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My first attempt at the Pep Ventosa tree. Just 12 images I shall try more next time. I really rather enjoyed making this.
The Place des Vosges is the oldest planned square in Paris. It is located in the Marais district, and it straddles the dividing-line between the 3rd and 4th arrondissements of Paris.
Originally known as the Place Royale, the Place des Vosges was built by Henri IV from 1605 to 1612. A true square (140 m x 140 m), it embodied the first European program of royal city planning. It was built on the site of the Hôtel des Tournelles and its gardens: at a tournament at the Tournelles, a royal residence, Henri II was wounded and died. Catherine de Medicis had the Gothic pile demolished, and she removed to the Louvre.
The Place des Vosges, inaugurated in 1612 with a grand carrousel to celebrate the wedding of Louis XIII and Anne of Austria, is the prototype of all the residential squares of European cities that were to come. What was new about the Place Royale in 1612 was that the housefronts were all built to the same design, probably by Baptiste du Cerceau, of red brick with strips of stone quoins over vaulted arcades that stand on square pillars. The steeply-pitched blue slate roofs are pierced with discreet small-paned dormers above the pedimented dormers that stand upon the cornices.
Only the north range was built with the vaulted ceilings that the "galleries" were meant to have. Two pavilions that rise higher than the unified roofline of the square center the north and south faces and offer access to the square through triple arches. Though they are designated the Pavilion of the King and of the Queen, no royal personage has ever lived in the aristocratic square. The Place des Vosges initiated subsequent developments of Paris that created a suitable urban background for the French aristocracy.
Within a mere five-year period, King Henri IV oversaw an unmatched building scheme for the ravaged medieval city: additions to the Louvre, the Pont Neuf, Place Dauphine and the Hôpital Saint Louis as well as the two royal squares.
Cardinal Richelieu had an equestrian bronze of Louis XIII erected in the center (there were no garden plots until 1680). The original was melted down in the Revolution; the present version, begun in 1818 by Louis Dupaty and completed by Jean-Pierre Cortot, replaced it in 1825.
Cortot also erected four fountains in 1825.
The square was renamed in 1799 when the département of the Vosges became the first to pay taxes supporting a campaign of the Revolutionary army. The Restoration returned the old royal name, but the short-lived Second Republic restored the revolutionary one in 1848.
Today the square is planted with a bosquet of mature lindens set in grass and gravel, surrounded by clipped lindens.
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Charlottesville, Virginia, USA - February 12, 2014
iPhone photo taken with VSCOcam
PP in Snapseed
© 2014 Skip Plitt, All Rights Reserved.
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A strong southwester brought our first blast of winter. The timid of heart shelter in their homes but not the photographers; they layer up and brave the bone chilling cold and gusting icy winds to capture the storm.
We trudge head down, braced against the winds onslaught of tiny ice crystals that sting our exposed cheeks like tiny frozen bullets. Seeking the perfect place to set up and shoot a few quick shots.
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Taken at Longwood Gardens on December 26th at sunset - the little crescent moon just hung there - begging to be noticed.
Winter landscape full of light at 21strom in Second Life.
Blogpost at 21strom blog.
not photoshopped, post-processed with ReShade.
We'd parked and I was sitting waiting, briefly! I scribbled in as much as I could, with a starter for darks and colours..then finished it off back at the house. Everywhere around here there are trees..even between car parks, where I seemed to draw a lot!!!!
Zeiss Batis sharpness on 42 mp.
Choose Download - Original (full resolution) to get the real sharpness and detail rendering in the branches.
Tecklenburger Land bei
Leeden - Lengerich,
Germany
Zeiss Batis 2/40 CF
Sony Alpha A7RII
Photographed using the Kodak Brownie 127, and Rera Pan 100 film (127 format). Taken at the Rhododendron Gardens, Victoria, Australia.
I love the Kodak Brownie 127.