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Glastonbury Abbey... After discovering the remains of King Arthur and Guinevere the abbot relocated the grave just beyond the main tower. Only a cynic would believe the finding of the once and future king's remains was a hoax in order to reboot the flagging coffers of the abbey after a fire. The remains were found in 1191.
Dare you to try and count the satellite dishes!!!
From my location, I think this is the Fatih mosque, named after Fatih Sultan Mehmet conqueror of Istanbul in 1453 fame. If it is, built 1463 then rebuilt 1771 after an earthquake. Named Fatih Camii, or conqueror's mosque.
Piazzale degli Uffizi
Experiment with Dave Hill effect + blueish preset + some secret treatments :-)
Aizanoi, just outside the small town of Çavdarhisar, near Kütahya, Turkey.
The ancient city of Aizanoi was the site of the world's first stock exchange! The city was at its peak in 2nd/3rd century AD.
I am glad I caught a few tourists walking around so it gives an idea of scale!
Black and white gives so much more freedom in photography. It's not how you see in real life so you can take more artistic freedom in how you process and what you want to tell with your photo. People will have less expectations on how something in the photo should look.
I felt like this photo brings back the feel of the past. Obviously it's not how people experienced the time period, but I like to think this place could have looked like this back when cameras didn't have color and I wasn't even alive - that's how this photo brings back the feel of the past for me.
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Peterborough's 17th Century Guidhall anchors one end of Cathedral Square, behind it the early 16th Century perpendicular gem that is St John the Baptist, the city's parish church. This square used to hold an ugly but profitable office building, home to one of the UK's largest insurance firms. The decision by Peterborough City Council to demolish it to create a city square between the Cathedral and the Guildhall is one of the bravest town planning decisions of 21st Century Britain.
The Statue of Constantine the Great is a bronze statue depicting the Roman Emperor Constantine I seated on a throne, commissioned by York Civic Trust and designed by the sculptor Philip Jackson. It was unveiled in 1998 and is situated on Minster Yard, outside York Minster. It commemorates the accession of Constantine as Roman Emperor in AD 306 on this site, after the death of his father Constantius Chlorus in York.
This 18th century monument was commissioned by William Wentworth between 1742 and 1746.
The design is very similar to the to the circular Temple of Sybil at Tivioli, near Rome, which William may have seen whilst on a Grand Tour of Europe after his father's death.
..until the chauffeur, composed and purposeful, made his departure. He took the narrow path up the gentle rise, passing beneath the arch of that distinguished structure with its venerable clock—hands wanting twenty minutes to two - leaving behind only the hush of old stone and a faint trace of his service.
Alte Oper (Old Opera) mansion of Renaissance architecture loftily standing opposite the giant with the many storeys and the symmetrical boxes where plutolatry prevails ...
It was destroyed in a 1944 air raid, it was rebuilt in 1964-81 and renamed the ‘Old Opera Concert and Conference Centre.
The inscription on the frieze reads: "Dem Wahren, Schönen, Guten",
"To the True, the Beautiful, the Good" ...
Nevertheless,"Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis"
"Times change, and we change with them" ; wise was Heraclitus' axiom " Πάντα ῥεῖ ", "everything is in a state of flux".
"To the True, the Beautiful, the Good" ...
" Πάντα ῥεῖ " "Everything flows" ...
On the particular side with the arches, only the two ends have these curtains. I really liked this because it reminded me of curtains and gave me a theatrical feel. A curtain that opens to take you on a journey through space and time.
Στην συγκεκριμένη πλευρά με της αψιδες, μονο οι δυο ακριανές εχουν αυτα τα κουρτινάκια. Μου αρεσε πολυ αυτο γιατι μου θυμησε αυλαια και μου εβγαλε μια θεατρικότητα. Μια αυλαια που ανοιγει για να σε ταξιδέψει στο χωρο και στον χρόνο.
Perle des sizilianischen Barock und UNESCO-Weltkulturerbe.
Pearl of Sicilian Baroque and UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The church’s interior is richly decorated, with statues and works of art and well worth a visit, espically if visiting Fort St Angelo.
Iconic classical architecture of Oxford designed by James Gibbs, the building houses some of the History and English collections of the Bodleian Library.
Behind and to the right is the Old Library (the largest part of the Bodleian Library complex), and to the left is Brasenose College.