Tag: Architecture
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Mountain pillar
Mountain pillar Just a pillar at the site where the Cauvery River rises in the mountains of Coorg in South India. But see how the top of the pillar visually resonates with the gentle slopes of the mountains. Well done stone cutter! Photo of the week: At the source of the Cauvery River, Coorg, Karnataka,…
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No fire, no smoke
No fire, no smoke No smoke curling up out of the kitchen chimneys.The sultans have long gone,their palace has become a museum.And the tree, delighted at having been saved,happily twists its branches this way and that. Photo of the week: Chimneys on Sultan’s kitchen, Topkapi palace, Istanbul, Turkey 2003
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Light upon light
Light upon light Rays of the setting sunilluminating spacewithout and within.Light …Space …Peace … Photo of the week: Sultan Ahmet Camii, Blue Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey 2003
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Amstelredam
Amstelredam Passing this spot in Amsterdam and seeing the late light of the sun reflecting in the water of the Prinsengracht and the Amstel River, I thought I’d better take a picture. I love this city.The photo breathes the atmosphere of an old painting, and for a moment I imagine myself walking in 17th century…
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Bonies in the Art Museum (2021)
Bonies in the Art Museum (2021) (Nota bene: After Autumn Sonata, the first weekly post on my blog almost ten years ago, today’s post happens to be number 500. And I’m still there to continue!) The ‘Kunstmuseum’ (Art Museum) in The Hague, the GEM of Berlage, is a piece of art in itself. I think…
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‘Hollands Glorie’
‘Hollands Glorie’ ‘The pride of Holland’. In the 17th and 18th century the rich Dutch bourgeoisie built houses like this outside the cities at their newly acquired country estates. These were country houses (‘buitenhuizen’) where the owners would spend the summer months with their families. Between Amsterdam and Utrecht many of these country houses were…
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Getaway gateway
Getaway gateway A wall in the forest.A tightly closed gate. In my mind’s eye I see a fair maiden,kept in solitary confinement.Waiting for her Prince Charmingto come and carry her off. Photo of the week: Country estate Huis te Manpad, Heemstede, Netherlands 2021
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Cors des Alpes
Cors des Alpes A concert with two alpine horns and two accordions in an old Hydro Power Plant in the Rhône, where the river flows out of Lake Geneva. Very original, as for the music, the instruments and the location.The musicians played arrangements of old baroque compositions and more recent pieces specially composed for these…
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Surya
Surya A stream of men, women and childrenmeanders between the Surya temple shrines.A thousand years, day after day, ever different,always the same, as the sun that comes and goes.Aeons … a millennium … today. Photo of the week: Surya (Sun) temple, 9th cent. AD, Katarmal, Uttarakhand, India 2021
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Benvenuti
Benvenuti The enormous empty roof terrace seems to be crying in vain for holiday-makers: Please come and enjoy the magnificent view over the Gulf of Baratti. But silence reigns. It’s covid times. Photo of the week: View from Populonia at the Gulf of Baratti, Italy 2020
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