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During the motif design drove random (but very welcome) the balloon over the river Moselle. I hope you enjoy it and wish you all a nice weekend.
And thank you for the view and comment on my pictures.
Während der Motivgestaltung fuhr zufällig (aber sehr willkommen) der Ballon über die Mosel. Ich hoffe es gefällt euch und wünsche allen ein schönes Wochenende.
Und danke für das ansehen und kommentieren meiner Bilder.
Danke für deinen Besuch! Thanks for visiting!
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Definitively completed in the Swabian period, the Cathedral of Cefalù, which became a World Heritage Site in 2015, can now also be visited in its towers.
Built starting in 1131, its Romanesque style is enriched by Arab influences, and its appearance is pure wonder.
It is also possible to climb its Norman towers, which are different from each other: one is the square-plan tower, with battlements in the shape of flames, which would symbolize the papal miter and the power of the Church; the other is the octagonal-plan tower with Ghibelline merlons which would instead pay homage to the royal crown and the temporal power.
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Definitivamente completato in età sveva, il Duomo di Cefalù, divenuto dal 2015 Patrimonio dell’Umanità può essere ora visitato anche nelle sue torri.
Costruito a partire dal 1131, Il suo stile romanico è arricchito da influenze arabe, e il suo aspetto è pura meraviglia.
E’ possibile salire anche sulle sue torri normanne, diverse l’una dall’altra: una è la torre a pianta quadrata, con merli a forma di fiammelle, che simboleggerebbe la mitria papale e il potere della Chiesa; l’altra è la torre a pianta ottagonale con merli ghibellini che omaggerebbe invece la corona reale e il potere temporale.
Downtown Dallas’ 72-story-tall Bank of America Plaza is reflected in the windows of the adjacent Texas Club building.
The Canada goose (Branta canadensis) is a large wild goose species with a black head and neck, white cheeks, white under its chin, and a brown body. Native to arctic and temperate regions of North America, its migration occasionally reaches northern Europe.
The annex to the Temple Court building I shared.Instead of having to scroll down to look for it,see the Flickr link for the photo flic.kr/p/DtZ1n4
The major solar storm that was supposed to happen last night never developed. This crown like formation was one of the best of the night. A long climb up the mountain wasn't totally wasted. I came away great milky way and northern light shots.
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Inside the museum for the beautiful arts in Arras - in the former Abbaye Saint-Vaast. The abbey dates back to 667 when it was a monastery for the Benedictine order, but it was heavily damaged in the French Revolution and rebuilt after that. The museum has been here since 1825. The building was classified as Monument historique (important historical building) in 1907.
Broadway Tower is a folly on Broadway Hill, near the large village of Broadway, in the English county of Worcestershire, at the second-highest point of the Cotswolds (after Cleeve Hill). Broadway Tower's base is 1,024 feet (312 metres) above sea level. The tower itself stands 65 feet (20 metres) high.
The 'Saxon' tower was the brainchild of Capability Brown and designed by James Wyatt in 1794 in the form of a castle, and built for Lady Coventry in 1798–1799. The tower was built on a beacon hill, where beacons were lit on special occasions. Lady Coventry wondered whether a beacon on this hill could be seen from her house in Worcester — about 22 miles (35 km) away — and sponsored the construction of the folly to find out. Indeed, the beacon could be seen clearly.
The Towers are three massive granite peaks within the Cordillera del Paine Mountain range. Their names are Torres d'Agostini, Torres Central, and Torres Monzino. I captured this photo of the Towers from the shoreline of Laguna Azul.
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
~ William Arthur Ward
One more image from a cold, windy visit to Kits Beach. This one is looking to the left of the other image I posted several days ago, The Winds of Change. Here you can see West Vancouver across the water, and also going out to English Bay, the Burrard Inlet and then the open ocean.
"It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs."
Quote - Vaclav Havel
The beginning of the other side of the staircase of the Academie voor Muziek, Woord en Dans (Academy for Music, Word and Dance) in Mortsel (Belgium).
Re-posted 21st May 2011
A lovely mute swan family at Chew Valley Lake in Somerset.
Aren't they cute! :-)
Hope all my friends are having a great weekend!
Love Carl xx
The ‘Saint Elizabeth Flood’ occurred in 1421. This disastrous flood led to the disappearance of 17 villages. An inland sea stretching from northwest of Dordrecht to southeast of Geertruidenberg was created.
Immediately after the disaster, land fell dry again. The flow of water carried sand and clay, which sank to the bottom. The inland sea became shallower and shallower. Eventually, patches of land emerged from the water at ebb tide and rushes started growing on them. These plants flourish with their roots in the water. People planted extra rushes so they could harvest them. The Biesbosch derives its name from this plant; it means “a forest of rushes”. More land appeared; the roots were less frequently in water, and the rushes were unable to flourish so well. Reeds were able to withstand this condition better and supplanted the rushes, giving rise to vast reed beds. Subsequently, willows started to grow and people used the branches to make furniture and other products. Willows grow better when they get less water, so the people built dikes to prevent the willows being inundated at flood tide. A piece of land with planted willows is called a griend.
Much of the Biesbosch is covered by water and is therefore lush with sedges and reed beds. A common plant is the marsh marigold, which blooms in the spring. This member of the buttercup family has adapted to the tidal movements. In the willow forests you can find many plants such as stinging nettles, orange balsam, yellow iris, cow parsley, hogweed, enchanter’s nightshade and amaranths growing luxuriantly. The Himalayan Balsam provides a real jungle-like atmosphere. Its pink flowers have a characteristic sweet fragrance.
I exclaimed "the Queen" in my mind when seeing this giant dragonfly elegantly laying eggs from the surface of the water like posing a dance. Later on I did some research to find out the name of this dragonfly species is "Emperor Dragonfly" or "Blue Emperor" - I think they deserve these names!
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If you are curious about why I made this post:
I made this post to deliver my homework commitment to www.flickr.com/photos/vincent__buuron/, who ordered me a task to take "something involving a natural mirror, like an insect flying above the water, and it's reflection", in reference to his post www.flickr.com/photos/vincent__buuron/51323363398/in/date....
I have to say that I finally completed this task today but the photographs were not as exciting/beautiful as the old photos I took some years back. (I realized that this year I have missed the best month to take photographs of dragonflies and damselflies to lay eggs from the surface of the water) Therefore I am posting this image from 2018 instead ;-)
The Moab Canyon Pathway is a paved 12.7 mile (20.4 KM) mixed-use trail - here it's crossing the Colorado River in Moab Canyon.
the right side composed itself.
my concern was the geometry on the left.
OK, now we wait for something to happen.
Ok, here she comes straight down the alley...
too flat ---- enter our protagonist stage right.
A handsome B&W image, but that romance between the peach and blush blue is too irresistible.
I see these 3 white beauties so often on my commute to the next town (Castlebar) going to work, shopping etc. So I finally decided to stop the car and walk back with my camera. I feel as though they somehow keep the spirit of this derelict old bungalow alive.
”The rose is fairest when its budding new, and hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.” – Sir Walter Scott
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… the entrance to their foxhole is right behind that fence under a couple of gnarled roots. He’s just making sure I’m not trespassing while Priscilla is away on a scavenger hunt :-)
The working water wheel at the Killhope Mining Museum, also known as the North of England Lead Mining Museum. The Museum stands on the site of the former Park Level Mine near Cowshill, County Durham. It is being restored to show the workings of a 19th-century lead mine. The water wheel was used to power machinery to extract the lead from the lead ore.
The Museum is situated in the heart of the North Pennines, Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, an area that, in 2003, was designated the first Geopark in Great Britain.
I stayed with a couple who like exploring old mines so I did go down a short length of a nearby old lead mine.
Best viewed enlarged. I processed the image with Photoshop using Silver Efex Pro 2, one of the Nik Filters.
Thank you for visiting. I am very grateful to those who have taken the time to leave a comment or fave.
The imposing appearance against the stormy background suggests that this is the weather god. I know that among the Germanic tribes his name was Thor. But here in Italy, with the Romans? I read in Wikipedia that the Romans believed in the Syrian weather god Iupiter Dolichenus. After they took the city of Doliche, their supreme deity, Jupiter, inherited the office of weather god. As if he didn't have enough on his plate already! In Christianity, Peter holds something like the office of weather god. When I took a picture of Peter?
The 1912 Greenwich foot tunnel is 504 meters (1,654 ft) long crossing under the crosses beneath the River Thames. I thought it would make for a good photo subject - once I waited for all the people to clear.....
The new sledge rezzer awesome shelter from Never Totally Dead.
Coming out on November 16, 2020 at Cosmopolitan.
You can see it here at Solus:
The Kelpies are 30-metre-high horse-head sculptures depicting kelpies, located between Falkirk and Grangemouth, standing next to a new extension to the Forth and Clyde Canal, and near River Carron, in The Helix, a new parkland project built to connect 16 communities in the Falkirk Council Area, Scotland.
The summer wind came blowin' in from across the sea
It lingered there, to touch your hair and walk with me
All summer long we sang a song and then we strolled that golden sand
Two sweethearts and the summer wind
F.Sinatra
The grey heron (Ardea cinerea) is a long-legged predatory wading bird of the heron family, Ardeidae, native throughout temperate Europe and Asia and also parts of Africa. It is resident in much of its range, but some populations from the more northern parts migrate southwards in autumn. A bird of wetland areas, it can be seen around lakes, rivers, ponds, marshes and on the sea coast. It feeds mostly on aquatic creatures which it catches after standing stationary beside or in the water or stalking its prey through the shallows.
The Atlantic Ocean Road is an 8.3-kilometer (5.2 mi) long section of County Road 64 that runs through an archipelago in Hustadvika and Averøy municipalities in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It passes by Hustadvika, an unsheltered part of the Norwegian Sea, connecting the island of Averøy with the mainland and Romsdalshalvøya peninsula. It runs between the villages of Kårvåg in Averøy and Vevang in Hustadvika. It is built on several small islands and skerries, which are connected by several causeways, viaducts and eight bridges—the most prominent being Storseisundet Bridge.
I just tried to see what the negative version of 'Art' (see first comment box, if you missed it yesterday) would look like………
Then I also turned the picture around to make it more look like a place on the other side. Big fun ;-))
You can see the fences much better now, so …...
Happy Fence Friday!
The swing bridge in Newcastle upon Tyne, on the 30th of May 2020, during lockdown. Believe it or not but this shot was taken on what would have been a normally busy Saturday in Newcastle but not this day. In the photograph you can see the Newcastle Castle Keep, The Cathedral Church of St Nicholas. The Moot Hall, The Vermont Hotel and of course the famous Swing Bridge which rotates to let boats travel up river.
The lights Marina Bay Sand. Singapore. 2019
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The Quiraing is a landslip on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. The whole of the Trotternish Ridge escarpment was formed by a great series of landslips; the Quiraing is the only part of the slip still moving
The large breakwater that protects the harbour entrance of Porto Maurizio on the Italian Riviera is slightly curved, so that the lighthouse at its end is only half visible at first.
This gentleman was playing the role of a well-to-do merchant during a recent U.S. Civil War-era reenactment in Port Sanilac, Michigan.
HBM (Happy Beard Monday)! :-)
Flickr friends, I'm back after a brief break and will be catching up with your latest images soon.
Cape Solander, Sydney.
View of the ocean and cliffs at Cape Solander.
The Kamay Botany Bay National Park, near Kurnell, in Sydney. Photographed from the cliff face about 300 metres south of the Cape Solander whale watching platform.
My Samsung Galaxy S20+ mobile phone camera
The morning sunlight is burning off the last bit of mist on the lake around this boathouse. Sometimes you have all the time in the world to set up a picture. Other times you only have a few seconds, or a minute. That was the case here, the mist disappearing very fast as I came upon this scene. I took this picture while I was out kayaking.
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