Every now and then, we hear about funny architectural fails where lack of taste meets poor aesthetics and greets atrocious execution. Check out our previous features with such examples here, here, and here.
A view of the Colosseum almost by evening. The shadows were gathering fast; the crowd of tourists was as noisy as ever and I was trying to take a meaningful capture of the amphitheater- something different from the usual, something telling at least a part of the story of the place; something which was not too similar to a messy, unwilled group shot. The paragraph of the story of the Colosseum I have chosen is interesting - the shot... well, I hope it is worth the effort. The fact leaves me gaping every time I think about it: for centuries the inhabitants of Rome (and the Popes as well) has been using the Colosseum as a travertine quarry at their fingertips. They took away stone upon stone from the amphitheater, to reuse them in the construction of other buildings. In our modern times we stress a lot the issue of recycling, but our sense of history makes us preserving historical heritage, while recycling our contemporary waste. However, so much of what we build and produce - even our architecture - will not be so long-lasting to be part of the history of our posterity :-(. You can find some interesting information about this story of dismantling the past here. I have blended three HDR images derived from a 3-bracketing, -1.67 ev/0/+1.67 ev, generated and tonemapped with Luminance HDR 2.4.0 (Mantiuk06, Fattal, and Reinhard05 operators). Luminance HDR 2.4.0 tonemapping parameters: Operator: Mantiuk06 Contrast Mapping factor: 0.24 Saturation Factor: 0.57 Detail Factor: 2.2 ------ PreGamma: 0.67 Operator: Fattal alpha: 1.73 beta: 0.86 Saturation: 0.42 Noiseredux: 0 fftsolver: 1 --- PreGamma: 0.79 Operator: Reinhard05 Brightness: 2.0 Chromatic adaptation: 0.91 Light adaptation: 0.28 --- PreGamma: 0.91
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I have only been to Germany once, but I fell absolutely in love. There are so many small, hidden towns in Germany that are so incredibly beautiful, they look like they belong in a Disney Fairy-Tale book.
Zu Besuch in einer Schlossanlage des 19. Jahrhunderts, die Versailles zum Vorbild hat: das Neue Schloss Herrenchiemsee in Bayern.
Schloss Drachenburg, Germany
Palermo - 2018
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Coprolito de Lloyds Bank No resulta exactamente agradable el ir paseando por nuestras ciudades y pueblos y tener que ir sorteando cacas...
Caspar David Friedrich was one of the greatest exponents in European art of the symbolic landscape. He studied at the Academy in Copenhagen (1794-98), and subsequently settled in Dresden, often traveling to other parts of Germany.
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Doğası, şarabı, üzüm bağları, badem ve zeytin ağaçları, çiçekleri, yeşili, zakkumları, deniz mahsulleriyle ünlü, İtalya'nın parmak ucunda, buram buram tarih kokan ada Sicilya.
