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Au fond, l'île de Los Lobos. En face, les volcans de Bayuyo. A droite, on devine la langue de sable de Corralejo.
Tour Eiffel 05/09/2021 19h22
"Donne moi ton plus beau sourire..."
ParisPeople (more candid and non-candid street shots of people made in Paris)
Colline de Saint-Germain-de-Montaigu, près d'Alès, point de vue depuis le sommet (360 mètres), massif du Montcalm et le Mont Lozère au dernier plan
Nieuwe Kerk 02/04/2025 15h14
The Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) on Dam Square was undergoing major renovations, and to celebrate the 750th anniversary of the city of Amsterdam, an observation deck was built so visitors could enjoy the view over Dam Square and the Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal, but especially over the city of Amsterdam.
Photos taken from the roof of Amsterdam at the Nieuwe Kerk
Here looking to the North with the ADAM Tower on Overhoeks. On the foreground the rooftops of the Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal.
Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal
For more information:
Panoramique à partir de 19 clichés assemblés depuis le Calvaire sur les hauteurs de Bomal sur Ourthe (Durbuy - BE)
Reste de l'album sur www.facebook.com/mustefbalades
Music for today : Let the church roll on by Mahalia Jackson
here are the last shots from the hiking week-end we made with Cyril and Mr Din.
a urban view of the church in the old city of Briancon, a nice point of view in B&W!!
I doesn't know what I will show you after that..... I have to reorganize my photo library....
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preciosa leyenda que narra la triste historia de amor entre el príncipe musulmán Abul Walid y su amada Sobeyha.El ejército cristiano dirigido por el Cid Campeador, sorprendió a las tropas musulmanas provocando su derrota y la muerte de Abul. Su cuerpo fue enterrado allí para cumplir su deseo de contemplar eternamente la ciudad donde yacía su amada. Desde entonces se conoce a esta roca como la Peña del Rey Moro.
Paraplíčko 18/02/2026 12h03
A nice viewpoint with the center of Český Krumlov with it's caste in the distance. Located along the tř. Míru (name of the road).
Mehdi is captured at the edge in backlight.
Český Krumlov
Ceský Krumlov (in German Krumau) is a town in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 13,000 inhabitants. It is known as a tourist centre, which is among the most visited places in the country. The historic centre with the Český Krumlov Castle complex is protected by law as an urban monument reservation, and since 1992, it has been a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site because of its well-preserved Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque architecture.
Krumlov has its origin in Middle High German Krumme Aue, which can be translated as crooked meadow, after a bend of the Vltava River. The adjective Český ('Bohemian', German: Böhmisch) was added in the 15th century to differentiate it from the town of Moravský Krumlov in south Moravia.
Český Krumlov is located on the České Budějovice–Černý Kříž railway [cs] and as of 2026 it is served by the intraregional line Prague–Český Krumlov and regional line České Budějovice–Nové Údolí. The town is served by two railway stations: Český Krumlov and Domoradice.
Pic 1 - 24hours in Iceland
I was sitting in the plane from Washington DC, thinking that I will have to run to catch my connexion in Reykjavik. Just before to land I received a text from @icelandair telling me that I will have to wait 24h in Iceland before the next flight for Paris. Indeed I missed my connexion. I saw the plane for Paris, the one I was supposed to take, take off in front of me ... I think I was the only one to be so happy and excited to miss my flight and get "stucked" in Iceland for 24 hours. Gosh a free stopover !!!! 😍😎😋 So thanks a lot icelandair and icelandairhotels I spent a dream day over there !
Tour Eiffel 05/09/2021 19h37
Masked family selfie...
ParisPeople (more candid and non-candid street shots of people made in Paris)
MARS_42 [50 points]
This space invader could be seen from a distance from the hill of Notre-Dame de la Garde. I went down to the scene to flash and capture this one. It was my 1404th space invader flashed.
Till August 2020 I found and flashed all 13 space invaders of wave 1 (MARS_01 - MARS_11 - 2004 and wave 2 (MARS_12 and MARS_13). But during wave 3 in August 2020 the number of space invaders went up to 97. In total 84 space invaders on my list again.
Onscreen FlashInvaders message: RAD!
All my photos of MARS_42:
MARS_42 (Close-up, July 2021)
MARS_42 (Wide shot 1, July 2021)
MARS_42 (Wide shot 2, July 2021)
Date of invasion: 10/08/2020
Secteur Cap Bon-Ami.
Le parking et le belvédère du Cap Bon Ami;
Photo prise de la tour du Mont Saint-Alban.
Empire State Building 02/05/2015 10h50
Looking East from the observation deck of the Empire State Building on a height of 373.1 meters at the 86th floor. The neighbourhoods Turtle Bay and Murray Hill are below and the Chrysler Building (1930, 319 m, 77 floors) is visible here as well. At the other side of the East River Long Island City and Astoria.
The street below is the East 34th Street.
Empire State Building
The Empire State Building is a 102-story skyscraper located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on Fifth Avenue between West 33rd and 34th Streets. It has a roof height of 380 m, and with its antenna spire included, it stands a total of 443 m high. Tallest in the world from 1931 to 1970. Its name is derived from the nickname for New York, the Empire State. Following the September 11 attacks in 2001, the Empire State Building was again the tallest building in New York (although it was no longer the tallest in the US or the world), until One World Trade Center reached a greater height on April 30, 2012. he Empire State Building is currently the fourth-tallest completed skyscraper in the United States (after the One World Trade Center, the Willis Tower and Trump International Hotel and Tower, both in Chicago), and the 25th-tallest in the world (the tallest now is Burj Khalifa, located in Dubai). It is also the fifth-tallest freestanding structure in the Americas.
FACTS & FIGURES
« Tallest in the world from 1931 to 1970 »
Preceded by: Chrysler Building
Surpassed by: World Trade Center (Twin Towers)
Architectural style: Art Deco
Location: 350 Fifth Avenue - Manhattan, New York 10118
Construction started: March 17, 1930
Completed: April 11, 1931
Floor count: 103
Height:
Architectural: 381.0 m
Tip: 443.2 m
Roof: 381.0 m
Top Floor and observatory: 373.1 m
Length (east-west): 129.2 m
Width (north-south): 57 m
Lifts/elevators: 73
Architect: Shreve, Lamb and Harmon
[ Source & more Info: Wikipedia - Empire State Building ]
Petřínská rozhledna 17/02/2026 12h07
Looking over the Vltava river towards the Staré Město (left) and Nové Město (right) with the Malá Strana in the foreground. We were lucky with the weather. And also the Karlův most (Charles Bridge) is well visible here.
Petřín Tower
The Petřín Lookout Tower (Czech: Petřínská rozhledna) is a steel-framework tower 63.5 metres tall on Petřín Hill in Prague, built in 1891. It resembles the Eiffel Tower and was used as an observation tower as well as a transmission tower. Today the tower is a major tourist attraction.
The Petřín Hill is roughly a half-hour walk up paths and the tower is also quite an arduous climb; however, the hill is served by a frequent Petřín funicular and the tower has an elevator for elderly and disabled people. In 2014 the tower was visited by more than 557,000 visitors, with foreigners accounting for over 70% of said visitors.
The two observation platforms are accessible via 299 stairs in sections of 13 per flight running around the inside of the structure. A pair of staircases form a double-helix structure allowing visitors travelling up and down concurrently.
Petřín Lookout Tower is often described a smaller version of the Eiffel Tower, which is 328m tall. In contrast to the Eiffel Tower, Petřín Lookout Tower has an octagonal, not square, cross-section. Further, it does not stand, as does the Eiffel Tower, on four columns of lattice steel. The whole area under its legs is covered with the entrance hall.
Invader Rubikcubist | MiMa Bruxelles 22/10/2022 16h54
BXL_41 (50 points) is a Rubik space invader with a view!
All my photos of BXL_41:
BXL_41 (Close-up, September 2022)
BXL_41 (Wide shot 1, September 2022)
BXL_41 (Wide shot 2, September 2022)
BXL_41 (Wide shot 3, September 2022)
BXL_41 (Roof shot 1, October 2022)
BXL_41 (Roof shot 2, October 2022)
Date of invasion: Date of invasion; around 07/07/2022
[ Visited, flashed and caputered BXL_42 about 2 months after invasion ]
Invader Rubikcubist
From 24/06/2022 till 08/01/2023 Invader had an exhibition in the MiMa Museum (Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art) in Bruxelles (Molenbeek Saint-Jean) under the titel Invader Rubikcubist.
Since the late 1990's, Invader has been clandestinely invading the street of the world with his mosaics which appear as if they have come straight out of an old school video game. There are now more than 4,000 of them scattered across 80 cities around the world; in the suburbs of Tokyo, on the letters of the Hollywood sign, atop of the Tour Eiffel, in the Tunesian desert, since one of his creations is orbiting the Earth 16 times a day aboard the ISS space station.
In 2003, for the first time, Invader introduced references to a cult object into his compositions; the Rubik's Sube. A year later, he created Rubik's Space One, a small sculpture composed of nine cubes. This was the starting point of the movement that the artist has called "Rubikcubism", a nod to Braque and Picasso's cubism and the name of the Hungarian inventor of the famous brainteaser.
[ MiMa 2022 ]
Alcazaba 30/06/2022 17h11
We visited the Kasbah and its ramparts and towers and walked through the gardens.
This fortress was built in 1471 by Moulay Ali Ben Musa, the founder of Chefchaouen.
View from the fortress looking to the West and below Plaza Uta el Hamman.
Chefchaouen
Chefchaouen (Arabic: شفشاون, romanized: Shafshāwan), also known as Chaouen, is a city in northwest Morocco. It is the chief town of the province of the same name and is noted for its buildings in shades of blue, for which it is nicknamed the "Blue City". Chefchaouen is situated just inland from Tangier and Tétouan.
It was founded as a military outpost shortly before the Spanish Reconquista of Granada, and its population grew quickly with Muslim and Jewish immigrants fleeing from Spain. The economy is based on a traditional agro-pastoral system with olive and fig plantations; numerous water mills for grinding grain and olives; a handicrafts sector focusing on leather, iron, textiles, and carpentry; and summer-dominated tourism.
The city of Chefchaouen is located at about 600 metres (2,000 ft) above sea level in the foothills of the Kaʻala mountain in the western part of the Rif mountain range, in northwestern Morocco. The province of Chefchaouen is among the largest in Morocco, with an area of 3,443 km2.
Population: 43.000
Elevation: 564 m
Fort de la Bastille | Jérôme Mesnager 30/06/2015 11h32
We were very surprised to find a real homme blanc by Jérôme Mesnager at this point. This is the fifth 'fresque' of one of my favorite street artists from Paris I encountered here. This one is located on the view point Belvédère Vauban. Stewart was happy to strike a pose next to the work of Mesnager.
JÉRÔME MESNAGER
White man,
a puppet of the present moment,
pitiless mirror of our gesticulations.
Born in Colmar (Haut-Rhin, France) in 1961.
As a ten-year-old in Paris, with his neighbour Jean Pierre Le Boul'ch, who ran in an art and poetry review, he crossed paths with the era's greatest artists including César, Armand, Ernest Pignon-Ernest and many more.
After attanding tje École supérieure d'arts appliqués in Bouille, and marked by the death of pop artist Robert Malaval in 1980, Jérôme Mesnager decided to paint the swiftness of life.
In daylong ephemenral art events held in abaonded spaces, using a paintbrush and a pot of white paint, he covered his body, transforming it into an "ideal body" that moved through a space transformed into an artistic composition.
On January 1983, at approximately 12h30, "l'homme blanc" ("the white man") appeared on the walls of abandoned housese, in the hopes of reducing the desolation in "expulsed" neighbourhoods...
This "character", a symbol of freedom, joy, and universality, quickly stepped off the walls of the city of Paris to spread its message of fraternity to the four corners of the earth, from Asia to the Egyptian pyramids. Several thousands have now joined the dance.
L'homme blanc - is he a comtemporary version of Auguste Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty? After all, both artists hail from France's Haut-Rhin!
Wikipedia - Jérôme Mesnager (Français only)
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Outlining a Theory of General Creativity . .
. . on a 'Pataphysical projectory
Entropy ≥ Memory ● Creativity ²
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Study of the day:
[...] chaque "moi" est un "point de vue" sur le monde, chaque "moi" exprime le "monde entier" de son propre "point de vue" ; au sens où le "monde entier" n’existe pas hors des "points de vue" qui l’expriment. La "ville" n’existe pas hors de l’ensemble des "points de vue" sur la "ville". C’est une belle idée, . . la ville c’est ça, c’est l’ensemble des points de vue sur la ville. [...] Chaque "moi" contient (enveloppe) la totalité du "monde" . . [...] . . pour chacun de ces "moi", Leibniz qui ne se satisfait pas du petit ilot subjectif de la res cogitans de Descartes, crée un concept pour désigner "chaque moi" qui pense la totalité du monde possible. Leibniz l'appelle la "monade". Chaque "monade" exprime (enveloppe) la totalité du monde.
Each "self" is a "point of view" on the world, each "self" expresses the "world" from his own "point of view", in the sense that the "world" doen't exist out of the "points of view" that give it an expression. The "city" doesn't exist outside of all "points of view" on the city. It is a beautiful idea . . the city is all the "points of view" on the city. [...] Every "self" contains (wraps) the entire "World". . [...]. . For each of these "self", Leibniz who don't meet the too small subjective island of the res cogitans of Descartes, creates a concept to designate "each self" who thinks the entire possible world. Leibniz called him the "monad". Each "monad" expresses (wraps) the entire world.
( Gilles Deleuze - Cinéma - cours 41 du 17/05/1983 à PARIS 8 )
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Tour Bellanda 10/06/2017 11h07
"Ne bouge plus!...
Candid photography on the view point next to Tour Bellanda climbing to the Parc de la Colline du Château.
Nice
Population: 344.000 (approx 2014)
Area: 71.92 km2
Density: 4,800/km2
Elevation: 0 - 520 m
[ Source and much more Info: Wikipedia - Nice ]
Empire State Building 02/05/2015 10h31
Arrived on the 86th floor (373.1 meter) for a view from the Empire State Building. Been here before in 1978 with my parents so for me it was a revisit after many years. And yes, I liked the view. But we were not alone.
Empire State Building
The Empire State Building is a 102-story skyscraper located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on Fifth Avenue between West 33rd and 34th Streets. It has a roof height of 380 m, and with its antenna spire included, it stands a total of 443 m high. Tallest in the world from 1931 to 1970. Its name is derived from the nickname for New York, the Empire State. Following the September 11 attacks in 2001, the Empire State Building was again the tallest building in New York (although it was no longer the tallest in the US or the world), until One World Trade Center reached a greater height on April 30, 2012. he Empire State Building is currently the fourth-tallest completed skyscraper in the United States (after the One World Trade Center, the Willis Tower and Trump International Hotel and Tower, both in Chicago), and the 25th-tallest in the world (the tallest now is Burj Khalifa, located in Dubai). It is also the fifth-tallest freestanding structure in the Americas.
FACTS & FIGURES
« Tallest in the world from 1931 to 1970 »
Preceded by: Chrysler Building
Surpassed by: World Trade Center (Twin Towers)
Architectural style: Art Deco
Location: 350 Fifth Avenue - Manhattan, New York 10118
Construction started: March 17, 1930
Completed: April 11, 1931
Floor count: 103
Height:
Architectural: 381.0 m
Tip: 443.2 m
Roof: 381.0 m
Top Floor and observatory: 373.1 m
Length (east-west): 129.2 m
Width (north-south): 57 m
Lifts/elevators: 73
Architect: Shreve, Lamb and Harmon
[ Source & more Info: Wikipedia - Empire State Building ]
Looking to the west from the riverside path in the Otterton area can be seen a distinctive needle. This was built in 1730 as a "point de vue", or visual point of interest, as seen from Bicton House, the seat of the Rolles, the local major family.
*NOW GEOTAGGED*
No music today!!
Just three shots of the sunrise I talk you yesterday!!
shots from the hiking week-end we made with Cyril and Mr Din.
A sunrise at 5 a.m. and -5°C to catch.... clouds ;-(
We got no luck this day because sunrise was partly masked by hugh clouds but we have retrieve some nice shots!!
You can see these 3 shots like a tryptich.
Have a nice week-end dear friends!!
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The last morning of the year 2017 well spent in the 20ème arrondissement of Paris visiting two re-activated space invaders en enjoying the view over Paris from this point...
Location: Belvédère de Belleville, right under PA_467, Rue Piat, Paris 20ème.
Coordinates: 48°87'15" N 2°38'49" E
Reason: A last morning walk through Paris of the year 2017 and the opportunity to flash the re-activated PA_386 and this PA_467.
PA_467 Space invader PA_467 was installed here by Invader on 10/02/2002 but removed in October 2013. In November this one has been re-activated and is again visible and 'Flashable'.
All my photos of PA_467:
PA_467 (Close-up, November 2005)
PA_467 (Wide view 1, November 2005)
PA_467 (Wide view 2, after re-activation, December 2017)
PA_467 (Re-activated, 52-Weeks, December 2017)
Parc de Belleville: The Parc de Belleville is located on the hill of Belleville, its 108 metres making it the highest park in Paris. At the summit of the park, an almost thirty-metre tall terrace provides a panoramic view of the city. The park was conceived by the architect François Debulois and the landscaper Paul Brichet. It was inaugurated in 1988.
52-Weeks in 2017: Of all my 52 selfies in 2017, 29 were taken in the Netherlands, 20 in France, 2 in Germany and 1 in the UK. Four of them were taken at home and also 4 are in combination with other people of whom 4 together with Andy. This year 17 are taken using the 'stretched arm method'.
Weather: Cloudy, some sunbeams as well, 12° C
To Listen: Above & Beyond - Sun In Your Eyes (Youtube)
Self-portrait technics: Camera placed on my cross-over bag, timer on 10 seconds.
Notre-Dame de la Garde 02/08/2014 11h45
People enjoying the view from the view point of the Notre-Dame de la Garde.
Notre-Dame de la Garde
C'est en 1214 que Maître Guillaume, de l'abbaye Saint-Victor, autorise Maître Pierre à s'établir et à édifier une chapelle sur la colline de la Garde qui culmine à 162 mètres d'altitude (ainsi nommée car à son sommet se trouve le veilleur, garant de la sécurité de la ville). Les fidèles y viennent si nombreux qu'il faut agrandir et construire de nouvelles chapelles.
En 1853, l'architecte Espérandieu entreprend la construction de la basilique, consacrée le 4 juin 1864 par le cardinal Villecourt. Mais il reste encore de nombreux travaux à accomplir. L'architecte Revoil succède à Espérandieu, et ce n'est qu'en 1917 que s'achève la construction de cette oeuvre collective, le monument de Marseille le plus connu.
La statue de la Vierge à l'enfant, haute de plus de neuf mètres, est exécutée entre 1867 et 1869 sur le modèle du sculpteur Eugène Lequesne dans les ateliers de la maison Cristofle à Paris. La « Bonne Mère » est la patronne des marins et la protectrice de la cité.
(Source: Marseillenet.com)