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Huayna Potosí is the closest high mountain to La Paz. Surrounded by high mountains, it is roughly 15 miles due north of the city, which makes this mountain the most popular climb in Bolivia. The normal ascent route is a fairly straightforward glacier climb, with some crevasses and a steep climb to the summit. However, the other side of the mountain -- Huayna Potosí West Face -- is the biggest face in Bolivia. Several difficult snow and ice routes ascend this 1000 meter high face.
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Other stairways lead to secondary platforms, where there are other monoliths including the famous El Fraile (priest).
Current state of the Frail Monolith of Tiahuanaco, with similar characteristics as the "Bennett Monolith".
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Walls around the temple Kalasasaya.
Located near the south-eastern shore of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, Tiwanaku is one of the most important precursors to the Inca Empire. The community grew to urban proportions between the 7th and 9th centuries, becoming an important regional power in the southern Andes. At its peak the city had between 15,000–30,000 inhabitants. While only a small part has been excavated, Tiahuanaco represents the greatest megalithic architectural achievement of pre-Inca South America. Today it is one of the top tourist attractions in Bolivia.
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East of the main entrance to Kalasasaya.
The Kalasasaya dates to at least 200 BCE - 200 CE. It is located to the north of the Akapana and west of the Semi-Subterranean Temple, other structures in the complex.
North of the Akapana Pyramid is Kalasasaya, a partially reconstructed 130m-by-120m ritual-platform compound with walls constructed of huge blocks of red sandstone and andesite. The blocks are precisely fitted to form a platform base 3m high. Monolithic uprights flank the massive entrance steps up to the restored portico of the enclosure, beyond which is an interior courtyard and the ruins of priests’ quarters. Note the size of the top stair – a massive single block.
The Monolito Ponce monolith, with his turban (no doubt covering up his deformed cranium), mask, ceremonial vase and walking stick, sits at the center of the first platform. Some say the stick and the vase are symbolic of the dualism of Andean culture (nature versus nurture).
Other stairways lead to secondary platforms, where there are other monoliths including the famous El Fraile (priest).
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Lake Bled, the gift that keeps on giving. On the morning of the 2nd November, I woke at 5am and I opted to take the short drive down to Lake Bled at 6am to witness another sunrise, and wow, I was not to be disappointed.
I had waited four weeks since arriving in Slovenia to capture some great colour at this location and finally, nature treated me to a spectacular sunrise show. This is definitely a view that I shall miss terribly when I eventually return home to the UK but I have many, many photos to remind me of my hugely enjoyable times sitting on the bench with both cameras set up waiting for the magic to happen.
Memories and happy ones at that too are why I love my life as a professional landscape photographer. The sights I get to see and experience are priceless and I never take them for granted.
I hope my images help to put a smile on your face during these difficult times and I just wanted to reach out and thank each and every one of you for all your kind comments left and the personal messages that I receive privately expressing your joy and happiness in seeing my images, short videos and timelapses. It genuinely means an awful lot to me. Thank you.
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"For love, a bench in the square is enough.
Or stand in front of a gate.
Or a cup of coffee.
Love itself is a low budget film."
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Big and famous cities are not iconic everywhere. Leaving the metrostation, I saw these staircases by some condos. I liked their colours and shapes. Found a nice point to compose the image. Using the telephoto-lens made it possible to compress the scene, so it became more abstract.
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Pavlova Strana Viewpoint
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The Singapore Botanic Gardens is a 161-year-old tropical garden located at the fringe of Singapore's Orchard Road shopping district. It is one of three gardens, and the only tropical garden, to be honoured as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Botanic Gardens has been ranked Asia's top park attraction since 2013, by TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Awards. It was declared the inaugural Garden of the Year, International Garden Tourism Awards in 2012, and received Michelin's three-star rating in 2008.
The Botanic Gardens was founded at its present site in 1859 by an agri-horticultural society. It played a pivotal role in the region's rubber trade boom in the early twentieth century, when its first scientific director Henry Nicholas Ridley, headed research into the plant's cultivation. By perfecting the technique of rubber extraction, still in use today, and promoting its economic value to planters in the region, rubber output expanded rapidly. At its height in the 1920s, the Malayan peninsula cornered half of the global latex production. 31512
Enhanced image of Chacaltaya ski resort.
El Alto in the middle.
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Bolivia's largest city, La Paz, is currently enduring its worst drought in a quarter of a century. Glaciers in the surrounding Andean mountains are key to its water supply. Simon Parker visited the abandoned ski resort of Chacaltaya, where locals say they have been seeing changes in the climate for decades.
Surrounded by shards of rusty shale, sticky tufts of pampas and a few hundred hardy llamas, Chacaltaya sits crumbling next to a vast furrow in the mountainside: the site of a once mighty glacier.
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On Tuesday, I decided to visit the Lake District for the first time since early March and I was greeted by some glorious conditions. Admittedly, blanket mist, which hid everything from fifty-foot in front of me does not sound like the weather of choice for most people but to me, as I stood there at the water's edge of Derwentwater, it was sublime.
I arrived at Waterhead in Windermere at 4am for a sunrise shoot before moving onto Derwentwater. I absolutely love misty weather and can always be found photographing a boat or a pier in such conditions. Woodlands also make great subjects to shoot too in such conditions.
Lady Derwentwater, this gorgeous 1930's passenger craft that carries over 90 people, normally glides up and down the three-mile-long lake but it is best to arrive early to photograph it before she goes into service for the day.
Here's a pub quiz question for you.
How many lakes are in the Lake District?
Answer: Just the one, Bassenthwaite. The rest are either meres, waters or tarns. Derwentwater is, of course, a 'water'.
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At the center of the Mitad del Mundo stands the centerpiece of the park: a 30m-high, stone trapezoidal monument topped by a brass globe containing a viewing platform and a museum, which provides a good introduction to the indígena peoples of Ecuador through dioramas, clothing displays and photographs. On the lower floors are new interactive exhibits examining the science behind the myths of the equator.
Other attractions within the park (included in the entrance fee) include a Viviendas Ancestrales (Ancestral Homes) exhibition, with re-creations of traditional dwellings from the Amazon, Andes and the coast; the Museo de Cacao (Cocoa Museum), examining the history of Ecuadorian chocolate production; a 1:200 scale model of colonial Quito; a small planetarium, and a Museo de la Cerveza Artesanal (Craft Beer Museum), with displays on the brewing process and beer for sale.
Colossal quartzite statue of Amenhotep III at his Mortuary Temple at the Theban Necropolis near Luxor
I look back with pleasure on this beautiful morning in the Alblasserwaard and plan to return there again.
It is true that the tropics have beautiful sunset conditions. Here I was knee-deep in the warm water. Camera with wide angle lens on the tripod. Some kelp and mangrove stems in the shallow water. A few islands in the back and to top it off some clouds in the sky. Didn't need any more......
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The back of the pyramid.
Underground duct. Made with finely cut flagstones and joined with cast copper clamps.
Railway station Tiahuanaco is located near the archeological complex.
Tiahuanaco, an important object of pre-Columbian archaeological site in Western Bolivia.
This is a duck native to South America and domesticated there. The wild forms are predominantly black but those domesticated show more colors, such as white. Its meat is considered a delicacy and better tasting than that from domesticated ducks introduced in Europe.
Photo taken at the AVIARIO NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA, Barú.
Colombia is the number one country in the world to have the largest varieties of birds, having about 1,876 species and almost 70 kinds that belong specially to Colombia. AVIARIO NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA has done an amazing job to show that. You see some of birds free and others in beautiful habitats. Peacocks, Toucans, Pink Flamingos, Crane Corona, Guacamayas, Pelicanos, Ducks, all types of little colorful birds Colombia is most famous for it, every imaginable birds are here.
This place is so well design, and so well taking care of, that you think some times you are in paradise!
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Climbed the hill up to Tiwanaku’s most outstanding structure, the partially excavated Akapana pyramid, which was built on an existing geological formation. At its base this roughly square, 16m hill covers a surface area of about 200 sq meters. In the center of its flat summit is an oval-shaped sunken area, which some sources attribute to early, haphazard, Spanish excavation. The presence of a stone drain in the center, however, has led some archaeologists to believe it was used for water storage.
Recent findings include craniums, assumed to be war trophies, leading some archaeologists to believe the pyramid may have been a ceremonial temple. Others think it was used for the study of astronomy.
Researchers think that Lake Titicaca was coming to this base, which was a port to carry all these huge and heavy rocks.
The Tiwanaku civilization and the use of these temples appears to some to have peaked from AD 700 to 1000, by which point the temples and surrounding area may have been home to some 400,000 people. An extensive infrastructure had been developed, including a complex irrigation system that extended more than 30 square miles (80 km2) to support cultivation of potatoes, quinoa, corn and other various crops. At its peak the Tiwanaku culture dominated the entire Lake Titicaca basin as well as portions of Bolivia and Chile.
This culture seems to have dissolved rather abruptly some time around AD 1000, and researchers are still seeking answers as to why. A likely scenario involves rapid environmental change, possibly involving an extended drought. Unable to produce the massive crop yields necessary for their large population, the Tiwanaku are argued to have scattered into the local mountain ranges, only to disappear shortly thereafter. Puma Punku is thought to have been abandoned before it was finished.
Summit.
It is the only point to see snowcapped Llimani and Lake Titicaca, sacred geographical features of Tiwanaku. It houses double-walled enclosures, made with small sandstone blocks, arranged around an enameled yard.
The central part shows the massive destruction caused by treasure hunters since colonial times.
Someone wrote on Tripadvisor, "An astoundingly beautiful golden-sand bay with an Island just offshore, and a small car park. The sea is crystal clear and fairly shallow just off the beach. Ideal for a swim. A lovely place for canoeing or picnic on the beach." And a pub at Glenuig just around the corner.
Every year thousands of people venture here, in the Finnich Glen. So many are tourists, drawn by the entry on Google Maps, Tripadvisor, Instagram and by the urge to see where movie scenes from Outlander were filmed. Although the entry on Google Maps is accurately positioned, so many people never find the Devil's Pulpit. That's because most approach from the 'main' car park, which is on the wrong side of the gorge. They need to walk in from the small layby on the A809 just over the bridge over the Carnock Burn and then venture down the steep steps 200 yards into the woods. The way down is pretty challenging, a bit of a scramble, yet still the white trainer and flipflop brigade work their way to the bottom where it is totally otherworldly.
Your eyes are drawn upwards to the moss covered cliffs, the canyon walls, dripping and hanging with vegetation, the trees leaning over 80 feet above, leafless branches fracturing the patch of sky overhead. And you look into the darkness surrounding you in the floor of the gorge where the water runs red, almost blood red in the parts where it flows over the sandstone. it feels creepy and haunted. For salvation your eyes seek out the safety in light which lies up the gorge, through a narrow gap between the rock through to the cathedral nave upstream where stands a domed, carved rock in a pool of light from above: the Devil's Pulpit where it is said the Devil gave his sermon to those down in the hell amongst the washed down detritus of jumbled logs and trees at the bottom of Finnich Glen.
Morning light breaking through the peaks in Mesa Valley. This is shot to the right of Mesa Arch.
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Torpedownia on Babie Dołach
Torpedownia - the Polish common name of the central facility of German torpedo research centers, built in occupied Poland during World War II. Torpedownia was a torpedo assembly hall with equipment for trial shooting, built on the bottom of the basin, a few hundred meters from the shore. Connected to the shore of the pier, which was followed by a narrow-gauge railway transport of torpedo components, eventually mounted in the hall. In the German nomenclature, this building was called Schießstand.
Die Gärten und Schlösser Potsdams zählen zum UNESCO-Weltkulturerbe. Gartenkunst und Architektur treffen im berühmten Park Sanssouci zusammen, der für seine einzigartige Terrassenanlage und Fontänen bekannt ist. Der Schlosspark wurde von Friedrich dem Großen persönlich geplant. (aus: Tripadvisor)
A short citytrip brought us to Dublin - Ireland. A few highlights of that trip were our encounters with Guinness. Here is the famous St. James' Gate. I really tried to tone this image as I think Guinness should be toned. Dark and creamy....
Sláinte!
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By horse & carriage from the floating hotel.
Marvel at the perfectly carved walls of Egypt's most preserved temple at Edfu.
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This bronze statue of St. Stephen was created by Hungarian sculptor, Alojs Stróbl in 1906 and features St. Stephen as an old king, mounted on a war horse, holding a reign in one hand and a staff in the other. There is a gold ring around his head, indicative of his saintliness, having been canonised in 1083.
Four lions amongst other nice decor can be found surrounding the St. Stephen Statue.