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Today I decided it was time to do a winter version of my land. It will be called Gates of Memories. This is just a tiny little corner of it and once its finished you are very welcome to visit.
The recent devastating fires on the Rhodes island (and elsewhere in Southern Europe) made me think back to my old trip to Rhodes. Even though I have not visited the areas affected by the fires. This is my first experiment in uploading scanned images; it would be another year before I switched to digital.
Medieval City of Rhodes is a UNESCO Heritage Site. It boasts very well preserved city walls and many of the impressive buildings constructed by the Knights Hospitaller of St. John when they held the island from 1310 to 1522. Compared to Malta, which was the next base for the knights, Rhodes is more rugged and gritty - and, yes, older. The D'Amboise gate (named after the Grand Master who completed the gate in 1512 in the anticipation of an Ottoman assault) is the most sophisticated part of the city walls.
Golden Gate of the Palace of Versailles, Place d'Armes, 78000 Versailles, Paris - France
More than three centuries after it was torn down during the French Revolution, the royal gate once again graces the entrance to Versailles, the centre of power under Louis XIV.
Replicas of the 80-metre steel gate decorated with 100,000 gold leaves were unveiled July 2008.
The royal gate that once again stands at the entrance of Versailles provides an essential element of Versailles historical identity.
One of France's most visited tourist sites, the Palace of Versailles west of Paris has been undergoing renovation work since 2003 when the government launched the "Grand Versailles" project.
Private donors contributed five million euros to rebuild the gates and legions of top craftsmen and history experts were called in to ensure exact replicas would be produced.
Declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO for over thirty years, the Palace of Versailles is one of the best known palaces worldwide, not only for its imposing architecture and its endless and well-tended gardens, but because it is an important part of the history of France.
Palace of Versailles quick facts & figures:
Construction Started: 1623
Garden Size: 800 hectares
Size: 51,200 Square Meters
Annual Tourists: 6,000,000
Paintings: 6,123
Drawings: 1,500
Engravings: 15,034
Sculptures: 2,102
Furniture: 5,210
Mar 12, 2009 #337
L'ingresso all'Oceano Indiano da Fremantle - Western Australia
Gate to Indian Ocean from Frematle- Western Australia
Managed to get this shot of the iconic gate when there was almost no one around. It pays to get up early!!!
See that white post in the lower left foreground? As I was setting up my tripod for this bridge shot I noticed a dark object fly past and land on that pole. Thought to myself "has to be an owl", it was 10pm. I figured it was a GHOW, but when I put my flashlight on it, it was a Short-eared Owl. I took a few long exposure shots with it illuminated before it flew off to hunt. Pretty crazy to see a SEOW in the Bay Area in June!
The Brandenburg Gate (German: Brandenburger Tor is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin, built on the orders of Prussian king Frederick William II after restoring the Orangist power by suppressing the Dutch popular unrest. One of the best-known landmarks of Germany, it was built on the site of a former city gate that marked the start of the road from Berlin to the town of Brandenburg an der Havel, which used to be the capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg.
It is located in the western part of the city centre of Berlin within Mitte, at the junction of Unter den Linden and Ebertstraße, immediately west of the Pariser Platz. One block to the north stands the Reichstag building, which houses the German parliament (Bundestag). The gate is the monumental entry to Unter den Linden, a boulevard of linden trees which led directly to the royal City Palace of the Prussian monarchs.
Throughout its existence, the Brandenburg Gate was often a site for major historical events and is today considered not only as a symbol of the tumultuous histories of Germany and Europe, but also of European unity and peace.
Yesterday evening at the Golden Gate. The fog had just started to ease up.
The finger of fog running along the headlands above is floating on top of what is termed a marine layer. The air directly above the water is cooled by the water and becomes denser than the warm air above it and so becomes trapped, and the fog then sits on this denser layer of air. As the air above cools (setting sun), the dense air escapes and the fog dissipates. This is what is happening in the picture, about 10 minutes before the entire bridge was shrouded in fog, but as the air cooled, it was rapidly disappearing with just this finger remaining.
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The lock gate leading to the Ellesmere Port canal basin. (returning to posting after a month's absence through illness). Hasselblad X2D.
If you look closely you’ll see someone breaking into a car or shoplifting in broad daylight with cops just standing there. Criminal Disneyland!
This sim closed last night. Thankfully, I found out before had and went to get some last minute shots!
I name this scene with the same name as Rodin's great artwork, not only because its shape but also the whole atmosphere, when everything is frozen, the waterfall drains the whole world inside, as the gates of hell.
On the stone slabs of the panels in the Menin Gate, on the walls of the stairs and under the galleries, about 55 000 names of missing and unidentified persons from WOI....
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