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Several Green Hairstreak butterflies @ Holme NOA now. Also saw a small copper but did not get a usefull photo
This aurora here at South Pole looks like it just comes out of the South Pole Station as green exhaust.
Leuconotopicus villosus.
Bryce Canyon National Park.
She was making SO MUCH NOISE above my head while I was taking this pano. Haha. I quietly ran back to the parking lot to my rental car to get my 100-500.
The Winter Palace was the official residence of the Russian Emperors from 1732 to 1917. Today, the palace and its precincts form the Hermitage Museum. Situated between Palace Embankment and Palace Square, in Saint Petersburg, adjacent to the site of Peter the Great's original Winter Palace, the present and fourth Winter Palace was built and altered almost continuously between the late 1730s and 1837, when it was severely damaged by fire and immediately rebuilt. The storming of the palace in 1917, as depicted in Soviet propaganda art and Sergei Eisenstein's 1927 film October, became an iconic symbol of the Russian Revolution.
As completed, the overriding exterior form of the Winter Palace's architecture, with its decoration in the form of statuary and opulent stucco work on the pediments above façades and windows, is Baroque. The exterior has remained as finished during the reign of Empress Elizabeth. The principal façades, those facing the Palace Square and the Neva river, have always been accessible and visible to the public. Only the lateral façades are hidden behind granite walls, concealing a garden created during the reign of Nicholas II. The building was conceived as a town palace, rather than a private palace within a park, such as that of the French kings at Versailles.
The palace was constructed on a monumental scale that was intended to reflect the might and power of Imperial Russia. From the palace, the Tsar ruled over 22,400,000 square kilometers (8,600,000 sq mi) (almost 1/6 of the Earth's landmass) and over 125 million subjects by the end of the 19th century. It was designed by many architects, most notably Bartolomeo Rastrelli, in what came to be known as the Elizabethan Baroque style. The green-and-white palace has the shape of an elongated rectangle, and its principal façade is 215 metres (705 ft) long and 30 m (98 ft) high. The Winter Palace has been calculated to contain 1,886 doors, 1,945 windows, 1,500 rooms and 117 staircases. Following a serious fire, the palace's rebuilding of 1837 left the exterior unchanged, but large parts of the interior were redesigned in a variety of tastes and styles, leading the palace to be described as a "19th-century palace inspired by a model in Rococo style".
There were quite a few Green-winged Teals at Burnaby Lake yesterday and I was just settling in to get some nice shots when some dumbass in a boat came into the bay and scared all the birds away! It was all downhill from there...
This little guy dragged around this piece of vegetation on his back for quite a while.
A green hairstreak butterfly seen in the masts field at Prestbury Hill nature reserve in Gloucestershire back in May.
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Rolling green hills stretch into the distance underneath a sky with white clouds, while a few scattered trees add depth and contrast to the vibrant landscape.
This truck has likely been rusting in the desert in Joshua Tree National Park since the early 40's when its owner Bill Keys was sent to prison for murdering another man. After 12 years, the murder conviction was overturned. Keys was released when evidence was uncovered that the victim had a plan to murder Keys, thus the killing was ruled self-defense. The truck is buried in sand up to its axles in the wash below the remains of the Wall Street Mill.
Happy Truck Thursday!
Green Day @ Copps Coliseum - July 16 2009
I've only ever been a casual Green Day fan, but wow, do these guys put on one hell of a show!
More of my photos and mini blurb on Citynews.ca: www.citynews.ca/news/news_36022.aspx
If anyone who was at the show knows who the little boy was that got pulled on stage at the beginning of the concert, please point them in my direction. I would really love to give the parents a photo of their child.
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Królewiec Hall in the Grand Master's Palace in the Malbork castle.
The two longitudal interiors, each lit by one window, existed here already in the medieval times. There were mentioned in the Teutonic ledgers as the master's chamberand small chamber. The restoration work was co-financed by the authorities of the city of Królewiec, which is why the hall was named this way. The recent research proved that the interiors were decorated with a painted plant twig. A fragment of this old decoration has been maintained on the southern wall of the room. In the first half of the 19th century during the romantic restoration of the Castle, both interiors were reconstructed (following the example of the neighbouring refectories) into one square hall with a vault resting on one central pillar. The current furnishings of the hall are neo-Gothic furniture and graphic portraits of people associated with the work in the castle at that time.
The Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork, the largest Gothic castle complex in the world, is a 13th-century Teutonic castle and fortress located near the town of Malbork on the river Nogat in Poland. It was originally constructed by the Teutonic Knights, a German Catholic religious order of crusaders, in a form of an Ordensburg fortress. The Order named it Marienburg in honour of Mary, mother of Jesus. In 1457, during the Thirteen Years’ War, it was sold by the Bohemian mercenaries to King Casimir IV of Poland in lieu of indemnities and it since served as one of the several Polish royal residences and the seat of Polish offices and institutions, interrupted by several years of Swedish occupation, and fulfilling this function until the First Partition of Poland in 1772. From then on the castle was under German rule for over 170 years until 1945. The castle is a classic example of a medieval fortress and, on its completion in 1406, was the world's largest brick castle. UNESCO designated the "Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork" and the Malbork Castle Museum a World Heritage Site in December 1997.
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Sala Królewiecka w Pałacu Wielkich Mistrzów na zamku w Malborku.
W średniowieczu istniały w tym miejscu dwa podłużne pomieszczenia, oświetlone każde jednym oknem – wymieniane w krzyżackich księgach rachunkowych: izba i izdebka mistrza. Prace restauratorskie dofinansowały władze miasta Królewca, stąd nazwa sali. Ostatnie badania wykazały, że wnętrza były dekorowane malowaną wicią roślinną – fragment tej dawnej dekoracji zachowano w odkrywce na południowej ścianie sali. W pierwszej połowie XIX wieku, w trakcie restauracji zamku zwanej dziś romantyczną, istniejące tu wnętrza zostały przebudowane (podobnie do sąsiednich refektarzy) na jedno kwadratowe wnętrze o sklepieniu wspartym na centralnym filarze. Obecne wyposażenie tworzy garnitur mebli neogotyckich i graficzne portrety osób związanych z ówczesnymi pracami na zamku.
Zamek w Malborku – jeden z największych zamków na świecie, położony na prawym brzegu Nogatu, wzniesiony w kilku etapach od 1280 do poł. XV w. przez zakon krzyżacki. Początkowo konwentualna siedziba komtura, od 1309 po przeniesieniu przez Siegfrieda von Feuchtwangena stolicy zakonu do Malborka, siedziba wielkich mistrzów zakonu krzyżackiego i władz Prus Zakonnych do 1457, w latach 1457–1772 rezydencja królów Polski, od 1466 siedziba władz Prus Królewskich, od 1568 siedziba Komisji Morskiej, w 1772 zajęty przez administrację Królestwa Prus i zdewastowany w latach 1773–1804; rekonstruowany w latach 1817–1842 i 1882–1944, zniszczony w 1945, ponownie rekonstruowany od 1947; w 1949 wpisany do rejestru zabytków, w 1994 uznany za pomnik historii, w 1997 wpisany na listę światowego dziedzictwa UNESCO jako jeden z najznakomitszych przykładów średniowiecznej architektury obronno-rezydencyjnej w Europie Środkowej. Od 1961 zamek jest siedzibą Muzeum Zamkowego w Malborku.