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Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square taken as a silhouette!
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UPDATED: 30th November, 2017
This bridge is the dividing line. Atlantic Ocean is on the right and the Chesapeake Bay is on the left. Under the bridge, you can see to the vanishing point. This is the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, the longest in the world.
Berlin, Germany
Designed by Heinrich Strack, after 1864 to commemorate the Prussian victory in the Danish-Prussian War, by the time it was inaugurated on 2 September 1873, Prussia had also defeated Austria and its German allies in the Austro-Prussian War (1866) and France in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71), giving the statue a new purpose. Different from the original plans, these later victories in the so-called unification wars inspired the addition of the bronze sculpture of Victoria, 8.3 metres (27 ft) high and weighing 35 tonnes, designed by Friedrich Drake. Berliners have given the statue the nickname Goldelse, meaning something like "Golden Lizzy"
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It was drizzling when I went to the Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, south of San Francisco. Colma, also called the City of Souls, is a small town with 1500 people living above ground, and 1.5 million souls residing in 16 cemeteries. Nobody was at the cemetery when I walked around with tripod and camera. This structure caught my attention - POPE is inscribed above the door, and inside are beautiful stained-glass windows.
Wondering about the inscription, I searched the internet and found that this mausoleum was built for lumber baron Andrew Jackson Pope (1820-1878.)
I processed a paintery and a balanced HDR photo from three RAW exposures, merged them using the balanced one for the sky, desaturated the image, added a hint of cold to the shadows and warmth to the highlights to pop the scene.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 3 RAW exposures, NEX-6, _DSC1862_3_4_hdr3pai1bal1g
A part of the longest roofed arcade with 666 arches leading from the city to the Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca