Fences and gates are often in my lens. Not only because of their beauty, but often because of their originality, showing off the inventive spirit of their builders.
Riga outdoor museum
Gran Canaria
For Cee’s Fences also, in the header, a Swiss alpine fence.
More inspiration here.
Yellow is a very special colour. It symbolizes a variety of things; for example the sun, being false (in the language of flowers) and power – only for the emperor of China.
I love yellow, but cannot wear it. Others can with elegance – like houses, vehicles and flowers.
A Danish house
Cars are quite OK…
Spring crops before the storm
We went to a seaside resort for a couple of days – relaxing on the west coast of Sweden.
I took some new photos. This: Thursday evening on the beach. Click here for more new.
Sylvain Landry this week – something essential in our high – tech society – electricity.
The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Yangtze River in China. The Three Gorges Dam is the world’s largest power station with a total electric generating capacity of 22.500MW.
The dam project was started in 1993 and completed in 2012,
As well as producing electricity, the dam is intended to increase the Yangtze River’s shipping capacity and reduce the potential for floods downstream. The Chinese government regards the project as a total success, However, the dam flooded archeological and cultural sites and displaced some 1.4 million people, (See the post on Shibaozhai earlier.) It is also causing significant ecological changes, The Chinese river dolphin became extinguished and there is an increased risk of landslides. The dam was built in an area of potential earthquakes, and the consequences if – this would happen, would be disastrous.
There are two series of ship locks installed – each of them is made up of five stages, with transit time at around four hours. We passed during the night. Looking out from the balcony, this is what we saw.
Den Blå Planet (The Blue Planet) opened in 2013 in Kastrup, a suburb of Copenhagen. It resembles a whirlpool when seen from above, and was designed by Danish architects It covers a total of 12,000 m2 (130,000 sq ft), including the 10,000 m2 (110,000 sq ft) building and 2,000 m2 (22,000 sq ft) outdoors.
The Blue Planet contains about 7,000,000 litres (1,500,000 imp gal; 1,800,000 US gal) of water divided into 53 exhibits. In the first year of existence, the aquarium received approximately 1.3 million visitors – twice as many as expected.
Just as the architecture is special and artistic, so are the giant freshwater fish from the Amazon. Look at those metal scales…and the intricate patterns on its head. Arowanas.
Surely man can never compete with nature in architecture.
Indoor seating for Cee this week – I just adored this chair at J.K. Rowling ‘s favourite café (where she wrote Harry Potter) in Edinburgh – The Elephant House.
And…
in case you have got some money you do not know how to spend…
…and maybe you are in desperate need of a hand carved and hand painted Chinese palanquin?
Well, here you have garanteed indoor seating even outdoors…
In China there are many crooked and squiggly lines – these two shots are from Yu Yuan Garden in Shanghai. More of this challenge here.
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When we had our façade refreshed, the entire house was covered in a net…of squares.
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Gaudí’s garden, Spain.
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For Sylvain Landry and SL- WEEK: The Stairs of the new library in Riga.
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