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The National Art Museum of China (NAMOC, simplified Chinese: 中国美术馆; traditional Chinese: 中國美術館) is located at 1 Wusi Ave, Dongcheng District, Beijing, People's Republic of China. It is one of the largest art museums in China, and is funded by the Ministry of Culture.[1] The construction of the museum started in 1958, and concluded in 1962. It has a total land area of 30,000 square meters (320,000 sq ft). The museum was renovated between May 2004 and January 2005, and has been given an additional area of 5,375 square metres (57,860 sq ft).
Its permanent collection includes both ancient and contemporary Chinese artworks as well as notable Western artworks. Although the museum contains collection of imperial Chinese art, its main mission is to serve as a national level art museum dedicated to displaying, collecting and researching the modern and contemporary artistic works of China. It has a main building of four stories, the first three being display areas. There are 21 exhibition halls at the museum.
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Unused. Probably somewhere in 1917.
As the war progressed the German army simplified their uniforms and helmets both in style and wide variety. This presents us collectors with less visible clues to identify the unit on scene. These guys are pretty diffucult, but I guess I concur with the former owner.
Most of them are wearing the M1915 Bluse, a M1916 Stahlhelm, carbine on the back or at hand with fixed bayonets, gasmask around the neck, and two stick grenades at their disposal. A very nice 'stormtrooper' scene I would say. No shoulder straps are visible. A striking feature are the buckles with the crown of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. A valuable clue, as this small part of German only raised a limited number of units.
But two guys provide additional clues, they have an open buckle, typically worn by cavalry troops. Their tunic is a M1910 Waffenrock mit Stehkragen, the fieldgrey Dragoon uniform.
Hessen fielded 2 Dragoon Regiments, and only one has cuffs voids of litzen, hence these men probably hail from
Leib-Dragoner-Regt. (2. Großherzog-hessisches) Nr.24
By the time of this picture, the regiment was acting as a dismounted unit and had to crawl through the mud like all others. Most have decorations, they have been at it for a while already.
Through deliberate over-exposure. White out everything except the essentials.
That's a huge clump of seaweed on the right and plenty of specs of weed on the left... the stuff was almost everywhere!
Just simple shot and convert to black & white. Don't know you like or not.
Sad Agus Photography©, Copyright 2014.
Photos taken on September 18, 2010 on a hike to Elfin Lakes and the Gargoyles in Garibaldi Povincial park. Photo Simplified from original version.
www.flickr.com/photos/naturemike/5005946618/in/set-721576...
This weekend I got myself a gift (early Christmas one) and bought the Topaz suite. So, I had to experiment with the different components and found one candidate in the archives. I have used Simplify, Denoise, and Detail on this one. Hope you'll like it.
Wishing you all a great week ahead!
My Flowers & Macro set.
EXPLORED - Thanks, all!! Took a roadtrip this weekend....our "inaugural" trip with a teardrop trailer that we built ourselves. (See below). One of the reasons we built it was to be able to take off on photo trips.
We found this little house....schoolhouse perhaps? outside Yreka, CA...incredibly wild sky...View On Black
3 image HDR +/- 2EV tonemapped in Photomatix.
Finished up in CS4 - adjusted curves
Used Nik Silver Efex to create the BW layer.
Thanks for all your comments and faves! I will catch up with each of your streams soon!
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - Topaz Simplify of a 2800x2500 panorama, downsampled from a 4500p PTGui composite, SSAO, SweetFX 1.4, ENB bloom, CLENB palette, Witcher 2 Tweaker.
So yeah, I just had to give that thing a go myself. Procrastination is a bitch.
Original shot here. If you like this, go watch Burning North's simplified shots to see how it's properly done.
Lingyin Temple (simplified Chinese: 灵隐寺; traditional Chinese: 靈隱寺; pinyin: Língyǐn Sì) is a Buddhist temple of the Chan sect located north-west of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. The temple's name is commonly translated into English as Temple of the Soul's Retreat, which is a literal translation of the Chinese. It is one of the largest and wealthiest Buddhist temples in China, and contains numerous pagodas and Buddhist grottoes.
The monastery is the largest of several temples in the Wulin Mountains (Chinese: 武林山; Pinyin: Wǔlínshān), which also features many grottos and religious rock carvings, the most famous of which is the Feilai Feng (Traditional Chinese: 飛來峰石窟; Simplified Chinese:飞来峰石窟; literally: "the peak that flew hither").
According to tradition, the monastery was founded in 328 AD during the Eastern Jin dynasty (266–420) by an Indian monk, named Huili in Chinese. From its inception, Lingyin was a famous monastery in the Jiangnan region.
During the Cultural Revolution, the temple and grounds suffered damage at the hands of red guards, but the students of Zhejiang University tried to protect the temple. The temple managed to avoid large scale destruction partly because of the instructions of Premier Zhou Enlai.
Today the temple is thriving as a destination for both pilgrims and tourists. It is regarded as one of the wealthiest monasteries in China, and regular pilgrims have included former paramount leader Deng Xiaoping.
The Wuling Mountains area is a major centre of Chan Buddhism in south-eastern China. A number of smaller temples are also located in the area. Today, Lingyin and the surrounding areas are marketed as the Lingyin-Feilai Feng Scenic Area, with ticketed admission.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingyin_Temple
www.viajeachina.com/atracciones-de-hangzhou/templo-lingyi...
www.thechinaguide.com/es/sight/lingyin-temple
El templo de Lingyin (chino simplificado: 灵隐寺; chino tradicional: 靈隱寺; pinyin: Língyǐn Sì) es un templo budista de la secta Chan situado al noroeste de Hangzhou, en la provincia china de Zhejiang. El nombre del templo se traduce comúnmente al inglés como Temple of the Soul's Retreat (Retiro del Templo del Alma), que es una traducción literal del chino. Es uno de los templos budistas más grandes y ricos de China, y contiene numerosas pagodas y grutas budistas.
El monasterio es el mayor de varios templos de las montañas Wulin (chino: 武林山; pinyin: Wǔlínshān), que también cuenta con numerosas grutas y tallas religiosas en la roca, la más famosa de las cuales es el Feilai Feng (chino tradicional: 飛來峰石窟; chino simplificado:飞来峰石窟; literalmente: "el pico que voló hasta aquí").
Según la tradición, el monasterio fue fundado en el año 328 d.C. durante la dinastía Jin Oriental (266-420) por un monje indio, llamado Huili en chino. Desde sus inicios, Lingyin fue un famoso monasterio de la región de Jiangnan.
Durante la Revolución Cultural, el templo y sus terrenos sufrieron daños a manos de los guardias rojos, pero los estudiantes de la Universidad de Zhejiang intentaron protegerlo. El templo logró evitar la destrucción a gran escala en parte gracias a las instrucciones del primer ministro Zhou Enlai.
En la actualidad, el templo prospera como destino tanto para peregrinos como para turistas. Está considerado uno de los monasterios más ricos de China, y entre sus peregrinos habituales se encuentra el antiguo líder supremo Deng Xiaoping.
La zona de las montañas Wuling es un importante centro del budismo Chan en el sureste de China. En la zona también hay varios templos más pequeños. En la actualidad, Lingyin y sus alrededores se comercializan como Zona Escénica de Lingyin-Feilai Feng, con entrada.
I've wanted to design a Stegosaurus for a while now, and even made a few attempts at it that didn't work out.
I dusted off the idea last month and, this time, things just fell into place. I scrapped my previous attempts and used my Pureland Stegosaurus as a jumping off point instead. You can still see that model embedded in the core of this one.
I also designed a slightly more complicated version that has three additional small plates, in order to make the model look more accurate.
George Kokoris, a.k.a. Burning North was the first to introduce me to Topaz Simplify, a plugin suite for Photoshop. He reworked some of Dead End Thrills' shots, and was kind enough to do some of mine as well.
I'd like to use this one as a flickr backdrop, and use the fact that I'll have to host it in my own photostream to do that, to give the guy some more exposure. Check out his photostream.
The original of this simplified shot is here, for those interested.
For the letter N in our daily challenge I have selected necklace, here processed in Topaz Simplify for a painterly effect.