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The National Monument was meant to be a replica of the Athenian Acropolis, being built in the 1800s as a monument after the Napoleonic Wars, but the money ran out and it was never finished. Over the intervening two centuries there has been the odd call to finish it, but most of us prefer it like this.
It stands on top of Calton Hill, just a few moments walk from the end of busy Princes Street, the hill offers wonderful 360 degree views across Edinburgh and the Firth of Forth. This month (until the 25th) a new sound and light set of artworks, Message From the Skies, is being projected onto buildings around the city. This one is being projected onto the National Monument and is by Kapka Kassabova. It was beautiful to watch and listen to, standing on the dark hill under the rising winter moon.
The message on all of them is of friendship with Europe - Scotland voted heavily to remain in the EU and there is real anger here at the London government pulling us out against our wishes, hence the theme of European roots and friendship on these projections.
Sirmio! of Islands and Peninsulas
Eyelet, and whatsoe'er in limpid meres
And vasty Ocean either Neptune owns,
Thy scenes how willing-glad once more I see,
At pain believing Thynia and the Fields
Bithynian left, I'm safe to sight thy Site.
Oh what more blessèd be than cares resolved,
When mind casts burthen and by peregrine
Work over wearied, lief we hie us home
To lie reposing in the longed-for bed!
This be the single meed for toils so triste.
Hail, O fair Sirmio, in thy lord rejoice:
And ye, O' waves of Lybian Lake be glad,
And laugh what laughter pealeth in my home.
Catullus. Carmina.
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I took this photo at the entrance of the "Museum of the Ancient Agora" in Athens, Greece.
The above photo has been shot with the Samsung NX10
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The National Monument was meant to be a replica of the Athenian Acropolis, being built in the 1800s as a monument after the Napoleonic Wars, but the money ran out and it was never finished. Over the intervening two centuries there has been the odd call to finish it, but most of us prefer it like this.
It stands on top of Calton Hill, just a few moments walk from the end of busy Princes Street, the hill offers wonderful 360 degree views across Edinburgh and the Firth of Forth. This month (until the 25th) a new sound and light set of artworks, Message From the Skies, is being projected onto buildings around the city. This one is being projected onto the National Monument and is by Kapka Kassabova. It was beautiful to watch and listen to, standing on the dark hill under the rising winter moon.
The message on all of them is of friendship with Europe - Scotland voted heavily to remain in the EU and there is real anger here at the London government pulling us out against our wishes, hence the theme of European roots and friendship on these projections.
This building is the centerpiece of Centennial Park in Nashville, TN, and is a full scale replica of the original Parthenon in Greece.
It was built in 1897 as part of the Tennessee Cenennial Exposition.
You’ll always enjoy the same view when getting too comfortable in your own orbit. When spinning around in a triangle, you are overlooking its corners. Yet, nuances only become visible in this uniformity if you distract your gaze.
The beauty of such a moment is that things often start pointing in the right direction once you dare to check out the corners. With the experience of these new perspectives, it becomes apparent that, at times, you are the one who stands in your own way.
Plans for the City Hall began in 1888 when Belfast was awarded city status by Queen Victoria. This was in recognition of Belfast's rapid expansion and thriving linen, rope-making, shipbuilding and engineering industries. During this period Belfast briefly overtook Dublin as the most populous city on the island of Ireland.
Construction began in 1898 under the supervision of architect Sir Alfred Brumwell Thomas and was completed in 1906 at a cost of £369,000. Belfast Corporation (now the council) used their profits from the gas industry to pay for the construction of Belfast City Hall. Local firms H&J Martin and WH Stephens were among the companies involved in construction. James G. Gamble, architect, was the clerk of works.
The exterior is built mainly from Portland stone and is in the Baroque Revival style. It covers an area of one and a half acres and has an enclosed courtyard.
Featuring towers at each of the four corners, with a lantern-crowned 173 ft (53 m) copper dome in the centre, the City Hall dominates the city centre skyline. As with other Victorian buildings in the city centre, the City Hall's copper-coated domes are a distinctive green.
The Treasury building at Petra - the most famous building in this incredible archaeological complex.
A Catedral de Pamplona, localizada em Navarra, Espanha, ostenta uma fachada neoclássica que substituiu a antiga fachada românica. Projetada por Ventura Rodríguez e concluída entre 1783 e 1792, a fachada exibe influências da arquitetura clássica greco-romana, caracterizada por simetria, proporções equilibradas e o uso de colunas clássicas.
Pilastras coríntias sustentam um frontão triangular, elemento típico do neoclassicismo, e a ornamentação inclui esculturas e relevos de figuras religiosas e simbólicas, realçando o significado espiritual da catedral.
A catedral, originalmente construída em estilo românico no século XII, passou por várias reformas, culminando na sua fachada neoclássica. Esta transição reflete um movimento europeu que visava reviver os princípios clássicos em resposta ao excesso barroco. A consagração da catedral em 1880 marcou um momento crucial na história religiosa de Pamplona.
Curiosamente, a fachada neoclássica foi alvo de críticas por parte do escritor Ernest Hemingway, que a descreveu como "feia" na sua obra "O Sol Também Nasce/Fiesta". Apesar desta opinião subjetiva, a fachada é considerada uma das obras mais puras e representativas do neoclassicismo na Península Ibérica.
Standing before the grand rotunda of San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts, it’s hard not to feel small—in the best possible way. The pink Corinthian columns rise proudly from the earth, mirrored in the still, green waters of the lagoon below. Ferns and flowering plants line the edge, softening the formality of the architecture with wild natural beauty. Even the air seems quieter here, the way it does in sacred places. As a Highly Sensitive Person, the harmony of shape, color, and reflection speaks to something deep within—an emotional resonance between art and environment, history and now.
Even better~press L.
Another shot from my wonderful visit to Rome.
Texture~Distressed Jewell, thank you.
Another shot of the Parthenon Temple at the summit of the Athenian Acropolis, Greece. As per usual, a large section of it is covered in scaffolding.
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Don't really know what to think of this shot. This is the best shot I have of the Spanish Steps - paid by the French, built in Italy; probably Rome's most 'European' landmark - regarding the architectural composition. I really like the mood and I can hear the noise and chatter almost through my screen, but their legs or worse are cut off. With my architectural background people have to annoy me, hehe. Now seriously, the distracting billboard is to raise funds through advertisement. With these icons of capitalism is the Eternal City more eternal - spanning more ages - than it probably would like to be.
The Spanish Steps (Italian: Scalinata della Trinità dei Monti) are a set of steps in Rome, Italy, climbing a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna at the base and Piazza Trinità dei Monti, dominated by the Trinità dei Monti church at the top. According to some scholars, the Scalinata is the widest staircase in Europe. The monumental stairway of 138 steps was built with French diplomat Étienne Gueffier’s bequeathed funds of 20,000 scudi, in 1723–1725, linking the Bourbon Spanish Embassy, and the Trinità dei Monti church that was under the patronage of the Bourbon kings of France, both located above — to the Holy See in Palazzo Monaldeschi located below. The stairway was designed by architects Francesco de Sanctis and Alessandro Specchi.
Following a competition in 1717 the steps were designed by the little-known Francesco de Sanctis, though Alessandro Specchi was long thought to have produced the winning entry. Generations of heated discussion over how the steep slope to the church on a shoulder of the Pincio should be urbanised preceded the final execution. Archival drawings from the 1580s show that Pope Gregory XIII was interested in constructing a stair to the recently completed façade of the French church. Gaspar van Wittel's view of the wooded slope in 1683, before the Scalinata was built, is conserved in the Galleria Nazionale, Rome. The Roman-educated Cardinal Mazarin took a personal interest in the project that had been stipulated in Gueffier's will and entrusted it to his agent in Rome, whose plan included an equestrian monument of Louis XIV, an ambitious intrusion that created a furore in papal Rome. Mazarin died in 1661, the pope in 1667, and Gueffier's will was successfully contested by a nephew who claimed half; so the project lay dormant until Pope Clement XI Albani renewed interest in it. The Bourbon fleur-de-lys and Innocent XIII's eagle and crown are carefully balanced in the sculptural details. The solution is a gigantic inflation of some conventions of terraced garden stairs. The Spanish Steps, which Joseph de Lalande and Charles de Brosses noted were already in poor condition, have been restored several times, most recently in 1995.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish Steps
In 1494, Saint Francis of Paola, a hermit from Calabria, bought a vineyard from the papal scholar and former patriarch of Aquileia, Ermolao Barbaro, and then obtained the authorization from Pope Alexander VI to establish a monastery for the Minimite Friars. In 1502, Louis XII of France began construction of the church of the Trinità dei Monti next to this monastery, to celebrate his successful invasion of Naples. Building work began in a French style with pointed late Gothic arches, but construction lagged. The present Italian Renaissance church was eventually built in its place and finally consecrated in 1585 by the great urbanizer Pope Sixtus V, whose via Sistina connected the Piazza della Trinità dei Monti (outside the church) to the Piazza Barberini across the city. The architect of the facade is not known for certain, but Wolfgang Lotz suggests that it may have originated in a design by Giacomo della Porta (a follower of Michelangelo), who had built the church of San Anastasio dei Greci, which has similarities, a little earlier. The double staircase in front of the church was by Domenico Fontana. In front of the church stands the Obelisco Sallustiano, one of the many obelisks in Rome, moved here in 1789. It is a Roman obelisk in imitation of Egyptian ones, originally constructed in the early years of the Roman Empire for the Gardens of Sallust near the Porta Salaria. The hieroglyphic inscription was copied from that on the obelisk in the Piazza del Popolo. During the Napoleonic occupation of Rome, the church, like many others, was despoiled of its art and decorations. In 1816, after the Bourbon restoration, the church was restored at the expense of Louis XVIII.
This historic building in Stratford-upon-Avon, known as Trinity College School, showcases classic architectural features and a long-standing connection to the town’s educational heritage. Though not affiliated with Trinity College, Cambridge, it has played an important role in local learning and community life over the years, reflecting Stratford’s rich cultural history.
Some things start to impact you more than you initially expected. Sometimes, this feels like life overruns you, and you lose sight of the essential things. While not knowing what to do in this situation, the sensation of increasing overload spreads. However, finding a targeted solution is quite challenging when feeling powerless, helpless, and on your own.
Another problem is losing focus. Since the whole view becomes blurred, you can’t see everything well. Therefore, making the right choice amid uncertainty is hard in the gloom of the moment. In the end, the only solution might be to concentrate on the essential things to find your focus again.
Some like to boost their stories artificially, making a mountain out of a molehill. Since wanting to make everybody else acknowledge the storyteller’s greatness, the whole play forms a buffer layer between reality and wishful thinking. And as the narrative evolves, fear and insecurity behind it slowly disappear in thig fog of hard-earned exaggerations.
Yet, one day this tactic always stops working, causing everything to collapse like a house of cards and ending in a complete mess. But making things bigger than they are, does not automatically make them better. In the end, is it the ones who can do without those pompous made-up stories who can convince by the simplicity of their purity.
I haven't post any adelaide building shot for quite a while. This is a last minute hdr processing cos i'm soooo tired this evening for some reason. Better finish this off before my eyes start to shut down any moment. Have a good evening everyone!
PS: I actually wanted to let you guys guess if this is taken with a wide angle or kit lens but i guess its a dead giveaway by the date haha!it does feel a bit like wide angle doesn't it :P
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About
The Barr Smith Library
The Barr Smith Library is the main library of the University of Adelaide, situated in the centre of the North Terrace campus. The Barr Smith Library owes its name to the Barr Smith family, a pioneer family in South Australia and benefactors to the University of Adelaide over many decades. Robert Barr Smith donated £9000 to buy books. In 1920 his family gave an extra £11,000 in the form of an endowment and in 1928 his son, Tom Elder Barr Smith, gave £30,000 for the Barr Smith library building.
In 1899 the University Council resolved that its library should bear the name "The Barr Smith Library
The Shot
Standard 3 exposure shot (+2..0..-2 EV) taken handheld using the Canon kit lens EF-S 18-55mm lens and polarized light filter
Photomatix
- Tonemapped generated HDR using detail enhancer option
Photoshop
- Added 1 layer effects of 'curves' to increase the contrast
- Added 1 layer effect of 'saturation' to slightly increase the overall saturation & reds to bring down the building tone a bit
- Added 1 layer effect of 'levels to adjust the tone
- Used 'unsharp mask' (as always) on the background layer
You
All comments, criticism and tips for improvements are (as always) welcome.
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