July 24, 1915, the building was pressed into service as a makeshift hospital when the S.S.Eastland capsized along the opposite bank of the river, resulting in mass casualties.
In 1955, the building became the Central Office Building for the City of Chicago, and housed various City of Chicago departments.
It was sold to a private developer in 1998, and now houses a showroom for the Whirlpool Corporation.
(5091 x 4561) The 2010 Mather Point and Grand Canyon Visitor Center improvements created much needed parking at the Grand Canyon Visitor Center, a vehicle-free visitor experience at Mather Point, a new rim-side amphitheater, and many informational and interpretive improvements to the visitor center plaza. Implementation of this plan has resulted in a vastly improved and more intuitive visitor experience. NPS photo by Michael Quinn
A rare total inversion was seen today by visitors to Grand Canyon National Park. This view is from Mather Point on the South Rim. Cloud inversions are formed through the interaction of warm and cold air masses. NPS photo by Erin Whittaker.
For more information about how to plan a trip to Grand Canyon National Park, download our Trip Planner: www.nps.gov/grca/parknews/upload/trip-planner-grca.pdf
The elevating sky bar in Luxembourg City providing panoramic views of Luembourg city. The bar is shown at maximum elevation. www.picfair.com/pics/07063945-sky-bar-luxembourg-city
Sanibel Island is a popular tourist destination in Lee County, Florida known for its shell beaches and wildlife refuges. Print Size 13x19 inches.
Doc Let white sand beach is a perfect destination in tropics for tourists and leisure located 40km north from the city Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa province, Vietnam. With white sand beach and crystal clear water.
Cedar Key is a city in Levy County, Florida, United States. The population was 702 at the 2010 census. The Cedar Keys are a cluster of islands near the mainland. Most of the developed area of the city has been on Way Key since the end of the 19th century. The Cedar Keys are named for the Eastern Red Cedar, Juniperus virginiana, once abundant in the area.
The old-fashioned fishing village is now a tourist center with several regionally famous seafood restaurants. The village holds two festivals a year, the Spring Sidewalk Art Festival and the Fall Seafood Festival, that each attract thousands of visitors to the area.
In 1950, Hurricane Easy, a category 3 storm with 125-mile-per-hour (201 km/h) winds, looped around Cedar Key three times before finally making landfall, dumping 38 inches (970 mm) of rain and destroying two-thirds of the homes. Luckily, the storm came ashore at low tide, so the surge was only 5 feet (1.5 m).
Hurricane Elena followed a similar path in 1985, but did not make landfall. Packing 115-mile-per-hour (185 km/h) winds, the storm churned for two days in the Gulf, 50 miles (80 km) to the west, battering the waterfront. All the businesses and restaurants on Dock Street were either damaged or destroyed, and a section of the seawall collapsed.
After a statewide ban on large-scale net fishing went into effect July 1, 1995, a government retraining program helped many local fishermen begin farming clams in the muddy waters. Today Cedar Key's clam-based aquaculture is a multimillion-dollar industry.
A local museum exhibit displays a reproduction of one of the first air conditioning installations. The system, with compressor and fans, was used in Cedar Key to ease the lot of malaria patients.
Cedar Key is home to the George T. Lewis Airport (CDK).
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Small stream coming from Sampuren Efrata waterfalls, located at Sosor Dolok village, Harian Boho, North Sumatra
Tone mapped HDR using Photomatix from 4 exposures.
Shot during recent outing with Dr Jamal , Wan Badang, Dr Ali from Malaysia,
Johnny Siahaan and Dr.Anwar from Medan - North Sumatra.
Perito Moreno Glacier, Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina. (Apr 13, 2014).
I drove out of El Chalten since 3 am to the gate of the park at 7 am, 1 hour before the operating hour. The officer didn't allow any car to enter before 8 am so I spent an hour at the gate talking with a friendly male officer and finishing my breakfast.
There were many viewpoint along the way to the glacier but, in my opinion, the trail at the visitor center was the most stunning where you can see the glacier very close. There were intermittent showers that morning, slow moving cloud and not much tourists so it was perfect to use long exposure shot on the walking trail.
Two boulders and a rising sun making a triangle.
Image cropped to 16:9 for better composition.
Sony ILCE6000 + E 55-210mm F4.5-6.3 OSS
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My two visits to Cobh in July were somewhat constrained because it rained most of the time.
Cobh,known from 1850 until the late 1920s as Queenstown, is a tourist seaport town on the south coast of County Cork, Ireland. Cobh is on the south side of Great Island in Cork Harbour and is home to Ireland's only dedicated cruise terminal. Tourism in the area draws on the maritime and emigration legacy of the town - including its association with the RMS Titanic.
Facing the town are Spike Island and Haulbowline Island, and on a high point in the town stands St Colman's Cathedral, one of the tallest buildings in Ireland and seat of the diocese of Cloyne.
Just another view of The Guest House at Graceland, this time more focused on the front entrance gate. The place is so big, it was built on the site of another old apartment complex, *and* car dealership! (Honda or Mazda I think it was--not covered in my 2012 series, which is where a large parking lot on the south part of the property is now). Site preparation was shown to be underway (via Google Earth) in an August 2015 view, and this upscale-looking resort/hotel known as The Guest House at Graceland opened in late October 2016.