Wordless Wednesday : Reflecting on Reflections

Reflecting building

 

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Wordless Wednesday : Old and New at Twilight

Old and new, Frankfurt

Wordless Wednesday : Peter Pan Flying Over the Rooftops

Rooftops of Kinsale

A Geyser in Nevada‏…

Amazing photos and video of a Geyser in Nevada.

Sky Watch Friday : Architectural Details in the Sky

London Buildings

The two London buildings, seen from the 34th floor of another building, are known as the Gherkin and the Cheesegrater, and are very different looking from the usual square skyscrapers, thanks to the imaginative architecture.

 

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Weekly Photo Challenge : Orange

Looking through my photos, it seems I have a lot of orange, from sunsets to flowers to buildings, and I have so many more wonderful photos with that little bit of orange that catches the eye, and brightens up the scene.

The sun has set on the Lake

A perfect sight

Colourful Kinsale

Christmas colours

old railway ticket office

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Weekly Photo Challenge : Nighttime

The dancing fountains

Burj Khalifa, Dubai

Dubai at night

Dubai is a city with higher, bigger, taller, different, more elaborate buildings than anywhere else I have been, and at night time there is so much to see when all the different skyscrapers and malls are lit up.  There is a great buzz with people everywhere enjoying the cooler evenings after the high temperature of the days.

In front of the Burj Khalifa is a large lake with ‘dancing’ fountains, which put on a magnificent display to music every evening, shooting jets of water and light high into the night sky.   You can see the fountains dancing here

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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge : Buildings

I have come across some very different buildings when looking through my virtual shoe boxes – like this beautiful photo of the pyramid at the Louvre, all glass and metal and sparkling with the sun shining on it, and a big contrast to the old stately buildings behind it.

The glass pyramid outside the Louvre

Paris and the Louvre is very different from my next building, a sad neglected house in the older part of Cork City

Sad and alone

There are also some modern, well loved, buildings in the heart of the city.

City Hall bridge

have a look at some more buildings over at Cee’s great blog

Weekly Photo Challenge : Between

Looking up between the buildings

I love the hazy view of the mountains in the background, between the narrow streets of Riva del Garda.

Archway through the building

This old archway in the city of Verona has a date of 1687, which was during the Crimean War, you can see the cannons mounted into the wall, and who knows how many soldiers passed between these walls on their way to battle.

The bridges of Venice

The canals in Venice that flow between the buildings, are always busy with water buses, water taxis, gondolas, and speed boats, as people go about their daily business in this city which is made up of over 100 small islands, all connected by the canals that run between.

 

 

A Lingering Look At Architecture : June

Dawn from The Day After has given us a challenge this month to post some architectural buildings, here are a few of mine.    Head on over to Dawn’s blog to see some more.

The English Market in Cork City

Bridge in Norway