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Strolling through nature’s masterpiece, where fiery reds, vibrant yellows, and earthy greens paint the perfect autumn canvas. The crisp air and crunch of leaves underfoot make this path feel like a journey into serenity. 🍁✨
Captured on a bright, blue-sky day, this scene is a gentle reminder that beauty lies in the simple moments—like the way the sunlight dances through these radiant trees. Who else feels like autumn is nature’s way of showing off? 😍
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The undisputed highlight of Cordoba (and arguably of Southern Spain) is the magnificent 'Mezquita', the former Great Mosque that since the Spanish reconquest of 1236 has served as Cordoba Cathedral, a unique marriage of styles and cultures and one of the World's greatest architectural masterpieces.
The site dates back to Roman times, the pagan temples giving way to the first Visigothic cathedral which stood here in the 7th and 8th centuries. After the Islamic conquest the church was divided between Christians and Muslims until the Christian side was brought for conversion into the first mosque. In the following centuries the mosque was rebuilt and enlarged in ever more magnificent form up to around 987.
The Great Mosque continued to function until the Spanish reconquest of 1246 when it was converted back to Christian use as the city's cathedral; luckily the unparalled beauty of the Islamic architecture was recognised and largely respected, though new additions were made in various places adding further stylistic layers to the complex, initially in gothic, then Renaissance and latterly Baroque styles.
The biggest alteration came at the end of the Middle Ages when a more recognisable cathedral structure was erected over the centre of the multi-aisled former prayer hall. Begun as a gothic church, it was completed as a largely Renaissance structure with rich vaulting and a low dome over the crossing. Though it required the removal of many of the superb arcades and columns to erect it, the structure's impact is less apparent from within as one might expect, since it has few lower walls, literally growing from the Moorish colonnades.
The complete structure of the Mosque/Cathedral covers a vast rectangular area with an open courtyard to the north with the Baroque bell tower (the former minaret reclad)and the seemingly endless columned halls of the interior, with some 856 columns (many reused from Roman buildings, themselves reused in the previous church). Various chambers and chapels of varying dates and styles open up making the internal layout somewhat confusing to follow. The centre of the complex is dominated by the Renaissance cathedral, whose soaring interior flooded with light actually contrasts well with the more intimate, darker areas of the mosque, if making the experience somewhat surreal and other worldy. One can wander this ever changing interior for hours and still feel like one has barely scratched the surface.
The most notable parts of the Islamic structure are the magnificent double rows of scalloped arches, with multiple cusps and alternating bands of red and white. There are also some truly gorgeous ceilings, masterpieces of Islamic design, including the domes over the former mihrab niche, parts of which retain rich mosaic decoration.
In other areas the contrast of Islamic and Christian styles is quite bizarre, with the perimeter of the building lined with chapels, Moorish in style but many filled by huge gilded Baroque altars, somewhat at odds with the original style.
All in all the Mosque / Cathedral of Cordoba is one of the wonders of the World and for me was the highlight of this trip to Andalusia. As a fascinating fusion of faiths, styles and first rate architecture, there simply is nowhere else remotely like it.
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Nombre: Skywarp
Afiliación: Decepticons
Línea: Masterpiece / Universe
Clase: Masterpiece
Año: 2009
Número de adquisición: 329
La versión de Hasbro para el Skywarp Masterpiece.
Fantástica figura más fiel al G1 que la versión de Takara.
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Name: Skywarp
Allegiance: Decepticons
Line: Masterpiece / Universe
Class: Masterpice
Year: 2009
Number in Collection: 329
Hasbro version of Masterpiece Skywarp.
Amazing figure, more cartoon accurate than the Takara version.
He wasn't sure which way to go. I just wanted to get a shot of him on my way to my beach chair!!
Taken on the beach at the Marriott in Aruba
Back to the Fifties car show.
Edited in Deep Dream Generator then used as a texture over the original.
Unsure if this is a '39 Ford Deluxe or a '40 Ford Standard. I don't really know the difference.
Prompts: architecture vincent van gogh's head made of plants, bright flowers, lights and shadows, soft touch art style.
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My tools at rest. The tablet is 12 years old and shows some signs of wear from the past 12 years (as do I) and not everything works. Still it and reading glasses to put over my regular glasses (making DIY) computer glasses are the tools I use for attempts to share a little of the majesty of life I see. Someday when I am gone, I hope these are laying there with a masterpiece on the screen and I left after a final attempt to share what I saw.
*cough* look at the beauty *cough*
Isn't it great to make some art that looks like it was done while being high? Yes. i know. its great.
here's the "amazing" speed paint www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcg8TIDCS7s
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I assume my brother has started a guitar-business :D I heard this guitar today in our rehearsal room and it's loud as hell but sounds beautiful.
Lens: Canon 50mm f1.4 USM
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Good lights to all of you, fellows.
According to local Maori legend, the Moeraki Boulders are the remains of eel baskets, kumaras, and calabashes that washed onto the shore after the wreck of Arai-te-uru, a large sailing canoe. The rocky shoals that extend out from Matakaea (Shag Point) represent the petrified hull of the canoe, the Maori say, and the nearby rocky promontory represents the body of the captain.
Weighing several tons each, the Moeraki Boulders originally formed about 60 million years ago during the early Paleocene. Some can measure up to nine feet across. For millions of years, the boulders lay buried underground, covered up over time. Slowly, they have emerged as waves wash away the mudstone.
As mesmerizing as the boulders are there is a stunning array of seaweed, invertebrates, shells, bryozoan and ascidians (filter feeders that sieve food particles out of the water) and sponges washed up on the beach. A third of the 850 species of seaweed native to Aotearoa, are not found anywhere else in the world.
Or, "All for Nothing # 31".
I can see my room from here! That's always a simple pleasure. But readers! Can YOU guess which room was mine? ...Probably not. That's a bit silly.
This was an unusually fun trip to a car park- as we stood and touched the biggest poster I've ever seen (for Captain America: Civil War, which was only 2 weeks away at that time- my gosh I was SO excited). I have a nice shot of Michael next to an enormous Black Panther.
This was also a view I hadn't really seen before- an unplanned visit, having seen the place from my hotel window when we first went in. It's nice to have a surprise when you've planned in so much detail.
I love the giant road that cuts straight through this part of the city. Only at night though- the car lights add interest to what is a dull, grey scene in the daylight.
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April 2016: The trip of a lifetime to China... that didn't go so well. These are my photographs that I was able to take in the fewer, happier moments.
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Monument Church Of St Francis in Porto. They really went all out on the interior decor on this church. Technically no photos were allowed but many people were so I sneaked one on my phone. A gothic church with a baroque interior it is a UNESCO world heritage site. This current church was started in 1383 and was completed in the 15th Century..