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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

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Thursday, November 10, 2011

Gourd



From a pumpkin exhibition (a couple of years ago) for Theme Thursday

Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Q is for quadruped


This  quadruped  is a sculpture of Fernando Botero, a Colombian painter and sculptor who is renowned for his exaggerated, puffed up human and animal forms. Located on Rambla del Raval in Barcelona, the large bronze feline stands with its thick tail. More images from the net are here.
Dimensions: 7,17 m / 23.5 ft long,  2,28 m/ 7.5 ft wide ,  2,16m / 7 ft tall, weight: 2200 Kg / 4850 lb.

Friday, November 04, 2011

phot hunt: light



Light bulbs found in a department store in Paris. More pictures of this beautiful place can be found here.  I kept looking up at the wonderful dome and decorations, all other goodies were not as appealing!   The store's unique Belle Epoque architecture, which features a dramatic colored glass dome and an ornate Art Nouveau staircase offering dizzying perspectives, contributed to the department store being named a Paris city heritage site. Source

For PhotoHunt.  Below, the unique dome.

Tuesday, November 01, 2011

P is for peculiar

ABC Wednesday


The peculiar street lamps designed in 1906 by Pere Falqués i Urpí (please note the bat at 12 o'clock, on top of the crown, no special meaning has been given to it) found in central Paseo de Gracia in Barcelona, a city which is said to  represent the world's greatest urban concentration of Modernist or Art Noveau architecture. This movement is characterized by amazing combinations of curved surfaces, as opposed to harsh corners and straight lines. Another example of that  is the (partially) pictured Gaudi building : La Pedrera.