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I believe that this is the meeting point of Canyon de Chelly and Canyon del Muerto. If anyone knows better, please put me right.
It was cold there in December, but empty and the light was great. I really liked the place, and through sheer 'co-incidence' met a famous Native American Flute Player on the ridge. Meeting you, Travis Terry, added depth to our understanding and the day.
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Vacation feeling at Lake Constance, Germany.
Sunshine,+ 22 C, a lovely view to the the lake and in the far distance the snowy Swiss Alps.
Life is easier again... Due to very low incidence values in my state
public life takes place again.. Fingers crossed...
During a day trip I have enjoyed visiting the regional garden show at Überlingen recently (a beautiful city, situated on the northern shore of Lake Constance(Bodensee).
Welch ein Tag...
Feriengefühle am Bodensee.
Sonnenschein, + 22 C, herrliche Sicht auf den See und das gegenüberliegende Ufer. In der Ferne die schneebedeckten Schweizer Alpen .
Vor einigen Tagen habe ich die Bundesgartenschau in Überlingen
am Bodensee besucht - ein nicht nur floristisches Highlight.
Niedrige Inzidenzwerte und erhebliche Lockerungen in meinem Bundesland machen das Leben wieder leichter.
Wishing you a lovely week, dear friends, stay safe.
thanks for your kind visit and your comments.
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Curved bokeh à la Milanese
A quick afternoon capture of a stainless steel Milanese-style bracelet. The bracelet's surface has a multicolour ion plating that lets it shimmer in different rainbow colours, depending on the light incidence. And you know how much I love shiny, iridescent, colourful things ;) I know that the actual focus "line" is wafer-thin, so I thought I'd give it another try, but you already know the answer: I couldn't replicate "the wave" exactly. Of course not, so why did I try to do so in the first place) ;) I think we should appreciate our test shots more, not only that, we should embrace them – I certainly should ;) It's a single shot, illuminated with one single light source from the left, processed with the usual suspects (DXO PL6: sharpness and denoising; Analog Efex and Color Efex). The bracelet's width is 1,7 cm / 0,66 inches.
Happy Macro Monday, Everyone!
View of the chancel of the Garnison Church of St Martin in Dresden. It was built between 1893 and 1900 and was once a military town for the Saxon army. Originally there were two separate church rooms, divided into a Roman Catholic and a Protestant part. Today, however, only the Roman Catholic part is used for religious purposes.
On my last visit to the church, I was impressed by the incidence of light in the chancel, and I am happy to share this photo with you.
HAPPY EASTER TO ALL OF YOU !
Due to the location of Lake Orta, in the middle of the mountains and due to the incidence of light, this lake has an enchanting, almost mysterious beauty.
In the middle of the lake is the tiny "Isola San Giulio".
This little island is characterized by the monastery dedicated to San Giulio....
The 48-meter-high dome from the basilica provides a beautiful incidence of light in the richly decorated interior of the nave of the church....
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A pyramid on Mars? Saharan dust over Mount Chip? An alien artefact? The rise and fall (especially the fall) of the ever-elusive neon empire? I simply couldn't think of a title here, and I'm too late in the game anyways. Same procedure as every Monday, I guess ;)
Either way, I've always wanted to photograph this decorative glass pyramid for Macro Mondays. I'd dropped it once ages ago, and the chipped-off tip made it the perfect subject for the "Chip" theme.
The setup was simple, I put the pyramid on a book, illuminated it with yellow (semi-translucent plastic bottle cap) light from the left, red (transparent red chocolate box lid) light from the right, and then held a piece of cardboard coated with a reflective gold colour behind the pyramid so the background would look like a sunset or the above-mentioned Saharan dust clouds. The pyramid itself is of iridescent colour, depending on the light incidence it displays hues of blue and orange.
HMM, Everyone!
Rocky massif with a summit at an altitude of 2,600 m (8,530 ft) MSL, located near the Casa Queimada camp, from the entrance of Pedra Menina do Parque and about 60km from the Park headquarters in Alto Caparaó. To get to the site, it is necessary to take the road that leads from Portaria Pedra Menina to the Casa Queimada camp, which has some stretches that are difficult to cross by passenger car throughout the year. From there, the attraction must be reached on foot, through a trail with poor signage. Its name comes from the shape of the mountain, divided into two halves with a very similar appearance. The local vegetation is formed by high altitude fields with a high incidence of grasses and bromeliads.
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Recognized trails are possible for us to follow at dawn. We returned to the camp, showered in cold water, had dinner and slept early, around 7 pm. We woke up at 1:30 am, had breakfast and went up at 2:00 am to reach Pico da Bandeira 30 minutes before sunrise, that is, at twilight. Do not arrive before this time due to the cold and high winds.
Curious facts: In the forest's “color palette” the Ruby-topaz Hummingbird (Chrysolampis mosquitus) is highlighted. With a red head and nape, metallic orange-yellow throat and chest and a rusty tail, the species is the hummingbird that has the largest extension of iridescent feathers, that is, they reflect colors depending on the incidence of light. He is just amazing!
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Von der Elbphilharmonie hat man einen herrlichen Blick auf den Hafen. Die Fenster sind nicht verschmutzt, sondern besondere Anfertigungen. Jedes Element enthält je zwei Isolierglasscheiben aus Verbundsicherheitsglas, auf denen sich je nach Lichteinfall Punktmuster befinden. Sie reduzieren die Sonneneinstrahlung und helfen effektiv gegen Höhenangst.
From the Elbphilharmonie you have a wonderful view of the harbor. The windows are not dirty, they are specially made. Each element contains two insulating glass panes made of laminated safety glass, on which there are point patterns depending on the incidence of light. They reduce solar radiation and effectively help against fear of heights
Hybrid of E. Laui and E. Runyonii made in Argentina, it is a perennial herb with a short stem that can produce several rosettes up to 20 cm in diameter. Its leaves are glaucous and lanceolate finished with a discreet tip.
It has pruine, its own protection against the incidence of sunlight, avoiding burns on the leaves and reproduces through leaves easily. I do not put it in the rain, because the soil is soaked so that this plant will quickly rot and remove the pruine leaving it unprotected and prone to fungi. It is important to have a drained soil, just like the other succulents, and it needs a few hours of sunshine a day.
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Echeveria is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Crassulaceae, native to semi-desert areas of Central America, Mexico and northwestern South America.
(Incidence of a small focus of moving light on a CD with drops of water.)
Incidência de um pequeno foco de luz em movimento sobre um CD com gotas de água.
Photo taken at Ibón de Piedrafita on a very sunny and windy day. The mountain is Peña Telera, the main peak of the Sierra de Partacua, located in the Tena Valley, in the province of Huesca (Spain). The "cloud" formed by the snow blown by the wind and the incidence of the sun on it forms this phenomenon of a colored cloud that I had not seen until now. taken in the Ibón de Piedrafita on a very sunny and windy day. The mountain is Peña Telera, the main peak of the Sierra de Partacua, located in the Tena Valley, in the province of Huesca (Spain). The "cloud" formed by the snow blown by the wind and the incidence of the sun on it forms this phenomenon of a colored cloud that I had not seen until now.8
So this is the south side of the Dutch Island Terschelling. A co-incidence that it was low tide where neat small islands popped up. The atmosphere with no wind and high temperatures made it a great summer feel. The next day I biked up here with my family, all was covered with seawater. Thanks all for your comments and favs
Vienna's luxury shopping street Kohlmarkt one week before Christmas Eve. The fourth wave of coronavirus with the Delta variant is subsiding and the incidence figures are visibly falling. But experts are predicting a next wave of unimagined proportions because of the new variant Omicron. We have to expect it from January, they say.
Algunos odonatos adoptan esta postura, obelisco, para que la incidencia de los rayos solares en su cuerpo sea menor y además, hacen sombra con sus alas en algunas partes del mismo.
En este caso es una hembra de Sympetrum fonscolombii quien lo está haciendo.
A finales del mes de junio en Arguisuelas, localidad de la provincia de Cuenca.
Some odonata adopt this position, obelisk, so that the incidence of sunlight on their body is less and also, they cast shadows with their wings in some parts of it.
In this case it is a female Sympetrum fonscolombii who is doing it.
At the end of June in Arguisuelas, a town in the province of Cuenca.
Light incidence in the hall of Arnhem Central Station.
Arnhem CS is the central station of the city of Arnhem, the capital of the Dutch province of Gelderland. The design for Arnhem Centraal uses the natural differences in height in the city. Station Arnhem CS is designed by Architect Ben van Berkel.
Kristiansand is strategically located on the Skagerrak, and until the opening of the Kiel Canal between the North Sea and the Baltic was very important militarily and geopolitically. This meant that for centuries it served as a military stronghold, first as Harald Fairhair's royal residence, then as a Danish-Norwegian fortress, and later as a garrison town. Kristiansand is a gateway to and from the continent, with ferry service to Denmark and a terminus of the railway line along the southern edge of South Norway.
Geologically, this part of Agder is part of the Swedo-Norwegian Base Mountain Shield, the southwestern section of the Baltic Shield, and consists of two main geological formations of Proterozoic rocks that were formed in the Gothic and later Swedo-Norwegian orogenies, with significant metamorphism during the latter.[13] There is a substrate of 1,600–1,450 million-year-old slate, quartzite, marble and amphibolite with some hornblende gneiss, and overlaid on this acidic surface structures of both granite and granodiorite (in general 1,250–1,000 million years old, in some places 1,550–1,480 million years old). The Bamblefelt geological area starts to the east of the municipality and extends to Grenland.
The last Swedo-Norwegian formations are evident in large formations of granite. There are also incidences of gabbro and diorite, less commonly eclogite. The Caledonian orogeny did not affect this area. Faults run southwest-northeast.[14] In ancient times there was a volcano off Flekkeroy, which left deposits of volcanic rock just north of central Kristiansand, on the site of the estate of Eg, now occupied by the Hospital of Southern Norway.
Near the city, there are deep woods. In Baneheia and at the former coastal artillery fortress on Odderøya, there are lighted ski trails and walking paths specially prepared for wheelchair users.
Two major rivers, the Otra and the Tovdalselva, flow into the Skagerrak at Kristiansand. wikipedia
When the light reaches the throat of the Brazilian Ruby Hummingbird (male), the green feathers change to golden or to ruby depending on the angle you are looking and the angle the of the light itself.
In these two photos you can see part of the transformation: golden in the first photo and light ruby (something more similar to orange) in the second photo. But I assure to you that the throat really changes to vibrant ruby tone depending of the light and movement of the bird too.
7 fun facts about hummingbirds
1- The indigenous gave very suggestive names to the hummingbirds, which perfectly described these charming birds:
For the "Caraíbas indians", they were the “colibris”, which means “resplendent area”.
The "Tupis" called them “guainumbis”, that is, “sparkling birds”.
For the "Guarani indians", on the other hand, hummingbirds were the “mainumbis”, that is, “those who enchant, next to the flower, with its light and splendor”.
2- Its huge heart, which represents 19 to 22% of the total body weight, facilitates the rapid circulation of blood.
3- In a single day, they are able to ingest nutritious substances up to 8 times their body weight.
4- Some hummingbirds develop average speeds ranging from 30 to 70 km per hour and the vibration of the wings can reach 50 to 70 beats per second.
5- They are the only birds that can literally stand still in the air, take off and land vertically, and even reverse in mid-flight.
6- The spectacular color of hummingbirds originates from the phenomenon of refraction of light, through the microstructure of the feathers. The color changes, observed in the same bird, vary according to the angle of incidence of sunlight or the movement of the body.
7- They say that Igor Sirkorski, who invented the helicopter, based his ideas on the continuous observation of the flight of hummingbirds. However, the helicopter cannot fly upside down. Hummingbirds can.
One of my favorite butterflies is this glass wing.
Depending on the incidence of light, the wings appear clearly transparent or like here like a stained glass window.
(Greta oto)
Einer meiner Lieblingsschmetterlinge ist dieser Glasflügelfalter.
Je nach Lichteinfall erscheinen die Flügel klar durchsichtig oder wie hier wie ein Bleiglasfenster.
(Incidence of a small focus of moving light on a CD with drops of water.)
Incidência de um pequeno foco de luz em movimento sobre um CD com gotas de água.
Photographing is an adventure for me, an endless passion and crazy pleasure of being in extraordinary places at an extraordinary time.
These impressions remain with me forever when I look at the pictures.
Often, my outdoors sesion is a spontaneous action when I notice something intriguing.
Our journeys are often mostly the same routes, but at different times of the day, night, year…. I always take my backpack and tripod so that I can stop and do an outdoor session - the equipment must be properly set up and charged.
You have to foresee, that is a plan the scenes and the use of focal lengths, the angle of incidence of light, the composition of the composition ... - imagine the photos I want to take.
My wife always tells me why I am taking it (more often the equipment is only transported), and I say a landscape photographer must be prepared - after all, I am carrying it.
When planning a trip, I choose more or less hours of the route on which there may be an interesting phenomenon at a given time (e.g. meteograms say that there will be fog, or I know that there will be a full moon, or that there will be no fog and there will be clear skies, maybe it is worth taking a tracker, etc., which they have some potential places with an interesting landscape - if there are suitable favorable conditions - it is known that it is not always successful, but I give myself a chance.
Sometimes I have cases like this day. Potentially, I planned a Full Moon over the Bobolice castle, but I couldn't take such a picture because I couldn't match the moon with the castle in one frame and we were coming back when I saw this phenomenon - you just had to feel the moment - make a decision and stop at the side of the road roads in fog and darkness - it's a bit deaf - but don't worry, I'm the one hunting.
During such spontaneous photography you have to act quickly - I have at most several dozen minutes to get it right, so the setting sequences must be mastered to perfection and you have to think quickly, react when seeing the changing situation.
I always take a dozen or so photos on different settings, and then to be able to choose the best photo in my opinion, i.e. the one that fully reflects the atmosphere and mood of that moment.
Having photos (some of them are obviously less successful) sometimes takes time to get the right colors in post-production.
This is another photo from this open air
This is the real scene I captured.
Planning the scene and waiting for the right conditions is the base of my photography. I show the world as it is at the moment without any changes. My post-production is just about extracting the light, very often I do not change the framing because I try to compose photos with an idea and carefully. It forces me to approach each photo carefully.
viele Märchen- oder Sagengestalten mussten erst zum Ende des Regenbogens reisen, um den Schatz am Fuß des Regenbogens zu finden. Auch wenn wir den Fuß des Regenbogens niemals erreichen, so hat der Lichtbogen seine Faszination nicht verloren.
Aber wie entsteht ein Regenbogen.
Das Sonnenlicht wird von Regentropfen gebrochen und reflektiert. Er keinen festen Ort aber eine feste Ausrichtung. Er ist immer an der der Sonne genau entgegengesetzten Seite des Himmels in einem Winkelabstand von 42° um den Sonnengegenpunkt zu sehen. Da dieser Sonnengegenpunkt bei hochstehender Sonne hinter dem Horizont liegt, ist es unmöglich, mittags einen Regenbogen zu beobachten. Je höher die Sonne am Himmel steht, desto flacher ist der Regenbogen, bei tiefstehender Abendsonne wölbt er sich entsprechend hoch.
Warum aber beträgt dieser Winkel immer 42°? Ein Lichtstrahl, der in einen Wassertropfen eintritt, wird von der Grenzschicht zwischen Wasser und Luft reflektiert und verläßt den Tropfen wieder in einem bestimmten Winkel zu seiner ursprünglichen Einfallsrichtung. Natürlich fällt in Wirklichkeit immer ein ganzes Bündel Lichtstrahlen in einen Tropfen ein, und da jeder einzelne Strahl in einem anderen Winkel auf die Tropfenoberfläche trifft, sind die Austrittswinkel ebenfalls ganz unterschiedlich.
Dass dennoch nur die 42° Strahlen von uns als Regenbogen wahrgenommen werden, hängt damit zusammen, daß eine größere Ablenkung aus physikalischen Gründen nicht möglich ist. Alle Lichtstrahlen, die eigentlich noch weiter als diese 42° gebrochen werden müßten, konzentrieren sich an diesem Grenzwert und bilden dadurch den für uns sichtbaren Regenbogen. Die Lichtstrahlen mit kleineren Auslenkwinkeln verursachen lediglich eine leichte Aufhellung des Himmels innerhalb des Bogens.
Da das Sonnenlicht aus Strahlen verschiedener Wellenlänge aufgebaut ist, und sich die Brechung für jede Wellenlänge etwas unterscheidet, wird das Licht nicht nur abgelenkt sondern auch in seine Farbanteile zerlegt. Blaues Licht wird stärker gebrochen als rotes und liegt dadurch beim Austritt aus dem Tropfen näher am ursprünglichen Strahl. Im Regenbogen sehen wir daher den blauvioletten Streifen am weitesten innen, gefolgt von grün, gelb und ganz außen rot.
many fairy tale or legend characters first had to travel to the end of the rainbow to find the treasure at the foot of the rainbow. Even if we never reach the foot of the rainbow, the arc has not lost its fascination.
But how does a rainbow come about?
The sunlight is refracted and reflected by raindrops. It is not a fixed location but a fixed orientation. It can always be seen on the exactly opposite side of the sky to the sun at an angular distance of 42 ° around the sun's counterpoint. Since this opposite point of the sun lies behind the horizon when the sun is high, it is impossible to observe a rainbow at noon. The higher the sun is in the sky, the flatter the rainbow, and when the evening sun is low it arches accordingly.
But why is this angle always 42 °? A ray of light that enters a drop of water is reflected by the boundary layer between water and air and leaves the drop at a certain angle to its original direction of incidence. Of course, in reality a whole bundle of light rays always falls into a drop, and since each individual ray hits the drop surface at a different angle, the exit angles are also very different.
The fact that we only perceive the 42 ° rays as rainbows is due to the fact that a greater deflection is not possible for physical reasons. All rays of light, which should actually be refracted further than this 42 °, concentrate at this limit value and thereby form the rainbow that is visible to us. The light rays with smaller deflection angles only cause a slight brightening of the sky within the arc.
Since sunlight is made up of rays of different wavelengths and the refraction differs slightly for each wavelength, the light is not only deflected but also broken down into its color components. Blue light is refracted more strongly than red light and is therefore closer to the original ray when it emerges from the drop. In the rainbow we therefore see the blue-violet stripe furthest inside, followed by green, yellow and red on the outside.
in pandemic times Cologne is in a status of lockdown due to corona virus incidences. .Carneval sessions cancelled. Only gulls are free to fly where they want.
At the top of the Vienna Main Library outside staircase at Urban-Loritz-Platz on the Gürtel
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Don't blame lovers for the worrying rise in coronavirus incidence in Vienna!
Los días muy calurosos algunos odonatos adoptan esta posición para mitigar el calor, evitando una mayor incidencia de radiación en su cuerpo.
Ese día hacía mucho calor en Pinoso cerca de las 14.30h.
Ejemplar macho de Sympetrum fonscolombii.
On very hot days, some odonates adopt this position to mitigate the heat, avoiding a greater incidence of radiation in their body.
That day it was very hot in Pinoso around 2.30pm.
Male specimen of Sympetrum fonscolombii.
Kristiansand is strategically located on the Skagerrak, and until the opening of the Kiel Canal between the North Sea and the Baltic was very important militarily and geopolitically. This meant that for centuries it served as a military stronghold, first as Harald Fairhair's royal residence, then as a Danish-Norwegian fortress, and later as a garrison town. Kristiansand is a gateway to and from the continent, with ferry service to Denmark and a terminus of the railway line along the southern edge of South Norway.
Geologically, this part of Agder is part of the Swedo-Norwegian Base Mountain Shield, the southwestern section of the Baltic Shield, and consists of two main geological formations of Proterozoic rocks that were formed in the Gothic and later Swedo-Norwegian orogenies, with significant metamorphism during the latter.[13] There is a substrate of 1,600–1,450 million-year-old slate, quartzite, marble and amphibolite with some hornblende gneiss, and overlaid on this acidic surface structures of both granite and granodiorite (in general 1,250–1,000 million years old, in some places 1,550–1,480 million years old). The Bamblefelt geological area starts to the east of the municipality and extends to Grenland.
The last Swedo-Norwegian formations are evident in large formations of granite. There are also incidences of gabbro and diorite, less commonly eclogite. The Caledonian orogeny did not affect this area. Faults run southwest-northeast.[14] In ancient times there was a volcano off Flekkeroy, which left deposits of volcanic rock just north of central Kristiansand, on the site of the estate of Eg, now occupied by the Hospital of Southern Norway.
Near the city, there are deep woods. In Baneheia and at the former coastal artillery fortress on Odderøya, there are lighted ski trails and walking paths specially prepared for wheelchair users.
Two major rivers, the Otra and the Tovdalselva, flow into the Skagerrak at Kristiansand. wikipedia
Love those little hairs in the sun😂🐾💕
Daily Dog Challenge: Silhouette
Smile on Saturday: Silhouette
Happy co-incidence, two of my favourite groups with the same "challenge" close together 😀
... and I didn't manage to get anything better than this since😂
This is an entirely new direction for my photography as well as being deeply personal. On occasion for those who have followed me from the beginning, I have eluded to having experience of mental health issues. The truth is, as is the title of this Album, I suffer from CPTSD, which stands for Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, unlike PTSD that extends from one or two short term incidences of trauma, CPTSD extends from the long term effects of trauma. Sometimes from abuse and trauma having lasted for years or even decades, as such was my case.
This new collection will focus on this condition that was only recognised in the DSM 3 back in 1980 and few people know about it. This hopefully will bring about awareness of the condition and help others who suffer from trauma based condition to feel comfortable to speak about it.
Frankly, I couldn't give a shit if I don't get much in the way of faves/likes, it's the information I want to get out and the therapy it serves me and maybe others. Thank you if you read all this, means a lot.
I trust everyone is well and so as always, thank you!
PS: and yes, that is me ;)
Les couleurs Martin pêcheur ont une particularité : selon l’incidence de la lumière, le bleu métallique de son plumage prend différentes nuances.
Le pigment qui colore ces plumes particulières est en réalité brun sombre ! Les reflets bleus changeants sont dus à des interférences entre les différentes des longueurs d’ondes de la lumière, réfléchie et décomposée par la structure des plumes du petit oiseau.
The Kingfisher colors have a particularity: depending on the incidence of light, the metallic blue of its plumage takes on different shades.
The pigment that colors these particular feathers is actually dark brown! The changing blue reflections are due to interference between different wavelengths of light, reflected and broken down by the structure of the little bird's feathers.
In Solingen, over 100 people have been tested positive for Corona in the last 24 hours. Too many families have not worn masks, inhaled the contaminated breath of their neighbors, and spread the virus further without symptoms. There is a threat of a new lock-down or an increased disease and death rate.
Parador ce Cuenca, Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha, España.
El antiguo convento de San Pablo, construido en el bellísimo paraje de la Hoz del Huécar, acoge el Parador de Cuenca, uno de los lugares más especiales de la ciudad, junto al Puente de San Pablo y frente a las Casas Colgadas.
En su interior, te sorprenderá la fusión decorativa entre tradición y contemporaneidad, y sus espacios únicos, como el viejo claustro acristalado, la cafetería, ubicada en lo que fue la capilla del convento, y la preciosa piscina exterior, dotada de una espectacular panorámica de la ciudad.
El Parador de Cuenca se levanta sobre el Convento de san Pablo, un monasterio construido por el canónigo Juan del Pozo en 1523 en estilo tardogótico plateresco y estrechamente vinculado al icónico Puente de San Pablo, que también recibe el nombre de dicho canónigo.
Hoy, el claustro acoge una obra maestra del artista Julián Casado, la titulada como “Serie Malevich. Variaciones sobre una misma estructura”. Esta pieza, constituida por 42 lienzos pintados entre 1978 y 1982, reflexiona sobre los postulados del artista ucranio Kazimir Malevich, padre del constructivismo, creando variaciones de la incidencia de la luz en un cuerpo geométrico.
The former convent of San Pablo, built in the beautiful setting of Hoz del Huécar, is home to the Parador de Cuenca, one of the most special places in the city, next to the San Pablo Bridge and opposite the Hanging Houses.
Inside, you will be surprised by the decorative fusion between tradition and contemporaneity, and its unique spaces, such as the old glass cloister, the cafeteria, located in what was the convent chapel, and the beautiful outdoor pool, with a spectacular panoramic view of the city.
The Parador de Cuenca stands on the Convent of San Pablo, a monastery built by the canon Juan del Pozo in 1523 in the late Gothic Plateresque style and closely linked to the iconic San Pablo Bridge, which also bears the name of the canon.
Today, the cloister houses a masterpiece by the artist Julián Casado, entitled “Malevich Series. Variations on the same structure”. This piece, made up of 42 canvases painted between 1978 and 1982, reflects on the postulates of the Ukrainian artist Kazimir Malevich, father of constructivism, creating variations in the incidence of light on a geometric body.
Húsavík is a town in Norðurþing municipality on the north coast of Iceland on the shores of Skjálfandi bay with 2,307 inhabitants.
According to the Landnámabók ("Book of Settlement"), Húsavík was the first place in Iceland to be settled by a Norseman. The Swedish Viking Garðar Svavarsson stayed there for one winter around 870 A.D. When he left the island he left behind a man and two slaves, a man and a woman, and they established a farm. The name of the town means "bay of houses", probably referring to Garðar's homestead, which may have been the only houses then in Iceland.
It is an interesting co-incidence that the boat in this shot is named Gardar