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Sometimes you just get lucky. Twice a year, as the sun sets, the shadow of the West Mitten butte is perfectly cast upon the East Mitten butte. This phenomenon draws spectators and photographers from around the world. I didn't even know this was a thing. I just happened to be doing a time lapse from the balcony of our hotel room and the sun popped out from behind the clouds for a few minutes and I noticed the shadow.
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Trentino-Alto Adige, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy
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● Monumentale complesso marmoreo celebrativo della vittoria italiana nella prima guerra mondiale sull'Austria-Ungheria, progettato dall'architetto Marcello Piacentini e costruito tra il 1926 ed il 1928.
These last two shots really had to be in monochrome. I did think about reducing the saturation levels so the barest colour appeared, but in the end I went for classic black and white. I wonder sometimes if some people today struggle with understanding what black and white photography is about. We live in a world of instant simulation, and it takes imagination and effort to "read" a black and white.
Ansel Adams once likened working in colour to be like playing an out of tune piano (Adams was a concert pianist before turning to photography).
'"I can get—for me—a far greater sense of ‘color' through a well-planned and executed black-and-white image than I have ever achieved with color photography," he wrote in 1967. For Adams, who could translate sunlight's blinding spectrum into binary code perhaps more acutely than anyone before or since, there was an "infinite scale of values" in monochrome. Color was mere reality, the lumpy world given for everyone to look at, before artists began the difficult and honorable job of trying to perfect it in shades of gray.' www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/ansel-adams-in-color-...
I like that description. Mind you I recently purchased "Ansel Adams in Color" (Little, Brown and Company, 1993), and although there's not a lot of his colour slides left (most have deteriorated with time), what is in this collection is a real treasure.
A view from Hunts Mesa into Monument Valley just before sunset and just after a short thunderstorm. :-)
See previous upload for more info.
180mm, 100 iso, f10.
40 mpix panorama.
9 Maggio 2021
MONUMENTO ALLA FAMIGLIA CAIROLI
www.paviaedintorni.it/temi/arteearchitettura_file/artearc...
Dedicato dalla Patria alla famiglia Cairoli, è opera dello scultore Enrico Cassi, e fu inaugurato il 27 Aprile del 1900.
ZORKI 4 k - KMZ
Anno: 1975 Matricola: 75012012.
Obiettivo: JUPITER-8 50mm F 2.0 (n. 5735196)
Pellicola: FOMAPAN 100 ASA
Sviluppo; ILFORD ID 11 - 1+1 - 20° - 9':00''
Fissaggio: SUPERFIX PLUS TETENAL 1+4 - 4':30'' - 20°
Scanner EPSON V600 - 2400 dpi
Monument Valley has to be one of the most photographed places in the world. There were a thousand cameras trained on this ordinary Saturday sunset; and that was just one single busload of Japanese tourists. (True)
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Bandelier National Monument is a 33,677-acre United States National Monument in New Mexico preserving the homes and territory of the Ancestral Pueblo People. Most of the pueblo structures date to two eras, in total from 1150 to 1600 CE.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_Valley
Monument Valley (Navajo: Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, pronounced [tsʰépìːʔ ǹtsɪ̀skɑ̀ìː], meaning "valley of the rocks") is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of sandstone buttes, with the largest reaching 1,000 ft (300 m) above the valley floor. The most famous butte formations are located in northeastern Arizona along the Utah–Arizona state line. The valley is considered sacred by the Navajo Nation, the Native American people within whose reservation it lies.
Monument Valley has been featured in many forms of media since the 1930s. Famed director John Ford used the location for a number of his Westerns. Film critic Keith Phipps wrote that "its five square miles [13 km2] have defined what decades of moviegoers think of when they imagine the American West".
Sourc: navajonationparks.org/navajo-tribal-parks/monument-valley/
History
Before human existence, the Park was once a lowland basin. For hundreds of millions of years, materials that eroded from the early Rock Mountains deposited layer upon layer of sediment which cemented a slow and gentle uplift, generated by ceaseless pressure from below the surface, elevating these horizontal strata quite uniformly one to three miles above sea level. What was once a basin became a plateau.
Natural forces of wind and water that eroded the land spent the last 50 million years cutting into and peeling away at the surface of the plateau. The simple wearing down of altering layers of soft and hard rock slowly revealed the natural wonders of Monument Valley today.
From the visitor center, you see the world-famous panorama of the Mitten Buttes and Merrick Butte. You can also purchase guided tours from Navajo tour operators, who take you down into the valley in Jeeps for a narrated cruise through these mythical formations. Places such as Ear of the Wind and other landmarks can only be accessed via guided tours. During the summer months, the visitor center also features Haskenneini Restaurant, which specializes in both native Navajo and American cuisines, and a film/snack/souvenir shop. There are year-round restroom facilities. One mile before the center, numerous Navajo vendors sell arts, crafts, native food, and souvenirs at roadside stands.
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(United States) "الولايات المتحدة" "Vereinigte Staaten" "アメリカ" "米国" "美国" "미국" "Estados Unidos" "États-Unis" "ארצות הברית" "संयुक्त राज्य" "США"
(Arizona) "أريزونا" "亚利桑那州" "אריזונה" "एरिजोना" "アリゾナ州" "애리조나" "Аризона"
(Utah) "يوتا" "犹他州" "יוטה" "यूटा" "ユタ州" "유타" "Юта"
(Monument Valley) "وادي النصب التذكاري" "纪念碑谷" "Vallée des monuments" "מוניומנט ואלי" "स्मारक घाटी" "モニュメントバレー" "모뉴먼트 밸리" "Долина Монументов" "Valle de los Monumentos"
Lycourgos Angelopoulos, Greek Byzantine Choir - Hirmos Calophonique, Mode I
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Stavropoleos Monastery, Bucharest, Romania
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The Monument is a Doric column in London, situated near the northern end of London Bridge and it commemorates the Great Fire of London. Constructed between 1671 and 1677, it is Grade I-listed and is a scheduled monument.
The viewing platform is reached via a staircase of 311 steps and at least three people can be seen on the platform.
2nd December 2008., Dublin, Ireland
The Wellington Monument in the Phoenix Park, Dublin
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Glasgow Necropolis looking south. Hampden Park straight ahead , Ibrox to the right , Parkhead to the left.
“Monument Valley Squall” — A passing rain squall mutes the view of buttes and ridges at Monument Valley.
This was a spectacular day in Northern Arizona. We were most of the way through a visit of several weeks to mostly Utah, and had departed Moab in th morning. Our plan was to go back via the northern route through Arizona and make it to Springdale by the end of the day. As we left Utah and started west across Arizona there were spectacular clouds and intermittent heavy showers.
As we approached this area, with its famous buttes, spires, and towers, a heavy shower passed between us that the distant scenery. At first I was a bit disappointed, as it obscured the clear view I was expecting. But in the end, I think that this curtain or rain produced a sense of mystery that is not so likely in a typical sharp and clear photograph.
We arrived to Monument Valley in a reddish sand storm, which created three dimensional photographs. see on large Monument Valley is located on Utah and Arizona border on Navajo land. The area lies entirely within the Navajo Indian Reservation on the Utah/Arizona border; the state line passes through the most famous landmarks.
The isolated red mesas and buttes surrounded by empty, sandy desert was an unforgettable site.
What a beautiful place this is with fantastic views for miles around. Built around 240 years ago in the 1780s it stands today on Cnoc Fyrish overlooking the Cromarty Firth and the Black Isle with The Moray Firth and Inverness beyond.
Takes about two hours to walk to the top on a well defined path but allow plenty of time for taking photographs and if the weather is nice take a picnic. If you want more there are another couple of follies nearby for an extended walk including Little Fyrish.
Nearby is Nigg and in Cromarty Firth you can just see some of the recently disused oil platforms just waiting.
F. Schiller, medico, poeta, filosofo e storico, è considerato uno dei più importanti drammaturchi poeti e saggisti tedeschi.
Il monumento che vedete qui a Ludwigsburg è opera dello scultore Ludwig von Hofer.
La statua fu creata in marmo a Carrara nel 1880 e la donò alla sua città natale.
Schiller nacque nella vicina città di Marbach am Neckar e trascorse sei anni della sua infanzia a Ludwigsburg.