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Straight up shot of the ornamented ceiling in the fountain room next to the tomb of Moulay Ismaïl, in the imperial city of Meknes, Morocco. the ceiling is in a pyramidal shape, called a koubba.
You can see all the spots where they sawed off the branches and dead limbs.
This one is over the parking area; I took this standing right next to my Suburban, looking straight up.
I should've taken a "before" photo... it was sooo scraggly and scary-looking. Every time one of our (brief but violent) summer storms comes through, I watch out our window to see if one of the branches is going to come crashing down on either our vehicles or our yard.
So glad the owners had the trees trimmed. Plus, much less of a fire hazard... especially given this area's propensity for lightning. Last year, one of the trees across the street caught on fire from lightning, only a few days after an apartment building on the same side caught fire and burnt up a good deal of the structure - also from lightning.
the ornamental wooden ceiling of a chamber just outside the tomb of Moulay Ismaïl, in the Imperial City of Meknes, Morocco. in the forefront is the bar of the wide door leading to the tomb
In Longyearbyen, an old coal mining town at 78°N, coal used to be transported by cable car from the various mines to the shipping point. The cars were called "kibb", and the towers supporting the cables were called "kibbstolper" (kibb poles). Today, the cable cars are no longer in use, the coal is transported by large lorries, and the towers are considered cultural heritage and protected. Here is one from the middle of Longyearbyen, in a perhaps unusual perspective.
A different angle on this tower can be found here.
- Voted up quark by the (now defunct) quantum selection group
"Stand up for what is right even if you're solo!" This is a common theme/style of mine. We can go any direction in life. I choose to stay with believing to shoot for the stars with faith in my soul you know. Straightup out of the cam.
I somehow missed StraightUp Productions' show in the programme but their street advertising worked. We went to see it. There was a good show in there, but it needed tightening up. It could easily have lost 15 minutes.
"When I look down, I miss all the good stuff when I look up, I just trip over things."
Ani DiFranco
The edge of a small brick tower found along the walkway to the Congress Street Bridge in Austin Texas. I can't seem to remember the exact name of it however.
The Landshut Residence is a palace in Landshut, Lower Bavaria.
In 1536 Louis X, Duke of Bavaria laid the foundation stone for a new residence in the inner city of Landshut. It was begun in German Renaissance style under the architect Bernhard Zwitzel from Augsburg, this palace is today called German building.
During a journey to Italy the duke got the inspiration for an additional palace. Behind the German building close to the river Isar the so-called Italian building was constructed in Italian Renaissance style with a spacious courtyard and the palace chapel. It was modelled 1537-1543 in particular after the Palazzo del Te in Mantua and was the first Italian style palace which was erected north of the Alps.
Deckenkonstruktion im Stil der italienischen Hochrenaissance in der Stadtresidenz Landshut
Die Stadtresidenz Landshut genießt als einziger Palast im Stil der italienischen Hochrenaissance nördlich der Alpen herausragenden kunst- und architekturgeschichtlichen Rang. Herzog Ludwig X. von Bayern, der als Statthalter seines in München regierenden Bruders in Landshut residierte, ließ 1536 den Neubau seiner Residenz beginnen.
Unter Leitung des Augsburger Baumeisters Bernhard Zitzel entstand zunächst der "Deutsche Bau" zur Altstadt noch im Stil der heimischen Renaissance. Beeindruckt von den oberitalienischen Palastbauten, insbesondere dem Palazzo Te in Mantua, ließ der Herzog nach einer Italienreise das Baukonzept ändern. Unter der Ägide italienischer Meister wurde bis 1543 der "Italienische Bau" errichtet.
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Tegernsee Abbey or the Imperial Abbey of Tegernsee is a former Benedictine monastery in the town and district of Tegernsee in Bavaria.
Die ehem. Klosterkirche, Pfarrkirche St. Quirinus, ist ein Barockbau mit romanischen und gotischen Elementen.
Nach dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg gab der tatkräftige Abt Bernhard Wenzl (reg. 1673-1700), dem Kloster eine neue Gestalt. Von den mittelalterlichen Bauten blieb allein die Klosterkirche stehen; doch sie erhielt ein modernes, barockes Gewand übergezogen: Italienische Künstler schufen die üppige weiße Stukkatur. Hans Georg Asam, der Vater der berühmten Künstlerbrüder, malte in sechs Sommern einen der ersten und größten barocken Freskenzyklen Bayerns (mit Darstellungen aus dem Leben Jesu und des heiligen Quirinus).
"Nichts bleibt ohne Verzierung in dieser Klosterkirche, überall trugen Stuckateure aus Italien, sowie Bildhauer und Maler aus Süddeutschland dazu bei, den Betrachter nicht nur zu beeindrucken. Die üppige Bewegtheit der Formen soll zu innerer Bewegung anregen. „Delectare et movere“, Erfreuen und Bewegen war es, was ein gelungenes Kunstwerk leisten sollte. Der optische und damit sinnliche Zugang zur christlichen Lehre war Sinn und Inhalt der Werke von Hans Georg Asam, der Figuren von Johann Baptist Straub und der Architektur von Antonio Riva." www.schliersee.de/434.html
straight up to the ceiling of Dar Saada, a 'palace' restaurant where we had lunch once. decent fare, shockingly kitch paintings on the wall i failed to photograph.
Kat had many dares throughout the night of her bachelorette party. My dare of course was to get her to ask a band to let her perform. We found an irish pub by the end of the night. Straight up by Paula Abdul is always a crowd pleaser.
Prompted by the wave of cute clothing/shopping on Flickr as well as a fantastic 30% off coupon for Old Navy/Gap/Banana Republic, I decided to take a little shopping expedition myself. I was considering a coat purchase at Old Navy but ended up with mostly tanks and a fleece workout jacket. I did find this super cute boyfriend blazer at the Gap though so all was not lost! (Although Mr.P just asked me why I was wearing a business suit in the picture because it looked so formal. Le sigh.)
On a side note, I'm rather proud that the focus turned out halfway ok on this considering I was guesstimating with my 28mm which doesn't AF with my camera.
11-13-09
Yes, it really is a cocktail where the famous bitters are the principal ingredient. The menu says "schloads" of Angostura (which amounts to a full 1.5 oz. shot), but there's also lime, simple syrup, and an egg white, all shaken like crazy before being strained and topped with a few more drops of bitters.
It's incredible, and the lime juice particularly does something to highlight the spices in the Angostura. Highly recommended if you make it over to Heritage.
W.L. Weller Barrel Proof (bourbon) - this was probably my favorite of the day. I think it's worth mentioning that they didn't ask any of us how we wanted our whiskey. All of these came served straight up.
on a stroll near sunset in the town of boumalne dadès, morocco, i ignored a warning of danger to bring you this image
"Pity Laughs: A Tale of Two Gays" from Straightup was yet another show on my original list of possibles that I didn't manage to fit in. :-(
This is my 12th strangers for the www.100strangers.com project..
Alternately titled "what not to do"... I saw Bobby waiting on a friend outside the local grocery store and immediately approached him because i love white walls and i loved the way he was leaning back on it waiting.
but why my F-Stop was set at 1/5??????? and why wasnt i paying attention? also the annoying line of the window at the top of his head...grrrr..
another thing, Bobby's friend had come out and i felt very rushed because i didnt wanna hold them up and Bobby looked anxious to be done lol...
sooooooooooo, many mistakes on my part..
(no your's bobby)
I do like the lines though..and his rather straightup stance plays off the geometry here so i suppose that works...
but im posting it up anyway, even though its not so good because, hey he was a stranger and it was a learning experience.
Despite taking an SP every day for two and a half years, I'm not entirely comfortable with the truly straight-up SP.
It requires a million shots to find one I'm halfway satisfied with. I really like this one, though!
"Pity Laughs: A Tale of Two Gays" from Straightup was yet another show on my original list of possibles that I didn't manage to fit in. :-(
While taking a road trip across Hokkaido, we spotted this on the way to Sapporo. I didn't have a chance to get a photo. I made sure to snap one on your return trip, even it was shitty. Not sure what this was all about.
RANDOM
Hokkaido, Japan
this pic of a friend’s daughter in her unicorn themed birthday party makes me howl; I’m going to hell
When the museum has relatively few visitors, I can crouch unselfconsciously below the beautiful chandeliers taking pictures until I get one aligned straight up.
This tree scares me. It towers right above my parents' garage... growing up right beside it. I really don't like this tree. It is super-tall, and there aren't any others around to form a windbreak. Like so many other trees in the Pacific Northwest (Washington in particular) this is top-heavy. It has virtually no branches until about halfway up... and then you see this - a huge head of heavy pine-needle-laden branches, reaching out over the roof of the garage, part of the side yard, and part of the neighbor's yard.
I have been trying to get my parents to cut it down for ever. My biggest fear is that it will get blown over in one of our notorious fall windstorms... and that it will land directly on the house, the trunk probably falling diagonally into the garage, living room, and my parents' bedroom... with the branches engulfing the rest of the house.
There are a few other trees around their house as well, one of which is directly in front of the room I used to have, before I got married. But this one has so far caused the most problems. Every single year, this thing decides to shed some of its heavy arms, and sometimes they land in the street, sometimes in the driveway - but there have been times (too many for my comfort) that large branches, as long as (or longer than) 5 ft long have fallen onto the roof itself. One particularly memorable occasion was when I was visiting with my son, in the wintertime. The snow was particularly heavy on said branches, and small chunks of it fell off every now and then, in the occasional breezes. My little boy (about 3 or 4 at the time) and I were having a good ol' time, playing in the somewhat deep snow in the driveway. I was down the slope a little bit (their driveway is short, about 2 cars long, but steep) and my son was up in front of the garage door. We played around, throwing bits of snow at each other and giggling up a storm... when all of a sudden, it happened. A loud creaking sound, like a step on an old wooden board... then CRACK, BOOM!! a huuuuuge branch broke away from the tree and plummeted towards the earth.
It landed on the very edge of the gutter/garage roof... right above where my son was standing. It landed lengthwise, but at an angle, so that about half ended up extended over the edge. To this day, I believe angels kept that limb from falling right on the head of my boy. I'm not sure he would've been killed had it landed on him, but he would definitely have been seriously wounded... I shudder to think of it.
As you can see, the tree is still there... and we are now heading right into the midst of our windy season. Soon we will be seeing the streets littered with needles, leaves, and parts of trees... rain will soak the ground, leaving it unstable; and some trees will crack and break from the extended autumn blasts, while others will rob us of our electricity when they lean too hard on the powerlines along the roadway. And this tree will shed more of it's branches... hopefully none too big, and none too close. And maybe someday, my parents will listen, and get rid of it altogether. :)
Looking up at a plane and the rain cloud filled sky through the wires above. Typical winter skyscape on Seattle's Capitol Hill. This is a color photo, and a true example of our winter gray. The blue neon of Victrola Coffee's sign spells out the antidote of choice to seasonal affective disorder. It's only a matter of time before they start fortifying the local java with vitimin D like they do milk :-).