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National Library of Latvia
Riga
"Looking at the building we see an intriguing form. It is visually attractive to us. What is it like? It is expressive. It is a library, a functional symbol. It is a reminder of an outstanding historical event, important for Latvia, the making of its statehood, as well as praise to the rebirth of the state and its renewed collections of cultural treasures.
The linear nature of words fail to describe fully the three dimensional architectural shape. As to the expressivity the form has many meanings.
To perceive its meaning, it we have to return to the feelings and intuition that accompanied the moment of creation." (the architect Gunars Birkerts about the idea of the project)
If you love books, you won´t ever be able to leave this place....just don´t sit down! Go and find your way through the labyrinths!
“Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.”
Walter Moers
Make sure to check out this amazing sim inspired by Walter Moers´ Zamonia series:
your uber to The Empire of Dreaming Books
Maybe you´ll even find this one if you look close enough:
#42 - 100 x challenge - Lensbaby
Anything goes for 2021 - Fragile
These dried hydrangeas are a couple of years or so old now so are very fragile. The little vintage books are also very fragile. I bought them at a street market in Berlin a few years ago. They made it all the way home until our taxi driver dropped my bag, everything fell out and one of the books fell apart.
I decided on a desaturated vintage look to enhance the fragility.
I tried to explain to Gerrie that I did not want it untied and that it was to be used for props. He seemed to think it was a reading gift. He likes to read a little. I think he pretends to read.
Happy Teddy Bear Tuesday
The size and extent of a persons own library says a lot about them. My bookshelves are full with extra books being added only occasionally, and when I weaken, from book sale trolleys in my libraries.
Some of what my personal library says about me is that I'm from New Zealand as these items show.
Using my lensbaby. HSosS. A great theme.
“What an astonishing thing a book is. ...one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you." - Carl Sagan
Beautifully bound books now showing their age. At "The Biscuit Eater," a cafe and bookseller in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia.
Uploaded for the weekly theme "It's a Colourful World" in The Flickr Lounge .
Photographed at Randfontein in South Africa.
Using the Helios 44-2 2/58 lens.
I shoot full manual in Raw and edit in GIMP.
Critique is welcomed.
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