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Ornate renaissance street lamp on the famous Pont Alexandre III bridge in central Paris with River Seine and Eiffel Tower in the distance.
Ronde d'Amours wearing garlands among winged fish (1900)
Artist : Henri Désiré Gauquié (1858-1927)
Loves supporting four lamps.
No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.
-C.S. Lewis
Nostalgic Gasser. 1967 Dodge Dart, 2 Door Coupe, 493 Big Block using Eagle internals and Edelbrock aluminum heads, Gforce 4spd, Dana 60, fiberglass front end, built by 360 Fabrication, lexan windows, full cage, retro Dodge A100 seats, real goldleafing, wheeliebars, won many awards including best 50/60/70 at Kamloops BC Hot Nite 2018. Heavily documented build.
Won BEST IN SHOW at Port Coquiltam's huge Show & Shine this August 2019
BC Canada
FLASH written in large Goldleaf lettering, with a lightening bolt. Painted on both doors
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Ironically finished today after a year of me being unhappy with my original edit. So here's to new life, redemption and choices.
The von Gymnich Mirror,
German, 1740, crested with the von Gymnich family coat-of-arms-derived quacking duck in Rococo splendor. Lindenwood with silver and gold leaf, etc.
Legion of Honor Museum
San Francisco, California
(It took me 11 months to look up Ædicule in the dictionary. Turns out it is a lovely word, worthy of its placement on gold leaf. If ædicule is not part of your daily fancy speech, I suggest you too look it up and then go out into your neighborhood and point out the nearest ædicule to whoever won't beat you up for doing so.)
San Francisco, California
Tried to taking a shot of a reflective object! I knew I was going to have issues with the reflective background, very little preperation. I'm going to try this shot again in the future with a little more time put into the set up e.g. avoid using the blue base for reflective colour, I got into trouble with the colour saturation when trying to enhance the shot!
What about the subject though!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Taken at Shah-i-Zinda, a large necropolis just outside Samarkand. This is a small detail of one of the mausoleums - the workmanship and detail was jaw-droppingly opulent.
Wandiligong is a town in north-eastern Victoria in the alpine region around 330 kilometres from Melbourne. Established in the 1850s as part of the Victorian Gold Rush, Wandiligong became a hub for many gold miners, including a large Chinese community. At its peak, the town was home to over two thousand inhabitants and boasted shops, churches, a public library, halls and even an hotel. Much has changed since those heady days of the gold rush, and the picturesque town nestled in a valley and built around the Morses Creek, is now a sleepy little town full of picturesque houses which are often let to visitors to the area. The whole town is registered with the National Trust of Australia for its historic landscape and buildings of historic value.
Porepunkah is a town in north east Victoria. Built along the Great Alpine Road, at the foot of Mount Buffalo, it is 320 kilometres from Melbourne. It is part of the local epicurean region and features several wineries. This includes the Feathertop Winery which features a gourmet restaurant and views of wonderful grapevines which turn red and gold during the autumnal months.
It is outside the Feathertop Winery that this pretty row of deciduous exotic trees stands. They were too beautiful basking in the afternoon sun not to stop and photograph.
Gilded decorations and colorful mosaics on the interior walls in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Old City of Jerusalem, Israel.
Bright, a town in north-east Victoria, is situated in the Ovens Valley and is part of the Alpine Region of Victoria. 210 kilometres from Melbourne, Bright was one of the towns in the Ovens Valley where gold was discovered. Gold was found near the junction of Morses Creek and the Ovens River in the 1850s. Established in 1862 and named Bright, most likely after John Bright (1811 - 1889) an English publicist, reformer and parliamentarian the township thrived. With the Gold Rush in full swing, Bright soon had Catholic, Wesleyan and Presbyterian churches, schools, three hotels, three quartz mills and two bank branches. As the yield of gold declined in the 1870s, so too did Bright’s population, yet by the 1880s, it became an alpine tourism town. The Bright Alpine club was formed in 1887 and a community library was started there in 1889. In the following year Bright was connected by railway to Myrtleford and Wangaratta, bringing with it much needed tourists from Melbourne. In 1910 a grand chalet was opened at Mount Buffalo and Bright ran a hire car service for visitors, who often stayed there overnight at a hotel or guesthouse. In 1919 a secondary school was opened in Bright. It also had a tourist progress association and local angling, bowling, racing, tennis and golf clubs amongst its many attractions. By the mid 1920s the people of Bright began planting exotic trees partly for landscape improvement and partly to lay the summer dust. The street tree plantings produced extraordinary autumn colours. By 1933, Bright was described as the “Tourism Capital of the Ovens Valley”. Bright’s train line continued until 1983 when it was finally discontinued and replaced with coaches. By that time, it was a well established tourism town with people flocking there all throughout the year for different reasons. Bright is a base for exploring the peaks of Mount Buffalo National Park and Alpine National Park as well as Mount Hotham, a popular ski resort. Bright is a starting point for the Murray to Mountains Rail Trail, a hiking and cycling path. Bright Museum, in the town’s former train station, documents rail and gold rush history. The region is also known for wineries and of course its amazing display of autumnal foliage.
The world famous opera house was designed by Charles Garnier in the Napoleon III style. Construction started in 1861 and the building opened in 1875. It is also the setting for the story Phantom of the Opera.
The domed ceiling was repainted by the artist Marc Chagall in 1964.
Wandiligong is a town in north-eastern Victoria in the alpine region around 330 kilometres from Melbourne. Established in the 1850s as part of the Victorian Gold Rush, Wandiligong became a hub for many gold miners, including a large Chinese community. At its peak, the town was home to over two thousand inhabitants and boasted shops, churches, a public library, halls and even an hotel. Much has changed since those heady days of the gold rush, and the picturesque town nestled in a valley and built around the Morses Creek, is now a sleepy little town full of picturesque houses which are often let to visitors to the area. The whole town is registered with the National Trust of Australia for its historic landscape and buildings of historic value.
InstantLab with Polaroid Originals, I-TYPE B&W.
Emulsion lift on Canson Vellum paper over gold leaf.
Scan on black paper.
O órgão da igreja de S. Gonçalo, em Amarante, Portugal, é um exemplo impressionante de um órgão de tubos barroco do século XVIII. Este instrumento histórico, provavelmente construído pelo famoso organeiro galego D. Francisco António Solha, foi meticulosamente restaurado e serve de testemunho do rico património musical da região.
The richly decorated Honjido (Yakushido) hall at Nikko Toshogu Shrine, showcasing its intricate gold leaf, vibrant red accents, and detailed carvings, set against a backdrop of lush Japanese cedar trees.
Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, November 2016
Djehutymin, priest of Thoth, depicted with the crook and flail of Osiris. Originally the seated figure seems to have been completely gilded.
L.X.5. Late Period, 30th Dynasty (380 – 343 BCE). Provenance unknown. Limestone, goldleaf. H 22.8 cm.
Wandiligong is a town in north-eastern Victoria in the alpine region around 330 kilometres from Melbourne. Established in the 1850s as part of the Victorian Gold Rush, Wandiligong became a hub for many gold miners, including a large Chinese community. At its peak, the town was home to over two thousand inhabitants and boasted shops, churches, a public library, halls and even an hotel. Much has changed since those heady days of the gold rush, and the picturesque town nestled in a valley and built around the Morses Creek, is now a sleepy little town full of picturesque houses which are often let to visitors to the area. The whole town is registered with the National Trust of Australia for its historic landscape and buildings of historic value.
Bright, a town in north-east Victoria, is situated in the Ovens Valley and is part of the Alpine Region of Victoria. 210 kilometres from Melbourne, Bright was one of the towns in the Ovens Valley where gold was discovered. Gold was found near the junction of Morses Creek and the Ovens River in the 1850s. Established in 1862 and named Bright, most likely after John Bright (1811 - 1889) an English publicist, reformer and parliamentarian the township thrived. With the Gold Rush in full swing, Bright soon had Catholic, Wesleyan and Presbyterian churches, schools, three hotels, three quartz mills and two bank branches. As the yield of gold declined in the 1870s, so too did Bright’s population, yet by the 1880s, it became an alpine tourism town. The Bright Alpine club was formed in 1887 and a community library was started there in 1889. In the following year Bright was connected by railway to Myrtleford and Wangaratta, bringing with it much needed tourists from Melbourne. In 1910 a grand chalet was opened at Mount Buffalo and Bright ran a hire car service for visitors, who often stayed there overnight at a hotel or guesthouse. In 1919 a secondary school was opened in Bright. It also had a tourist progress association and local angling, bowling, racing, tennis and golf clubs amongst its many attractions. By the mid 1920s the people of Bright began planting exotic trees partly for landscape improvement and partly to lay the summer dust. The street tree plantings produced extraordinary autumn colours. By 1933, Bright was described as the “Tourism Capital of the Ovens Valley”. Bright’s train line continued until 1983 when it was finally discontinued and replaced with coaches. By that time, it was a well established tourism town with people flocking there all throughout the year for different reasons. Bright is a base for exploring the peaks of Mount Buffalo National Park and Alpine National Park as well as Mount Hotham, a popular ski resort. Bright is a starting point for the Murray to Mountains Rail Trail, a hiking and cycling path. Bright Museum, in the town’s former train station, documents rail and gold rush history. The region is also known for wineries and of course its amazing display of autumnal foliage.