Cultura Es Vida, st paul's churchyard, London (2026)

24/03/2020

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➰ Vertorama: St. Paul’s ➰
📍 London, England 📍
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“I would not like to live in a world without cathedrals. I need their beauty and grandeur. I need their imperious silence.”
- Pascal Mercier
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The Dome of St Paul's Cathedral is built in the shape of a cross, with a large dome crowning the intersection of its arms. At 111.3 metres high, it is one of the largest cathedral domes in the world and weighs approximately 65,000 tons. The area under the dome is the principal place for worship in the Cathedral. In this image, the stunning choir loft can be seen stretching towards the nave.
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How was this image created? This is a vertorama (a vertical panorama) composed of twelve 14mm horizontals. Because Saint Paul’s doesn’t allow tripods this was hand held and shot at f/4, which made it a real pain to pull together. Still, I am fairly happy with the results. What do you thing?
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🇬🇧 @ St. Paul's Cathedral

20/03/2020

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➰ Capitol Spring ➰
📍 Washington, D.C. 📍
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“The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.”
- Harriet Ann Jacobs
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@ National Mall

19/03/2020

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➰ Saucer Magnolia Songs ➰
📍 Washington, D.C. 📍
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“A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease”
- John Muir
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@ U.S. Capitol Building

18/03/2020

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➰ Blossoms ➰
📍 Washington, D.C. 📍
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“But listen to me. For one moment
quit being sad. Hear blessings
dropping their blossoms
around you.”
- Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
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First photo of the 2020 bloom! Many more to come!!!
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@ National Mall

12/03/2020

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➰ Medieval Alsace Architecture ➰
📍 Strasbourg, France 📍
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“sublimely towering, wide-spreading tree of God”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The tallest structure built in the Middle Ages, the Strasbourg Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Strasbourg) is regarded as the finest example of high French Gothic architecture.
Pictured is the impressive suspended pipe organ on the north side of the central nave, built in 1385.
Behind the illuminated pipe organ, is the magnificent Rose Window. This piece of work (15 metres in diameter) is unique of its kind. Unlike the Gothic tradition of featuring Saints, it instead shows ears of wheat (pinch and zoom to check out the 32 yellow ears of wheat). They symbolised the commercial power of Strasbourg in the Middle Ages.
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27/02/2020

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➰ Dusk on the Seine ➰
📍 Paris, France 📍
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From across the river Seine, the southern limb of the New Louvre Palace is seen on the right bank glowing in the late evening light.
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The Louvre Palace is the world's largest art museum and a historic monument in Paris, France. A central landmark of the city, the Louvre features approximately 38,000 objects from prehistory through the 21st century. The exhibits total an area of 782,910 square feet.
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12/02/2020

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➰ Rayonnant Rose ➰
📍 Paris, France 📍
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“Art is a spiritual practice. If it weren't for art, I'd have given up on God a long time ago. This cathedral though....is very convincing.”
- Janice Macleod
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A large gothic rayonnant rose window, with Flamboyant tracery, dominates the western wall of the royal chapel of Sainte-Chapelle. Surrounding are fifteen 49ft tall stained glass panes which depict 1,113 scenes from the Old and New Testaments recounting the history of the world until the arrival of the passion relics in Paris.
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The Sainte-Chapelle (Holy Chapel) is a royal chapel in the Gothic style, within the medieval Palais de la Cité, the residence of the Kings of France until the 14th century, on the Île de la Cité in the River Seine in Paris, France.
Finished in 1248, Sainte-Chapelle is considered among the highest achievements of the Rayonnant period of Gothic architecture. It was commissioned by King Louis IX of France to house his collection of Passion relics, including Christ's Crown of Thorns – one of the most important relics in medieval Christendom.
"Rayonnant" style Gothic architecture is marked by its sense of weightlessness and strong vertical emphasis. The most famous feature of Sainte-Chapelle, among the finest of their type in the world, are the great stained-glass windows, for whose benefit the stone wall surface is reduced to little more than a delicate framework.
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@ Sainte-Chapelle de Paris

11/02/2020

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➰ Puddle Reflections ➰
📍 Chambord, France 📍
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"Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?”
- Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
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The Château de Chambord is the largest château in the Loire Valley, and one of the most recognisable châteaux in the world because of its very distinctive French Renaissance architecture which blends traditional French medieval forms with classical Renaissance structures. Chambord was constructed by Francis I, and built it to serve as his hunting lodge: surrounded by a 52.5-square-kilometre (13,000-acre) wooded park and game reserve maintained with red deer, enclosed by a 31-kilometre (19-mile) wall.
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08/02/2020

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➰ Steel and Lace ➰
📍 Paris, France 📍
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“I like The Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace.”
- Natalie Lloyd
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The Eiffel Tower is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower.
Constructed from 1887 to 1889 as the entrance to the 1889 World's Fair, it was initially criticised by some of France's leading artists and intellectuals for its design, but it has become a global cultural icon of France and one of the most recognisable structures in the world.
The tower is 324 metres (1,063 ft) tall, about the same height as an 81-storey building, and the tallest structure in Paris. During its construction, the Eiffel Tower surpassed the Washington Monument to become the tallest man-made structure in the world, a title it held for 41 years until the Chrysler Building in New York City was finished in 1930. It was the first structure to reach a height of 300 metres.
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06/02/2020

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➰ Festival Hall — Musée d'Orsay ➰
📍 Paris, France 📍
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The grand ceiling of the Festival Hall in the Orsay Museum, is photographed with an ultra wide angle lens (14mm full frame). Now an room that is in and of itself the art attraction, the grand Festival Hall was once the main ballroom of the hotel attached to the Orsay train station.
The Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris, on the Left Bank of the Seine river. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts train station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum houses the largest collection of impressionist and post-Impressionist masterpieces in the world, by painters including Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Sisley, Gauguin, and Van Gogh.
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03/02/2020

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➰ Salient Points ➰
📍 Chambord, France 📍
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"The towers, cupolas, the gables, the lanterns, the chimneys, look more like the spires of a city than the salient points of a single building."
- Henry James, writer
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The roofscape of Chambord contrasts with the masses of its masonry and has often been compared with the skyline of a town: it shows eleven kinds of towers and three types of chimneys, without symmetry, framed at the corners by the massive towers. The designs are north Italian and Leonardesque.
The Château de Chambord is the largest château in the Loire Valley, and one of the most recognisable châteaux in the world because of its very distinctive French Renaissance architecture which blends traditional French medieval forms with classical Renaissance structures. Chambord was constructed by Francis I, and built it to serve as his hunting lodge: surrounded by a 52.5-square-kilometre (13,000-acre) wooded park and game reserve maintained with red deer, enclosed by a 31-kilometre (19-mile) wall.
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01/02/2020

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➰ Hall of Mirrors ➰
📍 Château de Versailles, France 📍
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The Hall of Mirrors is the central gallery of the Palace of Versailles in Versailles, France.
As the principal and most remarkable feature of King Louis XIV's building campaign, construction of the grand hall began in 1678.
The Hall of Mirrors is bookended by the Salon de la Guerre (war room) and the Salon de la Paix (peace room), and ultimately connects the King’s Grand Apartment to that of the Queen’s.
The principal feature of the hall is the seventeen mirror-clad arches that reflect the seventeen arcaded windows that overlook the gardens of Versailles. Each arch contains twenty-one mirrors with a total complement of 357 used in the decoration of the galerie des glaces. The arches themselves are fixed between marble pilasters whose capitals depict the symbols of France. These gilded bronze capitals include the fleur-de-lys and the Gallic cockerel or rooster.
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