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Dinamarca - Copenhague - Vistas desde la Rundetaarn (Torre Redonda)
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www.visitcopenhagen.com/copenhagen/round-tower-gdk410741
ENGLISH:
The Rundetaarn, or Rundetårn (Round Tower in English), is a 17th-century tower located in central Copenhagen, Denmark. One of the many architectural projects of Christian IV, it was built as an astronomical observatory. It is most noted for its equestrian staircase, a 7.5-turn helical corridor leading to the top, and for the expansive views it affords over Copenhagen.
The tower is part of the Trinitatis Complex which also provided the scholars of the time with a university chapel, the Trinitatis Church, and an academic library which was the first purpose-built facilities of the Copenhagen University Library which had been founded in 1482.
Today the Round Tower serves as an observation tower for expansive views of Copenhagen, a public astronomical observatory and a historical monument. At the same time the Library Hall, located above the church and only accessible along the tower's ramp, is an active cultural venue with both exhibitions and a busy concert schedule.
The Round Tower is a cylindrical tower built in masonry of alternating yellow and red bricks, the colours of the Oldenburgs. The bricks used were manufactured in the Netherlands and are of a hard-burned, slender type known as muffer or mopper. On the rear side, it is attached to the Trinitatis Church, but it has never served as a church tower.
Steenwinckel — whose name is otherwise synonymous with Dutch Renaissance architecture in Denmark — with the Trinitatis Complex has left his signature style. Unlike his other buildings with their lavish ornamentations and extravagant spires, the complex is built to a focused and restrained design. Hans van Steenwinckel must have been up on the situation in Holland, cogniziant that the style which he had once learned from Hendrick de Keyser had been altogether abandoned.
The architects now setting the agenda in the Netherlands, masters such as Jacob van Kampen (Amsterdam City Hall), Pieter Post (Mauritshuis in the Hague) and Philip Vingboons, now favoured a style characterized by sobriety and restraint. It is now known as Dutch Baroque or sometimes Dutch Classicism. Its proponents often relied on the theoretical works such as those of Palladio and of Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola. Steenwinckel may have paid a visit to his native Netherlands prior to his change in style but it will have been too early for him to have seen any of the period's buildings realized.
Instead of stairs, a 7.5-turn spiral ramp forms the only access way to the towertop observatory as well as the Library Hall and the Bell-Ringer's Loft, both located above the church. The ramp turns 7.5 times around the hollow masonry core of the tower before reaching the observation deck and observatory at the top, on the way also affording access to the Library Hall as well as the Ringer's Loft. This design was chosen to allow a horse and carriage to reach the library, moving books in and out of the library as well as transporting heavy and sensitive instruments to the observatory.
The winding corridor has a length of 210 m, climbing 3.74 m per turn. Along the outer wall the corridor has a length of 257.5 m and a grade of 10%, while along the wall of the inner core the corridor is only 85.5 m long but has a grade of 33%.
The observation deck is located 34.8 m above street level. Along the edge of the platform runs a wrought-iron lattice made in 1643 by Kaspar Fincke, Court Artist in metalwork. In the latticework, Christian IV's monogram and the letters RFP are seen, the letters representing the King's motto: Regna Firmat Pietas – Piety strengthens the Realms.
The observatory is a small domed building, built on the roof of the tower. Built in 1929, the current observatory is 7 m high and has a diameter of 6 m. Access is by a narrow winding stone staircase from the observation deck.
On the upper part of the façade of the tower, there is a gilded rebus inscription. Christian IV's draft of it, written in his own hand writing, is kept at the Danish National Archives. The rebus includes the four Hebrew consonants of the Tetragrammaton. The rebus can be interpreted in the following way: Lead God, the right teaching and justice into the heart of the crowned King Christian IV, 1642.
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ESPAÑOL:
La Rundetårn (en español: Torre Redonda) es una torre del siglo XVII ubicada en el centro de Copenhague, Dinamarca. Siendo uno de los numerosos proyectos arquitectónicos del rey Cristián IV, fue construida como observatorio astronómico. Es conocida por su pasillo helicoidal que recorre 7 vueltas y media antes de llegar a la parte más alta y por las amplias vistas panorámicas de la ciudad de Copenhague que ofrece.
La torre forma parte del Trinitatis Complex, que también estaba compuesto por una capilla universitaria, la Iglesia Trinitatis y una biblioteca universitaria, que fueron las primeras instalaciones construidas especÃficamente por la Biblioteca de la Universidad de Copenhague, fundada en 1482.
Actualmente, la Torre Redonda tiene la función de mirador, observatorio astronómico público y monumento histórico. Asimismo, en la Sala de la Biblioteca, que se encuentra por encima de la iglesia y a la cual solo se puede acceder a través de la rampa de la torre, se suelen exhibir exposiciones y celebrar conciertos.
Same little swan's chick 3-4 days old
I like a lot this one, it's really funny, it's like they are speaking about me :) : he watche the guy with the tele lens on the bridge :)
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Southeastern 'Citybeam' 707 010 calls at St Johns Station with the new towers of Lewisham in the background. These 707s are ex Southwestern Railway cast offs, rewrapped for Southeastern and given a funky name like 'Citybeam'. The seats made headlines in the railway press for being little better than ironing boards and toilets are non existent. The trains they are replacing, now going to the breakers, had better seats and toilets...
St Johns is one of those stations that I've passed and travelled through thousands of times in my life but never used. Being an island platform it's accessed by a long footbridge from St Johns Vale and the near by St Johns Church. The bridge gives good views towards Lewisham but it's just a shame that unless your a unit fan, every train is the same. The towers in the background didn't exist a few years ago and below them is the once temporary, now permanent rail bridge, the site of one of the worst railway disasters in the UK in 1957.
To bookend the drone image that I posted earlier this week, this is the ground based shot taken at the same time, with me pressing the remote release to take multiple long exposures and then blending them to produce a 10 minute super L.E.
same perspective as previous image
- overnite fall became a different colour
with the weight of new snow added to the leaves, some of the tree limbs are drooping an extra foot or two and it continues to fall as i speak
Happy (PsychedelicSunday)
I focused this shot in almost total dark ness . When the edges of the leaves look as if they were well defined I hit the shutter button.
Same bloom as this but different angle. Interesting how the colour shades has drastically changed. Notice how the Fall chills and cold has affected the bloom's petals. Frostbitten.
This was taken the day after my previous Cuckoo Bee photos.
Because I'd never seen them before I went back on the off chance it (or others) might be there again and surprisingly this one was in almost exactly the place and definitely on the same plant. So I don't know if it's the same bee or another.
Focus stacked using Zerene.
Same again but landscape and not HDR. Quite flat really - not great light but you work with what you have. Looks better on my iPad than on my monitor... hmmph.
Photographer: Beinta Haraldsen
Model: Malan Jensen
Art direction/supervision: Jóannes Lamhauge
Hair stylist & make-up artist: Ann L. Henriksen
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I was hoping to find some Snowdrops, to add some seasonality to my shots of Nelly Ayre Foss. No such luck but the flow was nice!
12 Months of the same image -- #4 -- April
Around here, the first days of April didn't look much different than January. In fact, there was no view of this ridge on April 1 & 2, due to white-out snowstorms & fog. The snow didn't much accumulate, but the view was utterly impeded.
One thing you can (almost) always count on in the Canary Islands is stable weather all year round. And so, almost every day begins with a fantastic sunrise over the sea, if you are on the right side of the island.
I really wanted to capture this morning scene on the kilometre-long sandy beach of Maspalomas on Gran Canaria with my telephoto lens. In doing so, I was eyed critically by some sports enthusiasts and asked if I was photographing their bottoms.
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These two planets (Jupiter and Saturn) will never appear this close to each other in my lifetime, but the memories we create with family will last forever.
I am so happy that my 5 year old daughter loves to experience the same things that I do. A moment I will cherish forever.
Doi Samer-Dao in Thai words it means "Mountain in the same level of stars" It's top point of Srinan National Park in Nan. It's far from Nan city around 80 km and take around 1.5 hour to drive here. On top of mountain you can 360 degree panoramic view of Nan mountain. This place can stay overnight by camping (contact national park office first) but bring food and water by yourself. If the sky clear enough in the night we can see milky way clearly on the sky. Best time to visit is in winter (Nov-Jan).
I do like side by side shots that compare the difference between two buses or trains which are similar technically but yet have minor differences
Metrobus ADL Enviro200 172 (YX61ENO) passes SEN42 (YX09FMU) at Orpington Bus Station on routes R8 and R4.
I forgot that I bought these today, LOL. I had to run out and grab them from the car.
Well, looks like Harold will be adding the rest of his bandmates to his shelf real soon.
Lord have mercy. I should be saving for convention.
Looks like I might have to pimp out one of my convention Poppys.
Anyways, yay 1D!!!
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- Mrs P, I know we had euthanasia scheduled for your sick cat today, but I run some tests and it seems he's suddenly feeling better, so I'll cancel it. To keep HCM under control, give him half of this pill every twelve hours and come back every two weeks for exam.
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Yes, after our 11,5 y/o was quickly fading away despite treatment we were called to do it, but that same morning something must have been manipulating his midi-chlorians. The vet told us cat's vital signs are better (we were all quite surprised) and the big "E" was cancelled. So, we came back home with our cat alive and pills to keep fluid out of his lungs. That was 35 days ago and he's still here. His heart is in bad shape so we're not expecting miracles, but every day counts.
Would like to do some Lego shooting but without a single new piece in months, I'm out of ideas.
Will try to catch up on vacation next week :)
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