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Inside the Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba
This heritage site is amazing the blending between Islam and Catholic art and architecture is so well blended that makes us forget everything outside and feel a true peace of mind. Makes one think what is going wrong with the world? For sure GOD as an entity of good, just want every one to coexists in peace and do good, no matter what any religion says.
Please, I don't intend to offend in any way any one's belief, or start any kind of ideological discussion, this is just my point of view.
And to celebrate Portugal victory nothing better than the iconic Tower of Belém on the bank of the Tagus River in Lisbon, Portugal.
View of the Adraga beach and Horse beach during sunset.
Praia da Adraga
Praia d Cavalo
Sintra, Portugal
I was taking photos of the windmills of Consuegra, when suddenly these cloud formation formed and start dropping some large drops of scarce rain, although it was very hot, I run to another position to try to capture the forming rainbow which didn't form completely because the sun was mostly gone in the opposing horizon.
The beautiful Grand Place in Brussels a fusion between Gothic, Baroque and Louis XIV styles, contrasting with the multicultural Brussels...
La Torre is a castle near Buonconvento and dates back to the thirteenth century and once belonged to powerful families of Siena.
The castle was completely restored in the second half of the 800, taking on its current appearance: it is made up of two buildings that overlook a large courtyard surrounded on two sides by walls surrounded by a moat.
Now they are doing new restorations who knows, maybe it will turn into a luxury resort.
Alhambra is really an amazing place where one can appreciate ant once the beauty of at least three different civilisations and Era's. It's just like an cultural overload...
Taken at the Castle of the Moors in Sintra.
This is the large water cistern that provided water to the entire castle built in the 8th century.
Not far from Sintra, hidden between cliffs and rocks rising in the clear blue sea water is one of the most beautiful beaches of Portugal the Adraga beach. In the low tide it is possible to explore the Horse beach (Praia do Cavalo) and the numerous caves only accessible during low tide. Around the sand and water there are several large black rocks giving this beach a mystic and ethereal look.
The sunsets on this beach are out of this world.
There is also this fantastic beach restaurant were one can eat fantastic fresh fish, it's almost alive when you choose it... :-)
Santa Maria della Salute or Saint Mary of Health as an amazing story that can be easily associate with it the famous masks of the doctors of the black plague.
The Torcal of Antequera Natural Park in Spain, is an amazing place totally sculptured by the water and wind during thousand of years, forming all this corridors and strange forms that sometimes it can become a real labyrinth.
Halfway along the Canyon Overlook Trail in Zion National Park lies this alcove in the slickrock.
In summer, it is probably a great respite from the sun, in winter it keeps one out of the snow. The trail is rated as easy/moderate, and provides a stunning view of the West Temple. To catch sunrise, you hike this trail in the dark and should be sure-footed and have some sort of light with you.
For some that phrase would describe their eyes after a late night of partying and ringing in the New Year. For me on this first morning of the 20s, it meant first-light reaching Towers of the Virgin in Zion National Park.
Being a native East-Coaster, who has transplanted to life on the West Coast, I still feel that the New Year occurs when the crystal ball drops in New York, and that's the end. So, with the aide of staid Springdale, Utah, it was easy to get an early bedtime on New Years Eve so we could begin the trek to the Canyon Overlook Trail at 6:00 AM to catch first-light and sunrise from this vantage.
The trail is a relatively flat mile hike with a few tricky spots where the ice and slickrock conspire to give even the most sure-footed concern in the dark. Once we reached the overlook, I was a little concerned that our cold trek may have been for naught, due to the heavy cloud cover. Though they were thick overhead, there still was some clearing to the East, along the sun on the horizon to light a narrow band, reflecting off the cloud bottoms and warming the sheer rocks faces of the Temple of the Virgin ahead. This image was captured about 10-15 minutes before the local sunrise time, and is considerably brighter than what we saw with our eyes, due to the 20-second exposure.
Once the actual sun rays reached the Temple directly, the light only lit the areas seen here in red for less than 5 minutes before disappearing above the clouds for the remainder of the day.
Recognition:
Merit, Nature/Landscape category - JAN 24 PPSDC Image Competition, San Diego
Selected for Display, Color Scenic Landscape: Winter - JUN-JUL 2023, International Exhibition of Photography, San Diego County Fair, Del Mar Racetrack and Fairgrounds, CA
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ift.tt/1uGTkJi: Sunlight shines through the old gate on the medieaval wall surrounding the old town of Tallinn, Estonia. - ift.tt/1YMzCpS //
It is said, that the castle have built in just a month during a transit by Archduke Maximilian of Austria. However, this legend could be refuted by historians insofar as the construction took significantly longer than a month.
Le port de Nice sur la Côte d'Azur
Le Port de Nice, le plus beau chemin vers la Corse et la Sardaigne !
There are few places in the United States where one can view feral horses in their natural habitat. The beautiful (and protected) horses that freely roam Assateague Island National Seashore, along the Atlantic Ocean, are tough enough to survive scorching heat, mosquitoes, stormy weather, and the remote windswept barrier island's poor quality food.
This is the upper floor of the Palace of Charles V in Granada, which gives to the interior patio.
This amazing architecture of this building was a complete antithesis to me, although its totally square outside, it's interior it's a perfect circle.
Again, not allowed to use tripod so had to improvise.
13th-century palace with a moat and bell-ringing swans, plus 14 acres of gardens with well pools.
Near Wells, Somerset, England.
A nice spot to sit and absorb the beauty, listen to the birds and smell the flowers in this gorgeous garden. From my archives of our visit to my husband's family in the UK.
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Just after sunrise I was taking a long exposure shot of this windmill when the two swans swam into my composition. So I stopped the long exposure shot. They spent time with me, because they were looking for some breakfast food. And I tried to get the best shot of them which is this one. Zaanse Schans, 2021.
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