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If you look closely (e.g. the bottom left corner) you'll notice it's a color photo. If you look at the bottom right corner, you'll notice the heavy snowfall. Colors saturated before taking the picture & cropped.
A closer view of this very attractive little hamlet. Taken on our recent holiday in Norfolk, when the weather was a little more wintry than it is at the moment!!
Several of the buildings in this hamlet are owned by the National Trust.
Christmas mesh tree made of light is fantasy tree, which is in constant smooth, calm motion.
Trees are available at 21strom in Second Life and 21strom in Kitely.
See HD video at Youtube.
Blogpost at 21strom blog.
Out for an evening walk in the winter wonderland in Sälen.
If you're tired of seeing my dawn and wave shots, how about some trees?! Driving past a field near Kirby Moorside, I spotted the shadows and thought - nice!
Haven't been out on photoshoots lately but feeling the need to change my pics occasionally . So glad it's not Winter any longer........and after I get out in the garden will hopefully have some Spring pics to post. Be happy my friends!
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.
Wikipedia
I love the large old deciduous trees that dot the rolling landscape of Blue Ridge farmland. Every season they hold a special place for my eyes pleasure, and late winter may be the most special; the buds are swelling and the detail in their finest branches becomes more pronounced! Best viewed large if you are so inclined and have the time…
Southern IL: This tree drops a lot of limbs, but there is new growth at the top.
Camera is a Nikon Z9 / Lens is Z 28-75 Z9D_5688
This tree was all alone, being lit by just a small bluey white lamp.
Some other shots from our evening at Westonbirt's 'Enchanted Christmas' event in the comments below. I hope to go back again another time; it was very pretty.
A peaceful, melancholy November landscape in the marshes? Please look at the notes to find the truth.
This image part of a solo show at Dench Bakers - 109 Scotchmer St, North Fitzroy, Melbourne . . .
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Show ends Thursday 28th Oct
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