Night backlight. Madrid
Night backlight
Extreme night backlight taken in Madrid.
Harmony Korine (born January 4, 1973) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, author and occasional actor. He is best known for writing Kids and for writing and directing Spring Breakers, Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy and Mister Lonely. His film Trash Humpers premiered at Toronto International Film Festival and won the main prize, the DOX Award, at CPH:DOX in November 2009. His film Spring Breakers was released in 2013.
Factory
Anselm Kiefer (born March 8, 1945) is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Joseph Beuys and Peter Dreher during the 1970s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac.
light installation
Younès Rahmoun
Tetuan, Morocco 1975
Light installation
MACBA Fundation. (Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art)
MACBA Collection, Barcelona 2015
light installation
light installation
Portbou (Catalonia)
Portbou
It is located near the French border in the Costa Brava region, and frequently serves as a dropping off point for SNCF trains coming from Cerbère in France. Portbou is situated in the most mountainous area of the Costa Brava, and the closely-packed houses slope steeply up the valley from the waterfront.
The peaceful bay has been called a ‘natural amphitheater.’ It shelters an uncrowded, and stunningly beautiful pebbled beach. Uncrowded because though Portbou has some hotels, a tourist office and other tourist facilities it is not (yet) a major tourist destination.
Portbou was a small but important point for the republicans during the Spanish Civil War, as it was one of the few places from where they could get supplies from abroad.
Portbou is also where German philosopher Walter Benjamin committed suicide and was buried in 1940. There is a monument in his honor, by Dani Karavan.
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Portbou (Catalonia)
Portbou beach in summer
Wood Door
Norm’s Thursday Doors Challenge.
Here is my entry for Norm’s Thursday Doors Challenge. Thanks Norm again for hosting this challenge.
This door was photographed in a famous district of Barcelona, El Born, a neighborhood that deserves a thorough visit.
Wood Door. Detail
Ruins
Weekly Photo Challenge: Half and Half
This image that has two clear halves. I take a photo with an explicit dividing diagonal line .
This photo shows medieval ruins in San Pere de Rodas, in the province of Girona (Catalonia). The half left side shows the cloudy sky. The right side, the ruins on the hill.
Another view of the ruins with a different editing:
Ruins
Harley-Davidson
I like all motorbikes or motorcycles, and I’ve done thousands of miles in them. One of the most charismatic is the Harley-Davidson.
Harley-Davidson Inc, often abbreviated H-D or Harley, is an American motorcycle manufacturer. Founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during the first decade of the 20th century, it was one of two major American motorcycle manufacturers (Indian being the other) to survive the Great Depression. Harley-Davidson also survived a period of poor quality control and competition from Japanese manufacturers.
From 1977 to 2014 the only motorcycles sold to the public under the Harley-Davidson brand were heavyweight cruiser motorcycles, with engine displacements greater than 700 cc. Harley-Davidson motorcycles, or “Harleys”, are noted for the tradition of heavy customization that gave rise to the chopper style of motorcycle. Except for the modern VRSC and Street model families, current Harley-Davidson motorcycles reflect the styles of classic Harley designs. While Harley-Davidson’s attempts to establish itself in the light motorcycle market have met little success and have largely been abandoned since the 1978 sale of its Italian Aermacchi subsidiary, the company re-entered the middleweight market in 2015 with its Street series of motorcycles.
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Harley-Davidson
Pedaling under palm trees
Pedaling under palm trees
Claude Denson Pepper (1900 – 1989) was an American politician of the Democratic Party, and a spokesman for left-liberalism and the elderly.
Lines
Lines
Édouard Manet (1832 – 1883), was a French painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.
The notion of line or straight line was introduced by ancient mathematicians to represent straight objects (i.e., having no curvature) with negligible width and depth. Lines are an idealization of such objects.
Until the seventeenth century, lines were defined like this: “The [straight or curved] line is the first species of quantity, which has only one dimension, namely length, without any width nor depth, and is nothing else than the flow or run of the point which […] will leave from its imaginary moving some vestige in length, exempt of any width. […] The straight line is that which is equally extended between its points”
Euclid described a line as “breadthless length” which “lies equally with respect to the points on itself”.
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Taking a break
Taking a break
Richelle is native to the Pacific Northwest, born in Utah but raised and residing in Washington State. She currently lives with her husband and three sons somewhere in a compromise between country and city living. She completed two bachelors degrees through Eastern Washington University: Liberal Studies and Natural Science / Mathematics Education.
Pont Royal. Paris bridge
The Pont Royal is a bridge crossing the river Seine in Paris. It is the third oldest bridge in Paris, after the Pont Neuf and the Pont Marie. Thanks to Sherry Lynn Felix for helping me with the name of the bridge.
The Seine is a 776-kilometre (482 mi) long river and an important commercial waterway within the Paris Basin in the north of France.
There are 37 bridges within Paris and dozens more spanning the river outside the city. The river is only 24 metres (79 ft) above sea level 446 kilometres (277 mi) from its mouth, making it slow flowing and thus easily navigable.
The river is a popular site for both suicides and the disposal of bodies of murder victims. In 2007, 55 bodies were retrieved from its waters; in February 2008, the body of supermodel-turned-activist Katoucha Niane was found there.
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train
A train is a form of rail transport consisting of a series of vehicles that usually runs along a rail track to transport cargo or passengers. Motive power is provided by a separate locomotive or individual motors in self-propelled multiple units. Although historically steam propulsion dominated, the most common modern forms are diesel and electric locomotives, the latter supplied by overhead wires or additional rails.
Other energy sources include horses, rope or wire, gravity, pneumatics, batteries, and gas turbines. Train tracks usually consists of two, three or four or five rails, with a limited number of monorails and maglev guideways in the mix.
The word ‘train’ comes from the Old French trahiner, from the Latin trahere ‘pull, draw’.
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