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You must wonder, why winter tale? Because this picture, like every other picture out there has a story to tell. Maybe some of you just shoot, whithout looking to say something through the image you capture, but for some of us, with a greather imagination, when we press the trigger we try to capture a feeling, a mood, a senzation.
Now, imagine that the road behind the fence can lead anywhere you whish to, you just have to dare to follow it. And, as the white color simbolizes "a new beggining", I think we should try. What do you say?!
Enjoy the ride!
The three houses from the classic fairy tale. The brick house features a furnished interior and a big oven to burn any wolves that somehow end up down the chimney.
machine stitching in book with short stories by Edgar Allen Poe. The first story being "The Tell-Tale Heart"
Tuscany is named after its pre-Roman inhabitants, the Etruscans. It was ruled by Rome for many centuries. In the Middle Ages, it saw many invasions, but in the Renaissance period it helped lead Europe back to civilisation. Later, it settled down as a grand duchy. It was conquered by Napoleonic France in the late 18th century and became part of the Italian Republic in the 19th century.
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire the region went under the Ostrogoth and Byzantine dominations, before the Lombard conquest in 569. Tuscany was made a Duchy, its seat in Lucca. After the destruction of the Lombard kingdom by Charlemagne, it became a county first, and then a march. In the 11th century the marquisate went to the Attoni family from Canossa, who also held Modena, Reggio Emilia and Mantua. Matilda of Canossa was their most famous member.
In this period Tuscany acquired many castles, abbeys and monasteries, while the main towns started again to grow demographically, turning themselves into communes mostly independent from the Holy Roman Empire. Lucca was in fact the first commune in Italy; the other most important ones were Arezzo, Florence, Siena and Pisa, often struggling between each other. The south of current Tuscany (roughly identifiable with the modern province of Grosseto) was instead a feudal dominion of the Aldobrandeschi family.
Pilgrims travelling along the Via Francigena between Rome and France brought wealth and development during the Middle Ages. The food and shelter required by these travellers fuelled the growth of communities around churches and taverns.
In the 11th century Pisa became the most powerful of them, building a trade (as well as colonial) empire in the Mediterranean and playing a key role in the Crusades. Banking, soon turned into an international activity with branches in Flanders, France and England, was instead the main resource of Florence, Siena and Lucca. The latter was also an important center for silk production.
Pisa began to decline in the 13th/14th centuries after its defeat by Genoa at the Battle of Meloria. After its conquest of Arezzo and Pisa, by the early 15th century Florence had gained a prominent role in Tuscany, as well as in Italy, and was also the cultural capital of the region.[5]. Its only remaining rival in Tuscany was Siena.
Makkah, a city that doesn't only bring you closer to God, but also closer to your family.
Makkah, Saudi Arab.
......or should that be an Islandhill Tail?? I remember thinking the shape of the light was very fishlike?
I'd like to wish a Happy and Prosperous New Year to you all in 2018....keep on snappin' :)
Lots of singers presented songs about roses. I chose for you a song by the late Saudi singer Talal Maddah.
Talal Maddah was born on the 5th of August, 1940. He was and is one of the best singers in Saudi Arabia if not the best.
Song
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YMw1TQ4t-s
Talal died on the 11th of August, 2000. How he died? Watch here
On my recent journey to Sweden I found myself in the solitary footsteps of Swedish artist, John Bauer. My attempt was to find the places that are illustrated in his imagery and document them. As I was walking through the deep parts of the forest, among the mysterious and magical places I discovered a landscape that belonged to another world, one of serenity, quiet and beauty.
Full set of images at: www.gabrielisak.com/a_forest_tale
Granada is placed at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence of three rivers, Beiro, Darro and Genil. The Alhambra, a Moorish citadel and palace, is in Granada. It is one of the most famous items of the Islamic historical legacy that makes Granada a hot spot of world culture. The Almohad urbanism with some fine examples of Moorish and Morisco constructions is preserved at the part of the city called the Albaicín.
A Jewish community established itself in what was effectively a suburb of the city, called "Gárnata" or "Gárnata al-yahud" (Granada of the Jews). It was with the help of this community that Moorish forces under Tariq ibn-Ziyad first took the city in 711, though it was not fully secured until 713. They referred to it under the Iberian name "Ilbira", the remaining Christian community calling this "Elvira", and it became the capital of a province of the Caliphate of Cordoba. Civil conflicts that wracked the Caliphate in the early eleventh century led to the destruction of the city in 1010. In the subsequent reconstruction, the suburb of Gárnata (Arabic: غرناطة) was incorporated in the city, and the modern name in fact derives from this. With the arrival of the Zirid dynasty in 1013, Granada became an independent emirate Taifa of Granada. By the end of the eleventh century, the city had spread across the Darro to reach what is now the site of the Alhambra.
On January 2, 1492, the last Muslim sultan in Iberia, Muhammad XII, known as Boabdil to the Spanish, surrendered complete control of Granada, to Ferdinand and Isabella, Los Reyes Católicos ("The Catholic Monarchs"), after the city was besieged.
See Nasrid dynasty for a full list of the Nasrid rulers of Granada. The most prominent members of the dynasty were:
Mohammed I ibn Nasr (died 1273), the founder of the dynasty
Yusuf I (1334–1354)
Muhammed V (1354–1391), builder of the royal palace within the Alhambra
Muhammad XII of Granada, the last of the line, who surrendered in 1492 to Ferdinand and Isabel and was given the Alpujarras mountains to rule to the East of Granada, although he left for Tlemsen in Morocco.
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Wherever we go in the world, it is especially the sea that attracts us most.
We're always drawn to the harbour, not to admire the big luxury yachts, no, the fishing harbour, the working boats, the people, the different methods they use.
The netting depends obviously on the type of catch they fish for. The majority of rigged nets are made to order, allowing fishermen to have exactly the right net for their needs.
Here, in England and the North, the size of the mesh is often bigger than what we saw here in Spain.
I fell in love with this scene when I saw it!
The colours, aahh, everything!
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Fuengirola, Andalusia, Spain, harbour, yellow, quayside, fishing, colour, horizontal, Nikon-D90, "magda indigo"
Lora exhales her circus fairy tale—tiger-mauled mother, cliff-diving father, mandarin villa in Sudak—like smoke from a cigarette she’d never really afford, eyes selling a life that exists only in her own script.
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Darya Yegorova as Lora in the drama “Stars in the Morning Sky,” based on the play by Alexander Galin.
Created by Vitaly Konyaev’s Acting Studio, directed by Stanislav Soshnikov, choreography by N. A. Kalinina.
Photographed on March 21, 2019. Photo by Andrey Barkhatov.
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A forgotten barrack at the edge of the 1980 Olympics, where the city’s fireworks fade and exiled women wait in the dark for a different sunrise.
Here, among rusted beds and whispered prayers, they wager their last dignity on love, memory, and the stubborn hope that even the outcast may be seen by the morning stars.
machine stitching in book with short stories by Edgar Allen Poe. The first story being "The Tell-Tale Heart"